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Amber and Sadia will share their CVs. Umar has them.
Amber is in Quetta for workshop. She returns this Friday.
, Anjum will get them and forward.
They have applied for SLAC IDs, Les has approved they are going through HRWe need to get SLAC accounts for them - Faisal will work with Les to get them.
They need to learn Perl. Umar Zafar will go over what the projects PingER (this is done) and perfSONAR are all about did this happen?(this has to be done)
Adnan Kiani has just been introduced to the PingER project. He completed his PhD degree this year in communications at Brunel University. He will be taking over the liaison at SEECS from Anjum. Anjum is over committed and unable to commit enough time to the PingER project.
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- Dr. Anjum is verifying that table.pl at SEECS has all the known Pakistani monitors. Need to study improvements with pingtable.pl time series and the smokeping plots where we have them. If something has been recommended by our measurements and that has happened and made things better that is very important for the case study.
- UET, UOB, LSE, COMSATS do not have the full set of Pakistani beacons. See matrix. The Pakistani monitoring nodes are supposed to get the beacon list from SEECS. – Anjum said he has a student who can fix but need password so they can fix the nodes so they get the list from the SEECS server. They are fetching their beacons from SLAC. Anjum is requesting admins to fix. Working on it, but response from admins is not good.
- We need to understand the high ping losses for UAAR. Sadia please put together a case study. Zafar discussed with Sadia and she has started something and it will go in the HEC report. It seems to have cleared up in November.
- 111.68.102.40 = PK.LSE.EDU.N3 needs to have a name registered in DNS.
- UETAXILA pings, but the web page at uetaxila for traceroute does not respond, the ping_data.pl web form responds. Has the traceroute.pl been installed it does not appear to be working.
- Les fixed a problem in table.pl which was not counting nodes which only have an IP address.
- UOB is working 12/2/2010. Has the traceroute been added to the TULIP landmarks?
- NWFPUET ping-data.pl form is installed and getting data. However http://pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping does not work,
Sadia and Amber are working on the Peshawar data. Some of Peshawar node show long RTT to other sites and others have short RTT. Some are going via Karachi. HEC HEC Peshawar: pinger-rcp.pern.edu.pk. Same status as conveyed earlier, contact person and administration there need formal approval from DG IT HEC Islamabad
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Kohat University: pinger.kohat.edu.pk. unable to contact on cell and ptcl have emailed for status will track this as well
University of balochistan: pinger.uob.edu.pk. node is down for the time beinghad discussed it during workshop in quetta node will be UP sooner, we will take this up in quetta schedule
Sadia is working on statistcis Sadia is working on statistics for the HEC report which will be incorporated into the Pakistani case study. It will have a summary and Appendix. They are focusing on an inter-regional study. This will include routing paths and anomalies, with summary graphs.They are picking one or two nodes per region and then study from it to all other regions. They did not make the Nov 20th date due to Eids. That has been a problem that Anjum has managed to work around. The subsequent reports will be monthly on 15th of the month. Expect to finish by Wednesday next week. Zafar is trying to keep the report below 50 pages. 11/1/2010 we are almost done with draft of the report and finishing the report. There are some interesting cases like intra cities nodes having weird RTT close to 0.7ms. The complete report will be available asap.
Sadia unearthed a problem in smokeping at SEECS. It has been fixed. She also unearthed a problem in table.pl which has also been Fixed. Well done Sadia in unearthing and reporting the problems.
Progress on ICFA Report 2011 - Zafar
Integrate into the report.Zafar worked on ICFA report but there are two sections that are left before an initial draft can be shared. He's been primarily busy with PerfSONAR. There are some issues that he's trying to resolve.
- 2010 Updates on Africa (done)
- Inland African fibre optics (done)
- African NREN (done)
- Mean Opinion Score
- Regions of the World graphs
- Throughput graphs (will be handled in December/January)
- PingER metrics (done)
- Loss (done)
Zafar has resumed work on the ICFA report. He hopes to make updates and have the initial draft by end Novenber. The Pakistani case study may not be ready by then.
Zafar has explained to Sadia and Amber the nature of work. They are currently working on HEC reports. Deadline for Sep-Oct (bi-monthly) report is November 20th. That report will be helpful for writing down Pakistani case study.
Sadia and Amber are working on the Peshawar data. Some of Peshawar node show long RTT to other sites and others have short RTT. Some are going via Karachi.
I have extended the African case study to add BGP prefixes and pinger metrics for Africa.
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We added another monitoring host this time in Egypt.
I am working on a monitor in Sarawak.
PerfSONAR
Zafar has deployed bandwidth and latency. He believes they are working, but has not seen any graphs so far.
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