The document discusses topics related to the Swans simulator that can be used for research projects, including broadband wide area networking via IP/ATM over SATCOM, an adaptive content sharing protocol for P2P mobile social networks, and components and interconnection technologies for photonic-assisted networks. It also provides recent notions in the Swans simulator such as a two-stage deanonymization attack against anonymized social networks and weighted K-subset load balancing algorithms for distributed systems. The document states that innovative ideas in Swans simulator topics are used to implement and advance student projects.