Fernando A. Kuipers (IEEE senior member) is associate professor in the Network Architectures and Services group at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft). He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at TUDelft in June 2000 and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in 2004 at the same faculty. Currently, he is chairman of the board of examiners for the two M.Sc. programs Computer Engineering and Embedded Systems at TUDelft. He is also staff member of the Next Generation Infrastructures foundation and staff member of the research school for Transport, Infrastructures and Logistics (TRAIL).
His research interests mainly revolve around network algorithms and cover Routing, Quality of Service, Network Survivability, Optical Networks, and Content Distribution. His work on these subjects has resulted in over 40 publications in refereed journals and conferences and include distinguished papers at IEEE INFOCOM 2003, Chinacom 2006, IFIP Networking 2008, IEEE FMN 2008, IEEE ISM 2008, ITC 2009, and WWIC 2010.
Fernando Kuipers is and has been TPC member of several conferences, among which IEEE INFOCOM, and is member of the executive committee of the IEEE Benelux chapter on communications and vehicular technology.

Publications

(Chapters in) Books:

• F.A. Kuipers, Quality of Service Routing in the Internet: Theory, Complexity and Algorithms, Ph.D. thesis, Delft University Press, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-407-2523-3, September 2004.
• P. Van Mieghem (ed.), F.A. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz, M. Curado, E. Monteiro, X. Masip-Bruin, J. Solé-Pareta, and S. Sánchez-López, Quality of Service Routing, Chapter 3 in Quality of Future Internet Services, EU-COST 263 Final Report, edited by Smirnov et al. in Springer LNCS 2856, pp. 80-117, 2003.
• F.A. Kuipers, Hop-by-hop routing with QoS constraints, M.Sc. thesis in Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, June 2000.

Proceedings:

• Fernando A. Kuipers and Poul E. Heegaard (eds.), Self-Organizing Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7166, Proc. of the 6th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop, IWSOS 2012, Delft, The Netherlands, March 15-16, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28583-7.

Journal Publications:

• P. Van Mieghem, D. Stevanovic, F.A. Kuipers, C. Li, R. van de Bovenkamp, D. Liu and H. Wang, Decreasing the spectral radius of a graph by link removals, Physical Review E, vol. 84, no. 1, July 2011.
• P. Van Mieghem, H. Wang, X. Ge, S. Tang, and F.A. Kuipers, Influence of Assortativity and Degree-preserving Rewiring on the Spectra of Networks, European Physical Journal B, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 643-652, 2010.
• Y. Lu, B. Fallica, F.A. Kuipers, R.E. Kooij, and P. Van Mieghem, Assessing the Quality of Experience of SopCast, Int. J. Internet Protocol Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp.11-23, 2009.
• F.A. Kuipers and F. Dijkstra, Path selection in multi-layer networks, Computer Communications, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 78-85, January 2009.
• X. Masip-Bruin, M. Yannuzzi, J. Domingo-Pascual, A. Fonte, M. Curado, E. Monteiro, F. Kuipers, P. Van Mieghem, S. Avallone, G. Ventre, P. Aranda-Gutierrez, M. Hollick, R. Steinmetz, L. Iannone and K. Salamatian, Research Challenges in QoS Routing, Computer Communications, NoE E-Next special issue, vol. 29, no. 5, March 2006.
• F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, Conditions that Impact the Complexity of QoS Routing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 717-730, August 2005.
• F.A. Kuipers. and P. Van Mieghem, Non-Dominance in QoS Routing: an Implementational Perspective, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, March 2005.
• P. Van Mieghem and F.A. Kuipers, Concepts of Exact Quality of Service Algorithms, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 851-864, October 2004.
• F.A. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz and P. Van Mieghem, Performance Evaluation of Constraint-Based Path Selection Algorithms, IEEE Network, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 16-23, September/October 2004.
• Y. Guo, F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, A Link-Disjoint Paths Algorithm for Reliable QoS Routing, International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 779-798, November 2003.
• P. Van Mieghem and F.A. Kuipers, On the Complexity of QoS Routing, Computer Communications, special issue on QofIS'01, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 376-387, March 2003.
• F.A. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz and P. Van Mieghem, An Overview of Constraint-Based Path Selection Algorithms for QoS Routing, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 50-55, December 2002.
• F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, MAMCRA: a constrained-based multicast routing algorithm, Computer Communications, vol. 25/8, pp. 801-810, May 2002.
• P. Van Mieghem, H. De Neve and F.A. Kuipers, Hop-by-hop Quality of Service Routing, Computer Networks, vol. 37/3-4, pp. 407-423, November 2001.

