Past Seminar Topics

Overview of Past Seminar Topics

The following lists (grouped by semester) give some insight into topics that have been available when taking a seminar with COMSYS. Most likely, future seminars will feature equally broad selections of topics.

SS 2024 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Alternative Positioning Navigation and Timing Methods
Anonymization of (Passive) Internet Measurement Data
Applications for Vertical Federated Learning (VFL)
Attacking Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Automated Security Analysis of Android Apps
Characteristics of Packet Loss in the Internet
Collecting Water Data – What For?
Collision or Collusion? On the impact of synchronous wireless transmissions
Comparing Website Acceleration Approaches
How does the general public understand cybersecurity?
In-Network Computing Orchestration
Keeping the Fuse Intact: Resilient Communication in Power Grid Protection Systems
Multi-tenant Programmable Switches
Network Tomography
Novelties in DTLS 1.3
Privacy-Preserving Smart Metering for Grid Stabilization
Scalable Network Emulation
Securing Latent Spaces
Sequentialization for Concurrency Testing
Spam Mails in Academia
Symbolic Partial-Order Reduction (POR)
Technical Reputation Systems for Supply Chains
Testing P4 Programs
Wireless Communication Technologies

WS 2023/2024 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Anonymization of (Passive) Internet Measurement Data
Characteristics of Packet Loss in the Internet
Characteristics of Wireless Industrial IoT Communication
Collecting Water Data – What For?
Communication Paradigms in Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
Comparing Website Acceleration Approaches
Containerization and Its Security Implications
Crypto Wars X.0
Down to Earth: Evaluating Starlink’s Performance
Exploiting the AirTag
Fault Localization for Internet Service Providers
Heuristics for Networks, Heuristics in Networks
How Secure is IEC 61850 for Power Grid Communication?
Information Leakage in Scientific Documents
Keeping the Fuse Intact: Enabling Redundancy and Low Latency in Power Grid Protection Systems
Modern Metrics to Evaluate Intrusion Detection Systems
Reductions in Distributed System Testing
Routing – There’s No Right Way, Is There?
SMGW Infrastructure: Security and Use Cases
Sandboxing: A Bane or a Boon?
Searchable Encryption: Quo Vadis?
Smart Grid Network Device Configuration: Practicability of Best Practices
Testing P4 Programs
Weaker or Stronger? – Predictive Race Detection

SS 2023 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

All Good With VPN?
Anomaly Detection in Industrial Network Traffic
Anonymization of (Passive) Internet Measurement Data
Attacking Federated Learning Schemes
Automatic Certificate Enrolment in the IoT
Characteristics of Packet Loss in the Internet
Communication in Power Grids
Cyber Attacks in Space: How secure are Satellites?
Delay and Jitter Modeling for Real-time Applications
Designing an Effective Honeypot for Power Grids
Dummy Topic
ECN & L4S – Modern congestion management
Effective Concurrency Testing
Enhancing Water Disaggregation
Flow Telemetry on the Internet
Impact of Cyber Attacks on the Power Grid
Multi-tenant Programmable Switches
Overview of Cryptojacking Approaches
Predicting, Monitoring and Resolving Conflicts in CPS
Provenance Graphs in Security Contexts: A Survey
Quo Vadis Contact Tracing Research
Reductions in Distributed System Model Checkers
Researching Starlink
Routing – There’s No Right Way, Is There?
SMGW Infrastructure: Security and Use Cases
Satellite Communication with TCP and QUIC
Searchable Encryption: Quo Vadis?
Testing P4 Programs
The Quest for Perfect Failover
Transferring NILM Models
Underwater Authentication

WS 2022/2023 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Advanced Queuing Techniques
Amplification DDoS Attacks
Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)
Attacking & Securing Radar Communication Protocols
Attacking Federated Learning Schemes
Classification of Cyberattacks against Power Grids
Co-Simulation of Power Grid and Communication Networks
Compiling Packet Processing Programs
Concurrency Bugs in Go
Flow Telemetry on the Internet
Input Matters: Applicability of Packet- vs. Flow-based Network Monitoring to Intrusion Detection and Forensics
Investigating the Effectiveness of Application Permissions
LEO Satellite Navigation
Modular Switch Programming
Predicting, Monitoring and Resolving Conflicts in CPS
Privacy Challenges in Clinical Data Processing
Privacy-Preserving Genome Processing
Provenance Graphs in Security Contexts: A Survey
Reliable Communication in Industrial Networks
Remote Attack on Car
Retrofitting SCADA security mechanisms
SILM – The more, the merrier?
Secure Provisioning of (Industrial) IoT Devices
Security for In-vehicular Communication
Self-Configuring Protocol Stacks: The Solution?
Server Push: Reinforcement Learning to the Rescue?
Sketches, Collages & Co. – In-Network Data Summaries
State Merging in Symbolic Execution
The Boon and Bane of Perceptual Hashing
Unobtrusive Home Water Monitoring

