The School covers four research areas:

Decentralized Information Management is focusing on the reliable and robust provisioning of information in mobile communication networks as the base for self-organized decision making. The detailed topics comprise

• Information management,
• Naming and address resolution,
• Localization of mobile nodes, and
• Monitoring and visualization.

Self-organized Service Recovery is focusing on mechanisms to recover from the failure of services. Specific topics are

• Secure network operation,
• Recovery by composition of services,
• Recovery by replication and migration, and
• Integration of mobile platforms.

Cognitive Management of Transport Resources is focusing on mechanisms to provide transport resources, comprising wireless as well as wired links. The topics comprise

• Recovery from large network failures,
• Cognitive access to radio resources,
• Control of distributed MIMO systems, and
• Channel models for distributed MIMO systems.

This area is focusing on fundamental issues and basic requirements for reconfigurable radios. This comprises the following topics:

• Signal processing for reconfigurable radio,
• Parameters for distributed MIMO systems, and
• Reconfigurable RF hardware.