Prof. Dr. Stefan Valentin
Educational Area
Mobile Netzwerke / mobile networks
Consultation
auf Anfrage / by appointment
Stefan Valentin (ORCID) is Professor for Mobile Networks at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he is speaker of the Telecommunications Group, deputy chairman of the examination board, senior member of the Networking Research Group and head of the 5GLab. He is interested in algorithms for wireless communications and contributed mostly to research on indoor localization and resource allocation in mobile networks. Stefan’s algorithms are deployed in mobile networks around the world and more than 30 patent applications have been filed for them. He co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, which have been cited about 2000 times and have received various awards. Stefan is a member of the IEEE and consulted BMBF and BMWi on 5G, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0.
News
- Oct. 2020: In winter term 20/21 all of my lectures will be held online.
- June 10, 2020: I was interviewed for the German research magazine impact on COVID19-tracing Apps. Here are some comments from an (almost) technical perspective.
- June 2020: My US patent "Transmitter Communication Device and Method for Transmitting Video Data" with Dimitrios Tsilimantos, Zhijun Chao, Afef Feki, Amaya Nogales Gomez, Xianwen Shi and Haifeng Tang was filed under application no. US16708097.
- My research on YouTube: Is available here.
Winter term 2020/2021
- Bachelor: Networks (description)
- Lecture and slides will be in German
- Master:
- Cellular Networks (description): Lecture will be held in German, slides will be in English
- Project System Development (description): In English, topic
- Scientific Writing in Computer Science 1 (Modulbeschreibung)
Summer term 2020
- Bachelor:
- Networks (description): Lecture and slides will be in German
- Project System Development (description): In English, topic
- Master:
- Network Simulation (description): Joint lecture with integrated lab ("VP") in English, C++ basics are required
- Projekt Systementwicklung (description): German but English speakers welcome, topic
Journals and magazines
- P. Ferrand, M. Amara, S. Valentin, and M. Guillaud, “Trends and challenges in wireless channel modeling for evolving radio access,” IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 93–99, Jul. 2016.
- M. Kasparick, R. Cavalcante, S. Valentin, S. Stanczak, and M. Yukawa, “Kernel-based adaptive online reconstruction of coverage maps with side information,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1–1, Jul. 2015.
- S. Valentin, H. S. Lichte, H. Karl, G. Vivier, S. Simoens, J. Vidal, and A. Agustin, “Cooperative wireless networking beyond store-and-forward: Perspectives in PHY and MAC design,” Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 49-68, Jan. 2009.
Peer-reviewed conference papers
- D. Tsilimantos, T. Karagkioules, and S. Valentin, “Classifying flows and buffer state for YouTube’s HTTP adaptive streaming service in mobile networks,” in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys), Jun. 2018.
- S. Mekki, T. Karagkioules, and S. Valentin, “HTTP adaptive streaming with indoors-outdoors detection in mobile networks,” in Proc. Ann. Joint Conf. of the IEEE Computer Societies Workshops (INFOCOM WS), May 2017.
- A. Köpke, M. Swigulski, K. Wessel, D. Willkomm, P.T. K. Haneveld, T. Parker, O. Visser, H. S. Lichte, and S. Valentin, “Simulating Wireless and Mobile Networks in OMNeT++: The MiXiM Vision,” in Proc. Int. Workshop on OMNeT++ collocated with SIMUTools, Mar. 2008.
Patents
- D. Tsilimantos, S. Valentin, T. Karagkioules, A. Nogales-Gómez, X. Shi, and Z. Chao, “System, apparatuses and method for traffic profiling of mobile video streaming,” PCT application PCT/EP2017/062 170 filed by Huawei Technologies, May 2017.
- S. Valentin, “Coordinated transmissions in communication networks,” Patent EP2480026 filed by Alcatel-Lucent, Jan. 2011.
- S. Valentin, H. Karl, and I. Aad, “Transceiver apparatus for cooperative wireless network,” Patents EP1962456 and JP4629116 filed by NTT DoCoMo Inc., Feb. 2007.
[Complete list of publications and patents]
- Best paper award for "A Comparative Case Study of HTTP Adaptive Streaming Algorithms in Mobile Networks", ACM NOSSDAV, Jun. 2017
- Fred W. Ellersick Prize for the article “When Cellular Meets WiFi in Wireless Small Cell Networks”, IEEE Communications Society, Jun. 2015
- KlarText: The Klaus Tschira Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Science for the article "Wer kooperiert, funkt besser", Klaus Tschira Foundation, Oct. 2011
- Best paper award for "Implementing MAC Protocols for Cooperative Relaying: A Compiler-Assisted Approach", ACM SIMUTools, Mar. 2008
Additional Information
Contact
Prof. Dr. Stefan Valentin
Communication
Schöfferstraße 8b
64295 Darmstadt
Office: D14, 3.06
+49.6151.16-38459
Stefan Valentin
Consultation
auf Anfrage / by appointment