Theses

All listed topics are to be considered examples. Just talk to us to discuss potential topics for your Profilprojekt research project (INF-PM-FPA, INF-PM-FPG), Bachelor Thesis (BA), and Master’s Thesis (MA) or their german equivalents, that is, Studienarbeit, INF-D-950 Großer Beleg, Diploma Thesis, Diplomarbeit.

You can always contact us with topic ideas in the areas we teach in, such as Wireless Network Simulation, Vehicular Communication, or LEO Satellite Models.

Meeting

We hold a weekly meeting for all students currently involved in a thesis project to briefly discuss the current status of each thesis and to help with problems. The meeting is held online each Wednesday at 18:00h.

• Link to this week’s meeting

Please note that the above link to the meeting may change without notice. If you are currently involved in a thesis project but have not received an invitation, please contact your advisor.

Templates

Please use…

• the NSM proposal LaTeX template for your thesis proposal (download or browse),
• the NSM thesis LaTeX template for your thesis (download or browse), and
• any template (ideally: aspect ratio 4:3, color scheme black on white) for presentations.

Preparatory Work

Sometimes, extensive preparatory work (that is, a broad or deep study of available literature or tools) is needed or you only have a rough idea for a thesis. We are happy to do this in the context of a preparatory project.

Such a project may be part of your degree program if conducted as “Analyse eines Forschungsthemas (INF-D-960)”, Belegseminar, or Bachelorseminar, respectively. As a rough guideline, we adopt the regulations set out in guidance information published by the chair of CGV (step 1: related work study in terms of literature and software; step 2: proposal writing including output of step 1; step 3: ungraded 40+20 minute defense).

We are always happy to discuss this option, your ideas, or any open questions you might have before you commit to a thesis topic - just talk to your prospective advisor!

Open Topics for Theses

Key:

• PA: Research Project (INF-PM-FPA / INF-PM-FPG)
• BA: Bachelor Thesis (or Studienarbeit / Großer Beleg)
• MA: Master's Thesis (or Diploma Thesis / Diplomarbeit)
• PA/BA/MA: Any of the above, depending on breadth and depth

Ongoing Theses

Key:

• PA: Research Project (INF-PM-FPA / INF-PM-FPG)
• BA: Bachelor Thesis (or Studienarbeit / Großer Beleg)
• MA: Master's Thesis (or Diploma Thesis / Diplomarbeit)
• PA/BA/MA: Any of the above, depending on breadth and depth

Completed Theses

• "Optimization of Platoon Controllers using Stochastic Models," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, March 2025. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Validation of Vehicular Status Information with Messages of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, September 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Comparison of Distance Prediction with Bluetooth Low Energy and GNSS for Vulnerable Road Users Safety," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, July 2024. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Optimization GUI and String Stability Analysis for Platoon Controllers," Diploma Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, June 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Optimization and Comparison of two Platoon Controllers for a Join Maneuver and a Sinusoidal Scenario," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, June 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Parameter Optimization and Comparison of Platoon Controllers in an Emergency Braking Scenario," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Bilateral Decentralized Federated Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Longitudinal Vehicle Platoon Control," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "The Influence of Packet Losses and Packet Delays on the Minimum Distance of Vehicles in Platooning," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, April 2024. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Comparative Analysis of Delay-Tolerant Networking Protocol Implementations: Towards a Unified Performance Assessment Framework," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, April 2024. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Impact of Satellite Mobility Models on Vehicle-to-Satellite Communication," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, March 2024. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Design and Implementation of a 3D Visualization Tool for Wireless Network Simulations," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, December 2023. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Implementation of a Result Management and Processing Component for a Platooning Controller Optimization Framework," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, December 2023. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Bluetooth Low Energy Based Distance Prediction Models for Road Safety Applications," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, October 2023. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Investigation of the Impact of Buildings on Hybrid LEO Satellites and Vehicular Networks," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, September 2023. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Improving Urban Traffic Flow with Drone Supported Vehicular Networks," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, September 2023. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Simulation based Parameter Optimization of Platoon Controllers," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, September 2023. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Test and Discussion of Platoon Simulation Functionalities provided by MATLAB Toolboxes," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, September 2023. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Comparison of WLAN and C-V2X regarding the minimum inter-vehicle Distance in Platoons," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, August 2023. (Advisor: Burkhard Hensel)
• "Investigating the Feasibility of Bluetooth Smart (BLE) GATT Beacons for Road Safety Applications," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, August 2023. (Advisors: Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer)
• "Improved Emergency Vehicle Pass-through Using V2V Communication ," Master's Thesis, Department of Telecommunication Systems, TU Berlin, July 2023. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Realistic Simulation of Emergency Vehicles in SUMO," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Telecommunication Systems, TU Berlin, July 2023. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Suitability of Modern Wi-Fi for Wireless-Infield-Communication of Agricultural Machines," Diploma Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2023. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "VANET Simulation with ns-3 and Veins: A Comparison," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2023. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Mario Franke)
• "Performance Analysis of Truck Platooning," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, April 2023. (Advisors: Burkhard Hensel and Christoph Sommer)
• "Simulating a Novel Mobility Concept: NeMo Paderborn," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, February 2023. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Investigating the Impact of Age-of-Information on Platooning," Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, January 2023. (Advisors: Burkhard Hensel and Christoph Sommer)
• "Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory for Platoons," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, December 2022. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Resource Planning for the Industrial Environment," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, December 2022. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "LEO Satellite Supported Dissemination of Awareness Messages in V2X Networks," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, November 2022. (Advisor: Mario Franke)
• "Wireless Communication for Equipment on Proving Grounds for Testing Connected and Autonomous Vehicles," Diploma Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, June 2022. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Simulating Satellites' Mobility in Vehicular Networks," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2022. (Advisor: Mario Franke)
• "C-V2X for Urban Platooning," Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, Dresden, Germany, January 2022. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Cooperative Collision Avoidance for UAVs," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, January 2022. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "UAV Supported Platooning in Urban Scenarios," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, January 2022. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Modeling and Simulation of Drone Supported Delivery Traffic in Urban Areas," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, May 2021. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Beamforming with Full-Duplex Relaying for Urban Platooning Scenarios," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, May 2021. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Simulation Scenarios for Cooperative Mobile Systems," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, May 2021. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Wirelessly Networked Coordination of Section Control for Agricultural Machines," Studienarbeit, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, May 2021. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Context Aware Beaconing for Platoons," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, January 2021. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory for Platoons," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, January 2021. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Comparing 5G and 11p for Cooperative Mobile Systems," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, August 2020. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Simulative Performance Evaluation of a Provably Collision Free Approach for Managing Autonomous Cars on Urban Intersections," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, May 2020. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Secure Platooning in Attack Scenarios," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, December 2019. (Advisor: Tobias Hardes)
• "Designing a Rollback Mechanism for OMNeT++," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, October 2019. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Wireless Channel Models: A Machine-Learning Approach," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, July 2019. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)
• "Efficient Traffic Light Management for Platoons on Federal Highways," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, June 2019. (Advisors: Tobias Hardes and Christoph Sommer)
• "Cooperative Collision Avoidance at Intersections for Platoons," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, May 2019. (Advisors: Tobias Hardes and Christoph Sommer)
• "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation for Wireless Communications," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, July 2018. (Advisor: Christoph Sommer)

