SPP 2378 Resilient Worlds

ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication

Institutions

  • TU Berlin
  • FU Berlin

Team @ TKN

Funding

  • DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Project Time

  • 09/2022 - 12/2027

Description

In recent years, there has been an explosive increase of broadband wireless access and proliferation of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the unlicensed radio spectrum, e.g., in the ISM/UNII bands. As a result these bands have become massively crowded by numerous wireless devices making use of diverse technologies including WiFi, LTE-U/LAA, ZigBee, 2.4 GHz LoRa, and Bluetooth. While such heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) have spurred the deployment of new services and applications, it comes at the cost of resilience. HetNets not only suffer from node failures and severe cross-technology interference in the shared spectrum but, due to their open nature, they are also highly prone to selective jamming. A possible way to make HetNets more resilient is cross-technology communication (CTC). CTC is an intriguing new paradigm that allows direct over-the-air communication and data exchange between seemingly incompatible wireless technologies without requiring any changes to the wireless protocols, e.g., between WiFi and ZigBee, WiFi and LoRa, ZigBee and Bluetooth, or LTE-U/LAA and WiFi. The ambition of the ResCTC project is to leverage CTC for resilient networks and critical security applications in HetNets operating in unlicensed shared radio spectrum. Based on recent prior work by both partners on CTC and wireless security, ResCTC shall address network resilience through CTC in a common joint effort and devise comprehensive solutions that are routed both in fundamental theory (information theory and signal processing) as well as practical software implementations and proof-of-concept demonstration.

Selected Publications

2025

Conferences and Workshops

  1. Anatolij Zubow, Sascha Rösler, Juan A. Cabrera, Frank H. P. Fitzek and Falko Dressler, "Towards Resilient and Efficient Multi-RAT Operation through Network Coding," Proceedings of 20th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2025), Hintertux, Austria, January 2025. (to appear) [BibTeX, More details]

2024

Journals and Magazines

  1. Wojciech Ciezobka, Maksymilian Wojnar, Krzysztof Rusek, Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Szymon Szott, Anatolij Zubow and Falko Dressler, "Using Ranging for Collision-Immune IEEE 802.11 Rate Selection with Statistical Learning," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 225, pp. 10–26, September 2024. [DOI, BibTeX, More details]

Conferences and Workshops

  1. Anatolij Zubow, Isabel von Stebut, Sascha Rösler and Falko Dressler, "ResCTC: Resilience in Wireless Networks through Cross-Technology Communication," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2024), Valencia, Spain, September 2024. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2023

Talks

  1. Falko Dressler, "Resilience Through Cross-Technology Communication," Keynote, 24th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2023), Shanghai, China, September 28, 2023. [BibTeX, More details]

2022

Journals and Magazines

  1. Falko Dressler, "Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios: Technical Perspective," Communications of the ACM, vol. 65 (9), pp. 82–82, September 2022. [DOI, BibTeX, More details]

Talks

  1. Falko Dressler, "From Co-Existence to Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication," Seminar Talk, Seminar, Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, July 15, 2022. [BibTeX, More details]
  2. Falko Dressler, "From Co-Existence to Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication," Distinguished Seminar Talk, Seminar, IMDEA, Madrid, Spain, May 04, 2022. [BibTeX, More details]
  3. Falko Dressler, "From Co-Existence to Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication," Keynote, International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET 2022), Virtual Conference, March 24, 2022. [BibTeX, More details]