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What: PingER Standing Meeting
When: Apr 25, 2019 10:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-MacExit plan for PingER
Time to start thinking about this. Do we need one?
- Les retired, still active.
- Bebo's SLAC account expires early 2020, he will bow out then.
- Umar has left SLAC, but still involved.
- In the over two decades since PingER started, the Internet and wide area networking have changed dramatically
- Speeds, deployment, reliabiilty, number of users and applications have improved exponentially
- There are lots of other monitoring tools: perfSONAR, ISP monitoring, Akamai
What does it affect?
- Pakistan monitoring - Wajahat
- What is the commitment from Pakistan?
- China - monitoring; big data, blockchain - Saqib
- Is the current historical data sufficient?
- ePingER on Android - Amity, Bebo, Topher
- This is new, Amity would need to take leadership
- Topher is very busy with getting funding and other projects
- Bebo less interested partially due to loss of SLAC account early next year
- Three PingER analysis projects - Amity
- Title (tentative): Correlation Analysis between network performance and GDP of a country using PingER data. Abstract (tentative):
- Title (tentative): Comparison of network performance of India and Pakistan using PingER data. Abstract (tentative):
- Title (tentative): Data packets loss prediction due to environmental factors.
- Is the current historical data sufficient?
- Compare IPv4 with IPv6 and ICMP versus UDP versus TCP pings - Umar
- Umar in new job may not have resources/time
- Measurements probably do not rely on PingER project, rather they can be made ad hoc.
- Monthly meetings - Les, Umar
- Scheduling with doodle - Les
- Making up agenda and current status - Les
- Invitation via Zoom - Umar
- Attending - all
Possible scenarios
- Hard stop
- Soft stop:
- Continue running monitors, gathering data, archiving and presenting as long as SLAC provides storage (1TB) and pinger.slac.stanford.edu VM
- Give up on monitors after email prompt and no resolution
- Do not add any extra functions
- Keep historical data publicly available as long as SLAC provides storage (1TB) and pinger.slac.stanford.edu VM
- Continue running monitors, gathering data, archiving and presenting as long as SLAC provides storage (1TB) and pinger.slac.stanford.edu VM
- Meet with Amity to get their input to
- Access to PingER historical data
- ePinger Android futures
Jordan (Updated 4/25/2019)
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