Timo Kosch Author

Dr Timo Kosch, Team Manager, BMW Group Research and Technology, Germany Timo Kosch works as a team manager for BMW Group Research and Technology where he is responsible for projects on distributed systems, including such topics as cooperative systems for active safety and automotive IT security. He has been active in a number of national and international research programs and serves as coordinator for the European project COMeSafety, co-financed by the European Commission. He's also heading the system development for the German national Car2X field test. For more than 3 years, until recently, he had chaired the working group Architecture and was a member of the Technical Committee of the Car-to-Car Communication Consortium. He regularly presents at conferences and has written papers and journal articles and is currently the editor of IEEE Communications Magazine: Automotive Networking Series.

Markus Strassberger, BMW Group Research and Technology, Munich, Germany

Christoph Schroth, St. Gallen University / SAP Research, Switzerland PhD student at the University of St. Gallen and Research Associate at the SAP Research CEC St. Gallen, Sitzerland. He has presented a number of papers at conferences and co-authored numerous journal articles.