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.
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
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.