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A little bit about mobile, the Internet and research in these areas…

Publications

The following list gives an overview of my publications, including an electronic version of my Ph.D. thesis and technical reports from my research work with the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany. Only abstracts are available for the conference papers. If you are interested in a full paper version, just send me an e-mail.

Dissertation

Scalable Group Communication in Tightly Coupled Environments

- Abstract
- Content
- Electronic version (1797 kByte) 252 pages

Journal Papers

- D. Trossen, J. Riihijärvi, P. Nikander, P. Jokela, J. Kjällman, J. Rajahalme, Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a New Internetworking Architecture, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal Vol. 35 Issue 17, September 2012
- D. Trossen, Turing, the Internet and a Theory for Architecture: A (Fictional?) Tale in Three Parts, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Vol. 42 Issue 3, July 2012
- D. Trossen, G. Parisis, Designing and Realizing An Information-Centric Internet, IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on “Information-centric Networking”, July 2012
- D. Trossen, A. Kostopolous, Techno-Economic Aspects of Information-Centric Networking, Journal for Information Policy Vol. 2, March 2012
- N. Fotiou, K. Katsaros, G. C. Polyzos, M. Sarela, D. Trossen, G. Xylomenos, Handling Mobility in Future Publish-Subscribe Information-Centric Networks, Springer Telecommunication Systems Special Issue: Mobility Management in Future Internet, 2011
- D. Trossen, M. Sarela, K. Sollins, Arguments for an information-centric internetworking architecture, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Vol. 40 Issue 2, April 2010
- I. Jantunen, H. Laine, P. Huuskonen, D. Trossen, V. Ermolov, Smart sensor architecture for mobile-terminal-centric ambient intelligence, Elsevier Journal on Sensors and actuators, vol. 142, no. 1, pp. 352-360, 2008
- D. Trossen, A. Schueppen, M. Wallbaum, Shared Workspace for Collaborative Engineering, IRMA Annals of Cases on Information Technology, Volume IV, December 2001

Book Chapters

- C. Fine, N. Klym, D. Trossen, Exploding Edges and Potential for Disruption, in “RFID and Beyond: Growing Your Business Through Real World Awareness”, Claus Heinreich (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 2005
- D. Trossen, E. Moleenar, Implementing the Shared Event Paradigm, in “Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology”, Vol I-V, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, 2005
- D. Trossen, E. Moleenar, Implementing the Shared Event Paradigm: Architecture, Issues and Lessons Learned, Chapter VI in “Information Management Support Systems & Multimedia Technology”, George Ditsa (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, 2003

