Poul E. Heegaard

Head of Department, Professor
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Office: B-217
☎ Phone: +47 73 59 43 21
☎ Cell: +47 992 86 858
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Short bio

  • 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”.
  • Research Scientist (1989-1999) and Senior Research Scientist from 1999 at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • Research Scientist (1999-2001) and Senior Scientist (2001-2009) at Telenor Research and Development
  • Visiting researcher (March, 2007) hosted by Dr. Sandmann at University of Bamberg, Germany
  • Visiting researcher (Sept 2007-July 2008) hosted by Prof. Trivedi at Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Head of Department, Department of Telematics, NTNU (2009-current)
  • Professor at Department of Telematics, NTNU (2010-current)

Courses

  • TTM4110 Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation (textbook [EHHP07]) [subject responsible]
  • TM8105 Advanced Simulations Methodologies, PhD course started autumn 2004 [subject responsible together with Prof Helvik]
  • TTM4120 Dependable Systems. [subject responsible when Prof Helvik was on sabbatical leave 2005]
  • TTM9 Traffic and dependability, Laboratory in tools and methodology [in course development, now subject responsible Prof Helvik]

[EHHP07] Peder J. Emstad, Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik, Laurent Paquereau. Dependability and performance with discrete event simulation. : Tapir akademiske forlag 2009. 278 s. NTNU

Research interests

  • QoS evaluation and management in communication systems and services
  • rare event simulation techniques
  • survivability quantification
  • monitoring, routing and management in dynamic networks
  • distributed, autonomous and adaptive management and routing

For more details, see research and publications

Recent publications

(Search my publications on Google scholar)

  • Poul E. Heegaard and Kishor S. Trivedi. “Network Survivability Modeling and Quantification”. Tutorial at “The 23rd International Teletraffic Congress”. September 6-8, 2011, San Francisco, USA. Slides are available here.
  • Bjørn J. Villa and Poul E. Heegaard. “A Monitor Plane Component for Adaptive Streaming”. In proceedings from Norsk Informatikk Konferanse (NIK) 2011. Tromsø, Norway, Nov 21-23, 2011.
  • Astrid Undheim, Ameen Chilwan and Poul Heegaard. “Differentiated Availability in Cloud Computing SLAs”. In proceedings from Grid 2011: 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing. 22-23 September 2011. Lyon, France.
  • Bjørn J. Villa and Poul E. Heegaard. “Towards knowledge driven QoE Optimization in Home Gateways” In proceedings from The Seventh International Conference on Networking and Services. Mestre/Venice. 2011.
  • Razib Khan and Poul Heegaard. “A Performance Modeling Framework Considering Service Components Deployment Issue” In proceedings from publication at the 2011 International Conference on Computer Communication and Management - ICCCM 2011. Sidney, Australia, May 2011.
  • Máté J. Csorba and Poul E. Heegaard. “Optimization and Service Deployment in Private and Public Clouds”. In ERCIM News No. 83 (October 2010), Special Theme: “Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications”.
  • Bjørn J. Villa and Poul E. Heegaard. “Monitoring and Control of QoE in Media Streams by Click”. In proceedings from Norsk Informatikk Konferanse (NIK) 2010. Gjøvik, Norway, Nov 22-24, 2010.
  • Razib Hayat Khan, Poul E. Heegaard. “A Performance modeling framework incorporating cost efficient deployment of collaborating components”. In proceedings from 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE 2010), San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, Oct 3-5, 2010.
  • Poul E. Heegaard, Otto J. Wittner. “Overhead Reduction in Distributed Path Management System”. Computer Networks, Volume 54, Issue 6, 29 April 2010, Pages 1019-1041. Elsevier. [DOI]
  • Jonathan Brugge, Laurent Paquereau, Poul E. Heegaard. “Experience Report on Implementing and Simulating a Routing Protocol in NS-2 and NS-3”. In proceedings from The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL-2010), August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France.
  • Máté J. Csorba and Poul E. Heegaard. “Swarm Intelligence Heuristics for Component Deployment”. In proceedings from IFIP EUNICE 2010, June 28-30, 2010, Trondheim, Norway
  • Lang Xie, Poul E. Heegaard, Jin Zhang, Jie Xiang. “System State aware Admission Control scheme for IEEE 802.16 WiMAX-based healthcare system”. In proceedings from 6th International Wireless Communication & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010). June 28 - July 2, 2010, Caen, France.
  • Mate J. Csorba, Hein Meling, Poul E. Heegaard, “Ant System for Service Deployment in Private and Public Clouds”. In proceedings from BADS 2010 (Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems), Washington, DC, USA, June 11, 2010.
  • Poul E. Heegaard, Kishor S. Trivdi. “Survivability Modeling with Stochastic Reward Nets”. In proceedings from Winter Simulation Conference, pp 807-818, Dec. 13-16, 2009, Austin, TX, USA.
  • Poul E. Heegaard, Werner Sandmann. “Importance Sampling Simulations of Phase-Type Queues”. In proceedings from Winter Simulation Conference, pp 1136-1145, Dec. 13-16, 2009, Austin, TX, USA.
  • Mate J. Csorba, Hein Meling, Poul E. Heegaard, Peter Herrmann. “Foraging for better deployment of replicated service components.” In proceedings from 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'09). June 9-12, 2009. Lisbon, Portugal [DOI]
  • Mate Csorba, Poul E. Heegaard and Peter Herrmann. “Component Deployment Using Parallel Ant-nests”. International Journal on Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS). ISSN (Online): 1754-8640. ISSN (Print): 1754-8632. InderScience publishers.
  • Poul E. Heegaard and Kishor Trivedi. “Network Survivability Modeling”. Computer Networks Volume 53, Issue 8 (2009), pp. 1215-1234. Elsevier. [DOI]
  • Poul E. Heegaard and Kishor Trivedi. “Survivability Quantification of Real-Sized Networks Including End-to-End Delay Distributions”. In proceedings from The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2008). October 26-31, 2008 - Sliema, Malta
  • Mate Csorba, Poul E. Heegaard and Peter Herrmann. “Adaptable Model-based Component Deployment Guided by Artificial Ants”. In proceedings from Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems (Autonomics 2008). Sept. 23-25 2008, Turin, Italy
  • Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann. “Ant Colony Optimized Importance Sampling: Principles, Applications and Challenges”. In proceedings from 7th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2008). September 24-26 2008, Rennes, France
  • Vebjørn Kjeldsen, Otto J. Wittner and Poul E. Heegaard. “Distributed and Scalable Path Management by a System of Cooperating Ants”. In proceedings from The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC 2008). July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Poul E. Heegaard and Kishor Trivedi. “Survivability Quantification of Communication Services”. In proceedings from The 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008). June 24-27, 2008, Anchorage, AK, USA, pp 462-471.
  • Mate Csorba, Poul E. Heegaard and Peter Herrmann. “Cost Efficient Deployment of Collaborating Components”. In proceedings from Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'08). June 4-6, 2008, Oslo, Norway [ DOI ]

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