Dr. Christian Mehlführer

Strategic management consulting with focus on projects in the Technology, Media & Telecom practice area.

Consultant in the Network Practice Group / Communication, Media and Technology; 80% in Italy; 20% in Austria, Switzerland, Germany; Tasks: 1) High Level Design of software solutions in close cooperation with clients and programmers 2) Project management support 3) Organization and management of workshops 4) Support of project proposals, RfIs, PoV in fields of telecommunications software and multimedia

Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Communications and Radio Frequency Engineering. Focus on WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA, LTE.

Managing a group of five PhD students. Project achievements: (i) Developed LTE link and system level simulators, which have been downloaded more than 6000 times by users in both academia and industry. (ii) A multitude of scientific publications about various research topics in the context of LTE. (iii) The success of the project initiated several follow-up projects with industrial partners. http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/ltesimulator

Researcher at the Institute of Communications and Radio Frequency Engineering. Working in several projects with industry partners (Infineon Technologies AG, KATHREIN-Werke KG, A1 Telekom Austria AG, Austrian Institute of Technology) on WLAN, WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA, and LTE. Special emphasis was put on receiver design and measurements. The contributions in this project resulted in the PhD thesis.

Part-time employed at Siemens AG Austria with focus on integration tests of GSM carrier units as well as digital hardware development.

Development of an interface between the ftw HSDPA simulator and the Vienna MIMO testbed.

PhD thesis entitled "Measurement-based Performance Evaluation of WiMAX and HSDPA", [Online]: http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_181154.pdf

Master thesis entitled "Implementation and Real-Time Testing of Space-Time Block Codes", [Online]: http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-et_8438.pdf