Contact Information

Mobile Network Performance Group
UMIC Research Centre - Room 104
RWTH Aachen University
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 15
52074 Aachen
Germany

Phone: +49 241 80 20741
Email: gross"at"umic.rwth-aachen.de

In January 2008 I joined RWTH Aachen University as assistant professor and head of a (junior) research group on "Mobile Network Performance". On the one hand this group is associated with Lehrstuhl I4 for Communication and Distributed Systems, however, we are also part of the "DFG Exzellenzcluster UMIC - Ultra-High Speed Mobile Communication and Information". In 2002, I graduated from TU Berlin in computer engineering after having spent one year at the University of California, San Diego as stipendiary. Afterwards, I joined the Telecommunication Networks Group of Prof. Adam Wolisz at TU Berlin as Ph.D. scholar of the "DFG Graduiertenkolleg MAGSI" (from 2002 - 2006) and as post-doc in 2007. I received my doctoral degree with honours for my thesis on dynamic resource allocation in wireless OFDMA networks. This work was also awarded the VDE-ITG/GI KuVS Ph.D.thesis prize in 2007. Apart from that I also received the "Erwin-Stephen" prize of TU Berlin for my master degree in 2002.

My research interests are in the area of adaptation for wireless networks. This includes topics like network design, network management, optimization, resource allocation, quality-of-service provisioning, modeling and performance evaluation. I like working on clear problem definitions in the mathematical sense and exploring solutions with respect to theoretical models but also considering performance in practise. Currently, I am contributing to the IEEE 802.11 standardization committee on the design of future (i.e. post 802.11n) wireless local area networks. On the other hand, within the UMIC research centre I am actively pushing the inter-disciplinary topic of large-scale, high-detail wireless network simulations. I am a member of the IEEE, VDE and GI and served on several program committees for major conferences in the above research fields.

If not doing something related to my job at RWTH Aachen University, I like doing sports (cardio-stuff) as well as reading good books (about history as well as more philosophical things). However, most of all do I enjoy the company of my two girls (Theresa - close to my age - as well as Helena - 2 years old) and spending time with them.