CommUnity: Disruptive Communication Paradigms for Technological Sovereignty, Resilience, and SharedProsperity
Shared prosperity for the many, not the few
Progress often feels like it’s happening behind closed doors, locked away in high-tech laboratories or concentrated within a few global corporations. However, true innovation only realizes its full potential when it reaches everyone.
Mobile communication set the precedent by becoming an infrastructure that made prosperity accessible on a massive scale. Today, artificial intelligence is at a crossroads where its benefits and control are often limited to a select few.
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CommUnity is about shared prosperity: translating technical innovation from the lab into real benefits for the general public.
Prof. Frank H. P. Fitzek
Head of the project
Our Vision
Our vision is to create communication systems that advance technological sovereignty, resilience, and shared prosperity.
We translate disruptive research into interoperable technologies and demonstrators for real-world use. We design secure and adaptable architectures that can respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.
In this way, we ensure that innovation delivers lasting value to industry, society, and Europe.
Excellence Through Collaboration
Real-World Labs
We design demonstrators that make complex paradigms verifiable in practice.
Technology Transfer
We bridge the gap between basic research and entrepreneurship.
Sovereignty
Our goal is to ensure Germany’s technological leadership in resilient and industrial communication.
Technology Ecosystem
CommUnity brings together the most cutting-edge areas of communication technology research into an innovative concept. The goal is to develop a flexible toolkit of interoperable technologies, architectures, and design principles that can be adapted to society’s evolving needs.
AI-powered 6G
Resilient and energy-efficient mobile communication becomes a reality with AI-powered 6G networks built for the future.
Molecular Communication
Molecular communication introduces innovative solutions that unlock entirely new application areas beyond traditional radio waves.
Quantum Communication
Quantum communication ensures maximum security and sovereignty in data transmission through advanced quantum technologies.
Why This Matters Now
The way we communicate in the future will determine how resilient our society and how cohesive our economy is:
» Securing Sovereignty
We need open, trustworthy, and independent systems.
» Boosting Competitiveness
To ensure that Germany remains a leading innovation hub, we must democratize access to advanced technology.
» AI as a Public Utility
We are integrating AI directly into the heart of our communication networks, turning it into an infrastructure for all.
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Through open test beds and demonstrators, we are building an ecosystem that connects basic research with industrial value creation, enabling long-term innovation.
Prof. Holger Boche
Head of the project
Team
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We design scalable and trustworthy quantum systems for communication, computing, and sensing to enable
secure data exchange, precise network time synchronisation, and efficient information processing, for building trusted network infrastructure for everyone.
Prof. Riccardo Bassoli
Assistant Professor
Publications
2026
Evaluating Encoding Strategies for Closed-Loop Classification in Biological Neural Networks Proceedings Article
In: 2026 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Incheon, South Korea, 2026, (accepted for publication).
Beaqon: Verifiable Randomness Beacon with Hardware Quantum Entropy on Constrained IoT Nodes Proceedings Article
In: 2026 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication & Information System Security, Macau, China, 2026.
Quantum Coopetitive Resilience (QCR): Spectral-Tail Game-Theoretic Resilience for 6G Quantum Non-Terrestrial Networks Proceedings Article
In: 2026 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Aerial Communications (IEEE Globecom 2026 SAC - AC), Macau, China, 2026.
Interface-Annotated Backend Descriptions for Resource-Aware Compilation of NV-Centre Spin Registers Proceedings Article
In: GI Quantum Computing Workshop 2026, Tagungsband der Informatik 2026, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 2026, (Accepted for publication).
Toward Quantum-Inspired Traffic Engineering: Mathematical Models for Minimal-Disturbance Network Monitoring Journal Article
In: Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2026, (Accepted for Publication).
Neural Network-Based Estimation of the Number of Injected Molecules in Branched Molecular Communication Systems Proceedings Article
In: European Wireless (EW), Rimini, Italy, 2026, (accepted for publication).