News

I am now looking for one PhD student for my project ProFUN. Deadline: March 15, 2012.

Personal Networks - Wireless Networking for Personal Devices John Wiley & Sons, June 2010 Click here to read more and to buy your print copy. A slide set for teaching use with the book can be downloaded here.

Research Projects

• ProFUN (SSF) - A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks

I have been involved in these past projects:

• PN Technology - Connecting your world of devices, STW valorisation grant phase 1.
• IST MAGNET Beyond (EU FP6) - My Personal Adaptive Global Net and Beyond.
• Freeband PNP2008 (Dutch) - Personal Networking Pilot 2008.
• IST MAGNET (EU FP6) - My Personal Adaptive Global Net.
• IST NEXWAY (EU FP6) - Network of Excellence Wireless Applications and Technology.

Books

• Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, "Personal Networks: Wireless Networking for Personal Devices", ISBN 978-0-470-68173-2, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, June 2010.

Theses

• Martin Jacobsson, "Personal Networks - An Architecture for Self-Organized Personal Wireless Communications", PhD Thesis, TU Delft, June 17, 2008.
• Martin Jacobsson, "Resource Management in Differentiated Services - A Prototype Implementation", M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science/TSS, University of Twente, The Netherlands, June 2001. [Presentation]

Tutorials and Lectures

• Connect All Your Electronic Devices with Personal Networks -- Architectures, Technologies, Applications (Half Day), IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'11), Las Vegas, USA, January 12, 2011. [Slides]

Scientific Publications

Accepted

• Jinglong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ertan Onur, Ignas Niemegeers, "An Investigation of Link Quality Assessment for Mobile Multi-hop and Multi-rate Wireless Networks", Accepted for Publication in Springer Wireless Personal Communications.

2012

• Javad Vazifehdan, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "An Analytical Energy Consumption Model for Packet Transfer over Wireless Links", IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2012. [Comsoc Technology News Article]
• Cheng Guo, R. Venkatesha Prasad, JiangJie He, Martin Jacobsson, "FIST: A Framework for Flexible and Low-cost Wireless Testbed for Sensor Networks", Inderscience International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 111-121, 2012

2011

• Anthony Lo, Yee Wei Law, Martin Jacobsson, "Enhanced LTE-Advanced Random-Access Mechanism for Massive Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications", In the 27th World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) Meeting, Düsseldorf, Germany, October 18-20, 2011.
• Martin Jacobsson, Cheng Guo, Ignas Niemegeers, "An Experimental Investigation of Optimized Flooding Protocols using a Wireless Sensor Network Testbed", Elsevier Computer Networks (ComNet), Volume 55, Issue 13, Pages 2899–2913, September 15, 2011.

2010

• Jinglong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "Link Quality-Based Transmission Power Adaptation for Reduction of Energy Consumption and Interference", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 920131, December 2010.
• Cheng Guo, Martin Jacobsson, R. Venkatesha Prasad, "A Case Study of Networked Sensors by Simulations and Experiments", In the 2010 International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multiphysics Simulation and Experiments in Micro/Nanoelectronics and Systems (EuroSimE'10), Bordeaux, France, April 26-28, 2010.
• Cheng Guo, R Venkatesha Prasad, and Martin Jacobsson, "Packet Forwarding with Minimum Energy Consumption in Body Area Sensor Networks", In the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks (Pernets'10), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 9, 2010.

2009

• Cheng Guo, R. Venkatesha Prasad, JiangJie He, Martin Jacobsson, "FIST: A Framework for Flexible and Low-cost Wireless Testbed for Sensor Networks", In the 2009 International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN'09), Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.
• Jinglong Zhou, Xin Zhang, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "Link Quality-based Transmission Power Adaptation for Energy Saving in IEEE 802.11", In the 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC'09), Tokyo, Japan, September 13-16, 2009.
• Jinglong Zhou, Ertan Onur, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "On the smooting factor for rate adaption in ieee 802.11b/g mobile multi-hop networks", (In Turkish), In the 17th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU'09), Antalya, Turkey, April 9-11, 2009.
• Cheng Guo, Jing Wang, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, "Improving the Accuracy of Person Localization with Body Area Sensor Networks: An Experimental Study", In the Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks (Pernets'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 13, 2009.
• Javad Vazifehdan, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas G.M.M. Niemegeers, "A Framework for Gateway and Access Network Selection in Ad-Hoc Distributed Personal Networks", In the Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks (Pernets'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 13, 2009.
• Jinglong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ertan Onur, Ignas Niemegeers, "A Novel Link Quality Assessment Method for Mobile Multi-Rate Multi-Hop Wireless Networks", In the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 10-13, 2009.

2008

• Ertan Onur, Martin Jacobsson, Sonia M. Heemstra de Groot, Ignas G.M.M. Niemegeers, "Manageable Bubbles of the Future Internet: Personal Super Virtual Devices", In the the 21st Wireless World Research Forum Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, October 13-15, 2008. [Presentation]
• Xiaoming Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Henk Uijterwaal, Piet F.A. van Mieghem, "IPv6 Delay and Loss Performance Evolution", International Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 643-663, June 2008.
• Venkatesha R. Prasad, Yonghua Li, Martin Jacobsson, Anthony Lo, Ignas G.M.M. Niemegeers, "FEW-PNets - A framework for emulation of wireless personal networks", In the 9th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08), Newport Beach (CA), USA, June 23-26, 2008.
• Jinglong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ertan Onur, Ignas G.M.M. Niemegeers, Factors that Impact Link Quality Estimation in Personal Networks, In the 8th International Symposium On Computer Networks (ISCN'08), Istanbul, Turkey, June 18-20, 2008.
• Novi I. CempakaWangi, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas G.M.M. Niemegeers, "Address Autoconfiguration in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Protocols and Techniques", IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2008.

