Poul Heegaard at NTNU

Poul E. Heegaard, Dr. Ing.

Associate professor in Telematics, Quality of Service
Department of Telematics (ITEM)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

ITEM, NTNU, O.S. Bragstads plass 2a, 
N-7034 Trondheim, Norway.
Room B-217 (office)
+47 7359 4321 (direct line)
+47 7353 6973 (fax)

poul.heegaard@item.ntnu.no

Courses and education

TTM4110 Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation
[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]

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Research (short bio)

My research interests is within the areas of performance and dependability evaluation of communication systems. Special interests in rare event simulation techniques, and monitoring, routing and management in dynamic networks.
More information about GenSyn - a Java based traffic generator for synthetic IP traffic, click here.

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Experience
1989 Siv.ing. (MSc), Telematics, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, NTH.
1998 Dr.ing. (PhD), Telematics, NTNU.
1988-1989 Teaching assistant at Division of Computer Systems and Telematics, NTH.
1989-1999 Research Scientist at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics
1994-1998 Research Scholar at Department of Telematics, NTNU
1999-1999 Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics
1999-2003 Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Telematics, NTNU
1999-2001 Research Scientist at Telenor Research and Development
2001- Senior Research Scientist at Telenor Research and Development
2003- Associate Professor at Department of Telematics, NTNU
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Publications, Selected Presentations and Working Papers (click for extended list)

Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann. ANT-BASED APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE CHANGE OF MEASURE IN IMPORTANCE SAMPLING. Accepted for publication at 2007 Winter Simulation Conference. December 12-14, 2007. Washington D.C., USA
Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann. Efficient Simulation of Optical Ring Networks with Intermittent Transceiver Faults. Accepted for publication at IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). October 24-26, 2007. Istanbul, Turkey.
Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann. Evaluating Differentiated Quality of Service Parameters in Optical Packet Switching. In proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2007). September 10 - 14, 2007, St.Petersburg, Russia, pp 162-174, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2007 (4712): 26-37, DOI
Poul E. Heegaard. Empirical Observations of Traffic Patterns in Mobile and IP Telephony. In proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2007). September 10 - 14, 2007, St.Petersburg, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2007 (4712): 26-37, DOI
Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann. Efficient Estimation of Loss Rates in Optical Packet Switched Networks with Wavelength Conversion. In Proceedings from the Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007). August 25-31, 2007. Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France. DOI
Poul E. Heegaard. EVOLUTION OF TRAFFIC PATTERNS IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. In Proceedings from ChinaCom - International Conference on Communications and Networking in China. August 22-24, 2007. Shanghai, China.
Heegaard, Poul Einar; Wittner, Otto Jonassen. Self-tuned Refresh Rate in a Swarm Intelligence Path Management System. In Proceedings from the International EuroNGI Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2006 (4124):148-162, 18.09.2006 - 20.09.2006
Heegaard, Poul Einar; Wittner, Otto Jonassen. Restoration performance vs. overhead in a swarm intelligence path management system . In Proceedings from 5th International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2006 (4150):282-293, 04.09.2006 - 07.09.2006
Poul E. Heegaard, Otto Wittner, Bjarne E. Helvik. Self-Management of Virtual Paths in Dynamic Networks. In "Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems". Editors Ozalp Babaoglu, Mark Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi, Aad van Moorsel and Maarten van Steen. pp. 417-432. "Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Hot Topics (volume 3460). Springer-Verlag. 2005
Heegaard, P. E., Wittner, O., Nicola, V., Helvik, B. E. Distributed Asynchronous Algorithm for Cross-Entropy-Based Combinatorial Optimization. In proceedings from Rare Event Simulation and Combinatorial Optimization (RESIM COP 2004), Sept. 7-8, 2004. Budapest, Hungary
Otto Wittner, Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik. Scalable Distributed Discovery of Resource Paths in Telecommunication Networks using Cooperative Ant-like Agents. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2003), December 8-12, Canberra, Australia. (pdf)
Poul E. Heegaard and Brynjar Å. Viken. Adaptive Active Measurements of the Performance at Bottlenecks in IP Based Networks. In proceedings from 16th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar (NTS-16), pp 349-360, August 21-23, 2002 - Espoo, Finland
Carmelita Görg, Eugen Lamers, Oliver Fuß, Poul E. Heegaard.Rare Event Simulation (pdf: 284 bytes). 2001, In COST report 257.
Poul E. Heegaard. GenSyn - a Java based generator of synthetic Internet traffic linking user behaviour models to real network protocols. (pdf:239 kbytes) In proceedings from ITC Specialist Seminar on IP Traffic Measurement, Modeling and Management, Sep 18-20, 2000, Monterey, CA (USA)
Poul E. Heegaard: Importance sampling and application to network simulation. (pdf: 365 kbytes) 15th International Teletraffic congress, ITC'16, Edinburgh, UK, June 7-11 1999. Impromptu session on "Rare Event Simulation" are there techniques for non specialists?
Poul E. Heegaard and Bjarne E. Helvik. On the use of likelihood ratio as indicator of the accuracy of importance sampling estimates. (pdf: 153 kbytes) RESIM'99, University of Twente, The Netherlands, March 11-12, 1999.
Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik, Norvald Stol: Genetic algorithms for dimensioning of full service access networks. (pdf: 140 kbytes) In The 14'th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar (NTS-14), Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 August 1998.
Poul E. Heegaard. A Scheme for Adaptive Biasing in Importance sampling.(pdf:194 kbytes). In AEÜ International Journal of Electronics and Communication Special issue on Rare Event Simulation.
Poul E. Heegaard. A survey of Speedup simulation techniques.(pdf:150 kbytes) Workshop on Rare Event Simulation. Aachen, Germany, Aug. 28-29, 1997. Session 1: Opening session & System Reliability.
Poul E. Heegaard. A Scheme for Adaptive Biasing in Importance sampling.(pdf:32 kbytes) Workshop on Rare Event Simulation. Aachen, Germany, 28-29 Aug., 1997. Session 4: Tandem Queues and Networks.
Poul E. Heegaard. Efficient simulation of network performance by importance sampling.(pdf:59 kbytes)15th International Teletraffic congress - ITC 15. Washington D.C., USA, 23-27 June, 1997. Session: Simulation, Measurement and Data Analysis
Poul E. Heegaard: Speed-up techniques for high-performance evaluation.(154 kbytes). Telektronikk, vol. 91(2/3), pp 195-207, 1995. Special issue on teletraffic.
Bjarne E. Helvik and Poul E. Heegaard. A Technique for Measuring Rare Cell Losses in ATM Systems (57 kbytes). STF40 A94083. Reprint from 14th International Teletraffic congress - ITC 14. Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France 6-10 June, 1994. Session D31: B-ISDN Network Management and Design. pp 917-930.

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Last updated on Jan, 2007