Senior Research Assistant
Dr.-Ing. Rainer Schoenen
	Phone:	+49 241 80 27930
	Fax:	+49 241 80 22242
	eMail:	rs@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
	Room:	105
	Address:	Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze Kopernikusstr. 5 D-52074 Aachen

Research Topics:

Performance evaluation of relay-enhanced wireless broadband networks / next generation wireless systems Development of Concepts Algorithms for Relay-based Wireless Broadband Networks Simulative System-Level Performance Evaluation Multi-mode support in a flexible protocol stack
OFDM(A) based future radio access networks MAC, DLL, protocol issues, resource scheduling Simulative System-Level Performance Evaluation TDD and FDD duplex modes Relaying in FDD mode
UMTS-3GPP-LTE LTE (long term evolution) radio access techniques TDD and FDD duplex modes Heterogeneous Relaying
IEEE 802.11, WLAN IEEE 802.11a, OFDM @ 5GHz IEEE 802.11b, legacy WLAN IEEE 802.11e, Dienstgüteunterstützung (QoS) IEEE 802.11n, Hochratiges WLAN, >100Mb/s
Systemmodellierung und Leistungsbewertung mit Stochastischen Petri-Netzen
Simulatortechniken

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Supervision of Diploma-, Masters- and Student Projects
• Laboratory: Mobile Radio Networks
• Seminars

Offers of Master Thesis

• Performance analysis of relay-enhanced protocols in TDD and FDD mode systems,11-12-07,
• Performance Evaluation of MAC-Protocols for a Heterogeneous Relay-Based Wireless Broadband System,15-06-07,
• Enhanced channel models for realistic radio network scenarios,15-06-07,
• Performance Analysis of the UMTS successor 3GPP-LTE,15-06-07,
• Implementation and Analysis of MIMO techniques for 3G/LTE, WiMAX and WiFi in the openWNS simulation environment,19-06-08,
• Overhead Modeling and Analysis for LTE Systems,22-07-08,

Offers of Seminar Papers

• Leistungsuntersuchung zellulärer Szenarien mit Matlab,04-04-07,
• Leistungsbewertung zellulärer Szenarien mit Matlab,04-04-07,

Offers of HiWi-Jobs

• Implementierung von Teilfunktionalitäten in Relais-erweiterten Breitband-Funkzellen,06-02-06,