Practical Course Advanced Networking (Summer 2011)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.805.6C: Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum Computernetzwerke
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Mayutan Arumaithurai
Time:	Friday, 15 April 2011, 15.00-16.00 (organizational meeting, see #Schedule for details)
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 2/3 students. Teams will be formed at the informational meeting at the beginning of the course.

Schedule

• Friday, 15 April 2011, 16.15 - 17.15: First general meeting. Introduction to the course, selection of teams 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	Student
Decentralizing Twitter by Content-Centric Networking	Lei Jiao	[1] [2] [3] [4]	Social Network Service (SNS) such as Twitter suffers from server performance bottlenecks, central point of failure and malicious attacks due to the centralized architecture. Besides existing work (e.g., PeerSon, Safebook, etc.) of building decentralized SNS on top of P2P overlay, Content-Centric Networking (CCN) can achieve efficient content cache and dissemination and therefore provide an alternative to construct decentralized SNS. Leveraging CCN, this project is to decentralize Twitter in a peer-assisted fashion where messages (i.e., tweets/statuses) are disseminated by CCN among users and the Twitter server is only used as a messages backup. A Twitter client application is expected to be designed, implemented and built on top of the open-source CCNx reference implementation.