Project 1

Project Specification

Resources

• End-to-End Detection of Compression of Traffic Flows by Intermediaries
• A Short Tutorial to Socket Programming (Chapters on "IP Addresses, structs, and Data Munging" and "System Calls or Bust")
• A Short Tutorial on Signals in Linux
• Introduction To Unix Signals Programming (with timers as an example)
• setsockopt()
• A brief programming tutorial in C for raw sockets
• SOCK_RAW Demystified
• An Implementation of ping Using Raw Socket
• traceroute Source Code
• An Example of Raw Socket Implementation
• My CS221 Lectures on Multithreading Part 1 Part 2
• Beej's Guide to C Programming's section on Multithreading in C
• Handling Signals in a Multithreaded Application
• A Short Tutorial to Socket Programming (Chapters on "7.2 poll() - Synchronous I/O Multiplexing" and "7.3 select() - Synchronous I/O Multiplexing, Old School")

Environment Setup

• VirtualBox is a free virtual machine software. You may also use VMWare. If you have M1/M2 processors, you should use UTM.
• Testbed Setup Instructions
• How to install Ubuntu on Virtualbox (by USF CS Tutoring Center)

Resources for Extra Credits

• Compression by Click Router
• Environment Setup
• The Click Modular Router Documentation
• Click Router GitHub Repository

Project 2

Project Specification

Resources

• ns3 Installation Guide
• ns3 Tutorial and Examples
• ns3 Manual
• ns3 Forum (You must not ask questions. You can only read past conversations by others.)
• Wireshark's I/O Graphs Window
• Basic Concepts C++ (Namespaces, Classes, Objects (creation, lifetime, objects in stack vs. heap), Smart and shared pointers, Data types (e.g., uint_16, uint_32, size_t), C/C++ common issues (e.g., memory leak, seg faults))

Final Report

• Final Report Guidelines


• Final Report Latex Template


• Examples of Papers on ns-3:
  You should either be connected to a USF network or use VPN, if off-campus, to access the ACM Digital Library.
  • Traffic Differentiation and Multiqueue Networking in ns-3
  • Design and Implementation of the Traffic Control Module in ns-3
  • Differentiated Service Queing Disciplines in NS-3
  • A TCP CUBIC Implementation in ns-3
  • Design and Implementation of AQM Evaluation Suite for ns-3
  • BBR' – An implementation of Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip Time Congestion Control for ns-3