@misc{BrzozowskiKarnapkeNolte, author = {Brzozowski, Marcin and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Nolte, J{\"o}rg}, title = {IMPACT - A Family of Cross-Layer Transmission Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks}, series = {IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2007, New Orleans, LA, April 11 - 13, 2007, including workshop tracks}, journal = {IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2007, New Orleans, LA, April 11 - 13, 2007, including workshop tracks}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, pages = {619 -- 625}, language = {en} } @misc{BusseKarnapkeHeiss, author = {Busse, Anselm and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Heiss, Hans-Ulrich}, title = {CoBaS: Introducing a Component Based Scheduling Framework}, series = {6th Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures October 18-21, 2015, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil}, journal = {6th Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures October 18-21, 2015, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil}, publisher = {IEEE}, pages = {79 -- 84}, language = {en} } @misc{BusseKarnapkeParzyjegla, author = {Busse, Anselm and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Parzyjegla, Helge}, title = {Simulation-Based Tracing and Profiling for System Software Development}, series = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR '17}, journal = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR '17}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5035-8}, doi = {10.1145/3078468.3078475}, pages = {8:1 -- 8:6}, language = {en} } @misc{BuechnerNolteKraemeretal., author = {B{\"u}chner, Steffen and Nolte, J{\"o}rg and Kraemer, Rolf and Lopacinski, Lukasz and Karnapke, Reinhardt}, title = {Challenges for 100 Gbit/s End to End Communication: Increasing Throughput Through Parallel Processing}, series = {40th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2015, Clearwater Beach Florida}, journal = {40th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2015, Clearwater Beach Florida}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-4673-6770-7}, doi = {10.1109/LCN.2015.7366337}, pages = {398 -- 401}, abstract = {Today's applications and services become more dependent on fast wireless communication, for the upcoming years data-rate demands of 100Gbit/s can be easily expected. However, fulfilling that demand is a task which cannot simply be solved by upscaling existing technologies. While most of the research tackles the challenges regarding the transmission technology from the physical layer up to base-band processing, we focus on the challenges concerning the handling of that vast amount of data. The overall goal is to bring together the transmission technology with the operating system to create a suitable end-to-end communication solution. In this paper we argue that communication can be understood as a soft-realtime problem and how that helps introducing parallelism into protocol-processing.}, language = {en} } @misc{ChatharajupalliRottaKarnapkeetal., author = {Chatharajupalli, Navya Sneha and Rotta, Randolf and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Nolte, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Assessing the Feasibility of Combined BLE and Wi-Fi Communication for High Data Sensing Applications}, series = {EWSN '23: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks}, journal = {EWSN '23: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, doi = {10.5555/3639940.3639948}, pages = {56 -- 59}, abstract = {Advanced sensors generate more data than can be transmitted using classic battery-powered wireless sensor networks. While using Wi-Fi would provide plenty of throughput, the receivers are energy hungry and, thus, the radio time needs to be reduced. Previous research suggests to combine Wi-Fi with low-power technologies such as BLE for an energy efficient coordination of the Wi-Fi radios. Existing approaches focus on individual point-to-point routes whereas certain applications require concurrent transmissions. We evaluated the combination of BLE and Wi-Fi on the ESP32-S3 multi-radio microcontroller through detailed energy and throughput measurements. The results show that established BLE connections allow to activateWi-Fi quickly on-demand; the energy efficiency of the data transmission is significantly improved over previous works but the BLE connection setup is prohibitively slow. While the combination of BLE and Wi-Fi provides high throughput with good energy efficiency, careful design of the BLE-based signalling protocol is necessary to also achieve low latency.}, language = {en} } @misc{ChatharajupalliRottaKarnapkeetal., author = {Chatharajupalli, Navya Sneha and Rotta, Randolf and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Nolte, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Probing considered harmful : leveraging RSSI for link quality prediction}, series = {Proceedings of the IEEE 50th Conference on Local Computer Networks : LCN 2025 : October 14-16, 2025, Sydney, Australia}, journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE 50th Conference on Local Computer Networks : LCN 2025 : October 14-16, 2025, Sydney, Australia}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York, NY}, isbn = {979-8-3315-3704-3}, issn = {2831-7742}, doi = {10.1109/LCN65610.2025.11146347}, pages = {1 -- 9}, abstract = {Wireless mesh protocols that use a routing metric based on throughput or airtime require predictions about future throughput for all mesh neighbors. Typically, the Wi-Fi rate controller provides this information, and state-of-the-art rate control algorithms estimate it based on statistics from past unicast transmissions. This introduces an adverse cross-layer dependency because meaningful statistics are only available for the links that were used by the routing layer. Existing implementations either ignore this, or use other routing metrics, such as distance, or generate artificial periodic probe traffic to all neighbors. Unfortunately, probing reacts slowly to changing conditions, increases the medium contention, and can lead to overly optimistic predictions. To overcome this, we introduce an RSSI-based link quality prediction for the routing layer. Benchmarks in a B.A.T.M.A.N. version V mesh show a decrease of round-trip time by three orders of magnitude and an increase of the end-to-end packet delivery ratio. TCP connections became possible over long routes that were previously unusable. Although highly imprecise, the easy to acquire RSSI provided sufficiently good predictions for our mesh network.}, language = {en} } @misc{ChatharajupalliRottaKarnapkeetal., author = {Chatharajupalli, Navya Sneha and Rotta, Randolf and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Nolte, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Animal health monitoring and tracking through solar-powered mesh network}, series = {22. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch Sensornetze : 11. und 12. September 2025, Clausthal-Zellerfeld}, journal = {22. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch Sensornetze : 11. und 12. September 2025, Clausthal-Zellerfeld}, publisher = {TU Clausthal-Zellerfeld}, address = {Clausthal-Zellerfeld}, doi = {10.21268/20250805-0}, pages = {1 -- 3}, abstract = {Various health and movement sensors, especially bolus sensors inside a cow's stomach, are crucial for timely medical interventions. Commonly, wall-powered gateways are used to retrieve sensor updates and forward them quickly to an analysis service. In large outdoor farmlands, however, localisation of individual cows becomes important while the long-term operation of wall-powered gateways is costly. Previous solutions that use a LoRaWAN gateway with bigger antennas are still limited to 500m and provide only poor localization information. Existing solutions based on a mesh network of repeaters provide good localization but still depend on external wall power. Solar-powered mesh nodes would simplify the long-term operation. In order to achieve this, a significant improvement of the energy efficiency of the mesh nodes is necessary. This paper explores protocol design choices for the energy-efficient communication between mesh nodes and the bolus sensors. By introducing synchronised sleep and communication intervals, the size of the solar panels and energy storage can be reduced.}, language = {en} } @misc{ChatharajupalliRottaKarnapkeetal., author = {Chatharajupalli, Navya Sneha and Rotta, Randolf and Karnapke, Reinhardt and Nolte, J{\"o}rg}, title = {VibroMote : Wi-Fi-based mesh communication for railway bridge inspection and monitoring}, series = {2025 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)}, journal = {2025 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-6654-5769-9}, issn = {2768-0940}, doi = {10.1109/ISNCC66965.2025.11250402}, pages = {1 -- 6}, abstract = {Vibration sensing provides insights into the dynamic behaviour of engineering constructions such as railway bridges. Cable-based sensors are viable only for long-term condition monitoring and rare special inspections because of the labor-intensive deployment. Although wireless sensors significantly reduce this overhead, their energy constraints limited the network throughput and, hence, their resolution in space and time. Batteryor solar-powered sensor nodes with high network throughput would enable in-depth measurements during regular inspections and improve the access to high-quality monitoring data. We present "VibroMote", which combines energy harvesting, a high-bandwidth 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, and high-throughput, self-organizing mesh communication via IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi. The evaluation on a real bridge with 18 VibroMotes shows that the deployment time can be reduced from hours to minutes; the multi-hop mesh provides sufficient throughput reserves for the application whereas direct one-hop communication failed; the battery runtime is sufficient for temporary measurements during inspections; and the energy consumption during sleep modes would be low enough for solar-powered long-term monitoring. Hence, the combination of high-throughput Wi-Fi with mesh networking is a strong alternative to the commonly used low-power radio technologies when long range between the sensors is not needed.}, language = {en} } @misc{GraffKarnapke, author = {Graff, Daniel and Karnapke, Reinhardt}, title = {Spatio-Temporal Coordination of Mobile Robot Swarms}, series = {IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Dubai, UAE, 7-10 Nov. 2016}, journal = {IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Dubai, UAE, 7-10 Nov. 2016}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-1-5090-2054-6}, pages = {515 -- 518}, language = {en} } @misc{GraffKarnapke, author = {Graff, Daniel and Karnapke, Reinhardt}, title = {The Swarm as a Service: Virtualization of Motion}, series = {Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (IEEE SenseApp 2016)}, journal = {Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (IEEE SenseApp 2016)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway}, isbn = {978-1-5090-2347-9}, pages = {129 -- 136}, language = {en} }