Falko Dressler

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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Falko Dressler

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Short Bio (Curriculum Vitae)

Falko Dressler is a Full Professor of Computer Science and head of the Computer and Communication Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck.

Dr. Dressler received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he joined the Computer Networks and Internet group at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science, University of Tuebingen. Between 2004 and 2011, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Computer Networks and Communication Systems chair at the Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen, coordinating the Autonomic Networking group.

He is an Editor for journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), and Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He was guest editor of special issues on self-organization, autonomic networking, and bio-inspired communication for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and others. Dr. Dressler was general chair of IEEE/ACM BIONETICS 2007 and IEEE/IFIP WONS 2011, TPC co-chair for IEEE VNC, IEEE VTC, and IEEE Globecom, and poster/demo chair for ACM MobiCom. He regularly serves in the TPC of networking conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE WCNC. Among other, Dr. Dressler wrote the textbook Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks, published by Wiley in 2007. Dr. Dressler is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the fields of inter-vehicular communication, self-organization, and bio-inspired and nano networking.

Dr. Dressler is a Senior Member of the IEEE (COMSOC, CS, VTS) as well as a Senior Member of ACM (SIGMOBILE), and member of GI (KuVS). He is actively participating in the IETF standardization. His research activities are focused on adaptive wireless networking and self-organization methods with applications in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, inter-vehicular communication, bio-inspired and nano networking, and network security.

Selected Publications (Full List)

  • Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (9), pp. 1214-1226, September 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Christoph Sommer, Ozan K. Tonguz and Falko Dressler, "Traffic Information Systems: Efficient Message Dissemination via Adaptive Beaconing," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49 (5), pp. 173-179, May 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Juergen Eckert, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "An Indoor Localization Framework for Four-rotor Flying Robots Using Low-power Sensor Nodes," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 60 (2), pp. 336-344, February 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Christoph Sommer, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (1), pp. 3-15, January 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler and Ozgur B. Akan, "A Survey on Bio-inspired Networking," Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 54 (6), pp. 881-900, April 2010. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Isabel Dietrich and Falko Dressler, "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 5 (1), pp. 1-39, February 2009. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Stefan Joerer, Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer, "Comparing Apples and Oranges? Trends in IVC Simulations," Proceedings of 9th ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Internetworking (VANET 2012), Low Wood Bay, Lake District, UK, June 2012. (to appear) [BibTeX, Details...]
  • David Eckhoff, Christoph Sommer, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Cooperative Awareness At Low Vehicle Densities: How Parked Cars Can Help See Through Buildings," Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), Houston, TX, December 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Tobias Limmer and Falko Dressler, "Improving the Performance of Intrusion Detection using Dialog-based Payload Aggregation," Proceedings of 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011), 14th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2011), Shanghai, China, April 2011, pp. 833-838. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, Abdalkarim Awad and Mario Gerla, "Inter-Domain Routing and Data Replication in Virtual Coordinate Based Networks," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]