Dipl.-Ing. Angela Feistel

Contact:

Room:	G005
Telephone:	+49(0)30-31002-695
Email:	angela.feistel at hhi.fraunhofer.de

Research interests:

• Wireless Ad-hoc and Mesh Networks
  • Resource Allocation and Interference Management
  • QoS-Control
  • Distributed MAC-protocols
  • Cross-Layer Design
• Sensor Networks
  • Energy-efficient Transmission Strategies

Main research:

• Medium Access Control in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

  Providing several advantages over cellular networks wireless ad hoc networks have inherently some fundamental technical challenges. To improve the performance of wireless ad hoc and mesh networks when designing, convenient power control, beamforming, media access control and routing algorithms have to be developed. These algorithms should take into account the node mobility, power constraints and QoS requirements as delay and data rate. A significant objective in network design is to dynamically allocate the limited resources. One approach to develop a dynamic resource allocation strategy is to optimize a convenient network utility function. In doing so the main objective is to devise appropriate power control, beamforming, scheduling and routing strategies. Assuming a central network controller and using the centralized algorithms as indicator distributed algorithms can be derived.

Projects:

• BMBF Projects: "BeeNet", "ZESAN", "ScaleNet"
• EU Project: "NetRefound"
• BMWi Project: "SIMKAB"
• several Industry Projects

Publications:

Journal Papers

• Joint Utility-Based Power Control and Receive Beamforming in Decentralized Wireless Networks
  A. Feistel, S. Stanczak, and D. Tomecki, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2010, July 2010, Article ID 751893, DOI 10.1155/2010/751893.
• Utility-based power control with QoS support
  S. Stanczak, A. Feistel, M. Wiczanowski, and H. Boche, Wireless Networks, Springer, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1691-1705, Aug. 2010, DOI 10.1007/s11276-009-0222-x.

Conference, Symposium, and Workshop Papers

• Transmit Rate Control for Energy-efficient Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
  I. Koutsopoulos, S. Stanczak, and A. Feistel, Globecom, Miami, Florida, USA, June 2010, accepted.
• Resource Allocation in Multiantenna Systems under General Power Constraints
  A. Feistel, S. Stanczak, and M. Kaliszan, International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Berlin, Germany, Feb. 2009.
• Towards Efficient and Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
  S. Stanczak, A. Feistel, H. Boche, and M. Wiczanowski, Proc. 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2008), Berlin, Germany, March 31 - April 4 2008.
• QoS Support with Utility-Based Power Control
  S. Stanczak, A. Feistel, and H. Boche, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), Toronto, Canada, July 6-11 2008.
• On energy cost of bit and bit/s in multiantenna wireless networks under hardware constraints
  M. Wiczanowski, A. Feistel, S. Stanczak, and H. Boche, Proc. ITG/IEEE International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), 2007, Wien, Austria, 2007.
• Optimization of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
  A. Feistel, M. Wiczanowski, and S. Stanczak, Proc. ITG/IEEE International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), 2007, Wien, Austria, Feb. 2007.
• On Utility-Based Power Control and Receive Beamforming
  S. Stanczak, A. Feistel, and D. Tomecki, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems., Mar. 2007, pp. 889-894.
• Hop-by-Hop Congestion Control with Power Control for Wireless Mesh Networks
  A. Feistel and S. Stanczak, Proc. IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Dublin, Ireland, April 22-25 2007, pp. 119-123.
• Dynamic resource allocation in wireless ad-hoc networks based on {QS-CDMA}
  A. Feistel and S. Stanczak, The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Berlin, Sept. 2005, accepted.
• Dynamic resource allocation for frequency-selective orthogonal{QS-CDMA} systems
  S. Stanczak and A. Feistel, 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, USA, 2004.