ACM SIGMOBILE Falko Dressler , ACM Fellow

When you ask me about a single piece of work or a single paper that I am most proud of, it is difficult to choose. There are two papers that significantly influenced my own way of thinking and my career, as well as the community as a whole. The first one is ''On the Lifetime of Sensor Networks'' published in 2009 in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). This was a quite exciting endeavor, collaborating with Isabel Wagner. Working in the field of sensor networks, we figured that the results in many papers are just not comparable due to the lack of a unifying performance metric. We spent months analyzing used metrics and derived a system to integrate measures such as energy, packet loss, delay, and throughput. It was also a long journey in publishing the results (you know, many revisions and the typical Reviewer #2). But we were rewarded, as the research community picked up the ideas and our work helped shape the world of Internet of Things as we see it today. The second paper is ''Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis'' published in 2011 in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. I had been working on vehicular networks at this time, and we realized that simulations always used either mobility traces or simple random mobility models. Both are either turning wrong the moment the application successfully impacts mobility or are unrealistic in the first place. Together with Christoph Sommer, I developed a simulator, Veins, which uses realistic vehicular mobility modeling coupled with accurate wireless communication simulation. The simulator still (after 15 years!) is the de facto standard in the community, certainly now being a community-driven open source project.