News and Announcements
- January 14, 2020: We welcome Hossein Doroud who joined our group in January 2020. He will work on IT security and attack detection.
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- January 10, 2020: Our article Software-based Real-time Full-duplex Relaying: An Experimental Study has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
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- January 08, 2020: We have been co-organizing the 12th edition of the 12th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2020). The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from Asia, the US, and Europe.
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- December 24, 2019: We wish all of our friends and followers Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- December 23, 2019: We were happy to host Prof. Ana Aguiar, who gave a talk on "Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility".
- December 18, 2019: Our article Experimental Evaluation of Receive Diversity Techniques in Distributed Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
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- December 17, 2019: We congratulate Fabian Missbrenner for winning this year's Distinguished Student award at CCS Labs!
It is in recognition of his valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant.
- December 16, 2019: We celebrated a very successful year during our yearly Christmas party.
We enjoyed nice food, drinks and presents from Santa Claus (Johannes) in a relaxed atmosphere.
- December 11, 2019: Claas Tebruegge presented our paper titled Reduced Multiuser-Interference for Vehicular VLC using SDMA and Matrix Headlights at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019) in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
- December 10, 2019: Our paper "Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis" received over 1000 citations.
It introduces one of the fundamental concepts of our Veins simulator, which is the de-facto standard for vehicular network simulation in academia and industry.
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- December 06, 2019: We received the Best Demo Award at IEEE VNC 2019 for our work Making It Real – Virtual Edge Computing in a 3D Driving Simulator.
Gurjashan S. Pannu presented the demo in Los Angeles, California.
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- December 06, 2019: Max Schettler gave a talk about our papers titled The Chosen One: Combating VLC Interference in Platooning using Matrix Headlights and Using Full Duplex Relaying to Reduce Physical Layer Latency in Platooning at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
Claas Tebruegge gave a talk about our paper titled Empirical Characterization of the NLOS Component for Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
Dominik S. Buse gave a talk about our paper titled Towards Real-Time Interactive V2X Simulation at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
Gurjashan S. Pannu gave a talk about our paper titled Making It Real – Virtual Edge Computing in a 3D Driving Simulator at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
Tobias Hardes gave a talk about our paper titled Towards Heterogeneous Communication Strategies for Urban Platooning at Intersections at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
- December 06, 2019: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2019, this year hosted in Los Angeles, California.
- December 01, 2019: Our proposal Network-Informed Control – Control-Informed network: towards multi techNology dynamICally ChangIng networksAvalanches (NICCI^2) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore networked control systems as a fundamental basis for cyber physical networks.
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- November 25, 2019: The BATS project has been concluded after six years of research funded by German Research Foundation (DFG).
In an interdisciplinary team (biology, electrical engineering, computer science), we developed a novel embedded system architecture weighing less than one gram to be carried by the target species bats.
The CCS team mainly contributed with their award winning coding and wake-up receiver solutions, as well as with a novel distributed macro diversity scheme running on low-power nodes.
The BATS team also released a press release (in German).
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- November 12, 2019: The German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) just appointed Falko Dressler as a member.
acatech brings together science, industry and civil society.
The Academy's Members are prominent scientists from the fields of engineering, the natural sciences and medicine, as well as the humanities and social sciences.
Funded by the Federal Government and the states, the National Academy of Science and Engineering is the voice of the technological sciences at home and abroad.
acatech provides policymakers and society with independent, evidence-based advice that is in the public interest.
In doing so, it aims to promote sustainable growth through innovation.
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- November 06, 2019: We welcome Stefan Loewen who joined our group in November 2019. He will work on simulating macroscopic molecular communication.
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- October 31, 2019: Our article Car-to-Pedestrian Communication with MEC-Support for Adaptive Safety of Vulnerable Road Users has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
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- October 29, 2019: Our proposal Particle Tracking in Snow (AvaRange) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore sensor network-based particle tracking using inertial measurements combined with radio telemetry.
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- October 02, 2019: Falko Dressler just talked about "MEC to Go: Using Cars to Enable Virtual Mobile Edge Computing" at the IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G 2019), Workshop on 5G Applications and Services in Dresden, Germany.
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- September 25, 2019: Fabian Bronner presented our paper Towards Mastering Complex Particle Movement and Tracking in Molecular Communication Simulation at the 6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM 2019) in Dublin, Ireland.
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- September 23, 2019: Lukas Stratmann presented our paper Psychological Feasibility of a Virtual Cycling Environment for Human-in-the-Loop Experiments at GI #INFORMATIK2019 Workshop on ICT based Collision Avoidance for VRUs #ICT4VRU.
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- September 20, 2019: CCS was participating at the #allefürsklima climate demonstration in Paderborn 🌍💪 #fridaysforfuture #scientistsforfuture #fff #allefürsklima
- July 30, 2019: Agon Memedi received a Fulbright Fellowship for 2019-2020, sponsoring his appointment as Visiting Graduate Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- July 29, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "From Vehicular Networking to 5G and Mobile Edge Computing and Back" at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019) in Valencia, Spain.
