Katharina O. E. Müller

Katharina O. E. Müller joined the Communication Systems Group (CSG) to pursue her Doctoral Degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller in December 2021. Katharina holds an MSc. in Computer Science from the Free University Berlin, which she obtained in 2021 on the topic "Security Analysis of the ZigBee Protocol Stack by Penetration Testing of Well-Known Lighting Systems using Zigator", under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jochen Schiller. 

• Crowdsourced Offline Finding Networks and Crowdsourced Finding Networks
• Personal Trackers and Tags
• Internet of Things (UWB, BLE, ZigBee)
• Security & Privacy
• Localization

Please check here to see list of open thesis (BA,MA,MP,... ). If you are interested to work on a project in the list mentioned above or any other project related to my research area feel free to contact me.

2025

• Katharina O. E. Müller, Stefan Saxer, Daria Schumm, Weijie Niu, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: AirTagged: A Dataset and Processing Framework for Heterogeneous High-Density IoT Environments; 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), "Proceedings International Conference on Network and Service Management", Bologna, Italy, October 2025, pp 1–7. URL: https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/cnsm/cnsm2025/1571162871.pdf.
• Katharina O. E. Müller, Samuel Frank, Dario Monopoli, Daria Schumm, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: Smart Shielding: Using ML and AirTag RSSI Data for Better Privacy; 50th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), "2025 IEEE 50th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Proceedings", Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 2025, pp 1–7. doi:10.1109/LCN65610.2025.11146294.
• Katharina O. E. Müller, Keisuke Yokota, Weijie Niu, Daria Schumm, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: Towards Markov Synthetic BLE Packet Generation for IoT Systems; 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, "Proceedings International Conference on Network and Service Management", Bologna, Italy, October 2025, pp 1–7. URL: https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/cnsm/cnsm2025/1571162869.pdf.
• Daria Schumm, Cedric Von Rauscher, Katharina O. E. Müller and Burkhard Stiller, "Metadata Privacy in Decentralized Identity Applications," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Pisa, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-3,. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11114450.
• Daria Schumm, Katharina O. E. Müller and Burkhard Stiller, "Are We There Yet? A Study of Decentralized Identity Applications," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 125232-125259, 2025. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11078258.

2024

• Katharina O. E. Müller, Elliott Wallace, Daria Schumm, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: SHIFT: a Security and Home Integration Framework for IoT; 37th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024), Seoul, South Korea, May 2024, pp 1–7. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10575751
• Armin R. Veres, Daria Schumm, Thomas Grübl, Katharina O. E. Müller, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: Demo: Secure Inventorying and Lifecycle Management of IoT Devices with DLT; 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks, "IEEE LCN 2024", Caen, France, October 2024, pp 1–4. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10639716
• Katharina O. E. Müller , Delia Datsomor, Daria Schumm, Bruno Bastos Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: Big Brother is Watching You: Non-Intrusive ZigBee User Profiling; 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management, "IEEE CNSM 2024", Prague, Czech Republic, October 2024, pp 1–7. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10814609.
• Sara Matheu, Stefano Sebastio, Antonio Skarmeta, Riccardo Orizio, Stefanos Vasileiadis, Vasilis Kalos, Katharina Müller, Thomas Grübl, Rosella Omana Mancilla, Simon Tuck, Thomas Bocek, Vincenzo Cuomo, Roland Atoui, Sreedevi Beena, Luigi Coppolino, Roberto Nardone, Dinesh Sharma, Rohit Bohara, Javier Parra-Domínguez, Javier Prieto: Active Security for Connected Device Lifecycle: The CERTIFY Architecture; Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions I, 21st International Conference, "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 1198)", Salamanca, Spain, June 2024, pp 301–310. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-76459-2_28.

2023

• Katharina O. E. Müller, Louis Bienz, Bruno Bastos Rodrigues, Chao Feng, Burkhard Stiller: HomeScout: Anti-Stalking Mobile App for Bluetooth Low Energy Devices; The 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A., October 2023, pp 1–8. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10223406
• Jonas Brunner, Bruno Bastos Rodrigues, Katharina O. E. Müller, Salil S. Kanhere, Burkhard Stiller: Deciphering DDoS Attacks through a Global Lens; 2023 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Niagara Falls, Canada, October 2023, pp 1–7. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10327886.

2022

• Katharina O. E. Müller, Jan von der Assen, Chao Feng, Burkhard Stiller: An Overview and Ontology of Privacy to Preserve Privacy in Ultra-Wideband Networks; 8th IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing, "2022 IEEE Smartworld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Digital Twin, Privacy Computing, Metaverse, Autonomous & Trusted Vehicles (SmartWorld/UIC/ScalCom/DigitalTwin/PriComp/Metaverse)", Haikou, China, December 2022, pp 1–9.
• Bruno Rodrigues, Eder John Scheid, Julius Willems, Maximilian Tornow, Katharina O. E. Müller, Burkhard Stiller: FusIon Data Tracking System (FITS); IEEE, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 22, No. 19, October 2022, ISSN 1530-437X, pp 19060–19072 doi:10.1109/JSEN.2022.3196262  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9852970.

Datasets

• Stefan Richar Saxer, Katharina Olga Emilia Müller, Weijie Niu, Burkhard Stiller: BLE Packets from Tracking Devices; Zürich, Switzerland, November 2024, URL: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/stefansaxer/ble-packets-from-tracking-devices.
• Andrina Vincenz, Katharina Olga Emilia Müller, Bruno Bastos Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller: IoT Network Topology Database; Zürich, Switzerland, October 2023, URL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13OWzaDohOq-Tt_H4LJ1JRPAE-HjLI28J.