Networking 2004: Tutorials
Tutorial Title: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Instructor: Thomas Fuhrmann University of Karlsruhe E-mail: fuhrmann@tm.uka.de
Biography: Dr. Thomas Fuhrmann studied theoretical physics in Heidelberg and Cambridge (UK) and computer science at the distance university in Hagen. His PhD thesis was on the use of computer simulations in physics education (1999). After his PhD he spent a post-doc at the University of Mannheim. Subsequently, he worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and Stuttgart, mostly on strategy projects exploring the changes that the Internet brings to the media industry. Besides that, he stayed at various scientific institutions throughout the world. Currently, Thomas Fuhrmann is research group leader at the Institute of Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe and acting professor at the Institute of Telematics at the University of Lübeck (for the academic year 2003/2004). His research interests are in the field of programmable networks and overlay networks especially with applications to sensor networks and ambient technologies. In a research project funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft he and his PhD-students currently explore the design principles of the various peer-to-peer networks that were proposed and established during the last two or three years. Although still in an early stage, this project has already produced surprising new insights into that field of research, some of which will be presented in the tutorial at Networking 2004. See http://www.tm.uka.de/~fuhrmann/ for further information and a list of publications.
Instructor: Klaus Wehrle University of Tübingen Protocol-Engineering & Distributed Systems E-mail: klaus.wehrle@uni-tuebingen.de
Biography: Dr. Klaus Wehrle is currently teaching staff member at the University of Tübingen and leads the Protocol-Engineering and Distributed Systems junior research group with focus on Peer-to-Peer-Networking and Protocol Engineering. Klaus received his Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe in 1999 with honors and joined the Institute of Telematics in Karlsruhe as research assistant. In 2002, he received his doctoral degree with honors with a thesis describing new concepts for realizing flexible and scalable quality-of-service mechanisms for the next generation Internet. After finishing his PhD, Klaus got a scholarship from the German government and joined the ICIR networking group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow from September 2002 till August 2003. Currently, Klaus is leading the Protocol Engineering & Distributed Systems junior research group at University of Tübingen, which is funded within the Emmy-Nöther-Program of German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). His research activities are focused on (but not limited to) peer-to-peer-networking, protocol engineering, quality of service, network simulation, as well as all operating system issues of networking. Klaus was also actively participating in the IETF (mainly in the Differentiated Services working group) and successfully standardized several parts of his work, e.g. the Limited Effort PDB (RFC 3662) or Various Aspects on Group Communication in DiffServ Networks. Klaus is a member of IEEE, ACM (Sigcomm), VDE/ITG and GI.