- July 21, 2019: Our article Turning Sensor Networks into Distributed Antenna Arrays for Improved Communication Performance has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine.
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- July 15, 2019: We welcome Lukas Stratmann who joined our group in July 2019. He will work on molecular communication channels.
- July 07, 2019: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Göttingen for a four-day research retreat including research talks, social events, and lots of discussions.
- June 27, 2019: Felix Erlacher successfully defended his PhD on June 27, 2019.
His dissertation is titled Efficient Intrusion Detection in High-Speed Networks.
He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University.
You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel.(link to more information)
- June 27, 2019: Yesterday, we had a successful "Pizza & Theses @ CCS" event, where we briefly presented each of the thesis topics currently available and gave some hints on how writing a thesis with us works.
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- June 13, 2019: Florian Hagenauer successfully defended his PhD on June 13, 2019.
His dissertation is titled An Architecture for Connected Cars Providing Virtual Infrastructure and Services.
He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree with distinction from Paderborn University.
You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel.
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- June 13, 2019: We were happy to host Dr. Marco Fiore, who gave a talk on "Resource Management in Sliced 5G Networks".
- June 11, 2019: Gurjashan S. Pannu presented our paper "Keeping Data Alive: Communication Across Vehicular Micro Clouds" at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 in Washington, D.C.
Julian Heinovski presented our paper "Modeling Cycling Behavior to Improve Bicyclists' Safety at Intersections – A Networking Perspective" at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 in Washington, D.C.
- June 03, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "Vehicular Cloud Concepts for Mobile Edge Computing" at Politecnico di Milano honoring the lifetime achievements of our dear friend and long-term collaborator Mario Gerla.
- May 23, 2019: Our research project Safety4Bikes has been featured in a TV report at a local TV station (i.e., WDR Lokalzeit).
The report explains how we are improving the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRU), e.g., cyclists, by using Vehicular Communication (V2X).
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- May 21, 2019: Julian Heinovski, Dominik S. Buse and Mario Franke are presenting our research project Safety4Bikes at Zukunftskongress 2019 organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
- May 21, 2019: We had two papers at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019) in Shanghai, China. Unfortunately, Sohaib did not get a visa, so, Falko presented the first paper.
The papers are
An IEEE 802.11 Compliant SDR-based System for Vehicular Visible Light Communications
and
Experimental Insights on Software-based Real-Time SI Cancellation for In-Band Full Duplex DF Relays.
- May 16, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "Cooperative Automated Driving: From Assistance Systems to Networking to Human Interaction" at the 14th Workshop Related to Intelligent Communication Technologies (Nets4Cars-2019) in Colmar, France.
- May 06, 2019: Our proposal Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks (NaBoCom) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will investigate the integration of in-body nano networks with body are networks.
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- May 01, 2019: Florian Klingler presented our poster titled Jamming WLAN Data Frames and Acknowledgments using Commodity Hardware at the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) in Paris, France.
- April 23, 2019: Our article Efficient Data Handling in Vehicular Micro Clouds has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
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- April 03, 2019: Muhammad Nabeel successfully defended his PhD on April 03, 2019.
His dissertation is titled Reliable Communication in Distributed Sensor Networks.
He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University.
You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel.
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- April 01, 2019: We are looking back at five very successful years at Paderborn University.
As a member of Heinz Nixdorf Institute and supported for the first five years by dSPACE, we proudly celebrate with all our friends, collaborators, and supporters.
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- March 21, 2019: Fabian Bronner gave a talk about his bachelor thesis "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications" at NetSys 2019 for which he received the GI/ITG KuVS Award 2018. More information.
Johannes Blobel gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
Tobias Hardes gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
Julian Heinovski gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
Max Schettler gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
Bastian Bloessl gave a talk about low-power wireless communicatios at NetSys 2019:
Florian Klingler gave a talk about efficient wireless communication in vehicular networks at NetSys 2019:
- March 20, 2019: Many of our group members are attending the International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2019), hosted this year in Munich.
- February 21, 2019: Fabian Bronner was awarded a "Bachelor Thesis of the Year 2018" award by GI/ITG KuVS.
Together with his advisor, Christoph Sommer, he published the core of his thesis "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications" as a paper at IEEE VNC.
GI/ITG KuVS is the communication and distributed systems special interest group of the German Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Information Technology Society of VDE.
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- February 19, 2019: Falko Dressler just talked about Virtual Edge Computing Using Vehicular Micro Clouds at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019) in Honolulu, HI.
- February 16, 2019: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Editor to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking's Editorial Board. IEEE/ACM ToN is the most prestigous journal in computer networking.
- January 22, 2019: Quang-Huy Nguyen gave a talk about our paper titled Adaptive Safety Context Information for Vulnerable Road Users with MEC Support at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2019) in Wengen, Switzerland.
Max Schettler gave a talk about our paper titled Deeply Integrating Visible Light and Radio Communication for Ultra-High Reliable Platooning at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2019) in Wengen, Switzerland.
- January 18, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "Monitoring of Bats in the Wild Using Next Generation Ultra Low-Power Sensor Networks" at the Italian Networking Workshop (INW 2019) in Bormio, Italy.
