FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

There are times in traffic situations when cyclists are difficult to detect even for the most advanced vehicle sensors - for example, when they are obscured for a few seconds by a stopping bus. In the project Reallabor Hamburg Fraunhofer FOKUS used its Eclipse MOSAIC simulation framework to demonstrate that uninterrupted object detection can be achieved by fusing LIDAR data from multiple automated cars, thus providing even better protection for particularly vulnerable road users in the future.

In the Fraunhofer Lighthouse project 6G SENTINEL five Fraunhofer institutes are bundling their know how to develop key radio and core network technologies for 6G. The project has published its first whitepaper containing new perspectives on 6G use cases, a high-level classification of challenges and requirements as well as first steps towards an end-to-end 6G architecture.

In the “Virtual LiVe” project, the three Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS, HHI and IIS are working with the creative industry and companies from the event sector. Together, they realized their first experimental laboratory concert within the framework of the project. On December 11 2021, the highly anticipated event took place at different locations simultaneously, showcasing the benefits of the implementation of immersive media technology into classic event formats.

The new guide, “A Fuzz Testing Introduction with CC-specific Guidance” of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), produced by Fraunhofer FOKUS on behalf of the BSI, deals with fuzz testing, also called fuzzing. Fuzzing follows a negative testing approach that aims at detecting implementation errors of software with effects on robustness and security.

At the International Semantic Web Conference 2021 (ISWC-2021), the paper “A Native and Adaptive Approach for Unified Processing of Linked Streams and Linked Data” achieved 2nd place for the “SWSA Ten-Year Award” with an honourable mention. Authors include FOKUS Institute director and TU Berlin professor Manfred Hauswirth and FOKUS / TU Berlin researcher Dr Danh Le-Phuoc.

What has remained of the great blockchain hype? In their new publication, the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, takes stock.