Ulrich Lampe, Renato Dominguez Garcia

The Seminar Advanced Topics in Future Internet Research (TuCaN ID 18-sm-2090-se, listed as "Seminar Multimedia Kommunikation II") addresses diploma and M.Sc. students of all electrical enginnering and computer science disciplines. It is also open to students of related courses of study, such as WI-ET or Wirtschaftsinformatik.

The seminar covers various topics from the fields of computer science and electrical engineering, wtih a focus on the Internet and Internet-based technolgies. The course specifically investigates current and upcoming trends which are expected to be of utmost importance for the future evolution of the Internet itself and other technologies that rely on it.

Depending on your personal preference and course of study, this course may either be counted as a standard seminar or as Proseminar ETiT.

Please attend the kick-off meeting (date specified below) if you would like to participate in the seminar. Registration (with KOM) is mandatory and requires attendance at the kick-off meeting!

To register, send an e-mail to ulrich.lampe(at)kom.tu-darmstadt.de - before the registration deadline - containing the following information:

• First name, last name
• Student ID (Matrikelnummer)
• Email address
• Topic(s) selected - the codes, e.g., WSN-1 or SOC-1, are sufficient
• Pursued degree (Abschluss, e.g., B.Sc.)
• Course of studies (Studiengang, e.g., WI-ET)

All e-mails regarding the seminar should contain the keyword "[ATFIS2011]" in their subject.

Please also remember to register for this course and the corresponding exam in TuCaN! If you fail to do so, we may not be able to report your grade. Due to administrative reasons, the registration for the exam may only be available by the end of the semester, so please check TuCaN regularly.

Please be advised that we can not make any legally binding statements on the number of credit points (CPs) that you obtain for this course or the general fit into your curriculum. Please contact your Studienbüro concerning this type of information.

The seminar covers various areas of computer networking. After the kickoff meeting, students can register for the seminar and specify their personal area(s) of interest (see details above).

Topic Area: Context-aware Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks

WSN-1) Utilizing embedded sensors to provide smart spaces - a status quo analysis

Currently, the approaches to determine a user's context strongly rely on a heterogeneous variety of sensors capturing a broad range of data. While software sensors can attach to calendars and mail clients, hardware sensors are required to provide information about the environment. When all readings have been collected, the user's context is deduced from this information.

Topic Area: Social Network Analysis

SNA-1) Application Areas and Metrics of Social Network Analysis

Social networks such as Facebook or Google+ are connecting people all over the world. Due to these social networks, more and more information is made available about social interactions and connections online.

Social network analysis offers a new way to exploit the information found in such online social networks. This additional information from online communities can be used  to enhance personalized recommender systems or to interconnect learners over social networks.
Current research shows that users put more trust in recommendations and information from users they are connected with.

Goal: Give an overview of the various SNA metrics and their applications.  How can these metrics play a role in personalized recommender systems and for matching learners in social networks?

Topic Area: Service-oriented Computing

SOC-1) Current trends in Quality-of-Service (QoS) aware Service Composition

In Service-oriented Architectures, business processes can be realized by composing loosely coupled services. If services in the Internet of Services with comparable functionalities but varying quality levels (Quality of Service – QoS) are available at different costs on service marketplaces, service requesters can decide, which services from which service providers to select – a practice known as QoS-aware service composition. 

Goal: Compile a survey about current trends in QoS-aware service composition. Based on provided and further identified literature, compare current approaches in this research field and develop a brief state-of-the-art summary in the form of a table.

SOC-2) Interdependencies of Services and their QoS-attributes in Service-oriented Architectures

In Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), (basic) services can be loosely coupled to create (more complex) composite services with advanced capabilities. Thereby, not only the functionality but the Quality of Service (QoS) is of particular importance. Common examples of such QoS-attributes are the service’s “response time” or its “availability”.

Goal: Compile a survey of interdependencies between Services and between QoS-attributes of services in Service-oriented Architectures. Investigate the impact of these interdependencies in the context of QoS-aware service selection. Based on your findings, propose an approach to consider and deal with these interdependencies.

SOC-3) On the Current State and the Limits of Virtualization

Specifically in the context of cloud computing, virtualization technologies play a vital role, because they allow to exploit physical infrastructure much more efficently. However, while the capabilities of virtual machines come increasingly closer to those of physical machines, the technology exhibits some inherent limits, thus rendering its application unsuitable for some use cases.

Goal: Compare a survey concerning the current state and the limits of virtualization technology, with a specific focus on use cases where virtualization currently reaches its limits.

SOC-4) Cloud Computing Monitoring Solutions

Please refer to the slides of the kickoff meeting for further details.

SOC-5) State of Play in Cloud Gaming - Current Offers and Technical Obstacles

Please contact Ulrich Lampe for details.