Student Assistant for Programmable Communication Networks Lab Winter Semester 2025/2026
Description
PCN lab offers the opportunity to familiarize with Openflow and P4 for computer networks. For the next semester, a position is available to assist the participants during labs and the project phase. The lab is planned to be held on-site every Wednesday from 13:00 to 17:00.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of communication networks.
- Solid programming skills: Python.
- Linux knowledge.
Contact
kaan.aykurt@tum.de
nicolai.kroeger@tum.de
Supervisor:
Working Student for the 6G Medical Testbed
Communication networks, programming
Description
Future medical applications put stringent requirements on the underlying communication networks in terms of highest availability, maximal throughput, minimal latency, etc. Thus, in the context of the 6G-life project, new networking concepts and solutions are being developed.
For the research of using 6G for medical applications, the communication and the medical side have joined forces: While researchers from the MITI group (Minimally invasive Interdisciplinary Therapeutical Intervention), located at the hospital "Rechts der Isar", focus on the requirements of the medical applications and collecting needed parameters of patients, it is the task of the researchers at LKN to optimize the network in order to satisfy the applications' demands. The goal of this joint research work is to have working testbeds for two medical testbeds located in the hospital to demonstrate the impact and benefits of future 6G networks and concepts for medical applications.
Your task during this work is to implement the communcation network for those testbeds. Based on an existing open-access 5G network implementation, you will implement changes according to the progress of the current research. The results of your work, working 6G medical testbeds, will enable researchers to validate their approaches with real-world measurements and allow to demonstrate future 6G concepts to research, industry and politics.
In this project, you will gain a deep insight into how communication networks, especially the Radio Access Network (RAN), work and how different aspects are implemented. Additionally, you will understand the current limitations and weaknesses as well as concepts for improvement. Also, you will get some insights into medical topics if interested. As in such a broad topic there are many open research questions, you additionally have the possibility to also write your thesis or complete an internship.
Prerequisites
- Most important: Motivation and willingness to learn unknown things.
- Programming skills and/or the willingness to work oneself into it.
- Preferred: Knowledge about communication networks (exspecially the RAN), 5G concepts, the P4 language, SDN, Linux.
- Initiative to bring in own ideas and solutions.
- Ability to work with various partners (teamwork ability).
Please note: It is not necessary to know about every topic aforementioned, much more it is important to be willing to read oneself in.