Projects
Multicast Group Support
Description
Reliable communication among the members of a multicast group needs services from the network, including error aggregation, authentication, data security, and membership management. The goal of this set of projects is to design an environment for the support of reliable multicast protocols, based on the idea of a "mesh" of intelligent entities, which cooperate to support multiple multicast sessions. The mesh is established by a network operator, and supports an arbitrary number of multicast groups (and probably more than one multicast protocol).Students
| Tianyu Wang | PhD | Multicast Group Infrastructure Support |
Secure Multicast
Description
Providing authentication of both senders and receivers is a prerequisite for the widespread use of multicast functionality. Ensuring security policy enforcement at the transport and application layers will require security policy enforcement at all lower layers. The goal of this set of projects is to design mechanisms for security and authentication in multicast sessions, to be used at various levels in the protocol stack. Possible approaches to this are dependent on the version of IP that is in use.Students
| Salekul Islam | PhD | Group Membership Management for Secure Multicast Sessions |
| Malek Barhoush | PhD | To be determined |
MPLS Networks
Description
Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is used in computer networks to permit faster forwarding of packets and to permit managing the overall allocation of packet streams to edges (links) in the network (Traffic Engineering). This set of projects is concerned with managing the link allocations, and recovering from link failure.Students
| Karthik Vijayakumar | MCS | Using MPLS to eliminate IP-over-IP in Cellular Access Networks |
| Kaijun Yuan | MCS | to be determined |
QoS Resource Allocation: Signaling and Security
Description
When computer networks are used, the (end) user has certain expectation of the network, and the network has certain capabilities for achieving a desired performance. This set of projects explores methods for exchanging information between an end user and the network, and within the network, and to permit allocating the resources in the network that must be reserved to achieve the users' goals.Students
|
Yan Cheng |
PhD |
Signaling for Resource Allocation in Mobile Networks |
| Xavier Francis | MCS | Security and Accounting in Mobile Networks |
|
Bo Gao |
MCS |
Use of NSIS Signaling for Cellular Networks |