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Prof. Dr. Matthias Schäfer

Notice: This website is no longer maintained as I am now affiliated with the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. You can still reach me via LinkedIn or through the contact information at Hochschule RheinMain.

I would like to thank the entire DISCO team for the wonderful time at the lab. A special thanks goes to Jens for his endless support and mentorship over the years.

Matthias Schäfer
Address DISCO | Distributed Computer Systems Lab
Computer Science Department
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
PO box 3049, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone +49.631.205.3297
Fax +49.631.205.3289
E-mail schaefer@cs.uni-kl.de(PGP Key)
Location Building 36, room 427
Consultation Hours: By appointment via email only
Since December 2024, I am a professor at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. Before that I was a lecturer and researcher at DISCO since 2018. Until 2018 I was a PhD student supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens B. Schmitt. Before that, I worked for the Information Technology and Cyberspace group of armasuisse S+T and visited the University of Oxford (hosted by Prof. Ivan Martinovic) in 2012. I am also a co-founder of the OpenSky Network association and managing director of SeRo Systems GmbH.

Research Activities

Interest & Focus

    • Wireless Communication
    • Wireless Security
    • Air Traffic Communication
    • Big Data
    • Sensor Networks
    • Crowdsourcing
    • Radio Navigation
    • Positioning
    • Signal processing

Selected Publications

Secure Motion Verification using the Doppler Effect [pdf]
Matthias Schäfer, Patrick Leu, Vincent Lenders, Jens B. Schmitt
ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, July 2016

Secure Track Verification [pdf]
Matthias Schäfer, Vincent Lenders, and Jens B. Schmitt
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2015

Realities and Challenges of NextGen Air Traffic Management: The Case of ADS-B [pdf]
Martin Strohmeier, Matthias Schäfer, Vincent Lenders, and Ivan Martinovic
IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2014

Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research [pdf | slides]
Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic, and Matthias Wilhelm
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berlin, Germany, April 2014

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Posters & Demos

Title Conference PDF
Challenges in NextGen Air Traffic Management (Invited Poster) NDSS '14 Poster
OpenSky: A Large−scale ADS−B Sensor Network for Research (Demo) IPSN '14 Abstract
Secure Path Verification using Mobility-Differentiated ToA (Poster) WiSec '14 Abstract, Poster
Security By Mobility in Location and Track Verification WiSec '15 Abstract, Poster
Localization of Spoofing Devices using a Large-scale Air Traffic Surveillance System AsiaCCS '17 Abstract

Teaching

Lectures

Theses & Projects

There are currently no open projects.

Misc

Awards

Conferences

Name Place Date
ACNS '13 Banff, Alberta, Canada June 25-28, 2013
CCS '13 Berlin, Germany November 4-8, 2013
IPSN '14 Berlin, Germany April 15-17, 2014
WiSec '14 Oxford, United Kingdom July 23-25, 2014
S&P '15 San Jose, CA, USA May 18-20, 2015
WiSec '15 New York, USA June 22-26, 2015
DASC '15 Prague, Czech Republic September 13-17, 2015
OpenSkyWS '15 Oxford, United Kingdom November, 26-27, 2015
DASC '16 Sacramento, USA September, 25-29, 2016
OpenSkyWS '16 Oxford, United Kingdom November, 24-25, 2016
OpenSkyWS '17 Kaiserslautern, Germany November, 23-24, 2017