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
FootPath: Infrastructure-less Indoor Navigation
HODRIAN: HöchstrObuste, DRahtlose kommunikationskomponenten für Industrielle ANwendungen (BMBF, 2016-2018)
Horizon: Scalable parallel network simulation
IPACS: Intelligent Privacy-Aware Cloud-Based Services (DFG EI, 2013-2016)
KleeNet: Symbolic execution of distributed systems
KoI: Koordinierte Industriekommunikation (BMBF, 2015-2017)
MetroQoE: QoE mechanisms in Wireless Metropolitan Area Sharing Networks
Mobile ACCess: Mobility and city-wide communication environment for secure internet services (IKT.NRW, 2009-2012)
NEPTUN: Privatsphäre erhaltende Technologien und die Sicht der Nutzer auf Privatsphäre (DFG EI, 2014-2015)
PREserv: Privacy Enhanced Sensing, Encoding, Relaying & Visualization (IKT.NRW, 2013-2016)
QuaP2P: Quality in Peer-to-Peer Networks (DFG RG 733, 2006-2012)
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 (BMWi, 2012-2014)
SliceTime: Large scale network emulation
SoulMigration: Seamless Application State Migration
SSICLOPS: Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (EU H2020, 2015-2017)
TinyWifi: Briding the gap between sensornets and meshnets evaluation
TRINICS: TRansparent Information on INdividual Cloud Service usage (BMBF, 2016-2018)
Ultra high-speed Mobile Information and Communication systems (UMIC) research cluster at RWTH Aachen University (DFG EXC 89, 2006-2014)
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.