News & Events

2008-12-08
Dr. Thomas Karagiannis from MSR Cambridge gives an invited lecture on online Social Networks in the context of the ATCN course on Dec 8th.
2008-12-05
CSG goes to IBM Zurich Research Labs on Dec 5th.

2008-12-02

Joint CSG-SWITCH workshop at CSG premises on Dec 2nd.

2008-12-12

Visit of Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

2008-11-03

Dr. Xenofontas Dimitropoulos joins the group as Senior Researcher on Nov 3rd

2008-10-06

Dr. Arnaud Legout, from INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, visits CSG and gives a guest lecture in the context of the ATCN course.

2008-09-26

CSG goes to the European Researchers' Night, on 26 September.

2008-09-17

Kick-off meeting of the EU FP7 project ResumeNet in Zurich, Switzerland, on 17-18 September.

2008-09-03

CSG goes to MaturandenTage 2008.

2008-09-01

Two new PhD students, Gabriel Popa and Andreea Picu, join our group in autumn 2008.

Chiara Boldrini joins CSG as a visiting PhD student for 3 months in September 2008.

2008-06-27

Visit of Prof. Peidong Zhu and Dr. Ning Hu, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China

2008-06-24

Visit of Dmitri Krioukov, CAIDA, USA

2008-05-23

Visit of Walter Willinger, AT&T Research Inc., Florham Park, NJ, USA

2008-05-20
Visit of Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, Boston

2008-02-15

Visit of Dr. Jérémie Leguay and Vania Conan

Dr. Jérémie Leguay recently took up a position as researcher at Thales Communications, France. 

He will give us a talk on its recent work on contact and inter-contact time analysis published at Autonomics'08 and JSAC's SI on Delay Tolerant Networking.

2007-12-20

Visit of Florin Ciucu: Dr. Florin Ciucu recently took up a position as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Toronto.

He will give a talk on the state-of-the-art in stochastic network calculus (including the results from Florin's co-authored SIGMETRICS 2005 paper that received the best student paper award) plus concrete examples (e.g. end-to-end delay bounds for Markov-modulated processes).

2007-11-28

Department evaluation: Site visit of evaluators at TIK

Two members of the evaluation team will visit our laboratory: Prof. David Hutchison (Lancaster University) and Prof. Daniel P. Siewiorek (Carnegie Mellon University).

In the morning of the 28th, the whole committee will be given an overview presentation of TIK by the professors. In the afternoon, the actual site visit will take place, during which the team will visit our offices and look at our posters.

2007-11-09

Talks by Dr. Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK »»

2007-08-24

Rainer Baumann successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Building Scalable and Robust Wireless Mesh Networks".

2007-07-31

Defence Pascal Kurtansky

27.11.2006
Jörg Wagner receives the Fritz Kutter prize (around 3000 Euros) for his extraordinary semester thesis work on the dynamics of mobile ad hoc networks. It is the first time since the creation of the Fritz Kutter-Fonds in 1975 that a semester thesis work is awarded with this prize. Vincent Lenders and Martin May were his thesis supervisors.

16.10.2006
Konstantinos Katrinis will have the Ph.D. defense of his thesis Multi-Source Support for Source-Specific Multicast. In his work, he extends the scope of the elementary SSM (Source-Specific Multicast) service to accommodate applications with multiple sources. He propose two novel approaches that take advantage of application semantics to improve perceived Quality of Service and operational costs in the multi-source sessions under study.
Prof. Dr. B. Plattner is the Ph.D. advisor of this thesis and Gisli Hjálmtýsson is the co-examiner.

10.10.2006
Hasan Hasan will defend his Ph.D. thesis with the title: A Generic Auditing Framework for Compliance Verification of Internet Service Level Agreements. Hasan has developed an architecture, middleware, and a specification language for a highly reusable automated auditing framework to verify compliances of Internet service delivery against pre-defined service level objectives and a non-repudiable accounting of Internet service consumption which supports fairness for the service provider and the user as well as identity privacy of the user.
Prof. Dr. B. Plattner is the Ph.D. advisor of this thesis. Co-examiners are Prof. Dr. B. Stiller, Universität Zürich; and Prof. Dr. G. Carle, Universität Tübingen.

18.9.–7.10.2006
Joy Kuri and Pavan Nuggehalli are visiting the CSG.

18.–20.9.2006
The CSG holds a group retreat in Pisa, Italy.

11.–15.9.2006
The CSG is visiting ACM SIGCOMM in Pisa, Italy.

14.6.2006
Vincent Lenders will defend his thesis with the title: Field-based Routing and its Application to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.
Co-examiners are Prof. Dr. Jim Kurose and Prof. Marco Conti.

2.5.2006
Karoly Farkàs is among the winners of the Swiss venturelab contest for technology innovations. By definition, he therefore belongs to the most innovative and talented young entrepreneurs in Switzerland. His project and business plan proposes a business with multiplayer games in ad-hoc networks (project MUGAN).

21.9.2005
The Internet traffic control project DEMIAN of Thomas Dübendorfer and Matthias Bossardt was nominated for the SWITCHaward 2005. See press release by SWITCH for details.

13.-14.9.2005
TIK/CSG is involved in the Maturandentage of ETH and presents its research in the areas of Internet security and communication at the D-ITET booth. For details, see our research demo web page.

