Research Interests

Research Interests

The laboratory for communications engineering at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences ("LNT") is particularly specialising in information transmission, especially wireless transmission technology and related areas. In the following the topics mobile radio communications, RFID and navigation systems will be addressed briefly.

Mobile Radio Communications

With more than 75m subscribers only in Germany, cellular mobile communications belongs to one of the fastest growing segments of the future growth industry telecommunications. For many years globally harmonized digital mobile communications systems have been worked on to cater for the enourmous demand for transmission bandwidth and service variety, according to the slogan "Communications anywhere and anytime".

Within the application area mobile communications, the lab for communications engineering at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences deals with aspects of mobile broadband transmission technology of up to several 100 Mbit/s over an air interface as well as software (re-) configurable mobile terminals (SDR, Software Definable Radio) massively using digital signal processing.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

RFIDs are small data carriers including a transponder allowing the wireless transmission of short datagrams. The application areas are manifold, e.g. electronic passports/keys to companies or hotel rooms, electronic car theft protection, anti-theft devices in shops up to tagging of farm animals or pets.

We are developing so called 'Long Range RFIDs' with reading distances of up to 100m.

Navigation Systems

The lab ("LNT") develops portable inertial navigation systems that allow autonomous navigation without relying on satellite networks like e.g. GPS. Possible application scenarios are areas not reachable by satellite signals e.g. inside of buildings.

We have developped a pedestrian navigation system as a "GPS-backup" on behalf of an industry partner which allows limited navigation in areas that are temporarily or not at all reachable by GPS or similar satellite based systems.