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The Institute for Digital Communication (IDC) is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications of the Faculty of Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober. IDC is complemented by Prof. Dr. Laura Cottatellucci, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Müller, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Gerstacker.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober

Head of the Institute for Digital Communications

FERIENAKADEMIE 2025

Join our course Building the Internet of Cells with Synthetic Molecular Communication at Summer Academy 2025. The course introduces you to the latest scientific discoveries and technological advances in synthetic molecular communication!

WHEN: 21.9.2025 – 3.10.2025

WHERE: Sarntal Alps

FOR: Students of natural and engineering sciences, computer science or medicine

Prof. Robert Schober was elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a non-governmental, European association committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. Founded in 1990 as a learned society, its 2,000 members are leading ...

Several IDC researchers attended the 14th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. SCC 2025 is organized by the Information Technology Group (ITG) of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic, and Infor...

As part of the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC), Ata Kahlili and Moritz Garkisch visited RWTH Aachen for two days, from March 11th to 12th, 2025.

On the first day, the meeting was divided into six subgroups, each focusing on a different topic. Each group discussed the latest technical ...

The Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) hosted a two-day project status meeting for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) project from Monday, February 24 to Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg! The IoBNT project aims to develop a communication platform for connecting the hu...
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IDC’s Lighthouse Projects

The Research Training Group (RTG) SyMoCADS is a research training program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to train scientists and engineers in the emerging interdisciplinary field of molecular communication.

 

EmpkinS is a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with a the focus on capturing human motion parameters remotely in a minimally disturbing and non-invasive manner and with very high resolution.

 

The Research Training Group (RTG) KoRaTo is a joint project between the Ulm University (UUlm) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg with the aim to develop a new UAV- and radar-based geophysical monitoring system to measure for instance earth mass movements, vegetation heights, or the cryosphere.

 

6G-RIC is part of the 6G Platform Germany and aims to address the research challenges of the 6th generation of mobile communications.

 

IDC’s Fields of Research Activity

Next Generation Wireless Communication

Molecular and Biological Communication Systems

Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Information Theory

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