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 tool chain (make, diff, patch, etc.)
you are familiar with revision control systems; 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/ns3 simulator, or you have extended ns2/ns3

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.

Past Students

I have advised or co-advised the internship, diploma, M.S. or B.S. thesis of these students:

Christoph Paasch (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Impact of MultiPath TCP on Smartphone Energy Consumption
Internship, July - November 2011
Binoy Chemmagate (Aalto University, Finland): An Experimental Study of Web Transport Protocols in Cellular Networks
M.S. Thesis, October 2010 - September 2011
Christopher Pluntke (University College, London, UK): Resilient and Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Mobile Devices using Multipath TCP
Internship, July - December 2010
Vamsi Kambhampati (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA): Epiphany: A Non-Validation Approach for DDoS Defense in Multipath Networks
Internship, May 2008 - January 2009
Michio Honda (Keio University, Japan): Bidimensional-Probe Multipath Congestion Control for Shared Bottleneck Fairness
M.S. Thesis, July 2008 - January 2009
Stephen Strowes (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK): Mobile Internet Measurement Platform
Internship, July - December 2008
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