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• Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com

• Hassaan reports "I have received revisions on my proposal and these days I am revising my proposal. 

  • In the meantime he has also added another student (Anas Abrar) on this project. He is in learning phase and will follow the nodes which are not working. He shall give us an update very soon. 

  • He is  very hopeful that if the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project.

  • However, Anjum points out it may take a while to get acceptance and funding (e.g. 6 months)

• NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session 
  
  • PingER Malaysia-Internet Performance Measuring Project: A Case Study, Saqib Ali, R. Les Cottrell, Anjum Naveed, presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015 
  • Applying Data Warehousing and Big Data Techniques to Analyze Internet Performance, Thiago Barbosa, Renan Souza, Sergio Serra, R. Les Cottrell presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015 
  • Worldwide Internet performance measurements using a Raspberry Pi, presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015.  Also a video.
  • Adaptive Geolocation of Internet Hosts, Raja A. A. Khan, Anjum Naveed, R. Les Cottrell presented at NetApps2015, Dec 2015
  • Survey on Big Data Indexing strategies, Fatima Bintu Adama, Adib Habbal, Suhaidi Hassan, R. Les Cottrell. Bebo White, Ibrahim Abdullahi.
  • Anjum reports there was a huge crowd from 15 countries, it provided good publicity for PingER. In particular there was interest from Jordan and Sri Lanka and a person in UUM (maybe Adib can provide details). 
  • Unfortunately Anjum and Saqib were unable to link up since Saqib was only able to be present on the last day.

• 9 students from Amity University near New Delhi in India interested in coming to SLAC. Bebo sent reminder recently, response below:

  • Sorry for the delay.  Students are giving end semester exams.  They are busy till dec 20th. They will get back to work as soon as the exams  are done. 

  • Three students have written a short paper for confluence. I will send it as early as possible.

  • Once the exam is over we will be setting up  "PingER measurement agent at Amity"
    

• Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed  by Renan and Thiago.
  • "IIE took some time to send me the information I asked, but now I think I have all I need. They sent me an e-mail two days ago with the informations about academic training and they will send me another e-mail as soon as my Letter of Support is avaiable. The academic training verification form is already avaiable, however they asked the students to wait for the upcoming webinar where they will give instructions about the academic training and how to fill the academic training form. As soon as my form is complete, I will need your signature in it. Also, I´m sending you my health insurance document attached in this e-mail." 

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• Saqib has a  5  MS students from the Database team

  • Farah Massoud

  • Sabah Massoumil working on Linked Open Data (please excuse spelling)

  • Aqsa Hameed working on big data/analysis of PingER data

  • Aqsa Hameed has been working with Anjum to look at a project to create a Hadoop/Cloudera PingER warehouse to enable easier, more powerful access to PingER historical data. 

    • Thinking a bit on Aqsa her work appears to be related to the work done by Thiago on PingER warehouse using a cluster/Cloudera/HDFS/Impala earlier this year. In particular see the presentation at NETAPPS2015 (see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/123309267/NETAPPS_PRESENTATIONrevLuiza.pptx. Once the paper is published we can also provide her with that (Adib will let us know when this is OK).  

      Further we are working on repeating the interns at SLAC of Renan and Thiago with another Brazilian student Joao this coming year.  Thus maybe we can provide some continuity of effort.

    •  Les will email the relevant people to put them in contact.

• Saqib has submitted a project with title "A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad"

  • Project is accepted.

  • working on a project to develop a node using Raspberry Pi 2 and IoT to measure the air and soil quality.

  • Currently, students are analyzing the project to develop a problem statement for their research project.Saqib has 5 students interested in PingER. In particular in Big Data, Data Mining and Geolocation.

• For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact AnjumFor Big Data and Data Mining I suspect they will need a cloud/cluster. Given the problem at other sites it is important to be assured they will have the appropriate resources to pursue their work.

UUM

Fatima  presented her work at NetApps. Adib is Fatima still with us?

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