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/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

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

• Video Delivery: Implementation and validation of SAID, a congestion control protocol for Multicast (A joint project with CISCO) (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)

• 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

• An Analysis of OSN based Sybil Defenses (M/P) (David Koll) (currently unavailable)
• Implementing Distributed Online Social Networks on Home Gateways (M/P) (David Koll) (currently unavailable)
• Topic prediction in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)
• Mining emotion patterns in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)

Ongoing Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Implementation FCSC (Student project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		The aim of the work is to implement FCSC	Assigned to Eeran Maiti
Large scale Data processing for Emergency services (Thesis project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		The aim of the work is to develop tools to perform large scale data processing of emergency calls	Assigned to Ram
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	Assigned to Sripriya
Analysis of text messages for emergency Services (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai		Currently, emergency services are not designed to perform a sentiment analysis on text messages without human intervention to efficiently provide emergency services. This work will develop such a tool.	Assigned to Pranay Tare, Gurjinder Singh
Conformance Testing of Lost server for Emergency Services (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	[1], [2]	Though, the Internet and communication means have advanced, Emergency calls (i.e. 112) can only be performed by traditional phone calls. Emergency service providers cannot handle VoIP, text and video messages. Handling such messages will allow emergency service providers to scale and thereby handle large scale emergency. This task will involve conformance testing of LoST server.	Assigned to Florian Unger
Implementation of Location Information Server (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	[3], [4]	Though, the Internet and communication means have advanced, Emergency calls (i.e. 112) can only be performed by traditional phone calls. Emergency service providers cannot handle VoIP, text and video messages. Handling such messages will allow emergency service providers to scale and thereby handle large scale emergency. This task will involve implementing a lIS server to identify the location of a VOIP client.	Assigned to Vijay Soppadandi
Implement and Evaluate FlowTag in SDN (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	SDN, MiniNet	This project will implement and evaluate the performance of Flowtag in SDN	Assigned to Hari Raghavendar Rao Bandari
Real time analysis to predict the future of companies (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	Spark, Twitter Storm	This project will perform a study of stream processing tools and methods and analyse their accuracy in predicting the future based on past data	Assigned to Karthik Sharma ‎
Real time analysis to study the accuracy of gene matching (Under key competency module)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	Spark, Twitter Storm	This project will perform a study of stream processing tools and methods to analyse the speed and accuracy of predicting if a certain gene pattern matches existing gene patterns in the data base.	Assigned to Uche Oteh ‎
Analyze the effect of ICN on energy saving (ITIS Research Project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai	ICN	Analyze the benefits of ICN in terms of energy saving potential	Assigned to Alberto Rivera Diaz (Status update: [5])
How can ICN help DTN? (Master thesis Project)	Edo Monticelli,Mayutan Arumaithurai	ICN, DTN	Improve ICN to better support DTN environments	Assigned to Benno
Personalized Recommender System Design (Master thesis Project)	Hong Huang		Build a personalized context-aware recommender system for customers according to their own interest.	Assigned to 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.	Assigned to Stefan Peters
Activity recognition from GSM signal strength information (Bachelor thesis Project)	Stephan Sigg	[6]	Utilising an open firmware and GSM stack for mobile phones, signal strength information is analysed and interpreted for environmental motion and gestures	Marko Becker
Activity recognition from WiFi RSSI	Stephan Sigg	[7]	Development of a demonstration platform for motion and gesture recognition from WiFi RSSI on android mobile phones	Christoph Rauterberg
Indoor localisation from device-free RF	Stephan Sigg	[8]	Investigation of device-free RF-based indoor localisation with software defined radio devices	Nguyen Chuong Tach
Securing Decentralized OSNs against the Man-in-the-Middle-Attack	David Koll	-	Securing Decentralized OSNs against the Man-in-the-Middle-Attack	Swen Weiland

Completed Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
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

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