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Research assistant Lorenz Ammon presented our paper "N-Ray Ground Interference: Extending the Two-Ray Interference Model for 3D Terrain Shapes" at this year's IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC). The conference, which is one of the main events of the vehicular networking community, took place...

At this years IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems Conference at California State University in Long Beach, CA we presented the tool and paper "MiniDES - Lightweight Python Simulation Framework for Interconnected Renewable Resources". This is a small blog post about the conference. The yearly confere...

In our paper "Optimized Integration of Electric Vehicles in Low Voltage Distribution Grids" we analyse the impact of unccordinated charging of electric vehicles and different smart charging strategies on a representative European semi-urban low-voltage grid. The paper was published openly accessible...

Once again, Computer Science 7 have participated at the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" (German for "Long Night of Sciences") last weekend. In the course of this event, which takes place every two years, various companies, research instituations and university facilities in the region open their do...

Our research associate Niklas Ebell, a member of the Smart Energy Group, presented his findings on "Sharing of Energy Among Cooperative Households Using Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" at the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT) 2019 in Bucharest (Romania). Further i...

The results of two papers of the Connected Mobility group have been presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2019-Fall in Honolulu (Hawaii, USA). Thomas Deinlein discussed the results of his work titled "Simulative Comparison of 4G/5G ITU Channel Models in the Context of V2I" at the ...

The first prototype for an efficient combination of heterogeneous communication links was presented at the 6th national conference "Satellitenkommunikation in Deutschland" on May 14-15 in Bonn, Germany. Two Internet access technologies were combined: DSL light and geostationary satellite. With this ...

Our employees use their scientific knowledge for high-speed networks and optimal energy management to reach the finish line at this year's Firmathlon!

The ChargingLedger project received an EXIST start-up grant from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy via the i7 Chair. The aim of the start-up is to offer and commercialize smart charging as a service to grid operators or energy suppliers through data-driven optimization. The project runs i...

At the FAU Silicon Valley Spring School, the i7 Chair was represented in Silicon Valley from March 21-29 and gained interesting insights into the startup scene. In addition to lectures by experts and startups such as Affinity, Arevea, EyeQue or MyndScape, the focus was on "networking". In addition, ...