[mpls-linux-general] Research Topic

[Wenbiao Z. <wz...@cs...>]

Hi, everyone:

I am a MSc student who is interested in MPLS, 
and would like to do my project/thesis in this
area.

I am new to MPLS, and run into problem when
I decide the topics. I would like to receive
any useful advice from you. Following is 

Currently, I have 2 choices for my topic with
this software
1. implementation of MPLS 
   Install it on Linux and run it, then
   get the traffic to do analysis.
 
   There are following disadvantage for this option:
   1.1 limited LSRs
   Due to limited resource, I could only have 2 Linux 
   hosts at home (connecting to internet through Cable 
   modem) and 1 or 2 Linux PCs at the school. Since only 
   3 or 4 LSRs, will the traffic be good enough for analysis?
   
   1.2 do not know what to analysis
   Even the problem 1.1 does not exist, what kind of analysis
   could I perform based on the traffic

2. Traffic Engineering 
In a MPLS seminar by Juniper, a guru suggested me to work
on traffic Angering.  Due to limited resource, I could only
do a little in traffic Angering. For example, in the software,
RSVP is not implemented in the software. Once it is implemented, 
how could I test it to find out it works or not?

Before I decide to choose one from above 2 options, would any of 
you please answer the questions raised in each of the options and
give me some advice?

Any useful feedback will be highly appreciated.

William Zhang
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
V5A 1S6