22.04.2005 - 8.05.2005
TIK/CSG is involved in the 150 years of ETH celebration and presents its research in the areas of Internet security and communication. Details about our exhibition that is hosted in a large tube-like room. A visual one-time pad encrypton service is online for the public.

19.01.2005
Talk by Dr. Christophe Diot, Intel Research, Cambridge
"Research Activities of Intel Research, Cambridge", »»

17.01.2005
Talk by Dr. Dan Grigoras, UCC Ireland:
"Services and Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: do we need novel ones or adapt what we have?", »»

10.12.2004
Talk by Prof. David Andrews, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, The University of Kansas:
"Hybrid Architecture For Multithreaded Programming", »»

27.7.2004
Interview with Thomas Dübendorfer in Tagesschau SF DRS (the main Swiss TV news magazine), on an outbreak of a new variant of the e-mail worm MyDoom, which - as a side-effect - slowed down searches at Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Alta Vista.

24.6.2004
Prof. Plattner is quoted in daily newspaper article about the increasing annoyance by e-mail worms and viruses.
Tages-Anzeiger, 24.6.2006, page 10 (in German)

19.5.2004
Talk by Krzysztof Pawlikowski:
"Towards Credible and Fast Quantitative Stochastic Simulation", »»

Talk by Gisli Hjálmtýsson:
"SLIM - Self-configuring Lightweight Internet Multicast", »»

19.5.-21.5.2004
Visitors from Reykjavik University: Gisli Hjálmtýsson and one of his students, Bjorn.
See Gisli's RU homepage and old homepage at AT&T

19.5.2004
Visitor from New Zealand:
Professor Krzysztof Pawlikowski
Network Research Centre: Protocols, Distributed Processing and
Simulation Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

2.5.2004
Prof. Plattner zieht Schadensbilanz zu Viren und Spam in der Schweiz.
NZZ am Sonntag: Artikel "So viele Computerviren wie noch nie" als PDF inkl. Grafik oder NZZ online.

30.4.2004
Workshop Siemens Schweiz AG / TIK

1.2.2004
Traffic analysis of the the Novarg/MyDoom worm based on data collected in the DDoSVax project was presented in the "Tagesschau" of SF1.

23.01.2004
15:00 at ETF C109: Doctoral thesis defense of Marc Rennhard: MorphMix - A Peer-to-Peer-based System for Anonymous Internet Access

22.01.2004
16:45 - ca. 17:30 at ETZ F76.1: The inauguration of the new TIK computer cluster "Scylla"

21.01.2004
From now the CSG web contains a database about useful information which can be good to know for the the group members. The database can be accessed under the link: https://www.csg.ethz.ch/intranet/good_to_know

16-19.12.2003
Visit of Dr. James Sterbenz, Univ. of Massachusetts

18.12.2003
16:00 at HG D22: Doctoral thesis defense of Ralph Michael Keller: Self-Configuring Services for Extensible Networks - A Routing-Integrated Approach

16.12.2003
Visit of Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert, Director of the Institute, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, SIT Darmstadt

Talk in ZISC Colloquium: "Passworte, Zertifikate, Schlüssel, PKI - über das komplexe Zusammenspiel heutiger Sicherheitsmechanismen", Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert, SIT Darmstadt.

03.12.2003
13:00 at ETZ E81: Doctoral thesis defense of Johannes Gerhard Mischke: Scalability of Lookup and Search Overlays in Peer-to-Peer Networks

26.11.2003
CSG joined the PlanetLab testbed network. Getting an account on PlanetLab, please consult Matthias Bossardt.

04.11.2003
13:00 at ETZ F76.1 talk on "Towards a resilient network infrastructure: the Grid as a utility?" by David Hutchison

29.10.2003
16:45 HPI F10 ETHworld Showcase on "Lernen: anything – anywhere – anytime" by Kostas Katrinis

28.10.2003
Our CSG website now supports connections over https. Moreover, all URLs ending with '/manage' or '/edit' (to access the Zope or Silva interface of a respective webpage) are automatically redirected to use https.

18.08.2003
10:00 at HG D22: Doctoral thesis defense of Ulrich Fiedler: „Evaluating Performance in Systems with Heavy-Tailed Input - A Quantile-based Approach"

13.8.2003
Traffic analysis of the W32.Blaster worm that shows the effects on the SWITCH network is available at the DDoSVax website.

4.8.2003
ETH Pressemitteilung "Finanzieller Schaden bei IT-Ausfall bemessen" zu der am TIK im Rahmen des Projektes DDoSVax von Jürg Schmid und Peter Weigel unter der Leitung von Prof. Plattner, Thomas Dübendorfer und Arno Wagner erstellten Studie. Studie als PDF

26.06.2003
Our new CSG Webpage is officially online and replaces our old group webpage.

CSG Group Internal Events

16.09.2003
TIK hosts the meeting of the Advisory Board of Hasler Foundation; presentation of project "Easy Teach & Learn", which is jointly funded by Hasler Foundation and ETH.

29.04.2003
An updated version of the CSG webpage based on the 0.31 beta Templates (4.2003) has been presented to the members of the Communication Systems Group.

13.01.2003 The new CSG webpage based on the Dec 2003 ETH WebCD templates has been presented to the members of the Communication Systems Group and other interested people.