Research

My long term research interests are focusing on security and privacy in mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. Beyond, I also work on various communication aspects of such systems.

Current projects:

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Ubiquitous Computing

• Find here some UbiComp projects that I did together with students.

Earlier projects:

• Privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems (EU IST project PRECIOSA)
• Secure Vehicle Communication (EU IST project SeVeCom)
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (with a focus on Security and Privacy)
• Landesforschungsschwerpunkt Sensor-based situation estimation and adaptive human-automotive interaction in multi-vehicle scenarios
• The CIA project including work on
  • Message Oriented Middleware / Publish Subscribe Communication
  • Communication Frameworks for Personal Software Agents
  • Mobile Agents
• Web Security

There is also list of reviewed publications and other professional activities.

My diploma thesis was on designing and implementing a parallel high-performance webserver for nCUBE massivly parallel supercomputers.

My doctoral thesis was on Security for Ad hoc Networks.

My habilitation thesis was on Inter-Vehicular Communication.

I am a member of GI, ACM (SIGMobile) and IEEE (CommSoc).