Frank H. P. Fitzek, Professor and Chair of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden, leads at the forefront of telecommunications research in Germany. As the spokesperson for the DFG Cluster of Excellence CeTI and the 6G-life hub, his contributions have significantly shaped the field of communication networks. Educationally, Fitzek completed his diploma in electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1997, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin in 2002. That same year, he embarked on his professorial journey at the University of Ferrara, Italy, and further expanded his academic influence to Aalborg University in 2003 as a Professor. An entrepreneurial spirit, Fitzek co-founded over ten startups, beginning with acticom GmbH in 1999. His global research footprint includes prestigious institutions like MIT, VTT, and Arizona State University. Fitzek’s groundbreaking work in MIMO MDC earned him the YRP award in 2005, alongside the Danish Young Elite Researcher Award. His innovative contributions were recognized with the NOKIA Champion Award annually from 2007 to 2011, the Nokia Achievement Award in 2008 for cooperative networks, the SAPERE AUDE research grant in 2011, and the Vodafone Innovation prize in 2012. In 2015, he was honored with the “Doctor Honoris Causa” degree from BUTE. His research ambitiously spans 5G/6G communication networks, in-network computing, network coding, compressed sensing, post-Shannon theory, quantum and molecular communication, and immersive human-machine interaction in virtual environments.
Quantum Security for the Tactile Internet Book Chapter
In: Security and Privacy for 6G Massive IoT, Chapter 8, pp. 1–53, John Wiley & Sons, 2025, (The hardcover book will be available in April 2025).
Sniffing out the Path: Olfactory Localization based Low-Cost SLAM for Disaster Scenarios Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024, (accepted).
Evaluation of a Multi-Molecule Molecular Communication Testbed Based on Spectral Sensing Proceedings Article
In: Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024, (accepted).
Exploring the Potential of Quantum Technology for SFC Management & VNF Chain Ordering Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Softwarem Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2024, (accepted).
RED-SP-CoDel: Random Early Detection with Static Priority Scheduling and Controlled Delay AQM in Programmable Data Planes Journal Article
In: Computer Communications, vol. 214, pp. 149–166, 2024.
Resilience Engineering for Quantum Technology Integration with Metropolitan Networks and the Tactile Internet Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2024, (accepted).
Navigating Time and Energy Trade-offs in Reactive Heterogeneous Systems Journal Article
In: IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, special issue on Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS, ESWeek 2024), 2024.
A Diffusive MPPIC Solver in OpenFOAM for Microfluidic Molecular Communication Proceedings Article
In: 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM), 2024, (Accepted).
Physics-informed deep neural networks for multicore and multimode fiber sensors towards biomedicine and communication Proceedings Article
In: Seminar of Student Chapter of IEEE Photonics Society, City University London, United Kingdom, 2024, (invited by Prof Azizur Rahman, Professor of Photonics at City University).
Advancing Spectrum Anomaly Detection through Digital Twins Journal Article
In: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 62, no. 10, 2024, (Accepted for publication.).
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