Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rudolf Mathar
Walter-Schottky-Haus
Sommerfeldstraße 24
4. Etage
52074 Aachen
phone: +49 (0)241 80 - 277 01
fax: +49 (0)241 80 - 221 98
sekretariat@ti.rwth-aachen.de
Participating Institution of UMIC
Organiser of ISWCS 2011
News
04.03.2013
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On a warm and sunny day the first spadeful of earth was turned for the ICT cubes,
the future home for six institutes of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology. Rektor Ernst Schmachtenberg and Dean Rudolf Mathar spoke in high
terms of the future opportunities for research and cooperation. TI will also
move to the new building, promised to be completed by end of 2014.
More information is available at Ground Breaking Ceremony for New ICT Cubes and Zwei Würfel im Grünen für Wissenschaftler |
26.02.2013
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On the occasion of the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona the Institute for Theoretical Information Technology (TI) receives the "HUAWEI Proactive Contribution Award". The contributions of TI to the joint research project "Self-Organization for 4G Multi-Tier Networks" are honored by this award. Dr. Jianjun Wu, the director of HUAWEI's 2012 Lab European Research Center division, presented Rudolf Mathar and Alexander Engels with the award. |
24.08.2012
Der Verein der
Freunde und Förderer der Theoretischen Informationstechnik e.V. nimmt ab sofort Mitglieder auf.
01.07.2012
As a past recipients of the Vodafone Inovation Award, Rudolf Mathar contributes some thoughts about the future of mobile communications at
blog.vodafone.de/tag/innovationspreis.
27.02.2012
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The Mobile World Congress is the largest exhibition of mobile communication systems in Europe. This year it took place in Barcelona 27 February - 1 March 2012. As part of UMIC, TI has presented its recent research on self organization of multi-tier and layered networks. |
09.01.2012
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Anke Schmeink serves as the lead guest editor for a special issue on "Recent Advances in Optimization Techniques in Wireless Communication Networks" of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. |
01.01.2012
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25.11.2011
Meik Dörpinghaus is awarded the Friedrich-Wilhelm Preis of RWTH Aachen for his outstanding PhD thesis.
10.11.2011
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Georg Böcherer, Fabian Altenbach, Martina Malsbender, and Rudolf Mathar won the Best Paper Award for their paper Writing on the Facade of RWTH ICT Cubes: Cost Constrained Geometric Huffman Coding at the ISWCS 2011. M. Malsbender is working for kadawittfeldarchitektur. |
06.-09.11.2011
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ISWCS'11 - The 8th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems took place in Aachen, Germany, 6th - 9th November, 2011. Rudolf Mathar was the general chair, Gerhard Kramer and Kwang-Cheng Chen served as the technical program chairs. Public announcement can be found here . |
19.09.2011
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Milan Zivkovic, Johannes Schmitz and Rudolf Mathar won the Best Technical Presentation Award for their SDR demonstrator on Acquisition and Identification of OFDM Signals using Cyclostationary Signatures at the WINCOOL demo competition accompanying the WINTECH workshop2011 in Las Vegas. |
12.09.2011
The paper Joint BS Selection and Subcarrier Assignment for Multicell Heterogeneous OFDM Unicasting by Chunhui Liu, Peng Wang, Anke Schmeink and Rudolf Mathar
won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE conference PIMRC 2011 in Toronto.
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Rudolf Mathar serves as the dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. |
11.04.2011
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Starting from summer semester 2011, the institute is offering a new Lab (Praktikum) for M.SC. or Diploma (Hauptstudium) students. For more information,
please click on the PDF file. Feel also free to contact our teaching assistants. Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Altenbach Dipl.-Inform. Steven Corroy |
22.03.2011
Rudolf Mathar was elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.
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Members from TI and the group of Prof. Dr. Joachim Buhmann, Professor for Information Science and Engineering and Head of the Machine Learning Laboratory, organize a joint one-day workshop at ETH Zürich. Presentations and discussions include machine learning, graph based pattern recognition and picture segmentation, bio-inspired information processing, and applied optimization for communication systems. |
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The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the largest exhibition of mobile communication systems in Europe, this year taking place in Barcelona 14 - 17 February 2011. Two institutes of RWTH Aachen University, TI and IND jointly present recent research from UMIC. Binaural conference telecommunication from IND is carried over an optimized OFDM radio link from TI. Optimized OFDM is considered to improve capacity, quality and robustness of next generation mobile standard LTE+. |
10.12.2010
Marius Cordts who has written his bachelor thesis at TI has won the
"Rohde & Schwarz Best Bachelor" award. He received the price during the
"Tag der Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 2010".
Tag der Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der RWTH Aachen
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The demonstration "A Reconfigurable Adaptive OFDM Testbed for Binaural Audio-Visual Communications", developed jointly with the Institute of Communication
Systems and Data Processing (IND), was presented at the 2. Tag der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen (IuK-Tag NRW), held in
Wuppertal, on 10th November 2010. Organized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport, the IuK-Tag NRW is the high ranking
annual meeting which gives impulses for future strategies for the IT business sector of NRW. |
25.06.2010
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"Kinderuni - Children's University" is a series of lectures regularly given at RWTH Aachen University
for children aged 8 to 12 years. This time, Professor Mathar presented a talk entitled
"Why does my mobile phone always know its location" to about 700 children.
A team from TI, Melanie Neunerdt, Alexander Engels, Florian Schröder, Henning Maier
and Meik Dörpinghaus, demonstrated in a life performance how mobile devices connect
to a cellular network. Kinderuni - Children's University |
21.06.2010
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Marius Cordts and Daniel Rüschen, both writing their bachelor thesis at TI, won this year's case study competition by Rohde & Schwarz and VDE. Together with their team "Gauß Krach" they
found bright solutions to a series of technical problems related to DVB-T and its successor, DVB-T2. Furthermore, reflection on economical performance and the overall presentation style were assessed by highest grades.
Marius Cordts and Daniel Rüschen |
02.-04.06.2010
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The Institute for Theoretical Information Technology (TI) demonstrated recent research achievements on radio resource management at the 3rd NGMN Industry Conference & Exibition.
Recognized speakers and panelists from the entire mobile world presented commercial and technological achievements and challenges ahead, and gave an outlook on upcoming technology
developments. TI's SDR testbed for optimal resource allocation in OFDM(A) was presented at the co-located exibition where leading mobile technology vendors showed next generation network
solutions.
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27.-30.05.2010
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EUROBOT is a recognized international robot contest. Each year a different task
has to be solved by autonomous robots, this year collecting tomatoes and oranges
on a playing field scattered with obstacles. The Roboterclub Aachen e.V., hosted
by TI, won the second prize in Zurich 2010. Congratulations!
Roboterclub Aachen e.V. |
18.-21.1.2010
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The 8th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding 2010 (SCC 2010) took place in Siegen, Germany, 18-21 January 2010. Rudolf Mathar was the Program Chair. A brief report may be found here. |
05.11.2009
The paper "Power allocation for social benefit through price-taking
behaviour on a CDMA reverse link shared by energy-constrained and
energy-sufficient data terminals" by V. Rodriguez, F. Jondral, and R.
Mathar was selected as one of the five best papers out of 143
at the IEEE ISWCS 2009 (Siena, Italy) and hence is eligible for inclusion
in a special issue of the prestigious ACM/Springer journal
"Mobile Networks and Applications".
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As the first recipient ever, Anke Schmeink is awarded the highly endowed Helene-Lange-Award for young female scientists at the University of Oldenburg. |
16.10.2009
Rudolf Mathar is elected chairman of ITG/VDE Technical Committee 5.1, Information and System Theory.
21.09.2009
Milan Zivkovic, Dominik Auras and Rudolf Mathar receive the second prize in the WinCool demonstration contest at The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2009), co-located with Mobicom 2009, for their research demonstrator entitled "A reconfigurable framework for adaptive OFDM transmission".
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The Chair for Theoretical Information Technology (TI) and the Chair for Computer Graphics and Multimedia (I8), both members of the cluster of excellence UMIC, jointly demonstrate progress towards ultra-high speed communication at CeBIT 2009. |
14.01.2009
Anke Schmeink is affiliated with the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.
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Virgilio Rodriguez, Rudolf Mathar and Anke Schmeink receive the best paper award of the Australasian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2008). The prestigious award consists of a cash prize and a research visit to the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia, including accommodation and living expenses. |
28.11.2008
Dr. Daniel Catrein is awarded the renowned Gertraude Holste Preis of RWTH Aachen University for his outstanding PhD thesis.
28.11.2008
Dr. Thorsten Clevorn receives the prestigious VDE Dissertation Award. The slides of his thesis overview presentation are "here".
21.10.2008
Optimal power allocation to subcarriers in OFDM advances.
03.05.2008
Aus dem Magazin der Aachener Zeitung: "Mathe - kann ich nicht". Ein Interview mit
Professor Mathar.
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