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["William Zhang" <wzhang@cs.sfu.ca>]

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 recieve
any useful advice from you. Following is 


Currently, I have three choices for my topic:
1. implementation of MPLS 
   I could implement MPLS for Linux 
  (http://mpls-linux.sourceforge.net/ on linux. And run the
   MPLS and 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. Simulation 
   I could use MPLS network simulator(MNS) extended from NS
   (http://www.raonet.com/introduction.shtml) for simulation.
   
   The thing is once I simulated, what kind of traffic could
   I collect? If I collect, then what kind of analysis could
   I do ?

3. Traffic Engeering 
In an MPLS semeinar by Juniper, a guru suggested me to work
on traffic Engeering.  Due to limited resource, I could only
do a little in traffic Engeering. For example, in the software,
I mentioned in 1, MPLS on Linux, RSVP is not implemented. Once
I implemented, how could I test it works or not?

Before I decide to choose one from above 3 options, would any of 
you please answer the questions raised in each of the options and
gice me some advice?

Any useful feedback will be highly appreciated.

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

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