Papers
10
Total Citations
96
H-Index
6
About
Edgar Nett is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of wireless networking, dependable communication systems, and industrial automation. Over more than two decades, he has made sustained contributions to the design and analysis of reliable wireless infrastructures, with a particular focus on Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and their deployment in demanding industrial and mobile robotics contexts. His earliest influential work addressed efficient real-time group communication for wireless LANs (29 citations), establishing a foundation for dependable wireless protocols. He later extended this expertise to industrial scenarios, proposing publish/subscribe middleware architectures to manage heterogeneous WMN infrastructures, QoS requirements, and embedded network integration. A notable cluster of contributions around 2010 advanced the state of the art in link failure detection, combining cross-layer monitoring and data-mining techniques to dramatically reduce failure detection latency in mobile robot applications. Nett's research consistently bridges theory and practice — his case studies of tele-operated mobile robots in industrial facilities demonstrate real-world validation of his network dependability concepts. Later work expanded into safety-security risk communication in distributed IT environments. With cumulative citations spanning robotics, middleware, and network reliability communities, Nett's body of work offers valuable foundations for researchers designing resilient wireless systems for critical industrial applications.
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- 3Modeling Fast Link Failure Detection for Dependable Wireless Mesh Networks13 citations · 2010
- 4Data-Mining-Based Link Failure Detection for Wireless Mesh Networks12 citations · 2010
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- 6An architecture to support cooperating mobile embedded systems7 citations · 2004
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- 10Verlustraten im WLAN - Messungen beim RoboCup2 citations · 2002