Laurenz Taffner

Laurenz Taffner, M.Sc.

Researcher and PhD Student
Room: Raum 02.034

About Me

Building on his FAU Bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication Technology, Laurenz completed the consecutive Master’s degree at FAU with distinction in May 2023. Since July 2023, he has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Electrical Smart City Systems, where he also wrote his master’s thesis on LPWAN systems. His current research interests include information theory, Joint Communication and Sensing, and communication and resilience of mobile and IoT communication systems.

Academic CV

since 07/2023 Research Associate and PhD student

Chair of Electrical Smart City Systems
Department Elektrotechnik-Elektronik-Informationstechnik (FAU)

10/2020-04/2023 M. Sc. in Information and Communication Technology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Master: „LPWAN: Deriving the theoretical and practical limitations, and design of an application/technology matching algorithm”
10/2017-06/2021 B. Sc. in Information and Communication Technology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Bachelor: “Creation of a real-time capable demonstrator for frequency-selective reconstruction algorithms”

 

Research Interests

  • (Multiuser) information theory
  • Theoretical, practical and technological limitations of (communication) systems
  • Joint Communication and Sensing
  • Distributed (communication and computing) networks
  • Cooperation in self-managing, dynamic, (leaderless) multi-user systems
  • Quality of Service, especially reliability, of communication systems
  • Resilience of (communication) systems

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Publications

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Teaching

Scientific Work in Engineering and Natural Sciences

Student Theses

2023 – Robert Appel – “Investigating the performance and quality of service of an energy self-sufficient schedule-based, fail-safe valve actuator in centralized IoT networks for Smart City Irrigation”