Finished Student Theses

Diploma Thesis

A Framework for Assessing Threats in 5G Network Architectures (Abraham Payasian) – Supervisor: Giang Nguyen (2025)
Erfassung von Messwerten mittels Maschinellem Lernen (Jonas Stiegler) – Supervisor: Christian Scheunert
Automatisierte Aufgaben- und Taskverteilung in Multi-Roboter-Systemen am Beispiel der RoboSphere (Vincent Bradatsch) – Supervisor: Frank Peters
Vergleich von klassischen und KI-Basierten Ansätzen zur Bewegungsberechnung in Multi-Roboter-Systemen mit Fokus auf Reinforcement-Learning-Methoden (Florian Thiessenhusen) – Supervisor: Frank Peters
Planung der Gelenktrajektorien und Koordinationszeitintervalle für die RoboSphere (Anne Harloff) – Supervisor. Frank Peters
Gestenerkennung für die Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (Josias Strobel) – Supervisor: Hristina Radak
Implementation und Erprobung einer Robotersteuerung für das Wok-Kochen (Robyn Gehler) – Supervisor: Christian Scheunert
A comprehensive framework to benchmark radar-based gesture recognition (Yifan Ma) – Supervisor: Giang T. Nguyen
Distributed Machine Learning for Enhanced Gas Mixture Analysis in Sensor Networks (Yuzhe Wang) – Supervisor: Yushan Yang, Jiajing Zhang
Creating Virtual Twins of Cellular Networks with Measurement Data (Cornelius Kirchhoff) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Extremely Early Image Recognition in Resource-Constrained Environments (Yifei Chen) – Supervisor: Jonas Schulz
Investigating State Transfer Using Programmable Network Devices (Junyue Wang) – Supervisor: Giang T. Nguyen, Tung Doan
Application-aware traffic differentiation on programmable IoT gateways (Yankai Su) – Supervisor: Giang Nguyen
A Study on 5G Quality of Service Mechanisms with OMNeT++ (Hengkai Zhao) – Supervisor: How-Hang Liu, Stefan Senk, Hosein K. Nazari
Improving Performance of Service Mesh for Cloud Native Applications Using Programmable Data Planes (Jiakang Weng) – Supervisor: Tung Doan
Increasing the Resilience of Opportunistic Routing Protocols with Distributed Packet Forwarding and Error Correction Schemes (Hugo Forrat) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus, Stefan Gumhold (Informatik)
Threat Analysis of a Neutral Host Network Architecture (Ernest Scholtz) – Supervisor: Thomas Höschele, Jennifer Gabriel
Traffic differentiation on programmable switches for haptic applications (Mingyu Ma) – Supervisor: Jun.-Prof. Giang T. Nguyen
Intelligent Optimization using AI for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications (Scheinert, Tobias) – Supervisor: Stefan Senk, Hosein K. Nazari, How-Hang Liu
The Impact of Network Latency on Autonomous Traffic Controlled by Deep Reinforcement Learning (Xianran Liu) – Supervisor: Johannes Busch
A Boolean Algebraic Approach to Coded Distributed Computing (Haonan Yin) – Supervisor: Juan Cabrera
Machine-Learning-based Point Cloud Completion fort he Estimation of Deformed Surfaces from Partial Views (Max Kirchner) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus; M. Eng. Reuben Docea – NCT Dresden
Investigation of SLAM processing in Multiple Edge Clouds (Erik Noack) – Supervisor: Peter Sossalla, Johannes Hofer
Proof of Work for enhanced Denial of Service Protection in WPA3 (Silvio Ankermann) – Supervisor: Jennifer Gabriel
Anomaly Detection in Sensory Data Using Machine Learning (Yiqi Tang) – Supervisor: Maté Tömösközi
Definition and Implementation of an Acknowledgement Protocol for Entanglement-assisted Communications (Leonardo Alexis Gonzalez Zuniga) – Supervisor: Riccardo Bassoli
Rate Control in Mesh Networks using Opportunistic Routing (Jennifer Schwardt) – Supervisor: Frank Fitzek, Jennifer Gabriel
GRAND Decoders for 5G (Niklas Förster) – Supervisor: Juan Cabrera, Caspar von Lengerke
State Management for the 5G Control Plane (Franz Höpfner) – Supervisor: Malte Höweler
Joint offloading and scheduling optimization in UAV assisted MEC System (Yilun Hai) – Supervisor: Shiwei Shen, Jiajing Zhang
Investigation of SLAM processing in an Edge Cloud (Johannes Hofer) – Supervisor: Peter Sossalla, Justus Rischke
Calibration of mobile network simulations with measurement data (Xuefan Wang) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Examination of identification in Software Defined Radios (Alexander Hefele) – Supervisor: Juan Cabrera, Caspar v. Lengerke
