Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert

ZHAW School of Engineering
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 75 01
thomas.michael.bohnert@zhaw.ch

Projects

Bringing FIWARE to the NEXT step / Project leader / abgeschlossen
Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform (ECRP) / Project leader / abgeschlossen
Apache Cloudstack for NFV (ACeN) / Project leader / abgeschlossen
Solidna – A core strategic cloud-based storage product and service area for a major Infrastructure as a Service provider / Project leader / abgeschlossen
T-NOVA – Network Functions as-a-service over Virtualised Infrastructures / Team member / abgeschlossen
Coordination and Collaboration Facilitation for Next Generation Future Internet Public Private Partnerships (CONCORD) / Project leader / abgeschlossen
FI-Ware KIARA / Project leader / abgeschlossen
Mobile Cloud Network / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2017.

Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience.

Future Generation Computer Systems.

72, pp. 165-179.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002
Trajkovska, Irena; Kourtis, Michail-Alexandros; Sakkas, Christos; Baudinot, Denis; Silva, João; Harsh, Piyush; Xylouris, George; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Koumaras, Harilaos,

2017.

SDN-based service function chaining mechanism and service prototype implementation in NFV scenario.

Computer Standards & Interfaces.

354(4), pp. 247-265.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2017.01.002
Sousa, Bruno; Cordeiro, Luis; Simões, Paulo; Edmonds, Andrew; Ruiz, Santiago; Carella, Giuseppe A.; Corici, Marius; Nikaein, Navid; Gomes, Andre S.; Schiller, Eryk; Braun, Torsten; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2016.

Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

13(3), pp. 547-563.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2016.2598354
Benz, Konstantin; Bohnert, Thomas M.,

2015.

Elastic scaling of cloud application performance based on Western Electric rules by injection of aspect-oriented code.

Procedia Computer Science.

61, pp. 198-205.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.193

Book parts, peer-reviewed

Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2019.

Cloud robotics with ROS

.

In:

Koubaa, Anis, ed.,

Robot operating system (ROS).

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 119-146.

Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 831.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5
Edmonds, Andrew; Metsch, Thijs; Richardson, Alexis; Harsh, Piyush; Ziegler, Wolfgang; Kershaw, Philip; Sill, Alan; Carlson, Mark A.; Heneveld, Alex; Antonescu, Alexandru Florian; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2016.

Cloud standards

.

In:

Encyclopedia of cloud computing.

Chichester:

Wiley.

pp. 179-191.
Sorano, Javier; Heitz, Christoph; Hutter, Hans-Peter; Fernández, Rafael; Hierro, Juan J.; Vogel, Juergen; Edmonds, Andy; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2013.

Internet of services : telecommunication services evolution

.

In:

Evolution of telecommunication services.

Heidelberg:

Springer.

pp. 283-325.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 7768.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41569-2_14

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Arce, Adriana Arteaga; Filinis, Nikos; Fu, Lei; Habib, Carol; Militano, Leonardo; Spatharakis, Dimitris; Zafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Mitton, Nathalie; Papavassiliou, Symeon,

2024.

Virtual objects for robots and sensor nodes in distributed applications over the cloud continuum [paper].

In:

29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) - 4th International Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems (DistInSys), Paris, France, 26 June 2024.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30918
Baumann, Louis; Benz, Stefan; Militano, Leonardo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2019.

Monitoring resilience in a rook-managed containerized cloud storage system [paper].

In:

2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC).

European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Valencia, Spain, 18-21 June 2019.

IEEE.

pp. 89-94.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2019.8801967
Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Lötscher, Tobias; Kenzhegulov, Saken; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2017.

Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS [paper].

In:

UCC '17 Companion Companion Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing.

10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '17), Austin, USA, 5-8 December 2017.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 65-70.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148100
Carapinha, Jorge; Bonnet, Jose; Parreira, Bruno; Silva, Joao; Trajkovska, Irena; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Xilouris, George; Kourtis, Michail-Alexandros; Sakkas, Christos,

2017.

Deployment of virtual network functions over multiple WAN interconnected PoPs [paper].

In:

2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN).

IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Berlin, 6-8 November 2017.

Piscataway:

IEEE.

pp. 252-257.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169883
Meszaros, Balazs; Harsh, Piyush; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2017.

DISCO: Distributed Computing as a Service [poster].

In:

UCC '17 Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing.

10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Austin TX, USA, 5-8 December 2017.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 203-204.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3147213.3149216
Skoviera, Martin; Harsh, Piyush; Serhiienko, Oleksii; Perez Belmonte, Manuel; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2017.

Monetization of infrastructures and services [paper].

In:

2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC).

EuCNC, Oulu, Finland, 12-15 June 2017.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980651
Cima, Vojtech; Grazioli, Bruno; Murphy, Seán; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2015.

Adding energy efficiency to Openstack [paper].

In:

2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT).

Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2015), Madrid, Spain, 14-15 April 2015.

International Federation for Information Processing.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101358
Patanjali, Srikanta; Truninger, Benjamin; Harsh, Piyush; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2015.

CYCLOPS : a micro service based approach for dynamic rating, charging & billing for cloud [paper].

In:

2015 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL).

ConTEL 2015, Graz, Austria, 13-15 July 2015.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2015.7231226
Spillner, Josef; Beck, Martin; Schill, Alexander; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2015.

Stealth databases : ensuring user-controlled queries in untrusted cloud environments [paper].

In:

2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015.

8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015.

IEEE.

pp. 261-270.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3775
Dudouet, Florian; Harsh, Piyush; Ruiz, Santiago; Gomes, Andre; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2014.

