Welcome to the SCoRe Lab Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 project ideas page. We are a dynamic and enthusiastic nonprofit research group pioneering in Internet of Things (IoT), Embedded Systems, Computer Security, Software Tools and 'Wireless Adhoc and Sensor Networks' and is one of the best groups in South Asia. This is the 4th time that we are participating in the GSoC, we will use this page to develop possible project ideas that have on the above mentioned areas. Please note that anyone who is interested can participate in this process. You do not have to be a GSoC student or mentor to suggest possible project ideas. You can also talk to us about possible project ideas and we are happy to improve or heip you with them. Please keep in mind that projects need to be realistically something that is able to be functionally completed by a student working full time for about eight weeks. Thanks!
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Front-end of the OpenDF currently implemented using AngularJS and we are in the process of rewriting the front-end using ReactJS and Redux. It was implemented using the react-boilerplate . Some front-end components are already implemented and we expect you to implement the rest of the front-end features. Webpack, Redux, Sagas, Reselect, StyledComponents. etc are used. Components should be tested using Jest, including snapshot tests.
Expected Results:Even though the current architecture of the Nodecloud is modular, some of the components have been wired up so that the entire application has now become a monolith. The idea of decomposing the architecture is backed up by the fact that people will use only a particular provider at a given instance and load all the components related to all cloud providers will be an overkill for the application. Main tasks in this idea are to identify a modular architecture where the entire core is a separate NPM module and all the cloud providers will implement the core to develop other cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
Expected Results:Rackspace Provider is another key provider which we are missing at the moment. Student has a bigger task to do here as Rackspace does not offer their own NodeJS SDK. What they offer is pkgcloud binding for Rackspace. Student will have to implement the NodeSDK using REST API and will have to use the developed SDK to support Rackspace provider for Nodecloud.
Expected Results: Support for VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedDigital Ocean is a key cloud provider. However current D.O. NodeJs wrapper is not actively maintaining. Therefore this project is a two part project. First you have to identify what are key components already developed in current wrapper and take necessary actions to implement the rest. Next part is using the developed SDK to implement following in the NodeCloud.
Expected Results: Support for Digital Ocean VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedMicrosoft Azure is a highly used cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, Nodecloud only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Azure in the Nodecloud. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students. Following are the key areas Nodecloud needs to be expand in Azure Provider.
Expected Results: Support for Azure VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedAli-cloud is a rising cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, NodeJS only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Ali-cloud in the NodeJS. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students.
Expected Results: Support for AliCloud VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedDigital Ocean is a rising cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, GoCloud only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Digital Ocean in the GoCloud. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students.
Expected Results: Support for Digital Ocean VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedMicrosoft Azure is a highly used cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, GoCloud only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Azure in the GoCloud. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students.
Expected Results: Support for Azure VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedAli-cloud is a rising cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, GoCloud only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Ali-cloud in the GoCloud. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students.
Expected Results: Support for AliCloud VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedRackspace is a rising cloud provider in the cloud arena. Currently, GoCloud only supports only AWS and GCP. Students task is to implement the major services of Rackspace in the GoCloud. The student will have to discuss with mentors for the potential project scope as implementing entire provider will be a bigger task and may require multiple students.
Expected Results: Support for VM, Container, DNS, Storage, CDN has to be implementedEmulation engine for Google Cloud.
Google cloud provide multiple of emulators. However it does not emulate the entire cloud. In this project you are required to identify key components which does not have any emulators, and implment them. Since there are number of services, it is up to you to do the initial research and identify which components you can implement during the GSoC period. NodeJS is the prefered language for this and you will spend time with mentors implementing the specifications of Google cloud provider.
Emulation engine for Azure.
Azure provide emulators for CosmosDB and some cloud function related emulators. However it laks emulation capabilities for the Storage, CDN, API Gateway and many other services. Do your research and plan what are the key features which you could implement.
Bassa is automated download queue for enterprise to take the best use of internet bandwidth. Current bassa frontend is written in AngularJs(Angular1) and there are many areas that can be improved. The objective of this project is rewrite bassa front-end with Angular(Angular4).
Expected Results:Basa is an automated download queue for enterprise to take the best use of internet bandwidth. It is capable of avoiding redundant downloads within an enterprise. Given a download link, it is capable of downloading the files to the Bassa server, these downloads will be stored in a public folder and visible to any Bassa user.
Expected Results:Study the code and identify the issues, bad coding decisions, security vulnerabilities, anti-patterns, etc. Then identify the best way to restructure the code and fix the issues above while optimizing the code and increasing readability and maintainability. Propose us all the issues you see and the changes you plan to do.
Expected Results:Bassa is automated download queue for enterprise to take the best use of internet bandwidth. It is capable of avoiding redundant downloads within an enterprise. Bassa used aria2 as the download utility. The objective of this project is separate out `aria2` from the Bassa core and finish Bassa dockerization.
Expected Results:Bassa is automated download queue for enterprise to take the best use of internet bandwidth. It is capable of avoiding redundant downloads within an enterprise. Currently users interact with Bassa using Bassa web-app. The objective of this project is to design and implement new mobile app for Bassa using mobile app development framework like Ionic or React Native.
Expected Results:Drola Web Portal is for drola registrations and monitoring. According to the system we need to develop separate admin portal for register drones, approve drones and monitor flying drones on real time. Another special feature need for public users to register their drones by themselves and obtaining an unique key for their registered drones. Drola Admin Web Portal should be communicate with Dlora backend and update the locations of flying drone locations in real time. System should receive real time notifications on when drones entering to restricted area.
