Signal Processing

National Conference 2024

September 3-4, 2024: The National Conference „Satellite Communication in Germany“ is taking place for the eighth time in Bonn, where our institute is also actively involved.
In the panel "IRIS² in dialog with governmental users", our Institute Director Andreas Knopp was joined by other important experts such as Jeremie Godet (European Commission), Gionaldo Montovani (OHB SE), Peter Gräf (German Space Agency at DLR), Andreas Belitz (ASDN) and @Jean-Hubert Lenotte (Eutelsat Group).
Prof. Andreas Knopp makes it clear in his statement that the future ground segment of IRIS² in particular is an important aspect for the integration of IRIS² with existing government communication networks.
IRIS² will offer various comprehensive services for civil and military government organizations, e.g. surveillance, crisis management and the networking of critical infrastructure. There will also be a broadband connection for B2B customers.

Technical Recognition Award 2024

13th June, 2024: At the IEEE International Conference on Communications in Denver (USA), Prof. Andreas Knopp received the 2024 Technical Recognition Award from the Satellite & Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee of the IEEE Communication Society for his outstanding research contributions to the use of multi-antenna technology for satellite communications. In her laudatory speech, Prof. Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Chair of the SSC Technical Committee, acknowledged the important contributions made by Prof. Knopp's research group at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M) over the past decade. Thanks to multi-antenna technology, the energy per transmitted bit can be reduced, making data transmission via satellites more energy-efficient and competitive. In addition to numerous publications, the research results have been published in important patents and transferred to a spin-off company. Knopp is currently leading one of the largest European initiatives for research into the next generation of multi-antenna systems based on distributed systems in the space and ground segment. The relevance of Prof. Knopp's research is confirmed by the fact that the satellite industry is considering multi-antenna technology for its future products and has transferred it to industrial research and usability.
Prof. Knopp's nomination was supported by numerous experts from research and industry. Overall, in all his years at UniBw M, Prof. Knopp has proven his ability to bring groundbreaking ideas from a low level of technological maturity to a level of maturity that enables knowledge transfer to industry. Building such a bridge between excellent academic research and industrial innovation is a challenging undertaking that Prof. Knopp's research group has mastered with great success.

Space expertise meets know-how from the cybersecurity sector.

The "Cybersecurity in Space" expert group meeting of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) took place from May 13 to 15, 2024. Representatives from industry, public administration and research met at Infodas Berlin office to discuss a new status report.
Their mission: to develop measures to strengthen the cyber resilience of space systems. Since 2021, the Alliance for Cybersecurity has been promoting innovative and security-relevant solution measures to secure digital communication in space through the working group. Following the successful publication of the IT baseline protection profile for space infrastructures and the technical guideline for space systems, the expert group has now turned its attention to the IT baseline protection profile for the ground segment. It is to be understood as a recommendation and is intended to support space operators in the creation and implementation of an information security concept based on the IT baseline protection methodology in order to significantly increase the cyber resilience of space systems.
At our institute, the focus is particularly on the link layer, which is currently being further secured in international cybersecurity standards such as the "Security in space systems lifecycles" (ECSS-E-ST-80C DIR1) and the IEEE P3349 - Space System Cybersecurity Working Group. The "Cybersecurity in Space" experts plan to incorporate their national guidelines into international standardization in the near future.