Address:
Institute of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr. 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
News and Announcements
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May 21, 2012: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 2 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks. (link)
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May 20, 2012: The Tiroler Tageszeitung published a very nice article on the research activities of the Computer and Communication Systems group in its Sunday issue. (link)
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May 12, 2012: The CCS group joined a local running event in Innsbruck with two teams: in the Staffel (relay) over 10km we finished as number 19 out of 55 after 41:34 minutes, that means number 15 out of 36 for the university ranking; our 2nd team over 25km finished as number 16 out of 106 after 01:47:42.
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May 6, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2012-Spring).
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April 28, 2012: The CCS team presented vehicular networking topics in form of a hands-on game for kids between 5 and 50. Seems that we did a good job in motivating our guests to join the game and to talk about vehicular research problems. The Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT) published a nice picture (follow link "Mehr Fotos").
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April 26, 2012: Prof. Falko Dressler gave his inaugural lecture on April 26, 2012 at the Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP). You can find the official announcement and the video recording online. (link)
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April 2, 2012: CCS welcomes its new member Michele Segata. He graduated from University of Trentom, Italy and is continuing his research activities on inter-vehile communication protocols funded by the BIT PhD School. (link)
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March 25, 2012: About 1/3 of the CCS group traveled to Orlando to visit IEEE Infocom 2012.
Noorsalwati Nordin presents her work "On the Impact of Beacon Collisions in Co-located IEEE 802.15.4-based Networks";
and together with Bastian Bloessl they present our demo "SaFIC: A Spectrum Analysis Framework for Interferer Classification in the 2.4 GHz Band".
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March 19, 2012: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Simulation of Vehicular Communications: Principles and Challenges" at the 16th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependability and Fault Tolerance (MMB/DFT 2012)
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February 25, 2012: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Seefeld for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiiing, and lots of discussions.
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January 17, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012).
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December 21, 2011: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is still number 4 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks. (link)
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December 11, 2011: Two of our IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing papers are still among the top 25 most accessed papers as of October 2011: Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks and Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis. Furthermore, our paper "Towards Realistic Simulation of Inter-Vehicle Communication: Models, Techniques and Pitfalls" is among the top 10 most accessed papers of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
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November 23, 2011: Falko Dressler started his second series of talks on November 23, 2011 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to the Benelux (Ghent, Eindhoven, and Delft) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano communications
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November 5, 2011: Our paper "SlotSwap: Strong and Affordable Location Privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems" has just been published in the November issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine (link)
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October 27, 2011: We are glad to announce a talk by Dr. Dirk Husemann (IBM Zurich) about "IBM Change Risk Expert — Never touch a running system...".
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October 4, 2011: Our paper "Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks" is among the top 10 most accessed papers in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing as of August 2011. (link)
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September 15, 2011: Our paper "Towards Realistic Simulation of Inter-Vehicle Communication: Models, Techniques and Pitfalls" has just been published in the September issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
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September 1, 2011: Falko Dressler will start his first series of talks on September 12, 2011 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to California (Orange County, San Diego, and San Fernando Valley) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano communications
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July 14, 2011: iPoint Story: "Umfassende Sensoren-Netzwerke, kommunizierende Autos und Maschinen in Zellgroesse: Alles Dinge, an und mit denen Falko Dressler forscht und arbeitet. Er ist seit Mai 2011 Professor fuer Technische Informatik am Institut fuer Informatik. Einiges dieser Forschung ist Zukunftsmusik, anderes wird unseren Alltag schon bald veraendern." (link)
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June 28, 2011: Our paper "Research Challenges in Inter-Vehicular Communication - Lessons of the 2010 Dagstuhl Seminar" is among the top 25 most accessed papers in IEEE Communications Magazine as of June 2011. (link)
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May 25, 2011: Two positions for doctoral students are available in our group: one in the field of wireless networking and one in the field of network security. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link)
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May 25, 2011: We finally prepared some announcements for possible thesis topics. Please see the new list of open theses for more details. (link)
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May 10, 2011: The Computer and Communication Systems Group got its new web site. Please note that we are currently setting up the web site. Some information might still be incomplete or missing. (link)
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May 1, 2011: Falko Dressler accepted the offer to a full professor ship at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck. He is currently establishing the new Computer and Communication Systems Group (Lehrstuhl für Technische Informatik).
