Dr. Tobias Heer

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Last updated on 2011-12-31

Short Biography

Tobias is a researcher at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. He is project manager for the network-related aspects of the Mobile ACcess Project. In December 2011, he received his doctoral degree with honors for his thesis “Direct End-to-middle Authentication in Cooperative Networks”. He was a member of the graduate school for software for communication systems from 2006 to 2009. His research focus is mobile communications, efficient end-host mobility, and network security. Tobias is actively involved in the development and standardization of the Host Identity Protocol in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Tobias began his studies in Computer Science at the University of Tübingen (Germany) in 2000 and graduated as a Diplom-Informatiker (MSc equiv.) in 2006. He was working for the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) in Finland from October 2005 to May 2006 where he was working on his Diplomarbeit on Lightweight Authentication for the Host Identifier Protocol for which he was awarded the KuVS prize for the best Diploma thesis in 2007. From 2001 to 2005 Tobias developed dynamic web applications for :meacon.media.technology.design.

Publications

Hanno Wirtz, Tobias Heer, Martin Serror, Klaus Wehrle. DHT-based Localized Service Discovery in Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2012), Oct 8 - Oct 11, 2012, Las Vegas, NV, United States. October 2012.

Hanno Wirtz, Tobias Heer, René Hummen, Klaus Wehrle. Mesh-DHT: A Locality-Based Distributed Look-Up Structure for Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Jun 10 - Jun 15, 2012, Ottawa, Canada. June 2012.

René Hummen, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Tobias Heer, Hanno Wirtz, Klaus Wehrle. SEAMS: A Signaling Layer for End-host-Assisted Middlebox Services. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-12), Jun 25 - Jun 27, 2012, Liverpool, United Kingdom. June 2012.

Tobias Heer. Direct End-to-Middle Authentication in Cooperative Networks. Shaker. Ph.D. Thesis. February 2012.

Hanno Wirtz, René Hummen, Nicolai Viol, Tobias Heer, Mónica Alejandra Lora Girón, Klaus Wehrle. Cooperative Wi-Fi-Sharing: Encouraging Fair Play. Proceedings of the ITU-T Kaleidoscope Event 2011, Cape Town, South Africa. December 2011.

Samu Varjonen, Tobias Heer, Kenneth Rimey, Andrei Gurtov. Secure Resolution of End-Host Identifiers for Mobile Clients. IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 - Next Generation Networking Symposium (GC'11 - NGN). December 2011.

Tobias Heer, Oscar Garcia-Morchon, René Hummen, Sye Loong Keoh, Sandeep S. Kumar, Klaus Wehrle. Security Challenges in the IP-based Internet of Things. Springer Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol. 61, no. 3. October 2011.

Hanno Wirtz, Tobias Heer, Robert Backhaus, Klaus Wehrle. Establishing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks in 802.11 Infrastructure Mode. Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (Chants 2011), Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 2011.

René Hummen, Hanno Wirtz, Nicolai Viol, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. PISA-SA - Security and Mobility in a Collaborative Muni-Fi (Demo Abstract). Proceedings of the fourth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, vol. 15, Hamburg, Germany. June 2011.

Elias Weingärtner, Florian Schmidt, Hendrik vom Lehn, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. SliceTime: A platform for scalable and accurate network emulation. Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘11), Boston, Massachusetts. March 2011.

Tobias Heer, Miika Komu, René Hummen, Klaus Wehrle. End-Host Authentication for HIP Middleboxes (Version 4). January 2011.
Work in progress

Tobias Heer, Samu Varjonen. Host Identity Protocol Certificates. IETF Trust. January 2011.
expires: July 22, 2011 (work in progress)

Robert Moskowitz, Petri Jokela, Thomas R. Henderson, Tobias Heer. Host Identity Protocol Version 2. IETF Trust. January 2011.
expires: July 24, 2011 (work in progress)

Hanno Wirtz, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. A Generic Service Overlay for Wireless Mesh Networks. 3rd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch on NG SDPs, Oct 14 - Oct 14, 2010, Berlin, Germany. October 2010.

Tobias Heer, Thomas Jansen, René Hummen, Hanno Wirtz, Stefan Götz, Elias Weingärtner, Klaus Wehrle. PiSA-SA: Municipal Wi-Fi Based on Wi-Fi Sharing. International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2010), vol. 1, Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. August 2010.

Robert Moskowitz, Petri Jokela, Thomas R. Henderson, Tobias Heer. Host Identity Protocol Version 2. IETF Trust. July 2010.
expires: March 7, 2011 (work in progress)

Tobias Heer, René Hummen, Nicolai Viol, Hanno Wirtz, Stefan Götz, Klaus Wehrle. Collaborative Municipal Wi-Fi Networks - Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN 2010), vol. 1, Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2010, Mannheim, Germany. April 2010.

Tobias Heer, Samu Varjonen. Host Identity Protocol Certificates. IETF Trust. April 2010.
expires: October 30, 2010 (work in progress)

Robert Moskowitz Pekka Nikander, Petri Jokela, Thomas R. Henderson, Tobias Heer. Host Identity Protocol Version 2. IETF Trust. March 2010.
expires: September 10, 2010 (work in progress)

Oscar Garcia-Morchon, Thomas Falck, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. Security for Pervasive Medical Sensor Networks. 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2009), vol. 1, Jul 13 - Jul 16, 2009, Toronto, CAN. July 2009.

Tobias Heer, Samu Varjonen. Host Identity Protocol Certificates. IETF Trust. June 2009.
expires: January 2, 2010 (work in progress)

Tobias Heer, René Hummen, Miika Komu, Stefan Götz, Klaus Wehrle. End-host Authentication and Authorization for Middleboxes based on a Cryptographic Namespace. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 (ICC 2009), vol. 1, Jun 14 - Jun 18, 2009, Dresden, Germany. January 2009.

Tobias Heer, Miika Komu, Klaus Wehrle. End-Host Authentication for HIP Middleboxes (Version 2). January 2009.
Work in progress

Tobias Heer. Leichtgewichtge Sicherheitsmechanismen für das Host Identity Protocol. PIK Journal, vol. 32, no. 1/09. January 2009.
Diploma Thesis Award Article

Oscar Garcia-Morchon, Tobias Heer, Ludo Tolhuizen, Klaus Wehrle. Lightweight Key Agreement and Digital Certificates for Wireles Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2009), vol. 1, Calgary, CN. January 2009.
Brief Announcement

Stefan Götz, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. Protocol Orchestration: A Semantic Approach to Communication Stacks. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (ACM MobiArch ‘09), Krakow, Poland. January 2009.

Tobias Heer, Samu Varjonen, Hanno Wirtz. Service Identifiers for HIP. January 2009.
Work in progress

Elias Weingärtner, Florian Schmidt, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. Time accurate integration of software prototypes with event-based network simulations. Proceedings of the 11th Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009), vol. 37, no. 2. January 2009.
Poster Session

Stefan Götz, Christian Beckel, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. ADAPT: A Semantics-Oriented Protocol Architecture. Self-Organizing Systems, vol. 5343/2008, Vienna, Austria. December 2008.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems

Tobias Heer, Stefan Götz, Oscar Garcia-Morchon, Klaus Wehrle. ALPHA: an adaptive and lightweight protocol for hop-by-hop authentication. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference, vol. 1, Dec 9 - Dec 12, 2008, Madrid, Spain. December 2008.

Tobias Heer, Stefan Götz, Elias Weingärtner, Klaus Wehrle. Secure Wi-Fi Sharing at Global Scales. Proc. of 15th International Conference on Telecommunication (ICT), vol. 1, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. June 2008.

Tobias Heer, Samu Varjonen. Host Identity Protocol Certificates. IETF Trust. February 2008.
expires: August 21, 2008 (work in progress)

Tobias Heer, Miika Komu, Klaus Wehrle. End-Host Authentication for HIP Middleboxes (Version 1). January 2008.
Work in progress

Samu Varjonen, Tobias Heer. HIP Certificates (Version 0). January 2008.
Work in progress

Samu Varjonen, Tobias Heer. HIP Certificates (Version 1). January 2008.
draft-varjonen-hip-cert-01.txt. Work in progress.

Tobias Heer. Introduction to Network Security. Host Identity Protocol (HIP), vol. 1. January 2008.

Tobias Heer. Lightweight HIP. Host Identity Protocol (HIP), vol. 1. January 2008.

Elias Weingärtner, Florian Schmidt, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. Synchronized network emulation: matching prototypes with complex simulations. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 36, no. 2. January 2008.
This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the ACM HotMetrics 2008 workshop.

Tobias Heer, Shaohui Li, Klaus Wehrle. PISA: P2P Wi-Fi Internet Sharing Architecture. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, vol. 1, Sep 2 - Sep 5, 2007, Galway, Ireland. September 2007.

Oscar Garcia-Morchon, Heribert Baldus, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. Cooperative Security in Distributed Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the third International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2007, vol. 1. January 2007.

Tobias Heer. End-Host Authentication for HIP Middleboxes. January 2007.
Work in progress

Tobias Heer. LHIP Lightweight Authentication Extension for HIP. January 2007.
Work in progress

Olaf Landsiedel, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle. MHT: A Mobility-Aware Distributed Hash Table. Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer of the it - Information Technology Journal, vol. 49, no. 5. January 2007.

Tobias Heer, Stefan Götz, Simon Rieche, Klaus Wehrle. Adapting Distributed Hash Tables for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of 3. IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'06), vol. 1, Pisa, Italy. March 2006.

Tobias Heer. Einsatz Verteilter Hash-Tabellen in mobilen Netzen. Proceedings of GI-Informatiktage 2005, vol. 1, Bonn, Germany. January 2005.
DS-Group student project

Tobias Heer, Heiko Niedermayer, Leo Petrak, Simon Rieche, Klaus Wehrle. On the Use of Structured P2P Indexing Mechanisms in Mobile Ad-Hoc Scenarios. Proceedings of Workshop on Algorithms and Protocols for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Applications (PEPPA), vol. 51, Ulm, Germany. September 2004.

Advised Theses

Liquid Democracy

Diploma Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, May 2012

Advisors: Jó Ágila Bitsch, Tobias Heer

Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Walter Unger (i1)

FIfF Student Award (3rd place) for the best thesis in 2011

Analysis and Optimization of the Adaptive and Lightweight Protocol for Hop-by-hop Authentication (ALPHA) in TCP/IP Networks

Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, May 2011

Advisor: Tobias Heer

Examiner: Klaus Wehrle

A Service Architecture for Collaborative Wi-Fi Networks

Diploma Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2010

Advisor: Tobias Heer

Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Leif Kobbelt (i8)