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Christoph Sommer is an Assistant Professor (AkadR a.Z.) at Paderborn University, joining the Distributed Embedded Systems Group in 2014. 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 at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In 2012, he was a visiting scholar with the research group of Mario Gerla at the Computer Science Department of 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. Since 2011, he is 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.
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.
[DOI, BibTeX, Details...] David Eckhoff and Christoph Sommer, "Driving for Big Data? Privacy Concerns in Vehicular Networking," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 12 (1), pp. 77-79, February 2014.
[DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...] 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.
[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...] 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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