Dr.
Thomas Locher

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Publications

• Deterministic Multi-Channel Information Exchange
  Stephan Holzer, Thomas Locher, Yvonne Anne Pignolet and Roger Wattenhofer.
  Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), August 2017.
  External BibTeX
• Boosting Market Liquidity of Peer-to-Peer Systems Through Cyclic Trading
  Raphael Eidenbenz, Thomas Locher, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  12th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Tarragona, Spain, September 2012.
  BibTeX
• Deterministic Multi-Channel Information Exchange
  Stephan Holzer, Thomas Locher, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet and Roger Wattenhofer.
  24th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 2012.
  Slides (PDF) Slides (PPT) BibTeX
• eDonkey & eMule’s Kad: Measurements & Attacks
  Thomas Locher, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  Journal Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol 109, Issue 4, December 2011.
  BibTeX
• Finding Heavy Distinct Hitters in Data Streams
  Thomas Locher.
  23rd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), San Jose, USA, June 2011.
  BibTeX
• Hidden Communication in P2P Networks: Steganographic Handshake and Broadcast
  Raphael Eidenbenz, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Shanghai, China, April 2011.
  BibTeX
• Optimal Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks (Best paper session)
  Fabian Kuhn, Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher and Rotem Oshman.
  29th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2010.
  Slides (PPT) BibTeX
• Poisoning the Kad Network
  Thomas Locher, David Mysicka, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Kolkata, India, January 2010.
  BibTeX
• Tight Bounds for Clock Synchronization (Journal version of a FOCS 2008 paper and a PODC 2009 paper)
  Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  Journal of the ACM, Volume 57, Number 2, New York, NY, USA, January 2010.
  BibTeX
• Clock Synchronization: Open Problems in Theory and Practice
  Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Philipp Sommer and Roger Wattenhofer.
  36th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM), Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, January 2010.
  BibTeX
• A Peer Activity Study in eDonkey and Kad (Invited paper)
  Thomas Locher, David Mysicka, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  nternational Workshop on Dynamic Networks: Algorithms and Security (DYNAS), Wroclaw, Poland, September 2009.
  BibTeX
• Tight Bounds for Clock Synchronization (Best paper award)
  Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  28th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Calgary, Canada, August 2009.
  Slides (PPT) BibTeX
• Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks
  Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Locher and Rotem Oshman.
  21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Calgary, Canada, August 2009.
  BibTeX
• Robust Live Media Streaming in Swarms
  Thomas Locher, Remo Meier, Roger Wattenhofer and Stefan Schmid.
  19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, June 2009.
  BibTeX
• Foundations of Aggregation and Synchronization in Distributed Systems
  Thomas Locher.
  PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, Diss. ETH No. 18249, February 2009.
  BibTeX
• Clock Synchronization with Bounded Global and Local Skew
  Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, October 2008.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• Distributed Selection: A Missing Piece of Data Aggregation
  Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  Communications of the ACM, Volume 51, Number 9, September 2008.
  BibTeX
• Distributed Computation of the Mode
  Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Locher and Stefan Schmid.
  27th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
  BibTeX
• Sensor Networks Continue to Puzzle: Selected Open Problems
  Thomas Locher, Pascal von Rickenbach and Roger Wattenhofer.
  9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Kolkata, India, January 2008.
  BibTeX
• Push-to-Pull Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming
  Thomas Locher, Remo Meier, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  21st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Lemesos, Cyprus, September 2007.
  BibTeX
• Rescuing Tit-for-Tat with Source Coding
  Thomas Locher, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  7th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Galway, Ireland, September 2007.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• Tight Bounds for Distributed Selection
  Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  19th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2007.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• Free Riding in BitTorrent is Cheap
  Thomas Locher, Patrick Moor, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Irvine, California, USA, November 2006.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• Oblivious Gradient Clock Synchronization
  Thomas Locher and Roger Wattenhofer.
  20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Stockholm, Sweden, September 2006.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• eQuus: A Provably Robust and Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer System
  Thomas Locher, Stefan Schmid and Roger Wattenhofer.
  6th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Cambridge, UK, September 2006.
  Slides (PDF) BibTeX
• Received-Signal-Strength-Based Logical Positioning Resilient to Signal Fluctuation
  Thomas Locher, Roger Wattenhofer and Aaron Zollinger.
  1st ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Sensor Networks (SAWN), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 2005.
  BibTeX

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