Frederik Hermans

I am a third-year PhD student in the Communication Research group at the department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. My supervisors are Per Gunningberg and Edith Ngai. I graduated from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in November 2009 with the title Diplom-Informatiker, which roughly translates to a Master's degree. My supervisors were Jochen Schiller and Norman Dziengel.

I am interested in wireless sensor networks, information-centric network architectures, and the intersection of these two fields. My overarching question is whether (and how) we can use content-aware networks to provide better service to challenged nodes—e.g., nodes that are mobile, resource-constrained, or poorly connected.

You can reach me via e-mail at frederik.hermans[at]it.uu.se.

Recent Publications

Global Source Mobility in the Content-Centric Networking Architecture. Frederik Hermans, Edith Ngai, Per Gunningberg. Accepted for publication in the First ACM Workshop on Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM), June 2012, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA.
Efficient Mobile Data Collection with Mobile Collect. Navid Hassanzadeh, Olaf Landsiedel, Frederik Hermans, Olof Rensfelt, Thiemo Voigt. Accepted for publication in the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), May 2012, Hangzhou, China.
A Light-weight Approach to Online Detection and Classification of Interference in 802.15.4-based Sensor Networks. Frederik Hermans, Olof Rensfelt, Lars-Åke Larzon, Per Gunningberg. Accepted for publication in the Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2012), April 2012, Beijing, China.
Do Sensor Networks need Mobile MAC Protocols? Navid Hassanzadeh, Thiemo Voigt, Olaf Landsiedel, Frederik Hermans and Olof Rensfelt. Accepted for publication in the Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2012), April 2012, Beijing, China.
Repeatable Experiments with Mobile Nodes in a Relocatable WSN Testbed. Olof Rensfelt, Frederik Hermans, Per Gunningberg, Lars-Åke Larzon, Erik Björnemo. The Computer Journal, Volume 54, Issue 12. November 2011.
Playing Pacman with Sensei-UU: A relocatable testbed with support for mobile nodes. Olof Rensfelt, Joel Samuelsson, Frederik Hermans, Per Gunningberg, Lars-Åke Larzon. Demo, June 2010, MobiSys '10, San Francisco, California, USA. Best Demo Award!

All publications.

Teaching

Spring term 2012: I will be a Teaching Assistant for the courses Wireless Communication and Networked Embedded Systems (WCNES), Computer Networks 2, and Computer Networks 3.
Spring term 2011: I will be a Teaching Assistant for the courses Wireless Embedded Systems, Computer Networks 2, and Computer Networks 3.
Fall term 2010: I will be a Teaching Assistant for the course Computer Networks 1.
Spring term 2010: I will be a Teaching Assistant for the course Computer Networks 2. For office hours, please see the course home page.

Stuff

I have a web page where I dump stuff.
I have another page with resources for studying.
I have a Twitter account, but I rarely use it.