Project and paperwriting

Preliminary topic list

If not proposing a project idea, you shall instead write a research summary, where each group chooses a unique topic from the list below. The topic list will possibly be updated to adapt for the number of participants. Group allocation and date for each seminar will most likely be emailed to the participants. The papers listed below are not obviously the newest or most well-known ones in the respective areas, but are just to give examples of papers that can give a first insight into the field. You must always search for other material, for example the latest published material in the area, when you write a research overview. Most of the papers referred to below can be found on IEEE Xplore (see our library’s web page on “databaser”) or through other full-text databases available at the university.

Both projects and research summaries are presented on seminars in the last two weeks of the course.

Topic 1, "Scalable switch and router architectures"
Abel, F., C. Minkenberg, R. P. Luijten, M. Gusat, and I. Iliadis, "A four-terabit single-stage packet switch with large round-trip time support," Proc. 10th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (Hot Interconnects - HotI’02).

Tse, E. S. H., “Switch fabric design for high performance IP routers: A survey,” Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 51, no. 10-11, pp. 571-601, Oct.-Nov. 2005.

Partridge, C., et al, "A 50-Gb/s IP router," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 237-248, June 1998.

Yun, K. Y., “A terabit multiservice switch,” IEEE Micro, Jan./Feb. 2001.

Chiussi, F. M., and A. Francini, "Scalable electronic packet switches," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 486-500, May 2003.

Topic 2, "Core Internet"
Quoitin, B., C. Pelsser, L. Swinnen, O. Bonaventure, and S. Uhlig, "Interdomain traffic engineering with BGP," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 122-128, May 2003.

Norden, S., "Inter-domain routing: algorithms for QoS guarantees," Computer Networks, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 593-619, Nov. 15, 2005.

Oberle, V., H. Ritter, and K. Wehrle, "BPP: a protocol for exchanging pricing information between autonomous systems," IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, pp. 113-117, 29-31 May, 2001.

Metz, C., "Interconnecting ISP networks," IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 74-80, Mar.-Apr. 2001.

Howcroft, A., “Scaling global Internet networks,” BT Technology Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 23-32, July 2000.

Bartholomew, S., “The art of peering,” BT Technology Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 33-39, July 2000.

Bressoud, T., R. Rastogi, and M. A. Smith, "Optimal configuration for BGP route selection," INFOCOM’2003, vol. 2, 30 Mar. 30 - Apr. 3, 2003, pp. 916-926.

Topic 3, "Peer-to-peer networking"
Junginger, M. and Y. Lee, "The multi-ring topology high-performance group communication in peer-to-peer networks," Proc. 2nd International Conference on Peer-to-peer Computing (P2P’02), Sept. 5-7, 2002, pp. 49-56.

Parameswaran, M., A. Susarla, and A.B. Whinston, “P2P networking: an information-sharing alternative,” Computer, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 31-38, July 2001.

Sasabe, M., N. Wakamiya, M. Murata, and H. Miyahara, "Scalable and continuous media streaming on peer-to-peer networks," Proc.3rd International Conference on Peer-to-peer Computing (P2P’03), Sept. 1-3, 2003, pp. 92-99.

Topic 4, "Transport protocol enhancements"
Costa, G., and H.R. Sirisena, "Freeze TCP with timestamps for fast packet loss recovery after disconnections," Computer Communications, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1792-1799, Jan. 2003.

Gerla, M., B. K. F. Ng, M. Y. Sanadidi, M. Valla, and R. Wang, "TCP Westwood with adaptive bandwidth estimation to improve efficiency/friendliness tradeoffs," Computer Communications, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 41-58, 2004.

Huston, G., "The future for TCP," The Internet Protocol Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2-27, 2000.

Topic 5, "Multicasting"
Diot, C., B. N. Levine, B. Lyles, H. Kassem, and D. Balensiefen, "Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture," IEEE Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 78-88, Jan/Feb 2000.

Striegel, A. and G. Manimaran, "A survey of QoS multicasting issues," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 82-87, June 2002.

Sahasrabuddhe, L. H. and B. Mukherjee, "Multicast Routing Algorithms and Protocols: A Tutorial," IEEE Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 90-102, Jan/Feb 2000.

Li, V. O. K. and Z. Zhang, "Internet Multicast Routing and Transport Control Protocols," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 360-391, Mar. 2002.

Topic 6, "Communication in parallel and distributed systems"
Petrini, F., J. Fernandez, E. Frachtenberg, S. Coll, "Scalable Collective Communication on the ASCI Q Machine," Proceedings of the 11 th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTI’03), Aug. 20-22, 2003, pp. 54-59.

Duato J., A. Robles, F. Silla, R. Beivide,"A Comparison of Router Architectures for Virtual Cut-Through and Wormhole Switching in a NOW Environment," 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP '99), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 12-16, 1999, pp. 240-247.

Mukherjee, S. S., P. Bannon, S. Lang, A. Spink, and D. Webb, "The Alpha 21364 Network Architecture," IEEE Micro, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 26-35, Jan.-Feb. 2002.

Topic 7, "System area networks"
Sancho, J. C., J. Flich, A. Robles, P. López,and J. Duato, "Analyzing the influence of virtual lanes on the performance of InfiniBand networks," Proc. Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC’02) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’2002), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, Apr. 15-16, 2002.

Meth, K. Z. and J. Satran, "Design of the iSCSI Protocol," Proc. 20th IEEE/11th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'03), Apr. 7-10, 2003, pp. 116-122..

Alfaro, F. J., J. L. Sanchez, and J. Duato, "A Strategy to Manage Time Sensitive Traffic in InfiniBand," Proceedings Proc. Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC’02) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’2002), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, April 15-16, 2002.

Mayhew, D. and V. Krishnan, "PCI Express and advanced switching: evolutionary path to building next generation interconnects," Proc. 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTI’03), Aug. 20-22, 2003, pp. 21-29.

Topic 8, "QoS in packet switched network"
Ferrari, D. and D. C. Verma, "A scheme for real-time channel establishment in wide-area networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 368-379, Apr. 1990.

Zhang, H., "Service disciplines for guaranteed performance in packet-switching networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 83, no. 10, pp. 1374-1396, Oct. 1995.

Knightly, E. and N. B. Shroff, "Admission control for statistical QoS: theory and practice," IEEE Network, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 20-29, Mar./Apr. 1999.

Aras, C. M., J. F. Kurose, D. S. Reeves, and H. Schulzrinne, "Real-time communication in packet-switched networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 122-139, Jan. 1994.

Topic 9, "Protocols for optical multi-channel networks"
Modiano, E. and R. Barry, “A novel medium access control protocol for WDM-based LAN’s and access networks using a master/slave scheduler”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 461-468, Apr. 2000.

Böhm, A., M. Jonsson, K. Kunert, and H. Hoang, “A fibre-optic AWG-based real-time network and its applicability to high-performance embedded computing,” Proc. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS'2005) in conjunction with International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05), Denver, CO, USA, April 4-5, 2005.

Modiano, E. and R. Barry, "A novel medium access control protocol for WDM-based LAN’s and access networks using a master/slave scheduler," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 18, no.4, pp. 461-468, Apr. 2000.

Spencer, M. J. and M. A. Summerfield, "WRAP: A medium access control protocol for wavelength-routed passive optical networks," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 18, no.12, pp. 1657-1676, Dec. 2000.

Topic 10, "Internet QoS"
Fineberg, V., “A practical architecture for implementing end-to-end QoS in an IP network", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 122-130, Jan. 2002.

Xiao, X. and L. M. Ni, "Internet QoS: a big picture," IEEE Network, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 8-18, Mar./Apr. 1999.

Weiss, W., "QoS with differentiated services," Bell Lab Technical Journal, pp. 48-62, Oct.-Dec. 1998.

Roth, R., M. Campanella, S. Leinen, R. Sabatino, N. Simar, M. Przybylski, S. Trocha, A. Liakopoulos, A. Sevasti, "IP QoS across multiple management domains: practical experiences from pan-European experiments," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 62-69, Jan. 2003.

El-Gendy, M. A., A. Bose, and K. G. Shin, "Evolution of the Internet QoS and support for soft real-time applications," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 7, pp. 1086-1104, July 2003.

Wang, Z., Internet QoS - Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2001, ISBN 1-55860-608-4.

Jha, S. and M. Hassan, Engineering Internet QoS. Artech House, 2002, ISBN 1-58053-341-8.

Kurose, J. F. and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet. Addison Wesley Longman, pp. 510-556, 2001, ISBN 0-201-47711-4.

Hunt, R., "Evolving technologies for new Internet applications," IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 16-26, Sept./Oct. 1999.

Bhatti, S. N. and J. Crowcroft, "QoS-sensitive flows: issues in IP packet handling," IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 48-57, July/Aug. 2000.

Wang, S., D. Xuan, R. Bettati, and W. Zhao, "Providing absolute differentiated services for real-time applications in static-priority scheduling networks," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 2, pp. 669-678, 2001.

Metz, C., "IP QOS: traveling in first class on the Internet," IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 84-88, Mar./Apr. 1999.

Metz, C., "RSVP: general-purpose signaling for IP," IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 95-99, May/June 1999.

Bernet, Y., "The complementary roles of RSVP and differentiated services in the full-service QoS network", IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 154-162, Feb. 2000.

Iida, K., K. Kawahara, T. Takine, and Y. Oie, "Performance evaluation of the architecture for end-to-end quality-of-service provisioning", IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 76-81, Apr. 2000.

Zhang, L., S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Schenker, and D. Zappala, "RSVP: a new resource reservation protocol", IEEE Network, pp. 8-18, Sept. 1993.

Braden, R., D. Clark, and S. Shenker, "Integrated services in the Internet architecture: An overview," Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC 1633, June 1994.

Schulzrinne, H., S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A transport protocol for real-time applications," Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC 1889, Jan. 1996.

Rodriguez, A., J. Gatrell, J. Karas, and R. Peschke, TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, seventh edition, IBM, 2001, ISBN 0130676101, available on http://ibm.com/redbooks, Ch. 13: Multimedia Protocols, pp. 449-477.

Rodriguez, A., J. Gatrell, J. Karas, and R. Peschke, TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, seventh edition, IBM, 2001, ISBN 0130676101, available on http://ibm.com/redbooks, Ch. 22: Quality of Service, pp. 781-821.

Topic 11, "Wavelength routing networks"
Zhu, K. and B. Mukherjee, "A review of traffic grooming in WDM optical networks: architectures and challenges," SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks Magazine, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 55-64, Mar./Apr. 2003.

Dixit, S. and Y. Ye, "Streamlining the Internet-fiber connection," IEEE Spectrum, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 52-57, Apr. 2001.

Listanti M., V. Eramo, and R. Sabella, "Architecture and technological issues for future optical Internet networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 82-92, Sept. 2000.

Topic 12, "Industrial, Avionics, Vehicles"
Kirrmann, H. and P. A. Zuber, "The IEC/IEEE train communication network," IEEE Micro, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 81-92, Mar./Apr. 2001.

Navet, N., Y. Song, F. Simonot-Lion, and C. Wilwert, “Trends in automotive communication systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 1204-1223, June 2005.

Hudgins, C. E. and J. E. Schoeder, "Applying commercial real-time data networks to future military avionics," Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 21-28, July 1997.

Rieckmann, N., "ARINC 629 data bus physical layer technology," Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 13-20, July 1997.

Reserve topics

Topic X, "IP telephony, VoIP, SIP etc"

Goode, B., “Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 9, pp. 1495-1517, Sept. 2002.

Hassan, M., A. Nayandoro, and M. Atiquzzaman, "Internet telephony: services, technical challenges, and products", IEEE Communications Magazine, Apr. 2000, pp. 96-103.

Maresca, M., N. Zingirian, and P. Baglietto, "Internet protocol support for telephony," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, no. 9, pp. 1463-1477, Sept. 2004.

Rodriguez, A., J. Gatrell, J. Karas, and R. Peschke, TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, seventh edition, IBM, 2001, ISBN 0130676101, available on http://ibm.com/redbooks, Ch. 13: Multimedia Protocols, pp. 449-477.

Schulzrinne, H. and J. Rosenberg, “The IETF Internet telephony architecture and protocols,” IEEE Network, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 18-23, May/June 1999.

Topic X, "Active programmable networks"
Decasper, D., B. Plattner, G. M. Parulkar, S. Choi, J. D. DeHart, and T. Wolf, "A Scalable high-performance active network node," IEEE Network, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 8-19, Jan./Feb. 1999.

Smith, J., K. L. Calvert, S. L. Murphy, H. K. Orman, and L. L. Peterson, "Activating networks: a progress report," Computer, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 32-41, Apr. 1999.

Maxemchuk, N. F., and S. H. Low, "Active routing", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 552-565, Mar. 2001.

Wolf, T., and J. Turner, "Design issues for high-performance active routers", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 404-409, Mar. 2001.

Topic X, "Home networks"
Schulzrinne, H., X. Wu, S. Sidiroglou, and S. Berger, "Ubiquitous computing in home networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 128-135, Nov. 2003.

Kastner, W., G. Neugschwandtner, S Soucek, and H. M. Newman, “Communication systems for building automation and control,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 1178-1203, June 2005.

Ramanathan, S. and R. Gusella, "A home network controller for providing broadband access to residential subscribers," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 859-868, Aug. 1995.

Rose, B., "Home networks: a standards perspective," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 78-85, Dec. 2001.

Hwang, W.-J., M. Wada, H. Tode, and K. Murakami, "HomeMAC: QoS-based MAC protocol for the home network," Proc. 7th International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02), July 1-4, 2002, pp. 407-414.

Topic X, "IP Routing"

Topic X, "MAN and WAN"

Topic X, "Other topics in IP networking"

More additional readings

Multimedia, TV and video distribution on the Internet:

Stienstra, A. J., “Technologies for DVB services on the Internet,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 228-236, Jan. 2006.

Wu, D., Y. T. Hou, and Y.-Q. Zhang, “Transporting real-time video over the Internet: challenges and approaches,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 88, no. 12, pp. 1855-1877, Dec. 2000.