Conference Publications:

• S. Yang and F.A. Kuipers, Impairment-Aware Routing in Translucent Spectrum-Sliced Elastic Optical Path Networks, Proc. of the 17th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications (NOC 2012), Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, June 19-22, 2012.
• R. van de Bovenkamp, F.A. Kuipers, and P. Van Mieghem, Gossip-based counting in dynamic networks, Proc. of IFIP Networking 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 21-25, 2012.
• S. Yang and F.A. Kuipers, Energy-Aware Path Selection for Scheduled Lightpaths in IP-over-WDM Networks, Proc. of the 18th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology (IEEE SCVT 2011), Ghent, Belgium, November 22-23, 2011.
• A.A. Beshir, F.A. Kuipers, A. Orda, and P. Van Mieghem, Survivable Impairment-aware Traffic Grooming in WDM Rings, Proc. of the 23rd International Teletraffic Congress, San Francisco, USA, September 6-8, 2011.
• A.A. Beshir, R. Nuijts, R. Malhotra, and F.A. Kuipers, Survivable Impairment-Aware Traffic Grooming, Proc. of the 16th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 20-22, 2011.
• Y. Lu, F.A. Kuipers, F. den Hartog, and P. Van Mieghem, Blocking probability in a caching hierarchy network, Proc. of the 8th annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - Special Session on IPTV and Multimedia CDN, Las Vegas, USA, January 9-12, 2011.
• F.A. Kuipers, A.A. Beshir, A. Orda, and P. Van Mieghem, Impairment-aware Path Selection and Regenerator Placement in Translucent Optical Networks, Proc. of IEEE ICNP 2010, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Kyoto, Japan, October 5-8, 2010.
• A.W. ter Mors, C. Witteveen, J. Zutt, and F.A. Kuipers, Context-Aware Route Planning, Proc. of the 8th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 2010), Leipzig, Germany, September 27 - 29, 2010.
• F.A. Kuipers, R.E. Kooij, D. De Vleeschauwer, and K. Brunnstrom, Techniques for Measuring Quality of Experience, Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2010), Lulea, Sweden, June 1-3, 2010 (invited paper).
• A.A. Beshir, M. Yannuzzi, and F.A. Kuipers, Inter-domain Routing in Optical Networks with Wavelength Converters, Proc. of IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010.
• Y. Lu, Y. Zhao, F.A. Kuipers, and P. Van Mieghem, Measurement Study of Multi-party Video Conferencing, Proc. of IFIP Networking 2010, Chennai, India, May 10-14, 2010.
• A.A. Beshir and F.A. Kuipers, Variants of the Min-Sum Link-Disjoint Paths Problem, Proc. of the 16th Annual Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology (IEEE SCVT 2009), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 19, 2009.
• A.A. Beshir, F.A. Kuipers, A. Orda, and P. Van Mieghem, On-line Survivable Routing in WDM Networks, Proc. of the 21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21), Paris, France, September 15-17, 2009 (nominated for best paper award).
• S. Tang, Y. Lu, J. Martín Hernández, F.A. Kuipers, and P. Van Mieghem, Topology Dynamics in a P2PTV network, Proc. of IFIP Networking 2009, Aachen, Germany, May 11-15, 2009.
• Y. Lu, J.D.D. Mol, F.A. Kuipers, and P. Van Mieghem, Analytical Model for Mesh-based P2PVoD, Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM 2008), Berkeley, California, USA, December 15-17, 2008 (best paper award).
• B. Fallica, Y. Lu, F.A. Kuipers, R. Kooij, and P. Van Mieghem, On the Quality of Experience of SopCast, Proc. of the First IEEE International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (IEEE FMN´08), Cardiff, Wales, September 18, 2008 (best paper award).
• Y. Lu, F.A. Kuipers, M. Janic, and P. Van Mieghem, E2E blocking probability of IPTV and P2PTV, Proc. of IFIP Networking 2008, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008 (nominated for best paper award).
