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-====== Proposed Projects for Fall 2014 ======
+====== Proposed Projects for Winter 2015 ======
+If you are interested in pursuing a 4080 project in Summer 2015, please see [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2014-15/S/4080/|this course webpage]].
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+====== Concurrent Data Structures ======
+**Supervisor**: Eric Ruppert
+**Required Background**: EECS2031 and general EECS4080 prerequisites
+**Desirable Background**: EECS3221
+A traditional data structure is designed so that one operation can be performed on it at a time.  This is no longer sufficient for the multicore architectures that have become prevalent in the past few years.  A concurrent data structure is designed so that many threads can access it simultaneously.  This requires some care in ensuring that concurrent operations do not interfere with one another.
+The goal of this project is to implement concurrent data structures in C so that
+performance testing can be carried out on them.  In particular, we would like to make use of Intel's Manycore Testing Lab (see https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mtl-faq-1) to look at throughput and scalability of the data structures when large numbers of threads access them concurrently.  Ultimately, we would also like to examine the possibility of designing special-purpose hardware to make concurrent data structures run faster.
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 Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca)
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-====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ======
-**Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic
-**Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482
-Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as
-the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial
-of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence
-of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution
-landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting
-new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of
-skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, such as Google-bots.
-The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world
-framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker's web-accessible
-domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them
-into generating attack traffic towards the target/victim site; b) the
-victim's Web site set up in Amazon S3 cloud. In addition to the hands-on
-component, the project will also look into the statistical/numerical
-estimation of the framework's anticipated 'attack potential' relative
-to an actual (real-world) target/victim site.
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-====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ======
-**Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel
-Description:
-Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code.
-The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log
-statements are output.  In the past, Dickey et al. [1] have attempted
-to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes.
-Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed
-an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler.  The aim of this project
-is to apply this extension to log4j.
-[1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. "Evaluating Java PathFinder on Log4J."  2011.
-**Required Background:** General CSE408x prerequisites
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-======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar======
-**Supervisor:**Sebastian Magierowski
-**Description:** The project requires the construction of components for a ground penetrating radar.  The students would have to design microwave boards for the high-frequency components of this unit, on both the transmitter and the receiver.  On the transmitter side the board would take a 5-MHz input clock, run it through a series of off-the-shelf amplifiers and then through a shaping circuit that would convert the input into an outgoing series of pulses (still at 5-MHz repetition rate) less than 400-ps in duration each.  The bandwidth of the signal is roughly 2-8 GHz and hence requires very careful board layout.  The receiver would be a time-shifted sampler, used to sample the returning pulses in progressive periods.  This radar circuit is ultimately intended to be positioned on a rover doing ground analysis.
-**Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important.  Experience with board level implementations and knowledge of microstrip lines would be helpful, otherwise the basics would have to be picked up during the project.
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 More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term.
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