% % This file was created by the TYPO3 extension % bib % --- Timezone: CEST % Creation date: 2024-04-19 % Creation time: 11-07-25 % --- Number of references % 63 % @Article { 2024_pennekamp_supply-chain-sensing, title = {Securing Sensing in Supply Chains: Opportunities, Building Blocks, and Designs}, journal = {IEEE Access}, year = {2024}, month = {1}, day = {8}, volume = {12}, pages = {9350-9368}, abstract = {Supply chains increasingly develop toward complex networks, both technically in terms of devices and connectivity, and also anthropogenic with a growing number of actors. The lack of mutual trust in such networks results in challenges that are exacerbated by stringent requirements for shipping conditions or quality, and where actors may attempt to reduce costs or cover up incidents. In this paper, we develop and comprehensively study four scenarios that eventually lead to end-to-end-secured sensing in complex IoT-based supply chains with many mutually distrusting actors, while highlighting relevant pitfalls and challenges—details that are still missing in related work. Our designs ensure that sensed data is securely transmitted and stored, and can be verified by all parties. To prove practical feasibility, we evaluate the most elaborate design with regard to performance, cost, deployment, and also trust implications on the basis of prevalent (mis)use cases. Our work enables a notion of secure end-to-end sensing with minimal trust across the system stack, even for complex and opaque supply chain networks.}, keywords = {blockchain technology; reliability; security; trust management; trusted computing; trusted execution environments}, tags = {internet-of-production}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2024/2024-pennekamp-secure-sensing.pdf}, ISSN = {2169-3536}, DOI = {10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3350778}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Pennekamp, Jan and Alder, Fritz and Bader, Lennart and Scopelliti, Gianluca and Wehrle, Klaus and M{\"u}hlberg, Jan Tobias} } @Incollection { 2023_rueppel_crd-b2.ii, title = {Model-Based Controlling Approaches for Manufacturing Processes}, year = {2023}, month = {2}, day = {8}, pages = {221-246}, abstract = {The main objectives in production technology are quality assurance, cost reduction, and guaranteed process safety and stability. Digital shadows enable a more comprehensive understanding and monitoring of processes on shop floor level. Thus, process information becomes available between decision levels, and the aforementioned criteria regarding quality, cost, or safety can be included in control decisions for production processes. The contextual data for digital shadows typically arises from heterogeneous sources. At shop floor level, the proximity to the process requires usage of available data as well as domain knowledge. Data sources need to be selected, synchronized, and processed. Especially high-frequency data requires algorithms for intelligent distribution and efficient filtering of the main information using real-time devices and in-network computing. Real-time data is enriched by simulations, metadata from product planning, and information across the whole process chain. Well-established analytical and empirical models serve as the base for new hybrid, gray box approaches. These models are then applied to optimize production process control by maximizing the productivity under given quality and safety constraints. To store and reuse the developed models, ontologies are developed and a data lake infrastructure is utilized and constantly enlarged laying the basis for a World Wide Lab (WWL). Finally, closing the control loop requires efficient quality assessment, immediately after the process and directly on the machine. This chapter addresses works in a connected job shop to acquire data, identify and optimize models, and automate systems and their deployment in the Internet of Production (IoP).}, keywords = {Process control; Model-based control; Data aggregation; Model identification; Model optimization}, tags = {internet-of-production}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2023/2023-rueppel-iop-b2.i.pdf}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Interdisciplinary Excellence Accelerator Series}, booktitle = {Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings}, ISBN = {978-3-031-44496-8}, DOI = {10.1007/978-3-031-44497-5_7}, reviewed = {1}, author = {R{\"u}ppel, Adrian Karl and Ay, Muzaffer and Biernat, Benedikt and Kunze, Ike and Landwehr, Markus and Mann, Samuel and Pennekamp, Jan and Rabe, Pascal and Sanders, Mark P. and Scheurenberg, Dominik and Schiller, Sven and Xi, Tiandong and Abel, Dirk and Bergs, Thomas and Brecher, Christian and Reisgen, Uwe and Schmitt, Robert H. and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2022_matzutt_redactchain, title = {A Moderation Framework for the Swift and Transparent Removal of Illicit Blockchain Content}, year = {2022}, month = {5}, day = {3}, abstract = {Blockchains gained tremendous attention for their capability to provide immutable and decentralized event ledgers that can facilitate interactions between mutually distrusting parties. However, precisely this immutability and the openness of permissionless blockchains raised concerns about the consequences of illicit content being irreversibly stored on them. Related work coined the notion of redactable blockchains, which allow for removing illicit content from their history without affecting the blockchain's integrity. While honest users can safely prune identified content, current approaches either create trust issues by empowering fixed third parties to rewrite history, cannot react quickly to reported content due to using lengthy public votings, or create large per-redaction overheads. In this paper, we instead propose to outsource redactions to small and periodically exchanged juries, whose members can only jointly redact transactions using chameleon hash functions and threshold cryptography. Multiple juries are active at the same time to swiftly redact reported content. They oversee their activities via a global redaction log, which provides transparency and allows for appealing and reversing a rogue jury's decisions. Hence, our approach establishes a framework for the swift and transparent moderation of blockchain content. Our evaluation shows that our moderation scheme can be realized with feasible per-block and per-redaction overheads, i.e., the redaction capabilities do not impede the blockchain's normal operation.}, keywords = {redactable blockchain; illicit content; chameleon hash functions; threshold cryptography}, tags = {mynedata; impact-digital; digital-campus}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2022/2022-matzutt-redactchain.pdf}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC '22), May 2-5, 2022, Shanghai, China}, event_place = {Shanghai, China}, event_date = {May 2-5, 2022}, ISBN = {978-1-6654-9538-7/22}, DOI = {10.1109/ICBC54727.2022.9805508}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Matzutt, Roman and Ahlrichs, Vincent and Pennekamp, Jan and Karwacik, Roman and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2020-hiller-ccs-crosssigning, title = {The Boon and Bane of Cross-Signing: Shedding Light on a Common Practice in Public Key Infrastructures}, year = {2020}, month = {11}, day = {11}, pages = {1289-1306}, keywords = {PKI; X.509; SSL; TLS; cross-signing; cross certification}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2020/2020-hiller-ccs-cross_signing.pdf}, web_url = {https://github.com/pki-xs-analysis}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’20), November 9–13, 2020, Virtual Event, USA.}, event_place = {Orlando, FL, USA}, event_date = {November 9-13, 2020}, DOI = {10.1145/3372297.3423345}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Hiller, Jens and Amann, Johanna and Hohlfeld, Oliver} } @Inproceedings { 2020_pennekamp_supply_chain_sensing, title = {Secure End-to-End Sensing in Supply Chains}, year = {2020}, month = {7}, day = {1}, abstract = {Trust along digitalized supply chains is challenged by the aspect that monitoring equipment may not be trustworthy or unreliable as respective measurements originate from potentially untrusted parties. To allow for dynamic relationships along supply chains, we propose a blockchain-backed supply chain monitoring architecture relying on trusted hardware. Our design provides a notion of secure end-to-end sensing of interactions even when originating from untrusted surroundings. Due to attested checkpointing, we can identify misinformation early on and reliably pinpoint the origin. A blockchain enables long-term verifiability for all (now trustworthy) IoT data within our system even if issues are detected only after the fact. Our feasibility study and cost analysis further show that our design is indeed deployable in and applicable to today's supply chain settings.