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Actual attendees:

Administration

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

• Huffington Post article on PingER and African Internet performance, see  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tereshchuk/a-giant-leap-in-2016-africa_b_8901556.html

  Johari thinking of a PingER workshop later this year.

  • Anjum said it would be good for Hassaan to attach this to his proposal. Any action?

  • Les is working with the SLAC CIO to try and put something together for publicity concerning the life of PingER.

• NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session 
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  NETAPPS2015 1-3 December 2015 was very successful, five papers were presented in the PingER session 
  • Papers are now SLAC-PUBS

  • • Survey on Big Data Indexing strategies, also SLAC-PUB-16460, Fatima Bintu Adama, Adib Habbal, Suhaidi Hassan, R. Les Cottrell. Bebo White, Ibrahim Abdullahi, , submitted to NETAPPS 2015.

    • Worldwide Internet Performance Measurements Using Lightweight Measurement Platforms, alsoSLAC-PUB-16461,R. Les Cottrell, Thiago Barbosa, Bebo White, Johari Abdullah and Topher White, submitted to NETAPPS 2015. 

    • Applying Data Warehousing and Big Data Techniques to Analyze Internet Performance, also SLAC-PUB-16464, T. M. S. Barbosa, R. F. Souza, S. M. S. Cruz, M. L. Campos and R. L. Cottrell, submitted to NETAPPS 2015.

    • PingER Malaysia-Internet Performance Measuring Project: A Case Study, also see SLAC-PUB-16462, Saqib Ali, R. Les Cottrell, Anjum Naveed,  submitted to NETAPPS 2015.

    • Adaptive Geolocation of Internet Hosts, also SLAC-PUB-16463, Raja A.A. Khan, Roger L.A. Cottrell, Anjum Naveed, SLAC-PUB-16360, submitted to NETAPPS 2015.

    Good
  news from NETAPPS TPC that some of our Pinger team papers are recommended for possible publication in journal JICT (Scopus Index). However, requires 40% new information and to be done by April.

• 9 students from Amity University near New Delhi in India interested in coming to SLAC.

  • They have gone through the installation instructions for traceroute.pl, ping_data.pl and pinger2.pl. pinger2.pl appears to work, however we cannot access the data by ping_data.pl. There is also a  problem .   Problem that their web  server appears to be local, see Setting up PingER servers at Amity. No progress 3/9/2016

• Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those completed  by Renan and Thiago.student Letter of invitation is signed , will send soonand sent to him. Start mid May end Aug 2016

Geolocation Anjum, 

• This is a proposed project for one of the Indian students.

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• Airuniversity: airuniversity.seecs.edu.pk
• GIKI: pinger.giki.edu.pk
• LCWU: pinger.lcwu.edu.pk
• NU: pinger.lhr.nu.edu.pk
• NUISB: nuisb.seecs.edu.pk
• PERNFSBDPOP: pingerfsbd.pern.edu.pk
• PINGERISL-QAU: pingerisl-qau.pern.edu.pk
• PINGERKHI-CPSP.PERN.EDU: pingerkhi-cpsp.pern.edu.pk
• PINGERQTA.PERN: pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
• SAU.SEECS: sau.seecs.edu.pk

Are there any of these that are likely to return to service?

Next Meeting

Next meeting:  Wednesday Mar 9th 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Mar 10th, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

Old Items

• .PERN: pingerqta.pern.edu.pk
• SAU.SEECS: sau.seecs.edu.pk

Are there any of these that are likely to return to service?

Next Meeting

Next meeting:  Wednesday Mar 9th 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Mar 10th, 2016  9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 12:00noon Malaysian time, Thursday Mar 10th 2016 02:00am Rio Standard Time.  

Old Items

Huffington Post moved her 3/8/2016

• article on PingER and African Internet performance, see  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tereshchuk/a-giant-leap-in-2016-africa_b_8901556.html

• Anjum said it would be good for Hassaan to attach this to his proposal. Any action?

• Les is working with the SLAC CIO to try and put something together for publicity concerning the life of PingER. 

UOA (Saqib) placed here 2/3/2016.

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Saqib has a  5  MS students from the Database team

• • Sara Massoud came up with ideas to improve the info put together by Amity

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

  • Aqsa Hameed working on big data/analysis of PingER data. The initial idea was to set up a big data/big analysis 

  • 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). 

    •  Les emailed the relevant people to put them in contact with one another. It appears there is a lot of overlap between what Aqsa proposed as a Masters project and what Thiago has already done. However Thiago's system was mainly a proof of concept and not in production. We need to look at the next steps: Internet access, auto-updating of information in near realtime, production service, maintainable etc. With this in place one could really mine the data looking for all kinds of interesting correlations, clustering, event impacts, comparisons etc.

      • Given that such a warehouse is available, then the next step would be to automatically create queries that would produce in near real-time the plots we produce manually for the PingER annual reports.

      • Following this publish the data in RDF to tie in with the Southampton RDF web observatory repository (similar to what Renan did as a proof of concept).

      • Since Thiago's warehouse is only available at SLAC,  it may assist to get Aqsa an account at SLAC, alternatively Aqsa will need to set up a repository at here home base.

      • There is some documentation written by Les on the usage of the warehouse at SLAC. It is at: PingER Data Warehouse using Big Data with Cloudera on Nebula.

      • Les will contact Thiago to see if there is other documentation or where to find the programs etc.

      • We need to put together all we know:

        • Paper from Thiago on PingER warehouse presented in Malaysia at NETAPP2015 Thiago M. Da S. Barbosa, Renan F. Souza, Sergio M. S. Da Cruz, Maria L. Campos and R. Les Cottrell. Applying Data Warehousing and Big Data Techniques to Analyze Internet Performance

        • Document on Warehouse

          • PingER Data Warehouse using Big Data with Cloudera on Nebula

        • Documents on PingERLOD

          • Possible follow on to PingERLOD project, PingER#PingERLOD

          • Linked Open Data Publication Strategies: Application in Networking PPerformance Measurement Data, Renan Souza, Les Cottrell, Bebo White, Maria Campos, Marta Mattoso, poster presented at the BigDataScience - Stanford conference, CA, USA  May 27-31, 2014.

        • Reviews/proposals/ from Aqsa/Fatima

          • Survey on Big Data Indexing strategies, Fatima Bintu Adama, Adib Habbal, Suhaidi Hassan, R. Les Cottrell. Bebo White, Ibrahim Abdullahi.

          • Saqib will provide Aqsa's

    • Tehseen is working on missing PingER data.

• 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.

    • Have 2 RPis and setting up air quality with sensors from market, idea is to distribute on campus.

  • Currently, students are analyzing the project to develop a problem statement for their research project.

• For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact Anjum

• Project on Internet performance has been accepted, but no funding yet.

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