2009 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Transcrição

INSTITUTO DE
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
ANNUAL REPORT
2009
Table of Contents
1.
2.
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 7
1.1
History .......................................................................................... 7
1.2
Management .................................................................................. 8
1.3
Highlights of 2009 ........................................................................... 9
KEY IT INDICATORS ............................................................................. 15
2.1
Human Resources ......................................................................... 15
2.2
Projects ....................................................................................... 16
2.3
Publications .................................................................................. 17
3.
FINANCIAL OUTLINE ............................................................................ 19
4.
RESEARCH AREAS................................................................................ 21
4.1
Wireless Communications ............................................................... 21
4.1.1
Area Coordinators ................................................................... 21
4.1.2
Human Resources ................................................................... 21
4.1.3
Summary of Research Achivements........................................... 27
4.1.4
Running and Concluded Projects ............................................... 35
4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses................................................. 62
4.1.6
Publications ........................................................................... 69
4.1.7
Other Achievements................................................................ 87
4.1.8
Other Contributions................................................................. 90
4.2
Optical Communications ................................................................. 92
4.2.1
Coordinators .......................................................................... 92
4.2.2
Human Resources ................................................................... 92
4.2.3
Summary of Research Achievements ......................................... 96
4.2.4
Running and Concluded Projects ..............................................101
4.2.5
Running and Concluded Theses................................................113
4.2.6
Publications ..........................................................................119
4.2.7
Other Achievements...............................................................133
4.2.8
Other Contributions................................................................134
4.3
Networks and Multimedia ..............................................................135
4.3.1
Area Coordinators ..................................................................135
4.3.2
Human Resources ..................................................................135
4.3.3
Summary of Research Achievements ........................................143
iii
4.3.4
Running and Concluded Projects ..............................................170
4.3.5
4.3.6
Publications ..........................................................................207
4.3.7
Other Achievements ...............................................................244
4.3.8
4.4
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies........................................255
4.4.1
Area Coordinators ..................................................................255
4.4.2
Human Resources ..................................................................255
4.4.3
Summary of Research Achievements ........................................259
4.4.4
Runing and Concluded Projects ................................................269
4.4.5
4.4.6
Publications ..........................................................................289
4.4.7
Other Achievements...............................................................315
4.4.8
iv
List of Tables
Table 1 - Foreseen and achieved scientific output in 2009. ............................... 11
Table 2 – Current it human resources (excluding administrative staff)................ 15
Table 3 – Number of active projects in 2009, according to funding source .......... 17
Table 4 – Number of published works in 2009................................................. 17
Table 5 – Total operational income in 2009 .................................................... 19
Table 6 – List of major income sources during 2009 ........................................ 20
Table 7 – Major costs in 2009 ...................................................................... 20
Table 8 – Main asset changes in 2009 ........................................................... 20
Table 9 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in
2009.................................................................................................. 21
Table 10 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area
in 2009 .............................................................................................. 24
Table 11 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications
Area in 2009 ....................................................................................... 26
Table 12 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2009
......................................................................................................... 35
Table 13 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2008.................................................................................................. 65
Table 14 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2009.................................................................................................. 67
Table 15 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in
2009.................................................................................................. 92
Table 16 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2009.................................................................................................. 93
Table 17 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications
Area in 2009 ....................................................................................... 95
Table 18 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2009
........................................................................................................101
Table 19 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2009.................................................................................................115
Table 20 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2009.................................................................................................117
v
Table 21 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2009
........................................................................................................135
Table 22 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area
in 2009 .............................................................................................138
Table 23 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia
Area in 2009 ......................................................................................142
Table 24 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia...............170
Table 25 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2008.................................................................................................203
Table 26 - List of PhD Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2009.................................................................................................206
Table 27 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences ans Enabling
Technologies Area in 2009 ...................................................................255
Table 28 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Table 29 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and
Enabling Technologies Area in 2009.......................................................258
Table 30 – Number of active projects running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Table 31 – List of MSc Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area during 2009 .............................................................286
Table 32 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area during 2009 .............................................................288
vi
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1
History
Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) is a private, not-for-profit organisation, an
association of six institutions with experience and traditions in research and
development in the field of Telecommunications:
• Instituto Superior Técnico (IST);
• Universidade de Aveiro (UA);
• Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC);
• Portugal Telecom Inovação, (PTIn)
• Nokia Siemens Networks S.A
• Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI).
it is organised around three sites: one in Aveiro, in the University Campus,
another in Coimbra, in Site II of the University of Coimbra and the third one in
Lisbon, in Instituto Superior Técnico. In addition there are four delegations:
• Porto, shared by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences of
the University of Porto,
• Leiria, in the “Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão” of the Leiria Polytechnic (IPL),
• Lisboa, in Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
• Covilhã, in the University of Beira Interior.
Setting up of it was the result of a 1.5 billion escudos (about 7.5 million Euros)
grant from Programme CIENCIA, through three contracts signed in 1991. This
investment enabled new infrastructures to be built and research laboratories to
be equipped at each site.
Installation was concluded in Aveiro in 1993 and in Lisbon and Coimbra in 1994.
Since 1993, it activities proceed regularly.
it statutes were first approved in 1992, modified in 1997 and modified again in
2003. New site statutes deriving from it statutes were approved and
implemented in 2005.
7
ANNUAL REPORT 2009- INTRODUCTION
Key developments in 2009 are highlighted ahead. Details are included in the
sections dealing with each of the research areas.
1.2
Management
it is managed by a Board of Directors, elected by the General Assembly, and by
Site Management Boards, which include the site members of the Board of
Directors. Site Management Boards enjoy ample freedom to deal with current
affairs and usually meet weekly. The Board of Directors meets at least once a
month.
it scientific activities are overseen by the Scientific Board, which includes all it
researchers holding a Ph.D. degree. The Scientific Board meets in Plenary or in
Committees, both permanent and temporary. There are two permanent
committees: the Science and Technology Committee and the Research Group
Coordination Committee.
it Work Plan and the Annual Report are discussed with the Advisory Committee,
formed by three independent experts in the field of telecommunications (Dr.
Roland Huber, Prof. Sir John O’Reilly and Prof. Martin Tomlinson) acting in a
personal capacity, and together with the Accounts (after legal certification) are
subsequently submitted to the General Assembly for approval.
The General Assembly met formally twice in 2009. The first meeting was held on
March 30, in the Meeting Room of the Coimbra site, to discuss and approve the
2008 Annual Report and Accounts and to elect a new board of directors for the
2009—2011 period. The second meeting took place on December 16, in the
Meeting Room of the Lisbon site, to approve the Work Plan and Budget for 2010,
to discuss and approve the statutory change of the external laboratory of Porto
and to discuss the request of LaSIGE to merge with it.
The new board of directors is formed by:
• Prof. Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema, on behalf of IST;
• Prof. Carlos António Cardoso Fernandes, on behalf of IST;
• Prof. José Carlos da Silva Neves, on behalf of UA;
8
• Prof. Henrique José Almeida da Silva, on behalf of FCTUC
• Dr. José Marcelino Pousa, on behalf of PTIn.
The Research Group Coordination Committee also met twice during 2009. On the
first meeting, held on March 18, at the Aveiro site auditory, the Draft Proposal of
the 2008 Annual Report, was discussed and received a favourable opinion.
Scientific productivity was debated and the document “A policy for quality” was
approved. On the second meeting, held on December 9, in the meeting room of
Lezíria Parque Hotel (Vila Franca de Xira), the Work Plan and Budget for 2010,
was discussed and received a favourable opinion and the request from LaSIGE to
merge it was debated at length.
Highlights of 2009
1.3
Like 2008, for many reasons 2009 was again a very good year for it.
Firstly, the scientific output reached a new peak:
• 67 books and book chapters;
• 198 papers in international refereed scientific journals;
• 16 patent requests;
• 519 papers in refereed conferences, with published proceedings.
Secondly, fostering of advanced education also reached a new peak:
• 22 PhD theses, submitted and approved;
• 194 MSc theses, submitted and approved.
Thirdly, another it researcher (the third one) was elevated to the rank of IEEE
fellow.
Funding was, again, plentiful and timely. In particular
• FCT finally paid back 1.09 M€ from the IT – Laboratório Associado contract,
that it had paid (in advance) and had already been audited
• FCT paid the basic fee (5.5 k€ per integrated researcher with PhD)
9
• FCT paid 60 % of the programmatic grant of 2009 (the reduction is due to
FCT decision that post-doc salaries should be paid from the programmatic
grant but were paid by FCT in the 2007-2009 period)
• FCT paid the remaining dues of the 2004 projects
Due to prior delays in the transfer of funds from FCT, the execution periods for
the 2007 and 2008 were extended to the 31st of December 2009. Total funding
for the two year period was 5.2 M€ and the execution rate (not yet audited) was
98 %.
Thanks to available funding most labs (Optical Communications, Radio and
Microwave, Instrumentation and Measurements, Power Electronics, Materials) in
Lisbon (Media Lab) in Porto, (Radio Communications, Multimedia) in Covilhã,
(Optical Communications, Radio and Microwave, Signal Processing, Power
Systems) in Coimbra, (Signal Processing) in Leiria and (Optical Communications)
in Aveiro were either revamped and significantly upgraded or got new
equipment.
Contrary to our initial expectations, it was not evaluated during 2009.
Nevertheless it completed all the evaluation forms requested by FCT.
The number of scholarships increased again in 2009, reaching an all time level.
This is an important step in improving it performance and impact.
In addition to the 186 Ph.D. scholarships funded by FCT, it hosted 25 young
students under FCT scholarships for initiating scientific activity, plus 151 B.Sc.
and M.Sc. and 4 post-doc fellowships in ongoing projects and 5 in mobility
fellowships associated with the CMU-Portugal Program.
During 2009, 97 nationally funded and 38 internationally funded projects were
active, as shown in section 2.2. It is particularly noteworthy the fact that on the
31st of December it was involved in 27 FP7 projects (running and selected for
funding) in addition to other 7 projects, where there was involvement of some it
researchers from the Lisbon site.
10
During 2009 it started to manage the logistics of the CMU-Portugal program by
special contract with FCT.
To reflect it 2009 activity some tangible objectives were defined in the Work
Programme and Budget for 2009. These objectives together with the achieved
values are given in Table 1
Graduate and post-graduate
Foreseen
Achieved
MSc Theses
160
194
PhD Theses
30
22
Publications:
Foreseen
Achieved
Books and Book Chapters
20
67
Papers in Journals
150
198
Papers in Conference Proceedings
400
519
activities:
Table 1 - Foreseen and achieved scientific output in 2009.
Achieved scientific output exceeded our forecast, in all areas, except in the
number of concluded PhD theses which continues to fall short of the expected
value, showing that supervisors systematically underestimate time requirements.
it co-authored 16 patent applications in 2009.
it received the following distinguished visitors:
•
President of the Republic, Prof. Dr, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Coimbra, 16th of
April
•
CEO of Portugal Telecom, Eng. Zeinal Bava, Aveiro, 23rd July
11
•
President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, President and
Vice-President of the Mexican Academy of Engineering
•
Chair of the Chapter Coordination Sub-Committee of the IEEE Region 8,
Lisbon, 8th of October.
it hosted the following national and international events (referred by date):
•
4 days Free MEMS Training (March,2009)
•
Contele2009 (3-5 May 2009), in Feira, with about 200 participants
•
Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems QuEBS 2009, (July,
2009), in Lisbon
•
IXIX IMEKO World Congress (September, 2009), in Lisbon, with more than
600 participants.
During 2009 it researchers were awarded the following prizes:
•
Figueiredo, M.T. elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE Fellow, for
contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision;
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; elected to the grade of Fellow of IARIA Fellow by his
services in International Conferences and contributions for the state of the
art improvement;
•
Girão, P. elected Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Asachi,
Romania;
•
Pereira, F., Honorable Mention in the UTL/Santander Totta Prize;
•
Duarte, A., "HP Innovations in Education grant 2009" (HP Innovations in
Education grants are targeted at key faculty responsible for undergraduate
degree programs);
•
Vieira, P. Vieira; 2nd place in “Prémio Inovação Jovem Engenheiro 2008;
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa Honourable mention, Student Paper
Contest associated with the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on
Antennas and Propagation,
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; V. S. Soares; F. F. Farahmand, Best Paper Award – on the
2nd international conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and
Quality of Service CTRQ 2009,
12
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; Vaidya, B; Park, J. P., Best Paper Award – on the 3rd.
