Mario Franke, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

• Research Projects
  current and finished research projects
• Publications
  papers in journals and conferences
• Professional Activities
  review duties
• Teaching
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• Theses
  open and finished bachelor and master's theses
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Short Bio

Mario Franke is a researcher and a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Networked Systems Modeling at the School of Engineering Sciences, TU Dresden. His research focuses on vehicular networks. In particular, integrating Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations in existing vehicular network technologies is his main research interest. He is the author of space_Veins which is an extension for the vehicular networking simulator Veins. Space_Veins integrates LEO satellites in vehicular networks and aims at evaluating heterogeneous communication technologies involving satellites, vehicles, and infrastructure.

In May 2017, he started his journey in academia as student research assistant in the Distributed Embedded Systems group (CCS Labs) at Paderborn University. Until June 2020, he worked in research projects concentrating on traffic safety for vulnerable road users by the help of wireless communication. Mario received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Paderborn University in 2018 and 2021, respectively. Since May 2021, he works towards his Ph.D. in the Chair of Networked Systems Modeling.

Selected Publications (see full list)

• Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer, "Obstacle Shadowing in Vehicle-to-Satellite Communication: Impact of Location, Street Layout, Building Height, and LEO Satellite Constellation," Proceedings of 15th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2024), Kobe, Japan, May 2024, pp. 305–312. [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...]
• Mario Franke, Roland Stroop, Florian Klingler and Christoph Sommer, "Low Earth Orbit Satellite Supported Multi-Hop Dissemination of Messages in V2X Networks," Proceedings of 97th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2023-Spring), Florence, Italy, June 2023. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Mario Franke, Florian Klingler and Christoph Sommer, "Addressing the Unbounded Latency of Best-Effort Device-to-Device Communication with Low Earth Orbit Satellite Support," Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2023), Track Communication and Applications for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Land, Water, and Sky, Las Vegas, NV, January 2023, pp. 823–828. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]