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Random thoughts about startups, tech, movies and sport
Here you’ll find my thoughts, findings and discoveries regarding new technology, linux,sport, movies and good old random stuff.
I spend a lot of time working with technology and love to blog about it. In the past I worked for the University of Limerick as a researcher/lecturer. Having worked there for several years myself and the co-founder of Cauwill decided to spin out some of our research in 2009.
We’ve done good since then.. I won’t comment too much on our success here but if your interested in Cauwill check out the company website.
Co-founder at Cauwill Technologies
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Entrepreneur-style manager with a strong technical background.
Ronan is a co-founder of Cauwill Technologies which provides software and services to the travel sector. Our product, PinPoints is a new way of describing a location that can go into every email/sms reservation confirmation.
Cauwill recently won the IntertradeIreland's Seedcorn category of Best Emerging Startup 2009/2010.
In a previous life I was Senior Researcher Fellow with the Wireless Access Research Center in the University of Limerick.
Entrepreneur, Research
2001 – 2004
1999 – 2001
1995 – 1999
Wireless Technologies, GPS, Location Based Services, Drupal, Mobile Navigation
Cauwill recently won the IntertradeIreland's Seedcorn category of Best Emerging Startup 2009/2010.
Intel Scholar 1996-1998
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Comments or questions are welcome.
I’m a lot less academic and a lot more business focused with Cauwill and PinPoints but for the record.. here is a little more about my previous life as an academic.. just in case you want to get in contact regarding some of the projects or work.
Publications
Ronan has published over 40 research paper. See here for complete list of papers.
Education
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 – 2009: 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:
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:
Presentations / Panel Session including:
2009
Ronan Skehill, Carlos Antonio de Ramos and Sean Mc Grath “Automated Troubleshooting of a UMTS-WLAN Test Platform”, Springer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications, Tuesday, November 2009.
Matías Toril, Salvador Luna Ramírez, University of Málaga.; Volker Wille, Nokia Siemens Networks, Performance Services, UK; Ronan Skehill, University of Limerick; “Analysis of User Mobility Statistics for Cellular Network Re-structuring” in the proceedings ofVTC Spring 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
Ronan Skehill, Padraig Scully, Eduardo Cano, Joseph Johnson, John Nelson and Sean Mc Grath “Mobility in Wireless Communication Networks”, Book chapter for “Handbook of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems”, World Scientific, 2009.
2008
Padraig Scully, Ronan Skehill and Sean McGrath “Mobility in a RF Isolated Test Platform” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on “Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks”, December 2008
Padraig Scully, Ronan Skehill and Sean McGrath “Evaluating Mobility in a RF Isolation Testbed” Irish Signals and Systems Conference, June 18th -19th, Galway, Ireland, 2008.
David Palomar, Ronan Skehill, Ian Rice, Dorel Picovici and Sean Mc Grath “Objective Assessment of Audio Quality” Irish Signals and Systems Conference, June 18th -19th, Galway, Ireland, 2008.
Ronan Skehill, Sean Mc Grath, “Vehicular Mobility Modelling: A Potential-Flow Approach” International conference focusing on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and Systems (SIMUTools), March 3-7,Marseille, France 2008.
Ronan Skehill, Sean Mc Grath, Carlos de Antonio Ramos “Automated Troubleshooting of a UMTS-WLAN Test Platform” ACM/SIGARCH TridentCom 2008 the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities, March 18-20, Innsbruck, Austria 2008.
Ronan Skehill, Alan Dunne, John Nelson “Booting Thin Clients over a Wireless Bridge” Linux Journal May 2008.
Ronan Skehill, William Kent, Dorel Picovici, Michael Barry “Evaluating QoS in a Heterogeneous Network Environment”, book chapter in “Wireless Multimedia: QoS and Solutions” published by Idea Group ISBN 978-1-59904-820-8. July 2008
Ronan Skehill, Padriag Scully, Sean Mc Grath “Characteristics, Results and Findings of IEEE 802.11 in an RF Isolated Testbed” PIMRC September 2007.
Ronan Skehill, Sean Mc Grath “The Application of Fluid Mobility Modelling in Wireless Cellular Networks” International Journal Mobile Information Systems, Volume 3, Number 2 June 2007.
Abed Samhat, Ronan Skehill, Zwi Altman “Automated Troubleshooting in WLAN Networks” 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit July 1-5 Budapest 2007 .
William Kent, Ronan Skehill, Michael Barry, Sean McGrath “An Integrated UMTS-WLAN Testbed” IEEE TridentCom May 2007.
