CS 457/557: Computer Networks : MIS420/520 - Networking in a Business Environment Assignments

Networking Projects - 100 pts. - due November 27th before class

One of the major requirements for this course is a Networking project / research paper. You will be expected to submit your results in HTML format suitable for publication on the Internet and to make a presentation via the bulletin board and chat to the class. Assignments from graduate students need to reflect a higher quality of work.
I will be available for help with this projects. Your project must be selected and approved before the midterm exam.

Possible Projects / Research Paper include:

• Survey and evaluate wireless technology - Bill Springer
• Install E-smith server - Jim Leville
• A security monitoring system for Windows NT/2000 - Laird Thornton
• Design and implement a LAN for a school or business - Sheryl Varela
• Install a departmental firewall - Chris Dees
• Parallel Computing - John Tiernen
• 802.11 standards - David Wiedenfeld
• Session Initiation protocol (SIP) - Steven Morales
• Mobile IP - Victoria Vigil
• Intrusion Detection for Win 2000 - Joshua Nash
• Bluetooth - Melanie Chinana
• Install a RealVideo Server
• Design and write client/server chat programs with complete documentation
• Design and write a "Napster"-type program with complete documentation
• Design and write a proxy-cache server program with complete documentation
• Web Services
• XML
• SOAP
• jini
• UDDI
• Passport
• OBI (Open Buying on the Internet)
• WAP
• WDML
• WLAN Standards
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Gnutella
• Groove
• Jabber
• Freenet
• JXTA

Your project will be graded based on the following criteria: (tentative)

• Web Page (50 pts)
  1. Professionalism (10%)
  2. Content (50%)
  3. Organization and Design(10%)
  4. Standards (15%)
  5. Spelling, Grammar, and Accuracy (15%)

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