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

Short Bio (Curriculum Vitae)

Falko Dressler is a Full Professor for 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. Before moving to Innsbruck, 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 others, 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)

• 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," Proceedings of 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013), Mini-Conference, Turin, Italy, April 2013. (to appear) [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Falko Dressler and Mario Gerla, "A Framework for Inter-Domain Routing in Virtual Coordinate based Mobile Networks," ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), 2013. (available online: 10.1007/s11276-013-0554-4) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Stefan Joerer, Michele Segata, Bastian Bloessl, Renato Lo Cigno, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "To Crash or Not to Crash: Estimating its Likelihood and Potentials of Beacon-based IVC Systems," Proceedings of 4th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2012), Seoul, Korea, November 2012, pp. 25-32. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and 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...]
• 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...]
• 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...]
• 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...]