Ronan Skehill, Michael Barry, Maria O’Callaghan, Neville Gawley, William Kent and Sean Mc Grath – “Common RRM Approach to Admission Control for Converged Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine on Technologies On Future Converged Wireless And Mobility Platform, Vol 14, No 2, April 2007.
Ronan. J. Skehill, D. Picovici, K. Mc Grath “VoIP Assessment in IEEE802.11 Networks Using Speech and Packet Based Techniques”, 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos 4-8 June 2006, Greece.
S. Luna Ramírez, M. Toril Genovés, M. Fernández , Ronan Skehill, Sean Mc Grath, “Performance Evaluation of Policy-Based Admission Control Algorithms for a Joint Radio Resource Management Environment” IEEE Melecon Malaga 2006.
Zwi Altman, Ronan Skehill, Raquel Barco, Lars Moltsen, Rob Brennan, Abed Samhat, Rana Khanafer, Hervé Dubreil1, Michael Barry Beatriz Solana “The Celtic Gandalf Framework” IEEE Melecon Malaga, 2006.
B. Gleeson, D. Picovici, R. Skehill and J. Nelson, “Exploring Power Saving in 802.11 VoIP wireless links”. IWCMC 2006 Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada Jul 3-6 2006.
Padraig Scully, Ronan Skehill, “Demonstration of Aggregate Mobility Models in MATLAB”, ISSC 2006, 30-31 June 2006.
D. Picovici, R. Skehill, C. Flanagan and J. Nelson, “Towards Real-Time Objective Assessment of Conversational Speech Quality for Next Generation IP Networks”, Global Signal Processing Conferences & Expos for the Industry- Pervasive Signal Processing (GSPx-2005), 24-27 October 2005, Santa Clara, California, ISBN 0-9728718-2-9.
Mark Andrews, Ronan J. Skehill, Michael Barry, Sean McGrath “Secure IP Mobility” in the proceedings of the ICETE 2005 Reading, England, October 3-7.
Alan Barry, George Healy, Cian Daly, Joseph Johnson and Ronan J. Skehill. “Overview of Wi-Max IEEE 802.16a/e” in the proceedings of the 5th Annual ICT Information Technology and Telecommunications, Cork, October 2005.
Padraig Scully and Ronan J. Skehill “Demonstration of Individual Mobility Models” in proceedings of Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin September 2005.
Ronan Skehill, Michael Barry, Sean McGrath, “Pedestrian and Vehicular Traffic Characteristics for Synthetic-Hybrid Mobility Models”, 9th WSEAS Intern. Conference on COMMUNICATIONS, Greece, 14-16th July 2005.
Ronan Skehill, Dorel Picovici, William Kent “Wireless MANET Testbed for Reproducible Voice over IP Evaluation” in Proceedings of the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association in conjunction with IEEE WICON, Budapest. July 2005.
Mark Andrews, Sean McGrath, Ronan Skehill, “Next Generation Mobile IPv4-Securing Mobility”, 4th Annual ICT Information Technology and Telecommunications, Limerick , October 21 2004
William Kent, Ronan Skehill, Nicola Lenihan, and Michael Barry, “OPNET Simulation of the REALM Network”. 4th Annual ICT Information Technology and Telecommunications, Limerick ,October 21 2004
Ronan Skehill, Sean McGrath “Mobility Modelling: A Fluid Dynamics Approach” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Los Angeles, September 2004.
Ronan Skehill, Sean McGrath, “PCS Location Area Optimisation Using An Aggregate Mobility Model”. IEEE Personal, Indoor And Mobile Radio Communications 2004, Barcelona September 2004.
Connor Goulding, Barry Holland, Eoin Kiely and, Ronan Skehill, “WLAN/UMTS Integration Techniques”, Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Belfast, July 2004.
Ronan Skehill, Mark Andrews, Sean McGrath, “Survey of Mobility Management Techniques in Personal Communication Service Networks”, Irish Signals and Systems Conference 1 Limerick July 2003.
Ronan Skehill, Ian Rice, Sean McGrath “SDL system development of distributed UMTS signalling layers” 2nd Annual ICT Information Technology and Telecommunications, Waterford October 30 2002.
Ramon Ferrús, Anna Umbert, Xavier Revés, Ferran Casadevall, Ronan Skehill, Ian Rice, “ARROWS UMTS Test-bed Description” Greece IST Mobile Summit July 2002.
Ronan Skehill, Sean McGrath, “Mobility Management for IP Mobile Hosts” 2nd Annual ICT Information Technology and Telecommunications, Waterford ,October 31 2002.
Ronan Skehill, Sean McGrath, “IP mobility Management”, IEI / IEE Telecommunications Systems Research Symposium Dublin Nov 2001.