I'm
director of the Network Systems Laboratory at Bell
Labs Antwerp, where we do research into systems aspects of
network systems and components. One focus at the moment is the
design of the next-generation Internet with better support for the
constantly increasing number of mobile devices. Another is
far-flung distributed storage systems. We’re looking for
talented researchers: PhDs in operating systems, distributed systems,
postdocs, or even students who want to do a PhD at Twente while
working at Bell Labs Antwerp.
I'm also a part-time professor in the Huygens Laboratory for Systems Research in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Twente., where I teach the Distributed Systems course.
Before going to Belgium, I worked in the Unix Room at Bell Labs Murray Hill for ten years. Here, we worked on operating systems (Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Inferno) and Base Station Routers. We built a prototype Femto BSR, a tiny UMTS base station suitable for the home and we worked on prototypes for LTE networks.