Overview of Past Seminar Topics

The following lists (grouped by semester) give some insight into topics that have been available when taking a seminar with COMSYS. Most likely, future seminars will feature equally broad selections of topics.

WSS 2023/2024 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Anonymization of (Passive) Internet Measurement Data
• Characteristics of Packet Loss in the Internet
• Characteristics of Wireless Industrial IoT Communication
• Collecting Water Data – What For?
• Communication Paradigms in Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
• Comparing Website Acceleration Approaches
• Containerization and Its Security Implications
• Crypto Wars X.0
• Down to Earth: Evaluating Starlink’s Performance
• Exploiting the AirTag
• Fault Localization for Internet Service Providers
• Heuristics for Networks, Heuristics in Networks
• How Secure is IEC 61850 for Power Grid Communication?
• Information Leakage in Scientific Documents
• Keeping the Fuse Intact: Enabling Redundancy and Low Latency in Power Grid Protection Systems
• Modern Metrics to Evaluate Intrusion Detection Systems
• Reductions in Distributed System Testing
• Routing – There’s No Right Way, Is There?
• SMGW Infrastructure: Security and Use Cases
• Sandboxing: A Bane or a Boon?
• Searchable Encryption: Quo Vadis?
• Smart Grid Network Device Configuration: Practicability of Best Practices
• Testing P4 Programs
• Weaker or Stronger? – Predictive Race Detection

SS 2023 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• All Good With VPN?
• Anomaly Detection in Industrial Network Traffic
• Anonymization of (Passive) Internet Measurement Data
• Attacking Federated Learning Schemes
• Automatic Certificate Enrolment in the IoT
• Characteristics of Packet Loss in the Internet
• Communication in Power Grids
• Cyber Attacks in Space: How secure are Satellites?
• Delay and Jitter Modeling for Real-time Applications
• Designing an Effective Honeypot for Power Grids
• Dummy Topic
• ECN & L4S – Modern congestion management
• Effective Concurrency Testing
• Enhancing Water Disaggregation
• Flow Telemetry on the Internet
• Impact of Cyber Attacks on the Power Grid
• Multi-tenant Programmable Switches
• Overview of Cryptojacking Approaches
• Predicting, Monitoring and Resolving Conflicts in CPS
• Provenance Graphs in Security Contexts: A Survey
• Quo Vadis Contact Tracing Research
• Reductions in Distributed System Model Checkers
• Researching Starlink
• Routing – There’s No Right Way, Is There?
• SMGW Infrastructure: Security and Use Cases
• Satellite Communication with TCP and QUIC
• Searchable Encryption: Quo Vadis?
• Testing P4 Programs
• The Quest for Perfect Failover
• Transferring NILM Models
• Underwater Authentication

WSS 2022/2023 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Advanced Queuing Techniques
• Amplification DDoS Attacks
• Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)
• Attacking & Securing Radar Communication Protocols
• Attacking Federated Learning Schemes
• Classification of Cyberattacks against Power Grids
• Co-Simulation of Power Grid and Communication Networks
• Compiling Packet Processing Programs
• Concurrency Bugs in Go
• Flow Telemetry on the Internet
• Input Matters: Applicability of Packet- vs. Flow-based Network Monitoring to Intrusion Detection and Forensics
• Investigating the Effectiveness of Application Permissions
• LEO Satellite Navigation
• Modular Switch Programming
• Predicting, Monitoring and Resolving Conflicts in CPS
• Privacy Challenges in Clinical Data Processing
• Privacy-Preserving Genome Processing
• Provenance Graphs in Security Contexts: A Survey
• Reliable Communication in Industrial Networks
• Remote Attack on Car
• Retrofitting SCADA security mechanisms
• SILM – The more, the merrier?
• Secure Provisioning of (Industrial) IoT Devices
• Security for In-vehicular Communication
• Self-Configuring Protocol Stacks: The Solution?
• Server Push: Reinforcement Learning to the Rescue?
• Sketches, Collages & Co. – In-Network Data Summaries
• State Merging in Symbolic Execution
• The Boon and Bane of Perceptual Hashing
• Unobtrusive Home Water Monitoring

