Institute for Digital Communications

The Institute for Digital Communication (IDC) is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications of the Faculty of Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober. IDC is complemented by Prof. Dr. Laura Cottatellucci, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Müller, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Gerstacker.

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Teena tom Dieck and Johanna Fröhlich have been awarded the Luise-Prell-Preis and the Fritz-und-Maria-Hofmann-Preis, respectively, for their outstanding master’s theses. Teena tom Dieck was honored for her thesis “Optical-to-Chemical Signal Modulation with Functionalized Nanodevices,” in which she developed mathematical models for light-controlled nanodevices used in miniaturized bioreactors, laying the groundwork for their optimization and future application in…

IDC researchers Hedieh Ajam, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, and Robert Schober, along with IDC alumnus and current Assistant Professor at TU-Darmstadt Vahid Jamali and LHFT researcher Bernhard Schmauss have received Best Paper Award 2024 from the TAOS technical committee (TC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for their Globecom 2024 paper: “Delay Dispersion in IRS-assisted FSO Links“.  TAOS is one…

Teena tom Dieck has been awarded the “Junge Macherin” prize by the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) for her commitment and her master’s thesis. Teena gets top grades, gets “things done”, commits to voluntary work and has her feets firmly on the ground. Her interdisciplinary master’s thesis in the elite Advanced Signal Processing…
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IDC’s Lighthouse Projects

SyMoCADS

The Research Training Group (RTG) SyMoCADS is a research training program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to train scientists and engineers in the emerging interdisciplinary field of molecular communication.

EmpkinS

EmpkinS is a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with a the focus on capturing human motion parameters remotely in a minimally disturbing and non-invasive manner and with very high resolution.

KoRaTo

The Research Training Group (RTG) KoRaTo is a joint project between the Ulm University (UUlm) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg with the aim to develop a new UAV- and radar-based geophysical monitoring system to measure for instance earth mass movements, vegetation heights, or the cryosphere.

xG-RIC

xG-RIC is part of the 6G Platform Germany and serves as a technology transfer hub with the goal of advancing key 6G technologies and systematically accelerating their transfer into industry and society. 

IDC’s Fields of Research

Next Generation Wireless Communication

Molecular and Biological Communication Systems

Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Information Theory

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