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prof.dr.ir. G.J. Heijenk (Geert)

Full Professor Wireless Networks & Mobility

About Me

I am a full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, leading the  Design and Analysis of Communication Systems chair of the University of Twente (UT). I received my M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 1988, worked as a research staff member at the same university and received my Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1995. I have also held a part-time position as researcher at KPN research, the Netherlands, from 1989 until 1991. From 1995 until 2003, I was with Ericsson EuroLab Netherlands, first as a senior strategic engineer, and from 1999 as a research department manager. From 1998 until 2003 I was also a part-time senior researcher at the University of Twente. From 2015 until 2018 I have been program director of the Computer Science and Internet Science & Technology bachelor and master programs of University of Twente. As of September 2020, I am the chair of the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente.

In 2011, I was a visiting professor at INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris. In 2002, I was a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. In 1992, I have performed part of my Ph.D. research at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

My area of research is Wireless Networks & Mobility. I am particularly interested in architectures, algorithms, and protocols for Cellular, Ad-hoc, and Vehicular Networks.

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Adaptive Cruise Control
Communication
Medium Access Control
Network Protocols
Packet Loss
Scheduling
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Networks

Ancillary Activities

  • ASCI (Advanced School for Computing and Imaging)
    Board member ASCI (Advanced School for Computing and Imaging)

Research

My area of research is  Wireless Networks & Mobility. In particular, I am investigating novel ICT concepts to enable a transition in mobility of goods and people using coordinated automated driving. 

Publications

Recent
Rangel Carneiro Magalhaes, S. , Bayhan, S. , & Heijenk, G. (Accepted/In press). Impact of Power Consumption Models on the Energy Efficiency of Downlink NOMA Systems. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
Acciani, F. (2022). Control over unreliable networks: Consensus and platooning. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553803
Havinga, T. , Bayhan, S. , & Heijenk, G. (Accepted/In press). Optimal Geocast Scheduling under Multicasts and Relaying in mmWave Vehicular Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)
Camarinha-Matos, L. M. , Heijenk, G., Katkoori, S., & Strous, L. (Eds.) (2022). Internet of Things - Technology and Applications: 4th IFIP International cross-Domain Conference, IFIP IoT 2021. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ed.) (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 641). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96466-5
Smeitink, E., Herrebout, F., van Bussel, H., Nooren, P., Heijnen, P., Wijngaard, P., Wilkens, J., Kuipers, F., Heemstra de Groot, S., Smolders, B. , Heijenk, G. , van den Berg, H. L., & Zaalberg, J. (2021). Future Network Services: Communicatienetwerken voor en door Nederland. https://publications.tno.nl/publication/34638839/2xVZxj/TNO-2021-communicatienetwerken.pdf
Mendler, G. , & Heijenk, G. (2021). On the potential of multicast in millimeter wave vehicular communications. In 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 2021 [9448670] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448670
Chandramohan, A. , & Heijenk, G. (2020). Modelling V2V message generation rates in a highway environment. In 2020 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) [9253392] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob50308.2020.9253392
Meijerink, B. , & Heijenk, G. (2020). Infrastructure Support for Contention-Based Forwarding. In D. Cabric, O. Altintas, T. Leinmueller, H. Zhang, & T. Higuchi (Eds.), 2019 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2019 [9062795] (IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC; Vol. 2019-December). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC48660.2019.9062795
Meijerink, B. J. (2019). Network-layer geocast: geographic addressing and routing for fixed networks. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036548915
Meijerink, B. J. , & Heijenk, G. (2018). Implementation and Evaluation of Distributed Geographical Routing. In K. R. Chowdhury, M. Di Felice, I. Matta, & B. Sheng (Eds.), Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 16th IFIP WG 6.2 International Conference, WWIC 2018, Boston, MA, USA, June 18–20, 2018, Proceedings (pp. 121-133). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 10866). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02931-9_10
Gholibeigi, M. (2018). Reliable broadcasting in vehicular networks. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036546904

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Education

Within the Technical Computer Science and Electrical Engineering bachelor programs, I teach parts of the Network Systems module. Furthermore, I am coordinating and teaching in the minor module Cyber Physical Systems. For master students in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, and Computer Science, I teach the following courses: Mobile & Wireless Networking, Ad Hoc Networks, and Advanced Networking. Finally, I supervise all kinds of student projects in the area of wireless networking and cooperative autonomous driving.

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling (building no. 11), room 5063
Hallenweg 19
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling  5063
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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