Implementation of PingER on Android Mobile Devices Using Firebase

Abstract

PingER (Ping End-to-End Reporting) is a tool developed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for the purpose of Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM). The aim of this research work is to develop a mobile application for Android mobile devices using Firebase for storing the data, obtained from pinging the beacons, and authenticating the users. The Measuring Agent (MA) pings the beacon list, the data obtained is formatted with the help of a Regular Expression library before being pushed to Firebase. In addition, the location of the MA, latitude and longitude, is also tracked with the help of Google’s Geolocation API. This data is also stored in the database.