SS 2022 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Adapters to the rescue? – Programming TEEs
Advanced Queuing Techniques
Attacks Against Industrial Control Systems
Automated Checkpointing for Energy Harvesting
CSI: ICS – Industrial Network Forensics
Communication in Power Grids
Compiling Packet Processing Programs
Concolic Engines in Hybrid Fuzzing
Cybercrime: Are we still safe? Were we?
Evaluating Intrusion Detection Systems
Flaws of Computer Simulations
Flow Telemetry on the Internet
IoSat: Routing in Mega Constellations
MadIoT: When Smart Devices Attack Smart Grids
Message Authentication for Constrained Devices
Modular Switch Programming
On the Taxonomy of Private Computing
On the Taxonomy of Private Computing
Packet Size Optimizations in Sensor Networks
Problems Transcending Space and Time
Protocols and Network Security in Power Networks
QUIC-supported Video Streaming Techniques
Retrofitting SCADA security mechanisms
Routing – There's No Right Way, Is There?
Server Push: Reinforcement Learning to the Rescue?
The Malware Arms Race: A Survey
Tracking Down Cryptocurrency Mixing Services
Up in the Air: Exploring Starlink
Usage Enforcement in Digital Data Sharing
Verifiability in Privacy-Preserving Computing

WS 2021/2022 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Adversarial Attacks on Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems
An Overview on Contact Tracing Check-In Approaches
Better together: Hybrid Concolic Fuzzing
CSI: ICS – Industrial Network Forensics
Composing Dataplane Programs
Congestion Notification To The Rescue
DNS over TLS/HTTPS/QUIC/... – What's the Price?
Does HTTP/3 Alone Improve the Web?
Email Under Attack?
Energy Saving Approaches vs. Usability of Wireless Systems
Gathering IoT Device Communication Behavior
HB-based Data-Race Detection
Hidden Gems – Studying Public Datasets
ICS Under Attack
Machine Learning in Host-based Intrusion Detection
Making IPv6 Scanning Feasible
Mining Attacks in Digital Currencies
Multiple Tenants on a Programmable Switch
No More Blue Screens: Automated Firmware Testing
Small Scopes in Different Shapes
The Energy Consumption of Modern Networked Systems
Trends in Privacy-Preserving Process Mining

SS 2021 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

5G in Industry and Automation – Salvation or just Evolution?
ADS-B-based GPS Spoofing Detection
An Overview on Covid Contact Tracing Approaches
Approximating in the network
Attacks against Power Grid ICT Networks
Attacks in Datasets for Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Bottlenecks in Symbolic Execution
Communication in Power Grids
Compiler Fuzzing
Either-Or? Toward Co-Existence of Wireless Communication Technologies
Gathering IoT Device Communication Behavior
Generating & Storing Packets on Programmable Switches
HTTP Prioritization Strategies and their Impact
How to Trust My IoT Devices?
How’s my network doing?
Low-Effort Wireless Link Quality Prediction Algorithms
Measuring Router Queues
Multipath Transport and ML-based Congestion Control
Multiple Tenants on a Programmable Switch
Off-Chain Ledger Computations
One Switch to Rule Them All: The Potential of Programmable Data Planes for Enhancing Network Security
Out-of-order Symbolic Execution
Recent Views on Phishing and Countermeasures
Remote Network Security for Smart Homes
Smaller Scopes – Greater Chances
Survey on Methods for Reliability Engineers & DevOps
The State of Email Security
The full Story of Encrypted DNS
Towards Middlebox-aware Secure Communication
Trends in Privacy-Preserving Process Mining
Trusted Computing in the IoT
What do I need to do? On Security Advices Users Get

