Past Projects

 A list of projects that have been done at COMSYS in the past:

• Bonn-Aachen International Research School of Applied Information Technology with University of Bonn
• Crawler: A flexible and versatile cross-layer coordination architecture.
• IPACS: Intelligent privacy-aware cloud-based services (ExIni).
• KleeNet: Symbolic execution of distributed systems.
• MetroQoE: QoE mechanisms in Wireless Metropolitan Area Sharing Networks.
• Mobile ACCess: Mobility and city-wide communication environment for secure internet services.
• NEPTUN: Privatsphäre erhaltende Technologien und die Sicht der Nutzer auf Privatsphäre (ExIni).
• PREserv: Privacy Enhanced Sensing, Encoding, Relaying & Visualization
• QuaP2P: Quality of P2P networks (DFG research group together with TU Darmstadt and the University of Mannheim)
• DFG Research Group 733: Quality in Peer-to-Peer Networks, with TU Darmstadt and University of Mannheim
• RatPack: Analysis of animal ecological and social networks with programmable sensor nodes.
• Refector: Heuristic packet repair mechanisms.
• Securing Smart Objects: IP-based communication security for Internet-connected Smart Objects.
• SensorCloud: Trustworthy management and analysis of sensor data in a cloud infrastructure.
• SliceTime: Large scale network emulation.
• SoulMigration: Seamless Application State Migration.
• SSICLOPS: Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (Horizon 2020).
• TinyWifi: Briding the gap between sensornets and meshnets evaluation.
• Ultra high-speed Mobile Information and Communication systems (UMIC) research cluster at RWTH Aachen University
• VODSim: A modular BitTorrent model for the ns-3 network simulator.
• Wireless Link Diversity: Exploiting link dynamics/diversity and stable addressing in Wireless Sensor Networks. 

Before starting our new endeavors at COMSYS in 2010, our group (then called the Distributed Systems Group) has been involved in the following research projects since 2004.

• ADAPT: Integration and adaptation of legacy applications, systems, and protocols with mobile ad-hoc networks.
• AEON: Accurate Prediction of Power Consumption in Sensor Networks.
• LHIP: Lightweight Host Identity Protocol.
• MHT: Mobile Hash Table.
• MMOG: Peer-to-Peer-based Infrastructure Support for Massively Multiplayer Online Games.
• MORE: Dynamic Multipath Onion Router.
• OCALA: Overlay Convergence Architecture for Legacy Applications.
• SEMOBIS: Bridging the Heterogeneity of today's Internet.
• TimeTOSSIM: Time accurate and scalable simulation of sensornet applications.
• Dynamic TinyOS: Modular and transmparent incremental code updates for sensornets.