Dissertation Ideas - Networking

TomElZ · 26 Sep 2011 at 19:56

Hey lads.

Unsure whether this is in the correct place but I guess it is relevant.

Basically I'm in the last year of Uni and the time has come to do a Dissertation/Final Year Project. Now I have selected Networking as my area of study however the amount of stuff out there to do is overwhelming.

Just wanted to know what topics people think would be interesting and I kind of want to research into something that is 'Fresh' if you get me. IPv6 seems like a possibility and stuff to do with CISCO but really don't know where to start.

Cheers
Tom.

TomElZ · 26 Sep 2011 at 20:59

Is there any other aspects that you would recommend or think would be of interest - just gathering thoughts at the moment as I haven't even met my supervisor yet.

Yeah I'm going to do my best to make sure I don't leave it all to last minute ahha!

What about Wireless networking technology?

TomElZ · 27 Sep 2011 at 14:32

Dist - thanks for the input there. Sound's like quite an interesting area and maybe something I could look into more. Just out of interest you mentioned you used 2 linksys routers - did you have to purchase these yourself or did the uni contribute to the costs?

Mobile related stuff could be of interest I guess as well considering it's increased useage - would that not fall under Communications areas though?

Jay - Another useful point but haven't got any company's that I could use.

Cheers for the help.

Any other points would be appreciated as I'm just gathering thoughts at what I can do at the moment.

TomElZ · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:22

Hey again lads.

Well after a meeting with the supervisor today and me proposing a few general ideas. I've been told that I need to come up with something that I will be able to produce, test, simulate - along them lines.

So perform some research into some kind of area, use this research I guess to perform some tests, simulate some kind of action and then draw conclusions from this I guess.

Now the Networking area compared to other areas (Electronics, Programming etc) is probably a bit harder to come up with ideas for (IMO).

Referencing back to a post above about wireless standards and how they have evolved may be do some kind of comparison between a 802.11a router and a 802.11n router?

Bit stuck again for what practical stuff I could do to contribute.

Cheers lads - any ideas at this moment are greatly appreciated.

TomElZ · 10 Oct 2011 at 16:55

Hey.

Well I have submitted a few of my own ideas as well as stuff on WiFi but again I have come to a brick wall and have been told that I need to produce something that actually produces something at the end of it as opposed to just a report by my supervisor.

Original ideas included things such as social networking and the privacy aspects, some sort of research into cloud computing, P2P and security and just looking into a particular OSI layer.

Browsing around I am finding a lot of research based stuff but nothing with practicality involved which could help me or give me an idea of what I need to look at.

Any sort of electronics - i.e building circuits etc for a networking device is completely out the question as I don't enjoy electronics in the slightest.

I think that the ideas are there just coming up with something that could be implemented practically is the brick wall.

Cheers.

TomElZ · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:11

I'm not doing a networking course - I'm doing a computing technology course but I have picked networking as my area for my final year.

Bear in mind I only have till the beginning of March so I've got to do something achievable and I doubt I can do something that is 'cutting edge' in the space of 5 months.

TomElZ · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:50

I have heard of a few people mention Mesh networking.

I will do a bit of reading into it over a few days and see whether it is viable - anything that will get me a high mark and something I can demonstrate in a practical way and I'm a happy guy.

Cheers.