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• Paper presentations at 8th MolCom Workshop 2024

  April 16, 2024: The TKN group presented two research talks at 8th Workshop on Molecular Communications 2024. Saswati Pal analyzed how decay rates affect nanosensor performance, revealing that higher decay rates reduce variance in detection ratios. In a second talk, Lisa Y. Debus presented a reinforcement learning-based synchronizer to continually adapt a decoding threshold and detect transmitted synchronization frames in a dynamic molecular communication environment.
  

• CCS on Tour 2024

  April 05, 2024: The Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN) held its annual research retreat "CCS on Tour 2024" from April 3rd to 6th. During the four-day event in Blossin, we had interesting discussions on research topics like Vehicular Clouds, machine learning, GPT, and wireless communications in 5G and 6G. We also discussed best practices for research and enjoyed social activities organized by the team.
  We also thank for sponsoring our social activities.
  

• New staff member: Christos Laskos

  April 02, 2024: We welcome to Christos Laskos who joined our group in April 2024.
  

• New staff member: Sunasheer Bhattacharjee

  April 02, 2024: We welcome to Sunasheer Bhattacharjee who joined our group in April 2024.
  

• New Elsevier Nano Communication Networks article

  March 06, 2024: Our article Electric Circuit Representation of the Human Circulatory System to Estimate the Position of Nanosensors in Vessels has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier Nano Communication Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Rebecca Corinna Pampu winning KuVS "best bachelor thesis" award

  March 02, 2024: We congratulate Rebecca Corinna Pampu for winning the "best bachelor thesis" award of the GI/ITG Communication and Distributed Systems (KuVS) special interest group! The prize will be awarded at NetSys 2025. Rebecca's thesis has already lead to a publication at NANOCOM 2023 with the title "Decoding Multiple Interfering Signals in a Macroscopic Air-based Molecular Communication System".
  

• Paper presentations at VDE Biosignals Workshop 2024

  March 02, 2024: The TKN group presented multiple research topics at VDE Biosignals. Lisa Y. Debus presented her research topic on Molecular Communication receivers with Machine Learning modules, Saswati Pal introduced her research topic with information freshness in the human body, and Jorge Torres-Gomez the electric circuit model for the human vessels.
  
  

• New IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications article

  February 19, 2024: Our article Low-Complex Synchronization Method for Intra-Body Links in the Terahertz Band has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. This research contributes to precision medicine applications supported by nanotechnologies, where the design of a communication interface between in-body nanosensors and external gateways is crucial.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE/IFIP WONS 2024

  January 31, 2024: Jonas Kuss presented our paper titled Distributed UWB-based Ranging for Particle Tracking in Avalanches at 19th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2024) in Chamonix, France.
  

• Falko Dressler appointed Assoc. EiC for IEEE TNSE

  January 01, 2024: Falko Dressler has been appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. IEEE TNSE is the top journal in theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network.

• New staff member: Tehmina Bibi

  December 22, 2023: We welcome to Tehmina Bibi who joined our group in December 2023.
  

• New BMBF project IoBNT

  December 19, 2023: Our proposal Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) has been accepted for funding by the German federal ministry for education and research (BMBF). In this project, we will explore the use of molecular communication for the internet of bio-nano-things. TU Berlin is coordinating the project with partners at FAU Erlangen, TU Munich, TU Dresden, TU Darmstadt, DFKI Kaiserslautern, and University of Lübeck.
  (link to more information)

• Merry Christmas! TKN Christmas Party

  December 15, 2023: We are looking back to a year full of hope in the middle of worldwide crisis. We published many papers, received additional funding, and were able to welcome new team members. We just celebrated in a quite relaxed atmosphere. Now, we wish all of our friends and followers Merry Christmas, a few days of quietness to relax, and a Happy New Year!
  

• Jonas Kuss and Jonas Huenecke awarded Distinguished Students 2023

  December 15, 2023: We congratulate Jonas Kuss and Jonas Huenecke for receiving this year's Distinguished Student award at TKN! With the the award, we recognize their valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant and Student Teaching Assistant, respectively.
  

• New staff member: Youming Tao

  December 11, 2023: We welcome to Youming Tao who joined our group in December 2023.
  

• New IEEE Access article

  December 08, 2023: Our article Performance of Large Intelligent Surfaces in Multiuser Millimeter Wave MIMO-NOMA Systems has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE GLOBECOM 2023

  December 05, 2023: The TKN group presented multiple papers at IEEE GLOBECOM 2023. Lisa Y. Debus presented her paper Reinforcement Learning-based Receiver for Molecular Communication with Mobility and Joana Angjo presents her paper Coexistence Challenges in IRS-assisted Multi-Operator Networks.
  
  

• Manoj Ravindra Rege just defended his PhD - congratulations!

  December 01, 2023: Manoj Ravindra Rege successfully defended his PhD today. His dissertation is titled "Lowering Barriers to Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) Application Testing and Evaluation". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree from TU Berlin.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications article

  November 30, 2023: Our article Empowering the 6G Cellular Architecture with Open RAN has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
  (link to more information)

• First Resilient Worlds research school

  November 28, 2023: We just held the first research school on "Collaboration & Communication for Future Resilient Networks" in the context of the DFG priority program, Resilient Worlds! For two days, 18 early career researchers from several universities teamed up to share their research goals and to explore common research directions. Then, they collaborated to propose new research projects for next-generation resilient networks. We also had three guest speakers to give us technical and non-technical workshops.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE LATINCOM 2023

  November 15, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled 6G Virtualized Edge Computing - From Cars to Edge and Back at the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2023), which was held in Panamá City, Panama.
  (link to more information)

• Talk at KAIST Seminar on Mobile & Wireless in EE

  November 03, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a seminar talk titled Virtualized Edge Computing as a Basis for Edge AI at the KAIST Seminar on Mobile & Wireless in EE, which was held in Daejeong, South Korea.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE VTC 2023-Fall

  October 12, 2023: Atefeh Rezaei presented our paper titled Resource Allocation for UAV-Assisted Industrial IoT User with Finite Blocklength at 98th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2023-Fall), which was held in Hong Kong, China.
  

• Paper presentation at European Wireless 2023

  October 03, 2023: Agon Memedi presented our paper titled One-Class Support Vector Machine for WiFi-based Device-free Indoor Presence Detection at 23rd European Wireless conference, which was held in Rome, Italy.
  

• Poster presentation at ACM MobiCom 2023

  October 02, 2023: Jonas Kuß presented our paper titled A Measurement System for Distributed UWB-based Ranging and Localization in Snow Avalanches at 29th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2023), which was held in Madrid, Spain.
  

• Keynote at IEEE PEMWN 2023

  September 29, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled Reinforcement Learning Approaches in Virtalized Edge Computing at the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN 2023), which was held in Berlin, Germany.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE SPAWC 2023

  September 28, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled Resilience Through Cross-Technology Communication at the 24th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2023), which was held in Shanghai, China.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at UAV-IoT 2023

  September 27, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled Turning Mobile Systems into 6G Network Infrastructure for Improved Resilience at the IEEE MASS Workshop on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT 2023), which was held in Toronto, Canada.
  (link to more information)

• Papers presentation at ACM NanoCom 2023

  September 22, 2023: Rebecca Corinna Pampu and Jorge Torres presented two of our papers at the 10th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom) 2023 conference in Coventry, UK. Rebecca presented the contribution titled "Decoding Multiple Interfering Signals in a Macroscopic Air-based Molecular Communication System" developing a new detection strategy in air-based channels. Jorge Torres presented the contribution "Fine-tune Circuit Representation of Human Vessels through Reinforcement Learning: A Novel Digital Twin Approach for Hemodynamics" advancing a model for the human circulatory system. The ACM NanoCom conference fosters the research and development of new paradigms for nanoscale devices in an engaging community environment.
  

• Keynote at ICT-DM 2023

  September 14, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled Resilient Worlds - Turning First Responders into Network Infrastructure" at the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM 2023), which was held in Cosenza, Italy.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN

  September 07, 2023: We have fully-funded PhD positions. We are looking for talented students who want to pursue their PhD studies at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany. The positions are part of the Telecommunication Networks group headed by Prof. Falko Dressler. The candidate is expected to contribute to the ongoing research activities in at least one of the following fields: virtualized edge computing; machine learning for wireless communications; nano communication networks
  (link to more information)

• Poster presentations NetSys 2023

  September 06, 2023: The TKN group presented various relevant research topics as posters at NetSys 2023. The researchers spanned topics from channel sounding and IRS settings to applications like real-time measurements in wifi networks, mobile station features supporting disaster zones, and the simulation of road users. The various presenters are in our group as PhD researchers, they are Joana Angjo, Sigrid Dimce, Fabian Missbrenner, Marie-Christin, and Sascha Rösler.
  

• Poster presentations and Talk at Si-Mposium 2023

  September 01, 2023: We presented two posters and a talk at the Symposium Si-Mposium 2023 with the life science community. Saswati Pal introduced our project NaBoCom with a description of lines of research and development of nanonetworks for precision medicine applications. Joana Angjo presented as a poster our recent contribution Age of Information-based Performance of Ultrasonic Communication Channels for Nanosensor-to-Gateway Communication giving details on the performance of monitors for abnormalities in the human body with nanosensors. Jorge Torres presented as a talk our recent contribution Fine-tune Circuit Representation of Human Vessels through Reinforcement Learning: A Novel Digital Twin Approach for Hemodynamics digging into the development of low complex simulator for the human circulatory system.
  

• VDE ITG Preis 2023

  August 30, 2023: We are happy to annoucne that our team won the VDE ITG Preis 2023 (the best paper award of the German society of information technology). The paper is Wi-Fi Meets ML: A Survey on Improving IEEE 802.11 Performance with Machine Learning published in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials in 2022.
  

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  August 14, 2023: We welcome to Doğanalp Ergenç who joined our group in August 2023.
  

• New IEEE Access article

  July 30, 2023: Our article TCOA: Triple-Check Offloading Algorithm for Roadside Units and Vehicular Microclouds in 5G Networks and Beyond has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  July 21, 2023: Our article Towards the Simulation of WiFi Fine Time Measurements in NS3 Network Simulator has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

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

  July 17, 2023: Our article Explainability of Neural Networks for Symbol Detection in Molecular Communication Channels has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Saswati Pal

  July 15, 2023: We welcome to Saswati Pal who joined our group in July 2023.
  

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  July 04, 2023: Our article Focusing on Information Context for ITS using a Spatial Age of Information Model has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Ziqi Zhou

  July 03, 2023: We welcome to Ziqi Zhou who joined our group in July 2023.
  

• New IEEE Communications Letters article

  July 02, 2023: Our article Optimizing Terahertz Communication Between Nanosensors in the Human Cardiovascular System and External Gateways has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.
  (link to more information)

• Our team at Berlin 6G Conference

  June 27, 2023: The TKN team joined the Berlin 6G Conference to discuss research results and new ideas related to 6G and beyond. The pictures show part of the team in front of the booth of our 6G-RIC project and at the beyond-6G discussion panel.
  

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  June 20, 2023: We welcome to Osman Tugay Başaran who joined our group in June 2023.
  

• New staff member: Rathinamala Vijay

  June 20, 2023: We welcome to Rathinamala Vijay who joined our group in June 2023.
  

• Paper presentation at IEEE WoWMoM 2023

  June 12, 2023: Sascha Rösler presented our paper titled "Opportunistic Routing in LoRa-based Wireless Mesh Networks" at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2023), 1st IEEE Workshop on Wireless outdoor, Long-Range and Low-Power Networks (WoLoLo 2023), which was held in Boston, MA.
  

• Dominik Buse just defended his PhD - congratulations!

  May 25, 2023: Dominik successfully defended his PhD on May 23, 2023. His dissertation is titled "Towards Holistic Real-time Simulation of Cooperative Vehicles". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree from TU Berlin.
  (link to more information)

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  May 23, 2023: Taylan Şahin successfully defended his PhD on May 23, 2023. His dissertation is titled "Resource Allocation for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications under Intermittent Cellular Coverage". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree from TU Berlin.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Ahmad Farhad Shams

  May 22, 2023: We welcome to Ahmad Farhad Shams who joined our group in May 2023.
  

• New staff member: Jamshid Bacha

  May 22, 2023: We welcome to Jamshid Bacha who joined our group in May 2023.
  

• New IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology article

  May 15, 2023: Our article Centralized Model-Predictive Control with Human-Driver Interaction for Platooning has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions Vehicular Technology (TVT).
  (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour 2023

  May 13, 2023: TKN research group from TU Berlin celebrated this weekend (from May 12 to 15) the four-days research retreat "CCS on Tour 2023". Group members and close friends presented their research topics and experiences leading to fruitful discussions. The meeting, celebrated each year, welcomes the discussion of challenging technical issues, best practices, and daily work experiences. We enjoyed a lot our trip to Zinnowitz, Usedom, where apart from very nice and productive discussions, we had some opportunities to do some nice activities together as well.
  We had a lot of fun during a two-hour long Mini Golf course, followed by a nice trip to a Butterfly farm and museum, and also some beach-volley and Frisbee games afterwards. Many thanks to BISDN for sponsoring our social activities!
  

