Current Research Topics
- Large-scale server systems, cloud computing, and related new computing paradigms
- Dispatching problems to parallel queues (queueing theory)
- ... and performance analysis, design and optimization of communications systems in general
- Opportunistic networking and Mobility modelling (wireless networking)
Past Research Topics
- Modelling and optimization of Transport systems (operations research)
- Network traffic monitoring, analysis and classification (incl. privacy and security aspects)
- Routing and load balancing in (dense) wireless multi-hop networks
- Optimization of the degree distribution of Luby transform (LT) and fountain coding in general
- Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problems in wavelength routed optical networks
(both combinatorial and dynamic optimization, MDP)
Methodologies
- Queueing theory (scheduling theory)
- Stochastic (Markov) processes
- Markov decision processes
- Combinatorial optimization and discrete mathematics
- Simulations (e.g., importance sampling)