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This meeting: November 05, 2020 9 pm Pacific time; a day later 9:00 am Pakistan time; 910:30 am India time
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PingER Project Update using Zoom
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PingER Project Update
When
Thu Nov 5, 2020 9pm – 10:30pm Pacific Time - Los Angeles
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• | Umar Kalim |
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Agenda:
- Introductions
- US & Pakistani folks
- India folks
- Status of pingeramity.in
- Covid-19 & PingER
- Mobile PingER
Below is a stab at gathering the relevant data in advance of the meeting
Amity
Old Amity team photo:
Agenda:
- Introductions
- US & Pakistani folks
- India folks
- Status of pingeramity.in
- Covid-19 & PingER
- Mobile PingER
Recording of the meeting can be found at:
Minutes:
Attendees:
Amity: Asshat Sachan, Dr. A. Sai Sabitha, Prof. Dr. Abhay Bansai, Samaksh Agarwal, Shivang Gupta, Sakshi Arora, Shwang
US: Bebo White, Umar Kalim
Pakistan: Saqib Ali.
Meeting Preparation Notes
Amity
Apart from invitations to present papers at upcoming conferences we heard from Amity since Sep 4, 2020 when they forwarded an email originating July 11, 2020
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Concerning the Android App, Umar pointed out that we need to understand/specify the end goal of the project. The project can support mobility since it records GPS coordinates. One needs to decide how to utilize the data gathered. It can be useful for evaluating Telco service providers. Unlike today's PingER which has continuous data between monitoring stations and targets, we would expect the mobile data to be much more sparse both in terms of time and monitors (cell-phones). Further, it is community-driven rather than centrally. It would appear to be similar to Thousand Eyes or Speedtest app that enables cell phone users to make on-demand measurements of throughput from their phones to targets around the world. The measurements would be archived and can then be summarized and reports presented, e.g. comparing connectivity from area to area on maps and or by a carrier. Telcos are also making such connectivity measurements for their network. An advantage of the current proposal is that it would be across service providers, and also have less network impact than say Speedtest.
pingeramity.in
No data since Jan 6, 2020. Cannot ping gives unknown host. Email from Amity Sep 4, 2020: i"Also, for our Amity SLAC server, physical access is not possible and therefore we are unable to configure the scripts manually there and hence it is running offline. It will be set as soon as the college reopens." Is there any idea when this may occur or what has to happen before the college is allowed to open?
Disabled by Cottrell 10/19/2020State of MAs.
SLAC Overview
PingER is still actively monitoring from 15 sites in 10 countries (US, Canada, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, Brazil, South Africa). Apart from SLAC, the monitoring sites each monitor 171 Beacons. SLAC monitors over 700 monitored hosts in 171 countries including all continents except Antarctica. See https://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/sites-per-country.html. Also, see the state of various problem monitoring hosts below.
Covid-19 in S. Asia and US
While the median age for Pakistan is quite young (late 20's to early 30's) and that the fact the population leans to B+- rather than A+- blood both should help reduce the incidence, this would not appear to be a big difference between India and Pakistan. Saqib mentioned that a difference might be in the way Pakistan imposes a hard 2 week lockdowns (enforced by police with barricades) on small areas (e.g. a street in Islamabad) where there is an outbreak. There may also be some under-reporting.
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