Marius Portmann

Marius Portmann, PhD (ETH Zürich), MIEEE, CISSP

Senior Lecturer
Office: 616, GP South (78)
email: marius_at_itee.uq.edu.au
phone: (+61 7) 3365 8356

Dr Marius Portmann is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at The University of Queensland, Brisbane. He currently also leads a project on Wireless Mesh Networks at the Queensland Lab of NICTA, Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence (SAFE II Networks Project).

Marius Portmann has an undergraduate degree (1998) and a PhD (2002) in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.

Teaching

Information Security
Advanced Information Security
Advanced Computer Networks

Research Interests

Computer Networks in general
Wireless Mesh Networks
Pervasive Computing
Network Security
Peer-to-peer Computing

Current and Recent Conference Activities

Chair:

Program Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UI-09), Brisbane, Australia
Program Vice Chair, International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07), Hong Kong
Publications Chair, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE), 2008, Sydney, Australia

Technical Program Committee Member:

ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC), Canary Islands, 2009
First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking (HotMESH '09)
IEEE Consumer Networks and Communications Conference (CCNC), 2009
Australasian Telecommunications Networking and Application Conference (ATNAC), 2008, Adelaide, Australia
IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous Network Computing (UNC), 2008
ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC), 2008
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDCAT),
International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-08), Oslo, Norway
International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Kolkata, India
Ambient Networks Workshop on Mobility, Multiaccess, and Network Management (M2NM’07), Sydney, Australia
International Workshop on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security MASS-GHS, 2007, Pisa, Italy
International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007), Sydney, Australia
International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications (SPCA), 2006, Xinjiang, China
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2006
International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), 2006
International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Xinjiang, China, 2006

Recent Publications

Book Chapter

M. Portmann, Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Recovery Applications, Chapter in Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards, Auerbach Publications (CRC Press), 2006

M. Portmann, S. Ardon, P. Senac, Peer-to-Peer Networks - Promises and Challenges, Book Chapter in Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking and Ubiquitous Computing, Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, 2006

Journal

A. Pirzada, M. Portmann, R. Wishart and J. Indulska (2009), SafeMesh: A Wireless Mesh Network Routing Protocol for Incident Area Communications. Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Elsevier (to appear).

Glass, S., Portmann, M. and V. Muthukkumarasamy (2008). Securing Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE Press. July 2008.

Pirzada, A. A., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J. (2008). Performance analysis of multi-radio AODV in hybrid wireless mesh networks. Computer Communications, Special issue on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Vol 31 (5). Elsevier Press. March 2008. pp. 885-895.

Portmann, M. and Pirzada, A. A. (2008). Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety and Crisis Management Applications. Vol 12(1), pages 18-25, IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Crisis Management. January 2008.

M. Portmann, A. Seneviratne, (2003). Cost-effective broadcast for fully decentralized peer-to-peer networks, Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 1129-1224, 2003

S. Ardon, P. Gunningberg, B. Landfeldt, Y. Ismailov, M. Portmann, and A. Seneviratne, (2003). MARCH: A Distributed Content Adaptation Architechture, International Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 97-115, 2003

Conference

Glass, S., Ossman, M., Muthukkumarasamy, V. and Portmann, M. (2009). A Software-Defined Radio Receiver for APCO Project 25 Signals, Workshop on Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM), The 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Leipzig, Germany (to appear).

Hu, P., Wishart, R., Ti, J., Portmann, M., and Indulska, J. (2009). MeshEye: An Adaptive Wireless Mesh Network Video Surveillance System, The Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-09), Brisbane, Australia (to appear)

Pirzada, A., Wishart, R., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J. (2009). ALARM: An Adaptive Load-Aware Routing Metric for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network. Proceedings of the 32nd Australasian Computer Science Conference 2009 (ACSC 2009). Wellington, New Zealand.

Hunchangsith, K., Bialkowski, M., Portmann, M. (2008). Slotted ALOHA with MIMO Spatial Multiplexing, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Dalian, China, October 2008.

Marwaha, S., Indulska, J. and Portmann, M. (2008). Challenges and Recent Advances in QoS Provisioning in Wireless Mesh networks: A survey. IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Sydney. July 2008.

Meyer, B., Portmann, M., Practical Performance Evaluation of Peer-to-peer Internet Telephony using SIP, . IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Sydney. July 2008.

