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NaBoCom: Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks
integration of in-body nano networks with body are networks

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 08/2020-07/2022
V-Edge - Virtual Edge Computing
MEC using virtual edge servers composed of, e.g., clusters of cars

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 08/2020-07/2021
Unified Localization Platform — UniLocP
development of a unified architecture to provide location information to apps in indoor scenarios.

Funding: BMWi/ZIM
Project time: 07/2020-06/2022
AvaRange - Particle Tracking in Snow Avalanches
sensor network-based particle tracking using inertial measurements combined with radio telemetry

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 06/2020-05/2023
SPP 1914 Cyber-Physical Networking
NICCI^2 - Network-Informed Control – Control-Informed network: towards multi techNology dynamICally ChangIng networksAvalanches
networked control systems as a fundamental basis for cyber physical networks

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 01/2020-12/2022
PANDA - Precise Attack Detection for Network Domains by Application Classification
next generation high speed monitoring concepts for large administrative domains with VLAN and VM support

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 12/2019-11/2022
OTB-5G+ - Open Testbed Berlin - 5G and Beyond
experimental validation of 5G wireless communication technologies and development of a testbed for new transmission concepts

Funding: BMBF
Project time: 09/2019-08/2022
Hy-Nets4all - Simulation Platform for Optimized Electric Driving
holistic development and validation platform for optimizing electric driving in urban environments

Funding: EU/EFRE.NRW
Project time: 08/2019-07/2022
EWI - Energy efficient WLAN for IoT
low power and low delay WLAN using wake-up receivers

Funding: BMBF
Project time: 11/2018-04/2021
MAMOKO - Macroscopic Molecular Communication
molecular communication principles for industrial applications

Funding: BMBF
Project time: 11/2018-10/2021
VCE - Virtual Cycling Environment
characterizing and modeling cyclists behavior for developing next generation safety assistance systems

Funding: internal CCS project
Project time: since 10/2018
RADCOM-HETNET - Integration of Radar-based Communication in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Cooperatively Interacting Cars
combination of Radar-based mmWave communication with IEEE 802.11p for reliable platooning applications

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 10/2018-12/2020
VisIoN - Visible light based Interoperability and Networking
research on Li-Fi (Light Fidelity), which is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) system running wireless communications that uses LEDs for data transmission

Funding: EU H2020
Project time: 09/2017-09/2021
Car2DC - Hierarchical Vehicular Cloud Computing
connecting clusters of cars to backend data centers

Funding: Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Project time: 04/2017-03/2021
V-VLC - Visible Light based Vehicular Communication
comprehensive research on the utilization of visible light for communication between vehicles (V2V) and with infrastructure (V2I)

Funding: funded in part by E-Lab (HELLA Group)
Project time: since 12/2016

Previous Projects

Safety4Bikes - Safety assistance system for cycling kids
development of assistance system functionalities to improve the safety of kids on bicycles using behavior prediction and wireless communication technologies

Funding: BMBF
Project time: 01/2017-06/2020
SPEAR - Smart Prognosis of Energy with Allocation of Resources
development of a flexible optimization platform for improving a broad range of industrial production processes regarding energy related aspects

Funding: BMBF (ITEA3)
Project time: 09/2017-08/2020
APPSTACLE - open standard APplication Platform for carS and TrAnsportation vehiCLEs
open and secure cloud platform that interconnects a wide range of vehicles to the cloud via open in-car and Internet connection and is supported by an integrated open source software development ecosystem

Funding: BMBF (ITEA3)
Project time: 01/2017-12/2019
DFG FOR 1508 BATS - Dynamically Adaptable Positioning of Bats Using Embedded Communicating Sensor Systems
TP4: E2SO - Energy Efficient Management and Self-organized Operation in Sensor Networks
tracking of bats in their natural environment using sensor networking technology; key focus is on energy efficient communication of extremely lightweight sensor nodes

Funding: DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Project time: 12/2012-11/2019
Wireless Tractors
modeling crop fields in an agricultural context for vehicular network simulation.

Funding: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
Project time: 07/2019-09/2019
Offloading Strategies for Energy Efficient Smartphone
energy measurement and estimations for off-loading of computationally expensive tasks from mobile systems into the cloud

Funding: VIED (Vietnam International Education Development)
Project time: 03/2015-02/2019
Hy-Nets - Efficient Hybrid Propulsion using Vehicular Networks
holistic investigation of hybrid propulsion in large scale cities for optimizing emissions and travel times using vehicular networking

Funding: EU/EFRE.NRW
Project time: 04/2016-01/2019
RESIBES - Disaster-resilience by helper networks for emergency response
mobile ad hoc networking for supporting the efficient coordination of human and material resource for first responders

Funding: BMBF
Project time: 02/2016-04/2019
CarParkComm
exploring communication limits in a multi-store car park solution through a signal propagation focused measurement study

Funding: Lödige Systems GmbH
Project time: 01/2018-12/2018
AgriculturalV2V
cooperative driving for agricultural vehicles through wireless communication

Funding: Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF)
Project time: 01/2018-05/2018
Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking
research how to unify, and make efficient use of, short range wireless radio communication and cellular communication for vehicular networking

Funding: collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Project time: 06/2012-12/2017
LTE 4 V2X
V2X Standardization for 4G Networks and its Application in Industry Automations

Funding: Siemens AG, Germany
Project time: 07/2017 - 09/2017
WiME - Wireless Measurement and Experimentation
SDR-based wireless measurement and experimentation framework for wireless networks including IEEE 802.11[a/g/p] and IEEE 802.15.4

Funding: internal CCS project
Project time: 10/2011-03/2017
C3 - Cloud Connected Cars
using cars to establish decentralized connected information clouds based on heterogeneous vehicular networks

Funding: DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH
Project time: 04/2016-03/2017
Car4ICT - Cars enable future information and communication technologies
research investigating vehicles as a main ICT resource

Funding: Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan and USA
Project time: 04/2014-03/2017
Performance Limits of IEEE 802.11p in Highly Dynamic Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
PHY receive algorithms for IEEE 801.11p

Funding: DAAD
Project time: 09/2015-03/2016
Next Generation Real-Time Ethernet Networks for Industrial Applications
future reliable industrial networks based on the next generation of Ethernet, results from the IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Interworking (IWK) working groups.

Funding: SIEMENS AG
Project time: 09/2014-08/2015
Smart Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems
smart communication primitives for ITS; channel modeling and protocol design for multi-service applications

Funding: BIT PhD School
Project time: 04/2012-03/2015
Cooperative Inter-Vehicle Communication
cooperative communication primitives for ITS; protocol design for vehicle safety applications

Funding: Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australia
Project time: 05/2014-10/2014
ENergy-Aware CompuTing
energy measurement and estimations for off-loading of computationally expensive tasks from mobile systems into the cloud

Funding: EU/INTERREG
Project time: 09/2012-06/2014
ML-IVC - Multi-Layer Inter-Vehicle Communication
adaptive and self-organizing inter-vehicle communication based on short range radio broadcast; protocol design, simulation techniques, and experimental field tests

Funding: internal CCS project
Project time: 09/2011-03/2014
Privacy in Vehicular Networks
understanding the potential very negative impact of vehicular networking technologies on users' privacy; quantification of this impact and mitigation of this impact

Funding: collaboration with University of Erlangen
Project time: 09/2009-03/2014
MultiPAN - Cooperative Access in Overlapping Wireless Networks
cooperation and adaptive management of overlapping wireless networks, methods for interferer detection and adaptive reconfiguration

Funding: Malaysian Government
Project time: 10/2008-12/2013
Padiofire - Parallelized Application Detection in Overlay Networks for Firewalls
monitoring, analysis, and firewalling Web 2.0 overlay network protocols; the key objective is to go beyond application layer firewalls to identify overlay services as used in the Web 2.0 context

Funding: BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
Project time: 07/2011-06/2013
monkit 2 - Distributed Monitoring and Attack Detection in 10 GBit/s Networks
adaptive network monitoring in high-speed networks, coordination between monitoring probes and detection processes, event correlation for automated response

Funding: BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik)
Project time: 12/2011-12/2012
RDSP - Resource constrained Distributed Stream Processing
investigation of an integrated approach for supporting in-network sensor data processing in highly dynamic and heterogeneous sensor networks

Funding: preparational project for a DFG research group
Project time: 01/2008-06/2012
Support for inter-domain routing and data replication in virtual coordinate based networks
The collaborative study aims to provide novel insights into the applicability of virtual coordinate based network protocols in the case of mobile multi-domain environments

Funding: BaCaTec, collaboration with UCLA
Project time: 01/2010-12/2011
DSMS Study - Study on Real-time Stream Processing Engines
concept study on the applicability of data stream management systems (DSMS) on real-time tracking in an airport scenario

Funding: Siemens AG
Project time: 07/2011-09/2011