Our group offers projects for ETH students in D-ITET and D-INFK (if you're in another department, please contact us first). On this page, you will find a non-exhaustive list of currently open, ongoing and past projects.
If you are interested in doing a project in our group, you are welcome to contact us at nsg-theses(at)ethz.ch.
Note that we receive many more requests than we are able to supervise. To maximize your chances, please provide relevant background information for a project, including:
- most importantly, the networking topics you are most interested in;
- your current studies status (Bachelor or Master, which semester);
- the networking and/or computer science lectures you have attended;
- any past projects and/or industry experience;
- any particular skill or programming experience;
- why you are interested in doing a project in our group, in particular.
From experience, a good alignment between a student interests and skills with the project goals goes a long way to make projects successful and enjoyable for everyone. So if you are particularly excited about a specific topic, or even have a project idea of your own to propose, please tell us about it!
When considering networking topics, we also encourage you to check out our research areas, recent work, and researchers to discover topics that you may find interesting as well.
Available Theses
A Model for BGP Convergence (B, M, S)
Running Theses
In-Network Detection of Proxy Servers (S)
Advent of Network (B, S)
Generalizing Passive Routing Attacks Against Overlay Networks (M)
Enhancing Data Plane Signals for Network Monitoring Systems (M)
Route Convergence Optimization in the SWITCH Network (M)
21st century data visualization for enhancing student learning (B, S)
Completed Theses
2021
Analyzing and Comparing Defense Strategies in a Cyber Defense Exercise (M)
Detecting Internet Events (M)
Delay Measurement, Path Tracing, and Telemetry Data Correlation in Segment Routed Networks (with Swisscom) (M)
Interactive Synthesis of Network Queries from Traffic Examples (M)
Advancing Predictions for Video Streaming with Transformers (S)
Developing an Automated Defender for Cyber Security Exercises (M)
PACKS: A Practical Abstraction for Programmable Packet Scheduling (S)
O4: A Higher-level Data-plane Programming Language (M)
Gauging Risk in Resource Optimizations on Stateful Packet-Processing Devices (M)
Routing in P4 (S)
Mailing List Analysis (S)
Process Mining for Networking (S)
Stateful Tofino-based Traffic Generator (M)
Improving Current P4 Prototyping Tools (S)
In Search of Network Shifts (B)
2020
Synthesizing Network-Wide Configuration Updates (M)
- ABB Research Award 2021
Traffic-Aware Compilation
Boosting QoE in Internet Applications using Programmable Packet Scheduling (AG)
2019
Network behavior monitoring in the data plane (S)
On making correlation attacks practical (M)
Self-protecting Networks from IoT-based Attacks (M)
Improving Performance with Network-aware Scheduling Algorithms (S)
Developing a Semi-Automated Framework to Label Network Traffic Datasets (M)
On combining SWIFT and Blink to improve Internet convergence (M)
Traffic-analysis Attacks over Encrypted HTTP from the Data Plane (M)
Developing a Dataset with Coordinated Network Attacks (M)
On Making Blink Deployable in Practice (M)
Automatic Generation of Adversarial Workload for Programmable Switches (S)
Network Performance Obfuscation (S)
2018
Monitoring and Controlling Network Reconnaissance using Programmable Networks (S)
Automatic BGP Configuration Analysis and Summarisation (S)
Leveraging Network Programmability for Machine Learning in the Data Plane (M)
- ABB Research Award 2019
Packet Header Obfuscation in the Data Plane (S)
Traffic Matrix Obfuscation (M)
Net2Text: A Matter of Time (M)
Next-Generation Network Monitoring Using Programmable Network Devices (M)
On Offloading Control Plane Applications to the Data Plane (M)
2017
Data Plane Driven Network Convergence (M)
Learning Defenses in Computer Networks: Neural Networks Approach (M)
Probabilistic Network Analysis and Synthesis (M)
Data-driven classification and isolation of network devices (S)
Detection of Malicious Remote Shell Sessions (S)
Verifying ADS-B Position Claims with Passive Radar (M)
Adding Passive Measurability to QUIC (M)
Exploring the impact of TCP/IP parameter tuning on performance (M)
A FLARM Receiver for Crowdsourced Air Traffic Monitoring (S)
Chronos: Finding the configurations recipe for fast convergence (S)
Constraint-based routing as a stream computation (M)
Evaluation of AQM schemes to support Low Latency in the Internet (M)
In-network Anomaly Detection with Programmable Switches (S)
Load balancing in a data center using the data plane (M)
Methods to Evaluate Cyber Threat Intelligence Feeds (M)
Tracing Internet Path Transparency (M)
2016
A Fast and Loop-Free Convergence upon Remote BGP Disruptions in Large IP Networks (S)
Boosting the convergence performance of SDX platforms (S)
Continuous Measurements of Internet Path Transparency (S)
Detecting and mitigating network attacks on Bitcoin (S)
Practical Concurrency Analysis for SDN (M)
Accurate Classification of Web Requests (S)
Applying meaningful destruction in Software-Defined Networks (S)
Building a Path Transparency Observatory (M)
Cooperating with Middleboxes in the Internet (S)
Does Your Phone Spy on You? (M)
Flexible Traffic Engineering in existing networks with Fibbing (S)
Human or Malware? Detection of Malicious Web Requests (M)
Improving Load-Balancing Decisions in Data Center Networks Using Software-Defined Networking (M)
Measuring Internet Path Transparency for Transport Protocol Extensions (S)
2015
Design and Implementation of an ECN Proxy for Performance Improvements in the Internet (S)
Integration of Measurement Probes into a Distributed Measurement Plane (S)
On the Correctness of Inter-Domain Deflections (M)
Unleashing The Dragon (M)
Self-Learning Enterprise Networks Via Software Defined Networking (M)
NetBursting: Network Infrastructure in the Cloud (M)
Flexible SDN Testing in Production with Shadow Policies (M)
Improving Network-Wide Troubleshooting with Few SDN Devices (M)
Multipath bonding at Layer 3 (M)
Supercharging IP router memory with SDN (S)
Detecting Concurrency Violations in Software-Defined Networks (M)
Improving the Scalability of Software-Defined Internet Exchange Points (S)
SDN-based Network Obfuscation (M)
- ETH Medal 2016
- NATO CCD COE CyCon Student Award 2017
