Christian Bettstetter: Publications

Christian Bettstetter

Professor
Networked and Embedded Systems
Mobile Systems Group
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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Articles in Journals and Magazines

Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, Christian Bettstetter. Emergent Slot Synchronization in Wireless Networks. Submitted. May 2008.
Emma Carlson, Christian Prehofer, Christian Bettstetter, Holger Karl, Adam Wolisz. A Distributed End-to-End Reservation Protocol for IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 2018-2027, November 2006.
Philipp Hofmann, Christian Bettstetter, and Christian Prehofer. Performance Impact of Multihop Handovers in an IP-based Multihop Radio Access Network. ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 13-25. April 2006.
Robert Vilzmann, Christian Bettstetter, and Christian Hartmann. BeamMAC: A New Paradigm for Medium Access in Wireless Networks. Intern. Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ), vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 3-7, January 2006.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann. Connectivity of Wireless Multihop Networks in a Shadow Fading Environment. ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 571-579, September 2005. [preprint].
Christian Prehofer and Christian Bettstetter. Self-Organization in Communication Networks: Principles and Design Paradigms. IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Advances in Self-Organizing Networks, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 78-85, July 2005.
Christian Bettstetter, Hannes Hartenstein, and Xavier Pérez-Costa. Stochastic Properties of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model. ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, Special Issue on Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Networks, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 555-567, Sept 2004.
Christian Bettstetter. On the Connectivity of Ad Hoc Networks. The Computer Journal, Special Issue on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 432-447, Oxford University Press, July 2004.
Christian Prehofer, Joachim Hillebrand, Philipp Hofmann, Paulo Mendes, Qing Wei, and Christian Bettstetter. Active IP Networking: Towards Self-Organized Ambient Communication. NTT DoCoMo Technical Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2004.
Christian Bettstetter, Giovanni Resta, and Paolo Santi. The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 257-269, July-September 2003.

This article received the 2004 ITG outstanding paper award ("ITG-Literaturpreis"). See newspaper article.
Wolfgang Kellerer, Christian Bettstetter, Christian Schwingenschlögl, Peter Sties, Karl-Ernst Steinberg, and Hans-Jörg Vögel.(Auto) Mobile Communication in a Heterogeneous and Converged World. IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, Special Issue on European R&D on Fourth-Generation Mobile and Wireless IP Networks, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 41-47, December 2001.
Christian Bettstetter. Mobility Modeling in Wireless Networks: Categorization, Smooth Movement, and Border Effects. ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 55-67, July 2001.
Christian Weiß, Christian Bettstetter, and Sven Riedel. Code Construction and Decoding of Parallel Concatenated Tail-Biting Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 368-388, Jan 2001.
Christian Bettstetter, Hans-Jörg Vögel, and Jörg Eberspächer. GSM Phase 2+ General Packet Radio Service GPRS: Architecture, Protocols, and Air Interface. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Special Issue on Packet Radio Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 2-14, Third Quarter 1999. Available online at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/.

An extended abstract of this article also appeared in IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E83-B, no.2, Feb 2000. (http://search.ieice.or.jp/).

Books

Christian Bettstetter. Mobility Modeling, Connectivity, and Adaptive Clustering in Ad Hoc Networks. Utz Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-8316-0397-9.
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Jörg Eberspächer, Hans-Jörg Vögel, and Christian Bettstetter. GSM - Switching, Services, and Protocols. John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, March 2001.
- See the book description
- Take a look inside at amazon.com
- Use the online edition

Jörg Eberspächer, Hans-Jörg Vögel, and Christian Bettstetter. GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication. Vermittlung, Dienste und Protokolle in digitalen Mobilfunknetzen. Teubner, 3rd Edition, January 2001.

Book Chapters

Christian Prehofer, Christian Bettstetter, and Jörg Widmer. Mobile Communication Networks. In Towards 4G Technologies: Services with Initiative, Ed. Hendrik Berndt, John Wiley & Sons, February 2008.
Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, and Christian Bettstetter. Biologically Inspired Synchronization for Wireless Networks. In Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems: Models, Methods, and Tools, Eds. Falko Dressler and Iacopo Carreras, in Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, vol. 69, pp. 47-62, 2007.
Amardeo Sarma, Christian Bettstetter, and Sudhir Dixit (Eds.). Self-Organization in Communication Networks. Chapter 9 of Technologies for the Wireless Future: Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Volume 2, Ed. Rahim Tafazolli, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 423-452, June 2006.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann. GSM Digital Cellular Communication System. In the Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Ed. John G. Proakis, John Wiley & Sons, December 2002.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). In the Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Ed. John G. Proakis, John Wiley & Sons, December 2002.
Joachim Hagenauer, Joao Francisco Barros, Christian Bettstetter, and Silke Jauck. Three Years of Experience with an International Graduate Program at TU München. In Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century, Ed. D. Weichert, B. Rauhut, R. Schmidt, Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 2001.

Conference Papers and Letters

Note: For each paper marked with (*), a revised and extended journal or book version is available (see above).

Michael Gyarmati, Udo Schilcher, Günther Brandner, Christian Bettstetter, Yun Won Chung, and Young Han Kim. Impact of Random Mobility on the Inhomogeneity of Spatial Distributions. In Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2008.
Christian Bettstetter, Günther Brandner, and Robert Vilzmann. On Colliding First Messages in Slotted ALOHA. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, September 15-18, 2008.
Helmut Adam, Christian Bettstetter, and Sidi Mohammed Senouci. Adaptive Relay Selection in Cooperative Wireless Networks. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, September 15-18, 2008.
Sérgio Crisóstomo, João Barros, and Christian Bettstetter. Flooding the Network: Multipoint Relays versus Network Coding. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Circuits and Systems for Communications (ICCSC), Shanghai, China, May 26-28, 2008.
Udo Schilcher, Michael Gyarmati, Christian Bettstetter, Yun Won Chung, and Young Han Kim. Measuring Inhomogeneity in Spatial Distributions. In Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Marina Bay, Singapore, May 11-14, 2008.

This paper received the Best Paper Award of the conference.
Christian Bettstetter, Michael Gyarmati, and Udo Schilcher. An Inhomogeneous Node Distribution and its Stochastic Properties. In Proc. ACM/IEEE Intern. Symp. on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Chania, Crete Island, Greece, pp. 400-404, October 22-26, 2007.
Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, and Christian Bettstetter. Fireflies as Role Models for Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. Intern. Conf. on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Cavalese, Italy, December 11-13, 2006. (*)

A preliminary version of this paper, titled Firefly Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks was presented that a workshop of the ESF-funded scientific program MiNEMA, Leuven, Belgium, February 7-9, 2006. (*)
Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, and Christian Bettstetter. Synchronization Inspired from Nature for Wireless Meshed Networks. In Proc. Intern. Conf. on Wireless Communications, Networking, and Mobile Computing, Wuhan, China, Sept 22-24, 2006.
Philipp Hofmann, Koojana Kuladinithi, Andreas Timm-Giel, Carmelita Görg, Christian Bettstetter, François Capman, Christian Toulsaly. Are IEEE 802 Wireless Technologies Suited for Fire Fighters?. In Proc. European Wireless, Athens, Greece, April 2-5, 2006.
Robert Vilzmann, Christian Bettstetter, Daniel Medina, and Christian Hartmann. Hop Distances and Flooding in Wireless Multihop Networks with Randomized Beamforming. In Proc. ACM/IEEE Intern. Symp. on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Montreal, Canada, pp. 20-27, October 10-13, 2005.
Robert Vilzmann, Christian Bettstetter, and Christian Hartmann. On the Impact of Beamforming on Mutal Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh), Santa Clara, USA, pp. 127-133, September 26, 2005.
Robert Vilzmann and Christian Bettstetter. A Survey on MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks with Directional Antennas. In Proc. EUNICE Open European Summer School, Colmenarejo, Spain, pp. 268-274, July 6-8, 2005.
Christian Bettstetter, Christian Hartmann, and Clemens Moser. How Does Randomized Beamforming Improve the Connectivity of Ad Hoc Networks? In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Seoul, Korea, pp. 3380-85, May 16-20, 2005.
Emma Carlson, Christian Bettstetter, Christian Prehofer, and Adam Wolisz. A Performance Comparison of QoS Approaches for Ad Hoc Networks: 802.11e versus Distributed Resource Allocation. In Proc. European Wireless, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 10-13, 2005.
Philipp Hofmann, Christian Bettstetter, Koojana Kuladinithi, Andreas Timm-Giel, Camelita Görg, Rifat Ok, and Zeynap Sarilar. Requirements of Wireless Communication for Wearable Computing at Work. In Proc. Intern. Forum on Applied Wearable Computing (IFAWC), Zürich, Switzerland, March 17-18, 2005.
Philipp Hofmann, Christian Bettstetter, Jeremie Wehren, Christian Prehofer. Performance Impact of Mobility in an Emulated IP-based Multihop Radio Access Network. In Proc. IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN), Paris, France, Oct 25-27, 2004.
Emma Carlson, Christian Bettstetter, Holger Karl, Christian Prehofer, and Adam Wolisz. MAC for Real-Time Traffic in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: Protection of an End-to-End Resource Reservation. Poster presentation at IEEE Conf. on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara, USA, Oct 4-7, 2004.
Emma Carlson, Christian Bettstetter, Holger Karl, Christian Prehofer, and Adam Wolisz. Distributed Maintenance of Resource Reservation Paths in Multihop 802.11 Networks. In Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Los Angeles, USA, Sept 26-29, 2004.
Christian Bettstetter. Failure-Resilient Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in a Shadow Fading Environment. In Proc. IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (DIWANS), Florence, Italy, June 29, 2004.
Christian Bettstetter. The Cluster Density of a Distributed Clustering Algorithm in Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, June 20-24, 2004.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Prehofer. Toward Self-Organization in Mobile Communication Networks. In Proc. Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) meeting, Beijing, China, February 26-27, 2004. (*)
Xavier Peréz-Costa, Christian Bettstetter, and Hannes Hartenstein. Toward a Mobility Metric for Comparable and Reproducible Results in Ad Hoc Networks Research. ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 58-60, October 2003.

A preliminary version of this letter (titled "Towards a Mobility Metric for Reproducible and Comparable Results in Ad Hoc Networks Research") was presented in the poster session of the Intern. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), San Diego, CA, USA, Sept 2003.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann. Connectivity of Wireless Multihop Networks in a Shadow Fading Environment. In Proc. ACM Intern. Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 28-32, Sept 2003. (*)
Christian Bettstetter. Topology Properties of Ad Hoc Networks with Random Waypoint Mobility. In Proc. ACM Intern. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), electronic version, Annapolis, MD, USA, June 1-3, 2003. Short Paper.

