Welcome to Information and Communication Technology @ UniK
Our research is focused around the three themes: Mobility and Networking, Information Security and Signal Processing
Mobility and Networking
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See the projects page for more details about (some) of our research areas or visit the specific research pages of our members.
Selected areas of PhD Research
- Zahid Iqbal, User and Community profiles
- Toan Hoang, Dynamic Spectrum Access
- Sarfraz Alam, Device Community
- Lars Strand, Security in Open Source Communication Systems
- Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury, Identity based Seamless Service Interaction in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, ongoing work, but PhD finished in Sept 2009
- Elin Sundby Boysen, Generic solutions to include new carrier systems in UMA
- Lars Landmark
- Son T. Nguyen, Secure Wireless and Ad hoc Communications
- Mariann Hauge, finished June 2007
- Eli Winjum, Trust Metric Routing in Ad hoc Networks, finished May 2006
- Anne Marie Hegland, Security in mobile ad hoc networks, finished 2007
- György Kálmán, Personal and Device Authentication in Personal Area Networks, finished Aug 2009
Master Research
Misc. areas of related research
- Erik Lillevold, Agents on Semantic Web
- Juan Gomez, Semantic Technologies, (visiting researcher May/June 2007)
- Members of the Networking and Communications Group (contact details)
Ongoing Projects
National projects
- SWACOM - Secure and reliable Wireless and Ad hoc COMmunications
International Projects
- Itea Wellcom on "Personalised Broadband Services in the Home"
- Aurora - Optimization of Broadband Wireless Communications Networks
List of all projects
Previous Projects
- Eureka Itea Sumo "Service Ubiquity in Mobile and Wireless Realm"
- IST FP6 ASG "Adaptive Services Grid"
- IST FP6 ePerSpace "Towards the era of personal services at home and everywhere"
- Eurescom P1401 OSIAN "Operators Strategy, business models and demonstrations for using Innovative home services to increase the ARPU in the fixed Network"
UniK is offering project partnership
UniK has a good tradition of being involved in international research projects. These include Eureka ITEA and Celtic Initiatives, as well as EU' FP6 projects. We are looking for partnership in the 7th framework programme, FP7.
Our expertise is a.o. in
We have close co-operation with Telenor's Innovation lab PATS (http://www.pats.no), and are able to create and control mobile services in the Norwegian Market. Examples of that are key distribution for NFC based admittance, semantic matching of user preferences with the electronic service guide (ESG).
For further information, please visit: Research - for a description of UNIK, see UNIK/EU-description
As part of the University of Oslo several EU projects have been joined
- EPiCS, FP7, - Robin group at Ifi
- ITEA SUMO, WellCom
- Artemis Shield
On this page you will find topics for a master thesis. If you have an idea for a thesis, please mail it to and I will call you for details.
Proposed Theses
Presentations Info Meeting
Mobility (Josef's .pdf)Δ
Info Security (Audun's pdf) Δ
MIMO (Are's .pdf)
Pĺl's topics
FFI topics (Torleiv)
A supervisor is specified for each project. Contact the supervisor if you are interested in doing a project.
If you are not a student of a Norwegian University, please find information on remote thesis supervision here
Future Service Environments; Semantics and Ontology
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Identity Management
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Near-Field Communications (NFC)
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Radio communication
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Communication in the North
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Advances in Radio prediction
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Radio prediction in Oslo (Example from Astrix/Telenor) |
Privacy and Digital Rights Management
- WLAN security, user behavior monitoring, passive data gathering, vulnerability tests
- Design a device domain controller and interconnect with PATS
- Cost of DRM Technologies
- A digital rights management system for home content
- Explore capabilities of current media players with focus on encryption and device domain access
- Integrate Easy Pairing with Radius
Security Usability
- Experimental Security Usability Investigations
Trust and Reputation Systems
- Robustness of reputation systems
Trusted Systems
- Integrating Trusted Computing and PKI
- Robustness of Trusted Computing in Digital Rights Management
- Trusted Systems Security Models
Cryptography
- The Future of Quantum Cryptography
Information Warfare
- Games Security
- Honeypots, Honeynets and Darknets
- Spam, and its negative impact on the Internet and the effectiveness of organisations
- Botnet threats and countermeasures
Security Management
- Uncertainty in Risk Analysis
- Measuring Security
Past Theses
Master Theses in 2008/2009
- Thomas Carlyle, Trusted Secure Service Design
- Arlindo Bengui Andre, Performance analysis of upcoming standards for mobile communications
- Joachim Reitan, Semantic Technologies and Publish/Subscribe in Support of Distributed Decision Making
Master Theses in 2007/2008
- Řyvind Berget, Protection Mechanisms for NFC
- Joakim Flathagen, Service Discovery in Ad-Hoc Networks
- Řystein Sandnes, Personal device integration through Near Field Communication
Master Theses in 2006/2007
- Functionality of Alternative Broadband Access and Impact on Market, by Saqib Rana
- Analysis of Network and Machines with focus on time and service-availability, by Nils Řyvind Audestad
Master Thesis in 2005/2006
- Haakon Eikenes and Thomas Halvorsen, The Mobile Phone as a Doorkeeper
- Ola Hřiby, Use the mobile phone authentication for picture access
- Erzsébet Somogyi and György Kálmán, HomeNetworking: (Remote) Management of Home Gateway and Remote accesss to "my" Content
- Marianne Rustad, Service development: Using Ontology to create Semantic Web services in a commuter (tourist scenario)
- Andreas Třnnesen, Implementation of ad hoc routing protocols
- Fredrik Andreassen, Quality of Service in ad hoc networks
- Sondre W. Engell, Security in mobile ad hoc networks
- Kjersti Irene Sand, Quality of Service in ad hoc networks
- Christina Valeur, Key Management in ad hoc networks
- Thomas Nordli, Implementation of ad hoc routing protocols
- Lars Strand, Distributed firewalls home page
- Shiva Sitaula, Quality of Service in ad hoc networks
Other projects
- Mobility in IPv6 - lab project -> ipv6lab.html
- Implementations of routing protocols
- Multicast in wireless networks
Categories:Networking, Identity Management, Mobile Services, DeviceProfiles, Semantics, Nordomradet, Radio, Beyond 3G, NFC,
Planned Projects in the Information Technology and Communication group
- CWI Center for Wireless Innovation, Cooperation on wireless research between UiS, UiA, UNIK, HiB and HiS
- MobileWare, Integrated Infrastructure for Wireless Services
- GREEF, Green Footprint Monitoring
- Nordomrĺdet, Communication in the North
- WiMAX for long range (adaptive antennas, signal processing
- Underwater communication from installations/moving objects to the sea surface
- not funded: Msidm? - Semantic Mobile Services Delivery
- not funded: SeniorSurf - bringing ICT to the elderly community
- not submitted: FP7Elderly? - EU FP7 proposal
- WhoDoesWhat
Categories:UNIK ICT Mobility Networking Information Security Signal Processing