Ask HN: What would you write for a thesis in distributed systems?
I need to write a thesis for the next semester.
I have couple of ideas and i would like to do something interesting.
1-) Abnormal behavior detection in containerized environments
In this idea, the hard part is to collect syscall information between containers and OS kernel. After that i will apply a machine learning algorithm to compare current syscall information with the previous ones that i have already collected. So, I can deduce whether a process is working in predefined syscall space or not. Outcome would be a business value that could lead to a startup vs.
2-) Using OP_Return in Bitcoin transactions
In bitcoin transactions, when crafting a bitcoin transaction, you can have up to 80bytes reserved for custom purposes. It is a research topic and some people actually wrote a paper about it. http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_15.pdf Outcome would be C++ library that will parse blockchain and build up bitcoin transactions with OP_RETURN values those can be used for custom purposes. So, by building this library, i will have learnt how bitcoin works in low level, understand transactions and protocol and some other cool stuff.
So these are my rough ideas for the thesis. If you have interesting ideas or suggestions about distributed systems, containers ,cloud,security please let me know.