SS 2022 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Adapters to the rescue? – Programming TEEs
• Advanced Queuing Techniques
• Attacks Against Industrial Control Systems
• Automated Checkpointing for Energy Harvesting
• CSI: ICS – Industrial Network Forensics
• Communication in Power Grids
• Compiling Packet Processing Programs
• Concolic Engines in Hybrid Fuzzing
• Cybercrime: Are we still safe? Were we?
• Evaluating Intrusion Detection Systems
• Flaws of Computer Simulations
• Flow Telemetry on the Internet
• IoSat: Routing in Mega Constellations
• MadIoT: When Smart Devices Attack Smart Grids
• Message Authentication for Constrained Devices
• Modular Switch Programming
• On the Taxonomy of Private Computing
• On the Taxonomy of Private Computing
• Packet Size Optimizations in Sensor Networks
• Problems Transcending Space and Time
• Protocols and Network Security in Power Networks
• QUIC-supported Video Streaming Techniques
• Retrofitting SCADA security mechanisms
• Routing – There's No Right Way, Is There?
• Server Push: Reinforcement Learning to the Rescue?
• The Malware Arms Race: A Survey
• Tracking Down Cryptocurrency Mixing Services
• Up in the Air: Exploring Starlink
• Usage Enforcement in Digital Data Sharing
• Verifiability in Privacy-Preserving Computing

WSS 2021/2022 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Adversarial Attacks on Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems
• An Overview on Contact Tracing Check-In Approaches
• Better together: Hybrid Concolic Fuzzing
• CSI: ICS – Industrial Network Forensics
• Composing Dataplane Programs
• Congestion Notification To The Rescue
• DNS over TLS/HTTPS/QUIC/... – What's the Price?
• Does HTTP/3 Alone Improve the Web?
• Email Under Attack?
• Energy Saving Approaches vs. Usability of Wireless Systems
• Gathering IoT Device Communication Behavior
• HB-based Data-Race Detection
• Hidden Gems – Studying Public Datasets
• ICS Under Attack
• Machine Learning in Host-based Intrusion Detection
• Making IPv6 Scanning Feasible
• Mining Attacks in Digital Currencies
• Multiple Tenants on a Programmable Switch
• No More Blue Screens: Automated Firmware Testing
• Small Scopes in Different Shapes
• The Energy Consumption of Modern Networked Systems
• Trends in Privacy-Preserving Process Mining

SS 2021 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• 5G in Industry and Automation – Salvation or just Evolution?
• ADS-B-based GPS Spoofing Detection
• An Overview on Covid Contact Tracing Approaches
• Approximating in the network
• Attacks against Power Grid ICT Networks
• Attacks in Datasets for Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
• Bottlenecks in Symbolic Execution
• Communication in Power Grids
• Compiler Fuzzing
• Either-Or? Toward Co-Existence of Wireless Communication Technologies
• Gathering IoT Device Communication Behavior
• Generating & Storing Packets on Programmable Switches
• HTTP Prioritization Strategies and their Impact
• How to Trust My IoT Devices?
• How’s my network doing?
• Low-Effort Wireless Link Quality Prediction Algorithms
• Measuring Router Queues
• Multipath Transport and ML-based Congestion Control
• Multiple Tenants on a Programmable Switch
• Off-Chain Ledger Computations
• One Switch to Rule Them All: The Potential of Programmable Data Planes for Enhancing Network Security
• Out-of-order Symbolic Execution
• Recent Views on Phishing and Countermeasures
• Remote Network Security for Smart Homes
• Smaller Scopes – Greater Chances
• Survey on Methods for Reliability Engineers & DevOps
• The State of Email Security
• The full Story of Encrypted DNS
• Towards Middlebox-aware Secure Communication
• Trends in Privacy-Preserving Process Mining
• Trusted Computing in the IoT
• What do I need to do? On Security Advices Users Get

WSS 2020/2021 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• 5G in Industry and Automation – Salvation or just Evolution?
• Abstract Problems: Transcending Space and Time
• An Internet-Wide View on TLS Deployments
• Analyzing Dataplane Programs
• Analyzing IoT Device Communication Behavior
• Anomaly Detection in Maritime AIS Tracks
• Approximating in the network
• Bounding Search Spaces
• CSI: Network – Monitoring & Forensics
• Composing Dataplane Programs
• Congestion and Rate Control for Video Conferencing
• Escaping Bugs at Runtime
• Faster, Better, Stronger: The Potential of Emerging Wireless Communication Protocols for the IoT
• How to Trust My IoT Devices?
• How's my network doing?
• Interorganizational Data Sharing in the IIoT
• Intrusion Detection Systems for Power Grids
• Off-Chain Ledger Computations
• Quo Vadis International Data Spaces (IDS)
• Recent Trends in Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming
• Recent Views on Phishing and Countermeasures
• Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
• Underwater Network Security

