List of Suggested Projects

• Implement a multi-threaded web server (RFC 1945) using socket programming. (1 person)
• Implement a DNS client (RFC 1034, RFC 1035) for both direct and reverse lookups that interacts with real DNS servers. (1 person)
• Implement a DHCP server and a client (RFC 2131) in Linux. (2 persons)
• Implement and demonstrate the FIFO+ queuing discipline in Linux. (1 person)
• Implement a rate-based UDP flow control algorithm that is friendly to TCP. (1 person)
• Implement a priority-based scheduler in TinyOS. (1 person)
• Implement a deadline-based scheduler in TinyOS. (1 person)
• Implement (SLIP or PPP) in Linux that controls motes to send and receive IP packets. (2 persons)
• Implement a character device driver in Linux that controls motes to send and receive TinyOS packets and report trafic statistics. (2 persons)
• Implement a tool to monitor network topology and traffic in a wireless mesh network running OLSR on Stargates. (2 persons)
• Implement a remote control and traffic monitoring tool on Linksys WRT54GS wireless router (Linux based) using libpcap. (2 persons)
• Implement a routing protocol in TinyOS, and quantify its performance using Avrora. (2 persons)
• Implement an ad hoc routing protocol in Emstar, and quantify its performance using simulation mode. (2 persons)
• Implement a worm fingerprinting and filtering algorithm in Linux kernel with Netfilter. (2 persons)
• Implement a tool to extract worm signatures and generate new rules in Snort to detect worms. (1 person)
• Port the physical layer of SCP-MAC from MicaZ motes to TelosB motes. (2 persons)
• Implement a neighbor management algorithm over SCP-MAC and an algorithm to adaptively adjust synchronization period in SCP-MAC. (2 persons)
• Implement a person tracking system with motes. (2 persons)