Expected Results:Drones use their radio link to communicate with their ground stations and controllers. Those radio links can communicate for a limited range. When a drone fly automatically through way points it may go away from radio link. Then ground station unable to monitor that drone any more. We want a system to monitor automatically flying drones using long range communication network “LORA” . Its mandatory to uniquely identifying each drone, for that we want to bind unique key to each drone. The final product should be a separate unit which can externally mound on any kind of drone. Currently we have a system consisting with seperate devices to mount on drones and web system to monitor their locations. That device send data like location, timestamp, and nodeid with AES encryption. This is an one way communication system which sends messages only from drones to the DroLa web System. For further developments we are seeking to improve the system as follows. We want a new platform to send messages in more general way instead of current fixed message format. Then we can introduce this system to other tracking solutions also. We want to design a bidirectional communication protocol and implement it including message passers for both Lora Node side and web server side. Current system is running on web sockets, drone locations are collected by Lora receivers and send them to the web server through a web socket server. we want to move to a realtime database instead of using websockets. If you willing to join with us as a GSOC student please send your proposal with a design for the system. Your new ideas also warmly welcome.
Expected Results:Dronesym is a platform enabling users to handle and track their drone fleets in real time. Users can have functionality to add new drones configure their flight paths and monitor their progress through a web dashboard. The project currently utilizes Firebase real-time database for updating drone statistics on screen.
Expected Results:Currently, we are using the generated jHipster UI for OpenIoE. We need to implement a customized user interface for providing a better user experience. Angular or React can be used.
Expected Results:Currently, OpenIOE does not implement any security mechanisms for publishing or subscribing to any registered sensors in the backend. In order to support more clients, MQTT authentication and GUID based URL routing can be used.
Expected Results:Stackle is a web communication portal aimed at providing Open Source organizations a platform to have discussions on their GitHub projects and their issues. It provides GitHub integration which allows the administrator of an organization to create a forum thread for the particular organization. Users signing in are able to view forums of the organizations they contribute to and engage in the forum discussions. The current API of the Stackle is not organized in a proper way. It needs to be structured according the nature of the API call (Ex; for API endpoints related to posts the API endpoint should be something like ‘/api/posts/..’). The API calls are also not authenticated as of now. Therefore API calls needs to be authenticated as well. Additional endpoints will also needed to be added as per the requirements.
Expected Results:Stackle is a web communication portal aimed at providing Open Source organizations a platform to have discussions on their GitHub projects and their issues. It provides GitHub integration which allows the administrator of an organization to create a forum thread for the particular organization. Users signing in are able to view forums of the organizations they contribute to and engage in the forum discussions. There are still some functionalities remain that needs to be implemented in the front-end. Such functionality needs to be implemented and any extra functionality that suits the app needs to be implemented as well (Changes can be proposed). UI should be improved to in terms of consistency and design.
Expected Results:SoundCom is an mobile application which can transmit data through sound waves. In the first phase, We can use sound waves within audible range. In order to do that we will be develop a client and a sender. Client is a simple listener application. It always in listening mode and if a sound detect then it decode the sound and retrieve the message. Sender also have functionalities.
Currently there are many kind of social problems and situations which can make solutions by sharing photos, comments and messages. One global platform is may not a solution for those kind of problems from different categories. There should be a specified place to address a particular social problem or situation. The goal of this project is to implement a common app template which can convert to any social problem with minimum configuration changes. As an example template will support to make dengue stop app, property selling app, idea sharing app etc. with changing configuration of the app.
Expected Results:EtherBeat is an Ethereum blockchain monitoring service which utilizes graph database for querying. The next step for EtherBeat will be developing a graph-based visualization service that can utilize the potential provided by Apache TinkerPop framework.
Expected Results:Implement an analyzing framework which can provide users important information about Ethereum platform. This must utilize existing GraphQL schema to answer the queries. Eg;
Currently EtherBeat extract from Ethereum blockchain in parallel using different threads. However, this is not scalable due to various overheads (network calls, storage). We want to optimize the extraction process to make it more scalable. Student is expected to propose alternatives and implement it in EtherBeat.
Expected Results: Student should be able to demonstrate the performance benchmarks of the optimized solution and merge it to EtherBeat codebase.OpenSNA is a research project at conception. It will provide an extensible and reliable toolkit to analyze a graph representation of a social network. The end goal of the project is to identify the initial seed nodes which influences a certain node of a social network. A major real world use cases would be to trace the information flow to source in a social network.
Expected Results:ImageLab is a image analyzing platform. Users can load large set of images to ImageLab then they can analyzing, labeling, clustering them using diffrent object detection modules.
Expected Results:BlockSci is a blockchain explorer and it enables fast and expressive analysis of Bitcoin’s and many other cryptocurrency blockchains. ChainKeeper is a web application for technical and non-technical users. They can configure the ChainKeeper's data path to BlockSci data and run the web application. In the web application it need to have static data explorer and dynamic data explore like Jupyter Notebook. Multiple users should be able perform analysis simultaneously in python sessions.
Expected Results:BellyDynamic is itself, a data structure that can be used to store dynamic graph objects. In the current version, temporal graphs can only be represented by timestamps as edge attributes. Analyzing temporal behavior may require trajectory representations of nodes that capture both structural and attribute properties of graphs in an evolving graph space. Here, the task is to explore non-linear models (e.g. deep learning) to effectively represent nodes in a vector space for studying evolution of networks. This module would facilitate an effective learning process (e.g., node classification, link prediction, graph reconstruction) for many real-world problems including label propagation, information diffusion, community influence etc. that can be applied on top of many heterogeneous networks.
Expected Results:Androphsy(OpenMF) is an opensource forensic tool for Android smartphones that helps digital forensic investigator throughout the life cycle of digital forensic investigation. Services provided by Androphsy includes.