Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Frank H. P. Fitzek, IEEE Fellow, holds the Deutsche Telekom Chair for Communication Networks at the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) and leads a research team of more than 100 scientists. His research focuses on cutting-edge topics such as 5G/6G communication systems, quantum and molecular communication, novel computing approaches, human-machine interaction, and information theory.
Prof. Fitzek coordinates two large interdisciplinary research projects: the Cluster of Excellence “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) and the BMBF-funded initiative “6G-life”, a cooperation between TU Dresden and TU Munich. In addition, he co-leads the joint Saxon-Bavarian research initiative “gAIn”, which explores innovative computer architectures for artificial intelligence.
His team works closely with leading academic institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aalborg University (AAU), Technische Universität München (TUM), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), NorthEastern University, and EURECOM. Industry partnerships include Deutsche Telekom AG and Ericsson.
Prof. Fitzek’s pioneering work in MIMO MDC earned him the YRP Award in 2005 and the Danish Young Elite Researcher Award. For his innovative contributions to cooperative networks, he received the NOKIA Champion Award from 2007 to 2011 and the Nokia Achievement Award in 2008. In 2011, he received the prestigious SAPERE AUDE research grant, followed by the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2012. In 2015, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by BUTE.
Prof. Fitzek has co-founded several successful startups in the fields of communications, computing, robotics, AI, human-machine interaction, and quantum technologies.
Academic Appointments
TU Dresden, Germany
10/2014 – present
Professor, Area Chair – Communication Networks
5G Lab Germany Coordinator 5Glab.de
Aalborg University, Denmark
12/2003 – 09/2014
Professor, Electronic Systems
Head of Mobile Devices and Future Vision Group
University of Ferrara, Italy
2002–2003
Adjunct Professor, Wireless Networking,
Group of Professor Michele Zorzi
Visiting Appointments
MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2009,2010
Visiting Professor Wireless and Cooperative Networks,
Group of Professor Muriel Medard
VTT Research Center Oulu, Finland
2007
Visiting Professor, Cognitve and Cooperative Wireless Networks
Group of Dr. Marcos Katz
ASU – Arizona State University, USA
2000,2002
Visiting student, Multimedia Networking
Group of Martin Reisslein
Education
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1997–2002
supervisor Professor Adam Wolisz
Degree: Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering
RWTH Aachen, Germany
1992–1997
supervisor Professor Bernhard Walke
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering
Ghaderi, Sakineh; Menina, Abdelkrim; Röscher, Leon; Lezama, Talía L. M.; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Scheduling Under Stochastic Control Drift in a Room-Temperature NV-Center Quantum Processor Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE26), IEEE Quantum Week 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2026.
@inproceedings{Ghad2609:Scheduling,
title = {Scheduling Under Stochastic Control Drift in a Room-Temperature NV-Center Quantum Processor},
author = {Sakineh Ghaderi and Abdelkrim Menina and Leon Röscher and Talía L. M. Lezama and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-09-13},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE26), IEEE Quantum Week 2026},
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Un, Volkan; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
A Hybrid Spiking Neural Network for Event-Based Continuous Robot Control Proceedings Article
In: 2026 IEEE 39th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) (SOCC 2026), pp. 5.85, Heidelberg, Germany, 2026.
@inproceedings{Un2609:Hybrid,
title = {A Hybrid Spiking Neural Network for Event-Based Continuous Robot Control},
author = {Volkan Un and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-09-01},
booktitle = {2026 IEEE 39th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) (SOCC 2026)},
pages = {5.85},
address = {Heidelberg, Germany},
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Bondarenko, Volodymyr; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Player-Driven QA in Heterogeneous Game Environments: An Empirical Study of Feedback Systems Proceedings Article
In: 2026 International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia, Networking, and Security (IMNS) (IMNS'26), pp. 5.92, Atlanta, USA, 2026.
@inproceedings{Bond2608:Player,
title = {Player-Driven QA in Heterogeneous Game Environments: An Empirical Study
of Feedback Systems},
author = {Volodymyr Bondarenko and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-08-01},
booktitle = {2026 International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia, Networking, and
Security (IMNS) (IMNS'26)},
pages = {5.92},
address = {Atlanta, USA},
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Senk, Stefan; Schulte, Jan Conrad; Scheinert, Tobias; Nazari, Hosein Kangavar; Liu, How-Hang; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Towards an Integrated 5G-TSN Architecture with 5G Non-Cellular DECT NR+ Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026), Hawaii, USA, 2026.
@inproceedings{senk2026dectnr,
title = {Towards an Integrated 5G-TSN Architecture with 5G Non-Cellular DECT NR+},
author = {Stefan Senk and Jan Conrad Schulte and Tobias Scheinert and Hosein Kangavar Nazari and How-Hang Liu and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-07-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026)},
address = {Hawaii, USA},
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Rani, Fatima; Saha, Soham; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
SAGE: Agentic Governance for Energy-Aware, High-Performance LLMOps Proceedings Article
In: IEEE 9th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI), 2026, (accepted for publication).
@inproceedings{Rani2026sage,
title = {SAGE: Agentic Governance for Energy-Aware,
High-Performance LLMOps},
author = {Fatima Rani and Soham Saha and Pit Hofmann and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-07-01},
booktitle = {IEEE 9th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI)},
note = {accepted for publication},
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Bondarenko, Volodymyr; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Predicting Early Sales of PC Games Using Steam Wishlists and User Ratings Proceedings Article
In: 2026 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets) (SmartNets 2026), pp. 6, Rome, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Bond2607:Predicting,
title = {Predicting Early Sales of PC Games Using Steam Wishlists and User Ratings},
author = {Volodymyr Bondarenko and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-07-01},
booktitle = {2026 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and
Networking (SmartNets) (SmartNets 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rome, Italy},
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Duong, Binh V.; Attawna, Mahdi; Doan, Tung V.; Ma, Mingyu; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
Intelligence Where It Matters in Open RAN Proceedings Article
In: 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2026), Berlin, Germany, 2026.
@inproceedings{Duong2026:Intelligence,
title = {Intelligence Where It Matters in Open RAN},
author = {Binh V. Duong and Mahdi Attawna and Tung V. Doan and Mingyu Ma and Frank H. P. Fitzek and Giang T. Nguyen},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-29},
booktitle = {12th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2026)},
address = {Berlin, Germany},
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Duong, Binh V.; Doan, Tung V.; Attawna, Mahdi; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
xChain: Multi-stage Traffic Analysis and Classification in O-RAN Proceedings Article
In: 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2026), Berlin, Germany, 2026.
@inproceedings{Duong2026:xChain,
title = {xChain: Multi-stage Traffic Analysis and Classification in O-RAN},
author = {Binh V. Duong and Tung V. Doan and Mahdi Attawna and Frank H. P. Fitzek and Giang T. Nguyen},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-29},
urldate = {2026-06-29},
booktitle = {12th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2026)},
address = {Berlin, Germany},
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Habeeb, Razan; Haider, Syed Irtaza; Shen, Shiwei; Radeke, Rico; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Facility-Level EV Hosting Capacity under Headroom Constraints: A Smart Charging Approach Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM 2026), Naples, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Habeeb2026:GPECOM,
title = {Facility-Level EV Hosting Capacity under Headroom Constraints: A Smart Charging Approach},
author = {Razan Habeeb and Syed Irtaza Haider and Shiwei Shen and Rico Radeke and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {IEEE Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM 2026)},
address = {Naples, Italy},
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pubstate = {accepted},
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Ali, Sheikh Usman; Mahajan, Shubham; Cabrera, Juan A.; Hofmann, Pit; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Quantitative Analysis of Energy Consumption for Identification Codes on Embedded Devices Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), 2026, (accepted for publication).
@inproceedings{Usman2026quantitative,
title = {Quantitative Analysis of Energy Consumption for Identification Codes on Embedded Devices},
author = {Sheikh Usman Ali and Shubham Mahajan and Juan A. Cabrera and Pit Hofmann and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless (EW)},
note = {accepted for publication},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Mahajan, Shubham; Ali, Sheikh Usman; Cabrera, Juan A.; Hofmann, Pit; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Metric-Driven Reliability and Error Performance Evaluation of K-Identification Systems Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), 2026, (accepted for publication).
@inproceedings{Mahajan2026metric,
title = {Metric-Driven Reliability and Error Performance Evaluation of K-Identification Systems},
author = {Shubham Mahajan and Sheikh Usman Ali and Juan A. Cabrera and Pit Hofmann and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless (EW)},
note = {accepted for publication},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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Rani, Fatima; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
From Sensor to Decision: Building an Energy-Aware, AI-driven IoT Data Pipeline Using a Three-Tier Architecture Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), 2026, (accepted for publication).
@inproceedings{Rani2026from,
title = {From Sensor to Decision: Building an Energy-Aware, AI-driven IoT Data Pipeline Using a Three-Tier Architecture},
author = {Fatima Rani and Pit Hofmann and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless (EW)},
note = {accepted for publication},
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pubstate = {published},
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Kappelt, Peter; Hofe, Nico; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Hofer, Johannes; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Network-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Reconstruction of Spatial Digital Twins for Tactile Internet Environments Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026), pp. 6, Rimini, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Kapp2606:Network,
title = {Network-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Reconstruction of Spatial Digital Twins
for Tactile Internet Environments},
author = {Peter Kappelt and Nico Hofe and Christian Leonard Vielhaus and Johannes Hofer and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rimini, Italy},
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pubstate = {published},
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Sørensen, Karl-Johan; Hofe, Nico; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Towards Autonomous Bricklaying Using Boston Dynamics Spot Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2026), International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), Singapore, 2026, (Accepted for publication).
@inproceedings{2026MARA,
title = {Towards Autonomous Bricklaying Using Boston Dynamics Spot},
author = {Karl-Johan Sørensen and Nico Hofe and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2026)},
publisher = {International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)},
address = {Singapore},
note = {Accepted for publication},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Raman, Vignesh; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Mathematical Tools for Quantifying Resilience in Quantum Communication Networks for 6G Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026), pp. 6, Rimini, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Rama2606:Mathematical,
title = {Mathematical Tools for Quantifying Resilience in Quantum Communication
Networks for 6G},
author = {Vignesh Raman and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rimini, Italy},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Ghaderi, Sakineh; Lezama, Talía L. M.; Arar, Bassem; Habibie, Muhammad Idham; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Restricted Energy Accounting of Delivered Entanglement in NV-Center Repeater Chains: Exact Single-Hop Dynamics and Reduced-Order Multi-Hop Scaling Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026), pp. 6, Rimini, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Ghad2606:Restricted,
title = {Restricted Energy Accounting of Delivered Entanglement in NV-Center
Repeater Chains: Exact Single-Hop Dynamics and Reduced-Order
Multi-Hop Scaling},
author = {Sakineh Ghaderi and Talía L. M. Lezama and Bassem Arar and Muhammad Idham Habibie and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rimini, Italy},
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pubstate = {published},
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Xu, Zhihan; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Reducing τ -Selection Uncertainty in Graph Coloring-Based Functional Compression Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026), pp. 6, Rimini, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Xu2606:Reducing,
title = {Reducing τ -Selection Uncertainty in Graph Coloring-Based Functional
Compression},
author = {Zhihan Xu and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rimini, Italy},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Röscher, Leon; Lezama, Talía L. M.; Cimino, Luca; Hofe, Jonah; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Two-Qubit Implementation of QAOA for MAX-CUT on an NV-Center Quantum Processor Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026), pp. 6, Rimini, Italy, 2026.
@inproceedings{Rosc2606:Two,
title = {Two-Qubit Implementation of QAOA for MAX-CUT on an NV-Center
Quantum Processor},
author = {Leon Röscher and Talía L. M. Lezama and Luca Cimino and Jonah Hofe and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},
pages = {6},
address = {Rimini, Italy},
abstract = {We report a proof-of-principle implementation of the quantum approximate
optimization algorithm (QAOA) for the smallest nontrivial MAX-CUT instance
on an NV-center-based quantum processor operating at room temperature. The
two-qubit register is encoded in the electron spin and the
(^14mathrmN) nuclear spin of a single NV(^-) center. Using a
minimization formulation of MAX-CUT, we implement a single-layer QAOA
ansatz with native entangling and single-qubit control operations. Because
the optical readout of the NV(^-) center is not projective in the
computational basis, we reconstruct computational-basis populations from
averaged fluorescence signals and use them to determine the experimental
QAOA cost landscape by scanning the variational parameters. These results
show that the core elements of QAOA can be realized on this platform and
establish a baseline for future improvements in phase tracking,
coherence-preserving control, and scaling to larger problem sizes.},
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Xu, Zhihan; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Function-Aligned Nonuniform Quantization Graph Coloring for Distributed Functional Compression Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication Theory (ICC - CT), pp. 5.9, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2026.
@inproceedings{Xu0526:Function,
title = {Function-Aligned Nonuniform Quantization Graph Coloring for Distributed Functional Compression},
author = {Zhihan Xu and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-05-24},
urldate = {2026-05-24},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication Theory (ICC - CT)},
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address = {Glasgow, United Kingdom},
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Zheng, Ruifeng; Zhou, Pengjie; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
System Modeling of Microfluidic Molecular Communication: A Markov Approach Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2026.
@inproceedings{Zheng0526:System,
title = {System Modeling of Microfluidic Molecular Communication: A Markov Approach},
author = {Ruifeng Zheng and Pengjie Zhou and Pit Hofmann and Juan A. Cabrera and Frank H. P. Fitzek},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-05-24},
urldate = {2026-05-01},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
address = {Glasgow, United Kingdom},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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