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
• A study to improve video/voice distribution based on the congestion in the network

Mobile Networking

• Proxy Mobile IP Implementation and Evaluation in IEEE 802.11 Networks
• Design and Implementation of a Sandbox Environment on a Mobile Phone

Network Coordinate Systems

• Implementation and Deployment of Phoenix Network Coordinate System
• Securing Phoenix Network Coordinate System

Peer-to-Peer

• Network coding for P2P media streaming
• Implementation and Evaluation of Hybrid Overlay Structure

Social Networking

• Social Interest based Peer-to-peer management and optimization
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Decentralized Authentication System based on Social Groups

Trust and Reputation systems

• P2P optimization: evaluation of different trust and reputation metrics
• Robustness analysis and real world deployments
• 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

Ongoing Topics

• Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Network on the Android Platform (P)
• Aggregated Congestion Control with TFRC (P)
• Peer-to-peer Location Exchange (P)
• Design and implementation of a socio-aware layer for mobile phones
• Network Friendly TCP for P2P and other low priority traffic

Completed Topics

• For a full list of older topics please go here.