Hi Nitinder, Thank you so much for following up with us, this is great! It sets a good example as well for how our contributions help enable research such as yours, so it's much appreciated. Keep up the good work!
Best, -Michael On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:20 AM Nitinder Mohan <[email protected]> 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/ > > 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/ > >