Conference Papers

- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, AIRS: A Mobile Sensing Platform for Lifestyle Management Research and Applications, Mobilware 2012, November 2012
- D. Syrivelis, G. Parisis, D. Trossen, P. Flegkas, V. Sourlas, T. Korakis and L. Tassiulas, Pursuing a Software-Defined Information-Centric Network, EWSDN 2012, October 2012
- M.-J. Montpetit, C. Westphal, D. Trossen, Network Coding Meets Information-Centric Networking: An Architectural Case for Information Dispersion Through Native Network Coding, ACM MobiHoc Workshop On Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design, 2012
- D. Trossen, A. Kostopolous, Exploring the Tussle Space For Information-Centric Networking, TPRC 2011, September 2011
- P. Flegkas, V. Sourlas, G. Parisis, and D. Trossen, Storage Replication in Information-Centric Networking, IEEE ICON 2011, 2011
- D. Trossen, X. Vasilakos, P. Flegkas, V. Sourlas and G. Parisis, Mobility Work Re-Visited Not Considered Harmful, IEEE WMCNT 2011, 2011
- I. Brown, D. Clark, D. Trossen, Should Specific Values Be Embedded In The Internet Architecture?, ReArch 2010 workshop in conjunction with ACM Context, December 2010
- D. Trossen, G. Biczok, Not Paying the Truck Driver: Differentiated Pricing for the Future Internet, ReArch 2010 workshop in conjunction with ACM Context, December 2010
- N. Fotiou, G. C. Polyzos, P. Nikander, D. Trossen, Developing Information Networking Further: From PSIRP to PURSUIT, BROADNETS 2010, October 2010
- A. Zahemszky, B. Gajic, C. E. Rothenberg, C. Reason, D. Trossen, D. Lagutin, J. Tuononen, K. Katsaros, Experimentally-driven research in Publish/Subscribe Information-centric Inter-Networking, Proceedings of Tridentcomm 2010, May 2010
- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, J. Singh, J. Bacon, K. M. Guild, Information-centric Pervasive Healthcare Platforms, Proceedings of Pervasive Health, March 2010
- M. Ball, V. Callaghan, M. Gardner, D. Trossen, Achieving Human-Agent Teamwork in eHealth-based Pervasive Intelligent Environments, Proceedings of Pervasive Health, March 2010
- D. Trossen (ed), Invigorating the Future Internet Debate, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Vol. 39 Issue 5, October 2009
- M. Ball, V. Callaghan, M. Gardner, D. Trossen, Exploring Adjustable Autonomy and Addressing User Concerns in Intelligent Environments, Proceedings of Intelligent Environments Conference, July 2009
- N. Fotiou, G.C. Polyzos, D. Trossen, Illustrating a Publish-Subscribe Internet Architecture, Proceedings of 2nd Euro-NF Workshop on Future Internet Architectures: New Trends in Service Architectures (co-located with ICT Mobile Summit), June 2009
- G.C. Polyzos, B. Jerman-Blajic, D. Trossen, D. Kennedy, S. Hailes, P. Mahonen, D. Papadimitriou, The Eiffel approach towards Visions for a Future Networked Society, Proceedings of ICT Mobile Summit, June 2009
- D. Trossen, Starting the Debate: Agreeing on Disagreements, ERCIM Newsletter No. 77, April, 2009
- S. Tarkoma, D. Trossen, M. Sarela, Black Boxed Rendezvous Based Networking, Proceedings of MobiArch 2008 workshop, an ACM SIGCOMM 2008 workshop, August 2008, Seattle WA, USA
- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, NORS: An Open Source Platform to Facilitate Participatory Sensing with Mobile Phones, Proceedings of The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007), August 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, Enabling Data Sharing Among Dispersed Sensor Deployments Through Participatory Sensing with Mobile Phones, Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Sharing and Interoperability in conjunction with Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007), April 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA
- S. Sailesh, D. Pavel, D. Trossen, Context Service Framework for the Mobile Internet, Proceedings of International Workshop on System Support for Future Mobile Computing Applications (FUMCA2006) in conjunction with Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2006), September 2006, Irvine, CA, USA
- D. Pavel, D. Trossen, Context Provisioning for Future Service Environments, Proceedings of International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, August 2006, Bucharest, Romania
- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, Building a Ubiquitous Platform for Remote Sensing Using Smartphones, Proceedings of The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, July 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
- K. Arabshian, H. Schulzrinne, D. Trossen, D. Pavel, GloServ: Global Service Discovery using the OWL Web Ontology Language, Proceedings of IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, June 2005, Colchester, England
- D. Trossen, D. Pavel, Service Discovery & Availability Subscriptions Using the SIP Event Framework, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005, May 2005, Seoul, South Korea
- D. Pavel, D. Trossen, Context Provisioning and SIP Events, Workshop on Context Awareness at 2nd Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2004, Boston, MA, USA
- D. Trossen, H. Chaskar, Enabling User-Tailored MMS Delivery in Heterogeneous Access Scenarios, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003, July 2003, Baltimore, MD, USA
- D. Pavel, D. Trossen, Context-aware Resource Pre-Allocation in Nomadic Applications using a Service Provider Approach, Proceedings of IEEE 3G Wireless 2003, May 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Hemish Parikh, Hemant Chaskar , Dirk Trossen, Govind Krishnamurthi, Seamless Handoff of Mobile Terminal from WLAN to cdma2000 Network, Proceedings of IEEE 3G Wireless 2003, May 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA
- H. Chaskar, D. Trossen, Seamless Mobile Applications across Heterogeneous Internet Access, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2003, May 2003, Anchorage, AK, USA
- D. Pavel, D. Trossen, Context-Awareness and SIP: Enabling User-tailored Communication in the Internet, Short Paper in Pervasive 2002 Conference, August 2002, Zurich, Switzerland
- D. Trossen, Providing a Location Service based on the SIP Presence Extensions, Proceedings of IEEE 3G Wireless 2002, May 2002, San Francisco, CA, USA
- D. Trossen, H. Chaskar, G. Krishnamurthi, Enabling Ubiquitous Computing in Heterogeneous Environments by Physically Scoped Multicast, Proceedings of IEEE 3G Wireless 2002, May 2002, San Francisco, CA, USA
- E. Molenaar, D. Trossen, Implementing the Event Sharing Paradigm: The Multipoint Event Sharing Service (MESS), Proceedings of 13th Conference of the International Resources Management Association, May 2002, Seattle, WH
