M. Sc. Sven Müelich

Research

Research Interests

Physical Unclonable Functions
Code-based Cryptology

Publications

Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, Veniamin Stukalov, Martin Bossert
A Channel Model and Soft-Decision Helper Data Algorithms for ROPUFs
12th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Rostock, Germany, February 2019
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert
Constructing an LDPC Code Containing a Given Vector
Sixteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorical Coding Theory, Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad region), Russia, September 2018
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert
Using Convolutional Codes for Key Extraction in SRAM Physical Unclonable Functions
Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (TRUDEVICE), Dresden, Germany, March 2018
Sven Müelich and Martin Bossert
Applying Convolutional Codes to Key Extraction using Ring Oscillator PUFs
8th International Workshop on Optimal Codes and Related Topics (OCRT), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2017
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert
On the Success Probability of Decoding (Partial) Unit Memory Codes
8th International Workshop on Optimal Codes and Related Topics (OCRT), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2017
Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Antonia Wachter-Zeh and Martin Bossert
Timing Attack Resilient Decoding Algorithms for Physical Unclonable Functions 11th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Hamburg, February 2017 PDF
Sven Müelich, Martin Bossert
A New Error Correction Scheme for Physical Unclonable Functions
11th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Hamburg, Germany, February 2017 PDF
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, David Mödinger and Martin Bossert
An Alternative Decoding Method for Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, July 2016 PDF
Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, David Mödinger, Johan S. R. Nielsen and Martin Bossert
Decoding Interleaved Gabidulin Codes using Alekhnovich's Algorithm
15th International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory (ACCT), Albena, Bulgaria, June 2016 PDF
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, Martin Bossert
Low-Rank Matrix Recovery using Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero
15th International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory (ACCT), Albena, Bulgaria, June 2016 PDF
Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Karim Ishak and Martin Bossert
Code-Based Cryptosystems Using Generalized Concatenated Codes
Accepted at: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, special issue devoted to the conference Application of Computer Algebra (ACA), Kalamata, Greece, July 2015 PDF
Karim Ishak, Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert
Code-Based Cryptosystems Using Generalized Concatenated Codes
Computer Algebra in Coding Theory and Cryptography (CACTC), Kalamata, Greece, July 2015 Abstract
Matthias Hiller, Ludwig Kürzinger, Georg Sigl, Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger and Martin Bossert
Low-Area Reed Decoding in a Generalized Concatenated Code Construction for PUFs
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, Montpellier, France, July 2015
Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Martin Bossert, Matthias Hiller, Georg Sigl
On Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions
10th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Hamburg, Germany, February 2015 PDF
Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, Martin Bossert, Matthias Hiller, Georg Sigl
Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions Using Generalized Concatenated Codes
Fourteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorical Coding Theory, Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad region), Russia, September 2014 PDF
Oliver Gableske, Sven Müelich and Daniel Diepold
On the Performance of CDCL-based Message Passing Inspired Decimation Using rho-sigma-PMPi
Pragmatics of SAT, Helsinki, Finland, July 2013

Teaching

Applied Information Theory

Teaching assistance, SoSe 2015

Channel Coding

Teaching assistance, WiSe 2017/2018

Communications Engineering Seminar

WiSe 2019/2020
- Organization and Lecture
SoSe 2019
- Organization and Lecture
SoSe 2018
- Farouk Elkanawati, Security Aspects in Wireless Communications
WiSe 2017/2018
- Yonatan Marin, Capacity of Wireless Channels (Co-supervised with Michael Schelling)
SoSe 2017
- Pranav Kashyap, Device Authentication using Physical Unclonable Functions
- Sushmita Raj, Impact of Silicon Aging on the Behavior of Physical Unclonable Functions
WiSe 2016/2017
- Liming Fan, Key Generation and Storage Using Physical Unclonable Functions
SoSe 2016
- Joyce Njoroge, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

Compressed Sensing

Teaching assistance, SoSe 2019
Teaching assistance, SoSe 2018
Teaching assistance, SoSe 2017
Teaching assistance, SoSe 2016

Einführung in die Nachrichtentechnik

Teaching assistance, WiSe 2019/2020
Teaching assistance, WiSe 2016/2017
Teaching assistance, WiSe 2015/2016

Embedded Security

Teaching assistance, WiSe2019/2020
Teaching assistance, WiSe 2018/2019
Teaching assistance, WiSe 2017/2018
Teaching assistance, WiSe 2016/2017

Signale und Systeme

Teaching assistance, WiSe 2014/2015

Kryptographie (Vortrag für Schüler)

SoSe 2019
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
WiSe2018/19
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Institutsführung Nachrichtentechnik
WiSe 2017/18
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
- Leopoldina: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
WiSe 2016/17
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
WiSe 2015/16
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm

MSc/BSc Topics

Open Topics

PUF Error Correction using Convolutional Codes on an FPGA (Bachelor's Thesis, Co-supervised with Holger Mandry, more information)
PUF Error Correction using Reed-Solomon Codes in a Concatenated Code
Construction on an FPGA (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Holger Mandry, more information)

Running

Completed

2019
- Musab Ahmed Eltayeb Ahmed, Implementation of Gabidulin Codes in Sage (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Cornelia Ott)
- Yonatan Marin, Variants of Message-Passing Decoding for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with George Yammine)
2018
- Sebastian Bitzer, Physical Unclonable Functions based on DRAM (Bachelor's Thesis, Co-supervised with Chirag Sudarshan (TU Kaiserslautern) and Sven Puchinger (TU Munich))
- Sushmita Raj, Variants of Message-Passing Decoding for LDPC Codes in Noncoherent Massive MIMO (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with George Yammine)
2017
- Jhoiss Baloi, Helper Data Methods for Error Correction in Physical Unclonable Functions (Bachelor's Thesis)
- Liming Fan, Using Sequential Decoding for Key Regeneration in Physical Unclonable Functions (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Sven Puchinger)
- Veniamin Stukalov, Error Models in Physical Unclonable Functions (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Sven Puchinger)
- Rebekka Schulz, Code-Based Cryptology Using Moderate Density Parity Check Codes (Bachelor's Thesis)
- Alexander Tsaregorodtsev, Designing Concatenated BCH Codes for Application in Physical Unclonable Functions (Bachelor's Thesis, Co-supervised with Michael Schelling)
2016
- Yonatan Marin, Partial Unit Memory Codes based on Reed-Solomon Codes for Streaming (Bachelor's Thesis, Co-supervised with Sven Puchinger)
2015
- David Mödinger, Decoding of Gabidulin Codes Using Module Minimization (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Sven Puchinger)
- Karim Ishak, Analysis of Cryptographic Methods based on Coding Theory (Master's Thesis, Co-supervised with Sven Puchinger)

Presentations

Channel Coding for Physical Unclonable Functions
ITG Fachgruppe Angewandte Informationstheorie, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, March 2019
A Channel Model and Soft-Decision Helper Data Algorithms for ROPUFs
12th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (Poster Presentation), Rostock, Germany, February 2019
Channel Coding for Physical Unclonable Functions
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, October 2018
Constructing an LDPC Code Containing a Given Vector
Sixteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorical Coding Theory, Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad region), Russia, September 2018
Using Convolutional Codes for Key Extraction in SRAM Physical Unclonable Functions
Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (TRUDEVICE), Dresden, Germany, March 2018
Applying Convolutional Codes to Key Extraction using Ring Oscillator PUFs
8th International Workshop on Optimal Codes and Related Topics (OCRT), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2017
On the Success Probability of Decoding (Partial) Unit Memory Codes
8th International Workshop on Optimal Codes and Related Topics (OCRT), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2017
Generalized Plotkin Construction with Application to Physical Unclonable Functions
Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications (Poster Presentation with Michael Schelling), Munich, Germany, July 2017

Using Convolutional Codes for Key Extraction in Physical Unclonable Functions
Fraunhofer AISEC, Garching bei München, Germany, May 2017

A New Error Correction Scheme for Physical Unclonable Functions and Security Considerations
Fraunhofer AISEC, Garching bei München, Germany, May 2017

Introduction to Physical Unclonable Functions
Lehrstuhl EMS, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2017

Error Correction Schemes for Physical Unclonable Functions
Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, TU München, München, Germany, March 2017

An New Error Correction Scheme for Physical Unclonable Functions [Slides]
11th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Hamburg, Germany, February 2017
Timing Attack Resilient Decoding Algorithms for Physical Unclonable Functions
11th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (Poster Presentation with Sven Puchinger), Hamburg, Germany, February 2017

An Alternative Decoding Method for Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero [Slides]
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, July 2016

Low-Rank Matrix Recovery: The Matrix-Analogue of Compressed Sensing [Slides]
Workshop "Compressive Sensing basierte Kryptographie", Ulm University, Ulm, July 2016

Low-Rank Matrix Recovery using Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero [Slides]
Fifteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorical Coding Theory, Albena, Bulgaria, June 2016
Rank Metric in Coding Theory [Slides]
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, September 2015
On Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions
European School of Information Theory (Poster Presentation), Zandvoort, The Netherlands, April 2015
On Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions
10th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (Poster Presentation with Sven Puchinger), Hamburg, Germany, February 2015

On Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions [Abstract, Slides]
Séminaire de Cryptographie, Université de Rennes1, Rennes, France, December 2014

Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions Using Generalized Concatenated Codes [Slides]
ITG Fachgruppe Angewandte Informationstheorie, TU München, Munich, Germany, October 2014

Error Correction for Physical Unclonable Functions Using Generalized Concatenated Codes [Slides]
Fourteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorical Coding Theory, Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad region), Russia, September 2014