We are very glad to organise this event for the 3rd successful time at TUHH. Here is the details.

A poster “An attempt to move from Software Defined Networks to Self-Driving Network using Recurrent Neural Network” has been accepted for the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2018), will be held in December 4th - 7th in Heraklion/Crete, Greece.

A paper “Towards Prediction of Power Consumption of Virtual Machines for Varying Loads” has been accepted for The 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2018), will be held in November at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia, 2018.

We are glad to inform that we received the “Best scientific contribution award” for our paper on “Teaching Modelling and Analysis of Communication Networks using OMNeT++ Simulator” at the 5th OMNeT++ summit held in Italy, September 2018. The Simulation and Modelling of Communication Networks is a project based learning course offered at the computer science and electrical engineering master programs at TUHH. The following is the abstract of this paper. At the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, the modelling of communication networks using the OMNeT++ simulator and the INET framework is taught for Master students. Teaching the concepts of simulation and modelling while letting the students obtain a hands-on experience during a 14-week (4h/week) period (single semester) is a challenging task. The diversity of the pre-knowledge of the participating students and the duration of the course are the main challenges that need to be addressed when organising such a course. This paper discusses the structure of this course and the best practices followed. The course adopts a methodology where lectures on concepts are mixed with INET based exercises that begin with simple topics and gradually moving into advanced topics.

Here is a short video about the first phase of EPIC students work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFifci7Ya_g The project proposals for the second phase will be available in Oct, 2018.

Our paper “Coexistence of Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication Networks” has been accepted for the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2018), will be held in December 11 to 13, 2018 in Huntsville, AL, USA.

Torsten Runge (TUHH), Alexander Jung (Lancaster University) and Michał Król (UCL) (supervised by Bob Lantz) won 3rd place award at the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Hackaton for their joint work on the project "Unikernel Support for Mininet". The project extends the network emulator tool Mininet to run unikernels on Mininet hosts. A unikernel is a light-weight, specialized operating system which uses only the most important components of an operating system to run a specific application. This new technology is emerging as an alternative to containers (e.g. Docker) because unikernels have a small footprint, boot extremely quickly and provide improved security. The ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Hackathon took place on Saturday, August 25, 2018 from 9 am to 8 pm at Nokia Skypark in Budapest, Hungary. It offers a unique opportunity for collaboration on the development of new ideas and software related to research topics presented in the SIGCOMM conference. The event brings together people with a variety of skills to encourage the combination of different types of expertise and inspire creativity. The Hackathon aims to encourage students, researchers, and engineers to gain experience through collaboration in contributing to open source software, transfer their research experience and expertise in open source development, and foster reproducibility of research results. More details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2018/hackathon.html.

"Rare event analysis using the Limited Relative Error algorithm for OMNeT++ simulations" and “Teaching Modelling and Analysis of Communication Networks using OMNeT++ Simulator” for the OMNeT++ Community Summit: September 5th - 7th, 2018 in Pisa, Italy

We are happy to announce that the research project ReSA - Retrofitbare Sensorsystem-Architektur für prädiktive Instandhaltung - has been officially started on 1st of August 2018. During four years, we will work on reliable communication networks with a focus on predictive maintenance applications on board aircraft. The project ReSA is funded by LuFo, the Luftfahrtforschungsprogramm of the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, BMWi.

We are very glad to share this news as a partner of COLIBRI project. You will find the details of the project here.

We have organised a workshop on Opportunistic Networks together with the University of Bremen and the University of Moratuwa. More details can be found here.

Nga was invited to give a talk on "Disaster Avoidance Control in SDN Networks" at ACM SIGMETRICS International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security, 18 - 22 June 2018.

"Extending On-the-fly Network Coding by Interleaving for Avionic Satellite Links" and “Analytical Model for Aircraft-to-Aircraft Link Probability over the North Atlantic Corridor” for the IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2018-Fall 27–30 August 2018, Chicago, USA

"Modeling of Data Dissemination in OppNets" as work in progress paper at the 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2018) and “Analysis of Communication Demands of Networked Control Systems for Autonomous Platooning” for the 5th WoWMoM workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications.

Our paper “DRAISE: Drahtlose Robuste Adaptive Industrielle Systeme” has been accepted for presentation at the VDE/ITG Fachtagung Mobilkommunikation.

Congratulations - Daniel Plöger We are proud to announce that Daniel Plöger received the SICK Förderpreis. Title of the Thesis: Robust Communication for Control of Robotic Vehicle Platooning, August 2017

Time : 13:00 - 18:00 Venue - Building F (NT) - room E26 Details of the agenda can be found on the following link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FVHSKmc5EPBEUJezP94GernJ1iFoKZx5/view?usp=sharing

14.09.2017 12:30 - 18:00 Uhr Einladung zum 9. Workshop des GI / ITG-Fachausschusses „Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechensystemen (MMB)“ zum Thema Leistungs-, Verlässlichkeits- und Zuverlässigkeitsbewertung von Kommunikationsnetzen und Verteilten Systemen More details at https://mmbnet17.ktr.uni-bamberg.de/index.php/program Veranstaltungsort: Building D, Room 1.024

Place: E1.022 at 14:00 Abstract: With the explosion of mobile data, there is a growing realization that RF spectrum must be treated as an important resource that is in limited supply. Policy makers and researchers alike are promoting various forms of spectrum sharing models to improve spectrum utilization. Just like any other resource with mismatched demand and supply, all steps towards better utilization have also increased the need for large scale spectrum monitoring. We envision a future when large-scale spectrum monitoring will form an entire ecosystem of spectrum data, spectrum analytics and perhaps enable spectrum-aware apps. We are developing an end-to-end platform called SpecSense to support this vision. SpecSense (i) crowdsources spectrum monitoring to low-cost, low-power commodity SDR/embedded platforms, and (ii) provides cloud-based spectrum database and API support for spectrum analytics. In this talk I will describe the SpecSense vision and address a set of specific analytical and systems challenges in its design and operation. About the speaker: Samir R. Das is a Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY). His research interests are in wireless networking and mobile computing, focusing on protocols, systems and performance evaluation. In the past, he received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s CAREER award. He also co-chaired the technical program committees of premier mobile networking conferences such as ACM MobiHoc and ACM MobiCom. He also served on the editorial boards of major networking journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal and Ad Hoc Networks journal. More information about him and his research can be found at http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~samir.