- January 08, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "Ultra Low-Power Sensor Networks for Next Generation Wildlife Monitoring" at the 11th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2019) in Bengaluru, India.
- December 17, 2018: We congratulate Mario Franke for winning this year's distinguished student researcher award at CCS Labs!
- December 11, 2018: Falko Dressler has been featured by ACM in its People of the ACM series - Making a Difference: Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession.
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- December 10, 2018: Muhammad Nabeel presented our paper titled Preamble-Less Diversity Combining: Improved Energy-Efficiency in Sensor Networks at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- December 08, 2018: A new PhD position is available in our group. The scope is on systems oriented network research on energy-efficient WLAN. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
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- December 06, 2018: We just received the best paper runner-up award at IEEE VNC 2018 for our work on the impact of various headlight modules and corresponding vehicle types on the performance of Vehicular VLC.
Agon Memedi presented the paper in Taipei, Taiwan.
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- December 06, 2018: Christoph Sommer gave a talk about our paper titled Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled Impact of Vehicle Type and Headlight Characteristics on Vehicular VLC Performance at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
Julian Heinovski gave a talk about our paper titled Platoon Formation: Optimized Car to Platoon Assignment Strategies and Protocols at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
- December 06, 2018: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2018, this year hosted in Taipei, Taiwan.
- November 13, 2018: We have extended our prototype of the Virtual Cycling Environment.
It integrates a bike on a test bench with a simulated world of communicating vehicles.
We see this as a first step towards empirically investigating cycling behavior and integrating safety solutions for vulnerable road users.
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- November 07, 2018: Professor Falko Dressler (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Paderborn) has been named an 2018 ACM Distinguished Member For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.
Falko's research pioneered the design and analysis of self-organization techniques in sensor and vehicular networks.
His work contributed to the literature with many fundamental theories and novel communication techniques for these networks.
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 49 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. The 2018 Distinguished Members are exemplars for their peers, and represent ACM's worldwide geographic reach, as well as the exciting range of subdisciplines that constitute today's technology landscape.
- October 19, 2018: Our alumnus Isabel Wagner has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member. We congratulate her to this great achievement!
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- October 15, 2018: We were happy to host Prof. Ana Aguiar, who gave a talk on "Characterising Bike-to-X Connectivity".
- October 08, 2018: We welcome Max Schettler who joined our group in October 2018. He will work on heterogeneous communication protocols.
- October 01, 2018: We welcome Julian Heinovski who joined our group in October 2018. He will work on cooperative driving and vulnerable road users.
- September 17, 2018: Florian Klingler successfully defended his PhD on September 17, 2018. His dissertation is titled Efficient Wireless Communication in Vehicular Networks. He was awarded a Dr.rer.nat (summa cum laude) degree from Paderborn University.
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- September 12, 2018: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "5G Tactile Internet in Automotive Environments" at the National Symposium BMBF-Forschungsinitativen 5G on Future Industrial Communication in Berlin, Germany.
- September 06, 2018: We have been organizing the 5th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference is the key meeting place for people workong on nano communication techniques ranging from terahertz radio to ultrasound to molecular communications.
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- August 30, 2018: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "From Vehicular Micro Clouds to Cooperative Driving Maneuvers" at the International ICT Congress ANDICOM 2018 in Cartagena, Colombia.
- August 01, 2018: Our article Cooperative Driving and the Tactile Internet has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
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- July 30, 2018: Johannes Blobel has been accepted into Software Campus Program sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. This program combines leading-edge research with managment and leadership practice for tomorrow's senior IT executives.
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- July 15, 2018: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Herford for a three-day workshop including research talks, canoeing, hiking, and lots of discussions.
- June 27, 2018: Two new PhD positions are available in our group. The scope is on either nano networking or network monitoring. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
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- June 26, 2018: We were happy to host Prof. Renato Lo Cigno, who gave a talk on "Community Networks
Between Engineering and Society".
- June 25, 2018: Bastian Bloessl successfully defended his PhD on June 25, 2018. His dissertation is entitled A Physical Layer Experimentation Framework for Automotive WLAN. He was awarded a Dr.rer.nat (summa cum laude) degree from Paderborn University.
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- June 13, 2018: Gurjashan Pannu presented our paper titled Efficient Uplink from Vehicular Micro Cloud Solutions to Data Centers at the 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multinational (WoWMoM 2018) in Chania, Greece.
- June 12, 2018: We have been organizing the 16th edition of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services in Munich. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and South America.
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- June 06, 2018: We congratulate our group member Muhammad Nabeel on presenting his PhD research under 6 minutes and securing first position on EIM Science day at Paderborn University.
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- June 06, 2018: Students looking for open Bachelor/Master's theses topics are invited to join the "BSc/MSc Theses @ CCS" meeting, where available topics in our group will be presented.
Besides the theses topics which are up for grabs, in the end of the meeting you can grab free pizza provided by us.
