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Attendees
Invitees:
Wajahat Hussain+ (SEECS), Saqib (GZHU); Johari (UNIMAS); Adib (Turkey); Dr. Charnsak Srisawatsakul (Ubru), Eyad Ayoubi (Jordan), Baraa Muslmani ( Jordan), Dr. Shadi Jawarneh (Jordan), Bebo White+, Umar Kalim, Les Cottrell+
- + Responded via Doodle will attend; - Responded via Doodle but unable to attend on this date; ? extra email sent asking if attending
- Email addresses (all the following are in pinger-my).
- cottrell@slac.stanford.edu; wajahat.hussain@seecs.edu.pk; saqibutm@outlook.com; johari.abdullah@gmail.com; adibhabbal@karabuk.edu.tr; charnsak.s@ubru.ac.th; eyadayoubi@gmail.com; b.muslmani@yahoo.com; shadi.jawarneh@yahoo.com; bebo@slac.stanford.edu; kalim@slac.stanford.edu
Actual Attendees
Wajahat, Saqib, Eyad, Baara, Bebo, Les
Others
Administration
- Set up email list pinger-am@googlegroups.com in https://groups.google.com for the Amity PingER team including Aayush Jain, James David, Naman Madan, Dr Sai Sabitha. Sent invites 1/26/2018.
- This meeting was scheduled with the aid of a Doodle poll sent 3/3/2019.
- It will be by Zoom
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NUST: (Updated 3/3/2019)
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 (Updated3Updated 3/3/2019)
- 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' latestl
atest 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
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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 9/6/2018, No update 11/19/2018, 1/15/2019, 2/12/2019)
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