Olaf Landsiedel

About

Olaf Landsiedel is a leading researcher in low-power wireless networking, with a focus on enabling complex, real-time coordination in resource-constrained systems. His key contributions center on distributed consensus and data collection, addressing fundamental challenges in reliability, latency, and mobility. Landsiedel’s most influential work, "Network-wide Consensus Utilizing the Capture Effect in Low-power Wireless Networks" (2017, 41 citations), pioneers the use of physical-layer phenomena to achieve rapid, network-wide agreement—critical for applications like cooperative robots and industrial control. He further advanced this field with "Paxos Made Wireless: Consensus in the Air" (2019, 15 citations), adapting classic consensus protocols to wireless environments to support swarms and closed-loop systems. Beyond consensus, his work on "Efficient Mobile Data Collection with Mobile Collect" (2012, 7 citations) tackles data gathering in mobile sensor networks, a persistent challenge in the Internet of Things. Notably, Landsiedel also contributed to autonomous systems through the technical evaluation of the Carolo-Cup competition (2014, 11 citations), an international student contest for self-driving miniature cars. His research bridges theory and practice, with citation counts reflecting growing impact in low-power networking and cyber-physical systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Network-wide Consensus Utilizing the Capture Effect in Low-power Wireless Networks

   41 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Paxos Made Wireless: Consensus in the Air

   15 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Technical evaluation of the Carolo-Cup 2014 - A competition for self-driving miniature cars

   11 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Efficient Mobile Data Collection with Mobile Collect

   7 citations · 2012

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