Thomas Magedanz

Head NGNI at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS

Speaker

Thomas Magedanz (PhD) has been professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks since 2004. In addition, since 2003 he has been Director of the Business Unit Software-based Networks (NGNI) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin.

For more than 35 years Prof. Magedanz has been a globally recognized ICT expert, working in the convergence field of telecommunications, Internet and information technologies, understanding both the technology domains and the international market demands. He is an open networking pioneer and the creator of many open technology testbeds and related software toolkits such as the Fraunhofer 5G Playground which is based on the Open5GCore software toolkit. Since 2022, he is coordinating the German national flagship project CampusOS, which aims to build up an ecosystem for open industrial campus networks.

His current research is targeting the 5G evolution to 6G, including Core-RAN integration (including Open RAN integration), Satellite/Non-terrestrial Networks and 5G/6G integration, as well as AI/ML based 5G/6G network control and management. In this context he is acting as principal investigator in the German BMBF Open6GHub and BMBF 6G-RIC flagship projects, investigating in new organic 6G networking concepts, which have resulted in the development of the first 6G core network prototype.

Since 2023 he also leading a new international Open Research Infrastructures and Toolkits for 6G initiative, which should enable 5G and 6G researchers around the globe to build an open 6G for all.