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07-29-2006

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Master's degree proposal, Router software

Hello everyone,

After 8 years of being out of school I am trying to start my Masters degree. This specific type of degree is being done only by research (research mode vs. coursework mode). I need to prepare a research proposal and send it to the school. I will need a professor to accept me as a research student.

- I want to end my masters in 1.5 years (at most 2 years)

- I have something arround 1 years of experience in unix programming (BSD Sockets , etc) and very extensive database, J2EE, PHP and .NET experience.

- I am CCNA certified and have done switching and routing courses

With above background I had prepared below proposal:

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A: Study and development of a routing platform (OS) using PC hardware

In this project, a routing operating system based on Intel (or a RISC platform) PCs and hardware will be developed which is able to support a few routing protocols (example: static, rip) on simple interfaces (i.e serial or ethernet).
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Though after a days of searching and thinking I found that it is a very big project. I will need to develop a very stable operating system (memory management, processes, filesystem, ...) and a routing software on top of it and also a user shell.

So I am changing mymind to a smaller project:

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A: Study and development of a routing platform (OS) on top of a unix type operating system

In this project, a routing software on top of a stable unix type OS will be developed which is able to support a few routing protocols (example: static, rip) on ethernet interfaces. Platform will include a user shell. Entire software will be placed on a flash disk to form an appliance.
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Though I will look at already developed software like zebra, I should develop a completely new software.

Now

I need some advice from people here.

1- Is this proposal reasonable?

2- Is it possible to cover all the things in just 1.5 years ?

3- Are you able to suggest me a better research proposal?

4- Any other advice is appereciated.

Regards,
Mac

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sccmap

SCCMAP(1)                                                     General Commands Manual                                                    SCCMAP(1)

NAME

       sccmap - extract strongly connected components of directed graphs

SYNOPSIS

       sccmap [-dsv] [ -ooutfile ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

       sccmap  decomposes  digraphs  into strongly connected components and an auxiliary map of the relationship between components.  In this map,
       each component is collapsed into a node.  The resulting graphs are printed to standard out.  The number of nodes, edges and  strongly  con-
       nected components are printed to standard error.  sccmap is a way of partitioning large graphs into more manageable pieces.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d     Preserve degenerate components of only one node.

       -s     Do not print the resulting graphs. Only the statistics are important.

       -S     Just print the resulting graphs. No statistics are printed.

       -ooutput
              Prints output to the file output. If not given, sccmap uses stdout.

       -v     Generate  additional  statistics.  In  particular, sccmap prints the number of nodes, edges, connected components, and strongly con-
              nected components, followed by the fraction of nodes in a non-trivial strongly connected  components,  the  maximum  degree  of  the
              graph, and fraction of non-tree edges in the graph.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       files   Names of files containing 1 or more graphs in dot format.  If no files operand is specified, the standard input will be used.

DIAGNOSTICS

       sccmap emits a warning if it encounters an undirected graph, and ignores it.

AUTHORS

       Stephen C. North <north@research.att.com>
       Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>

SEE ALSO

       gc(1), dot(1), acyclic(1), gvpr(1), gvcolor(1), ccomps(1), tred(1), libgraph(3)

                                                                   21 March 2001                                                         SCCMAP(1)