[atlas] Looking for advise and temporarily limits increment for research

Hey Peter,

Thanks for the help!

I did send an email to Chris Amin (camin at ripe.net), but there might be some
problem with my Gmail system and I cannot get his reply, or just because he
is busy these hours.

I am sorry that I am in a hurry for this issue, and my research system
involves several parts and they work simultaneously, while the limit
regulation of RIPE atlas part fails the process of my whole system every
day. And I really need to deal with this.

Since I haven't connected to Chris yet, could you help me ping him and loop
me back in any possible way?

Thanks,
Yihao

(below is the email I sent to Chris yesterday.)
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Dear Chris,

Thank for helping me!

I am a Ph.D. student. The reason why I try to launch so many measurements
is just for research.
And I wish the rate limits could be
temporarily
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increased for 10 days, since I probably might
exceed
most of these rules.


Generally, my research is like this.
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Part 1.
I have 860 targets to ping, and thus 730 measurements. And for each target,
I would like to use a fixed set of 100 probes in the measurement.
For each of the measurement, I'd like the target to be Pinged by these 100
probes on every 1 hour, and the measurement is planned to stop 12 hours
later after the measurement start. Thus, if one probe sent 3 packets at
each ping, the total credits will be 3,096,000 (730*12*100*3=3,096,000).

Part 2.
This looks like a random measurement. My research is about an Internet
anomalies detection system. So every time my system triggers an alarm, (the
alarm would set for 1 of the 730 targets), I'd like to start an instant,
and probably one-off measurement from the previous 100 probes to the
alarmed target. The question is this anomalies detection system is still
under improvement, so I don't exactly know how many measurements might
concurrently be started at the same time.
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(The 730 targets are elaborately selected and necessary to me because I
need the dataset as many as possible to examine the accuracy of the system)


I check the rules at: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/udm/#rate-limits
It makes me feel like I might exceed many rules intentionally
or unintentional.
Considering I am in a huge hurry to examine this system, I'd very like the
limits for these rules be temporarily increased.

I appreciate every suggestion and help on this!
My RIPE atlas account is: yhjia.03 at gmail.com

Many thanks,
Yihao




On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 07:06, Peter Eckel <lists at eckel-edv.de> wrote:

> Hi Jia,
>
> did you read the mail vom Chris Amin from yesterday? I guess that should
> answer everything. I'd get in touch with Chris and discuss the rest
> directly.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Peter.
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