Specialization profile--Network architectures and services

By specializing into the Network Architectures and Services profile, you focus your future education and research on the broad area of complex networks. These days, complex networks are omnipresent society, and range from man-made infrastructures such as digital communications and energy networks, to biological, brain, social, and economic networks. 

By choosing this profile you create for yourself the opportunity to:

• Build theoretical skills in the field of Network Science that help you model, analyse, and optimize complex networks through topological, spectral and functional studies, as well as stochastic models; and
• Build engineering skills pertinent to the Digital Communications industry that help you plan and design robust network architectures and state-of-the-art communication protocols, as well as manage strategic challenges for network operators; and
• Conduct an internship or final thesis at one of our industrial or research partners.

The list of courses for this profile contains both compulory and suggested courses. Compulsory courses are listed below.

Suggested courses

CESE4045	High-performance data networking		0/4/0/0		5 EC		details
CESE4050	Measuring and simulating the internet		0/0/2/0		5 EC		details
CS4195	Modeling and data analysis in complex networks		0/0/2/0		5 EC		details
DSAIT4315	Performance analysis of networks		0/4/0/0		5 EC		details
EE4396	Mobile networks		0/0/0/5		5 EC		details
EE4530	Applied convex optimization		0/4/0/0		5 EC		details
EE4740	Sparse signal processing		0/0/0/4		5 EC		details
EE4900	Telecommunication networks		0/0/4/0		5 EC		details
EE4C06	Network Science		4/0/0/0		5 EC		details
EE4C12	Machine learning for Electrical Engineering		4/0/0/0		5 EC		details
ET4034	Telecom architectures and business models		0/0/0/4		4 EC		details
ET4386	Estimation and detection		0/4/0/0		5 EC		details

MSc project proposals

Some examples of thesis topics (this list is not exhaustive):

SPS	Tracking Sparse Changes in Dynamic Networks via Graph Signal Processing
	Detecting anomaly patterns in networks
	Data reconstruction on networks
	Trust Modeling from Sparse Signals: A State Space Approach for Human-Robot Interaction

Thesis examples

	2011	A. Zhao	Reliable In-Vehicle FlexRay Network Scheduler Design
	2010	A. Krishnakumar	Modelling the Dynamic Nature of Networks, Enabling Smart Living
NAS	2015	I.P. Stankus	Assessment of Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Realistic Mobile Networks
		A.A. Mendoza Martinez	Virtual Sectorization in Future Mobile Networks: System-Level Assessment and Optimization in a Realistic LTE Network
		C. Chen	Epidemic Mitigation via Awareness Propagation in Multi-layer Network
		A.K. Dziwornu	Towards Real-Time Power Restoration Using a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
		M.P.V. Manthena	Network-as-a-Service Architecture with SDN and NFV: A Proposed Evolutionary Approach for Service Provider Networks
	2014	S. Knappstein-Hamelink	Network Discovery in a Recursive Internet Network Architecture
	2013	V.N. Gourov	Network Monitoring with Software Defined Networking: Towards OpenFlow network monitoring
	2012	N.L.M. Van Adrichem	Towards a global implementation of Named Data Networking
		B. W. Abegaz	Control Architecture and Utility Maximization for a Smart Grid based Energy Community
		S. Mathew	LTE Performance Measurement In Trial Network & Validation Of LTE Performance Estimation Models
		K. Charalampidou	Estimating popularity by sentiment and polarization classification on social media
	2011	M. Noordermeer	Implementing Link-state Update Policies for Quality of Service Routing
		B. Shirmohamadi	Self-Optimized Resource Allocation in ICT Systems
		A. Calu	Dragon-Lab, network states detection and identification framework: performance investigation
		E.D. Ayele	Analyses and deployement of the BitTorrent protocol for community ad hoc networks
		Y. Koc	Quantitative Modeling of Domain Name System Protocol
	2010	R.M.A. Imamdi	Robustness Analysis and Capacity Management of the KPN (PS) Mobile Core Network
		D. Maheshwari	Robust Offshore Networks for Oil and Gas Facilities
	2009	J. Wu	Evolving Properties of Growing Networks
		R.A.P. Juffermans	Diverse routing in SRLG networks
		C. Simmonds	Telecom Sector Modelling from a Functional Perspective

Contact person

For more information about the research group, possible thesis topics, and suggestions for your ISP:

prof.dr.ir. Piet Van Mieghem

Network Architectures and Services Group

Department of Quantum Computer Engineering