Theses

Our group has several open research projects that are suitable for a master (M), bachelor (B) or semester (S) theses. In addition, we have group projects (G), also known as labs for distributed systems majors. Our projects usually have a theoretical/algorithmic and/or a practical/implementation aspect. If you have a brilliant idea that is not on our list but falls into our research area, we would be excited to hear about it.

We announce new theses by the end of the semester.

available theses & labs
	title	type	contact/supervisor	assigned		Edit (New)
	Find your Personal Movie Critic	B/G/S	Barbara Keller	available
	Throw your smartphone	B/G/S	Barbara Keller, Jara Uitto	available
	Asynchronous Renaming	B/M/S	Stephan Holzer	available
	Distributed Approximation Algorithms	B/M/S	Stephan Holzer	available
	Distributed Random Walks	B/M/S	Stephan Holzer	available
	Magic Android Controls	B/G/S	Samuel Welten	available
	Sensing with Android	B/M/S	Samuel Welten	available
	Sorting in Wireless Networks	B/M/S	Stephan Holzer	available
	Tampering with Distributed Hash Tables	G/M	Jochen Seidel	available
	The game of Cops and Robbers	B/M/S	Jara Uitto	available
	TV 2.0 -- Your Individual TV Experience!	B/G/M/S	Tobias Langner, Jochen Seidel	available
	Using Social Proof to Evaluate Start-up Investment Opportunities	B/S	Philipp Brandes	available
	Variants of Dominating Set	B/M/S	Klaus-Tycho Förster	available
current theses & labs
	title	type	contact/supervisor	assigned	student(s)	Edit
	A New Generation of Pirates	B	Barbara Keller, Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Android Assisted Smart Shopping	G	Jochen Seidel	FS 12	, ,
	Designing a Solar Powered UV Sensor	S	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Extending the Personal Music Collection by Free Music	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Learning From User Data	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Make Us Rich!	S	Philipp Brandes	FS 12
	Music Tagging -- A Social Game	B	Samuel Welten, Tobias Langner	FS 12
	My Music Statistics	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Secure Online Gaming -- A Myth?	B	Tobias Langner	FS 12
	Smartphone-Based Indoor Localization	M	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Virtual ID	G	Barbara Keller, Jochen Seidel	FS 12	,
	Whats New? Information and Entertainment Application for Android and iPhone	M	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	An Intelligent, Priority Based Load Balancing System using digitalSTROM controlled devices	M	Stephan Holzer	HS 11
	Extending Social Music Similarity Measures by Audio Features	M	Samuel Welten	HS 11
past theses & labs
	title	type	supervisor	year	student(s)
	Collaborative Go	M	Samuel Welten	HS 11
	Distributed Approximation Algorithms [confidential]	B	Stephan Holzer	HS 11
	Exploring and Improving BitTorrent Swarm Topologies [confidential]	M	Raphael Eidenbenz, Roger Wattenhofer	HS 11
	Extending HikeDroid - Smart Features for Hikers	B	Tobias Langner, Samuel Welten	HS 11
	Optimizing a UV radiation sensor for a medical application [confidential]	S	Samuel Welten	HS 11
	Path Tracking - Guiding Smartphones Based on Recorded Tracks	G	Tobias Langner, Jochen Seidel	HS 11	,
	Selfish Network Link Speedup [confidential]	S	Raphael Eidenbenz	HS 11
	SGT Toolbox - A Playground for Spectral Graph Theory	M	Tobias Langner, Barbara Keller	HS 11
	Signature Verification on Finger Operated Touchscreen Devices [confidential]	S	Tobias Langner, Samuel Welten	HS 11
