Research Assistant
Dipl.-Ing. Benedikt Wolz
	Phone:	+49 241 80 27916
	Fax:	+49 241 80 22242
	eMail:	bmw@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
	Room:	008
	Address:	Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze Kopernikusstr. 5 D-52074 Aachen

Research Topics:

• Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN) (WiMAX / IEEE 802.16 )
• Optimizing radio networks with focus on
• smart antenna arrays to support Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
• relaying technologies to allow Mesh deployments
• flexible spectrum usage
• Stochastic Simulation Methods for Performance Analysis of Real-Time Systems

Reserch Projects:

• European Research Project: Reconfigurable OFDMA-based Cooperative NetworKs Enabled by Agile SpecTrum Use (ICT-ROCKET)
• Industrial Research Project: flexible spectrum usage - joint project with T-Systems (in ScaleNet)
• European Research Project: Flexible Relay Wireless OFDM-based Networks (IST-FIREWORKS) - completed
• National Research Projects: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Schwerpunktprogramm Take OFDM, joint project with Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik (IHF) - completed

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Laboratory: Matlab Meets LEGO Mindstorms (M³)

Offers of Master Thesis

• Development of an SDMA enabled WiMAX Demonstrator,11-06-07,
• Coordination Across Basestations to Effectively Control an SDMA enabled WiMAX System,28-03-08,
• Signaling of resource allocations in IEEE 802.16 networks,06-02-08,
• An adaptive MAC protocol for the IEEE 802.16 standard,06-02-08,