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
Security
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)
- LENS: LEveraging anti-social Networking for preventing Spam (M/P)
- Development of a Thunderbird Extension for Social Connection (B/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)
- User behavior study of microblogging systems (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)
- Robustness analysis and real world deployments (B/P)
- if you are interested in other topics in this area please get in contact with Florian Tegeler
Other tpoics
- Emergency services: A context aware broadcast of an emergency warning
- Evaluation of Human Altruism with DTN based data forwarding
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)
- Data crawling on Facebook (M/P)
Completed Topics
- Implementation and Evaluation of Decentralized Online Social Networking System (P)
- For a full list of older topics please go here.