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Actual attendees: Anjum, Kashif, Johari, Saqib, Bebo, Les
There The was a SEMEWE fibre cut however cut in the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable that runs 12,500 miles from France to Singapore, with branches connecting telecommunication companies in Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia and Algeria. Of the ~ 3300 networks in Pakistan hundreds of the smaller networks were affected. However the quality of the Skype connection was good.
Workshops
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Johari reported that the FRGS proposal had been accepted. It is for 75K MRs (~$35K). It is for 5 people.
The Next step in funding is to go for bigger research funding, such as LRGS or eScience. We can use the upcoming workshop (1 specific session) to brainstorm and come up with such proposal. We need to do some groundwork before that as well. Johari will take the lead in putting together 1/2 page descriptions of the potential research projects.
- Need to identify a few key areas of research related to PingER Malaysia Initiative and this can be shared/publicized through the website. These might include using the infrastructure and data for: anomaly detection; correlation of performance across multiple routes; and for GeoLocation. Future projects as Les listed in Confluence here https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Future+Projects can also be a good start and also Bebo's suggestion.
- Need to synchronize and share research proposal proposals so as not to duplicate research works. how to share? Maybe not through the website, or maybe can create a member only section of the website to share sensitive data such as research proposal?
The Next step in funding is to go for bigger research fund, such as LRGS or eScience. We can use the upcoming workshop (1 specific session) to brainstorm and come up with such proposal. need to do some groundwork before that as well.
Anjum mentioned a paper on Evaluation of IP Geolocation Algorithms on PingER and PlanetLab Infrastructures, by Fida Gilani et. al. submitted to IEEE INFOCOM 2011UNIMAS. This could be updated with new data and maybe submitted to a different venue. Anjum forwarded a copy of the paper to Johari, Abdullah and Hanan with copies to the team. The idea is to see whether there is interest at UTM, UM or UNIMAS.
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Johari has set up a guest account for Anjum. Anjum logged on and reported some concerns about addresses and interfaces not matching. The traceroute/ping server is important for the TULIP trilateration project and also understanding routing within and from Malaysia.
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Johari has set up a web landing site for the Malaysian collaboration. It is at http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger. It contains:
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It is not easy to find such sites in those states. Obvious targets are universities, for example UUM in Kedah and UNIMAP in Perlis, but those sites are not ping-able. One way is to approach these universities and explain to them about PingER project and request for the ping packet to be enable. Les has sent HostFinder.pl to Johari to possibly assist in finding hosts.
UM
Dr Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat has installedl PingER on a cloud at UM. The machines are virtualized and running Ubuntu Linux.UTM & UM will need to address 1 The name and address of the server is pinger.fsktm.um.edu.my (202.185.107.238). The UM monitoring host has been added to the NODELIST PingER meta data base at SLAC and the <HostList> for Malaysian and S.E Asian hosts has been added to the pinger.xml file at UM. We need to get the latest pinger2.pl installed. Since the traceroute is working, "we" can start to make a routing study similar to https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Routing+from+UNIMAS. Badrul has a student who will be working on the case study and will coordinate with Saqib at UTM and Johari at UNIMAS to combine results and to put together a paper for the Malaysian ISI Journal probably around the end of June
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Raja is waiting for the Letter of Support from NUST after which he will mail the documents for SEVIS ID process. (3/20/2013). Anjum believes he will get the letter signed by 3/21/2014). Anjum mentioned there were discussions between Raja and NUST that need to be resolved. Next day after the meeting things seemed to be cleared up, since Raja forwarded to SLAC the letter of support from NUST.
The visit of Arshad and the NUST Rector were rector to visit UM and UTM earlier this week. However, this fell UTM fell through due the Rector being sick.
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Since the number of monitoring nodes in Malaysia is likely to grow, I think it it is a good idea to start thinking of automated ways of synchronizing the <HostList> section. A few thoughts on this matter:
- we can use the same approach as the automatic updating/sync of the Beacon List. This would require modifications to pinger2.pl
- which node will be the trusted/root node in Malaysia for updating? since any single monitoring host can add any number of new hosts, might a mechanism to cross check between monitoring hosts.
Ipv6
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Bebo's suggestions
(1) Creative visualization of PINGer data including rich interaction;
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