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Information for Prospective Students
It is always fun to work with bright, motivated students. However, our research projects have limited student openings, often require specific skills and can be very demanding. This is why we filter our applicants very thoroughly.
First off, the best way to approach me about doing research is with a recommendation by someone I know.
Second, the best students usually have a pretty good outline for a research proposal when they apply and they can communicate their ideas succinctly.
Finally, having some of the skills below can also make you more interesting, depending on the project:
- you have installed BSD or Linux and patched and compiled kernels
- you know how to set up a network and some essential services (DHCP, DNS, etc.)
- you know how to use diagnostic tools to debug network issues
- you can detect, analyze and eliminate security weaknesses
- you are fluent in a few programming languages and can read a few more
- you have written socket code and know the UNIX toolchain (make, diff, patch, etc.)
- CVS branching, merging and tagging means something to you
- you have collaborated with others on a larger software project
- you have written and debugged kernel code
- you have done extensive simulations in the ns2 simulator, or you have extended ns2
Please do not waste your time emailing me directly if none of the above applies to you - and please do if it does. You are, however, welcome to submit your CV through the regular channels in any event. (Note that the list of topics on that page is usually outdated.)
Past Students
I have advised or co-advised the internship, diploma, M.S. or B.S. thesis of these students:
- Juha Korhonen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
- Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Implementation in the
Symbian Environment
M.S. Thesis, May 2007 - April 2008 - Nikolaos Koutsianas (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Télécommunications – Institut Eurécom, France)
- TCP Response to Lower-Layer
Connectivity-Change Indications
M.S. Thesis, July - December 2007 - Horia Vlad Balan (International University Bremen, Germany)
- An Experimental Evaluation of
Voice-over-IP Quality over the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
M.S. Thesis, January - June 2006 - Vivien Schmitt (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Host Identity Protocol Extensions for the Traversal
of Network Address Translators
Diploma Thesis, November 2005 - April 2006 - Miriam Esteban (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Rendezvous Mechanisms
in Host Identity Protocol
Diploma Thesis, March - November 2005 - Jordi Pujol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Scalability Analysis of a New Internetwork Naming and Addressing Architecture
M.S. Thesis (Enginyer de Telecomunicació), October 2004 - June 2005 - Kai Zimmermann (University of Ulm, Germany)
- An Autonomic Approach
for Self-Organising Access Points
Diploma Thesis (Dipl.-Inf.), September 2004 - March 2005 - Sebastian Felis (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Measurement-Based Wireless Network Troubleshooting
Internship, September - December 2004 - Matus Harvan (International University Bremen, Germany)
- Performance Visualization of Traditional and Enhanced Internet
Communication under Intermittent Connectivity
Internship, June - August 2004 - Simon Schütz (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Network Support for
Intermittently Connected Mobile Nodes
Diploma Thesis (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf.), November 2003 - June 2004