In other labs / universities

• "A Comparative Study of Network Simulation Software for the Simulative Evaluation of Wireless LANs," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, November 2017. (Advisors: Florian Klingler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Improving Traffic Conditions in Paderborn using Centralized Virtual Traffic Lights," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, January 2017. (Advisors: Agon Memedi and Christoph Sommer)
• "Implementation and Evaluation of LTE Direct for Veins LTE," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, November 2016. (Advisors: Florian Hagenauer and Christoph Sommer)
• "Prototype Implementation of the Car4ICT Framework," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, August 2016. (Advisors: Florian Hagenauer and Christoph Sommer)
• "Evaluation of radio channel metrics in vehicular network simulations," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, June 2016. (Advisors: Florian Klingler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Implementation of the ARIB T109 Standard in Veins," Bachelor Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, June 2016. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Florian Hagenauer)
• "Improving Traveling Times in Paderborn using Vehicular Networking," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, February 2016. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Performance Analysis and Simulation of a Freifunk Mesh Network in Paderborn using B.A.T.M.A.N Advanced," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), October 2015. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Centralized Cluster Coordination in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks," Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, August 2015. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Simulation of Self-Organizing Intersection Management," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, June 2014. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Florian Hagenauer)
• "Information Management in Clusters of Parked Vehicles," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, February 2014. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)
• "Integration of the Rime Network Stack into GNU Radio," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, October 2013. (Advisors: Bastian Bloessl and Christoph Sommer)
• "Self-Organizing Intersection Management," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, July 2013. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)
• "Assessing the impact of road-side units on distributed beacon-based traffic information systems," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, June 2013. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Porting IEEE 802.15.4 Model from INET Framework to MiXiM Framework," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, May 2013. (Advisors: Noorsalwati Nordin and Christoph Sommer)
• "Untersuchung der Echtzeitfähigkeit von Broadcast-basierten Protokollen für einen Kreuzungsassistenten," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, November 2012. (Advisors: Stefan Joerer, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)
• "Experimentelle Umsetzung von Routing in Sensornetzen basierend auf virtuellen Koordinaten," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, October 2012. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)
• "Monitoring Support for Efficient Web 2.0 and overlay Network Detection," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, October 2012. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "A multi-channel beacon scheduling system for the exchange of traffic information in vehicular networks," Master's Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, August 2012. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer)
• "Implementierung eines Abschattungsmodells für bewegliche Objekte in der Fahrzeugkommunikation," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, June 2012. (Advisors: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)
• "Implementierung eines flexiblen Formats zur Beschreibung von Interferenzmessungen," Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, June 2012. (Advisors: Bastian Bloessl, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler)