Current Projects

EIFFEL - Future Internet
The EIFFEL think tank organises regular meetings among Internet researchers and practitioners to debate crucial issues around the Future Internet. Outcomes of the think tank have usually the form of whitepapers, summarising the activities and discussions. The whitepapers are dissemination, e.g., via publications in journals. EIFFEL also maintains the community wiki site FIPedia. My current role includes bootstrapping the overall structure within EIFFEL and technically leading the activities.

PSIRP - Large-scale Publish-Subscribe
This project aims at investigating the role of publish-subscribe on internetworking layer, eventually with the aim of (partially) replacing IP on this layer in the Internet. The project started January 2008 and will run until September 2010. The project will finish with an initial multi-site test bed of the currently developed technologies - this test bed will serve as a basis for continuation efforts that are currently established. My involvement is largely in the overall architecture, the evaluation as well as dissemination of the results. I am acting as the Technical Manager of the project.

PAL - Personal Assisted Living
Since July 2007, PAL has been developing a platform for lifestyle management that is centred around information being the main entity. A plethora of user-centric information is recorded, ranging from sensed information (e.g., pulse rate, ECG) over phone-based information (e.g., location, Bluetooth devices around) to logical information (e.g., calendar info, email), in order to capture a picture of the user's activities along a formulated storyline. The provisioning system is based on an information-centric middleware that resides either on top of standard IP or on top of a system built in the PSIRP project, i.e., an information-centric substrate. I'm technically leading the team, involving researchers from Cambridge University and Essex University.

Communications Futures Program
I am also involved with MIT’s Communications Futures Program research consortium since my times with Nokia and BT Research. Within CFP, I'm involved in several working groups, such as the Value Chain Dynamics WG and the Privacy and Security WG together with Karen Sollins from MIT CSAIL.

Some Past Nokia Projects

New Operator Environments
Intends to identify, conceptualize and field trial potentially disruptive future communication offerings and the role of novel and existing operators. My role is to lead the workpackage on Novel Communication Offerings. For this, we explore new ways of delivering content over multiple access types with a user-dependent choice of access, i.e., dynamic end-user peering is key. Also, connectivity and service overlay networks are a focus in this work as well as new ways of adapting QoS to end user behaviour.

NORS
Development of an open source mobile-centric wireless sensing platform to run on any Java-enabled device (MIDP). The software was released as open source in November 2006 and is available here. Furthermore, the project efforts established collaborations with leading universities in the space of wireless sensing, with a focus on participatory sensing efforts.

Communications Futures Program
Drives Nokia’s involvement in MIT’s Communications Futures Program research consortium. My role is to organize the Nokia participation in CFP's activities and the Nokia-internal exploitation of CFP's results.

Past University Projects

During my time as a researcher with the Department of Computer Science 4 at the University of Technology, Aachen Germany, I was working on different projects, either funded by a company or the State Government. These projects were as follows:

In-Home Digital Networks (IHDN)
The focus of the project IHDN was the usage of the FireWire technology (better known as IEEE 1394-1995 standard) in in-home digital networks to connect audio and video equipment. The main work was done in the area of evaluation of the base technology. The project was funded by the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen, Germany.

Multiparty Multipoint Communication Service
The topic of this project was on the evaluation of the ITU-T T.122 standard using an implementation obtained from an SDL to C translation of the standard. The project was funded by the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen, Germany.

High Speed Networks : High Performance Protocols
The work in the joint project Fast Networks was focussed on the development and implementation of protocols for the usage in ATM. The project was funded by the State Government of North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany.

	EIFFEL - Future Internet The EIFFEL think tank organises regular meetings among Internet researchers and practitioners to debate crucial issues around the Future Internet. Outcomes of the think tank have usually the form of whitepapers, summarising the activities and discussions. The whitepapers are dissemination, e.g., via publications in journals. EIFFEL also maintains the community wiki site FIPedia. My current role includes bootstrapping the overall structure within EIFFEL and technically leading the activities.
	PSIRP - Large-scale Publish-Subscribe This project aims at investigating the role of publish-subscribe on internetworking layer, eventually with the aim of (partially) replacing IP on this layer in the Internet. The project started January 2008 and will run until September 2010. The project will finish with an initial multi-site test bed of the currently developed technologies - this test bed will serve as a basis for continuation efforts that are currently established. My involvement is largely in the overall architecture, the evaluation as well as dissemination of the results. I am acting as the Technical Manager of the project.
	PAL - Personal Assisted Living Since July 2007, PAL has been developing a platform for lifestyle management that is centred around information being the main entity. A plethora of user-centric information is recorded, ranging from sensed information (e.g., pulse rate, ECG) over phone-based information (e.g., location, Bluetooth devices around) to logical information (e.g., calendar info, email), in order to capture a picture of the user's activities along a formulated storyline. The provisioning system is based on an information-centric middleware that resides either on top of standard IP or on top of a system built in the PSIRP project, i.e., an information-centric substrate. I'm technically leading the team, involving researchers from Cambridge University and Essex University.
	Communications Futures Program I am also involved with MIT’s Communications Futures Program research consortium since my times with Nokia and BT Research. Within CFP, I'm involved in several working groups, such as the Value Chain Dynamics WG and the Privacy and Security WG together with Karen Sollins from MIT CSAIL.

	New Operator Environments Intends to identify, conceptualize and field trial potentially disruptive future communication offerings and the role of novel and existing operators. My role is to lead the workpackage on Novel Communication Offerings. For this, we explore new ways of delivering content over multiple access types with a user-dependent choice of access, i.e., dynamic end-user peering is key. Also, connectivity and service overlay networks are a focus in this work as well as new ways of adapting QoS to end user behaviour.
	NORS Development of an open source mobile-centric wireless sensing platform to run on any Java-enabled device (MIDP). The software was released as open source in November 2006 and is available here. Furthermore, the project efforts established collaborations with leading universities in the space of wireless sensing, with a focus on participatory sensing efforts.
	Communications Futures Program Drives Nokia’s involvement in MIT’s Communications Futures Program research consortium. My role is to organize the Nokia participation in CFP's activities and the Nokia-internal exploitation of CFP's results.

	In-Home Digital Networks (IHDN) The focus of the project IHDN was the usage of the FireWire technology (better known as IEEE 1394-1995 standard) in in-home digital networks to connect audio and video equipment. The main work was done in the area of evaluation of the base technology. The project was funded by the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen, Germany.
	Multiparty Multipoint Communication Service The topic of this project was on the evaluation of the ITU-T T.122 standard using an implementation obtained from an SDL to C translation of the standard. The project was funded by the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen, Germany.
	High Speed Networks : High Performance Protocols The work in the joint project Fast Networks was focussed on the development and implementation of protocols for the usage in ATM. The project was funded by the State Government of North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany.