networking – Student Projects

[ TAKEN ] Propose a model for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabling a Post-Quantum cryptographic transition without hybrid signatures

Stephen Farrell (email | all projects)

TAKEN The transition to a putative post-quantum PKI often leads people to propose hybrid signature schemes as a part of their transition model. PKI libraries however, are highly complex, and liable to be mis-used, leading to vulnerabilites, so adding significant complexity to such libraries is undesirable. The task here is to propose PKI transition schemes … Read more

[ TAKEN ] Develop a model for deployment of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) enabling co-operating “front-ends”

Stephen Farrell (email | all projects)

[TAKEN] The ECH scheme is largely expected to be deployed by large-scale CDNs, which has some undesirable centralisation aspects. ECH also defines a “split-mode” where one server acts as a “front-end” for another. The task here is to model how a loose network of TLS servers could fairly act as front-ends for one another, yet … Read more

[ TAKEN ] Develop a “stealthy” Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) scheme

Stephen Farrell (email | all projects)

TAKEN The task is to develop and implement a partial equivalent to the ECH scheme, that could be adopted by co-operating TLS clients and servers but that does not “stand out” and hence could be deployed (albeit at limited scale) if the standard approach to ECH fails to be widely deployed due to blocking of … Read more

Deep Learning for Data and Radio Signal Processing

Viet Quoc Pham (email | all projects)

With the great capability of learning high-level representational features of unstructured data automatically, deep learning is acknowledged as a powerful machine learning algorithm for radio signal processing. For example, convolutional neural networks are leveraged to develop automatic modulation classification frameworks in [1]-[3]. CNNs are also used to design intelligent frameworks that can accurately classify waveform … Read more

[Taken] WebTransport/HTTP3/QUIC and Kubernetes

Stefan Weber (email | all projects)

Kubernetes provides an orchestration and runtime system for micro-services based on containers. The implementation of this virtualised infrastructure is based largely on communication using TCP and HTTP. In contrast, current web browsers and web servers are using QUIC, HTTP/3 and WebTransport to communicate as well. This project will investigate the use of QUIC, HTTP3 and … Read more

[Taken] Development of Design Metrics for Communication Protocols

Stefan Weber (email | all projects)

Currently, communication protocols are developed based on best practices, intuition, and discussion amongst developers. The performance of these protocols is then measured in terms of throughput, use of available bandwidth, scalability, etc. These measurements demonstrate the performance of a protocol but do not give any indication about the quality of the design of the protocol. … Read more

[Taken] Web-Browser and Server for Information-Centric Networking

Stefan Weber (email | all projects)

The current Internet architecture assumes communication based on the identity of hosts e.g. the name/IP address of a webserver in a URL. Individual clients connect to specific servers to retrieve documents and videos. Information-centric networking instead assumes that content is the focus of communication and is uniquely named in networks e.g. a consumer asks a … Read more

[Taken] WebTransport/HTTP3/QUIC on Embedded Systems

Stefan Weber (email | all projects)

In contrast to conventional web-browsers and servers, solutions for embedded systems are challenged by resource restrictions such as limited memory and processing power, reliance on battery power and restricted connectivity to communication networks. Concential web-browsers and servers are moving towards employing a combination of HTTP/3 and QUIC, potentially with WebTransport being based on top of … Read more