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Brief CV

Research Interests

Publications

1. Matthäus Wander, Arno Wacker, and Torben Weis: Towards Peer-to-Peer-based Cryptanalysis. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE LCN Workshop on Security in Communication Networks (SICK2010), organized at the 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN2010), Denver, Colorado, USA, Oct. 11-14, 2010, to appear.
2. Martin Saternus, Torben Weis, Sebastian Holzapfel, Arno Wacker: Gears4Net - an Asynchronous Programming Model. Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2), organized at the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing 2009 (ICPP09), Vienna, Austria, Sept. 22-25, 2009.
3. Mirko Knoll, Matthias Helling, Arno Wacker, Sebastian Holzapfel and Torben Weis: Bootstrapping Peer-to-Peer Systems Using IRC. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems, COPS09, organized at the 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 29th - July 1st, 2009.
4. Sebastian Schuster, Arno Wacker, Torben Weis: Fighting Cheating in P2P-based MMVEs with Disjoint Path Routing. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, CoMMVE09, organized at the 16th ITG/GI Fachtagung - Kommunikation in Verteilten Sytemen 2009, KiVS 2009, Kassel, March 2-6, 2009.
5. Torben Weis, Arno Wacker, Sebastian Schuster, Sebastian Holzapfel: Towards Logical Clocks in P2P-based MMVEs. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, CoMMVE09, organized at the 16th ITG/GI Fachtagung - Kommunikation in Verteilten Sytemen 2009, KiVS 2009, Kassel, March 2-6, 2009.
6. Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Sebastian Schuster, Torben Weis: Towards an Authentication Service for Peer-to-Peer based Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. Int. J. Advanced Media and Communications, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
7. Mirko Knoll, Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, and Torben Weis: Bootstrapping in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2008, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, December 8-10, 2008.
8. Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Sebastian Holzapfel, and Torben Weis: (Demo) A NAT Traversal Mechanism for Peer-To-Peer Networks. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE P2P08, Aachen, Germany, September 2008.
9. Torben Weis and Arno Wacker: Self-stabilizing Automata. Proceedings of the Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing 2008, BICC 2008, organized at the 20th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2008, Milano, Italy, September 2008.
10. Arno Wacker: Key Distribution Schemes for Resource-Constrained Devices in Wireless Sensor Networks. Dissertation, University of Stuggart, May 2008
11. Matthias Gauger, Daniel Minder, Pedro José Marrón, Arno Wacker, and Andreas Lachenmann: Prototyping sensor-actuator networks for home automation. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks, REALWSN 2008 organized at ACM EuroSys 2008, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2008.
12. Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Sebastian Schuster, Torben Weis: Towards an Authentication Service for Peer-to-Peer based Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, MMVE08, organized at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, IEEE VR2008, Reno, Nevada, USA, March 2008
13. Gregor Schiele, Richard Sueselbeck, Arno Wacker, Tonio Triebel and Christian Becker: Consistency Management for Peer-to-Peer-based Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, MMVE08, organized at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, IEEE VR2008, Reno, Nevada, USA, March 2008
14. Gregor Schiele, Richard Sueselbeck, Arno Wacker, Joerg Haehner, Christian Becker, Torben Weis: Requirements of Peer-to-Peer-based Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming. . Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, organized at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2007, CCGRID 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007
15. Mirko Knoll, Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Torben Weis: Decentralized bootstrapping in pervasive applications . Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 07, Work in Progress Session, White Plains, NY, USA, March 2007
16. Arno Wacker, Mirko Knoll, Timo Heiber, Kurt Rothermel: A New Approach for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Securing Wireless Sensor Networks (© 2005 ACM 1-59593-054-X/05/001). 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2005, San Diego, California, USA, November 2-4
17. Arno Wacker, Timo Heiber, Holger Cermann and Pedro Marron: A fault-tolerant Key-Distribution Scheme for Securing Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (© Springer-Verlag). Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2004, Pervasive 2004, Linz/Vienna, Austria, April 2004
18. Arno Wacker, Timo Heiber and Holger Cermann: A Key-Distribution Scheme for Wireless Home Automation Networks (© IEEE). First IEEE International Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2004, IEEE CCNC'04, Las Vegas, USA, January 2004

Organizing Committees

• The 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, MMVE09 at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2009
• The 1st International Workshop on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, CoMMVE09 at the 16th ITG/GI Kommunication in verteilten Systemen 2009

Programm Committees

• Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Förderpreis 2009
• First Workshop on P2P Distributed Virtual Environments (P2PDVE) at ICUMT 2009
• The 3rd International Workshop on Secure and Multimodal Pervasive Environments (SMPE09) at AINA-09
• The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE08) at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008
• The 2nd International Workshop on Secure and Multimodal Pervasive Environments (SMPE08) at MOBIQUITOUS 2008
• The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks
• IADIS International Applied Computing 2008 (AC'08)
• Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Förderpreis 2008
• The 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'08)
• The International Workshop on Secure and Multimodal Pervasive Environments (SMPE07) at SecureComm 2007
• Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Förderpreis 2007
• The 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’07)
• Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Förderpreis 2006
• Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Förderpreis 2005

Reviewer for

• 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08)
• MobiQuitous 2008
• 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Systems (PerSys´07)
• Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2007)
• The 26th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP '07)
• Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007) - Work-in-Progress Track
• IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007)
• The 2006 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2006)
• Third International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2006
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2006
• The 2005 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2005)

Teaching

• Microcomputer Systems / Datenverarbeitung 1 (Winter term 2009/2010)
• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering (Winter term 2009/2010)
• SchülerKrypto 2009 in Siegen (Veranstaltet durch das bbz Siegen) [Pressemeldung]
• Sicherheit in Kommunikationsnetzen (Summer term 2009) [Lecture in the news, WAZ Duisburg 13.08.2009]
• Praxisprojekt peers@play (Summer term 2009)
• Microcomputer Systems / Datenverarbeitung 1 (Winter term 2008/2009)
• Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit digitaler Systeme (Winter term 2008/2009)
• Praktikum: Computer based Systems / Microcomputer Sytems (Winter term 2008/2009)
• Security in Computer Networks (Summer term 2008)
• Microcomputer Systems (Winter term 2007/2008)
• Exercises for Distributed Systems (Winter term 2007/2008)
• Seminar: Peer-to-Peer Systeme (Summer term 2007)
• Security in Computer Networks (Summer term 2007)
• Exercises for Betriebssysteme (Summer term 2007)

Further information

• Project peers@play
• Project CrypTool 2.0
• Project 3PC
• Former homepage at the Department of Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart
• As a student I (co-)designed a cryptochip at the University of Stuttgart

Private stuff

• Author of neutrinoTV.
• Pictures from our Ph.D celebration, a.k.a. 5DR 2007