- D. Trossen, A TCP-like Receiver-driven Layered Multicast Transmission Scheme, Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference as part of the SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulations, January 2002, San Antonio, TX, USA
- D. Trossen, On Receiver-driven Congestion Control for Multicast Streaming Delivery, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2001, Orlando, FL, USA
- D. Trossen, On Traffic Profiles for Future 3G Mobile Services, Proceedings of 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2001, Orlando, FL, USA
- D. Trossen, Services and Service Capability Features in Future 3G Mobile Networks, Proceedings of IEEE 3G Wireless 2001, May 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA
- D. Trossen, Application Sharing Technology: Sharing the Application or its GUI ?, Proceedings of 12th Conference of the International Resources Management Association, May 2001, Toronto, Canada
- D. Trossen, Scalable Floor Control in Conferencing Environments: The RBone Approach, Proceedings of 2nd IP Telephony Workshop, April 2001, New York, NY, USA
- D. Trossen, Petri Nets Approach for Evaluation of Cooperative Systems, Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference as part of the SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulations, January 2001, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- D. Trossen, Scalable Conferencing Support for Tightly-Coupled Environments: Services, Mechanisms, and Implementation Design, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2000), June 2000, New Orleans, LA, USA
- D. Trossen, W.-C. Eickhoff, Reconfiguration in Tightly-Coupled Conferencing Environments, Proceedings of 11th Conference of the International Resources Management Association, May 2000, Anchorage, AK, USA
- D. Trossen, GCDL: Group Communication Description Language for Modeling Groupware Applications and Scenarios, Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference as part of the SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulations, January 2000, San Diego, CA, USA
- C. Cseh, R. Kogan, D. Trossen, Framework for Automatic SDL to C++ Translation , Proceedings of Conference on Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification (FORTE/PSTV’99), October 1999, Beijing, China
- D. Trossen, P. Kliem, Dynamic Reconfiguration in Tightly-Coupled Conference Environments, Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium Voice, Video, & Data Communications, Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications II, September 1999, Boston, MA, USA
- D. Trossen, Simulation Framework for Automata-based Performance Evaluation , Proceedings of Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS’99) as part of Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 1999, Chicago, IL, USA
- D. Kesdogan, A. Trofimov, D. Trossen, Strategies for Minimizing the Average Cost of Paging on the Air Interface, Proceedings of Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen, March 1999, Darmstadt, Germany
- D. Trossen, Performance Evaluation of Conference Control Protocols, Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference as part of the SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulations, January 1999, San Fransisco, CA, USA
- D. Trossen, A. Katona, Conference protocol evaluation: a load model to develop conference protocols, Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium Voice, Video, & Data Communications, Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications, November 1998, Boston, MA, USA
- D. Trossen, K.-H. Scharer, SCCS: Scalable Conferencing Control Service, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (IC3N’98), October 1998, Lafayette, LA, USA
- D. Trossen, K.-H. Scharer, CCS: Corba-based Conferencing Service, Proceedings of International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS’98), September 1998, Oslo, Norway
- C. Goerg, B. Haverkort, D. Trossen, M. Schmitt, R. Popp, Data Transmission in ATM Networks: Applications, Interfaces, Protocols, and Performance, Proceedings of 6th IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (IFIP ATM’98), July 1998, Ilkley, UK
- D. Trossen, P. Papathemelis, T. Helbig, Improved Resource Management for the ITU-T T.122 Standard, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Systems Management, April 1998, Newport, RI, USA
- T. Helbig, D. Trossen, The ITU T.120 Standard Family as Basis for Conferencing Applications , Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium Voice, Video, & Data Communications, Conference on Multimedia Networks: Security, Displays, Terminals and Gateways, November 1997, Dallas, TX, USA
- T. Helbig, S. Tretter, D. Trossen, Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120 to an Efficient Conferencing Service , Proceedings of the International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS’97), Darmstadt, September 1997
- H. Federrath, A. Jerichow, D. Kesdogan, A. Pfitzmann, D. Trossen, Minimizing the Average Cost of Paging on the Air Interface – An Approach Considering Privacy , Proceedings of IEEE 47th Annual International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC97), Mai 1997
- T. Helbig, D. Trossen, Die ITU Standard Familie T.120 als Basis für verteilte Mehrbenutzeranwendungen , Proceedings of Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen, Februar 1997, Braunschweig, Germany 
- W. Reinhardt, D. Trossen, An Enhanced Admission Control Scheme for Deterministic and Predictive Services , Proceedings of 2nd COST 237 Workshop on Teleservices and Multimedia Communications, November 1995, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Research Consortia Reports

- Identity in an Information-Centric Internet, Privacy & Security Working Group of the Communications Futures Program, May 2008
- The Future Networked Society: A Whitepaper from the EIFFEL Think Tank, EIFFEL initiative, December 2006
- Value Chain Dynamics in the Communication Industry, Value Chain Dynamics Working Group of the Communications Futures Program, December 2005

Patents

23 Patents granted, still some pending. Some granted ones here:

- EP1393487 : Receiver-driven Layered Multicast Rate Control Protocol
- US6,904,140 : Dynamic user state dependent processing
- US6,798,773 : Physically scoped multicast in multi-access networks
- US6,665,723 : External trusted party call processing in SIP environments
- US6,233,241 (EP0872981): Hierarchical transmission system with distributed storage of resource path information among network elements of the system