[atlas] Request for credits for research - Followup results

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 <mohan at 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/
>
> 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 <ripe-atlas-bounces at ripe.net> *On Behalf Of *Mohan,
> Nitinder
> *Sent:* 23 September 2020 23:02
> *To:* ripe-atlas at 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). 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.mohan at helsinki.fi
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
>
>
> Nitinder Mohan
>
> Postdoctoral Fellow
>
> Technical University of Munich, Germany
>
> https://www.nitindermohan.com/
>
>
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