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
- 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 get in contact with Lei Jiao directly.
Security
- Malware Analysis and Detection (B/M/P)
iSATS: Leveraging Identity Based Sender Authentication and Trust for Spam Mitigation- if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler and Sufian Hameed
Social Networking
- Gemstone: Decentralizing Social Networks (B/M/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)
- if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler, David Koll or Sufian Hameed
Trust and Reputation systems
- P2P optimization: evaluation of different trust and reputation metrics (B/P)
- if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler
Other tpoics
- Evaluation of Human Altruism with DTN based data forwarding
- Information diffusion in social networks: community based or location based (M/P)
- Mobile effects in online social networks (M/P)
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)
- Information diffusion in social networks: community based or location based (M/P)
- Mobile effects in online social networks (M/P)
Completed Topics
- Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System (P)
- For a full list of older topics please go here.