Communication Networks

“Travel Grant” Award, IEEE ANTS:

December 15th to 18th, 2024: Mrs. Ritanshi Agarwal, member of the Communications Network Chair (COMNET), participated at the IEEE ANTS conference, hosted in the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG), India. She presented her paper entitled “Infrastructure Cost Savings with Unbalanced PONs in Rural Areas” as well as a demo on “Unbalanced PON Planning Tool for Rural Areas”. Her work showed a cost-effective Passive Optical Network architecture for rural areas, which consists on cascading optical taps in a daisy chain. The demo showed the planning tool developed with PyQt5, which supports different architectures and areas. Mrs. Agarwal was awarded the “Travel grant” award.
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ITG Workshop FONDAC:

December 4th, 2024: The Communications Network Chair hosted at the UniBw München campus, the ITG Workshop “FONDAC: Future optical networks design and control”. This workshop aimed for PhD students to share their studies and results and get ideas from several industry and operator presentations. The event was organized by Prof. Carmen Mas-Machuca (UniBw), Prof. Thomas Bauschert (TU Chemnitz) and Prof. Andreas Kirstädter (Universität Stuttgart). This Workshop counted with an invited talk by Andreas Gladisch from Deutsche Telekom titled “Energy consumption in optical networks”.
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Front-Runner Meeting:

November 26th & 27th, 2024: The Communications Network Chair hosted the BMBF FRONT-RUNNER meeting at UniBw München. The project partners ADTRAN SE, BISDN Gmbh, Fraunhofer HHI attended the meeting and shared results and research plans for the last year of the project.
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