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46
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10308
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6766
National Ranking
321

Overview

Frank Kargl is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science with a focus on topics such as advanced malware detection techniques, access control and trust, network security and intrusion detection, privacy and data protection, and safety systems engineering in autonomy. Their research spans the intersection of technical and social sciences, reflecting their involvement in areas including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, sociology and political science, signal processing, and information systems.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of subjects related to privacy, security, and network technologies. Some notable papers include:

  • "Online Privacy Literacy and Online Privacy Behavior - The Role of Crystallized Intelligence and Personality" (2021) published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Risk Prediction of IoT Devices Based on Vulnerability Analysis" (2022) from ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
  • "Context-based Access Control and Trust Scores in Zero Trust Campus Networks" (2020) presented at Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
  • "ZTSFC: A Service Function Chaining-Enabled Zero Trust Architecture" (2023) published in IEEE Access
  • "Survey of Model-Based Security Testing Approaches in the Automotive Domain" (2023) also in IEEE Access

Frank Kargl frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Their active engagement in these venues indicates a focus on both theoretical and applied aspects of privacy and security research.

Collaboration plays an important role in their research activities, with frequent co-authors including Felix Engelmann, Christoph Bösch, Leonard Bradatsch, Benjamin Erb, and Pascal Oser. These partnerships reflect shared research interests and contributions in related subfields.

Their work emphasizes a multi-disciplinary approach with significant contributions to both the technical and social dimensions of security and privacy. The diversity of research topics further includes internet traffic analysis, secure e-voting, and privacy-preserving technologies in data management, illustrating an engagement with current challenges in cybersecurity and data protection.

Best Publications

  • Secure vehicular communication systems: design and architecture

    P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;T. Holczer;E. Schoch

  • Pseudonym Schemes in Vehicular Networks: A Survey

    Jonathan Petit;Florian Schaub;Michael Feiri;Frank Kargl

  • Communication patterns in VANETs

    E. Schoch;F. Kargl;M. Weber;T. Leinmuller

  • Secure vehicular communication systems: implementation, performance, and research challenges

    F. Kargl;P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;M. Muter

  • Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns

    Christoph Bösch;Benjamin Erb;Frank Kargl;Henning Kopp

  • Architecture for Secure and Private Vehicular Communications

    P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;J.-P. Hubaux;F. Kargl

  • Privacy in inter-vehicular networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough

    Bjorn Wiedersheim;Zhendong Ma;Frank Kargl;Panos Papadimitratos

  • Exploration of adaptive beaconing for efficient intervehicle safety communication

    R. Schmidt;T. Leinmuller;E. Schoch;F. Kargl

  • Protecting web servers from distributed denial of service attacks

    Frank Kargl;Joern Maier;Michael Weber

  • Survey on Misbehavior Detection in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Rens Wouter van der Heijden;Stefan Dietzel;Tim Leinmuller;Frank Kargl

  • POSITION VERIFICATION APPROACHES FOR VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS

    T. Leinmuller;E. Schoch;F. Kargl

  • What You Corrupt Is Not What You Crash: Challenges in Fuzzing Embedded Devices.

    Marius Muench;Jan Stijohann;Frank Kargl;Aurelien Francillon

  • A VANET-based emergency vehicle warning system

    Andreas Buchenscheit;Florian Schaub;Frank Kargl;Michael Weber

  • Sequence-aware Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems

    Marco Caselli;Emmanuele Zambon;Frank Kargl

  • Improved security in geographic ad hoc routing through autonomous position verification

    Tim Leinmüller;Christian Maihöfer;Elmar Schoch;Frank Kargl

  • Advanced detection of selfish or malicious nodes in ad hoc networks

    Frank Kargl;Andreas Klenk;Stefan Schlott;Michael Weber

  • VeReMi: A Dataset for Comparable Evaluation of Misbehavior Detection in VANETs

    Rens Wouter Van der Heijden;Thomas Lukaseder;Frank Kargl

  • VeReMi Extension: A Dataset for Comparable Evaluation of Misbehavior Detection in VANETs

    Joseph Kamel;Michael Wolf;Rens Wouter van Der Heijden;Arnaud Kaiser

  • Survey on Misbehavior Detection in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Rens W. van der Heijden;Stefan Dietzel;Tim Leinmüller;Frank Kargl

  • Privacy and Identity Management for Vehicular Communication Systems: a Position Paper

    Panagiotis Papadimitratos;Antonio Kung;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Frank Kargl

  • Impact of pseudonym changes on geographic routing in VANETs

    Elmar Schoch;Frank Kargl;Tim Leinmüller;Stefan Schlott

  • Securing ad hoc routing protocols

    F. Kargl;S. Schlott;A. Klenk;A. Geiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Weber
Michael Weber University of Ulm
Florian Schaub
Florian Schaub University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Falko Dressler
Falko Dressler Technical University of Berlin
Levente Buttyán
Levente Buttyán Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Panos Papadimitratos
Panos Papadimitratos Royal Institute of Technology
Marc Dacier
Marc Dacier King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Jean-Pierre Hubaux École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Christian Waldschmidt
Christian Waldschmidt University of Ulm
Javier Gozalvez
Javier Gozalvez Miguel Hernandez University
Ozan K. Tonguz
Ozan K. Tonguz Carnegie Mellon University

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