Application for the emulation of PingER on android devices

PingER is an end to end internet performance measurement tool. It was originally developed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). It is used as a tool to test the Digital Divide from an internet performance viewpoint. PingER measurements are done by measurement agents (MA) in approximately 60 sites in around 20 countries. A number of hosts are setup globally for target measurement purposes, and there are roughly 700 sites in over 160 countries dedicated to the same. However, using a desktop machine for the MA purpose causes a massive power drain of around 100 Watts per hour per machine. This paper discusses the implementation of an Android based mobile application to be used as a pingER monitoring agent, through which the total space and energy requirements can be minimized to a few Watts, while leveraging the advantages of Android smartphones.