Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

conflicting targets like data-rate, radio range and power consumption by continuous joint
optimization.
Matching requirements and features of applications and services on the one hand and of the
wireless transport platform on the other hand is a key approach of the research area “Mobile
Applications and Services”.
Design methodology and implementation are addressed by “RF Subsystems and SoC
Design”. Major challenges to be addressed are the nanometre-CMOS integration of flexible
radio frequency subsystems required for cognitive terminals and “Multi- Processor-Systemon-Chip”
(MPSoC) platforms, designed for maximum performance and energy efficiency,
taking into account the features and issues of future silicon technology generations.
Research topics like performance and reliability of complex systems, privacy and security,
energy efficiency, and software architecture affecting all pillars of the UMIC research are
grouped within the research “Interdisciplinary Methods and Tools”.
Nucleus of the cluster research is the UMIC centre, hosting the interdisciplinary research
teams headed by Junior Professors and UMIC Distinguished Researchers, the prototyping labs
and a demonstrator space. More than 20 chairs and institutes from the Electrical Engineering
and Information Technology Faculty and the Computer Science Department of RWTH
Aachen are active members of the UMIC research cluster.
This year saw several changes in the management personnel.
• Prof. Jarke succeeded Prof. Spaniol as Vice Speaker.
• Prof. Kobbelt succeeded Prof. Jarke as Area Coordinator ‘Mobile Applications &
Services’
• Prof. Wehrle succeeded Prof. Kobbelt as Vice Area Coordinator ‘Mobile Applications &
Services.’
Current Projects
• Mobile Stream Data Mining (Information Management in Wearable and Environmental
Computing)
• Context-Aware Semantic Multimedia Services for Mobile Communities
• Adaptive Self-Organizing Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks
• Extended Communication Primitives for UMIC Applications
• Mobile and Wearable P2P Information Management in HealthNet Applications
• Organic Interfaces: Metaphor-free interaction techniques for mobile devices
• Interactive Image-Based 3D Scene Modeling for Mobile Multimedia Applications
• Energy Efficient Audio Communication and Conferencing
• Precise Localization and Pose Estimation for Mobile Devices
• A Flexible and Versatile Software Architecture for Modular Protocol Development and
Cross-Layer Adaptation
• UMIC Audiovisual Communication and Conferencing
• Adaptive Error Protection for Scalable Video Coding.
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