Student Team Wins Rohde & Schwarz Competition with Concept for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-assisted 6G communications

A student team from TU Dortmund University has achieved a remarkable success in a national student competition organized by the renowned test and measurement equipment manufacturer Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG. The competition centered around Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), an exciting and forward-looking topic in ongoing 6G research. The team — Bena Krluku, Shayan Ghanbari, and Louay Hito, all Master’s students in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Dortmund — impressed the jury with their concept “Improved beam management for RIS-aided Communication Networks using a Sensing Module for AoA Estimation.” Their idea was among those selected for presentation at the final event in April at the company’s headquarters in Munich. There, they successfully competed against four other invited teams from German universities. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!

Their achievement builds specifically on the knowledge and skills they developed in the Master’s courses Mobile Radio Networks 1 and 2 (offered by Prof. Christian Wietfeld) as well as the recent seminar “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Communications: From State of the Art toward Applications,” co-supervised by Simon Häger and Dr.-Ing. Karsten Heimann, all part of the Communication Networks Institute (CNI). These courses emphasize both theoretical foundations and practical applications based on current CNI research. We are proud of our students’ initiative and creativity and are delighted to see how they have applied course contents to real-world challenges. Congratulations to the team on this fantastic success — we wish them all the best for the remainder of their Master’s studies!

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Announcement by Rohde & Schwarz [LinkedIn]

Challenge brief [ekipa]