Hu, P., Robinson, R., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J. (2008). Context-Aware routing in Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (Pervasive'08 Workshop), Sydney, Australia. May 2008.

Wishart, R., Pirzada, A., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J. (2008). A Light-Weight Gateway Discovery Scheme for Infrastructure Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2008), Berlin, Germany. March-April 2008.

Mir, S., Pirzada, A.A. and Portmann, M. (2008). HOVER: Hybrid On-demand Distance Vector Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks. In the Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference, Wollongong, Australia, January 2008. pp. 63-71.

Guerin, J., Portmann, M. and Pirzada, A. (2007). Routing Metrics for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the Australasian Telecommunications and Applications Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. December 2007. pp 343-348.

Pirzada, A., Wishart, R., Portmann, M and Indulska, J. (2007). Multi-Linked AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007). Washington D.C., USA. November 2007.

Wishart, R. Pirzada, A.A., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J. (2007). A Light-Weight Client Mobility Approach for Infrastructure Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Conference on Networks (ICON 2007). Adelaide, Australia. November 2007. pp. 252-258.

Pirzada, A., Wishart, R. and Portmann, M. (2007). Congestion Aware Routing in Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2007). Adelaide, Australia. November 2007. pp. 513-518.

A. Pirzada, M. Portmann (2007), “Establishing High Capacity Routes in Wireless Mesh Networks”, Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 18-20 October 2007, Bangkok Thailand

S. Khan, A. Pirzada, M. Portmann (2007), “Performance Comparison of Reactive Routing Protocols for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks”, Australian Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications (AusWireless), 27-30 August 2007, Sydney, Australia

S. Khan, A. Pirzada, M. Portmann, (2007) “Robust Communications using Wireless Mesh Networks for Safeguarding Water Infrastructures RNSA Security Technology Conference, 28 September 2007, Melbourne, Australia

Pirzada, A. A. and Portmann, M. (2007). “High Performance AODV Routing Protocol for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks”, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS), Philadelphia, USA, August 6-10, 2007

Pirzada, A. A., Portmann, M. and Indulska, J., “Hybrid Mesh Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol”, Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC), Ballarat, Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2007
(best paper award)

A.A. Pirzada - National ICT Australia Limited, Australia, M. Portmann, J. Indulska, Performance Comparison of Multi-Path AODV and DSR Protocols in Hybrid Mesh Networks, IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, September 2006

R. Wishart, J. Indulska, M. Portmann, P. Sutton, Context-enhanced authentication for infrastructureless environments, International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 2006

A.A. Pirzada, M. Portmann, J. Indulska, Evaluation of Multi-Radio Extensions to AODV for Wireless Mesh Networks, Fourth ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC), Torremolinos, Spain, October, 2006

M. Portmann, A.A. Pirzada, Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Recovery Communications, RNSA Security Technology Conference, Canberra, Australia, September 2006

M. Portmann, The Problem of SPAM in VoIP, Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP), Noosa, Australia, December 2005

M. Portmann, S. Ardon, P. Senac, A Programmable Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay, International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks (IWAN), La Cote d'Azur, France, November 2005

M. Portmann, A. Seneviratne, PROST: A Programmable Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay Network, The fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-peer Computing, August 2004, Zürich, Switzerland

M. Portmann, A. Seneviratne, S. Ardon, Multi-path Routing in the CHORD Structured Peer-to-peer Network, Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), Sydney, 2004

M. Portmann, S. Ardon, A. Seneviratne, Mitigating Routing Misbehaviour of Rational Nodes in CHORD, Workshop on Peer-to-peer Computing at the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Tokyo, Japan, 2004

Patents

Accessing distributed proxy configurations for Internet server applications that provides automatic way to avoid failing host link, B. Landfeldt, A. Seneviratne, S. Ardon, M. Portmann, P. Gunningberg, Patent Numbers: WO200284972-A; WO200284972-A2; US2002156841-A1; AU2002246477-A1

Server-to-user delivery of data stream to create distributed proxy configurations associated with server that avoids need for user to manually configure client when connecting to network, B. Landfeldt, A. Seneviratne, P. Gunningberg, S. Ardon, M. Portmann , Patent Numbers: WO200284973-A; WO200284973-A2; US2002165928-A1; GB2390002-A; AU2002251653-A1