Introduction

• Project Areas
  Limited to those below
• Due Date for team and project:
  No later then 14 September, but if you do TinkerNet, you need to start NOW
• Milestone Check:
  16 October, 5-10 slides on status, accomplishments, problems.
• Final Project Presentation:
  28 November

Project Areas

• IPv6
  We will look at some IPv6 features in lecture. Teams need to formulate a particular project which might be focused on either implementation or performance issues. Investigating one or more IETF IPv6 working groups is sure to expose a number of issues. The CS Dept network is running IPv6, but performance and operational issues are unknown.

• BFSNet
  Sensor networks are an emerging technology. As was recently said, "This technology is almost usable". BFSNet is a continuing project (Lizardnet evolved to BSFNet) on implementing a network infrastructure and sensor networks in the BFS. There are many known problems, but two that I am very interested in are:
  • Cyclops - a camera for sensor networks
  • Heliomotes - a solar based sensor network node.

• TinkerNet
  TinkerNet is the network set up for running the CS 125 labs. There are two versions: one based on hardware and one based on virtual machines. There are two pressing problems with both approaches:
  • The code is all over the place - various disks and repositories. Things need to be organized.
  • The working state of either version is suspect...

• Sun SPOTS
  Sun SPOTS is a Java based sensor network. I have just written a proposal to acquire two Sun SPOTS development environments for inclusion into BFSNet. This environment needs to be set up and evaluated.

  Mike Erlinger
  

  Last Modified Thursday, 17-Jan-2008 13:52:29 PST