Homepage of Max Riegel

With passion for bringing knowledge, insights, and ideas to the people!

My Training Courses:

• datenheim Homeserver
  Build your own data server within a day
  Introductory slides (in German)

• 2026-01-31: FabLab Nürnberg
• 2025-06-28: FabLab Nürnberg
• 2025-04-06: FabLab Nürnberg
• 2025-02-08: FabLab Nürnberg
• 2024-10-12: FabLab Nürnberg
• 2024-06-15: FabLab Nürnberg

My Lectures:

• Wi-Fi / IEEE 802.11
  Wi-Fi introduction
  Total ~8 hrs
  Part 1: Standards & Spectrum
  Part 2: PHY
  Part 3: MAC
  Part 4: Security

• 2025-11: TH Ingolstadt; Ingolstadt
• 2024-10: TH Ingolstadt; Ingolstadt
• 2023-12: TH Ingolstadt; Ingolstadt
• 2022-11: TH Ingolstadt; Ingolstadt

• Wi-Fi / IEEE 802.11
  Wi-Fi in depth w/ exercises
  Total ~24 hrs
  Part 1: Standards & Spectrum
  Part 2: PHY
  Part 3: MAC
  Part 4: Security

• WS2025/2026: TU Chemnitz; online
• WS2024/2025: TU Chemnitz; online
• WS2023/2024: TU Chemnitz; online
• 2023-06/07: TU Chemnitz; online
• 2022-06/07: TU Chemnitz; online
• 2021-06/07: TU Chemnitz; online
• 2020-06/07: TU Chemnitz; online
• 2019-06/07: TU Chemnitz; Chemnitz
• 2018-06/07: TU Chemnitz; Chemnitz
• 2017-06/07: TU Chemnitz; Chemnitz
• 2016-06/07: TU Chemnitz; Chemnitz
• 2015-06/07: TU Chemnitz; Chemnitz

My Inventions:

• List of patent documents

My Books:

• Deploying Mobile WiMAX
  
   
• Chapter 'Ethernet Services in WiMAX Networks'
  of Wiley-IEEE Press Book:
  WiMAX Technology and Network Evolution

My RFCs:

• RFC5692
  Transmission of IP over Ethernet over IEEE 802.16 Networks
• RFC4197
  Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) Circuits over Packet Switching Networks
• RFC3017
  XML DTD for Roaming Access Phone Book

My I-Ds:

• List of co-authored I-Ds

My Presentations and Papers:

• Einführung in Android im Hinblick auf den Schutz persönlicher Daten (in German)
• 'LineageOS for microG' - ein OpenSource Android ohne Google (in German)
  2025-11-23, KNF Kongress 2025, Nürnberg
   
• Homeserver für Handy und Tablet (in German)
  2024-11-24, KNF Kongress 2024, Nürnberg
   
• Maximizing the impact of research through standardization - some thoughts
  2023-11-06, IEEE CSCN 2023 Panel 1: Maximizing the impact of research through standardization: SDOs' plans for the future, Munich
   
• USB - Eine babylonische Sprachentwirrung (in German)
  2022-11-20, KNF Kongress 2022, Nürnberg
   
• LiFi Standardization Status and Evolution
  2022-06-27, LiFi Conference, Eindhoven
   
• Standardization Status (LC, 5G & Beyond 5G)
  2022-02-11, PHOTOPTICS 2022 - LC workshop, online
   
• Wi-Fi 6 - WLAN Verbesserungen für mehr Durchsatz und Betriebssicherheit in kritischen Anwendungsfällen (in German)
  2021-11-21, KNF Kongress 2021, Nürnberg
   
• Time Sensitive Networking: TSN als Erweiterung zu Ethernet für IIoT? (Slides in English)
  2021-08-25, Experten-Roundtable: Next-Gen-Networks: Gezeitenwechsel?, Frankfurt
   
• Enhanced integration of LiFi with 5G core and services
  2021-06-24, LiFi Congress, Jakajima Events, online
   
• Deine Daten gehören (zu) Dir! (in German)
  2021-05-15, Erlanger Linuxtag 2021, online
   
• Hege und Pflege privater Informationen mit Nextcloud (in German)
  2020-11-22, KNF Kongress 2020, Nürnberg
   
• Datenschutz und Datensicherung
  auf dem Weg zu einer ganzheitlichen Lösung (in German)
  2019-11-24, KNF Kongress 2019, Nürnberg
   
• Advanced MAC layer aspects for LiFi
  Enabling LiFi for the Internet of Things
  2019-09-30, photonics Week, Eindhoven
   
• WPA2 war gestern
  WPA3, Enhanced Open, und andere WLAN Erweiterungen (in German)
  2018-11-25, KNF Kongress 2018, Nürnberg
   
• WLAN as a service for IoT
  Special lecture on IEEE 802.11 for IoT applications
  2018-06-13, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt
   
• WLAN as a Service for IoT applications
  Challenges of secure deployment of IoT devices
  2018-02-21, Next-Generation WLAN, Bitkom Akademie, Cologne
   
