Network Performance of PingER data with respect to the growth of the Telecom industry in India

This paper aims towards analyzing the changes in the Internet Performance in India over a span of 3 years by using the clustering algorithm on PingER data. The paper analyzed the enhanced performance of the internet after major changes in the Telecom industry in India in the year 2016 and some insights into the level of improvement. PingER which is short for Ping End-to-end Reporting is a project started with an aim to monitor end-to-end performance of between Internet hosts by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, California. And over the last decade or so they have collected a huge amount of data which is stored as space separated flat files along with sophisticated methods in order to enable searching for data fast.