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)

• Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, Vehicular Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [DOI, BibTeX, 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...]
• Ion Turcanu, Thomas Engel and Christoph Sommer, "Adaptive Content Seeding for Information-Centric Networking under High Topology Dynamics: Where You Seed Matters," IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 16 (2), pp. 68–75, February 2021. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Tobias Hardes, Florian Klingler and Christoph Sommer, "Modern WLAN for V2X Applications: Exploiting Beamforming for Platooning," Proceedings of 12th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2020), Virtual Conference, December 2020. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Christoph Sommer and Stefano Basagni, "Guest Editorial – Advances and Novel Applications of Mobile Wireless Networking," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Advances and Novel Applications of Mobile Wireless Networking, vol. 95, December 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, Details...]
• Christoph Sommer, David Eckhoff, Alexander Brummer, Dominik S. Buse, Florian Hagenauer, Stefan Joerer and Michele Segata, "Veins – the open source vehicular network simulation framework," in Recent Advances in Network Simulation, Antonio Virdis and Michael Kirsche (Eds.), Springer, 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Fabian Bronner and Christoph Sommer, "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications," Proceedings of 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2018. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• David Eckhoff and Christoph Sommer, "Driving for Big Data? Privacy Concerns in Vehicular Networking," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 12 (1), pp. 77–79, February 2014. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
• Lung-Chih Tung, Jorge Mena, Mario Gerla and Christoph Sommer, "A Cluster Based Architecture for Intersection Collision Avoidance Using Heterogeneous Networks," Proceedings of 12th IFIP/IEEE Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2013), Ajaccio, France, June 2013. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and 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...]
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