Rafael Schaefer

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Rafael F. Schaefer
Professor

University of Siegen
Chair of Communications Engineering and Security
Hölderlinstr. 3
57068 Siegen, Germany

http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/rafaelfs/
rafael.schaefer@uni-siegen.de

About me

I am a full professor at University of Siegen heading the Chair of Communications Engineering and Security. Before joining University of Siegen, I was a Juniorprofessor at Technische Universität Berlin heading the Information Theory and Applications Group and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in the group of Prof. H. Vincent Poor. In 2012, I received the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München under the supervision of Prof. Holger Boche.

I am an IEEE Senior member. In 2016, I received the best paper award (Preis der ITG) of the Information Technology Society of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE-ITG). In 2013, I received the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize for my work on physical layer security. I am one of the Exemplary Reviewers 2013 for the IEEE Communication Letters. My research interests are in the area of information theory and communication theory; in particular topics related to physical layer security, cyber-physical systems, and wireless communications.

News

I have open positions and look for motivated PhD students and Postdocs to join my group! Please contact me via email if you are interested!

  • News are heavily outdated and will be updated soon!

Recent Papers

  • New paper at IEEE 16th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC ’15), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015:

    • A. S. Mansour, R. F. Schaefer, and H. Boche, ‘‘The Individual Secrecy Capacity of the Gaussian SISO and Degraded Gaussian MIMO Multi-Receiver Wiretap Channel’’

  • New papers at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT ’15), Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 2015:

    • R. F. Schaefer, A. Khisti, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘How to Use Independent Secret Keys for Secure Broadcasting of Common Messages’’

    • R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of ‘‘Good’’ and ‘‘Bad’’ Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel’’

  • New paper at IEEE International Conference on Communications: Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security (ICC - WPLS ’15), London, UK, June 2015:

    • R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages’’

  • New papers at IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW ’15), Jerusalem, Israel, April 2015:

    • R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of Optimal Codes for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel’’

    • A. Grigorescu, H. Boche, R. F. Schaefer, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Capacity Region Continuity of the Compound Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages’’

  • New papers at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ’15), London, UK, June 2015:

    • H. Boche, R. F. Schaefer, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘On the Continuity of the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Under Channel Uncertainty’’

    • A. S. Mansour, R. F. Schaefer, and H. Boche, ‘‘The Individual Secrecy Capacity of Degraded Multi-Receiver Wiretap Broadcast Channels’’

    • P. L. Cao, T. J. Oechtering, R. F. Schaefer, and M. Skoglund, ‘‘Optimal Transmission Rate for MISO Channels with Joint Sum and Per-Antenna Power Constraints’’

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