Adaptive Communication

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a global key area in numerous industries, such as logistics, mechanical and plant engineering, the automotive industry, medical technology or aerospace technology.

Communication systems and networks must possess adaptive characteristics in order to be able to offer a required quality of service anywhere, any time as needed. Increased efficiency, which also has a critical influence on costs, can only be achieved by means of optimized and adaptive usage of all available physical resources such as time, space, frequency spectrum or coding. Adaptivity spans many sub-areas, such as high frequency technology, microelectronics, communications engineering, computer and communication networks or intelligent systems. Future research and development tasks require both an excellent system overview and also extensive detailed knowledge of systems.

The Adaptive Communication concerted activity group works on interdisciplinary research and development projects in the fields of electrical engineering, information technology and computing science, often in cooperation with partners from industry and medium-sized companies. The Adaptive Communication Lab (acomlab) is currently under development to facilitate even more effective organisation and cross-linking of projects equipped with common hard- and software.

One key focus of research is the area of sensors and sensor networks which, for example, are used in the development of new manufacturing and logistic systems. The objective of studies within the scope of this field is to provide answers to concrete questions concerning the wireless communication systems used for control processes in difficult environments such as production and machine halls.