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Dr.-Ing. Oliver Kleine

Dr.-Ing. Oliver Kleine
University of Lübeck
Institute of Telematics
Ratzeburger Allee 160
Building 64, 2nd Floor, Room 37
23562 Lübeck

Phone: +49 451 3101 6406
E-Mail: kleine@itm.uni-luebeck.de

After graduating from the University of Luebeck with a M.Sc. in computer science, I joined the ITM as a research associate in July 2010. Since then my focus is on the smooth integration of the Internet resp. Web of Things with the common Internet resp World-Wide Web. Besides the network integration my research interest particularly includes data distribution and recovery in the IoT as well as data security.

Short CV

Since April 2011:
Associate lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Luebeck
Since July 2010:
Research associate at the Institute of Telematics at the University of Luebeck
October 2007 - July 2010:
Master student of Informatics at the University of Luebeck (graduated with M.Sc. in July 2010)
October 2005 - October 2007:
IT Project Manager at Telefónica Deutschland GmbH
October 2002 - December 2005:
Diploma student of business informatics at the FHDW Paderborn, University of Applied Science (graduated with Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf (FH) in December 2005)
May 2001 - October 2005:
Projectmanagement assistant at Telefónica Deutschland GmbH

Publications

2015

The Smart Service Proxy - A Middlebox for a Semantic Web of Things (O. Kleine), In IEEE SECON 2015 Posters: Twelfth Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) (IEEE SECON 2015 Posters), 2015.

@INPROCEEDINGS{kleine15b,
  AUTHOR="Kleine, O.",
  TITLE="The Smart Service Proxy - A Middlebox for a Semantic Web of Things",
  BOOKTITLE="IEEE SECON 2015 Posters: Twelfth Annual IEEE International Conference on
  Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) (IEEE SECON 2015 Posters)",
  ADDRESS="Seattle, USA",
  DAYS="22",
  MONTH="6",
  YEAR=2015,
  KEYWORDS="Internet of Things, Web of Things, Semantic Web, Linked Data, own",
  ABSTRACT="Within the last decade a lot of effort was put into the development of
  novel technologies to realize an Internet of Things. With 6LowPAN the
  resource constrained devices such as sensor nodes can be seamlessly
  integrated with the (IPv6 enabled) Internet. With CoAP they are even able
  to run Web Servers and thereby integrate their data with the Web. However,
  direct and open access for arbitrary Web Clients from the Internet is often
  not desirable for scalability reasons and sometimes not even possible.
  Thus, in this paper we present the Smart Service Proxy (SSP) which provides
  documents to the (semantic) Web on behalf of sensor nodes and other data
  sources without any loss of actuality. It borrows and combines some
  concepts of several IETF CoRE drafts in a single piece of software.
  Furthermore, due to Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, the SSPs are
  even able to infer and provide additional knowledge."
}

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Monitoring Urban Traffic using Semantic Web Services on Smartphones - A Case Study (O. Kleine, S. Ebers, M. Leggieri), In SWANSITY 2015 - 2nd Workshop on Smart Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY (IEEE SECON Workshop) (SWANSITY 2015), 2015.

@INPROCEEDINGS{kleine15,
  AUTHOR="Kleine, O. and Ebers, S. and Leggieri, M.",
  TITLE="Monitoring Urban Traffic using Semantic Web Services on Smartphones - A
  Case Study",
  BOOKTITLE="SWANSITY 2015 - 2nd Workshop on Smart Wireless Access Networks for Smart
  cITY (IEEE SECON Workshop) (SWANSITY 2015)",
  ADDRESS="Seattle, USA",
  MONTH="6",
  YEAR=2015,
  KEYWORDS="Internet of Things, Web of Things, Semantic Web, Linked Data, own",
  ABSTRACT="The Internet of Things aims to integrate arbitrary things with the
  Internet. Sadly, the majority of things lacks of the ability to communicate
  which makes a direct integration with a communication network, i.e., the
  Internet, impossible. We overcome this limitation by introducing refined
  versions of Semantic Entities, with special Web Services, representing
  arbitrary real-world things states using (possibly aggregated) sensor
  values. Sensors can be considered ubiquitous, e.g., due to the omnipresence
  of smartphones.

