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Christoph Sommer is Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of computer science at Paderborn University, Germany.
Since 2017 he is heading the Cooperative Mobile Systems group of CCS Labs at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Dept. of Computer Science.
He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering (Dr.-Ing., with distinction) and his M.Sc. degree in computer science (Dipl.-Inf. Univ.) from the University of Erlangen in 2011 and 2006, respectively.
In 2010, he was a visiting scholar with the research group of Ozan K. Tonguz in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
In 2012, he was a visiting scholar with the research group of Mario Gerla in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Until 2014, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Computer and Communication Systems Group at the University of Innsbruck.
Before being appointed a professor, he was Akademischer Rat in the Distributed Embedded Systems group at Paderborn University.
Since 2011, he serves as a member of the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) editorial board.
Since 2016, he serves as area editor for Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM).
His research is focused on questions regarding traffic efficiency, safety, and security aspects of Car-to-X communication in heterogeneous environments.
He also authored the textbook Vehicular Networking, published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press.
Selected Publications (see full list)
Florian Klingler, Falko Dressler and Christoph Sommer, "The Impact of Head of Line Blocking in Highly Dynamic WLANs," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67 (8), pp. 7664-7676, August 2018.
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David Eckhoff and Christoph Sommer, "Readjusting the Privacy Goals in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: A Safety-preserving Solution Using Non-Overlapping Time-slotted Pseudonym Pools," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 122, pp. 118-128, June 2018.
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Florian Klingler, Falko Dressler, Jiannong Cao and Christoph Sommer, "MCB - A Multi-Channel Beaconing Protocol," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 36 (1), pp. 258-269, January 2016.
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Christoph Sommer, Stefan Joerer, Michele Segata, Ozan K. Tonguz, Renato Lo Cigno and Falko Dressler, "How Shadowing Hurts Vehicular Communications and How Dynamic Beaconing Can Help," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 14 (7), pp. 1411-1421, July 2015.
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Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, Vehicular Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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David Eckhoff and Christoph Sommer, "Driving for Big Data? Privacy Concerns in Vehicular Networking," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 12 (1), pp. 77-79, February 2014.
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Lung-Chih Tung, Jorge Mena, Mario Gerla and Christoph Sommer, "A Cluster Based Architecture for Intersection Collision Avoidance Using Heterogeneous Networks," Proceedings of 12th IFIP/IEEE Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2013), Ajaccio, Corsica, France, June 2013.
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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.
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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.
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