I am back after a long absence. It isnt that I wasnt doing anything, but it's just that I was doing too much to be able to report anything here. I was initially reading stuff on running MPLS over OBS for a high speed Internet core and I found some work on it. Presently, I am taking a course "CS 678 Topics in Internet Research" in which we are reading a research paper for every class, which makes for two papers a week. We read the papers on our own, bring a brief summary to the class, where we discuss the paper.
There is also an individual term project for which two other students will be consultants and monitor the progress. For that, we have to come up with a research idea. I have found a few papers on Internet Traffic Statistics and have deposited the proposal to devise a scheme for doing accurate traffic statistics on core routers. We're talking about Tier 2/3 ISPs. I am presently reading a paper about "Inverting sampled traffic."
I made a presentation about it yesterday. The idea is similar to survey sampling. You gather a subset of the data and project information about the whole. I'll give links to documents as we go along.