2007

• JingLong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "Cross Layer Design for Enhanced Quality Routing in Personal Wireless Networking", In the Second International Workshop on Personalized Networks, Philadelphia, USA, August 10, 2007.
• JingLong Zhou, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "Cross Layer Design for Enhanced Quality Personal Wireless Networking", In the Sixth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net'07), Corfu, Greece, June 13-15, 2007.
• Anthony Lo, Weidong Lu, Martin Jacobsson, Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas Niemegeers, "Personal Networks - An Architecture for 4G Mobile Communications Networks", Telektronikk, Issue 1.07, April 2007.

2006

• JingLong Zhou, Anthony Lo, Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "NS-2 Simulation Model for a Novel Beyond 3G Cellular Multihop Network", In the Workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator (WNS2), Pisa, Italy, October 10, 2006. [DOI]
• Anthony Lo, Weidong Lu, Martin Jacobsson, Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas Niemegeers, "Personal Networks: An Overlay Network of Wireless Personal Area Networks and 3G Networks", In the First International Workshop on Personalized Networks (Pernets), San Jose, USA, July 21, 2006.
• R. V. Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, Anthony Lo, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Ignas Niemegeers, "Architectures for Communication in Personal Networks", In the First International Workshop on Personalized Networks (Pernets), San Jose, USA, July 21, 2006.
• Martin Jacobsson, R. V. Prasad, Weidong Lu, Ignas Niemegeers, "Architectural Solutions for Foreign Communication in Personal Networks", Short Paper in the Fifth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net'06), Lipari, Italy, June 14-17, 2006. [Poster]
• Martin Bauer, Rasmus L. Olsen, Martin Jacobsson Luis Sanchez, Jorge Lanza, Mohammed Imine, Neeli Prasad, "Context Management Framework for MAGNET Beyond", In the Open International Workshop on Capturing Context and Context Aware Systems and Platforms, Myconos, Greece, June 8, 2006.
• Majid Ghader, Rasmus L. Olsen, Venkatesha Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, Luis Sanchez, Jorge Lanza, Wassef Louati, Marc Girod Genet, Djamal Zeghlache, Rahim Tafazolli, "Service Discovery in Personal Networks; Design, Implementation and Analysis", In the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 4-8, 2006.
• Jeroen Hoebeke, Gerry Holderbeke, Ingrid Moerman, Martin Jacobsson, Venkatesha Prasad, N. I. Cempaka Wangi, Ignas Niemegeers, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, "Personal Network Federations", In the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 4-8, 2006.

2005

• Luis Muñoz, Luis Sanchez, Jorge Lanza, Mikko Alutoin, Kimmo Ahola, Djamal Zeghlache, Marc Girot Genet, Jeroen Hoebeke, Ingrid Moerman, Rasmus L. Olsen, Majid Ghader, Marina Petrova, Martin Jacobson, "A Proposal for Self-Organizing Personal Networks", In 15th Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) Meeting, Paris, France, December 8-9, 2005.
• Martin Jacobsson, Cheng Guo, Ignas Niemegeers, "A Flooding Protocol for MANETs with Self-Pruning and Prioritized Retransmissions", In the International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks (LOCAN2005), Washington, DC, USA, November 7-10, 2005. [Presentation]
• R.V. Prasad, Martin Jacobsson, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Anthony Lo, Ignas Niemegeers, "Architectures for Intra-Personal Network Communication", Short paper in the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH2005), Cologne, Germany, September 2, 2005. [Poster] [DOI]
• Martin Jacobsson, Jeroen Hoebeke, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Anthony Lo, Ingrid Moerman, Ignas Niemegeers, Luis Muñoz, Mikko Alutoin, Wajdi Louati, Djamal Zeghlache, "A Network Architecture for Personal Networks", In the 14th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23, 2005. [Presentation]
• Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, "Privacy and Anonymity in Personal Networks", In the 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security (PerSec'05), Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA, March 8, 2005. [Presentation]

2004

• Martin Jacobsson, Jeroen Hoebeke, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Anthony Lo, Ingrid Moerman, Ignas Niemegeers, "A Network Layer Architecture for Personal Networks", In the Workshop on "My Personal Adaptive Global Net: Visions and beyond", Shanghai, China, November 11-12, 2004.
• Martin Jacobsson, Ignas Niemegeers, IST MAGNET - My Adaptive Global Network", Poster Presented at ICT: The Human Dimension, Delft, May 26, 2004.

2002

• Martin Jacobsson, Simon Oosthoek, Georgios Karagiannis, "Resource Management in Differentiated Services: A Prototype Implementation", In the Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC2002), Pages 21-28, 1-4 July 2002.
• Lars Westberg, Martin Jacobsson, Georgios Karagiannis, Simon Oosthoek, David Partain, Vlora Rexhepi, Robert Szabo, Pontus Wallentin, "Resource Management in Diffserv (RMD) Framework", Internet-Draft, Expired, draft-westberg-rmd-framework-01.txt, February 2002.
• Lars Westberg, Martin Jacobsson, Georigos Karagiannis, Marcel de Kogel, Simon Oosthoek, David Partain, Vlora Rexhepi, Pontus Wallentin, "Resource Management in Diffserv On DemAnd (RODA) PHR", IETF Internet-Draft, Expired, draft-westberg-rmd-od-phr-01.txt, February 2002.

2001

• Anneli Dahlström, Fredrik Heintz, Martin Jacobsson, Johan Thapper, Martin Öberg, "The NOAI Team Description", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2019, RoboCup-2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV, Pages 413-416, Springer Verlag, January 2001.