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
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-ThielIntegrated Communication Systemswww.tu-ilmenau.de/ics
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
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-ThielIntegrated Communication Systemswww.tu-ilmenau.de/ics
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
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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
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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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25y 3 21 2Features
• 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
RLS
Web-SPS FPGABeck-IPC Controller
IP Switch
enabling european entrepreneurship
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)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-ThielIntegrated Communication Systemswww.tu-ilmenau.de/ics
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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