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

  • Computer Science

    • Adaptive Cruise Control
    • Messages
    • Algorithms
    • Communication
    • Application
    • Vehicular Network
    • Evaluation
    • Media Access Control Protocol

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • ASCI (Advanced School for Computing and Imaging)Board member ASCI (Advanced School for Computing and Imaging)
  • VarietasMember Joint Participation Council (Gemeenschappelijke Medezeggenschapsraad, GMR) Stichting Varietas

My area of research is  Wireless Networks & Mobility. I am interested in both novel networking concepts (e.g., for 5G/6G networks and short-range technologies such as IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth), and their applications, e.g., for coordinated automated driving, bicycle safety, or mobility management. I am particularly interested in sustainability of communication networks.

Publications

2023
2022
2021
Future Network Services: Communicatienetwerken voor en door Nederland. 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.https://publications.tno.nl/publication/34638839/2xVZxj/TNO-2021-communicatienetwerken.pdfModelling activation of congestion control for estimating channel load in vehicular networksIn 2021 Wireless Days (WD), Article 9508285. IEEE. Chandramohan, A. & Heijenk, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/WD52248.2021.9508285On the potential of multicast in millimeter wave vehicular communicationsIn 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 2021, Article 9448670. IEEE. Mendler, G. & Heijenk, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448670
2020
Modelling V2V message generation rates in a highway environmentIn 2020 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Article 9253392. IEEE. Chandramohan, A. & Heijenk, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob50308.2020.9253392Infrastructure Support for Contention-Based ForwardingIn 2019 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2019, Article 9062795. IEEE. Meijerink, B. & Heijenk, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC48660.2019.9062795
2019

Research profiles

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 programs

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

Address

Visiting address

University of Twente

Zilverling (building no. 11), room 5063
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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