He has received a doctoral degree from University of Wuerzburg in 1999. Kurt Tutschku is leading the department's group on network management and future network services. His research interest include event- and traffic-oriented management of IP-based communication networks, network security, planning and optimization of telecommunication systems, demand-oriented design of future generation, large scale IP networks, methods for the estimation and characterization of the spatial teletraffic distribution in mobile communication networks, design of algorithms and tools for demand based computer aided mobile network planning, and the modeling and performance evaluation of future network services in next generation internet, particular of peer-to-peer systems.