It is advisable to read 2-3 papers that will also help you do the report at the end.
Presentations should be 30' - 50', providing a good introduciton and definition
of the problem/issue so that all the class can follow. Towards the end some more
specific and detailed issues can be mentioned.

Also interested students can do small projects (see at the end).
 

LIST OF SUBJECTS

From the on-line book:

1. Applications 2.2 - 2.6

http, email, DNS, socket programming
2. Transportation 3.3 - 3.7 Congestion control, TCP, UDP
3. Multimedia Networking

1. Internet Multicast Protocols: CBT, PIM, QoSMIC
2. The Steiner problem in graphs: Waxman, Imase, KMB, greedy algorithms, online
3. Unicast and multicast in mobile networks: Johnsons (CMU), Perkins, Polyzos (UCSD)

1. Traffic characterization: the traffic on one link, Paxson, survey of tools
2. Path characterization: stability, packet loss, Paxson
3. Modeling the topology of the Internet: Zegura (GTECH), Doar, Faloutsos

People with ideas are encouraged to contact the instructor.

The projects will have a pre-agreed target/termination. In addition, the evolution of the work can be flexible (with the instructor?s approval).

1. Measurements on the Internet using tools (traceroute, pathchar, mtrace, ping).
2. Visualization of large graphs (4,000 to 130,000 nodes). There are a lot of existing tools and even a good search and report on them would be acceptable.
3. Web-crawler to identify the web-page connectivity of a small domain (say within xxx.ucr.edu)