Course Project Requirements
You will divide into teams of two or three to carry out the term
project. Your term project can be any of the following types:
design/implementation, measurement studies and analysis, and simulation
studies. The goal of the project is to experiment with new research
ideas and solutions. Previous projects from similar courses have
resulted in several publications at top conferences and workshops, and
you should aim for a project of similar quality.
Here are some examples of previous course projects that resulted in
publications. These papers should give you a rough idea of the type of
ideas and the amount of work that is involved. Note that
several (most) of the papers resulted in some additional quarters of
follow-on work after the end of the quarter.
- QUORUM - QUality Of service RoUting in wireless Mesh networks
Vinod Kone, Sudipto Das, Ben Y. Zhao and Haitao Zheng
Proceedings of QShine 2007 (PDF)
Note: project continued for multiple quarters
- Fairness Attacks in the Explicit Control Protocol
Christo Wilson, Chris Coakley and Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2007 (PDF)
- Parallelizing Skyline Queries for Scalable
Distribution
Ping Wu, Caijie Zhang, Ying Feng, Ben Y. Zhao, Divyakant Agrawal and
Amr El Abbadi
Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT) 2006 (PDF)
Note: project continued for multiple quarters
- Identity Theft Protection in Structured Overlays
Lakshmi Ganesh and Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of the First Workshop on
Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) 2005 (PDF)
Note: project continued past class quarter
I will distribute a list of possible research projects in
class. However, you are encouraged to come up with your own project
ideas.
Project proposal
Once you decide on your project, you will be asked to write a
one page project proposal that should clearly state:
- the problem you are solving (along w/ background and
related works)
- motivations (if this is your own idea) and challenges; why
is this problem important and difficult?
- your proposed solution or approach and why it's new,
- your plan of attack with milestones and dates, and
- any resources you might need so we can take care of this
early on in the semester.
The proposal should be 1-2 pages (in most cases, 1 page will be sufficient). Please
email it to your TA and
CC me. The proposal should be
either a Text file, or a PDF. No other formats are acceptable. Proposals are
*graded* on completeness, will be a part of your overall project grade. They must be
received by both your TA and I by 11:59PM to be considered handed in.
I will provide written feedback on the project proposals either via
email or in person. Feel free to drop by office hours to discuss and
develop your project ideas further.
Mid-quarter project presentation
Each project team will give a mid-quarter progress presentation to the entire
class on November 9th. Each presentation will give the audience a quick idea of the
project motivations, mechanisms, and current progress made by the team. The total
presentation will be roughly 8 minutes (this number might change depending on the
number of final project teams formed).
Final project report
The final project report should not exceed 6 two-column pages
using 10pt fonts. The content should be similar to a workshop
publication based on your project (see above for some example papers
if you're unsure what I mean). Make sure you include enough detail for
me to understand all of your design and experimental evaluation
decisions. Also, please hand in a tar.gz of all your source code as
well. Both the report and source code should be submitted to me via
email at or before 11:59PM on Thursday night (December 13, 2007). Please
make sure the email subject starts with CS276.
Project Groups
| Project
Team
|
Project
Topic
|
Presentation
|
| Madhu V., Pramod
R., Deep D. |
Energy-efficient
P2P Protocols |
11:45-12PM |
| Anjini S.,
Madhu R. |
Dist.
Steganographic FS |
10-10:15AM |
| Ben A., Adam
L., Soo Hwan P. |
Mobile to Mobile? |
10:30-10:45AM |
| Sean F., Alan
S., Amine El K. |
Cellphone sensor-net |
11:30-11:45AM |
| Xia Z., Pranav M., Sravan R. |
Distributed Spectrum Auctions |
9:15-9:30AM |
| Daniel V., Min
R., Amir G. |
VANET Traces |
10:15-10:30AM |
| Kathy M., Pegah K.,
Mock S. |
Hidden Files in P2P |
11:15-11:30AM |
| Shriram, Skand,
Shravan S. |
Study of DC++ |
11-11:15AM |
| Diana A., Camilla F.,
Chris P. |
Facebook |
9:30-9:45AM |
| Janine C.,
Hassan W., Arda A. |
Facebook |
10:45-11AM |
| Will R., Anna S. |
Tor measurements |
9-9:15AM |
| Abhimanyu D., Pranav B., Uma R. |
P2P
video streaming measurements |
9:45-10AM |