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Actual Attendees
Saqib, Wajahat, Adib, Bebo, Les
Others
Administration
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- The paper was not accepted :( despite some positive reviews, two reviewers accept the paper and only one reject it. Anyway, I have been working on a more rigorous analysis to resolve the correlation/causation doubt (to answer David comments) and the new analysis is ready. Adib needs a few days to update our paper with the new analysis then will share with us to comment and advise.
- He has been working with a statistician to identify correlations between Internet performance (IP) and ICT Development Index (IDI), Human Development Index (HDI), Fertility, GDP, and the Happy Planet Index (HPI).
- They then look at the normality of the data. All except GDP pass the normality test. For GDP they use Spearman's non-parametric correlation, while Pearson Correlation is used for the rest.
- There are strong positive correlations for IDI and HDI, a strong negative correlation for Fertility rate and a moderate correlation for HPI. GDP also has a moderate correlation
- It then looks at the cause effect relationship using regression.
- Finally it comes up with a model of the form:
IP = 2724.288 + 0.008GDP + 275.904 IDI -3238.298 HDI – 220.264 – 8.084HPI
And they test its predictive behavior using various statistical tests. It looks very good.
- Adib is finalizing the paper and hopes to complete by the end of this week 9/25/2017.
- The paper was not accepted :( despite some positive reviews, two reviewers accept the paper and only one reject it. Anyway, I have been working on a more rigorous analysis to resolve the correlation/causation doubt (to answer David comments) and the new analysis is ready. Adib needs a few days to update our paper with the new analysis then will share with us to comment and advise.
"BIND: An Indexing Strategy for Big Data Processing" that uses PingER data. Submitted and accepted by the 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) that takes place in November. In Penang Malaysia
pinger.uum.edu.my they have a connection problem with UUM gateway, Adib already contacted UUM IT to assist. Progress?
Adib has been contacted by an ex-student who is now in Nigeria. There is a possibility he could put up a PingER MA. Progress?
. The IP address had been re-assigned. Adib showed them the paperwork that the IP address belongs to the PingER MA. They apologized and hope to solve next week.
Adib has sent PingER MA invitation to Nigerian person who used to be a student at UUM. He is awairing a response.
Bebo sent the information on the Web Observatory and the Internet archive to Adib. Bebo also sent an intrudction to Adib and Ian. We are awaiting a response from Ian. Bebo will send a reminder message to Ian.
Actions:
Adib, get the student to contact Les.
Bebo, provide information on the web observatory and Internet archives
NUST: Updates August 2017?
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- aup.seecs.edu.pk not pingable as of March 6th, 2017. Wajhat still trying, not given up. Still down 4/15/2017, 7/3/2017, 8/11/2017, 9/16/2017 (does not ping). Not responding.
- cae.seecs.edu.pk working again as of 3/6/2017. Down since March 17, 2017. Down 7/3/2017, Down 8/11/2017 did not ping, 9/16/2017 pings but unable to gather any data. Reconfigured 9/19/2017.
- kinnaird.seecs.edu.pl pings but unable to gather data 8/11/2017, unable to ping 9/16/2017. Contacted.
- maggie1.seecs.edu.pk Down 8/11/2017, 9/16/2017 pings unable to gather data. Reconfigured 9/19/2017.
- maggie2.seecs.edu.pk Down 8/11/2017. Working 9/16/2017
- monitor.seecs.edu.pk down since 23 April, down 7/3/2017. Usually working 9/16/2017.
- namal.seecs.edu.pk (host is not pingable). Institution unreachable from start, we are trying to locate the person in charge, fingers crossed (Wajahat 1/10/206). Working 2/1/2018, still working 3/20/2017. Down since April 1st 2017. Down 7/3/2017, 8/11/2017. 9/16/2016 pings unable to gather data. Contact person missing
- nukimain.seecs.edu.pk down since March 24th, 2017. Down 7/3/2017, 8/11/2017,9/16/2017 unable to ping
- pinger.aiou.edu.pk down since April 15th, down 73/2017, 8/11/2017. 9/16/2017 unable to ping. Not Interested.
- pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk pings but can't gather data 8/11/2017 and 9/16/2017. Contacted.
- pinger.vu.edu.pk down since May 22nd, down 7/3/2017. Problem with missing XML/Simple.pm missing. Unable to gather data, pings 8/11/2017 and 9/16/2017. Reconfigured 9/19/2017.
UNIMAS Up
They are focusing on the hosts they can ping. In many cases the researcher has left and others do not see the purpose. Wajahat will keep trying pointing out the value for international research and papers.
UNIMAS (Johari unable to attend 9/21/2017 so no update)
- Johari attended a workshop organized by UNESCO about experience in China and Malaysia on analysis and visualization. He talked to several researchers from China. He will send a paper to a journal to see if there is interest.
- Johari is teaching this
- Johari attended a workshop organized by UNESCO about experience in China and Malaysia on analysis and visualization. He talked to several researchers from China. He will send a paper to a journal to see if there is interest.
- Johari is teaching this semester, he will enter the Raspberry Pi image into Dropbox or Github in the next few days. Bebo will follow up with Github information.
- He is looking at updating the PingER Malaysia web site.
- He has been unable to contact Hafiz to get MyREN monitor at UNIMAS working again.
- Writing a paper. Les will review and then Johari will submit. No progress 3/14/2017. Looking for a good journal 5/18/2017.
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PingER MA at GZHU is now accessible publicly and is successfully gathering data and incorporated in PingER. It would make a good beacon, however it was not pingable 7/16/2017, sent email. Saqib isI trying to convince the IT department to open the ping. No success yet. Hopefully in next 2 weeks.
We now have about 230 educational sites in China that respond to pings. about 200 have been entered into the PingER Meta database. We still need to add about 48 municipalty sites
Sara MasoodSara Masood
Currently, no data is available on PingER on Android due to unavailability of the live IP address. No update 4/19/2017, 7/6/2017. Email sent to Sara Masood. No update yet.
The 44th Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Meeting will going to be held was held in Dalian, China in collaboration with CERNET from August 26 to September 1, 2017. Saqib will attend attended this meeting. They have a full day workshop on perfSONAR (https://apan.net/meetings/apan44/schedule.php). Hopefully, Saqib will try to get some collaboration from CERNET on PingER deployment in China. Dear Prof. Do you have any contacts in APAN or CERNET? Les does not, Bebo may have.Action: Bebo will introduce Saqib to possible people in CERNET. He gave a presentation. He has a lot of interest from CERNET on using PingER for monitoring CERNET. CERNET backbone is currently at 10Gbps will upgrade to 100Gbps in a couple of years. There are about 20 core nodes that run IPv6 and they will be extending to 50 core nodes. Saqib is thinking of submitting a proposal to extend PingER to support IPv6 monitoring of the CERNET backbone. The submission deadline is 30 Sept 2017.
PingER has valuable historical data for the last 20 years.Many analysis and case studies have been carried using this data. A lot of information is available on the website. Saqib's idea is to publish the brief summary all these analysis through a survey paper covering the history and utilization of PingER data starting from 1998 to 2017. Saqib, will start on it next month (August). There has been correspondence on how to aggregate PingER data to look at losses by S. Asian countries over the last couple decades. See http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/prmout/.
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