Philipp H. Kindt
Research Interests
- Wireless Communication and Wireless Networks (Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, ANT/ANT+, Neighbor Discovery Protocols, Broadcasting Technology, Wifi)
- Low Power Embedded Systems
- Microprocessors
- Digital Imaging
- Internet of Things, Wearables, Medical Electronics, CPS
Recent Publications
-> Philipp H. Kindt's publications on Google Scholar
- Philipp H. Kindt, Marco Saur, Michael Balszun and Samarjit Chakraborty.
Neighbor Discovery Latency in BLE-Like Protocols.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 617-631, 2018. - Daniel Yunge, Sangyoung Park, Philipp H. Kindt, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Dynamic Alternation of Huffman Codebooks for Sensor Data Compression.
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), to appear - Nils Heitmann, Philipp H. Kindt, Thomas Rosner, Kapil Sikka, Amit Chirom, Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Sound4All: Towards Affordable Large-Scale Hearing Screening.
International Conference on Design &Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), 2017 - Philipp H. Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Gerhard Reinerth, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Griassdi: Mutually Assisted Slotless Neighbor Discovery.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2017 (Acceptance Rate: 18%) - Philipp H. Kindt, Nils Heitmann, Gerhard Reinerth, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Demo: Understanding Slotless Neighbor Discovery.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2017 - Daniel Yunge, Sangyoung Park, Philipp H. Kindt, Samarjit Chakraborty-
Dynamic Service Synthesis and Switching for Medical IoT and Ambient Assisted Living.
IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), 2016 - Philipp H. Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Andreas Tobola, Georg Fischer, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Dynamic Service Switching for the Medical Internet of Things.
Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2016 - Philipp H. Kindt, Marco Saur, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Slotless Protocols for Fast and Energy-Efficient Neighbor Discovery.
in submission - Nils Heitmann, Philipp H. Kindt, Samarjit Chakraborty.
EG0N: Portable In-Situ Energy Measurementfor Low-Power Sensor Devices.
to appear at IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT), 2016 - Philipp H. Kindt, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Neighbor discovery latency in BLE-like duty-cycled protocols.
in submission - Daniel Yunge, Philipp H. Kindt, Michael Balszun, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Hybrid Apps: Apps for the Internet of Things.
IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), 2015 - Alma Pröbstl, Philipp H. Kindt, Emanuel Regnath, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Smart^2: Smart charging for smart phones.
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2015 - Philipp H. Kindt, Jing Han, Nadja Peters, Samarjit Chakraborty.
ExPerio - Exploiting Periodicity for Opportunistic Energy-Efficient Data Transmission.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015 (Acceptance Rate: 19%) - Philipp H. Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Mathias Gopp, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Adaptive Online Power-Management for Bluetooth Low Energy.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015 (Acceptance Rate: 19%) - Philipp H. Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Robert Dimer, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Precise Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol.
technical report, 2014 - Alejandro Masrur, Philipp H. Kindt, Martin Becker, Samarjit Chakraborty, Veit Kleeberger, Martin Barke, Ulf Schlichtmann.
Schedulability Analysis for Processors with Aging-Aware Autonomic Frequency Scaling.
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2012 - Florian Rattei; Philipp H. Kindt, Alma Pröbstl, Samarjit Chakraborty.
Shadow-based Vehicle Model Refinement and Tracking in Advanced Automotive Driver Assistance Systems.
IEEE/ACM Symposium on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), 2011
Invited Talks
"Saving Power in Wireless Personal Area Networks", The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 27. April 2015
"Slotless Neighbor Discovery Protocols", Columbia University, New York, 24. April 2017
Teaching
- Microprocessor Systems Lab (Lead)
- Low-Power Systems Design (Contributing)
- Real-Time and Embedded Systems (Contributing)
- Advanced Seminar Real-Time Computer Systems (Contributing)
Supervised Student Research Projects / DA / BA / MA
- Ladislas Loughin: Interference Issues in Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication Networks, November 2017, in collaboration with Airbus Hamburg
- Saud Ahmed: Programming IOT Devices with Flow Charts. Master's Thesis, June 2017, in collaboration with Dr. Alejandro Ramirez, Siemens Corporate Technology - Wireless Networks
- Andrea Beretta: Slotless Neighbor Discovery Protocol for Bluetooth Low Energy. Bachelor's Thesis, April 2017
- David Seegerer: Agent-Based Demand Side Management System Including a Mobile Application for User Interaction. Master's Thesis carried out at Siemens, March 2017
- Klaus Werth: Energy-efficent acitivty-recognition by low-power signal processing, Bachelors Thesis, October 2016, together with Nils Heitmann
- Marco Saur: Slotless Wireless Neighbor Discovery Protocols, Master's Thesis, August 2016
- David Ginthör: Energy-Optimized Opportunistic Communication in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks, Bachelor's Thesis, April 2016
- Marco Saur: Development of Custom BLE stacks,
Research Internship, November 2015 - Jonathan Klimt: Power efficient design of online fall detection Algorithms
Bachelor's Thesis, July 2015 - David Seegerer: Load management via multi agent system in JAVA, Research Internship conducted at Siemens, May 2015
- Matthias Pritschet: Concept and realization of a flexibly configurable firmware for potentiostat-based measurements of biochemical parameters. Bachelor's Thesis, in collaboration with Dr. Robert Diemer (Deep Innovation GmbH), April 2015
- Christoph Körner: Entwicklung einer Android-basierten Applikation zur drahtlosen Echtzeitübertragung von On-Board-Diagnose - Parametern, Research Internship, in collaboration with Dr. Robert Diemer (Deep Innovation GmbH), April 2015
- Gautham Nayak Seetanadi: Micro-architectural Techniques for Power Management, Master's Thesis, in collaboration with W. Ecker, Infineon Technologies, March 2015
- Michael Gnädig: Development of a Wireless Sensor Device and Data
Evaluation with Learning Algorithms, Master's Thesis, March 2015 - Gerhard Reinerth: Detektion von Handtremor in Beschleunigungsdaten, Bachelor's Thesis, March 2015
- Faiza Waheed: Power Optimized Embedded CPUs, Master's Thesis, in collaboration with W. Ecker, Infineon Technologies, November 2014
- Shrestha Mridul: September 2014, Master's Thesis (in collaboration with BMW research)
- Jochen Vogl: Simulating Collision of Bluetooth Low Energy Link Layer Packets
Master's Thesis, June 2014 - Nils Heitmann: Localization Algorithms for Bluetooth Low Energy
Master's Thesis, May 2014 - Jing Han: Exploiting periodic motion in wireless sensor networks
Master's Thesis, April 2014 - Benedikt Backs: Power Aware Generation of an embedded CPU
Master's Thesis, April 2014, in collaboration with W. Ecker, Infineon Technologies - Kilian Zinnecker: Positioning Algorithms for High Frequency Signals
Bachelor's Thesis, March 2014 - Nadja Peters: How much Real-Time is enough:
Comparison and Quantification of two Real-Time Operating Systems
Master's Thesis, Oct 2013, in collaboration with Siemens Corporate Research - Mathias Gopp: Serial Cable Replacement via Bluetooth Low Energy
Bachelor's Thesis, Jul. 2013 - Lukas Heim: SW-Development for an ECG Framework
Engineering Practice, March 2013 - Kee Leek Heng: Vision-Based Ball Sorting System
Bachelor's Thesis, Jan. 2013
Thesis Reviewer at other institutions
- Su Roi, University of Queensland, 2015.
Professional Activities
Technical Program Commitees
Philipp H. Kindt is a TPC member of the IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC) in 2017.
Paper Reviewing
Philipp H. Kindt reviewed publications in multiple conferences/journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Networking (TON), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM), the IEEE Design & Test Magazine, the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS).
Software Projects

BLEeMod - Energy modelling library for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol
National and International Research Projects
Current Projects:
- DFG CH 918/5-1: Slotless Protocols for Fast and Energy Efficient Neighbor Discovery
- BMBF-funded project FuturTrans
Past Projects: