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

Short Bio (Curriculum Vitae)

Falko Dressler is a Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Computer and Communication Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck. He teaches on self-organizing sensor and actor networks, network security, and communication systems. Dr. Dressler received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree 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.

Dr. Dressler 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 computing and 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. Besides acting as TPC chair for a number of high-profile conferences and workshops, he regularly acts in the TPC of leading networking conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE WCNC. Among other, Dr. Dressler wrote the textbooks 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 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 addressing issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, inter-vehicular communication systems, bio-inspired networking, and adaptive network security techniques.

Selected Publications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Falko Dressler and Ozgur B. Akan, "A Survey on Bio-inspired Networking," Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 54 (6), pp. 881-900, April 2010.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Feng Chen, Xiaoyu Tong, Edith Ngai and Falko Dressler, "Mode Switch - Adaptive Use of Delay-Sensitive Or Energy-Aware Communication in IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks," Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010), San Francisco, CA, November 2010, pp. 302-311.
• 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.