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.

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