Role at IKR
Research Group Leader
Member of IKR
2000 - 2006
Now with
The Boston Consulting Group GmbH Office Stuttgart
Function
Consultant
Contact via IKR
EMail
PhD thesis
Novel Network Architecture for Optical Burst Transport - Communication Networks and Computer Engineering Report No. 92
Research
o
IP-over-WDM network architectures and protocols
Optical burst switching ( topic web-site on OBS, currently not up-to-date anymore)
Multilayer traffic engineering, integrated routing and grooming
Teaching
Teletraffic Theory and Engineering 2001-2004 ( home page of lecture, only in German language)
Development and supervision (2001-2003) of the lab course in programming languages (JAVA, home page of lab course)
IKR activities
Responsible for the further development and administration of the IKR Simulation Library IKRSimLib
Organization and program planning of the IKR internal discussion series AKZENT
Activities in the research community
Member of the Network of Excellence on Optical Networks E-Photon ONe ( home page)
Co-chair of the 3rd Int'l Workshop on Optical Burst Switching ( WOBS 2004), October 2004
Member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Optical Switching and Networking Journal ( home page)
Member of the steering board of the OBS Forum ( home page)
Member of the TPCs of WOBS ( 2003) and COIN ( 2003, 2004), Globecom ( Photonic Technologies for Communications 2005, Advanced Technologies and Protocols for Optical Networks 2006), and IEEE ICC ( Optical Systems and Networks Symposium 2006 )
Education
1994-2000 Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Stuttgart
1998-1999 Graduate Studies in the Computer Science Masters Program of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta/USA as scholar of The German-American Fulbright Commission
