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Nicole Sauer
Integrated Communication Systems Group
+49 3677 692829
+49 3677 694823
Nicole Sauer
Integrated Communication Systems Group
+49 3677 692829
+49 3677 694823
TU Ilmenau has been awarded the contract for the construction of a flexible 5G+ campus network, in future a 6G campus network, on the university's Ehrenberg campus. The Integrated Communication Systems group is responsible for the technical coordination of the project.
Critical infrastructures such as electricity, water, gas and heating networks are of central importance to the social and economic well-being of a country and their disruption or destabilization can have a drastic impact on the population.
The aim of the joint project is to develop the FraudDetect data analysis software, which can be used to protect critical infrastructures from electricity theft and other forms of fraud.
The 5G-ECOnet project investigates the combination of the necessary energy-efficient operation of Open RAN-based 5G campus networks while maintaining the required quality of service for applications in industrial environments. This includes the applicability of energy saving measures, their adaptation as well as their conformance or integrability in standards.
In the 5G-ECOnet project, the TU Ilmenau is investigating the influence of the use of AI processes on the energy consumption of 5G networks. Thus, using the example of network management functions for campus networks, the influence of the realization of AI processes on energy consumption is to be investigated.
Status: In Process
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Subproject: Method for ML-based optimization of OpenRAN-based 5G networks.
GThe overall objective of the BSI/BMI project, which is being carried out jointly with AiVader GmbH, is to develop a cloud- and AI-based tool for the joint optimization of network coverage, capacity and interference of OpenRAN-based campus networks as a building block for an open cloud-based network management system for 5G systems.
Status: In Process
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Subproject: Evaluation of hybrid network protocols and multipath technologies.
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Through research and innovation, the goal is to create the most sustainable, cost-efficient, high-performance, time-oriented and competitive customer-oriented transport mode in Europe. The basis for this is the development of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) based on 5G into a communication system that ensures energy-efficient, robust and future-proof operation through a hybrid network architecture and seamless integration of public and private mobile networks.
The focus of the Ilmenau University of Technology in the overall project is on the investigation of multipath solutions for reliable communication over multiple radio systems to meet railway-specific quality of service requirements.
Status: In Process
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The project "Hybrid Take-Home-Labs" aims to develop and test the basis for a practical support of learning processes in MINT lectures, which allows to perform even complex virtual and remote controlled laboratory experiments from home with own resources, combined as needed for student-centered teaching in order to meet the requirements of future-oriented competence-based learning.
Status: In Process
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The objective is to model several Self-Organizing Network (SON) functions jointly using advanced Machine Learning algorithms such that their conflicting and complementing interactions are implicitly coordinated.
Status: In Process
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Machine Learning (ML) has a great potential to improve radio networks, however, it does not provide insights to humans on its strategies. This is one of the barriers to the wide adoption of ML. ML interpretability can help to overcome this barrier, by making black-box models explainable.
Status: In Process
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The project pursues methods and tools for the safe development, implementation, and validation of applications with multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real scenarios.
Status: In Process
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Reliable real-time capable wireless communication technologies which allow a low latency of 1 ms in distributed control units with a very high number of users (sensors/actuators) per radio cell.
Status: finished
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In the Quadrocopter project we develop the basics for the application of mobile airborne communication platforms. These mobile platforms are used within the International Graduate School on Mobile Communications of the university.
Status: Completed
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Recent developments in machine learning (ML) together with artificial intelligence (AI) in the perspective of self-organized network (SON) systems will enable (assist) cellular network operators to achieve their key performance indicator (KPI) targets through the complex management of the network and radio resources for existing and future technologies like UMTS, LTE, 5G and beyond.
Status: Completed
Homer Conferencing (short: Homer) is a free SIP softphone with advanced audio and video support.
Status: Completed
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The project "Ka-Band Systems for Mobile Satellite Communication" (KASYMOSA) researches novel technologies to apply Ka band satellites in disaster scenarios. The partners Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, TU Ilmenau, DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation and IABG set out to further enhance the technology developed in the MoSaKa project and provide a complete mobile ground terminal. The ICS group will research the necessary resource management algorithms and integrate them into the system parts provided by its partners. The focus of the work is on the management of complex resource structures over variable transmission channels.
Status: Completed
The project aims at reducing the sensing latency of a software implementation of a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) based MAC protocol by integrating a dedicated spectrum sensing engine. The experiment benefits from two cognitive components from the CREW project: the Iris reconfigurable SDR developed at Trinity College Dublin and the IMEC sensing engine.
Status: Completed
The goal of the Cognitive Radio Networking Lab project is the practical realization of Cognitive Radio technology. The project is funded by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung.
Status: Completed
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The Graduate School is focusing on “Self-organized Mobile Communication Systems for Disaster Scenarios.” The School addresses some of the most challenging research topics, the self-organization of radio systems and networks and the recovery of communication systems after disasters.
Status: Completed
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Goal of the project "Forwarding on Gates" (FoG) is the practical realization of the by the "Integrated Systems group" from the TU Ilmenau developed approach for a Future Internet. The concept ought to replace the present Internet Protocol (IP) and prepare the global data network for the challenges of the upcoming future. The project ist part of the national project "German Lab" (G-Lab). The developed software of the project is available on GitHub as open-source.
Status: Completed
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Empower university-enterprises partnerships in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine by modernizing engineering education based on remote engineering and virtual instrumentation enhanced with transversal knowledge and competences at universities; and offering contemporary methods of the vocational education and training for adults in enterprises.
Status: Completed
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Development of Embedded System Courses with implementation of Innovative Virtual approaches for integration of Research, Education and Production in Ucraina, Georgia, Armenia.
Status: Completed
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Accompanying the lectures "technical computer science", "computer organization", "integrated hard and software systems" as well as "logic design" interactive work sheets were made available as web pages. These pages serve as collection of formulas on one side and interactive designing tools (so called "Living Pictures") supporting the single design steps of digital systems on the other side. With these interactive pages the students can test prepared and newly designed digital circuits. These tests will help students to understand the textbook "Schaltsysteme" (Pearson- Verlag 2003) better as well as improve the knowledge in the above mentioned lectures.
Status: Completed
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The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and it's influence to the society. The association seeks to foster practices in education and research in universities, higher education institutions and the industry on OE. Moreover the IAOE promotes OE for the improvement of living and working conditions. The IAOE encourages the exchange of knowledge as well as the exchange of staff and students between co-operating institutions.
Status: Completed
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The networking founded by Tallinn University of Technology and TU Ilmenau as well as the Company Testonica Lab pursues the goal to provide the industry JTAG/Boundary Scan tools and knowledge based on an independent and non-commercial platform, sustainably accelerating the wide adoption of standardized IEEE 1149.x test methods. The centre piece of GOEPEL electronic’s engagement as Sponsor Member is the provision of hardware and respective reference designs. goJTAG is the first university-driven open-source project aiming at providing a full package for a JTAG newcomer including training materials, slides and exercises. The software includes a simulation component that fully illustrates the underlaying concept of JTAG/Boundary Scan. The user can directly step-wise control the test features of IEEE 1149.1 compliant devices and observe a system's reaction in a real time in an on-screen simulation. Using a PicoTAP controller (to be ordered from GOEPEL electronic) , all actions can be applied to a unit under test (UUT) it is connected to. Such a fine-grain illustration of JTAG test principles has not been possible until now.
Status: Completed
Prospects for Realizing User-centric Network Orchestration To overcome the current limitations of the Internet, several different approaches are existing which can be mainly distinguished into network-aware applications and application-aware networks. Bringing together both approaches, network-application interfaces are to be deployed to realize smart mediation of application data through the Internet. In this context, content mediation includes resource management as well as traffic management.
Status: Completed
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