Theses and Projects

Open Theses and Student Project Topics

The Computer Networks Group is always looking for motivated students to work on various topics. If you are interested in any of the projects below, or if you have other ideas and are willing to work with us, please don't hesitate to contact us.

• (B) Bachelor thesis
• (M) Master thesis
• (P) Student project

Congestion Control

• A network friendly congestion control protocol (M)
• A study to improve video/voice distribution based on the congestion in the network (B/P)
• A study of the use of Admission control in MPLS networks (B/M/P)
• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

Mobile Networking

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Niklas Neumann

Peer-to-Peer

• Implementation and Deployment of Phoenix Network Coordinate System (M/P)
• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Yang Chen or Tianyin Xu

Security

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Niklas Neumann or Florian Tegeler

Social Networking

• Social Interest based Peer-to-peer management and optimization
• LENS: LEveraging anti-social Networking for preventing Spam (M/P)
• Development of a Thunderbird Extension for Social Connection (B/P)
• Implementation of Trusted Node Selection Protocol for Spam Free Communication (B/P)
• Authenticating the Legitimacy of Gate Keeper nodes to vouch for Spam free communication outside social community (B/M/P)
• User behavior study of microblogging systems (P)
• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler, Yang Chen or Sufian Hameed

Trust and Reputation systems

• P2P optimization: evaluation of different trust and reputation metrics (B/P)
• Robustness analysis and real world deployments (B/P)
• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler

Other tpoics

• Emergency services: A context aware broadcast of an emergency warning
• Evaluation of Human Altruism with DTN based data forwarding.

Ongoing Topics

• Implementation of a Routing and Forwarding Scheme for Coordinated Wide Area Mobility (B/M/P)
• Evaluation of the Routing Performance of various Mobility Solutions (B/M/P)
• Design and implementation of a socio-aware layer for mobile phones
• Network Friendly TCP for P2P and other low priority traffic
• Securing Phoenix Network Coordinate System (M/P)
• Data crawling on Facebook (M/P)

Completed Topics

• Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System (P)
• For a full list of older topics please go here.