Current and Past Theses

Master Theses

• Christen, Simon, "Analysis of Mass-Spectrometry Data," Summer 2011, May 2011 - Nov. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Veniamin Morgenshtern
   
• Schläpfer, Simon, "Compressed Sensing Based Multi-Touch Sensor," Spring Semester 2011, Feb. 2011 - Aug. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Graeme Pope
   
• Aubel, Céline, "Deterministic Results for Split Analysis," Autumn semester 2010, Oct. 2010 - Apr. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
   
• Baumann, Manuel, "Real-Time Video Surveillance using Compressed Sensing and GPUs," Autumn semester 2010, May 2010 - Dec. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer, Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Loeliger, Philippe, "Time and Frequency Synchronization in the Relaying Testbed," Fall semester 2009, Oct. 2009 - Apr. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Nair, Ragesh, "Implementation of a FPGA-Based Flexible Relaying Node," Fall semester 2009, Sept. 2009 - Mar. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Tschiatschek, Sebastian, "Model-Based Compressed Sensing," Summer semester 2009, Mar. 2009 - Sept. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Patrick Kuppinger, Graeme Pope, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
   
• Matter, Daniel, "Relaying Testbed Implementation and Evaluation," Spring semester 2009, Feb. 2009 - Aug. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi, Michael Lerjen
   
• Fateh, Schekeb, "VLSI Implementation of Soft-Input Soft-Output MMSE Parallel Interference Cancellation," Spring Semester 2009, Sept. 2008 - Mar. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Christoph Studer, Dr. Dominik Seethaler
  this work was carried out at the IIS ETH Zurich
   
• Rüegg, Christoph, "VLSI Architectures for QR Interpolation," Spring semester 2008, May 2008 - Nov. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Peter Lüthi, Dr. Davide Cescato, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Ziegler, Markus, "Phase Error Tracking and Compensation for Packet-Based MIMO-OFDM Systems ," Fall semester 2008, Apr. 2008 - Oct. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Dr. Moritz Borgmann
   
• Nikiforov, Gueorgui, "Frame Theory and Quantum Mechanics," Summer semester 2007, Apr. 2007 - Sept. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei, Dr. Patrick Kuppinger
   
• Burri, Martin, "IEEE 802.11 Multi-User MAC framework," Summer semester 2007, Feb. 2007 - Aug. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Peter Lüthi, Dr. Daniel Baum
   
• Greisen, Pierre, "Flexible Digital Emulator for a Wireless 4x4 MIMO Channel," Winter semester 2006/2007, Oct. 2006 - Apr. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Dr. Andreas Burg, Dr. Daniel Baum
   
• Bühler, Flurin; Casty, Michael, "Wideband 4x4 MIMO RF Frontend with Digital Interface," Summer semester 2006, Apr. 2006 - Oct. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisor is D. Perels
   
• Verdickt, Jeroen, "Channel Measurements and Code Design for MIMO Fading Multiple-Access Channels," Summer semester 2006, Mar. 2006 - Sept. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Markus Gärtner, Dr. Daniel Baum
   
• Xu, Wenjie, "Transmission Schemes for an IEEE 802.11n MIMO-OFDM WLAN System with Channel State Information at the Transmitter," Summer semester 2006, Feb. 2006 - Aug. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Jatin Thukral, Dr. Daniel Baum, Dr. Moritz Borgmann
   
• Parmaksiz, Musa, "Uncertainty, Resolution, and Ambiguity in Wideband Multiantenna Radar," Winter semester 2005/2006, Nov. 2005 - May 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
   
• Haid, Wolfgang, "Algorithms for Parameter Estimation for MIMO-OFDM," Winter semester 2005/2006, Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisor is D. Perels
   
• Poncioni, Frédéric; Wildbolz, Pascal, "Wideband 4x4 MIMO RF Frontend with Digital Interface," Winter semester 2005/2006, Oct. 2005 - May 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is David Perels (IIS)
   
• McCanny, Damian, "Impact of Ultra-Wideband Interference in Cellular Networks," Winter semester 2005, July 2005 - Dec. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster
   
• Studer, Christoph, "Sphere Decoding with Resource Constraints," Summer semester 2005, Feb. 2005 - Aug. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann
  Thesis project carried out at Stanford University, CA, with Prof. A. Paulraj. Local advisor at Stanford is Harold Artés. Andreas Burg from IIS (ETHZ) is co-advising.
   
• Schaller, Philippe, "Implementation Issues of Hybrid Soft-/Hardware MIMO-OFDM MAC," Summer semester 2005, Jan. 2005 - July 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is David Perels (IIS)
   
• Fang, Kun, "Layered Coding for the Multiple Antenna Broadcast Channel," Winter semester 2004/2005, Dec. 2004 - June 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ateet Kapur
   
• Simon, Claude, "An Information-Theoretic Evaluation of Soft-Output MIMO Demappers," Winter semester 2004/2005, Nov. 2004 - May 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
  co-advisor is Andreas Burg (IIS)
   
• Thukral, Jatin, "On Optimal Resource Allocation in Gaussian Broadcast Channels employing CDMA Signaling," Winter semester 2004/2005, Oct. 2004 - Apr. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei, Dr. Ateet Kapur
   
• Morgenshtern, Veniamin I., "Capacity Scaling in Large Wireless Networks," Winter semester 2003/2004, Jan. 2004 - June 2004
  Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
  visiting from St. Petersburg State University, Russia
   
• Chicherio, Marco, "Implementation of a Soft Viterbi Decoder and Metric Computation Unit for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation," Winter semester 2003/2004, Aug. 2003 - Feb. 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is Simon Häne (IIS)
   
• Williams, Ian, "CDMA-Based Transmission Protocols for Fading Relay Channels," Summer semester 2003, Apr. 2003 - Dec. 2003
  Supervisor(s): Felix Kneubühler
  visiting from University of Edinburgh
   
• Gauckler, Michael; Polasek, Martin; Velasquez Santi, Carlos, "Integrated FPGA Rapid Prototyping Environment," Winter semester 2002/2003, Dec. 2002 - Mar. 2003
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum, Dr. Moritz Borgmann
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisor is S. Häne
   
• Trösch, Florian, "Performance of MIMO-OFDM Transmit Diversity Schemes," Winter semester 2002/2003, Nov. 2002 - Mar. 2003
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
   

Student Projects

• Cavigelli, Lukas; Hager, Pascal, "Implementing the AMP Algorithm on a GPU," Spring 2012, Feb. 2012 - May 2012
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Céline Aubel
   
• Stadelmann, Daniel, "FPGA Controller for Compressed Sensing Based Multi-Touch Sensor," Fall semester 2011, Nov. 2011 - Dec. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Vogel, Pirmin, "Structure in Sparse Recovery Problems," Autumn Semester 2011, Oct. 2011 - Jan. 2012
  Supervisor(s): Reinhard Heckel, Graeme Pope
   
• With, Oliver, "Channel Estimation and Compensation for Wireless Relaying," Fall semester 2011, Sept. 2011 - Dec. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Veniamin Morgenshtern
   
• Bieri, Michael, "Acoustic Radar," Autumn semester 2011, Aug. 2011 - Nov. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope
  This project is run by the IIS and is co-supervised with Patrick Maechler.
   
• Sutter, David, "Kashin Representations," Spring 2011, Feb. 2011 - June 2011
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Reinhard Heckel
   
• Pargaetzi, Enrico, "Implementation of Hardware Extensions for Synchronization in the Relaying Testbed," Fall Semester 2010, Oct. 2010 - Jan. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen, Veniamin Morgenshtern
   
• Hauzenberger, Georg, "Embedded Linux OS for a MIMO Communication System," Fall Semester 2010, Sept. 2010 - Jan. 2011
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Bracher, Annina, "Probabilistic Recovery Guarantees for Sparsely Corrupted Signals," Autumn semester 2010, Sept. 2010 - Dec. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Da Conceição Barata , Filipe; Romer, Andreas, "Super Resolution for Audio Signals," Autumn semester 2010, Sept. 2010 - Dec. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Widmer, Johannes, "Object Tracking with Compressed Sensing," Autumn semester 2010, Sept. 2010 - Dec. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Lufang, Gao, "Compressed Sensing Trackpad," Summer 2010, June 2010 - Aug. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Giuseppe Durisi, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Christen, Simon, "Dictionary Learning for Superresolution," Spring Semester 2010, Apr. 2010 - June 2010
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Christoph Studer, Graeme Pope
   
