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! 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
- 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
- if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai
Massive Data Mining and Recommender System
- 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.