Cloud based robot grasp detection for industry 4.0 (Robert Mörseburg) – Supervisor: Andreas Grohmann
Streaming Data Management for COIN-enabled Blind Source Separation (Yunbin Shen) – Supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu
Exploring the benefits of the application states in Mobile Edge Cloud (Chenglin Ding) – Supervisor: Tung Doan
Information Abstraction for Big Data Analysis: A Case Study of Multi-object Acoustic Anomaly Detection (Jia He) – Supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu
AI aided robot remote control (Adrian Bretschneider Perez) – Supervisor: Andreas Ingo Grohmann
Computing in the Network for Cooperative Blind Source Separation (Xiaochu Tan) – Supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu, Zuo Xiang
Joint offloading and scheduling optimization in Device-enhanced MEC System (Xiaoyan Yu) – Supervisor: Mahshid Mehrabi, Shiwei Shen
Design and Evaluation of a Network Softwarization Platform for Edge and In-Network Computing (Patrick Ziegler) – supervisor: Zuo Xiang
Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Prehensile Gesture Detection (Achim Schade) – supervisor: Ievgenii Tsokalo
Security Analysis of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G (Tobias Fischer) – supervisor: Jennifer Gabriel
Energy-efficient network coding in IEEE 802.15.4 environments (Funing Xia) – supervisor: Marek Sobe
Study and optimization of OpenThread wireless sensor networks with mobile nodes (Lukas Pingel) – supervisor: Andreas Ingo Grohmann
Evaluation of coding window size of sliding window RLNC for vehicle platooning traffic scenarios (Paul Schwenteck) – supervisor: Elif Tasdemir, Rico Radeke
Fast Traffic Congestion Detection and Avoidance for Edge Data Center Network with modern Programmable Switches (Ulrich Baur) – supervisor: Zuo Xiang
Learning Optimal Congestion Control Algorithms (Christian Vielhaus) – supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Learning Coding Schemes (Alexander Sarmanow) – supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Optimizing Broadcast Delivery in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks (Marek Sobe) – supervisor: Simon Wunderlich
Joint offloading and scheduling optimization in Device-enhanced MEC System (Xiaoyan Yu) – supervisor: Mahshid Mehrabi
On the Scalability of the Joint Compressed Sensing and Network Coding in WSNs (Ulrich-Matthias Schäfer) – supervisor: Maroua Taghouti
Investigation of Network Coding assisted Broadcast for Vehicular Communication Networks (Yicong Su) – supervisor: Chistopher Lehmann
Evaluation of Inter-Flow Network Coding for V2X Communication (Kai Michael) – supervisor: Chistopher Lehmann
Performance evaluation of of fulcrum and bats codes (Yicong Su) – supervisor: Vu Nguyen
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Control (Johannes Busch) – supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Coded Caching in the Interplanetary File System Context (Sandra Zimmermann) – supervisor: Juan Cabrera
Technologietransfer am Beispiel von 5G Insellösungen (Alina Ostenda) – supervisor: Thomas Höschele
Mobilizable Service States in Mobile Edge Cloud (Zhongyi Fan) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen and Tung Doan
Evaluation and Implementation of Adaptive Service Function Chaining Protocol for Latency Sensitive Object Detection (Renbing Zhang) – supervisor: Alexander Kropp and Zuo Xiang
Leveraging Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for Data Collection and Analytics (Stefan Senk) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen
Optimizing Guaranteed Latency in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks (Andreas Ingo Grohmann) – supervisor: Frank Gabriel
Machine Learning-Enabled Generalised Header Compression (Mingchuan Luo) – supervisor: Máté Tömösközi
Joint Compressed Sensing and Network Coding in the Finite Fields for Large-Scale WSNs (Lukas Egge) – supervisor: Maroua Taghouti and Christian Scheunert
Design, implement, and validate via software simulation a reinforcement learning based orchestrator for the utilization of Electrical Vehicles (EVs) as mobile energy sources in the presence of stochastic power generation based on renewable energies (Jiajing Zhang) – supervisor: Riccardo Bonetto