- Where: F1.110
- When: 20.6., 18-19
- May 30, 2018: We have the first prototype of our 3D Cycling Simulator ready. It integrates a bike on a test bench with a simulated world of communicating vehicles. We see this as a first step towards empirically investigating cycling behavior and integrating safety solutions for vulnerable road users.
- May 28, 2018: Jun.-Prof. Christoph Sommer gave his inaugural lecture on May 28, 2018 at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (EIM). The talk introduced "Cooperative Mobile Systems".
- May 24, 2018: Christoph Sommer gave a keynote on "Towards Cooperative Mobile Systems in Smart Cities of Tomorrow" at the Workshop on 5G and Cooperative Autonomous Driving of ICC 2018.
- May 21, 2018: Our article Vehicular Micro Cloud in Action: On Gateway Selection and Gateway Handovers has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
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- May 20, 2018: Our article Bloom Hopping: Bloom filter based 2-Hop Neighbor Management in VANETs has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
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- May 20, 2018: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "From Connected Cars toVehicle Micro Clouds to Virtual Edges" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018).
- May 15, 2018: We are just running the Dagstuhl Seminar 18202 Inter-Vehicular Communication - Towards Cooperative Driving in Wadern, Germany.
The seminar is very well attended by experts from academia and industry from all places in the world.
We are discussing all questions related to cooperative autonomous driving and how to push this topic from ideas to making it reality.
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- May 10, 2018: Our article The Impact of Head of Line Blocking inHighly Dynamic WLANs has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- May 07, 2018: Our proposal Precise Attack Detection for Network Domains by Application Classification (PANDA) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will investigate attack detection techniques in large network domains using smart and adaptive distributions of network probes within an administrative domain and even within virtualized networks.
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- April 17, 2018: Dominik S. Buse just presented his demo Integrating a Driving Simulator with City-Scale VANET Simulation for the Development of Next Generation ADAS Systems at the 37th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018) in Honolulu, HI.
- April 04, 2018: Our article Readjusting the Privacy Goals in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: A Safety-preserving Solution Using Non-Overlapping Time-slotted Pseudonym Pools has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
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- March 22, 2018: Our article A Simulative Analysis of the Performance of IEEE 802.11p and ARIB STD-T109 has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
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- March 20, 2018: Our article Duplicate Suppression for Efficient Floating Car Data Collection in Heterogeneous LTE-DSRC Vehicular Networks has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
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- March 14, 2018: We were happy to host our former group member Dr. Michele Segata, who gave a talk on Future Directions in Platooning and discussed potential opportunities for collaboration.
- March 06, 2018: Falko Dressler just talked about Cyber Physical Social Systems: Towards Deeply Integrated Hybridized Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2018) in Maui, HI.
- February 27, 2018: We have a new PostDoc position available in our group in the general scope of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
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- February 20, 2018: Our article mSync: Physical Layer Frame Synchronization Without Preamble Symbols has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
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- February 06, 2018: Dominik S. Buse gave a talk about our paper titled Bridging Worlds: Integrating Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing with Large-Scale VANET Simulation at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2018) in Isola 2000, France.
Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled On the Need for Coordinated Access Control for Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2018) in Isola 2000, France.
- February 06, 2018: Many of our group members, past and present, are attending the Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2018, this year hosted in Isola 2000, France.
- January 02, 2018: We welcome Tobias who joined our group in January 2018. He will work on cooperative mobile systems.
- January 02, 2018: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now number 4 of the most highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
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- December 19, 2017: Our proposal Integration of Radar-based Communication in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Cooperatively Interacting Cars (RADCOM-HETNET) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore the use of heterogeneous communication protocols, most importanly RADAR based, for highly critical safety applications like platooning.
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- December 18, 2017: We just celebrated a very successful year in a quite relaxed atmosphere.
- December 13, 2017: ACM has re-appointed Falko Dressler as an ACM Distinguished Speaker for the period 2018-2020. ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) is a highly visible way for ACM members to engage with emerging professionals, students and, in some cases, the public on a range of topics in computing.
- December 07, 2017: Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled Impact of Realistic Light Radiation Pattern on Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017) in Singapore.
- November 29, 2017: Gurjashan Singh Pannu gave a talk about our paper titled QQDCA: Adapting IEEE 802.11 EDCA for Unicast Transmissions at High Topology Dynamics at the 9th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017) in Torino, Italy.
Bastian Bloessl gave a talk about our paper titled A Systematic Study on the Impact of Noise and OFDM Interference on IEEE 802.11p at the 9th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017) in Torino, Italy.
- November 28, 2017: Our article Efficient Receive Diversity in Distributed Sensor Networks using Selective Sample Forwarding has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
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- November 27, 2017: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2017, this year hosted in Torino, Italy.
- November 23, 2017: We thank Bastian Bloessl who gave a lecture about GNU Radio in our today's NES class.
- November 13, 2017: We welcome Gurjashan who joined our group in November 2017. He will work on vehicular networking protocols and solutions.
- November 01, 2017: Our alumnus Isabel Wagner has been elevated to ACM Senior Member. We congratulate her to this great achievement!
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- October 25, 2017: We congratulate Julian Heinovski and Max Schettler for winning this year's distinguished student researcher award at CCS Labs!
