Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten

Organizational unit Intelligent Networks

Contact +49 631 20575 3000 (Kaiserslautern)

https://eit.rptu.de/fgs/wicon/mitarbeiter/lehrstuhlinhaber/prof-dr-ing-hans-d-schotten

Address (Kaiserslautern) Trippstadter Straße 122D-67663 Kaiserslautern

Publications

Wei Jiang; Qiuheng Zhou; Jiguang He; Mohammad Asif Habibi; Sergiy Melnyk; Mohammed El-Absi; Bin Han; Marco Di Renzo; Hans Dieter Schotten; Fa-Long Luo; Tarek S. El-Bawab; Markku Juntti; Merouane Debbah; Victor C. M. Leung

In: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 26, Pages 1-56, IEEE Xplore, 12/2024.

Wei Jiang; Hans Dieter Schotten

In: IEEE Global Communications Conference. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom-2024), South Africa, IEEE, 12/2024.

Julius Raphael Stegmann; Michael Gundall; Hans Dieter Schotten

In: 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops. IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops (Globeccom Wkshps-2024), located at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, December 8-12, IEEE, 12/2024.

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Profile

Short Biography

Prof. Hans Schotten is the coordinator of the 6G Platform, the umbrella organization of the German 6G programme. He also heads one of the German 6G research hubs, the "Open6GHub".

Prof. Schotten has been Professor of Radio Communication and Navigation at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and Scientific Director and Head of the Intelligent Networks research department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI since 2007.

He is a member of the Council for Technological Sovereignty of the BMBF. From 2018 - 2013 he was Chairman of the "Informationstechnische Gesellschaft" in the VDE and a member of the VDE Executive Committee. He was and is a member and chairman of the scientific advisory board of various research institutes, is vice chairman of the Flexible Factory Partner Alliance FFPA, Japan and co-founder of the industry association 5G-ACIA.

Before joining the University of Kaiserslautern, Prof. Schotten worked for many years in industry at Ericsson and Qualcomm, most recently as Director of Technical Standards and Research Coordinator for Europe.

1984 – 1990 Study of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
1990 – 1999 Research Assistant at the Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Lüke) at the RWTH Aachen University
1997 PhD as Doctor of Engineering
1999 – 2003 Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Nürnberg. Senior Researcher, Ericsson Corporate Research
2003 – 2007 Qualcomm CDMA Technologies GmbH, Nürnberg. Research Coordinator, Qualcomm Europe, and Director, Technical Standards
2007 – today Professor of Radio Communication and Navigation, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
2012 – today Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and Head of the “Intelligent Networks” Research Department
2013 – 2014 Dean, Departement of Electrical Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern
2016 – 2023 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IHP - Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
2018 – 2023 Chairman of the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) and member of the executive board of the Verband der Elektrotechnik (VDE)
2018 – today Vice-Chairperson, Flexible Factory Partner Alliance, Japan
2021 – 2023 Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IHP - Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
2021 – today Member of the Council for Technological Sovereignty of the BMBF

Advisor and Expert to several international companies, the German Federal Court and the International Chamber of Commerce

Main areas of expertise

Mobile communications, in particular, 5G design
Industrial communication solutions and wireless automation
Security in industry 4.0
Communication solutions for automotive and railway

ALPAKA
Agile Lösungen für Produktionsautomaten mittels Kommunikationsabsicherung
The aim of the project "Agile solutions for automated production machines using communication security" (ALPAKA) is to lay important technical foundations for secure communication in distributed…
InterOpera AAS
InterOpera - Teilmodelle der Asset Administration Shell
Das Hauptziel des Auftrages ist die Arbeit eines sogenannten Methodenberaters für die methodische Leitung eines Projekts zur Entwicklung von Teilmodellen der Asset Administration Shell.
Bei …
6G-Health
Holistische Entwicklung leistungsfähiger 6G-Vernetzung für verteilte medizintechnische Systeme
Research and development in the field of 6G, one of the key technologies for applications and infrastructure in the healthcare sector in the coming decade, is the focus of the 6G Health project.…
6G-NeXt
6G Native Extensions for XR (extended reality) Technologies
Future services and applications, especially in the area of multimedia, will generate an unprecedented amount of data for industry, media and private users, which must be transmitted at a speed and…
6G-Terafactory
Open-RAN basiertes Campusnetz für industrielle Echtzeitanwendungen
The 6G-Terafactory project explores innovative 6G campus network technologies in practical field deployment. Building on an open RAN approach and using state-of-the-art software practices, a blueprint…