Information on the chair of Communications Technology

The chair of Communications Technology participated in that a great deal. In cooperation with the Deutsche Bundespost and the France Télécom the GSM-standard was presented for the first time to an international audience (more than 650 participants from 22 countries) at the Digital Cellular Radio Conference in Hagen in 1988. The next activity was the leadersphip of the Hagener expert board (in cooperation with the collegues Kaderali and Walke) for the evaluation of the Technical Planning of the applicants for the D2-network, from which the Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH came out as the winner as is well known.

As leader of the committee for further licensing policies the head of the chair of Communications Technology cooperated with the Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. This position can be seen in close relation with the licensings of the E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH for the setting up and operation of the E1-network and further mobile communication projects of the recent years. By now the students of the optional compulsory subjects of our chair profit from these experiences. A further consequence: Financiers from the industrial field take an interest in the department of telecommunications engineering. (The amount of money received up to now is more than 300,000 DM).

The development of a so-called hybrid-simulation equipment to produce and receive test- and measuring-signals and to integrate them in a computer-based simulation has achieved a high technical standard by now. In its practical application especially the cooperation with the Institute of Telecommunications of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR Oberpfaffenhofen), where two members of our department worked for several years, has been quite effective.

The contributions of our members to international conferences, which they partly helped to organize, is very encouraging. Thanks to financial contributions from industry it was possible to realize several journeys within Europe and it was also possible to participate at conferences overseas (USA, Australia, Canada) in order to put forward our own scientific work to the experts' opinions.

After he had been head of the examination board of electrical engineering for many years the representative of the chair of Communications Technology holds the office of proxy dean and member of the Commission of Planning and Finances, a development that can be seen in context with the autonomous administration of the FernUniversität. In order to compensate for the work for the examination board the chair of Communications Technology had to be supported by the allotment of an additional post.

By taking up Dr. Wysocki, a Humboldt-scholarship holder, at our department in 1993, contact was made with the Edith Cowan University in Perth/Australia. Dr.-Ing. Zepernick, who took his doctoral degree at our department, is now working there at the affiliated research institute for telecommunications (ATRI).

It is intended to thorougly work out the following scientific topics at the department of communications engineering in the future:

• aspects of efficiency and quality of cellular mobile communication networks
  
• performance analysis of channel coding procedures
  
• simulation of transmission systems with methods of digital signal processing
  

last Update: Februar. 2004; MH