News and Announcements
- 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.
- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
- 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 onlinea.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- November 19, 2022: We have a PhD position available in the field of nano communication networks. The position is within our DFG project NaBoCom.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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