A reprint of this paper appeared in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 50-52, July 2003.
Christian Bettstetter and Bastian Friedrich. Time and Message Complexities of the Generalized Distributed Mobility-Adaptive Clustering (GDMAC) Algorithm in Wireless Multihop Networks. In Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Jeju, Korea, pp. 176-180, April 2003.
Christian Bettstetter and Jörg Eberspächer. Hop Distances in Homogeneous Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Jeju, Korea, pp. 2286-2290, April 2003.
Christian Bettstetter and Clemens Moser. Simulationsbasierte Konnektivitätsanalyse von gleich- und normalverteilten drahtlosen Sensornetzen. In Proc. ITG/GI Conf. on 'Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen' (KiVS), Leipzig, Germany, pp. 307-318, Feb 2003. Springer.
Timo Kosch, Christian Schwingenschlögl, and Christian Bettstetter. Situative IP-basierte Fahrerinformationssysteme: Szenarien, Routing und prototypische Realisierung. In Proc. VDE Conf. 'NetWorlds', Dresden, Germany, Oct 2002.
Christian Bettstetter, Hannes Hartenstein, and Xavier Perez-Costa. Stochastic Properties of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model: Epoch Length, Direction Distribution, and Cell Change Rate. In Proc. ACM Intern. Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 7-14, Sept 2002. (*)
Christian Bettstetter. On the Connectivity of Wireless Multihop Networks with Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Range Assignment. In Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, vol. 3, pp. 1706-1710, Sept 24-28, 2002.
Christian Bettstetter and Johannes Zangl. How to Achieve a Connected Ad Hoc Network with Homogeneous Range Assignment: An Analytical Study with Consideration of Border Effects. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN), Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 125-129, Sept 9-11, 2002.
Christian Bettstetter. On the Minimum Node Degree and Connectivity of a Wireless Multihop Network. In Proc. ACM Intern. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 80-91, June 9-11, 2002. [citings]
Jin Xi and Christian Bettstetter. Wireless Multi-Hop Internet Access: Gateway Discovery, Routing, and Addressing. In Proc. Intern. Conf. on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond (3Gwireless), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 28-31, 2002.
Christian Bettstetter and Christian Wagner. The Spatial Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model. In Proc. German Workshop on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (WMAN), Ulm, Germany, GI Lecture Notes in Informatics, no. P-11, pp. 41-58, Mar 25-26, 2002. [citings]
Christian Bettstetter and Stefan König. On the Message and Time Complexity of a Distributed Mobility-Adaptive Clustering Algorithm in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. European Wireless, Florence, Italy, pp. 128-134, Feb 25-28, 2002.
Christian Bettstetter and Roland Krausser. Scenario-Based Stability Analysis of the Distributed Mobility-Adaptive Clustering (DMAC) Algorithm. In Proc. ACM Intern. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Long Beach, CA, USA, pp. 232-241, Oct 4-5, 2001.
Marco Vettorello, Christian Bettstetter, and Christian Schwingenschlögl. Some Notes on Security in the Service Location Protocol Version 2 (SLPv2). In Proc. Workshop on Ad hoc Communications, held in conjunction with European Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), Bonn, Germany, Sept 16-20, 2001.
Eivind Jåsund, Christian Bettstetter, and Christian Schwingenschlögl. A Service Browser for the Service Location Protocol Version 2 (SLPv2) In Proc. EUNICE Open European Summer School and the IFIP Workshop on IP and ATM Traffic Management (WATM), Paris, France, Sept 3-5, 2001.
Christian Bettstetter and Oliver Krause. On Border Effects in Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN), Recife, Brazil, pp. 20-27, Aug 14-17, 2001.
Christian Bettstetter. Smooth is Better than Sharp: A Random Mobility Model for Simulation of Wireless Networks. In Proc. ACM Intern. Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Rome, Italy, July 2001. [citings] (*)
Christian Bettstetter and Jin Xi. Mobility Modeling and Analysis of Adaptive Clustering Algorithms in Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. European Personal Mobile Communications Conf. (EPMCC), Vienna, Austria, Feb 19-22, 2001.
Christian Bettstetter, Wolfgang Kellerer, and Jörg Eberspächer. Personal Profile Mobility for Ubiquitous Service Usage. In The Book of Visions 2000 - Visions of the wireless world. IST Wireless Strategic Initiative (WSI), pp. 67-69, Nov 2000. (See also Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)).
Christian Bettstetter and Christoph Renner. A Comparison of Service Discovery Protocols and Implementation of the Service Location Protocol. In Proc. EUNICE Open European Summer School, Twente, Netherlands, Sept 13-15, 2000.
Christian Bettstetter. Toward Internet-based Car Communications: On Some System Architecture and Protocol Aspects. In Proc. EUNICE Open European Summer School, Twente, Netherlands, Sept 13-15, 2000.
Christian Bettstetter, Anton Riedl, and Gerhard Geßler. Interoperation of Mobile IPv6 and Protocol Independent Multicast Dense Mode. In Proc. Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, held in conjunction with Intern. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Toronto, Canada, pp. 531-539, Aug 2000.
Christian Bettstetter. Global Wireless Internet Access with GPRS. In Proc. EUNICE Open European Summer School, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 151-162, Sept 1999. (*)
Christian Weiß, Christian Bettstetter, Sven Riedel, and Daniel J. Costello, Jr. Turbo Decoding with Tail-Biting Trellises. In Proc. URSI Intern. Symp. on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE), Pisa, Italy, pp. 343-348, Oct 1998. (*)