}, keywords = {supply chain; trusted computing; trusted execution; blockchain; Internet of Production; condition monitoring}, tags = {internet-of-production}, url = {https://comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2020/2020-pennekamp-supply-chain-sensing.pdf}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec '20), co-located with the 8th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS '20), June 29-July 1, 2020, Avignon, France}, event_place = {Avignon, France}, event_date = {June 29-July 1, 2020}, ISBN = {978-1-7281-4760-4}, DOI = {10.1109/CNS48642.2020.9162337}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Pennekamp, Jan and Alder, Fritz and Matzutt, Roman and M{\"u}hlberg, Jan Tobias and Piessens, Frank and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Article { 2020-holz-ccr-tls13, title = {Tracking the deployment of TLS 1.3 on the Web: A story of experimentation and centralization}, journal = {ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR)}, year = {2020}, month = {7}, volume = {50}, number = {3}, pages = {3-15}, note = {Selected for the 'Best of CCR' session at SIGCOMM 2021.}, url = {https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sigcomm-ccr-paper430-with-open-review.pdf}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, DOI = {10.1145/3411740.3411742}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Holz, Ralph and Hiller, Jens and Amann, Johanna and Razaghpanah, Abbas and Jost, Thomas and Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo and Hohlfeld, Oliver} } @Inproceedings { 2020-mann-ur-weldseamstudy, title = {Study on weld seam geometry control for connected gas metal arc welding systems}, year = {2020}, month = {6}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2020/2020-mann-weld-seam-geometry-control.pdf}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Internal Conference on Ubiquitous Robots}, event_name = {Internal Conference on Ubiquitous Robots}, event_date = {June 22-26, 2020}, DOI = {10.1109/UR49135.2020.9144839}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Mann, Samuel and Glebke, Ren{\'e} and Kunze, Ike and Scheurenberg, Dominik and Sharma, Rahul and Reisgen, Uwe and Wehrle, Klaus and Abel, Dirk} } @Article { dombrowski-vdi, title = {Funktechnologien f{\"u}r Industrie 4.0}, journal = {VDE Positionspapier}, year = {2017}, month = {6}, day = {1}, publisher = {VDE - Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik e.V.}, address = {Stresemannallee 15, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Bentkus, Alexander and Bonanati, Florian and Dekorsy, Armin and Dombrowski, Christian and Doubrava, Michael and Golestani, Ali and Hofmann, Frank and Heidrich, Mike and Hiensch, Stefan and Kays, R{\"u}diger and Meyer, Michael and M{\"u}ller, Andreas and ten Brink, Stephan and Petreska, Neda and Popovic, Milan and Rauchhaupt, Lutz and Saad, Ahmad and Schotten, Hans and W{\"o}ste, Christoph and Wolff, Ingo} } @Inproceedings { 2017-serror-ew-koi, title = {From Radio Design to System Evaluations for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication}, year = {2017}, month = {5}, day = {17}, tags = {koi}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2017/2017-serror-radio-design-ew17.pdf}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proc. of 23rd European Wireless Conference (EW17), Dresden, Germany}, event_place = {Dresden, Germany}, event_name = {Proc. of 23rd European Wireless Conference (EW17)}, event_date = {17.-19. May 2017}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Ashraf, Shehzad Ali and Wang, Y.-P. Eric and Eldessoki, Sameh and Holfeld, Bernd and Parruca, Donald and Serror, Martin and Gross, James} } @Proceedings { 2017-serror-netsys-industrial, title = {Demo: A Realistic Use-case for Wireless Industrial Automation and Control}, year = {2017}, month = {3}, day = {16}, tags = {koi}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2017/Ansari_et_al_Wireless_Industrial_Automation_Demo_NetSys_2017.pdf}, publisher = {IEEE}, event_place = {G{\"o}ttingen, Germany}, event_name = {International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2017)}, DOI = {10.1109/NetSys.2017.7931496}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Ansari, Junaid and Aktas, Ismet and Brecher, Christian and Pallasch, Christoph and Hoffmann, Nicolai and Obdenbusch, Markus and Serror, Martin and Wehrle, Klaus and Gross, James} } @Inproceedings { 2016-ahmed-sensys-poster-incremental, title = {Poster Abstract: Incremental Checkpointing for Interruptible Computations}, year = {2016}, month = {11}, day = {14}, pages = {1--2}, abstract = {We propose incremental checkpointing techniques enabling transiently powered devices to retain computational state across multiple activation cycles. As opposed to the existing approaches, which checkpoint complete program state, the proposed techniques keep track of modified RAM locations to incrementally update the retained state in secondary memory, significantly reducing checkpointing overhead both in terms of time and energy.}, url = {/fileadmin/misc/2016/2016-ahmed-sensys-poster-incremental.pdf}, web_url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2996701}, web_url_date = {2016-11-20}, web_url2 = {http://sensys.acm.org/2016/}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2016), Stanford, CA, USA}, event_place = {Stanford, CA, USA}, event_name = {Sensys '16}, event_date = {November 14-16, 2016}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-4263-6/16/11}, DOI = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2994551.2996701}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Ahmed, Saad and Khan, Hassan and Siddiqui, Junaid Haroon and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad} } @Inproceedings { 2016-ackermann-healthcom-eeg-emotion, title = {EEG-based Automatic Emotion Recognition: Feature Extraction, Selection and Classification Methods}, year = {2016}, month = {9}, day = {14}, pages = {159--164}, abstract = {Automatic emotion recognition is an interdisciplinary research field which deals with the algorithmic detection of human affect, e.g. anger or sadness, from a variety of sources, such as speech or facial gestures. Apart from the obvious usage for industry applications in human-robot interaction, acquiring the emotional state of a person automatically also is of great potential for the health domain, especially in psychology and psychiatry. Here, evaluation of human emotion is often done using oral feedback or questionnaires during doctor-patient sessions. However, this can be perceived as intrusive by the patient. Furthermore, the evaluation can only be done in a non-continuous manner, e.g. once a week during therapy sessions. In contrast, using automatic emotion detection, the affect state of a person can be evaluated in a continuous non-intrusive manner, for example to detect early on-sets of depression. An additional benefit of automatic emotion recognition is the objectivity of such an approach, which is not influenced by the perception of the patient and the doctor. To reach the goal of objectivity, it is important, that the source of the emotion is not easily manipulable, e.g. as in the speech modality. To circumvent this caveat, novel approaches in emotion detection research the potential of using physiological measures, such as galvanic skin sensors or pulse meters. In this paper we outline a way of detecting emotion from brain waves, i.e., EEG data. While EEG allows for a continuous, real-time automatic emotion recognition, it furthermore has the charm of measuring the affect close to the point of emergence: the brain. Using EEG data for emotion detection is nevertheless a challenging task: Which features, EEG channel locations and frequency bands are best suited for is an issue of ongoing research. In this paper we evaluate the use of state of the art feature extraction, feature selection and classification algorithms for EEG emotion classification using data from the de facto standard dataset, DEAP. Moreover, we present results that help choose methods to enhance classification performance while simultaneously reducing computational complexity.