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Purpose

PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) is the name given to the Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor end-to-end performance of Internet links. The project now involves hundreds of sites in many countries all over the world and we are actively seeking new partners for this project.

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• Development Indices and PingER
• Derived Throughput
  • Throughput versus Loss
  • Ookla Speedtest.net Throughput
  • ZDnet Australia's Speedtest
  • Ping minRTT vs HTTP minRTT validation
• Also see https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-connectivity-visualization.jsp which goes back quarter by quarter to 2007 with Akamai download speeds by country with a linear y scale. The full report is at: https://content.akamai.com/pg8228-q4-2016-soti-connectivity-report.html
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• Broadband tariffs see here
   

PingER Analysis

• PingER data Analysis
• Monitoring Data Format
• Anomalous Hosts
• CERN View
• Conditional Port Probability
• Duplicate Packets
• MOS
• Derivation of Directness of Connection

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• Downloading Pinger
• Requirements for Monitoring Host, Requirements for Remote Host
• Data: Meta database (NODEDETAILS), NODEDETAILS hints,  NODEDETAILS schema, NODEDETAILS in Perl, NODETAILS in XML,  Raw Data Format; Adding a new node to NODEDETAILS .
• PingER FAQ
• Management:
  • Getting an account at SLAC, access priviledges privileges etc.
  • Data Processing Workflow,
    • Archiving PingER data
    • Retrieving PingER data
  • Adding metrics to PingER,
  • Finding target hosts,
  • Duties, 
  • Gathering delays,
  • Maintaining collection & analysis,
  • Restoring data,
  • Usage Information for Scripts
  • Daily Data Validation Management
  • Down Sites, Collection Status
  • Monitoring of servers: www-wanmon
• Mapping of file space
• Choice of PingER packet size
• Pakistani hosts with new PingER2 to not lose <BeaconList> March 2012.

• Moving Pinger January 2022

PingER Deployment

• PingER deployment 2008
• Shockwave Map, Google Map, Node count Intensity map, Node count GeoMap, Interactive Java Map (VIPER)
• Beacons , Beacon Expansion
• Monitoring Hosts, Remote Hosts
• Regions, Hosts per Country by Region
• Status of Pakistani monitoring hosts
• South East Asian Hosts (from UNIMAS)
• History of PingER Deployment
• Finding PingER remote hosts
• PingER at DESY

PingER Databases

Report on converting PingER flat files to a SQL database, Ghulam Nabi, M. Farhan Maqsoos, Bilal Naseer.

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• ePingER on Android phone
• ePingER in Zambia
• ePingER in Malaysia
• ePingER at SLAC

PingER Futures

• FAQ

TULIP

Tulip Web Site
Old TULIP Web site
Tulip-CBG project report, by Ghulam Nabi, M. Farhan, Maqsood, Buialal Naseer, 2011
TULIP Analysis of alpha as a function of RTT and Region for Europe, North America and Pakistan, by Raja Asad Khan, October 2012.
Discussion on using International gateways to provide alpha between regions.

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