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)

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Future Internet architecture

Data Crawling and analysis

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

Ongoing Topics

Topic Topic advisor Initial readings Description Student
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
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.