Dr.
Klaus-Tycho Förster
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- I will be a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond with Ratul Mahajan until the end of 2016.
- I will join Stefan Schmid as a Postdoctoral Researcher in January 2017.
- For future updates, please check http://www.foerster.me
Publications
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Wireless Evacuation on m Rays with k Searchers
Sebastian Brandt, Klaus-Tycho Förster, Benjamin Richner and Roger Wattenhofer.
24th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), Porquerolles, France, June 2017.
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Multi-Agent Pathfinding with n Agents on Graphs with n Vertices: Combinatorial Classification and Tight Algorithmic Bounds
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Linus Groner, Torsten Hoefler, Michael König, Sascha Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
10th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC), Athens, Greece, May 2017.
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Teaching Spatial Geometry in a Virtual World: Using Minecraft in Mathematics in Grade 5/6
Klaus-Tycho Förster.
8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Athens, Greece, April 2017.
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Augmenting Flows for the Consistent Migration of Multi-Commodity Single-Destination Flows in SDNs
Sebastian Brandt, Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 36, pp. 134–150, April 2017.
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Local Checkability in Dynamic Networks
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Oliver Richter, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
18th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Hyderabad, India, January 2017.
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Distributed Discussion Diarisation
Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster, Simon Tanner and Roger Wattenhofer.
14th Annual IEEE Consumer and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 2017.
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RTDS: Real-Time Discussion Statistics
Pascal Bissig, Jan Deriu, Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), Rovaniemi, Finland, December 2016.
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Lower and Upper Competitive Bounds for Online Directed Graph Exploration
Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 655, Part A, pp. 15-29, December 2016.
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Local Checkability, No Strings Attached: (A)cyclicity, Reachability, Loop Free Updates in SDNs
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Thomas Lüdi, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), November 2016.
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Reducing the Latency-Tail of Short-Lived Flows: Adding Forward Error Correction in Data Centers
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Demian Jäger, David Stolz and Roger Wattenhofer.
15th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2016.
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Don’t disturb my Flows: Algorithms for Consistent Network Updates in Software Defined Networks
Klaus-Tycho Förster.
PhD Thesis, September 2016.
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Survey of Consistent Network Updates
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Stefan Schmid and Stefano Vissicchio.
arXiv:1609.02305 [cs.NI] , September 2016.
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Integrating Programming into the Mathematics Curriculum: Combining Scratch and Geometry in Grades 6 and 7
Klaus-Tycho Förster.
17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Boston, MA, USA, September 2016.
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A Concept for an Introduction to Parallelization in Java: Multithreading with Programmable Robots in Minecraft
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Michael König and Roger Wattenhofer.
17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Boston, MA, USA, September 2016.
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The Power of Two in Consistent Network Updates: Hard Loop Freedom, Easy Flow Migration
Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), Waikoloa, Hi, USA, August 2016.
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Consistent Updates in Software Defined Networks: On Dependencies, Loop Freedom, and Blackholes
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Ratul Mahajan and Roger Wattenhofer.
15th IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), Vienna, Austria, May 2016.
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On Consistent Migration of Flows in SDNs (Best in session presentation award)
Sebastian Brandt, Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, California, USA, April 2016.
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Augmenting Anycast Network Flows (Best paper session)
Sebastian Brandt, Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Singapore, January 2016.
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Local Checkability, No Strings Attached (Best paper award)
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Thomas Lüdi, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Singapore, January 2016.
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Destroying networks for fun (and profit)
Nick Shelly, Brendan Tschaen, Klaus-Tycho Förster, Michael Chang, Theophilus Benson and Laurent Vanbever.
14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 2015.
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Poster Abstract: Programming in Scratch and Mathematics: Augmenting Your Geometry Curriculum, Today!
Klaus-Tycho Förster.
16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Chicago, IL, USA, October 2015.
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Lower Bounds for the Capture Time: Linear, Quadratic, and Beyond
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Rijad Nuridini, Jara Uitto and Roger Wattenhofer.
22nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), Montserrat, Spain, July 2015.
