Extension of the PingER Project onto Mobile Devices using Android Applications
Aayush Jain, James David, A. Sai Sabitha, Les Cottrell, Bebo White, Abhay Bansal, Rishabh Bansal · 2019
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.