Christian Bettstetter

Professor, University of Klagenfurt, Networked and Embedded Systems

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Christian Bettstetter is professor and head of the Networked and Embedded Systems institute at the University of Klagenfurt. His main research and teaching interests are in mobile wireless networking, network theory, self-organization, and mobile robots. He is also scientific director and founder of Lakeside Labs GmbH, a research and innovation cluster on self-organizing networked systems.

He studied electrical engineering and information technology at the Technische Universität München (TUM), receiving the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1998. After a research stay at the University of Notre Dame, Christian joined the institute of communication networks at TUM, where he was a research and teaching staff member until 2003. His doctoral thesis on mobility modeling, connectivity, and adaptive clustering in wireless ad hoc networks was awarded the Dr.-Ing (summa cum laude) degree in 2004. Before becoming a professor, Christian was a senior researcher at DoCoMo Euro-Labs for two years, doing research on medium access and topology aspects of ad hoc networks.

Christian and his team work on the design, modeling, and analysis of future networked communication systems, with a focus on mobile and wireless networking. Major expertise is on algorithms and protocols, stochastic modeling aspects, network theory, and architectures. Current projects address cooperative relaying, self-organized synchronization, and collaborative microdrones. Christian's teaching portfolio includes various graduate courses on mobile networks and an undergraduate course on electromagnetism.

The publication record includes over 20 articles in journals, magazines, and books, and about 70 papers in refereed conference proceedings. Two of his publications received best paper awards at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, and another one the 2004 outstanding paper award from the German Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG). He also co-authored the Wiley textbook 'GSM - Architecture, protocols and services.' His current h-index, being a measure for the visibility and impact of publications, is 29.

He currently serves as editor for ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, committee member of several IEEE and ACM conferences, and project reviewer for the European Commission.

Selected Publications

 

Temporal Correlation of Interference in Wireless Networks with Rayleigh Block Fading. IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., accepted paper. With U. Schilcher and G. Brandner.

Self-organizing synchronization with inhibitory-coupled oscillators: Convergence and robustness. ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Sys., accepted paper. With J. Klinglmayr.

Emergent slot synchronization in wireless networks. IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., 9(5): 719-732, May 2010. With A. Tyrrell and G. Auer.

On colliding first messages in slotted ALOHA. In Proc. IEEE PIMRC, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008. With G. Brandner and R. Vilzmann.

A distributed end-to-end reservation protocol for IEEE 802.11-based wireless mesh networks. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 24(11):2018-2027, Nov. 2006. With E. Carlson, C. Prehofer, H. Karl, and A. Wolisz.

Self-organization in communication networks: Principles and design paradigms. IEEE Commun. Mag., 43(7):78-85, July 2005. With C. Prehofer.

Failure-resilient ad hoc and sensor networks in a shadow fading environment. In Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN, Workshops, Florence, Italy, June 2004.

Connectivity of wireless multihop networks in a shadow fading environment. Wireless Networks, 11(5):571-579, Sep. 2005. With C. Hartmann.

On the connectivity of ad hoc networks. The Computer J., 47(4):432-447, Oxford University Press, July 2004.

Stochastic properties of the random waypoint mobility model. Wireless Networks, 10(5):555-567, Sep. 2004. With H. Hartenstein and X. Pérez-Costa.

The node distribution of the random waypoint mobility model for wireless ad hoc networks. IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., 2(3):257-269, July 2003. With G. Resta and P. Santi.

Code construction and decoding of parallel concatenated tail-biting codes. IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 47(1):368-388, Jan. 2001. With C. Weiß and S. Riedel.

Awards and Honors