}, url = {/fileadmin/papers/2016/2016-ackermann-healthcom-emorec.pdf}, web_url2 = {http://ieeehealthcom2016.com/}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)}, event_place = {Munich, Germany}, event_name = {2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)}, event_date = {September 14-17, 2016}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-5090-3370-6}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Ackermann, Pascal and Kohlschein, Christian and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Wehrle, Klaus and Jeschke, Sabina} } @Article { 2014-cheng-acta-geodyn-geomater, title = {Use of MEMS accelerometers/inclinometers as a geotechnical monitoring method for ground subsidence}, journal = {Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia}, year = {2014}, month = {10}, day = {8}, volume = {11}, number = {4}, pages = {1--12}, abstract = {Accelerometer and inclinometer are inertial sensors capable of measuring corresponding magnitude of Earth gravitational field along the direction of each axis. By means of rotation matrices related to inertial navigation methods, the output values of a three-dimensional accelerometer or a two-dimensional inclinometer can be transformed and processed into the azimuth and dip angle of the monitored target. With the rapid growth in development and cost reduction of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in recent years, the engineers are able to carry out real-time wireless geotechnical monitoring during construction. In this paper, we set up a one-day measurement implemented by a self- developed wireless MEMS monitoring system on the surface in the construction site of South Hongmei Road super high way tunnel in Shanghai, by making use of rotation matrices in specific ways, the raw data are processed to expressions of three-dimensional normal vectors that represent the change of the ground. After unifying the vectors in the same coordinate system, we conduct a brief ground settlement analysis by means of an evaluation of the dip angles in the cross section and the azimuths of the sensor nodes.}, web_url = {http://www.irsm.cas.cz/index_en.php?page=acta_detail_doi\&id=96}, misc = {Online}, publisher = {Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the ASCR, v.v.i.}, address = {Prague, Czech Republic}, howpublished = {Online}, language = {en}, ISSN = {2336-4351}, DOI = {10.13168/AGG.2014.0015}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Li, Cheng and Fern{\'a}ndez-Steeger, Tom{\'a}s and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and May, Matthias and Azzam, Rafig} } @Conference { parruca_2014ICIC, title = {Semi-Static Interference Coordination in OFDMA/LTE Networks: Evaluation of Practical Aspects}, year = {2014}, month = {9}, day = {21}, abstract = {To minimize interference in LTE networks, several inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) techniques have been in- troduced. Among them, semi-static ICIC offers a balanced trade-off between applicability and system performance. The power allocation per resource block and cell is adapted in the range of seconds according to the load in the system. An open issue in the literature is the question how fast the adaptation should be performed. This leads basically to a trade-off between system performance and feasible compu- tation times of the associated power allocation problems. In this work, we close this open issue by studying the impact that different durations of update times of semi-static ICIC have on the system performance. We conduct our study on realistic scenarios considering also the mobility of mobile terminals. Secondly, we also consider the implementation aspects of a semi-static ICIC. We introduce a very efficient implementation on general purpose graphic processing units, harnessing the parallel computing capability of such devices. We show that the update periods have a significant impact on the performance of cell edge terminals. Additionally, we present a graphic processing unit (GPU) based implementation which speeds up existing implementations up to a factor of 92x.}, keywords = {OFDMA; LTE; ICIC; Inter-Cell Interference Coordination; GPU; GA; Genetic Algorithm; 4G; Cellular Networks; In- terference; Proportional Fair Scheduling}, editor = {ACM}, publisher = {ACM}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM-14)}, event_place = {Montreal, QC, Canada}, event_name = {International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM-14)}, event_date = {September 21-26 2014}, DOI = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2641798.2641818}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Parruca, Donald and Aizaz, Fahad and Chantaraskul, Soamsiri and Gross, James} } @Inproceedings { 2014-aktas-wintech-a-framework-for-remote-automation-configuration-and-monitoring, title = {A Framework for Remote Automation, Configuration, and Monitoring of Real-World Experiments}, year = {2014}, month = {9}, day = {7}, pages = {1--8}, tags = {crawler}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2014/2014-aktas-wintech-remote-cross-layer.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014), Hawaii, USA}, event_place = {Hawaii, USA}, event_name = {9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014)}, event_date = {7 September 2014}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-3072-5}, DOI = {10.1145/2643230.2643236}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Pu{\~n}al, Oscar and Schmidt, Florian and Dr{\"u}ner, Tobias and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2014-aktas-punal-wowmom-machine-learning-based-jamming-detection-for-80211-conference, title = {Machine Learning-based Jamming Detection for IEEE 802.11: Design and Experimental Evaluation}, journal = {Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'14), Sydney, Australia}, year = {2014}, month = {6}, day = {16}, pages = {1--10}, tags = {crawler}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2014/2014-aktas-wowmom-jammingdetection.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'14), Sydney, Australia}, event_place = {Sydney}, event_name = {15th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'14)}, event_date = {16-19 June, 2014}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Pu{\~n}al, Oscar and Aktas, Ismet and Schnelke, Caj-Julian and Abidin, Gloria and Gross, James and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2014-comsnets-aktas-graph-based-redundancy-removal, title = {Graph-based Redundancy Removal Approach for Multiple Cross-Layer Interactions}, year = {2014}, month = {1}, day = {7}, pages = {1-8}, tags = {crawler}, url = {http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2014/2014-aktas-comsnets-redundancy.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Sixth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India}, event_place = {Bangalore, India}, event_name = {2014 Sixth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)}, event_date = {7-10 January, 2014}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4799-3635-9}, DOI = {10.1109/COMSNETS.2014.6734899}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Henze, Martin and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and M{\"o}llering, Kevin and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Article { 2014-alizai-pad-jnca, title = {Probabilistic Location-Free Addressing in Wireless Networks}, journal = {Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)}, year = {2014}, state = {unpublished}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Article { 2013-elsevir-aktas-harnessing-cross-layer-design, title = {Harnessing Cross-Layer Design}, journal = {Elsevir Ad-hoc Networks}, year = {2013}, month = {10}, day = {1}, tags = {crawler}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Schmidt, Florian and Wirtz, Hanno and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2013-bitsch-extremecom-oneway, title = {A Global One-Way Control Channel for Opportunistic Networks}, year = {2013}, month = {8}, day = {24}, pages = {1--6}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2013/2013-bitsch-extremecom-oneway.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, editor = {Hui, Pan and Lindgren, Anders}, publisher = {ACM}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Extreme Conference on Communication}, event_place = {Thorsmork, Iceland}, event_name = {5th Extreme Conference on Communication}, event_date = {August 24-30, 2013}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-2171-6}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Alhamoud, Alaa and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2013-wons-wirtz-fuzzy, title = {Fuzzy Logical Coordinates and Location Services for Scalable Addressing in Wireless Networks}, year = {2013}, month = {3}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS '13), Banff, Canada}, event_place = {Banff, Canada}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4799-0747-2}, DOI = {10.1109/WONS.2013.6578338}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Wirtz, Hanno and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Article { 2013-wirtz-alizai-tinywifi-jnca, title = {Portable Wireless-Networking Protocol Evaluation}, journal = {Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)}, year = {2013}, note = {Co-primary authorship Alizai, Wirtz fileadmin/papers/2013/2013-wirtz-alizai-tinywifi-jnca.pdf}, web_url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S108480451300060X}, language = {en}, ISSN = {1084-8045}, DOI = {10.1016/j.jnca.2013.02.022}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Wirtz, Hanno and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Kirchen, Bernhard and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2012-aktas-new2an-AnAdaptiveCodecSwitchingSchemeforSIPbasedVoIP-conference, title = {An Adaptive Codec Switching Scheme for SIP-based VoIP}, journal = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (NEW2AN 2012)}, year = {2012}, month = {8}, day = {27}, pages = {1-12}, abstract = {Contemporary Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) systems typically ne- gotiate only one codec for the entire VoIP session life time. However, as different codecs perform differently well under certain network conditions like delay, jitter or packet loss, this can lead to a reduction of quality if those conditions change during the call. This paper makes two core contributions: First, we compare the speech quality of a set of stan- dard VoIP codecs given different network conditions. Second, we propose an adaptive end-to-end based codec switching scheme that fully conforms to the SIP standard. Our evaluation with a real-world prototype based on Linphone shows that our codec switching scheme adapts well to changing network conditions, improving overall speech quality.}, tags = {crawler}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2012/2012-aktas-new2an-codecswitching.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {LNCS}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (NEW2AN 2012), St. Pettersburg, Russia.}, event_place = {St. Pettersburg, Russia}, event_name = {12th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (NEW2AN 2012)}, event_date = {27-29 August, 2012}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-3-642-32685-1}, DOI = {10.1007/978-3-642-32686-8_32}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Schmidt, Florian and Weingaertner, Elias and Schnelke, Caj-Julian and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2012-aktas-wowmom-CRAWLER:AnExperimentationPlatformforSystemMonitoringandCross-Layer-Coordination-conference, title = {CRAWLER: An Experimentation Architecture for System Monitoring and Cross-Layer-Coordination}, journal = {Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and MultimediaNetworks (WoWMoM'12), San Francisco, USA}, year = {2012}, month = {6}, day = {25}, pages = {1--9}, tags = {crawler}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2012/2012-aktas-wowmom-crawler.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and MultimediaNetworks (WoWMoM'12), San Francisco, USA}, event_place = {San Francisco}, event_name = {13th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and MultimediaNetworks (WoWMoM'12)}, event_date = {25-28 June, 2012}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4673-1238-7}, DOI = {10.1109/WoWMoM.2012.6263686}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Schmidt, Florian and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Dr{\"u}ner, Tobias and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Article { 2012-4-alizai-wild-ijdsn, title = {Exploiting the Burstiness of Intermediate Quality Wireless Links}, journal = {International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)}, year = {2012}, month = {4}, day = {2}, tags = {wld}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2012/2012-ijdsn-wld-alizai.pdf}, state = {unpublished}, language = {en}, ISSN = {1550-1329}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2012-aktas-simutools-FANTASY:FullyAutomaticNetworkEmulationArchitecturewithCross-LayerSupport-conference, title = {FANTASY: Fully Automatic Network Emulation Architecture with Cross-Layer Support}, year = {2012}, month = {3}, day = {19}, pages = {57-64}, tags = {crawler, fantasy}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2012/2012-aktas-simutools-fantasy.pdf}, web_url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2263019\&CFID=88550183\&CFTOKEN=31687193}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ICST}, address = {Brussels, Belgium}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th ACM International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools '12), Desenzano del Garda, Italy}, event_place = {Desenzano, Italy}, event_name = {5th ACM International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools '12)}, event_date = {19-23 March, 2012}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-1510-4}, DOI = {10.4108/icst.simutools.2012.247759}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and vom Lehn, Hendrik and Habets, Christoph and Schmidt, Florian and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { Punal12_Jamming, title = {{In VANETs We Trust?: Characterizing RF Jamming in Vehicular Networks}}, year = {2012}, pages = {83--92}, publisher = {ACM}, booktitle = {Proc. of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking, Systems, and Applications (VANET'12)}, author = {Pu{\~n}al, Oscar and Aguiar, Ana and Gross, James} } @Inproceedings { 2011-12-conext-schmidt-refector, title = {Refector: Heuristic Header Error Recovery for Error-Tolerant Transmissions}, year = {2011}, month = {12}, day = {6}, pages = {1--12}, tags = {refector}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2011/2011-schmidt-refector-conext.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Tokyo, Japan}, event_place = {Tokyo, Japan}, event_name = {7th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)}, event_date = {6-9 December, 2011}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-1041-3}, DOI = {10.1145/2079296.2079318}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Schmidt, Florian and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Aktas, Ismet and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { VaegsABW2011, title = {Efficient Power Management Using Out-of-Band Signaling}, year = {2011}, month = {9}, day = {16}, pages = {77-80}, abstract = {A tremendous amount of energy is wasted today, because computing devices are left running all the time even though they are needed only sporadically. Especially in office environments many devices (e.g., printers) are very rarely turned off, because they need to be available from time to time and because it is inconvenient having to switch them on and off manually. Existing solutions, such as Wake-on-LAN (WoL), provide support for managing the power consumption of the network devices remotely using an always-on data channel. However, these solutions are inefficient, because power to the network interface has to be maintained even when the host system is asleep just to ensure remote accessibility. We propose a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based out-of-band signaling architecture for network interfaces which minimizes the systems’ power consumption during the large idle periods when nobody is using them. This is done by separating the data and control channels on the Internet-enabled devices using a low-power out-of-band signaling channel based on battery driven, energy scavenging devices. Unlike existing solutions, which only allow parts of the system to go in sleep modes, our architecture allows the whole system, including the main power supply, to be shut down. Our initial investigation indicates a significant reduction in energy consumption of devices during idle times compared to the existing in-band signaling mechanisms such as WoL.}, keywords = {Energy Saving, Wireless Sensor Network, Out-of-Band Signalling}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2011/2011-vaegs-fgsn-ecocom.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch Drahtlose Sensornetze (FGSN), Paderborn, Germany}, institution = {RWTH Aachen University}, event_place = {Paderborn, Germany}, event_name = {10th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch Drahtlose Sensornetze (FGSN11)}, event_date = {September 15-16, 2011}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Vaegs, Tobias and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2011-wintech-alizai-tinywifi, title = {TinyWifi: Making Network Protocol Evaluation Portable Across Multiple Phy-Link Layers}, year = {2011}, month = {9}, pages = {19-27}, tags = {tinywifi}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2011/2010-09-tinywifi-alizai-wintech.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH ), Las Vegas, NV, USA}, event_place = {Las Vegas, NV, USA}, event_name = {The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking}, event_date = {September 2011}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-0867-0}, DOI = {10.1145/2030718.2030725}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wirtz, Hanno and Kirchen, Bernhard and Vaegs, Tobias and Gnawali, Omprakash and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2011-iscc-alizai-ble, title = {Efficient Online Estimation of Bursty Wireless Links}, year = {2011}, month = {6}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2011/2011-alizai-iscc-ble.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, booktitle = {16th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Kerkyra, Greece}, event_place = {Kerkyra, Greece}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4577-0678-3}, DOI = {10.1109/ISCC.2011.5983839}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wirtz, Hanno and Kunz, Georg and Grap, Benjamin and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2011-ipsn-alizai-pad, title = {Probabilistic Addressing: Stable Addresses in Unstable Wireless Networks}, year = {2011}, month = {4}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2011/2011-ipsn-alizai-pad.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011), Chicago, IL, USA}, event_place = {Chicago, IL, USA}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-60558-988-6}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Vaegs, Tobias and Landsiedel, Olaf and G{\"o}tz, Stefan and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2010-sensys-alizai-tinywifi, title = {Poster Abstract: TinyOS Meets Wireless Mesh Networks}, year = {2010}, month = {11}, pages = {429-430}, abstract = {We present TinyWifi, a nesC code base extending TinyOS to support Linux powered network nodes. It enables developers to build arbitrary TinyOS applications and protocols and execute them directly on Linux by compiling for the new TinyWifi platform. Using TinyWifi as a TinyOS platform, we expand the applicability and means of evaluation of wireless protocols originally designed for sensornets towards inherently similar Linux driven ad hoc and mesh networks.}, affiliation = {Received Best Poster Award}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-11-alizai-tinywifi-sensys.pdf}, web_url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1870058\&preflayout=flat}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-0344-6}, DOI = {10.1145/1869983.1870058}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Kirchen, Bernhard and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Wirtz, Hanno and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Conference { 2010-08-lcn-samad-ASSA, title = {Adaptive Security Established on the Requirements and Resource Abilities of Network Nodes}, year = {2010}, month = {10}, day = {11}, volume = {1}, pages = {752-755}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {The 10th IEEE Wireless Local Networks(WLN 2010) in the 35th IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010), Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.}, event_place = {Denver, Colorado, United States}, event_name = {IEEE Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2010)}, event_date = {11-14 Oct. 2010}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-8388-4}, author = {Samad, Fahad and Ali Makram, Sadeq} } @Conference { 2010-08-icccn-samad-PiCAT, title = {PiCAT: Palliating Channel Assignment Assaults using Adjustable Trust in Wireless Mesh Networks}, journal = {IEEE ICCCN 2010}, year = {2010}, month = {8}, day = {2}, volume = {1}, pages = {1 - 7}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, howpublished = {Medienkombination}, booktitle = {The 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2010), Zurich, Switzerland}, event_place = {Zurich, Switzerland}, event_name = {19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2010)}, event_date = {August 2–5, 2010}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-7114-0}, ISSN = {1095-2055}, DOI = {10.1109/ICCCN.2010.5560076}, author = {Samad, Fahad and Ali Makram, Sadeq} } @Inproceedings { icc2010vpsim, title = {Towards Network Centric Development of Embedded Systems}, year = {2010}, month = {5}, day = {23}, pages = {1-6}, abstract = {Nowadays, the development of embedded system hardware and related system software is mostly carried out using virtual platform environments. The high level of modeling detail (hardware elements are partially modeled in a cycle-accurate fashion) is required for many core design tasks. At the same time, the high computational complexity of virtual platforms caused by the detailed level of simulation hinders their application for modeling large networks of embedded systems. In this paper, we propose the integration of virtual platforms with network simulations, combining the accuracy of virtual platforms with the versatility and scalability of network simulation tools. Forming such a hybrid toolchain facilitates the detailed analysis of embedded network systems and related important design aspects, such as resource effectiveness, prior to their actual deployment.}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-schuermans-weingaertner-network_centric.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-6402-9}, ISSN = {1550-3607}, DOI = {10.1109/ICC.2010.5502185}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Sch{\"u}rmanns, Stefan and Weingaertner, Elias and Kempf, Torsten and Ascheid, Gerd and Wehrle, Klaus and Leupers, Rainer} } @Inproceedings { 201004vaegsieeestudentpad, title = {Probabilistic Addressing in Wireless Networks}, year = {2010}, month = {5}, day = {20}, pages = {5-8}, abstract = {The lack of permanent network infrastructure and often unplanned deployments in many multihop wireless communication scenarios restrict nodes to determine their own addresses based on the underlying connectivity in the network. However, due to unreliable connectivity and rapidly changing link qualities in wireless networks, establishing uniform addressing and stable point-to-point routing is challenging. In this paper, we present Statistical Vector Routing (SVR), a virtual coordinates based addressing and routing mechanism that efficiently deals with dynamic communication links in wireless networks. It assigns stable probabilistic addresses to nodes without the need to pessimistically estimate links over longer periods of time. The routing metric predicts the current location of a node in its address distribution. Our prototype implementation over real testbeds indicates that SVR, when compared to current approaches, achieves 3 times more stable addressing, reduces the magnitude of change in addresses by 2-10 times, and minimizes the hop distance and transmissions in the network by 10-15\%.}, tags = {wld}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-vaegs-wehrle-probabilistic_addressing.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Hamburg University of Technology}, address = {Hamburg, Germany}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Student Conference, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany}, event_place = {Hamburg, Germany}, event_name = {2nd IEEE Student Conference, Hamburg University of Technology}, event_date = {May 20-21, 2010}, language = {en}, author = {Vaegs, Tobias and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2010-ipsn-sasnauskas-kleenet, title = {KleeNet: Discovering Insidious Interaction Bugs in Wireless Sensor Networks Before Deployment}, year = {2010}, month = {4}, day = {12}, pages = {186--196}, abstract = {Complex interactions and the distributed nature of wireless sensor networks make automated testing and debugging before deployment a necessity. A main challenge is to detect bugs that occur due to non-deterministic events, such as node reboots or packet duplicates. Often, these events have the potential to drive a sensor network and its applications into corner-case situations, exhibiting bugs that are hard to detect using existing testing and debugging techniques. In this paper, we present KleeNet, a debugging environment that effectively discovers such bugs before deployment. KleeNet executes unmodified sensor network applications on symbolic input and automatically injects non-deterministic failures. As a result, KleeNet generates distributed execution paths at high-coverage, including low-probability corner-case situations. As a case study, we integrated KleeNet into the Contiki OS and show its effectiveness by detecting four insidious bugs in the uIP TCP/IP protocol stack. One of these bugs is critical and lead to refusal of further connections.}, keywords = {automated protocol testing, experimentation, failure detection, wireless sensor networks}, tags = {kleenet}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-04-ipsn-sasnauskas-KleeNet.