Mission and Goals

The rapid progress in wired and wireless communication technologies has fueled the tremendous success of the Internet and cellular mobile communications. With the 5th Generation Mobile Communication (“5G”), as well as with the next "6G", a global networked world across all societal and industrial disciplines is emerging that is driven by market pull and technology push and is characterized by massive R&D efforts in industry and academia.
To realize the vision of a seamlessly networked world poses great technical challenges and requires the tight cooperation of many engineering disciplines. The impact of communication technologies on other industrial fields, like transport, medical systems, media, energy systems, automation, etc., can already be seen everywhere. It will further increase in the forthcoming decades and create new opportunities for communications engineering.
The TUM Center of Competence on Communications (CoC COM) brings together unique expertise from different scientific fields to perform joint interdisciplinary research on all areas of communications system technology and its applications, e.g. communications and information theory, networking and protocols, hardware and software design, wireless, wired and optical transmission, optical, microelectronics and integrated systems, signal processing, microwave technology, multimedia communications, and application areas including Industry 4.0, audio and video processing, tactile Internet, automobile networks, as well as big data analysis.
CoC COM contributes to the creation of user-friendly, efficient, secure and dependable Next Generation Communication Systems by performing high-quality research in a broad range of fields and topics at the forefront of communication technologies and systems and in tight cooperation with national and international industry as well as national and international academic research partners. TUM-COM provides an administrative and organizational hub to bundle and foster research and education in the broad area of Communications at the Technical University of Munich.
If you are interested in the CoC COM research, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator.
Events
Industry Day:
- 3rd CoC COM Industry Day, July 19, 2019 (with slides)
- 2nd CoC COM Industry Day, July 13, 2018
- 1st CoC COM Industry Day, June 21, 2017 | Teaser and Posters | News
Doctoral Candidate Seminars DoCaSe (on last Fridays of the month)
Addressed to doctoral candidates to join a casual online-seminar to be held on the last Friday of each month at 4pm.
BYO - Bring Your Own - make sure you have your favourite drink in your hand while listening/chatting.
Questions and comments are welcome!
Panel: Wolfgang Utschick, Bernhard Seeber, and Klaus Diepold
Panel: Gerhard Kramer, Andreas Blenk, Carmen Mas Machuca, and Klaus Diepold
- DoCaSe-3: Friday 26.02.2021 at 16:00
Members
Research
Targeted Application Domains
The research projects carried out in CoC-COM targets technology advancement in the following interdisciplinary application domains.
- Telecommunications
- Urban Mobility and Transport
- Industry 4.0
- Automobile systems and autonomous driving
- Robotics, automation and teleoperation
- Tactile Internet
- Cyber-physical networking
- Multimedia signal processing and –communication
- Perception oriented and user centered design
- Machine learning and data analytics
- Network and data security
- Cloud computing and data storage
- Localization and navigation
Partner research institutes
Projects
- German Science Foundation
- DFG Priority Program COIN
- DFG Priority Program Dependable Embedded Systems
- Priority Program Compressed Sensing in Information Processing, SPP 1798
- Priority Program Cyber Physical Networking (CPN), SPP 1914
- Emmy Noether Program: Error-Correcting Coding Strategies for Data Storage and Networks
- EU Projects
- European Research Council
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
- Munich Aerospace
- TUM CoSES research center
Leadership in Societies
- Acatech (H. Boche)
- Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (H. Boche)
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (G. Kramer)
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (H. Boche)
- Director of the Bavarian Academic Forum (BayWISS) for Mobility & Traffic (W. Utschick)
- International Union of Radio Science, URSI, Komission B (T. Eibert, E. Biebl)
- Münchner Kreis (K. Diepold, W. Kellerer)
- Member of the Bundesnetzagentur „Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis für Regulierungsfragen“ (WAR) (W. Kellerer)
- IEEE Signal Processing Society (Chair of German Chapter: W. Utschick)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA) (Vorstand: Seeber)
- VDE ITG Fachausschuss 4.2 “Hörakustik” (Sprecher: Seeber)
- VDE ITG Fachausschuss 5.1 „Informations- und Systemtheorie“ (H. Boche, G. Kramer, W. Utschick, C. Günther)
- VDE ITG Fachausschuss 5.2 “Kommunikationsnetze und -systeme” (W. Kellerer)
- VDE ITG Fachausschuss 5.3 „Optische Nachrichtentechnik" (N. Hanik)
- GI/ITG Fachausschuss 6.4 „Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme“ (W. Kellerer)
- VDE ITG 7.1 „Antennen“ (T. Eibert)
- International Union of Radio Science, URSI, Komission B (T. Eibert, E. Biebl)
- Fachausschuss „Virtuelle Akustik“ der DEGA (Co-Sprecher: Seeber)
Education
TUM-COM offers interdisciplinary courses for students:
- Industrie 4.0 Praktikum (summer semester)
- Tactile Internet Lab (winter semester)
TUM-COM contributes (K. Diepold, W. Kellerer) to the Center for Digital Technology and Management (www.CDTM.de). The CDTM offers internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary elite study program “Technology Management” for students of all departments of TUM and LMU providing entrepreneurial education. The course program is supported by the Elite Network Bavaria (ENB) and aims at training students to understand the interplay of business/management and digital (communication) technology.
TUM-COM also has started a library of online lecture tutorials to introduce students and other that are interested in fundamentals of communication technology (add link here to those course that can go public).
For the lectures and seminars offered by the individual chairs, please see the respective websites of each member.