Hi, There was a question on IRC about the possibility of students being involved in the research. I am answering via mailing list as it may be interesting to a larger audience.
Firstly, there's no 0MQ GSoC project this year. Mea culpa! Hopefully, there will be one next year. Secondly, any student can do programming/research as a private person. As for doing research as a part of curriculum, there's a question of IP rights to consider. As far as I understand, IP rights for any work done within curriculum belong to the school. Thus, to provide patches to 0MQ, school must be OK with submitting the patches under MIT license. As for the research the issue is more complex. The best solution would be to do it under auspices of IETF, which defines sensible and not overly restricting rules for handling copyrights (BCP 78) and patents (BCP 79). As for actual work that may be done by students it ranges from simple programming tasks suitable for assignments for undergraduates to major problems worth of PhD. thesis. Off the top of my head: Algorithms and data structures: Improve memory footprint (and thus performance) of 0MQ topic matching algorithm. Operating systems: Implement O(1) scheduler with priorities. Statistics: Define sound statistical model for evaluation of latency & throughput results. Application design: Define coherent model for passing topic subscriptions up the (possible unreliable) pub/sub hierarchy and implement it. Or: Define reliability model(s) to improve overall reliability of the system -- including persistence -- and implement it. Microarchitectures: Formally describe and prove the correctness of lock-free algorithms used in 0MQ. Optionally, provide a reference implementation on microarchitecture of your choice. Networking: Define how 0MQ API can be integrated with Berkeley sockets. Optionally, write a wrapper library to implement the integration. Security: Define optimal security model for a use case of your choice. Use cases with untrusted middle nodes are of special interest. Experimental: Test the impact of different hardware/software technologies on performance of 0MQ. Generic: Research how location of endpoints can be done, taking into account existing Internet standards. Etc. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
