Poul Einar Heegaard
Background and activities
Education
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Master's Degree (Siv.ing.) in 1989 from Division of Computer Systems and Telematics, NTH (now NTNU) while working as a Teaching assistant (1988-1989). Thesis title: “Transient dependability properties in distributed systems”.
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PhD degree (Dr.ing.) in 1998 from Department of Telematics, NTNU while working as Research Scholar (1994-1998). Thesis title:"Efficient simulation of network performance by importance sampling".
Experience
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Professor at Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), NTNU (2017-current)
- Head of Networking Research Group @ IIK (2019-2021)
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Head of Department, Department of Telematics, NTNU (2009-2013)
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Professor at Department of Telematics (ITEM), NTNU (2010-2017)
- Head of NTNU QUAM-lab (2015-2019)
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Research Scientist (1989-1999) and Senior Research Scientist from 1999 at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics
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Associate Professor at Department of Telematics, NTNU, in adjunct position (20%) in 1999-2003, reduced position (50%) in 2003-2006), and full time position since 2006. Coordinator of Network Research area 2006-2009.
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Research Scientist (1999-2001) and Senior Scientist (2001-2009) at Telenor Research and Development
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Visiting researcher (March, 2007) hosted by Dr. Sandmann at University of Bamberg, Germany
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Visiting researcher (Sept 2007-July 2008) hosted by Prof. Trivedi at Duke University, Durham, NC
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Visiting researcher Lucent Technologies Bell Labs (Aug 2016), hosted by Dr Veena Mendiratta
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Visiting professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2016), hosted by Ravishankar K. Iyer
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Visiting professor University of Zagreb FER (Apr 2015, Aug 2016), hosted by Ass.Prof. Lea Skorin-Kapov.
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Visiting professor Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Sept 2016), hosted by Ass.Prof. Gergely Biczók
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Visiting professor TU München (Oct - Dec 2016), hosted by Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer
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Visiting professor Ghent University (Jan - Jun 2016), hosted by Prof. Piet Demeester
Courses
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TTM4110 Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation (textbook [EHHP16]) [subject responsible]
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TM8105 Advanced Simulations Methodologies, PhD course started autumn 2004 [subject responsible together with Prof Helvik]
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TTM4120 Dependable Systems. [subject responsible when Prof Helvik was on sabbatical leave 2005]
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TTM9 Traffic and dependability, Laboratory in tools and methodology [in course development, now subject responsible Prof Helvik]
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TTM4185: Security and Robustness in ICT system
[EHHP16] Peder J. Emstad, Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik, Laurent Paquereau. Dependability and performance with discrete event simulation. : Tapir akademiske forlag 2016. 278 s. NTNU
Research interests
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QoS evaluation and management in communication systems and services
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rare event simulation techniques
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survivability quantification
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monitoring, routing and management in dynamic networks
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distributed, autonomous and adaptive management and routing
My webpage at Department of Telematics contains more details about me, see here.
Courses
- TTM4502 - Communication Technology, Specialization Project
- TM8105 - Advanced Discrete Event Simulation Methodology
- TTM4110 - Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation
- TTM4905 - Communication Technology, Master's Thesis
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) A network design algorithm for multicast communication architectures in smart transmission grids. Electric power systems research. vol. 187.
- (2020) Reliability analysis of cyber‐physical microgrids: Study of grid‐connected microgrids with communication‐based control systems. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. vol. 15 (4).
- (2020) Deriving QoE in systems: from fundamental relationships to a QoE-based Service-level Quality Index. Quality and User Experience.
- (2020) Resilience of communication networks to random failures and disasters: An optimization perspective. Networks. vol. 75 (4).
- (2019) An IP Multicast Framework for Routable Sample Value Communication in Transmission Grids. Journal of Communications. vol. 14 (9).
- (2019) On System QoE: Merging the system and the QoE perspectives. SIGMM Records. vol. 11 (2).
- (2019) 5G Network Slicing as an Enabler for Smart Distribution Grid Operations. CIRED Conference Proceedings.
- (2019) Modeling of Aggregated IoT Traffic and Its Application to an IoT Cloud. Proceedings of the IEEE. vol. 107 (4).
- (2019) Highlights from RNDM 2018 – 10th Anniversary Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling. IEEE Communications Magazine.
- (2018) An Experimental Platform for QoE Studies of WebRTC-based Multi-Party Video Communication. International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA).
- (2018) Dependability of the NFV Orchestrator: State of the Art and Research Challenges. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. vol. 20 (4).
- (2018) A new QoE fairness index for QoE management. Quality and User Experience.
- (2018) QoE Analysis of the Setup of Different Internet Services for FIFO Server Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 10740 LNCS.
- (2018) Evaluating Local Disaster Recovery Strategies. Performance Evaluation Review. vol. 46 (2).
- (2018) Assessing the Maturity of SDN Controllers with Software Reliability Growth Models. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. vol. 15 (3).
- (2018) Non-Markovian Survivability Assessment Model for Infrastructure Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems. vol. 2018-August.
- (2017) Manufactured by software: SDN-enabled multi-operator composite services with the 5G Exchange. IEEE Communications Magazine. vol. 55 (4).
- (2017) Simulation of the response time distribution of fault-tolerant multi-tier cloud services. Journal of Simulation. vol. 11 (4).
- (2017) Definition of QoE Fairness in Shared Systems. IEEE Communications Letters. vol. 21 (1).
- (2017) Including Failure Correlation in Availability Modeling of a Software-Defined Backbone Network. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. vol. 14 (4).