15-849 Project Ideas
The main component of this class is a the completion of a research
project. Class projects are typically done in groups of two
students. The final result of the project is a "workshop" quality
research report of 6-8 pages.
Project Ideas
Coming up with your own project
A couple of suggestions for coming up with your own project. Find a
problem or area in networking that you like---ideally, one that really excites
you, or that seems immediately relevant and important. Then, address the
following questions:
- Has a solution been posed to this problem in the past and, if so, what
do you think of it?
- If a solution has been proposed, has it been evaluated properly?
- If the system has been simulated, does anyone understand its
mathematical properties?
- If the system has been simulated, has it been implemented and its
performance studied under realistic conditions? (Do the simulations, math,
and reality match up?)
- Is the solution scalable? Secure? Robust to failures, both expected and
unexpected? Will it work in heterogeneous environments, and does it contain
embedded, unrealistic assumptions about the environments in which it will
run? Will it stand up to coming advances in technology?
- If several solutions have been proposed, has anyone performed a
comparative study of them? Why do some schemes work better than others? Can
we characterize the conditions under which some schemes work better than
others?
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