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- To use the software, you would have to download the Zoom client (and install if prompted). The instructions to do so are listed here: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
- The instructions about setting up the software are listed at the URL below. You may want to create an account if you do not have one already. If you are invited to a meeting (i.e., you are not hosting the meeting), you are not required to create an account; you can simply join the meeting using the meeting ID.
- https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
- To start local recording, the host has to join and approve. (See https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204101699-Recording-without-the-Host)
- However, we can also set up the automatic recording of the entire meeting. (See https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/202921119-Automatic-Recording#meetings.) Umar will try this the next time we schedule the meeting.
- Here are the instructions to access the recorded meetings: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206277393-How-Do-I-Find-My-Recording-
Jordan (Updated
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We had a Zoom meeting with Eyad and Baraa of the Jordan team.
- They installed the PingER traceroute server, the data gatherer (ping_data.pl) and the Measurement Agent (MA, pinger2.pl).
- Les updated the web page on requirements.
- It was working for about a week, then it appears the pinger.xml was corrupted (possibly due to an invalid link to the BeaconList update file at SLAC). Baraa is looking at it
- Baraa is interested in monitoring other Jordanian hosts. There are 4 other targets in Jordan. They are:
- http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/dbprac.pl?alias=JO.NEXT.WWW&monalias=EDU.SLAC.STANFORD.PINGER
- If there are other sites in Jordan that should be monitored from say SLAC and Jordan please let Les know the details and he can add them to the PingER Oracle NODEDETAILS database, so they are monitored from SLAC. If they are to be monitored from Telephoenics then they will need to be added to the <HostList>stanza of the Telephoenics pinger.xml.
- Eyad has moved to Instanbul Turkey. After he has settled down he will be looking to do a PhD in Turkey. He will look at installing a PingER MA there.
Amity (Updated
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2019).
Amity team photo:
Email list (pinger-am in https://groups.google.com) set up for the Amity PingER team including Aayush Jain, James David, Naman Madan, Dr Sai Sabitha. Invites sent 1/26/2019, only Naman accepted.
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Bebo will contact Topher, and look at installing on a spare Android at Bebo's home in San Francisco. We could also do that at SLAC. Topher will get us some Android phones when he gets back in early March.
Adib (Updated
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- Adib moved to Karabuk University in Turkey where he is an Associate Professor.
- He will discuss with the department head about installing a PingER MA there.
- Regarding the paper, it has been submitted to Journal: Computer Communications
Title: Socio-economic Development Indices and Their Reflection on Internet Performance in ASEAN Countries
Corresponding Author: Adib Habbal
Co-Authors: Les Cottrell, Emmanuel Mkpojiogu, Bebo White, Suhaidi Hassan, Faisal Zulhumadi Unfortunately, it was rejected.
Adib, Bebo and Les are looking for another journal, some possibilities include: https://webscience-journal.net/webscience,https://www.journals.elsevier.com/business-horizons, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/government-information-quarterlyAdib is wondering about- Journal of Computer Information Systems https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ucis20
- The Information Society https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=utis20
Bebo reviewed and responded to
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Adib suggesting the second one is a better choice.
NUST: (Updated
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Unable to gather data from maggie1.seecs.edu.pk and monitor.seecs.edu.pk. Email sent 1/26/2019
- results{monitor.seecs.edu.pk}[0] not defined, unable to gather data for 11 consecutive days this month
- Skipping monitor.seecs.edu.pk(5) does not ping by name or address 111.68.101.10. Wajahat will look at it.
- Wajahat fixed maggie.seecs.edu.pk 2/29/2019, Les sent email 2/3/2019 to Wajahat asking about monitor1.seecs.edu.pk.
- pinger.isra.edu.pk is not pingable and unable to gather data starting 2/11/2019. We will wait a few days and see if it recovers.
Wajahat provided the following update 12/8/2018
- "We have been aggressively pursuing the three nodes(121.52.146.180 (kohat.edu.pk) down since Nov 22/2017; cae.seecs.edu.pk last time we were able to gather any data was September 2nd 2018; and pinger.isra.edu.pk no data since 5th Sept 2018, so it is a candidate to Disable). It appears to me that the participating institutes have started to lose interest in the project. Anyhow, we will keep pushing. Maybe a letter of appreciation from SLAC might rejuvenate their energies. What is your opinion?
Wajahat raised the topic: We also need to formulate some research problems that have the potential of appearing in some well-known places. This might help in attracting NUST students which is getting harder these days. I need your help in this regard.
Discussion:
- There is a web page at Future PingER Projects which was last updated July 2018. Topics that currently stand out include:
- Applying Blockchain to PingER data, see the paper by Saqib, here.
- Graphical traceroute maps. Note currently when one looks up the location of a router, it usually gives the location of the home site that is managing the routers, e.g. ESnet routers in the US and Europe are all identified as being at LBL. Using ping minimum RTTs to a router from multiple sites (e.g. the perfSONAR traceroute servers in the US, Canada, and Europe, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/viper/tulipmap.html) one can use trilateration to identify the location of the router. Earlier work on this can be found at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/tulip/
- Deploying Android/Pinger devices, understand how their low cost (cheap enough to be disposable), low power (e.g. use of solar power) and potential mobility may be used, i.e. the risks, mitigations, and benefits.
- Linked Open Data applied to PingER data.
- Using PingER data as a source of big data to search anomalies, trends etc.
