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:

• Mobile and Wireless Networks
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Network and System Reliability and Security
• Massively Distributed Systems
• Performance Evaluation and Hybrid Evaluation Platforms
• Cross-Layer Techniques & Platforms

COMSYS also hosts the "Computational Network Science" research group that is headed by Prof. Michael Schaub as well as the "Secure Industrial Data Exchange" research group that is headed by Prof. Martin Henze. The chair is further collaborating closely with the Cyber Analysis & Defense department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE.

Please find here more about ...

• our research activities
• our projects, and
• our publications.

or check out our overview poster.