SS 2020 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
• Building AQMs at line-rate
• Certificate Management in the Web-PKI
• Congestion Control in the Era of Machine Learning
• Coverage and Data Quality in Crowd Sensing
• Cybersecurity in the Maritime Automatic Identification System
• Data-Plane State Migration
• Debugging Multithreaded Software
• Explaining Learned Networking Decisions
• Finding Bugs in Bug Finding Software
• Going the Distance – Teleoperation
• HTTPS Security over Time
• High-performance Test Packet Generation
• Industrial IoT Attack Scenarios
• Influence of Community Support on Application Security
• Interconnecting the Unconnected
• Internet Path Transparency
• Interorganizational Data Sharing in the IIoT
• Judging the Interaction of Congestion Control
• Measuring Router Queues
• Modeling Memory Hierarchies
• Monitoring in heterogeneous Networks
• Navigating The Seas of Symbolic Execution
• P2P-level Attacks on Bitcoin
• Protecting the (Smart Home) IoT
• State-aware Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
• Techniques for Cyber-Physical System Honeypots
• Trusted Computing & Blockchain

WSS 2019/2020 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• Analyzing Performance with Symbolic Execution
• Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
• Automatically Testing Testing Tools
• Cryptocurrency Abuse in the (Dark) Net
• Data Races in the Wild
• End-to-End Security in the Internet of Things
• Ethereum-based Token Systems
• HTTPS Security over Time
• Impact of the GDPR on the Web
• Improving Applications through Programmable Switches
• In-Network Computing
• Influence of Community Support on Application Security
• Internet Path Transparency
• Intrusion Detection in the Era of Machine Learning
• Limitations and Opportunities LPWAN Communication for IoT Devices
• Monitoring in heterogeneous Networks
• On-the-fly Data Processing in the Network
• P2P-level Attacks on Bitcoin
• QFBVA Decision Procedures
• See without Cameras, Hear without Microphones
• Survey of Partial Order Reduction Techniques
• The difficulty of predicting Data Plane Program Performance
• Traceroute
• Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks

SS 2019 - Seminars on Internet Technology and Advanced Internet Technology:

• 5G and the Milk Churn
• Attacking Stylometric Approaches
• Automatically Testing Protocol Implementations
• Browser Fingerprinting Techniques and Countermeasures
• Composing SDN Applications
• CrowdSourced Mobile Network Measurements: Traffic Shaping
• How Do Blockchains Forget?
• Impact of the GDPR on the Web
• Internet outage detection
• IoT Security: How to attack a vulnerable device?
• Making Cities Smart
• On the Fly – Light-weight Data Processing in the Network
• On the Influence of Unprotected BGP
• On the Run – Algorithms in Wireless Scenarios
• P4 Hypervisors
• Partial Order Reduction
• Piece of Cake: Fixing WiFis and Access Links
• QFBVA Decision Procedures
• Quality over Quantity: Guiding Path Exploration
• RDMA: network faster than your SSD
• Security Analysis of LPWAN Communication for IoT Devices
• Security Threats Introduced by the Internet of Things
• Sharding Is Scaling (Blockchains)
• Taming the Web PKI
• Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
• WiFi still sucks – how hard?

WS 2018/2019 - Seminars on Advanced and Mobile Internet Technology:

• Beyond the Radio
• Blockchain-based Storage Systems
• Cloudlets
• Coverage and Data Quality in Crowd Sensing
• Crime in the (Industrial) Internet of Things
• Empirical Evaluations (Or: Are they lying?)
• Extracting Data From Machine Learning Models
• Heavy Hitter Detection
• IoT Security: How to attack a vulnerable device?
• Modeling Energy Consumption
• Network Function Virtualization Use Cases
• On the Influence of Unprotected BGP
• On the Use of VPNs for Internet Measurements
• Overview on Methods to Generate IPv6 Hitlists
• Partial Order Reduction
• Quality over Quantity: Guiding Path Exploration
• RDMA: network faster than your SSD
• Rare Event Simulation
• Security in the Industrial Internet of Things
• The Fusion of Two Hypes: Deep Learning in IoT
• The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem
• The State of Concolic Execution
• Tradeoffs in Real World TLS Usage
• Use cases of blockchain for the IoT
• Use-After-Free Attacks on Online Identities
• Using IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
• You spin me right round, baby Right round...
• Zero Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains