survey paper and technical papers in firewall
Survey paper is chosen based on the area of interest. Survey paper returns to you the specific problems that you could target. Once you choose the problem of your own interest, then you could probably search for some technical papers.
- If you search with your actual problem, then you might not find a survey paper.
How to identify the broader area once you have the internal problem in mind?
- Search for technical papers in the databases like IEEE Xplore, … and look for keywords and references which are surveys.
Make sure that the survey you have collected is recent and from good source.
“My area of interest is firewall”
1- Search for 3 survey papers in your area (good quality)
2- Search for 3 or 2 technical papers (that have solutions for some problems) from same research groups that you have used?