In these turbulent times, the Covid-19 pandemic also became a study item at the Institute of Communications. In his project work, Semir Cömertpay, supported by his supervisor Maximilian Stark, analyzed the available data of the pandemic employing applied information theory. Using the generic machine learning tool termed “Information Bottleneck Method” possible protection concepts as well as findings on the occurrence of infections and on possible vaccination plans were analyzed.

On December 15, 2020, Markus Ulmschneider successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Cooperative Multipath Assisted Positioning. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr. Matthias Kuhl (Institute for Integrated Circuits) and the two reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Dr. Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology).

On November 12, 2020, Prof. Hermann Rohling received the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. Prof. Rohling was awarded the degree for valuable contributions to the higher education development, scientific research, and good cooperation with Politehnica University of Timisoara.

Gerhard Bauch, head of the Institute of Communications, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Society (ITG) in the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) for the term 2021-2023.

On July 21, 2020, Jan Christopher Lewandowsky successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis The Information Bottleneck Method in Communications. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr. Herbert Werner (Institute of Control Systems) and the two reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart).

On February 12, 2020, Martin Kurras successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Massive MIMO in Cellular Networks. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hoc Khiem Trieu (Institute of Microsystems Technology) and the two reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Weber (University of Rostock).

The 24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2020) will take place from 18-20 February 2020 at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), and is an annual event which covers a broad scope of topics, such as beamforming, massive MIMO, mmWave transmission, compressive sensing, ultra-low latency communications, MIMO radar, sensor networks, device-to-device communications, and localization. The conference is organized by the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE). More details on the workshop can be found at http://www.wsa2020.net

On November 25, 2019, Prof. Hermann Rohling was appointed ITG Fellow by the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE).

Gerhard Bauch was elected to the review board (Fachkollegium) of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for the period 2020-2023. He is one of four review board members for the subject area “communications engineering, high frequency technology, communications networks, electromagnetic theory.”

On November 22, 2019, Rico Mendrzik successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Position Estimation in Networks with Sparse Infrastructure. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Volker Turau (Institute of Telematics) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg).

On 6th of June 2019, three students working as tutors in the Institute of Communications received teaching awards from the “Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen” (ZLL) at TUHH. During a special ceremony in the TUHH main building, Felix Ganz, Jan-Joshua Schmitt, and Tal Peer were handed the prize to acknowledge their outstanding teaching skills in the group tutorials of “Signals and Systems” and the project based learning course on “Modern Wireless Systems”, respectively.

Swantje Plambeck received the second award of the Hamburger VDI award for her bachelor thesis “Analysis of Convolutional Codes for Underwater Communications” which she had done at the Institute of Communications under the supervision of Melanie Falk. The award ceremony with participation of Sven Warnck and Axel Dreckschmidt, board members of the VDI local chapter Hamburg, took place on May 22, 2019 in the Panorama Lounge at the St. Pauli fish market.

Tobias Prinz, Fabian Steiner, Thomas Wiegart and Peihong Yuan from Technische Universität München received the Heinrich Hecht award for winning the coding challenge “Wanted: Best Channel Codes for Short Underwater Messages” which was organized by the Institute of Communications in cooperation with the Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research in Kiel.

The 12th International Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC) will take place on February 11-14, 2019 in Rostock. SCC is organized by the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) with technical co-sponsorship of IEEE. SCC aims at bridging the gap between theory, applications and various communities in the field of communications. Therefore, contributions from both academia and industry, theoretical work as well as applied research in various fields of communications are encouraged. More information is available at www.scc2019.net.

The 30th January 2019 marked the first successful completion of the project-based learning (PBL) course on modern wireless systems at the Institute of Communications. Students presented the findings of their analysis on WiFi systems, including simulation results generated with GNU Radio, in the form of poster presentations.

After three years of intensive exchange and cooperation between members of the Seoul National University (SNU) and the Institute of Communications (INT) of TUHH, the two groups met for a last joint workshop in Seoul. After several visits in Hamburg and Seoul within these three years, a delegation of three Ph.D. students and Prof. Bauch travelled to Seoul. The workshop was held from 13th of November to 15th of November 2018. It is part of a German-Korean Partnership Program (GenKO), which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

Gerhard Bauch, head of the Institute of Communications was elected to the board of governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for the term 2019-2021.

On September 10, 2018, Rodrigo Alberto Justavino Castillo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Interference Management in Mobile Networks. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Alexander Schlaefer (Institute of Medical Technology) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Armin Wittneben (ETH Zürich).

Maximilian Stark received the Karl H. Ditze award for his master thesis Information Optimum Design of Discrete LDPC Decoders for Irregular Codes which he had done at the Institute of Communications (INT) under the supervision of Jan Lewandowsky. The award ceremony with participation of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dalheimer, board member of the Karl H. Ditze Foundation, took place on July 11, 2018 at TUHH.

Mustafa Emara, Ph.D. student at the Institute of Communications, received a best student paper award for the paper MEC-assisted E2E Latency Evaluations for C-V2X Communicationsat the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC) which took place on June 18-21, 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

For the third time, a of students from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) visited our institute, TUHH and Hamburg for two weeks at the end of May and beginning of June, 2018. They gained rich experiences in the studies and live of German university students as well as German culture.

