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Project Overview

Project Code: CIT 07

Project name:

Efficient, Private, and Secure Goal-oriented Communication

TUM Department:

CIT - Electrical and Computer Engineering

TUM Chair / Institute:

Coding and Cryptography

Research area:

Coding Theory

Student background:

Computer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringMathematics

Further disciplines:

Planned project location:

Building N4
Technical University of Munich
Theresienstrasse 90
80333 München

Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Given name:

Luis

Family name:

Maßny

E-mail:

luis.massny@tum.de

Phone:

+49 89 289 23423

Additional Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Given name:

Vivian

Family name:

Papadopoulou

E-mail:

vivian.papadopoulou@tum.de

Phone:

Additional Project Supervisor - Contact Details


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Project Description


Project description:

Modern communication and information systems convey and process massive amounts
of data. While the communication protocols have been traditionally designed independently from the data processing layer, recent applications show that tailoring the communication protocol to the processing goal can improve communication efficiency and can be leveraged for privacy. The reason is that, in many cases, the receiver is not necessarily interested in the data itself but rather wants to compute a function of it. Such applications include data aggregation in sensor networks in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments and distributed computing systems. To that end, new ideas have been evolving such as efficient data aggregation over the communication channel [1] or coding that is designed to recover functions of encoded data in distributed [2] or centralized [3, 4] settings.

At the Associate Professorship of Coding and Cryptography (COD), we actively research the field of communications and coding for efficient, private, and secure data processing with applications to distributed systems and distributed machine learning.

The goal of this research project is to explore at least one of these new concepts for goal-oriented communication that are tailored to the receiver’s goals. In discussion with
the supervisors, the focus can be shifted to the communication efficiency, privacy, or security aspects of goal-oriented communication. Possible outcomes of this project are the analysis or improvement of existing schemes or the proof-of-concepts of novel goal-oriented communication schemes.

Working hours per week planned:

30

Prerequisites


Required study level minimum (at time of TUM PREP project start):

3 years of bachelor studies completed

Subject related:

Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Estimation Theory, Wireless Communication

Other:

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