We had a successful Project Planning Seminar at UPC in Barcelona, 2019 February 11-15 37 students from all 8 EPIC Universities joined the seminar to start with their master/bachelor projects in the area of “Computer Networks”, "Autonomous Vehicles", "Cyber Security", "Smart city", “Descending Cities”, and Mobile Application for funding research. 5 TUHH master students and 2 supervisors from ComNets involved in 2 of these projects. We are very glad to announce that the last EPIC Project Planning Seminar will be held at TUHH, Feb 2020.

We are excited to announce the start of the research project IntAirNet - Inter Aircraft Network - in the beginning of 2019. For the next four years, our institute, together with 7 other project partners from industry and research, will work on the design of reliable air-to-air communication technologies. The project IntAirNet is funded by the Luftfahrtforschungsprogramm of the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie.

A paper “My Smartphone tattles: Considering Popularity of Messages in Opportunistic Data Dissemination” has been accepted for the special issue on "Opportunistic Networks in Urban Environment" of MDPI Future Internet Journal.

A paper “The Impact of Cache Partitioning on Software-Based Packet Processing” has been accepted for the NetSys-Workshop SDNFlex, held in Munich, March 2019

We are very glad to organise this event for the 3rd successful time at TUHH. Here is the details.

A poster “An attempt to move from Software Defined Networks to Self-Driving Network using Recurrent Neural Network” has been accepted for the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2018), will be held in December 4th - 7th in Heraklion/Crete, Greece.

A paper “Towards Prediction of Power Consumption of Virtual Machines for Varying Loads” has been accepted for The 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2018), will be held in November at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia, 2018.

We are glad to inform that we received the “Best scientific contribution award” for our paper on “Teaching Modelling and Analysis of Communication Networks using OMNeT++ Simulator” at the 5th OMNeT++ summit held in Italy, September 2018. The Simulation and Modelling of Communication Networks is a project based learning course offered at the computer science and electrical engineering master programs at TUHH. The following is the abstract of this paper. At the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, the modelling of communication networks using the OMNeT++ simulator and the INET framework is taught for Master students. Teaching the concepts of simulation and modelling while letting the students obtain a hands-on experience during a 14-week (4h/week) period (single semester) is a challenging task. The diversity of the pre-knowledge of the participating students and the duration of the course are the main challenges that need to be addressed when organising such a course. This paper discusses the structure of this course and the best practices followed. The course adopts a methodology where lectures on concepts are mixed with INET based exercises that begin with simple topics and gradually moving into advanced topics.

Here is a short video about the first phase of EPIC students work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFifci7Ya_g The project proposals for the second phase will be available in Oct, 2018.

Our paper “Coexistence of Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication Networks” has been accepted for the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2018), will be held in December 11 to 13, 2018 in Huntsville, AL, USA.