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Meeting notes
Attendees
Nara, Johari at Unimas and Les & Bebo in the Bay Area.
General
The meeting was by Skype at 11am in Sarawak as usual.
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UNIMAS have managed to get 1 undergraduate students for their capstone project to use data collected above to perform some analysis/assessment on the end-to-end performance of Internet in SE Asia. Update
Follow up on Discussions with VC
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Workshop
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- Unimas plan to have a workshop on Pinger when Les comes in December. Unimas will invite participants from universities in West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, (Brunei and Kalimantan could be added). The idea is to establish regional agreement for types of studies that can be undertaken, the sharing of data and exploration of future projects.
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- Last week I met with the Muhammad Asghar the Rector of the Pakistan National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Dr. Arshad Ali the Director General (DG) of the NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS). They were excited to hear of the upcoming roadmap. Arshad visited he University of Malaysia in KL (UM) in October 2011 and the VC of the UM recently visited NUST. Both sides are keen to reach out to one another. As a result of this they (NUST/SEECS) are interested in looking at how to engage a collaboration of NUST/SEECS, UNIMAS and SLAC on PingER. Possible ways to advance would include:
- Inviting one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan.
- They could make valuable presentations on hands-on experiences (both technical, political and social) with building the archive site, managing multiple monitoring sites, mining the data, engaging customers (monitor sites contacts and decision makers, the network providers PERN (Pakistan Educational and Research Network), the funding agency (Higher Education Commission), preparing reports for the customers, and the benefits ensuing etc.
- Putting together a joint proposal (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, possibly another Malaysian university such as UM) to a funding source for a joint project to set up a monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites.
- Inviting one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan.
- Arshad is also putting together a letter to the VC of UM.
Future meetings
Nara mentioned that there is a council meeting at the end of September. How did this go?
UNIMAS PingER host name
Imran has successfully assigned the DNS name pinger.unimas.my to the UNIMAS PingER monitor (49.50.236.98). The Srcname has been updatred and the meta database updated at SLAC. All was working for several days, however now the web server is not working, so we can't gather the data.
Extending UNIMAS PingER hosts monitoring
Joun added around 15 more hosts within Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and SIngapore to pinger.xml. Planning to get few more hosts to cover Phillipines, and Vietnam. Les only see 2 <HostList> hosts in pinger.xml. Did this get fixed?
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When a reasonable amount of data has been gathered then a case study could be be made of the connections to the remote sites, to identify and compare the performance.
ePingER
See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project
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An ePingER App for an Android or iOS might also be an interesting project.
Next meeting
I will away from Oct 19th thru Novemver 3rd visting Nairobi, Kenya for the eGy-Africa meeting.
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