Project Suggestions -

• 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 a priority-based scheduler in TinyOS. (1 person)
• Implement a deadline-based scheduler in TinyOS. (1 person)
• Implement and demonstrate the FIFO+ queuing discipline in Linux. (1 person)
• Implement a traffic monitoring tool with the ideas in Building a Better NetFlow on Linksys WRT54GS wireless router 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)
• Port the global schedule algorithm from S-MAC to SCP-MAC in TinyOS. (1 person)
• Implement a worm fingerprinting and filtering algorithm in Linux kernel with Netfilter. (2 persons)
• Implement a new rule in Snort to detect worms. (1 person)

• Implement a Bistro client in Firefox.
• Add new crypto algorithms to OpenSSL.
• Add a new object type (such as an artificial neuron) to SPICE.

• TinyOS
• Avrora
• EmStar
• Netfilter
• libpcap
• Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router (Compatible with Linux)
• Linksys WRT54G - How to program

• Firefox, source code
• OpenSSL
• SPICE