A case for CDN-as-a-service in the cloud : a mobile cloud networking argument [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI).

ICACCI, New Delhi, India, 24-27 September 2014.

pp. 651-657.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968495
Carella, Giuseppe; Corici, Marius; Crosta, Paolo; Comi, Paolo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Corici, Andreea Ancuta; Vingarzan, Dragos; Magedanz, Thomas,

2014.

Cloudified IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for network function virtualization (NFV)-based architectures [paper].

In:

2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).

2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Funchal, Portugal, 23-26 June 2014.

Piscataway:

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912647
Benz, Konstantin; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2014.

Impact of pacemaker failover configuration on mean time to recovery for small cloud clusters [paper].

In:

2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing.

2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Anchorage, 27 June - 2 July 2014.

IEEE.

pp. 384-391.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2014.59
Trajkovska, Irena; Harsh, Piyush; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Salvachua, Joaquin,

2014.

Real-time streaming in the cloud can increase the provider's profit and the P2P users' benefit [paper].

In:

2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan.

IEEE, Taiwan, 26-28 May 2014.

IEEE.

pp. 35-36.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904090
Trajkovska, Irena; Aeschlimann, Philipp; Marti, Christof; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Salvachua, Joaquin,

2014.

SDN enabled QoS provision for online streaming services in residential ISP networks [paper].

In:

2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan.

2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-28 May 2014.

Piscataway:

IEEE.

pp. 33-34.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904089
Benz, Konstantin; Bohnert, Thomas,

2013.

Dependability modeling framework : a test procedure for high availability in cloud operating systems [paper].

In:

2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).

2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 2-5 September 2015.

Piscataway:

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692157
Jamakovic, Almerima; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Karagiannis, Georgios,

2013.

Mobile cloud networking : mobile network, compute, and storage as one service on-demand [paper].

In:

Galis, Alex; Gavras, Anastasius, eds.,

FIA 2013: The Future Internet.

Future Internet Assembly 2013, Dublin, Ireland, 8-10 May 2013.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 356-358.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 7858.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38082-2_33

Other publications

Höppli, Remo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Militano, Leonardo,

2018.

Hera Object Storage : a seamless, automated multi-tiering solution on top of OpenStack Swift [paper].

In:

8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2018), Paris, France, 18-21 November 2018.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SC2.2018.00011
Edmonds, Andrew; Carella, Giuseppe; Yousaf, Faqir Zarrar; Goncalves, Carlos; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Metsch, Thijs; Bellavista, Paolo; Foschini, Luca,

2016.

An OCCI-compliant framework for fine-grained resource-aware management in mobile cloud networking [paper].

In:

21th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), Messina, 27-30 June 2016.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543918
Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2015.

Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design [paper].

In:

2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC).

4th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Application Management (CloudAM), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015.

IEEE.

pp. 488-493.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3782
Harsh, Piyush; Trajkovska, Irena; Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2014.

A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogenous mobile cloud services [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering 2014.

World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, 21-24 July 2014.
Munteanu, Victor Ion; Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Fortis, Teodor-Florin,

2014.

Cloud incident management, challenges, research directions and architectural approach [paper].

In:

IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, London, United Kingdom, 8-11 December 2014.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2014.128
Kunszt, Peter; Maffioletti, Sergio; Flanders, Dean; Eurich, Markus; Schiller, Eryk; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Edmonds, Andy; Stockinger, Heinz; Jamakovic-Kapic, Almerima; Haug, Sigve; Flury, Placi; Leinen, Simon,

2013.

Towards a Swiss national research infrastructure [paper].

In:

Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops, Aachen, Germany, 26-27 August 2013.

pp. 157-166.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 8374.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54420-0_16

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2016.

Efficient exploitation of mobile edge computing for virtualized 5G in EPC architectures.

In:

4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, Oxford, United Kingdom, 29 March - 1 April 2016.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,

2015.

MCN : beyond NFV.

In:

7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.
Harsh, Piyush; Benz, Konstantin; Trajkovska, Irena; Edmonds, Andrew; Comi, Paolo; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2014.

A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogenous mobile cloud services.

In:

World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, 21-24 July 2014.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2014.

End-to-end cloudification of mobile telecoms.

In:

4th Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 June 2014.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof,

2013.

Cloud experiences : past, present and future of the ICCLab.

In:

Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, Zürich, 29 April 2013.
Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Edmonds, Andrew; Marti, Christof,

2013.

Notes on the future internet.

In:

4th European Future Internet Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, 13-14 June 2013.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof,

2013.

Open standards in the cloud.

In:

Second National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce, Dublin, Ireland, 16 April 2013.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof; Zehnder, Thomas; Graf, Lukas; Aeschlimann, Philipp,

2013.

The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem.

In:

Datacenter Dynamics Converged, Zürich, 24 April 2013.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof,

2012.

Dependability in a world of cloud.

In:

Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 22-23 October 2012.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof,

2012.

From bare metal to cloud.

In:

SDCD 2012 - Supporting Science with Cloud Computing, Bern, 19 November 2012.
Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Marti, Christof,

2012.

The ICCLab and FI-PPP opportunities in phase two and FI-WARE.

In:

ICTProposer’s Day, Warsaw, Poland, 26-27 September 2012.
Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Edmonds, Andrew; Marti, Christof; Manhart, Fabrice,

2012.

The OpenStack cloud computing framework and eco-system.

In:

CH-Open - Open Cloud and Public Administration, Zürich, 2012.
Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Edmonds, Andrew; Marti, Christof,

2012.

The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem.

In:

Puzzle Tech Talk 2012, Bern, 25. Oktober 2012.

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