Note: You are free to select your class project from a wide range of topics related to developing, designing, evaluating, etc. communication services on modern platforms. Your class project may interface with your current research work.

• Porting/Evaluating socket-based applications (RuBis, webservers, other enterprise codes) over IB, using RDMA directly, or SDP
• File system (LWFS, NSF, Lustre) evaluation, comparison over IB
• Accelerating remote visualization/data analysis applications with specialized accelerators - graphics cards, or Cell, or FPGA
• Network appliance development -- security/crypto data processing, load balancing, application-level processing, or other types or codes on IXP-based network appliance
• FTP over Infiniband
• Traffic monitoring and analysis, priority/content-based scheduling, detection of critical conditions...
• Building per-application flow information through IB's subnet manager
• TCP-termination on IXP2400 Radisys for supporting value-added services
• RUDP-termination on IXP2850 Netronome
• High-performance, scalable application-level classification for enterprise systems
• Workloads/benchmarks for communication services in enterprise applications
• Scalable QoS for application-specific metrics
• Portal-Lite for IXP as a NIC
• Portals on IB
• Collective communication or content-based load balancing for clusters
• Web-server enhancement through caching, prefetching embedded content...
• RPC for multicore systems
• splitting socket stack for multicore systems
• IO virtualization enhancements in multicore platforms
• Enhancing safety guarantees for shared access and resouce virualization
• OS + hypervisor bypass in IB platforms
• RDMA in wide area networks
• Security; scalable, secure, end-to-end services...
• Compiler-level work to address communications-related issues on multi-core or specialized platforms