ronan skehill

Research Fellow in the 
Wireless Access Research Centre
Electronic and Computer Engineering
University of Limerick
Ireland.

fax: +353-61-202572
telephone: +353-61-202402
office locater: E1016
email: ronan dot skehill AT gmail dot com

Education

• B’Eng, Electronic Engineering, University of Limerick, 1999.
• M’ Eng, Research, Telecommunications, University of Limerick, 1999-2001.
• PhD, Telecommunications, University of Limerick, 2001-2004,

Collaboration and International Experience, Research Experience and Responsibilities

Q3 1999 – Q3 2001:
M’Eng and IST HARMONICS Project, University of Limerick. While working towards his M’ Eng under the supervision of Dr. Sean Mc Grath, Ronan was part of the investigation team looking at IP Quality of Service parameters for HiperLan2 as a last mile network and development of a Hiperlan2 Radio Link Controller to incorporate these QoS parameters in SDL. Ronan’s M’Eng dissertation focused on the Mobile IP standard and the model was freely available in C/SDL for several years.

Q4 2001 – Q3 2004: PhD, IST ARROWS Project and EI REALM, University of Limerick
Following his M’Eng he was appointed a Research Fellow and worked on the SDL implementation of the UMTS control plane in the IST ARROWS project. Areas of work included: development of the upper layers of an UTRAN, Access Network integration, application integration and Radio Resource Management Control functions within the UTRAN. He was also instrumental in the development of Radio Resource Strategies for UMTS which were then contributed towards the 3GPP Standards. In 2002 the centre successfully received Enterprise Ireland funding with Dr. Sean Mc Grath for the REALM project. Ronan’s role in the REALM project was Team Leader and was for responsible for the development and design of a broadband wireless testbed for rural parts of Ireland. Areas of work included Application and System design, Network management, integration of WLAN and UMTS and Radio Resource Management for WLAN. During this period Ronan worked towards his PhD which investigated the application of potential fluid mechanics and empirical dataset to create valid and realistic mobility models for urban areas. The model has been published in 2 journal publications and presented orally in 3 conferences. Furthermore, the model has been used in cell planning and network optimisation tools.

Q4 2004 – Present: Postdoctral Researcher, SFI NCNRC, Eureka! Celtic Gandalf
Following submission of his PhD thesis Ronan was appointed as Research Officer part of the SFI NCNRC. He is responsible for the development of pedestrian and vehicular mobility models in urban environments based on empirical information. He also is responsible for the development of an IEEE 802.11 testbed capable of conducting test in a repeatable and valid manner. During this period the centre was successful in obtaining a European project (Eureka! Celtic Gandalf) with Dr. Zwi Altman France Telecom R&D as project leader. Ronans role in project was Work Package Leader and Technical Lead for the project. He was responsible for the development of an automated troubleshooting tool for UMTS and WLAN, joint radio resource algorithms in tightly coupled networks. Furthermore this project and he were selected by the Eureka Innovative to present the results of Celtic Gandalf at the Eureka Results and Perspectives, hosted by the Italian MEP, Vittorio Prodi in the European Parliament, Brussels. Other successful proposals with Dr. Sean Mc Grath included the EI IONOS project and Ericsson-UL NGN project.

Student Co-Supervision
(with Dr. Sean Mc Grath): Since 2000 as part of the Wireless Access Research Centre he has assisted the supervision of 10 Final Year B’Eng Students, 5 M’Eng students, 3 Erasmus students. Currently he is supervising 2 M’Eng student and 1 PhD student.

Teaching Experience:

• 2001 - 2006 Lecturing Modules EE4607, 4th year Telecommunication Systems (10 weeks).
• 2001-2003 -Distance Education Telecommunication Module 1st DCU students.

Conferences: Ronan has presented at several high impact conferences including; IST Mobile Summit, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, IEEE WICON, IEEE ITSRS, IEEE IST etc.

Peer Reviewer for numerous journals and conferences including: