Advanced Computer Networks

Timings: Wed, Fri: 3:30-5:00pm

Network Simulator ns-2

• Rajashekhar and Raghuveer : Literature survey of directory services for MANETs. Then, in the term paper, analyse the different schemes.
• Scalable Service Discovery for MANET
• Network layer support for service discovery in MANETs
• Lightweight service discovery protocol for MANETs
• Service naming and discovery in MANETs
• For all others who do not have specific projects : Power dissipation study for nodes in MANETs

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Whitepaper on IPv6
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Whitepaper on IPv4 to IPv6 transition technologies
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Whitepaper on IPv6
• IPv6 RFC 2460
• Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 RFC 2461
• IPv6 Addressing Architecture RFC 3513

• Mobile IP - Charles Perkins
• Mobility in IPv6 - Charles Perkins
• IP mobility support for IPv4 (RFC3344)
• Local Copy of Nitin Vaidya's Tutorial on MANETs
• Dynamic Source Routing
• Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Protocol (RFC)
• AODV - the original paper publication by Charles Perkins

• Suggested Book: MPLS and Label Switching Networks by Uyless Black

• Finding Disjoint Paths in Networks (Allotted to A.G.K.Suman - Oct 7)
• Routing protocol for finding two node-disjoint paths (Allotted to Sylvia Grace - Oct 7)
• Optimized Smooth Handoffs in Mobile IP (Allotted to Bhuvaneswari - Oct 14)
• Dynamic Home Agent Reassignment in Mobile IP (Allotted to Sunil Kumar - Oct 14)
• Extended DSR in MANETs (Allotted to Rajesh - Oct 19)
• Securing Adhoc Networks (Allotted to Prasad - Oct 19)
• Configuration of hosts in a MANET (Allotted to Rajashekhar and Raghuveer - Oct 21)
• Reliable Routing in MANETs (Allotted to Niranjan and Uttam - Oct 26)
• Finding disjoint paths in mobile networks (Allotted to Sumalatha - Oct 26)
• Survey of Clustering Schemes for MANETs (Allotted to Jayalakshmi and Nevadita - Oct 28)
• Guaranteeing deterministic QoS in a multipoint-to-point network (Allotted to Rajeev Kumar - Nov 2)
• Constraint-based Routing in the Internet (Allotted to Neha and Soujanya - Nov 2)
• QoS Issues in MANETs (Allotted to Uday Kumar - Nov 9)
• An MPLS-based architecture for scalable QoS in Mobile IP networks (Allotted to Ravikiran and Srikanth Sandeep - Nov 9)
• Traffic Engineering with traditional IP protocols (Allotted to Sabhapathy - Nov 11)
• Survey of QoS in Mobile Computing environments (Allotted to Prabhanjan and Kapileswar - Nov 11)

• Effects of route optimization on out-of-order packets in Mobile IP
• Congestion Avoidance in Source routed MANETs
• IPv6 traffic with multi-class QoS in VPN
• MPLS advantages for Traffic Engineering
• Building Blocks of QOS in IP networks
• A mobile differentiated services QoS model