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Please read UiO guidelines for MSc evaluations, especially p.7 and p.15 about what the evaluators are expecting from the thesis document.

Topics for Master Thesis

• Access and improve optical sensors for vehicle navigation (Supervisor(s): Torbjørn Skauli, Tønnes Nygård,
  Objective: * optical sensors *)
• A decentralised Internet for local Empowerment (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Maghsoud Morshedi, Jonathan Muringani,
  Objective: The thesis will address how a decentralised Internet can be established. Bandwidth- and cost-constraints have manifested the digital divide, especially in developing economies. According to the "Gender Gap" report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), less than 1% of people had access to meaningful Internet in 2021. Such a low Internet usage requires novel concepts, e.g. a decentralised Internet providing free access to information through local information spots in the community. Such a concept, as described in BasicInternet:Solutions, is based on a village server, being e.g. a Raspberry Pi. Concepts of content caching, which were popular in the beginning of the Internet, are less applicable due to the need for encrypted communications. This thesis will explore the mechanisms for a freemium access in remote areas, including e.g. subscribe services on the decentralised cloud. The solution can be exploited and tested in schools in Africa South of Sahara (SSA), e.g. Kenya or Tanzania.)
• Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances (7/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition (6/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability (5/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI (4/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data (3/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (1/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Energy Consumption Database for the Digital Transformation (2/7) (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán,
  Objective: Future Homes have the opportunity to be adaptive to the quality of the electricity grid. By monitoring the energy consumption on fuse-level every 10 seconds, one can generate energy profiles of private homes. Current regulations suggest a reading of power values 1/hour, or in maximum every 15 min. Given a high-frequency reading of power consumption (1/10s, 1/min) might give an opportunity to introduce new services. Given the size of the work, several theses can be performed on the topic: # Establish the low-power monitoring infrastructure in the home (Raspberry Pi/Arduino and ModBus to read from Power Taggs) # Create the public source database for energy consumption, combining high-resolution energy data with 3rd party information such as weather data # Establish the AI infrastructure for analysis of the electricity data # Monitoring the home energy distribution - Feature extraction through AI # Potential of contributions from private homes to energy stability # Wireless control systems for home appliances to support the energy transition # Security and privacy assessment of wireless in-house control systems for energy appliances The assessment will be based on high-frequency consumption data from actual smart meters and power taggs by fuse level, as well as modelling of services.)
• Applying Microsoft Security for Home Energy Steering (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll,
  Objective: Microsoft has established an IoT security framework, to automatically assess the security of IoT systems and networks. While principles are in place, the applicability of the framework needs to be elaborated. This thesis focusses on energy control of home devices, e.g. heat pump, radiators, warm water production, car charging, in order to move the top consumption from the morning and afternoon peaks to times with less demands. Several new wireless interfaces for home control have been established, notably Thread and IEEE802.xxx(?). The thesis will perform a security analysis of an advanced smart home with IoT energy control.)
• Societal Security in the Digital Age (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll,
  Objective: Digitisation has changed the way we interact. From a societal point of view, digitisation is the key driver for less corruption. Furthermore, digitisation opens for digital inclusion. The advances of "always connected" and "everything being available" has challenges, mainly the protection of critical infrastructures. Main focus of the thesis will be the analysis of challenges and opportunities in a digitised society. Thereafter, models for trust-enhancing mechanisms are developed, analysed and piloted.)
• Oslo Activities related to SCOTT 2019/06/04
• Measurable Security, Privacy and Trust for Autonomous System 2019/02/14
• Johanna Johansen
• Secure COnnected Trustable Things (SCOTT) overview 2018/04/26
• SCOTT Methodology for Building Blocks and Use Cases 2018/01/30
• Master:Network and network security (Supervisor(s): Knut Øvsthus, Josef Noll,
  Objective: "not decided yet")
• SCOTT-Roadmap: a more secure and privacy-aware society
• Network-aware traffic shaping (Supervisor(s): Maghsoud Morshedi, Josef Noll, Elin Sundby Boysen,
  Objective: Future Networks need to be application aware in order to provide an appropriate Quality of Service. As an example, 5G networks will start in cities with high-traffic, but people will use the 5G applications also in areas where mobile networks are weak. Given a traffic jam somewhere out in the forest, currently all traffic tries to achieve maximum throughput, without any form of prioritisation. This thesis will analyse the traffic requirements of mobile applications (apps), will create a database containing the traffic characteristics, e.g. port number, encryption, url-specific content, communication protocol. Based on the analysis, the thesis will suggest a method for prioritisation of traffic types, depending on the network characteristics, e.g. throughput.)
• Remote Configuration of Communication Infrastructure for Developing Economies (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Maghsoud Morshedi, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: Investigation on how to remotely configure equipment. In areas with underdeveloped mobile access, we often face unreliable networks and high costs for the access. By deploying information spots in rural areas with preinstalled broad-band content, like the bandwidth-intensive parts of Digital Public Goods (DPGs). The challenge to be addressed is how remote configuration and update of village information spots containing theses DPGs.)
• Security Library (Supervisor(s): Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: Providing common library supporting basic and especially lightweight security mechanisms (e.g., encryption, authentication, signing, etc.) for communication with hardware is the objective.)
• Secure InterNetwork Architecture (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: Design a secure architecture for the network infrastructure is the main goal.)
• Mobile Edge Computing (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: Edge Computing Controllers make decisions about services based on information retrieved from nodes, and we aim to check the privacy issues in such decisions.)
• Secure communication (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: Identification, authentication, and trust in smart sensors are the major goals.)
• Attribute-based policy specification and enforcement (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
  Objective: The main aim is to provide context-aware, dynamic and more efficient policy enforcement.)
• ... further results

More details are available at OpenThesis

Do you have an idea for a topic?

• Green Island possibilities with PV integration and energy storage (Editor: Alexander Haddad)
• MasterThesis av Vetle (Editor: Vetle Markussen)
• Integrated view on evolution of buildings to contribute to the green transition (Editor: Ahsan Bashir)
• Energy Communities - paving the way for a participatory green transition (Editor: Ingebrigt Hårstad)
• Advanced customer involvement through energy tariffs (Editor: Muayad Rashdan)
• Digital Twin for Building-oriented Energy System (Editor: Henrik Stangeland)

• Achieving Business Objectives through Smart Sensor Integration for Office Buildings (Supervisor(s): Christian Johansen, Josef Noll)
• Smart Farming for Developing Economies (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll)
• Ideal Listening Reduction Mechanisms for overprovisioned Cells in 6TiSCH (Supervisor(s): Knut Øvsthus, Josef Noll)
• Master:Network and network security (Supervisor(s): Knut Øvsthus, Josef Noll)
• Semantic Description of IoT Security for Smart Grid (Supervisor(s): Habtamu Abie)
• Risk-based Adaptive Security for Internet of Things in Smart Home (Supervisor(s): Habtamu Abie)
• Multi Metrics Based Framework (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Seraj Fayyad)
• Assessment of Measurable Privacy for IoT Consumer Products (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Elahe Fazeldehkordi)
• Security challenges of open low-capacity wifi access (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, György Kálmán)
• Pervasive computing in smart electricity grid (Supervisor(s): Christian Johansen, Josef Noll, Trond Aalberg)
• Measurable Security for Sensor Communication in the Internet of Things (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury)

Some ideas

• SDN enables networks
• Media:201603_TopicsMaster_SmartGrid.pdf

Cyber Physical Systems Lab at IFI/UiO

The Cyber Physical Systems Lab (CPS lab) focuses on a number of Enabling Technologies and their Applications having the physical organization divided into several Spaces pursuing the following goals:

(A) Provide a hands-on opportunity to several IFI courses taught at BSc and MSc levels, and MSc projects, inside the topics covered by this Lab. The topics of CPS Lab are meant to complement existing Lab initiatives at IFI and elsewhere, as far as we are aware of them (e.g., the Smart Grid lab of NTNU).

(B) Provide an open space for various MSc Topics offered at IFI by the applicants and others that want to use the Lab.

(C) Provide a platform for Industry to interact directly with IFI students by providing concrete problems through the Lab (e.g., as devices that need some form of investigation).

Contact

If you are interested in a Master Thesis related to any of the topics, please contact the supervisor mentioned in the specific thesis. Or have a look at SCOTT:SCOTT for potential supervisors, and tell them what you are interested in.