Dr. Vincent Lenders

ETH Zürich Dr. Vincent Laurent C. Lenders Inst.f.Techn.Informatik u.Kommunik.Netze ETZ H 84 Gloriastrasse 35 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 75 39 E-Mail:

Education

• 1996-2001: Masters in electrical engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2001-2006: Ph.D. in electrical engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2007: Postdoc, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Professional Activities

• Programme Committee Member of the ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), Bangkok, Thailand, November 2009
• Programme Committee Member of the Fourth Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (Wicon), Maui, Hawai, USA, November 2008.
• Programme Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH), Cap Esterel, France, August 2008.
• Programme Committee Member of the 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 2008.
• Programme Committee Member of the First International Mobisys Workshop on Mobile and Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp), Puerto Rico, June 2007.
• Programme Committee Member of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07), Hong Kong, China, July 2007.
• Programme Committee Member of the Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (Wicon), Austin, Texas, October 2007.
• Programme Committee Member of the 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
• Member of the ACM SIGCOMM Shadow Programme Committee, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.

Publications

Journal Papers

• Repeatable and Realistic Experimentation in Mobile Wireless Networks
  Vincent Lenders and Margaret Martonosi
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear.
• An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Mobility on Link Failures in an 802.11 Ad Hoc Network
  Vincent Lenders, Jörg Wagner, Simon Heimlicher, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, December 2008.
• Density-based Anycast: A Robust Routing Strategy for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2008.
• Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson and Clemens Wacha
  ACM/Sigmobile Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), February 2008.
• Routing in Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
  Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE Network Magazine, January 2008.
• Delay-Tolerant Broadcasting
  Gunnar Karlsson, Vincent Lenders, and Martin May
  IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting - Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting, April 2007.
• Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Field Theoretic Approach
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
  Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Volume 1, Issue 3, p. 343-370, September 2005.

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Narrowcasting: An Empirical Performance Evaluation Study.
  Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Gunnar Karlsson
  In proceedings of ACM MOBICOM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), San Francisco, USA, September 2008.
• The Limits of Theory: Pragmatic Challenges in Mobile Ad Hoc Systems.
  Franck Legendre, Martin May, Vincent Lenders and Gunnar Karlsson
  In proceedings of IEEE PIMRC, Cannes, France, September 2008.
• Link-diversity Routing: A Robust Routing Paradigm for Mobile Networks
  Vincent Lenders and Rainer Baumann
  IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2008.
• Location-based Trust for Mobile User-Generated Contents: Applications, Challenges and Implementations
  Vincent Lenders, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Pei Zhang, and Margaret Martonosi
  ACM/Sigmobile HotMobile Workshop, Napa Valley, CA, USA, February 2008.
• A System Architecture for Delay-Tolerant Content Distribution (invited paper)
  Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, Olafur Helgason and Vincent Lenders
  IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications (WRECOM), Rome, Italy, October 2007.
• Routing Packets into Wireless Mesh Networks
  Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
  IEEE Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), White Plains, NY, USA, October 2007.
• Wireless Opportunistic Podcasting: Implementation and Design Tradeoffs
  Martin May, Vincent Lenders, Clemens Wacha and Gunnar Karlsson
  ACM MOBICOM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
• Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
  Vincent Lenders, Gunnar Karlsson and Martin May
  IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), San Diego, California, USA, June 2007.
• HEAT: Scalable Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
  Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders and Martin May
  IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
• A Macro Mobility Notification Protocol for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks (Poster)
  Rainer Baumann, Olga Bondareva, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders and Martin May
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, California, November 2006.
• Delay-Tolerant Broadcasting
  Gunnar Karlsson, Vincent Lenders, and Martin May
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
• Measurements from an 802.11b Mobile Ad Hoc Network
  Vincent Lenders, Joerg Wagner and Martin May
  IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Advanced Experimental Activities on Wireless Networks and Systems (EXPONWIRELESS), Niagara-Falls/Buffalo, New York, USA, June 2006.
• Multi-path Routing Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Quantitative Comparison
  Georgios Parissidis, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN) , St.Petersburg, Russia, May 2006.
• Analyzing the Impact of Mobility in Ad Hoc Networks
  Vincent Lenders, Joerg Wagner and Martin May
  ACM/Sigmobile Workshop on Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN), Florence, Italy, May 2006.
• Density-based vs. Proximity-based Anycast Routing for Mobile Networks
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
  Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
• Towards a New Communication Paradigm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE MASS Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks (MHWMN), Washington DC, USA, November 2005
• Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Field Theoretic Approach
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
  IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Taormina, Italy, June 2005
• Mini: A Minimal Platform Comparable to Jini for Ubiquitous Computing
  Polly Huang, Vincent Lenders, Philipp Minnig and Mario Widmer
  International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Irvine, October 2002
• Hybrid Jini for Limited Devices
  Vincent Lenders, Polly Huang and Men Muheim
  IEEE International Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks (ICWLHN), Singapore, December 2001