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2010), Stockholm, Sweden}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-60558-988-6}, DOI = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1791212.1791235}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Sasnauskas, Raimondas and Landsiedel, Olaf and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Weise, Carsten and Kowalewski, Stefan and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 20104-IPSN-alizai-svr, title = {Poster Abstract: Statistical Vector based Point-to-Point Routing in Wireless Networks}, year = {2010}, month = {4}, day = {12}, pages = {366-367}, abstract = {We present Statistical Vector Routing (SVR), a protocol that efficiently deals with communication link dynamics in wireless networks. It assigns virtual coordinates to nodes based on the statistical distribution of their distance from a small set of beacons. The distance metric predicts the current location of a node in its address distribution. Our initial results from a prototype implementation over real testbeds demonstrate the feasibility of SVR.}, tags = {wld}, url = {https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-alizai-ipsn-pad.pdf}, web_url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1791257}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2010), Stockholm, Sweden}, event_place = {Stockholm, Sweden}, event_name = {9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2010)}, event_date = {April 12-16, 2010}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-60558-988-6}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Vaegs, Tobias and Landsiedel, Olaf and Sasnauskas, Raimondas and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inbook { 2010-aktas-modeling-application-traffic-bookchapter, title = {Modeling Application Traffic}, year = {2010}, month = {4}, pages = {397-426}, publisher = {Springer}, chapter = {18}, booktitle = {Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation}, ISBN = {978-3-642-12330-6}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Mengi, Cem and King, Thomas} } @Inproceedings { 2010-bitsch-link-iq2s-burrowview, title = {BurrowView - Seeing the world through the eyes of rats}, year = {2010}, month = {3}, day = {29}, pages = {56 -- 61}, abstract = {For a long time, life sciences were restricted to look at animal habitats only post-factum. Pervasive computing puts us in the novel position to gain live views. In this paper we present BurrowView, an application that tracks the movement of rats in their natural habitat and reconstructs the underground tunnel system. To make reliable statements, special consideration has been taken with regard to the information quality. Our system is able to reconstruct paths up to a resolution of 20 cm, the length of a rat without its tail.}, tags = {RatPack}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-03-IQ2S-link-burrowview.pdf}, web_url2 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5470603}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York City, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010), Mannheim, Germany}, organization = {IEEE}, event_place = {Mannheim, Germany}, event_name = {Second IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010)}, event_date = {March 29 to April 2, 2010}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-6605-4}, DOI = {10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470603}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Fabritius, Gregor and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { inproceedingsreference201001221179332027, title = {Towards a Flexible and Versatile Cross-Layer-Coordination Architecture}, year = {2010}, month = {3}, day = {15}, pages = {1-5}, abstract = {In wireless and mobile networking, volatile environ- mental conditions are a permanent challenge, resulting in a demand for cross-layer optimizations. To further increase flexibility, we believe cross-layer architectures should adapt themselves to these changing conditions, just as they adapt the network stack, devices, and applications. In this paper, we propose CRAWLER, a novel cross-layer architecture that combines three core properties: signaling between all layers and system components; extensibility and adaptability at runtime; and high usability for cross-layer developers. CRAWLER increases flexibility, as well as expediting and simplifying cross- layer development.}, note = {Work in Progress session}, tags = {crawler}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-03-infocom-aktas-crawler.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2010 INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, San Diego, CA, USA}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-6739-6}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Aktas, Ismet and Otten, Jens and Schmidt, Florian and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inbook { 2010-02-book-alizai-hardware-and-systems, title = {Tools and Modeling Approaches for Simulating Hardware and Systems}, year = {2010}, month = {2}, volume = {1}, pages = {99-117}, url = {http://www.network-simulation.info/}, web_url = {http://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Tools-Network-Simulation-Wehrle/dp/3642123309}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Springer LNCS}, chapter = {Chapter 7}, booktitle = {Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation}, language = {EN}, ISBN = {978-3-642-12330-6}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Gao, Lei and Kempf, Torsten and Landsiedel, Olaf} } @Inproceedings { inproceedingsreference201001227195395138, title = {Iterative Source-Channel Decoding with Cross-Layer Support for Wireless VoIP}, year = {2010}, month = {1}, day = {18}, volume = {1}, pages = {1-6}, abstract = {This paper presents a cross-layer approach for iterative source-channel decoding (ISCD) in wireless VoIP networks. The novelty of the proposed method is the incorporation of both, speech bits as well as protocol header bits, into the ISCD process. The header bits take the role of pilot bits having perfect reliability. These bits are distributed over the frame as strong supporting points for the MAP decoder which results in a significant enhancement of the output speech quality compared to the benchmark scheme using ISCD for speech only. For this approach, we exploit new cross-layer concepts that support the direct communication between non-adjacent layers. These concepts enable the iterative exchange of extrinsic information between the source decoder located on the application layer and the channel decoder located on the physical layer. This technique can also be applied to audio and video transmission.}, tags = {refector}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-01-scc-breddermann-iscd.pdf}, misc2 = {CD-ROM / DVD-ROM}, editor = {Rudolf Mathar, Christoph Ruland}, publisher = {VDE Verlag}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, series = {Proceedings of International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding}, booktitle = {Proceedings of International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding}, organization = {ITG}, event_place = {Siegen}, event_name = {International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding 2010}, event_date = {January 18-21, 2010}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-3-8007-3211-1}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Breddermann, Tobias and Lueders, Helge and Vary, Peter and Aktas, Ismet and Schmidt, Florian} } @Inproceedings { 20105munawardynamictinyos, title = {Dynamic TinyOS: Modular and Transparent Incremental Code-Updates for Sensor Networks}, year = {2010}, pages = {1-6}, abstract = {Long-term deployments of sensor networks in physically inaccessible environments make remote re-programmability of sensor nodes a necessity. Ranging from full image replacement to virtual machines, a variety of mechanisms exist today to deploy new software or to fix bugs in deployed systems. However, TinyOS - the current state of the art sensor node operating system - is still limited to full image replacement as nodes execute a statically-linked system-image generated at compilation time. In this paper we introduce Dynamic TinyOS to enable the dynamic exchange of software components and thus incrementally update the operating system and its applications. The core idea is to preserve the modularity of TinyOS, i.e. its componentization, which is lost during the normal compilation process, and enable runtime composition of TinyOS components on the sensor node. The proposed solution integrates seamlessly into the system architecture of TinyOS: It does not require any changes to the programming model of TinyOS and existing components can be reused transparently. Our evaluation shows that Dynamic TinyOS incurs a low performance overhead while keeping a smaller - upto one third - memory footprint than other comparable solutions.