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

Software Defined Networks (SDN)

• New! Including a Graph Database engine into an SDN Controller. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

• New! SDN Simulator: Implementation and validation of NS-3 or OMNET++ based SDN Simulator (B/M/P) contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

• New! Open SDN Testbed: Realize the SDN testbed and automation of network topologies using the EU GEANT Testbed services (B/M/P) contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

• New! A graph database tuning. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

• New! Implementing more Gavel application by exploiting Graph algorithms. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

• New! Demonstrating Security Vulnerabilities of SDN Controller (ONOS) (B/M/P) contact with Abhinandan S Prasad

• New! Modeling Performance of SDN topologies using Queuing theory (B/M/P) contact with Abhinandan S Prasad

• New! Implementation of sFlow for ONOS (Migrating existing code to new ONOS version (B/P) contact with Abhinandan S Prasad

• New! Implementation of virtual switch using libfluid Openflow C++ library (B/P) contact with Abhinandan S Prasad

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

• New! Management and Orchestration: Design and Implementation of NFV Management and Orchestration Layer with OpenStack, based on the ESTI NFVI-MANO and OPNFV frameworks. (M/P) contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

• New! NSH Routing: Implementation of Network Service Headers to realize the service chain by steering traffic across the VNFs. (M/P) contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

• New! VNF components: Implementation of Virtual Network Functions like Proxy Engines, Firewall, IDS and IPS, on top of OpenNetVM, Docker engines using the available open source tools. (M/P) contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

Future Internet architecture

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

• New! Video Delivery: Implementation and validation of SAID, a congestion control protocol for Multicast (A joint project with CISCO) (B/M/P)

• New! IoT: Implementation of a Service using Named Function Networking for supporting essential functions of IoT (B/M/P)

• New! Interactive Video: Implementing a interactive video application in ICN using the NeMoI architecture. (B/M/P)

• New! Gateway: Extend Named Function Networking to support protocol Translation (B/M/P)

• Network Management: Information Centric Networking (ICN) based solution for Network Management (B/M/P)

• Infrastructureless, Delay Tolerant Network in different Context: Internet of Things, Emergency, Mobile Social Networks, Pervasive Computing (B/M/P) (currently unavailable)

• Disaster Recovery: Implementation and evaluation of Mobile phone based Information Centric Networking (ICN) solution for support during disasters (B/M/P) (currently unavailable)

• Wireless mesh networks/vehicular networks/wireless sensor networks: Information Centric Networking (ICN) based solution (B/M/P) (currently unavailable)

Data Crawling and analysis

• Large scale distributed Data crawling and analysis of a popular web service (B/M/P)

• New! Data crawling and analysis of Quora (B/M/P) (Tao Zhao)

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

Massive Data Mining and Recommender System

• Data Mining of the Web : User Behavior Analysis (B/M/P) Hong Huang

• Building the Genealogy for Researchers (B/M/P)Hong Huang

• Recommender System Design (B/M/P)Hong Huang

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Hong Huang

Social Networking

• New! Fake Account Detection in Social Networks with Machine Learning (M/P) (David Koll)
• New! Simulation of a large scale distributed Online Social Network (P) (David Koll)
• New! Optimization of Data Replication in Online Social Networks with Constraint Programming (P) (David Koll)
• New! Deploying Distributed Online Social Networks on Home Gateways (M/P) (David Koll) (available from 1/7/2017)
• Topic prediction in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)
• Mining emotion patterns in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)
• New! Understanding answerer motivation in community Q&A (B/M/P) (Tao Zhao)
• New! Community detection and analysis in community Q&A (B/M/P) (Tao Zhao)
• Mining human mobility pattern from intra-city traffic data (B/M/P) (Shichang Ding)

Information Centric Networking (ICN)

• ICN over GTS: exploit Geant Testbed Service to build configurable ICN testbeds (B/M/P) (Jacopo De Benedetto)
• ICNProSe: ICN-based Proximity Discovery Services (B/M/P) (Jacopo De Benedetto)

Ongoing Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Design and Implementation of a distributed OSN on Home Gateways (Student project and Master's Thesis)	David Koll			Assigned to Dieter Lechler
Sentiment Analysis (Student project)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Beatrice Kateule
Analysis of Business Transitions: A Case Study of Yelp (Bachelor Thesis)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Marcus Thomas Khalil
Understanding Group Patterns in Q&A Services (Bachelor Thesis)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Jonas Koopmann
COPSS-lite : Lightweight ICN Based Pub/Sub for IoT Environments (Master Thesis)	Sripriya			Assigned to Haitao Wang
A ICN Gateway for IoT (Bachelor Thesis)	Sripriya			Assigned to Janosch Ruff

Completed Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Personalized Recommender System Design (Master thesis Project)	Hong Huang		Build a personalized context-aware recommender system for customers according to their own interest.	Completed by Haile Misgna
Emotion Patterns Analysis in OSNs (Bachelor thesis Project)	Hong Huang,Xu Chen		We aim to study the emotion patterns in the Twitter service and predict the future emotion status of users.	Completed by Stefan Peters
Implementation of a pub/sub system (Student project)	Jiachen Chen Mayutan Arumaithurai		The aim of the work is to show how application layer intelligence cupled with network layer pub/sub can be beneficial to both users as well as network operators	Completed by Sripriya
Large Scale Distributed Natural Language Document Generation System (Student project at IBM)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		The work was done at IBM	Completed by Eeran Maiti
Investigate real time streaming tools for large scale data processing (Student project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		The aim of the work is to compare real time streaming tools.	Completed by Ram
Software-Defined Networking and Network Operating System (Student project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		SDN based ntwork operating system	Completed by Rasha
GEMSTONE goes Mobile (BSc Thesis/Student Project)	David Koll		Portation of a Decentralized Online Social Network to the Android Platform	Completed by Fabien Mathey and improved by Eeran Maiti
Transitioning of Social Graphs between Multiple Online Social Networks (BSc Thesis)	David Koll		Portation of friendship graphs between different Online Social Networks	Completed by Kai-Stephan Jacobsen
Prevention and Mitigation of (D)DoS Attacks in Enterprise Environments (BSc Thesis)	David Koll		An analysis of enterprise infrastructures and their vulnerarbility towards attacks from the outside.	Completed by David Kelterer
Sybils in Disguise: An Attacker View on OSN-based Sybil Defenses (Student Project and MSc Thesis)	David Koll		An analysis of fake detection approaches in social networks.	Completed by Martin Schwarzmaier

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