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Saqib, Charnsak, Les
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Administration
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- Their PingER MA is up and running and we are successfully gathering data. We are working on the reliability.
They have made progress on the Android version of the PingER MA.
- They now automatically get the updated the Beacon list
- We are looking at how to store the data and set up a proxy
Bebo (No update 3/8/2018, 5/3/2018)
Looking into moving PingER to a "blockchain" database good for decentralizing distribution of data. Monitoring sites would then be able to write to a distributed ledger. This would change the architecture to a more peer to peer architecture. It helps with continuity of PingER since reduces dependence on a single site (SLAC). See Block Chain in Future PingER Projects. Bebo sent several references to Saqib who has looked at them. We could start with real-time data without including the whole archive, i.e. in parallel to the continued centrally managed archive. It would be a private Blockchain and hence not be as compute intensive as a public blockchain. Johari is also interested and will follow up with Bebo and Saqib.
Saqib gave an outstanding presentation at Guangzhou. There were a lot of discussions. Saqib has submitted to IEEE transactions and should hear mid May if it has been accepted. The conference is in September. Saqib and Bebo will discuss the next steps. Saqib will try and find a graduate student to work on it.
Thailand (Updated 5/3/2018)
The UBRU IPv4 PingER MA continues to function reliably. Charnsak is working on an IPv6 PingER MA at UBRU. He is downloading the latest version of pinger2.pl and will set up a set of IPv6 hosts in <HostList> in pinger.xml. At a later stage we will need to figure out how to automatically support IPv6 beacons without messing up MA's that do not have IPv6 capability.
He is using Beacons from Saqib
Umar and Charnsak are working on making measurements from UBRU comparing ping/ICMP vs TCP RTTs. Just finished running yesterday after 4 days.
Les is pursuing the possibility of an MoU with SLAC legal, the legal contact was on maternity leave so there was a delay. He has returned and been reminded and is looking at it. He says "The process for foreign MOUs has unfortunately gotten more complex per new DOE requirements." It can take a long time to go through the process. SLAC has not submitted any MoUs in the last 5 years. Les is still pushing forward and sent an outline to his bosses. This is not looking hopeful.
UUM (
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Updated 5/3/2018)
Regarding the paper " Socioeconomic Development indices and their Reflection on Internet Performance in the ASEAN Countries ", Adib has submitted the paper to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking because IEEE Access does not accept a resubmission of previously rejected paper. Even so,he explained to them that our new submission has totally new contribution, but they do not take it. The paper status is under review as shown in the attached screenshot.
Adib, Bebo, Les met with Southampton Web observatory person. There seemed to be enthusiasm. Adib was going to send some materials to Southampton. The person at Southampton gave us some links. Adib is in the early stages of exploring what web observatory data to link with such as business context indicators, social mediaand governmentsites. There is no update 3/29/2018.
NUST: (Updated 5/3/8/2018))
They have shortlisted candidates for the task of managing the Pakistani MAs.The students will be given a stipend. As of 4/30/2018 They , they are still waiting for new students. The interns have not joined the lab yet. So the progress is little slow.
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