Practical Course Advanced Networking (Winter 2010/2011)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.805.6C: Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum Computernetzwerke
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Yang Chen
Time:	please see #Schedule
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course description

We offer a couple of practical topics related to advanced computer networking.

Prerequisites

This course requires fair overall knowledge of computer networking. It is recommended to have attended the following courses prior to taking this one:

• Telematik

Organization and Examination

Informational meeting

At the beginning of a semester there will be an organizational meeting. Please see the schedule of the corresponding semester for the exact date. At the organizational meeting we will give an introduction to the lab course including a tour of the actual lab and form the lab teams.

Lab teams

The students will conduct the practical course in small teams. A team consist of 2 students. Teams will be formed at the informational meeting at the beginning of the course.

Passing requirements

• Prepare a written report on the selected topic (12-15 pages) and have a face-to-face discussion/demonstration with your topic advisor. (50%)
• Present the selected topic and demonstrate your results in the seminar (30 min. presentation/demo + 10 min. discussion). (50%)

Schedule

• Friday, 5 November 2010, 16.15 - 17.15: First general meeting. Introduction to the course and open questions.
• Friday, 12 November 2010: Deadline of fixing the detailed topic and time schedule
• Friday, 17 December 2010, 14.15 - 15.45: Midterm Report

Topics

The following list of topics is constantly being expanded. If there is no topic that you like at the moment, please check back regularly for the most recent updates. You can also get in touch with us directly and we will try to find a topic that interests you.

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description
Thunderbird Social Connector (TSC)	Sufian Hameed	[2] [3] [4] [5]	The goal of this project is to develop Thunderbird Social Connector (TSC), an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The main features of TSC would be; Formation of Community / Social Network: Ability to form social network by adding email contacts as friends. Friend Suggestion: Based on the communication patterns, suggestions are given for new friendships.
Trusted Node Selection protocol	Sufian Hameed	[]	Implementation of Trusted Node Selection Protocol for Spam Free Communication details
Make Twitter wider	Konglin Zhu	[6] [7] [8]	Twitter is a microblogging system which has millions of users. However, only people with Internet can share the information from Twitter. In this project, we use Bluetooth to help the information diffusion on Twitter ... detail
Develop a mobile social application	Konglin Zhu	[9]	You may want to organize a party on weekends, but you do not want to call every friend of yours. This mobile social application helps you broadcast this party event to anyone you want to invite. It also share information (i.e., pictures, music) within a group that owns same interest ... more
Build Your Own Large-Scale Distributed Applications	Tianyin Xu	[10] [11] [12]	DHT (Distributed Hash Table) gives a graceful and powerful way to organize distributed systems and implement distributed applications. Storage, multicast, email, web caching, even microblogging services can all be implemented based on DHT. If you are interested in building your own distributed applications (whatever you want), ok, I will tell you how to achieve it. If you are interested in this topic, please first have an interesting application in mind.
Development and Data Collection using Facebook API	Yang Chen	[13]	Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010. In this project, you should build your own facebook application using the facebook API. Although the detailed topic is quite open (we can brainstorm about that), but there are the following three basic milestones: (1)Build an application on facebook with a good looking interface, like a online game, quiz, etc. As interesting as possible. (2)Attract more than 40 people to use it. (3) Collected the data (such as user behavior, corrsponding social graph, etc), and do the analysis.
Mobility and Routing	Niklas Neumann	Details	Implementation of a Routing and Forwarding Scheme for Coordinated Wide Area Mobility During this project the team will implement an approach to forward data between access points to provide seamless mobility for wireless devices.
Android development	Niklas Neumann	[14]	Building a prototype application to use Android phones for authentication The team will develop an application for the Android platform that allows a mobile phone to be used as an authentication token.
Firefox development	Niklas Neumann	[15]	Building a prototype plug-in to integrate Firefox into an external authentication system The team will develop a plug-in for the Firefox web browser that enables the browser to be integrated as a client into an external authentication system.
Development and Data Collection of a Facebook/Twitter application (First preference given to Yang's project)	Mayutan A	[16]	Build a Facebook application (I have some ideas or you could implement your own) and perform basic data collection and presentation of the data.
Performance evaluation of TCP in a real testbed	Mayutan A		Performance evaluation of TCP in a real testbed. This project is to give you an overview of TCP implementations that exist in the kernel space.