Institute of Communications Engineering

Dr. rer. nat. 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
    • Larry Njoku, Private Information Retrieval
  • 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)

  • WiSe2019/20
    • Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
  • 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

      Presentations

      • Channel Models for Physical Unclonable Functions based on DRAM Retention Measurements

        XVI International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems, Moscow, Russia, October 2019

      • Channel Coding for Hardware Intrinsic Security
        PhD Seminar, Lehrstuhl für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, TU München, Munich, Germany, July 2019
         
      • 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, Munich, 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

      Senior Researcher