Research

Among other things, the topics of reinforcement learning (in energy systems) and smart charging were discussed in a scientific exchange with Prof. Geert Deconinck from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the research institute EnergyVille in Ge...

A journal article in the Applied Energy Journal resulted from the collaboration of Felix Tuchnitz, Niklas Ebell, Jonas Schlund and Marco Pruckner. The article, titled "Development and Evaluation of a Smart Charging Strategy for an Electric Vehicle Fleet Based on Reinforcement Learning", can be acces...

At this year's Vehicular Networking Conference, CS7 contributed three papers: Thomas Deinlein presented his paper "Evaluation of the 5G Data Plane for Advanced Vehicular Use Cases with 5G-Sim-V2I/N". Michael Niebisch talked about his work on the topic of "Impact of the Communication Directio...

Former research assistant and PhD student Florian Bock has successfully obtained his doctorate, congratulations! The PhD defense following his dissertation titled "Contributions to the scenario-accompanied development of automated driving functions" has recently taken place online via Zoom as well. ...

Every two years the whole Network Calculus community meets at WoNeCa (Workshop for Network Calculus) to discuss, exchange ideas and present new research results. This year, our research associate Lisa Maile participated in the (digital) event and presented an overview of results as well as current a...

Our external PhD student Christoph Sippl has successfully defended his dissertation titled "Identification of relevant traffic situations for scenario-based development of automated driving functions" just recently. The doctoral project was supervised in cooperation with Audi AG. Due to the current ...

"Electric cars are not so green" is a much-discussed phrase in relation to the environmental impact of electric mobility. Not only in the mobility sector, but also in the field of energy storage, an analysis of environmental influences is of increasing importance. Our research assistant Daniel Schar...

Our research assistant Jonas Schlund presented a paper titled „FlexAbility - Modeling and Maximizing the Bidirectional Flexibility Availability of Unidirectional Charging of Large Pools of Electric Vehicles“ at the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2020). I...

At the 29th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2020), our research assistant Thomas Deinlein presented a paper entitled "5G-Sim-V2I/N: Towards a Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of 5G V2I/V2N Use Cases". The paper introduces the OMNeT++-Framework developed at our lab, w...

At the Information Communication Technologies Conference (ICTC 2020) our research assistant Lisa Maile presented a survey paper entitled "Network Calculus Results for TSN: An Introduction". It compares, explains and in parts improves the current literature and network calculus models for time-sensit...