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Thesis Topic Areas of Interest
Students looking for a thesis supervisor, at all levels, may consider the following list of topic areas that I find particularly interesting and where I would be willing to supervise projects. The topic areas are broadly defined, so students are encouraged to identify a particular problem within these areas, which they would be interested in investigating, but a suitable thesis topic may also emerge through face to face dicscussions. Students who have their own ideas for projects within my areas of interest (distributed systems and security), possibly in collaboration with a company, are also welcome to contact me.
Distributed Systems
I am particularly interested in highly dynamic open systems, where system components and services are distributed across end-point systems, i.e. where the bulk of the computation and coordination take place on computing systems that sit on the edges of the network. Examples of such systems are Intelligent Buildings (a.k.a. Smart Houses or Ambient Intelligence), and different platforms for wireless sensor networks (e.g. Environmental Monitoring Systems, Vehicular Networks or Swarms of Drones).
Common to several of the topics listed above, is that the systems are naturally organized using event-driven programming and the publish-subscribe pattern.
Security
I am particularly interested in security in ubiquitous computing, particularly on the development of models, policies and mechanisms to support secure collaboration in open dynamic systems, such as pervasive computing environments, sensor networks and the Internet (incl. the Internet of Things - IoT). I am particularly interested in the problem of securing interactions between parties who do not necessarily share a common security infrastructure, e.g., sharing resources and information in open smart environments, across multiple organizations or across the Internet.
Computational Trust & Trust Management
trusted alliances, Logistics chains, p2p lending, SWS
Access Control
Cryptographic Access Control, PayBAC, CryptOS
Authentication and Identity Management
Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
Physical Security
physical access systems and video surveillance
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