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Karl-Ludwig Besser

Assistant Professor

Karl-Ludwig Besser is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Communication Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.

He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany in 2018 and his PhD in January 2022 from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. From March 2023 to December 2024, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, NJ, USA. Since January 2025, he is working at Linköping University.

Research Interests

His research interests include ultra-reliable communications, resilience of communication systems, copulas, physical layer security, and the application of machine learning in communications.

More information can be found on his personal webpage and on Google Scholar.

Publications

2026

Irshad A. Meer, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Mustafa Ozger, Dominic A. Schupke, H. Vincent Poor, Cicek Cavdar (2026) Hierarchical Multi-Agent DRL-Based Dynamic Cluster Reconfiguration for UAV Mobility Management IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Vol. 12, p. 4957-4971 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCCN.2025.3646157

2025

Bile Peng, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Shanpu Shen, Finn Siegismund-Poschmann, Ramprasad Raghunath, Daniel M. Mittleman, Vahid Jamali, Eduard A. Jorswieck (2025) RIS-Assisted NOMA with Partial CSI and Mutual Coupling: A Machine Learning Approach Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, p. 4927-4933 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432350
Athin Mohan, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Christian Deppe, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor (2025) Analysis of Superdense Coding Based Communication Systems with an Entanglement Budget Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, p. 435-440 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431683
Karl-Ludwig Besser, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor (2025) Building Resilience in Wireless Communication Systems With a Secret-Key Budget IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 73, p. 12473-12486 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2025.3577649
Pin-Hsun Lin, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Eduard A. Jorswieck (2025) Sustainability and Scalability of Physical Layer Security in Next-Generation Networks 25th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125294

Irshad A. Meer, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Mustafa Ozger, Dominic A. Schupke, H. Vincent Poor, Cicek Cavdar,  Hierarchical Multi-Agent DRL-Based Dynamic Cluster Reconfiguration for UAV Mobility Management, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 12:4957-4971 (2026)  https://doi.org/10.1109/TCCN.2025.3646157  https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16167

Karl-Ludwig Besser, Eduard A. Jorswieck, Justin P. Coon, H. Vincent Poor,  Frequency Assignment for Guaranteed QoS in Two-Ray Models with Limited Location Information, 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 292-298, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Linköping, Sweden (2025)  https://doi.org/10.23919/WiOpt66569.2025.11123355

Karl-Ludwig Besser, On the Distribution of a Two-Dimensional Random Walk with Restricted Angles (2025)  https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15475

Karl-Ludwig Besser, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor,  Building Resilience in Wireless Communication Systems With a Secret-Key Budget, IEEE Transactions on Communications 73:12473-12486 (2025)  https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2025.3577649  https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11604

Athin Mohan, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Christian Deppe, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor,  Analysis of Superdense Coding Based Communication Systems with an Entanglement Budget, Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp. 435-440, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2025)  https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431683