Offered Practicals/Theses
In former times, this page listed some of the open topics for project work (Praktikum), Bachelor and Master theses at our group. Meantime, our offered topics are published via TISS. Often, additional topics are available which are not listed on TISS. If you are interested in a specific offer, just contact the staff member listed.
The precise scope of work is defined together with the advisor. Funding may be available for work on certain topics, and collaborative work may be possible. Some topic descriptions are in German since they are mainly of interest for local students; should you require a translation, feel free to request it from the contact listed.
In addition, you are also welcome to propose an interesting topic of your own if it fits our area of competence. Please contact the members of our group to discuss these possibilities.
Finished Practicals/Theses
A selection of recently finished master theses and PhD thesis is listed below. Finished bachelor theses are collected and listed in the menu "Reports".
Home and Building Automation
Safety
| Title: | Type: | Author: | Supervisor: |
| Reliable devices for safe communication in networks | Master Thesis | Markus Klein | Wolfgang Kastner, Lukas Krammer |
| Simulation-based evaluation of a fault-tolerant IP communication system | Master Thesis | Helene Sophie Oberhumer | Wolfgang Kastner, Lukas Krammer |
| Reliable IP based communication for Fire Alarm Systems | Master Thesis | Johannes Kasberger | Wolfgang Kastner, Lukas Krammer |
| Functional Safety in KNX | Master Thesis | Marco Steffan | Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Granzer |
| IP-based Protocols for Fire Alarm Systems | Master Thesis | Michael Rupprechter | Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Granzer |
| Task scheduling in time triggered real time systems | Master Thesis | Markus Grössing | Wolfgang Kastner |
Automation
Security
| Title: | Type: | Author: | Supervisor: |
| Embedded Security Analysis with Emphasis on Critical Infrastructures | PhD | Markus Kammerstetter | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Bootkits revisited | Master Thesis | Bernhard Grill | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Current state of browser extension security and extension-based malware | Master Thesis | Matthias Neumayr | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| IPv6 - a security analysis of tomorrow's communication protocol | Master Thesis | Eduard Thamm | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Dynamic behavior monitoring of Android malware | Master Thesis | Luask Weichselbaum | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Security and legal aspects of cloud computing | Master Thesis | Andreas Kronabeter | Wolfgang Kastner |
| InjectionCop : a pluggable type checker for inferencing custom type qualifiers | Master Thesis | Michael Racz | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Towards A write XOR execute architecture for JIT interpreters : lobotomy | Master Thesis | Michael Jauernig | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Anomaly Detection Through Massive Event Correlation in ICT Networks | Master Thesis | Ivo Friedberg | Wolfgang Kastner |
| On Austrian ePassport security | Master Thesis | Stefan Vogl | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Silent Installs - Studying the Dark Side of the Pay-Per-Install Business | Master Thesis | Christian Pfeifhofer | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Detecting Illicit content in picture streams | Master Thesis | Martin Stütz | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| iHoneyClient - discovery and analysis of malware for Mac OS X | Master Thesis | Bernhard Miller | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Automated extraction of economic information from underground marketplaces using machine learning | Master Thesis | Fabian Fischer | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Information leakage detection and prevention on Android devices | Master Thesis | Silvio Riener | Wolfgang Kastner, Gilbert Wondracek |
| Extracting economic information from underground marketplaces | Master Thesis | Valentin Habsburg-Lothringen | Wolfgang Kastner, Gilbert Wondracek |
| Security Analysis of Metropolitan Locking Systems Using the Example of the City of Vienna | Master Thesis | Adrian Dabrowski | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Intrusion Detection for Power Utility Automation Networks | Master Thesis | Andreas Klien | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Location Based Keys, Implementation of an encryption scheme | Master Thesis | Armin Novak | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Real-time encrypted speech communication over low bandwidth channels | Master Thesis | Markus Kammerstetter | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| On redirection patterns in spam | Master Thesis | Vladimír Drienovský | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
| Covertly probing underground economy marketplaces | Master Thesis | Hanno Fallmann | Wolfgang Kastner, Gilbert Wondracek |
| Modular Security Enhanced Bootloader | Bakk | Bernhard Mathias | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Dynamic Device Driver Analysis based on Virtual Machine Introspection | Master Thesis | Matthias Neugschwandtner | Wolfgang Kastner, Christian Platzer |
Administrative tasks
| Title: | Type: | Author: | Supervisor: |
| An interactive learning approach for domotics | Master Thesis | Boris Malinowsky | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Regelungstechnik mit Mathematica | Master Thesis | Joachim Lukasser | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Petrinetz-Editor | Practical | Joachim Lukasser | Wolfgang Kastner |
| Ein Testtool für die Laborübung ""Einführung in die Automation" | Master Thesis | Rainer Dibiasi | Wolfgang Kastner |