Recent Trends and Advances in Telecommunications and Sensing.

In the context of the 17th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL), which took place at Graz University of Technology, Austria, from the 11th until the 13th of July 2023, the chairs of the conference were approached by MDPI to organize a Special Issue as part of the journal (ISSN: 1424-8220) [...

Towards a Recommender System for In-Vehicle Antenna Placement in Harsh Propagation Environments.

This paper presents a novel approach to improving wireless communications in harsh propagation environments to achieve higher overall reliability and durability of wireless battery powered sensor systems in the context of in-vehicle communication. The goal is to investigate the physical layer and establish an antenna recommendation system for a specific harsh environment, i.e.

Megahertz repetition rate satellite laser ranging demonstration at Graz observatory.

Using ultra-high repetition rate lasers (≥100) is one of the most promising strategies for the next generation of satellite laser ranging (SLR) systems. We present successful 1 MHz repetition rate SLR to targets up to inclined geosynchronous orbits at nighttime. Among those, a maximum return rate of up to 53% was achieved, equivalent to 265 k returns per second for the satellite Swarm-B.