	JUKEFOX core extraction	S	Tobias Langner, Samuel Welten	HS 11	,
	What is New? Information and Entertainment Application for Android and iPhone	B	Samuel Welten	HS 11
	Your Personalized Radio [confidential]	M	Samuel Welten	HS 11
	Energy Harvesting Wireless Anemometer [confidential]	S	Johannes Schneider, Philipp Sommer	FS 11
	A Wireless Sensor Network for Orienteering Competitions	M	Philipp Sommer	FS 11
	A touch-based music player interface optimized for tablet-sized devices	B	Samuel Welten	FS 11
	Approximations and Heuristics for Estimating the Diameter of a graph [confidential]	B	Stephan Holzer	FS 11
	Debugging TinyOS with COOJA	S	Philipp Sommer	FS 11
	Lower Bounds for Distributed Computation of Basic Graph Properties [confidential]	S	Stephan Holzer	FS 11
	Distributed Graph Coloring	S	Johannes Schneider	FS 11
	Enhancement of Website Usability for Mobile Phones	M	Samuel Welten	FS 11
	Explore the World of Bookcrossing	M	Raphael Eidenbenz, Roger Wattenhofer	FS 11
	FooDroid: A Food Recommendation App for University Canteens	S	Tobias Langner, Samuel Welten	FS 11
	A Testbed for Radio Propagation Measurements in Wireless Sensor Networks	S	Philipp Sommer	FS 11
	HikeDroid - GPS Navigation for Hikers on Android Phones	B	Tobias Langner, Samuel Welten	FS 11
	Is it me? User detection on Personal (Android) Devices [confidential]	M	Samuel Welten	FS 11
	Let your friends and mobile phone help you	S	Johannes Schneider	FS 11
	Localizing Your Smart Phone	S	Johannes Schneider	FS 11
	Mobile Peer-to-Peer Audio Streaming	B	Remo Meier	FS 11
	Live Audio Streaming in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems	M	Remo Meier	FS 11
	Mobile Sensing – Ein drahtloses Messsystem für die Druckanalyse von Füssen [confidential]	S	Samuel Welten, Philipp Sommer	FS 11	,
	MEAMM - Movie Experience and Metadata Manager	G	Raphael Eidenbenz	FS 11	,
	Multicast-enabled Peer-to-Peer Systems [confidential]	M	Remo Meier	FS 11
	Peer to Peer and Mobile Systems Support	S	Remo Meier	FS 11
	Death to Balloons	S	Johannes Schneider, Samuel Welten	FS 11
	Skirting ISP Traffic Shaping in P2P Systems, and Countermeasures	B	Raphael Eidenbenz, Roger Wattenhofer	FS 11
	Smart (Collaborative) Control [confidential]	B	Johannes Schneider	FS 11
	Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer Systems [confidential]	B	Remo Meier	FS 11
	Tweaking Throughput on the Transport Layer [confidential]	B	Raphael Eidenbenz	FS 11
	wgfinance	G	Barbara Keller	FS 11	, , ,
	A wireless real-time network for roller coasters [confidential]	S	Johannes Schneider, Philipp Sommer	HS 10
	Analysis of Sleeping Patterns Using Smartphone Sensors	S	Johannes Schneider	HS 10	,
	Automated Appointment Recommendation on Mobile Devices [confidential]	S	Michael Kuhn, Samuel Welten	HS 10
	Automated Meta-Data Extraction for Confsearch	S	Michael Kuhn	HS 10
	Localization of (moving) objects	S	Johannes Schneider	HS 10
	On-Demand Content Delivery [confidential]	G	Remo Meier	HS 10	,
	Sensor-Feeds for a WSN Simulation Environment [confidential]	M	Philipp Sommer	HS 10
	Phased STM [confidential]	S	Johannes Schneider	HS 10
	Using Dual Radios in Infrastructure-supported Mesh Networks: A Theme Park Scenario [confidential]	M	Philipp Sommer	HS 10
	YouTube News Channels: Classification and Relationships [confidential]	M	Michael Kuhn	HS 10
	A Wireless System to Measure Oscillations of Cable-Cars and Chair-Lifts [confidential]	M	Johannes Schneider, Philipp Sommer	FS 10

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