Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

• MVP Cloud Computing MSE
• MVP Betriebssysteme
• MVP Cloud Computing

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Betriebssysteme (Linux), Cloud Computing, Performance Engineering

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• ICCLab
• Swiss Academy of Computer Science
• IEEE ComSoc
• Future Internet Public Private Partnership

Projekte

• Bringing FIWARE to the NEXT step / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Apache Cloudstack for NFV / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Solidna – A core strategic cloud-based storage product and service area for a major Infrastructure as a Service provider / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• T-NOVA – Network Functions as-a-service over Virtualised Infrastructures / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• Coordination and Collaboration Facilitation for Next Generation Future Internet Public Private Partnerships / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• FI-Ware KIARA / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Mobile Cloud Network – Mobile Network, Decentralised Computing and Smart Storage offered as a Service on-demand, elastic and Pay-As-You-Go / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Filinis, N., Spatharakis, D., Dimolitsas, I., Kapoor, G., Fu, L., Toffetti, G., Militano, L., Bohnert, T. M., Zafeiropoulos, A., & Papavassiliou, S. (2026). Edge AI-driven robotic applications in the computing continuum. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIOT.2026.3655981
• Trajkovska, I., Kourtis, M.-A., Sakkas, C., Baudinot, D., Silva, J., Harsh, P., Xylouris, G., Bohnert, T. M., & Koumaras, H. (2017). SDN-based service function chaining mechanism and service prototype implementation in NFV scenario. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 354(4), 247–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2017.01.002
• Toffetti Carughi, G., Brunner, S., Blöchlinger, M., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience. Future Generation Computer Systems, 72, 165–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002
• Sousa, B., Cordeiro, L., Simões, P., Edmonds, A., Ruiz, S., Carella, G. A., Corici, M., Nikaein, N., Gomes, A. S., Schiller, E., Braun, T., & Bohnert, T. M. (2016). Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(3), 547–563. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2016.2598354
• Benz, K., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). Elastic scaling of cloud application performance based on Western Electric rules by injection of aspect-oriented code. Procedia Computer Science, 61, 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.193

Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Toffetti Carughi, G., & Bohnert, T. M. (2019). Cloud robotics with ROS. In A. Koubaa (Ed.), Robot operating system (ROS) (pp. 119–146). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5
• Edmonds, A., Metsch, T., Richardson, A., Harsh, P., Ziegler, W., Kershaw, P., Sill, A., Carlson, M. A., Heneveld, A., Antonescu, A. F., & Bohnert, T. M. (2016). Cloud standards. In Encyclopedia of cloud computing (pp. 179–191). Wiley.
• Sorano, J., Heitz, C., Hutter, H.-P., Fernández, R., Hierro, J. J., Vogel, J., Edmonds, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2013). Internet of services : telecommunication services evolution. In Evolution of telecommunication services (pp. 283–325). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41569-2_14

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Fu, L., Kapoor, G., Militano, L., Toffetti Carughi, G., & Bohnert, T. M. (2025, July 2). IoRT ROS 2 applications : evaluating Zenoh and VPN for robotic networking in the edge-cloud continuum [Conference paper]. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscc65549.2025.11326186
• Arce, A. A., Filinis, N., Fu, L., Habib, C., Militano, L., Spatharakis, D., Zafeiropoulos, A., Bohnert, T. M., Mitton, N., & Papavassiliou, S. (2024, June 26). Virtual objects for robots and sensor nodes in distributed applications over the cloud continuum. 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733709
• Baumann, L., Benz, S., Militano, L., & Bohnert, T. M. (2019). Monitoring resilience in a rook-managed containerized cloud storage system [Conference paper]. 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2019.8801967
• Toffetti Carughi, G., Lötscher, T., Kenzhegulov, S., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS [Conference paper]. UCC ’17 Companion Companion Proceedings of The10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 65–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148100
• Skoviera, M., Harsh, P., Serhiienko, O., Perez Belmonte, M., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). Monetization of infrastructures and services. 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980651
• Carapinha, J., Bonnet, J., Parreira, B., Silva, J., Trajkovska, I., Bohnert, T. M., Xilouris, G., Kourtis, M.-A., & Sakkas, C. (2017). Deployment of virtual network functions over multiple WAN interconnected PoPs [Conference paper]. 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 252–257. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169883
• Meszaros, B., Harsh, P., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). DISCO: Distributed Computing as a Service [Conference poster]. UCC ’17 Proceedings of The10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 203–204. https://doi.org/10.1145/3147213.3149216
• Patanjali, S., Truninger, B., Harsh, P., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). CYCLOPS : a micro service based approach for dynamic rating, charging & billing for cloud. 2015 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL). https://doi.org/10.1109/ConTEL.2015.7231226
• Cima, V., Grazioli, B., Murphy, S., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). Adding energy efficiency to Openstack. 2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT). https://doi.org/10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101358
• Spillner, J., Beck, M., Schill, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). Stealth databases : ensuring user-controlled queries in untrusted cloud environments [Conference paper]. 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015, 261–270. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3775
• Carella, G., Corici, M., Crosta, P., Comi, P., Bohnert, T. M., Corici, A. A., Vingarzan, D., & Magedanz, T. (2014). Cloudified IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for network function virtualization (NFV)-based architectures. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912647
• Benz, K., & Bohnert, T. M. (2014). Impact of pacemaker failover configuration on mean time to recovery for small cloud clusters [Conference paper]. 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, 384–391. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2014.59
• Trajkovska, I., Aeschlimann, P., Marti, C., Bohnert, T. M., & Salvachua, J. (2014). SDN enabled QoS provision for online streaming services in residential ISP networks [Conference paper]. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan, 33–34. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904089
• Trajkovska, I., Harsh, P., Bohnert, T. M., & Salvachua, J. (2014). Real-time streaming in the cloud can increase the provider’s profit and the P2P users’ benefit [Conference paper]. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan, 35–36. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904090
• Dudouet, F., Harsh, P., Ruiz, S., Gomes, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2014). A case for CDN-as-a-service in the cloud : a mobile cloud networking argument [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 651–657. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968495
• Jamakovic, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Karagiannis, G. (2013). Mobile cloud networking : mobile network, compute, and storage as one service on-demand [Conference paper]. In A. Galis & A. Gavras (Eds.), FIA 2013: The Future Internet (pp. 356–358). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38082-2_33
• Benz, K., & Bohnert, T. (2013). Dependability modeling framework : a test procedure for high availability in cloud operating systems. 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall). https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692157

Weitere Publikationen

• Höppli, R., Bohnert, T. M., & Militano, L. (2018, November). Hera Object Storage : a seamless, automated multi-tiering solution on top of OpenStack Swift. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2018), Paris, France, 18-21 November 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC2.2018.00011
• Edmonds, A., Carella, G., Yousaf, F. Z., Goncalves, C., Bohnert, T. M., Metsch, T., Bellavista, P., & Foschini, L. (2016). An OCCI-compliant framework for fine-grained resource-aware management in mobile cloud networking. 21th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), Messina, 27-30 June 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543918
• Brunner, S., Blöchlinger, M., Toffetti Carughi, G., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design [Conference paper]. 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 488–493. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3782
• Harsh, P., Trajkovska, I., Edmonds, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2014). A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogenous mobile cloud services. Proceedings of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering 2014.
• Munteanu, V. I., Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Fortis, T.-F. (2014). Cloud incident management, challenges, research directions and architectural approach. IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, London, United Kingdom, 8-11 December 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2014.128
• Kunszt, P., Maffioletti, S., Flanders, D., Eurich, M., Schiller, E., Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A., Stockinger, H., Jamakovic-Kapic, A., Haug, S., Flury, P., & Leinen, S. (2013). Towards a Swiss national research infrastructure [Conference paper]. Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops, Aachen, Germany, 26-27 August 2013, 157–166. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54420-0_16

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Edmonds, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2016). Efficient exploitation of mobile edge computing for virtualized 5G in EPC architectures. 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, Oxford, United Kingdom, 29 March - 1 April 2016.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Toffetti Carughi, G. (2015). MCN : beyond NFV. 7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.
• Edmonds, A., & Bohnert, T. M. (2014). End-to-end cloudification of mobile telecoms. 4th Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 June 2014.
• Harsh, P., Benz, K., Trajkovska, I., Edmonds, A., Comi, P., & Bohnert, T. M. (2014). A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogenous mobile cloud services. World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, 21-24 July 2014.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., Marti, C., Zehnder, T., Graf, L., & Aeschlimann, P. (2013). The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem. Datacenter Dynamics Converged, Zürich, 24 April 2013.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Marti, C. (2013). Open standards in the cloud. Second National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce, Dublin, Ireland, 16 April 2013.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Marti, C. (2013). Cloud experiences : past, present and future of the ICCLab. Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, Zürich, 29 April 2013.
• Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A., & Marti, C. (2013). Notes on the future internet. 4th European Future Internet Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, 13-14 June 2013.
• Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A., Marti, C., & Manhart, F. (2012). The OpenStack cloud computing framework and eco-system. CH-Open - Open Cloud and Public Administration, Zürich, 2012.
• Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A., & Marti, C. (2012). The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem. Puzzle Tech Talk 2012, Bern, 25. Oktober 2012.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Marti, C. (2012). The ICCLab and FI-PPP opportunities in phase two and FI-WARE. ICTProposer’s Day, Warsaw, Poland, 26-27 September 2012.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Marti, C. (2012). From bare metal to cloud. SDCD 2012 - Supporting Science with Cloud Computing, Bern, 19 November 2012.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Marti, C. (2012). Dependability in a world of cloud. Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 22-23 October 2012.

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