Improving Anycast with Measurements
Wouter de Vries · 2019
During the years of a PhD you accumulate a fairly long list of people that deserve to be thanked in the acknowledgments of your thesis.As some people can attest my memory for names is not my best feature, so I would also like to issue a blanket thank you to everyone: consider yourself acknowledged.I would like to thank my supervisor Aiko as well as my co-supervisors Roland and Pieter-Tjerk for their help, without them this thesis would not have been approved.Aiko is also the one who found some pieces of funding here and there and put them together into a PhD position for me, and I'm glad that I took that opportunity.Roland pushed me to greater heights than I would have managed to achieve by myself, even going so far as to make me move to a different country, all in the name of science, thank you.Pieter-Tjerk, there was a time during my PhD when I had very little supervision and you were volunteered to take the role of daily supervisor, for me it turned out to be a great success and I really enjoyed your eagerness to have small-talk about the French Minitel, among other random things.During the years I have come to rely on your great attention to detail, thank you! My paranymphs, Luuk and Erik.Luuk, people say that I can be a little sarcastic, but I think that we achieved some type of synergy that brought my level of sarcasm to really great heights.We like to complain about the research group but I think we have to admit that we also had a lot of fun over the years, especially on one of our (many) trips together.I hope we will continue our friendship when you move back to that place where they, mistakenly, call fries friet instead of the obviously correct patat.Erik, I've known you since I started my Bachelor's degree, it's hard to imagine that more than ten years have passed since then.Clearly time flies when you are having fun, and drinking beer.I hope that we will keep brewing our own beer for a long time to come.Thank you both for being my paranymphs!A huge thank you to my parents, Alfred (dad) and Hermi (mom).Without them this thesis would certainly not have happened.You have always gently pushed me into what I consider the right direction.As a kid I used to say that I wanted the same job as my dad, and while that did not quite happen, I did end up working at the University of Twente!Albert and Bernadien, thank you for the many relaxing weekends that we have spent at your house, especially when we were still living in our fantastic flat in Enschede (even though I had not yet started on my PhD at that point, I surely would not have survived to start it otherwise).Also thank you for Fleur, she is the best part of my life!vi