Study of channel conditions of IEEE 802.11x networks for partial packet recovery algorithms (Raphael Steppert, 2018) – supervisor: Juan Cabrera
Resilience in Opportunistically Routed Wireless Mesh Networks (David Nophut, 2018) – supervisor: Simon Wunderlich
Real-time Wireless Guidance System for Cyclists (Jonas Bechtel, 2018) – supervisor: Ievgenii Tsokalo
opportunistic Routing in large-scale mesh Networks (Willy Teske, 2018) – supervisor: Ievgenii Tsokalo
A framework for live migration of services in cloud computing (Sebastian Willmer, 2018) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen
Implementation and evaluation of OpenStack as a framework for easy and fast deployment of emulated network environments through resource virtualization (Robert-Steve Schmoll, 2016) – supervisor: Juan Cabrera

Master Thesis

Entwicklung einer Software zur Interkommunikation zwischen Computer und Mikrocontroller (Josef Gudnason) – Supervisor: Christian Scheunert
Early prediction of in vitro pluripotent stem cell differentiation from bright-field images (Vivienne Amm) – Supervisors: Ioannis Oikonoamkos, Faculty Computer Science; Ekaterina Arkhangelskaya
Real Time Pose Estimation of Human Torso Parameters from Sparse IMUs (Benas Sudzius) – Supervisors: Lisa-Marie Lüneburg; Ekaterina Arkhangelskaya
Improving Performance of Orchestration for Cloud-Native Applications Using Programmable Network Devices (Um e Habiba) – Supervisor: Tung Doan, Giang T. Nguyen
Mobility- and Accelerator-aware Offloading Schemes (Mohamad Jamil Al Bouhairi) – Supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Reinforcement Learning for Joint Control of Vehicles and Infrastructure in V2I-Enabled Traffic (Robert Voelkner) – Supervisor: Johannes Busch, Christian Vielhaus
Predictive Quality of Service in Cellular Networks (Abhiram Uppoor) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Investigation of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Software-defined Networks (Yueyue Gao) – Supervisor: Peter Sossalla, Johannes Busch
Mobility- and Incentive-aware Task Offloading Framework considering inter-dependency of tasks in Device-enhanced MEC systems (Osel Lhamo) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Approximating optimal Broadcast in Wireless Mesh Networks with Machine Learning (Giovanni Perin) – supervisor: David Nophut
Theme Improving Next-Generation Video Codec Segmentation using Deep Learning Techniques (Cheng Chiang Huang) – supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Machine Learning for Efficient Resource Allocation Strategies in Multi-Domain Communication Network (Wenyu Lin) – supervisor: Jiajing Zhang
Investigation of smart routing and queue management for on the fly processing (Mao Xinwei) – supervisor: Andreas Ingo Grohmann
Zentrales Kreuzungsmanagement für autonome Fahrzeuge über die Mobilfunkverbindung (Dennis Metzger) – supvervisor: Oleksandr Zhdanenko
Influence of an Intermediate Node in an Adaptive Video Streaming System (Alberto Marugán Torres, 2017) – supervisor: Robert-Steve Schmoll and Alexander Kropp
Offloading Traffic from cellular networks using networking coding and cooperation (Roberto Torre Arranz, 2017) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen and Sreekrishna Pandi
Compressed Sensing and Blind Source Separation based Audio Signal Analysis (Liheng Feng) – supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu and Maroua Taghouti
Blind Source Separation based Anomaly Detection (Shuyue Cheng) – supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu

Student/Bachelor Thesis/Project Work

Network traffic analysis of a pilot user study on haptic teleoperation (Yixin Yuan) – Supervisor: Amr Osman
Towards automating human inputs in haptic teleoperation applications (Josef Gudnason) – Supervisor: Giang Nguyen, Amr Osman
Resilience Investigation in Distributed Storage System (with Broadcast Communication – in WSN) (Willi Meißner) – Supervisor: Paul Schwenteck, Sandra Zimmermann
Towards Predictable 5G: A System Analysis (Lucas Danz) – Supervisor: Stefan Senk, Tobias Scheinert
Localization in Wireless Mesh Networks (Peter Kappelt) – Supervisor: Christan Vielhaus
