Wireless Communications
Wireless Communications is a multidisciplinary subject, requiring expertise in radio propagation, antennas, RF electronics, analog and digital (mixed-signal) signal processing, systems theory, some control theory, and many mathematical topics, as statistics, coding theory, queuing theory, game theory, and others. Continuously, new topics have been emerging over the past years. Only a few years back, concepts as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, ultrawideband (UWB) systems, cooperative communications, or cognitive radio have been considered as visionary but most likely unpractical ideas. Nowadays, many of those have found applications. They have been included in communications standards and they are being discussed in lecture courses on wireless communications. Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems and techniques have become our key topic, potentially offering ultra-low-power wireless links that are robust against the ever-present multipath propagation in wireless channels. Based on UWB techniques, high-accuracy indoor localization, next-generation RFID systems, and ultra-wideband channel modeling have been the main research topics in Wireless Communications during the last years.
Finished PhD Theses:
- 2025: Interference Mitigation for Automotive Radar — Mate Andras Toth
- 2024: Using UWB Radar to Detect Life Presence Inside a Vehicle — Jakob Möderl
- 2022: Narrowband positioning exploiting massive cooperation and mapping — Lukas Wielandner
- 2022: Robust Positioning in Ultra-Wideband Off-Body Channels — Thomas Wilding
- 2021: Signal Processing for Localization and Environment Mapping — Michael Rath
- 2020: Cognitive MIMO Radar for RFID Localization — Stefan Grebien
- : UWB Channel Fading Statistics and Transmitted Reference Communication — N.N.
- : Reliable and Robust Localization and Positioning — Alexander Venus
- : Position Aware RFID Systems — Daniel Arnitz
- : Multipath Tracking and Prediction for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Channels — Daniel Arnitz
- : Multipath-Assisted Indoor Positioning — Paul Meissner
- : Modeling and Mitigation of Narrowband Interference for Non-Coherent UWB Systems — ~Yohannes Alemseged Demessie
- : Low Complexity Ultra-wideband (UWB) Communication Systems in Presence of Multiple-Access Interference — ~Jimmy Wono Tampubolon Baringbing
- : Low-Complexity Localization using Standard-Compliant UWB Signals — N.N.
- : Indoor localization using RF channel information — Josef Kulmer
- : Distributed Sparse Bayesian Regression in Wireless Sensor Networks — Thomas Buchgraber
- : Complex Baseband Modeling and Digital Predistortion for Wideband RF Power Amplifiers — ~Peter Singerl
- : Cognitive Indoor Positioning and Tracking using Multipath Channel Information — Erik Leitinger