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  • New IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications article

    December 18, 2024

    Our article Toward Standardized Performance Evaluation of Flow-guided Nanoscale Localization has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. Nanoscale devices with Terahertz (THz) communication capabilities are envisioned to be deployed within human bloodstreams. Associating the locations of biomarkers with events such as health conditions would provide an additional utility for precision diagnostics and treatment. This vision yielded a new class of in-body localization coined under the term "flow-guided nanoscale localization". We propose a workflow for standardized performance evaluation of such approaches. The workflow is implemented in the form of an open-source simulation framework that is able to jointly account for the mobility of the nanodevices, in-body THz communication with on-body anchors, and energy-related and other technological constraints (e.g., pulse-based modulation) at the nanodevice level.
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  • Paper Presentation at IEEE GLOBECOM 2024

    December 10, 2024

    Christos Laskos presented our paper Towards Virtual to Real-world Transfer Learning for Mobile mmWave Beam Tracking at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. In this paper, we show the feasibility of virtual to real-world transfer learning. Our solution significantly speeds up the learning process as the learning happens mostly in a simulated environment and requires only little additional learning in the real-world deployment. As proof-of-concept, we implemented and evaluated a low-complexity beam tracking based on deep Q-network (DQN) reinforcement learning. The results reveal a substantial speed-up by a factor of 3× using transfer learning.
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  • IEEE ComSoc IOT & AHSN TC 2024 Technical Recognition Award

    December 09, 2024

    Falko Dressler received the IEEE ComSoc IOT & AHSN TC 2024 Technical Recognition Award for developing the foundations of adaptive and self-organizing communication protocols in vehicular and sensor networks.

  • Tutorial Session at IEEE GLOBECOM 2024

    December 08, 2024

    Jorge Torres Gómez, Sebastian Lotter, Maximilian Schäfer, and Falko Dressler gave a tutorial titled Internet of Bio-Nano-Things - Challenges and Networking Solutions at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. This tutorial provided a comprehensive overview of the internet of bio-nano-things (IoBNT) framework, including its key applications, components, communication technologies, and experimental developments.
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  • Lisa Y. Debus wins the Rolf Niedermeier Prize!

    December 06, 2024

    We congratulate Lisa Y. Debus for winning the Rolf Niedermeier Prize for her Master's thesis titled "Decoding Media Modulation Sharply: A Reinforcement Learning-based Receiver". The prize is awarded each year to to the most outstanding theses at faculty 4 at TU Berlin. The thesis was advised by Jorge Torres Gómez and refereed by Falko Dressler and Robert Schober. Results from the thesis have been published in the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications with the title "Synchronized Relaying in Molecular Communication: An AI-based Approach using a Mobile Testbed Setup".

  • Thomas Kapp and Lorenz Pusch awarded Distinguished Students 2024

    November 28, 2024

    We congratulate Thomas Kapp and Lorenz Pusch for receiving this year's Distinguished Student award at TKN! With the award, we recognize their valued work and contributions as Student Teaching Assistant and Student Research Assistant, respectively.

  • Merry Christmas! TKN Christmas Party!

    November 28, 2024

    It's that time of the year again. Christmas is coming and we look back at what happened over the last twelve months. We published many interesting papers, received additional funding, and got to know amazing new team members. This time around, our group celebrated Christmas a bit earlier to make sure Falko Dressler could join in while he was home in Berlin from his sabbatical in Boston. We enjoyed a relaxed celebration and are grateful for our amazing team. Now, we wish all of our friends, collaborators, and followers a wonderful Christmas time, a good (and productive) end to the year 2024 and a Happy New Year!

  • VDE ITG Ehrenurkunde 2024

    November 27, 2024

    Falko Dressler received the VDE ITG Ehrenurkunde 2024 for his support of the German computer networking and communications research community.

  • Poster Presentation at ACM MobiCom 2024

    November 19, 2024

    Our group member Falko Dressler presented our poster Coordinated Group Cycling for Commuting at the 30th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2024), which was held in Washington, DC. In this paper, we outline how group cycling commutes may be coordinated using communication capabilities of contemporary smartphones. We showcase how group cycling can reduce waiting times and, thus, improve ride comfort and safety in a simulation-based case study.

  • Keynote at ACM MobiArch 2024

    November 18, 2024

    Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled Resilient Edge Computing for 6G Edge-AI at ACM MobiArch 2024, which was held in Washington, DC.
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