Encrypted VR Game Traffic Analysis: Inferring Game and Activity Patterns (Bharat Veauli) – Supervisor: Yushan Yang, Giang T. Ngyuyen
Design and Optimized Vibration Control and Streamlined Communication for FingerTac in AR/VR Interactions (Guangehen Zhu) – Supervisor: Yushan Yang, Giang T. Nguyen
Implementation of Explainability Methods in AI (Chenjun Wu) – Supervisor: Jonas Schulz
Feature Descriptor Dimensionality Reduction for Edge-Assisted Visual SLAM (Nico vom Hofe) – Supervisor: Johannes Hofer
Model einer robotergeführten WOK-Pfanne für den Kücheneinsatz (Robyn Gehler) – Supervisor: Christian Scheunert
A System-level Non-terrestrial Network Simulator (Lyuqiao Zhong) – Supervisor: Jiajing Zhang
Exploring Efficient Time-aware Shaper Configurations for the Fully Centralized TSN Network Controller (Abraham Payasian) – Supervisor: Hosein K. Nazari, Stefan Senk, How-Hang Liu
Lightweight and low-latency communication between AR glasses and FingerTac (Josef Gudnason) – Supervisor: Prof. Giang T. Nguyen
Evaluation on the use of commodity WiFi hardware for testing out physical layer key generation schemes (Markus Schmidl) – Supervisor: Hosein K. Nazari
Disaggregated Radio Access Network Latency Analysis (Fengmin Shen) – Supervisor: Andreas Grohmann, Mauri Seidel
Investigation oft he Influence of Video Encoding on Visual SLAM Systems (Jannek Steinke) – Supervisor: Johannes Hofer
Coding Strategies for Preserving Data in High Mobility MANETs (Tobias Trenschel) – Supervisor: Paul Schwenteck
Time-Sensitive Networking Extensions for Future Industrial 5G Systems (Kunru Zou) – Supervisor: Stefan Senk, Hosein K. Nazari, How-Hang Liu
A lightweight orchestrator in Mobile Edge Cloud (Um e Habiba) – supervisor: Tung Doan
Evaluation and Simulation of Common Randomness Generation for Physical Layer (Yang Xu) – Supervisor: Mauri Seidel, Jennifer Gabriel
Network slicing with programmable switches (Tobias Scheinert) – Supervisor: Giang T. Nguyen
Investigation of requesting strategies in MARS (Xingyu Zhou) – Supervisor: Paul Schwenteck, Sandra Zimmermann
Speeding up Defense Mechanisms Against Pollution Attacks (Juncen Zhong) – Supervisor: Jennifer Gabriel, Mauri Seidel
Marina traffic prediction at water locks (Frederik Ptok) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Relay Positioning for UAVs on Construction Site Communication (Jiakang Weng) – Supervisor: Jiajing Zhang
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Handovers in Mobile Networks (Xianran Liu) – Supervisor: Johannes Busch, Christian Vielhaus
Rate control algorithms for WiFi with machine learning (Mingyu Ma) – Supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Design and Analysis of a Test Bed for IETF Network Slicing (Yankai Su) – Supervisor: Stefan Senk, Jennifer Gabriel
Study of Cellular Connection Latency and Outage Detection (Jennifer Schwardt) – Supervisor: David Nophut
Evaluation of the NetFPGA platform for network testing (Johannes Hofer) – Supervisor: Justus Rischke
Study of Cloud Radio Access Network and Edge Computing in High-Altitude Platforms and Nanosatellites – Supervisor: Riccardo Bassoli
Control of a mobile robotic system from an edge cloud (Hendrik Thilo Hostombe) – Supervisor: Peter Sossalla
Transparente Datenverschlüsselung in Kubernetes (Silvio Ankermann) – supervisor: Jennifer Gabriel
Implementation of Unidirectional Reliable Oracle Structured Stream Compression (Liyao Qu) – supervisor: Máté Tömösközi
Anomaly detection with blind source separation (Silvia Margarit) – supervisor: Huanzhuo Wu
Mobility-aware Task Offloading in Device-enhanced MEC Network (Yilun, Hai) – supervisor: Mahshid Mehrabi
Configuration of a TSN and SDN capable network node using OpenDaylight in a time sensitive industrial context (Lukas Pingel) – supervisor: Marian Ulbrucht
Improving the robustness of congestion control algorithms based on deep reinforcement learning (Helmut Michael Zeisel) – supervisor: Christian Vielhaus
Achieving low latency by enabling network-aware migration for stateful applications in Mobile Edge Cloud (Chenglin Ding) – supervisor: Tung Doan
Delay Evaluation of Fulcrum Network Coding Variations (Jiawei Li, 2020) – supervisor: Vu Nguyen
Optimizing computation offloading decision in Deviced-enhanced MEC system (Yuanfei Wang) – supervisor: Mahshid Mehrabi
Mobility-aware task offloading in Device-enhanced MEC network (Hai Yilun) – supervisor: Mahshid Mehrabi
Study of network conditions of Thread networks of upcoming 5G IoT sensor networks (Adrian Bretschneider Perez)- supervisor: Andreas Ingo Grohmann
Efficient Multi-hop Broadcasting using Intra-Flow and Inter-Flow Network Coding(Yueyue Gao) – supervisor: Chistopher Lehmann
Study on Data Dissemination in VANETS using LTE and IEEE802.11p (Kai Michael) – supervisor: Chistopher Lehmann
Selection of Forwarding Nodes in Platooning Applications (BeiBei Wu) – supervisor: Chistopher Lehmann
Evaluierung bedientheoretischer Methoden und Werkzeuge zur Leistungsbewertung von modernen Kommunikationsnetzen (Paul Schwenteck) – supervisor: Rico Radeke
Implementation of Overlapping Progressive Shortening for Unequal-Sized Packets (Xiaoyan Yu) – supervisor: Maroua Taghouti
Comprehensive Comparison on MEC Live Service Migration between Docker containers and Virtual Machines (Florian Kemser) – supervisor: Roberto Torre
Evaluation Adaptive Placement and Migration Approaches for Cloud Applications on the Network Softwarization Emulator (Carl Collmann) – supervisor: Zuo Xiang
Evaluation of the Loss Rate on Multipath Wireless Communication (Lingjie Ji) – supervisor: Elif Tasdemir
Feasibility Study for High Mobility Wireless Mesh Networks using Drones (Funing Xia) – supervisor: Simon Wunderlich
Implementation of Sliding Window Compressed Sensing (Pablo Millàn) – supervisor: Maroua Taghouti
Analysis and Improvement of the Docker Container State Migration Algorithm (Xiaochu Tan) – supervisor: Roberto Torre
Host Redundancy in the Cloud for Failsafe Operation (Ning Guo) – supervisor: Ievgenii Tsokalo
Evaluation of Machine Learning Models in Wireless Networks for Compressed Real-time Traffic Optimisation (Yiqi Tang) – supervisor: Máté Tömösközi
Optimization of Random Linear Network Coding Protocols for Multipath Communications in Heterogeneous Networks (Clara Costa Sala) – supervisor: Roberto Torre Arranz
Study and Evaluation of Resilience in Multipath Mesh Networks (Pau de la Cuesta) – supervisor: Sreekrishna Pandi
Optimising and Learning Coding Parameters (Christian Vielhaus) – supervisor: Vincent Latzko
Comparison and Evaluation of Boot Times for Virtualized Instances (Tobias Fischer, 2019) – supervisor: Robert-Steve Schmoll
Improving Simultaneous Migration Time of Virtual Machines using SDN (Anna Triginer Perera, 2019) – supervisor: Robert-Steve Schmoll
Performance monitoring in a Software-defined network with OpenFlow (Peter Sossalla) – supervisor: Justus Rischke
Implementation and evaluation of different live migration strategies for Service Function Chaining(SFC) on the OpenStack platform (Alex Sarmanow) – supervisor: Zuo Xiang
Reliable Service Migration inside a Mobile Edge Cloud using unikernel and comparison with other techniques (Arnau Gorchs Viladrich) – supervisor: Roberto Torre Arranz
Implementation of Unequal-sized Packets Network Coding for Robust Header Compression version 2 Compressed IP-based Multimedia Streams (Malte Höweler) – supervisor: Máté Tömösközi and Maroua Taghouti
Energy Consumption Measurement for Fulcrum Adaptive Decoding (Edward Rupp, 2018) – supervisor: Vu Nguyen
Implementation of Network Coding in XDK Sensors (Borja Macho Pisano, 2018) – supervisor: Maroua Taghouti
Investigation of single-hop Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication based on IEEE802.11p (Jiajing Zhang, 2018) – supervisor: Christopher Lehmann
Telepresence Demonstrator – Remote Controlled Car via Augmented Reality (Renbing Zhang, 2018) – supervisor: Alexander Kropp and Vincent Latzko
Emulating and visualizing real-world networks in OpenStack environment (Ruifeng Gao, 2018) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen
Improving FSC performance with Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) (Zhongyi Fan, 2018) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen
Wireless link emulation in OpenStack (Sebastian Willmer, 2017) – supervisor: Giang Nguyen
Evaluation of Sliding Window network Coding with NS3 Wifi (Marek Sobe, 2017) – supervisor: Frank Gabriel
Distributed cloud with metal as a service on commodity Hardware of Cloud & Heat GmbH (Stefan Senk, 2017) – supervisor: Juan Cabrera