Author: Christian Bettstetter

Lakeside Labs acquires COMET center on autonomic resilience in dynamic networked systems

June 12, 2026
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

Our proposal “Autonomic resilience in dynamic networked systems” (for short: ARC), led and hosted by Lakeside Labs, has been approved for funding to become one of Austria’s COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies, fostering collaboration between academic and industry partners. The center will develop innovative methods and technologies to strengthen the resilience of networked systems facing crises and external shocks. It focuses on resilience functionality that enables systems to operate…

Mini workshop on networked systems

October 2, 2018
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Session A: Drone networks (09:00 to 10:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Samira Hayat: Experimental evaluation of wireless communications for drones Aymen Fakhreddine: Cellular-connected drone systems: State-of-the-art and research issues Raheeb Muzaffar: Live multicast video streaming from drones Session B: Industrial, robot, and post-disaster networks (11:00 – 12:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Jorge Schmidt: UWB sensor networks Agata Gniewek: Swarmalatorbots — Robots that sync and…

Intelligent boarding to ski lifts

November 15, 2017
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

A novel boarding solution for cabin-based transport systems — e.g., ski lifts, cable cars, subways — is being discussed in industry and has already been implemented in the Austrian skiing resort Bad Gastein: In order to avoid long queues at succeeding boarding stations, a display in the boarding area tells the guests how many of them are allowed to enter the next cabin. This form of access control guarantees spare…

A year in the life of Lakeside Labs

January 3, 2017
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

By Christian Bettstetter, Scientific Director Did you observe that lately more and more tech products and business processes have features of self-organization? Almost every major car maker has been testing self-driving vehicles and is now introducing them to the market. The industry is crazy about “industry 4.0”—which promises self-organizing production with humans, machines, and products collaborating to make decentralized decisions. These are just two examples for the ongoing trend toward…

UWB sensor networks in airplanes

April 27, 2016
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

Modern airplanes are equipped with hundreds of embedded sensors and actuators necessary for structural health monitoring, aircraft control, and passenger and crew assistance. These devices are typically interconnected by wires. Using wireless connections instead of wires improves flexibility of installations and reduces the airplane’s weight. Researchers from Airbus Group Innovations have been working on this topic for several years. An ongoing joint project with the University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside…

Austrian robotics workshop

June 4, 2015
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

About 80 researchers from industry and academia met at the Austrian Robotics Workshop in Klagenfurt on May 7 and 8, 2015, giving talks and demonstrations on recent developments in robotics and autonomous systems. Among them, various Lakeside Labs scientists presented their research in unmanned aerial vehicle systems, namely on wireless communications, collision avoidance, path planning, and video streaming. Two highlights were keynote talks given by invited experts: Sabine Hauert from…

Achieving consensus in networks with disturbances

March 17, 2015
Posted by Christian Bettstetter

The problem of finding a consensus in a group of people occurs in many social contexts. In a similar way, distributed algorithms for consensus play an important role in networked computing and communication systems if centralized decision making is difficult or impossible. Each entity in such a system processes only local information obtained from its neighbors and ideally performs only simple computations. Despite this simplicity, the process of consensus building…