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Anja Dakić, Benjamin Rainer, Markus Hofer and Thomas Zemen from the Center for Digital Safety & Security were presented with the Best Demo Paper Award at the renowned IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in Milan in March. The prize was awarded for their outstanding work entitled “Site-Specific Radio Channel Emulation”.
For the first time, a demo session was organized at the WCNC - a format that sets new standards for the practical presentation of innovative research. The winning AIT team demonstrated a hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) system for validating and verifying wireless communication systems under controlled, reproducible laboratory conditions.
The demonstrated setup integrates modems with a real-time channel emulator that processes multipath propagation parameters for site-specific radio channels - based on current IEEE P1944 standardization proposals. As part of the demonstration, an urban vehicle communication scenario was presented that emulates realistic, non-stationary radio propagation conditions in great detail. Put simply, the new technology will enable reliable real-time communication with moving objects in the future, as communication with vehicles can be dynamically adapted to changing conditions, for example to avoid radio blockages in narrow streets or interfering signals in urban environments.
The developed HiL system enables for the first time dynamic motion updates during emulation and provides a powerful platform for the validation of vehicle applications, 5G/6G technologies as well as AI and ML-based receiver concepts - all in a repeatable laboratory environment. This award underlines the relevance and innovation of the presented research in the context of future wireless communication systems.
Read more about the conference here.
We congratulate Anja Dakić, Benjamin Rainer, Markus Hofer and Thomas Zemen on this award!
