Implementation of PingER on Android

PingER was developed by Stanford Linear Accelerated Center as a tool for internet End-to-End monitoring. The PingER measurement tool can be deployed on host servers running UNIX based systems, however these servers do have their limitations. The Extension of the PingER project to the Android ecosystem would have the advantages like greater power efficiency, ease of installation, maintenance, reduction in storage dimensions and better affordability. In order to develop this extension, a monitoring site was set up at Amity University, India for understanding the data collection process, which was further used to develop a mirror implementation on Android through native Android development tools and strategies. In this research work, two models have been proposed that explore the feasibility and implementation of the concept of extension of PingER on Android. We compared the two models and chose to implement a model that used the native Android tools rather than mimicking the original Perl based implementation.