Patents and Patent Applications

A list of filed and accepted patents can be found at the espace-net database from the European patent office.

Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, and Christian Bettstetter. Apparatus and Method for Synchronizing First Transmitting or Receiving Device to Second Transmission or Reception Device. Filed February 2007.
Christian Prehofer, Christian Bettstetter, and Gerhard Bauch. Adaptive Forwarding System Operable in a Repeater and a Router Mode. Filed November 2006, accepted July 2007.
Christian Bettstetter, Clemens Moser, and Gerhard Bauch. Context-Aware Directional Antenna. Filed November 2006.
Robert Vilzmann, Christian Bettstetter, Christian Hartmann, Gerhard Bauch, and Katsutoshi Kusume. Receiver and Transmitter for a Network Having a Non-Centralized Medium Access Control. Filed August 2006.

Technical Reports

Jörg Eberspächer, Christian Bettstetter, and Jin Xi. Abschlussbericht: Systemarchitektur, Mobilitätskonzepte und Modellierung von drahtlosen Adhoc-Netzen im Verbundprojekt 'Selbstorganisierende Adhoc-/Sensor-Netze' des DFG Schwerpunktprogramms 'Adaptivität in heterogenen Kommunikationsnetzen mit drahtlosem Zugang', Munich, 2004.
Christian Bettstetter. Node Distances, Node Degree, and Connectivity of Ad Hoc Networks with Random Waypoint Mobility. Technical Report TUM-LKN 2003/01, Technische Universität München, Institute of Communication Networks, Munich, Germany, Mar 2003.
Christian Bettstetter and Peter Jocher. A Survey and Evaluation Framework of Adaptive Distributed Clustering Algorithms. Technical Report TUM-LKN 2002/02, Technische Universität München, Institute of Communication Networks, Munich, Germany, Dec 2002.
Christian Bettstetter, Giovanni Resta, and Paolo Santi. The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Technical Report TUM-LKN 2002/01, Technische Universität München, Institute of Communication Networks, Munich, Germany, Sept 2002.
Jörg Eberspächer, Christian Bettstetter, and Jin Xi. Zwischenbericht: Systemarchitektur, Mobilitätskonzepte und Modellierung von drahtlosen Adhoc-Netzen im Verbundprojekt 'Selbstorganisierende Adhoc-/Sensor-Netze' des DFG Schwerpunktprogramms 'Adaptivität in heterogenen Kommunikationsnetzen mit drahtlosem Zugang', Munich, Jan 2002.
Christian Bettstetter, Christian Schwingenschlögl, and Karl-Ernst Steinberg. IPCarCom: An Architecture Study for Internet-based Personal Multimedia Communications with Heterogeneous Networks in, from, to, and between Cars. Technische Universität München (Institute of Communication Networks) and BMW, Munich, Apr 2000.

Master Thesis

Christian Bettstetter. Turbo Decoding with Tail-biting Trellises, Master thesis, Technische Universität München, Germany, July 1998.

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