Prof. Dr.

Christoph Sommer

Head of Group

• Research Projects
  current and finished research projects
• Publications
  papers in journals and conferences
• Professional Activities
  editorials, conference organization, invited talks
• Teaching
  teaching activities, lectures, and seminars
• Theses
  open and finished bachelor and master's theses
• Contact
  email, phone, address

Short Bio (see professional activities)

Christoph Sommer is full professor and chair of Networked Systems Modeling at the School of Engineering Sciences, TU Dresden.

He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering (Dr.-Ing., with distinction) and his M.Sc. degree in computer science (Dipl.-Inf. Univ.) from the University of Erlangen in 2011 and 2006, respectively.

Until 2020, he headed the Cooperative Mobile Systems group at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Dept. of Computer Science at Paderborn University, Germany. Until 2014, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Computer and Communication Systems Group of Falko Dressler at the University of Innsbruck, then Akademischer Rat in the Distributed Embedded Systems group at Paderborn University. In 2012, he was a visiting scholar with the research group of Mario Gerla in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2010, he was a visiting scholar with the research group of Ozan K. Tonguz in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Since 2021, he serves as editor-in-chief of the Wiley-published journal “IET Networks” (IET-NET). Since 2023, he serves as area editor for the Elsevier-published journal “Computer Networks” (COMNET).

His research is focused on protocol and system designs of wirelessly connected mobile systems exhibiting high topology dynamics. His approaches and solutions, particularly for the simulative performance evaluation of vehicular networks, have become the state of the art in research and development in his field. He also authored the Cambridge University Press textbook Vehicular Networking.

Selected Publications (see full list)

• Ion Turcanu, Sébastien Faye, Horst Fellner, German Castellanos, Julien Baudouin, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer, "Digital Twinning for 6G Teleoperated Driving: The 6G-TWIN Vision," Proceedings of IEEE European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit), Poster Session, Antwerpen, Belgium, June 2024. [BibTeX, Details...]
• Zhuoxiao Meng, Mingyue Gao, Margherita Grossi, Anibal Siguenza-Torres, Stefano Bortoli, Christoph Sommer and Alois Knoll, "Adaptive Synchronization and Pacing Control for Visual Interactive Simulation," ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, June 2024. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Tobias Hardes and Christoph Sommer, "Opportunistic Airborne Virtual Network Infrastructure for Urban Wireless Networks," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 208, August 2023. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Joahannes B. D. da Costa, Allan Mariano de Souza, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Eduardo Cerqueira, Denis Rosário, Christoph Sommer and Leandro Aparecido Villas, "Mobility and Deadline-Aware Task Scheduling Mechanism for Vehicular Edge Computing," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24 (10), pp. 11345–11359, May 2023. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer, "Toward Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network Simulation with 4D Topologies," Proceedings of 19th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2024), Chamonix, France, January 2024, pp. 61–68. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Karl Lautenschlaeger and Christoph Sommer, "Beyond Sensing: Suitability of LoRa for Meshed Automatic Section Control of Agricultural Vehicles," Proceedings of 17th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2022), Virtual Conference, March 2022. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Christoph Sommer, "User Tracking and Reidentification," in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati and Moti Yung (Eds.), ed. 3, Springer, 2021. [DOI, BibTeX, Details...]
• Christoph Sommer, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (1), pp. 3–15, January 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, Vehicular Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [DOI, BibTeX, Details...]
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