Project onto Mobile Devices using Android Applications
PingER was developed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory as a tool for Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM). It monitors over 700 sites worldwide, and aims to measure the round-trip time, loss jitter etc. for packets travelling between nodes on the internet. The PingER MeasurementAgent can be deployed on servers running Linux, however these servers have limitations. The fixed-line servers currently in use are not mobile and require a continuous power source. The extension of the PingER project to the Android ecosystem brings advantages like greater power efficiency, ease of installation, maintenance, and better affordability to the table. The Android application is planned to supplement the existing PingER Measurement Agent Linux application set up at about 40 locations around the globe.Code Shoppy
the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s (SLAC’s) Internet End-to-End Performance Measurement (IEPM) Group backed by the US Department of Energy aims to provide valuable insights into the performance of the Internet [1] [2]. The current research-implementation targets replicating the entire PingER Measurement Agent (MA) into a portable Android application. This allows Android devices to act as PingER MAs and hence provide internet end-to-end monitoring. The Android app thus acts as a PingER MA, sending out pings to a SLAC-hosted list of beacons every 30 minutes and recording their responses. This data is saved and sent on a daily basis to the PingER archive at SLAC for use in multiple projects. When it was started in 1995, the primary goal of PingER was to "keep tabs on how parts of the network were performing and root out any problems" [3] so as to know how the Internet was performing, identify problems, and apply solutions. Now, it has expanded to something bigger – identify and assess the ‘digital divide’ across different regions of the world from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Middle East, from South America to Central and South Asia [4][5]. This ‘digital divide’ refers to economic and social disparity with regard to access to information and communication technology [6]. The project has various subdivisions such as PingER Deployment, Analysis, Operations, Databases, Validation data and toolbox that further open up multiple avenues like informed decision making.
PingER is a Project led by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and developed by the IEPM group in 1995 [1]. It is short for Ping End-to-end Reporting. The framework for the PingER project is based on the ping utility, that is available on most Internet connected hosts. A ping involves sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to a specified remote/target node which responds with an ICMP echo reply. It is also optional to send a data payload in the request which will be returned in the reply. The round-trip time (RTT) is reported; if multiple pings are dispatched, most implementations provide statistical summaries [7]. PingER uses this data to assess the quality of the internet in various regions, understand performance, and identify problems [8]. For each remote node specified in a configuration file: •PingER sends a single ping with a 56-byte payload, •followed by up to 30 pings with 100-byte payloads at 1 second intervals to the remote node, until 10 response are received. •This is followed by sending up to 30 pings with a 1000-byte payload, also at 1 second intervals to the remote node until 10 responses are received. [9]
PingER was developed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory as a tool for Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM). It monitors over 700 sites worldwide, and aims to measure the round-trip time, loss jitter etc. for packets travelling between nodes on the internet. The PingER MeasurementAgent can be deployed on servers running Linux, however these servers have limitations. The fixed-line servers currently in use are not mobile and require a continuous power source. The extension of the PingER project to the Android ecosystem brings advantages like greater power efficiency, ease of installation, maintenance, and better affordability to the table. The Android application is planned to supplement the existing PingER Measurement Agent Linux application set up at about 40 locations around the globe.Code Shoppy
the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s (SLAC’s) Internet End-to-End Performance Measurement (IEPM) Group backed by the US Department of Energy aims to provide valuable insights into the performance of the Internet [1] [2]. The current research-implementation targets replicating the entire PingER Measurement Agent (MA) into a portable Android application. This allows Android devices to act as PingER MAs and hence provide internet end-to-end monitoring. The Android app thus acts as a PingER MA, sending out pings to a SLAC-hosted list of beacons every 30 minutes and recording their responses. This data is saved and sent on a daily basis to the PingER archive at SLAC for use in multiple projects. When it was started in 1995, the primary goal of PingER was to "keep tabs on how parts of the network were performing and root out any problems" [3] so as to know how the Internet was performing, identify problems, and apply solutions. Now, it has expanded to something bigger – identify and assess the ‘digital divide’ across different regions of the world from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Middle East, from South America to Central and South Asia [4][5]. This ‘digital divide’ refers to economic and social disparity with regard to access to information and communication technology [6]. The project has various subdivisions such as PingER Deployment, Analysis, Operations, Databases, Validation data and toolbox that further open up multiple avenues like informed decision making.
PingER is a Project led by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and developed by the IEPM group in 1995 [1]. It is short for Ping End-to-end Reporting. The framework for the PingER project is based on the ping utility, that is available on most Internet connected hosts. A ping involves sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to a specified remote/target node which responds with an ICMP echo reply. It is also optional to send a data payload in the request which will be returned in the reply. The round-trip time (RTT) is reported; if multiple pings are dispatched, most implementations provide statistical summaries [7]. PingER uses this data to assess the quality of the internet in various regions, understand performance, and identify problems [8]. For each remote node specified in a configuration file: •PingER sends a single ping with a 56-byte payload, •followed by up to 30 pings with 100-byte payloads at 1 second intervals to the remote node, until 10 response are received. •This is followed by sending up to 30 pings with a 1000-byte payload, also at 1 second intervals to the remote node until 10 responses are received. [9]
The porting of the PingER application onto Android-based mobile devices has been a successful project. The targets set for the application such as ease-of-access, maintainable code, scalable architecture, small foot-print and viable scalability have been achieved. This latest iteration ofthe project overcomes the hurdles of the previous iteration of PingER on Android wherein the Perl Scripts were run on an emulator on a rooted Android Device. The Android App can now dynamically ping the beacons as and when updated by SLAC, parse and store their output, and send the generated txt files on a daily basis to the server via FTP – all in the background requiring minimal user-intervention. This approach allows individuals with minimal technical knowledge to contribute to the PingER Project with little to no effort which will be a huge boon to the data collection team at SLAC. This, in turn will be a greater boon to the data analysis team as the number of android-based measuring agents increase and provide more diverse data. This app can now be distributed to people around the world for collecting data.
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