"As a core researcher in the Network Security Team at TU Chemnitz, I actively contribute to both completed and ongoing projects, taking responsibility for system design, prototype implementation, security evaluation, and the integration of AI-driven approaches into next-generation communication networks within broader collaborative project work packages."
SUSTAINET-advance (2025 - 2027)
Status: Ongoing!
Project Description:
SUSTAINET-advance builds on the vision by enhancing the sustainability and resilience of next-generation networks across both communication and energy domains. The project explores cutting-edge technologies such as neuromorphic computing, integrated communication and sensing, and trusted AI to develop adaptive, secure, and energy-aware infrastructures. With a strong focus on the interdependence of telecom and power systems, SUSTAINET-Advance aims to enable dynamic, self-optimizing networks—capable of responding to fluctuations in renewable energy and emerging cyber threats. Through cross-border collaboration and technological innovation, the project supports Europe’s ambition to lead in the global race for sustainable digital infrastructure.
MNT-Pro (2022 - 2024)
Status: Completed!
Project Description:
Mobile Network Protector (MNT-Pro) is a collaborative project between ipoque GmbH and Chemnitz University of Technology. Over the course of two years, the partners are working on technical innovations in the field of cybersecurity. The primary focus is ensuring the security of 5th and 6th generation mobile networks against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and jamming attacks. Currently, there are few practical solutions available on the cybersecurity market in this area. The collaboration between ipoque GmbH and Chemnitz University of Technology enables the pooling of expertise and the shaping of the future of cybersecurity.
3. AI-NET-PROTECT (2021 - 2024)
Status: Completed!
Project Description:
Digital transformation is ongoing in many areas of today’s society, which will impact many aspects of people’s lives via means such as smart cities, robotics, transportation, and next-generation industries. At the same time, the current centralized cloud infrastructure is not adequate to serve the transformation’s requirements. We believe that three technologies can come together to shape a new secure service and application platform: 5G, edge-centric compute, and artificial intelligence. In this context, European industry has a good position in 5G networks, transportation and industrial applications, but needs to strengthen the position in secure cloud, data centre and artificial intelligence technologies to be at the forefront of development.The primary focus of the AI-NET-PROTECT sub-project is to provide automated resilience and secure networks operated on trusted equipment to critical infrastructures and enterprises.
AI-NET-PROTECT will ensure the protection of critical data, network performance (like latency, throughput, availability), and infrastructure (against tampering and attacks). To achieve these objectives, the project will develop a scalable network and node architecture to address the diverse KPIs by a mix of open and purpose build hardware and software including whiteboxes. Network telemetry and intent-based software-defined network management and control will provide zero-touch provisioning and support artificial intelligence based automation of end-to-end services. Strong security based on multi-layer cryptography, agile crypt-functions, and quantum-safe algorithms will form an integral part for the developed architecture. The key use cases for AI are performance optimization, proactive fault and anomaly detection, penetration and vulnerability testing, and security incident management.
4. SENDATE-SECURE-DCI (2017 - 2019)
Status: Completed!
Project Description:
Large Data Centers (DCs) are forming the most important control centers of the Internet nowadays. Within DCs, business as well as private data is stored, edited, forwarded, and processed. Although current DCs have a huge computing power, massive storage capacities, and an enormous performance based on centrally stored data, they are located far away from the customer, use the network only for transport, and are mostly run by non-European companies. This leads to low flexibility, long delays to customers, and security concerns.
New application scenarios of our digital society such as Industrial Internet, mobile connected objects, Internet of Things, health applications, and especially 5G lead to a huge number of end devices and an enormous increase of traffic volume. The high demands on security, location awareness, service guarantees, flexibility, and latency require a convergence of telecommunication networks and IT as well as distributed data centers, which are placed close to the customers. Innovative approaches such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in combination with Software Defined Networking (SDN) are the basis for a secure, flexible, low latency, and locality-aware distributed data center approach to support the upcoming application scenarios.