This page describes the research agenda of MNLAB for PhD. and Master students seeking topics/projects, and for collaborators and Funding sources
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| Monitoring Networks and Distributed Systems | |
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- Scalable monitoring architectures in standard (SNMP) and proprietary protocols
- Web-based Hierarchical Filtering-based Monitoring ( HiFi )
- Monitoring of end-to-end multicast
- Fault, performance and security management of multicast sessions
- API for monitoring distributed services
- Real-time monitoring/event-filtering
- Integrating system and service monitoring and control
- Active (programmable) monitoring and active network management
- Automatic reactive control (application steering) for managing distributed multimedia
- Distributed event correlation
- Distributed debugging using event-based and state-based monitoring
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| Interactive Distance Learning |
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- Next generation interactive distance learning ( IRI as a previous project): Internet-based IDL, scalable serves,
- Interactive information retrieval of recorded multimedia sessions
- Scalable Co-browsing using IP Multicast
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| Adaptive Reliable Transport Multicast Protocol |
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- Design & development of a hybrid reliable multicast protocol
- Network interoperability of heterogeneous reliable multicast Protocols
- DR selection and fault recover in multicast routing
- Flow and congestion control in reliable multicasting (i.e., slow clients problem)
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| End-to-End QoS Networks |
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- Java-based Interface for NS
- DiffServ technique for Web
- Bandwidth brokers for end-to-end QoS
- Traffic Engineering
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| Network Security: Firewalls |
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- Analyzing firewall policies for conflict-free configurations (Anomaly Detection)
- Enhancing firewall intelligence, performance, and scalability
- Designing traffic-aware packet classification techniques
- Load balancing over multi-firewall configurations
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| Network Security: DDoS Detection and Mitigation |
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- Discovering DDoS via lightweight traffic analysis
- Building a distributed DDoS detection framework
- Developing metrics for anomaly detection
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