Prof. Bernhard Plattner

Bernhard Plattner is a Full Professor of computer engineering at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the Communication Systems Group.

He has been the principal investigator or Co-PI of numerous national and international projects in the area of computer networking. His current research interests are in self-organizing networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, as well as practical aspects of information security. He has also directed research on active networks, starting as early as 1996, and multimedia applications for high-speed networks. In 1996–1998, he served as the Head of Faculty of Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich. Between 2005 to 2007 he served as the Vice-Rector of ETH Zurich in charge of Bachelor and Master studies.

Dr. Plattner is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the Internet Society. He served as the program or general chair of various international conferences, such as ACM SIGCOMM’91, INET’94, and IWAN 2002, and has served in the program committees of other major conferences, such as IEEE INFOCOM.

Publications

Please find below the ten most recent publications.

Please also refer to the list of publications since 2001.

Recent Journal Papers

The Role of Network Trace Anonymization under Attack
Martin Burkhart, Dominik Schatzmann, Brian Trammell, Elisa Boschi, Bernhard Plattner
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR),
Vol. 40, No. 1, pages 5-11, 1, 2010.
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Reliable Transport in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Simon Heimlicher, Bernhard Plattner
Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks,
Springer, London, 1, 2009.
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Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks
Georgios Parissidis, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Rainer Baumann, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Bernhard Plattner
Guide to wireless mesh networks - book chapter,
Springer, London, UK, 1, 2009.
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Approaching the hotspot increases the impact: process breakdowns in a safety-critical system-of-systems
Svetlena Taneva, J Higgins, A Easty, Bernhard Plattner

IEEE Systems Conference, 2009.
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Decoding the perioperative process breakdowns: a theoretical model and implications for system design
Svetlena Taneva, Gudela Grote, A Easty, Bernhard Plattner

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2009.
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Recent Conference and Workshop Papers

Optimal TCP-friendly Rate Control for P2P Streaming: An Economic Approach
Jinyao Yan, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
IFIP IWSOS 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, 12, 2009.
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Brief Announcement: Optimization Based Rate Allocation for Application Layer Multicast
Jinyao Yan, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
ACM PODC’09, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 8, 2009.
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ExtremeCom09 PodNet Demo: Reporters Without (connectivity) Borders
Franck Legendre, Gergely Csúcs, Bernhard Distl, M Martin, Vincent Lenders, Gunnar Karlsson, Dominik Schatzmann, Bernhard Plattner
First Extreme Workshop on Communication, 8, 2009.
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Modelling the Security Ecosystem - The Dynamics of (In)Security
Stefan Frei, Dominik Schatzmann, Bernhard Plattner, Brian Trammell
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), June 2009, Cambridge, UK, 6, 2009.
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Rating Autonomous Systems
Laurent Zimmerli, Bernhard Tellenbach, Arno Wagner, Bernhard Plattner
Internet Monitoring and Protection, International Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Vol. 0, pages 143-148, 5, 2009.
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