Projects

Examples of COMP 631 Course Projects Pursued in the Past (several of these were related to RA projects that the students were pursuing in other fields):

Active Internet Measurements Based Projects:

• • Comparison of HTTP Transport Performance Across Versions 1.1 - 3.0.

  • Impact of Server-side Configurations on Performance of PHP.

  • Youtube Video Streaming - HTTP/TCP Effectiveness.

  • Global and Local Latency Analysis (How Does Network Latency Change with Number of Hops, Paths, Load, etc).

Passive Packet Trace Analysis Projects:

• Studying Variability in TCP Round-trip Times.

• Inferring a Proprietary Wireless L3 Protocol From Packet Traces.

Applied Machine Learning Projects:

• • Experimental Evaluation of Traffic Analysis Techniques and Counter-measures (RA extension).

  • Applying Machine Learning to Fingerprint Mobile App Traffic (RA extension).

  • Ultra-high Speed Network Bandwidth Estimation Using Machine Learning Approaches.

  • Design and Evaluation of a Technique for Detecting Network Scans (RA extension).

  • PCA-based Anomaly Detection Techniques (RA extension).

Experimental Evaluation Projects:

• • Evaluation of LoRa-based Localization (RA extension).

  • Comparison of Active Queue Management Algorithms Performance for Network Traffic.

  • Evaluating Vivace Congestion Control.

  • Response-time Calculation for Evaluating Active Queue Management Proposals (RA extension).

  • Experimental Evaluation of Chord.

  • Comparative Study of DDoS Detection Algorithms.

  • Evaluating (and Mitigating) ARP Attacks in SDN Networks.

  • Recreating Packet-in-Packet Attack.

  • Experimental Evaluation of Shrew Attacks.

  • Analyzing the Consistency of BiCoin P2P Networks.

Design and/or Implementation Projects:

• • Utilizing Spatial Information in Static Wireless Networks to Alleviate Exposed Node Problem.

  • KCP: A Modification to TCP That Improves Fairness (RA Extension).

  • Genomic Resource Discovery in Loosely Structured Peer-to-peer Networks.

  • A single sign-on authentication service based on OpenDHT.

  • Design and Evaluation of an "Out of Order" option for the TFTP protocol.

  • Feasibility of Capitalism-based Inter-domain Network Routing.

  • Implementation of a Distributed File Storage System Using Chord Protocol.

  • Improving Performance of a Software-Defined Networking Implementation.

  • Application-level Communication Protocols for Collaborative Architectures (RA extension).

A list of past projects pursued in the previously-offered COMP 734 (Distributed Systems) can be found here. A majority of these topics would also be suitable as course projects for COMP 631.