Topics

Our research activities comprise a large field of topics, including all layers from the physical up to the application layer.

1. Localization

• Application focus: automotive (in car) applications
• Short-range communications (Bluetooth, UWB, NFC, acoustic)
• Security aspects, e.g. detection and avoidance of fraud

2. Channel Measurements and Channel Modelling

• Application focus: automotive (in car) applications
• Our recent specialty: security applications exploiting the aerial acoustic channel
• Spatially resolved modelling

3. Wireless Ad-hoc Networking

• Application focus: hierarchical networks
• Agent-based distributed MAC layer design for dynamic resource allocation
• Optimal channel deployment using artificial intelligence, e.g. self-organizing maps

4. Networking Information Theory: Communicating Thermodynamics

• Application focus: hierarchical networks with computational off-loading
• Optimization strategies for network entropy
• Distributed solutions

5. Polar Codes

• Application focus: 5G/6G
• Code design
• Decoding strategies

6. Audio Signal Processing

• Application focus: consumer electronics
• Novel versatile fundamental frequency detection
• Classification of voices