News and Announcements
- February 10, 2025

Our article Fast Identification and Clustering of Multi-Path Components for Multi-band Industrial Wireless Channels has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies.
Multi-path components are both the challenge and the resources to exploit in high-frequency wireless communication, especially in environment with complex reflections. To this end, identifying and clustering multi-path components is the foundation in tackling the challenges and boosting the utilization with reliable and correct information. Past research focuses either on extracting the path information, or on clustering the extracted components. In this paper, we propose a complete work flow that performs identification as well as clustering of multi-path components. We extend our previous work in clustering algorithm to indoor propagation measurements of three different frequency bands, as well as multiple transmitter-receiver locations. The ease of application highlights the wide-applying potential of high-frequency communication.
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- February 10, 2025

We welcome Ahmed Hasan Ansari who joined our group in February 2025.
- January 29, 2025

Dr. Doganalp Ergenc presented our paper, "An Open-Source Implementation of Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation in OMNeT++," at the 20th IEEE Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS 2025) in Hintertux, Austria.
In this paper, we introduce an open-source implementation of Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a key feature of the latest Wi-Fi standard. Developed within the widely used network simulator OMNeT++, our implementation demonstrates the throughput and reliability benefits of MLO in a small-scale simulation setup. The source code is available in our GitHub repository.
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- January 22, 2025

We congratulate Falko Dressler for being elevated to ACM Fellow with the citation "For contributions to foundations of self-organization in wireless communication protocols in IoT and vehicular applications".
New York, NY, January 22, 2025 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 55 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology. All the 2024 inductees are longstanding ACM Members whose accomplishments were selected by their peers for making possible the computing technologies we use every day.
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- January 09, 2025

Our article Empowering Smart Factories with O-RAN has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.
It is envisioned that 6G mobile networks will enhance and majorly empower the Industry 4.0 paradigm, evolving towards smart factories with optimized and customized services. Especially the smart factory scenario with high-capacity data communication, which requires the usage of new portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (mmWave/sub-THz), is presenting us with new challenges, both in communications and networking. This article discusses the new challenges arising from high-capacity data communications in smart factories. It proposes extensions to the current Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) standards for 6G networks to enable further evolution of Industry 4.0 and beyond. We motivate the need for real-time functionalities in O-RAN and an extended interface to the user equipment (UE) to allow for its fine-grained control.
- January 06, 2025

We welcome Simon Schmitz-Heinen who joined our group in January 2025.
- December 18, 2024

Our article Toward Standardized Performance Evaluation of Flow-guided Nanoscale Localization has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.
Nanoscale devices with Terahertz (THz) communication capabilities are envisioned to be deployed within human bloodstreams. Associating the locations of biomarkers with events such as health conditions would provide an additional utility for precision diagnostics and treatment. This vision yielded a new class of in-body localization coined under the term "flow-guided nanoscale localization". We propose a workflow for standardized performance evaluation of such approaches. The workflow is implemented in the form of an open-source simulation framework that is able to jointly account for the mobility of the nanodevices, in-body THz communication with on-body anchors, and energy-related and other technological constraints (e.g., pulse-based modulation) at the nanodevice level.
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- December 10, 2024

Christos Laskos presented our paper Towards Virtual to Real-world Transfer Learning for Mobile mmWave Beam Tracking at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa.
In this paper, we show the feasibility of virtual to real-world transfer learning. Our solution significantly speeds up the learning process as the learning happens mostly in a simulated environment and requires only little additional learning in the real-world deployment. As proof-of-concept, we implemented and evaluated a low-complexity beam tracking based on deep Q-network (DQN) reinforcement learning. The results reveal a substantial speed-up by a factor of 3× using transfer learning.
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- December 09, 2024

Falko Dressler received the IEEE ComSoc IOT & AHSN TC 2024 Technical Recognition Award for developing the foundations of adaptive and self-organizing communication protocols in vehicular and sensor networks.
- December 08, 2024

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