Master thesis topics

Filesystem support for large-scale search

How do you use Internet search engines? Do you write very specific queries? Many people and programs do, and search engines are learning new tricks. The filesystems that hold the huge search indexes need to become better as well. You can contribute in this thesis.

Performance isolation

Have you used virtual machines? Than you know that you can restrict how much CPU time and memory they can consume. But who talks about disk I/O? Today, virtual machines can suffocate their neighbours and the host OS by congesting the disk. You can do something about it.

Evaluation of scalable video coding techniques for robust video streaming

Investigate how parameter choices for Scalable Video Coding affect video quality

Optimal rate control for QoS-aware video streams

Investigate how the choice of encoding parameters for scalable video affects the video quality for different and varying bandwidths

Parallel media processing

Using multi-core processors can reduce the latency of video encoding and transcoding. How close can you get to a linear speed increase? Is it possible no matter which encoding parameter you choose for the video?

Overview of master theses offered by external partners

Members of the ND group's RELAY project can internally supervise theses offered by external partners. Here are links to theses offered by Norsk Regnesentral, Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, FAST and Enfo Broadcast.

Multicore scheduling algorithms

You can be impressed by the computing power of a modern graphics card. 128 separate processing cores is quite a huge number, and you will want to share them among several processors. But they don't share busses and memory in the same way as general purpose processors. So how should you allocate the work to them?