Ongoing Projects
Our research interests are pursued within a number of projects, highlighted below. Each project is described in detail on a separate page.
Further we are strongly committed to the exchange of research results, tools and environments. Information is available on the pertaining project pages.
4WARD: Architecture and Design for the Future Internet
Today's network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimize, and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Internet. 4WARD overcomes this impasse through a set of radical architectural approaches built on strong mobile and wireless background. This is a European Union Research Project consisting of 37 project partners.
January 2008 - June 2010.
Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations (WASP)
The WASP project aims to narrow the gap between research and actual deployment of wireless sensor networks. This is a European Union Research Project supposed to last until February 2010, with 19 project partners.
VoiceMAC: A MAC for voice support in wireless multi-hop networks
Cooperative diversity techniques will play a key role in future wireless communication systems. In collaboration with DoCoMo Euro-Labs, this research project is concerned with the development of cooperative protocols and their implementation on a software-defined radio testbed.
TANDEM
Ein extrem verbrauchsarmes, skalierbares, tandemprozessorbasiertes Funksystem für sensorische, aktuatorische und kennzeichnende Anwendungen
An extremly power-efficient, scalable, Tandem-processor-based radio system for sensing and actuation application
MIKOA
The goal of the MIKOA project is to develop small and energy self-sufficient sensor nodes for reliable wireless communication in an automation environment. The unique challenges and requirements of the inherently unreliable wireless medium, coupled with delay constraints and error bounds, demand for custom hardware and communication protocols.
Completed Projects
Here you can find information and results of finished projects and publicly available tools or environments:
Modeling obstacles in OMNeT++ Mobility Framework
Buildings or walls may shield wireless hosts from each other. This Mobility Framework extension helps you model obstacles in your wireless network simulations. The existing mobility models may be used for moving obstacles as well.
Evaluation of new WLAN/WMAN standards for medium range communication
The objective of this project is to evaluate the performance of typical Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems, e.g. IEEE802.11a, for using it in Wireless Metropolian or Wide Area Networks (WMAN or WAN). This project is a collaboration with the Eggenet GmbH, Paderborn.
Project group: Cooperative mobile WLANs
This student research project of the academic year 2007/2008 is developing new cooperative protocols for IEEE 802.11a WLANs, which are implemented and demonstrated on a real-time software-defined radio testbed.
PG mobicom: 802.11 cross-layer testbed
This student research project extends 802.11a by an OFDMA cross-layer optimization scheme. The result is implemented and demonstrated on a real-time software-defined radio testbed.
Development of an IEEE 802.21-based Universal Information Service
The goal of this project is the development of an IEEE 802.21-based architecture for a Universal Information Service. This project is a collaboration between BenQ and the University of Paderborn - Research Group Computer Networks.Evaluating the GNU Software Radio platform for wireless testbeds
In this student research project we implemented a PHY and a ALOHA based MAC on the GNU software radio.We then evaluated whether this software radio is applicable for building real time testbeds for wireless communication.
Chsim: Wireless channel simulator for OMNeT++
This tool simulates a time- and/or frequency-selective fading channel between many terminals and a single basestation. The terminals may move independently if one of the built-in motion models is activated.MRiP: Multiple Replications in Parallel
This student research project provides you with a toolchain for easily running MRiP oriented simulations usingOMNeT++ and akaroa on CCS scheduled computer cluster environments.