Project topic suggestions

Select one of the listed topics, or define your own. If you define your own topic, talk to me before you start to work.

You can see some topics that are popular today towards the end of the list.

One paper is listed for each topic. Select 2-3 other, closely related papers to address the topic of the project. You can find related papers by checking the references in the paper, or you can google the paper, and then you will see other publications where this one is referenced.

1. Is long-range dependence present in the Internet? T. Karagiannis, M. Faloutsos, R.H. Riedi, "Long range dependence: Now you see it, now you don't!", Proc. of IEEE Globecom, 2002.
2. Is it complicated to model the performance of a WLAN access point? A. Bianchi, "Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function," IEEE JSAC, 2000
3. The precence of hidden terminals. How bad is it? A. Tsertou,  D.I. Laurenson, "Revisiting the Hidden Terminal Problem in a CSMA/CA Wireless Network,"  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.7, no.7, pp.817-831, July 2008
4. What happens with the very short flows in a network with TCP flows? Liang Guo, I. Matta, "The war between mice and elephants," International Conference on Network Protocols, Nov. 2001
5. What do they mean with proportional fairness in the wireless world? D. Piazza, L.B. Milstein, "Multiuser diversity-mobility tradeoff: modeling and performance analysis of a proportional fair scheduling," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. Nov. 2002.
6. Is peer-to-peer working for live streaming, when users come and leave all the time? R. Kumar, Yong Liu, K. Ross, "Stochastic fluid theory for p2p streaming systems," IEEE Infocom, 2007.
7. Cooperative transmission techniques under dynamic traffic. B. Rong, A. Ephremides, A., "Cooperative Access in Wireless Networks: Stable Throughput and Delay," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on , vol.58, no.9, pp.5890-5907, Sept. 2012.
8. How to utilize the processing power of nodes that happen to forward the traffic? W Culhane, K Kogan, Ch Jayalath, and P Eugster, "Optimal Communication Structures for Big Data Aggregation". IEEE Infocom 2015.
9. SDN: how to apply SDN for routing optimization in large networks? S. Agarwal, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, “Traffic engineering in software defined networks,” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
10. SDN: how to migrate from a non-SDN to an SDN: S. Vissicchio et al., “On the Co-Existence of Distributed and Centralized Routing Control-Planes”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2015.
11. How does content cashing decrease network traffic: Ch Fricker, Ph Robert, J Roberts, "A versatile and accurate approximation for LRU cache performance." International Teletraffic Congress 2012.
    
12. Fairness++ for multiple resources: Thomas Bonald, James Roberts:
    Multi-Resource Fairness: Objectives, Algorithms and Performance. SIGMETRICS 2015. (Maybe a bit heavy math...)
13. Multimedia, how to control scalable video coded streams? J. Yang, H. Hu, H. Xi, and L. Hanzo, “Online buffer fullness estimation aided adaptive media playout for video streaming,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1141–1153, Oct 2011.
14. Autonomous cars: Stefan Joerer, Michele Segata, Bastian Bloessl, Renato Lo Cigno, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "A Vehicular Networking Perspective on Estimating Vehicle Collision Probability at Intersections," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63 (4), pp. 1802-1812, May 2014.