• T. Kleiberg, B. Fu, F.A. Kuipers, S. Avallone, B. Quoitin, and P. Van Mieghem, DeSiNe: a flow-level QoS simulator of Networks, Proc. of the first International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (QoSim), Marseille, France, March 3, 2008.
• B. Fu, F.A. Kuipers, and P. Van Mieghem, To Update Network State or Not?, Proc. of QoS-IP 2008, the Fourth International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks, Venezia, Italy, February 13-15, 2008.
• W. Zou, M. Janic, R. Kooij, and F.A. Kuipers, On the availability of networks, Proc. of BroadBand Europe, Antwerp, Belgium, December 3-6, 2007.
• F.A. Kuipers, Rounding in ε-approximation algorithms, Proc. of 13th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (IEEE SCVT 2006), Liège, Belgium, November 23, 2006.
• F.A. Kuipers, QoS protocol and algorithm join forces, Proc. of CHINACOM'06, Beijing, China, October 25-27, 2006 (best paper award).
• F.A. Kuipers, A. Orda, D. Raz, and P. Van Mieghem, A comparison of exact and ε-approximation algorithms for constrained routing, Proc. of Networking 2006 - Fifth IFIP Networking Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, May 15-19, 2006.
• F.A. Kuipers, H. Wang, and P. Van Mieghem, The Stability of Paths in a Dynamic Network, Proc. of CoNext'05, Toulouse, France, October 24-27, 2005.
• S. Avallone, F.A. Kuipers, G. Ventre, and P. Van Mieghem, Dynamic Routing in QoS-aware Traffic Engineered Networks, Proc. of EUNICE 2005: Networks and Applications Towards a Ubiquitously Connected World, IFIP WG 6.6, WG 6.4 and WG 6.9 Workshop, Colmenarejo (Spain), published by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ISBN: 84-89315-43-4), pp. 222-228, July 6-8, 2005. The paper has also been published by Springer (ISBN-10: 0-387-30815-6), edited by C. Delgado Kloos, A. Marin, and D. Larrabeiti, pp. 45-58, 2006.
• F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, Bi-directional Search in QoS Routing, Proc. of the fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services, QofIS2003, edited by G. Karlsson and M. I. Smirnov in Springer LNCS2811, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 102-111, October 1-3, 2003.
• F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, The Impact of Correlated Link Weights on QoS Routing, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, USA, vol. 2, pp. 1425-1434, March 30 - April 3, 2003 (nominated for best paper award).
• M. Janic, F.A. Kuipers, X. Zhou and P. Van Mieghem, Implications for QoS Provisioning based on Traceroute Measurements, Proc. of 3rd International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services, QofIS 2002, Zurich, Switzerland, October 16-18, 2002.
• F.A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem, QoS Routing: Average Complexity and Hopcount in m dimensions, Proc. of Second COST 263 International Workshop, QofIS 2001, Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 110-126, September 24-26, 2001.

Technical Reports:

• A.A. Beshir, F.A. Kuipers, A. Orda, and P. Van Mieghem, On-line survivable routing in WDM networks, Delft University of Technology, Technical Report, February 2009.
• F.A. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz, and P. Van Mieghem, A Review of Constraint-Based Routing Algorithms, Delft University of Technology, Technical Report, June 2002.

Interviews:

• Hora est!, rubriek Delft Integraal, pp. 38, no. 1, 2005 (in Dutch).
• Studeren aan de TU, werken voor de TU, Carrierekrant TU Delft, speciale uitgave bij Delta, no. 5, pp. 9, February 10, 2005 (in Dutch).
• Internet-padvinder SAMCRA voor irritatievrij bellen over Internet, Delft Integraal, pp. 17-20, no. 2, 2004 (in Dutch).
• Internet pathfinder SAMCRA for irritation-free Internet phoning, Delft Outlook, pp. 8-11, no. 4, 2004 (English version of Delft Integraal interview).