Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems

Group of C. Bettstetter

August 2025

Research

Area: Networked systems

Wireless connectivity

Self-organization

Modeling and simulation

Application areas

Telecommunications

Internet of things

Robotics and drones

Research activities

Self-organized synchronization and swarming
FWF grant and free research
Drone communications and coordination
FWF grant, doctoral school, industry cooperations
Interference in wireless networks
FWF grant and free research
Industrial networks and Wi-Fi sensing
Industry cooperations and free research

Research projects (ongoing)

Self-fulfilling prophecies in the digital age (Lovelace)
Drones in cellular networks (FWF)

Drones in cellular networks

Synchronization and swarming

Swarmalators

Illustration made with AI

Research projects (2017–)

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Self-organizing synchronization with stochastic coupling
Dynamics of interference in wireless networks
Drones in cellular networks

Collaborations with industry

Condition and energy monitoring with ... sensor networks
Drone communications over cellular networks
Self-powered UWB industrial sensor networks
Reliable wireless sensor networks for aircrafts
Adaptive access management for ... transport systems

Publications

Multidrone systems: More than the sum of the parts.
IEEE Computer, 2021
Interference management for cellular-connected UAVs.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2019
Drone networks: Communications, coordination, and sensing. Ad Hoc Networks, 2018
Interference functionals in Poisson networks.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2016

Wireless and drones

Publications

Multicircular static patterns in swarmalator systems: Radii and stability. Physical Review E, 2025
Chimera states in pulse-coupled oscillator systems. Physical Review E, 2024
Deadlocks in the synchronization of pulse-coupled oscillators on star graphs. Physical Review E, 2020
Sandsbots: Robots that sync and swarm. IEEE Access, 2020

Self-organizing systems

Courses

Bachelor level

Electricity and magnetism

Programming in C

Laboratories and seminars

Master level

Mobile communications

Wireless networks

Network modeling and analysis

Self-organization and synchronization

Projects and seminars

An outstanding course overall. The professor puts tremendous effort into his slides, … explains how various concepts interrelate, offering us the bigger picture while also delving into the details, allowing us to see precisely where they fit in."

Anonymous student, 2024