Aiko Pras

Projects

• 2006-2009: Research coordinator of the European Network of Excellence on Management Solutions for Next Generation Metworks (MAGIX)
• 2005-2007: Gigaport Next Generation - Research on Networking
• 2004: Work Package leader of Mobile and Wireless (M&W), a national research project sponsored by the Dutch Telematica Instituut.
• 2002-2004: Work Package leader of Measuring, Modeling and Cost Allocation for Quality of Service (M2C), a national research project sponsored by the Dutch Telematica Instituut.
• 2002-2004: Member of the FREEBAND WASP project, a national research project sponsored by the Dutch Telematica Instituut.
• 1999-2002: Project / Work unit leader of Internet Next Generation, a national research project performed within the context of the Gigaport programme. The partners of the project were: the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente (UT), Ericsson EuroLab Netherlands BV (ELN), the Central Organization of the “Telematica Instituut” (TI-CO) and KPN Research. The project got additional funding from various sources, including NWO and BTS (via the QWING project). The project started in the summer of 1999, and run for four years. The total project budget was 8.3 MEuro. The project had two goals:
  1) To increase the Dutch contribution to the international development of new technologies for transferring and managing Internet traffic.
  2) To strengthen the knowledge within the Netherlands on new Internet technologies.
  The subject was the development and introduction of Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms for the Internet. The specific mechanisms that were investigated included integrated services and differentiated services; the project looked at core networks as well as wireless & mobile access networks. My own contribution was primarily on new approaches to Internet management (WU2) and Internet accounting (WU5). The project had links to the IETF, IRTF and Internet-2.
• 1999-2003: UT contact person for the CANDLE project. Candle was a project within the 5th Framework Programme IST (Information Society Technologies) of the European Union. Candle intended to improve the quality of courses and to increase collaboration between universities as well as between universities and industry by using the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). Basic courses, which have traditionally been developed by university in isolation, can be improved by sharing existing material and selecting the elements found to be most educationally effective. Advanced courses, which have traditionally been given by a small number of universities who have experts in particular fields, can be made available to other universities that do not have the appropriate experts. The partners within Candle are: Univ. Karlsruhe (coordinator), BT, ENST Bretagne, NTNU Trondheim, UT, UPC Barcelona, INT Evry, IOE London, PT Torino, Suffolk College, UCL London, Univ. Stuttgart.
• 1988-2003: Management of DISH applications: Internet Accounting This project was funded by NWO, the organization in the Netherlands that provides grants for scientific research. The subject of was management of the Digital Information Super Highway (DISH), in particular the question of how to account for Internet transport and services. Research was done on analysing existing accounting models, developing new accounting architectures, identifying and defining accounting information, and building accounting prototypes. One main outcome was an architecture called: "provider based accounting".
• 1991-1993: RACE Cassiopeia (Intelligent Networks).
• 1990-1991: CISLAN (design of ISDN-LANs),
• 1986-1989: ESPRIT PANGLOSS (design of network gateways),
• 1985-1986: ESPRIT SEDOS (use of formal description techniques)

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