• At most two students can work together.
• At most two groups may take up the same topic. If two groups take up the same topic, their work should be distinctly different.
• The students should submit the choice of topics by 9 March, 2006, satisfying the above two conditions.
• The students should submit by 15 March, 2006, a write-up of their project plan that includes an architecture/design outline, and a time-chart for execution.
• The final submission has to be done by 15 May, 2006. It should include a demonstration, a write-up, and a brief presentation.

The following are examples of topics on which a project can be done:

1. A directory-tree transfer software. Some such software already exists; e.g., cute-ftp. Plain ftp utility is not convenient for transferring sub-directories recursively.
2. A software to transfer mail between an user's PC and a mail server. The PC should be made the stable storage for the user's mails.
3. A conferencing software. (Similar to chat software)
4. A network simulator that demonstrates an end-to-end sliding window protocol for transfering packets with provision for controlling probability of congestion (leading to out-of-sequence arrival and delayed duplicates) and packet loss.
5. Software for remote-file access. For example "rem ls ..." instead of "ls ...", "rem vi ..." instead of "vi ...", etc.
   
   etc.