CSE6306 Projects

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CSE6306 Projects
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Project 1

• Develop a platform for mobile agents to
  coordinate and collaborate in a Windows CE
  environment. These agents share information and
  work in cooperation.
• Your implementation must consider a real-life
  application
• Example Doctor/patient/nurse
  realtor/seller/buyer k students working on a
  project.
• Compaqs iPaQ PDAs, and wireless LAN cards
  (22) will be provided
• I have one copy of the Windows CE Technology
  Tutorial
• - Group A Use shared spaces (such as Linda
  Tuple spaces) concept. Assume availability of a
  backbone wired network including a PC server.
• Group B Use message passing or some variation
  of point-to-point communication and multicasting.
  

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Whats expected?

• Literature Review
• Understand Windows CE
• Setup a framework for collaboration among users
  or their representative software entities
• Protocol for sharing/collaborating
• Authenticity, security issues
• Data sharing
• Off line, online
• Text, multimedia
• Autonomy
• Flexibility
• Ease of use
• Comparison
• Write paper, demonstrate a working setup, field
  questions

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Project 2

• Consider the following Scenario
• The central business area of a city has several
  restaurants and parking places distributed
  geographically. Its very hard to get a parking
  slot and a table during lunch time. Its even
  harder to get a parking slot close to a
  restaurant with available tables.
• Imagine a service on the distributed computing
  environment that keeps track of available parking
  slots and tables in restaurants in a dynamic
  fashion. A user can contact this service
  through his palm device (or cell phone).
  Basically the user tells the service where she/he
  is, what kind of cuisine she/he likes and a time
  limit. The service processes the request and
  finds a parking slot
  restaurant match so that the distances (driving
  and walking) and waiting time are minimized.
• You can assume availability of GPS enabled
  devices, PCs, cameras, sensors etc.

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Project 2

• GROUP A Use CORBA and related tools for
  creating this service
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture
• GROUP B Use Microsoft DCOM
• Distributed Common Object Model

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Whats expected?

• Literature Review
• Understand CORBA/DCOM
• Setup a working environment
• Creation of a logical service entity
• Information sharing mechanism
• Transparency
• Response time
• Flexibility
• Scalability
• Comparison
• Write paper, demonstrate a working setup, field
  questions

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• http//www.microsoft.com/com/tech/com.asp
• THE site for COM (and the new COM)
• http//www.microsoft.com/Com/news/drgui.asp
• - A tutorial about COM, DCOM and COM
• http//www.microsoft.cos/com/presentations/default
  .asp
• - Some presentations from Microsoft regarding
  COM
• http//www.microsoft.com/com/presentations/realtou
  r.zip
• - This presentation gives an overview of COM
  and its features. Also
• included are some quotes from the press showing
  that COM is
• preferred over CORBA and IIOP
• Sriram Murthy

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Project 3

• The best effort service provided by IP network
  has necessitated development of middleware tools
  to overcome insufficient bandwidth and high
  latency in provisioning QoS on the Internet. The
  issues that need to be addressed to improve the
  QoS are i) document retrieval latency, ii) data
  availability, iii) network resource utilization
  and iv) network congestion. Several techniques
  have been developed to meet the requirements of a
  faster and efficient Internet. Push-pull caching
  and replication are some of the techniques
  investigated by researchers.
• GROUP A Push-pull caching (includes
  traditional caching, prefetching and broadcast)
• GROUP B - Replication

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Whats expected?

• Literature Review
• Understand Push-pull or Replication rather both
• Simulation environment
• document retrieval latency
• data availability
• network resource utilization
• network congestion
• Scalability
• Comparison
• Write paper, demonstrate a working setup, field
  questions

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Project 4

• A distributed transaction is any transaction
  whose activity involves several different
  servers. Distributed transactions are of two
  types
• Flat and nested
• Our distributed environment is heterogeneous and
  subjected to disconnections, varying bandwidth
  and failures.
• GROUP A Flat Transactions
• GROUP B Nested Transactions

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Whats expected?

• Literature Review
• Understand distributed transactions
• Simulation environment
• Deadlocks avoidance, recovery
• Concurrency
• Fault-recovery
• Adaptability to changes
• Comparison
• Write paper, demonstrate a working setup, field
  questions

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1. Meda Sandesh Panduranga
2. Mohare Kedar Bhikaji
3. Morab Goutham Chandra
4. Narasimhan Sreekanth
5. Narayanaswamy Arun Prasath
6. Pancholi Gaurav Vinodkumar
7. Patel Manoj Bhikhabhai
8. Punj Ashutosh
9. Raman Sharan
10. Ramesh Savitha
11. Shah Mitvin Chnadrakant
12. Shankar Sunil Bangalore
13. Shivaratri Charishma Gubbi
14. Veerappan Vishwanath
15. Venkitakrishnan Priya

1. Chai Ching-Wen
2. Dattatreya Amruth
3. Dharmarajan Niranjan
4. Govidaswamy Visvasuresh
5. Hegde Smitha Suresh
6. Hsieh Chih Yao
7. Jacob Jyoti
8. Khot Rahul Prakash
9. Kumar Vimal Bangalore Vijay
10. Macha Uday Shankar
11. Madanagopalan Saishankar
12. Mahadevanna Praveen
13. Maitra Saurabh
14. Malavalli Keshavaprasad
15. Mantena Sudheer Ramachandra

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SEMINARS for 3/7/2002

• Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
• MACH, Micro Kernel
• Tiny OS, Operating System for tiny devices