• Can Optical Wireless be converged with Home Networking technologies
  Contribution to workshop S1C
  2017-03-19, OFC 2017, Los Angeles, CA
   
• Existing IEEE 802.11 OAM Interface Specifications
  IEEE 802.11 as a component
  2015-09-15, IEEE 802 Wireless Interim Meeting, Bangkok
   
• IEEE 802.11 in 5G
  The relation of IEEE 802.11 to 5th Generation Mobile Networks
  2015-07-14, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Waikoloa, HI
   
• Anonymisierung von MAC Adressen
  Verschleierung der Benutzer-Identität im WLAN (in German)
  2014-11-23, KNF Kongress 2014, Nürnberg
   
• Short introduction into OmniRAN P802.1CF
  2014-07-16, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, San Diego, CA
   
• WLAN IEEE 802.11 evolution
  Increasing speed from 1 Mbps (1997) to nearly 10 000 Mbps (2013)
  2014-07-14, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz
   
• Brief Introduction into OmniRAN P802.1CF
  Network Reference Model and Functional Description of IEEE 802 Access Network
  December 2013, IEEE 802 OmniRAN EC Study Group
   
• WLAN IEEE 802.11 Evolution
  Von 1 Mbps (1997) auf weit über 1000 Mbps (2013) (in German)
  2013-11-24, KNF Kongress 2021, Nürnberg
   
• IEEE-SA Standardization Activities for Smart Grid
  in Communications & Networking
  2013-07-03, IEEE EUROCON 2013, Zagreb
   
• IEEE 802.11 Accounting Extensions
  Better information about the delivered service
  2013-05-15, IEEE 802 Wireless Interim Meeting, Waikoloa, HI
   
• IEEE 802 Tutorial:
  Heterogeneous Networking among the IEEE 802 Family
  Proposal for an OMNI Standard
  2012-07-17, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, San Diego, CA
   
• Opportunities of Cognitive Radio
  Technologies for Advanced Regulatory Regimes
  2012-06-28, SDR'12-WInnComm-Europe 2012, Brussels
   
• Heterogeneous Networking
  Setting the Scene
• WiMAX Networking Paradigms
  Base for heterogeneous networking in IEEE 802?
  2012-05-17, IEEE 802 Wireless Interim Meeting, Atlanta, GA
   
• DySPAN-SC Individual WG Membership Roles
  WG Membership Roles and Proposed Document Archive Structure
  2012-03-14, IEEE DySPAN SC Conference Call
   
• WLAN im öffentlichen Raum
  Was Hotspot 2.0 bringt. (in German)
  2011-11-20, KNF Kongress 2011, Nürnberg
   
• WiMAX Tutorial
  'Deploying Mobile WiMAX' presented in an afternoon.
  2010-12-07, Mobile WiMAX Tutorial, EPO, Munich
   
• OS X für Umsteiger
  Workshop für Windows-Nutzer, die Mac OS X in Betracht ziehen (in German)
  2010-09-25, KNF Workshop, Nürnberg
   
• Series Editorial: Topics and Updates of 4G Technologies
• Table of Content of IEEE Communication Magazine, August 2010
  August 2010, IEEE Communication Magazine
   
• Die Genesis des Internet
  Wie es vor 40 Jahren begann. (in German)
• The Server for the rest of us
  Beitrag zur KNF Jam Session (in German)
  2009-11-22, KNF Kongress 2009, Nürnberg
   
• Interpretation of the WiMAX Standards
  What are the mandatory fields for Interoperability?
  What Features do Operators want to incorporate?
• Network Working Group Progress Report
  WiMAX Forum Network Specification Releases
  2009-06-03, WiMAX Forum Congress '09, Amsterdam
   
• Virtualisierung auf Mac OS X
  Parallels und Fusion für Fortgeschrittene (in German)
• Apple Airport auf Full-Speed bringen
  Beitrag zur KNF Jam Session (in German)
  2008-11-30, KNF Kongress 2008, Nürnberg
   
• ETHERNET SERVICES OVER MOBILE WIMAX
  Table of Content of IEEE Communication Magazine, October 2008
  October 2008, IEEE Communications Magazine
   
• Fixed Mobile Convergence for the Internet Age
  Interworking between Mobile WiMAX and DSL Networks
  2008-09-08, FMC Panel, Broadband Forum, Stockholm
   
• Beyond Mobile WiMAX Rel 1.0
  Current and upcoming topics in WiMAX Standardization
  2008-05-09, LTE/WiMAX Workshop, ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.1, Jena
   
• Langzeitarchivierung und Datensicherung
  Anforderungen, Techniken, Lösungsansätze (in German)
  2007-11-25, KNF Kongress 2021, Nürnberg
   
• Mobile WiMAX Introduction
  2007-10-16, ECC PT2 - TRIS, Sophia Antipolis
   
• Wide Area Wireless Ethernet
  Providing Ethernet based services over Mobile WiMAX
  2007-09-13, NGMAST2007, BWA2007 Workshop, Cardiff
   