  Our architecture of a Semantic Web of Things bases on sensors providing
  their measurements in RDF. We account for the common fact of resource
  constraints on sensor platforms by introducing a scalable caching mechanism
  for RDF data within a network of proxies (SSPs). Consequently, the
  individual Semantic Entities find and aggregate relevant (sensor) data via
  SPARQL. Besides scalabilty, the proxies also solve the issue of the sensor
  platforms diversity in terms of communication interfaces."    
}

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2014

CoAP Endpoint Identification - A Protocol Extension for Crowd Sensing in the mobile Internet (Oliver Kleine), In IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things 2014 (iThings2014), 2014.

@INPROCEEDINGS{kleineithings2014,
 author={Oliver Kleine},
 title={{CoAP Endpoint Identification - A Protocol Extension for Crowd Sensing in the mobile Internet}},
 booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things 2014 (iThings2014)},
 year={2014},
 days={1-3},
 address = {Taipei, Taiwan},
 month = {Sep}
}

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Distributed Crowd-Sensing Infrastructure for Personalized Dynamic IoT Spaces (Bashar Altakrouri Oliver Kleine Peter Rothenpieler, Lukas Ruge), In 1st International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014), 2014.

@INPROCEEDINGS{RothenpielerUrbIoT2014,
 author={Peter Rothenpieler, Bashar Altakrouri, Oliver Kleine and Lukas Ruge},
 title={{Distributed Crowd-Sensing Infrastructure for Personalized Dynamic IoT Spaces}},
 booktitle = {1st International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014)},
 year={2014},
 days={27-28},
 address = {Rome, Italy.},
 month = {Oct}
}

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2013

Integrating the Physical World with the Internet - A Concept Evaluation (Oliver Kleine), In 2013 IEEE 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), 2013.

@INPROCEEDINGS{wesakleine2013,
AUTHOR={Oliver Kleine},
TITLE={Integrating the Physical World with the Internet - A Concept Evaluation},
BOOKTITLE={2013 IEEE 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)},
YEAR = "2013",
address = "Kauai, Hawaii",
month = "December",
pages = "323-327",
isbn = {978-1-4799-2701-2},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SOCA.2013.42},
}

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A P2P Semantic Query Framework for the Internet of Things (Richard Mietz, Sven Groppe, Oliver Kleine, Daniel Bimschas, Stefan Fischer, Kay Römer, Dennis Pfisterer), In PIK-Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, 2013.

@article{mietzp2p,
  title={A P2P Semantic Query Framework for the Internet of Things},
  author={Mietz, Richard and Groppe, Sven and Kleine, Oliver and Bimschas, Daniel and Fischer, Stefan and R{\"o}mer, Kay and Pfisterer, Dennis},
  journal={PIK-Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation},
  pages={1--7},
  year={2013},
  doi={10.1515/pik-2013-0006},
url={http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/piko-2013-36-issue-2/pik-2013-0006/pik-2013-0006.xml}
}

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Annotating Real-World Objects Using Semantic Entities (Henning Hasemann, Oliver Kleine, Alexander Kröller, Myriam Leggieri, Dennis Pfisterer), In EWSN, 2013.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ewsn/HasemannKKLP13,
  author = {Henning Hasemann and Oliver Kleine and Alexander Kr{\"o}ller and Myriam Leggieri and Dennis Pfisterer},
  title     = {Annotating Real-World Objects Using Semantic Entities},
  booktitle = {EWSN},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {67-82},
  url        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36672-7_5}
}

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2012

True self-configuration for the IoT (Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Henning Hasemann, Marcel Karnstedt, Oliver Kleine, Alexander Kröller, Myriam Leggieri, Dennis Pfisterer, Kay Römer, Cuong Truong), In Internet of Things (IOT), 2012 3rd International Conference on the, 2012.

@INPROCEEDINGS{chatzigiannakis2012trueselfconfiguration, 
 author={Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Hasemann, Henning and Karnstedt, Marcel and Kleine, Oliver and Kr\"oller, Alexander and Leggieri, Myriam and Pfisterer, Dennis and R\"omer, Kay and Truong, Cuong}, 
 booktitle={Internet of Things (IOT), 2012 3rd International Conference on the}, 
 title={True self-configuration for the {IoT}}, 
 year={2012}, 
 month={oct}, 
 pages={9 -15}, 
 abstract={For the Internet of Things to finally become a reality, obstacles on different levels need to be overcome. This is especially true for the upcoming challenge of leaving the domain of technical experts and scientists. Devices need to connect to the Internet and be able to offer services. They have to announce and describe these services in machine-understandable ways so that user-facing systems are able to find and utilize them. They have to learn about their physical surroundings, so that they can serve sensing or acting purposes without explicit configuration or programming. Finally, it must be possible to include IoT devices in complex systems that combine local and remote data, from different sources, in novel and surprising ways. We show how all of that is possible today. Our solution uses open standards and state-of-the art protocols to achieve this. It is based on 6LowPAN and CoAP for the communications part, semantic web technologies for meaningful data exchange, autonomous sensor correlation to learn about the environment, and software built around the Linked Data principles to be open for novel and unforeseen applications.}, 
 keywords={Logic gates;Meteorology;}, 
 doi={10.1109/IOT.2012.6402298}, 
 url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IOT.2012.6402298}
}

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Debugging the Internet of Things: A 6LoWPAN/CoAP Testbed Infrastructure (Daniel Bimschas, Oliver Kleine, Dennis Pfisterer), Chapter in Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks (Xiang-Yang Li, Symeon Papavassiliou, Stefan Ruehrup, eds.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, volume 7363, 2012.

@incollection{bimschas20126lowpantestbed,
 author={Bimschas, Daniel and Kleine, Oliver and Pfisterer, Dennis},
 title={Debugging the {Internet of Things}: A {6LoWPAN/CoAP} Testbed Infrastructure},
 booktitle={Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks},
 series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 editor={Li, Xiang-Yang and Papavassiliou, Symeon and Ruehrup, Stefan},
 volume={7363},
 year={2012},
 isbn={978-3-642-31637-1},
 doi={10.1007/978-3-642-31638-8_16},
 url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31638-8_16},
 publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
 keywords={Experimentally-driven Research; Testbeds; Internet of Things; 6LoWPAN; CoAP},
 pages={207-220}
}

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2011

Unlocking Wireless Sensor Networks (Ray Richardson, Manfred Hauswirth, Alexandre Passant, Myriam Leggieri, Marcel Karnstedt, Alexander Kroeller, Henning Hasemann, Oliver Kleine, Dennis Pfisterer, Kay Roemer, Cuong Truong), In eChallenges e-2011 Conference Proceedings, 2011.

@inproceedings{richardson2011unlockingwsns,
 author={Ray Richardson and Manfred Hauswirth and Alexandre Passant and Myriam Leggieri and Marcel Karnstedt and Alexander Kroeller and Henning Hasemann and Oliver Kleine and Dennis Pfisterer and Kay Roemer and Cuong Truong},
 booktitle={eChallenges e-2011 Conference Proceedings},
 title={Unlocking Wireless Sensor Networks},
 year=2011,
 url={http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/default.asp?page=paper-repository&fltyear=11&flttheme=all&flttype=all&flttitle=&fltauthor=pfisterer&pagesize=100&submit=Search}
}

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SPITFIRE: Toward a Semantic Web of Things (Dennis Pfisterer, Kay Römer, Daniel Bimschas, Oliver Kleine, Richard Mietz, Cuong Truong, Henning Hasemann, Alexander Kröller, Max Pagel, Manfred Hauswirth, Marcel Karnstedt, Myriam Leggieri, Alexandre Passant, Ray Richardson), In IEEE Communications Magazine, volume 49, 2011.

@article{pfisterer11ieee-spitfire,
 abstract={The developed world is awash with sensors. However, they are typically locked into unimodal closed systems. To unleash their full potential, access to sensors should be opened such that their data and services can be integrated with data and services available in other information systems, facilitating novel applications and services that are based on the state of the real world. We describe our vision and architecture of a Semantic Web of Things: a service infrastructure that makes the deployment and use of semantic applications involving Internet-connected sensors almost as easy as building, searching, and reading a web page today.},
 author={Dennis Pfisterer and Kay R{\"o}mer and Daniel Bimschas and Oliver Kleine and Richard Mietz and Cuong Truong and Henning Hasemann and Alexander Kr{\"o}ller and Max Pagel and Manfred Hauswirth and Marcel Karnstedt and Myriam Leggieri and Alexandre Passant and Ray Richardson},
 edition=11,
 journal={IEEE Communications Magazine},
 month=nov,
 pages={40 -- 48},
 title={SPITFIRE: Toward a Semantic Web of Things},
 url={https://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/files/1213/6973/3906/IEEEComMag.pdf},
 urn={urn:issn:0163-6804},
 volume=49,
 year=2011,
doi={10.1109/MCOM.2011.6069708}
}

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Semantic-Service Provisioning for the Internet of Things (Daniel Bimschas, Henning Hasemann, Manfred Hauswirth, Marcel Karnstedt, Oliver Kleine, Alexander Kröller, Myriam Leggieri, Richard Mietz, Alexandre Passant, Dennis Pfisterer, Kay Römer, and Cuong Truong), In Proceedings of the Workshops of the 17th Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems 2011 (WowKiVS 2011), 2011.

@inproceedings{bimschas11ssit-spitfire-overview,
 author={Daniel Bimschas and Henning Hasemann and Manfred Hauswirth and Marcel Karnstedt and Oliver Kleine and Alexander Kr{\"o}ller and Myriam Leggieri and Richard Mietz and Alexandre Passant and Dennis Pfisterer and Kay R{\"o}mer and and Cuong Truong},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the Workshops of the 17th Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems 2011 (WowKiVS 2011)},
 title={Semantic-Service Provisioning for the Internet of Things},
 year=2011,
url={http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst/article/view/473/549}
}

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News

SECON and SWANSITY 2015 (Seattle, USA)

In June 2015 I presented a poster about the Smart Service Proxy (SSP) at the conference "SECON 2015" in Seattle. As stated in the posters title the proxy is a "A Middlebox to realize a Semantic Web of Things". The poster was awarded the "best poster" at SECON 2015 and can be downloaded here.

In a workshop (SWANSITY) which was co-located with the SECON, I also presented a case study that utilizes both, the simulation framework VASILI (implemented by Sebastian Ebers) and the SSP. For the case study we monitored urban traffic using Semantic Web Services on approx. 2500 (simulated) smartphones each of which is attached to one out of 2500 (simulated) vehicles.

iThings 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan)

In September 2014 I attended the iThings 2014 conference to present my IETF draft (proposed RFC) for CoAP Endpoint Identification. The poster that sums up both, the problem and the proposed solution can be downloaded here.

FIA 2013 (Dublin, Ireland)

In May 2013 I was in Dublin with some other partners of SPITFIRE to participate at the demo competition of the Future Internet Assembly. We demonstrated our approach to integrate the Internet of Things with the common Internet on network layer and with the Semantic Web on application layer. We presented a smart office buliding with rules to react on certain conditions (e.g. switch the AC on, when somebody enters the office and the outside temperature is more than 21°C). Such rules can easily be constructed by combining arbitrary different data sources from the Semantic Web (resp. linked data cloud), so home automation is just one item on a virtually endless list of thinkable usecases.

The visitors were asked to vote for the best demo via SMS. The SPITFIRE demo won the competition! The picture shows the trophy with some equipment for hurling, which is a very famous sport in Ireland.

Open Source Software Development

Smart Service Proxy:

Sources available at https://github.com/ict-spitfire/smart-service-proxy
Enables IoT devices to be accessed using well-known Internet protocols (like HTTP, TCP, IPv6) without any need to implement those protocols for IoT devices.

Provides serialization format independet caching of semantic web resource descriptions (for a number of standard serialization formats like N3 or RDF/XML)
Enables the creation of semantic entities by using SPARQL and access to their status using the above mentioned technologies. Semantic entities as an outcome of the Spitfire-Project represent (even non-technolgical) everyday items like tables or rooms as webservices. Semantic entities mostly base on aggrgated sensor data but hide the complexity of programming resource constraint devices (like wireless sensor nodes) from the user.

JAVA implementation of CoAP (Constrained Application Protocoll)

Enables RESTful webservices for resource constrained devices
Sources available at https://github.com/okleine/nCoAP
Accoording to RFCs 7252 and 7641

Theses

Topic	Type	Status
Addressierung von IoT Webservices über P2P Overlay	Both	Finished
Entwicklung eines CoAP Clients für Android	Bachelor thesis	Finished
Entwicklung eines CoAP Servers für Android	Bachelor thesis	Finished