Lehrstuhl für Informatik III: Research

Performance evaluation and optimization of overlays and P2P architectures
Management of the Future Internet: Network Control, Network Management, Autonomic Networking, Economic Traffic Management
IPTV and P2PTV: Live streaming and video-on-demand
Quality of Experience
Mobile P2P and Multi-Homing
Traffic Characterization and Identification
Modeling of Application and User Behavior
Design of new P2P mechanisms and P2P architectures
Technologies: structured and unstructured overlays, content distribution systems; Chord, CAN, Pastry, Kademlia, Gnutella, eDonkey, BitTorrent, Skype, Joost, PPLive, Zattoo…
Methodologies: measurement, simulation, and mathematical analysis

Innovation Projects

Modeling of P2P content distribution (with University of Osaka and Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Dependable P2P services and applications
Edge-based applications like Skype or PPLive and feedback between network and users/applications
Robust cooperation strategies for P2P based content distribution networks
Car2Car communication (with BMW)
Routing in sensor networks (with Siemens AG)
Adaptive control for P2P overlays (with University of Passau)
Virtualization (with University of Vienna)
Enterprise Mobile P2P Applications and Services (with Hanoi University of Technology)
Simulation of large-scale P2P networks with ProtoPeer (with EPFL Lausanne)