- Case studies, e.g. can one identify the impact on networking of social unrest such as the current Venezuala difficulties, or of other events such as earthquakes or Tsunamis.
- I have increased the number of working Venezuelan target hosts monitored from SLAC from 3 to 8, to possibly assist in this.
- Another interesting case study would be to look at the impact of hurricanes on Internet connectivity in say the Caribbean, see for example Hurricanes Irma and Maria 2017.
- Compare and contrast IPv6 with IPv4 behavior, identify outliers and understand - Umar, Les, and Saqib are looking at this.
- Also, see PingER Papers and Presentations for some topics that have recently resulted in papers.
- Are any of these of interest?
- There is a web page at Future PingER Projects which was last updated July 2018. Topics that currently stand out include:
Saqib sent email to Wajahat:
- As discussed in the last meeting, kindly check if it is possible to get an IPv6 address in NUST for installing an IPv6 MA in PK. I will also contact PERN regarding the possibility of getting an IPv6 address.
UAF/GHZU (
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- Saqib's current contract expires February 2019. Saqib reports that things are still unsure, his current contract cannot be renewed. He will return to Pakistan February 15th 2019. He has applied to multiple places in China, Pakistan, etc. He will probably join the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad. He plans to pursue the blockchain paper.
- Bebo sent email:
- Not sure whether this would be relevant for PingER work - maybe Saqib's blockchain paper? I'm not sure that there has been much discussion re: PingER security - thoughts?
Bebo- From: Security and Communication Networks <scn@journals.hindawi.com>Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 11:58 PM
To: White, Bebo
Subject: Special Issue: "Cryptography and Security Tools and Techniques for Networked Embedded Systems"Dear Dr. White, We are currently accepting submissions for our upcoming Special Issue titled "Cryptography and Security Tools and Techniques for Networked Embedded Systems," which will be published in Security and Communication Networks in October 2019. The Special Issue is open to both original research articles and review articles, and the deadline for submission is May 24, 2019. You can find the Call for Papers at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/136986/cfp/. Security and Communication Networks is a peer-reviewed journal published by Hindawi as part of a publishing collaboration with John Wiley & Sons (https://www.hindawi.com/wiley.hindawi/). Starting January 2017, the journal has been converted to a fully open access publication, which means that anyone can access it online without a subscription and authors retain the copyright of their work. The most recent Impact Factor for Security and Communication Networks is 0.904 according to Clarivate Analytics' latest Journal Citation Reports. The journal's most recent CiteScore is 1.36 according to the latest CiteScore metrics released by Scopus. Please read over the journal's author guidelines at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/guidelines/ for more information on the journal's policies and the submission process. Manuscripts should be submitted online to the Special Issue at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/scn/adcsc/. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards, Rana Khaled
- From: Security and Communication Networks <scn@journals.hindawi.com>
- Not sure whether this would be relevant for PingER work - maybe Saqib's blockchain paper? I'm not sure that there has been much discussion re: PingER security - thoughts?
Thailand (No update 8/9/2018, No update 9/Thailand (No update 8/9/2018, No update 9/6/2018, No update 11/19/2018, 1/15/2019, 2/12/2019)
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pinger.cs.ubru.ac.th | Stopped being pingable 2/25/2019. Thus by default the gathering failed. However, by ignoring the ping result gathering works to http://pinger.cs.ubru.ac.th/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl. Fixed gatherer script and gathered missing data. 3/2/2019 sent email to Charnsak asking if the pinging can be fixed.. | Ping fails but gathering works. | |
pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk/cgi-bin | The hostname did not resolve from SLAC, DESY and CERN, however it does resolve from some other places. Email sent to Wajahat and to SLAC net-admin 1/12/2019. No responses, on 1/13/2019 it was fixed, no idea how. It appears that the DNS resolution is intermittently failing. Therefore Les modified getdata.pl to first try DNS and if it fails try getting the data from the IP address in the configuration file. As of 1/18/2019 it appears to be working reliably. | Started 1/7/2019 | Working again. Recovered missing data. |
pinger.isra.edu.pk | Down, it came up Sep 2-4, 2018. It is pinging, however, all the targets are not responding after 31 tries, email sent to Wajahat 9/18/2018. As of 10/14/2018 it is not pingable. Working again as of 1/5/2019. It started again1/26/2019. It does not respond to pings from SLAC but does respond to http://pinger.isra.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl? which is used to get the data. However, the data indicate that none of the pings respond, e.g. pinger.isra.edu.pk 121.52.154.228 pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my 103.18.2.152 100 1548633600 31 0 i.e. all 31 pings fail and 0 give any response. When one tries to ping from pinger.isra.edu.pk using http://pinger.isra.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu&options=-i%200.2 the web page responds but all pings from isra fail. Email sent to Wajahat 1/28/2019. Started working again 1/30/2019. Stopped being pingable and unable to gather data 2/11/2019. 3/2/2019 can gather data but all the pings are failing. Emailed Wajahat 3/3/2019. | March 6, 2018 | Fixed 1/5/2019 Failed again starting 1/26/2019. Working again 1/30/2019 |
monitor.seecs.edu.pk | results{monitor.seecs.edu.pk}[0] not defined, unable to gather data for 11 consecutive days this month Skipping monitor.seecs.edu.pk(5) does not ping by name or address 111.68.101.10, email sent to Wajahat 1/26/2019, 2/3/2019, 3/3/2019. | 1/14/2019 |
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