2026 Holger Karl: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7414	7197	362	350	327	12217
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	43	3813	3660	111	107	300	11885

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

7414

7197

362

350

327

12217

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

3813

3660

111

107

300

11885

Computer Science

D-Index

Citations

12217

World Ranking

7414

National Ranking

362

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index

Citations

11885

World Ranking

3813

National Ranking

111

Overview

Holger Karl is affiliated with the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in specialized subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics include:

Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Software System Performance and Reliability
Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
Age of Information Optimization
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Wireless Networks and Protocols

Holger Karl has published extensively across various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
IEEE Wireless Communications

Some of their recent papers are:

"Multi-Armed-Bandit-Based Spectrum Scheduling Algorithms in Wireless Networks: A Survey" (2020), published in IEEE Wireless Communications
"A UAV-based moving 5G RAN for massive connectivity of mobile users and IoT devices" (2020), published in Vehicular Communications
"Self-Learning Multi-Objective Service Coordination Using Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
"V-Edge: Virtual Edge Computing as an Enabler for Novel Microservices and Cooperative Computing" (2022), published in IEEE Network
"Multi-Agent Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Making Decentralized Offloading Decisions" (2022), published in IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications

Holger Karl frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

Ramin Khalili
Arunselvan Ramaswamy
Artur Hecker
Adrian Redder
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Best Publications

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks

Holger Karl;Andreas Willig

3686
Citations
A virtual network mapping algorithm based on subgraph isomorphism detection

Jens Lischka;Holger Karl

659
Citations
Specifying and placing chains of virtual network functions

Sevil Mehraghdam;Matthias Keller;Holger Karl

616
Citations
Distributed algorithms for transmission power control in wireless sensor networks

M. Kubisch;H. Karl;A. Wolisz;L.C. Zhong

542
Citations
Network of Information (NetInf) - An information-centric networking architecture

Christian Dannewitz;Dirk Kutscher;BöRje Ohlman;Stephen Farrell

412
Citations
Ambient networks: an architecture for communication networks beyond 3G

N. Niebert;A. Schieder;H. Abramowicz;G. Malmgren

371
Citations
A short survey of wireless sensor networks

Holger Karl;Andreas Willig;Adam Wolisz

295
Citations
MaxiNet: Distributed emulation of software-defined networks

Philip Wette;Martin Dräxler;Arne Schwabe;Felix Wallaschek

218
Citations
MDHT: a hierarchical name resolution service for information-centric networks

Matteo D'Ambrosio;Christian Dannewitz;Holger Karl;Vinicio Vercellone

174
Citations
MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments

Manuel Peuster;Holger Karl;Steven van Rossem

164
Citations
Cross-layer optimization of OFDM transmission systems for MPEG-4 video streaming

J Gross;J Klaue;H Karl;A Wolisz

149
Citations
Deep reinforcement learning for wireless sensor scheduling in cyber-physical systems

Alex S. Leong;Arunselvan Ramaswamy;Daniel E. Quevedo;Holger Karl

141
Citations
Chaotic maps as parsimonious bit error models of wireless channels

A. Kopke;A. Willig;H. Karl

131
Citations
An overview of energy-efficiency techniques for mobile communication systems

Holger Karl

126
Citations
Content, connectivity, and cloud: ingredients for the network of the future

B. Ahlgren;P. A. Aranda;P. Chemouil;S. Oueslati

126
Citations
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Directed Diffusion Using Passive Clustering

Vlado Handziski;Andreas Köpke;Holger Karl;Christian Frank

108
Citations
Research challenges towards the Future Internet

Marco Conti;Song Chong;Serge Fdida;Weijia Jia

107
Citations
A Distributed End-to-End Reservation Protocol for IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks

E. Carlson;C. Prehofer;C. Bettstetter;H. Karl

106
Citations
Performance analysis of dynamic OFDMA systems with inband signaling

J. Gross;H.-F. Geerdes;H. Karl;A. Wolisz

94
Citations
How backhaul networks influence the feasibility of coordinated multipoint in cellular networks [Accepted From Open Call]

T. Biermann;L. Scalia;Changsoon Choi;W. Kellerer

78
Citations
5G PPP Architecture Working Group: View on 5G Architecture

Simone Redana;Ömer Bulakci;Anastasios Zafeiropoulos;Anastasius Gavras

58
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Wolisz Technical University of Berlin

Andreas Willig University of Canterbury

James Gross Royal Institute of Technology

Wolfgang Kellerer Technical University of Munich

Daniel E. Quevedo University of Sydney

Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich

Kay Römer Graz University of Technology

Andreas Festag Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

Antonio Capone Polytechnic University of Milan

Halim Yanikomeroglu Carleton University

External Links

Personal website of Holger Karl Google Scholar page

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