COMP 631 Course Projects Pursued in the Past (several of these were related to RA projects that the students were pursuing in other fields):

• Examples of "investigative" projects pursued in COMP 631 in the past :
  • Impact of Server-side Configurations on Performance of PHP.
  • Design and Evaluation of an "Out of Order" option for the TFTP protocol.
  • Experimental Evaluation of Traffic Analysis Techniques and Counter-measures (RA extension).
  • Applying Machine Learning to Fingerprint Mobile App Traffic (RA extension).
  • Inferring a Proprietary Wireless L3 Protocol From Packet Traces.
  • Evaluation of LoRa-based Localization (RA extension).
  • Youtube Video Streaming - HTTP/TCP Effectiveness.
  • Global and Local Latency Analysis (How Does Network Latency Change with Number of Hops, Paths, Load, etc).
  • Comparison of Active Queue Management Algorithms Performance for Network Traffic.
  • Response-time Calculation for Evaluating Active Queue Management Proposals (RA extension).
  • Ultra-high Speed Network Bandwidth Estimation Using Machine Learning Approaches.
  • Feasibility of Capitalism-based Inter-domain Network Routing.
  • Implementation of a Distributed File Storage System Using Chord Protocol.
  • Experimental Evaluation of Chord.
  • Analyzing the Consistency of BiCoin P2P Networks.
  • Improving Performance of a Software-Defined Networking Implementation.
  • Comparative Study of DDoS Detection Algorithms.
  • Evaluating (and Mitigating) ARP Attacks in SDN Networks.
  • Recreating Packet-in-Packet Attack.
  • Design and Evaluation of a Technique for Detecting Network Scans (RA extension).
  • PCA-based Anomaly Detection Techniques (RA extension).
  • Application-level Communication Protocols for Collaborative Architectures (RA extension).
  • Experimental Evaluation of Shrew Attacks.

• A list of past projects pursued in the previously-offered COMP 734 (Distributed Systems) can be found here. A majority of these topics would also be suitable as course projects for COMP 631.