Marco Zimmerling's Publications

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Carsten Herrmann and Marco Zimmerling. RSSISpy: Inspecting Concurrent Transmissions in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Linz (Austria), October 2022. Best Paper Award.
Fabian Mager, Andreas Biri, Lothar Thiele, and Marco Zimmerling. Butler: Increasing the Availability of Low-Power Wireless Communication Protocols. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Linz (Austria), October 2022.
Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling. Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices. In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton (WA, USA), April 2022. Community Award
Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling. Bootstrapping Battery-free Wireless Networks: Efficient Neighbor Discovery and Synchronization in the Face of Intermittency. In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Online, April 2021.
Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Lothar Thiele. The Time-Triggered Wireless Architecture. In Proceedings of the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Online, July 2020. [artifacts] [presentation]
Kai Geissdoerfer, Mikolaj Chwalisz, and Marco Zimmerling. Shepherd: A Portable Testbed for the Batteryless IoT. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), New York (NY, USA), November 2019.
Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Romain Jacob, Lothar Thiele, Sebastian Trimpe, and Marco Zimmerling. Feedback Control Goes Wireless: Guaranteed Stability over Low-power Multi-hop Networks. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Montreal (QC, Canada), April 2019. [presentation] Best Paper Award.
Kai Geissdoerfer, Raja Jurdak, Brano Kusy, and Marco Zimmerling. Getting More Out of Energy-harvesting Systems: Energy Management under Time-varying Utility with PreAct. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Montreal (QC, Canada), April 2019.
Carsten Herrmann, Fabian Mager, and Marco Zimmerling. Mixer: Efficient Many-to-All Broadcast in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Shenzhen (China), November 2018.
Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Lothar Thiele. TTW: A Time-Triggered-Wireless Design for CPS. In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden (Germany), March 2018.
Michael Spoerk, Carlo Alberto Boano, Marco Zimmerling, and Kay Roemer. BLEach: Exploiting the Full Potential of IPv6 over BLE in Constrained Embedded IoT Devices. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Delft (The Netherlands), November 2017.
Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Johannes Richter, Eduard Jorswieck, and Marco Zimmerling. Multi-flow Glossy: Physical-layer Network Coding Meets Embedded Wireless Systems. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Vancouver (BC, Canada), July 2017.
Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Pengcheng Huang, Jan Beutel, and Lothar Thiele. End-to-end Real-time Guarantees in Wireless Cyber-physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Porto (Portugal), December 2016.
Marco Cattani, Andreas Loukas, Marco Zimmerling, Marco Zuniga, and Koen Langendoen. Staffetta: Smart Duty-Cycling for Opportunistic Data Collection. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Stanford (CA, USA), November 2016.
Ulf Wetzker, Ingmar Splitt, Marco Zimmerling, Carlo Alberto Boano, and Kay Roemer. Troubleshooting Wireless Coexistence Problems in the Industrial Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Paris (France), August 2016.
Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Pengcheng Huang, Jan Beutel, and Lothar Thiele. Towards Real-time Wireless Cyber-physical Systems. In Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Toulouse (France), July 2016.
Felix Sutton, Marco Zimmerling, Reto Da Forno, Roman Lim, Tonio Gsell, Georgia Giannopoulou, Federico Ferrari, Jan Beutel, and Lothar Thiele. Bolt: A Stateful Processor Interconnect. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Seoul (South Korea), November 2015.
Roman Lim, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. Passive, Privacy-preserving Real-time Counting of Unmodified Smartphones via ZigBee Interference. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Fortaleza (Brazil), June 2015.
Olaf Landsiedel, Federico Ferrari, and Marco Zimmerling. Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Rome (Italy), November 2013. Best Paper Award.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, and Lothar Thiele. Virtual Synchrony Guarantees for Cyber-Physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Braga (Portugal), October 2013.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, and Lothar Thiele. On Modeling Low-Power Wireless Protocols Based on Synchronous Packet Transmissions. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), San Francisco (CA, USA), August 2013.
Roman Lim, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Christoph Walser, Philipp Sommer, and Jan Beutel. FlockLab: A Testbed for Distributed, Synchronized Tracing and Profiling of Wireless Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Philadelphia (PA, USA), April 2013.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, and Lothar Thiele. Low-Power Wireless Bus. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Toronto (ON, Canada), November 2012.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Lothar Thiele. pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/IP track), Beijing (China), April 2012. Best Paper Runner-up.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele, and Olga Saukh. Efficient Network Flooding and Time Synchronization with Glossy. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago (IL, USA), April 2011. Best Paper Award.
Andreas Meier, Matthias Woehrle, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. ZeroCal: Automatic MAC Protocol Calibration. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Santa Barbara (CA, USA), June 2010.
Marco Zimmerling. An Energy-efficient Routing Protocol for Linear Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of GI Informatiktage 2008, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) S-6 GI 2008, Bonn (Germany), March 2008. Best Paper Award.
Marco Zimmerling, Waltenegus Dargie, and Johnathan M. Reason. Energy-Efficient Routing in Linear Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Pisa (Italy), October 2007.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Carsten Herrmann, Sebastian Trimpe, and Marco Zimmerling. Scaling Beyond Bandwidth Limitations: Wireless Control With Stability Guarantees Under Overload. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. Volume 6, Issue 3. July 2022.
Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Carlo Alberto Boano, Laurent Vanbever, and Lothar Thiele. Designing Replicable Networking Experiments With TriScale. Journal of Systems Research. Volume 1, Issue 1. November 2021.
Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Ulf Wetzker, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling, and Sebastian Trimpe. Wireless Control for Smart Manufacturing: Recent Approaches and Open Challenges. Proceedings of the IEEE. Volume 109, Issue 4. April 2021.
Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, and Silvia Santini. Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services. ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 53, Issue 6. December 2020.
Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Romain Jacob, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling, and Sebastian Trimpe. Fast Feedback Control over Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mode Changes and Stability Guarantees. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. Volume 4, Issue 2. February 2020.
Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Marco Zimmerling, and Sebastian Trimpe. Control-guided Communication: Efficient Resource Arbitration and Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Control Systems. IEEE Control Systems Letters. Volume 4, Issue 1. January 2020.
Jens Karschau, Marco Zimmerling, and Benjamin M. Friedrich. Renormalization Group Theory for Percolation in Time-varying Networks. Scientific Reports. Volume 8. May 2018.
Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Pratyush Kumar, Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele. Adaptive Real-time Communication for Wireless Cyber-physical Systems. ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems. Volume 1, Issue 2. February 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers

Romain Jacob, Carlo Alberto Boano, Usman Raza, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. Towards a Methodology for Experimental Evaluation in Low-Power Wireless Networking. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench - part of CPS-IoT Week), Montreal (QC, Canada), April 2019. [presentation]
Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Harsoveet Singh, Marco Zimmerling, and Sebastian Trimpe. Evaluating Low-Power Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench - part of CPSWEEK), Porto (Portugal), April 2018.
Fabian Mager, Carsten Herrmann, and Marco Zimmerling. One for All, All for One: Toward Efficient Many-to-Many Broadcast in Dynamic Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless (HotWireless – colocated with MobiCom), Snowbird (UT, USA), October 2017.
Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Eduard Jorswieck, and Marco Zimmerling. Centralized and Distributed Optimum Power Control and Beam-forming in Network Flooding. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Competitive and Cooperative Approaches for 5G Networks (COCOA – colocated with European Wireless), Dresden (Germany), May 2017.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele, and Luca Mottola. The Bus goes Wireless: Routing-Free Data Collection with QoS Guarantees in Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S – colocated with IEEE PerCom), Lugano (Switzerland), March 2012.
Marco Zimmerling, Waltenegus Dargie, and Johnathan M. Reason. Localized Power-aware Routing in Linear Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS – colocated with Pervasive), Sydney (Australia), May 2008.

Theses

Marco Zimmerling. End-to-end Predictability and Efficiency in Low-power Wireless Networks. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), July 2015. ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award, EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, GI/VDE-ITG KuVS Best PhD Thesis Award.
Marco Zimmerling. Automatic Parameter Optimization of Sensor Network MAC Protocols. Diploma Thesis, Dresden University of Technology (Germany), August 2009. Best M.Sc. Thesis Award at the 1st International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks (SensorNets), Monastir (Tunisia), December 2009.

