Sustainable Communication Networks

The ComNets Team
Staff and student workers
© Universität Bremen
mAInZaun in Abu Dhabi
We presented part of our mAInZaun Project at the EWSN'24 in Abu Dhabi!
© Jens Dede, Uni Bremen
July 2023
Visit by Cameroonian guest scientists
June 2023
Researchers from Sri Lanka visiting ComNets
June 2023
Guest students from Sri Lanka doing a research internship
April 2023
Presentation of Cameroonian guest scientist at HWK Delmenhorst
March 2023
Joint Retreat between ComNets Bremen and ComNets Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
June 2022
Int. Workshop "Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine"
November 2023
Colleagues listen to a presentation

The main research focus of the Sustainable Communication Networks group at the University of Bremen is design and performance analysis of communication networks and their protocols. This includes the implementation of prototypes as well as performance studies by mathematical analysis and simulation. The main keywords are: sensor networks, opportunistic networks, future internet. An important aspect across all reseach projects is sustainability in a two-fold aspect, i.e. how communication networks can enhance the sustainability of networking applications, and how the network itself can be designed in a sustainable way. Research projects are mainly funded by national and international government institutions.

The group consists of several post-docs as well as fully employed research assistants working on research projects and their doctoral thesis. Additionally there is a small technical and assisting team and many students working as student workers or doing their thesis.

Contacting Prof. Anna Förster

Office hour

In general, every Thursday, 14-15, online. You can find the next available slots and the Zoom link directly in this Google calendar (requires Google account). You don't need to register for the meeting; enter the Zoom meeting and wait for your turn in the waiting room until you are admitted to the call. Depending on the number of students calling, this might take some time.

In urgent matters, write an email.

Social Media

Prof. Förster’s blog

ComNets on GitHub

Collaborations

28.03.2025

nala-ai: AquAlert meets FlunaKI

Can AI save our rivers? The project partners of AquAlert and FlunaKI are sure: Yes, it can! On the 22nd March, the World Water Day, the first joint sensor node was placed in the Aue river to assess river health through continuous measurement of water parameters.

28.01.2025

Towards Effective Interpretability In IoT Fault Diagnosis

New research presented at the WONS2025 in Austria.

13.12.2024

ComNets at the EWSN '24 in Abu Dhabi

Lively participation by ComNets in Abu Dhabi

21.10.2024

Leveraging AI for Wildlife Monitoring: Enhancing Coexistence between Wolves, Humans, and Livestock

Researchers from the University of Bremen presented their findings on AI-based wolf detection at the Digital Summit 2024 in Frankfurt.

07.10.2024

IoT lecture: Final Project Presentations

Our students presented their final projects at the end of the two week block lecture.

24.09.2024

New course started: Internet of Tings (IoT)

Over 30 students at Universität Bremen registered for our intensive 2-week IoT course. Learn from global experts on 5G, 802.15.4 with 6TiSCH, WiFi, LoRa, Arduino, and more.

13.09.2024

DAAD Summer School 2024 in Bremen

DAAD Summer School Network of Excellence in Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine took place in Bremen.

02.09.2024

GoodIT 2024: Keynote speakers

ComNets proudly presents Thomas BASIKOLO and Paul Spiesberger as the keynote speakers for the GoodIT2024!

29.08.2024

ACM GoodIT 2024

The ACM GoodIT 2024 takes place in Bremen.

27.08.2024

Current MoleNet status

Our MoleNet platform is widely used by our students who are doing their research in IoT. Now, we have made a step forward regarding the next hardware version.

21.06.2024

Get in touch with MoleNet

MoleNet goes public: Digital Impact Lab in the Bremen city center

30.05.2024

IEEE SmartNets'24

Our work on evaluating Reflexive Forwarding for ICNs was accepted at IEEE SmartNets'24

16.10.2023

Load Balancing on Vehicular Networks

Distributed Adaptive CPM Generation Control Approach to Minimize the Channel Load in VANETs

22.09.2023

IoT course 2023 is over

Completion of Internet of Things Course (SoSe 2023)

14.09.2023

Das Goldene Plietsch

Receiving the "The Golden Plietsch" award for MoleNet

08.09.2023

This was NetSys'23

Completion of the NetSys'23 Conference in Potsdam, Germany

06.09.2023

IoT Lecture in the Summer Semester

Internet of Things Course Preparation for the Summer Semester 2023 (Block Course)

01.09.2023

NetSys 2023

NetSys'23 Involvement of ComNets

29.08.2023

Content-Centric Networking in the IoT

Completion of Combined Mester Theses on Implementing Content-Centric Networking for the Internet of Things

25.08.2023

The Opportunistic Zoo

New journal paper published

30.07.2023

LoRa in OMNeT++

Implementation of ContikiMac Protocol on OMNeT++ with FLoRa

30.06.2023

Visiting Students from Sri Lanka

Students from Sri Lanka doing Research Internship

01.04.2023

Girls Day 2023

Das war der Girls Day 2023 organisiert von ComNets

30.11.2022

Connect-Them-All

New Seminar on the Internet

01.10.2022

Grundlagen der Informationstechnik

New lecture is starting this Winter Semester

01.09.2022

Smart Farming Made Simple

New project started!

01.05.2022

Network of Excellence in Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine

ComNets Bremen is involved into a new cooperation with Thailand

27.10.2021

Best Paper award!

Best paper award for our PhD student Gibson Kimutai

01.07.2021

IoT Innovation Project starts

Detection of Wolves is one of the Tasks of ComNets Bremen

01.06.2021

General Studies Seminar "Aspects of Sustainability"

New upcoming seminar.

15.06.2018

Presentation in Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures on Communications

Organic Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks

14.03.2018

ComNets goes to space!

Development of a new sensor for space applications.

03.01.2018

kids4mint - ran an die Elektrotechnik!

Ferienkurs für Schüler wird durch ComNets Bremen durchgeführt.

05.12.2017

New Miner Location System

PhD student of ComNets develops miner location system

06.06.2017

Minds, Media, Machines

We are member of the high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines

05.01.2017

Teaching the Internet of Things

Paper about teaching Internet of Things published

28.07.2016

Prof. Förster's TEDxTUHH talk now available online

Prof. Förster gave a talk with the topic "Gossiping in digital communication networks" in the 2015 TEDxTUHH event in Hamburg. The video of the talk is now available online.

02.06.2016

Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

New book by Anna Förster got published!

02.04.2016

Vortrag "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren"

Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Universelle Eigenschaften des Entscheidens" hält Frau Prof. Anna Förster am 11. Mai einen Vortrag zum Thema "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren".

01.01.2016

Talk: Pervasive Systems at a Glance

The Department of Sustainable Communication Networks had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Paul Havinga and Prof. Nirvana Meratnia from the University of Twente, Netherlands, for a Talk on Pervasive Systems.

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