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Designing networks for challenging applications

  • Björn Scheuermann

    Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann is a full professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he leads the computer engineering group. He obtained a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004 and a Diploma degree (German M.S. equivalent) in Computer Science in the same year, both from the University of Mannheim, Germany. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, where he became Junior Professor in 2008. After positions of Associate Professor and head of the Telematics group at the University of Würzburg and Associate Professor in Practical Computer Science/IT Security at the University of Bonn he joined Humboldt University in October 2012. The focus of his scientific work is on performance, design, and security aspects of computer networks. Björn received a junior fellowship of the GI in September 2013. (Copyright of the author photograph is held by WISTA Management GmbH.)

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Informatik, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany

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Abstract

Most networks in use today, most prominently the Internet, follow a design philosophy which aims to support a broad range of applications. This comes to a limit when the combination of application and environment poses increasing challenges with respect to scarce resources (like bandwidth, latency or energy). It also fails if the challenges stem from application requirements that are violated by core network protocols, like, for instance, anonymity requirements in a network using unique addresses. This observation motivates an overarching perspective on the design of network protocols in such cases, which takes the interplay between network and application explicitly into consideration – a challenge which is tackled for several application areas in my research group.

About the author

Björn Scheuermann

Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann is a full professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he leads the computer engineering group. He obtained a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004 and a Diploma degree (German M.S. equivalent) in Computer Science in the same year, both from the University of Mannheim, Germany. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, where he became Junior Professor in 2008. After positions of Associate Professor and head of the Telematics group at the University of Würzburg and Associate Professor in Practical Computer Science/IT Security at the University of Bonn he joined Humboldt University in October 2012. The focus of his scientific work is on performance, design, and security aspects of computer networks. Björn received a junior fellowship of the GI in September 2013. (Copyright of the author photograph is held by WISTA Management GmbH.)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Informatik, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany

Received: 2014-5-31
Accepted: 2014-9-29
Published Online: 2014-11-30
Published in Print: 2014-12-28

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