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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)
• Network traffic monitoring, analysis and classification (incl. privacy and security aspects)

Past Research Topics

• Modelling and optimization of Transport systems (operations research)
• 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 and reinforcement learning
• Combinatorial optimization and discrete mathematics
• Simulations (e.g., importance sampling)