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)
	Anonymous Computation	B/M/S	Jochen Seidel	available
	Design the next 2-factor authentication hardware	M/S	Christian Decker, Samuel Welten	available
	Fundamental Analysis	B/G/S	Philipp Brandes	available
	Graph Exploration	B/S	Klaus-Tycho Förster	available
	Is it Schrödingers cat?	G/S	Jara Uitto, Barbara Keller	available
	Magic Android Controls	B/G/S	Samuel Welten	available
	Movie Recommendation	B/M/S	Michael König, Tobias Langner	available
	Near Field Communication	S	Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jochen Seidel	available
	Paying your Internet, one byte at a time	B/S	Christian Decker	available
	Sensing with Android	B/M/S	Samuel Welten	available
	Smartphone App Profiling	B/G/S	Tobias Langner	available
	The game of Cops and Robbers	B/M/S	Jara Uitto	available
	Using Music to Enhance your Running	B/G/M/S	Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster	available
	Variants of Dominating Set	B/M/S	Klaus-Tycho Förster	available
	Whats in a transaction?	B/S	Christian Decker, Klaus-Tycho Förster	available
	Zero-Effort Procrastination	B/G/M/S	Jochen Seidel, Jara Uitto	available
current theses & labs
	title	type	contact/supervisor	assigned	student(s)	Edit
	Accurate localization using a surround speaker system	B	Samuel Welten, Pascal Bissig	FS 13
	Android Workout	S	Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jara Uitto	FS 13
	Desktop-Client with Smart Music Synchronization	B	Samuel Welten, Tobias Langner	FS 13
	Distributed Approximation Algorithms	S	Stephan Holzer	FS 13
	Obstacle Warning for Texting	G	Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jara Uitto	FS 13	,
	Personalized Filtering of Real Estate Offers	M	Pascal Bissig, Philipp Brandes	FS 13
	Practical Gait Recognition	S	Samuel Welten, Pascal Bissig	FS 13
	Realtime Capacity Utilization	G	Samuel Welten	FS 13	,
	Smart Photo Viewer	S	Michael König	FS 13
	Smart Sun Protector	B	Samuel Welten	FS 13
	Steering an Autonomous Weather Balloon	S	Jara Uitto, Samuel Welten	FS 13
	TV 2.0 - Your Individual TV Experience!	B	Tobias Langner	FS 13
	Using Social Proof to Evaluate Start-up Investment Opportunities	S	Philipp Brandes	FS 13
	Whats it Worth?	S	Philipp Brandes, Pascal Bissig	FS 13
	Frequency Hopping	B	Michael König	HS 12
	Improving Smartphone Indoor Localization	M	Pascal Bissig, Samuel Welten	HS 12
	Radio 2.0	B	Samuel Welten	HS 12
	Smart phone skydiving	G	Jara Uitto, Samuel Welten	HS 12	,
	SnowDroid - Your Private Snowboard Instructor	B	Tobias Langner	HS 12
	Stabilizing Flight	G	Jara Uitto, Pascal Bissig	HS 12	, ,
	Tampering with Distributed Hash Tables	M	Jochen Seidel, Christian Decker	HS 12
	Ultrasound Game	G	Samuel Welten, Pascal Bissig	HS 12	, ,
past theses & labs
	title	type	supervisor	year	student(s)
	An Evaluation Framework for Time Synchronization in Lossy Links	M	Roger Wattenhofer	HS 12
	Collaborative OCR for Tabularized Data	S	Tobias Langner, Jochen Seidel	HS 12
	Find your Personal Movie Critic [confidential]	S	Barbara Keller, Michael König	HS 12
	Fraud Prevention and Detection in Mobile Payments [confidential]	M	Christian Decker	HS 12
	Gait Recognition in Your Pocket [confidential]	S	Samuel Welten, Pascal Bissig	HS 12
	Have a Break! Pay with Bitcoin [confidential]	G	Christian Decker, Samuel Welten	HS 12	,
	Make Us Richer!	B	Philipp Brandes	HS 12
	NFC Glove	S	Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jochen Seidel	HS 12
	Smart Homes and Weather Events	B	Tobias Langner	HS 12
	Smartphone Localization Using a Surround Speaker System [confidential]	S	Pascal Bissig, Samuel Welten	HS 12
	Throw Your Smartphone	S	Barbara Keller, Jara Uitto	HS 12
	Use News to Make Us Rich!	S	Philipp Brandes	HS 12
	On the Feasibility of Opportunistic Ad Hoc Music Sharing [confidential]	B	Barbara Keller, Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Smart Shopping	G	Jochen Seidel	FS 12	, ,
	Sundroid v3 - Entwicklung eines solarbetriebenen UV Sensors [confidential]	S	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Entwicklung einer Android-App zur Förderung des UV-Bewusstseins für medizinische Anwendungen [confidential]	G	Samuel Welten	FS 12	, ,
	Enhancing the Performance of Twitter Storm with In-Network Processing	B	Roger Wattenhofer	FS 12
	Extending the Personal Music Collection by Free Music	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Hazards of iterated block ciphers without expansion [confidential]	M	Roger Wattenhofer	FS 12
	Identifying Music and Inferring Similarity	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Make Us Rich!	S	Philipp Brandes	FS 12
	Modern GPGPU Frameworks and their Application to the Physical Core of the ASUCA Weather Prediction Model	M	Roger Wattenhofer	FS 12
	Music Tagging - A Social Game	B	Samuel Welten, Tobias Langner	FS 12
	My Music Statistics	B	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Collusion in Online Poker Pays Off [confidential]	B	Tobias Langner	FS 12
	Smartphone-Based Indoor Localization [confidential]	M	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	New Algorithms for Fundamental Problems in Wireless Networks [confidential]	M	Stephan Holzer	FS 12
	Virtual ID	G	Barbara Keller, Jochen Seidel	FS 12	,
	New Ways of Browsing and Reading News	M	Samuel Welten	FS 12
	Load-Balancing of Consumers in Electricity Networks	M	Stephan Holzer	HS 11
	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
	Extending Social Music Similarity Measures by Audio Features	M	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

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