The areas of research I am
currently interested in are (in no particular order):
Multimedia Transport Protocols
Congestion Control and TCP-friendliness for
Multimedia Flows
Wireless and Ad-Hoc Networking
Application Level Multicast
Consistency in Replicated Multimedia
Systems
Distributed Interactive Media (e.g., shared
whiteboard systems and networked computer games)
Ubiquitous Computing
Curriculum Vitae
Lebenslauf
From late 1991 to early 1997 I studied
Wirtschaftsinformatik (a combination of computer science and
business administration) at the University of Mannheim. At the
end of that time I had a one year stay at the Internation
Computer Science Institute (
ICSI) Berkeley, which is affiliated with the University of
California Berkeley (UCB). During my visit I wrote a masters
thesis on "Protocol Enhancement and Compression for X-Based
Application Sharing".
In 1997 I received my diploma in Wirschaftsinformatik
and was awarded the prize for the best graduate of the semester.
From mid 1997 on I worked on my Ph.D. Thesis in Computer
Science about "Distributed Interactive Media". My work was
supported through a Ph.D. grant of SIEMENS. I completed my thesis
at the University of Mannheim by mid 2000.
Since that time I am a wissenschaflicher Assistent
(comparable to an assistant professor) at the University of
Mannheim.
