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

Machine Learning & deep learning on electronic healthcare records

• New! Machine learning & In recent years, large amounts of health data, such as patient Elec- tronic Health Records (EHR), are becoming readily available. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for knowledge discovery and data mining algorithms to dig insights from them, which can, later on, be helpful to the improvement of the quality of care de- livery. Please contact Yachao Shao (B/M/P)

Multiple Machine Learning Tasks like User Profiling, federated learning, attention learning, privacy, and etc

• New! Multiple machine learning tasks (click the link and see detailed description) Please contact Shichang Ding (B/M/P)

Machine Learning for Security and Privacy in Network (NEW 2019!!!)

• New! QUIC protocol design for 360° video analysis. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language). Please contact Yali Yuan
• New! Implement algorithms for improving the network anomaly detection. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language). Please contact Yali Yuan
• New! Implement algorithms for improving the privacy of vehicle communications. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language). Please contact Yali Yuan

Data mining and Machine learning for User Profiling(all assigned)

• New! Designing and Implementing hundreds of cool mobility-related features for User Profiling (know and can use Python) Please contact [sding@gwdg.de] (B/M/P)
• New! Predicting Fine-grained Regional Economic data based on multiple data sources (B/M/P) Please contact [sding@gwdg.de]]]
• New! Predicting Fine-grained Regional Economic data based on CV (B/M/P) Please contact [sding@gwdg.de]]]
• New!Predicting income based on house price (Python) Please contact [sding@gwdg.de] (B/M/P), assigned to YuFan Dong

QUIC or Multipath QUIC Design

• New! Implement algorithms for improving QUIC or Multipath QUIC performance. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language (eg. C++, go or Python).) Please contact Yali Yuan

Cache Replacement in Mobile Edge Computing

• New! Implement the algorithm for cache replacement in mobile edge computing. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language (eg. C or Python).) Please contact Yali Yuan
• New! HTTP/2 based network performance improvement. (B/M/P, at least familiar with one programming language (eg. C or Python).) Please contact Yali Yuan

Segment Routing based SDN

• NEW! Winter 2018/2019 There are many topics opened for Master and Bachelor theses and projects. Please contact Osamah Barakat

Software Defined Networks (SDN)

• New! Implementing more Gavel application by exploiting Graph algorithms. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

• New! Including a Graph Database engine into an SDN Controller. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

• New! A graph database tuning. (B/M/P) Osamah Barakat details

Data Analysis with Bio data

• NEW! 2019 ' if you are interested in topics in this area please get in contact with Mayutan Arumaithurai

Data Crawling and analysis

• Large scale distributed Data crawling and analysis of a popular web service (B/M/P)

• New! Data crawling and analysis of Twitter (P) (Tao Zhao)

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

• New! Goettingen Assistant: Android App Development (assigned) (P) (Shichang Ding)
• Topic prediction in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)
• Mining emotion patterns in online social networks (B/M/P)(Hong Huang)
• Mining human mobility pattern from intra-city traffic data (B/M/P) (Shichang Ding)

Ongoing Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Bio-Data analysis (Student project)	Mayutan Arumaithurai			Assigned to Lindrit
Sentiment Analysis (Student project)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Beatrice Kateule
Analysis of Business Transitions: A Case Study of Yelp (Bachelor Thesis)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Marcus Thomas Khalil
Understanding Group Patterns in Q&A Services (Bachelor Thesis)	Hong Huang			Assigned to Jonas Koopmann
COPSS-lite : Lightweight ICN Based Pub/Sub for IoT Environments (Master Thesis)	Sripriya			Assigned to Haitao Wang
A ICN Gateway for IoT (Bachelor Thesis)	Sripriya			Assigned to Janosch Ruff

Completed Topics

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description	Student
Personalized Recommender System Design (Master thesis Project)	Hong Huang		Build a personalized context-aware recommender system for customers according to their own interest.	Completed by 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.	Completed by Stefan Peters
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	Completed by Sripriya
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
Sybils in Disguise: An Attacker View on OSN-based Sybil Defenses (Student Project and MSc Thesis)	David Koll		An analysis of fake detection approaches in social networks.	Completed by Martin Schwarzmaier
Design and Implementation of a distributed OSN on Home Gateways (Student project and Master's Thesis)	David Koll			Completed by Dieter Lechler

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