RUINER, M. Testing the response of operating systems to different IPv6 flows [online]. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií. 2024.
The student's thesis is a well-done work that, in accordance with the assignment, partly continued previous theses defended at Department of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology (BUT) and contributed to the research running at BUT. The achieved results are very well applicable in the current research at BUT. From a formal point of view, the thesis is of an excellent standard and it can be stated that the thesis met all the requirements set for an engineering thesis. The thesis contains a high number of figures and tables that help to understand the results obtained and the proposed algorithms. The assignment of the thesis was slightly refined during the solution, which contributed to better usability of the results. The student worked with the literature independently and with great precision. He discussed the solution of his work very actively and regularly with his supervisors, and approached the overall solution of all subtasks in the same competent and systematic way. Among other things, the work contributed to the improvement of a previously developed complex tool for scanning IPv6 computer networks. The results of the work can be very well built upon for further research and development not only at BUT, as the developed source code is publicly available on GitHub and could be used for various purposes. In accordance with the requirements of the partner Tampere University (TAU), the student has set three research questions as stated in the Introduction. All of them were adequately answered and are addressed in the Conclusion. In view of the above, I propose a grade of A/92 points.
The diploma thesis of Mr. Michal Ruiner focuses on the creation of an array of virtual machines with purpose to study their response to the IPv6 protocol. For this purpose, the student used the GNS3 open-source software is selected. The thesis contains concepts of virtualization, GNS3 functionality, software testing methods, and practical models. In the thesis, several testing scenarios were proposed and successfully explored. I highly appreciate that the student worked with various operating systems, including Android and different versions and distributions of Windows and Linux. The obtained results are presented in terms of screenshots form the testing and tables. In this part, I miss the elaboration of the results in terms of graphs. All source codes have been made available by the student on the GitHub repository. In my humble opinion, the thesis assignment was fully completed. The scope of the thesis is extensive, exceeding 90 pages, including attachments. The thesis is written using the LaTeX typesetting system, ensuring its formal and graphical aspects are of excellent quality. The text, written in English, contains only a minimal number of grammatical, terminological, or formal errors, which do not detract from the overall quality of the work. There are very few images used from other works, and all sources used are properly cited. The work with scientific literature is good level. I highly recommend this thesis for defense and propose a grade of A/94.
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