Institute of Communications Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Fischer

Background

Since 2011 Dr. Robert Fischer has been full professor for communications and signal theory at the University of Ulm, Germany.

Currently, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on signals and systems and on digital communications. His research concentrates on fast digital transmission including single- and multicarrier modulation techniques. Current interests are information theory, coded modulation, digital communications and signal processing, and especially precoding and shaping techniques for high-rate transmission schemes.

Dissertation / Habilitation:

Awards:

  • Precoding and Signal Shaping, Equalization Algorithms
  • OFDM Transmission Systems
  • Low-Complexity Receivers for Digital Communications
  • MIMO and Multiuser Communications
  • Ultra-Wideband Communications
  • Information Theory
  • Channel Coding and Coded Modulation
  • Physical-Layer Security
  • Compressed Sensing for Communications

And Or
252.
Müelich, Sven; Sudarshan, Chirag; Weis, Christian; Wehn, Norbert; Bossert, Martin; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Multi-Valued Physical Unclonable Functions based on Dynamic Random Access Memory
The International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS)
Publisher: Washington, D.C., USA
October 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/memsys220_mu0.pdf
251.
Yammine, George; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Decision-Feedback Differential Detection with Optimum Detection Order Metric For Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
28th European Signal Processing Conference
Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands,
August 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/eusipco2020_ya.pdf
250.
Fischer, Robert F.H.; Sippel, Carmen; Goertz, Norbert
VAMP with Vector-Valued Diagonalization
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Page 9110—9114
Publisher: Barcelona, Spain
May 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/icassp2020_fi.pdf
249.
Yammine, George; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Feedback-Aware Noncoherent Receivers for Massive MIMO Systems
24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/wsa2020_yf.pdf
248.
Rohweder, Daniel; Stern, Sebastian; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Shavgulidze, Sergo; Freudenberger, Jürgen
Low-Complexity Detection for Multi-Dimensional Spatial Modulation Schemes
24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/wsa2020_rsfsf.pdf
247.
Fischer, Robert F.H.; Stern, Sebastian; Huber, Johannes B.
Multilevel Codes in Lattice-Reduction-Aided Decision-Feedback Equalization
International Zurich Seminar on Communications
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/izs2020_fsh.pdf
246.
Bucher, Stephan; Yammine, George; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Waldschmidt, Christian
On the Impact of Hardware Impairments in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/wsa2020_byfw.pdf
245.
Sippel, Carmen; Fischer, Robert F.H.
On the Invariance of Recovery Algorithms for Compressed Sensing based on Expectation-Consistent Approximate Inference
24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/wsa2020_sf.pdf
244.
Fischer, Robert F.H.
Signal Shaping: Fundamentals, Potentials, and Techniques
International Zurich Seminar on Communications
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland
February 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/izs2020_fi.pdf
243.
Frey, Felix; Stern, Sebastian; Fischer, Johannes K.; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Two-Stage Coded Modulation for Hurwitz Constellations in Fiber-Optical Communications
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38 (12) :3135—3146
2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/jlt2020_fr.pdf
242.
Teich, Werner; Liu, Ruiqi; Belagiannis, Vasileios
Deep Learning versus High-order Recurrent Neural Network based Decoding for Convolutional Codes
GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference
2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/globecom2020_te.pdf
241.
Teich, Werner; Liu, Ruiqi; Belagiannis, Vasileios
Deep Learning versus High-order Recurrent Neural Network based Decoding: First Results
January 2020
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/iracom2020_te.pdf
240.
Fischer, Robert F.H.; Stern, Sebastian; Huber, Johannes B.
Lattice-Reduction-Aided and Integer-Forcing Equalization: Structures, Criteria, Factorization, and Coding
Foundations and Trends™ in Communications and Information Theory, 16 (1—2) :1—155
December 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/now2019_fi.pdf
239.
Müelich, Sven; Bitzer, Sebastian; Sudarshan, Chirag; Weis, Christian; Wehn, Norbert; Bossert, Martin; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Channel Models for Physical Unclonable Functions based on DRAM Retention Measurements
XVI International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems
October 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/redundancy2019_mu.pdf
238.
Fischer, Robert F.H.
Expectation-Consistent Approximate Inference with Vector-Valued Diagonalization — An Unbiasing Interpretation
Workshop on Mathematical Data Science
October 2019
File:
237.
Bucher, Stephan; Yammine, George; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Waldschmidt, Christian
A Noncoherent Massive MIMO System Employing Beamspace Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68 (11) :11052—11063
September 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/trvt2019_bu.pdf
236.
Frey, Felix; Stern, Sebastian; Emmerich, Robert; Schubert, Colja; Fischer, Johannes K.; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Coded Modulation Using a 512-ary Hurwitz-Integer Constellation
Proceedings of 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
September 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/ecoc2019_fr.pdf
235.
Rohweder, Daniel; Stern, Sebastian; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Shavgulidze, Sergo; Freudenberger, Jürgen
Low-Complexity Detection for Generalized Multistream Spatial Modulation
2019 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
July 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/spawc2019_ro.pdf
234.
Schmidt-Langhorst, Carsten; Pfeiffer, Johannes; Elschner, Robert; Frey, Felix; Emmerich, Robert; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Schubert, Colja
Experimental Investigation of Security Gaps when using Punctured LDPC Coding in Coherent Systems up to 64-GBd DP-64QAM
ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze
May 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/itgphoto2019_sl.pdf
233.
Teich, Werner; Roy, Samhita; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Fiber-Optic Transmission with a Direct Detection Receiver: Iterative Implementation of Block Linear Equalization
ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze
May 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/itgphoto2019_te.pdf
232.
Mandry, Holger; Herkle, Andreas; Kürzinger, Ludwig; Becker, Joachim; Müelich, Sven; Fischer, Robert F.H.; Ortmanns, Maurits
Modular PUF Coding Chain with High Speed Reed Muller Decoder
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
May 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/iscas2019_ma.pdf
231.
Stern, Sebastian; Rohweder, Daniel; Freudenberger, Jürgen; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Binary Multilevel Coding over Eisenstein Integers for MIMO Broadcast Transmission
23rd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
April 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/wsa2019_srff.pdf
230.
Stern, Sebastian; Rohweder, Daniel; Freudenberger, Jürgen; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Multilevel Coding over Eisenstein Integers with Ternary Codes
Proceedings of 12. International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC)
Publisher: Rostock, Germany
February 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/itgscc2019_srff.pdf
229.
Yammine, George; Bucher, Stephan; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Noncoherent Detection for an EM-Lens-Enabled Massive MIMO System
Proceedings of 12. International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC)
February 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/itgscc2019_ybf.pdf
228.
Yammine, George; Fischer, Robert F.H.
Optimization of Subspace Projection in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 12. International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC)
February 2019
File:pdfhttps://nt.uni-ulm.de/publications/pdf/intern/itgscc2019_yf.pdf

Lectures:

Former Teaching University Erlangen:

  • Kanalcodierung (1998-2010)
  • Multiuser Communications and MIMO Systems (2010-2012)
  • Informationstheorie (2005-2010)
  • Praktikum „Software für die Mathematik“ (2003-2011)
  • Seminar „Nachrichtenteschnische Systeme“ (2009-2011)
  • Digitale Übertragung (1998-2011)
  • Signalübertragung und -verarbeitung (2002-2003)
  • Praktikum „Simulationstools“ (2007-2009)

Other Former Teaching:

There is always a number of open topics for Bachelor / Master theses. Please see the list of open theses.

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