Course Overview
n Research project topics/ideas:
Starting point similar to research proposal
Identify problem(s) to be explored, design experiments, find and
select public-domain software that will help carry out the
experiments
n NistNet: a network emulation package that runs on Linux, allows a
single Linux PC set up as a router to emulate a wide variety of
network conditions (http://www.antd.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/)
n Ns-2: a network simulator (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/)
n WAP Phone Emulators: available from many sources, such as Nokia,
Ericsson, as WWW page, etc.
n TOOLS YOU DISCOVERED
n Important: analysis of results, comparison to state-of-the-
art (i.e., what insights were learned with the experiments
you conducted and the results you obtained)