Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert

Projects

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

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Filinis, N. et al. (2026) 'Edge AI-driven robotic applications in the computing continuum', IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 9(3), pp. 132–139. doi: 10.1109/MIOT.2026.3655981.
• Trajkovska, I. et al. (2017) 'SDN-based service function chaining mechanism and service prototype implementation in NFV scenario', Computer Standards & Interfaces, 354(4), pp. 247–265. doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2017.01.002.
• Toffetti Carughi, G. et al. (2017) 'Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience', Future Generation Computer Systems, 72, pp. 165–179. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002.
• Sousa, B. et al. (2016) 'Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(3), pp. 547–563. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2016.2598354.
• Benz, K. and 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, pp. 198–205. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.193.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Toffetti Carughi, G. and Bohnert, T. M. (2019) 'Cloud robotics with ROS', in Koubaa, A. (ed.) Robot operating system (ROS). Cham: Springer, pp. 119–146. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5.
• Edmonds, A. et al. (2016) 'Cloud standards', in Encyclopedia of cloud computing. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 179–191.
• Sorano, J. et al. (2013) 'Internet of services : telecommunication services evolution', in Evolution of telecommunication services. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 283–325. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41569-2_14.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Fu, L. et al. (2025) 'IoRT ROS 2 applications : evaluating Zenoh and VPN for robotic networking in the edge-cloud continuum'. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iscc65549.2025.11326186.
• Arce, A. A. et al. (2024) 'Virtual objects for robots and sensor nodes in distributed applications over the cloud continuum', in 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733709.
• Baumann, L. et al. (2019) 'Monitoring resilience in a rook-managed containerized cloud storage system', in 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). IEEE, pp. 89–94. doi: 10.1109/EuCNC.2019.8801967.
• Carapinha, J. et al. (2017) 'Deployment of virtual network functions over multiple WAN interconnected PoPs', in 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). Piscataway: IEEE, pp. 252–257. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169883.
• Skoviera, M. et al. (2017) 'Monetization of infrastructures and services', in 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980651.
• Meszaros, B., Harsh, P. and Bohnert, T. M. (2017) 'DISCO: Distributed Computing as a Service', in UCC '17 Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 203–204. doi: 10.1145/3147213.3149216.
• Toffetti Carughi, G. et al. (2017) 'Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS', in UCC '17 Companion Companion Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 65–70. doi: 10.1145/3147234.3148100.
• Cima, V. et al. (2015) 'Adding energy efficiency to Openstack', in 2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT). International Federation for Information Processing. doi: 10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101358.
• Spillner, J. et al. (2015) 'Stealth databases : ensuring user-controlled queries in untrusted cloud environments', in 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015. IEEE, pp. 261–270. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3775.
• Patanjali, S. et al. (2015) 'CYCLOPS : a micro service based approach for dynamic rating, charging & billing for cloud', in 2015 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ConTEL.2015.7231226.
• Trajkovska, I. et al. (2014) 'SDN enabled QoS provision for online streaming services in residential ISP networks', in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan. Piscataway: IEEE, pp. 33–34. doi: 10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904089.
• Trajkovska, I. et al. (2014) 'Real-time streaming in the cloud can increase the provider's profit and the P2P users" benefit', in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan. IEEE, pp. 35–36. doi: 10.1109/ICCE-TW.2014.6904090.
• Dudouet, F. et al. (2014) 'A case for CDN-as-a-service in the cloud : a mobile cloud networking argument', in Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 651–657. doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968495.
• Benz, K. and Bohnert, T. M. (2014) 'Impact of pacemaker failover configuration on mean time to recovery for small cloud clusters', in 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing. IEEE, pp. 384–391. doi: 10.1109/CLOUD.2014.59.
• Carella, G. et al. (2014) 'Cloudified IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for network function virtualization (NFV)-based architectures', in 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). Piscataway: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912647.
• Jamakovic, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Karagiannis, G. (2013) 'Mobile cloud networking : mobile network, compute, and storage as one service on-demand', in Galis, A. and Gavras, A. (eds) FIA 2013: The Future Internet. Cham: Springer, pp. 356–358. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38082-2_33.
• Benz, K. and Bohnert, T. (2013) 'Dependability modeling framework : a test procedure for high availability in cloud operating systems', in 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall). Piscataway: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692157.

Other publications

• Höppli, R., Bohnert, T. M. and Militano, L. (2018) 'Hera Object Storage : a seamless, automated multi-tiering solution on top of OpenStack Swift', in 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2018), Paris, France, 18-21 November 2018. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/SC2.2018.00011.
• Edmonds, A. et al. (2016) 'An OCCI-compliant framework for fine-grained resource-aware management in mobile cloud networking', in 21th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), Messina, 27-30 June 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543918.
• Brunner, S. et al. (2015) 'Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design', in 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). IEEE, pp. 488–493. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3782.
• Harsh, P. et al. (2014) 'A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogenous mobile cloud services', in Proceedings of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering 2014.
• Munteanu, V. I. et al. (2014) 'Cloud incident management, challenges, research directions and architectural approach', in IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, London, United Kingdom, 8-11 December 2014. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/UCC.2014.128.
• Kunszt, P. et al. (2013) 'Towards a Swiss national research infrastructure', in Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops, Aachen, Germany, 26-27 August 2013, pp. 157–166. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54420-0_16.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Edmonds, A. and Bohnert, T. M. (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, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Toffetti Carughi, G. (2015) 'MCN : beyond NFV', in 7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.
• Edmonds, A. and Bohnert, T. M. (2014) 'End-to-end cloudification of mobile telecoms', in 4th Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 June 2014.
• Harsh, P. et al. (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, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Marti, C. (2013) 'Open standards in the cloud', in Second National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce, Dublin, Ireland, 16 April 2013.
• Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A. and Marti, C. (2013) 'Notes on the future internet', in 4th European Future Internet Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, 13-14 June 2013.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Marti, C. (2013) 'Cloud experiences : past, present and future of the ICCLab', in Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, Zürich, 29 April 2013.
• Edmonds, A. et al. (2013) 'The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem', in Datacenter Dynamics Converged, Zürich, 24 April 2013.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Marti, C. (2012) 'Dependability in a world of cloud', in Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 22-23 October 2012.
• Bohnert, T. M. et al. (2012) 'The OpenStack cloud computing framework and eco-system', in CH-Open - Open Cloud and Public Administration, Zürich, 2012.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Marti, C. (2012) 'From bare metal to cloud', in SDCD 2012 - Supporting Science with Cloud Computing, Bern, 19 November 2012.
• Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Marti, C. (2012) 'The ICCLab and FI-PPP opportunities in phase two and FI-WARE', in ICTProposer's Day, Warsaw, Poland, 26-27 September 2012.
• Bohnert, T. M., Edmonds, A. and Marti, C. (2012) 'The OpenStack cloud computing framework and ecosystem', in Puzzle Tech Talk 2012, Bern, 25. Oktober 2012.

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