Dr. Peter Racz

• Phone: +41 44 635 67 02
  
• Fax: +41 44 635 68 09
• E-mail: racz@ifi.uzh.ch

Research Interests

Core Interests

• Network management and traffic measurements
• Distributed systems and communication systems
• Service-based accounting architectures
• IP flow accounting

Further Interests

• Mobile telecommunication systems and IP mobility
• QoS provisioning
• Security architectures

Projects Involved

• AMAAIS: Accounting and Monitoring of AAI Services (04/2009 - today)
• SCRIPT: Scalable and Robust Decentralized IP Traffic Flow Collection and Analysis (05/2008 - today)
• BEinGRID: Business Experiments in GRID (AgroGrid BE) (04/2008 - today)
  
• SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies (01/2008 - today)
  
• DaSAHIT: Decentralized and Scalable Analysis of High-speed IP Traffic (01/2008 - today)
  
• EMANICS: European Network of Excellence (NoE) on Management of the Internet and Complex Services (01/2007 - today)
• EC-GIN: Europe-China Grid InterNetworking (11/2006 - today)
• Akogrimo: Access to Knowledge through the Grid in a mobile World (07/2004 - 12/2007)
• DAMMO II (01/2006 - 04/2007)
• DAMMO: Distributed Accounting and Auditing Management for Multiple Mobile Network Operators (12/2003 - 12/2004)

Publications

• See the publications page.
  

Theses

Open and Ongoing Theses

• See the theses page for suggestions.
  

Completed Theses

• Implementation of a Flexible NetFlow Collector
  Internship Project, 01/2009 - 07/2009, Finished by Korathaluri Kishore Kumar
• Service Quality Measurement in IP Networks
  Diploma Thesis, 12/2008 - 06/2009, Finished by Daniel Dönni
• An Authentication Architecture for Network Access in Multi-Domain Mobile IPv6 Networks
  Diploma Thesis, 09/2006 - 03/2007, Finished by Elias Diem
  

• Design and Implementation of a Metering Component for an A4C Architecture
  Internship Project, 07/2006 - 09/2006, Finished by Amine Laadhari
• Implementation of a Network Authentication Client for Akogrimo
  Internship Project, 05/2006 - 07/2006, Finished by Abakash Saikia
• Implementation of a JNI-based Java Interface for the A4C Client Library
  Internship Project, 10/2005 - 02/2006, Finished by Laura de Pablo
  
• Design and Implementation of a Charging Component and a Formal Tariff Specification for Grid Services
  Diploma Thesis, 09/2005 - 03/2006, Finished by Ruben Meier

• A SOAP-based Interface in Support of AAA as Web Services in a Grid Environment
  Diploma Thesis, 09/2005 - 03/2006, Closed
• Design and Implementation of a Flexible Charging Component and Pricing Specification for Mobile Grid Services
  Internship Project, 05/2005 - 07/2005, Finished by Rahul Sharma
  

Teaching Activities

• Autumn Term 2009
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
  
• Seminar Mobile Systems IV
  
• Spring Term 2009
• Seminar Communication Systems III
  
• Fall Term 2008
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
• Seminar Internet Economics IV
• Protocols for Multimedia Communication
  
• Spring Term 2008
• Seminar Mobile Systems III
  
• Fall Term 2007
• Seminar Communication Systems II
  
• Summer Term 2007
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
• Seminar Internet Economics III
  
• Winter Term 2006/2007
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
• Seminar Mobile Systems II
  
• Summer Term 2006
• Mobile Communication Systems
• Seminar Communication Systems I
• Winter Term 2005/2006
• Protocols for Multimedia Communication
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
• Seminar Internet Economics II
• Summer Term 2005
• Mobile Communication Systems
• Mobile Systems Lab Course
• Seminar Mobile Systems I
• Winter Term 2004/2005
• Seminar Internet Economics I