WS 2020/2021 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

5G in Industry and Automation – Salvation or just Evolution?
Abstract Problems: Transcending Space and Time
An Internet-Wide View on TLS Deployments
Analyzing Dataplane Programs
Analyzing IoT Device Communication Behavior
Anomaly Detection in Maritime AIS Tracks
Approximating in the network
Bounding Search Spaces
CSI: Network – Monitoring & Forensics
Composing Dataplane Programs
Congestion and Rate Control for Video Conferencing
Escaping Bugs at Runtime
Faster, Better, Stronger: The Potential of Emerging Wireless Communication Protocols for the IoT
How to Trust My IoT Devices?
How's my network doing?
Interorganizational Data Sharing in the IIoT
Intrusion Detection Systems for Power Grids
Off-Chain Ledger Computations
Quo Vadis International Data Spaces (IDS)
Recent Trends in Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming
Recent Views on Phishing and Countermeasures
Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Underwater Network Security

SS 2020 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
Building AQMs at line-rate
Certificate Management in the Web-PKI
Congestion Control in the Era of Machine Learning
Coverage and Data Quality in Crowd Sensing
Cybersecurity in the Maritime Automatic Identification System
Data-Plane State Migration
Debugging Multithreaded Software
Explaining Learned Networking Decisions
Finding Bugs in Bug Finding Software
Going the Distance – Teleoperation
HTTPS Security over Time
High-performance Test Packet Generation
Industrial IoT Attack Scenarios
Influence of Community Support on Application Security
Interconnecting the Unconnected
Internet Path Transparency
Interorganizational Data Sharing in the IIoT
Judging the Interaction of Congestion Control
Measuring Router Queues
Modeling Memory Hierarchies
Monitoring in heterogeneous Networks
Navigating The Seas of Symbolic Execution
P2P-level Attacks on Bitcoin
Protecting the (Smart Home) IoT
State-aware Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Techniques for Cyber-Physical System Honeypots
Trusted Computing & Blockchain

WS 2019/2020 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

Analyzing Performance with Symbolic Execution
Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
Automatically Testing Testing Tools
Cryptocurrency Abuse in the (Dark) Net
Data Races in the Wild
End-to-End Security in the Internet of Things
Ethereum-based Token Systems
HTTPS Security over Time
Impact of the GDPR on the Web
Improving Applications through Programmable Switches
In-Network Computing
Influence of Community Support on Application Security
Internet Path Transparency
Intrusion Detection in the Era of Machine Learning
Limitations and Opportunities LPWAN Communication for IoT Devices
Monitoring in heterogeneous Networks
On-the-fly Data Processing in the Network
P2P-level Attacks on Bitcoin
QFBVA Decision Procedures
See without Cameras, Hear without Microphones
Survey of Partial Order Reduction Techniques
The difficulty of predicting Data Plane Program Performance
Traceroute
Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks

SS 2019 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

5G and the Milk Churn
Attacking Stylometric Approaches
Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
Browser Fingerprinting Techniques and Countermeasures
Composing SDN Applications
CrowdSourced Mobile Network Measurements: Traffic Shaping
How Do Blockchains Forget?
Impact of the GDPR on the Web
Internet outage detection
IoT Security: How to attack a vulnerable device?
Making Cities Smart
On the Fly – Light-weight Data Processing in the Network
On the Influence of Unprotected BGP
On the Run – Algorithms in Wireless Scenarios
P4 Hypervisors
Partial Order Reduction
Piece of Cake: Fixing WiFis and Access Links
QFBVA Decision Procedures
Quality over Quantity: Guiding Path Exploration
RDMA: network faster than your SSD
Security Analysis of LPWAN Communication for IoT Devices
Security Threats Introduced by the Internet of Things
Sharding Is Scaling (Blockchains)
Taming the Web PKI
Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
WiFi still sucks – how hard?

WS 2018/2019 - Seminars on Advanced and Mobile Internet Technology:

Beyond the Radio
Blockchain-based Storage Systems
Cloudlets
Coverage and Data Quality in Crowd Sensing
Crime in the (Industrial) Internet of Things
Empirical Evaluations (Or: Are they lying?)
Extracting Data From Machine Learning Models
Heavy Hitter Detection
IoT Security: How to attack a vulnerable device?
Modeling Energy Consumption
Network Function Virtualization Use Cases
On the Influence of Unprotected BGP
On the Use of VPNs for Internet Measurements
Overview on Methods to Generate IPv6 Hitlists
Partial Order Reduction
Quality over Quantity: Guiding Path Exploration
RDMA: network faster than your SSD
Rare Event Simulation
Security in the Industrial Internet of Things
The Fusion of Two Hypes: Deep Learning in IoT
The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem
The State of Concolic Execution
Tradeoffs in Real World TLS Usage
Use cases of blockchain for the IoT
Use-After-Free Attacks on Online Identities
Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
You spin me right round, baby Right round...
Zero Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains