Research Areas

The primary goal of CASE is engineering advanced systems with a special focus on extreme environments. The center's research is organized along three complementary areas with proven coherence and interaction, which forms a vital and particular asset of the center:

Communication and Sensing

… focuses on wireless communication systems that can effectively use available resources in challenged environments without a working infrastructure – using radio-frequency as well as acoustic data transmission. Our research covers novel technologies including ad-hoc routing by self-organization, sensor data collection, adaptable power management, distributed frequency assignment, disruption tolerance, and autonomic control and management. We particularly seek to improve dependability and security of wireless communication. (more)

Information Distribution and Control

… combines distributing information with effective, safe, and reliable tools, and controlling the efficiency, human perceptibility, privacy, and relevance of delivered information. Our agenda includes providing information in extreme environments, adding value to massive spatio-temporal scientific data sets, semantic modeling of structured and unstructured information, and advanced visualization of complex phenomena. (more)

Geospatial Technologies

… helps humans and machines to sense, understand, and act in challenging environments. Areas addressed range from marine biology and geology, autonomous robots, geographic information systems, exascale geospatial access and analytics technology to biology and geo service standardization. We also investigate underwater exploration and large-scale monitoring due to the challenges the aquatic environment poses to communication: High transmission power requirements versus limited energy sources, ambient noise and interference, and high propagation delays require modified network protocols and information processing schemes; autonomous underwater exploration vehicles require precise 3D localization. (more)