ENSC 427: Communication Networks
Spring 2026
Last update: March 14, 2026
No.	Names (Last, First)	Email	Proposed project titles	Color
1	Dervishaj, Ilirijan	idervish	Comparing TCP vs. UDP performance
	Park, Jasmine	jhp18	Testing and Comparing Anomaly Detection Between TCP and UDP
			Compare BBR vs. CUBIC Congestion Control Protocols
2	Kanthawala, Husain Mustafa	hmk7	Source Address Validation Improvements (SAVI) in ns-3
	Kjellbotn, Duncan	dkk5	Improving Network Resilience Under DHCP Failures Using Static Fallback IP Assignment
3	Dong, Wenxi	wda21	Detecting UDP Port Forwarding via a Bandwidth-Based Heuristic Approach
	Preradovic, Drew	dpa55	Exploring the Performance of TCP-based VPN Protocols
			Characterizing Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman-based Denial of Service Attacks
4	Kramer, Karina	kkramer	CAN Transceiver Implementation on FPGA
	Zhu, Eva	eza10	Snake MMO
5	Durston, Madison	mld16	Performance and Scalability of Enterprise VPN Infrastructure Using ns-3
	McEvoy, Arden	agm13	Low Earth Orbit Satellite Handover Effects on Data Streams
6	Leung, Bryce	bla135	A Study of Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Behavior Using ns-3 Simulation and Embedded Hardware
	Mousa, Felo	fgm3
	Singh, Sahaj	ssa365
7	Kuboki, Eita	eka57	5G vs. LTE: Security Comparison
	Shapiro, Allen	asa486	5G vs. 6G: is 6G Secure by Design?
			Network Slicing in 5G–Security Challenges
			Mitigating Collateral Damage and Protecting Capacity During Volume-Based DDoS Attacks
8	Epstein, Rose	rea13	Assessing the Effects of Deauthentication Attacks and the Role of Protected Management Frames (PMFs) in Securing Public Wi‑Fi
	Kitsa, Prisca	pnk2	Assessing the Effectiveness of Media Access Control (MAC) Address Randomization Against Passive Tracking in Public Wi‑Fi
9	Huang, Curtis	cha154	Goodput Analysis of UDP-Based Video Transmission in a Wired Network
	Nguyen, Duc Minh Quang	dmn3	Analysis of DDoS Attack on Network Performance
10	Amanuel, Simon	samanuel	Comparative Analysis of Congestion Control Algorithms in High-Speed Data Center Networks
	Irvin, Syed	sai3	Mitigating DDoS Attacks in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) using Machine Learning
			Performance Evaluation of QUIC vs. HTTP/2 in Challenged Wireless Environments
11	Chung, Denzil	dca145	Handover Optimization for High-Speed Trains
	Ng, Emily	ena23	Analysis of Algorithms Improving QoS of Real-Time Telecommunication (WebRTC)
12	Malik, Wajihah	wma29	A Comparative Analysis of the Differences Between Volumetric Attacks and Packet-Rate Attacks, and their Detection Signatures
	Mohsen, Maryam	mma286
13	Malhi, Parmvir	psm7	Performance of TCP and UDP Under DDoS in a WiFi Network
			Impact of Router Queuing Algorithms on IoT Network Performance
			QoE Analysis of Video Streaming Over WiFi Under Network Congestion
14	Weng, Clinton	cwa23	Analyzing Transport Protocol Performance with Scaling Sensor Data Loads
	Zhu, Leon	jcz3
15	Blanco, Michael	mba202	Performance Evaluation of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Congestion Control Algorithms in High-Delay Satellite Networks
	Mangat, Gurkamal Kaur	gkm6	UDP vs. TCP for Real-Time Traffic
			Comparative Analysis of AODV (Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector) and OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) Protocols in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs)
			IoT Network Scalability Under Congestion
16	Phan, Tu	tpa38	Network Security: Attack Modeling and Defense Mechanisms
	Schulz, Armin	asa319	Threat Analysis: A Deeper Dive into Modern Internet Attacks
17	Kremler, Noah	nka71	CAN Bus Security Analysis
	Nurzhigitov, Aitu	ana107
18	Ng, Matt	myn3	Machine Learning Techniques for Classifying Network Anomalies and Intrusions
	Rana, Kesley	kesleyr	TCP Capability in Handling Disturbances in Real-Time Industrial Applications (PLC System) by Simulating Scheduled Link Impairments and Evaluating TCP Control Recovery Time
			TCP Variants (Throughput, Delay, Packet loss, Fairness, and Congestion Evaluation) to Study the Effect on Wi‑Fi (Wireless) and Point-to-Point (Wired) Networks
19	Alanes, John	jpa18	Simulation of DDoS Attacks on Real-Time Gaming Traffic and Quality of Service
	Phan, Ethan	epa25	Starlink Performance in Urban vs. Rural Areas
20	Luo, Tom	fla73	Evaluating and Analyzing the Impact of Background Traffic on Real-Time Applications in Wireless Networks Using ns-3
	Wang, Jack	ywa419
21	Huang, Evan	eha65	Create a Comparative Performance Analysis of Wi‑Fi 7 (802.11be) in ns-3
	Shehada, Yousif	ysa249	The Three Congestion Control Techniques that this Project Evaluates are TCP Reno, TCP Cubic, and Google BBR
22	Manco, Bora	bma107	Comparative Quality of Experience Analysis of Real-Time Voice and Video Traffic Under Bandwidth Constraints
23	Bors, Vlad	vab3	A Machine Learning Approach to Detecting Low-Rate DDoS
			Indoor Localization Using WiFi Signal Fingerprinting
			Detection of Covert Timing Channels in Network Traffic
24	Su, Alex	ysa174	AODV vs. DSDV Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
25	Qadri, Qiraa	qqa1	How does application-layer burstiness affect downstream queue stability and tail latency under fixed average load?
	Silva, Aura	ans9	How do network-induced delay, jitter, and packet loss affect the convergence time and steady-state accuracy of distributed clock synchronization over packet-switched networks?
			How does TCP congestion control adapt its congestion window and transmission behavior as network congestion develops and subsequently resolves in a bottlenecked packet-switched network?