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 |
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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). (50%)
- Present the selected topic and demonstrate your results in the seminar (30 min. presentation + 10 min. discussion). (50%)
Schedule
Friday, 5 November 2010, 16.15 - 17.15: First general meeting. Introduction to the course and open questions.
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 |
Make Twitter wider | Konglin Zhu | [2] [3] [4] | 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 | [5] | 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 |
Construct Your Own Large-Scale Distributed Applications | Tianyin Xu | [6] [7] [8] | Coming soon |
Writing Your Own Internet Application Simulator | Tianyin Xu | [9] | Coming soon |
Development and Data Collection using Facebook API | Yang Chen | [10] | 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. |
Android development | Niklas Neumann | [11] | 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 | [12] | 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. |