- October 23, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Virtual Vehicular Clouds as Enablersfor City-Wide ICT" at the 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2017).
- October 01, 2017: Christoph Sommer has been appointed junior professor in our computer science department and is starting his Cooperative Mobile Systems (Kooperative Fahrzeugsysteme) group. We congratulate Christoph to this step in his academic career.
- September 28, 2017: Our article Not All VANET Broadcasts Are the Same: Context-Aware Class Based Broadcast has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
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- September 11, 2017: Our article Function Centric Nano-Networking: Addressing Nano Machines in a Medical Application Scenario has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks.
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- September 03, 2017: Our article Performance Assessment of IEEE 802.11p with an Open Source SDR-based Prototype has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
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- August 25, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the ACM SIGCOMM.
- July 15, 2017: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Goslar for a three-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
- July 06, 2017: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor to the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering's Editorial Board. IEEE TNSE focuses on theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network.
- July 03, 2017: We are glad to report that Prof. Dr. Ahmed Helmy gave a seminar talk on "Data-Driven Design and Simulation of Future Mobile Networks (with applications in Vehicular Networks, Transportation, Mobile Health)".
- June 30, 2017: Falko Dressler has been elected is part of the new ACM SIGMOBILE executive committee. He will serve for four years as treasurer to the SIGMOBILE community.
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- May 25, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC).
- May 16, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: From Applications to Protocols and Back" at the IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2017).
- May 08, 2017: We just received the best demo award at IEEE INFOCOM 2017 for our concept of sender-triggered selective wake-up receivers to improve the energy efficiency of wireless communication in sensor networks.
Johannes Blobel demonstrated the concept in Atlanta, GA.
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- April 10, 2017: Bastian Bloessl received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, funding a two-year stay at CONNECT, Ireland's Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications.
- April 03, 2017: We welcome Sohaib who joined our group in April 2017. He will work on 5G and Tactile Internet solutions.
- March 30, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "The Tactile Internet and Its Impact on Cooperative Autonomous Driving" at IEEE Wireless Days 2017.
- March 15, 2017: Christoph Sommer has been elected as Steering Board Member of GT/ITG KuVS, the German Society for Communication and Distributed Systems. His term is 2017 to 2021.
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- February 16, 2017: We started the new project "Safety4Bikes - Safety assistance system for cycling kids", which is about the development of assistance system functionalities to improve the safety of kids on bicycles using behavior prediction and wireless communication technologies.
The project is funded by BMBF.
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- January 08, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC).
- December 01, 2016: We welcome Claas who joined our group in December 2016. He will work on visible light communication.
- November 22, 2016: Professor Falko Dressler (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Paderborn) has been named an IEEE Fellow (class of 2017). He is being recognized for contributions to adaptive and self-organizing communication protocols in sensor and vehicular networks. His work contributed to the literature with many fundamental theories and novel communication techniques for these networks. He identified the potentials of self-organization techniques very early and investigated these potentials first in the scope of sensor and actor networks. With his discoveries, he provided the foundations for a new generation of research on protocol design in massively distributed systems and large scale wireless networks. This work resulted in a ground-breaking model that can be applied to many problems in these areas but also to networks exhibiting a fast change of environmental conditions.
- November 18, 2016: We congratulate our group member Johannes Blobel for being part of the Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) team which won the "Tony Sale Award 2016" for the best computer conservation project.
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- November 04, 2016: Falko Dressler has been elected as a chair and spokesperson of GT/ITG KuVS, the German Society for Communication and Distributed Systems. His term is 2017 to 2021.
(link to more information)
- September 14, 2016: New PhD positions are available in our group in the general scope of computer and communication systems. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- September 01, 2016: Falko Dressler continued his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour to Sri Lanka and gave a keynote on "Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking" at the IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, Negombo, Sri Lanka.
- August 12, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Connected Cars to Smart Cities - On Wireless Communication Latency and Reliability" at the Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities, Santiago de Chile.
- July 22, 2016: Stefan Joerer successfully defended his PhD on July 22, 2016. His dissertation is entitled Improving Intersection Safety with Inter-Vehicle Communication.
(link to more information)
- July 06, 2016: We have been organizing the 27th edition of the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing in Paderborn. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Selected impressions have been disseminated by the German news.
(link to more information)
- June 28, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "10 Years of Vehicular Networking - The Quest for Low Latency and High Reliability" at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).
- June 22, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Towards the Tactile Internet - Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016).
- June 06, 2016: We welcome Dominik who joined our group in June 2016. He will work on vehicular networks and travel time optimization.
- June 05, 2016: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Dangast for a three-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
- May 04, 2016: We are glad to report that Prof. Dr. Vijay Bhargava gave a seminar talk on "Communications Technologies for 2020 and Beyond: An Energy-Efficient Perspective with Application to Automation".
- April 30, 2016: Our paper "Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 7 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- April 30, 2016: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 5 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- April 26, 2016: We started the new project "Hy-Nets - Hy-Nets - Efficient Hybrid Propulsion using Vehicular Networks", which is about a holistic investigation of hybrid propulsion in large scale cities for optimizing emissions and travel times using vehicular networking.
