Anatolij Zubow

General:

  • IEEE Senior member
  • VDE ITG member
  • zubow@ieee.org

Short BIO:

  • Senior Researcher / Adjunct Lecturer at Technische Universitaet Berlin, Apr. 2020 -
  • Head of Group Telecommunication Networks Group & Visiting/Gast Professor at Technische Universitaet Berlin, Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2020
  • Research Fellow, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Mar. 2013 - Sep. 2018
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Jan. 2013 to Apr. 2013
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG project METRIK, 2011-2013.
  • Visiting researcher, NEC Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Dec. 2009 to Apr. 2010.
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.), Humboldt University Berlin, 2009.
  • Visiting researcher, NEC Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Sept. 2006 to Mar. 2007.
  • Research Staff Member (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Computer Science, Humboldt University Berlin, 2004.
  • Academic Degree Diplom-Informatiker (univ.) (approx. Master of Computer Science), Humboldt University Berlin, 2004.
  • Software Engineer (part time), adesso AG, Berlin/Dortmund, 2001-2004.
  • Secondary School (13th class, Abitur), Berlin.

Research Interest:

    Architectures and Protocols for Communication Networks: Wireless Networking, Mobile Multimedia, Sensor Networks Cyber - Physical Systems, Network Performance Evaluation.

Ongoing Projects:

  • ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication
  • LINCNET - LiFi-enabled 5G for INdustrial and MediCal NETworks
  • ML4WIFI - ML-driven Radio Resource Management in Wireless Local Area Networks
  • 6G-RIC - 6G Research and Innovation Cluster

Awards:

  • VDE ITG Preis 2023

Rating (citation metrics):

Publications:

