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Research EvaluationUniversity of Antwerp

Discipline:Computer Science

Research group: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONSYSTEMS (PATS)

Spokesperson: PROFESSOR CHRIS BLONDIA

Contents

1 The research group 31.1 Scope and objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Research topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 Scientific, social and/or technological relevance of the research . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.4 Strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.5 Future research activities, objectives and strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 Members of the research group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 Educational duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.8 Five key publications of the research group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.9 Quantitative Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2 Scientific activity 112.1 Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1.1 Articles in peer reviewed journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.1.2 Articles in peer reviewed proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.1.3 Books and book chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.1.4 Research reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.1.5 Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.2 Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.1 Supervision of PhDs at the University of Antwerp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.2 Supervision of PhDs at other universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.3 Membership of PhD committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.4 Conference presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.2.5 Fellowships, prizes and distinctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.2.6 Membership of jury’s of scientific prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.7 Membership of scientific committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.8 Membership of the editorial board of international journals . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.9 Leadership positions in scientific organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.10 Involvement in spin-off companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.11 External activities that contribute to the research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.12 National and international collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.13 Stays abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.2.14 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Chapter 1

The research group

1.1 Scope and objectives

The objective of the PATS research group is to design, study and implement advanced telecommuni-cation systems with emphasis on the systems performance aspects. Through modeling and analysis(analytical, simulation and experimental), the impact of performance issues on various design andimplementation choices is investigated.

1.2 Research topics

PATS is performing basic research, applied research and contract research related to the researchtheme of ’performance analysis of telecommunication systems and its impact on the architecture andthe design of these systems’. The basic research activities of the PATS research group are structuredinto four major areas:

• Stochastic models for the performance analysis of telecommunication systems, in particular

– Modelling of traffic streams

– Study of application relevant queueing models

– Matrix-analytic methods for the solution of large and complex Markov chains

– Algorithmic aspects of stochastic modelling

• Mobile and wireless communication systems, in particular

– MAC protocols for wireless access networks

– Efficient handover schemes in mobile IP networks

– Routing in ad hoc networks

– QoS support for mobile networks

• Medium Access Control (MAC protocols), with special attention to

– MAC for Passive Optical Networks (EPON)

– MAC for HFC networks (EURO-DOCSIS)

– MAC for ad hoc networks

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– Contention resolution protocols

• Traffic management in multi-service networks, more specific

– Mechanisms for QoS support

– Packet scheduling schemes

– Admission Control and congestion control (TCP)

– Buffer management mechanisms.

• Provisioning and architecture to make software adaptable and dependable:

– System structures for adaptive mobile applications

– Architectures for adaptive and fault-tolerant mobile systems

– Design methodologies for adaptive-and-dependable systems

The expertise developed in these basic research activities is then applied into various European,national and regional research projects with an important industrial involvement.

The PATS research group is one of the groups that are involved in the Interdisciplinary Institutefor Broadband Technology (www.ibbt.be) which was founded by the Flemish government on March19th of 2004.

1.3 Scientific, social and/or technological relevance of the research

The research themes of the PATS group have a high level of scientific, social and technological rele-vance, as illustrated in what follows.

Recent technological key advances in telecommunications, such as the internet (a new communi-cation paradigm), broadband local access (bringing broadband to the home by DSL and cable), mobilecommunications (like GSM, UMTS and Wireless LAN allowing connectivity anywhere and anytime)have been made possible, among others, by the results of research on new, highly flexible networkarchitectures, protocols and applications. The rate at which new technological solutions are producedhas never been higher than today, just refer to sensor networks, the internet of things, the applica-tion of ICT in the health sector, etc The above technologies are exactly those that PATS addresses.Moreover, the performance of these technologies is one of the major characteristics that determinetheir economical success. Clearly this technological progress has a major social impact. The moderntelecommunication means makes distance and time difference no longer a burden for communicating.This has not only important economical consequences, but has an major social impact by bringingpeople together who live far away from each other, by forming all kind of communities, etc

The European research programs (e.g. RACE, ACTS, IST) aim at promoting world class researchin key priority areas as identified in their framework programs and to furthering the integration of re-search in Europe. These programs focus action in priority thematic research areas, a number of whichin the ICT area are closely related to the themes the PATS research group is addressing: broadband forall, mobile and wireless communication, ). This has allowed the PATS group to be actively involvedin several EU joint research projects (see Chapter 3).

The technological, industrial and economical importance for Flanders of research on telecommu-nication systems is illustrated by the fact that in 2004 the Flemish Government has founding the Inter-disciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technologies (IBBT) (see www.ibbt.be). The mission of IBBT isto provide highly competent specialists in different aspects of the broadband technology and to carry


out multi-disciplinary research for the Flemish business community and the Flemish government. TheIBBT unites 17 research groups from different Flemish universities based on their complementary inexpertise, excellence in their field of expertise and have their long tradition of co-operation with com-panies for result driven research. The PATS research group was invited from the start to join the IBBT.Furthermore, the Flemish Council for Research (VRWB) has identified five priorities within the Flem-ish research innovation, one of which is ICT , where communication technologies (a.o. wireless andmobile networks)take a prominent place.

Since a few years, the group has started an activity that focuses on communication services thatimpact on society as a whole, and which are designed so as to maximize each users quality of experi-ence. We all know that society is rapidly moving into the Information age, a path that already now hasconsiderably changed our attitudes and behaviors. In parallel, Europe is facing unprecedented chal-lenges such as cost-effective healthcare for all his citizens in a society that can hardly cope with theincreasing number of emerging health threats. We are convinced that the steady growth of telecom-munication services will be able to balance the visible increase in societal demands, e.g. in healthcare,provided that novel approaches and services are conceived. Our vision is that such services and ap-proaches should be coupling ICT with society; should be multi-disciplinary in nature; and should befocused on the user. Our team is currently laying the foundations of the basic building blocks forsuch an inter-reality healthcare management system. The societal relevance of such services is alsowitnessed e.g. by the recently awarded first prize at the IBM Service Innovation Student Contest 2007and by the publication of research papers in the proceedings of top-level scientific venues such as theACM Symposium on Applied Computing and the IEEE International Symposium on Computer-BasedMedical Systems.

1.4 Strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats

StrengthsThe activities of the PATS group consist of a balanced mix between theoretical, more fundamentalresearch on performance modelling of communication systems and architectural issues for adaptablesoftware on the one hand, and more practical and application oriented design and implementation ofcommunication protocols on the other hand.WeaknessesThe activities of the group can be divided into three main parts: methods and tools for performanceevaluation (mainly queueing theoretical models and efficient algorithms to solve them), design, anal-ysis and implementation of communication systems and finally (an activity that started a few yearsago) provisioning and architectures to make software adaptable and dependable. During the last tenyears most of the effort (resources, manpower) has been put into the second activity and moreover thefirst two activities have somewhat diverged. This evolution may put the specific mission (by which wediffer from other research groups in Flanders) of the group into danger. Furthermore, the last activityshould also be interact with the other research themes.OpportunitiesSince the PATS research group is part of the IBBT, it is offered many opportunities to collaboratewith industrial partners in research projects. Moreover, belonging to an institute like IBBT (in spiteof the fact that it exists less than 4 years) creates possibilities to act as a partner in EU consortia. TheIBBT has a large test facility (called the i-lab). This test lab is available to the participating groupsand allows to perform experiments on a large testbed.


ThreatsHuman capital is the prime resource in a research environment. Finding Ph.D. students with theappropriate skills is a key prerequisite for the success of a research group. The problem to attractstudents who are interested in mathematical modeling and analytical performance evaluation methodsbecomes a problem. Moreover, most Flemish universities tend to put computer science in the facultyof Engineering. Since the University of Antwerp does not offer an Engineering curriculum, the de-partment of computer science remains in the faculty of Science. Therefore it is not always easy toattract engineering students to become member of the PATS research group.

1.5 Future research activities, objectives and strategy

The objectives as stated in 1.1 will not change in the near future. A number of new approaches thegroup will follow in the strategy to reach the objectives are:

• There will be an effort to bring the two activities, namely the more fundamental research ac-tivity of performance modeling and evaluation and the more applied research activity aroundthe design and implementation of communication systems, closer together through workshops,brainstorming sessions, etc. This should lead to a strengthening of the groups profile.

• Although currently 25% of the group members do not have the Belgian nationality, the groupwill try to attract more Ph.D. students from abroad, in particular for the mathematical modelingand performance evaluation activities.

• Table 1.8, members of the research group since 2003, clearly shows an annual growth in theresearch FTE of 15 to 35 %. By now the group should have a size that represents a critical masswithin the Flemish context. Although quality has always been a major concern, the fast growthand the need to find a lot of researchers in a short period have not always lead to an equivalentincrease in the quality. Therefore, in the coming years the groups will focus on strategies toincrease the quality of the work in order to keep its position in a highly competitive researchfield.

• Within the IBBT, the group is currently working towards a spin-off activity in the area of wire-less mesh networks. This should lead to the start of a new company mid 2008. Other spin-offactivities or valorization results (e.g. patents) will be encouraged among the members of thegroup.

Future research will focus on the following activities:

• Wireless and mobile networks: the group will focus on the design, performance evaluation (bysimulation but also using analytical modeling techniques), implementation and experimenta-tion of mesh networks, ad hoc networks, sensor networks both in a generic setting as for vari-ous application environments, such as intelligent traffic systems, body area networks, buildingautomation, etc

• Modeling of systems: the group will continue developing computational frameworks to assessthe performance of communication, computer, manufacturing and other systems. The method-ologies used when setting up these frameworks include structured Markov chains, branchingprocesses, Markov decision processes, queueing theory, scheduling techniques, mean field com-putations, combinatorial designs, etc. To improve the accessibility of these techniques we arealso involved in the development of plug-and-play software tools.


• Adaptive-and-dependable services: the group will focus on social and collaborative semanticservices, autonomic in nature and able to be dynamically reshaped after each user, regardlesshis/her ICT capability, awareness, and attitude. Service-oriented architectures to manage thechallenges imposed by these services, such as matching effectively functional (real-time) andnon-functional (soft real-time) requirements are being investigated and applied in contexts suchas healthcare and adaptive robotics.


1.6 Members of the research group

Members Academic year2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008

Full professors:Blondia Christian – – 0,75 1,00 1,00Professors:Blondia Christian 1,00 1,00 0,25 – –De Sitter Jean (emeritus 1,00 1,00 1,00 – –since october 1st 2006)Lecturers:Van Houdt Benny – – – 0,05 1,00Senior researchers:De Florio Vincenzo 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Spaey Kathleen 1,00 1,00 1,00 0,50 –Van Den Wijngaert Nik – 0,25 1,00 1,00 1,00Van Houdt Benny 1,00 1,00 1,00 0,95 –Willems Gert – 1,00 – – –Research and teaching assistents:Braem Bart – – 1,00 0,17 –Hofkens Tom 1,00 0,92 – – –Doctoral Students:Acquavella Pesantes M. – 0,08 0,17 – –Avonts Jeroen – 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00Bergs Johan 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Braem Bart – 0,08 – 0,75 1,00Buys Jonas – – – – 1,00De Cleyn Peter 0,92 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Doggen Jeroen – – – 0,42 0,50Gui Ning – – 0,33 1,00 1,00Hornikx Bram – – – 1,00 –Lambert Joke 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Letor Nicolas 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Mertens Michiel 0,08 1,00 1,00 0,42 –Nikolova Dessislava 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Oorts Gert – – 0,42 1,00 1,00Peeters Gino – 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00Peeters Sandra 1,00 0,92 – – –Romaszko Sylwia 0,92 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Smolderen Kurt – – – 0,80 0,80Sun Hong – – 0,67 1,00 1,00Torfs Wim – – 0,50 1,00 1,00Van Den Wijngaert Nik 1,00 0,75 – – –Van de Velde Erwin 0,08 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Van Rompaey Stijn 0,96 – – – –Van Velthoven Jeroen 0,17 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Voorhaen Michael 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00Willems Gert 1,00 – – – –Doctoral Students:Perez Juan Fernando – – – 0,75 1,00Sun Hong – – 0,66 0,33 –Number of people 20 23 25 27 24Total FTE 14,37 19,16 21,75 24,31 23,30Total research FTE 12,12 16,45 19,00 22,47 21,80


1.7 Educational duties

Ba Inf Sc: Bachelor of Information ScienceMa Inf Sc: Master of Information Science

Courses Programmes ECTS credits hrsC. Blondia Computer Networks Ba Inf Sc 6 60

Network Applications Ba Inf Sc 3 30Telecommunication Systems Ba Inf Sc 6 60Network Protocols Ba Inf Sc 3 30Mobile and Wireless Networks Ma Inf Sc 6 45Labo Sensor Networks Ma Inf Sc 3 30Lab Mobile and Wireless Networks Ma Inf Sc 3 25Seminar Computer Networks Ma Inf Sc 3 25Total 33 305

B. Van Houdt Data structures and algorithmes Ba Inf Sc 3 30Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Ma Inf Sc 6 45

SystemsOperating systems Ba Inf Sc 6 75Advanced Performance Modelling Ma Inf Sc 6 45Total 21 195

Total number of ECTS credits : 54

1.8 Five key publications of the research group

Analysis of an identifier splitting algorithm combined with polling for contention resolution in a wire-less ATM access network

van Houdt B., Blondia C.IEEE JSAC, 18:11(2000), p. 2335-2345

A smooth handoff scheme using IEEE802.11 triggers: design and implementationde Cleyn Peter, van den Wijngaert Nik, Cerda Lloren, Blondia ChrisComputer networks, 45:3(2004), p. 345-361

Transient analysis of tree-like processes and its application to random access systemsJ. Van Velthoven, B. Van Houdt, C. BlondiaACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 34:1(2006), p. 181-190

Analysis of the Influence of Video-Aware Traffic Management on the Performance of the DejitteringMechanism

K. Spaey, C. BlondiaProceedings of ITC 2007, Ottawa, Canada (2007), p. 30-41

The algorithm of pipelined gossipingde Florio Vincenzo, Blondia Chris.


Journal of systems architecture, 52:4(2006), p. 235-256

1.9 Quantitative Summary

Scientific publications

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007Articles in peer reviewed 0 2 2 2 3 8 5 9 2journalsArticles in peer reviewed 10 4 6 8 9 7 11 16 27proceedingsBooks and book chapters 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0PhD theses defended at 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0University of Antwerp

Research funding

2004 2005 2006 2007University research fund 23.746 37.221 21.628 4.933Research foundation - Flanders 166.408 187.017 161.554 206.727International funding 120.887 154.059 108.491 203.500Government funding 200.945 634.796 879.555 431.697Private funding 110.445 0 0 0Total 622.432 1.013.093 1.171.227 846.857

Chapter 2

Scientific activity

2.1 Publications

2.1.1 Articles in peer reviewed journals

2007Performance evaluation of a production/inventory system with periodic review and endogenous leadtimes

Boute Robert N., Lambrecht Marc R., van Houdt BennyNaval research logistics, 54:4(2007), p. 462-473

A multiaccess tree algorithm with free access, interference cancellation and single signal memoryrequirements

T. Peeters G., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Perform. Eval., Vol. 64, No. 9-12, 2007., pp. 1041-1052

2006The Algorithm of Pipelined Gossiping

De Florio V., Blondia C.Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2006., pp. 235-256

Dynamics of a Time-outs Management SystemDe Florio V., Blondia C.Complex Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2006., pp. 209-223

Transient analysis of tree-like processes and its application to random access systemsVan Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2006., pp. 181-190

Analyzing priority queues with 3 classes using tree-like processesVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Queueing Systems, 2006.

An integrated production and inventory model to dampen upstream demand variability in the supplychain

Boute R.N., Disney S.M., Lambrecht M.R., Van Houdt B.European Journal of Operational Research, 2006.

Linking priority queues and tree-like processesVan Houdt B., Blondia C.AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 60, 2006., pp. 2

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An L2 Transmission Feedback based buffering scheme for Mobile IP handovers in an IEEE 802.11wireless network.

De Cleyn P., Blondia C.WSEAS Transactions on communications, Vol. 5, No. 6, 2006., pp. 1055-1060

On the probability of abandonment in queues with limited sojourn and waiting timesVan Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Operations and Research Letters, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2006., pp. 333-338

Queues with correlated inter-arrival and service times and its application to optical buffersLambert J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2006., pp. 233-251

2005The Response Time in a Tandem Queue with Blocking, Markovian Arrivals and Phase-Type Services

Van Houdt B., Alfa A.S.Operations Research (OR) Letters, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2005., pp. 373-381

Throughput of Q-ary Splitting Algorithms for Contention Resolution in Communication NetworksVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Communications in Information and Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005., pp. 135-164

Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for EPON with Threshold ReportingNikolova D., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2005., pp. 31-52

Approximated Transient Queue Length and Waiting Time Distributions via Steady State AnalysisVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 21, No. 2-3, 2005., pp. 725-744

Response Time Distribution in a D-MAP/PH/1 Queue with General Customer ImpatienceVan Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 21, No. 2-3, 2005., pp. 745-765

2004Performance Evaluation of Layer 3 Low Latency Handoff Mechanisms

Blondia C., Casals O., Cerda L., Van den Wijngaert N., Willems G.Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2004., pp. 633-645

Improving MIP Handover Latency Using Location InformationVan den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Journal, Vol. 45, No. 10, 2004., pp. 2246-2253

Analytical MMAP-Based Bounds for Packet Loss in Optical Packet Switching with Recirculating FDLBuffers

Develder C., Van Houdt B., Pickavet M., Blondia C., Demeester P.Photonic Network Communications, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2004., pp. 149-161

Robustness of Q-ary Collision Resolution Algorithms in Random Access SystemsVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Performance Evaluation, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2004., pp. 357-377

A Smooth Handoff Scheme using IEEE802.11 Triggers - Design and ImplementationDe Cleyn P., Van den Wijngaert N., Cerda L., Blondia C.Computer Networks, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2004., pp. 345-361

Optimization of a Packet Video Receiver under Different Levels of Delay Jitter: an Analytical Ap-proach


Laoutaris N., Van Houdt B., Stravrakakis I.Performance Evaluation, Vol. 55, No. 3-4, 2004., pp. 251-257

On the Sustainable Load of Fibre Delay Line BuffersLaevens K., Van Houdt B., Bruneel H., Blondia C.IEEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2004., pp. 137-138

The Waiting Time Distribution of a Type k Customer in a Discrete-Time FCFS MMAP[K]/PH[K]/c(c1,2) Queue using QBDs

Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2004., pp. 55-69

2003The Delay Distribution of (Im)patient Customers in a Discrete Time DMAP/PH/1 Queue with AgeDependent Service Times

Van Houdt B., Lenin R.B., Blondia C.Queueing Systems and its Applications (QUESTA), Vol. 45, No. 1, 2003., pp. 59-73

Tree Structured QBD Markov chains and Tree-Like QBD ProcessesVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2003.

Robustness properties of FS-ALOHA(++): a contention resolution algorithm for dynamic bandwidthallocation

Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Performance Evaluation of QoSArchitectures in Mobile Networks, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2003., pp. 237-253

2002Computing packet loss probabilities in multiplexer models using rational approximation

Cuyt A., Lenin R.B., Willems G., Blondia C., Rousseeuw P.IEEE Transactions on Computers, Canada, Vol. 52, No. 5, 2002., pp. 1-12

The delay distribution of a type K customer in a FCFS MMAP[K]/PH[K]/1 queueVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Journal of Applied Probability (JAP), Vol. 39, No. 1, 2002.

2001Performance Analysis of a MAC Protocol for Broadband Wireless ATM Networks with Quality of Ser-vice Provisioning

Van Houdt B., Blondia C., Casals O., Garcia J.Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2001., pp. 103-130

Stability and Performance of Stack Algorithms for Random Multiple Access Communication modeledas a Tree Structured QBD Markov Chain

Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Stochastic Models, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2001.

2000Analysis of an Identifier Splitting Algorithm Combined with Polling for Contention Resolution in aWireless ATM Access Network

Van Houdt B., Blondia C.IEEE JSAC, Vol. 18, No. 11, 2000., pp. 2345-2355


Performance Evaluation of the Identifier Splitting Algorithm with Polling in Wireless ATM NetworksVan Houdt B., Blondia C.International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2000., pp. 91-104

2.1.2 Articles in peer reviewed proceedings

2007Comparison of Simulcast and Scalable Video Coding in Terms of the Required Capacity in an IPTVNetwork

Avramova Z., De Vleeschauwer D., Spaey K., Wittevrongel S., Bruneel H., Blondia C.Proceedings of 16th International Packet Video Workshop (PV2007), Lausanne, Switzerland,2007.

Last-Backlogged First-Served Deficit Round Robin (LBFS-DRR) Packet Scheduling AlgorithmNikolova Dessislava, Blondia C.Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Networks (ICON2007), Adelaide, Australia,2007.

Controlling the contention-based medium access in mobile ad hoc networksRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisInternational Conference on the Latest Advances in Networks (ICLAN 2007),Paris, France, December 2007.

Distributed On Demand Channel Selection in Multi Channel, Multi Interface Wireless Mesh NetworksBouckaert S., Letor N., Blondia C., Moerman I., Demeester P.Proc. Globecom 2007, 2007.

Connection Management over an Ethernet based Wireless Mesh NetworkVandenberghe W., Lamont K., Moerman I., Demeester P., Avonts J., Blondia C.Accepted at IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications, 2007.

A policy iteration algorithm for Markov decision processes skip-free in one directionLambert J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of the International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains(SMCtools 2007), Nantes, France, 2007.

A wireless network for emergency services: a multi-channel ad-hoc approachBergs J., Naudts D., Blondia C., Van den Wijngaert N., Moerman I., Demeester P.Proc. The Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications Conference, Rome, Italy, 2007.

Enabling cross layer design: adding the MadWifi extensions to NsclickLetor N., De Cleyn P., Blondia C.Proc. First International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools 2007 in conjunction withValuetools 2007, 2007.

Optimal batch scheduling in DVB-S2 satellite networksT. Peeters G., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings Globecom 2007, 2007.

Distributed Channel Allocation In Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh NetworksAvonts J., Van den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks inconjunction with ICCCN 2007, 2007.

A wireless mesh monitoring and planning tool for emergency servicesNaudts D., Bouckaert S., Bergs J., Schoutteet A., Blondia C., Moerman I., Demeester P.


Proc. The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, Munich,Germany, 2007.

Simultaneous Transient Analysis of QBD Markov Chains for all Initial Configurations using a LevelBased Recursion

Van Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of QEST 2007, Edinburgh (UK), IEEE Computer Society, 2007., pp. 79-88

The Need for Cooperation and Relaying in Short-Range High Path Loss Sensor NetworksBraem B., Latr B., Moerman I., Blondia C., Reusens E., Joseph W., Martens L., Demeester P.Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2007. SensorComm 2007. International Conference on,Valencia, Spain, 2007., pp. 566-571

QoS-enabled internet-on-train network architecture: interworking by MMP-SCTP versus MIPPareit Daan, Gheysens Nele, Van Leeuwen Tom, Moerman Ingrid, Van Brussel Walter,Clenjans Ines, Torfs Wim, De Cleyn Peter, Blondia ChrisProceedings of the 7th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, SophiaAntipolis,France, 2007.

Global Adaptation Framework for Quality of Experience of Mobile ServicesSun H., De Florio V., Gui N., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Three-Rivers Workshop on Soft Computing in IndustrialApplications, 2007.

A Low-delay Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area NetworksLatr B., Braem B., Moerman I., Blondia C., Reusens E., Joseph W., Demeester P.Proceedings Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, 2007 Fourth AnnualInternational Conference on, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2007.

NIAMac - Neighbor and Interference -Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings of the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary,July 2007, 2007.

Analysis of the Influence of Video-Aware Traffic Management on the Performance of the DejitteringMechanism

Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20 2007), Ottawa, Canada, LectureNotes in Computer Science, Vol. 4516, 2007., pp. 30-41

Teaching Resilient Computing in Antwerp: Report, Considerations, and VisionDe Florio V.EWICS-ReSIST Joint Workshop on Teaching Resilient Computing, Erlangen, Germany, 2007.

Adaptive Feedback-loop Control System for Inter-reality ManagementDe Florio V., van Vaerenbergh J., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Three-Rivers Workshop on Soft Computing in IndustrialApplications, 2007.

Reflective and Refractive Variables: A Model for Effective and Maintainable Adaptive-and-DependableSoftware

De Florio V., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 33rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and AdvancedApplications (SEEA 2007), Software Process and Product Improvement track (SPPI),Luebeck, Germany, 2007.

Adaptation as a New Requirement for Software EngineeringDe Florio V., Blondia C.


Proceedings of the First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- andbUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 2007.

A Service-oriented Infrastructure Approach for Mutual Assistance CommunitiesGui N., Sun H., De Florio V., , Blondia C.Proc. of the First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- andbUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS 2007), 2007.

Path-Loss Models for Wireless Communication Channel along Arm and Torso: Measurements andSimulations

Reusens E., Joseph W., Vermeeren G., Martens L., Latr B., Braem B., Blondia C., Moerman I.2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Sheraton Waikiki,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2007., pp. 345-348

Participant: A New Concept for Optimally Assisting the Elder PeopleSun H., De Florio V., Gui N., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems(CBMS-2007), 2007.

Bounds Selection - Dynamic Reset Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc LANsRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2007),Hong Kong, China, 2007.

A Tool for the Expression of Failure Detection ProtocolsDe Florio V., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 15th EUROMICRO Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-basedProcessing (PDP 2007), 2007., pp. 199-204

2006A preventive conversion mechanism for conflict resolution in Optical Burst Switched Networks

Lambert J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of 10th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2006),Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006.

Dynamic Distributed Contention Window Control in Wireless Ad Hoc LANsRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedins Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 06),Melbourne, Australia, 2006.

A Mobile Crisis Management System for Emergency Services: from Concept to Field TestBouckaert S., Bergs J., Naudts D., De Kegel E., Baekelmans J., Van den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.,Moerman I., Demeester P.Proc. The First International Workshop on “Wireless Mesh: Moving towards Applications”,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Performance of Constant Quality Video Applications using the DCCP Transport ProtocolVan Velthoven J., Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 06), Tampa, Florida,USA, 2006., pp. 511-512

Optimized large file access in storage clusters using common TCP/IP-based file transfer protocolsEeckhaut S., Mertens M., De Smet S., Vermeulen B., Andries L., Peltomaki M., Van DenWijngaert N., Blondia C., Demeester P.Proceedings of SC06, Tampa, FL USA, 2006.

Evaluation of Surplus Round Robin Scheduling Algorithm


Nikolova Dessislava, Blondia C.Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer andTelecommunication Systems (SPECTS 06), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2006.

The impact of buffer finiteness on the loss rate in a priority queueing systemVan Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.EPEW 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. LNCS 4054, 2006., pp. 211-225

A Design Tool to Reason about Ambient Assisted Living SystemsSun H., De Florio V., Blondia C.Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications(ISDA 06), 2006.

Neighbour -Aware, Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol (NCMac) for Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisThird International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS 06), Valencia,Spain, 2006.

A System Architecture for Wireless Building AutomationVandenberghe W., Latr B., D K. Lamont F., Moerman I., Mertens M., Avonts J., Blondia C.,Impens G.Proceedings of IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos, Greece, 2006.

The Wireless Autonomous Spanning Tree Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area NetworksBraem B., Latr B., Moerman I., Blondia C., Demeester P.Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, 2006 Third Annual InternationalConference on, San Jose, California, USA, 2006., pp. 1-8

Dimensioning of a Dejittering Buffer for Variable Bit Rate Video StreamsSpaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic ModellingTechniques and Applications (ASMTA 2006), Bonn, Germany, 2006., pp. 61-68

REACT: Routing Protocol for Emergency Applications in Car-to-Car Networks using TrajectoriesVan de Velde Erwin, Blondia Chris, Campelli LucaProceedins Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Lipari, Italy, 2006.

On the Generality of Binary Tree-like Markov ChainsSpaey K., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of MAM 2006: Markov Aniversary Meeting, Charleston, USA, 2006., pp. 79-88

Neighbour and Energy -Aware Contention Avoidance MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006), Montreal, Canada, 2006.

Analyzing the Impact of Neighbor Sensing on the Performance of the OLSR protocolVoorhaen M., Blondia C.Proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, andWireless Networks (WiOpt06), Boston, Massachusetts, 2006.

2005A Reservation Scheme Satisfying Bandwidth QoS Constraints for Ad-Hoc Networks

Cerda L., Voorhaen M., Guimares R., Barcel J.M., Garca J., Blondia C.Revised Selected Papers of Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet:First International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Dagstuhl Castle,Germany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3427, 2005., pp. 176-188


Enhancements of the IEEE 802.11, a MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Network with History of Power Ad-justment

Romaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobility Management and WirelessAccess (MobiWac 2005), Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2005.

QoS Management in WIDENS TerminodesCerda L., Guimares R., .Morillo J, Barcel J.M., Garca J., Perez-Neira A., Realp M., Voorhaen M.,Blondia C., Knopp R., Nikaein N.2nd EVEREST Workshop on Trends in Radio Resource Management, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

QBDs with marked time epochs: a framework for transient measuresVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Proc. of QEST 2006, Torino - Italy, 2005., pp. 210-219

Single-wavelength optical buffers: non-equidistant structures and preventive drop mechanismsLambert J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 2005 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference(NAEC 2005), Riva Del Garda, 2005., pp. 545-555

MORHE: A Transparant Multi-level Routing Scheme for Ad Hoc NetworksVoorhaen M., Van de Velde E., Blondia C.Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-

NET 2005), le de Porquerolles, France, 2005.A Reservation Scheme Satisfying Bandwidth QoS Constraints for Multirate Ad-Hoc Networks

Cerda L., Voorhaen M., Guimares R., Barcel J.M., Garca J., Blondia C.Proceedings of the IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2005, Dresden, Germany,2005.

WIDENS: Advanced Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks for Public SafetyAache H., Conan V., Guib G., Leguay J., Le Martret C., Barcel J.M., Cerda L., Garca J.,Knopp R., Nikaein N., Gonzalez X., Zeini A., Apilo O., Boukalov A., Karvo J.,Koskinen H., Bergonzi L., Diaz J., Meessen J., Blondia C., De Cleyn P.,Van de Velde E., Voorhaen M.Proceedings of the IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2005, Dresden, Germany,2005.

A System Structure for Adaptive Mobile ApplicationsDe Florio V., Blondia C.Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile andMultimedia Networks 2005 (WOWMOM 2005), Giardini Naxos, Italy, 2005.

A MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Power ControlRomaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks 2005 (IWWAN 2005),London, UK, No. 54, 2005.

Dimensioning the Contention Channel of DOCSIS Cable Modem NetworksLambert J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of Networking 2005, Waterloo, Canada, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,Vol. 3462, 2005., pp. 342-357

2004Quality and performance research on a MPEG video transcoding technique.

Neve P. De, M. Mertens, Quickenborne F. Van, I. Moerman, P. Demeester


Proceedings 11th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux2004., Gent, Belgium, 2004.

Channel Utilization and Loss Rate in a Single-Wavelength Fibre Delay Line (FDL) BufferVan Houdt B., Laevens K., Lambert J., Blondia C., Bruneel H.Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2004, paper OC05-07, Dallas, USA, 2004., pp. 23-33

A Survey of MAC protocols for Ad Hoc Networks and IEEE 802.11Romaszko Sylwia, Blondia ChrisProceedings of the 4th National Conference MiSSI 2004, Poland, 2004., pp. 23-33

An Urban Mobility Model and Predictive Handover Scheme for Mobile IP: OPNET Modeling andSimulation

Van den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of OPNETWORK 2004, Washington DC, USA, 2004.

Implementation and Evaluation of an IEEE802.11 Assisted Mobile IP Handover SchemeDe Cleyn P., Blondia C., Moerman I.Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications(NOC 2004), Session on Mobile Networks, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2004., pp. 245-252

Transient Analysis of the D-BMAP/G/1 Queue with an Application to the Dimensioning of a PlayoutBuffer for VBR Video

Hofkens T., Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of Third International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (Networking 2004), Athens,Greece, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3042, 2004., pp. 1338-1343

A Location Augmented Low Latency Handoff Scheme for Mobile IPVan den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Computing and UbiquitousNetworking (ICMU 2004), Yokosuka, Japan, 2004., pp. 180-185

2003Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms in EPON: a Simulation Study

Nikolova D., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of Optical Networking and Communications (OptiComm 2003), Dallas, USA, 2003.

A Location Augmented Low Latency Handoff Scheme for Mobile IPVan den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of OPNETWORK 2003, Washington DC, USA, 2003.

QoS Issues in EPONNikolova D., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of Community Nets and FTTH/P/x Workshop, Dallas, USA, 2003.

Low Latency Handoff Mechanisms and Their Implementation in an IEEE 802.11 NetworkBlondia C., Casals O., Cerda L., Van den Wijngaert N., Willems G., De Cleyn P.Proceedings of ITC18: Providing Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Environments, Berlin,Germany, Teletraffic and Engineering, Vol. 5b, 2003., pp. 971-980

Maximum Stable Throughput of FS-ALOHA under Delay ConstraintsVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of ITC18: Providing Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Environments, Berlin,Germany, Teletraffic and Engineering, Vol. 5b, 2003., pp. 941-950

Timescales in Models for Bursty TrafficSpaey K., De Vleeschauwer D., Hofkens T., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and


Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2003), Montreal, Canada, Simulation Series, Vol. 35,No. 4, 2003., pp. 465-473

Bandwidth versus Storage Trade-off in a Content Distribution Network and a Single Server SystemVan Rompaey S., Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2003), Zagreb,Croatia, 2003., pp. 315-320

Performance Comparison of Low Latency Mobile IP SchemensBlondia C., Casals O., Cerda L., Van den Wijngaert N., Willems G., De Cleyn P.Proceedings of WiOpt 03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks,INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, 2003., pp. 115-124

Performance Evaluation of the Post-Registration Method, a Low Latency Handoff in MIPv4Casals O., Cerda L., Willems G., .Blondia C, Van den Wijngaert N.Proceedings of IEEE 2003 International Confernence on Communications (ICC 2003),Anchorage, 2003.

2002Study and demonstration of extensions to the standard FSAN BPON

Vetter P., Fredricx F., Ringoot E., Janssens N., De Vos B., Bouchat C., Duthilleul F.,Dessauvages C., Stubbe B., Gilon E., Tassent M., Qiu X.Z., Vandewege J., Ossieur P.,Bauwelinck J., Watte J., Blondia C.Proceedings of ISSLS 2002, Seoul, 2002.

Performance of Telecommunication systems: selected topicsKostovasilis K., Wittewrongel S., Bruneel H., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of IFIP World Congres, Canada, 2002., pp. 61-93

Performance Analysis of Optimized Smooth Handoff in Mobile IPBlondia C., Van den Wijngaert N., Willems G., Casals O.Proceedings of the 5th ACM International workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation ofWireless and Mobile Systems, Atlanta, 2002., pp. 22-29

Mobile Extranet Based Integrated User Services (MOEBIUS)Blondia C., Casals O., Dyson A., Monticelli E.Proceedings of IST Mobile and Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002, Thesaloniki, 2002.,pp. 758-763

Integration of IP Mobility in OPNET: Modeling and simulationVan den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of OPNETWORK2002, Washington, D.C., 2002.

Robustness of FS-ALOHAVan Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods (MAM4), Adelaide,Australia, 2002., pp. 381-402

Performance Analysis of a Forwarding Scheme for Handoff in HAWAIIBlondia C., Casals O., Cerda L., Willems G.Proceedings of Networking 2002, Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Italy,Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2345, 2002., pp. 211-226

Performance Analysis of IP Micro-Mobility Handoff ProtocolsBlondia C., Casals O., De Cleyn P., Willems G.Proceedings 7th IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Protocols for High-Speed Networks (PfHSN 2002),Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2334, 2002., pp. 211-226


2001Performance Modeling of Differential Fair Buffer Allocation

Bonin V., Casals O., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Telecomunication Systems, Dallas, USA, 2001.

Demonstration of Dynamic Medium Access Control for APON and SuperPONRingoot E., Janssens N., Tassent M., Angeloupoulos J., Blondia C., Vetter P.Proceedings of Globecom 2001, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2001.

Studies to provide an end-to-end IP solution for a mobile extranetBlondia C., Casals O.Proceedings of Wireless Multimedia Communications, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

Transient Performance Analysis of the Selective Drop Buffer Acceptance Scheme with ResponsiveTraffic

Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of Tenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks(IC3N), Scottsdale, USA, 2001., pp. 361-366

Observations of the Transient Performance of the Selective Drop Buffer Acceptance Algorithm withResponsive Traffic

Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of 9th Working Conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IPNetworks (IFIP ATM & IP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, 2001., pp. 89-100

Evaluation of the Throughput of TCP in a Network with Wireless AccessPeeters S., Blondia C.Proceedings of 14th ITC Specialists Seminar on Access Networks and Systems, 2001.

2000Buffer Acceptance Schemes for the UBR and GFR ATM Service Categories

Spaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of Eighth IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IPNetworks (ATM & IP 2000), Ilkley, UK, 2000., pp. 10/1 - 10/40

Tail Transitions in Queues with Long Range Dependent InputDanils T., Blondia C.Proceedings of IFIP TC6 Networking, 2000.

Traffic Management in ATM Networks: an OverviewBlondia C., Casals O.Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks, 2000., pp. 83-112

Analysis of a Q-ary Identifier Splitting Algorithm Combined with Polling for Contention Resolutionin a Wireless ATM Access Network

Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of ITC Specialist Seminar on Mobile Systems and Mobility, Norway, 2000.

1999Asymptotic Behavior of a Discrete-Time Queue with Long Range Dependent Input

Danils T., Blondia C.Proceedings of Infocom 99, New York, 1999.

FS-ALOHA++, A Collision Resolution Algorithm with QoS Support for the Contention Channel inMultiservices Wireless LAN


Van Houdt B., Blondia C., Casals O., Garcia J.Proceedings of Globecom 99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999.

Packet Level Performance Characteristics of a MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM LANsVan Houdt B., Blondia C., Casals O., Garcia J.Proceedings of LAN 1999, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, 1999.

Performance Evaluation of the Conformance Definition for the ABR Service in ATM NetworksCerda L., Van Houdt B., Casals O., Blondia C.Proceedings of BC 99, 1999.

Performance Evaluation of a MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks Supporting the ATM ServiceCategories

Van Houdt B., Blondia C., Casals O., Garcia J., Vazquez D.Proceedings of Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM 99), 1999.

A Discrete-Time Analysis of Random Early Detection with Responsive Best-Effort TrafficPeeters S., Blondia C.Proceedings of IFIP ATM 99, 1999.

Analysis of the Early Packet Discard with per-VC Queueing MechanismSpaey K., Blondia C.Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IP Networks,Antwerp, Belgium, 1999.

A MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM Systems Supporting ATM Service CategoriesVan Houdt B., Blondia C., Casals O., Garcia J., Vasquez-Cortizo D.Proceedings of ITC-16 (1999), p437-446, 1999.

Matrix Geometric Analysis of Discrete-time Queues with Batch Arrivals and Batch Departures withApplications to B-ISDN

Wuyts K., Van Houdt B., Boel R.K., Blondia C.Proceedings of ITC-16 (1999), p697-706, 1999.

FIFO by Sets ALOHA (FS-ALOHA): A Collision Resolution Algorithm for the Contention Channel inWireless ATM Systems

Vazquez-Cortizo D., Garcia J., Blondia C., Van Houdt B.Proceedings of IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 99, Istanbul, 1999.

2.1.3 Books and book chapters

Mobile networkingBlondia C., van den Wijngaert N., Willems G., Casals O., Cerda L., Bagnulo M., Soto I.Chapter in: Quality of future internet services, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2856,Springer, 2003, p. 180-206

Traffic management in ATM networks: an overviewBlondia C., Casals O.Chapter 4 in: Performance evaluation and application of ATM networks, Dordrecht, KluwerInternational Series in Engineering an Computer Science 557, 2000, p. 83-112


2.1.4 Research reports

Not applicable

2.1.5 Other publications

Not applicable

2.2 Activities

2.2.1 Supervision of PhDs at the University of Antwerp

Blondia C. 19/05/2000Design and analysis of MAC protocols for wireless LAN. (David Vazquez Cortizo)

Blondia C. 01/07/2002Superposition of Markovian traffic sources and frame aware buffer acceptance. (Kathleen Spaey)

Blondia C. 08/04/2005Performance Modeling and Analysis of Mobile IP Handover Schemes. (Nik Van den Wijngaert)

During 2008, the following Ph.D. students will finalize their Ph.D. work:

• Jeroen Van Velthoven (promotor: B. Van Houdt, co-promotor: C. Blondia)

• Joke Lambert (promotor: B. Van Houdt, co-promotor: C. Blondia)

• Dessislava Nikolova (promotor: C. Blondia, co-promotor: B. Van Houdt)

• Michael Voorhaen (promotor: C. Blondia)

• Peter De Cleyn (promotor: C. Blondia)

• Sylwia Romaszko (promotor: C. Blondia)

2.2.2 Supervision of PhDs at other universities

C. Blondia has been co-supervisor of the following Ph.D. at the University of Nijmegen (Nl)

C. Blondia 12/11/1997Desing and performance evaluation of multiple access protocols for ATM based passive optical net-works (Frans Panken)

2.2.3 Membership of PhD committees

C. Blondia has been member of PhD committees at the following universities:

• Gent University (B)


• Universite Libre de Bruxelles (B)

• Universite de Namur (B)

• Universite of Liege (B)

• University of Eindhoven (NL)

• University of Twente (NL)

• University of Nijmegen (NL)

• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH)

• ENST Paris (F)

• Polytechnic University of Catalunia (E)

B. Van Houdt has been member of PhD committees at the following universities:


K. Spaey has been member of PhD committees at the following universities:


2.2.4 Conference presentations

Note: only conference presentations not included in section 2.1.2 (Articles in peer reviewed proceed-ings) are listed.

2007Adaptive REACT Protocol for Emergency Applications in Vehicular Networks

Van de Velde Erwin, Blondia ChrisDublin, Ireland, 2007.

GEISHA: Grid Enabled Infrastructure for Service Oriented High Definition Media ApplicationsDoggen J.ICT7: Grid Computing, University College of Antwerp - dept. of Applied Engineering, November2007

A multiaccess tree algorithm with free access, interference cancellation and single signal memoryrequirements

Peeters G., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Proceedings of Performance 2007, s.l.

Challenges in Multihop Wireless Body Area NetworksB. Braem, C. BlondiaSecond Benelux Workshop on Performance Analysis of Communication Systems, n.p., Antwerp,Belgium, February 2007.

Bandwidth allocation in Wireless NetworksVoorhaen M., Avonts J., Blondia C.IBBT Friday food seminar 2007, Hasselt, n.p.

A framework for transient analysis of QBD Markov chains and tree-like processes


Van Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.4th Euro-FGI workshop on New trends in modelling, quantitative methods and measurements, s.l.,2007

Markov Decision Processes skip-free in one directionB. Van HoudtNumerical Methods for Structured Markov Chains seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany, 13 November

2007Quasi-Birth-Death-type Markov chains with marked time epochs

B. Van HoudtQueueing theory without limits: transient and asymptotic analysis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,18 October 2007

2006Computing the exact loss rate in a two-class finite capacity priority queue

Van Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.2nd Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory, s.l., 2006

Structured Markov chain solver: the MATLAB toolB. Van Houdt1st international wokshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chain (SMCTools), Pisa, Italy,10 October 2006

Tree-like processes as a tool to analyze priority queueing systemsB. Van HoudtEuroNGI meeting WP JRA 5.5, Pisa, Italy, 9 October 2006

Transient analysis of tree-like processes and its application to random access systemsB. Van HoudtACM Sigmetrics/Performance Evaluation Conference 2006, St-Malo France, 29 June 2006

2005Evaluating the quality of real-time applications using the DCCP/CCID-3 transport protocol

Van Velthoven J., Spaey K., Blondia C.EuroNGI Workshop on Qos and Traffic Control, s.l., 2005

Response Time Distribution in a D-MAP/PH/1 Queue with General Customer ImpatienceVan Velthoven J., Van Houdt B., Blondia C.Fifth international conference on matrix-analytic methods (MAM 5), s.l., 2005

Improving MIP Handover Latency Using Location InformationVan den Wijngaert N., Blondia C.Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Computing and UbiquitousNetworking (ICMU 2005), Osaka, Japan, 2005.

Queueing models in HFC networks (Invited)B. Van HoudtFinal seminar COST 279: Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks SupportingMobility, Multimedia and Internetworking, Lisbon, Portugal, 28 June 2005

Approximated transient queue length and waiting time distributions via steady state analysisB. Van Houdt5th International Conference on Matrix Analytical Methods (MAM5), Pisa, Italy, 21 June 2005


2004Tree structured Markov chains and its applications to the stability of random access systems (Invited)

B. Van HoudtBiennial Beta Conference 2004: Fundamentals for Operations Management: Where DisciplinesMeet, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 27 September 2004

Maximum Stable Throughput of FS-ALOHA under Delay ConstraintsB. Van Houdt18-th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-18), Berlin, Germany, 2 September 2004

The age process: avoiding state space explosionsB. Van HoudtEuroNGI JRA5.5, Paris, France, 19 Februari 2004

2003Stability of Random Access Algorithms

B. Van HoudtSeminar at the Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 11 November 2003

Stability of Random Access AlgorithmsB. Van HoudtSeminar series at TRLabs (University of Manitoba), Winnipeg, Canada, 7 November 2003

Computing the delay distribution of type k customers in a MMAP[K]/PH[K]/c queue using matrixanalytic methods (Invited)

B. Van HoudtEURANDOM Benelux-Workshop: Performance analysis of communication systems, Eindhoven,the Netherlands, 14 March 2003

2000Stability and Performance of Stack Algorithms for Random Multiple Access Communication modeledas a Tree Structured QBD Markov Chain

B. Van Houdt3rd International Conference on Matrix Analytical Methods (MAM3), Leuven, Belgium,12 July 2000

1999Buffer Acceptance Schemes for the UBR and GFR ATM Service Categories

Spaey K., Blondia C.Tutorial at Eighth IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IPNetworks (ATM & IP 2000), Ilkley, July 2000.

Prestatie-analyse van telecommunicatie-systemen: Hoe druk is het op de informatiesnelweg?Spaey K.Researchdag Wetenschappen-Farmacie, Antwerpen, January 1999.

2.2.5 Fellowships, prizes and distinctions

• Marcel Neuts prize 2001: B. Van Houdt and C. Blondia, Applied Probability Foundation ofAmerica for the paper: Stability and performance of stack algorithms for random access com-munication modelled as a tree-structured QBD Markov chain.


• Distinguished paper award: A Location Augmented Low Latency Handoff Scheme for MobileIP, N. Van den Wijngaert and C. Blondia, OPNETWORK 2003, Washington DC, USA, 2003.

• IEEE Communications Magazine Best paper award: An Urban Mobility Model and PredictiveHandover Scheme for Mobile IP: OPNET Modeling and Simulation, N. Van den Wijngaert &C. Blondia, OPNETWORK 2004, Washington DC, USA, 2004.

• Best paper award: Evaluation of Surplus Round Robin Scheduling Algorithm, D. Nikolova andC. Blondia, in Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation ofComputer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 06), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2006.

• Hong Sun obtained the IBM Service Innovation Student Contest 2007 (Number One winner):The 21st Century, the best century ever

2.2.6 Membership of jury’s of scientific prizes

C. Blondia has been member of the jury of the Belgian IBM prize for several years

2.2.7 Membership of scientific committees

C. Blondia has been member of the following scientific committees:

• Several times member of the jury for research grants of the Institute for the Promotion of Inno-vation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT).

• Between 1997 and 2007: Member of the Scientific Commission Computer and Telecommuni-cation Systems of the National Science Foundation (French community - FNRS)

• Between 1998 and 2007: Member of the Scientific Commission Informatics and Knowledgetechnology Flemish Science Foundation (FWO)

• Since its foundation: Member of IFIP TC6 WG6.3: Performance of Telecommunication Sys-tems

2.2.8 Membership of the editorial board of international journals

C. Blondia has been/is member of the following editorial boards of international journals

• Since 2002: editor of Journal of Networks and Computer Applications - JNCA (Elsevier)

• Between 2004 and 2006: editor of Computer Networks -ComNet (Elsevier)

• Since 2006: editor of International Journal of Electronics and Communications - AEUe (Else-vier)

• Guest Editor for the special issue of the Journal Performance Evaluation on Discrete-time mod-els and analysis methods (1994).

• Guest Editor for the special issue of Computer Networks dedicated to the memory of OlgaCasals (June 2004)

B.Van Houdt is associate editor of the journal Operations Research Letters.


2.2.9 Leadership positions in scientific organizations

C. Blondia is member of the Beta Academic Council; Beta is a research school in the NetherlandsC. Blondia is member of the committee of directors of the IBBT research institute.Benny Van Houdt has been involved in the organization of the following conferences:

• 10 October 2006, co-chair with B. Meini (Univ. of Pisa) First international workshop on toolsfor solving structured Markov chains (SMCTools)

• 5-6 Februari 2007, member of organizing committee with R. Boucherie (Univ. Twente), O.Boxma (TUe/EURANDOM), G. Leduc (Univ. Liege) and R. van der Mei (CWI) SecondBenelux Workshop on the Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems

C. Blondia has been involved in the organization of the following conferences:

• 28-30 June 1999, co-organizer (with G. Petit, Alcatel Antwerp) of the 7th Workshop on perfor-mance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM and IP Networks, IFIP, TC 6 Working conference

• 31 August - 02 September, chair of 16th ITC Specialist Seminar on Performance Evaluation ofWireless and Mobile Systems

Vincenzo De Florio and Chris Blondia have been/are involved in the organization of the followingconferences:

• ADAMUS 2007: First International Workshop on Adaptive and Dependable Mission and Business-critical Mobile Systems, IEEE WoWMoM workshop, Helsinki June 18

• ADAMUS 2008: Second International Workshop on Adaptive and Dependable Mission andBusiness-critical Mobile Systems, IEEE WoWMoM workshop, Newport Beach, USA, June2008

2.2.10 Involvement in spin-off companies

Members of the group are currently, within the IBBT, involved a valorization project that should lead(by mid 2008) towards a spin-off in the area of mesh networks, called WISHBONE.This activity is supported by the following patent applications(PCT application number PCT/EP2007/063170):Method for channel assignment in multi-radio wireless mesh networks and corresponding networknode

2.2.11 External activities that contribute to the research

Not applicable

2.2.12 National and international collaboration

The group has intensive collaborations (joint papers or joint funded projects) with the following uni-versities and research institutes

• University of Gent

• University of Leuven


• University of Hasselt

• University of Brussels (VUB)

• University of Brussels (ULB)

• University of Liege

• IMEC

• University of Basel

• University of Braunschweig

• National technical university of Athens

• Polytechnical University of Catalunia

• University of Athens

• TNO

• Fraunhofer

• Zurich university of applied sciences

• Jozef Stefan institute

• University of Madrid

• University of Torino

• University of Oradea

• University of Ferrara

• University of Manitoba

• University of Pisa

• Technical University of Eindhoven

• Dalhousie University

The group has intensive collaborations (joint funded projects) with the following companies:

• Alcatel-Lucent

• Nokia Siemens Networks

• Vodafone

• Ericsson

• Televic

• Telindus


• One Access

• Belgacom

• Mobistar

• Telefonica

• IBM

• Philips

• NXP

• Green Peak - Ubiwave

• Cisco

• Newtec

• VRT

• Videohouse

• Abiware

• De Lijn

• Niko

• Fifth Play

• EICAS automazione

• Accent srl

• Comau SPA

• Aventis

• Draeger

• Telenet

• Porthus

• NextiraOne

• Comsof

• Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt

• Punch Telematics

• Vlaams verkeerscentrum

• Capvidia


• Digipolis

• IP globalnet

• Vitalsys

2.2.13 Stays abroad

Not applicable

2.2.14 Other

Not applicable

Chapter 3

Research projects

Below is an overview of the projects where PATS participated in during the last 7 years (since 2001).A detailed list (generated by the research administration of the University of Antwerp) of the

research projects can be found in the appendix. According to the list attached, PATS has attractedC5.667.850 of research funding over the period 1/10/2003 – 29/2/2008. Members of the researchgroup have also been involved as co-principle investigator in C931.880 of research funding attractedby collegues acting as principle investigator. A detailed list of these research projects too is attachedherewith. Below is an overview.

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07/03/2008 1

Faculteit WetenschappenFaculty :

Dept. Wiskunde-informaticaDepartment :

Team : Performance analysis of telecommunication systems (PATS)

Id : 3350Computational Methods for Performance Evaluation and Simulation of Complex Technical

SystemsProject title :

01/01/2001 31/12/2004 Research projectDuration : from until Project type :

Principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Blondia Christian untilfrom Co-principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Cuyt Annie untilfrom Co-principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Rousseeuw Peter untilfrom

7010 FWO Groepsprojecten 01/01/2003 31/12/2003




Funding :

Budget : € 220.030,30

Id : 3941CoDiNet : Content distribution networks.Project title :


Principal investigator : 01/06/2001 31/05/2004Blondia Christian untilfrom

8020 IWT - indirecte financiering via de bedrijfswereld 01/06/2002 31/05/2003



Funding :

Budget : € 383.119,34

Id : 3722Design and performance evaluation of medium access control (MAC) algorithms in

broadband access networks.Project title :


Principal investigator : 01/10/2001 30/09/2004Blondia Christian untilfrom Fellow : 01/10/2001 30/09/2004Van Houdt Benny untilfrom

541200018 BOF: Rugzak FWO 01/10/2001 30/09/2004

700300003 FWO tijdelijke mandaten: postdoct. 01/10/2001 30/09/2004

Funding :

Budget : € 175.706,00

Id : 3665Queueing models with variable service capacity.Project title :







Funding :

Budget : € 197.719,88

07/03/2008 2




Id : 3864Optical Networking and Node Architecture.Project title :



5018 GBOU (Generisch Basisonderzoek aan de

Universiteiten)

01/01/2005 31/12/2005


Universiteiten)

01/01/2002 31/12/2002


Universiteiten)

01/01/2004 31/12/2004


Universiteiten)

01/01/2003 31/12/2003

Funding :

Budget : € 293.496,81

Id : 4289Mobile multimedia communication systems and networks.Project title :



5412 BOF - Andere acties vanaf 1994 01/01/2005 31/12/2005




Funding :

Budget : € 40.000,00

Id : 4322End-to-End QoS in an IP Based Mobile Network.Project title :




Universiteiten)

01/05/2003 30/04/2004


Universiteiten)

01/05/2005 30/04/2006


Universiteiten)

01/05/2004 30/04/2005


Universiteiten)

01/05/2006 30/04/2007

Funding :

Budget : € 443.529,00

Id : 4483Wireless LAN Ideas (Wireless LAN Inventory, Dissemination, Expertise And Security)Project title :



5530 IWT HO-Fonds 01/09/2003 30/06/2005

Funding :

Budget : € 0,00

07/03/2008 3




Id : 4496Flanders Interactive - Interactive digitale television: mathematical modeling and

simulation.Project title :



800000022 Telenet 01/10/2003 30/09/2004

Funding :

Budget : € 75.000,00

Id : 4491Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet Towards convergent

multi-service networks.(Euro-NGI)Project title :

01/12/2003 30/11/2006 Collaboration

Research project

Duration : from until Project type :


3602 IST (Technologieën voor de

informatiemaatschappij)

01/12/2003 30/11/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 54.500,00

Id : 4489Broadband communications and multi-media services for mobile users.Project title :



7005 FWO wetenschappelijke

onderzoeksgemeenschappen

01/01/2004 31/12/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 8.929,00

Id : 4589Wireless Deployable Network System (WIDENS) en Design and Engineering of the Next

Generation InternetProject title :



5415 BOF - VIS/COF 01/01/2004 30/11/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 20.000,00

Id : 4613Wireless Deployable Network System (WIDENS).Project title :

01/02/2004 31/01/2006 Collaboration

Research project





01/02/2004 31/01/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 224.117,00

07/03/2008 4




Id : 4714New Analytical Approaches in Performance Modeling of Telecommunication Systems.Project title :


Principal investigator : 01/10/2004 30/09/2007Blondia Christian untilfrom Fellow : 01/10/2004 30/09/2007Van Houdt Benny untilfrom

541200018 BOF: Rugzak FWO 01/10/2004 30/09/2007

700300004 FWO tijdelijke mandaten: postdoct. 1ste

hernieuwing

01/10/2004 30/09/2007

Funding :

Budget : € 212.536,00

Id : 4736Design and performance analysis of routing algorithms in ad hoc networks.Project title :


Principal investigator : 01/10/2004 30/09/2005Blondia Christian untilfrom Fellow : 01/10/2004 30/09/2005Van de Velde Erwin untilfrom

541200003 BOF: Opvangmandaten FWO 01/10/2004 30/09/2005

Funding :

Budget : € 24.224,00

Id : 21487CHAMP: Cross-layer planning of home access networks for multiple play.Project title :



539900006 Interdisciplinair Instituut voor

Breedbandtechnologie (IBBT)

01/11/2004 31/10/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 409.653,25

Id : 20553GeoBIPS.Project title :





01/01/2005 31/12/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 164.900,00

Id : 22267File-based Integrated Production Architecture (FIPA).Project title :





01/01/2005 31/12/2006

Funding :

Budget : € 77.235,00

07/03/2008 5




Id : 4674Reliable and energy-efficient network protocols for Body Area Networks (BAN's).Project title :







Funding :

Budget : € 235.200,00

Id : 20554CIck.Project title :

01/05/2005 30/04/2007 Collaboration

Research project





01/05/2005 30/04/2007

Funding :

Budget : € 146.900,00

Id : 22325Wireless Building Automation (WBA).Project title :





17/06/2005 29/02/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 194.118,00

Id : 20489Adaptive robots for flexible manufacturing systems. (ARFLEX)Project title :

01/09/2005 31/08/2008 Collaboration

Research project


Principal investigator : 01/09/2005 31/08/2008De Florio Vincenzo untilfrom

3603 NMP (Nanotechnologieën en

nanowetenschappen, kennisgebaseerde

multifunctionele materialen en nieuwe

productieprocédé's en - apparatuur)

01/09/2005 31/08/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 214.500,00

Id : 20519Design and performance analysis of routing algorithms in ad hoc networks.Project title :



541200018 BOF: Rugzak FWO 01/10/2005 30/09/2007

700300001 FWO tijdelijke mandaten: aspirant 01/10/2005 30/09/2007

Funding :

Budget : € 66.812,00

07/03/2008 6




Id : 21486OSLU: Optimizing Satellite Link Usage.Project title :





01/10/2005 30/09/2007

Funding :

Budget : € 199.368,75

Id : 20806Novel Stochastic models for the evaluation of telecommunication systems.Project title :


Principal investigator : 01/03/2006 31/12/2008Van Houdt Benny untilfrom

541200005 BOF: Kleine projecten onderzoeksraad 01/03/2006 31/12/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 7.000,00

Id : 21398Train IP Network Services. (Tr@ins)Project title :

01/04/2006 31/03/2008 Collaboration

Research project





01/04/2006 31/03/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 424.540,00

Id : 22265Solutions Platform for Advanced Mobile Mesh (SPAMM).Project title :





01/04/2006 31/03/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 128.484,00

Id : 21722Design and Engineering of the Future Generation Internet. Towards convergent

multi-service networks. (EURO-FGI)Project title :





01/12/2006 31/05/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 198.000,00

07/03/2008 7




Id : 21060Stochastic modeling of optical buffers and switching systems based on Fibre Delay Lines.Project title :

01/01/2007 31/12/2010 Collaboration

Research project


Principal investigator : 01/01/2007 31/12/2010Blondia Christian untilfrom Co-principal investigator : 01/01/2007 31/12/2010Van Houdt Benny untilfrom





Funding :

Budget : € 241.700,00

Id : 22266Advanced Disaster Architecture with Mobility Optimizations (ADAMO).Project title :





01/01/2007 31/12/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 211.603,00

Id : 21971Network protocols for Sensornetworks.Project title :



5431 IOF - Industrieel Onderzoeksfonds 01/08/2007 31/07/2008

Funding :

Budget : € 50.000,00

Id : 21770Performance analysis and design of routing protocols for car-to-car and

car-to-infrastructure communication.Project title :



700300002 FWO tijdelijke mandaten: aspirant 1ste

hernieuwing

01/10/2007 30/09/2009

700300007 FWO bench fee: aspirant 01/10/2007 30/09/2009

Funding :

Budget : € 76.922,00

Id : 21944A Cross-Layer Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (CLAWS).Project title :

01/01/2008 31/12/2011 Collaboration

Research project







Funding :

Budget : € 248.000,00

07/03/2008 8

5.667.843,33

33Performance analysis of telecommunication systems

(PATS)

number of projects :

Total budget : €

Co-principal investigator 07/03/2008 1Blondia Christian

Team : Computer arithmetic and numerical techniques

3538Id :Statistical and numerical techniques for the modelling and optimization of computer- and

communication networksProject title :

01/01/2001 31/12/2004 Research projectfrom untilDuration : Project type :

Principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Cuyt Annie from until

Co-principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Blondia Christian from until

Co-principal investigator : 01/01/2001 31/12/2004Rousseeuw Peter from until

5410 BOF (Bijz. Onderzoeksfonds) - Geconcert.

Onderzoeksacties vanaf 1994

01/01/2001 31/12/2001



01/01/2002 31/12/2002



01/01/2003 31/12/2003



01/01/2004 31/12/2004

Funding :

Budget : € 931.881,36

Co-principal investigator 1

931.881,36

number of projects

total budget : €

Blondia Christian

Short CV of Chris Blondia University Degrees: • Licentiate in Science, Mathematics, University Gent (June 1977). • Geaggregeerde voor het Hoger Secundair Onderwijs, University Gent (June 1977). • Doctor in Science, Mathematics, University Gent (1982) (Promotor : Prof. Dr. R.

Delanghe). Career: From 1 September 1977 till 31 October 1978, teacher mathematics at the St-Lodewijkscollege in Brugge. From 1 November 1978 till 1 May 1983, assistant full-time at the University of Ghent (head Prof. Dr. J.A. Thas) From 1 May 1983 till 31 December 1985, Project leader at N.V. Polydata, computer and software development centre of Philips Belgium. From 1 January 1986 till 30 June 1991, researcher at the Philips Research Laboratory Belgium, Louvain-la-Neuve, in the group Computer and Telecommunication systems From 1 August 1991 till 01 February 1995, Associate Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Department of Computer Science, in the research group Computer en Communication systems. During the academic year 92-93 : Part-time Associate Professor at the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA). Between 1993 and 1995 : Part-time Associate Professor at the Universitair Centrum Antwerpen (RUCA), Faculty TEW. From 01 February 1995 to 31 January 1999 Associate Professor at Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (UIA) (later University of Antwerp), department of Mathematics and Computer Science. From 01 February 1999 till 31 December 2005 Professor at the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), department of Mathematics and Computer Science and head of the group PATS (Performance analysis of telecommunication systems) Since 01 January 2006 Full Professor at the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), department of Mathematics and Computer Science and head of the group PATS (Performance analysis of telecommunication systems)

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