Scientific Orientation

“The engineer is a person who solves problems that no one else knew existed.”

(Unknown)

Today’s highly inter-connected society relies now more than ever on wireless communication via smartphones and in the IoT. The present has already been shaped by researchers at the Institute for Digital Communications who have developed massive MIMO systems, advanced modulation and coding techniques, and algorithms for smart grids.

Now we are working on future communication systems such as 6G and beyond. These will have to meet even higher requirements for reliability and security. To achieve these ambitious goals, our researchers are developing the fundamental theory and using it to create new algorithms that will shape our communications systems for decades to come.

To this end, we are not only developing learning-based and semantic communication systems, but also opening up entirely new frontiers by connecting biological systems to the Internet. This long-term goal will be enabled by our fundamental research in molecular communication, paving the way for disruptive applications in environmental protection and health care.