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SpareEye: Enhancing the Safety of Inattentionally Blind Smartphone Users
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Alex Gross, Nino Hail, Jara Uitto and Roger Wattenhofer.
The 13th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), Melbourne, Australia, November 2014.
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Deterministic Leader Election in Multi-Hop Beeping Networks
Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
28th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Austin, Texas, USA, October 2014.
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Approximating Fault-Tolerant Domination in General Graphs
Klaus-Tycho Förster.
SIAM Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 2013.
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Directed Graph Exploration
Klaus-Tycho Förster and Roger Wattenhofer.
16th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Rome, Italy, December 2012.
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Recent Talks (as of September 2016)
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Local Checkability, No Strings Attached: (A)cyclicity, Reachability & Dynamic Networks
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2016.
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Consistent Migration of Flows in SDNs
HUAWEI France Research Center, Paris, France, June 2016. -
On Consistent Migration of Flows in SDNs
Highlights of Algorithms (HALG), Paris, France, June 2016.
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Don't disturb my Flows: Consistent Migration in SDNs
NSF Algorithms in the Field (AiTF) Workshop on Algorithms for Software-Defined Networking, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, June 2016.
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Moving Network Flows without Congestion: Different Models, different Complexities
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, June 2016.
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Selected Talks
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Software Defined Networks: Algorithms and Mechanisms
3rd Annual Swiss Joint Research Centre Workshop, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2016 -
Local Checkability, No Strings Attached
Theory of Distributed Systems Group, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 2015.
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On the Computational Complexity of some Consistency Properties in SDNs
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, October 2015.
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Lower and Upper bounds for Online Directed Graph Exploration
7th workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications (GRASTA-MAC 2015), Montréal, Canada, October 2015.
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Miscellaneous
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I was recently interviewed for a radio show about computer games in the classroom
PC-Games im Unterricht (Franziska Glatt). In: SWR2 Wissen, Südwestrundfunk 2. April 2016.
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Best-in-Session Presentation Award at INFOCOM 2016
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One-Minute Madness Session Audience Award, 3rd place out of 57, at NETWORKING 2016
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Theses & Labs
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Collaborative Graph Evacuation [confidential] | B | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Sebastian Brandt | FS 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crowd Simulation - A Python Framework for the Simulation of Human Actors in Miarmy | B | Michael König, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discussion Dynamics [confidential] | M | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributed Graph Languages [confidential] | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jochen Seidel | FS 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-Agent Pathfinding on Graphs [confidential] | B | Michael König, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classify the News | B | Philipp Brandes, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crowd Simulation | S | Michael König, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fitness Tracking 2.0 [confidential] | S | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-Agent Pathfinding [confidential] | B | Michael König, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributed Discussion Statistics [confidential] | S | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graph Exploration [confidential] | B | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Sebastian Brandt | FS 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributed Graph Languages [confidential] | S | Jochen Seidel, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fitness 2.0 - Modeling Fitness and Heart Rate | M | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Android Workout | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jara Uitto | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BeatRunner - An Android Application to Enhance a Workout through Music [confidential] | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Pascal Bissig | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beeping the Multi-Algorithm [confidential] | S | Jochen Seidel, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obstacle Warning for Texting | B | Jara Uitto, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Particle Filter Approach to GPS Signals [confidential] | M | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Smartphone Audio Processing [confidential] | B | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | FS 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Convenient Smartphone Authentication [confidential] | M | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graph Exploration [confidential] | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Improving Personal Safety [confidential] | G | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | , , | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Off Screen Smartphone Controls [confidential] | B | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Using Music to Enhance your Running [confidential] | S | Pascal Bissig, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What is in a Transaction? A Structural Analysis of Bitcoin Transactions [confidential] | B | Christian Decker, Klaus-Tycho Förster | HS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Android Workout | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jara Uitto | FS 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obstacle Warning Mechanism for Smartphones [confidential] | G | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jara Uitto | FS 13 | , | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NFC Glove | S | Klaus-Tycho Förster, Jochen Seidel | HS 12 |