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• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Integrated Communication Systems Group – Research Portfolio

Andreas Mitschele-Thiel Head, Integrated Communication Systems Lab Head, Intl. Graduate School on Mobile Communications

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

The People

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• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.

Andreas Mitschele-Thiel Head Dr.-Ing. Dieter Wuttke Deputy HW/SW design & E-Learning

• Dr. rer. nat. habil.

Oliver Waldhorst Visiting Professor Nicole Sauer Assistant Dipl.-Ing. Sven Bohn Smart grid Dipl.-Inf. Florian Liers Future Internet Dipl.-Inf. Thomas Volkert Future Internet Dipl.-Ing. Ausama Yousef MANET address management Dipl.-Inf. Philipp Drieß QoS management M.Sc. Paulo dos Santos Cognitive radio networking Dipl.-Ing. Esam Alnasouri QoS management Dipl.-Inf. Stefan Bärwolf QoS manage- ment M.Sc. Shah Nawaz Khan Radio env. map Dipl.-Inf. Tobias Simon Multicopter M.Sc. Nauman Zia Self-org. in LTE M.Sc. Stephen Mwanje Self-org. in LTE Dr.-Ing. Florian Evers GS coordinator Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Ostendorff HW design & testing Dipl.-Math. Jörg Sachße Boundary scan Dipl.-Inf. Sabine Fincke Bildungsportal M.Sc. Elke Roth-Mandutz Energy saving in LTE Dipl.-Ing. Jorge Meza Escobar Boundary scan Dr.-Ing. Karsten Henke HW/SW design, remote Lab Dr.-Ing. Mohamed Kalil Cognitive radio networking Dipl.-Inf. Markus Brückner QoS management M.Sc. M. Naseer ul Islam Self-org. in LTE M.Sc. Oleksandr Artemenko Localisation Dipl.-Inf. Andre Puschmann Cognitive radio networking M.Sc. Ali Haider Mahdi Cognitive radio networking Dipl.-Inf. Jürgen Schmidt Technical support

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

The Team Research Topics and Teams

Mobile Communication Infrastructures

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel
• Self-organization in LTE and LTE-

Advanced

• Interaction between self-organization

use cases Cognitive Radio Networks

• Dr. Mohamed Kalil
• Spectrum management and radio

resource map

• Cognitive engine and cognitive radio

MAC

• Analytical performance evaluation

UAV-based Communication Platforms Tobias Simon HW/SW Systems & Online Engineering

• Dr. Dieter Wuttke
• HW/SW development and test
• Online engineering/E-Learning

Future Internet Florian Liers

• Future Internet architectures
• Network optimization

Mobility Management and QoS

• Dr. Florian Evers
• Mobility management
• QoS management in wireless

systems

• Linux-based networking

Communication in the Smart Grid Sven Bohn

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• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Self-organization in LTE

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Topics

• Self-organized configuration of

antenna tilt and Tx power

• Self-organized load balancing

between cells

• Coordination of multiple self-
• rganization algorithms
• Energy saving

Methods

• Radio system simulation
• Self-organization methods
• Reinforcement learning, fuzzy logic

Funding

• GRK 1487, DFG
• Alcatel-Lucent
• DAAD scholarship

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Cognitive Radio Networking

Topics

• Dynamic spectrum allocation
• MAC protocols
• Radio environment map
• Cognitive engine

Methods

• Mathematical analysis
• Data fusion
• Self-organization methods
• USRP/Linux Testbed

Funding

• Carl-Zeiss Foundation
• DAAD scholarship
• GRK 1487, DFG

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medium use

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Spectrum Band

Completion of SU data transmission Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 Ch4 Ch5 Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 LCs UCs

SU PU appearance SU Spectrum handoff

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

UAV-based Communication Platforms

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Topics

• Provision of communication services

in coverage holes

• Delay-tolerant data ferrying
• Mission planning

Challenges

• Self-organized coordination of UAV

swarm to achieve a given task

• Disturbances from the environment
• Limited computation and

communication resources

• Weight and battery lifetime

Funding

• GRK 1487

WiFi Coverage Estimation Message Ferrying Networks UAV System

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Communication in the Smart Grid

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Topics

• Combined simulation of energy grids and

communication networks

• Study of the impact of the communication

system on the Smart Grid Challenges

• Synchronisation of producers, consumers

and storage devices in the Smart Grid

• Robustness and stability of the Smart

Grid Funding

• internal

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

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Future Internet – Forwarding on Gates

Mail.svc 25 y 3 2 1 2 Features

• Dynamic function chaining
• Universal signaling framework
• Build-in admission control and authentication
• Routing as a service (explicit and implicit)

Methods

• Analysis of practical problems
• Simulation and emulation in testbed

Funding

• G-Lab, BMBF
• GRK 1487, DFG

Route: 2, 2, y Route: 1, 3, 25

Forwarding Routing

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Mobility Management and QoS

Topics

• QoS architectures and resource

management algorithms for heterogeneous networks

• Integration of QoS with mobility

management

• Radio resource management

Methods

• Protocol design
• Network simulation
• Implementation under Linux

Funding

• MoSaKa, BMWi
• Telekom-Stiftung
• National scholarships

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• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Re-configurable On Board Self-test System

Features

• Automatic test-case generation based on DUT

models

• Accelerated boundary scan testing
• Inclusion of available FPGA resources (soft

processor or co-processor based

Methods

• Layered approach to system testing
• Implementation of toolchain

Funding

• TAB, Goebel
• National stipend

FPGA logic

resources

DUT

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Switching between implementation methods RLS Web-SPS FPGA Beck-IPC Controller

IP Switch

enabling european entrepreneurship

Remote Engineering

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

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Summary: Methods and Practice

Self-organization and heuristic

• ptimization
• Reinforcement learning,

Fuzzy Q-Learning

• Clustering
• Force-based algorithms
• Simulated Annealing
• Ant algorithms
• Genetic Algorithms

System Engineering

• Holistic view on system

Performance evaluation

• Stochastic analysis
• ns2 and omnet simulation

Practice

• Protocol design (L2+3)
• Protocol implementation under

Linux

• HW design and implementation
• HW/SW system design and

implementation Labs

• Multicopter lab
• HW/SW lab
• Wireless Internet lab
• Remote engineering lab
• Experimental network (wlan-

weimar.de)

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

Integrated Communication Systems www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics

Contact

Tel: +49 (0)3677 69 2819 or 2829 (Assistant) e-mail: mitsch@tu-ilmenau.de

Integrated Communication Systems Group Ilmenau University of Technology

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

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