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Dirk Meyer defends his thesis "Extended Personal Media Networks (XPMN)"
On 2010-03-04, Dirk Meyer has successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Extended Personal Media Networks (XPMN)” and will be a “Dr.-Ing.” soon. His work has already influenced 9 specifications around the Instant Messaging protocol XMPP and will continue to improve the security of this important protocol (“Jabber”).
Congratulations, Dr. Meyer!
RFC 5740: Standard transport protocol for reliable multicast
The new RFC 5740 defines the Internet Standard for the reliable delivery of data of data to multiple recipients (NACK-oriented reliable multicast, NORM), fulfilling a similar role as TCP has for unicast (point-to-point connections via the Internet). RFC 5740 is the 21st Internet RFC authored or co-authored at TZI.
Wireless Embedded Internet: The Book
After a decade of mostly pure research on sensor nets, we are entering a new phase: Sensor networks and the Internet get connected.
The most important standard for this is 6lowpan, IPv6 over Low-Power Area Networks. Up to now, only the RFCs and Internet-Drafts were available. The new book by Zach Shelby (Sensinode) and Carsten Bormann (TZI) gives the whole picture, from the specific standards and drafts up to applications and deployment scenarios.
Update: The book is now available.
New student project: FIDIUS
An important element of the teaching programs at the Universität Bremen are the Student Projects, (mostly) two-year efforts where a group of 10—20 students spends significant time on solving a specific problem, using and advancing the state of the art. AG-RN usually starts a new project every even-numbered year. However, student interest in information security is so high that an additional project has been created this year.
The FIDIUS project is a joint project between AG-KI and AG-RN. About 25 students (organized into two sub-projects) will start working on solving information security problems with Intelligent Systems methods in October 2009. FIDIUS is inspired by the FIDeS project, a major German initiative to apply Intelligent Systems methods to network security.
