About Oscar Ardaiz Villanueva

His research interests are applying computer, telematics and distributed systems technologies to individual, group and community communication, collaboration and participation. 

Research Areas

• Content Distribution Networks and Group Communication Systems

Distributed applications on top of the Internet provide most important services for groups and communities, however they present many research issues which motivated my PhD thesis, and continue to be part of  research proyects I am involved.

• Resource Allocation in Distributed Systems

Once several distributed applications have been comercialized, it has been realized that there was an urgent demand for resource management systems. Grids are such enviroments design for computationally intensive applications, but many other systems have to be created yet.

• Applications

I am interested in researching new applications of distributed systems technology. This is a difficult area of research which requires working closely with practitioners of other areas such as pedagogist, antropologist, ..... but it is motivative.

Research Activities 

• Publications
  • Journals and Conference Proceedings.
  • "Application Network Deployment in the Internet", PhD Thesis supervised by Leandro Navarro.

• Workshop Chair
  • "CLAG´04: Collaborative Learning Applications of Grid Technology", held in CCGrid´04, Chicago USA.

• Projects
  • "CATNETS: Catalactic Mechanisms for Aplication Layer Networks" (2004-06), EU project.
  • "CRAC: Resource Sharing for Cooperative Learning",(2003-05), Spanish Goverment Project.
  • "GridCat: Grid Infrastructure at Catalonia" (2002-04), Catalan Goverment Project.
  • "CATNET: Evaluating Catalactic Mechanisms for Resource Allocation" (2002-03),  EU project.
  • Epitelio: Telematic Networks for Social Integration" (1997-1999), EU project.

• Research Stays
  • Visiting Researcher in summer of 1999 at Information Science Institute of University of Southern California working with Joe Touch. 

Teaching

• "Distributed Systems Design", PhD course UPC Dept Computer Arquitecture (2003-...) 1 credits/year.
• "Intranet Design & Implementation", Project Based Learning Course: 4th year Telecommunication Engineering EPSC (2002-...) 10 credits/year.
• "Programming in C, Laboratory", 1st year Telematics Engineering EPSC (2002-...) 12 credits/year

Professional Background

His earlier affiliations include a summer research stay at Information Science Institute / University of Southern California, a year working at Internet Technologies dept. in Bull UK & Ireland, a year as research assistant at Technology Centers of Navarra.

He holds a Telecomunication MEng. from the Public University of Navarra.