Re­search Areas

  • Distributed algorithms and data structures
  • Secure and robust distributed systems
  • Network theory (e.g., peer-to-peer systems, mobile ad-hoc networks and sensor networks)
  • game theory

Cur­rent Re­search Pro­jects

Pro­gram­mable Mat­ter

Su­per­vised Dis­trib­uted Com­put­ing

VRLab­Tutor

Fin­ished Re­search Pro­jects

SFB 901 – Cus­tom­ised IT ser­vices in dy­nam­ic mar­kets

Al­gorithms for pro­gram­mable mat­ter in a physiolo­gic­al me­di­um

Al­gorithms for self-or­gan­ising particle sys­tems

Ad­versari­al mod­els for wire­less com­mu­nic­a­tion

Self-sta­bil­ising al­gorithms for over­lay net­works

Se­cure peer-to-peer sys­tems

Com­mu­nic­a­tion in sensor net­works and mo­bile ad-hoc net­works

Su­per­vised peer-to-peer sys­tems

Dis­trib­uted in­form­a­tion sys­tems

Open Source Soft­ware

Amoe­bot­Sim 2.0

Doc­t­or­ates of the Re­search Group

Pub­lic­a­tions

2026

Comparing Existing Methods to Efficiently Place Drones to Connect Isolated Communication Clusters

T. Berger, Comparing Existing Methods to Efficiently Place Drones to Connect Isolated Communication Clusters, 2026.


Polylogarithmic time algorithms for shortest path forests in programmable matter

A. Padalkin, C. Scheideler, Distributed Computing 39 (2026).


Fast Distributed Computation of Compact Routing Schemes

J. Dou, T. Götte, H. Hillebrandt, C. Scheideler, J. Werthmann, in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2026.


Supervised Distributed Computing: Efficiency and Robustness under a Majority of Adversarial Workers

J. Augustine, H. Hillebrandt, M. Kumar, C. Scheideler, J. Werthmann, in: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM, 2026.


2025

Enhancing Blockchain Efficiency via Median Rule

M.J.B. Showmik, Enhancing Blockchain Efficiency via Median Rule, 2025.


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