Dr.-Ing. Björn Mennenga

 
Björn Mennenga  Postal
Address:
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
Vodafone Stiftungslehrstuhl
Mobile Nachrichtensysteme
D-01062 Dresden, Germany
Visit
Address:
Barkhausenbau, Room II 1
Helmholtzstraße 18
01069 Dresden
Phone: +49 351 463 41060
Fax: +49 351 463 41099
e-mail: mennenga@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de


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Scientific Interests

Theses and student projects

  Open theses and student projects:

  • Diplomarbeiten/Master Theses and
  • Studienarbeit/Student Projects:

  • Currently there are no predefined topics existing. Nevertheless, I am always looking for motivated and highly qualified students to assist me within their Thesis/Student Project. If you are interested into MIMO detection algorithms and/or their implementation, please do not hesitate to contact me .

  • HIWI-Stellen/Student Assistant Jobs:
  • Currently there are no predefined topics existing. Nevertheless, I am always looking for motivated and highly qualified students to assist me within their Thesis/Student Project. If you are interested into MIMO detection algorithms and/or their implementation, please do not hesitate to contact me .

    No open topics.

      Currently running theses and student projects:

  • Tahir Irshad
  • Master Thesis:
    Optimization of Advanced Tuple-Search Based Sphere Detectors
    started Feb. 2010

      Finalized theses and student projects:

  • Janis Werner:
  • Student Thesis:
    Entwicklung und Analyse von Verfahren zur Komplexitätsreduktion iterativer Detektionsprozesse
    submitted 30 Oct. 2009
  • Esther Perez Adeva:
  • Master Thesis:
    Evaluation of parallelization and implementation aspects of sphere-search based MIMO detection algorithms
    submitted 30 April 2009
  • Jan Fromme:
  • Diploma Thesis:
    Implementierung und Untersuchung von implementierungsoptimierten K-Best MIMO Detektions-Algorithmen
    submitted 12 Dec. 2008
  • Richard Fritzsche:
  • Student Thesis:
    Evaluierung der Leistungsfähigkeit iterativer MIMO Detektions-Algorithmen
    submitted 08 April 2008
  • Andreas von Borany:
  • Diploma Thesis:
    Untersuchung der Realisierbarkeit von MIMO Detektions-Algorithmen
    submitted 06 Dez 2007
  • Pedro Alvarez Torres:
  • Student project:
    Implementation of a GUI for a reconfigurable terminal demonstrator
    finished Nov. 2007
  • Mauricio Carvalho:
  • Student project:
    Implementation of Interfaces and APIs for the chair's SAMIRA DSP
    finished Aug. 2007
  • Martin Fuhrwerk:
  • Diploma Thesis:
    Erstellung eines DVB-H Testsystems
    submitted 15 Jan. 2007
  • Christoph Jähnigen:
  • Student Thesis:
    Simulation Model of an End to End Reconfigurable Terminal
    submitted 02 Feb. 2007
  • Stefan Schulze:
  • Student project:
    Implementation of reconfigurable test applications for STA SOCs
    finished March 2007
  • Stefan Schulze:
  • Student Thesis:
    Implementierung einer konfigurierbaren SIMD Demo
    submitted 14 Dez. 2006
  • Ralf Zenker:
  • Student project:
    Implementation of the Viterbi Algorithm based on STA
    finished July 2006

    Publications

      PHD Thesis:

    Aufwandsgünstige Detektion in Mehrantennensystemen mittels komplexitätsreduzierter Baumsuchverfahren (in German)
    Titlepage + Abstract (English)
    Slides of PhD Defense (German)

      Conference & Journal Publications:

    In case of any questions and/or comments related to the following publications, please do not hesitate to contact me .
    1. Mohammad Ali Shah, Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Iterative Soft-In Soft-Out Sphere Detection for 3GPP LTE
      Accepted for publication at the 71th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring'10)

