Simon Heimlicher

I am a Ph.D. student at the communication systems group CSG. My primary advisor is Prof. Bernhard Plattner.

Research Interests

• Partial connectivity: Analytical modeling of end-to-end vs. hop-by-hop transport paradigms in partially-connected environments
• Mobility: Measurements and modeling of human mobility

For more detailed information about my research at ETH Zurich, please refer to http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~simonh/research/.

Student Theses

Available

• Connectivity Properties of Mobile Networks
• Large-scale Wiki Infrastructure

In Progress

• Congestion Control in Mobile Networks [Vivi Papoula]

Completed

• Transport Protocol for Linux [Martin Kos]
• Linux implementation of the SAFT protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. [Giacomo Amoroso]
• Java implementation of a new transport protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks. [Severin Hafner, Rafael Schönenberger]

Publications

Book Chapters

Reliable Transport in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Simon Heimlicher and Bernhard Plattner
Handbook of Wireless Mesh Networks
Sudip Misra, Isaac Woungang, and Subhas C. Misra (Eds.)
Springer (London); to appear fall 2008

Journal Papers

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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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Mobility on Link Failures in an 802.11 Ad Hoc Network
Vincent Lenders, Joerg Wagner, Simon Heimlicher, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine,
Comsoc, 12, 2008.
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Routing in Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
IEEE Network,
1, 2008.
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Conference and Workshop Papers

On Leveraging Partial Paths in Partially-connected Networks
Simon Heimlicher, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Hanoch Levy, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
IEEE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4, 2009.
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End-to-end vs. Hop-by-hop Transport under Intermittent Connectivity
Simon Heimlicher, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Hanoch Levy, Martin May
Proceedings of Autonomics 2007, ICST, Rome, Italy, 10, 2007.
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Routing Packets into Wireless Mesh Networks
Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
IEEE Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, IEEE WiMob 2007, White Plains, NY, USA, 10, 2007.
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End-to-end vs. Hop-by-hop Transport
Simon Heimlicher, Pavan Nuggehalli, Martin May
ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, Student Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, 6, 2007.
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HEAT: Scalable Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
IEEE WoWMoM 2007, IEEE Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Helsinki, Finland, 6, 2007.
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A Protocol for Macro Mobility and Multihoming Notification in Wireless Mesh Networks
Rainer Baumann, Olga Bondareva, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
PCAC 2007, 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 5, 2007.
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Towards Realistic Mobility Models for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Martin May
IEEE INFOCOM 2007, MOVE Workshop, 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Anchorage, AK, Alaska, 5, 2007.
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The Transport Layer Revisited
Simon Heimlicher, Rainer Baumann, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
2nd IEEE International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware, IEEE COMSWARE 2007, Bangalore, India, 1, 2007.
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A Macro Mobility Notification Protocol for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks
Rainer Baumann, Olga Bondareva, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 11, 2006.
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SaFT: Reliable Transport in Mobile Networks
Simon Heimlicher, Rainer Baumann, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, IEEE MASS 2006, Vancouver B.C., Canada, pages 477-480, 10, 2006.
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Projects Involved

Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA)
European Union (EU) Information Societies Technology—Future Emerging Technologies (IST-FET). Period: 1/1/2006 – 12/31/2009

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