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