    2. Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Simplified Search Sequence and Metric Determination for Tree Search based Detection Algorithms
      Submitted to the IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications

    3. Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Search Sequence Determination for Tree Search based Detection Algorithms
      In Proceedings of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2009, Princeton, USA, 30. March - 1. April 2009

    4. Björn Mennenga, Emil Matus, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Vectorization of the Sphere Detection Algorithm
      In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'09), Taipei, Taiwan, 24.-27. May 2009

    5. Björn Mennenga, Richard Fritzsche, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Iterative Soft-In Soft-Out Sphere Detection for MIMO Systems
      In Proceedings of 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring'09), Barcelona, Spain, 26.-29. April 2009

    6. Björn Mennenga, Andreas von Borany, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Complexity reduced Soft-In Soft-Out Sphere Detection based on Search Tuples
      In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Dresden, Germany, 14.-18. June 2009

    7. Jie Guo, Jun Liu, Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      A Phase-Coupled Compiler Backend for a New VLIW Processor Architecture
      In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'07), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 09.-11. July 2007

    8. B. Mennenga, J. Guo and G. Fettweis
      A Component based Reconfigurable Baseband Architecture
      In Proceedings of the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit (IST Summit'07), Budapest, Hungary, 01.-05. July 2007

    9. J. Guo, T. Limberg, E. Matus, B. Mennenga, R. Klemm and G. Fettweis
      Code Generation for STA Architecture
      In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Parallel Computing (Euro-Par'06), Dresden, Germany, 29. August - 01. September 2006

    10. T.S. Yee, B. Mennenga, S. Naveen and S.K. Pilakkat
      A Message Passing Mechanism for Reconfigurable Communications Components Interconnected by Network-On-Chip Fabric
      In Proceedings of the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit (IST Summit'06), Myconos, Greece, 04. - 08. June 2006

    11. E. Nicollet, U. Lucking, S. Walter, B. Mennenga, L. Alimi
      E²R SDR Equipment: towards Proof-of-Concept and Standardization
      In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'06), Madeira, Portugal, 9-12 May 2006

    12. S. Naveen, B. Mennenga, S. Walter, T.S. Yee and S. K. Pilakkat
      Platform Interconnect for a End to End Reconfigurable System
      In Proceedings of the 4th Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios (WSR'06), Karlsruhe, Germany, 22. - 23. March 2006

      Conference Presentations:

    1. Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Aufwandsgünstige Detektion in Mehrantennensystemen mittels komplexitätsreduzierter Baumsuchverfahren
      Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference - PhD Forum

    2. Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis
      Aufwandsgünstige MIMO Detektion auf Basis komplexitätsreduzierter Baumsuchen
      Kleinheibacher Tagung 2009

      Patents:

    2 patent granted
    4 patents pending

    Teaching

  • Digitale Signalübertragung (Lecture + tutorial) - SS10
  • Mobile Communications Systems II (Tutorial) - SS06
  • Mobile Communications Systems II (Tutorial) - SS05
  • NT-Seminar, 16-Nov.-2006:
  • Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio – The Key Technologies for future Mobile Communication Systems
  • NT-Seminar, 31-May-2006:
  • Location Services – Verfahren zur Positionsbestimmung in Mobilfunknetzen (Positioning Methods in Mobile Communication Systems)
  • NT-Seminar, 30-Nov.-2005:
  • GSM onboard Aircraft
  • NT-Seminar, 20-April-2005:
  • Das regulatorische Umfeld im Bereich Mobiler Funkdienste (Regulatory Aspects of Mobile Radio Services)
  • MNS-Seminar, 01-Dez.-2005:
  • Comparison of Arithmetic Architectures for Reed-Solomon Decoders in Reconfigurable Hardware
  • MNS-Seminar, 20-June-2006:
  • Reconfigurable RF Transceivers for Multi-Standard Terminals - An E²R View

    Projects

      Current Projects:

      Former Projects: