Welcome
to the reseach profile of Wolfgang John
About me:
I am a Research Leader, scientist, and computer engineer with a
background of around 25 years in the IT and telecommunications
business - a majority of them in Cloud, computing, and network
research. You can find a good overview of my research work through
a detailed list of my publications.
In this list, I try to have pre-prints of all my publications
available for open acess. Every
now and then, I also write about my work in the Ericsson
Blog. On
social networks, I am
only mildly active on LinkedIn.
Currently, I work as Principal Researcher at Ericsson Research,
facilitating applied research and innovation at the intersection
of cloud & networks. Specifically I am focusing on the
role of computing in upcoming 6G network platforms.
Earlier, I was doing research around Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and
network management.
During my graduate studies at the Chalmers University of
Technology in Gothenburg, I was active in the research field of
Internet measurement, traffic analysis, traffic classification,
and network security issues from the perspective of backbone
links. During this time, I was also a guest
researcher at CAIDA
(UCSD) in San Diego. At the very beginning of my
career, I had the opportunity to gather first work experience in
the operations department of a large cell-phone provider.
As a leader, I have a proven track record as project manager in
big, publicly funded international research projects (e.g., EU FP7 projects SPARC and UNIFY), internal
cross-organizational research programs, as well as focused
internal research projects. I am also actively contributing to
research strategies related to my expertise both on department and
division level. During almost 4 years, I had the pleasure of
learning a lot by leading, coaching, and mentoring team members
and colleagues in the capacity as research section manager.
As a scientist, my current role as Principle Researcher in network
compute convergence allows me to actively contribute to the long
term vision of Ericsson and Ericsson's research division, and act
as permanent expert in Ericsson Cloud patent board. I have a
record of more than 50+ scientific papers on topics like
Computational offloading, 6G, Edge, Cloud, NFV, SDN, network
management, and traffic analysis, plus additional 15+ patents and
patent applications. In terms of community activities, I am
frequently participating in conference organization and program
committees (IEEE NetSoft, IEEE 6GNet, IEEE NFV-SDN, IEEE NoF,
CLOSER, IEEE ICCCN, IARIA SOFTNETWORKING, ApPLIED) as well as peer
reviewing for noted scientific journals (IEEE TNSM, IEEE TDSC,
IEEE JSAC, IEEE TWC, IEEE Commag, IEEE Comm. Letters, Elsevier
COMNET, Elsevier COMCOM, Elsevier JSS, Wiley IJNM).
As a computer engineer, my technical skills span:
· Cloud & Edge computing and networking
· Operating systems and distributed systems
· Wireless telecommunication systems (4G, 5G, 6G)
· Wired network technologies and protocols (Internet protocols)
· NFV and SDN concepts and technologies
· Network and system management, OAM
· Machine learning techniques
· Scripting and programming languages
Contact Details:
email: wolfgang(dot)john(at)gmail(dot)com