• Paper presentations at IEEE EDUCON 2023 in Salmiya, Kuwait

  May 05, 2023: Jorge Torres Gomez gave an online talk about our paper titled Quo Vadis? - Comprehensive Viewpoint on German Educational Research in Engineering at the Proceedings of IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2023), Salmaiya, Kuwait.
  
  

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

  May 04, 2023: Our article Age of Information-based Performance of Ultrasonic Communication Channels for Nanosensor-to-Gateway Communication has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC).
  (link to more information)

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

  May 02, 2023: Our article A Computational Approach for the Characterization of Airborne Pathogen Transmission in Turbulent Molecular Communication Channels has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC).
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE VNC 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey

  April 28, 2023: Gurjashan S. Pannu gave a talk about our paper titled Data Sharing in Virtual Edge Computing using Coded Caching at the 14th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2023) in Istanbul, Turkey.
  
  Marie-Christin H. Oczko gave a talk about our paper titled On Time Constraints for Internet-Connected Multi-User Real-Time Traffic Simulation at the 14th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2023) in Istanbul, Turkey.
  

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  April 14, 2023: Our article Achieving Realistic Cyclist Behavior in SUMO using the SimRa Dataset has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• Agon Memedi just defended his PhD - congratulations!

  April 06, 2023: Agon Memedi successfully defended his PhD on April 6, 2023. His dissertation is titled "Vehicular Visible Light Communications for Connected Autonomous Driving". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TU Berlin.
  
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  April 04, 2023: Our article Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Enabled Link Scheduling for Next Generation Internet of Things has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN

  February 19, 2023: We have fully-funded PhD positions. We are looking for talented students who want to pursue their PhD studies at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin, Germany. The positions are part of the Telecommunication Networks group headed by Prof. Falko Dressler. The candidate is expected to contribute to the ongoing research activities in at least one of the following fields: edge computing and resource virtualization; joint communication and sensing; machine learning for wireless communications; nano communication networks
  (link to more information)

• Plenary Keynote at IEEE ICNC 2023

  February 21, 2023: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled "Learning for Resilient Virtualized Edge Computing" at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2023), which was held in Honolulu, HI.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE WONS 2023

  February 06, 2023: Agon Memedi presented our paper titled "Towards Hybrid Electronic-Mechanical Beamforming for IEEE 802.11ad" at the 18th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2023), which was held in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.
  

• New staff member: Marie-Christin H. Oczko

  February 01, 2023: We welcome to Marie-Christin H. Oczko who joined our group in February 2023.
  

• Christos Laskos awarded Distinguished Student 2022

  January 24, 2023: We congratulate Christos Laskos for receiving this year's Distinguished Student award at TKN! With the the award, we recognize his valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant.

• Sven Schoenberg just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  January 20, 2023: We congratulate Sven Schoenberg who successfully defended his PhD on January 20, 2023. His dissertation is titled "Trip Planning for Electric Vehicles". He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University!
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Internet of Things article

  January 03, 2023: Our article "ViTaLS - A Novel Link-Layer Scheduling Framework for Tactile Internet over Wi-Fi" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. In this work, we investigate the capability of Wi-Fi 6 and existing TI scheduling/multiplexing schemes in meeting this stringent latency constraint. Taking the concrete example of the state-of-the-art Video-Haptic multiplexer (VH-multiplexer), we highlight the pitfalls of relying on the existing Wi-Fi 6 systems for TI communication. To circumvent this, we propose Video-Tactile Latency Scheduler (ViTaLS) - a novel link layer framework for tuning the video-tactile frame transmissions to suit their heterogeneous QoS requirements.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Internet of Things article

  December 24, 2022: Our article "When Internet of Things meets Metaverse: Convergence of Physical and Cyber Worlds" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. This survey introduces six typical IoT applications in the Metaverse, including collaborative healthcare, education, smart city, entertainment, real estate, and socialization. In the IoT-inspired Metaverse, we also comprehensively survey four pillar technologies that enable augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), namely, responsible artificial intelligence (AI), high-speed data communications, cost-effective mobile edge computing (MEC), and digital twins. According to the physical-world demands, we outline the current industrial efforts and seven key requirements for building the IoT-inspired Metaverse: immersion, variety, economy, civility, interactivity, authenticity, and independence.
  (link to more information)

• Inter-Vehicular Communication - From Edge Support to Vulnerable Road Users II

  December 19, 2022: We are just running the Dagstuhl Seminar 22512 Inter-Vehicular Communication - From Edge Support to Vulnerable Road Users II in Wadern, Germany. The seminar is very well attended by experts from academia and industry from all places in the world. We are discussing all questions related to edge computing and the integration of vulnerable road users into cooperative vehicular networking systems.
  (link to more information)

• New team member: Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj

  January 01, 2023: We welcome Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj who will be with our group as a guest researcher between January and June 2023.
  

• Merry Christmas! TKN Christmas Party

  December 14, 2022: We are looking back to a year full of hope in the middle of worldwide crisis. We published many papers, received additional funding, and were able to welcome new team members. We just celebrated in a quite relaxed atmosphere. Now, we wish all of our friends and followers Merry Christmas, a few days of quietness to relax, and a Happy New Year!
  

• Keynote at IEEE MSN 2022

  December 14, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled "Toward Virtualized Edge Computing" at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2022), which was held online.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022

  December 06, 2022: Jorge Torres Gómez presented our paper titled "Modeling Ultrasonic Channels with Mobility for Gateway to In-Body Nanocommunication" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022), which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  
  In addition, Fatih Güleç presented our paper titled "Characterization of Airborne Pathogen Transmission in Turbulent Molecular Communication Channels" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022), which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (link to more information)

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  December 01, 2022: We welcome Sascha Rösler who joined our group in December 2022.
  

• Keynote at CITTEL 2022

  November 29, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled "6G Virtual Edge Computing for Enhanced Network Resilience" at the XI International Congress of Telematics and Telecommunications, which was held in Havana, Cuba.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project RADCOM-HETNET II

  November 22, 2022: Our proposal Integration of Radar-based Communication in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Cooperatively Interacting Cars (RADCOM-HETNET II) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore the use of heterogeneous communication protocols, most importanly RADAR based, for highly critical safety applications like platooning. (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN

  November 19, 2022: We have a PhD position available in the field of nano communication networks. The position is within our DFG project NaBoCom.
  (link to more information)

• New DLR Project RACCOON

  November 06, 2022: Our proposal Robust And seCure post quantum COmmunication fOr critical iNfrastructure (RACCOON) has been accepted for funding by German Areospace Center (DLR). In this project, we will explore satellite-based exchange of crypto material for critical infrastructure. (link to more information)

• New staff member: Atefeh Rezaei

  December 01, 2022: We welcome Atefeh Rezaei who joined our group in November 2022.
  

• New IEEE Access article

  November 03, 2022: Our article "Improving IEEE 802.11ax UORA Performance: Comparison of Reinforcement Learning and Heuristic Approaches" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. In this paper, we address the performance of uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple random access (UORA) in IEEE 802.11ax networks. Optimization of UORA is a good case for applying ML because of its inherent complexity and dependence on situation and time-dependent parameters. In particular, we use deep reinforcement learning to tune UORA parameters.
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• Paper Presentation at ACM MSWiM 2022

  October 26, 2022: Julian Heinovski presented our paper titled "A Spatial Model for Using the Age of Information in Cooperative Driving Applications" at 25th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2022).
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• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  October 24, 2022: Our article "A Location-aware RF-assisted MAC Protocol for Sectorized Vehicular Visible Light Communications" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications. Vehicular Visible Light Communications (V-VLC) has emerged as a viable technology complementing RF-based communication in automotive scenarios. We extensively study interference in typical vehicular scenarios. Based on the findings from this study, we propose a novel approach for medium access. We follow a location-aware cross-layer approach that exploits the Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) feature of modern matrix lighting modules to avoid interference and thus collisions. Making use of heterogeneous communication concepts, in which vehicles share their positions via the Radio Frequency (RF) channel, V-VLC transmissions can be scheduled accordingly.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology article

  October 21, 2022: Our article "Nanosensor Location Estimation in the Human Circulatory System using Machine Learning" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO). In this work we investigate the detection and localization capabilities of flowing nanosensors in the blood flow to report abnormalities in the human body. Specifically, we target the detection of quorum sensing molecules and provide a methodology to evaluate its performance.
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• Keynote at ACM S3 2022

  October 17, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote titled "Toward Hybridized Cyber Physical Systems (H-CPS)" at the 13th ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, which was held in Sydney, Australia.
  (link to more information)

• Paper Presentations at Nanocom 2022

  October 11, 2022: Jorge Torres Gomez presented our paper titled "Nanosensor Location in the Human Circulatory System based on Electric Circuit Representation of Vessels".
  Traveling through the human vessels, nanosensors are envisioned to locally detect and actuate on targets very efficiently. This paper explores the accurate modeling of the concentration level of the flowing nanosensors in vessels. We use a Markov chain formulation to predict the stationary distribution of them in the variety of vessel segments. The resulting study reveals the dynamics of the movement of nanosensors in the blood flow yielding further details on their concentration level along vessels.
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• New IEEE IEEE Trans. on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications article

  October 10, 2022: Our article "Digital Communication Techniques in Macroscopic Air-Based Molecular Communication" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD/PostDoc Position at TKN

  October 10, 2022: We have a PhD/PostDoc position available. Part of the position is research and coordination in/of larger coordinated projects such as 6G-RIC/6G-Platform and the DFG Priority Program Resilience in Connected Worlds.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Joana Angjo

  September 29, 2022: We welcome to Joana Angjo who joined our group in September 2022.
  

• New DFG project ResCTC

  September 21, 2022: Our proposal Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication (ResCTC) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore resilience in wireless communication networks using cross-technology communication. (link to more information)

• Paper Presentations at European Wireless 2022

  September 21, 2022: We are happy to announce multiple paper presentations at European Wireless 2022: Engy A. Maher presented our paper titled "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface and UAV-Assisted THz Mobile Communications". Anatolij Zubow presented our paper titled "GrGym: A Playground for Research on RL/AI Enhanced Wireless Networks". Jorge Torres Gomez presented our paper titled "Digital Simulator of the Human Arteries".

• DFG SPP Resilient Worlds - Funded Projects Announced

  September 18, 2022: DFG just notified the PIs of the projects funded in the scope of the SPP 2378 Resilient Worlds (see https://www.resilient-worlds.org/spp2378/projects/). The priority program is coordinated by Falko Dressler. Congratulations to everybody. (link to more information)

• New DFG project NaBoCom II

  August 27, 2022: Our proposal BodyTalks: Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks (NaBoCom II) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will investigate the integration of in-body nano networks with body are networks. (link to more information)

• Student Best Paper Award

  August 26, 2022: Our article "Testbed-based Receiver Optimization for SISO Molecular Communication Channels" received the Student Best Paper Award in the 5th IEEE International Balkan Conference Communications and Networking (BalkanCom 2022) at Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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• New Elsevier Nano Communication Networks article

  August 16, 2022: Our article "Mobile Human Ad Hoc Networks: A Communication Engineering Viewpoint on Interhuman Airborne Pathogen Transmission" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN on Radio Ranging and Localization

  August 11, 2022: We have a fully funded PhD position available on radio ranging and localization in the DFG project AvaRange. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  July 22, 2022: Our article "Asynchronous Background Processing for Accelerated Simulation of Wireless Communication on Multi-Core Systems" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  July 19, 2022: Our article "Vehicloak: A Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Payment Scheme for Location-based Vehicular Services" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology article

  July 11, 2022: Our article "Adaptive Blind MPSK Constellation Recovery and Equalization for Cognitive Radio Applications" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  This paper investigates a new method to recover constellation points from emissions at cognitive radio nodes fastly. We devise a blind method with reduced convergence time using a low complex adaptive filter. The results clearly show that the proposed scheme significantly improves phase symbol estimation and ISI reduction accuracy.
  (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour kayaking sponsored by R3 Solutions

  July 04, 2022: We enjoyed very much our kayaking tour during our research retreat "CCS on Tour". Many thanks to R3 Solutions for the support!
  

• CCS on Tour 2022

  July 04, 2022: TKN research group from TU Berlin celebrated this weekend (from 1 to 4 of July) the four-days research retreat "CCS on Tour 2022". Group members and close friends presented their research topics and experiences leading to fruitful discussions. The meeting, celebrated each year, welcomes the discussion of challenging technical issues, best practices, and daily work experiences.
  

• New staff member: Fabian Missbrenner

  July 01, 2022: We welcome Fabian Missbrenner who joined our group in July 2022. He will work on the DyMoNet project.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN

  June 13, 2022: We have several new fully funded PhD positions available in our group. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at EuCNC 2022 & 6G Summit

  June 09, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Going Beyond RF: Nano Communication in 6G+ Networks" at the IEEE European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2022) & 6G Summit, which was held in Grenoble, France.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials article

  May 23, 2022: Our article "Wi-Fi Meets ML: A Survey on Improving IEEE 802.11 Performance with Machine Learning" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
  (link to more information)

• Best Poster Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2022

  May 05, 2022: Gurjashan Pannu presented our paper titled "Vehicular Virtual Edge Computing using Heterogeneous V2V and V2C Communication" at 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022), which received the Best Poster Award.
  

• New IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine article

  May 05, 2022: Our article "Data-driven Flight Control of Internet-of-Drones for Sensor Data Aggregation using Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
  (link to more information)

• Distinguished Seminar at IMDEA

  May 04, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a Distinguished Seminar talk "From Co-Existence to Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication" in the seminar series organized by IMDEA Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler elected as Chair of Tactile Internet Technical Committee

  April 30, 2022: Falko Dressler has (again) been elected as part of the Tactile Internet Technical Committee. He will serve as Chair of this TC to the COMSOC community.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Network article

  April 17, 2022: Our article "V-Edge: Virtual Edge Computing as an Enabler for Novel Microservices and Cooperative Computing" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Network.
  (link to more information)

• Webinar Session at IEEE Education Week 2022

  April 06, 2022: Jorge Torres and Carmen Pelaez gave a webinar on Focusing on Soft Skills Development - Liberal Arts approaches for teaching in the field of ICT as part of the IEEE Education Week. The event took place online on April 6, 2022. They were addressing topics related to the two schools distinction, the skills gap, a methodology to teach technical topics supported by liberal arts, and examples of how to implement such ideas in practice.
  (link to more information)

• Claas Tebruegge just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  April 06, 2022: We congratulate Claas Tebruegge who successfully defended his PhD on April 04, 2022. His dissertation is titled "Towards Feasible Vehicular Visible Light Communication". He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University!
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at ICEEE 2022

  March 30, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Vehicular Networking to 5G and Mobile Edge Computing to 6G and Virtual Edge Computing" at the 9th International Conference On Electrical And Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2022), which was held in Alanya, Turkey.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at WiSPNET 2022

  March 24, 2022: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Co-Existence to Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication" at the International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET 2022), which was held online.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  March 22, 2022: Our article "BLOWN: A Blockchain Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks under Adversarial SINR" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles article

  March 20, 2022: Our article "Siting and Sizing Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles with Coordinated Recharging" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  March 04, 2022: Our article "Hybrid-Fidelity: Utilizing IEEE 802.11 MIMO forPractical Aggregation of LiFi and WiFi" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• Jorge Torres Gomez elevated to IEEE Senior Member

  February 26, 2022: We congratulate Jorge Torres Gomez for being promoted to IEEE Senior Member.
  

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  February 21, 2022: Our article "Multi-Technology Cooperative Driving: An Analysis Based on PLEXE" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Nazila Hashemi

  February 15, 2022: We welcome Nazila Hashemi who joined our group in February 2022. She will work on wireless communication.
  (link to more information)

• New External PhD Candidate: Bariq Khan

  February 01, 2022: We welcome Bariq Khan who joined our group as an External PhD Candidate in February 2022. Bariq is with Huawai Europe in Munich, Germany.
  (link to more information)

• Min Hee Jo awarded Distinguished Student 2021

  January 25, 2021: We congratulate Min Hee Jo for receiving this year's Distinguished Student award at TKN! With the the award, we recognize her valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant.

• New BMWi project LINCNET

  January 04, 2022: We are happy to be part of the LINCNET project. LINCNET stands for LINCNET - LiFi-enabled 5G for INdustrial and MediCal NETworks. In the scope of this project, we will study the integration of LiFi and 5G-based industrial and medical networks.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles article

  January 02, 2022: Our article "Reducing Waiting Times at Charging Stations with Adaptive Electric Vehicle Route Planning" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
  (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at TKN

  December 14, 2021: We have several new fully funded PhD positions available in our group. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

• New BMBF project 6G Platform Germany

  December 13, 2021: We are happy to be part of the 6G Platform Germany. In this project, we will support the coordination of research and development on 6G in Germany. The 6G Platform Germany will establish a network for ongoing scientific and industrial 6G research and also connect to major international 6G activities.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at ICNCC 2021

  December 11, 2021: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Cyber Physical Networks: On Networked Control and Human Interaction" at the 10th International Conference on Networks, Communication and Computing (ICNCC 2021), which was held online.
  (link to more information)

• New PostDoc Position at TKN

  December 02, 2021: We have a new PostDoc position available in our group in the field of 6G networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

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  December 01, 2021: We welcome Fatih Güleç who joined our group in December 2021. He will work on molecular communication.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Access article

  November 30, 2021: Our article "Performance Analysis of UAV Assisted Mobile Communications in THz Channel" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access journal.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE LATINCOM 2021

  November 18, 2021: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Vehicular Networking to 5G and Mobile Edge Computing to 6G and Virtual Edge Computing" at the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2021), which was held as in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  (link to more information)

• Best Paper Award at ACM NanoCoCoA 2021

  November 17, 2021: Jorge Torres Gómez presented our paper titled A Machine Learning Approach for Abnormality Detection in Blood Vessels via Mobile Nanosensors, which received the Best Paper Award at 2nd ACM International Workshop on Nanoscale Computing, Communication, and Applications (NanoCoCoA 2021).
  (link to more information)

• New BMBF project 6G-RIC

  November 14, 2021: We are happy to be part of the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC). In this project, we will explore channel prediction techniques, the use of intelligent reflective surfaces, advanced edge computing, and the integration of reinforcement learning for optimization.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project ML4WIFI

  November 12, 2021: Our proposal ML-driven Radio Resource Management in Wireless Local Area Networks (ML4WIFI) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore reinforcement learning-based approaches to optimize resource allocationin WiFi networks.
  (link to more information)

• New Guest Researcher: Edoardo Longo

  October 19, 2021: We welcome Edoardo Longo who is with our group as a Guest Researcher from October 2021. Edoardo is a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy working on advanced network technologies.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Networks article

  October 11, 2021: Our article "Precise: Predictive Content Dissemination Scheme Exploiting Realistic Mobility Patterns" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Networks journal.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  October 07, 2021: Our article "Li-Wi: An Upper Layer Hybrid VLC-WiFi Network Handover Solution" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE MASS 2021

  October 06, 2021: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Towards Cyber Physical Social Systems: On Networked Control and Human Interaction" at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2021), which was held as a virtual conference.
  (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour 2021

  October 05, 2021: Last weekend, we finally met again in person during a four-day research retreat at Schloss Noer. We had lots of research talks, discussions, and social events.
  

• Paper presentations at IEEE ITSC 2021

  September 20, 2021: Julian Heinovski presented our paper titled "CoOP: V2V-based Cooperative Overtaking for Platoons on Freeways" at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2021). The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Lucas Koch presented our paper titled "Accurate physics-based modeling of electric vehicle energy consumption in the SUMO traffic microsimulator" at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2021).
  

• Paper presentations at NetSys 2021

  September 13, 2021: Jorge Torres Gómez presented our paper titled "Age of Information in Molecular Communication Channels" at International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021), Workshop on Nanonetworks and Nanocomputation (WoNaN 2021).
  
  Jorge Torres Gómez presented our paper titled "Molecular Communication Channel Modelling in FPGA Technology" at International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021), Workshop on Nanonetworks and Nanocomputation (WoNaN 2021).
  

• Paper presentations at ACM NanoCom 2021

  September 07, 2021: Jorge Torres Gómez presented our paper titled "Markov Model for the Flow of Nanobots in the Human Circulatory System" at the 8th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The paper was conducted in collaboration with the University of Lübeck, Germany. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Anke Kuestner presented our paper titled "Age of Information in In-Body Nano Communication Networks" at the 8th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The paper was conducted in collaboration with the University of Lübeck, Germany. The video can be found on our website and on our YouTube channel.
  
  Lukas Stratmann presented our paper titled "Impact of Mobility on Air-Based Macroscopic Molecular Communication – A Simulation Study" at the 8th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The paper was conducted in collaboration with Kiel University, Germany. The video can be found on our website and on our YouTube channel.
  (link to more information)

• Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo just defended her PhD - congratulations!

  August 26, 2021: Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo successfully defended her PhD on August 26, 2021. Her dissertation is titled "Wireless Handover Solutions in Vehicular Visible Light Communications". She was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree from TU Berlin.
  
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Access article

  August 09, 2021: Our article "Wideband OFDM-based Communications in Bus Topology as a Key Enabler for Industry 4.0 Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access journal.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Access article

  August 09, 2021: Our article "Undergraduate Curriculum to Teach and Provide Research Skills on Hardware Design for SDR Applications in FPGA Technology" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access journal.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Internet of Things article

  August 07, 2021: Our article "LSTM-characterized Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Flight Control and Resource Allocation in UAV-assisted Sensor Network" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things journal.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project DyMoNet

  July 16, 2021: Our proposal Dynamic Mobile Networks (DyMoNet) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore small cell base stations on cars and resource management in such dynamic environments.
  (link to more information)

• Anatolij Zubow elevated to IEEE Senior Member

  July 08, 2021: We congratulate Dr. Zubow for being elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  July 06, 2021: Our article "Dwell Time Estimation at Intersections for Improved Vehicular Micro Cloud Operations" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE ICC 2021

  June 16, 2021: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad presented our paper titled "Using Visible Light for Joint Communications and Vibration Sensing in Industrial IoT Applications" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year.
  (link to more information)

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  June 11, 2021: Piotr Gawłowicz successfully defended his PhD on June 11, 2021. His dissertation is titled "Towards Collaboration in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TU Berlin.
  
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler elected ACM SIGMOBILE Vice Chair

  June 11, 2021: Falko Dressler has (again) been elected as part of the new ACM SIGMOBILE Executive Commitee. He will serve for four years as Vice Chair to the SIGMOBILE community.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE WoWMoM 2021

  June 10, 2021: Adam Wolisz just gave a keynote on "Coexistence, Collaboration and Transparency in Radio Communication Systems" at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2021), which was held as a virtual conference.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE WoWMoM 2021

  June 10, 2021: Anatolij Zubow presented our paper titled "Hy-Fi: Aggregation of LiFi and WiFi using MIMO in IEEE 802.11" at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2021), which was held as a hybrid conference this year.
  

• New External PhD Candidate: Mengfan Wu

  June 01, 2021: We welcome Mengfan Wu who joined our group as an External PhD Candidate in June 2021. Mengfan is with Huawai Europe in Munich, Germany.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Digital Signal Processing article

  May 21, 2021: Our article "Age of Information in Molecular Communication Channels" has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Digital Signal Processing.
  (link to more information)

• Open Position at TKN

  May 19, 2021: We have new positions (PhD, PostDoc, Technician) available in our group. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE INFOCOM 2021

  May 13, 2021: Johannes Blobel presented our paper titled "Low-Power Downlink for the Internet of Things using IEEE 802.11-compliant Wake-Up Receivers" at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021), which was held as a hybrid conference this year.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking article

  May 07, 2021: Our article "Distributed Broadcasting in Dynamic Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  (link to more information)

• Muhammad Sohaib Amjad just defended his PhD - congratulations!

  May 05, 2021: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad successfully defended his PhD on May 5, 2021. His dissertation is titled "Towards Low Latency and Bandwidth Efficient Communication in Wireless Systems". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TU Berlin.
  
  (link to more information)

• TV report about our project Safety4Bikes

  May 03, 2021: Our research project Safety4Bikes will be featured in a TV report by 3sat. The report explains how we are improving the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRU), e.g., cyclists, by using Vehicular Communication (V2X). Specifically the issue of Dooring has been explained by Falko Dressler within the interview.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management article

  April 21, 2021: Our article "FDLA: A Novel Frequency Diversity and Link Aggregation Solution for Handover in an Indoor Vehicular VLC Network" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology article

  April 19, 2021: Our article "Towards an IEEE 802.11 Compliant System for Outdoor Vehicular Visible Light Communications" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  (link to more information)

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  April 08, 2021: The German Research Foundation (DFG) grants a new priority research program (SPP) on Resilience in Connected Worlds – Mastering Failures, Overload, Attacks, and the Unexpected. The program which is coordinated by Falko Dressler will involve interdisciplinary projects from all over Germany.
  
  • Press release from TU Berlin
  • Press release from German Research Foundation
  
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking article

  April 04, 2021: Our article "Distributed Byzantine-Resilient Multiple-Message Dissemination in Wireless Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  (link to more information)

• New External PhD Candidate: Kai Lennert Bober

  April 01, 2021: We welcome Kai Lennert Bober who joined our group as an External PhD Candidate in April 2021. Lennert is with Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE WCNC 2021

  March 31, 2021: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad presented our paper titled "Software-based In-Band Full Duplex Relays for IEEE 802.11a/g/p: An Experimental Study" at the 16th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2021), which was held as a hybrid conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Sebastian Bräuer presented our paper titled "Towards Software-Centric Listen-Before-Talk on Software-Defined Radios" at the 16th IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2021), which was held as a hybrid conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  (link to more information)

• Johannes Blobel just defended his PhD - congratulations!

  March 23, 2021: Johannes Blobel successfully defended his PhD on March 23, 2021. His dissertation is titled "Energy Efficient Communication using Wake-Up Receivers". He was awarded a Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TU Berlin.
  
  Being limited to an online meeting only, we celebrated Johannes together with a very special guest afterwards.
  
  
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Communications Magazine article

  March 20, 2021: Our article "Infectious Disease Transmission via Aerosol Propagation from a Molecular Communication Perspective: Shannon Meets Coronavirus" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC) article

  March 15, 2021: Our article "Duality between Coronavirus Transmission and Air-based Macroscopic Molecular Communication" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC), Infectious Diseases Special Issue.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE WONS 2021

  March 10, 2021: Sigrid Dimce presented our paper titled "mmWave on the Road: Investigating the Weather Impact on 60 GHz V2X Communication Channels" at the 16th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Anatolij Zubow presented our paper titled "On Phase Offsets of 802.11ac Commodity WiFi" at the 16th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2021), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at ACM HotMobile 2021

  February 24, 2021: Anatolij Zubow presented our paper titled "GrGym: When GNU Radio goes to (AI) Gym" at the 22nd ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2021), which was held as a virtual conference.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC) article

  January 21, 2021: Our article "Using Vector Fields for Efficient Simulation of Macroscopic Molecular Communication" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC), Special Section - Advances in Molecular Communication.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Signal Processing Magazine article

  January 14, 2021: Our article "Teaching differently: The digital signal processing of multimedia content through the use of liberal arts" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
  (link to more information)

• Johannes Blobel appointed Head of History Activities for IEEE Germany Section

  January 06, 2021: Johannes Blobel is now appointed member of the IEEE Germany Section Executive Committee. He will serve as the section's Head of History Activities. His duties include coordinating all history related activities of the section. He also is involved in the nomination of IEEE Milestones in Germany. (link to more information)

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  January 05, 2021: Jorge Torres Gómez is now appointed member of the IEEE Germany Section Executive Committee. He will serve as the section's Head of Educational Activities. His duties include planning and executing training programs to address the technical and professional development of the membership. He will also be in charge of maintaining information about Educational Activities through the IEEE Professional Development Institute. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  December 26, 2020: Our article "Continuous Maneuver Control and Data Capture Scheduling of Autonomous Drone in Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• Merry Christmas!

  December 25, 2020: 2020 turned out to be a real challenge for us. Nevertheless, we published many papers, received additional funding, and were able to welcome new team members. Now, we wish all of our friends and followers Merry Christmas, a few days of quietness to relax, and a Happy New Year!
  

• Paper presentations at IEEE VNC 2020

  December 18, 2020: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad presented our paper titled "Inband Full-Duplex Relaying for RADCOM-based Cooperative Driving" at the 12th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2020), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Max Schettler presented our paper titled "How to Train your ITS? Integrating Machine Learning with Vehicular Network Simulation" at the 12th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2020), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE VNC 2020

  December 17, 2020: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Safety to Scale and Back: Converging Technologies in Vehicular Networks as a Game Changer" at the 12th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2020), which was held as a virtual conference.
  (link to more information)

• TKN & Friends @ IEEE VNC 2020

  December 16, 2020: Many of our group members and friends are attending the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2020, this year being held virtually.
  

• New IEEE Access article

  December 16, 2020: Our article Energy-Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing based on Stochastic Programming in Dynamic Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
  (link to more information)

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  December 11, 2020: We congratulate Anke Küstner for receiving this year's Distinguished Student award at TKN! With the the award, we recognize her valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant.

• TKN (virtual) Christmas Party

  December 11, 2020: Yesterday, we celebrated Christmas during this year's TKN Christmas Party. Even though it was just a virtual event, we had a lot of fun. The party involved a lot of Christmas decoration, funny games, and nice chats.
  

• New IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing article

  November 23, 2020: Our article "Implementing Abstract MAC Layer in Dynamic Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• New Open Psychology article

  November 10, 2020: Our article TVA in the wild: Applying the theory of visual attention to game-like and less controlled experiments has been accepted for publication in Open Psychology.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management article

  November 06, 2020: Our article EdgeDASH: Exploiting Network-Assisted Adaptive Video Streaming for Edge Caching has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials article

  October 25, 2020: Our article Vehicular Visible Light Communications: A Survey has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Tayeba Abidi

  October 12, 2020: We welcome Tayeba Abidi who joined our group in October 2020. She will work on intrusion detection systems.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  October 09, 2020: Our article Low-power and Low-delay WLAN using Wake-up Receivers has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• New Guest Researcher: Marco Rapelli

  October 01, 2020: We welcome Marco Rapelli who is with our group as a Guest Researcher from October 2020. Marco is a PhD student at Politecnico di Torino, Italy working on mobility studies and large-scale urban traffic simulators.
  (link to more information)

• Paper Presentations at ACM NANOCOM 2020

  September 25, 2020: Lukas Stratmann co-presented our paper titled "Efficient Simulation of Macroscopic Molecular Communication: The Pogona Simulator" at 7th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM 2020), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  
  Anke Küstner presented our paper titled "A Simulation Framework for Connecting In-Body Nano Communication with Out-of-Body Devices" at 7th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM 2020), which was held as a virtual conference this year. The video can be found on our website and our YouTube channel.
  (link to more information)

• Funding for Project Proposal on Vibration Sensing and Communications using Strobing Light

  September 21, 2020: We are happy to announce that our team member Muhammad Sohaib Amjad successfully applied for an internal research grant of TU Berlin to support the initial acquisition of third party funds for early-stage researchers. He will be working on a proposal for a research project on "Using Optical Strobing for Vision-based Non-invasive Vibrations Sensing and Communications in an Integrated Fashion".
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Jorge Torres Gomez

  September 11, 2020: We welcome Jorge Torres Gomez who joined our group in September 2020. He will work on macroscopic molecular communication.
  (link to more information)

• Dr. Bastian Bloessl "visiting" TKN

  September 03, 2020: We were happy to host Dr. Bastian Bloessl in our Research Meeting. He gave a talk on "FutureSDR: An Asynchronous SDR Runtime".
  (link to more information)

• Best Paper Award at IEEE WoWMoM 2020

  September 03, 2020: Piotr Gawlowicz presented our paper titled Punched Cards over the Air: Cross-Technology Communication Between LTE-U/LAA and WiFi, which received the Best Paper Award at 21th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2020).
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE WoWMoM 2020

  September 02, 2020: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Cooperative Automated Driving: From CPS to Networking to Human Interaction" at the 21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2020), which was held as a virtual conference.
  (link to more information)

• Paper Presentation at IEEE PIMRC 2020

  September 02, 2020: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad presented our paper titled "A Flexible Real-Time Software-based Multi-Band Channel Sounder" at 31st IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2020).
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Ketki Pitke

  September 01, 2020: We welcome Ketki Pitke who joined our group in September 2020. She will work on nano-communication.
  (link to more information)

• Social Activity at High Rope Course

  August 06, 2020: Yesterday, our group did a social activity in a High Rope Course in Potsdam. The objective was to finish the tracks, which are running between several trees, while crossing many obstacles of different complexity within each track. We had a lot of fun and were quite exhausted afterwards (that's why here is picture from before):
  

• Paper presentations and Best Demo Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2020

  July 13, 2020: Piotr Gawlowicz presented our papers titled Cross-Technology Communication between LTE-U/LAA and WiFi, which received the Best Demo Award, and WiFi over VLC using COTS Devices at 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020). Florian Klingler presented our paper titled An Open Source Approach to Field Testing of WLAN up to IEEE 802.11ad at 60 GHz Using Commodity Hardware at 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020). Due to the Corona virus situation, the presentations were held online.
  
  
  

• Paper presentations at CSNDSP 2020

  July 09, 2020: Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo presented our papers titled A Flexible Transport Layer Protocol Architecture for Handover in a Vehicular VLC Network and Analyzing interface bonding schemes for VLC with mobility and shadowing at 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2020). Due to the Corona virus situation, the presentations were held online.
  
  

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-3 Citations

  July 07, 2020: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now number 3 of the most highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• New BMWi project UniLocP

  July 02, 2020: We just started a new project UniLocP in cooperation with our partners from industry (contagt GmbH, SonoBeacon GmbH, inclusion AG, GEOkomm e.V.). In this project we will create a unified architecture to provide location information to apps in indoor scenarios.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine article

  June 22, 2020: Our article Towards Smart V2X-Connected Powertrains has been accepted for publication in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project V-Edge

  June 19, 2020: Our proposal Virtual Edge Computing (V-Edge) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore MEC using virtual edge servers composed of, e.g., clusters of cars. (link to more information)

• IEEE MedComNet 2020 went live

  June 17, 2020: We just started MedComNet 2020, the 18th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference. MedComNet 2020 continues the tradition of the MedHocNet conference series that started in Sardinia in 2006 and was held annually in beautiful locations on the shores of the Mediterranean. This year for the first time the conference will take place on the shores of a lake, in the birth place of Mario Gerla, who was the initiator of this conference series. This year, the conference takes place on-line due to the Corona situation. Our conference features outstanding keynotes by Don Towsley, Izhak Rubin, Jim Kurose, and Anthony Ephremides.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE ICC 2020

  June 10, 2020: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad presented our paper titled Integrated Communications and Non-Invasive Vibrations Sensing using Strobing Light at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020). Due to corona virus situation, the presentation was held online.
  

• Paper presentation at IEEE ICC 2020

  June 07, 2020: Piotr Gawłowicz presented our paper titled Bringing MIMO to VLC using COTS WiFi at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020), Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications. Due to corona virus situation, the presentation was held online.
  

• New staff member: Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo

  May 13, 2020: We welcome Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo who joined our group in May 2020. She will work on Indoor Visible Light Communication (VLC).
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  May 06, 2020: Our article A Smartphone Perspective on Computation Offloading – A Survey has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Sigrid Dimce

  May 04, 2020: We welcome Sigrid Dimce who joined our group in May 2020. She will work on mmWave communication at 60GHz and 77GHz.
  (link to more information)

• The new TKN Team

  April 02, 2020: Starting April 1st, the old CCS team from Paderborn and the old TKN team from Berlin have officially been merged into the new Data Communications and Networking (TKN) team at TU Berlin led by Falko Dressler. Due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2), all of us are staying at home and, thus, we had our first joined team meeting virtually today #stayathome #flattenthecurve
  

• CCS is moving to Berlin

  March 11, 2020: The CCS team is relocating to Berlin, Germany. Prof. Dressler accepted an offer from TU Berlin as full professor and Chair for Data Communications and Networking (TKN). Our new home is the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin.
  

• Invited talk at IEEE ICNC 2020 in Kailua, HI

  February 20, 2020: Falko Dressler just talked about Integrating Haptic Signals with V2X-based Safety Systems for Vulnerable Road Users at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2020) in Kailua, HI.
  

• New IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing

  February 07, 2020: Our article On High-Speed Flow-based Intrusion Detection using Snort-compatible Signatures has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler appointed Assoc. EiC for IEEE TMC

  January 26, 2020: Falko Dressler has been appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. IEEE TMC is the top journal in mobile computing and wireless networking.

• New staff member: Hossein Doroud

  January 14, 2020: We welcome Hossein Doroud who joined our group in January 2020. He will work on IT security and attack detection. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking

  January 10, 2020: Our article Software-based Real-time Full-duplex Relaying: An Experimental Study has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
  (link to more information)

• 12th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2020)

  January 08, 2020: We have been co-organizing the 12th edition of the IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2020). The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from Asia, the US, and Europe.
  (link to more information)

• Merry Christmas!

  December 24, 2019: We wish all of our friends and followers Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
  

• Prof. Ana Aguiar visiting CCS

  December 23, 2019: We were happy to host Prof. Ana Aguiar, who gave a talk on "Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility".

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  December 18, 2019: Our article Experimental Evaluation of Receive Diversity Techniques in Distributed Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Fabian Missbrenner awarded Distinguished Student 2019

  December 17, 2019: We congratulate Fabian Missbrenner for winning this year's Distinguished Student award at CCS Labs! It is in recognition of his valued work and contributions as Student Research Assistant.

• CCS Christmas Celebration

  December 16, 2019: We celebrated a very successful year during our yearly Christmas party. We enjoyed nice food, drinks and presents from Santa Claus (Johannes) in a relaxed atmosphere.

• Paper presentation at IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 in Waikoloa, Hawaii

  December 11, 2019: Claas Tebruegge presented our paper titled Reduced Multiuser-Interference for Vehicular VLC using SDMA and Matrix Headlights at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019) in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  

• IEEE Transactions paper received over 1000 citations

  December 10, 2019: Our paper "Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis" received over 1000 citations. It introduces one of the fundamental concepts of our Veins simulator, which is the de-facto standard for vehicular network simulation in academia and industry.
  (link to more information)

• Best Demo Award at IEEE VNC 2019

  December 06, 2019: We received the Best Demo Award at IEEE VNC 2019 for our work Making It Real – Virtual Edge Computing in a 3D Driving Simulator. Gurjashan S. Pannu presented the demo in Los Angeles, California.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at IEEE VNC 2019 in Los Angeles, California

  December 06, 2019: Max Schettler gave a talk about our papers titled The Chosen One: Combating VLC Interference in Platooning using Matrix Headlights and Using Full Duplex Relaying to Reduce Physical Layer Latency in Platooning at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
  
  Claas Tebruegge gave a talk about our paper titled Empirical Characterization of the NLOS Component for Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
  
  Dominik S. Buse gave a talk about our paper titled Towards Real-Time Interactive V2X Simulation at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
  
  Gurjashan S. Pannu gave a talk about our paper titled Making It Real – Virtual Edge Computing in a 3D Driving Simulator at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
  
  Tobias Hardes gave a talk about our paper titled Towards Heterogeneous Communication Strategies for Urban Platooning at Intersections at the 11th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019) in Los Angeles, California.
  

• CCS @ VNC 2019 in Los Angeles, California

  December 06, 2019: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2019, this year hosted in Los Angeles, California.
  

• New DFG project NICCI^2

  December 01, 2019: Our proposal Network-Informed Control – Control-Informed network: towards multi techNology dynamICally ChangIng networksAvalanches (NICCI^2) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore networked control systems as a fundamental basis for cyber physical networks. (link to more information)

• Press event to conclude BATS project

  November 25, 2019: The BATS project has been concluded after six years of research funded by German Research Foundation (DFG). In an interdisciplinary team (biology, electrical engineering, computer science), we developed a novel embedded system architecture weighing less than one gram to be carried by the target species bats. The CCS team mainly contributed with their award winning coding and wake-up receiver solutions, as well as with a novel distributed macro diversity scheme running on low-power nodes. The BATS team also released a press release (in German).
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler joins acatech

  November 12, 2019: The German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) just appointed Falko Dressler as a member. acatech brings together science, industry and civil society. The Academy's Members are prominent scientists from the fields of engineering, the natural sciences and medicine, as well as the humanities and social sciences. Funded by the Federal Government and the states, the National Academy of Science and Engineering is the voice of the technological sciences at home and abroad. acatech provides policymakers and society with independent, evidence-based advice that is in the public interest. In doing so, it aims to promote sustainable growth through innovation.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Stefan Loewen

  November 06, 2019: We welcome Stefan Loewen who joined our group in November 2019. He will work on simulating macroscopic molecular communication. (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  October 31, 2019: Our article Car-to-Pedestrian Communication with MEC-Support for Adaptive Safety of Vulnerable Road Users has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project AvaRange

  October 29, 2019: Our proposal Particle Tracking in Snow (AvaRange) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore sensor network-based particle tracking using inertial measurements combined with radio telemetry. (link to more information)

• Invited talk at IEEE 5G World Forum

  October 02, 2019: Falko Dressler just talked about "MEC to Go: Using Cars to Enable Virtual Mobile Edge Computing" at the IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G 2019), Workshop on 5G Applications and Services in Dresden, Germany.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at ACM NANOCOM 2019

  September 25, 2019: Fabian Bronner presented our paper Towards Mastering Complex Particle Movement and Tracking in Molecular Communication Simulation at the 6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM 2019) in Dublin, Ireland.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at INFORMATIK 2019

  September 23, 2019: Lukas Stratmann presented our paper Psychological Feasibility of a Virtual Cycling Environment for Human-in-the-Loop Experiments at GI #INFORMATIK2019 Workshop on ICT based Collision Avoidance for VRUs #ICT4VRU.
  (link to more information)

• CCS for Future

  September 20, 2019: CCS was participating at the #allefürsklima climate demonstration in Paderborn 🌍💪 #fridaysforfuture #scientistsforfuture #fff #allefürsklima
  

• Fulbright Fellowship for Agon Memedi

  July 30, 2019: Agon Memedi received a Fulbright Fellowship for 2019-2020, sponsoring his appointment as Visiting Graduate Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  

• Keynote at IEEE ICCCN 2019

  July 29, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "From Vehicular Networking to 5G and Mobile Edge Computing and Back" at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019) in Valencia, Spain.
  

• New IEEE Communications Magazine article

  July 21, 2019: Our article Turning Sensor Networks into Distributed Antenna Arrays for Improved Communication Performance has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Lukas Stratmann

  July 15, 2019: We welcome Lukas Stratmann who joined our group in July 2019. He will work on molecular communication channels.

• CCS on Tour 2019

  July 07, 2019: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Göttingen for a four-day research retreat including research talks, social events, and lots of discussions.
  

• Felix Erlacher just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  June 27, 2019: Felix Erlacher successfully defended his PhD on June 27, 2019. His dissertation is titled Efficient Intrusion Detection in High-Speed Networks. He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University.
  
  You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel.(link to more information)

• Successful "Pizza & Theses @ CCS" event

  June 27, 2019: Yesterday, we had a successful "Pizza & Theses @ CCS" event, where we briefly presented each of the thesis topics currently available and gave some hints on how writing a thesis with us works.
  
  (link to more information)

• Florian Hagenauer just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  June 13, 2019: Florian Hagenauer successfully defended his PhD on June 13, 2019. His dissertation is titled An Architecture for Connected Cars Providing Virtual Infrastructure and Services. He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree with distinction from Paderborn University.
  
  You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel. (link to more information)

• Dr. Marco Fiore visiting CCS Labs

  June 13, 2019: We were happy to host Dr. Marco Fiore, who gave a talk on "Resource Management in Sliced 5G Networks".
  

• Paper presentations at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 in Washington, D.C., USA

  June 11, 2019: Gurjashan S. Pannu presented our paper "Keeping Data Alive: Communication Across Vehicular Micro Clouds" at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 in Washington, D.C.
  
  Julian Heinovski presented our paper "Modeling Cycling Behavior to Improve Bicyclists' Safety at Intersections – A Networking Perspective" at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 in Washington, D.C.
  

• Invited Talk @ Polimi honoring the lifetime achievements of Mario Gerla

  June 03, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "Vehicular Cloud Concepts for Mobile Edge Computing" at Politecnico di Milano honoring the lifetime achievements of our dear friend and long-term collaborator Mario Gerla.
  

• TV report about our research project Safety4Bikes @ WDR Lokalzeit

  May 23, 2019: Our research project Safety4Bikes has been featured in a TV report at a local TV station (i.e., WDR Lokalzeit). The report explains how we are improving the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRU), e.g., cyclists, by using Vehicular Communication (V2X).
  (link to more information)

• Presentation at BMBF Zukunftskongress 2019 in Bonn, Germany

  May 21, 2019: Julian Heinovski, Dominik S. Buse and Mario Franke are presenting our research project Safety4Bikes at Zukunftskongress 2019 organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
  

• Paper presentations at ICC 2019 in Shanghai, China

  May 21, 2019: We had two papers at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019) in Shanghai, China. Unfortunately, Sohaib did not get a visa, so, Falko presented the first paper. The papers are An IEEE 802.11 Compliant SDR-based System for Vehicular Visible Light Communications and Experimental Insights on Software-based Real-Time SI Cancellation for In-Band Full Duplex DF Relays.
  

• Keynote at Nets4Cars-2019

  May 16, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "Cooperative Automated Driving: From Assistance Systems to Networking to Human Interaction" at the 14th Workshop Related to Intelligent Communication Technologies (Nets4Cars-2019) in Colmar, France.
  

• New DFG project NaBoCom

  May 06, 2019: Our proposal Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks (NaBoCom) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will investigate the integration of in-body nano networks with body are networks. (link to more information)

• Poster presentation at INFOCOM 2019 in Paris, France

  May 01, 2019: Florian Klingler presented our poster titled Jamming WLAN Data Frames and Acknowledgments using Commodity Hardware at the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019) in Paris, France.
  

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  April 23, 2019: Our article Efficient Data Handling in Vehicular Micro Clouds has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Muhammad Nabeel just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  April 03, 2019: Muhammad Nabeel successfully defended his PhD on April 03, 2019. His dissertation is titled Reliable Communication in Distributed Sensor Networks. He was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. degree from Paderborn University.
  
  You can find a collection of pictures from his defense and the graduation ceremony afterwards on our YouTube channel. (link to more information)

• CCS Labs is celebrating 5 years in Paderborn

  April 01, 2019: We are looking back at five very successful years at Paderborn University. As a member of Heinz Nixdorf Institute and supported for the first five years by dSPACE, we proudly celebrate with all our friends, collaborators, and supporters.
  (link to more information)

• Presentations at NetSys 2019 in Munich

  March 21, 2019: Fabian Bronner gave a talk about his bachelor thesis "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications" at NetSys 2019 for which he received the GI/ITG KuVS Award 2018. More information.
  
  Johannes Blobel gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
  
  Tobias Hardes gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
  
  Julian Heinovski gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
  
  Max Schettler gave a madness talk about his PhD project in the PhD Forum at NetSys 2019:
  
  Bastian Bloessl gave a talk about low-power wireless communicatios at NetSys 2019:
  
  Florian Klingler gave a talk about efficient wireless communication in vehicular networks at NetSys 2019:
  

• CCS @ International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2019)

  March 20, 2019: Many of our group members are attending the International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2019), hosted this year in Munich.
  

• GI/ITG KuVS "Bachelor Thesis of the Year 2018" award for Fabian Bronner

  February 21, 2019: Fabian Bronner was awarded a "Bachelor Thesis of the Year 2018" award by GI/ITG KuVS. Together with his advisor, Christoph Sommer, he published the core of his thesis "Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications" as a paper at IEEE VNC. GI/ITG KuVS is the communication and distributed systems special interest group of the German Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Information Technology Society of VDE.
  (link to more information)

• Invited talk at IEEE ICNC 2019 in Honolulu, HI

  February 19, 2019: Falko Dressler just talked about Virtual Edge Computing Using Vehicular Micro Clouds at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019) in Honolulu, HI.

• Dr. Dressler appointed as Editor for IEEE/ACM ToN

  February 16, 2019: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Editor to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking's Editorial Board. IEEE/ACM ToN is the most prestigous journal in computer networking.

• Paper presentations at WONS 2019 in Wengen, Switzerland

  January 22, 2019: Quang-Huy Nguyen gave a talk about our paper titled Adaptive Safety Context Information for Vulnerable Road Users with MEC Support at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2019) in Wengen, Switzerland.
  
  Max Schettler gave a talk about our paper titled Deeply Integrating Visible Light and Radio Communication for Ultra-High Reliable Platooning at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2019) in Wengen, Switzerland.
  

• Keynote at INW 2019

  January 18, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave a keynote on "Monitoring of Bats in the Wild Using Next Generation Ultra Low-Power Sensor Networks" at the Italian Networking Workshop (INW 2019) in Bormio, Italy.

• Invited talk at IEEE COMSNETS 2019

  January 08, 2019: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "Ultra Low-Power Sensor Networks for Next Generation Wildlife Monitoring" at the 11th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2019) in Bengaluru, India.

• Mario Franke awarded Distinguished Student 2018

  December 17, 2018: We congratulate Mario Franke for winning this year's distinguished student researcher award at CCS Labs!
  

• Falko Dressler in the news as Featured ACM Member

  December 11, 2018: Falko Dressler has been featured by ACM in its People of the ACM series - Making a Difference: Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at GLOBECOM 2018 in Abu Dhabi, UAE

  December 10, 2018: Muhammad Nabeel presented our paper titled Preamble-Less Diversity Combining: Improved Energy-Efficiency in Sensor Networks at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  

• Open PhD Position at CCS-Labs

  December 08, 2018: A new PhD position is available in our group. The scope is on systems oriented network research on energy-efficient WLAN. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Best Paper Runner-Up Award at IEEE VNC 2018

  December 06, 2018: We just received the best paper runner-up award at IEEE VNC 2018 for our work on the impact of various headlight modules and corresponding vehicle types on the performance of Vehicular VLC. Agon Memedi presented the paper in Taipei, Taiwan.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at VNC 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan

  December 06, 2018: Christoph Sommer gave a talk about our paper titled Efficient Multi-Channel Simulation of Wireless Communications at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
  
  Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled Impact of Vehicle Type and Headlight Characteristics on Vehicular VLC Performance at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
  
  Julian Heinovski gave a talk about our paper titled Platoon Formation: Optimized Car to Platoon Assignment Strategies and Protocols at the 10th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2018) in Taipei, Taiwan.
  

• CCS @ VNC 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan

  December 06, 2018: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2018, this year hosted in Taipei, Taiwan.
  

• Virtual Cycling Environment

  November 13, 2018: We have extended our prototype of the Virtual Cycling Environment. It integrates a bike on a test bench with a simulated world of communicating vehicles. We see this as a first step towards empirically investigating cycling behavior and integrating safety solutions for vulnerable road users.
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler named an ACM Distinguished Member

  November 07, 2018: Professor Falko Dressler (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Paderborn) has been named an 2018 ACM Distinguished Member For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing. Falko's research pioneered the design and analysis of self-organization techniques in sensor and vehicular networks. His work contributed to the literature with many fundamental theories and novel communication techniques for these networks. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 49 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. The 2018 Distinguished Members are exemplars for their peers, and represent ACM's worldwide geographic reach, as well as the exciting range of subdisciplines that constitute today's technology landscape.

• Isabel Wagner elevated to IEEE Senior Member

  October 19, 2018: Our alumnus Isabel Wagner has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member. We congratulate her to this great achievement! (link to more information)

• Prof. Ana Aguiar visiting CCS

  October 15, 2018: We were happy to host Prof. Ana Aguiar, who gave a talk on "Characterising Bike-to-X Connectivity".
  

• New staff member: Max Schettler

  October 08, 2018: We welcome Max Schettler who joined our group in October 2018. He will work on heterogeneous communication protocols.

• New staff member: Julian Heinovski

  October 01, 2018: We welcome Julian Heinovski who joined our group in October 2018. He will work on cooperative driving and vulnerable road users.

• Florian Klingler just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  September 17, 2018: Florian Klingler successfully defended his PhD on September 17, 2018. His dissertation is titled Efficient Wireless Communication in Vehicular Networks. He was awarded a Dr.rer.nat (summa cum laude) degree from Paderborn University.
  (link to more information)

• Invited talk at National Symposium BMBF-Forschungsinitativen 5G

  September 12, 2018: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "5G Tactile Internet in Automotive Environments" at the National Symposium BMBF-Forschungsinitativen 5G on Future Industrial Communication in Berlin, Germany.
  

• 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM/IEEE NANOCOM 2018)

  September 06, 2018: We have been organizing the 5th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference is the key meeting place for people workong on nano communication techniques ranging from terahertz radio to ultrasound to molecular communications.
  (link to more information)

• Invited talk at ANDICOM 2018 in Colombia

  August 30, 2018: Falko Dressler just gave an invited talk on "From Vehicular Micro Clouds to Cooperative Driving Maneuvers" at the International ICT Congress ANDICOM 2018 in Cartagena, Colombia.

• New Proceedings of the IEEE article

  August 01, 2018: Our article Cooperative Driving and the Tactile Internet has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
  (link to more information)

• Johannes Blobel accepted into Software Campus Program

  July 30, 2018: Johannes Blobel has been accepted into Software Campus Program sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. This program combines leading-edge research with managment and leadership practice for tomorrow's senior IT executives.
  (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour 2018

  July 15, 2018: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Herford for a three-day workshop including research talks, canoeing, hiking, and lots of discussions.
  

• Open PhD Position at CCS-Labs

  June 27, 2018: Two new PhD positions are available in our group. The scope is on either nano networking or network monitoring. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Prof. Renato Lo Cigno visiting CCS

  June 26, 2018: We were happy to host Prof. Renato Lo Cigno, who gave a talk on "Community Networks Between Engineering and Society".
  

• Bastian Bloessl just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  June 25, 2018: Bastian Bloessl successfully defended his PhD on June 25, 2018. His dissertation is entitled A Physical Layer Experimentation Framework for Automotive WLAN. He was awarded a Dr.rer.nat (summa cum laude) degree from Paderborn University.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentation at IEEE WoWMoM 2018 in Chania, Greece

  June 13, 2018: Gurjashan Pannu presented our paper titled Efficient Uplink from Vehicular Micro Cloud Solutions to Data Centers at the 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multinational (WoWMoM 2018) in Chania, Greece.
  

• 16th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2018)

  June 12, 2018: We have been organizing the 16th edition of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services in Munich. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and South America.
  (link to more information)

• EIM Science Day winner Muhammad Nabeel

  June 06, 2018: We congratulate our group member Muhammad Nabeel on presenting his PhD research under 6 minutes and securing first position on EIM Science day at Paderborn University.
  (link to more information)

• Bachelor/Master's Theses @ CCS

  June 06, 2018: Students looking for open Bachelor/Master's theses topics are invited to join the "BSc/MSc Theses @ CCS" meeting, where available topics in our group will be presented.
  Besides the theses topics which are up for grabs, in the end of the meeting you can grab free pizza provided by us.
  • Where: F1.110
  • When: 20.6., 18-19
  
  

• 3D Cycling Simulator

  May 30, 2018: We have the first prototype of our 3D Cycling Simulator ready. It integrates a bike on a test bench with a simulated world of communicating vehicles. We see this as a first step towards empirically investigating cycling behavior and integrating safety solutions for vulnerable road users.
  • Project: Safety4Bikes
  • Video: local, YouTube
  
  

• Inaugural Lecture on May 28

  May 28, 2018: Jun.-Prof. Christoph Sommer gave his inaugural lecture on May 28, 2018 at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (EIM). The talk introduced "Cooperative Mobile Systems".
  

• Keynote at workshop of ICC 2018

  May 24, 2018: Christoph Sommer gave a keynote on "Towards Cooperative Mobile Systems in Smart Cities of Tomorrow" at the Workshop on 5G and Cooperative Autonomous Driving of ICC 2018.

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  May 21, 2018: Our article Vehicular Micro Cloud in Action: On Gateway Selection and Gateway Handovers has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  May 20, 2018: Our article Bloom Hopping: Bloom filter based 2-Hop Neighbor Management in VANETs has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE ICC

  May 20, 2018: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "From Connected Cars toVehicle Micro Clouds to Virtual Edges" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018).
  

• Inter-Vehicular Communication - Towards Cooperative Driving

  May 15, 2018: We are just running the Dagstuhl Seminar 18202 Inter-Vehicular Communication - Towards Cooperative Driving in Wadern, Germany. The seminar is very well attended by experts from academia and industry from all places in the world. We are discussing all questions related to cooperative autonomous driving and how to push this topic from ideas to making it reality.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology article

  May 10, 2018: Our article The Impact of Head of Line Blocking inHighly Dynamic WLANs has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project PANDA

  May 07, 2018: Our proposal Precise Attack Detection for Network Domains by Application Classification (PANDA) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will investigate attack detection techniques in large network domains using smart and adaptive distributions of network probes within an administrative domain and even within virtualized networks. (link to more information)

• Demo presentation at IEEE INFOCOM 2018 in Honolulu, HI

  April 17, 2018: Dominik S. Buse just presented his demo Integrating a Driving Simulator with City-Scale VANET Simulation for the Development of Next Generation ADAS Systems at the 37th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018) in Honolulu, HI.
  

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  April 04, 2018: Our article Readjusting the Privacy Goals in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: A Safety-preserving Solution Using Non-Overlapping Time-slotted Pseudonym Pools has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  March 22, 2018: Our article A Simulative Analysis of the Performance of IEEE 802.11p and ARIB STD-T109 has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Computer Communications article

  March 20, 2018: Our article Duplicate Suppression for Efficient Floating Car Data Collection in Heterogeneous LTE-DSRC Vehicular Networks has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications.
  (link to more information)

• Dr. Michele Segata visiting CCS

  March 14, 2018: We were happy to host our former group member Dr. Michele Segata, who gave a talk on Future Directions in Platooning and discussed potential opportunities for collaboration.
  

• Invited talk at IEEE ICNC 2018 in Maui, HI

  March 06, 2018: Falko Dressler just talked about Cyber Physical Social Systems: Towards Deeply Integrated Hybridized Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2018) in Maui, HI.
  

• New PostDoc Position at CCS-Labs

  February 27, 2018: We have a new PostDoc position available in our group in the general scope of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details.
  (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  February 20, 2018: Our article mSync: Physical Layer Frame Synchronization Without Preamble Symbols has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  (link to more information)

• Paper presentations at WONS 2017 in Isola 2000, France

  February 06, 2018: Dominik S. Buse gave a talk about our paper titled Bridging Worlds: Integrating Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing with Large-Scale VANET Simulation at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2018) in Isola 2000, France.
  
  Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled On the Need for Coordinated Access Control for Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2018) in Isola 2000, France.
  

• CCS @ WONS 2018 in Isola 2000, France

  February 06, 2018: Many of our group members, past and present, are attending the Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2018, this year hosted in Isola 2000, France.
  

• New staff member: Tobias Hardes

  January 02, 2018: We welcome Tobias who joined our group in January 2018. He will work on cooperative mobile systems.

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-4 Citations

  January 02, 2018: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now number 4 of the most highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• New DFG project RADCOM-HETNET

  December 19, 2017: Our proposal Integration of Radar-based Communication in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Cooperatively Interacting Cars (RADCOM-HETNET) has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this project, we will explore the use of heterogeneous communication protocols, most importanly RADAR based, for highly critical safety applications like platooning. (link to more information)

• CCS Christmas Party

  December 18, 2017: We just celebrated a very successful year in a quite relaxed atmosphere.
  

• Falko Dressler re-appointed as an ACM Distinguished Speaker

  December 13, 2017: ACM has re-appointed Falko Dressler as an ACM Distinguished Speaker for the period 2018-2020. ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) is a highly visible way for ACM members to engage with emerging professionals, students and, in some cases, the public on a range of topics in computing.

• Paper presentation at GLOBECOM 2017 in Singapore

  December 07, 2017: Agon Memedi gave a talk about our paper titled Impact of Realistic Light Radiation Pattern on Vehicular Visible Light Communication at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017) in Singapore.
  

• Paper presentations at VNC 2017 in Torino, Italy

  November 29, 2017: Gurjashan Singh Pannu gave a talk about our paper titled QQDCA: Adapting IEEE 802.11 EDCA for Unicast Transmissions at High Topology Dynamics at the 9th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017) in Torino, Italy.
  
  Bastian Bloessl gave a talk about our paper titled A Systematic Study on the Impact of Noise and OFDM Interference on IEEE 802.11p at the 9th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017) in Torino, Italy.
  

• New IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking

  November 28, 2017: Our article Efficient Receive Diversity in Distributed Sensor Networks using Selective Sample Forwarding has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
  (link to more information)

• CCS @ VNC 2017 in Torino, Italy

  November 27, 2017: Many of our group members are attending the Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2017, this year hosted in Torino, Italy.
  
  

• Bastian Bloessl gave a lecture about GNU Radio

  November 23, 2017: We thank Bastian Bloessl who gave a lecture about GNU Radio in our today's NES class.
  

• New staff member: Gurjashan Singh Pannu

  November 13, 2017: We welcome Gurjashan who joined our group in November 2017. He will work on vehicular networking protocols and solutions.

• Isabel Wagner elevated to ACM Senior Member

  November 01, 2017: Our alumnus Isabel Wagner has been elevated to ACM Senior Member. We congratulate her to this great achievement! (link to more information)

• Julian and Max awarded Distinguished Student 2017

  October 25, 2017: We congratulate Julian Heinovski and Max Schettler for winning this year's distinguished student researcher award at CCS Labs!
  

• Keynote at IoT 2017

  October 23, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Virtual Vehicular Clouds as Enablersfor City-Wide ICT" at the 7th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2017).

• Christoph Sommer appointed Junior Professor

  October 01, 2017: Christoph Sommer has been appointed junior professor in our computer science department and is starting his Cooperative Mobile Systems (Kooperative Fahrzeugsysteme) group. We congratulate Christoph to this step in his academic career.

• New IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking article

  September 28, 2017: Our article Not All VANET Broadcasts Are the Same: Context-Aware Class Based Broadcast has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Nano Communication Networks article

  September 11, 2017: Our article Function Centric Nano-Networking: Addressing Nano Machines in a Medical Application Scenario has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  September 03, 2017: Our article Performance Assessment of IEEE 802.11p with an Open Source SDR-based Prototype has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at ACM SIGCOMM

  August 25, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the ACM SIGCOMM.

• CCS on Tour 2017

  July 15, 2017: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Goslar for a three-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
  

• Dr. Dressler appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE TNSE

  July 06, 2017: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor to the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering's Editorial Board. IEEE TNSE focuses on theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network.

• Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr. Ahmed Helmy

  July 03, 2017: We are glad to report that Prof. Dr. Ahmed Helmy gave a seminar talk on "Data-Driven Design and Simulation of Future Mobile Networks (with applications in Vehicular Networks, Transportation, Mobile Health)".
  

• Falko Dressler elected ACM SIGMOBILE executive committee member

  June 30, 2017: Falko Dressler has been elected as part of the new ACM SIGMOBILE executive committee. He will serve for four years as treasurer to the SIGMOBILE community. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE ICC

  May 25, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC).

• Keynote at IEEE ISNCC

  May 16, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: From Applications to Protocols and Back" at the IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2017).

• Best Demo Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2017

  May 08, 2017: We just received the best demo award at IEEE INFOCOM 2017 for our concept of sender-triggered selective wake-up receivers to improve the energy efficiency of wireless communication in sensor networks. Johannes Blobel demonstrated the concept in Atlanta, GA. (link to more information)

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  April 10, 2017: Bastian Bloessl received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, funding a two-year stay at CONNECT, Ireland's Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications.

• New staff member: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad

  April 03, 2017: We welcome Sohaib who joined our group in April 2017. He will work on 5G and Tactile Internet solutions.

• Keynote at IEEE Wireless Days

  March 30, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "The Tactile Internet and Its Impact on Cooperative Autonomous Driving" at IEEE Wireless Days 2017.

• Christoph Sommer elected Steering Board Member of GI/ITG KuVS

  March 15, 2017: Christoph Sommer has been elected as Steering Board Member of GT/ITG KuVS, the German Society for Communication and Distributed Systems. His term is 2017 to 2021. (link to more information)

• New project: Safety4Bikes - Safety assistance system for cycling kids

  February 16, 2017: We started the new project "Safety4Bikes - Safety assistance system for cycling kids", which is about the development of assistance system functionalities to improve the safety of kids on bicycles using behavior prediction and wireless communication technologies. The project is funded by BMBF. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE CCNC

  January 08, 2017: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Tactile Internet: Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC).

• New staff member: Claas Tebruegge

  December 01, 2016: We welcome Claas who joined our group in December 2016. He will work on visible light communication.

• Falko Dressler named an IEEE Fellow

  November 22, 2016: Professor Falko Dressler (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Paderborn) has been named an IEEE Fellow (class of 2017). He is being recognized for contributions to adaptive and self-organizing communication protocols in sensor and vehicular networks. His work contributed to the literature with many fundamental theories and novel communication techniques for these networks. He identified the potentials of self-organization techniques very early and investigated these potentials first in the scope of sensor and actor networks. With his discoveries, he provided the foundations for a new generation of research on protocol design in massively distributed systems and large scale wireless networks. This work resulted in a ground-breaking model that can be applied to many problems in these areas but also to networks exhibiting a fast change of environmental conditions.

• Tony Sale Award 2016 goes to Johannes Blobel

  November 18, 2016: We congratulate our group member Johannes Blobel for being part of the Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) team which won the "Tony Sale Award 2016" for the best computer conservation project.
  (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler elected Spokesperson of GI/ITG KuVS

  November 04, 2016: Falko Dressler has been elected as a chair and spokesperson of GT/ITG KuVS, the German Society for Communication and Distributed Systems. His term is 2017 to 2021. (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position at CCS-Labs

  September 14, 2016: New PhD positions are available in our group in the general scope of computer and communication systems. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• ACM DSP tour to Sri Lanka and Keynote at IEEE ICTer 2016

  September 01, 2016: Falko Dressler continued his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour to Sri Lanka and gave a keynote on "Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking" at the IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

• Keynote at Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities

  August 12, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Connected Cars to Smart Cities - On Wireless Communication Latency and Reliability" at the Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities, Santiago de Chile.

• Stefan Joerer just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  July 22, 2016: Stefan Joerer successfully defended his PhD on July 22, 2016. His dissertation is entitled Improving Intersection Safety with Inter-Vehicle Communication.
  (link to more information)

• 27th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2016)

  July 06, 2016: We have been organizing the 27th edition of the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing in Paderborn. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Selected impressions have been disseminated by the German news.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE ISCC

  June 28, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "10 Years of Vehicular Networking - The Quest for Low Latency and High Reliability" at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).

• Keynote at IEEE WoWMoM

  June 22, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Towards the Tactile Internet - Low Latency Communications in Connected Cars" at the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016).

• New staff member: Dominik S. Buse

  June 06, 2016: We welcome Dominik who joined our group in June 2016. He will work on vehicular networks and travel time optimization.

• CCS on Tour 2016

  June 05, 2016: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Dangast for a three-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
  

• Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr. Vijay Bhargava

  May 04, 2016: We are glad to report that Prof. Dr. Vijay Bhargava gave a seminar talk on "Communications Technologies for 2020 and Beyond: An Energy-Efficient Perspective with Application to Automation".
  

• Research paper Top-10 in ACM downloads

  April 30, 2016: Our paper "Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 7 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks. (link to more information)

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-5 Citations

  April 30, 2016: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 5 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• New project: Hy-Nets - Efficient Hybrid Propulsion using Vehicular Networks

  April 26, 2016: We started the new project "Hy-Nets - Hy-Nets - Efficient Hybrid Propulsion using Vehicular Networks", which is about a holistic investigation of hybrid propulsion in large scale cities for optimizing emissions and travel times using vehicular networking. The project is funded by EFRE.NRW/EU. (link to more information)

• New project: C3 - Cloud Connected Cars

  April 11, 2016: We started the new project "C3 - Cloud Connected Cars" in which we investigate using cars to establish decentralized connected information clouds based on heterogeneous vehicular networks. The project is funded by DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE WCNC

  April 03, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities" at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2016).

• Michele Segata just finished his PhD - congratulations!

  February 12, 2016: Michele Segata successfully defended his PhD on February 12, 2016. His dissertation is entitled Safe and Efficient Communication Protocols for Platooning Control. He was awarded a double degree from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Trento.
  (link to more information)

• Keynote at AAET

  February 10, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking to Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control," at AAET 2016 in Braunschweig, Germany.

• CCS became member of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute

  January 19, 2016: We are now member of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, where we will be able to work in an inter-disciplinary environment on intelligent technical systems. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  January 19, 2016: Our article Motion-MiX DHT for Wireless Mobile Networks has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler appointed to L-LAB executive board

  January 18, 2016: Falko Dressler has been appointed to the L-LAB executive board. L-LAB is a research lab focusing on automotive light systems between HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co. and Paderborn University.

• Tutorial at IEEE CCNC

  January 12, 2016: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: Next Generation Vehicular Networking as a Primary Building Block" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC).

• Falko Dressler appointed Assoc. EiC for Computer Communications

  January 07, 2016: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious Elsevier Computer Communications journal. (link to more information)

• New ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks article

  January 06, 2016: Our article Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE GLOBECOM

  December 10, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Smart Cities and the Vehicular Cloud: Next Generation Vehicular Networking as a Primary Building Block" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015).

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-10 Citations

  December 09, 2015: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 7 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Elsevier Computer Networks Paper in Top-10 Citations

  December 09, 2015: Our paper "A Survey on Bio-inspired Networking" is now the top 8 of highly cited papers of Elsevier Computer Networks. (link to more information)

• IEEE COMSOC honors our AvaRange approach

  November 30, 2015: Our AvaRang approach has been selected among some 50+ proposed projects for the 2015 IEEE COMSOC COMPETITION. Even though we did not make it for the first price, the honorary mentioning by COMSOC strongly encourages to continue our work towards monitoring the dynamics of avalanches using sensor networking technology. (link to more information)

• DFG research group BATS extended

  November 24, 2015: Our DFG research group BATS has been extended for another three years of funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this research group, in an interdisciplinary team from Paderborn University, FAU Erlangen, Humboldt University Berlin we are investigating the use of sensor network technology for tracking bats in their natural environment. (link to more information)

• Project extended: Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies

  November 17, 2015: We continue the project "Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies" in which we investigate vehicles as the main ICT resource. The objective is to make vehicles serving as information or radio hubs for the entire society. The project is funded by Toyota InfoTechnologies Center Co. Ltd., Japan. (link to more information)

• New staff member: Agon Memedi

  November 16, 2015: We welcome Agon who joined our group in November 2015. He will work on vehicular networks and visible light communication.

• Keynote at IEEE WiMob

  October 20, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "From Connected Cars to Smart Cities - On Wireless Communication Latency and Reliability" at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2015).

• ACM DSP tour to the Urals

  October 13, 2015: Falko Dressler continued his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour to the Perm State University in the Urals giving a lecture titled "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities".

• ACM DSP tour to Stuttgart

  October 05, 2015: Falko Dressler started his ACM Distinguished Speaker Program tour on October 5, 2016 in Stuttgart giving a lecture titled "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities".

• Bastian Bloessl wins DAAD scholarship to visit UCLA

  September 28, 2015: Starting in September 2015, Bastian Bloessl joins the Network Research Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) supported by a DAAD scholarship.

• New IEEE Communications Magazine article

  September 01, 2015: Our article From Radio Telemetry to Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks - Tracking Bats in the Wild has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  August 23, 2015: Our article Enabling Situation Awareness at Intersections for IVC Congestion Control Mechanisms has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  August 03, 2015: Our article MCB - A Multi-Channel Beaconing Protocol has been published in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Security and Pricavy article

  July 26, 2015: Our article Cleaning Up the Mess of Web 2.0 Security (At Least Partly) has been accepted for publication in IEEE Security and Privacy. (link to more information)

• IETF-93 technical plenary presentation

  July 24, 2015: Christoph Sommer presented the topic of vehicular networking at the IETF-93 technical plenary. A record number of 1384 people had visited Prague, discussing with speakers like William Whyte, ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao, and Edward Snowden. (link to more information)

• Keynote at VDI/VDE AUTOREG

  June 10, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Inter-Vehicle Communication based Intersection Safety and Cooperative Cruise Control" at the VDI/VDE AUTOREG conference in Baden-Baden, Germany.

• Open PhD Position in Nano Communications

  May 07, 2015: A new PhD position is available in our group in the general scope of nano communication networks. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-10 Citations

  April 22, 2015: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now the top 8 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Paper in Top-25 Citations

  April 22, 2015: Our paper "On the Feasibility of UMTS-based Traffic Information Systems" is now in the top-25 of highly cited papers of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (see details). (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour 2015

  March 21, 2015: The Distributed Embedded Systems group and close friends are meeting in Meschede for a two-day workshop including research talks, hiking, and lots of discussions.
  

• New staff member: Huy Quang Nguyen

  March 20, 2015: We welcome Huy who joined our group in March 2015. He will work on task offloading strategies for smart phones.

• New staff member: Johannes Blobel

  March 16, 2015: We welcome Johannes who joined our group in March 2015. He will work on cooperative communication techniques.

• Tutorial at IEEE WCNC

  March 09, 2015: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Towards the Vehicular Cloud:From Connected Cars to Smart Cities" at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015).

• Tutorial at NetSys 2015

  March 09, 2015: Christoph Sommer gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking" at the International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys).

• New Elsevier Nano Communication Networks article

  January 07, 2015: Our article Connecting In-Body Nano Communication with Body Area Networks: Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet of Nano Things has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. (link to more information)

• New project: Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies

  December 06, 2014: We started the new project "Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies" in which we investigate vehicles as the main ICT resource. The objective is to make vehicles serving as information or radio hubs for the entire society. The project is funded by Toyota InfoTechnologies Center Co. Ltd., Japan. (link to more information)

• 6th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2014)

  December 05, 2014: We have been organizing the 6th edition of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference in Paderborn. The conference already turned out to be a great success. We had people joining from all over the world, from the US, Europe, Asia, and even South America. Selected impressions have been disseminated by the German news - TV stations, radio, and newspapers. (link to more information)

• New Textbook on Vehicular Networking published by Cambridge University Press

  November 27, 2014: Our new book "Vehicular Networking" just appeared. The book is co-authored by Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler. It is a comprehensive guideline to vehicular networking with chapters on in-car networks, inter-vehicle communication, and detailed discussions of relevant protocols as well as simulation techniques. (link to more information)

• Falko Dressler appointed as an ACM Distinguished Speaker

  November 26, 2014: ACM has appointed Falko Dressler as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) is a highly visible way for ACM members to engage with emerging professionals, students and, in some cases, the public on a range of topics in computing.

• New project: Next Generation Real-Time Ethernet for Industrial Applications

  October 31, 2014: We started the new project "Next Generation Real-Time Ethernet for Industrial Applications" in which we investigate scheduling problems for real-time Ethernet in the context of the IEEE TSN (time sensitive networking) standardization process. The project is funded by Siemens and we just signed the contract. (link to more information)

• New staff member: Muhammad Nabeel

  October 13, 2014: We welcome Muhammad who joined our group in October 2014. He will work on ultra low power sensor networks in the scope of our BATS project, which focusses on tracking bats in the wild. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing article

  September 19, 2014: Our article How Shadowing Hurts Vehicular Communications and How Dynamic Beaconing Can Help has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (link to more information)

• Keynote at ACM WiMobCity

  August 11, 2014: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Connected Cars - Towards a more Safe and Green Driving Experience" at the ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (ACM WiMobCity 2014) in Philadelphia, PA.

• Open PhD and PostDoc Positions

  May 26, 2014: Two positions for doctoral students or PostDocs are available in our group: one in the general field of wireless networking and one in the DFG researcj project BATS. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Inaugural Lecture on May 6

  May 06, 2014: Prof. Falko Dressler gave his inaugural lecture on May 6, 2014 at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (EIM). The talk introduced "Adaptive Wireless Communicationin Sensor and Vehicular Networks:New Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems".

• Best Student Poster Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2014

  April 29, 2014: We just received the best student poster award at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 for our concept of using erasure codes to improve the communication reliability in sensor networks and particularly in our application scenario of tracking bats in the wild. Margit Mutschlechner demonstrated the concept in Toronto. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology article

  April 04, 2014: Our article The Role of Parked Cars in Content Downloading for Vehicular Networks has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Techology. (link to more information)

• New Chair for Distributed Embedded Systems

  April 01, 2014: The Endowed Chair for Distributed Embedded Sytems started its work in April 2014 supported by dSPACE. Before moving to Paderborn, we have been working since May 2011 at the University of Innsbruck. The web site will be migrated soon.

• CCS is moving to Paderborn

  March 30, 2014: The CCS team is relocating to Paderborn, Germany. Prof. Dressler accepted an offer from University of Paderborn for a full professorship. The new chair is named "Distributed Embedded Systems".
  

• Dr. Dressler appointed as Area Editor for Elsevier Computer Communications

  March 02, 2014: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Area Editor to the Elsevier Computer Communications's Editorial Board.

• Tutorial at IEEE CCNC

  January 10, 2014: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2014).

• ACM Transactions Paper in Top-10 Citations

  January 06, 2014: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is now in the top-10 of highly cited papers of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• CCS on Tour 3

  January 05, 2014: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Schladming for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiing, and lots of discussions.

• Best Paper Award at IEEE VNC 2013

  December 17, 2013: We just received the best paper award at IEEE VNC 2013 for our GNU Radio OFDM transceiver for IEEE 802.11p. Bastian Bloessl devloped this tool and presented the paper in Boston. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE GLOBECOM

  December 09, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013).

• Stefan Joerer wins the prestigious Endeavour Scholarship

  November 29, 2013: Starting in May 2014, Stefan Joerer is about to continue working on his PhD abroad at the University of Sydney supported by the prestigious Endeavour scholarship. (link to more information)

• Keynote at IEEE WWVC

  November 20, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Supporting Safety at Intersections and in Road Trains: Protocol Engineering for IVC" at the IEEE Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WWVC) in Halmstad, Sweden.

• Keynote at IEEE GIIS

  October 29, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Making Adaptive Beaconing More Aggressive: On Maximizing the Busy Ratio of IVC Communication Channels" at the 5th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (IEEE GIIS 2013) in Trento, Italy.

• Our IVC Tutorial has been selected by IEEE COMSOC

  October 29, 2013: Our tutorial on Inter-Vehicular Communication, initially held at IEEE ICC 2012 has been selected by IEEE COMSOC for making it available online as a complimentary service to all interested researchers. (link to more information)

• New IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology article

  October 16, 2013: Our article A Vehicular Networking Perspective on Estimating Vehicle Collision Probability at Intersections has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Techology. (link to more information)

• Best Demo Award at ACM MobiCom 2013

  October 03, 2013: We just received the best demo award at ACM MobiCom 2013 for our GNU Radio OFDM receiver. Bastian Bloessl developed this cool system and presented the demo in Miami. (link to more information)

• New staff member: Florian Hagenauer

  October 01, 2013: We welcome Florian who joined CCS in October 2013. He will work on intersection management using virtual traffic lights and the use of heterogeneous networking techniques for vehicular networks. (link to more information)

• New Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks article

  September 02, 2013: Our article On the Applicability of Fair and Adaptive Data Dissemination in Traffic Information Systems has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks. (link to more information)

• Dr. Dressler appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE TMC

  August 28, 2013: Falko Dressler has been appointed as Associate Editor to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing's Editorial Board. IEEE TMC is the top journal in mobile computing and wireless networking.

• New IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing Paper

  June 15, 2013: Our article IVC in Cities: Signal Attenuation by Buildings and How Parked Cars Can Improve the Situation has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing. (link to more information)

• Keynote at JNCT

  May 29, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Protocol Design for Adaptive Inter-Vehicle Communication" at Journees Nationales des Communications dans les Transports (JNCP 2013) in Nevers, France.

• Keynote at SUMO User Conference

  May 24, 2013: Christoph Sommer gave a keynote on "The Future of Vehicular Network Simulation" at the SUMO User Conference in Berlin, Germany.

• Keynote and Tutorial at IEEE COLCOM

  May 22, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a keynote on "Protocol Design for Adaptive Inter-Vehicle Communication" and a tutorial lecture on "Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking" at the IEEE Colombian Conference on Communication and Computing (IEEE COLCOM 2013) in Medellin, Colombia.

• Research paper Top-2 in ACM downloads

  May 01, 2013: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 4 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• New staff member: Florian Klingler

  April 23, 2013: We welcome Florian who joined CCS in April 2013. He will work on multi-channel beacon scheduling systems for vehicular networks. (link to more information)

• GNU Radio OFDM Receiver for 802.11[agp]

  March 29, 2013: We just released the first GNU Radio OFDM receiver supporting up to 20MHz channel bandwidth for IEEE 802.11[ag] as well as IEEE 802.11p (DSRC) radios. The receiver is tested with an Ettus USRP N210 and developed based on GNU Radio (v3.6.4). (link to more information)

• Just published in ACM/Springer Wireless Networks

  March 02, 2013: Our paper "A Framework for Inter-Domain Routing in Virtual Coordinate based Mobile Networks" has just been published online in ACM/Springer Wireless Networks. (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position

  February 19, 2013: We have one open PhD position in the field of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Two articles in ACM SIGMOBILE MC2R

  February 07, 2013: Bastian Bloessl's and Michele Segata's MobiCom 2012 contributions have finally been published in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Congratulations!

• Tutorial at IEEE CCNC

  January 14, 2013: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Vehicular Networking: Applications, Standards, Protocols, Deployment Plans and Open Issues" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2013).

• CCS on Tour 2.0

  January 04, 2013: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Obergurgl for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiiing, and lots of discussions.

• New staff member: Margit Mutschlechner

  December 03, 2012: We welcome Margit who just joined CCS in December 2012. She will primarily work on energy efficient communication in sensor networks. (link to more information)

• Open PhD Positions

  December 01, 2012: We have two open PhD positions in the field of wireless networking. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Felix Erlacher defended his Master's Thesis

  November 05, 2012: Felix successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Monitoring Support for Efficient Web 2.0 and overlay Network Detection". Congratulations! (link to more information)

• Veins 2.0 released

  October 29, 2012: We are happy to announce Veins 2.0, the latest version of our Open Source vehicular network simulation framework for OMNeT++. Full source code, a beginner's tutorial, documentation, and the publication list are available at http://veins.car2x.org/. (link to more information)

• Just published in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks

  October 16, 2012: Our paper "Towards Security in Nano-communication: Challenges and Opportunities" has just been published in the September issue of Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. (link to more information)

• Just published in IEEE Comm. Magazine

  October 10, 2012: Our paper "Toward Reproducibility and Comparability of IVC Simulation Studies: A Literature Survey" has just been published in the October issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine. (link to more information)

• iPoint Article: Intelligent vehicles providing improved safety

  October 04, 2012: iPoint Story: "Cars that consciously interact with their environment and help to prevent accidents and traffic jams have been envisioned since a long time. Meanwhile, so called Intelligent Transportation Systems made significant progress. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck help making these concepts and ideas reality – supported by helpful collaborations in the scope of the BIT PhD School." (link to more information)

• Florian Klingler defended his Master's Thesis

  September 14, 2012: Florian successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "A multi-channel beacon scheduling system for the exchange of traffic information in vehicular networks". Congratulations! (link to more information)

• Mario Berger defended his Master's Thesis

  September 10, 2012: Mario successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Optimizing Attack Detection Techniques using Load Distribution and Anomaly Detection". Congratulations! (link to more information)

• IEEE DL tour to Colombia

  August 30, 2012: Falko Dressler started the next series of talks on August 30, 2012 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to Colombia giving lectures on vehicular networks and self-organization in sensor and actor networks.

• MobiCom SRC Runners-Up

  August 24, 2012: Our two posters (Bastian Bloessl et al., Low-Cost Interferer Detection and Classification using TelosB Sensor Motes and Michele Segata et al., A Simulation Tool for Automated Platooning in Mixed Highway Scenarios) have been selected as runners-up for the ACM MobiCom 2012 Student Research Competition (SRC).

• IEEE DL tour to India

  August 06, 2012: Falko Dressler started the next series of talks on August 6, 2012 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to India (Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kerai) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano-communications.
  Update: unfortunately, the tour was canceled in Hyderabad due to an illness of the speaker.

• Dominik Neuner defended his Master's Thesis

  August 01, 2012: Dominik successfully defeneded his Master's Thesis entitled "Resource monitoring in distributed sensor networks". Congratulations! (link to more information)

• Open PhD Position

  July 18, 2012: CCS is looking for a new staff member. The new PhD position is in wireless sensor networks. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• DFG research group BATS granted

  July 03, 2012: The BATS project has been accepted for funding by the German research foundation DFG. In this research group, six research groups (University of Erlangen, University of Innsbruck, Humboldt University Berlin) are investigating the use of sensor network technology for tracking bats in their natural environment. The CCS group is responsible for low-energy communication between base stations and the nodes (less than 2g!) attached to the flying animals. (link to more information)

• Tutorial at IEEE ICC

  June 15, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012).

• Research paper Top-2 in ACM downloads

  May 21, 2012: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" went up to number 2 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Press Release in Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT)

  May 20, 2012: The Tiroler Tageszeitung published a very nice article on the research activities of the Computer and Communication Systems group in its Sunday issue. (link to more information)

• CCS & Friends @ Innsbrucker Stadtlauf

  May 12, 2012: The CCS group joined a local running event in Innsbruck with two teams: in the Staffel (relay) over 10km we finished as number 19 out of 55 after 41:34 minutes, that means number 15 out of 36 for the university ranking; our 2nd team over 25km finished as number 16 out of 106 after 01:47:42.
  

• Tutorial at IEEE VTC

  May 06, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2012-Spring).

• Tiroler Nacht der Forschung

  April 28, 2012: The CCS team presented vehicular networking topics in form of a hands-on game for kids between 5 and 50. Seems that we did a good job in motivating our guests to join the game and to talk about vehicular research problems. The Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT) published a nice picture (follow link "Mehr Fotos").
  

• Inaugural Lecture on April 26

  April 26, 2012: Prof. Falko Dressler gave his inaugural lecture on April 26, 2012 at the Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP). You can find the official announcement and the video recording online. (link to more information)

• Talk by Prof. Renato Lo Cigno

  April 24, 2012: Prof. Renato Lo Cigno from the Department of Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento gives a seminar talk about their ongoing research in the field of real-time peer to peer video streaming. The talk takes place on Wednesday the 16th of May at 12.15 at the CCS Lab.

• Michele Segata joined CCS

  April 02, 2012: CCS welcomes its new member Michele Segata. He graduated from University of Trentom, Italy and is continuing his research activities on inter-vehile communication protocols funded by the BIT PhD School. (link to more information)

• CCS at IEEE Infocom 2012

  March 25, 2012: About 1/3 of the CCS group traveled to Orlando to visit IEEE Infocom 2012. Noorsalwati Nordin presents her work "On the Impact of Beacon Collisions in Co-located IEEE 802.15.4-based Networks"; and together with Bastian Bloessl they present our demo "SaFIC: A Spectrum Analysis Framework for Interferer Classification in the 2.4 GHz Band".

• Tutorial at GI/ITG MMB/DFT

  March 19, 2012: Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Simulation of Vehicular Communications: Principles and Challenges" at the 16th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependability and Fault Tolerance (MMB/DFT 2012)

• CCS on Tour

  February 25, 2012: The Computer and Communication Systems group and close friends are meeting in Seefeld for a three-day workshop including research talks, skiing, and lots of discussions.

• Tutorial at IEEE CCNC

  January 17, 2012: Falko Dressler gave a tutorial lecture on "Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics" at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012).

• Research paper still Top-4 in ACM downloads

  December 21, 2011: Our paper "On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks" is still number 4 in the download statistics of ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks.
  (link to more information)

• Three research papers still among Top-25 accessed in IEEE

  December 11, 2011: Two of our IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing papers are still among the top 25 most accessed papers as of October 2011: Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks and Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis. Furthermore, our paper "Towards Realistic Simulation of Inter-Vehicle Communication: Models, Techniques and Pitfalls" is among the top 10 most accessed papers of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

• IEEE DL tour to the Benelux

  November 23, 2011: Falko Dressler started his second series of talks on November 23, 2011 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to the Benelux (Ghent, Eindhoven, and Delft) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano communications

• Just published in IEEE Comm. Magazine

  November 05, 2011: Our paper "SlotSwap: Strong and Affordable Location Privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems" has just been published in the November issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine (link to more information)

• Talk by Dr. Dirk Husemann

  October 27, 2011: We are glad to announce a talk by Dr. Dirk Husemann (IBM Zurich) about "IBM Change Risk Expert — Never touch a running system...".

• Research paper among Top-10 accessed in IEEE

  October 04, 2011: Our paper "Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks" is among the top 10 most accessed papers in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing as of August 2011. (link to more information)

• Just published in IEEE Vehic. Techn. Magazine

  September 15, 2011: Our paper "Towards Realistic Simulation of Inter-Vehicle Communication: Models, Techniques and Pitfalls" has just been published in the September issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

• IEEE DL tour to California

  September 01, 2011: Falko Dressler will start his first series of talks on September 12, 2011 in the scope of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program to California (Orange County, San Diego, and San Fernando Valley) giving lectures on vehicular networks and nano communications

• iPoint Article: Kommunikation von Maschinen

  July 14, 2011: iPoint Story: "Umfassende Sensoren-Netzwerke, kommunizierende Autos und Maschinen in Zellgroesse: Alles Dinge, an und mit denen Falko Dressler forscht und arbeitet. Er ist seit Mai 2011 Professor fuer Technische Informatik am Institut fuer Informatik. Einiges dieser Forschung ist Zukunftsmusik, anderes wird unseren Alltag schon bald veraendern." (link to more information)

• Research paper among Top-25 accessed in IEEE

  June 28, 2011: Our paper "Research Challenges in Inter-Vehicular Communication - Lessons of the 2010 Dagstuhl Seminar" is among the top 25 most accessed papers in IEEE Communications Magazine as of June 2011. (link to more information)

• Open PhD Positions

  May 25, 2011: Two positions for doctoral students are available in our group: one in the field of wireless networking and one in the field of network security. Please refer to our job offerings for more details. (link to more information)

• Topics for Bachelor and Master's Theses

  May 25, 2011: We finally prepared some announcements for possible thesis topics. Please see the new list of open theses for more details. (link to more information)

• CCS web site being set up

  May 10, 2011: The Computer and Communication Systems Group got its new web site. Please note that we are currently setting up the web site. Some information might still be incomplete or missing. (link to more information)

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