Welcome to the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. The chair, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Wehrle and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Otto Spaniol, conducts research in diverse areas related to computer networks and distributed systems:
COMSYS also hosts the "Computational Network Science" research group that is headed by assistant professor Michael Schaub. The chair is further collaborating closely with the Cyber Analysis & Defense department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE.
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Dear Students,
despite the current coronavirus outbreak all over the world, COMSYS still supervises ongoing and future theses, seminars, and preseminars. Most staff is currently working from home (presumably until end of next March following the home office guidelines issued by RWTH). Lectures continue to be held online, and note that strict hygiene requirements hold for written exams according to university-wide policy. We have established special, individual treatment for oral exams and thesis talks, so please read those if you plan to have an oral exam or give a thesis talk soon.
If you are interested in writing a thesis with us, you can find open topics on our available theses page (accessible via eduroam or the RWTH VPN). However, we are currently experiencing an increased pro-active interest in our topics, i.e., we recommend that you contact your (potential) advisor directly via email and ask for availble theses that are not advertised on our homepage.
Please note that the E3 building in which our chair is located remains closed to the public for the time being. In special circumstances, you can however work at the chair again during your thesis. Please contact your (potential) advisor for details.
We are pleased to announce a virtual guest lecture by Dr. Robin Sommer (CTO Corelight) in the course of our ongoing lecture on Advanced Internet Technology.[more]
At this year's virtual edition of the "Tag der Informatik", Erik was awarded with the Berthold Vöcking Master Award for his thesis "Privacy-Preserving Exchange of Process Parameters". The award's name is in honor of the former RWTH Prof. Berthold Vöcking who passed away way ahead of time.[more]
On Saturday, Eric Wagner was awarded the Prix d'Excellence 2020 of the Foundation de Luxembourg for his master's thesis he conducted at COMSYS and which was being co-supervised by the b-tu Cottbus-Senftenberg. With this award, the Foundation de Luxembourg and its partners Vinci Association and ANEIL reward top students of different fields in engineering since 2012. This year, the foundation...[more]
Jan Pennekamp was recently interviewed to express his take on remote workshops that he experienced at first hand as part of his presenations at IEEE BIoTCPS 2020 and IEEE CPS-Sec 2020. In his opinion, remote conferences can help to integrate such usually time consuming activities (usually these events take several days and require several hours of journey time) into otherwise busy calenders....[more]