Gunnar Schaefer – Research Assistant & PhD Student

Audiovisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Office: BC 362 Phone: +41 (0)21 693 1215 Fax: +41 (0)21 693 4312 Email: firstname.lastname@epfl.ch Address: EPFL - IC - LCAV Mail Station 14 1015 Lausanne Switzerland

Short Bio

since September 2006

Research Assistant & PhD Student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

June 2006

Degree in Computer Engineering (Diplom-Ingenieur) from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.

April to December 2005

Research Internship at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India, Bangalore, India.

March to August 2003

Research Internship at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Research Interests

• Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Wireless Sensor Network Architecture
• Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

Publications

Journal Papers

F. Ingelrest, G. Barrenetxea, G. Schaefer, M. Vetterli, O. Couach and M. Parlange, SensorScope: Application-Specific Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring., accepted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 6, Nr. 2, 2010.
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Conference Papers

G. Schaefer, F. Ingelrest and M. Vetterli, Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks, The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), pp. 118-133, 2009.
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G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer and M. Vetterli, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor Network Deployments, The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008), pp. 43-56, 2008.
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G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer, M. Vetterli, O. Couach and M. Parlange, SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring, The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), pp. 332-343, 2008.
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G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer and M. Vetterli, Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring: The SensorScope Experience, The 20th IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS 2008), 2008.
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S. Prochnow, G. Schaefer, K. Bell and R. von Hanxleden, Analyzing Robustness of UML State Machines, MARTES 2006 at MoDELS 2006, pp. 61-80, 2006.
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Diploma Thesis

G. Schaefer. Statechart Style Checking – Automated Semantic Robustness Analysis of Statecharts. Diploma-Thesis, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, June 2006.
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Recent Talks

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor Network Deployments. MICS Workshop 2009.
• Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks. EWSN 2009.
• SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring. IPSN 2008.

Open Source Projects

• SplitShow – a utility for the dual-head presentation of PDF slides on Mac OS X.