School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) is a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan - SEECS was formerly known as NIIT (NUST Institute of Information Technology). Since SEECS has been an important collaborator with SLAC, CERN and Caltech, we prepared a case study presenting an overview of the issues faced by SEECS in particular and Pakistan in general.
The Currently the PingER project maintains six (7) monitoring nodes in Pakistan, measuring the performance of sites listed in the table - monitored nodes - below. The measurements date back to 2003. Since then there has been a gradual increase in the number of monitoring nodes which helps in making reliable inferences. These monitoring sites are deployed in Islamabad at the following locations:
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Location | No. of monitoring nodes |
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SEECS, NUST | 4 |
NCP, Quaid-e-Azam University | 1 |
COMSATS University | 1 |
Pakistan Education Research Network (PERN) | 1 |
, Quaid-e-Azam University | 1 |
COMSATS University | 1 |
Pakistan Education Research Network (PERN) | 1 |
Note that Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) "is a nationwide educational intranet connecting premiere educational and research institutions of the country. PERN focuses on collaborative research, knowledge sharing, resource sharing, and distance learning by connecting people through the use of Intranet and Internet resources". PERN uses the services of NTC (National Telecommunication Corporation), which is the national telecommunication carrier for all official/government services in Pakistan, for the provision of infrastructure and bandwidth to the universities in Pakistan.
Monitored - Remote - Nodes:
Remote Node | University/Organization | Service Provider | Available | End Host Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SDNPK (wb.sdnpk.org) | Islamabad | Cyber NET (cyber.net.pk) |
| Islamabad |
PERN (www.pern.edu.pk) | Islamabad | PERN |
| Islamabad |
LSE (lahoreschoolofeconomics.edu.pk) | Lahore |
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| Lahore |
COMSATS (comsats.edu.pk) | Islamabad | PERN |
| Islamabad |
NAYATEL (nayatel.com) | Islamabad | Micronet/Nayatel (dsl.net.pk) | Islamabad | |
BUITMS (buitms.edu.pk) | Quetta | PERN* |
| Quetta |
SSUET (ssuet.edu.pk) | Karachi | PERN |
| Karachi |
UPESH (www.upesh.edu.pk) | Peshawar | PERN* |
| Islamabad |
PIEAS (www.pieas.edu.pk) | Nilore | PERN* |
| Islamabad |
NUST (www.niit.edu.pk) | Rawalpindi | Micronet/Nayatel (dsl.net.pk) | 1 - 1.5 Mbps | Rawalpindi |
GIKI (www.giki.edu.pk) | Topi | PERN* |
| Topi |
UET (uet.edu.pk) | Lahore | PERN |
| Lahore |
HU (hu.edu.pk) | Hazara | PERN |
| Hazara |
DSL.NET (dsl.net.pk) | Islamabad | Micronet/Nayatel (dsl.net.pk) |
| Islamabad |
* These results are not confirmed.
Consequently Thus the coverage of PingER in Pakistan can be summarized by the following figure. The monitoring nodes are labeled red where as the monitored nodes are labeled green.
Figure 1 |
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The data presented here has been collected from the monitoring sites mentioned above. A copy of the same can be obtained from here. We study and filter the results for anomalous observations and present the analysis below:
Performance Results
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Data file: \[[xls|^performance-PK-PK.xls]\] |
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