Stochastic geometry for wireless networks

• Modeling and analysis of base station cooperation in cellular networks
• Cooperative interference mitigation in cellular networks using device-to-device communications
• Performance characterization of diversity techniques in the presence of interference correlation
• Projects: StoCCNets and CREDIT

• Mapping and Modeling of Base Station Locations in Cellular Networks (Lorenz Welter, completed)
• Performance of N-Antenna MRC under Spatial Interference Correlation (Stephan Ehrhard, completed)
• Decode-and-Forward with Selection Combining in Interference-limited Networks (Simon Sadowski, completed)
• Effect of Power Control on Interference in Wireless Networks (Makram Chamaa, completed)
• Adaptive Codes for FH-CDMA (Xevi Pujol Molist, completed)
• Interference Distribution in Relay Networks (Clemens Allman, completed)
• Interference and optimal Resource Allocation in ad hoc Networks with isotropic Node Distribution (Leonid Chaichenets, completed)
• Stochastic Modeling of Multi-Channel Networks with Coordinated Medium Access (Alexander Heep, completed)

• Teaching assistant "Applied Information Theory" WS 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14, 14/15
• Team project "2D Localization using UWB Radar" SS 13
• Lab "Communications Systems" SS 14, WS 14/15

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Submitted/Accepted Papers

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Book chapter: Cooperative Diversity under Spatial Interference Correlation in Wireless Networks
  To appear in Signals and Communication Technology, Springer, Summer 2015

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Analysis of Joint Transmit-Receive Diversity in Downlink MIMO Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
  To appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (arXiv)

Journal & Magazine Papers

• Ralph Tanbourgi and Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Analysis of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks under Frequency Diversity and Interference Correlation
  IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol.4, no.1, pp.2 - 5, Feb. 2015 (arXiv)

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Sarabjot Singh, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Friedrich K. Jondral
  A Tractable Model for Non-Coherent Joint-Transmission Base Station Cooperation
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.13, no.9, pp.4959 - 4973, Sept. 2014 (arXiv)

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Dual-Branch MRC Receivers under Spatial Interference Correlation and Nakagami Fading
  IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.62, no.6, pp.1830 - 1844, June 2014 (arXiv)

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Effect of Spatial Interference Correlation on the Performance of Maximum Ratio Combining
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.13, no.6, pp.3307 - 3316, June 2014 (arXiv)

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Cooperative Interference Cancellation using Device-to-Device Communications
  Special Issue on Smart Device-to-Smart Device Communications
  IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.52, no.6, pp.118 - 124, June 2014

• Martin Braun, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Co-channel interference limitations of OFDM communication-radar networks
  EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2013
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Jens P. Elsner, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral: 
  Adaptive Frequency Hopping in Ad Hoc Networks with Rayleigh Fading and Imperfect Sensing
  IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 1, No. 3, June 2012, pp. 185 - 188 
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Increasing the One-Hop Progress of Nearest Neighbor Forwarding
  IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 2011, pp. 64-66
  [ Abstract ]

• Stephan Sand, Christian Mensing, Roland Raulefs, Ralph Tanbourgi
  Position-aided mobile communications
  IET Electronic Letters, Volume 46, Issue 17, p.1232-1234
  [ Abstract ]

Conference Papers

• Ralph Tanbourgi and Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Downlink MIMO Diversity with Maximal-Ratio Combining in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June 8 - 12, 2015

• Ankit Kaushik, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Operating Characteristics of Underlay Cognitive Relay Networks
  IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications (PIMRC), Washington D.C., USA, Sep. 2 - 5, 2014

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Sarabjot Singh, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Analysis of Non-Coherent Joint-Transmission Cooperation in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, June 10 - 14, 2014

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Dual-Branch MRC Receivers in the Cellular Downlink under Spatial Interference Correlation
  (Invited, Best Student Paper)
  European Wireless Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 14 - 16, 2014

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Cooperative Relaying in a Poisson Field of Interferers: A Diversity Order Analysis
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, July 7 - 12, 2013
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Xevi Pujol i Molist, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Collision-Balancing Frequency Hopping in Single-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  2012 IEEE 76th Vehicular Technology Conference, Québec City, Canada, Sep 3-6, 2012
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Holger Jäkel, Leonid Chaichenets, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Interference and Throughput in Aloha-based Ad Hoc Networks with Isotropic Node Distribution
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 1 - 7, 2012 
  [ Abstract ]

• Jens P. Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi, Joerg Schmid, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Hopping Strategies for Adaptive FH-CDMA Ad Hoc Networks under External Interference (Slides)
  IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, Jun 10 - 15, 2012
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Jens P. Elsner, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Optimizing practical adaptive frequency hopping and medium access control in ad hoc networks (invited)
  Eighth Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN) at IEEE WiOpt 2012, May 14, 2012, Paderborn, Germany
  [ Abstract ]

• Jens P. Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Multiple Access Interference Mitigation Through Multi-Level Locally Orthogonal FH-CDMA
  The 2011 Military Communications Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Nov 7 - 10, 2011
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Jens P. Elsner, Holger Jäkel, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Lower Bounds on the Success Probability for ad hoc Networks with local FDMA scheduling
  Seventh Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks at IEEE WiOpt 2011, May 9, 2011, Princeton, NJ, USA
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi:
  Resolving the Connectivity-Throughput Trade-Off in Random Networks
  IEEE EUROCON 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Jens P. Elsner, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Lowering Outage Probability in Ad Hoc Networks by Nearest Neighbor FDMA Scheduling
  2011 Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference 2011, Cancun, Mexico
  [ Abstract ]

• Jens Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  O propusknoj sposobnosti besprovodnyx mnogokanal'nyx odnorangovyx setej s mestnym planirovaniem castotnogo razdelenija kanalov
  Informacionno-upravljajuscie sistemy, No. 6, 2010, pp. 70-76, ISSN 1684-8853 (in Russian)

• Jens P. Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  A Note on Local Receive Channel Scheduling versus Transmit Channel Scheduling in Wireless Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Networks (Slides)
  ICCIA'10, Tianjin, China, Dec 3-5 2010
  [ Abstract ]

• Jens P. Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi, Friedrich K. Jondral
  On the Transmission Capacity of Wireless Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Networks with local FDMA scheduling (Slides)
  International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT), Moscow, Russia, October 2010
  [ Abstract ]

• Stephan Sand, Christian Mensing, Ronald Raulefs, Ralph Tanbourgi
  Position Aware Communication with Noisy Position Measurements
  Advances in Positioning and Location-Enabled Communications (Workshop), PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, 26.-29. September 2010
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi, Maximilian Hauske, Friedrich K. Jondral
  Interference Suppression in Visible Light Communication
  Advanced Photonics: OSA Optics & Photonics Congress; Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), Karlsruhe, 21.-24. Juni 2010
  [ Abstract ]

• Ralph Tanbourgi and Stephan Sand
  Evaluation of Handover Rates and Outage Probability for the Macrocellular Environment
  2010 Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference 2010, Sydney, Australia
  [ Abstract ]

• Stephan Sand, Ralph Tanbourgi, Christian Mensing and Ronald Raulefs
  Position Aware Adaptive Communication Systems
  2009 Proceedings Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
  [ Abstract ]

• Jens Elsner, Ralph Tanbourgi:
  Mehrebenen-Frequenzsprungverfahren zur interferenzreduzierten Kommunikation in einem Ad-Hoc-Netzwerk
  25.03.2011, 102011015095.1, (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt)
• Maximilian Hauske, Ralph Tanbourgi, Kai Waslowski, Gerhard Merettig:
  Optoelektronischer Sensor
  Europäische Patentanmeldung EP 2 226 650 A1, Veröffentlichungstag 08.09.2010, Anmeldenummer 09003109.7