CS 260 List of Projects

“***” denotes the topics that I think have more potential

and are more suitable for a class project

However, all these topics can be finetuned to interesting projects.

- Measure P2P traffic on the network

-- Conduct measurements

-- Further develop the existing tools (in our lab or outside)

-- Measure/estimate behavior at large - business perspective:

ie how do people get files, how long do files take, is it reliable

can I locate p2p users by searching at

does interdiction work? (can the RIAA delay/block sharing?)

- How can I hurt/delay/attack bittorent and P2P protocols?

-Model and Analyze P2P systems:

-- model bittorent behavior ***

-- model other p2p2 protocols

-Topology measurements:

Towards a complete BGP model: identifying all AS links

Generating a labeled BGP graph ***

Sampling a BGP graph ***

- Detect misbehaving at BGP level:

-- BGP updates Can I automatically detect that something is wrong? The challenge is to

model categorical data. ***

-- Use the NEMECIS tool to detect anomalies

-- How much more effective detection can I do, if I know the relationships

of the peering ASes.

-- Measure how much traffic is moving between ASes. ***

- Detect traffic abnormalities:

-- Further develop the BLINC tool

(ie to consider input form multiple points of measurement)

-- Examine different dimensions of traffic profiles

-- Can I summarize/visualize the traffic?

-- Study the community behavior of IP addresses (who talks to whom

recursively)

- Efficient monitoring of a domain: (*** challenging)

-- Monitor using the least number of ping/traceroutes

-- Develop an intuitive high-level sketch of a network

(capture with as little as possible detail important points:

main bottlenecks, main good areas)