Department of Informatics - Communication Systems Group

Welcome!

The Communication Systems Research Group CSG at the Computer Science Department (Institut für Informatik, IFI) of the University of Zurich, UZH, Switzerland was founded in September 2004.

Its key mission is to establish excellent research in communications, addressing communication protocols for distributed systems, charging, accounting, mobility, security, network management, and peer-to-peer systems. Secondly, it is committed to provide a full and up-to-date teaching curriculum on communications for undergraduate and graduate students, partly in conjunction with other groups at IFI.

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The research group includes at this stage thirteen people in total and works in a number, highly relevant communication research areas, such as charging for grids and applications, grid supporting services, accounting for mobile and fixed networks, economic network management, peer-to-peer systems, and biometric access control.

General Information

Head of Group: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller Phone: +41 44 635 6710
Secretary: Miriam Plichta
Phone: +41 44 635 4331
Fax: +41 44 635 6809

Postal Address

University of Zurich
Department of Informatics (IFI), CSG BIN
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Switzerland

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Recent News

The Future Internet Assembly 2012 was held in Aalborg, Denmark on May10-12, 2012. The respective book by F. Alvarez, F. Cleary, P. Daras, J.Domingue, A. Galis, ..., B. Stiller, et al. (Edts.): "The FutureInternet: From Promises to Reality" appeared in the Lecture Notes inComputer Science, Vol. 7281, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, series underthe ISBN 978-3-642-30240-4 as an Open Access publication.

The paper entitled "On the Cost/Delay Tradeoff of Wireless Delay Tolerant Geographic Routing" by A. G. Tasiopoulos, C. Tsiaras, S. Toumpis was just accepted with the main track of the thirteenth international symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012), which will take place in San Francisco, California, USA June 25-28, 2012 and has an acceptance ratio usually ranging from 18% to 25%.

The paper entitled "Playback Policies for Live and On-Demand P2P Video Streaming" by F. Hecht, T. Bocek, F. Santos, B. Stiller was just accepted with the main track of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking with an acceptance ratio usually ranging from 20% to 25%.

Jan 31, 2012 - SESERV Workshop held successfully in Athens - for further details refer to http://www.seserv.org and here .

The paper entitled "Optimization of Flow Record Handling by Applying a Decentralized Cooperative Semantic Caching Approach" by A. Vancea, L. d'Orazio, B. Stiller was just accepted with the main track of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), the prime conference of the network management community with an acceptance ratio of 26.2% in 2012.

The 6th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2012) will be organized on June 4-8, 2012 at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The CfP is now available at http://www.aims-conference.org/2012/ with a paper submission deadline of January 27, 2012. Additionally, Ph.D. student workshop paper submissions are due at the same deadline!

The 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT 2011) was run successfully on October 24, 2011 in Paris, France. Its proceedings are now published in LNCS Vol. 6995, and are available on-line. General information can be accessed at http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-24546-6 or access of the online version is at http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-24546-6/ .

September 19, 2011 - Welcome of our guest professor Karoly Farkas from BME, Busapest, Hungary. He will teach the course "557 - IP Networking Fundamentals - Theory and Practice" during the fall term 2011.

Special Issue on "Socio-economic Issues of Next Generation Networks"
Guest Editors: Burkhard Stiller, UZH, Switzerland; Peter Reichl, FTW, Austria; Bruno Tuffin, INRIA, France; Trinh Anh Tuan, BME, Hungary Telecommunication Systems Journal, Vol. 47, 2011 ( http://www.springerlink.com/content/1018-4864/ )

SESERV will run a workshop in Oxford June 28, 2011 on " Building the Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices "

AIMS 2011 will be run June 14-17, 2011 at INRIA, Nancy: http://www.aims-conference.org/2011

Dr. David Hausheer , postdoc at CSG@IFI, was appointed a Junior Professor position at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany as of May 1, 2011. Congratulations!

The CSG hosted and organized the 4th IFIP Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2010), which was held June 21-25, 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland.

The CSG organized the 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM 2010), which was held September 6, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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