Appointments, Chairmanships and Membership in Societies
Co-Chairman of the German VDE ITG Board of Experts "Communication Networks and Systems" (Fachausschuss Kommunikationsnetze und -Systeme (2023 - )
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of WIK (Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikation) (2023 - )
Scientific Chair of “Thinknet 6G” (2020 - )
Scientific Director of the TUM & LMU Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) (2018 - 2020)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany (since 2018)
Member of the 5G Expert Committee of the 5G-Initiative from the Masterplan Bayern Digital II of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Technology (since 2018)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Federal Network Agency of Germany (Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis für Regulierungsfragen der Bundesnetzagentur, WAR) (since 2018)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1053 "MAKI – Multi-Mechanisms Adaptation for the Future Internet", TU Darmstadt (since 2017)
Member of the Advisory Board (Kuratorium) of Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin (2014 - 2020)
Board Member of Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) (since 2013)
Member of the Forschungsausschuss/Research Committee of the Münchner Kreis (2013 - 2018)
Chairman of the VDE ITG Expert Group 5.2.4 "IP and Mobility" (since 2012)
Member of the VDE ITG Fachausschuss 5.2 "Kommunikationsnetze und -systeme" (since 2012)
Member of the Steering Board (Leitungsgremium) of the GI/VDE ITG Fachausschuss 6.4 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme (KuVS)"
IEEE Senior Member, IEEE ComSoc
ACM Member, ACM SIGCOMM
Editorial Activities and Conference Organization
Area Editor "Network Virtualization" for IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials since 2021
General Chair of GI/ITG KuVS NetSys conference 2019
Member of the inaugural Editorial Board of the IEEE Networking Letters (L-NET)
Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials
Guest editor for the IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Networking and Communications
Co-chair of the 52nd expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on Vehicular Communication , Ericsson, Aachen/Herzogelrath, March 15, 2018. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 51st expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on Cellular Internet of Things , Technische Universität München, December 1, 2017. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 50th expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on Network and Services Security towards 5G , Technische Universität München, December 5, 2016. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 49th expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on 5G Mobile Networks - Towards the Tactile Internet , Technische Universität Dresden, Juni 10, 2016. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 48th expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on 5G System Architecture , Nokia, München, December 10/11, 2015. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 47th expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on New Radio Resource Management Concepts , Alcatel Lucent, Stuttgart, June 25/26, 2015. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 and 5.2.1 on Cloud Networks , Universität Tübingen, September 24, 2015. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Co-chair of the 46th expert workshop of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP and Mobility on 5G: Visions, Requirements, Solutions , Technische Universität München, December 4, 2014. - for details see ITG expert group 5.2.4
Guest co-editor for Special Issue on Network Virtualization, and Fusion Platform of Computing and Networking of IEICE Transactions on Communications, 2014.
Co-chair 9th KuVS Fachgespräch Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms "Machine to Machine Communications Platforms, Applications and Standards", Berlin, Germany, April 9, 2014.
Co-chair of the 44th expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, "Mobile Network (Function) Virtualization and Software Defined Networking", Munich, Germany, November 15, 2013.
Co-chair of the 43rd expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, "Autonomous Networked Systems", Klagenfurt, Austria, July 11, 2013.
Co-chair of the 42nd expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, jointly organized with the 8th KuVS Fachgespräch Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms "Competitive Service Infrastructures", Königswinter, Germany, April 17, 2013.
Co-chair of the 41st expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, "Green IT in wireless access networks", Berlin, Germany, Nov. 29-30, 2012.
Co-chair of the 40th expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, "Mobile CDN and Information Centric Networking", Vienna, Austria, Sept. 27, 2012.
Co-organization of the 39th expert meeting of the VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4 IP Mobility, "Quality of Experience and Robustness in fixed and mobile Communication Networks", Chemnitz, Germany, May 3-4, 2012.
Co-Chair of SPMS 2008 - The 4th Intl. Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems, in conjunction with SAINT 2008, Espoo, Finland, July 28 - Aug. 1, 2008.
Member of Industrial Advisory Board of the Eurpean project IST PLASTIC (Providing Lightweight and Adaptable Service Technology for pervasive Information and Communication)
TPC Chair of IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2006 2nd workshop on Next Generation IP-based Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS2006), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Jan. 23-27, 2006.
TPC Chair of ITG Workshop on Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking: Opportunities for Future Networks, Munich, Germany, February, 10-11, 2005.
TPC Chair of Workshop on Next Generation IP-based Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems as part of IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2005, Trento, Italy, Jan. 31, 2005.
TPC memberships
TPC member of IEEE AI4NET 2019
TPC member of ITC 30 2018, IEEE NetSoft 2018, IEEE NOMS 2018, IEEE SDN-NFV 2018, IEEE IWSON, IEEE AI4NET 2019