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/ 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/ From: ripe-atlas <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mohan, Nitinder Sent: 23 September 2020 23:02 To: [email protected] 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). 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 [email protected] Thanks and Regards Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University of Munich, Germany https://www.nitindermohan.com/
