Prof. Dr. Klara Nahrstedt

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsComputer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems
Keywordsmultimedia, networking, distributed systems, quality of service, security and trust

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityUrbana
InstitutionUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
InstituteDepartment of Computer Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ralf SteinmetzFachgebiet Multimedia Kommunikation, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Nahrstedt is one of today's leading researchers in computer science; in particular, in the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) management for multimedia systems. Her work on QoS brokers, QoS routing, control theory modelling in multimedia, real-time security in mobile systems, and view-based protocols have had a major impact on the field. In Germany, she plans to investigate mobility patterns and social trust in German universities to derive efficient protocols for mobile learning communities.