TELE 4642 - Project
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TELE 4642: Network Performance: Project [15 points] Project Specification The project requires you to propose a topic related to the performance evaluation of computer/communication systems, and explore the topic in detail via simulations or experimentation. Each student will nominate one partner with whom to undertake the project, and propose the topic and work plan in a 5-minute presentation on Wednesday 11 May in class. The lecturer will approve the topic or suggest modifications which should be incorporated in the work plan, and will then form groups of four students by combining two pairs (and putting the list up on the web-page by Monday 16 May). Each pair in the group is expected to work on a slightly different aspect of the task, though both pairs are expected to work together as a team to achieve the final goal. A final presentation (and possible demonstration) of 15 minutes per-group will be scheduled for week 12, and a final report is due by week 13. The project can cover any area of network performance evaluation, and should have a practical component. The simulations or experiments have to done on your own resources. Under exceptional circumstance (such as students who have no access to computing resources, or who have a brilliant theoretical idea), students will be allowed to undertake an analytical project. Some potential topics are listed below, but you are encouraged to suggest topics that are of interest to you. 1. Extending simulations: There are several extensions you can do to the simulation you developed in your previous lab. For example, you could do a multi-node scenario and verify Jackson's theorem. You could introduce a more complicated arrival/service process and study the impact on queueing loss, delay, and energy. You could introduce several classes of traffic and compre their relative QoS performance. 2. Co-existence of TCP and UDP traffic: You could study how TCP and UDP traffic interact when they share a link. You could model them as two classes of traffic, each with their own arrival rate and packet size distribution, and study loss and delay when the buffer size varies. One pair could deduce the Markov chain and solve it numerically, while the other pair could study it via simulation and compare the results against analysis. 3. Simulations on ns2: You could learn and use existing simulation packages like Opnet or ns2 that allow you to scale to larger simulations. Possible areas you could explore are TCP performance, wireless link modeling, QoS, etc. 4. Traffic analysis and/or generation: You can analyse traffic generated by streaming audio and video applications (captured using the Ethereal packet capture tool), or from Internet packet capture traces available at
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various web-sites. You can determine the mean, variance, and other statistical properties, and determine if a Poisson model fits the captured data. You can also develop software to generate non-Poisson traffic, such as long range dependent (LRD) models based on the Pareto distribution. The above list is only indicative; students are encouraged to propose topics of interest. The topic and groups will be finalised by week 10 at which time you will propose your topic in a short presentation.
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Names (a) Tom Zhang, Zhi Zhao
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Traffic generator based on Internet2 traces
Simulating joint (b) Stefano Sacca, optimisation of link Daniel San Martin Lens capacity and buffers (a) Dawei Lu, Kun Xuan Simulating uploads from Bi an Android phone (b) Hailian Zhang, Jun Jie Jiang
Simlating vacation server to model GPS connectivity
(a) Tristan Morgan, Anthony Donohoe
Simulating energyefficiency of wireless access links
(b) Thivya Kandappu, Umakanthan Sabanadesan
Mobile P2P streaming and gaming analysis
(a) Judy Liu, Chenyu Zhao
Simulating multi-server scaling based on load to save energy
(b) Xun Xu, Lingling Meng
Simulating link rate adaptation based on queue thresholds
(a) Ximing Yang, Chen Chen
Experimental study of TCP and UDP sharing for mobile devices
(b) Shuo Qin, Bo Gao, Liu Qian
Studying TCP and UDP interactions
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(a) Krishnadev Vasudevan Pillai, Achmad Mardiansyah
VoIP analysis using OPNET
(b) Syed Safri, Bryan Bajar
Home networking QoS issues
(a) Li Zeng, Jiayong Chen
TCP and UDP interaction in ns2 with RED
(b) Bahador Pazofikard, Simulation of priority Vipoon Vimonses queue system (a) Xinghua He, Eric Tang
Analysing BitTorrent traffic
(b) Thao Nguyen, Natalie Bartolo
Performance of Facebook traffic
(a) Zhuo Bin Wu, Qianyi FEC simulation in ns2 for Fang TCP (b) Matthew Brindley
Native FEC simulation for UDP
(a) Cheng Zou, Yixi Yang
SCTP versus TCP in ns2
(b) Shijie Lin, Jiazhi Mo
Extend lab2 simulation in some way?
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