Seminar Technische Informatik on Internet of Things & Security

NOTE WELL: This seminar is research-oriented, in english, and primarily aimed at Masters students. You will learn how to survey and present academic work in written and oral form. Down the line, it may prepare you for a thesis on the topic you survey during the seminar.

WARNING: This seminar is demanding. The schedule is tight, and you will have to put substantial work into surveying related work (breadth coverage), studying a specific technique (depth coverage) and structuring the written and oral presentation of your survey (tending towards an acceptable academic research level).

SYNOPSIS: In large part, the deep edge (aka the Internet of Things, or IoT) consists of distributed systems including low-end devices with very small memory capacity (a few kBytes) and limited energy consumption (1000 times less than a RaspberryPi). Deep edge capabilities promise a new world of applications, but also bring up specific challenges in terms of programmability, energy efficiency, networking and security. After an introductory session at the start of the term, MSc students will pick a topic related to current technologies in the field of low-power deep edge computing, Internet of Things and security, and write a report (IEEE LaTeX template, approx. 12 pages including figures and references, A4, double column, 1.5 spacing, 11-point font) discussing corresponding questions. At the end of the term, the participants present their results in the form of a short talk (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) in a meeting, which will also include cross-reviewing of student's presentations. During the term, there will be deadlines for status reports, but no weekly meetings of the complete seminar group.

Attendance is mandatory only for the introductory session, a mid-term presentation, and the final presentation at the end of the term.

SCHEDULE

15.10.2025: at 10am sharp, introductory session (presence mandatory, T9/K40)
After 1 week: topic selection
19.11.2025: at 10am sharp preliminary presentation of outline (presence mandatory, T9/K40)
17.12.2025: deadline to submit alpha version of the report 
26.01.2026: deadline to submit final version of the report  
28.01.2026: at 10am sharp final presentation session including Q&A (presence mandatory, T9/K40)

Literatur

The typical bibliography and online resources that will be in scope to survey for this seminar includes:
- reviewing academic publications, e.g. papers from IEEE, ACM conferences/journals (available onscholar.google.com);
- reviewing network protocol open standard specifications, e.g. IETF drafts and Request For Comments (RFC);
- reviewing open source implementations (e.g. available on GitHub).