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[atlas] More even earth distribution of measurement probes
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Marat Khalili
mkh at rqc.ru
Fri Mar 10 13:27:23 CET 2017
Cool, will try it! I almost wrote my own tool already, but I didn't try to make even spatial distribution, it is obviously more difficult than by-country one. -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili On 10/03/17 14:56, Vesna Manojlovic wrote: > Dear Marat, > > On 10/03/17 09:47, Marat Khalili wrote: >> I'd like to check worldwide connectivity to my site. I create a new >> measurement via web-interface and add, say, 300 probes, expecting them >> to cover most world countries. > > There was a hackathon project that made this possible in some way, > called "Spatial Bucketing of RIPE Atlas Probes on Map Projection", by > Julian Hammer: > > "[he] wanted to solve the following problem: when scheduling > measurements from lots of probes, requesting a "random worldwide > selection" currently results in a choice that is very biased towards > Western/Northern Europe and the USA (see image without Sbucket on the > left). > > Julian's solution makes a more equal selection, by using the grid to > divide the globe and choose probes based on that division (see image > on the right after applying Sbucket)." > > Images: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results > > Code: https://github.com/cod3monk/RIPE-Atlas-sbucket > > I hope you find this useful! > > Cheers, > Vesna > >> However, looking at the map >> <https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/7861872/?filter=#map> I notice that >> most are selected from Europe: there're two dozens in Netherlands (many >> with same ASNs), but only two in Australia, one in Japan and nothing in >> Brazil. Obviously, most ATLAS probes are from Europe, and selection >> algorithm does not take probe density into account. >> >> Wouldn't it be nice to have the following features in web-interface >> and API: >> * even distribution of probes by country or continent based on >> population, area, and other user-defined weight numbers; >> * avoiding probes with same ASNs >> ? >> >> I don't know how current algorithm works, but easiest modification would >> be two-step process: (1) randomly select country based on specified >> weights; (2) randomly select probe within country, avoiding earlier >> selected probes or ASNs and failing if none are left available; repeat >> from step 1 until necessary number of probes is selected. >> >> P.S. I tried to manually request 1 probe from each country, but stumbled >> on unrecognised country codes, countries with no probes etc. before even >> trying population-weighted distribution. Without direct access to probes >> database nice solution can be difficult to achieve via current API, >> although crude one looks possible. >> >> P.P.S. I understand this option will create more load on probes in >> less-covered countries, but since it's possible to limit selection to >> specific countries anyway this is hardly a strong argument against >> adding this feature. >> >> -- >> >> With Best Regards, >> Marat Khalili
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