This graduate seminar course is project oriented. Students choose a topic for a project and work on that project throughout the semester. In addition, the state of the art in the choosen topics will be explored in a series of paper presentations. Each student will present one or several research or survey papers from the literature.

• List of papers to read and study

• Finding EECS literature at IUB
• Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• The Internet Protocol Journal

• Introspection Daemons and Reputation of Machines Overlay (Catalin Ciocov)
• Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Network Game Libraries (Ivan Delchev)
• SNMP Traffic Measurement and Analysis (Matus Harvan)
• Using BitTorrent to Meet the Requirements of Grid Environments (Stefan Markov)

While most of the time will be spend on project work, I expect that every student presents two papers during the seminar and I also expect the others to actively participate during the presentation and discussion. In concrete terms, I plan the following grading scheme:

• Paper presentations: 20% (2 papers each 10%)
• Class participation: 10%
• Project:
  • final report 20%
  • implementation 40%
  • presentation 10%

Quite some emphasis is on the project (70%) and especially and the successful realization of the project work (40%). So choosing the right project is of course crucial. I will select papers that are related to the projects people will be working on.

The project report should be structured like a normal research paper with an abstract, an introduction and motivation and problem statement, the description of the work carried out, a section on related work, an conclusions. The length should about 15-20 pages if you use a standard page layout or shorter in case you use a more space efficient IEEE two-column format.

Project topics (but other proposals are possible):

• SNMP Traffic Measurement and Analysis (practical data consolidation and analysis work)
• Introspection Daemons and Reputation of Machines Overlay (literature, design and implementation work)
• Communication Libraries for Network Games (deployment, evaluation, and measurement oriented)
• Analysis of the Globus Grid Computing Toolkit (deployment, evaluation, and measurement oriented)