Our research objectives include adaptive wireless networks in highly dynamic scenarios by taking advantage of sub-6 GHz and mmWave communications with applications in vehicular networks and ad hoc sensor networks. A main focus of our work is the design and development of architectures and network protocols for efficient and resilient communication in wireless networks with applications in IoT (Internet of Things) and inter-vehicular communication incorporating probabilistic data structures.

In the following you find a list of our open, ongoing, and finished student project topics in context of our research activities. Feel free to contact us if you find interesting opportunities to work on one of the following student projects. It is highly recommended (but not mandatory) that you successfully participated in one or multiple of our courses from our teaching activities. We are seeking highly motivated and hard working students. If you feel that this applies to you, feel free to contact us regarding theses. Just send an eMail with subject "Project request" to [email protected] and clearly indicate the topic(s) you are interested in as well as the time schedule you have in mind for working on the project. Also please indicate which programming languages you are familiar with. If you have (relevant) research experience, you can add a brief summary of your previous work.

Open Student Projects

"Approaches to Channel Scheduling in Highly Mobile Networks"
Research Project. [PDF and Details...].

"Energy Saving Concepts for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Research Project. [PDF and Details...].

"Comparative Study and Evaluation of 5G or 6G and IEEE 802.11 WLAN (WiFi 6 and beyond) Wireless Networks"
Research Project. [PDF and Details...].

"Localization System in LoRa Wireless Networks"
Research Project. [PDF and Details...].

"Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for Protecting Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)"
Research Project (Group Project). [PDF and Details...].

"Backhauling for 5G Mobile Base Stations"
Research Project (Hauptseminar). [PDF and Details...].

Ongoing Student Projects

Completed Student Projects

In the following you find a list of our open, ongoing, and finished Bachelor and Master's theses in context of our research activities. Feel free to contact us if you find interesting opportunities to work on one of the following theses. It is highly recommended (but not mandatory) that you successfully participated in one or multiple of our courses from our teaching activities. We are seeking highly motivated and hard working students. If you feel that this applies to you, feel free to contact us regarding theses. Just send an eMail with subject "Theses request" to [email protected] and clearly indicate the topic(s) you are interested in as well as the time schedule you have in mind for working on the thesis. Also please indicate which programming languages you are familiar with. If you have (relevant) research experience, you can add a brief summary of your previous work.

Open Topics

"Heterogeneous Probabilistic Neighbor Management," Master's thesis. [PDF and Details...].

Ongoing Theses

"Handover in Dynamic Mobile Base Station Scenarios," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, TU Ilmenau (TUILM).

Completed Theses

"Influence of Mobile Base Stations on Network Performance," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), November 2023.

"Probabilistic Neighbor Management Using Cuckoo Filters," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), August 2023.

"Development of 5G Network Impairment and Testing Framework," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), August 2023.

"MAC Fairness and QoS for coupled Wireless Channels in the Vehicular Networking Context," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), August 2023.

"Study of 5G Real-time Communication Latency in IoT," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), April 2023.

"Gateway between SOME/IP-SD and DDS," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), March 2023.

"On Time Constraints for Internet-Connected Virtual Cycling Environments," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), December 2022.

"LEO Satellite Supported Dissemination of Awareness Messages in V2X Networks," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), November 2022.

"Computationally Efficient Simulation Model for IEEE 802.11ad," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), September 2022.

"Simulation-based Performance Evaluation of Collective Perception Service with Cellular-V2X," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), September 2022.

"Evaluation on using Unikernel for Network Function Virtualization with the example of VoIP related Systems," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), September 2022.

"Architecture Design for Distributed Co-Simulation of Ego-Vehicles and Road Traffic," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), March 2022.

"Supporting Vehicular Networks with Low Power Wide Area Networks in Rural Areas," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), February 2022.

"UAV-Assisted Urban Platooning," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), December 2021.

"Beam forming with Full-Duplex Relaying for Urban Platooning Scenarios," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), July 2021.

"Modeling and Simulation of Drone Supported Delivery Traffic in Urban Areas," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2021.

"Simulation Scenarios in Cooperative Mobile Systems," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), May 2021.

"Coupling Physical and Simulated Radio Channels in a Vehicular Networking Context," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), January 2021.

"A Computationally Inexpensive and Flexible Simulation Model for Molecular Communication," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), December 2019.

"Investigating Selective Wake-up Transceivers for IEEE 802.11 WLAN," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2018.

"Integration of OpenC2X into OpenWRT/LEDE," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), March 2018.

"A Comparative Study of Network Simulation Software for the Simulative Evaluation of Wireless LANs," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), November 2017.

"Improving the Effectiveness of Reactive Jamming with Off-the-shelf WiFi Devices," Bacehlor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), September 2017.

"Design and Evaluation of Unicast Retransmission Techniques in Vehicular Communications," Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), July 2017.

"Evaluation of radio channel metrics in vehicular network simulations," Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2016.

In our group, the following positions are vacant: None.

To contact us or to make an appointment, send an eMail to [email protected]. Our offices are located at Paderborn University and TU Ilmenau, Germany.