Minor Thesis::Jaison Paul Mulerikkal
Dear Sirs,
The minor thesis of Jaison Paul Mulerikkal investigates a very relevant and original research topic. Due to the permanently increasing traffic in the Internet as well as the increasing bandwidth and processing power of end systems, it makes much sense to implement content delivery networks based on end system functionality. The minor thesis proposes an architecture, where systems deployed both in the customer and operator premises are used. The architecture has been evaluated by simulation experiments. The architecture design is rather straight forward and should be considered as a first attempt to develop a good solution for the addressed problem. It would have been nice to see a somewhat more innovative solution, but this was probably not possible due to time constraints. It is somewhat surprising that the author did not really find scenarios, where the benefits of the proposed approach become more obvious. On the other hand, the results also suggest that there is significant need to further investigate the problem. The results presented seem to be quite complete and the reader gets the impression that the evaluation has been performed very carefully.
The thesis is very well written and structured. It is easy to read and understand. The results are presented and discussed in an appropriate way. The conclusions are logical and consequent. The related work has been discussed very well. The author seems to have a very good background on the related research in the field. Overall, the minor thesis is of good quality, the results are interesting, and the student proved to be able to perform research in a systematic way. Therefore, I propose “pass” as the result for the thesis.
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