Super pleased that this research work as done aided by ripe atlas users Colin (BT)
> On 20 Apr 2021, at 10:19, Nitinder Mohan <mo...@in.tum.de> wrote: > > Dear RIPE community, > > I hope you are all safe and sound. > > This email is a follow-up to our request for Atlas credits back in September > 2020. Following our request, we received an overwhelming response from the > community to assist our research by transferring us credits and giving us > best wishes for project completion. Today, I am elated to let you all know > that we have successfully concluded our project and I would be happy to share > the results with all of you. > > Our project focused on analyzing the availability and reachability of cloud > datacenters across the globe. The motivation for our work stemmed from the > lack of any recently conducted global cloud measurement study which can be > used for assessing the growth of cloud networks in the past decade. We feel > that such an impartial study is not only useful for researchers working in > domains such as edge computing, 5G/6G, cloud computing etc. but can also be > valuable for folks from industry and for the general public. > > Back in 2019 we launched our cloud reachability study, targeting 10 major > cloud operators (189 compute cloud regions) across the globe. We collected > ICMP and TCP pings along with Traceroutes periodically over the Atlas > platform. The results from this project has been successfully published in > top-tier venues such as ACM HotNets 2020, The Web Conference (WWW) 2021 and > IFIP Networking 2021. We release all collected dataset and associated code > for public and community use. You can browse/play with our results learn more > about the project objectives and download our datasets from here: > https://cloudreachability.github.io/ <https://cloudreachability.github.io/> > > I would like to thank the RIPE community for being so supportive to our (and > generally to) research endeavours. If you have any questions regarding our > work, I will be very happy to answer them. > > Thanks and Regards > > Nitinder Mohan > Postdoctoral Fellow > Technical University Munich (TUM) > https://www.nitindermohan.com/ <https://www.nitindermohan.com/> >> From: ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas-boun...@ripe.net >> <mailto:ripe-atlas-boun...@ripe.net>> On Behalf Of Mohan, Nitinder >> Sent: 23 September 2020 23:02 >> To: ripe-atlas@ripe.net <mailto:ripe-atlas@ripe.net> >> Subject: [atlas] Request for credits for research >> >> >> >> Dear RIPE community, >> >> >> >> I hope you are all safe and sound. >> >> >> >> I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. >> We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to >> analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. >> The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning >> Edge Research with Latency Shears" >> (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html >> <http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html>). We are >> currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it >> with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon. >> >> >> >> We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a >> conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of >> measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale >> measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our >> credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to >> be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could >> support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help >> will be highly appreciated. >> >> >> >> My RIPE account is nitinder.mo...@helsinki.fi >> <mailto:nitinder.mo...@helsinki.fi> >> >> >> Thanks and Regards >> >> >> >> Nitinder Mohan >> >> Postdoctoral Fellow >> >> Technical University of Munich, Germany >> >> https://www.nitindermohan.com/ <https://www.nitindermohan.com/>
