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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
63
Citations
12446
World Ranking
2804
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Kurt Rothermel is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany and conducts research primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Software.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of main topics in their research, focusing on areas such as Network Time Synchronization Technologies, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Data Management and Algorithms, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Software System Performance and Reliability, and Software-Defined Networks and 5G.

Recent scholarly output includes several papers published between 2020 and 2023. These are:

  • "Dynamic QoS-Aware Traffic Planning for Time-Triggered Flows in the Real-Time Data Plane" (2022) in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • "Scalable k-out-of-n models for dependability analysis with Bayesian networks" (2021) in Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "State-Aware Load Shedding From Input Event Streams in Complex Event Processing" (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • "Controller and Triggering Mechanism Co-design for Control Over Time-Slotted Networks" (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
  • "Availability analysis of redundant and replicated cloud services with Bayesian networks" (2023) in Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Kurt Rothermel frequently publishes in venues that include arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Frank Dürr, Sukanya Bhowmik, Heiko Geppert, Otto Bibartiu, and Beate Ottenwälder, with multiple joint publications indicating ongoing collaboration in various projects.

Best Publications

  • Mole – Concepts of a mobile agent system

    J. Baumann;F. Hohl;K. Rothermel;M. Straßer

  • A classification of location privacy attacks and approaches

    Marius Wernke;Pavel Skvortsov;Frank Dürr;Kurt Rothermel

  • Graph-based mobility model for mobile ad hoc network simulation

    Jing Tian;J. Hahner;C. Becker;I. Stepanov

  • An epidemic model for information diffusion in MANETs

    Abdelmajid Khelil;Christian Becker;Jing Tian;Kurt Rothermel

  • Intelligent agents: an emerging technology for next generation telecommunications?

    T. Magedanz;K. Rothermel;S. Krause

  • PCOM - a component system for pervasive computing

    C. Becker;M. Handte;G. Schiele;K. Rothermel

  • Spatially aware packet routing for mobile ad hoc inter-vehicle radio networks

    Jing Tian;Lu Han;K. Rothermel

  • Next century challenges: Nexus—an open global infrastructure for spatial-aware applications

    Fritz Hohl;Uwe Kubach;Alexander Leonhardi;Kurt Rothermel

  • Dynamic distance maps of the Internet

    W. Theilmann;K. Rothermel

  • Incremental Flow Scheduling and Routing in Time-Sensitive Software-Defined Networks

    Naresh Ganesh Nayak;Frank Durr;Kurt Rothermel

  • BASE - a micro-broker-based middleware for pervasive computing

    C. Becker;G. Schiele;H. Gubbels;K. Rothermel

  • Communication Concepts for Mobile Agent Systems

    Joachim Baumann;Fritz Hohl;Nikolaos Radouniklis;Kurt Rothermel

  • Time-sensitive Software-defined Network (TSSDN) for Real-time Applications

    Naresh Ganesh Nayak;Frank Dürr;Kurt Rothermel

  • Architecture and algorithms for a distributed reputation system

    Michael Kinateder;Kurt Rothermel

  • FlexCup: a flexible and efficient code update mechanism for sensor networks

    Pedro José Marrón;Matthias Gauger;Andreas Lachenmann;Daniel Minder

  • An Adaptive Stream Synchronization Protocol

    Kurt Rothermel;Tobias Helbig

  • TinyCubus: a flexible and adaptive framework sensor networks

    P.J. Marron;A. Lachenmann;D. Minder;J. Hahner

  • NeSTiNg: Simulating IEEE Time-sensitive Networking (TSN) in OMNeT++

    Jonathan Falk;David Hellmanns;Ben Carabelli;Naresh Nayak

  • An adaptive protocol for synchronizing media streams

    Kurt Rothermel;Tobias Helbig

  • MigCEP: operator migration for mobility driven distributed complex event processing

    Beate Ottenwälder;Boris Koldehofe;Kurt Rothermel;Umakishore Ramachandran

Frequent Co-Authors

Umakishore Ramachandran
Umakishore Ramachandran Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Allgöwer
Frank Allgöwer University of Stuttgart
Ramesh Jain
Ramesh Jain University of California, Irvine
Thomas Ertl
Thomas Ertl University of Stuttgart
Hinrich Schütze
Hinrich Schütze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Liviu Iftode
Liviu Iftode Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wolfgang Effelsberg
Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim
Gerd Kortuem
Gerd Kortuem Delft University of Technology
Wolfgang Nowak
Wolfgang Nowak University of Stuttgart
Roger Shu Kwan Cheng
Roger Shu Kwan Cheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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