1999 Final Year Projects

Prof. Michael R. Lyu

Lyu9901: TravelNet

• Design a Web-based travel manager to reserve airplane tickets and hotel.

• A distributed system using database transaction and mobile agent techniques.

• Issues on data integrity and agent efficiency.

• Similar to Microsoft’s Expedia; HK specific.

• Final development in Java/CORBA platform.

Lyu9902: Wireless Campus

• Experiment on CSE’s newly established net-centric and wireless network.

• Evaluate wireless campus and architecture.

• Develop software and system infrastructure.

• Create wireless education contents and service accessing/enabling techniques.

• Design courseware in wireless environment.

A Wireless Demo Center

Internet-Centric Wireless Campus

Internet-Centric Server

Platform-Independent Middleware

Distributed Component API (CORBA, DCOM, RMI)

Thin-client devices

Desktop PCsNotebook, palmtop, PDAs

EducationApplication

EducationApplication

EducationApplication

Wire/wireless connection

Lyu9903: Web Proxy Server

• Implement reliable, secure, and intelligent proxy server for web management.

• Allow accessing, caching, processing of Web contents and multimedia data.

• Develop special-purpose private network.

• Joint work with AT&T Research Lab. using their intelligent proxy system (iProxy).

Integrated Smart Proxy Server

Lyu9904: Digital Video Library

• Develop a multi-lingual digital video library for multimedia information capture, search, retrieval, summarization, and presentation.

• Robust indexing and retrieval of audio and video documents; cross-linking of multiple information streams (“multi-modal”); video segmentation; video extraction and display.

• Joint work with CMU’s Informedia project.

CMU Informdia Project

Image Segmentation and Summarization

Lyu9905: Multi-Agent Security

• Explore security issues for multi-agent distributed systems with E-commerce.

• Involve data encryption, authentication, firewall, and mobile agent techniques.

• Develop secure E-commerce applications.

• Design and evaluate security attack scenarios.

Read/manipulate properties; control execution

Security Issues for Mobile Agents

Read/manipulate

(Other agents)

Environment

Malicious Host

Malicious Host

Agent

System call