Projects

Current Projects

• Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT)
  molecular communication for the internet of bio-nano-things
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 01/2024-12/2026
• Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security (BEiNG-WISE)
  combining human-being features with advanced technological characteristics to conceive non-conventional, responsible by design, cyber-security solutions
  
  Funding: EU COST Action CA22104
  Project time: 11/2023-09/2027
• RACCOON - Robust And seCure post quantum COmmunication fOr critical iNfrastructure
  satellite-based exchange of crypto material for critical infrastructure
  
  Funding: DLR
  Project time: 10/2022-09/2024
• SPP 2378 Resilient Worlds
  ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication
  resilience in wireless communication networks using cross-technology communication
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 09/2022-12/2027
• DFG SPP 2378 Resilient Worlds
  Resilience in Connected Worlds – Mastering Failures, Overload, Attacks, and the Unexpected
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 09/2022-12/2025
• LINCNET - LiFi-enabled 5G for INdustrial and MediCal NETworks
  integrating LiFi and 5G-based industrial and medical networks
  
  Funding: BMWK
  Project time: 01/2022-12/2024
• ML4WIFI - ML-driven Radio Resource Management in Wireless Local Area Networks
  wireless local area networks, optimization, resource management, machine learning
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 12/2021-05/2026
• DyMoNet - Dynamic Mobile Networks
  small cell base stations on cars, resource management in such dynamic environments
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 12/2021-07/2026
• 6G Platform Germany
  Platform for future communication technologies and 6G
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 10/2021-09/2025
• 6G-RIC - 6G Research and Innovation Cluster
  Open and secure 6G technologies
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 08/2021-07/2025
• CS/CM Channel Sounding and Channel Modeling for mmWave Channels
  channel sounding for wideband channels using channel splicing and intelligent channel prediction for mmWave channels
  Funding: Huawei Innovation Center
  Project time: 09/2021-09/2025
• DDC - Distributed Dynamic Continuum
  optimizing the user to edge to cloud continuum
  
  Funding: VMware, USA
  Project time: 06/2021-05/2024
• NaBoCom - Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks
  integration of in-body nano networks with body are networks
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 08/2020-09/2023 and 01/2023-09/2025
• AvaRange - Particle Tracking in Snow Avalanches
  sensor network-based particle tracking using inertial measurements combined with radio telemetry
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 06/2020-03/2026
• RADCOM-HETNET - Integration of Radar-based Communication in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Cooperatively Interacting Cars
  combination of Radar-based mmWave communication with IEEE 802.11p for reliable platooning applications
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 10/2018-12/2020, 01/2023-12/2024
• Car2DC - Hierarchical Vehicular Cloud Computing
  connecting clusters of cars to backend data centers
  
  Funding: Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
  Project time: 04/2017-03/2023

Previous Projects

• SPP 1914 Cyber-Physical Networking
  NICCI^2 - Network-Informed Control – Control-Informed network: towards multi techNology dynamICally ChangIng networks
  networked control systems as a fundamental basis for cyber physical networks
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 01/2020-12/2023
• V-Edge - Virtual Edge Computing
  MEC using virtual edge servers composed of, e.g., clusters of cars
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 08/2020-12/2022
• PANDA - Precise Attack Detection for Network Domains by Application Classification
  next generation high speed monitoring concepts for large administrative domains with VLAN and VM support
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 12/2019-12/2022
• OTB-5G+ - Open Testbed Berlin - 5G and Beyond
  experimental validation of 5G wireless communication technologies and development of a testbed for new transmission concepts
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 09/2019-12/2022
• MAMOKO - Macroscopic Molecular Communication
  molecular communication principles for industrial applications
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 11/2018-10/2022
• Hy-Nets4all - Simulation Platform for Optimized Electric Driving
  holistic development and validation platform for optimizing electric driving in urban environments
  
  Funding: EU/EFRE.NRW
  Project time: 08/2019-07/2022
• UniLocP - Unified Localization Platform
  development of a unified architecture to provide location information to apps in indoor scenarios
  
  Funding: BMWi/ZIM
  Project time: 07/2020-06/2022
• V-VLC - Visible Light based Vehicular Communication
  comprehensive research on the utilization of visible light for communication between vehicles (V2V) and with infrastructure (V2I)
  
  Funding: funded in part by E-Lab (HELLA Group)
  Project time: 12/2016-02/2022
• OS-NiSC - Using optical strobing for vision-based non-invasive vibrations sensing and communications in an integrated fashion
  joint sensing and communications for automation and IoT applications
  
  Funding: Technische Universität Berlin
  Project time: 01/2021-06/2021
• VisIoN - Visible light based Interoperability and Networking
  research on Li-Fi (Light Fidelity), which is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) system running wireless communications that uses LEDs for data transmission
  
  Funding: EU H2020 MSCA-ITN
  Project time: 09/2017-09/2021
• VCE - Virtual Cycling Environment
  characterizing and modeling cyclists behavior for developing next generation safety assistance systems
  
  Funding: internal CCS project
  Project time: 10/2018-07/2021
• EWI - Energy efficient WLAN for IoT
  low power and low delay WLAN using wake-up receivers
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 11/2018-05/2021
• Safety4Bikes - Safety assistance system for cycling kids
  development of assistance system functionalities to improve the safety of kids on bicycles using behavior prediction and wireless communication technologies
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 01/2017-06/2020
• SPEAR - Smart Prognosis of Energy with Allocation of Resources
  development of a flexible optimization platform for improving a broad range of industrial production processes regarding energy related aspects
  
  Funding: BMBF (ITEA3)
  Project time: 09/2017-08/2020
• APPSTACLE - open standard APplication Platform for carS and TrAnsportation vehiCLEs
  open and secure cloud platform that interconnects a wide range of vehicles to the cloud via open in-car and Internet connection and is supported by an integrated open source software development ecosystem
  
  Funding: BMBF (ITEA3)
  Project time: 01/2017-12/2019
• DFG FOR 1508 BATS - Dynamically Adaptable Positioning of Bats Using Embedded Communicating Sensor Systems
  TP4: E2SO - Energy Efficient Management and Self-organized Operation in Sensor Networks
  tracking of bats in their natural environment using sensor networking technology; key focus is on energy efficient communication of extremely lightweight sensor nodes
  
  Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  Project time: 12/2012-12/2015 and 01/2016-11/2019
• Wireless Tractors
  modeling crop fields in an agricultural context for vehicular network simulation
  
  Funding: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
  Project time: 07/2019-09/2019
• Offloading Strategies for Energy Efficient Smartphone
  energy measurement and estimations for off-loading of computationally expensive tasks from mobile systems into the cloud
  
  Funding: VIED (Vietnam International Education Development)
  Project time: 03/2015-02/2019
• Hy-Nets - Efficient Hybrid Propulsion using Vehicular Networks
  holistic investigation of hybrid propulsion in large scale cities for optimizing emissions and travel times using vehicular networking
  
  Funding: EU/EFRE.NRW
  Project time: 04/2016-01/2019
• RESIBES - Disaster-resilience by helper networks for emergency response
  mobile ad hoc networking for supporting the efficient coordination of human and material resource for first responders
  
  Funding: BMBF
  Project time: 02/2016-04/2019
• CarParkComm
  exploring communication limits in a multi-store car park solution through a signal propagation focused measurement study
  
  Funding: Lödige Systems GmbH
  Project time: 01/2018-12/2018
• AgriculturalV2V
  cooperative driving for agricultural vehicles through wireless communication
  
  Funding: Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF)
  Project time: 01/2018-05/2018
• Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking
  research how to unify, and make efficient use of, short range wireless radio communication and cellular communication for vehicular networking
  
  Funding: collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  Project time: 06/2012-12/2017
• LTE 4 V2X
  V2X Standardization for 4G Networks and its Application in Industry Automations
  
  Funding: Siemens AG, Germany
  Project time: 07/2017 - 09/2017
• WiME - Wireless Measurement and Experimentation
  SDR-based wireless measurement and experimentation framework for wireless networks including IEEE 802.11[a/g/p] and IEEE 802.15.4
  
  Funding: internal CCS project
  Project time: 10/2011-03/2017
• C3 - Cloud Connected Cars
  using cars to establish decentralized connected information clouds based on heterogeneous vehicular networks
  
  Funding: DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH
  Project time: 04/2016-03/2017
• Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies
  research investigating vehicles as a main ICT resource
  
  Funding: Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan and USA
  Project time: 04/2014-03/2017
• Performance Limits of IEEE 802.11p in Highly Dynamic Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  PHY receive algorithms for IEEE 801.11p
  
  Funding: DAAD
  Project time: 09/2015-03/2016
• Next Generation Real-Time Ethernet Networks for Industrial Applications
  future reliable industrial networks based on the next generation of Ethernet, results from the IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Interworking (IWK) working groups
  
  Funding: SIEMENS AG
  Project time: 09/2014-08/2015
• Smart Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems
  smart communication primitives for ITS; channel modeling and protocol design for multi-service applications
  
  Funding: BIT PhD School
  Project time: 04/2012-03/2015
• Cooperative Inter-Vehicle Communication
  cooperative communication primitives for ITS; protocol design for vehicle safety applications
  
  Funding: Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australia
  Project time: 05/2014-10/2014
• EN-ACT - ENergy-Aware CompuTing
  energy measurement and estimations for off-loading of computationally expensive tasks from mobile systems into the cloud
  
  Funding: EU/INTERREG
  Project time: 09/2012-06/2014
• ML-IVC - Multi-Layer Inter-Vehicle Communication
  adaptive and self-organizing inter-vehicle communication based on short range radio broadcast; protocol design, simulation techniques, and experimental field tests
  
  Funding: internal CCS project
  Project time: 09/2011-03/2014
• Privacy in Vehicular Networks
  understanding the potential very negative impact of vehicular networking technologies on users' privacy; quantification of this impact and mitigation of this impact
  
  Funding: collaboration with University of Erlangen
  Project time: 09/2009-03/2014
• MultiPAN - Cooperative Access in Overlapping Wireless Networks
  cooperation and adaptive management of overlapping wireless networks, methods for interferer detection and adaptive reconfiguration
  
  Funding: Malaysian Government
  Project time: 10/2008-12/2013
• Padiofire - Parallelized Application Detection in Overlay Networks for Firewalls
  monitoring, analysis, and firewalling Web 2.0 overlay network protocols; the key objective is to go beyond application layer firewalls to identify overlay services as used in the Web 2.0 context
  
  Funding: BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
  Project time: 07/2011-06/2013
• monkit 2 - Distributed Monitoring and Attack Detection in 10 GBit/s Networks
  adaptive network monitoring in high-speed networks, coordination between monitoring probes and detection processes, event correlation for automated response
  
  Funding: BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik)
  Project time: 12/2011-12/2012
• RDSP - Resource constrained Distributed Stream Processing
  investigation of an integrated approach for supporting in-network sensor data processing in highly dynamic and heterogeneous sensor networks
  
  Funding: preparational project for a DFG research group
  Project time: 01/2008-06/2012
• Support for inter-domain routing and data replication in virtual coordinate based networks
  The collaborative study aims to provide novel insights into the applicability of virtual coordinate based network protocols in the case of mobile multi-domain environments
  
  Funding: BaCaTec, collaboration with UCLA
  Project time: 01/2010-12/2011
• DSMS Study - Study on Real-time Stream Processing Engines
  concept study on the applicability of data stream management systems (DSMS) on real-time tracking in an airport scenario
  
  Funding: Siemens AG
  Project time: 07/2011-09/2011