Refereed Demonstration, Poster, and Competition Abstracts

Carsten Herrmann and Marco Zimmerling. Exploring Concurrent Transmissions with RSSISpy and TrafficBench. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Linz (Austria), October 2022.
Kai Geissdoerfer, Friedrich Schmidt, Brano Kusy, and Marco Zimmerling. Bootstrapping Batteryless Networks Using Fluorescent Light Properties. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Online, April 2020.
Kai Geissdoerfer, Mikolaj Chwalisz, and Marco Zimmerling. Detailed Recording and Emulation of Spatio-temporal Energy Environments with Shepherd. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), New York (NY, USA), November 2019.
Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Romain Jacob, Lothar Thiele, Sebastian Trimpe, and Marco Zimmerling. Fast Feedback Control and Coordination with Mode Changes for Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Montreal (QC, Canada), April 2019. [video 1] [video 2] Best Demo Award.
Fabian Mager, Romain Jacob, Reto Da Forno, and Marco Zimmerling. Low-Power Wireless Bus Baseline. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Beijing (China), February 2019.
Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Sebastian Trimpe, and Marco Zimmerling. Toward Fast Closed-loop Control over Multi-hop Low-power Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Porto (Portugal), April 2018.
Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Lothar Thiele. Stalwart - a Predictable Reliable Adaptive and Low-latency Real-time Wireless Protocol. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Delft (The Netherlands), November 2017.
Alex Bereza, Ulf Wetzker, Carsten Herrmann, Carlo Alberto Boano, and Marco Zimmerling. Cross-Technology Communication between BLE and Wi-Fi using Commodity Hardware. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Uppsala (Sweden), February 2017.
Fabian Mager, Johannes Neumann, Carsten Herrmann, Marco Zimmerling, and Frank Fitzek. All-to-all Communication in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mixer. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Stanford (CA, USA), November 2016.
Simon Duquennoy, Olaf Landsiedel, Carlo Alberto Boano, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Mun Choon Chan, Omprakash Gnawali, Mobashir Mohammad, Luca Mottola, Lothar Thiele, Xavier Vilajosana, Thiemo Voigt, and Thomas Watteyne. A Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Stanford (CA, USA), November 2016.
Felix Sutton, Marco Zimmerling, Reto Da Forno, Roman Lim, Tonio Gsell, Georgia Giannopoulou, Federico Ferrari, Jan Beutel, and Lothar Thiele. Building Reliable Wireless Embedded Platforms using the Bolt Processor Interconnect. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Seoul (South Korea), November 2015.
Felix Sutton, Reto Da Forno, Marco Zimmerling, Roman Lim, Toni Gsell, Federico Ferrari, Jan Beutel, and Lothar Thiele. Predictable Wireless Embedded Platforms. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Seattle (WA, USA), April 2015.
Felix Jonathan Oppermann, Carlo Alberto Boano, Marco Zimmerling, and Kay Roemer. Automatic Configuration of Controlled Interference Experiments in Sensornet Testbeds. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Memphis (TN, USA), November 2014.
Felix Sutton, Reto Da Forno, Roman Lim, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. Automatic Speech Recognition for Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berlin (Germany), April 2014.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, and Lothar Thiele. Synchronous Transmissions Enable Simple Yet Accurate Protocol Modeling. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Rome (Italy), November 2013.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Roman Lim, Olga Saukh, Felix Sutton, Reto Da Forno, Remo S. Schmidt, and Marco Andre Wyss. A Reliable Wireless Nurse Call System: Overview and Pilot Results from a Summer Camp for Teenagers with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Rome (Italy), November 2013.
Olaf Landsiedel, Federico Ferrari, and Marco Zimmerling. Capture Effect Based Communication Primitives. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Toronto (ON, Canada), November 2012. Best Poster Award.
Roman Lim, Christoph Walser, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Jan Beutel. Distributed and Synchronized Measurements with FlockLab. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Toronto (ON, Canada), November 2012.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele, and Luca Mottola. The Low-Power Wireless Bus: Simplicity is (Again) the Soul of Efficiency. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Beijing (China), April 2012.
David Hasenfratz, Andreas Meier, Matthias Woehrle, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. If You Have Time, Save Energy with Pull. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Zurich (Switzerland), November 2010.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Matthias Woehrle, and Lothar Thiele. Exploiting Protocol Models for Generating Feasible Communication Stack Configurations In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm (Sweden), April 2010.

Invited Papers

Kai Geissdoerfer, Mikolaj Chwalisz, and Marco Zimmerling. Taking a Deep Dive into the Batteryless Internet of Things with Shepherd. ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Volume 24. Issue 3. September 2020.
Carlo Alberto Boano, Simon Duquennoy, Anna Förster, Omprakash Gnawali, Romain Jacob, Hyung-Sin Kim, Olaf Landsiedel, Ramona Marfievici, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne, and Marco Zimmerling. IoTBench: Towards a Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench - part of CPSWEEK), Porto (Portugal), April 2018.
Jan Beutel, Bernhard Buchli, Federico Ferrari, Matthias Keller, Lothar Thiele, and Marco Zimmerling. X-Sense: Sensing in Extreme Environments. In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Grenoble (France), March 2011.
Marco Zimmerling. Energieeffizientes Routing in linearen Sensornetzwerken. Informatik Spektrum. Volume 32, Issue 5. August 2008.
Waltenegus Dargie and Marco Zimmerling. Wireless Sensor Networks in the Context of Developing Countries. In Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), August 2007.

Edited Books

Carlo Alberto Boano, Michael Breza, Romain Jacob, Ramona Marfievici, and Marco Zimmerling. Proceedings of the 3nd Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench - co-located with ACM MobiCom), London (UK), September 2020. OpenReview.net.
Marco Zimmerling, Ramona Marfievici, and Usman Raza. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench - part of CPS-IoT Week), Montreal (QC, Canada), April 2019. ACM.
Omprakash Gnawali, Sebastian Trimpe, and Marco Zimmerling. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench - part of CPS Week), Porto (Portugal), April 2018. IEEE.
Koen Langendoen, Wen Hu, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Luca Mottola. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), Como (Italy), September 2013. Springer Press.

Technical Reports

Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Lothar Thiele. TTW: A Time-Triggered-Wireless Design for CPS [ Extended Version ]. arXiv:1711.05581, March 2018.
Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Pratyush Kumar, Federico Ferrari, and Lothar Thiele. Adaptive Real-time Communication for Wireless Cyber-physical Systems. TIK Report 356, ETH Zurich, February 2016.
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Lothar Thiele. pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols. TIK Report 325, ETH Zurich, September 2013.
Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, and Lothar Thiele. Accuracy and Duty-cycle of FTSP on a LPL MAC. TIK Report 319, ETH Zurich, February 2010.