Master Thesis in Communication Systems

Available internal projects

These projects are related to one of our current research projects and you will work in close collaboration with our faculty and Ph.D. students. To apply for an internal project, please send an email to the contact person for the project, and include a short description of yourself and a grade transcript. Generally, students applying for internal projects must have a strong background in mathematics and good skills in computer programming. Some knowledge of hardware is useful for some of the projects.

Wireless System Studies

1. Fixed complexity soft MIMO detection for MIMO-OFDM
	Via numerical (computer) simulations examine the performance of MIMO detection algorithms in a MIMO-OFDM system.
2. Low-Complexity Coded Cooperation Schemes for Wireless Networks
	Study and compare different types of relaying protocols.

Modern Coding Theory

3. Error-correction performance of punctured irregular LDPC-codes
	Develop simulation tools in C++ and study the error-correction performance of irregular LDPC codes under various puncturing strategies.
4. Software for density evolution studies of LDPC codes
	Develop simulation tools in C++ and study the density evolution of LDPC codes.

Implementation Projects

5. Wireless testbed development using the USRP/GNUradio
	Build a hardware demonstrator for spectrum conflicts using the universal software radio platform (USRP).
6. Spectrum sensing on the USRP/GNUradio
	Build a hardware demonstrator for spectrum sensing of OFDM signals using the universal software radio platform (USRP).
7. Acoustic communication system
	Design and construction of a demonstrator for data transmission over an acoustic channel.

Classic Coding Theory and Finite Field Arithmetics

8. Construction of optical orthogonal codes
	Investigation of sets of binary sequences with special properties.
9. Generation of binary superimposed codes for additive channels
	Computer search for binary superimposed codes for additive channels with good parameters.
10. Evaluation of a MOS transistor model
	Evaluate a suggested model of a transistor using some simulation tool, e.g. Spice.
11. Arithmetic in prime fields based on Eisenstein integers
	Compare arithmetic operations in some prime field(s) using different representations.

Have your own idea about a possible master thesis project? Contact one of the faculty members in our division.