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Hassaan Khaliq, Muhammad Anas Abrar (SEECS); Saqib+, Aqsa (UAF); Johari+, Adnan Khan (UNIMAS);  Badrul,  Ridzuan, Ibrahim (UM); (UTM); Adib, Fatima (UUM); Fizi Jalil (MYREN);  Les+, Bebo+,

+ Confirmed attendance

- Responded but  Unable to attend: 

? Individual emails sent

Actual attendees:

Johari, Saqib, Bebo and Les

 

Administration

 

PingER for Android (see ePingER on Android two methods).

Amity - Java approach (A. Sai Sabitha and Shivnarayan Rajappa)
  • Hassaan has joined Frederick University, Cyprus as a post doctoral fellow for six months. From now onwards, Dr. Wajahat (Faculty member) and Mr. Ajmal Farooq (Network Administrator, SEECS) shall be coordinating with us. I also have a Skype meeting scheduled with them tomorrow. They shall hopefully be contacting you soon. Regarding the progress of the nodes, they are also trying to address the pending issues. 

    Dr Walahat sent email "

    Myself, Mr. Ajmal and an intern, is the new SEECS team assigned to look after the pingER Pakistan. Here is my brief introduction (https://es.linkedin.com/in/wajahat-hussain-13a2907b). Right now we are in the transition phase. Hopefully by the end of this week we will be in the position to update you.
    If possible we'll also want to know the exciting questions on your mind. Master students are eager to work on this project."
    Mian Abras Abar unable to attend but  will make a report and email that to me.
  • After the meeting Les invited Dr. Wajahat and Mr. Ajmal Farooq to the pinger-my email list.  Les also sent their email addresses to Johari so he can add them to http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php

PingER for Android (see ePingER on Android two methods).

Amity - Java approach (A. Sai Sabitha and Shivnarayan Rajappa)
  1. They are using the native java tools, they are not running the pinger2.pl <http://pinger2.pl>  script on android since the native java tools have the following advantages
      They are using the native java tools, they are not running the pinger2.pl <http://pinger2.pl>  script on android since the native java tools have the following advantages
      1. easier for user, 
      2. no need for prior installation of any software, e.g. load perl interpreter which may require missing skills, especially for a non technical user
      3. doesn't need a rooted phone
      4. only the apk needs to be installed to run
    1.  They have fixed the final sequence number change by using regex, and  pushed these changes to github repository.

    2. They have installed apache tomcat in the server and plan to use a java file on the server which would connect to the phones that send the request. This java file will then take the input stream received from the phone and write the output stream to a file that would be stored on the server. We are facing some problems regarding a blocked port that is not allowing the phone to connect to the server we are currently working on resolving the issue.

    3.  SLAC can then regularly pull these files which would be stored based on the month they are received. 

    4. The Android students have started writing a paper on " implementation  of pinger  on android " .

    5. Next steps:

      1. Extend the target list by getting the Beacon list from SLAC. It is at http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/pinger.xml on a regular basis and updating the <BeaconList> section at their site. This was part of pinger2.pl

      2. Also they will need a utility to clean out old recorded data (say older than 3 months), since it will be gathered from SLAC (via the proxy) and eventually they may run out memory on the Android.
    UAF Saqib and Sara Masood
    1. They are using the original pinger2.pl script.There is a tutorial on the android version.
      1. This guarantees a better, more complete (logs, checks, updating the Beacon list etc.) match to the existing MAs. 
    2. They are working on getting a public fixed IP
    1. Device ready, will assign live IP to machine next week, then will contact Les to try and gather data.
    Discussion

    To a large extent it depend on how we plan to use this.

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    pinger.unimas.my not pingable. There was a power supply blackout 2 weeks ago and the ups for the rack is currently being serviced expect to be ready by next 7 days. Might take another week for the power to be up again
    Student will be back in september and will start the ISO then.
    May reinstall since running an old version of CENTOS
    Student will be back in September and will start the ISO then. Image is ready for RPi. 1.9GB  image. Might be too big for GitHub. If limitation on storage then point to mirror.
    Johari has given up on the  RPi2. He now has an RPIv3 with WiFi and Bluetooth which he will be testing in the coming weeks. Should work on RPi2. 
    The postgrad who was working on anomaly detection quit. Johari will pick up what is left and submit a paper. Student did measurements, trying to get student back
    Johari looking at a PingER workshop May 17th 207 at Unimas.

    UAF (Saqib)

    The MA at UAF is ready to go, it just needs a port

    Saqib has been talking to Muhammad Asif of the Nationall University of Textiles, Discussed last week to put up MA and get a student. Arshad was the Chancellor.

    Hauwei working with Arshad to sign an MoU to place a researcvh establishment in Pakistan 

    There are 4 students:  Aqsa Hameed, Saba Muzamil, Tahseen and Sara Masood. T

    • Aqsa has completed her research work on "visualization on pingER data" and now working on to publish a conference paper. Here are few details of the research work.

      • The query results can be exported as CSV file. I use the CSV file of Query results from Impala to draw Line and Bar charts by using Google API.

      • She has created a Data warehouse on pingER data. First we transform the pingER text files into CSV files. Then i upload these CSV files on HDFS and populate Impala Tables and queries.

      • Line and Bar charts are created on a webpage running or executed by localhost server. it can be updated as the query results varies.results varies.
      • Submitted to International conference, waiting to hear
    • Aqsa and Saba are working together. Their goal is focusing on visualization of PingER historical data using warehouse.  The idea is to develop a warehouse in UAF university and make it publicly available. 

    • Aqsa has put together an  abstract of a conference paper and submitted to "The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA 2016)" (http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/).  "Applying Big Data Warehousing and Visualization Techniques on pingER Data",  Aqsa Hameed, Dr. Saqib Ali, Dr. Les Cottrell and Bebo White, submitted to BDSEA 2016. Authors can access it via:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016. Aqsa updated the paper and submitted, the last date for submit is 31st August, 2015. The conference is 6-9 Shanghai.

    • Sara Masood - See PingER on Android above
    • Saqib will proceed to install Pinger in UAF Pakistan 6/22/2016.There used to be an MA at UAF Les sent the information to Saqib. He has the userid and password, The IP address will change

    • Doing case study on SAsia using PingER.

    MYREN

    • pingersonatpingersonar-utm.myren.net.my is having problems (not pingable), email sent to Fitzi 8/20/2016, 10/16/2016

    PingER at SLAC

    PingER has run out of storage space.

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    Les is moving the data to clean up some space. 

     Working on the following hosts to be able to gather data

    16731 pingable
    HostStatelast seenStatus
    www.univ-ouaga.bfUnreliable, No data since June 20th. Several emails but most recent have bouncedJune 2016Does not ping
    www.ihep.ac.cnEmail 8/3/2016, ping_data.pl works but there is no data, fixed 8/7/2016July 28th, 2016ping_data.pl works but there is no data
    perfsonar-unimas.myren.net.myNo data August 2016, pings., Emailed Fitzi ., Emailed Fitzi 8/20/2016, 10/16/20167/31/2016Not pingable
    pinger.unimas.myNo data since 8/6/2016, emailed Johari 8/20/2016., 10/23/20168/6/2016Not
    pinger.unimas.myNo data since 8/6/2016, emailed Johari 8/20/2016., 10/23/20168/6/2016Not pingable

    NUST

    pingable

    NUST

     

    Hassaan has joined Frederick University, Cyprus as a post doctoral fellow for six months. From now onwards, Dr. Wajahat (Faculty member) and Mr. Ajmal Farooq (Network Administrator, SEECS) shall be coordinating with us. I also have a Skype meeting scheduled with them tomorrow. They shall hopefully be contacting you soon. Regarding the progress of the nodes, they are also trying to address the pending issues. 

    Dr Walahat sent email "

    Myself, Mr. Ajmal and an intern, is the new SEECS team assigned to look after the pingER Pakistan. Here is my brief introduction (https://es.linkedin.com/in/wajahat-hussain-13a2907b). Right now we are in the transition phase. Hopefully by the end of this week we will be in the position to update you.
    If possible we'll also want to know the exciting questions on your mind. Master students are eager to work on this project."
    Mian Abras Abar unable to attend but  will make a report and email that to me.

     

    Hassaan has joined Frederick University, Cyprus as a post doctoral fellow for six months. From now onwards, Dr. Wajahat (Faculty member) and Mr. Ajmal Farooq (Network Administrator, SEECS) shall be coordinating with us. I also have a Skype meeting scheduled with them tomorrow. They shall hopefully be contacting you soon. Regarding the progress of the nodes, they are also trying to address the pending issues. 
    After the meeting Les made contact with Mian Abras Abar. He siad there are 2-3 Pakistani universites that are not working that are interested in restoring service,  The contacts for several hosta re not responding. Main is looking at better ways to contacts the contacts.  Main will provide information on which MA's to disable and  which to keep trying.

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    Next Meeting

    Next meeting:  Wednesday Sep 21 9:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Sep 22Dec, 7th 8pm Pacific time,  Thursday Dec 8th, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Sep 22  2016 Dec 8th 2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Sep 22 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

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