Assignment Task

Research Paper Requirements The course project in 9783UG & 6692PG requires students to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of some important aspect of high-speed networks and/or network protocol performance. Research Paper accounts for 50% of the final grade for the course, and thus should represent a month or so of research effort. Research Papers are to be done individually.

The research paper should take the form of a research paper, similar to those found in the published in networking literature. (Of course, there is no requirement that your paper be publishable!) The research paper should present your own (novel) research results on a relevant network performance problem. Results may be obtained analytically, through simulation, or experimentally through measurement of an existing system or implementation.

The paper should be 7-9 pages in length, including abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. Use a reasonable word processing package, a readable font size (10 Times New Roman, and double-column formatting. Papers must be submitted using an Urkund text matching. A lot of background reading may be required to do a good research paper on a given topic, and should be reflected in your bibliography. Note, however, that it is NOT sufficient to do just a SURVEY PAPER. Creativity, originality, and your own contribution are also required. This may involve applying previously known approaches to new network data or scenarios, or applying new approaches or analyses to previously studied data or scenarios, or new approaches to new problems entirely.

Topics of your own choosing are preferred, but if you need ideas, I can offer several suggestions, and point you to relevant literature. Several possible project ideas are included below. In any event, put your thinking caps on, and discuss your idea(s) with me as soon as possible using any online way such as virtual room. 

Project Suggestions

Web performance:

• Web server performance measurements/analysis
• Web proxy placement problem
• Web cluster load balancing issues

Experiments/Simulation/Emulation:

• Web server benchmarking
• RealMedia video/audio streaming
• Wireless PDA networking
• Multi-player wireless gaming

TCP SACK performance Network traffic measurements and analysis:

• Ethernet LAN traffic measurements (tcpdump)
• Wireless LAN traffic measurements/analysis
• Video traffic measurements
• Internet tomography

Traffic modeling techniques:

• Wavelet-based traffic modeling/forecasting
• Traffic multiplexing/demultiplexing effects in ATM networks

Congestion control:

• Evaluation of Connection Admission Control (CAC) schemes
• Evaluation of Available Bit Rate (ABR) traffic control schemes
• Multi-layer interactions of rate-based and window-based flow control

Routing:

• Mobile IP
• Multicast routing
• Routing in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks

Emerging Technologies:

• DiffServ (Differentiated Services) Internet
• Optical internets
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Wireless mesh networking
• Grid computing
• Electronic commerce
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking
• P2P traffic classification
• Hybrid wireless/cellular networks
• Sensor networks