Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Project Topics for Fall 2007

The following prooject topics are suggested for students who have not proposed a topic.

Please note that, unless noted otherwise, these project descriptions are copyright (c) 1998-2007 by C. D. Cantrell. All rights reserved.

1. Topic 1: Simulate a 96-station 10 Mb/s Ethernet. The goal is to determine throughput as a function of offered load for two different Ethernet configurations. The traffic generated by any one of the stations with any other station as the destination must follow a Pareto distribution with alpha = 1.25 and k = 1.
   1. 10BASE5 CSMA/CD: The stations are located at random points along a 500-m cable, with at least 1 m distance between adjacent stations.
   2. 10BASE-T Full-duplex: The 96 stations are connected to 8 Ethernet switches, each of which is connected to the Ethernet switch at the root of the tree.