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Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical Committee) logo competition. Out of five submissions in the final short list, Timo's logo received the highest number of votes, with 38.4% of t...

Brikena Kaziu attended this fall's IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), one of the semi-annual flagship conferences of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, in Washington DC, USA. She successfully presented her latest work titled "Approximate Partially Decentralized Linear EZF Precoding for Mass...

Johanna Fröhlich won 2nd place in the Green ICT Award 2024 from Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland (FMD) for her bachelor thesis "Algorithms for Matrix Decomposition for Computational Coding". This thesis introduces algorithms to reduce the computational cost during the inference phase of ...

From Wednesday, 9 October 2024 to Friday, 11 October 2024, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and Moritz Garkisch participated in the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC) meeting at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin. On Wednesday and Thursday, the latest ideas and approaches ...

The Institute for Digital Communications at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers two exciting internship positions in the field of molecular communications for undergraduate students from North America, Great Britain and Ireland. These internships are funded by the DAAD (German...

As part of the ongoing Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) project, IDC's Maximilian Schäfer, Sebastian Lotter, and Timo Jakumeit recently attended a workshop at the Media Docks in Lübeck. The two-day event featured engaging sessions on molecular communication in medical applications and collaborati...

On October 10th and 11th the joint annual Igel seminar of IDC and LMS took place again. During these two days in Osternohe, we heard interesting talks about research topics from (new) staff members of both chairs. The talks gave insights into different topics ranging from signal processing and machi...

Our former colleague Aravindh Krishnamoorthy has taken the final step towards obtaining the degree of Dr.-Ing. On Thursday, September 26, 2024, he successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Non-orthogonal Precoding and Decoding Schemes for 5G and Beyond Downlink MIMO Communication Systems”. ...

Our former colleague Nikita Shanin has taken the final step towards obtaining the degree of Dr.-Ing. On Friday, May 17, 2024, he successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Optimal Design of Communication Systems Based on Wireless Power Transfer with Non-linear Energy Harvesting”. Nikita, who was supervised by both Prof. Cottatellucci and Prof. Schober, investigated and optimized methods of wirelessly transmitting energy to small sensors placed in remote locations or perhaps inside the human body to recharge their batteries.

The lab course "Digital Communication" was evaluated very well in the winter semester 2022/23 and ranked 2nd in the teaching evaluation of the FAU Faculty of Engineering.

Former and current IDC members Alex Yu, Dongfang Xu, Ying Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Robert Schober received the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize for their paper “Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 11, pp.2637-2652, Nov. 2020.