}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-05-icc-munawar-DynamicTinyOS.pdf}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-6402-9}, ISSN = {1550-3607}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Munawar, Waqaas and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2010-ARCS-alizai-promotingpower, title = {Promoting Power to a First Class Metric in Network Simulations}, year = {2010}, pages = {387-392}, abstract = {Accurate prediction of energy consumption early in the design process is essential to efficiently optimize algorithms and protocols. However, despite energy efficiency gathering significant attention in networking research, limited effort has been invested in providing requisite evaluation tools and models. Hence, developers demand powerful evaluation tools to assist them in comparing new communication paradigms in terms of energy efficiency, and minimizing the energy requirements of algorithms. In this paper, we argue for promoting energy to a first class metric in network simulations. We explore the challenges involved in modelling energy in network simulations and present a detailed analysis of different modelling techniques. Finally, we discuss their applicability in high-level network simulations.}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2010/2010-2-ARCS-alizai-promoting-power.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {VDE-VERLAG}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Energy Aware Systems and Methods, in conjunction with GI/ITG ARCS 2010 Hannover, Feb. 21-23}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-3-8007-3222-7}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Kunz, Georg and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Inproceedings { 2009-sensys-alizai-burstytraffic, title = {Bursty Traffic over Bursty Links}, year = {2009}, month = {11}, pages = {71-84}, tags = {wld}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2009/2009-alizai-sensys-bre.pdf}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceeding of 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys 09), Berkeley, CA, USA}, event_place = {Berkley, California}, event_name = {Sensys 09}, event_date = {November 2009}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-60558-519-2}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and G{\"o}tz, Stefan and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Conference { 2009-q2swinet-samad-REALISM, title = {REALISM: Rendering Anonymity and Lightweight Security with Mobility in Wireless Ad hoc and Mesh Networks}, journal = {ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks}, year = {2009}, month = {10}, day = {26}, pages = {97-102}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {The 5th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet 2009), Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain}, event_place = {Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain}, event_name = {ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks}, event_date = {26-30 October, 2009}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-60558-619-9}, author = {Samad, Fahad and Ali Makram, Sadeq} } @Conference { 2009-ngmast-samad-pcwmn, title = {Protection based on Neighborhood-Trust in Clustered Wireless Mesh Networks}, year = {2009}, month = {9}, day = {15}, volume = {1}, pages = {487-493}, publisher = {IEEE}, howpublished = {Misc}, booktitle = {IEEE NGMAST 2009}, event_place = {Cardiff, U.K.}, event_name = {International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobil Applications, Services and Technologies}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-0-7695-3786-3}, author = {Samad, Fahad and Ali Makram, Sadeq} } @Techreport { 200908munawarfgsndynamictinyos, title = {Remote Incremental Adaptation of Sensor Network Applications}, year = {2009}, month = {9}, pages = {9-12}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2009/2009-08-munawar-fgsn-dynamic-tinyos.pdf}, web_url = {http://doku.b.tu-harburg.de/volltexte/2009/581/pdf/proceedings.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Technical University Hamburg}, address = {Technical University Hamburg}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch ''Wireless Sensor Networks'', Hamburg, Germany}, institution = {Technical University Hamburg}, language = {en}, author = {Munawar, Waqaas and Landsiedel, Olaf and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Techreport { 200908alizaifgsnburstyrouting, title = {Routing Over Bursty Wireless Links}, year = {2009}, month = {9}, pages = {63-66}, abstract = {Accurate estimation of link quality is the key to enable efficient routing in wireless sensor networks. Current link estimators focus mainly on identifying long-term stable links for routing, leaving out a potentiality large set of intermediate links offering significant routing progress. Fine-grained analysis of link qualities reveals that such intermediate links are bursty, i.e., stable in the short term. In this paper, we use short-term estimation of wireless links to accurately identify short-term stable periods of transmission on bursty links. Our approach allows a routing protocol to forward packets over bursty links if they offer better routing progress than long-term stable links. We integrate a Short Term Link Estimator and its associated routing strategy with a standard routing protocol for sensor networks. Our evaluation reveals an average of 22\% reduction in the overall transmissions when routing over long-range bursty links. Our approach is not tied to any special routing protocol and integrates seamlessly with existing routing protocols and link estimators.}, tags = {wld}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2009/2009-08-alizai-fgsn-bursty-routing.pdf}, web_url = {doku.b.tu-harburg.de/volltexte/2009/581/pdf/proceedings.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Technical University Hamburg}, address = {Technical University Hamburg}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch ''Wireless Sensor Networks'', Hamburg, Germany}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and G{\"o}tz, Stefan and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Proceedings { 2009-aktas-maple-ModeldrivenSupportforSourceCodeVariabilityinAutomotiveSoftwareEngineering-Workshop, title = {Model-driven Support for Source Code Variability in Automotive Software Engineering}, year = {2009}, month = {8}, pages = {44-51}, abstract = {Variability on source code level in automotive soft- ware engineering is handled by C/C++ preprocessing directives. It provides fine-grained definition of variation points, but brings highly complex structures into the source code. The software gets more difficult to understand, to maintain and to integrate changes. Current approaches for modeling and managing vari- ability on source code do not consider the specific requirements of the automotive domain. To close this gap, we propose a model- driven approach to support software engineers in handling source code variability and configuration of software variants. For this purpose, a variability model is developed that is linked with the source code. Using this approach, a software engineer can shift work steps to the variability model in order to model and manage variation points and implement their variants in the source code.}, keywords = {automotive software engineering; programming; model-driven engineering; variability modeling;}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {CEUR}, booktitle = {1st International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches in Software Product Line Engineering (MAPLE), San Francisco, CA, USA}, ISSN = {1613-0073}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Mengi, Cem and Fu{\ss}, Christian and Zimmermann, Ruben and Aktas, Ismet} } @Conference { 2009-iscc-samad-NNCQ, title = {Neighborhood Nodes Collaboration to Support QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks}, year = {2009}, month = {7}, day = {5}, pages = {763-769}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), Sousse, Tunisia}, event_place = {Sousse, Tunisia}, event_name = {IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-4244-4671-1}, author = {Ali Makram, Sadeq and Samad, Fahad and Guenes, Mesut} } @Article { 2009AlizaiPIKtimingenergy, title = {Modelling Execution Time and Energy Consumption in Sensor Node Simulation}, journal = {PIK Journal, Special Issue on Energy Aware Systems}, year = {2009}, month = {2}, volume = {32}, number = {2}, pages = {127-132}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2009/2009-2-alizai-modeling-energy.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, language = {en}, ISSN = {0930-5157}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Conference { 2008-ntms-samad-RFID, title = {Controlling Physical Objects with Privacy using Secure RFID System}, year = {2008}, month = {11}, day = {5}, pages = {1-5}, misc2 = {Online}, publisher = {IEEE}, booktitle = {2nd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility, and Security (NTMS 2008), Tangier, Morocco}, event_place = {Tangier, Morocco}, event_name = {International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security}, event_date = {5-7 Nov. 2008}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-2-9532443-0-4}, author = {Samad, Fahad and Ali Makram, Sadeq} } @Inproceedings { 2008-sensys-sasnauskas-kleenet, title = {Poster Abstract: KleeNet - Automatic Bug Hunting in Sensor Network Applications}, year = {2008}, month = {11}, pages = {425--426}, abstract = {We present KleeNet, a Klee based bug hunting tool for sensor network applications before deployment. KleeNet automatically tests code for all possible inputs, ensures memory safety, and integrates well into TinyOS based application development life cycle, making it easy for developers to test their applications.}, keywords = {bug finding, memory safety, tinyos, type safety}, tags = {kleenet}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2008/2008-11-Sasnauskas-SenSys08-KleeNet.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems (SenSys'08), Raleigh, NC, USA}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-1-59593-990-6}, DOI = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460412.1460485}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Sasnauskas, Raimondas and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Techreport { 2008-fgsn-sasnauskas-kleenet, title = {Bug Hunting in Sensor Network Applications}, year = {2008}, month = {9}, abstract = {Testing sensor network applications is an essential and a difficult task. Due to their distributed and faulty nature, severe resource constraints, unobservable interactions, and limited human interaction, sensor networks, make monitoring and debugging of applications strenuous and more challenging. In this paper we present KleeNet - a Klee based platform independent bug hunting tool for sensor network applications before deployment - which can automatically test applications for all possible inputs, and hence, ensures memory safety for TinyOS based applications. Upon finding a bug, KleeNet generates a concrete test case with real input values identifying a specific error path in a program. Additionally, we show that KleeNet integrates well into TinyOS application development life cycle with minimum manual effort, making it easy for developers to test their applications.}, tags = {kleenet}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2008/2008-09-Sasnauskas-FGSN08-BugHunting.pdf}, web_url = {ftp://ftp.inf.fu-berlin.de/pub/reports/tr-b-08-12.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Freie Universit{\"a}t Berlin, Institute of Computer Science}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th GI/ITG Fachgespraech Wireless Sensor Networks, Berlin, Germany}, institution = {Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems (ComSys)}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Sasnauskas, Raimondas and Bitsch Link, J{\'o} Agila and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Techreport { 2008-fgsn-alizai-stle, title = {Challenges in Short-term Wireless Link Quality Estimation}, year = {2008}, month = {7}, pages = {27-30}, tags = {wld}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2008/2008-08-alizai-fgsn-stle.pdf}, web_url = {ftp://ftp.inf.fu-berlin.de/pub/reports/tr-b-08-12.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th GI/ITG Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks}, event_name = {FGSN 08}, event_date = {September 2010}, language = {en}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus and Becher, Alexander} } @Inbook { 2008-thissen-LNCS-multimedia, title = {Multimedia and VR Support for Direct Communication of Designers}, year = {2008}, pages = {268-299}, misc2 = {Print}, editor = {M. Nagl, W. Marquardt}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4970}, booktitle = {Collaborative and Distributed Chemical Engineering, From Understanding to Substantial Design Process Support}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-3-540-70551-2}, author = {Sch{\"u}ppen, Andr{\'e} and Spaniol, Otto and Thi{\ss}en, Dirk and Assenmacher, Ingo and Haberstroh, Edmund and Kuhlen, Thorsten} } @Inproceedings { 200804landsiedelIPSN08TimingMatters, title = {When Timing Matters: Enabling Time Accurate \& Scalable Simulation of Sensor Network Applications}, year = {2008}, pages = {344-354}, abstract = {The rising complexity of data processing algorithms in sensor networks combined with their severely limited computing power necessitates an in-depth understanding of their temporal behavior. However, today only cycle accurate emulation and test-beds provide a detailed and accurate insight into the temporal behavior of sensor networks. In this paper we introduce fine grained, automated instrumentation of simulation models with cycle counts derived from sensor nodes and application binaries to provide detailed timing information. The presented approach bridges the gap between scalable but abstracting simulation and cycle accurate emulation for sensor network evaluation. By mapping device-specific code with simulation models, we can derive the time and duration a certain code line takes to get executed on a sensor node. Hence, eliminating the need to use expensive instruction-level emulators with limited speed and restricted scalability. Furthermore, the proposed design is not bound to a specific hardware platform, a major advantage compared to existing emulators. Our evaluation shows that the proposed technique achieves a timing accuracy of 99\% compared to emulation while adding only a small overhead. Concluding, it combines essential properties like accuracy, speed and scalability on a single simulation platform.}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2008/2008-04-IPSN-2008-landsiedel-Timing-Matters.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), St. Louis, MO, USA}, language = {en}, ISBN = {978-0-7695-3157-1}, reviewed = {1}, author = {Landsiedel, Olaf and Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Techreport { 2007-fgsn-alizai-timetossim, title = {Accurate Timing in Sensor Network Simulations}, year = {2007}, month = {7}, url = {fileadmin/papers/2008/2007-07-fgsn-alizai-accurate-timing.pdf}, web_url = {https://www.ds-group.info/events/fgsn07/fgsn07proc.pdf}, misc2 = {Print}, publisher = {RWTH Aachen}, address = {Aachen, Germany}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th GI/ITG KuVS Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN 07)}, institution = {RWTH Aachen}, event_place = {Aachen, Germany}, event_name = {FGSN 07}, event_date = {July 2007}, language = {en}, author = {Alizai, Muhammad Hamad and Landsiedel, Olaf and Wehrle, Klaus} } @Conference { 2007-aktas-VTC-ApplicabilityofaMulti-ModeMACProtocol-Conference, title = {Applicability of a Multi-Mode MAC Protocol}, year = {2007}, month = {4}, day = {22}, pages = {969 - 973}, booktitle = {Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th}, author = {Otyakmaz, Arif and Aktas, Ismet and Schinnenburg, Marc and Pabst, Ralf} } @Conference { 2007-aktas-WCNC2007-AMulti-ModeMACProtocolwithRelaySupport-Conference, title = {A Multi-Mode MAC Protocol with Relay Support}, year = {2007}, month = {3}, day = {11}, pages = {328 - 333}, abstract = {Future mobile radio networks will have the requirement of very high data rates. Typical wireless data communication will not only occur in short range scenarios like hotspots in airports, city centres, exhibition halls, etc., but also in wide area environments, e.g. a moving car in a rural environment. Data services will require a ubiquitous mobile radio system and demand better quality of service, like high data rates and low delays. Two promising concepts for future mobile radio communication are the deployment of relays and the ability to adapt to various deployment strategies by using different radio access technologies, i.e. modes with a common technology basis. The former concept allows enlarging the cell coverage. Relays are not wired connected and consequently a cost-efficient alternative to base stations that work in a decode-and-forward principle. The latter concept provides modes that are tailored solutions for specific environments and thus allow the adaptation to various scenarios by selecting the most adequate one. The aim of this work is to merge the advantages taken from both concepts to one solution.}, booktitle = {Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007. WCNC 2007}, author = {Otyakmaz, Arif and Aktas, Ismet and Schinnenburg, Marc and Pabst, Ralf} }