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DTN-enabled web browser (N op/ov)

Background: Delay-tolerant networking enables end-to-end communication without the need for an instant end-to-end path. In order to use web browsing in such an environment, HTTP needs to be modified to avoid the many interactions between a web browser and the web server since they might easily lead to unacceptable latencies. Our research group has already implemented a DTN-enabled web server and a small proxy for web browsers. Assignment: Take an open source web browser and expand it to include DTN communication as another option besides TCP. The assignment shall use the existing protocol specification realized in an MSc thesis and study ways for the integration into a browser as well as the issues which may arise and do a rapid prototype to see whether this is doable. An complementary MSc thesis shall then do a full implementation to be released as open source project and perform an evaluation of the usability and performance and suggest (and implement) extensions to the protocol specification.

Prof. Jörg Ott / 03.10.08

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