Course Project Requirements
You will divide into teams of two or three to carry out the term
project. Your term project can be any of the following types:
design/implementation, measurement studies and analysis, and simulation
studies. The goal of the project is to experiment with new research
ideas and solutions. Previous projects from similar courses have
resulted in several publications at top conferences and workshops, and
you should aim for a project of similar quality.
Here are some examples of previous course projects that resulted in
publications. These papers should give you a rough idea of the type of
ideas and the amount of work that is involved. Note that
several (most) of the papers resulted in some additional quarters of
follow-on work after the end of the quarter.
- QUORUM - QUality Of service RoUting in wireless Mesh networks
Vinod Kone, Sudipto Das, Ben Y. Zhao and Haitao Zheng
Proceedings of QShine 2007 (PDF)
Note: project continued for multiple quarters
- Fairness Attacks in the Explicit Control Protocol
Christo Wilson, Chris Coakley and Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2007 (PDF)
- Parallelizing Skyline Queries for Scalable
Distribution
Ping Wu, Caijie Zhang, Ying Feng, Ben Y. Zhao, Divyakant Agrawal and
Amr El Abbadi
Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT) 2006 (PDF)
Note: project continued for multiple quarters
- Identity Theft Protection in Structured Overlays
Lakshmi Ganesh and Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of the First Workshop on
Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) 2005 (PDF)
Note: project continued past class quarter
I will distribute a list of possible research projects in
class. However, you are encouraged to come up with your own project
ideas.
Project proposal
Once you decide on your project, you will be asked to write a
one page project proposal that should clearly state:
- the problem you are solving (along w/ background and
related works)
- motivations (if this is your own idea) and challenges; why
is this problem important and difficult?
- your proposed solution or approach and why it's new,
- your plan of attack with milestones and dates, and
- any resources you might need so we can take care of this
early on in the semester.
The proposal should be 1-2 pages (in most cases, 1 page will be
sufficient). Please email it to your TA and
CC me. The proposal
should be either a Text file, or a PDF. No other formats are acceptable.
Proposals are *graded* on completeness, will be a part of your overall
project grade. They must be received by both your TA and I by 11:59PM
to be considered handed in. Only one person per project team
should submit, and he/she should "cc" all other project team members.
Note that there will be two versions of the proposal. Proposal v1 will
be due on the evening of Monday 10/12. I will provide written feedback
on the project proposals via email. Feel free to drop by office hours to
discuss and develop your project ideas further. Project v2 is the
revised, more detailed and more thought-out version, to be submitted one
week later, on the evening of Monday 10/19.
Mid-quarter project presentation
Each project team will give a mid-quarter progress presentation to
the entire class on November 4th. Each presentation will give the
audience a quick idea of the project motivations, mechanisms, and
current progress made by the team. The total presentation will be
roughly 10 minutes (this number might change depending on the number of
final project teams formed).
Final project report
The final project report should not exceed 6 two-column pages
using 10pt fonts. The content should be similar to a workshop
publication based on your project (see above for some example papers
if you're unsure what I mean). Make sure you include enough detail for
me to understand all of your design and experimental evaluation
decisions. I will grade your final report according to the same
standards that one would review a paper submission for a top workshop.
Also, please hand in a tar.gz of all your source code as
well. Both the report and source code should be submitted to me via
email at or before 11:59PM on Wednesday night (December 8, 2009).
Please make sure the email subject starts with "CS276".
Project Groups
| Project
Team
|
Project
Topic
|
Presentation
|
| Xiaohan Zhao, Zengbin Zhang, Jian Zhen |
Wireless Measurement Analysis |
8:40-9 |
| Ellen Wei, Lijie Ren |
Social Scholar |
9-9:20 |
| Hans Fredrik Unelsroed, Ingrid Hjulstad, Per Christian Roeine
|
Quantifying Real Anonymity on Freenet |
8-8:20 |
| Are H Sandnes, Stian Pedersen, Espen Graarud
|
Growth of Social Apps |
|
| Nichole Stockman, Mariya Zheleva, Harry Presman |
Facebook Interaction Analysis |
8:20-8:40 |
| Jeff Browne, Marcus Jang, Cha Lee |
Virtual Geo-Caching |
9:40-10 |
| Fahad Ghani, Shravan Samindla |
Mobile Social Networks |
9:20-9:40 |