The project is funded by EFRE.NRW/EU.
(link to more information)
- April 11, 2016: We started the new project "C3 - Cloud Connected Cars" in which we investigate using cars to establish decentralized connected information clouds based on heterogeneous vehicular networks.
The project is funded by DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH.
(link to more information)
- April 03, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities" at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2016).
- February 12, 2016: Michele Segata successfully defended his PhD on February 12, 2016. His dissertation is entitled Safe and Efficient Communication Protocols for Platooning Control. He was awarded a double degree from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Trento.
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- February 10, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking to Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control," at AAET 2016 in Braunschweig, Germany.
- January 19, 2016: We are now member of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, where we will be able to work in an inter-disciplinary environment on intelligent technical systems.
(link to more information)
- January 19, 2016: Our article Motion-MiX DHT for Wireless Mobile Networks has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
(link to more information)
- January 18, 2016: Falko Dressler has been appointed to the L-LAB executive board. L-LAB is a research lab focusing on automotive light systems between HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co. and Paderborn University.
- January 12, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: Next Generation Vehicular Networking as a Primary Building Block" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC).
- January 07, 2016: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious Elsevier Computer Communications journal.
(link to more information)
- January 06, 2016: Our article Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- December 10, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: Next Generation Vehicular Networking as a Primary Building Block" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015).
- December 09, 2015: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 7 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- December 09, 2015: Our paper "A Survey on Bio-inspired Networking" is now the top 8 of highly cited papers of Elsevier Computer Networks.
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- November 30, 2015: Our AvaRang approach has been selected among some 50+ proposed projects for the 2015 IEEE COMSOC COMPETITION. Even though we did not make it for the first price, the honorary mentioning by COMSOC strongly encourages to continue our work towards monitoring the dynamics of avalanches using sensor networking technology.
(link to more information)
- November 24, 2015: Our DFG research group BATS has been extended for another three years of funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this research group, in an interdisciplinary team from Paderborn University, FAU Erlangen, Humboldt University Berlin we are investigating the use of sensor network technology for tracking bats in their natural environment.
(link to more information)
- November 17, 2015: We continue the project "Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies" in which we investigate vehicles as the main ICT resource. The objective is to make vehicles serving as information or radio hubs for the entire society.
The project is funded by Toyota InfoTechnologies Center Co. Ltd., Japan.
(link to more information)
- November 16, 2015: We welcome Agon who joined our group in November 2015. He will work on vehicular networks and visible light communication.
- October 20, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Connected Cars to Smart Cities - On Wireless Communication Latency and Reliability" at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2015).
- October 13, 2015: Falko Dressler continued his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour to the Perm State University in the Urals giving a lecture titled "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities".
- October 05, 2015: Falko Dressler started his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour on October 5, 2016 in Stuttgart giving a lecture titled "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities".
- September 28, 2015: Starting in September 2015, Bastian Bloessl joins the Network Research Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) supported by a DAAD scholarship.
- September 01, 2015: Our article From Radio Telemetry to Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks - Tracking Bats in the Wild has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine.
(link to more information)
- August 23, 2015: Our article Enabling Situation Awareness at Intersections for IVC Congestion Control Mechanisms has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
(link to more information)
- August 03, 2015: Our article MCB - A Multi-Channel Beaconing Protocol has been published in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
(link to more information)
- July 26, 2015: Our article Cleaning Up the Mess of Web 2.0 Security (At Least Partly) has been accepted for publication in IEEE Security and Privacy.
(link to more information)
- July 24, 2015: Christoph Sommer presented the topic of vehicular networking at the IETF-93 technical plenary.
A record number of 1384 people had visited Prague, discussing with speakers like William Whyte, ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao, and Edward Snowden.
(link to more information)
- June 10, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Inter-Vehicle Communication based Intersection Safety and Cooperative Cruise Control" at the VDI/VDE AUTOREG conference in Baden-Baden, Germany.
- May 07, 2015: A new PhD position is available in our group in the general scope of nano communication networks. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- April 22, 2015: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 8 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- April 22, 2015: Our paper "On the Feasibility of UMTS-based Traffic Information Systems" is now in the top-25 of highly cited papers of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (see details).
(link to more information)
- March 21, 2015: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Meschede for a two-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
- March 20, 2015: We welcome Huy who joined our group in March 2015. He will work on task offloading strategies for smart phones.
- March 16, 2015: We welcome Johannes who joined our group in March 2015. He will work on cooperative communication techniques.
- March 09, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities" at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015).
- March 09, 2015: Christoph Sommer gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking" at the International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys).
- January 07, 2015: Our article Connecting In-Body Nano Communication with Body Area Networks: Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet of Nano Things has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks.
(link to more information)
- December 06, 2014: We started the new project "Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies" in which we investigate vehicles as the main ICT resource. The objective is to make vehicles serving as information or radio hubs for the entire society.
The project is funded by Toyota InfoTechnologies Center Co. Ltd., Japan.