  • "ResCTC: Resilience in Wireless Networks Through Cross-Technology Communication", A. Zubow, I. Stebut, S. Roesler, F. Dressler, demo, IEEE PIMRC, Spain, 2024.
  • "SensingWall: Ultra-low Cost WiFi Wireless Sensing", A. Zubow, M. Elhwawshy, S. Roesler, L. Pusch, A. Wolisz, F. Dressler, demo, IEEE INFOCOM, Canada, 2024.
  • "mmSplicer: Toward Experimental Multiband Channel Splicing at mmWave Frequencies,", S. Dimce, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, poster, best poster award, IEEE INFOCOM, Canada, 2024.
  • "Side Effects of IRS: On the Need for Coordination in 6G Multi-Operator IRS-assisted Networks", J. Angjo, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, paper, IEEE Globecom Workshops, Malaysia, 2023.
  • "One-Class Support Vector Machine for WiFi-based Device-free Indoor Presence Detection", A. Zubow, K. Petto, F. Dressler, reviewer version, paper, European Wireless (EW), Italy, 2023.
  • "Matryoshka: Single RF Chain Multi-user Transmission through WiFi-in-WiFi Signal Emulation using COTS Hardware", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, full paper, authors' version, ACM WinTech, Spain, 2023, to appear.
  • "Toward the simulation of WiFi Fine Time measurements in NS3 network simulator", A. Zubow, C. Laskos, F. Dressler, paper, authors' version, Computer Communications 210 (2023).
  • "Opportunistic Routing in LoRa-based Wireless Mesh Networks", S. Roesler, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, paper, IEEE WoWMoM, USA, 2023.
  • "Towards Hybrid Electronic-Mechanical Beamforming for IEEE 802.11 ad", A. Zubow, A. Memedi, F. Dressler, full paper, 18th Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), Italy, 2023.
  • "Wi-Fi Meets ML: A Survey on Improving IEEE 802.11 Performance With Machine Learning", S. Szott, K. Kosek-Szott, P. Gawlowicz, G. J. Torres, B. Bellalta, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, full paper, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2023.
  • "GrGym: A Playground for Research on RL/AI Enhanced Wireless Networks", A. Zubow, S. Roesler, P. Gawlowicz, F. Dressler, paper, European Wireless (EW), Germany, 2022.
  • "Less is more: towards low-latency communication trough cross-technology communication", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz, F. Dressler, paper, ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture, hybrid, Australia, 2022.
  • "Hybrid-Fidelity: Utilizing IEEE 802.11 MIMO for Practical Aggregation of LiFi and WiFi", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz, C. Brunn, K. L. Bober, V. Jungnickel, K. Habel, F. Dressler, early access paper, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.
  • "FTM-ns3: WiFi Fine Time Measurements for NS3", A. Zubow, C. Laskos and F. Dressler, local, IEEE WONS, 2022.
  • "Wi-Lo: Emulation of LoRa using Commodity 802.11b WiFi Devices", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow and F. Dressler, local, IEEE ICC, 2022.
  • "WiFi Meets ML: A Survey on Improving IEEE 802.11 Performance with Machine Learning", S. Szott, K. Kosek-Szott, P. Gawlowicz, J.-T. Gomez, B. Bellalta, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, arxiv, local, 2021.
  • "Wireless Body-Area Networks in Medical Applications Using Optical Signal Transmission", O. Haddad, M. A. Khalighi and A. Zubow, paper, Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021.
  • "Wi-Lo: Emulating LoRa using COTS WiFi", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, F. Dressler, arxiv, local, 2021.
  • "Hy-Fi: Aggregation of LiFi and WiFi using MIMO in IEEE 802.11", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz, K. L. Bober, V. Jungnickel, K. Habel, F. Dressler, paper, IEEE WoWMoM, 2021.
  • "On Phase Offsets of 802.11ac Commodity WiFi", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz and F. Dressler, paper, slides, IEEE WONS, 2021.
  • "Towards Software-Centric Listen-Before-Talk on Software-Defined Radios", S. Braeuer, A. Zubow and F. Dressler, paper, IEEE WCNC, 2021.
  • "TIP Channel Sounder Program Results Summary Report", Lai, [...], Zubow, whitepaper", mmWave Networks Project Group, 2021.
  • "GrGym: When Gnu Radio goes to (AI) Gym", A. Zubow, S. Roesler, P. Gawlowicz and F. Dressler, paper, slides, source code, HotMobile, 2021.
  • "How to Train Your ITS? Integrating Machine Learning with Vehicular Network Simulation", M. Schettler, D. Buse, A. Zubow and F. Dressler, paper, IEEE VNC, 2020.
  • "Demo: Bringing Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming to Commercial MU-MIMO WiFi Networks", T. Kühne, P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, F. Dressler and G. Caire, paper, ACM Mobicom Demos HotCRP, GB, 2020.
  • "DeepTxFinder: Multiple Transmitter Localization by Deep Learning in Crowdsourced Spectrum Sensing", A. Zubow, S. Bayhan, P. Gawlowicz and F. Dressler, ICCCN, invited paper, slides, USA, 2020.
  • "On Phase Offsets of 802.11ac Commodity WiFi", arxiv, local, 2020.
  • "Cross-Technology Communication between LTE-U/LAA and WiFi", P. Gawlowicz and A. Zubow, INFOCOM Demo, paper, best demo award, slides, China, 2020.
  • "WiFi over VLC using COTS Devices", P. Gawlowicz, E. Jarchlo, and A. Zubow, paper, INFOCOM CNERT Workshop, China, 2020.
  • "Bringing MIMO to VLC using COTS", P. Gawlowicz, E. Jarchlo, and A. Zubow, paper, ICC OWC Workshop, Ireland, 2020.
  • "Punched Cards over the Air: Cross-Technology Communication Between LTE-U/LAA and WiFi", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, S. Bayhan, and Adam Wolisz, IEEE WoWMoM, paper, best paper award, Ireland, 2020.
  • "Practical MIMO for Visible Light Communication", arxiv, local, demo video, 2020.
  • "EdgeDASH: Exploiting Network-Assisted Adaptive Video Streaming for Edge Caching", arxiv, local, 2020.
  • "WoV: WiFi-based VLC testbed", arxiv, local, demo video, 2020.
  • "On Practical Cooperative Multi Point Transmission for 5G Networks", paper, International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier, 2020.
  • "OfdmFi: Enabling Cross-Technology Communication Between LTE-U/LAA and WiFi", arxiv, local, 2019.
  • "Smart contracts for spectrum sensing as a service", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, paper, 2019.
  • "ns-3 meets OpenAI Gym: The Playground for Machine Learning in Networking Research", ACM MSWiM, USA, 2019, paper, source code.
  • "Flight: A Flexible Light Communications network architecture for indoor environments", ConTEL, Graz, 2019.
  • "PoMeS: Profit-Maximizing Sensor Selection for Crowd-Sensed Spectrum Discovery", CROWNCOM, Poland, 2019, local, Springer.
  • "Deep Learning for Cross-Technology Communication Design", arxiv, local, listed in Research Library of the IEEE Machine Learning For Communications Emerging Technologies Initiatives, 2019.
  • "Null-While-Talk: Interference Nulling for Improved Inter-Technology Coexistence in LTE-U and WiFi Networks", S. Bayhan, P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier journal, paper, author version, 2019.
  • "ns3-gym: Extending OpenAI Gym for Networking Research", P. Gawlowicz and A. Zubow, arxiv, local, source code, 2018.
  • "Spass: Spectrum Sensing as a Service via Smart Contracts", S. Bayhan, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, IEEE DYSPAN, 2018, paper, source code.
  • "Cross-Technology Interference Nulling for Improved LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, S. Bayhan, demo, ACM MobiSys, demo paper, local, poster, video, 2018.
  • "On Practical Coexistence Gaps in Space for LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz, S. Bayhan, European Wireless (EW), paper, slides, 2018.
  • "Coexistence Gaps in Space via Interference Nulling for LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence", S. Bayhan, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, IEEE WoWMoM, paper, slides, 2018.
  • "Enabling Cross-technology Communication between LTE Unlicensed and WiFi", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, INFOCOM, paper, slides, 2018
  • "Demo abstract: Practical Cross-technology Radio Resource Management between LTE-U and WiFi", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, demo paper, INFOCOM, 2018.
  • "Enabling Flexibility of Traffic Split Function in LTE-WiFi Aggregation Networks Through SDN", S. Bayhan and A. Zubow, paper, local, slides, 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), 2018.
  • "XZero: On Practical Cross-Technology Interference-Nulling for LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence", A. Zubow, P. Gawlowicz, S. Bayhan, arxiv, local, 2018.
  • "The Future is Unlicensed: Coexistence in the Unlicensed Spectrum for 5G", S. Bayhan, G. Gür and A. Zubow, arxiv, local, 2018.
  • "Coexistence Gaps in Space: Cross-Technology Interference-Nulling for Improving LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence", S. Bayhan, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, technical report, arxiv, local, 2017.
  • "Demo: Stuffing Wi-Fi Beacons for Fun and Profit", S. Zehl, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, demo paper, MobiCom 2017.
  • "An Ultra-Wide Overlay Cognitive Radio System for Wireless Backhauling for Small Cells", M. Doering, A. Zubow, P. Leyva and A. Wolisz, paper, local, slides, MOBIWAC 2017.
  • "NxWLAN: Towards Transparent and Secure Usage of Neighbors' Access Points in Residential WLANs", P. Gawlowicz, S. Zehl, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, paper, local, WiMob 2017.
  • "LtFi: Cross-technology Communication for RRM between LTE-U and IEEE 802.11", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, and A. Wolisz, technical report, arxiv, local, 2017.
  • "Optimal Mapping of Stations to Access Points in Enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks", S. Bayhan and A. Zubow, paper, MSWiM, 2017.
  • "Location-based Mechanism for Positioning of a Mobile Relay", F. Lemic, A. Behboodi, V. Handziski, A. Zubow, R. Mathar and A. Wolisz, paper, MSWiM, 2017.
  • "Location-based Decision-making Mechanism for Device-to-Device Link Establishment", F. Lemic, A. Behboodi, V. Handziski, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, paper, IEEE VTC2017-Fall, 2017.
  • "Practical Distributed Channel Assignment in Home Wi-Fi Networks", S. Zehl, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, IEEE WoWMoM 2017, paper, local, 2017.
  • "Hotspot Slicer: Slicing virtualized Home Wi-Fi Networks for Air-Time Guarantee and Traffic Isolation", S. Zehl, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, IEEE WoWMoM 2017, paper, local, 2017.
  • "WiPLUS: Towards LTE-U Interference Detection, Assessment and Mitigation in 802.11 Networks", M. Olbrich, A. Zubow, S. Zehl and A. Wolisz, European Wireless 2017 (EW), best paper, local, slides, 2017.
  • "SENSEFUL: an SDN-based Joint Access and Backhaul Coordination for Dense Wi-Fi Small Cells", E. Garcia-Villegas, D. Sesto-Castilla, S. Zehl, A. Zubow, A. Betzler, D. Camps-Mur, 13th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), paper, 2017.
  • "Towards LTE-U Interference Detection, Assessment and Mitigation in 802.11 Networks using Commodity Hardware", M. Olbrich, A. Zubow, S. Zehl and A. Wolisz, tech report, arXiv, 2017.
  • "UniFlex: A Framework for Simplifying Wireless Network Control", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, M. Chwalisz and A. Wolisz, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), paper, local, slides, source code, 2017.
  • "hMAC: Enabling Hybrid TDMA/CSMA on IEEE 802.11 Hardware", S. Zehl, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, arxiv, 2016.
  • "UniFlex: Accelerating Networking Research and Experimentation through Software-Defined Wireless Networking", P. Gawlowicz, A. Zubow, M. Chwalisz and A. Wolisz, technical report, arxiv, 2016.
  • "NxWLAN: Neighborhood eXtensible WLAN", P. Gawlowicz, S. Zehl, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, technical report, arxiv, 2016.
  • "On Practical Selective Jamming of Bluetooth Low Energy Advertising", S. Braeuer, A. Zubow, M. Roshandel and S. Zehl, IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), paper, local, slides, source code, 2016.
  • "A Unified Radio Control Architecture for Prototyping Adaptive Wireless Protocols", P. Ruckebusch, S. Giannoulis, E. De Poorter, I. Moerman, I. Tinnirello, D. Garlisi, P. Gallo, N. Kaminski, L. DaSilva, P. Gawlowicz, M. Chwalisz, A. Zubow, European Conference on Networks and Communications 2016: Testbeds and Experimental Research, 2016.
  • "LoWS: A Complete Open Source Solution for Wi-Fi Beacon Stuffing Based Location-based Services", S. Zehl, N. Karowski, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), paper, 2016.
  • "BIG AP - Seamless Handover in High Performance Enterprise IEEE 802.11 Networks", A. Zubow, S. Zehl, A. Wolisz, IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), full paper, local, slides, video, 2016.
  • "BIG AP - A Seamless Handover Scheme for High Performance Enterprise IEEE 802.11 Networks", S. Zehl, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), demo paper, local, video, 2016.
  • "ResFi: A Secure Framework for Self Organized Radio Resource Management in Residential WiFi Networks", S. Zehl, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, M. Doering, IEEE World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), full paper, local, source code, 2016.
  • "Downlink MIMO in IEEE 802.11ac-Based Infrastructure Networks", A. Zubow, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2015, full paper, local, slides.
  • "A SDN Approach to Spectrum Brokerage in Infrastructure-based Cognitive Radio Networks", A. Zubow, M. Doering, M. Chwalisz and Wolisz, A., IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DYSPAN), 2015, paper, local, slides.
  • "Feasibility Study on Application of Impulse-UWB for Control Channel in Cognitive Radio Networks", M. Doering, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, IEEE International Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms (IEEE CORAL), 2015, paper, local, slides.
  • "Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and Unified radio and network controL", Fortuna, C., Ruckebusch, P., Praet, C. V., Moerman, I., Kaminski, N., DaSilva, L., Tinirello, I., Bianchi, G., Zubow, A., Chwalisz, M., Wolisz, A., Leblon, R., Seskar, I. and Choi, S., European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2015, paper.
  • "Distributed Spectrum Allocation for Autonomous Cognitive Radio Networks", A. Zubow, M. Doering, A. Wolisz, European Wireless 2014, 2014, paper, local, slides.
  • "On detecting WLAN users communication attempts", F. Ganji, A. Zubow, L. Budzisz, A. Wolisz, 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, 2014, paper.
  • "A Practical Approach to Reliable Flooding in Mobile Ad hoc Networks", R. Sombrutzki, A. Zubow, technical report, 2013.
  • "From Earthquake Detection to Traffic Surveillance - About Information and Communication Infrastructures for Smart Cities", J. Fischer, J.-P. Redlich, B. Scheuermann, J.H. Schiller, M. Günes, K. Nagel, P. Wagner, M. Scheidgen, A. Zubow, I. Eveslage, R. Sombrutzki, F. Juraschek, System Analysis and Modeling: Theory and Practice - 7th International Workshop, SAM 2012, Springer, Innsbruck, Austria, paper
  • "MAC Diversity in IEEE 802.11n MIMO Networks", A. Zubow, R. Sombrutzki, M. Scheidgen, Wireless Days Conference, 2012, paper.
  • "sGSA: A SDMA-OFDMA Greedy Scheduling Algorithm for WiMAX Networks", A. Zubow, J. Marotzke, D. Camps-Mur and X. Perez Costa, International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier, 2012, journal.
  • "Towards Smart Berlin - an Experimental Facility for Heterogeneous Smart City Infrastructures", F. Juraschek, A. Zubow, O. Hahn, M. Scheidgen, B. Blywis, R. Sombrutzki, M. Günes, J. Fischer, IEEE International Workshop on Global Trends in SMART Cities, 2012.
  • "Automated and Transparent Model Fragmentation for Persisting Large Models", ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages & Systems, paper, 2012.
  • "Interference Alignment in Wireless Mesh Networks", 4th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Germany, invited poster, 2012, poster.
  • "HWL - A High Performance Wireless Sensor Research Networks", International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Belgium, paper, 2012.
  • "Towards MAC/Anycast Diversity in IEEE 802.11n MIMO Networks", technical paper, 2012.
  • "sGSA: An SDMA-OFDMA Scheduling Solution", 18th European Wireless Conference, Poland, paper, 2012.
  • "On the Frequency-Selective Scheduling Gain in SDMA-OFDMA Systems", Technical Paper, arxiv, 2012.
  • "Adjacent Channel Interference in IEEE 802.11n", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, France, paper, 2012.
  • "ClickWatch - An Experimentation Framework for Communication Network Test-beds", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, France, 2012.
  • "A Low-cost MIMO Mesh Testbed based on 802.11n", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, France, 2012.
  • "Investigation of the suitability of the license-free WiFi spectrum for future services - WiFi interference study in urban area", Technical Report, 2011.
  • "On Channel Assignment, Distributed Antennas and Network Load Distribution in Dense IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure Networks", IWCMC, France, paper, 2010.
  • "Greedy Scheduling Algorithm (GSA) - Design and Evaluation of an Efficient and Flexible WiMAX OFDMA Scheduling Solution", International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier, journal, 2010.
  • "Kooperatives Forwarding in drahtlosen Maschennetzen", Dissertation, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, 2009.
  • "On Uplink Superposition Coding and Multi-User Diversity for Wireless Mesh Networks", MSN 09, China, paper, 2009.
  • "Network Coding for Bit Error Recovery in IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks", IEEE ICC, paper, 2009.
  • "The Challenges of Using Wireless Mesh Networks for Earthquake Early Warning Systems", MESH 09, Greece, 2009.
  • "Opportunistic Protocols in Multi-Rate Environments", MESH 08, France, 2008, best paper.
  • "The Impact of Adjacent Channel Interference in Multi-Radio Systems using IEEE 802.11", IWCMC 2008, Greece, paper, 2008.
  • "Considerations on Forwarder Selection for Opportunistic Protocols in Wireless Networks", EW 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, paper, 2008.
  • "Cooperative Opportunistic Routing using Transmit Diversity in Wireless Mesh Networks", 27th IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, USA, 2008, paper.
  • "On the Challenges for the Maximization of Radio Resources Usage in WiMAX Networks", CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, paper, 2008.
  • "An Opportunistic Cross-Layer Protocol for Multi-Channel Wireless Networks", 18th IEEE PIMRC, Athens, Greece, 2007, paper,local.
  • "Multi-Channel Opportunistic Routing", 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, 2007, paper,local.
  • "Self-Organization in Community Mesh Networks: The Berlin RoofNet", Proceedings of IEEE OpComm2006, paper, 2006.
  • "Multi-Channel Link-level Measurements in 802.11 Mesh Networks", IWCMC 2006, Vancouver, Canada, paper, 2006.

Patents:

  • "Method for operating a wireless network, a wireless network and a device", PCT/EP2012/050523, patent, 2012.
  • "Method and system for improving quality of service in distributed wireless networks", US 2011/0122788 A1, patent, 2011.
  • "Method of assembling a frame in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)-based communication system and communication system", EP2215765 A1, patent, 2010.

Selected Talks:

  • "The Future is Unlicensed On Coexistence in the Unlicensed Spectrum", Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), slides, 2018.

TPC/Reviewer:

  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
  • Elsevier Computer Networks
  • Elsevier Computer Communications
  • Globecom

Teaching:

  • Lecture on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Lecture on Wireless Communication & Mobile Networks
  • Lecture on Middleware Platforms

Hobbies: