Dr. Vincent Lenders

email: vince@lenders.ch

Education
  • 2007: Postdoc, Princeton University, NJ, USA
  • 2001-2006: Ph.D. in electrical engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1996-2001: Masters in electrical engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Current Research Interests

  • Cyber defense
  • Security of wireless networks
  • Semantic search and ontologies

    • Publications

    2012
  • Fast and Accurate Packet Delivery Estimation based on DSSS Chip Error Measurements
       Pirmin Heinzer, Vincent Lenders and Franck Legendre
       IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Orlando, Florida, March 2012.
  • Practical Message Manipulation Attacks in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks
       Matthias Wilhelm, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       MMB & DFT Workshop on Physically-augmented Security for Wireless Networks (Pilates), Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 2012.
  • Obfuscating IEEE 802.15.4 Communication Using Secret Spreading Codes - Best Paper Award!
       Björn Muntwyler, Vincent Lenders, Franck Legendre and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Courmayeur, Italy, January 2012.
    • 2011
  • Holmes: A Data Theft Forensic Framework
       Ramya Jayaram Masti, Vincent Lenders, Mario Strasser, Stefan Engel and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, November 2011.
  • WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks (Demo)
       Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       ACM SIGCOMM, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2011.
  • RFReact - A Real-time Capable and Channel-aware Jamming Platform
       Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2011.
  • Reactive Jamming in Wireless Networks: How Realistic is the Threat?
       Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       WiSec '11 Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Wireless network security, Hamburg, Germany, June 2011..
    • 2010
  • Performance of Opportunistic Content Distribution under Different Levels of Cooperation
       Olafur Ragnar Helgason, Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Gunnar Karlsson
       European Wireless Conference (EW), Lucca, Italy, April 2010.
    • 2009
  • Repeatable and Realistic Experimentation in Mobile Wireless Networks
       Vincent Lenders and Margaret Martonosi
       IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 8, Number 12, December 2009.
    • 2008
  • An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Mobility on Link Failures in an 802.11 Ad Hoc Network
       Vincent Lenders, Joerg Wagner, Simon Heimlicher, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, December 2008.
  • Density-based Anycast: A Robust Routing Strategy for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2008.
  • Narrowcasting: an Empirical Performance Evaluation Study
       Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Gunnar Karlsson
       CHANTS '08 Proceedings of the third ACM workshop on Challenged networks, San Francisco, California, USA, September 2008.
  • The Limits of Theory: Pragmatic Challenges in Mobile Ad Hoc Systems
       Franck Legendre, Martin May, Vincent Lenders and Gunnar Karlsson
       IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, September 2008.
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson and Clemens Wacha
       ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Volume 12, Issue 1, July 2008.
  • Link-diversity Routing: A Robust Routing Paradigm for Mobile Networks
       Vincent Lenders and Rainer Baumann
       IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2008.
  • Location-based Trust for Mobile User-generated Content: Applications, Challenges and Implementations
       Vincent Lenders, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi
       HotMobile '08 Proceedings of the 9th workshop on Mobile computing systems and applications, Napa Valley, CA, USA, February 2008.
  • Routing in Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
       Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE Network Magazine, January 2008.
    • 2007
  • A System Architecture for Delay-Tolerant Content Distribution (invited paper)
       Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, Olafur Helgason and Vincent Lenders
       IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications (WRECOM), Rome, Italy, October 2007.
  • Routing Packets into Wireless Mesh Networks
       Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders, Martin May
       IEEE Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), White Plains, NY, USA, October
       2007.
  • Wireless Opportunistic Podcasting: Implementation and Design Tradeoffs
       Martin May, Vincent Lenders, Gunnar Karlsson and Clemens Wacha
       CHANTS '07 Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
       Vincent Lenders, Gunnar Karlsson and Martin May
       IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), San Diego,
       California, USA, June 2007.
  • HEAT: Scalable Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
       Rainer Baumann, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders and Martin May
       IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
  • Delay-Tolerant Broadcasting
       Gunnar Karlsson, Vincent Lenders, and Martin May
       IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Volume 53, No. 1, March 2007.
    • 2006
  • A Macro Mobility Notification Protocol for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks (short paper)
       Rainer Baumann, Olga Bondareva, Simon Heimlicher, Vincent Lenders and Martin May
       IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, California, November 2006.
  • Delay-tolerant Broadcasting
       Gunnar Karlsson, Vincent Lenders and Martin May
       CHANTS '06 Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
  • Measurements from an 802.11b Mobile Ad Hoc Network
       Vincent Lenders, Joerg Wagner and Martin May
       IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Advanced Experimental Activities on Wireless Networks and Systems (EXPONWIRELESS),
       Niagara-Falls/Buffalo, New York, USA, June 2006.
  • Multi-path Routing Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Quantitative Comparison
       Georgios Parissidis, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN), St.Petersburg,
       Russia, May 2006.
  • Analyzing the Impact of Mobility in Ad Hoc Networks
       Vincent Lenders, Jörg Wagner and Martin May
       REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality, Florence, Italy,
       May 2006.
  • Density-based vs. Proximity-based Anycast Routing for Mobile Networks
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
       Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
    • 2005
  • Towards a New Communication Paradigm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE MASS Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks (MHWMN), Washington DC, USA, November 2005
  • Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Field Theoretic Approach
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
       Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Volume 1, Issue 3, p. 343-370, September 2005.
  • Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Field Theoretic Approach
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Bernhard Plattner
       IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Taormina, Italy, June 2005
    • 2002
  • Mini: A Minimal Platform Comparable to Jini for Ubiquitous Computing
       Polly Huang, Vincent Lenders, Philipp Minnig and Mario Widmer
       International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Irvine, October 2002
    • 2001
  • Hybrid Jini for Limited Devices
       Vincent Lenders, Polly Huang and Men Muheim
       IEEE International Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks (ICWLHN), Singapore, December 2001

    • Books

  • Field-based Routing and its Application to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
       Vincent Lenders
       PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, ISBN 3-8322-5604-0, 2006.

    • Demos

  • WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks
       Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       ACM SIGCOMM, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2011.
  • RFReact: A Real-time Capable and Channel-aware Jamming Platform
       Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt and Vincent Lenders
       ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Hamburg, Germany, June 2011.
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting
       Vincent Lenders, Franck Lengendre, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, Bernhard Distl, Dominik Schatzmann, Theus Hossmann and
       Bernhard Plattner
       ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 2008.
  • Wireless Opportunistic Podcasting: A Demonstration on Handheld Devices
       Clemens Wacha, Vincent Lenders, Martin May and Gunnar Karlsson
       ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2007.

    • Patent

  • Service Discovery on Dynamic Networks
       Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner
       EU PCT Patent, EP No. 04030863.7, filed February 2005

    • Technical Reports

  • Mobile WLAN Access Point for the ETH Shuttle Bus
       Nicolas Cedraschi, Daniel Grob, Vincent Lenders, Karoly Farkas and Bernhard Plattner
       Techical Report, TIK-Report Nr. 163, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, March 2003.