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Raphael Bialon, M.Sc., studied Computer Science, Mathmatics and Physics at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf from late 2009 to 2015. In his Computer Science studies he focused on computer networks and mobile cellular networks, later he specialized in the area of coupled simulation in the field of V2X-communication. His Master's Thesis is titled "Coupled simulation of road traffic, V2X-applications and V2X-communication via mobile cellular networks", he graduated in August 2015.

Since September 2015, Raphael Bialon is a researcher and Ph.D. student in the Lab for Technology of Social Networks, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kalman Graffi. His research interests are Opportunistic Networking, Mobile Communication and decentralized Security.

My Research

Opportunistic Networks are mobile ad hoc networks in which unpredictable and unstable topologies, prolonged disconnections, and partitions can occur frequently. They are a subset of Delay Tolerant Networks in which communication opportunities are intermittent, so an end-to-end path between the source and the destination may never exist. With the help of current smartphones Opportunistic Networks can be created, because smartphones have the necessary radio technologies and the owner's course of movements is similar to those of Opportunistic Networks.

The focus of research is spontanous creation of networks of mobile clients on the network layer. Hereby the research of possibilities of a direct communication between several mobile devices with different operating systems without user interaction is the first goal. Further, decentralized mechanisms of access control and security shall be analysed. A concept of decentralized management of cryptographic keys is to be designed. The possibilities of identifying nodes in the network is to be researched to ensure a secure communication between nodes. After developing the secure direct communication we want to use multi-hop communication to offer data transmission chains over several nodes in between. By this the distance of the data transmission is extended. The concepts of access control and security are to be adopted for the multi-hop communication.

Publications

• Personal Publications
• Thesis Advised
• Software

Conferences

I took part in the following conferences and workshops:

• LSDVE 2016
• 6th VSimRTI Workshop 2016 - Engineering Smart Connected Mobility
• LSDVE 2015