• Sturzenegger, Silvan, "Message Passing Algorithms for Compressed Sensing," Spring semester 2010, Mar. 2010 - June 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Kaufmann, Dinu, "Evaluation of RF Testbed Frontends," Spring Semester 2010, Mar. 2010 - June 2010
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Aubel, Céline, "Compressed Sensing Image Recovery Based on Statistical Models," Spring semester 2010, Mar. 2010 - June 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer, Dr. Patrick Kuppinger
   
• Schläpfer, Simon, "The Marriage of GPUs and Compressed Sensing," Autumn semester 2009, Nov. 2009 - Mar. 2010
  Supervisor(s): Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer, Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Thomas Laich, , "Matrix Completion," Fall semester 2009, Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi, Graeme Pope, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Bunte, Christoph, "Structured Measurements for Compressed Sensing," Fall semester 2009, Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi, Dr. Patrick Kuppinger, Graeme Pope
   
• Gautschi, Michi; Muaremi, Amir; Bunjaku, Petrit, "Reconstruction Algorithms for Compressed Sensing," Fall semester 2009, Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi, Dr. Patrick Kuppinger, Dr. Christoph Studer
   
• Gospodinov, Filip, "Embedded Linux OS for a Communication System," Fall Semester 2009, Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2009
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Sandro Belfanti, , "Capacity Bounds for Pilot-Assisted Schemes," Spring semester 2009, Apr. 2009 - June 2009
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Mehmann, Andreas, "Relaying Testbed Impairments," Spring Semester 2009, Mar. 2009 - June 2009
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Preyss, Nicholas, "RF-Transceiver for the MIMO-OFDM-Testbed," Spring semester 2009, Feb. 2009 - June 2009
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Müller, Andreas, "DAB Receiver," Spring semester 2008, Mar. 2008 - June 2008
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Bozyigit, Deniz, "Quantum Error Correction," Spring semester 2008, Feb. 2008 - June 2008
  Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei, Dr. Patrick Kuppinger
   
• Altorfer, Sebastian, "Bounds on the Capacity Region of a Noncoherent Multiple Access Channel," Fall semester 2007, Oct. 2007 - Jan. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Loeliger, Philippe, "Minimum Mean-Squared Error Channel Estimators for Pilot-Assisted Wireless Transmission," Fall semester 2007, Oct. 2007 - Jan. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Trifunovic, Sacha, "Flexible MIMO Testbed Demonstrator Implementation," Fall semester 2007, Oct. 2007 - Jan. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Müller, Marc, "Embedded Linux OS for a MIMO Communication System," Fall semester 2007, Sept. 2007 - Jan. 2008
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Bubenhofer, Andreas, "Multi-Channel MAC Packet-Flow Visualizer," Summer semester 2007, Apr. 2007 - July 2007
  Supervisor(s): Peter Lüthi, Michael Lerjen
   
• Kaplan, Salih, "Capacity of MIMO UWB Systems under Peak Constraints," Summer semester 2007, Apr. 2007 - July 2007
  Supervisor(s): Giuseppe Durisi, Dr. Ulrich Schuster
   
• Agbomemewa, Gino; Gendotti, Pietro, "Matrix Preprocessing for MIMO-OFDM on the SOL Processor," Summer semester 2007, Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Stefan Eberli, Dr. Davide Cescato
   
• Mächler, Patrick, "Space Time Block Code Testbed-Implementation," Summer semester 2007, Mar. 2007 - June 2007
  Supervisor(s): Markus Wenk, Michael Lerjen, Dr. Andreas Burg
   
• Dreher, Frederic, "Embedded MIMO System with Linux OS," Summer semester 2007, Mar. 2007 - June 2007
  Supervisor(s): Michael Lerjen
   
• Sonnenmoser, Jonas, "A Simulation Environment for Linear Time-Varying Channels," Winter semester 2006/2007, Nov. 2006 - Mar. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Venkatesan, Vinodh, "Level of Cooperation Required in a 2-Source 2-Destination Network to Achieve Full Multiplexing Gain," Winter semester 2006/2007, Nov. 2006 - Feb. 2007
  Supervisor(s): Jatin Thukral
   
• Bruderer, Lukas, "Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11n MIMO-OFDM WLAN Systems with Perfect Channel State Information," Winter semester 2006/2007, Oct. 2006 - Dec. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Dr. Daniel Baum
   
• Curcic, Srdjan, "Lower Bounds for Capacity Region of Two Transmit Antenna Broadcast Channel," Summer semester 2006, Apr. 2006 - Aug. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Jatin Thukral
   
• Nikiforov, Georgi, "Scattering Function Estimation from Dynamic UWB Channel Measurements," Summer semester 2006, Apr. 2006 - July 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Giuseppe Durisi
   
• Bänziger, Peter, "Comparison of Single-User and Multi-User Transmission in Frequency Selective Broadcast Channels with Partial CSIT," Summer semester 2006, Apr. 2006 - July 2006
  Supervisor(s): Jatin Thukral
   
• Böcherer, Georg, "Synchronization and Capacity in Ultrawideband Radio Systems," Summer semester 2006, Apr. 2006 - July 2006
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Markus Gärtner
   
• Baur, Rafael; Güttinger, Johannes, "Interpolation-Based QR Decomposition in MIMO-OFDM Systems," Winter semester 2005/06, Oct. 2005 - Feb. 2006
  Supervisor(s): Simon Haene, Dr. Davide Cescato
   
• Scheiner, David, "High-Performance IP-Connectivity for a MIMO-OFDM Communication System," Summer semester 2005, May 2005 - Aug. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is David Perels (IIS)
   
• Haid, Wolfgang, "MIMO-OFDM Frequency Offset Estimation," Summer semester 2005, Apr. 2005 - July 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisor is D. Perels
   
• Xu, Wenjie, "Hypothesis Rejection for Noncoherent CDMA Systems," Winter semester 2004/2005, Nov. 2004 - Feb. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Ateet Kapur
   
• Haid, Wolfgang; Ludwig, Stefan, "High-Performance NDIS Miniport Driver for a MIMO Communication System," Winter semester 2004/2005, Oct. 2004 - Feb. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is David Perels (IIS)
   
• Novak, Clemens, "Channel Tracking for MIMO-OFDM Systems," Winter semester 2004/2005, Oct. 2004 - Feb. 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Dr. Daniel Baum, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
  co-advisor is Simon Häne (IIS)
   
• Fang, Kun, "AGC for a MIMO-OFDM Testbed," Summer semester 2004, May 2004 - July 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum, Dr. Moritz Borgmann
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisor is D. Perels
   
• Studer, Christoph, "Design and Analysis of Space-Frequency Codes for Channels with Random Tap Delays," Summer semester 2004, Apr. 2004 - July 2004
  Supervisor(s): Markus Gärtner
   
• Maheshwari, Vaibhav, "Implementation of Pilot-Aided Channel Tracking in an OFDM Communication System," Winter semester 2003/2004, Dec. 2003 - Mar. 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum, Dr. Moritz Borgmann
  co-advisor is Andreas Burg (IIS)
   
• Fang, Kun, "Characterization of a Dual Superheterodyne RF Frontend for a 2.4 and 5.5 GHz OFDM System," Winter semester 2003/2004, Dec. 2003 - Mar. 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum
  co-advisor is D. Perels (IIS)
   
• Simon, Claude, "Performance Tradeoffs in the Implementation of the Sphere Decoding Algorithm for MIMO Wireless Communications," Winter semester 2003/2004, Nov. 2003 - May 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei
   
• Lombriser, Clemens; Spörri, Carl, "Viterbi Decoder for Wireless LAN," Winter semester 2003/2004, Oct. 2003 - Feb. 2004
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann
  co-advising with IIS, principal advisors are S. Häne and A. Burg
   
• Kühne, Thomas, "Impact of Fixed-Point Effects on the Performance of a Soft-Input Viterbi Decoder," Winter semester 2002/2003, Feb. 2003 - Mar. 2003
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Dr. Daniel Baum
   
• Müller, Peter, "Measurements of Wideband MIMO Wireless Channels in Indoor Environments," Winter semester 2002/2003, Jan. 2003 - Mar. 2003
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Daniel Baum, Dr. Jan C. Hansen
   
• Elias, Björn, "Frequency and Time Synchronization for IEEE 802.11a WLAN Systems," Summer semester 2002, Aug. 2002 - Sept. 2002
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann
   

Bachelor Theses

• Kuppinger, Patrick, "Design of Interpolation Filters for Efficient MIMO-OFDM Channel Inversion," Summer semester 2005, Mar. 2005 - July 2005
  Supervisor(s): Dr. Moritz Borgmann, Dr. Davide Cescato, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei