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

Mobile Networking

• Design and Implementation of a Program over Smart Phones (M/P)

• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Yuan Zhang-->

Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems

• If you are interested in doing projects in this field, please contact Lei Jiao directly.

Social Networking

• Gemstone: Decentralizing Social Networks (B/M/P)
• if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with David Koll

Ongoing Topics

Social Network Architectures

• Securing Decentralized OSNs against the Man-in-the-Middle-Attack (M)
• Supervised by David Koll

Social Network Analysis

• Social Influence Maximization Problem (M)
• Exploring Friendship and Mobility in Location-Based Social Networks (M)
• Supervised by Dr. Wenzhong Li

Completed Topics

• Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System (P)
• For a full list of older topics please go here.
• 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)
• Information diffusion in social networks: community based or location based (M/P)
• Mobile effects in online social networks (M/P)