On April 23, 2018, Guangxia Zhou successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Rate-Splitting Methods for Interference Management in Cellular Wireless Systems. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Christian Becker (Institute of Electrical Power and Energy Technology) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Peter Oppermann received a second award of the Werner Petersen Technology Awards for his master thesis Implementation of Information Optimum Decoders for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on a Digital Signal Processor which he had done at the Institute of Communications (INT) under the supervision of Jan Lewandowsky in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE), Wachtberg.

For the third time in 2017 members of the Seoul National University (SNU) and the Institute of Communications (INT) of the TUHH met for a joint workshop to intensify the exchange and the partnership between the research groups.

On 28th and 29th of August, 2017, a joint workshop on wireless communications took place with members of Seoul National University (SNU) and the Institute of Communications (INT) of TUHH. Being the third workshop of its kind, the meeting was hosted by INT in Hamburg this time. It is part of a German-Korean Partnership Program (GenKO), which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

For the second time, a group of students from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) visited our institute and University for one week at the end of May, 2017. They gained rich experiences in the studies and lives of German university students as well as German culture.

On May 9, 2017, Francisco Lázaro Blasco successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Fountain Codes under Maximum Likelihood Decoding. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Christian Schuster (Institute of Electromagnetic Theory) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Amin Shokrollahi (Kandou Bus and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss).

Was ist eigentlich eine elektromagnetische Welle? Wie genau erzeugt man Strom aus Windenergie? Auf welche Weise orientieren sich Fledermäuse mit Ultraschall? Wie kommen Sprache, Musik und Videos per Funk in mein Handy? Das ist nur ein kleiner Teil der Fragen, die im diesjährigen Sommercamp Elektrotechnik an der Technischen Universität Hamburg (TUHH) behandelt werden. Beteiligt sind dabei von Seiten der TU die Institute für Theoretische Elektrotechnik (Prof. Schuster), Elektrische Energietechnik (Prof. Becker), Nachrichtentechnik (Prof. Bauch) und Mikrosystemtechnik (Dr. Hingst).

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The International Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC) is a bi-annual event which covers a broad range of topics in various fields of wireless and wired communication. The conference is organized by the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) in technical co-sponsorship of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The 2nd workshop on wireless communications between TUHH and Seoul National University took place on January 23-24, 2017 at TUHH hosted by the Institute of Communications (INT). The workshop was part of an exchange project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) within the German-Korean Partnership Programme (GenKO).

Reent Schlegel received the SICK award (SICK-Förderpreis) for his bachelor thesis Cooperative Localization in Wireless Networks which he had done at the Institute of Communications (INT) under the supervision of Rico Mendrzik. The award ceremony with participation of the donator Renate Sick-Glaser as well as the SICK AG management board member Wolfgang Bay took place on January 20, 2017 at TUHH.

On January 10th, 2017, a double anniversary party was held for two members of the Institute of Communications: Prof. Hermann Rohling had turned 70 in December, while technician Dieter Gödecke had celebrated his 60th birthday in the same month.

A delegation of three Ph.D. students from the Institute of Communications (INT) and Prof. Gerhard Bauch have visited the Seoul National University (SNU), ranked number one among the Korean universities, for a workshop. The workshop is intended to promote exchange between Korean and German researchers. The workshop was funded by the Deutscher Aka- demischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the Korean National Research Fund (NRF).

Claude Elwood Shannon, der Begründer der Infor- mationstheorie, hätte in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag gefeiert. Weltweit finden aus diesem Anlass Veranstaltungen statt. Die TUHH möchte mit einem Vortrag von Dr. Axel Roch dazu beitragen, den Wissenschaftler Shannon einem breiteren Publikum bekanntzumachen.
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A group of students from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) visited our institute and University for one week at the end of May, 2016. UESTC is located in Chengdu, Southwest China, and belongs to China’s leading  universities for higher education in electronic and information science and technology.

In context of a project week students from the Gymnasium Oberalster in Hamburg-Sasel visited our institute in September 2015 and gained insights into the perspectives of studying electrical engineering and its importance in everyday life.

On September 16, 2015, Thiago Martins de Moraes successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Advanced Radio Resource Management for Relaying in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Marko Lindner (Institute of Mathematics) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer (TUM Technische Universität München).

On August 25, 2015, Serkan Uygungelen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Interference Coordination for Femtocell Networks. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Arne Jacob (Institute of Microwave Engineering, Optics, and Electromagnetic Compatibility) and the two reviewers Prof. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, UK).

In January 2015 Prof. Gerhard Bauch was awarded with the IEEE Fellowship for his contributions to iterative processing in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. On this occasion, a reception was held at the TUHH.

The Institutes of Communications, Microwave Engineering and Communications Networks jointly organized a student excursion to Munich. From the 27th to the 29th of May, the students have visited Rohde & Schwarz, as well as Airbus Defense & Space.

On April 28th and 29th, 2015, the Institute of Communications at TUHH hosted a meeting of the professional group “Applied Information Theory” (AIT) of the Information Technology Society (ITG).

The 10th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC) took place from 2nd to 5th February, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.

Gerhard Bauch, head of the Institute of Communications, has been elevated to the grade of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE honors Gerhard Bauch’s contributions to iterative processing in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.

The Institute of Communications organized a student excursion to Munich, which took place from 26th to 28th May, 2014. This trip provided the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the company Rohde & Schwarz.

Am 19.09.2013 wurde der Oberingenieur des Instituts für Nachrichtentechnik, Dr. Rainer Grünheid, zum Privat-dozenten der Technischen Universität Hamburg-Harburg ernannt.