A wide variety of projects are possible. The main constraint is that they be network management oriented.
If you identify the project of interest to you,  some starter material may be available.

There will be two students per project. Each must clearly identify in the final report which part he wrote.

The project should be:  Max of 35 pages, double spaced, 12 point type, with appropriate complete references and proper attribution.
This means that you must have a complete list of references for all material used, and the references must be referred to wherever  they have been used in the report body.

Read the following material on copying and plagiarism
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Policy-based Network management

Mobile Agents and Network Management.

WEB Based Management.   WBEM

Active/Programmable Networks in Network Management

Management of Virtual Private Networks

XML in Network Management

Configuration Management

Service Provisioning/Service Management

Management of Quality of service and SLAs (Service Level Agreements)

Jini and Network Management

Integrated System Management, Tivoli systems

Desktop management using DMTF's   DMI (Desktop Management Interface)

Java and network management.  JMX

Distributed Management (in SNMP or CMIP, M2M , script mib, activities of DisMan Group )

Agent Architectures, Proxies & Subagents, activities of agentX working group

Management of Peer-to-peer networks

Management of  Ad hoc networks

Management of grid computing

Management of Wireless Networks

Management of PCS and Mobile Communication systems

Algorithms for Event Correlation

Analysis of CORBA and where it fits in Network Management
 
 

The following are also possible:
 

Use of script languages (tcl, pearl) for network management

TMN and IN

Inelligent Agents in Management

Autodiscovery Techniques and limitations

Multimedia Management using SNMP

Network management and ATM ( How ATM differs from current conventional nets)

Security and OSI/CMIP

Analysis of  Agent Implementation

Management of Optical networks

State of the Art in management platforms
 
 

Projects involving writing code are possible and have been successfully completed
using various available tools. The limited time frame available is however a pertinent
constraint.