(link to more information)
- December 05, 2014: We have been organizing the 6th edition of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference in Paderborn. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and even South America. Selected impressions have been disseminated by the German news - TV stations, radio, and newspapers.
(link to more information)
- November 27, 2014: Our new book "Vehicular Networking" just appeared. The book is co-authored by Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler. It is a comprehensive guideline to vehicular networking with chapters on in-car networks, inter-vehicle communication, and detailed discussions of relevant protocols as well as simulation techniques.
(link to more information)
- November 26, 2014: ACM has appointed Falko Dressler as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) is a highly visible way for ACM members to engage with emerging professionals, students and, in some cases, the public on a range of topics in computing.
- October 31, 2014: We started the new project "Next Generation Real-Time Ethernet for Industrial Applications" in which we investigate scheduling problems for real-time Ethernet in the context of the IEEE TSN (time sensitive networking) standardization process. The project is funded by Siemens and we just signed the contract.
(link to more information)
- October 13, 2014: We welcome Muhammad who joined our group in October 2014. He will work on ultra low power sensor networks in the scope of our BATS project, which focusses on tracking bats in the wild.
(link to more information)
- September 19, 2014: Our article How Shadowing Hurts Vehicular Communications and How Dynamic Beaconing Can Help has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
(link to more information)
- August 11, 2014: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Connected Cars - Towards a more Safe and Green Driving Experience" at the ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (ACM WiMobCity 2014) in Philadelphia, PA.
- May 26, 2014: Two positions for doctoral students or PostDocs are available in our group: one in the general field of wireless networking and one in the DFG researcj project BATS. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- May 06, 2014: Prof. Falko Dressler gave his inaugural lecture on May 6, 2014 at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (EIM). The talk introduced "Adaptive Wireless Communicationin Sensor and Vehicular Networks:New Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems".
- April 29, 2014: We just received the best student poster award at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 for our concept of using erasure codes to improve the communication reliability in sensor networks and particularly in our application scenario of tracking bats in the wild.
Margit Mutschlechner demonstrated the concept in Toronto.
(link to more information)
- April 04, 2014: Our article The Role of Parked Cars in Content Downloading
for Vehicular Networks has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Techology.
(link to more information)
- April 01, 2014: The Endowed Chair for Distributed Embedded Sytems started its work in April 2014 supported by dSPACE. Before moving to Paderborn, we have been working since May 2011 at the University of Innsbruck. The web site will be migrated soon.
- March 30, 2014: The CCS team is relocating to Paderborn, Germany. Prof. Dressler accepted an offer from University of Paderborn for a full professorship. The new chair is named "Distributed Embedded Systems".
- March 02, 2014: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Area Editor to the Elsevier Computer Communications's Editorial Board.
- January 10, 2014: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2014).
- January 06, 2014: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now in the top-10 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- January 05, 2014: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Schladming for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiing, and lots of discussions.
- December 17, 2013: We just received the best paper award at IEEE VNC 2013 for our GNU Radio OFDM transceiver for IEEE 802.11p. Bastian Bloessl devloped this tool and presented the paper in Boston.
(link to more information)
- December 09, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013).
- November 29, 2013: Starting in May 2014, Stefan Joerer is about to continue working on his PhD abroad at the University of Sydney supported by the prestigious Endeavour scholarship.
(link to more information)
- November 20, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Supporting Safety at Intersections and in Road Trains: Protocol Engineering for IVC" at the IEEE Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WWVC) in Halmstad, Sweden.
- October 29, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Making Adaptive Beaconing More Aggressive: On Maximizing the Busy Ratio of IVC Communication Channels" at the 5th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (IEEE GIIS 2013) in Trento, Italy.
- October 29, 2013: Our tutorial on Inter-Vehicular Communication, initially held at IEEE ICC 2012 has been selected by IEEE COMSOC for making it available online as a complimentary service to all interested researchers.
(link to more information)
- October 16, 2013: Our article A Vehicular Networking Perspective on Estimating Vehicle Collision Probability at Intersections has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Techology.
(link to more information)
- October 03, 2013: We just received the best demo award at ACM MobiCom 2013 for our GNU Radio OFDM receiver. Bastian Bloessl developed this cool system and presented the demo in Miami.
(link to more information)
- October 01, 2013: We welcome Florian who joined CCS in October 2013. He will work on intersection management using virtual traffic lights and the use of heterogeneous networking techniques for vehicular networks.
(link to more information)
- September 02, 2013: Our article On the Applicability of Fair and Adaptive Data Dissemination in Traffic Information Systems has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
(link to more information)
- August 28, 2013: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing's Editorial Board. IEEE TMC is the top journal in mobile computing and wireless networking.
- June 15, 2013: Our article IVC in Cities: Signal Attenuation by Buildings and How Parked Cars Can Improve the Situation has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing.
(link to more information)
- May 29, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Protocol Design for Adaptive Inter-Vehicle Communication" at Journees Nationales des Communications dans les Transports (JNCP 2013) in Nevers, France.
