Jukka Manner

Professor, PhD.

I'm one of the professors in networking technology here at Comnet. We used to be the Networking laboratory, merged with Comlab and turned into the Department of Communications and Networking (Comnet) at TKK.

This page is just a quick-and-dirty placeholder, a better one will be set once I find the time. Some more info can be found from my previous position at the University of Helsinki. Before joining Comnet, I spent two years the Telecommunications and Multimedia Laboratory (TML) as professor (pro tem). TML is now the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Contact info:
Helsinki University of Helsinki (TKK) Department of Communications and Networking (Comnet)
P.O.Box 3000
02015 TKK
Finland

Visiting address: Otakaari 5 A
Office: G320a

E-mail: jukka.manner@tkk.fi

 Note: TKK will disappear 31.12.2009 when we merge with two other key universities in Finland and form the Aalto University 1.1.2010.

Research

My main research interests are in IP networks, and in energy-efficiency, but also in how to get rid of IP, i.e., various "Future Internet" topics. I like constuctive research, where we actually build stuff, and experiment with it. You won't find papers with purely theoretical discussion from my team, rather lots of C-code instead.

Currently my research group has over 15 people working on various topics. My research projects are:

The Future Internet Research Programme of Finland (ICT SHOK FI): this is my main focus area, research within the national public-private partnership on Future Internet. Here my team works with new concepts for SLA-guaranteed Internet connectivity for SMEs, energy-efficient communication for mobile networks, in particular the handset, and new concepts for reliable transport, to replace TCP from the Internet. I'm also the Academic Coordinator of the programme, looking after the Finnish universities and research institutes in the programme.

Celtic 100 Gbit/s Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies (100GET) 2008-2010: here my group looks at architectural issues and how to make Ethernet-based networks scale to thousands or even millions of hosts. Particular topics include the scalability of legacy Ethernet, and RBridges.

New concepts for messaging platforms: this is a subcontracted work where we investigate ways to build a messaging platform that can merge together very different communication mediums and familiar Email type of messaging applications.

Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring (ISMO) 2008-2011: this is a research project funded through the TKK internal . My team works with sensor network routing and transport issues, but also service discovery.

I do a lot of standardization work in the IETF, and nowadays I'm also the co-chair of the NSIS working group.



Teaching and thesis supervision


I instruct and supervise quite a few MSc. theses every year. I'll put down a list in the future.

PhD students to be added, too.

Work for the Reseach and Internet Community