Current projects

AI-NET-PROTECT
>Providing Resilient and Secure Networks Operating on Trusted Equipment to CriTical Infrastructures
AI-NET: Accelerating digital transformation in Europe by Intelligent NETwork automation
PROTECT: Providing Resilient & secure networks [Operating on Trusted Equipment] to CriTical infrastructures
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: February 2021 - January 2024

ALLEGRO
HHI will investigate a 100G PON using low-power signal processing and space multiplexing as part of Allegro, demonstrating key functions at the physical layer.
Funded by European Commission
Duration: January 2023 - Juni 2026

B5G-OPEN
B5G-OPEN targets the design, prototyping and demonstration of a novel end-to-end integrated packet-optical transport architecture based on multi-band optical transmission and switching networks
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: November 2021 – October 2024

CERTAIN
>Code-based Physical-Layer Security for Terahertz-MIMO-Communication
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: October 2020 - September 2023



ELAMUR
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Partnership with Universität Stuttgart
Duration: September 2020 - December 2023

FRONT-RUNNER
As part of FRONT-RUNNER, the Photonic Networks department will develop a framework for proactive attack detection together with an end-to-end ML pipeline for real-time execution of the developed algorithms, as well as work closely with the other partners to incorporate their developments into demonstrations in the HHI laboratory.
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: January 2023 - December 2025


GreenICT@FMD
Within the scope of GreenICT, the Photonic Networks department will upgrade the optical system laboratory in the hub "energy-saving communication infrastructures" so that it can determine or optimize the energy requirements of optical transmission systems. Furthermore, network operators, system suppliers and component manufacturers will be enabled to minimize energy and resource requirements through load-adaptive system control.
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2022 - January 2026

LINCNET
The LINCNET project aims to further develop wireless communication with light (LiFi) so that it complements 5G communication in medical and industrial applications.
Co-funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)
Duration: January 2022 - December 2024

MELINDA
Compressed Sensing supported LiDAR with coherent detection at eye-safe wavelengths for autonomous driving
Supported by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Duration: March 2020 – March 2023

OTB-5G+
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: September 2019 - Dezember 2022

OWIMED
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: February 2023 - January 2026

QR.X
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2021 - July 2024


QuNET+ISQKMS
The goal of the project "QuNET+ISQKMS" is the development of a quantum key management system (KMS) that meets highest security requirements.
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: October 2022 – September 2025

QuNET+ML
The aim of the project "QuNET - Optimization of QKD networks using machine learning (QuNET+ML)" is to enable the use of quantum key distribution (QKD) in realistic network scenarios.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: January 2022 – December 2024


QuNET+ProQuake
The goal of the project "Post-Processing for Quantum Key Distribution with Continuous and Discrete Variables (QuNET+ProQuake)" is the development of a platform for QKD post-processing.
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: November 2022 - November 2025


SAMOA-NET
Within the framework of the SAMOA-NET project, HHI is going to work on architecture and system concept of SDM/PON, the coupling into and out of the multicore fiber and the algorithms for the MIMO DSP. The results of the work packages will be integrated into the demonstrator and a system simulation will be used to show that the results shown can also be scaled to a real scenario.
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: August 2021 - July 2024


SQuaD
The aim of the project "Schirmprojekt Quantum Communication Germany (SQuaD)" in the Innovation Hub is to establish a central point of contact for expertise and infrastructure within the scope of quantum communication in Germany.
Duration: September 2022 – December 2025

STARFALL
>Scalable terminal architectures and subsystems for fiber-optical space division multiplexing
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: July 2021 - June 2024

WON
>WON – Wideband Optical Networks
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 814276
Duration: January 2019 - December 2022

Zero-SWARM
The Zero-SWARM ambition is to provide a methodological and technological framework, modular, open and reusable (to address quick uptake of advanced 5G technologies by European manufacturing sector), for the engineering of the following major aspects of a data-driven, connected, CPSoS-based, trusted (safe/secure) production.
Co-funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe Program
Duration: April 2022 – September 2024