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- Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com
Arshad has left SEECS/NUST to become the Rector of the National Textile University in Faisalabad. We have contacted the Rector at NUST to discuss continued support for PingER at SEECS. He has been very supportive and responded as follows:
We will surely continue with PingER project. Dr Zaidi who has succeeded Arshad has spent as many years in NIIT and later SEECS as Arshad. He will take care of the project.
I have copied this email to Director Research and Director Academics too. They will fully support Zaidi. Hope your worries are removed. If you find any issues, please give an email to me and I will ensure that we achieve all the targets of this project. Thanks and regards.
I have emailed Dr Zaidi.Acting principal (Engineer Habeel) asked for details about project that Anjum provided. They have also contacted Hassaan and asked him to be faculty in-charge of the project. Dr. Zaidi and Habeel Ahmed are not clear of the status and direction of the project so Dr. Arshad told them he can discuss it during his next visit of SEECS. That is what I last know. I think Dr. Arshad visits SEECS every 15 days or so and is helping with smooth transition.
Dr Zaidi writes:
Thank you for your email and for posing confidence in NUST-SEECS for the collaboration that has been on-going for a number of years and has only grown stronger with time. It is indeed a pleasure for us here at NUST-SEECS to be working in collaboration with your team at SLAC. We certainly value this collaborative effort and look forward to take it to newer heights.
I have recently conducted a special review meeting to ensure that things are back on track. Through this email, I would like to reiterate our commitment to this collaboration. We assure you of our full support for taking this a step further. As for your requirement of a System Administrator and a Faculty member in-charge of this project, you will be happy to know that Dr Hassan Khaliq -- a faculty member at SEECS who is already involved in the project, has been made responsible to manage the affairs from our end. In addition, we have deployed an MS research student to assist him in this effort. We have also raised the requirement of a full-time resource for this project and we are hoping to have this resource with us soon
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly should you face any problem from this day forward. The topic for this meeting will be plans to submit papers to NETAPPS15 (http://netapps2015.internetworks.my/v2/)
The full paper submission is July 31st, 2015 (already extended once and now a firm deadline). Papers are a max of 6 pages including figs and refs. The call for papers is at http://netapps2015.internetworks.my/v2/index.php/call-for-papers. There is information on the submission at http://netapps2015.internetworks.my/v2/index.php/paper-submission. It will be in Putrajaya 1-3 December 2015 and hosted by UUM (Adib is an organizer).
If there were sufficient papers concerning PingER than maybe there would be a separate session for PingER.
There is interest and work in progress for SLAC on "Worldwide Internet performance measurements using lightweight measurement platforms". This will be based on PingER on a Raspberry Pi, see ePinger Project at SLAC. I doubt Thiago nor I can get the travel funds. Can Johari or somebody else present?
Saqib/Anjum can you put something together on a Malaysian Case Study?
Maybe Renan, Maria, Thiago, Cristiane may put something together on Big Data and PingER including data expansion
Ibrahim /Fatima/Adib anything on PingER and Big Data/Clouds/Hadoop,
Anjum How are the measurements, analysis and paper on GeoLocation coming along?
He has been looking at the alpha (directivity) behavior, there was an exponential behavior, but it was unclear how to take advantage of it. Anjum cut N. America into regions to facilitate improving the accuracy of the alpha prediction. He believes this will improve things.
- Anjum has not started on this yet, he hopes to get to it when he returns from Canada
Johari has got the OK from the conference organizing committee to hold a colocated PingER/BigData workshop on August 3rd the day before the CITA 2015 (see http://www.cita.my/ an International Conference 4th - 6th August 2015, on transforming Big Data into Knowledge. Johari will provide relevant information to Bebo. Bebo will be able to make a presentation. Les has sent Bebo some relevant slide decks. Johari has an abstract from Bebo. There are PingER related papers submitted from UM
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