These are a couple of papers I wrote during my time at University. They are not published in any journals or at conferences. They are simply here because I believe that they might helpful for others.

• Minimizing remote storage usage and synchronization time using deduplication and multichunking: Syncany as an example
  Master’s Thesis: Business Informatics, University of Mannheim, January 2012
  Read full document (PDF, 94 pages)
• Hybrid Clouds: Comparing Cloud Toolkits
  Seminar Paper: Business Informatics, University of Mannheim, April 2010
  Read full document (PDF, 30 pages), Show presentation (PDF, 15 slides)
• Blacklisting Malicious Websites using a Secure Version of the DHT Protocol Kademlia
  Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Mannheim, May 2009, 4th prize at the CAST Award IT Security 2009
  Read Abstract, Read full document (PDF, 76 pages), Show presentation (PDF, 29 slides)

  Abstract

  While classical client-server systems are mostly equipped with numerous
  security features, most peer-to-peer systems still lack authentication mechanisms
  and communication encryption.
  In this paper, we extend the well-known P2P-based protocol Kademlia to an
  access-restricted and secure distributed hash table (DHT), called
  Kademlia Secure (KadS). While traditional P2P networks allow
  every node to join and communicate with one another, our DHT protocol
  implements certificate-based authentication and encrypts the communication
  between participating nodes, i.e. nodes have to possess a valid CA-signed
  public key certificate and a matching private key to join the network.
  Therefore, KadS allows the creation of a trustworthy P2P network and can
  be used to store confidential information in a distributed manner.

  As a primary application for KadS, we implemented a
  P2P-based URL blacklisting service on-top of the secure DHT:
  in order to protect Internet users from unintentionally browsing
  malicious web sites, our main goal was to develop the infrastructure
  for a blacklisting service that warns users before visiting potentially
  harmful sites. Instead of using a centralized data store, however, we used
  KadS as a distributed storage and extended it to a browser-accessable
  blacklist service. The developed blacklist stores information about
  malicious web sites and provides an interface for end-users to access it.

• Server Virtualisation with VMware
  Seminar Paper: Business Informatics, University of Mannheim, November 2008
  Read full document (PDF, 22 pages), Show presentation (PDF, 13 slides)