Integrated Communication Systems Group Research Portfolio · antenna tilt and Tx power • Self-organized load balancing between cells • Coordination of multiple self-organization

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-ThielIntegrated Communication Systemswww.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Integrated Communication Systems Group

–Research Portfolio

Andreas Mitschele-ThielHead, Integrated Communication Systems Lab

Head, Intl. Graduate School on Mobile Communications


The People

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Mitschele-ThielHead

Dr.-Ing. Dieter WuttkeDeputy HW/SW design & E-Learning

Dr. rer. nat. habil.Oliver WaldhorstVisitingProfessor

Nicole SauerAssistant

Dipl.-Ing. Sven BohnSmart grid

Dipl.-Inf. Florian LiersFuture Internet

Dipl.-Inf. Thomas VolkertFuture Internet

Dipl.-Ing.Ausama YousefMANET address management

Dipl.-Inf. Philipp DrießQoS management

M.Sc.Paulo dos SantosCognitive radio networking

Dipl.-Ing. Esam AlnasouriQoS management

Dipl.-Inf. Stefan BärwolfQoS manage-ment

M.Sc. Shah NawazKhanRadio env. map

Dipl.-Inf. Tobias SimonMulticopter

M.Sc. Nauman ZiaSelf-org. in LTE

M.Sc. Stephen MwanjeSelf-org. in LTE

Dr.-Ing. Florian EversGS coordinator

Dipl.-Ing. Steffen OstendorffHW design & testing

Dipl.-Math.Jörg SachßeBoundary scan

Dipl.-Inf. Sabine FinckeBildungsportal

M.Sc. Elke Roth-MandutzEnergy saving in LTE

Dipl.-Ing. Jorge Meza EscobarBoundary scan

Dr.-Ing. Karsten HenkeHW/SW design, remote Lab

Dr.-Ing. Mohamed KalilCognitive radionetworking

Dipl.-Inf. Markus BrücknerQoS management

M.Sc. M. Naseerul IslamSelf-org. in LTE

M.Sc. Oleksandr ArtemenkoLocalisation

Dipl.-Inf. Andre PuschmannCognitive radionetworking

M.Sc. Ali Haider MahdiCognitive radionetworking

Dipl.-Inf. Jürgen SchmidtTechnical support


The TeamResearch Topics and TeamsMobile Communication Infrastructures Prof. Dr. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel• Self-organization in LTE and LTE-

Advanced• Interaction between self-organization

use cases

Cognitive Radio NetworksDr. Mohamed Kalil• Spectrum management and radio

resource map• Cognitive engine and cognitive radio

MAC• Analytical performance evaluation

UAV-based Communication PlatformsTobias Simon

HW/SW Systems & Online Engineering Dr. Dieter Wuttke• HW/SW development and test• Online engineering/E-Learning

Future InternetFlorian Liers• Future Internet architectures• Network optimization

Mobility Management and QoSDr. Florian Evers• Mobility management• QoS management in wireless

systems• Linux-based networking

Communication in the Smart GridSven Bohn

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Self-organization in LTE

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Topics• Self-organized configuration of

antenna tilt and Tx power• Self-organized load balancing

between cells• Coordination of multiple self-

organization algorithms• Energy saving

Methods• Radio system simulation• Self-organization methods• Reinforcement learning, fuzzy logic

Funding• GRK 1487, DFG• Alcatel-Lucent • DAAD scholarship


Cognitive Radio NetworkingTopics

• Dynamic spectrum allocation• MAC protocols • Radio environment map• Cognitive engine

Methods • Mathematical analysis• Data fusion• Self-organization methods• USRP/Linux Testbed

Funding• Carl-Zeiss Foundation• DAAD scholarship• GRK 1487, DFG

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UAV-based Communication Platforms

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Topics• Provision of communication services

in coverage holes• Delay-tolerant data ferrying• Mission planning

Challenges• Self-organized coordination of UAV

swarm to achieve a given task• Disturbances from the environment• Limited computation and

communication resources• Weight and battery lifetime

Funding• GRK 1487

WiFi Coverage Estimation

Message Ferrying Networks

UAV System


Communication in the Smart Grid

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Topics• Combined simulation of energy grids and

communication networks• Study of the impact of the communication

system on the Smart GridChallenges

• Synchronisation of producers, consumers and storage devices in the Smart Grid

• Robustness and stability of the Smart Grid

Funding• internal


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Future Internet – Forwarding on Gates

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• Dynamic function chaining• Universal signaling framework• Build-in admission control and authentication• Routing as a service (explicit and implicit)

Methods• Analysis of practical problems• Simulation and emulation in testbed

Funding• G-Lab, BMBF• GRK 1487, DFG

Route: 2, 2, yRoute: 1, 3, 25 Forwarding

Routing

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Mobility Management and QoS

Topics• QoS architectures and resource

management algorithms for heterogeneous networks

• Integration of QoS with mobility management

• Radio resource managementMethods

• Protocol design• Network simulation• Implementation under Linux

Funding• MoSaKa, BMWi• Telekom-Stiftung• National scholarships

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Re-configurable On Board Self-test System

Features• Automatic test-case generation based on DUT

models• Accelerated boundary scan testing • Inclusion of available FPGA resources (soft

processor or co-processor basedMethods

• Layered approach to system testing• Implementation of toolchain

Funding• TAB, Goebel• National stipend FPGA logic

resources

DUT

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Switching between implementation methods

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Remote Engineering


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Summary: Methods and Practice

Self-organization and heuristic optimization

• Reinforcement learning, Fuzzy Q-Learning

• Clustering• Force-based algorithms• Simulated Annealing• Ant algorithms• Genetic Algorithms

System Engineering• Holistic view on system

Performance evaluation• Stochastic analysis• ns2 and omnet simulation

Practice• Protocol design (L2+3)• Protocol implementation under

Linux• HW design and implementation• HW/SW system design and

implementationLabs

• Multicopter lab• HW/SW lab • Wireless Internet lab• Remote engineering lab• Experimental network (wlan-

weimar.de)


Contact

Tel: +49 (0)3677 69 2819 or 2829 (Assistant)e-mail: [email protected]

Integrated Communication Systems GroupIlmenau University of Technology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

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Integrated Communication Systems Group Research Portfolio · antenna tilt and Tx power • Self-organized load balancing between cells • Coordination of multiple self-organization