Theses and Projects

Open Theses and Student Project Topics

• Network coding for P2P media streaming
• A network friendly congestion control protocol
• Social Interest based Peer-to-peer management and optimization
• Emergency services: A context aware broadcast of an emergency warning
• A study to improve video/voice distribution based on the congestion in the network
• Proxy Mobile IP Implementation and Evaluation in IEEE 802.11 Networks
• Design and Implementation of a Sandbox Environment on a Mobile Phone
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Decentralized Authentication System based on Social Groups
• Implementation and Evaluation of Hybrid Overlay Structure
• Trust and Reputation systems / social network studies:
  • P2P optimization: evaluation of different trust and reputation metrics
  • Robustness analysis and real world deployments
  • We are also working on systems leveraging social information for various network applications.
  • many more, just get in contact or drop in
• Network Coordinate Systems:
  • Implementation and Deployment of Phoenix Network Coordinate System
  • Securing Phoenix Network Coordinate System

Ongoing Topics

• Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System (contact: Yang Chen)
  • Student Project by Tianyin Xu
  • Feb. 2010 to Jul. 2010
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Network on the Android Platform
• Aggregated Congestion Control with TFRC
• Peer-to-peer Location Exchange
• Design and implementation of a socio-aware layer for mobile phones (contact: Florian Tegeler)
• Network Friendly TCP for P2P and other low priority traffic. (contact: Mayutan)
  • Bachelor Thesis by Fabian Glaser
  • January to March'2010

Completed Topics

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