- May 24, 2013: Christoph Sommer gave a keynote on "The Future of Vehicular Network Simulation" at the SUMO User Conference in Berlin, Germany.
- May 22, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Protocol Design for Adaptive Inter-Vehicle Communication" and a tutorial lecture on "Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking" at the IEEE Colombian Conference on Communication and Computing (IEEE COLCOM 2013) in Medellin, Colombia.
- May 01, 2013: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 4 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
(link to more information)
- April 23, 2013: We welcome Florian who joined CCS in April 2013. He will work on multi-channel beacon scheduling systems for vehicular networks.
(link to more information)
- March 29, 2013: We just released the first GNU Radio OFDM receiver supporting up to 20MHz channel bandwidth for IEEE 802.11[ag] as well as IEEE 802.11p (DSRC) radios. The receiver is tested with an Ettus USRP N210 and developed based on GNU Radio (v3.6.4).
(link to more information)
- March 02, 2013: Our paper "A Framework for Inter-Domain Routing in Virtual Coordinate based Mobile Networks" has just been published online in ACM/Springer Wireless Networks.
(link to more information)
- February 19, 2013: We have one open PhD position in the field of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- February 07, 2013: Bastian Bloessl's and Michele Segata's MobiCom 2012 contributions have finally been published in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Congratulations!
- January 14, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2013).
- January 04, 2013: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Obergurgl for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiiing, and lots of discussions.
- December 03, 2012: We welcome Margit who just joined CCS in December 2012. She will primarily work on energy efficient communication in sensor networks.
(link to more information)
- December 01, 2012: We have two open PhD positions in the field of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- November 05, 2012: Felix successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Monitoring Support for Efficient Web 2.0 and overlay Network Detection". Congratulations!
(link to more information)
- October 29, 2012: We are happy to announce Veins 2.0, the latest version of our Open
Source vehicular network simulation framework for OMNeT++.
Full source code, a beginner's tutorial, documentation, and the
publication list are available at http://veins.car2x.org/.
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- October 16, 2012: Our paper "Towards Security in Nano-communication: Challenges and Opportunities" has just been published in the September issue of Elsevier Nano Communication Networks.
(link to more information)
- October 10, 2012: Our paper "Toward Reproducibility and Comparability of IVC Simulation Studies: A Literature Survey" has just been published in the October issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine.
(link to more information)
- October 04, 2012: iPoint Story: "Cars that consciously interact with their environment and help to prevent accidents and traffic jams have been envisioned since a long time. Meanwhile, so called Intelligent Transportation Systems made significant progress. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck help making these concepts and ideas reality – supported by helpful collaborations in the scope of the BIT PhD School."
(link to more information)
- September 14, 2012: Florian successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "A multi-channel beacon scheduling system for the exchange of traffic information in vehicular networks". Congratulations!
(link to more information)
- September 10, 2012: Mario successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Optimizing Attack Detection Techniques using Load Distribution and Anomaly Detection". Congratulations!
(link to more information)
- August 30, 2012: Falko Dressler started the next series of talks on August 30, 2012 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to Colombia giving lectures on vehicular networks and self-organization in sensor and actor networks.
- August 24, 2012: Our two posters (Bastian Bloessl et al., Low-Cost Interferer Detection and Classification using TelosB Sensor Motes and Michele Segata et al., A Simulation Tool for Automated Platooning in Mixed Highway Scenarios) have been selected as runners-up for the ACM MobiCom 2012 Student Research Competition (SRC).
- August 06, 2012: Falko Dressler started the next series of talks on August 6, 2012 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to India (Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kerai) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano-communications.
Update: unfortunately, the tour was canceled in Hyderabad due to an illness of the speaker.
- August 01, 2012: Dominik successfully defeneded his Master's Thesis entitled "Resource monitoring in distributed sensor networks". Congratulations!
(link to more information)
- July 18, 2012: CCS is looking for a new staff member. The new PhD position is in wireless sensor networks. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
(link to more information)
- July 03, 2012: The BATS project has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this research group, six research groups (University of Erlangen, University of Innsbruck, Humboldt University Berlin) are investigating the use of sensor network technology for tracking bats in their natural environment. The CCS group is responsible for low-energy communication between base stations and the nodes (less than 2g!) attached to the flying animals.
(link to more information)
- June 15, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012).
- 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 to more information)
- 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 to more information)
- 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.
- May 06, 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).
- 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").
- 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 to more information)
- April 24, 2012: Prof. Renato Lo Cigno from the Department of Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento gives a seminar talk about their ongoing research in the field of real-time peer to peer video streaming. The talk takes place on Wednesday the 16th of May at 12.15 at the CCS Lab.
- April 02, 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 to more information)
- 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".
- 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)
- February 25, 2012: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Seefeld for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiing, and lots of discussions.
- 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).
- 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.
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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.
- 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
- November 05, 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
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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...".
- October 04, 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 to more information)
- 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
- September 01, 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
- 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."
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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 to more information)
- 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 to more information)
- May 25, 2011: We finally prepared some announcements for possible thesis topics. Please see the new list of open theses for more details.
(link to more information)
- 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.
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