Demonstrations

• Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
  Vincent Lenders, Franck Lengendre, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, Bernhard Distl, Dominik Schatzmann, Theus Hossmann and Bernhard Plattner
  ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 2008.
• Wireless Opportunistic Podcasting: A Demonstration on Handheld Devices
  Clemens Wacha, Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Gunnar Karlsson
  ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2007.

Books

• Field-based Routing and its Application to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Vincent Lenders
  PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, ISBN 3-8322-5604-0, 2006.

Patent

• Service Discovery on Dynamic Networks
  Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
  EU PCT Patent, EP No. 04030863.7, filed February 2005

Technical Reports

• MAgNETic Routing: A Content-Based Routing Approach for Ad Hoc Networks
  V. Lenders and B. Plattner
  TIK-Report Nr. 184, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 2003.
• Mobile WLAN Access Point for the ETH Shuttle Bus
  N. Cedraschi, D. Grob, V. Lenders, K. Farkas and B. Plattner
  TIK-Report Nr. 163, March 2003.
  Document: pdf
• Jini for Ubiquitous Devices
  Polly Huang, Vincent Lenders, Philipp Minnig and Mario Widmer
  TIK-Report Nr. 137, June 2002
  Document: pdf
• Spontaneous Networking with Jini
  Vincent Lenders
  Diploma Thesis Dissertation, Departement of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, March 2001
  Document: ps

Supervised Student Theses

• Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting (MA 2006/07, Clemens Wacha)
• Ad Hoc Communication with Handhelds III (SA 2005/06, Clemens Wacha and Ivo Trajkovic)
• Routing in Ad Hoc Networks with Mobile Users (MA 2005/06, Bernhard Distl)
• BlueLocator II (SA 2005/06, Oliver Keiser and Philipp Sommer)
• Fire Detection Sensor Networks (SA 2005, Christian Hess)
• BlueStar - Application Framework for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (MA 2005, Nicole Hatt)
• Ad Hoc Communication with Handhelds II (SA 2005, Joerg Wagner), Winner of the Fritz Kutter prize
• Ad Hoc Communication with Handhelds I (SA 2005, Bernhard Distl)
• BlueLocator (SA 2005, Katrin Bretscher)
• Service Discovery and Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MA Winter 2004/05, Florian Süss)
• BlueDating - Dating Application for Bluetooth Enabled Mobile Phones (SA Winter 2004/05, Christian Braun, Sandro Schifferle)
• Bluetella - File Sharing for Bluetooth Enabled Mobile Phones (SA Winter 2004/05, Andreas Weibel, Lukas Winterhalder)
• A Distributed Monitoring System for Large, Heterogeneous WLANs (external at KTH Royal Institute of Technologies, DA Summer 2003, Daniel Grob) (pdf)
• Reputation and Trust Management in Ad Hoc Networks with Misbehaving Nodes. (DA Summer 2003, Diana Senn) (pdf)
• Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DA Winter 2002, Lorenz Bührer) (pdf)
• ETH World's Wireless Shuttle Bus (SA Summer 2002, Nicolas Cedraschi, Daniel Grob) (pdf)
• Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DA Summer 2002, Axel Burri)
• Jini Discovers Bluetooth (SA Summer 2002, Samuel Kasper and Lorenz Bührer) (pdf)
• Jini at your Doorstep - Jini for Limited Devices (DA Winter 2001/02, Phillip Minnig and Mario Widmer) (pdf)

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