Institute of Distributed Systems

Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Frank Kargl

Frank Kargl
Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Frank Kargl
Director
Institute for Distributed Systems
Institut für Verteilte Systeme
Universität Ulm
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89081 Ulm
Baden-Württemberg
Deutschland
Email: frank.kargl(at)uni-ulm.de
Room: O27 350
Contact Hours

Due to the Corona pandemics, I currently do not offer regular office hours in my office. You can best reach me via email.

If you have questions related to the content of lectures, please ask them in the discussion forums of the respective Moodle courses where the exercise supervisors or I will answer in a timely way.

              

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Frank Kargl

Prof. Kargl did his PhD in 2003 and habilitation in 2009 at Ulm University. Before that, he was co-founder of  Arago and responsible for network operation and security in the computing center / KIZ of Ulm University. From end of 2009 to beginning of 2012 he was Associate Professor in the Distributed and Embedded Security (DIES) group at University of Twente in the Netherlands, afterwards until January 2016 in a new position as adjunct professor. Since February 2012, Prof. Kargl is the director of the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University. From October 2013 to September 2016, he served as vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science, and Psychology and then as dean until September 2018. Prof. Kargl is a member of ACM, IEEE, the German Computer Association GI and its special interest groups Security and  KuVS.

Research

My research interests are in the area of mobile and self-organizing networks like Mobile Ad-hoc Networks or Vehicle-2-Vehicle communication. Another research focus is on security and privacy in IT systems. Many of my projects lie in the intersection of both, like projects on security and privacy of vehicular ad-hoc networks. Other research activities deal with security of networked embedded systems, e.g., in the context of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) or building automation systems. Yet other topics include secure cloud computing, crypto-currencies, distributed graph-based computing and many more.

Teaching

A detailed listing of teaching offerings of our institute can be found here.

Administration

Prof. Kargl is currently chairing the GUC committee and member of the KIZ committee of Ulm University.

Publications

2011

95.
Schaub, Florian; Hipp, Markus; Kargl, Frank; Weber, Michael
On Credibility Improvements for Automotive Navigation Systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
2011
Publisher: Springer
94.
Kost, Martin; Freytag, Johann-Christoph; Kargl, Frank; Kung, Antonio
Privacy Verification using Ontologies
First International Workshop on Privacy by Design, Page 627 - 632
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society, Vienna, Austria
2011
DOI:10.1109/ARES.2011.97
File:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2011.97
93.
Kung, Antonio; Freytag, Johann-Christoph; Kargl, Frank
Privacy-by-Design in ITS Applications - The Way Forward
Second International Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN 2011)
Publisher: Lucca, Italy
2011
92.
Dressler, Falko; Kargl, Frank; Ott, Jörg; K. Tonguz, Ozan; Wischof, Lars
Research Challenges in Intervehicular Communication: Lessons of the 2010 Dagstuhl Seminar
IEEE Communications Magazine, 49 (5) :158 - 164
2011
DOI:10.1109/MCOM.2011.5762813
91.
Petit, Jonathan; Feiri, Michael; Kargl, Frank
Spoofed Data Detection in VANETs using Dynamic Thresholds
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2011), Page 25-32
Publisher: IEEE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
DOI:10.1109/VNC.2011.6117120
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6117120&tag=1

2010

90.
Leinmüller, Tim; Schoch, Elmar; Kargl, Frank; Maihöfer, Christian
<prt>Decentralized position verification in geographic ad hoc routing</prt>
Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, 3 (4) :289--302
2010
DOI:10.1002/sec.56
File:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sec.56/abstract
89.
Schoch, Elmar; Bako, Boto; Dietzel, Stefan; Kargl, Frank
Dependable and Secure Geocast in Vehicular Networks
Seventh ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Nnetworking (VANET 2010), Page 61-68
Publisher: ACM
2010
DOI:10.1145/1860058.1860068
File:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1860058.1860068
88.
K. Schmidt, Robert; Leinmüller, Tim; Schoch, Elmar; Kargl, Frank; Schäfer, Günter
Exploration of Adaptive Beaconing for Efficient Intervehicle Safety Communication
IEEE Network - Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks", 24 (1)
2010
DOI:10.1109/MNET.2010.5395778
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5395778
87.
Hipp, Markus; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank; Weber, Michael
Interaction Weaknesses of Personal Navigation Devices
Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010)
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2010
DOI:10.1145/1969773.1969796
File:pdfhttp://www.auto-ui.org/10/proceedings/p129.pdf
86.
Kargl, Frank; Schaub, Florian; Dietzel, Stefan
Mandatory Enforcement of Privacy Policies using Trusted Computing Principles
Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium (Privacy 2010)
Publisher: AAAI, Stanford University, USA
2010
File:http://vts.uni-ulm.de/doc.asp?id=7278
84.
Schoch, Elmar; Kargl, Frank
On the Efficiency of Secure Beaconing in VANETs
ACM Conference on Wireless Security (WiSec `10)
2010
DOI:10.1145/1741866.1741885
File:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1741866.1741885
83.
Dietzel, Stefan; Kargl, Frank; Heijenk, Geert J.; Schaub, Florian
On the Potential of Generic Modeling for VANET Data Aggregation Protocols
2nd IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC 2011), Page 78-85
IEEE Communications Society
Publisher: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
2010
DOI:10.1109/VNC.2010.5698256
ISBN:978-1-4244-9524-5
File:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2010.5698256
82.
Wiedersheim, Björn; Kargl, Frank; Ma, Zhendong; Papadimitratos, Panagiotis
Privacy in Inter-Vehicular Networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough
The Seventh International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2010)
2010
DOI:10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5437115
81.
Dietzel, Stefan; Schoch, Elmar; Kargl, Frank; Könings, Bastian; Weber, Michael
Resilient Secure Aggregation for Resilient Secure Aggregation for Vehicular Networks
IEEE Network - Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks", 24 (1)
2010
DOI:10.1109/MNET.2010.5395780
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5395780
80.
Könings, Bastian; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank; Weber, Michael
Towards Territorial Privacy in Smart Environments (Privacy 2010)
Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium
Publisher: AAAI, Stanford University, USA
2010
File:http://vts.uni-ulm.de/doc.asp?id=7279
79.
Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank; Ma, Zhendong; Weber, Michael
V-tokens for Conditional Pseudonymity in VANETs
IEEE Wireless Communications &amp; Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2010)
Publisher: IEEE, Sydney, Australia
2010
DOI:10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506126
File:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506126

2009

78.
Buchenscheit, Andreas; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank; Weber, Michael
<prt>A VANET-based Emergency Vehicle Warning System</prt>
First IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2009)
Publisher: IEEE, Tokyo, Japan
2009
DOI:10.1109/VNC.2009.5416384
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5416384
77.
Dietzel, Stefan; Bako, Boto; Schoch, Elmar; Kargl, Frank
A Fuzzy Logic based Approach for Structure-free Aggregation in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Sixth ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2009),
Publisher: Beijing, China
2009
DOI:10.1145/1614269.1614283
76.
Ma, Zhendong; Kargl, Frank; Weber, Michael
A location privacy metric for V2X communication systems
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2009 (SARNOFF 2009)
Publisher: Princeton, NJ, USA
2009
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4850318
75.
Dietzel, Stefan; Schoch, Elmar; Bako, Boto; Kargl, Frank
A Structure-free Aggregation Framework for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
6th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation (WIT 2009)
Publisher: Hamburg, Germany
2009
File:http://vts.uni-ulm.de/doc.asp?id=7032
74.
Koenings, Bastian; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank
Channel Switch and Quiet Attack: New DoS Attacks exploiting the 802.11 Standard
Demonstration at 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009)
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland
2009
File:pdfhttp://www.ieeelcn.org/demos2009/lcn-demo2009_koenigs.pdf
73.
Koenings, Bastian; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank
Channel Switch and Quiet Attack: New DoS Attacks exploiting the 802.11 Standard
Demonstration at 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (ACM MobiSys 2009)
Publisher: Krakow, Poland
2009
File:pdfhttp://www.kargl.net/docs/mypapers/2009-06-mobisys-2.pdf
72.
Könings, Bastian; Schaub, Florian; Kargl, Frank; Dietzel, Stefan
Channel Switch and Quiet attack: New DoS attacks exploiting the 802.11 standard
The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009)
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland
2009
DOI:10.1109/LCN.2009.5355149
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5355149
71.
Kargl, Frank; Dietzel, Stefan; Schaub, Florian; Freytag, Johann-Christoph
Enforcing Privacy Policies in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
ACM 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM Mobicom 2009) Poster Session
Publisher: Beijing, China
2009
File:pdfhttp://www.kargl.net/docs/mypapers/2009-09-mobicom.pdf