Sustainable Communication Networks

  • The ComNets Team 2025

    ComNets staff

  • Die Mitarbeiter der Arbeitsgruppe ComNets sowie einige Studenten.

    The ComNets Team

    Staff and student workers 2024

  • Ein Wolf in der Wüste

    mAInZaun in Abu Dhabi

    We presented part of our mAInZaun Project at the EWSN'24 in Abu Dhabi!

  • Cameroonian Scientists

    Visit by Cameroonian guest scientists at ComNets Bremen.

  • Visit from Sri Lanka

    Researchers from Sri Lanka visiting ComNets

  • Visiting Students

    Guest students from Sri Lanka doing a research internship

  • Talk in Delmenhorst

    Presentation of Cameroonian guest scientist at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst

  • Further Improving Research and Teaching

    Joint Retreat between ComNets Bremen and ComNets Technical University Hamburg-Harburg

  • International Workshop "Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine"

    Bridging medicine and computer science.

MoleNet

ComNets Bremen: Who are we?

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 F?rster

Office hour

In general, every Thursday, 14-15, online. You can directly join this Zoom link, please note that there is a waiting room and that I cannot guarantee that I am available every week. You are welcome to join to discuss your studies, to ask questions about ongoing and prospective projects and theses, etc.

Meeting ID: 686 1245 6318

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In urgent matters, write an email.

News


Ein Loch wurde in die Rasenfl?che gegraben. Man sieht einen Bodenfeuchtesensor, ein paar Leerrohre, ein wenig Kabel etc. Der Sensor wird im n?chsten Schritt im Loch platziert.

Meilenstein für MoleNet: Das Testfeld

Molenet erreicht den n?chsten Meilenstein! Die ersten Sensoren sind im Testfeld an der Uni Bremen vergraben und sammeln nun wichtige Daten zu Bodenfeuchtigkeit, Leitf?higkeit und Temperatur. Diese sind nun die Basis für viele folgende Experimente.


Eine MoleNet Leiterplatte vor einem Acker in Luftaufnahme sowie der Text "Just arrived: MoleNet 6.3" (Frisch eingetroffen: MoleNet 6.3)

MoleNet 6.3 ist in Bremen angekommen!

Nach ein paar kleinen Anpassungen sind nun die ersten Leiterplatten von MoleNet Version 6.3 in Bremen eingetroffen und warten auf ihren Einsatz!


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.


Jens Dede und David Wewetzer auf dem Digitalgipfle 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.


Two students are working on one IoT device. One can see the device, the hands and their computers.

New course started: Internet of Tings (IoT)

Over 30 students at Universit?t 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.


Jutta Günther, Peter Haddawy und Anna F?rster bei der Er?ffnung der DAAD Summer School im September 2024

DAAD Summer School 2024 in Bremen

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


The GoodIT Keynote speakers are Paul Spiesberger and Thomas BASIKOLO

GoodIT 2024: Keynote speakers

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


Ein 3D Rendering unserer Leiterplatte

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.


Eine Leiterplatte mit dem Schriftzug "ComNets Uni Bremen"

Content-Centric Networking in the IoT

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


Eine Leiterplatte mit dem Schriftzug "ComNets Uni Bremen"

Prof. F?rster's TEDxTUHH talk now available online

Prof. F?rster 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.


Eine Leiterplatte mit dem Schriftzug "ComNets Uni Bremen"

Vortrag "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren"

Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Universelle Eigenschaften des Entscheidens" h?lt Frau Prof. Anna F?rster am 11. Mai einen Vortrag zum Thema "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren".


Eine Leiterplatte mit dem Schriftzug "ComNets Uni Bremen"

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.