M.Sc. Alexander Kropp

PhD Researcher

Alexander Kropp is a Ph.D. researcher at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at TU Dresden. He joined the chair in October 2016.
He studied at the Technical University of Dresden and received his bachelor’s degree in computer science in the field of coding theory in 2014. He continued his studies of computer science in Dresden and received his Master of Science in 2016. In his master thesis at the Chair of Privacy and Data Security of Prof. Strufe he dealt with code based crypthography with LDPC codes.

Contact

Phone: +49 351 463-38601
Email: alexander.kropp@tu-dresden.de

Research Interests

• Security in 5G Campus Networks
• Mobile Edge Computing
• SDN/NFV
• Teleoperation

Teaching

Kommunikationsnetze 1 (Co-Lecturer / Teaching Assistant)

• SS19
• SS18
• SS17

Kommunikationsnetze 2

• SS20

Kommunikationsnetze 3 / Problem Based Learning

• WS19/20
• WS18/19
• WS17/18
• WS16/17

ICT for Smart Grids

• SS20

Oberseminar

• WS19/20
• WS17/18
• WS16/17

Supervision

Diploma Thesis

• Evaluation and Implementation of Adaptive Service Function Chaining Protocol for Latency Sensitive Object Detection (Renbing Zhang)
• Security Analysis of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G (Tobias Fischer)

Master Thesis

• Analysis, Improvement and Evaluation of AV1 Video Codec (Cheng Chiang Huang)
• Influence of an Intermediate Node in an Adaptive Video Streaming System (Alberto Marugán Torres)

Study Thesis

• Telepresence Demonstrator – Remote Controlled Car via Augmented Reality (Renbing Zhang)

Hauptseminar/Oberseminar

• Virtual Reality Demonstrator: Tracking of the camera axis and low latency video transmission (Moritz Eheim)
• Ultra-Low Delay Video Transmission for VR (Renbing Zhang)

Demonstrators

• Coded Processing Enabled Reliable Robots
• Enhanced Driving with 5G: A New Approach for Alleviating Traffic Congestion (Best Demo Award at IEEE NFV-SDN 2019)
• Seamless Service Migration in Mobile Edge Clouds for Autonomous Cars
• Remote Controlled Car
• 5G Enabled Smart Sorting Machine for Industry 4.0
• An Openstack based Framework for Multi-Access Edge Computing
• SandNet – Next-Gen Deception Networks
• Agile Mobile Edge Cloud for Connected Cars
• 5G Enabled Connected Cars
• Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop

Review

• CHIST-ERA 2018
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2018
• Computer Networks 2017

Publications

@online{Doan2018,

title = {APMEC: An Automated Provisioning Framework for Multi-access Edge Computing},

author = {Tung V. {Doan} and Giang T. {Nguyen} and Alexander {Kropp} and Frank H. P. {Fitzek}},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09251},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-05-09},

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@online{whitepaperMEC,

title = {Multi-access Edge Computing for Pervasive Networks},

author = {Gianluca {Noya} and Robert-Steve {Schmoll} and Alexander {Kropp} and Marc {Schellenberg} and Martin {Ma\v{c}uha} and Gregor {Tomi\'{c}}},

url = {https://www.accenture.com/t20180417T122321Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-76/Accenture-Network-Multi-Access-Edge-Computing-for-Pervasive-Networks-PoV.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-01},

urldate = {2018-08-23},

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