6.829 Fall 2002 Term Projects

Presentations will be held all day on December 5 (Thursday) and December 6 (Friday) 2001 in NE43-516. Please show up a few minutes before your talk begins to prepare. Talks are 12 minutes long, with 3 minutes for questions. Questions during your talk are likely.

Thursday

11:00
Sophia Juditskaya, Rebecca Bloom
Load Balancing the GRID Ad Hoc Routing Protocol
11:15
Aditya Damle
Automated BGP Optimization
11:30
Hans Robertson, Jae Kim, Sonia Garg
Location-Based Messaging
11:45 Sayan Mitra, Jesse Rabek
Fault Tolerant Time Synchronization Service for Multi-hop Sensor Networks
12:00 - 1:15
BREAK

1:15 Michael Rosenblum
Packetizing Fluid Policies for the Crossbar Switch
1:30
Justin Schmidt, Seth Tardiff
IS:  A Secure, Flexible Framework for Peer-to-peer Application Development
1:45
Patrick Cody, Joe Hastings
Extending DNS to Spoof HTTP Clients
2:00
Raj Krishnan, Ralph Harik
A Distributed Sensor and Routing Network Based on the TinyOS Architecture
2:15
Jon Wolfe, John Bevilacqua, Corey Gerritsen
Fast TCP Connect through DNS Integration
2:30
Brian Kim, Heidi Pan
Packet Based versus Stream-Based Compression for Low Bandwidth Links
2:45
Anand Srinivas
Increasing Reliability Through Spare Capacity Provisioning in Ad-Hoc Networks
3:00
Hernan Lombardo, Binh Vo
An Adaptive Acknowledgement Scheme for TCP
3:15
Lance Anderson, Kevin Weston, Wayland Ni
Peer-to-Peer Networking Using Erasure Codes
3:30
Winston Wang, Bret Hull, Nigel Drego
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Sensor Networks
3:45
Alex DeNeui, Ryan Barrows, Winston Chang
Search Groups: Decentralized Search Using Probabilistic Quorum Systems

Friday

9:00
Georgi Peev, Frank Bentley
Multi-Resolution Search Proxy
9:15
Jon Sheffi, Ryan Wagner
Strategies for an Erasure Code-based P2P System
9:30 Sha Ma, Christine Robson Distributed Systems and Multi-Point Video Recording
9:45 Robert Jacobs, Alisa Marshall
A Survey of the NTP network
10:00 Kevin Atkinson, Teresa Ko Energy-Efficient TDMA Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks
10:15 Asfandyar Qureshi, Zeeshan Syed  Efficient Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
10:30 Michael Rasmussen, Alexandros Kyriakides Distributing Knowledge in a Friendly Network
10:45 Orton Huang, Joe Wong UDP-SM and TCP-SM: Modifications for Streaming Applications
11:00 Mark Sin, Elaine Yang TCP Performance on striped connections over ad hoc wireless networks
11:15 John Rondoni, Shijioke Emenike Wireless Time Synchronization Protocols
11:30 Richard Hu, Clyde Law LoGo: Low Bandwidth Interface to Google (A Proof-of-Concept)
11:45 Neeraj Jain, Brian Heng Design and Evaluation of TCP-with-Flush for Interactive Data Delivery
1:00 Brian Dunagan, George Lee Resilient VPN
1:15 Brian Tang, Carolyn Ng

1:30 Liyan Guo, Robert Beverly
An Examination of Internet Flow Rates
1:45
Tim Gorton, Margarita Dekoli
Modeling Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithms for a Modular Hypercube Packet Switch Fabric
2:00
Jon Kelner, Michael Walfish
Implementing Semantic-Free Referencing in Linked Distributed Systems
2:15
Jonathan Brunsman, Glenn Eguchi, Kan Liu
An Overlay Network for Device Interconnectivity
2:30
Chia-Hao La, Ed Filisko
The Effect of Buffer Sizing and Flow Competition on TCP Chaos
2:45
Jessica Howe, Claire Monteleoni
Managing the Energy/Performance Tradeoff in 802.11 Wireless Nodes: A Machine Learning Approach
3:00
Elana Cohen, Haitao Liu, William Kwong
Measuring BGP Performance in Wide Area Network Routing
3:15
Jaewook Lee, Gleb Chuvpilo
A Simulation Based Comparison Between High Speed TCP and XCP
3:30
Jeff Mellen, Daniel Talavera
A TDMA and CSMA/CA Dynamic Medium Access Protocol for Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks
3:45
Olya Veselova, Cai Zhi 
Performance Analysis of Localization Algorithms in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks