Real-Time Systems

Dipl.-Ing. Kristin Krüger

Contact:

Phone:+49 (0)631 205 3129
Fax:+49 (0)631 205 4199
E-Mail:krueger(at)eit.uni-kl.de

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Adress:

Erwin-Schrödinger-Str.
Building 12, Room 564
67663 Kaiserslautern

ORCID:0000-0002-3201-5528

Kristin Krüger is a PhD student at the chair of real-time systems in the Technische Universität of Kaiserslautern. She holds a diploma in Computer Engineering (Informationstechnik) in the field of embedded computing systems (Informationsverarbeitung) and is currently researching security in time-triggered real-time systems.

In 2015, Kristin graduated from the Technische Universität of Kaiserslautern after completing her diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Fohler at the chair of real-time systems. Her thesis is titled "Fault Tolerance and Membership in Distributed Resource Management" and won the faculty award for outstanding student achievements.

Her research interests include:

  • Dependability, fault tolerance
  • Membership protocols for distributed systems
  • Distributed resource management
  • Security in Real-Time Systems

Formerly, she was working with DREAMS (Distributed REal-time Architecture for Mixed Criticality Systems), a four-years project funded by the European Commission, which aims at developing a cross-domain architecture and design tools for networked complex systems where application subsystems of different criticality, executing on networked multi-core chips, are supported.

She is a native German speaker, fluent in spoken and written English, holds a higher qualification in Latin and is learning Japanese (current language proficiency level is B1/N4). She favors Japanese and Vietnamese cuisine and likes beer.

If you share her research interests, just send her an e-mail.

Teaching

  • SS25 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS24 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS23 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS22 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS21 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS20 Administration of Assembler Lab
  • SS19 Establishment and Administration of New Assembler Lab
  • SS18 Administration of Real-Time Systems 1 Lecture
  • SS17 Administration of Real-Time Systems 1 Lecture
  • SS16 Administration of Real-Time Systems 1 Lecture
  • SS14 Supervision of Real-Time Systems Lab
  • SS13 Supervision of Embedded Systems Lab
  • SS12 Supervision of Embedded Systems Lab
  • WS11/12 Tutor for Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 1 Lecture (Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik 1)
  • SS11 Tutor for Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 2 Lecture (Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik 2)

Short CV

  • since 2015: PhD student at the Chair of Real-Time Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Kaiserslautern
  • 2009-2015: Student of Computer Engineering (Informationstechnik), graduated with Diploma (Master's degree), grade of 1.4 (spectrum: best 1.0 worst 4.0)
  • 2009: Graduated with Abitur, grade 1.3 (spectrum: best 1.0 worst 4.0)

Honors

  • 2015: Won the faculty award for outstanding student achievements for her Diploma Thesis
  • 2012: Won scholarship for outstanding performance and engagement (Deutschlandstipendium)
  • 2009: Won scholarship upon university entry (Anfängerinnenstipendium)
  • 2009: Belobigung mit Preis ("summa cum laude") for her Abitur

Research Assistant Work

  • 2014: Programming of Freescale T4240 in C at Real-Time Systems Chair
  • 2013/14: Modelling in SystemC at Cyber-Physical Systems Chair
  • 2012: Implementation, synthesis and extension of OpenRisc 1000 in VHDL at Electronic Design Automation Chair

Volunteer Work

  • since 2020: Member of the internal expert group for the examination of substantive changes to study courses (Interne Gutachtergruppe zur Prüfung von fachlich-inhaltlichen wesentlichen Änderungen an Studiengängen)
  • since 2019: Member of the Board of Examiners (Prüfungsausschuss)
  • 2017-2025: Member of the Faculty Council (Fachbereichsrat)
  • 2012-2015: Member of the Board of Examiners (Prüfungsausschuss)
  • 2009-2015: Member of the Student Council for the Electrical Engineering Department (Fachschaftsrat)
  • 2008-2009: Youth Coach for local Judo Club

Research Fields-Active Projects

Involved active Projects:

ByzRT - Intrusion resilient real-time communication and computation in autonomous systems

Publications

REFEREED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

  • Krüger, K., Vreman, N., Pates, R., Maggio, M., Völp, M. and Fohler, G. 2021. Randomization as Mitigation of Directed Timing Inference Based Attacks on Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems with Task Replication. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems. 7, 1 (Aug. 2021), 01:1–01:29. DOI: doi.org/10.4230/LITES.7.1.1
  • Nils Vreman, Richard Pates, Kristin Krüger, Gerhard Fohler, Martina Maggio, Minimizing Side-Channel Attack Vulnerability via Schedule Randomization, Poster/ Demo Session of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2019.
  • Kristin Krüger, Gerhard Fohler, Marcus Völp, Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, Improving Security for Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems with Task Replication, 24th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, August 2018.
  • Kristin Krüger, Marcus Völp, Gerhard Fohler, Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation of Directed Timing Inference Based Attacks on Time-Triggered Systems, 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018), July 2018.
  • Kristin Krüger, Marcus Völp, Gerhard Fohler, Improving Security for Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems against Timing Inference Based Attacks by Schedule Obfuscation, Work-in-Progress Proceedings ECRTS'17, June 2017.