• IP over Ethernet over 802.16
  draft-ietf-16ng-ip-over-ethernet-over-802.16-02
  2007-07-23, IETF-69, 16ng WG, Chicago
   
• WiMAX Networking Implications for IETF 16ng
  Introduction into the Mobile WiMAX Network Architecture
• IP over ETH over IEEE 802.16
  draft-ietf-16ng-ip-over-ethernet-over-802.16-01
  2007-03-22, IETF-68, 16ng WG, Prague
   
• Mobile WiMAX,
  die Zukunft des Mobilfunks? (in German)
  2006-11-26, KNF Kongress 2006, Nürnberg
   
• IP over ETH over IEEE 802.16
  draft-riegel-16ng-ip-over-eth-over-80216-01
  2006-11-07, IETF-67, 16ng WG, San Diego
   
• Key technologies for mobile relays in WiBro (Mobile WiMAX)
  2006-10-23, WiBro Developer Forum, Seoul
   
• Mobile WiMAX Network Architecture
  2006-09-25, 20^th Meeting of VDE/ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.4, Ulm
   
• Relationship of 16ng to IEEE 802.16 & WiMAX
• IEEE 802.16 fixed/nomadic IP deployment
• Transmission of IP Packets over Ethernet over IEEE 802.16
  draft-riegel-16ng-ip-over-eth-over-80216-00
  2006-07-11, IETF-66, 16ng WG, Montreal
   
• WiMAX Overview
  Generic introduction and IPv6 particularities
  2006-06-28, European IPv6 Task Force, Paris
   
• Mobile WiMAX
  Scope and Essentials of Mobile WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e
  2006-03-16, AG Funk, Ebermannstadt
   
• WiMAX Network Architecture
  Introduction into the mobile WiMAX architecture (4 MByte)
  2005-12-02, Uni Göttingen, Göttingen
   
• WLAN Neuerungen
  WPA, WMM, WDS und noch einiges mehr (in German)
  2005-11-20, KNF Kongress 2005, Nürnberg
   
• An Introduction to IEEE 802.16(e)
• IEEE 802.16 Convergence Sublayer
  2005-11-08, IETF-64, 16ng-BOF, Vancouver
   
• WiMAX
  Die Technik für drahtlose Breitbandzugänge (in German)
  2004-11-21, KNF Kongress 2004, Nürnberg
   
• WiMAX
  Technology Status & Standards Progress
  2004-09-20, BBWF,Venice
   
• Selling network access
  Views from a business perspective
  2004-07-13, IEEE802 Plenary, Portland
   
• Ethernet & Wireless LAN are going mobile
  Wireless Mobility in IEEE 802
  2004-01-27, Siemens, Munich
   
• Verbesserte WLAN Sicherheit mit WPA, EAP und 802.11i (in German)
  2003-11-23, KNF Kongress 2003, Nürnberg
   
• Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of TDM Circuits over Packet Switching Networks
  draft-ietf-pwe3-tdm-requirements-00.txt
  2003-03-19, IETF-56, PWE3 WG, San Francisco
   
• Die Standardisierung für herstellerübergreifende Sicherheitslösungen in WLAN Hotspots (in German)
  2002-12-03, WLAN Hotspot Konferenz, Berlin
   
• Zugangskontrolle zum Ethernet mittels IEEE 802.1X
  Portbasierte Benutzerauthentisierung im Ethernet auf der Basis von EAP (in German)
  2002-11-24, KNF Kongress 2002, Nürnberg
   
• Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 Tutorial
  2002-10-18, Siemens, Munich
   
• Mobile SCTP - Transport Layer Mobility for the Internet (Presentation)
• Mobile SCTP - Transport Layer Mobility for the Internet (Paper)
  2002-10-10, SOFTcom 2002, Split, Venedig, Ancona, Dubrownik
   
• Latest developments in WLAN Standardization
• Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Standardisierung für drahtlose lokale Netzwerke (Paper in German)
  2002-10-01, Informatik 2002, Dortmund
   
• Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of TDM Circuits over Packet Switching Networks
  draft-riegel-pwe3-tdm-requirements-00.txt
  2002-07-15, IETF-54, PWE3 WG, Yokohama
   
• Internet Access by GSM & GPRS
  At the end of the wired universe...
• Ein Internet-Zugang kommt selten allein
  Was bessere ISPs so bieten... (in German)
  2001-11-25, KNF Kongress 2001, Nürnberg
   
• Wireless LAN Standardization
  2001-11-19, MICON, Rostock
   
• Wireless LAN Standardization
  2001-09-06, Wireless LAN & Bluetooth, Köln
   
• Access Control for Wireless LANs
• Behind all theories: Real-world network configuration
  2001-06-07, iNET2001, Stockholm
   
• IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
  The broadband wireless Internet
• Internet Security
  Putting together the building blocks...
  2000-11-26, KNF Kongress 2000, Nürnberg
   
• XML - die zukünftige Sprache des WWW? (in German)
  1999-11-21, KNF Kongress 1999, Nürnberg
   
• Internet - ein Netz stellt sich vor (in German)
  1995 - 2000, Bildungszentrum Nürnberg, Nürnberg