Supported by: DFG-Project, 2012–2015

The main goal of the proposed research is to investigate adversarial models for the physical layer and to explore the limits of designing provably robust medium access control (MAC) protocols for them. Finding suitable models that on one hand allow the rigorous design and analysis of protocols and on the other hand are useful in practice is a major challenge that has received significant attention in the research community. We will investigate models for wireless communication that promise to cover a wide range of physical layer phenomena and that are yet simple enough so that they are useful in theory.