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Student Corner for SCOTT

Please be welcome to the Student Corner for Secure and Trusted Things - SCOTT.

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

Open Master Thesis related to SCOTT
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • Measurable security and privacy (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani,
    Objective:
    The objective is to develop metrics for measuring security and privacy of systems in general and in a specific domain of interest.)
  • 5G Network Slicing for Free Access to Information (Supervisor(s): Josef Noll,
    Objective:
    In Mobile Communications, 5G Research is focussing on (a) massive mobile broadband, (b) billions of sensors connected to the network, and (c) ultra-reliable and low-latency networks. A promising technology for addressing these issues is network slicing. This thesis will look into network slicing for free access to information, and thus address the challenges of sustainable development. The free access to information (InfoInternet) is answering the needs of digital inclusion, and addresses the needs of 4 billion people currently not using the Internet. InfoInternet means free access to information for all, and addresses directly the SDG goal 9.c of the Agenda 2030. InfoInternet is further the basis ans the catalyst for SDG 3 (health), 4 (education), 5 (gender equality), 8 (decent work), 10 (reduced inequalities), 11 (sustainable cities and communities) and 17 (partnership for the goals). The envisaged Thesis will elaborate on the network slicing for InfoInternet, and evaluates the technological and societal aspects. see also: Thanh van Do, Josef Noll, Sudhir Dixit, Bruno Dzogovic, Van Thuan Do, Boning Feng, "Reducing Inequalities with 5G Internet Light Network Slice", 5G World Summit, IEEE 5G World Forum, 9-11July2018, Santa Clara, California, USA)

More details are available at OpenThesis

Do you have an idea for a topic?



Finished Master Thesis related to SCOTT


Some ideas

Cyber Physical Systems Lab at IFI/UiO

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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.