NSERC USRA and Undergraduate Research at UVic
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Directed Studies, Technical Projects
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- NSERC USRA
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- NSERC
USRA at UVic
- UVic CSC deadlines:
- February 9 for an award to be assumed 1 May 2009
- June 8 for an award to be assumed 1 September
2009
- October 26 for an award to be assumed 1 January 2010
Undergraduate Research at UVic
- First, you can always propose your own projects...
- dream project for 2008
- Cooperative Internet Access
- This project extends and improves a prototype mesh network for users to
share their Internet access with incentive and security mechanisms and
multi-hop networking and multiple wireless communication technologies. The
project involves Nokia Internet Table N810, Maemo, Linksys WRT54GL and
OpenWRT, with ad hoc WiFi, Bluetooth and USB networking. Please contact
the supervisors for details."
- Project page: NVC
- Live Video Streaming in Linux
- Project outline: This project is to create a live video streaming
environment in Linux over our wireless/wired multimedia testbeds. Live video
sources, such as video camera, TV and DVD player signals, are captured,
encoded and compressed at the video streaming server in real time, streamed
over the wireless/wired testbed, and buffered and played back at client
computers with user interactions such as pause and rewind. Please contact us
for project details.
- Student duties: Students will work closely with faculty members
and graduate students on the design of live video streaming architectures,
and use, port and improve existing video streaming software packages to
implement and deploy over the multimedia testbed.
- Qualificaiton: General knowledge in multimedia networks, interest
in networking research and development, and some programming experience.
- Performance evaluation of IPTV services
- Project outline: Please contact us for details.
- Student duties: Please contact us for details.
- Qualification: General knowledge in computer networks and
multimedia communications, interest in networking research and experiments,
particularly VoIP and IPTV services.
- Multimedia Streaming over Multipath Networks
- Project outline: Multimedia streaming and interactive
applications have become more and more popular in the last few years;
however, multimedia streaming over the Internet still faces many
technical challenges such as limited bandwidth in access networks,
network congestion between service providers, and quality degradation
due to user mobility or network impairments. This project tries to
explore the multipath nature of the Internet, and experiments
multipath multimedia streaming over a heterogeneous testbed
network. The testbed network features Ethernet, phoneline, cableline,
powerline and various wireless communication technologies, and
emulates a realistic networking environment for IPTV (Internet
Protocol Television) in-house distribution and other digital
entertainment applications.
- Student duties: Students will work closely with
faculty members and graduate students to experiment with multimedia
streaming applications over heterogeneous networks and help develop
prototype systems to improve the quality of multimedia streaming and
interactive applications over the Internet.
- Qualification: General knowledge in computer networks,
interest in networking research and experimentation, particularly for
multimedia applications, some programming experience.
- P2P management through traffic analysis
- Project outline: Please contact us for details.
- Student duties: Please contact us for details.
- Qualification: General knowledge in computer networks and
peer-to-peer applications, interest in networking research and measurement.
- Scalable Network Measurement on UVicNet
- Project outline: The Internet has become the largest, most
complex distributed systems that human beings have ever built. To
understand, diagnose and further improve such a system, we first need
to measure the system in a meaningful way. Supported by UVic Network
Services, we are deploying a distributed network measurement platform
on the UVic Campus Network (UVicNet). The goal of this project is to
measure network traffic at different locations at the same time to
produce traffic matrix (the amount of traffic between these locations)
in a realtime fashion. The traffic matrix and its temporal and spatial
dynamics can be used for traffic engineering, performance diagnosis,
and early detection of network anomalies such as worm outbreaks and
denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The traffic is only observed at a
very aggregated level, and through anonymizing, hashing, sampling and
digesting, user privacy and information security is still well
preserved in a production network.
- Student duties: Students will work closely with
faculty members, UVic Network Services, and graduate students to
deploy the measurement platform on UVicNet, participate in coordinated
network measurement experiments, and help develop systems to analyze
network measurement results. Clearance will be obtained for
students to conduct their duties.
- Qualification: General knowledge in computer networks,
interest in networking research and measurement, some programming
experience.
- A Network Testbed for Service Provider Networks
- Project outline: (coming soon)
- Student duties: (coming soon)
- Qualification: General knowledge in computer networks and
Linux systems, interest in networking research and system building,
good programming skills.
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