International Conference on Information Security and Assurance and its
Workshops ISA 2009,
•
Perdigão, M.; Baptista, B.; Alvarez, J.; Saraiva E. S.; Shortlisted Best
Presentation in Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2009. (UPEC
2009)
In 2009 it participated with its own stand in the following exhibitions and fora:
•
“4a Jornadas de Inovação”, in the FIL – Parque das Nações, in Lisbon, 18th –
21st, June
•
3rd Portuguese Space Forum, organized by the FCT Space Office, in Pavilhão
do Conhecimento, Ciência Viva, Lisbon, 30th July,
•
Meeting of the “Conselho dos Laboratórios Associados”, in the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, 29th- 30th July.
IT is a member of the CIENCIA VIVA, the National Agency for Scientific and
Technological culture and co-operates in some of its events, namely those
related with the diffusion of know-how on electromagnetic radiation and its
effects on the human body. Project MONIT, (www.lx.it.pt/monit) is actively
engaged in promoting and diffusing know how on electromagnetic radiation and
mobile communications. Occasionally, through this project, IT offers two week
training in the measurement of electromagnetic radiation.
In cooperation with IST, IT started a one-year post graduation course in
Telecommunications and Information Technologies. Sponsored by VODAFONE
and in cooperation with IST, IT organized and implemented a 30-hour update
course in Telecommunication Systems for high school teachers which was run
three times in 2009 (80 teachers).
Also in cooperation with IST, IT organized visits and demonstrations for high
school pupils, involving about 1200 pupils (in 2009).
13
Some of the activities mentioned in detail in Annexes are closely interconnected
with activities carried out by it researchers in the scope of their universities or
polytechnics. Their inclusion in this Report is merely for the record.
14
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – KEY IT INDICATORS
2. KEY IT INDICATORS
2.1
Human Resources
Position
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisbon
Total
Professor Emeritus
0
0
3
3
Full Professor
6
4
10
20
Associate Professor
6
6
23
35
Assistant Professor
26
24
60
110
Post. Doc.
5
2
15
22
Coordinator Professor
0
5
3
8
Assistant Lecturer
2
9
1
12
45
36
104
185
1
0
0
1
14
1
8
23
105
87
227
419
PhD Student
Visiting Professor
(Licenciado)
TOTAL
Table 2 – Current it human resources (excluding administrative staff)
15
2.2
Projects
Funding Agency
Number
AdI,German Aerospace Center (DLR)
1
ANACOM
2
Brisa
2
COST
2
COST, NA
1
DAAD
1
DoCoMo
1
EC - FP7
3
EC, COST
1
EFACEC
1
ESF
4
EU
2
EU, FP7
23
Euro-NF internal, European Commission
4
FCT
8
FCT/CAPES
1
FCT/PTDC
31
FLAD
2
GRICES
1
GRICES - Programa Pessoa
1
GRICES-CNRS
1
iCentro
1
Instituto de Telecomunicações
16
Marinha Portuguesa/MDN
2
Optimus, TMN, Vodafone
1
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
1
16
Funding Agency
Number
Projecto de Investigação Científica e de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico no
âmbito do Programa CMU-Portugal
PT Inovação
1
QREN
6
Treat of Windsor - BritishCouncil/CCISP
1
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement, TC-25 Commitee
1
Projecto Europeu do 6º Programa Quadro
1
4
Table 3 – Number of active projects in 2009, according to funding source
2.3
Publications
Books
Journals
Conferences
Patents
MSc Thesis
PhD Thesis
67
198
519
16
194
22
Table 4 – Number of published works in 2009
"Books”- Fully authored books, Editor books, and book chapter contributions;
"Journals”- Papers in International refereed journals;
"Conferences”- Communications in International and National refereed conferences;
“Patents” - Patent applications;
"MSc and PhD Theses”- Concluded dissertations.
17
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
3. FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Operational income during 2009 totalled 8.729 k€, distributed as indicated in Table
5. Major income sources (clients of services and sources of subsidies) are detailed
in Table 6. Costs in 2008 totalled 8.961 k€, as partially indicated in Table 7. Main
asset changes in 2009 are listed in Table 8.
Sources of Income
Amount [k€]
Services to third parties
1.033
Subsidies
6.020
Other
1.676
TOTAL
8.729
Table 5 – Total operational income in 2009
Major clients of services
PT Inovação
Amount [k€]
342,4
Vodafone
80,6
Anacom
54,4
Brisa
130,4
Be Artis
53,0
TMN
53,0
19
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Main sources of subsidies
Amount [k€]
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
3.439,7
Universidade de Aveiro
1.432,9
Commission of the European Communities
915,4
Agência de Inovação
149,8
Table 6 – List of major income sources during 2009
Costs
Staff
Amount [k€]
1.801,8
Management costs
Scholarships
24,0
1.521,9
Missions
940.9
Books and journals
Consumables
76,0
411,1
Structural costs
1.480,9
Table 7 – Major costs in 2009
Assets
Amount [k€]
Increase in tangible assets
1.871,9
Depreciation
1.471,3
New Technical and Scientific Equipment
1.724,7
Table 8 – Main asset changes in 2009
20
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
4. RESEARCH AREAS
Wireless Communications
4.1
4.1.1
4.1.2
Area Coordinators
•
Carlos Cardoso Fernandes
•
Nuno Borges de Carvalho
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Professor Emeritus
0
0
2
Full Professor
2
0
4
Associate Professor
4
0
7
Assistant Professor
9
2
20
0
1
1
Post. Doc
2
1
0
PhD Student
16
2
39
(Licenciado)
1
1
5
34
7
78
TOTAL
Table 9 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in 2009
21
Permanent Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Adão Silva
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Aveiro
Full Professor
Agregação
Afonso Barbosa
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Lisbon
Full Professor
Agregação
Américo Correia
Radio Communication Systems
Associate Professor
PhD
António Alves Moreira
Assistant Professor
PhD
António Navarro
Assistant Professor
PhD
António Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
PhD
António Topa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Armando Rocha
Associate Professor
PhD
Atílio Gameiro
PhD Student
MSc
Carla Oliveira
Licenciado
MSc
Carla Sofia dos Reis
Medeiros
Full Professor
Agregação
Carlos Cardoso Fernandes
Associate Professor
Agregação
Carlos Paiva
Associate Professor
PhD
Carlos Sá da Costa
Professor Emeritus
Agregação
Carlos Salema
Assistant Professor
PhD
Custódio Peixeiro
Licenciado
MSc
Daniel Sebastião
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Diana Paula dos Santos
Ladeira
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Eduardo Lima
Fernando Fortes
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
PhD
Fernando J. Velez
Assistant Professor
PhD
Fernando Nunes
Communication Theory and Pattern
Recognition
Assistant Professor
PhD
Filipe Duarte dos Santos
Cardoso
Associate Professor
PhD
Francisco Cercas
Assistant Professor
PhD
Francisco Sena da Silva
Recognition
Assistant Professor
PhD
João Carlos Silva
Associate Professor
Agregação
João Costa Freire
22
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate Professor
PhD
João Nuno Matos
Assistant Professor
PhD
João Vaz
Assistant Lecturer
PhD
Jonathan Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
PhD
Jorge Paulo Alves Torres
Assistant Professor
PhD
Jorge Rodrigues da Costa
Associate Professor
Agregação
José Bioucas Dias
Recognition
Full Professor
Agregação
José Carlos Pedro
Full Professor
Agregação
José Leitão
Recognition
PhD
José Nascimento
Recognition
Agregação
José Neves
Associate Professor
PhD
José Rocha Pereira
Assistant Professor
PhD
José Sanguino
Licenciatura
Lúcio Studer Ferreira
Associate Professor
Agregação
Luís M. Correia
Assistant Professor
Licenciatura
Manuel Dinis
Assistant Professor
PhD
Maria João Rosário
Professor Emeritus
Agregação
Mário Lança
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mário Marques Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mário Silveirinha
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Coimbra
Licenciado
MSc
Mónica Rute Cardoso
Antunes
Associate Professor
PhD
Nuno Borges Carvalho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Nuno Souto
Coordinator
Professor
PhD
Paulo Marques
Recognition
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pedro Miguel Cabral
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pedro Miguel Lavrador
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pedro Renato Tavares
Pinho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pedro Santos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pedro Vieira
Coordinator
Professor
PhD
Rafael Caldeirinha
Optical Communications - Coimbra
Assistant Professor
Full Professor
PhD Student
23
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Filipe Rosa Paulo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
Stanislav Maslovski
Post. Doc.
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telmo Fernandes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telmo Reis Cunha
Table 10 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in 2009
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Group
António Abreu
António Serrador
António Tavares
Carlos Alberto Barreiro
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Mendes
Lisbon
Carlos Gaspar Ribeiro
Cesaltina Nabais Escarigo Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Ricardo
Lisbon
Daniel Luís Silveira Robalo
Darlene Maciel Neves
Fernando de Sousa
Recognition
Fernando Santos Azevedo Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Lisbon
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Prudêncio
Lisbon
Filipe Alexandre da Silva Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Rodrigues
Aveiro
Francisco José Dinis de
Sousa Fernandes Ganhão
Francisco Monteiro
George Jr. Shaundel
Matthew
Gonçalo Valadão
Recognition
Ivo Luís de la Cerda Garcia
e Sousa
João Carlos Roquete
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Fidalgo Canto
Lisbon
24
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
Position
Licenciatura
João M. Ferro
PhD Student
MSc
João Paulo Martins
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant Professor
PhD
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves
Aveiro
João Tavares
Aveiro
João Tiago de Figueiredo e Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves
Costa
Coimbra
Jorge dos Santos Freitas Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves
de Oliveira
Aveiro
Jun Li
Recognition
Luís Carlos Carneiro
Aveiro
Gonçalves
Luís M. Borges
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Miguel Mendes
PhD Student
MSc
Luisa Caeiro
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Manya Vital Afonso
PhD Student
MSc
Marco Alexandre Ribeiro
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Marian-Daniel Iordache
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Michal Lukasz Mackowiak
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel Campilho Gomes
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel Ramos Pereira
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Muhammad Alam
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Licenciado
PhD Student
Licenciatura
MSc
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves
Lisbon
Lisbon
Recognition
Lisbon
Networks and Mulitmedia
Communications - Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon
-
-
-
-
-
Norberto José Gil Barroca Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Lisbon
Nuno Cota
Nuno Figueiredo
Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo
Garrido
Nuria Blanco Delgado
Recognition
Orlando Manuel Brito
Cabral
Paulo Gustavo Martins da Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Silva
Lisbon
Pedro Amaro Sebastião
Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Aveiro
Pedro Miguel Ferreira de Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Oliveira Pedrosa
Lisbon
Rafal Glogowski
Ricardo Matos Abreu
Sara Helena Marques
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Teodoro
Aveiro
25
Degree
Name
PhD Student
Position
Licenciatura
Senka Hadzic
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciado
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
Group
Sérgio Almeida Matos
Sérgio Carlos da Conceição Radio Microwaves and Millimeter Waves Pires
Aveiro
Sérgio Morgadinho Rebelo
Networks and Multimedia
Communications - Coimbra
Susana Mota
Teresa Paula Soares de
Radio Microwaves and Millimiter Waves Araújo
Lisbon
Tiago André Nogueira
Morgado
Vahid Nazari Talooki
Valdemar Monteiro
Table 11 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in
2009
26
4.1.3
Summary of Research Achivements
Research work in the Wireless Communications Scientific Area of it covers the
main aspects related to the air interface in wireless communications and
supporting technologies, including hardware/software. Activities fall within the
following five general topics:
- Antenna Analysis and Design;
- Wireless Circuits and Devices;
- Waves and Propagation;
- Transmitting and Receiving Systems;
- Radio Networks.
Antenna Analysis And Design
Work on antennas followed three main streams: Small antennas for indoor
applications, advanced antennas for RFID and antennas for mm-wave applications.
Small terminal antennas
Work continued on the development of UWB antennas, both for indoor personal
communications and also for indoor localization applications. This included
exponential slot based antenna configurations and dielectric loaded printed ring
monopoles.
A new wideband MIMO antenna array configuration was developed for MIMO WLAN
Access Points with space and polarization diversity and was experimentally
evaluated in terms of MIMO performance, using measured channel response data.
The work followed the development of a MIMO channel sounder, based on a vector
network analyzer.
Small and compact multi-band microstrip patch antenna elements and arrays were
developed for small personal terminal multi-standard applications. The analysis
included antenna-user interaction characterization and the evaluation of mutual
coupling and correlation. Single and multi-feed patches with slots have been
considered.
Flexible antennas made from electro-textile materials were designed and tested for
wearable
and
body-implanted
networks.
Electromagnetic
Band
Gap
(EBG)
27
structures have been incorporated into these antennas to reduce radiation into the
user body.
RFID Antennas
Previous work on UHF RFID antennas was extended also for tags. A new folded tag
antenna configuration with omnidirectional coverage was developed for embedding
in special objects like suitcases for automatic luggage identification and tracking in
sensitive environments. Also a wireless polling system was developed, based on
passive UHF RFID technology.
The activity also included the design of new antennas for confined detection of
tagged RFID objects within medical cabinets.
A new line of research has started on transparent antennas for specific RFID
applications.
Other Antennas
Work also continued on the development of a fully functional mm-wave wireless
USB system demonstrator using a recently developed mechanical steerable beam
antenna concept based on a 60 GHz pivoting dielectric lens. A 1 Mbit/s data stream
transmission was demonstrated with the Tx antenna tracking the movable receiver
antenna.
Wireless Circuits And Devices
In this sub-area the research activities can be grouped under three general topics,
one related to RF/microwave circuit design either CMOS based or GaN based,
another to computer aided design of microwave/RF circuits and systems including
simulation techniques and system/device modeling and a third one dedicated to
wireless system design, mainly software defined radio and RFID/location systems.
In all cases, the underlying applications fall within the wireless area.
RF and Microwave Circuit Design
In this area in the last year some active cooperation with Eindhoven Technical
University, Holland, in development of RF front-ends, for Millimeter Wave
applications was done, mainly some works on HBTs modeling of a 0.25um BiCMOS
SiGe monolithic technology was obtain to explain the behavior of two active
inductors. Some design rules were also derived.
28
Moreover during 2009 some advances were made on the following items:
- A complete RF front-End Receiver prototype on 0.18um CMOS for WLAN
802.11abg and Bluetooth applications was designed and built. The receiver uses a
heterodyne architecture with sliding IF frequency plan.
- Spiral transformers modeling and design with electromagnetic simulation on
0.18um CMOS technology
- A class E power amplifiers with driver for 2.4GHz WLAN applications on 0.18um
CMOS technology
- A Low Noise Amplifier for IEEE 802.11abg WLAN dual band applications with
0.18um CMOS technology. The amplifier uses a switched topology to operate at
2.4GHz and at 5.2GHz.
- Work on monolithic power amplifiers started in 2009 within two research projects.
The studies will address polar topologies with bias modulator circuits. An emitter
will be designed for 2.4GHz applications.
- Some efforts were also done in the area of power amplifiers, continuing the work
of last years. Does the some new wireless transmitter architectures, mainly devoted
to the design, implementation and test of switched-mode power amplifiers continue
to growth.
In this are of new transmitter architectures, some attention was also put in the
envelope modulator design and its nonlinear impairments to the overall linearity
and efficiency. Pre-distortion techniques were also employed with very good results
that deserved several publications in conference proceedings and in journals.
- The group also continues the effort with EFACEC of a project devoted to the study
of the robustness test of a new and very promising semiconductor transistor
technology: Gallium Nitride (GaN). At this moment the engineering prototype is
already built and fully tested with very good results.
- In the last year some new efforts with Portugal Telecom start also a new line of
work in the design of point to point wireless links in the 18GHz band.
29
Wireless System Design
During the year of 2009, in the are of wireless system design some work have been
done in topics as RFID, DSRC, and SDR front ends.
Referring RFID some new RFID readers were built for the 13Mhz band as also some
Zig-Bee nodes for the implementation of a new wireless location engine based on
RF fingerprinting, in this respect the overall system was built in IT.
The work carried on with Brisa continues based on the develop of a new dual RSEDSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) system, for automatic identification
and tool purposes, in 5,8GHz band, according with European standards to the
physical, link and application layers (EN12834, EN12795, EN12253 and EN13372)
and compatible with the actual Via Verde System. Design, fabrication and test of a
DSRC system prototype were achieved.
The main goal of this project is to “Development of Proof of Concept on wireless
communications system for road applications, with emphasis on safety, following
the WAVE recommendation”. While the standard IEEE-802.11.p is not completed,
the development will follow the IEEE 802.11.a whenever necessary. Following the
current 802.11p recommendations, basic functionalities will be implemented in
order to comply with the identified applications and scenarios.
In the area of Software define radio some new effort were done in the design of
new RF front ends, especially in the study of techniques devoted to the increase of
receiver dynamic range. This effort is aimed at the design of a complete cognitive
radio transceiver that will allow the implementation of the cognitive radio
approaches.
Waves and Propagation
Work in this sub-area includes fundamental work in the area of elctromagnetics of
complex media with possible application to antennas and other relevant devices for
wireless supporting technologies. It also includes studies for EM exposure
assessment.
30
Electromagnetics of Complex Media
In the last year some work has been done in homogenization and characterization
of structured materials. Characterization of novel nonlocal metamaterials, with
anomalous properties, such as lossless broadband anomalous dispersion or
broadband negative refraction.
A new prototype of wire media slab was developed to demonstrate experimentally
its potential to present extreme values of effective permittivity, enabling its
application for super resolution.
Other metamaterial structures with near-zero effective permittivity were designed
and experimentally evaluated, intended for manipulation of electromagnetic fields
in the sub wavelength scale.
In this sub-area in last year some continuing effort on Electromagnetics of Complex
Media Chiral Media: Analysis of the propagation characteristics of chiral H-guides:
Surface and leaky modes and respective chirality dispersion influence.
Omega Media: Dispersion and losses in omega H-guide operation: Leaky en surface
modes; Metamaterials: Leaky-mode propagation in metamaterial nonradiative
dielectric (NRD) waveguides: Dispersive and lossy constitutive models; Propagation
characteristics of DNG ridge waveguides: Proper leaky mode dispersion and
propagation. Effect of material losses in metamaterial waveguide performance were
developed.
Numerical modeling
Some work has been conducted on FDTD simulation of light propagation inside aSi:H structures. Understanding of light transmission, reflection and propagation
inside semiconductor structures is crucial for development of photovoltaic devices.
Using the FDTD is possible to simulate the propagation of electromagnetic waves
with wavelengths in the range of the visible spectrum within a a-Si:H p-i-n
structure. While the effects of surface reflections are easily taken into account by
the algorithm, light absorption represents a more critical point, because of its nonlinear dependence with conductivity.
31
Public awareness and risk communication
The six-years long effort to disseminate basic information to the general public on
Electromagnetic radiation from personal communication devices and from operator
base station antennas entered a new phase where the information is brought to
secondary schools, which participate through a national wide contest that will award
a prize for the best student work.
Transmitting and Receiving Systems
Performance studies were carried for WiMax/LTE, HSDPA and HSUPA at 900/2000
MHz bands and adjacent channel interference in UMTS systems in the 2000 and
2500 MHz bands. Some efforts have also continuing in the study of GPS navigation
systems and on SAR radar solutions.
Mobile communications
The achievements in 2009 consist mainly in the study of LTE and WiMAX systems,
were
Point-to-Multipoint
Cellular
Scenario
evaluated.
Dynamic
space-time-
frequency Radio Resource Management scheduling algorithms valid for both
technologies were also carried out. New link and system level modules were built
for the simulators.
Moreover the continuation of performance studies for HSDPA and HSUPA at
900/2000 MHz bands and adjacent channel interference in UMTS systems in the
2000 and 2500 MHz bands were done.
Concerning 3G systems, an analysis and optimization study based on drive tests
was also considered.
Development of two WiMAX software tools: the first a static tool for fixed WiMAX
and the other a dynamic simulator for mobile WiMAX. Study of capacity
enhancement of wireless communications systems using MIMO techniques in
particular with aplications for LTE in macrocell scenarios. Study of centralized
cooperative spectrum sensing for ad-hoc disaster relief networks.
In 2009 some work were also allocated to emerging services which demand higher
data rates, especially in the downlink. Thus OFDM transmission techniques,
together with MIMO antennas systems are the key approach to reach this
development in cellular communications.
32
During 2009, research work focused on iterative frequency-domain receivers for
block transmission techniques with rate-1 Space Time Block Coding (STBC) for two
and four transmit antennas using both Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(OFDM) and Single-Carrier (SC) schemes were developed.
The studied receiver includes an interference canceller which enhances the
performance of the non-orthogonal STBC scheme with 2 and 4 transmit antennas,
allowing performances close to those of orthogonal codes. These techniques are
potential technologies to be used by the fourth generation of cellular systems.
While MIMO OFDM is expected to be used for the downlink of LTE (being also
considered by IEEE 802.15 (WIMAX)), the MIMO SC-FDE is a potential technology
for the uplink of LTE, due to its simplicity when compared to MIMO OFDM, but
achieving similar (or even better results) than MIMO OFDM. Several MIMO schemes
are to be studied, as well as the study of advanced receivers for the SC-FDE. In
addition, a particular pre-processing MIMO is to be developed, applied to OFDM (to
be considered for the downlink of MIMO OFDM technology).
Finally some efforts were put in the following aspects: efficient simulation methods
for wireless communication systems using different modulation, coding and fading
models with special emphasis on TCH (Tomlinson, Cercas, Hughes) codes,
development of a new UWB system using TCH codes for both coding and
synchronization aspects, evaluation of new techniques (namely hierarchical
constellations, channel estimation, MIMO, OFDM) for use in LTE (Long Term
Evolution) of UMTS systems and development of GPS related applications using
dedicated hardware as well as the new satellite ground station.
GNSS Solutions
Some studies were focused on new GNSS solutions, including:
-Development and implementation of algorithms for coordinated positioning
systems;
- Development and implementation of algorithms for precise positioning;
- Following the work carried in 2008, a GPS monitoring station was developed at
Instituto de Telecomunicações.
33
SAR Radars
The work devoted to SAR radars was mainly based on development of techniques
to estimate the velocity and trajectory of moving targets using Synthetic Aperture
Radar data from a single sensor. In includes the development of a novel SAR
ambiguity function with built-in capability to distinguish between targets moving in
a predefined direction. IT researchers participate in a NATO Exploratory Team for
Noise Radar Technology evaluation for application in future military systems.
Radio Networks
Several contributions on Physical Layer Awareness in the context of Future Internet
were done.
Within eMobility, contributions were given to the Strategic Research Agenda and to
the Strategic Applications Agenda.
The major results encompass:
- the development of channel models for Body Area Networks;
- the continuing development of CRRM algorithms for heterogeneous mobile
communication systems;
- the development of RRM algorithms for virtual mobile communications networks;
- the development of various simulators for the air interface of UMTS-FDD, with
HSDPA and HSUPA, and LTE, enabling the analysis of traffic aspects as well as load
and handover ones.
34
4.1.4
Running and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
Number
AdI, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
1
ANACOM
1
Brisa
2
COST
2
EC - COST
1
EC - FP7
1
EFACEC
1
ESF
2
EU
1
EU, FP7
10
FCT
2
FCT/PTDC
6
1
iCentro
1
1
TOTAL
33
Table 12 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2009
35
Activity in Projects
Acron / Ref
Title
ARNAGGS
Advanced Receivers and Navigation Algorithms for GPS/Galileo Signals
Funding FCT/PTDC
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project objectives are to study and develop:
a) Algorithms and methods for fast acquisition of weak navigation
signals;
b) Open-loop tracking architectures alternative to the conventional
DLL+PLL, based on stochastic nonlinear filtering. Harsh environments
such as indoor reception and use of highly-accelerative platforms will
be considered;
c) Structures and algorithms for advanced multipath mitigation.
Alternative solutions to the double-delta correlation, based on the
gating concept, will be proposed;
d) Coordinated positioning techniques;
e) Communication channel models relevant in navigation.
A collaboration with Portuguese companies operating in aerospace
activities is foreseen.
Acron / Ref
Title
ASPIRE
Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for
Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
ASPIRE will research and provide a radical change in the current RFID
deployment paradigm through innovative, programmable, royalty-free
and privacy friendly middleware. This new middleware paradigm will be
36
particular
beneficial
to
European
SME,
which
are
nowadays
experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.
European networked enterprises in general and SME in particular are
still reluctant to adopt RFID, since they perceive RFID as unprofitable
or too risky. This is largely due to the fact that the adoption of RFID
technology incurs a significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). ASPIRE
will significantly lower SME entry costs for RFID technology, through
developing and providing a lightweight, royalty-free, innovative,
programmable, privacy friendly, middleware platform that will facilitate
low-cost development and deployment of innovative RFID solutions.
This platform will act as a main vehicle for realizing the proposed swift
in the current RFID deployment paradigm. The ASPIRE middleware
platform will take into account innovative European developments in
the area of ubiquitous RFID-based sensing (i.e.,physical quantities
sensing
(temperature,
humidity,
pressure,
acceleration),
mobile
sensing) towards enabling novel business cases that ensure high ROI
(Return on Investment). The ASPIRE RFID middleware paradigm, as
well as the unique and novel characteristics of the ASPIRE middleware
platforms are thoroughly described in this proposal.
Acron / Ref
AGILE
Title
AGILE
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Develop studies for primary-secondary users in cognitive radio
Acron / Ref
4WARD
Title
Architecture and Design for the Future Internet
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
Today’s network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly
to the application level while the need for structural change is
37
increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design,
optimize and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence
to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that
cannot support innovations within itself, the Internet. 4WARD overcomes
this impasse through a set of radical architectural approaches built on
our strong mobile and wireless background.
We improve our ability to design inter-operable and complementary
families of network architectures. We enable the co-existence of multiple
networks on common platforms through carrier-grade virtualization for
networking resources.
We enhance the utility of networks by making them self-managing. We
increase their robustness and efficiency by leveraging diversity. Finally
we improve application support by a new information-centric paradigm in
place of the old host-centric approach. These solutions will embrace the
full range of technologies, from fibre backbones to wireless and sensor
networks. The 4WARD results will allow new markets to appear,
redefining business roles and creating new economic models. We will
establish the Future Internet Forum as a leading standards body,
enabling these new markets and opening them for old and new players
alike, increasing opportunities for competition and cooperation and
creating new products and services. These goals can only be achieved by
gathering a strong, industry-led consortium of the leading operators,
vendors, SME, and research organisations, with the determination, skills,
and critical mass to create cross-industry consensus and to drive
standardisation. The project is designed for multiple phases; the first one
will establish the core concepts and technologies and last for two years.
The planned effort of about 2200 person months corresponds to the
strategic importance of this endeavour.
Acron / Ref
LENTILLES
Title
Benchmarking of Integrated Lens Antenna Design and Manufacturig
Funding
38
Descript.
To benchmark IT and IETR lens design methods, lens analysis and
design tools, manufacturing technologies, measurement facilities and
results. The output of the project will be used to improve the design and
prediction tools that are being developed in both institutes.
Acron / Ref
SARMonitor
Title
Civil Traffic Monitoring Using SAR
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The goal of this project is to develop techniques for spaceborne SAR
platforms to automatically extract the parameters of interest for civil
traffic monitoring and planning at a continental scale. We also intend to
develop a PC application to demonstrate the feasability of traffic
monitoring from space borne SAR.
Acron / Ref
LOOP
Title
Coexistence and Optimization for LTE-RAN and WAN
Funding
Telesal
Descript.
a) Network Discovery, Session Management and Roaming to allow the
end-user to maintain
session
continuity whilst
roaming between
operators and wireless technologies.
b) Ad-Hoc Networking for Relay-based Cell Coverage Extension will
extend wireless and mobile coverage providing enhanced QoS delivery,
and extended service delivery to remote, and fringe users.
c)
Dynamic
Spectrum
Allocation
for
Heterogeneous
Networks
to
investigate the opportunistic use of licensed spectrum by secondary
systems to optimize utilization of scarce spectral resources.
d) Intra-System Optimization to maximize network utilization by
exploring the application of a cross-layered protocol architecture.
39
Acron / Ref
Title
COILS
Comparison of WiMAX and LTE on a Personal Cell Scenario for the
Provision of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services
Funding
Descript.
The main goal of COILS is the design and evaluation of efficient methods
for the provision of broadband services and applications based on MBMS
to groups of mobile users located mainly in Personal Cells. The use of
MBMS over Personal Cells will support the efficient use of radio and
network resources, while also providing rich context information to
applications and services. Merging these two frameworks promises
enhanced multimedia application provisioning, benefiting end users and
operators alike. The technologies investigated during the course of the
project will generate considerable novel intellectual property that will
become the property of IT.
Acron / Ref
Title
CODIV
Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing COoperative
DIVersity
Funding
Descript.
FP7 ICT
The CODIV project is targeting the evolutions of cellular networks and
WMAN’s. and aims to research, develop and validate radio technologies
exploiting channels diversity and cooperation between users, targeting
three major goals: enable the high bit rates targeted in the broadband
component of future wireless system; improve the power and spectrum
efficiencies of existing wireless systems; improve and extend coverage
and fairness. The project will go significantly beyond the current SoA by
considering
cooperative
and
relaying
functionalities
at
the
user
equipment level and bringing the concepts up to the prototyping phase.
The activities are organized to cover the three phases needed for
40
demonstration: concept definition, development of enabling technologies
and proof of concept. The final outputs of the project will include a
physical testbed consisting of several transceivers to show the feasibility
of the technology and also a system level simulator to assess at a
system level the benefits in terms of the technologies developed.
Acron / Ref
ASSIST
Title
COST IC0603 (ASSIST)
Funding
ESF
Descript.
To assist in the research & development of antenna systems and
sensors necessary for the new ubiquitous wireless society
Coordinate existing research
Suggest new topics
Stand in a scientific/technological survey attitude
To contribute to the visibility of antenna activities in Europe and to lobby
for new projects
Creation of an European Antenna community
Conferences and Workshops
Exchange of researchers
Interactions academy-industry
To increase public awareness of antenna related issues.
Acron / Ref
Title
COST IC0802
COST IC0802 - PROPAGATION TOOLS AND DATA FOR INTEGRATED
TELECOMMUNICATION,
NAVIGATION
AND
EARTH
OBSERVATION
SYSTEMS
41
Funding
COST
Descript.
The main objective of the Action is to create a coordinated database of
models, techniques and data of the physical channel to improve the
design and performance of Global Integrated Networks (examples
include satellite mobile and fixed communication systems, terrestrial
networks for mobile and fixed terminals, satellite navigation systems,
and Earth Observation systems).
Acron / Ref
Title
PHOTON
Distributed and Extendible Heterogeneous Radio Architectures using
Fibre Optic Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The overall goal is to research, validate and demonstrate RoF as a key
technology for dense wireless networks, with proposals for efficient and
scalable architectures and enhanced wireless transmission / resource
management
techniques
exploiting the distributed nature of the
environment provided by the infrastructure. Specific objectives include:
•Research
innovative
capacity
enhancement
solutions
which
will
specifically address microscopic and macroscopic diversity concepts
using MIMO, intra-system dynamic resource allocation adopting a crosslayer design and interference cancellation
•Develop an hybrid (optical- wireless) simulation tool to evaluate the
impact of RoF on legacy and future networks.
•Implement a prototype including the electro-optic interfaces, remote
access units and antenna structures
•Develop realistic system level photonic models
•Design system interface solutions to evaluate the impact of smart
antennas and photonic models on legacy and future networks
•Photon Demonstration and optimization resulting in a set of design
42
guidelines
Acron / Ref
WiFiRx
Title
Double-Band Multi_standard Frequency Front-End for WLAN aplications
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The
main
objectives
of
this
project
are:
a) To build a highly integrated CMOS chip capable of receiving the RF
signals from the most important WLAN systems in Europe, namely, IEEE
802.11 a/b/g. Encapsulated and naked chips prototypes will be
fabricated. The naked chip prototypes will be tested chip-on-board (CoB)
and
the
encapsulated
chips
will
be
tested
on
a
test
board.
b) To gather the individual skills of our team concerning design and test
of individual blocks and with those skills build a wider system like a
receiver.
c) To study and solve issues related with design of RF systems on a
chip, namely, total power dissipation, occupied area, substrate injected
noise, and overall immunity to external and internal spurious signals.
For that the use of non-conventional and innovative solutions at block
level will be investigated.
d) To give the possibility of two PhD and one MSc students to access
0.18um
CMOS
Mixed
Signal
/
RF
technology
in
their
works.
The main objective of the principal investigator is to develop an expert
team in radio frequency CMOS circuit and system design. The team past
experience is mainly at circuits level and with this project we are able to
give the next step to a wider system. As a consequence we will be
prepared for future demands that certainly will appear taking in mind
what
is
appending
at
national
and
international
level.
Nowadays national companies are interested in RF CMOS communication
circuits. For that they are starting collaborations with university and
their research institutes. Also a strong demand for RF engineers is felt at
a national level. After his PhD, the PI, which in the past worked in GaAs
43
MMICs, moved his research interest to RF integrated circuits in CMOS
processes. In his teaching activities he has created a chair about RF
CMOS
circuits
design
offered
to
MSc
and
PhD
courses.
In a near future projects, the goal will be the design of a complete
transceiver.
Acron / Ref
COST BM 0704
Title
Emerging EMF Technologies and Health Risk Management
Funding
COST
Descript.
The main objective of the Action is to create a structure in which
researchers in the field of EMF and health can share knowledge and
information on:
1. How existing EMF technologies change either in their operating
characteristics or in novel ways and applications in which they are used
2. Identifying what entirely new EMF technologies are introduced and on
what time-scale
3. What novel emission and operating characteristics might result and
what impact these would have on the device-specific and overall EMF
exposure of people
4. What possible health effects could consequently arise and the
scientific evidence for health
concerns if any
5. How such concerns should be addressed through the use of evidencebased information and
6. What tools are effective in communicating and managing such risks
and perceived risks. And, effectively publish all such information in the
public sector for the benefit of all stakeholders.
44
Acron / Ref
eMobility
Title
eMobility
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
Telecommunications is experiencing major change. Sector actors are
searching for new strategies as globalisation, mergers, convergence and
new and disruptive technologies happen. The eMobility Technology
Platform was formed to address this challenge and has almost 500
members. It has a track record of success in facilitating consensus
building.
The strategic objective of the eMobility CA project is to facilitate the
emergence of a common understanding, between the European sector
actors, leading to agreed road-maps and contributing to the global
competitiveness of the European telecommunications sector on the
following key challenges: the need to integrate the road-maps of the
mobile and wireless sector with those of the health, transport and the
environment sectors, the need to extend the eMobility Strategic
Research Agenda to cover new technologies, the need to support the
definition of a European perspective on the Future Internet, positioning
these views in the international context, and the need to build the
opportunities to use Structural Funds to develop leading edge markets
in Europe, promoting the take-up of the RandD output of collaborative
projects. The approach is based on the voluntary contributions of FP7,
national, and COST Programmes projects and of eMobility members, to
the production of a series of recommendations, reports, road-maps and
events by the eMobility CA. The eMobility Steering Board has endorsed
the proposal. Support has been offered by a range of proposed and
existing projects. The eMobility CA project results will highlight the
collective recommendations of a representative body of European
expertise, on priorities for future multi-sector, mobile, wireless and
Future Internet R&D leading to increased momentum, critical mass and
effective use of scarce human and time resources in RandD activities.
45
123 person months of funded
effort will require a Community
contribution of 1.5 M Euro with 75% funding.
Acron / Ref
Title
CODIV
Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing COoperative
DIVersity
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
The CODIV project is targeting the evolutions of cellular networks and
WMAN’s. and aims to research, develop and validate radio technologies
exploiting channels diversity and cooperation between users, targeting
three major goals: enable the high bit rates targeted in the broadband
component of future wireless system; improve the power and spectrum
efficiencies of existing wireless systems; improve and extend coverage
and fairness. The project will go significantly beyond the current SoA by
considering
cooperative
and
relaying
functionalities
at
the
user
equipment level and bringing the concepts up to the prototyping phase.
The activities are organized to cover the three phases needed for
demonstration: concept definition, development of enabling technologies
and proof of concept. The final outputs of the project will include a
physical testbed consisting of several transceivers to show the feasibility
of the technology and also a system level simulator to assess at a
system level the benefits in terms of the technologies developed.
Acron / Ref
Title
FUTON
Fibre Optic Networks for Distributed, Extendible Heterogeneous Radio
Architectures and Service Provisioning
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
Two current trends in wireless communications are the development of
46
new broadband component and the integration of heterogeneous
wireless networks, to achieve the vision f the so-called 4G network.
The FUTON project addresses both issues by proposing the development
of a hybrid fibre-radio infrastructure transparently connecting remote
antenna units to a central unit where a joint processing can be
performed. This allows the development of virtual multiple antenna
transmission / reception concepts to achieve broadband wireless
transmission, and also inter-cell interference cancellation. Furthermore
the fact that the management of several heterogeneous systems is colocalized enables the development of efficient procedures for a joint
management of the radio resources.
The focus of the project aims to develop and validate a hybrid opticalradio infrastructure, where simplified Remote Antenna Units (RAU) are
transparently
connected
to
a
central
unit,
and
exploiting
the
potentialities provide by such infrastructure:
Develop
efficient
cross-system
techniques
for
the
integration
of
heterogeneous systems
Define and provide proof of concepts for cooperative techniques
enabling the broadband component of the future wireless systems.
Furthermore the project will evaluate the implications on the current
wireless architecture models of the new concept proposed, determine
cost models for upgradeability / replacement and provide roadmaps for
evolution and standardisation.
The FUTON consortium brings together expertise from the areas of
wireless and optical communications, allowing previously untapped
synergies between these two areas.
Acron / Ref
GaNSpace
Title
GaNSpace
Funding
EFACEC
47
Descript.
Build an oscillator based on GaN for scientific studies in space
environemnts.
Acron / Ref
HURRICANE
Title
Handovers for ubiquitous and optimal broadband connectivity
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
Seizing the above great research challenge and building on recent
research advances on both the handover procedure phases and upper
service layers, HURRICANE targets to investigate, design, implement,
test and propose for standardisation enablers for optimized inter-system
handovers operations among various radio cooperative networking
environments (3G, WLAN, WiMAX and DVB) that are going to formulate
future/near future business cases for both broadcasters and telecom
operators in the context of a FMC communications environment.
- Traffic modelling and QoS, where traffic models appropriate to
characterise the different classes of services envisioned for B3G systems
are studied. Characterisation parameters and traffic models that
accounts for multi-rate applications will be used as an input of the
design and optimisation process.
- MAC definition and cross-layer design, where the use of the traffic
model
results,
and
proposals
for
architectures
using
cross-layer
information (CLI) to achieve QoS are investigated and assessed.
Research work will include the identification and transport of relevant
cross-layer information (CLI), the definition of a cross-layer (CL)
architecture framework, and Cross-layer strategies between PHY and
MAC/RRM.
- Network planning and optimisation, which represents the synthesis
and integration of the two previous activities by means of performance
evaluation (including simulation). Multi-service deployment scenarios,
with
simultaneous
support
of
multi-rate
multimedia
applications,
48
provides a framework for possible operation environments. Traffic
engineering aspects related to the measurement, modelling, and control
of multimedia multi-class traffic (e.g., related with mobile IP and micromobility issues) will also be addressed, as well as novel packet-switched
QoS architectures aspects, and their performance. The impact of
economic in systems optimisation will also be addressed.
Our methodology will be based both in modelling and simulation work
but network traffic measurements will also be performed.
Finally, it is important to highlight that this research programme is
challenging for both IT teams (Covilhã and Aveiro), and does constitute
an innovative area of research that will strongly contribute to “all-IP”
mobile and wireless communications research for B3G systems within
Europe.
Acron / Ref
HICOPI
Title
HiCoPI - High Accuracy GNSS-based Coordinated Positioning
Funding
Internal
Descript.
Development and evaluation of algorithms and estimators in the context
of navigation and coordinated positioning.
Acron / Ref
HYPER-I-NET
Title
Hyperspectral Imaging Network
Funding
EU
Descript.
The Hyperspectral Imaging Network (HYPER-I-NET) is a four-year
(2007-2010) FP6 Marie Curie Research Training Network designed to
build an interdisciplinary European research community focusing on
hyperspectral imaging activities.
Hyperspectral imaging is concerned with the measurement, analysis,
49
and interpretation of spectra acquired from a given scene (or specific
object) at a short, medium or long distance by an airborne or satellite
imaging spectrometer. Hyperspectral sensors are now able to produce
hundreds of images, corresponding to different wavelength channels, for
the same area on the surface of the Earth. Such wealth of spectral
information
applications,
has
opened
including
ground-breaking
environmental
perspectives
and
urban
in
many
monitoring
and
assessment, target detection for military and homeland defense/security
purposes, and risk prevention and response. The latter includes tracking
wildfires, detecting biological threats, and monitoring oil spills and other
types of chemical contamination. The core strategy of HYPER-I-NET will
be to create a powerful interdisciplinary synergy between different
domains of expertise within Europe, and use it to break new grounds in
areas related with hyperspectral imaging. This will be achieved by
organizing a well structured multidisciplinary training programme that
will cover all the different aspects that comprise the hyperspectral data
processing chain, ranging from sensor design and flight operation to
data collection, processing, interpretation, and dissemination. As a
result, the theme of HYPER-I-NET is at the confluence of heterogeneous
disciplines,
such
as
sensor
design
and
calibration,
aerospace
engineering, remote sensing, high performance computing, image/signal
processing and Earth observation related products.
The main objectives of HYPER-I-NET will be to:
1. Bridge the gap between sensor design and hyperspectral data
exploitation in remote sensing activities in Europe. This will be done by
defining
2.
a
Develop
so-called
standard
standardized
and
hyperspectral
innovative
processing
chain;
techniques/products
for
hyperspectral image analysis, taking into account specific requirements
introduced by these data sets (collection, storage, processing and
calibration);
3. Establish standardized data processing and validation/quality control
procedures in all the steps of the hyperspectral processing chain;
4. Integrate knowledge from different disciplines (e.g., sensor design,
data
processing,
computing,
scientific
applications)
and
50
their
contribution
to
the
development,
operation
and
exploitation
of
hyperspectral imaging systems;
5. Improve the cooperation and transfer of knowledge (ToK), from
Research Institutions, Universities and SMEs working on hyperspectral
imaging;
6. Create a powerful multidisciplinary synergy that will allow a more
solid integration of technical and scientific issues, building a true
interdisciplinary
network
relying
on
standardization
and
joint
terminology..
Acron / Ref
INPOS
Title
Indoors Positioning Using GNSS Aided Techniques
Funding
QREN
Descript.
INPOS is an industrial project focused in the investigation of positiioning
techniques in indoor environments using the combination of GNSS
technologies, GPS and Galileo, aided by inertial sensors and wireless
network technology, i.e., Wi-Fi and in the future WiMAX.
Acron / Ref
Title
INSHORE
Integrated
System
for
High
Operational
Resolution
in
Shore
Monitorization
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main goal of this project is to develop methodologies to large scale
morphologic
and
sedimentary
survey
of
sandy
beaches.
These
methodologies are based on the use of satellite and digital image
technologies
to
perform
efficient
monitoring
programs.
Specific
objectives of this project are:
1) Development of a low cost and high resolution GPS prototype system,
51
to be mounted on a land vehicle, appropriate for driving in sand. This
system will allow an efficient morphologic survey of sandy beaches
stretches with tens of kilometres, from which it is possible to build 3D
digital elevation models and to characterise the main morphological
features.
2) Development of a digital image prototype system for an automatic
beach sand textural analysis. This system, when incorporated in a land
vehicle and integrated with the GPS based system, will permit a georeferenced real-time grain size quantification of a great number of
samples along a sector under study.
3) Development of a morphodynamic model of a sandy beach sector
with 65 kilometres of extension, which will work as a predictive tool
regarding natural and human induced impacts.
Acron / Ref
Title
PEACE
IP-Based Emergency Applications and Services for Next Generation
Networks
Funding
ICT
Descript.
Design and Specification of Next Generation Emergency Communication
System.
−Specify
a
general
all-IP
IMS-based
emergency
management
architecture.
− Investigate and provide solutions for supporting daily emergency
communication based on IP protocols.
- Specify and integrate mechanisms for user and device location in Next
Generation Networks.
- Specify a representation of emergency numbers in IMS and its
mapping to PSTN.
- Extend IMS with mechanisms for indication of location and emergency
numbers.
52
− Support ad-hoc communication in a secure manner.
Acron / Ref
VeXel
Title
Maritime Traffic Monitoring with TerraSAR-X
Funding
AdI,German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Descript.
The Objectives of the Project are the Following:
1 - Study the potentialities of TerraSAR-X stripMap and scanSAR
products to monitor maritime vessel traffic, namely to detect, to
estimate cinematic parameters, and to classify moving vessels.
2- Adapt and develop new methods and algorithms aimed at the
objectives listed above, taking advantage of the high geometric and
radiometric resolutions of TerraSAR-X, in comparison, for example, with
the ASAR and RADARSAR sensors.
3 - Build a prototype for for maritime traffic monitoring based on
TerraSAR-X data.
Acron / Ref
Metex
Title
Metamaterial with extreme permittivity
Funding
Internal
Descript.
Investigate microwave applications for the x-wires metamaterial, such
as the realization of ultra-subwavelength waveguides, superlensing,
miniaturization of microwave components, or the design of novel
resonant inclusions.
Acron / Ref
Title
Wi-mm
Millimetre-wave wireless indoor link with automatic tracking antenna
53
Funding
IT
Descript.
The objective is to demonstrate a low-cost high bit rate data link that
integrates a mechanically steerable lens antenna with a simplified RF
front-end and with automatic tracking control system. A fully operational
video transmission will be demonstrated with this wireless mobile mmwave system.
Acron / Ref
Title
MOCHA
MOCHA - MOdelling and CHAracterization for SiP Signal and Power
Integrity Analysis
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
The objective of the MOCHA project is developing reliable modelling and
simulation solutions for
SiP design verification.
The final objectives of the project are:
- a demonstration of the innovative IC simulation models developed and
their related extraction flows by both simulation and measurement;
- the development of an innovative 3D EM field solver;
- the development of a performing SiP design and verification EDA
platform;
- a demonstration of the developed signal integrity measurement
techniques.
Acron / Ref
MONIT
Title
Monitoring of Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications
Funding
Optimus, TMN, Vodafone
Descript.
Main objectives: To provide ''public awareness'' information about
54
exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic wave radiation. To perform
a systematic monitoring of electromagnetic radiation level near mobile
communications base station sites all over the country, and to share
these results through a dedicated website.
Acron / Ref
NEWCOM++
Title
Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications ++
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
An NoE of medium size, greatly reduced from the initial NEWCOM
Consortium, formed by keeping the most committed and performing
partners, exploiting the successful integration tools that NEWCOM
designed and activated, and which is created for the purpose of
scientifically addressing medium/long term, complex, interdisciplinary,
fundamental research problems in the field of wireless networks,
focused towards identifying, posing in the right modelling perspective,
and at least partially characterizing the information-communication
theoretical limits of such networks and the algorithmic solutions that
make it possible to approach those limits.
Acron / Ref
COST2100
Title
Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications
Funding
ESF
Descript.
The main objective of the Action is to increase knowledge of mobile and
wireless network technologies, by exploring and developing new
methods, models, techniques, strategies and tools that will facilitate the
implementation of next generation mobile radio communication systems
and will foster the development of the paradigms of pervasive and
ambient wireless communications.
55
Acron / Ref
SMART-CLOTHING
Title
Smart Clothing for Health Monitoring and Sport Applications
Funding
iCentro
Descript.
In
the
context
of
the
solution
being
sought,
a
hierarchical
communication system will be needed to deliver the data from the
WBAN that is installed in pregnant woman. Although the main focus of
SMART-CLOTHING is to produce the sensors integrated into the clothes
and to integrate them into the WBAN, broader WSAN (Wireless Sensor
and Actuator Network) solutions are being envisaged. e.g., in the
context of high competition teams, where the objective is to design and
develop
instrumentation
to
support
clinical
intervention
for
the
rehabilitation of neuro-muscular and muscular-skeletal functions caused
by traumatic injuries that occurred either during sports activity. As the
biomechanical analysis of the human movement needs a use of complex
hardware and software systems, there is an opportunity for wireless
communications and instrumentation and measurement research to
integrate these devices into tiny wireless sensor devices, with simplified
network capabilities, that will enlarge amplitude and freedom of the
movements.
In low risk pregnancies, between the medical sessions that occur weekly
during the last five weeks of pregnancy, the foetal health can change
suddenly. As a consequence, the majority of foetus fatalities in the end
of pregnancy verifies in the low risk group. Therefore, it is important an
obstetric tracing, allowing for the identification of sudden changes in the
foetus health, by monitoring the foetus movements and the foetal
cardiac (FC) frequency, and the development of easy to wear telemedicine gear will allow for remotely monitoring the pregnant women,
and the health of the baby she carries. The data delivery method is
chosen by a decision device and the choice can be either the Wi-Fi
system or the WiMAX system, or even the GSM system from a
hierarchical network. One intends to distinguish the cases where
mobility is a need from the remaining ones. A decision device should be
incorporated between the WSN and the specific network that this device
56
can
choose
to
Contributions
reach
are
the
being
Hospital,
given
on
where
the
embedded
gynaecologist
is.
microcontrollers
for
integration of clusters of motes into hierarchical communications
networks.
Embedded
electronics
with
advanced
sensing
and
communication capabilities is justified by the lack of general purpose
WSANs that cope with heterogeneous application requirements. In
SMART-CLOTHING, new algorithms and protocols are being developed to
optimize
the
trade-off
energy
consumption/
processing
and
communication capabilities, namely in the MAC (Medium Access Control)
layer and aspects of data aggregation. Cross-layer design between MAC
and physical layers will be addressed, and the interactions with network
and transport layers will be considered as well.
Acron / Ref
SWIPA
Title
Switching Mode Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main objective of this project is to study the feasibility of
incorporating digital techniques in wireless power amplifiers. For that, it
will address both the system level concepts of transmitter architectures
as the Polar and Cartesian; and the implementation level of switching RF
power amplifiers.
So, this objective can be decomposed into:
1. Investigate non-conventional wireless power amplifier and transmitter
architectures that can bypass the traditional compromise between PAE,
efficient spectral usage and linearity.
2. Identify the practical limits of bias-modulated digital power amplifiers
in Cartesian and Polar transmitters in terms of:
(i) Requirements imposed on the RF power devices by bias-modulated
switching operation;
(ii) Parasitic AM-to-PM modulation;
57
(iii) Class-D AM amplifier bandwidth;
(iv) Zero bias RF carrier leakage (zero-AM off-set);
(v) AM envelope modulation linearity;
(vi) Time-delay mismatch between the AM and PM modulation paths.
Acron / Ref
Title
U-BOAT
Ultra-Wide Band Transmission for Ad Hoc Networks
Funding
Descript.
This project deals with UWB-based ad hoc networks. The physical layer
objective is the development of signal processing schemes to improve the
performance (for both impulse radio and continuous-wave transmission
techniques). The MAC layer considers asynchronous data transmission
and structured/unstructured architectures. It will study broadcast/unicast
performance, considering cross-layering optimizations. The objectives
include the definition of an abstraction suitable for the network layer for
supporting differentiated levels of quality of service, and its concrete
implementation, supported on different resource reservation mechanisms.
The network layer objectives include the analysis of the behavior of ad
hoc
routing
algorithms
and
service
location
services,
and
their
optimization introducing cross-layering tuning at the MAC and physical
layer. An important objective is to take advantage of the complementary
competences of the teams involved in the project, leading to relevant
contributions to the specification UWB-based ad hoc networks and to
stronger skills, in both teams.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
SATSON
Vehicles velocity estimation and classification in free flow environments
BRISA
Vehicles velocity estimation and classification in free flow environments
58
Acron / Ref
VirtualB
Title
VirtualB
Funding
Portugal Telecom Inovação
Descript.
Os sistemas de localização estão já fortemente implementados no
mercado europeu, devido especialmente aos navegadores de automóveis,
ou a soluções para gestão de frotas. A grande dificuldade de transportar
estes sistemas para pessoas, está no facto da integração ainda não ser
eficiente para a sua conveniente integração em roupas ou outros
elementos que não impliquem a existência de um elemento de grandes
dimensões.
Por essa razão o principal objectivo deste projecto é a criação de barreiras
virtuais ou sistemas de alarme para pessoas com necessidades especiais
através de dispositivos miniaturizados. Pretende-se com recurso a tags de
rádio, com funcionalidades de comunicação e de localização, criar
barreiras virtuais para monitorizar a movimentação de pessoas com
necessidades especiais, caso de doentes, idosos ou crianças, assim como
possibilitar o envio de uma alarme de emergência com a localização da
pessoa.
No âmbito do projecto as limitações técnicas prendem-se especialmente
com a segunda componente do projecto, ou seja a construção de um
sistema de rádio comunicação/localização que permita a comunicação
com o exterior. A autonomia energética deste equipamento também
poderá ser um das actuais limitações deste tipo de equipamentos.
Concluindo
é
expectável
no
final
deste
projecto
dispor
de
dois
componentes de inovação elevada:
1 - Sistemas de localização e criação do conceito de barreiras virtuais
2 - Construção de um TAG multi-funcional
59
Acron / Ref
VTINT
Title
VTINT - Vias Físicas de Tráfego Internacionais e Nacionais
Funding
ANACOM
Descript.
Estudar as vias de acesso de tráfego internacionais e nacionais de
suporte ao enca,imhamento de tráfego internacional.
Acron / Ref
WHERE
Title
Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
The goal of WHERE is to combine wireless communications and
navigation to benefit from ubiquitous access for future mobile radio
systems.
Key objectives include:
•
Improvement
of
future
wireless
communications
systems
and
integration of heterogeneous RAN infrastructures by location based
procedures and protocols.
• Estimation of mobile terminal (MT) position information based on
terrestrial RANs to enable such location based RAN functions.
• Exploitation of communication links to improve RAN based positioning
through MT cooperation.
• Provision of accurate MT position information to enable location based
and context aware services.
Acron / Ref
Title
WITS
Wireless Information-Theoretic Security
Funding
60
Descript.
The WITS project is centered around the following key objectives:
-
Scientific
goals:
understanding
and
devise
a
rigorous
evaluating
theoretical
the
framework
fundamental
for
security
limits of large classes of wireless networks with multiple communicating
peers and potential eavesdroppers and provide solid guidelines for the
design of physical-layer based security architectures;
- Technical goals: Develop secure communication protocols for medium
access and networking that take advantage of security mechanisms at the
physical layer in order to guarantee multi-layer security, and evaluate
their impact on real-life wireless networks and protocols;
- Social-economic goals: provide a technical solution for the security
problem in wireless networks. Inform local companies of the potential
behind physical-layer security technologies.
- Education goals: attract the brightest students for a career in R&D, use
the developed wireless security tools
for lab
training
and
demonstration.
61
public
4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses
MSc Theses
Supervisor
João Vaz
Rafael Caldeirinha
José Carlos Pedro
Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques
João Vaz
António Rodrigues
Student
Carlos André Faria
Calisto
Maximino da Silva
Paralta
Filipe Alexandre da
Silva Rodrigues
Adérito Cardoso
Co- Supervisors
Mobile television integrated circuits
Rui Leitão
Duarte Carona
Sérgio Romba
Walter Fragoso
Américo Correia
Gonçalo Rasquete
Américo Correia
Guilherme Marona
Américo Correia
Vânia Calado
Nuno Souto
Gonçalo Carvalho
Luís Brás
Pedro Pinho
Armando Rocha
Igor Ferreira
Susana Mota
Ludimar Guenda
Nuno Bonifácio
João Lima
Abílio Nves
Francisco Cercas
António Topa
João Vaz
João Vaz
3/2009
Ship Traffic Monitoring using SAR
3/2009
Synchronism Strategies for OFDM
receivers
3/2009
Terrestrial Traffic Monitoring using SAR
3/2009
MBMS over cooperative networks
Américo Correia
Alirio Boaventura
2/2009
Class E monolhitic CMOS power amplifier 4/2009
Frederico Miguel de
Melo Santos
Pedro Cardoso Ferreira
1/2009
TraceMe- Sistema de localização de
pessoas e objectos
Modulador de Amplitude para
Pedro Miguel Cabral
Amplificadores de Rádio Frequência
António Rodrigues
End
Date
Title
4/2009
Performance of HSPA in confined
environments
EMULADOR DA REDE DE ACESSO DE
RÁDIO DO LTE do UMTS
HSDPA PARA TRANSMITIR SERVIÇOS
MBMS NAS FUTURAS REDES LTE DO
UMTS
LTE PARA TRANSMITIR SERVIÇOS EMBMS NAS FUTURAS REDES CELULARES
UMTS
WIMAX PARA TRANSMITIR SERVIÇOS EMBMS NAS FUTURAS REDES CELULARES
Advanced Transmitter/Receiver Schemes
for Multicast and Broadcast Transmissions
in Future Wireless Networks
Analysis of propagation and antenna
scenarios for location systems
Comparação do Desempenho de Modelos
de Canal Rádio para Sistemas MIMO
4/2009
6/2009
6/2009
6/2009
6/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
Design of a M2M control system
7/2009
Pedro Miguel
Lavrador
Design of a RFID reader for 13MHz
7/2009
Paulo André
Energy transmission over the air
7/2009
Rui Manuel Sousa
Rodrigues
Artur Manuel Nobre de
Carlos Paiva
Sousa Coelho
Jorge Manuel Rodrigues
Simões
Armindo António Barão
da Silva Pontes
FPGA control using radio signals
7/2009
FPGA reconfigurbility using wireless
7/2009
communications
Improved synchronization techniques with
7/2009
TCH codes
Metamaterial H-guides and NRD Guides
7/2009
Monolhitic linear power amplifier for
mobile communications
7/2009
Monolithic switched power amplifier for
mobile communications
7/2009
62
Supervisor
Nuno Souto
João Carlos Silva
Student
Pedro Gonçalves
Tiago Taborda
Luís Cruz
Raul Carvalho Morgado
António Rodrigues
Sérgio de Oliveira Mota
João Vaz
Vitor Canosa
António Rodrigues
Sugnesh Kiransinh
Santilal
Fernando J. Velez
Jorge Miguel da Silva
Tavares
Fernando J. Velez
Norberto José Gil
Barroca
António Rodrigues
Fernando J. Velez
Fernando J. Velez
Miguel Mendes de
Barros
Rui Manuel Fernandes
Pedro Costa
João Gabriel Rodrigues
António Rodrigues
de Oliveira
António Rodrigues
Tiago Alexandre de
Azevedo Rodrigues
Fernando J. Velez
Ahmad Reza Rostami
Fernando J. Velez
André Saraiva Pais
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Ivo Rego
José Bioucas Dias
João Paulo Gonçalves
Ferreira
Pedro Miguel Cabral
Igor Marany Mendes
Fonseca
Luís M. Correia
João Araújo
Armando Rocha
Co- Supervisors
Maura Outeiral
End
Date
Title
Synchronization techniques for OFDM
schemes
7/2009
Indoor and Outdoor Location Planning
8/2009
Algorithms for RF-based location
determination
Alternatives to HSPA in beyond 3G
wireless networks
Circuits development for wireless
transceivers
Comparison of DVB solutions for delivery
of multimedia content
Development, Simulation and Validation
of MAC and Routing Protocols for Wireless
Sensor Networks
Energy-aware Medium Access and Control
Protocols for Cross-layer Optimization of
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
Impact of HSPA introduction in 2G/3G
networks
Mobile IP in Broadband Wireless
Metropolitan Area Networks
Modelling and Simulation of Efficient
Broadband Wireless Access Architectures
with Multi-hop Relays
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
Path loss modelization in wireless systems 9/2009
Neeli R. Prasad
Reliable Wireless Body Area Networks
Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
with Renewable Hybrid Energy Storage
Jorge Rodrigues da Very Compact Integrated Lens Antennas
Costa
for Quasi-Optical Applications
Neeli R. Prasad
José Carlos Pedro
Susana Mota
Armando Rocha
Claudia Maria Pereira
Camacho
José Neves
João Vaz
João Ferracatim
Carlos Leme
João Vaz
Ricardo Cunha
Luís M. Correia
Jorge Venes
Luís M. Correia
Gonçalo Carvalho
Luís M. Correia
Nuno Jacinto
Armando Rocha
Emanuel Moura Cabral
9/2009
9/2009
9/2009
Bayesian Land and Sea Segmentation of
SAR images
10/2009
Amplificador de Potência em Classe E
para Comunicações Sem Fios
11/2009
Analysis of Radio Repeaters in UMTS
11/2009
Caracterização Direccional do Canal Rádio 11/2009
Caracterização estática e dinâmica da
atenuação e despolarização na banda Ka
em trajectória Terra-Satélite
Circuits Development for GPS receiver:
Continuous-Time Sigma Delta Quadrature
Modulator
Class-D monolhitic power amplifier for
WLAN aplications
Common Radio Resource Management in
Heterogeneous Networks, with UMTS, WiFi and WiMAX
Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS
Evolution at the Cellular Level
Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS
Evolution at the Radio Network Level
GNU-Radio-Solução H/W para Receptores
de Satélite
63
11/2009
11/2009
11/2009
11/2009
11/2009
11/2009
11/2009
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Adão Silva
Hugo Lima
José Sanguino
João Pedro Carvalho
Oliveira de Miranda
Reis
José Sanguino
Miguel Cardoso Martins António Rodrigues
Armando Rocha
Emanuel Filipe de
Ornelas Rodrigues
João Carlos Silva
Famix Martins
Michel Celestino Paiva
Ferreira
Ricardo Fernandes
António Rodrigues
End
Date
Title
Implementação e Avaliação de Técnicas
de Diversidade Cooperativa para o
Sistema Mobile WiMAX
11/2009
Real-time GPS Heading Determination
11/2009
Satellite Ground Station Remote
11/2009
Operation Development
Software GNU-Radio para Detector Digital
11/2009
de Sinais CW com Baixa Relação SinalRuído
Use of TCH Code Sequences for
Spreading, Synchronization and Channel 11/2009
Estimation (TCHCS-SSC).
VANET-Enabled In-Vehicle Traffic Signs
11/2009
José Sanguino
Wearble Antennas Design for the ISM
11/2009
band
Amplificador Doherty para Comunicações
João Jorge Silva Sousa Pedro Miguel Cabral
12/2009
Sem Fios
Antena Multi-Banda para Comunicações
Luis Calhau
12/2009
Móveis
João Eduardo
Caracterização de um canal rádio em
12/2009
Sebastião Gonçalves
Wimax
Roldão
Software Defined Radio Implementation
Pedro Silva
12/2009
using a PC
Planning and Optimisation of TETRA
Alan Rocha Santos
Telmo Fernandes
2/2010
Networks in Metropolitan Areas
Helena Isabel Batista
Comparação entre a cobertura UMTS e
3/2010
Mateus Catarino
DVB-SH na transmissão vídeo
Traffic Monitoring with Synthetic Aperture
João Ramalho
3/2010
Sonar
Pedro Miguel Valente
António Rodrigues Development of a GPS Monitoring Station 4/2010
da Silva Gonçalves
Rafael Caldeirinha
Ivo Viegas
João Vicente
Pedro Miguel Lavrador
Gervásio Monteiro
Rafael Caldeirinha
David Ferreira
João Nuno Matos
Pedro Renato
Rafael Caldeirinha
Edmundo Monteiro
Rafael Caldeirinha
Tiago Figueirinha
Telmo Fernandes
João Nuno Matos
Diogo Cunha
Ricardo Matos
Abreu
José Carlos Pedro
Pinho
Pinho
Paulo Marques
Rafael Caldeirinha
Pinho
Paulo Marques
Pinho
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Luís Cruz
Dora Gaspar
Filipe Nogueira Silva
Telmo Fernandes
José Carlos Pedro
Development of propagation models in
6/2010
vegetation at microwave and millimetre
wave frequencies
Electro-textile antenna for BAN
6/2010
Applications
Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma
analógica para a implementação de um
7/2010
pré-distorsor de amplificadores para
sistemas de comunicação sem fios
Development of a swept-time delay cross7/2010
correlation channel sounder
Fonte de alimentação para GaAs de
7/2010
potência
Industrial placement - MCEL, Mozambique 7/2010
Performance Optimisation in 3D TV
Broadcasting Services
Sistema de envio de
mensagens/comunicações
7/2010
7/2010
Antenas para sistemas de localização
9/2010
Jorge Rodrigues da Antennas for Detection and Identification
Cristina Câmara Serra
9/2010
Costa
using RFID
Atribuição dinâmica de espectro para
Ricardo Capela Queiróz
9/2010
Cognitive Radio Desenvolvimento
Discussão por parte do Juri Defes
64
Supervisor
Luís Cruz
José Sanguino
Student
João P. Duque
Tiago Vicente Berlinga
de Almeida dos Santos
Barroso
Francisco Cercas
Daniel Filipe Gomes
Dias Afonso
Luís Cruz
Cristina Sofia
Custódio Peixeiro
Co- Supervisors
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
Ângela Santos
Fernando Nunes
Paulo Paulino
Paulo Marques
Luis Reis
Paulo Marques
Hugo Rebelo
José Carlos Pedro
Luis Cótimos Nunes
Paulo Marques
Renato Costa
Block edge masks e a recepção DVB-T
9/2010
Development of a Firefighting
Coordination Positioning Framework
9/2010
Fast GPS acquisition using TCH codes
9/2010
Optimização de cobertura para localização
9/2010
3D usando RFID
Pedro Valério
Custódio Peixeiro
End
Date
Title
Optimization of Helical Antennas
9/2010
Printed Monopoles for Integration into
Small Handsets
Técnicas de Monitorização de Integridade
em GPS
Real aperture radar using spaceborne
transmitters of opportunity
Passive radar using DVB-S signals
Projecto de um Amplificador em Classe F
Pedro Miguel Cabral e seu Desempenho em Sistemas de
Transmissão Polares
Traffic monitoring in free-flow
environments
9/2010
9/2010
11/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
Table 13 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2008
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Rafael Caldeirinha
José Bioucas Dias
Student
Huajiang Cui
Co- Supervisors
Jurgen Richter
Janete Borges
Américo Correia
Alberto Amaral Lopes
Atílio Gameiro
Carlos Ribeiro
António Rodrigues
Nuno António Fraga
Juliano Cota
Fernando J. Velez
Orlando Manuel Brito
Cabral
Nuno Souto
José Carlos Pedro
Jorge dos Santos
Freitas de Oliveira
Atílio Gameiro
Shahid Mumtaz
Atílio Gameiro
Sara Teodoro
Adão Silva
Carlos Paiva
Sérgio Almeida Matos
Afonso Barbosa
End
Date
Title
Development of reliable Phase Function
measurements for input parameter
estimation of the RET
4/2009
Hyperspectral Image Classification
6/2009
Capacity-approaching codes with low
implementation complexity
Esquemas iterativos de detecção,
estimação e sincronismo conjuntos em
sistemas multiportadora com
espalhamento de espectro
Automatic Radio Resource Management
for 4G Networks
Cross-layer Design for Interoperability
Optimisation of Mobile Communication
Systems Beyond 3G
Análise de Comportamentos Muli-Ritmo
em Sistemas Electrónicos
Cross layer Optimization Techniques in
4G networks
Distributed Coding in Cooperative
Diversity Systems
Electromagnetic wave propagation in
complex media and metamaterials: A
geometric algebra approach
65
10/2009
10/2009
12/2009
12/2009
1/2010
1/2010
1/2010
1/2010
Supervisor
Student
Carlos Paiva
João Carlos Roquete
Fidalgo Canto
João Paulo Martins
Carlos Paiva
Marco Alexandre
Ribeiro
Atílio Gameiro
José Bioucas Dias
Co- Supervisors
Afonso Barbosa
Absolute Phase Estimation
Gonçalo Valadão
Hugo Cravo Gomes
José Bioucas Dias
Sonia Pelizzari
Luís Miguel Moreira
Mendes
João Vaz
Luís M. Correia
Luísa Caeiro
Filipe Duarte dos
Santos Cardoso
Luís M. Correia
António Serrador
Fernando dos Santos
Azevedo
Luís M. Correia
Lúcio Ferrreira
Fernando Nunes
Nuria Blanco Delgado
Henrique Salgado
Mário Rui Silveira
Pereira (INESC-ID)
Atílio Gameiro
Daniel Castanheira
Francisco Cercas
Marco Alexandre Cravo
Francisco Cercas
Gomes
Francisco Cercas
Fernando J. Velez
Rafael Caldeirinha
Filipe Andre Sampaio
João Francisco Cordeiro
Ribeiro
de Oliveira Barros
Luís M. Correia
Rafael Caldeirinha
Fernando Fortes
José Rocha Pereira
João Miguel dos Santos
Mercante Ferro
Pedro Joaquim Amaro
Sebastião
Luís Miguel Moreira
António Sérgio
Borges
Lebres
Sérgio Morgadinho
Rebelo
Darlene Neves
Mário Silveirinha
João Tiago de
Figueiredo e Costa
Mário Silveirinha
Tiago André Nogueira
Morgado
1/2010
1/2010
1/2010
6/2010
Interference Minimization in RF Front6/2010
ends
Oil Slick Surveillance Using ASAR and
6/2010
MERIS Data
CMOS self-oscillator mixer for 5GHz
7/2010
applications
7/2010
Heterogeneous Networks
7/2010
Integrated 4G Mobile Communication
Systems
Integrated Receiver in CMOS technology 7/2010
Radio Resources Management in Wireless
Mesh Networks
Model-based Algorithms for Acquisition
and Tracking in GNSS Receivers
Electromagnetic bandgap components
and antennas for broadband
communications
Interference cancellation techniques and
Resource Allocation for distributed
cellular systems
Bandwidth Effitient Multiple Access Using
Magnitude Modulation and TCH Codes
(co-supervision)
Cross-layer Optimisation of Routing
Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Improved simulation tecnhiques for
wireless communications
7/2010
9/2010
10/2010
10/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor
Networks in a Context of Coexistence
12/2010
Miqdad ALNuaimi,Telmo
Fernandes
Time-varying wideband channel model
for propagation of radiowaves in
vegetation media
2/2011
Ian Robin Marsh
Wireless Communication in Vehicular
Networks
3/2011
MIMO in Body Area Networks
7/2011
Channel Estimation And Parameter
Acquisition Systems Employing
Cooperative Diversity
9/2011
Carla Oliveira
Atílio Gameiro
Electromagnetic wave propagation in
multilayered periodic structures and
photonic crystals containing complex
media and metamaterials
Estudo de Efeitos de Memória em
Sistemas/Circuitos
Geometric foundations of
electromagnetism: Theory and
applications
Scheduling for Wireless Communications 1/2010
Alberto Nascimento
Fernando J. Velez
End
Date
Title
Adão Silva
Microstructured High Impedance Antenna
10/2011
Substrates
Subwavelenth Imaging with
Microstructured Materials
10/2011
66
Supervisor
Atílio Gameiro
Student
Reza Holakouei
Co- Supervisors
Adão Silva
Qi Luo (INESC-ID)
Henrique Salgado
José Rocha Pereira
End
Date
Title
Virtual MIMO Techniques for Distributed
10/2011
Broadband Wireless systems (DBWS)
Design Synthesis and Miniaturization of
Multiband and Reconfigurable Microstrip 11/2011
Antenna for Future Wireless Applications
Francisco Cercas
Nuno Miguel de
Figueiredo Garrido
Francisco Cercas
Design of Adaptive Analog Filters for
Magnetic Front-End Read Channels
12/2011
António Rodrigues
Ivo Luís de la Cerda
Garcia e Sousa
Maria Paula Queluz
MIMO techniques in future high capacity
wireless communication systems
12/2011
Radio access networks automated
optimization and tuning
Wireless Communications for Assistive
Technologies
Cooperative Techniques for Wireless
communications
António Rodrigues
Nuno Alexandre
Barbosa Vigário
João Nuno Matos
Tiago Hipkins Meireles
José A. Fonseca
Atílio Gameiro
Andreia Moço
Adão Silva
Luís M. Correia
Kazi Huq
Fernando J. Velez
Rui Filipe Rosa Paulo
João Vaz
Miguel Campilho
Pedro Miguel Cruz
Nelson José Valente da
Silva
Pedro Miguel Cabral
Filipe Rodrigues
Luís M. Correia
Michal Mackowiak
José Carlos Pedro
Francisco Cercas
Atílio Gameiro
Hugo Miguel Santos
Teixeira
Roberto Dimas do
Amaral
Ramiro Samano
Robles
José Carlos Pedro
Telmo Reis Cunha
Nuno Miguel Faria Pires Anja Skrivervik
Hugo Conceição
O. K. Tonguz
Luis Bras
Pedro Pinto,
José Carlos Pedro
Wael Dghais
Telmo Reis Cunha
José Carlos Pedro
Ferreira
Mário Jorge Simão de
Assunção
Sérgio Carlos da
Conceição Pires
Ricardo Fernandes
MAC / Network and RRM algorithms and
protocols in cooperative diversity
communication
Optimisation of the Cellular Planning for
Mobile and Wireless Communication
Systems in the Context of 4G Coexistence
Silicon Based monolhitic transmitter
systems
Efficient Multi-mode Software Defined
Radios Design
Reconfigured Architectures for Software
Defined Radio
Electrónica para comunicações sem fios:
Amplificadores de Rádio Eficientes
Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area
Networks in Outdoors
Nonlinear Behavioural Modelling of Mixed
Signal RF-Digital I/O Devices
Terrestrial Digital Television and new
market opportunities
System Level Simulation
Eduardo Castaned
Ferreira
João Costa Freire
12/2011
2/2012
Radio Channel Models for MIMO Systems 7/2012
Cesaltina Ricardo
Atílio Gameiro
12/2011
9/2012
9/2012
9/2012
10/2012
10/2012
12/2012
12/2012
12/2012
12/2012
2/2013
Antennas for integration into small
personal terminals and Ultra-wide band
antennas
Distributed Control of Road Traffic based
on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking
Antennas for high resolution location
Behavioural Modelling of High-Speed
Digital Devices
2/2013
9/2013
10/2013
12/2013
Modelling of Passice Structures on Silicon
12/2013
Technologies
Multi-Standard Reconfigurable Wireless
Pedro Miguel Cabral
12/2013
Transmitter Architectures
Pedro Santos
VANET-Based Traffic Information Systems 12/2013
Table 14 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2009
67
4.1.6
Publications
Antennas
Papers in Journals
•
Guterman, J.; A. A. Moreira; C. Peixeiro; Y. Rahmat-Samii; " AntennaUser Interaction in MIMO-Enabled Laptops ", Radioengineering , Vol. 18 ,
No. 4 , pp. 418 - 424 , December , 2009.
•
Costa, J.R.; E.B. Lima; C. A. Fernandes; " Compact Beam-Steerable Lens
Antenna for 60GHz Wireless Communications ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas
and Propagation , Vol. 57 , No. 10 pt. 1 , pp. 2926 - 2933 , October ,
2009.
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Compact Tapered Slot
UWB Antenna with WLAN Band Rejection ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless
Propagation Letters , Vol. 8 , No. - , pp. 661 - 664 , July , 2009.
•
Costa, J.R.; C. R. Medeiros; C. A. Fernandes; " Performance of a Crossed
Exponentially Tapered Slot Antenna for UWB Systems ", IEEE Trans. on
Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 57 , No. 5 , pp. 1345 - 1352 , May ,
2009.
•
Guterman, J.; A. A. Moreira; C. Peixeiro; Y. Rahmat-Samii; " Wrapped
Microstrip Antennas for Laptop Computers ", IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Magazine , Vol. 51 , No. 4 , pp. 12 - 39 , August , 2009.
•
Gaspar, D. Gaspar; A. A. Moreira; " Belt Antenna for Wearable
Applications ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Carleston ,
United States, June, 2009.
•
Costa, J.R.; C. R. Medeiros; C. A. Fernandes; " Compact Printed Tapered
Slot Antenna for UWB ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas and
Propagation , Berlin , Germany , March , 2009.
69
•
Lima, E.B.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Design of Double Material
Integrated Scanning Lens Antennas ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International
Symp. , Charleston , United States , June , 2009.
•
Peixeiro, C.; " Effects of the Installation Scenario on the Performance of
Base Station Microstrip Antennas ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International
Symp. , Charleston , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2009 .
- Fernandes, C. A.; J.R. Costa; M. Silveirinha; E.B. Lima; " ILASH Integrated Dielectric Lenses for mm- and sub-mm Wave Imaging ", Proc
Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica - ENAA, Aveiro, Portugal,
July, 2009.
•
Pinho, P.T.; " Influence of the human head in the radiation of a mobile
antenna ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS ,
Moscovo , Russia ,August , 2009.
•
Lima, E.B.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Mechanical Beam-Steerable
Elliptical Dome Lens ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation EUCAP , Berlin , Germany , Vol. , pp. 1814 - 1818 , March , 2009.
•
Lima, E.B.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Optimization of Mechanically
Beam-steerable Lens Antenna Profile for 60GHz ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI
International Symp. , Charleston , United States , Vol. , pp. - , June ,
2009.
•
Fernandes, C. A.; J.R. Costa; " Permittivity Measurement and Anisotropy
Evaluation of Dielectric Materials at Millimeter-waves ", Proc IMEKO
World Congress , Lisboa , Portugal , September , 2009.
•
Guterman,
J.;
A.
A.
Moreira;
C.
Peixeiro;
Y.
Rahmat-Samii;
"
Reconfigurable E-Shaped Patch Antennas ", Proc International Workshop
on Antenna Technology - IWAT , Santa Monica , United States , March ,
2009.
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " RFID Smart Bookshelf
with Confined Detection Range at UHF ", Proc European Conf. on
Antennas and Propagation , Berlin , Germany ,March , 2009.
•
Pinho, P.T.; " SAR determination and influence of the human head in the
radiation of a mobile antenna for two different frequencies ", Proc
International Conf. on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications ICEAA , Torino , Italy , Vol. 1 , September , 2009.
70
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " UHF RFID Smart
Conveyor Belt with Confined Detection Range ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI
International Symp. , Charleston, SC , United States , June , 2009.
•
Moreira, A. A.; N. Pires; N.S. Serro; R.M. Santos; " Ultra Wideband
Dielectric Sandwich Loaded Antennas ", Proc European Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Berlim , Germany , pp. 3535 - 3538 ,
March, 2009.
•
Pires, N.; A. A. Moreira; " Ultra Wideband Ring Monopole Miniaturization
Using Dielectric Loading Sandwich ", Proc International Workshop on
Antenna Technology, Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials - IWAT ,
Santa Monica , United States , March , 2009.
•
Guterman, J.; A. A. Moreira; C. Peixeiro; Y. Rahmat-Samii; " User
Interaction with Antenna Arrays in MIMO-Enabled Laptops ", Proc
European Conf. on Antennas and Propagation , Berlim , Germany , pp.
226 - 230 , March , 2009.
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " UWB Crossed
Exponentially Tapered Slot Antenna with WLAN Band Rejection ", Proc
IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Charleston, SC , United States ,
June , 2009.
Circuits And Devices
Books
•
Velez, F. J.; P. O. Oliveira; Luis M. Borges; A. Rodrigues; Curso de
ElectrÃ³nica Industrial , , LIDEL , Lisboa , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Oliveira, J. F.; J. C. Pedro; " A multiple-line double multirate shooting
technique for the simulation of heterogeneous RF circuits ", IEEE Trans.
on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 57 , No. 2 , pp. 421 - 429 ,
February , 2009.
•
Santos, R. S.; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Characterization of SNDR Degradation
in Nonlinear Wireless Transmitters ", Intrnl. Journal of RF and Microwave
71
Computer Aided-Engineering , Vol. 19 , No. 4 , pp. 470 - 480 , July ,
2009.
•
Pires, E. S. Pires; L.M. Mendes; P. B. Oliveira; J. A. Machado; J.M.C.V.
Vaz; M. J. Rosário; " Design of Radio-Frequency Integrated CMOS
Discrete Tuning Varactors Using the Particle Swarm Optimization
Algorithm ", Lectures Notes in Computer Science , No. 5518 , pp. 1231 1239 , June , 2009.
•
Mendes, L.M.; E. S. Pires Pires; P. B. Oliveira; J. A. Machado; N. M.
Ferreira; J.M.C.V. Vaz; M. J. Rosário; " Design Optimization of Radio
Frequency Discrete Tuning Varactors ", Lectures Notes in Computer
Science , No. 5484 , pp. 343 - 352 , April , 2009.
•
P.M.L. Lavrador; J. C. Pedro; " Improvements and Analysis of Nonlinear
Parallel Behavioral Models ", Intrnl. Journal of RF and Microwave
Computer Aided-Engineering , Vol. 19 , No. 5 , pp. 615 - 626 ,
September , 2009.
•
Garcia, J. A.; J. C. Pedro; P. M. Cabral; C. Fager; A. Zhu; P. Colantonio;
" Nonideality Sources and Implementation Considerations in Polar
Transmitters
",
International
Journal
of
Microwave
and
Wireless
Technologies , Vol. 1 , No. .. , pp. 109 - 116 , April , 2009.
•
Azevedo, A.F.; L.M. Mendes; V. Fialho; J.M.C.V. Vaz; F. Fortes; M. J.
Rosário; " A 1.8V/5GHz CMOS WLAN Low Noise Amplifier Integrated with
Active BALUN ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa
Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Vaz, J.M.C.V.; V. Fialho; " A 2.4GHz CMOS Integer-N Phase-Locked Loop
", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira ,
Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Cabral, P. M.; J. C. Pedro; " Bandwidth Requirements of Envelope
Amplifiers for Polar Transmitters ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , pp. 97 - 100 , May , 2009.
•
Gonçalves Lima, E.; T. Cunha; H. Teixeira; M. Pirola; J. C. Pedro; " BaseBand Derived Volterra Series for Power Amplifier Modeling ", Proc IEEE
72
International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Boston , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1361 - 1364 , June , 2009.
•
Stievano, I. S.; I. Maio; L. Rigazio; F. Canavero; R. Izzi; A. Girardi; T.
Lessio; T. Cunha; H. Teixeira; J. C. Pedro; " Characterization and
modeling of the power delivery networks of memory chips ", Proc IEEE
Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects - SPI , Strasbourg ,
France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2009.
•
Figueiredo, M.; R. L. Aguiar; " Clock Repeater Characterization for JitterAware Clock Tree Synthesis ", Proc International Workshop on Power and
Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation - PATMOS , Delft ,
Netherlands , September , 2009.
•
Marante, R.; J. A. Garcia; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Distorsión No lineal
en un Transmisor Polar debida a la Característica Ron(VDD) del
Dispositivo GaN HEMT ", Proc Simposium Nacional de la URSI ,
Santander , Spain , Vol. CDROM , September , 2009.
•
Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; J. Rodriguez; " Implementation of
Efficiency Enhancement Techniques in the Linear Region of Operations of
Power Amplifier ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , S. M.
Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
" Implementation of Efficiency Enhancement Techniques in the Linear
Region
of
Operations
of
Power
Amplifier
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , S. M. Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Leaky Mode Dispersion in Omega
NRD Waveguides ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Vila
da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " New NRD-waveguide Devices Using
Metamaterials ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. PIERS , Moscow , Russia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , August , 2009.
•
Cabral, P. M.; L. C. Cabria; J. A. Garcia; J. C. Pedro; " Polar Transmitter
Pre-Distortion Technique Validated with 2.5G Mobile Communication
Signals ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da
Feira , Portugal , pp. 85 - 88 , May , 2009.
73
•
Cabria, L. C.; P. M. Cabral; J. A. Garcia; J. C. Pedro; " Predistorsión
Digital Selectiva en Transmisores Polares ", Proc Simposium Nacional de
la URSI , Santander , Spain , Vol. CDROM , September , 2009.
•
Torres, J.; J. Costa Freire; " SiGe MMICs with Spiral Inductors up to
millimetre waves ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , santa
Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 0 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Cabria, L. C.; J. A. Garcia; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Taking Advantage
of the Envelope Statistics on a Polar Transmitter Design ", Proc Mobile
Summit , Santander , Spain , Vol. CDROM , June , 2009.
Project Reports
•
Vaz,
J.M.C.V.;
"
RELATÓRIO
DE
PROGRESSO
",
Instituto
de
Telecomunicações , PTDC/EEA-ELC/64368/2006 , December , 2009.
Physical Modelling And Wave Propagation Characterization
Book Chapters
•
Sebastião, P.; F.C. Cercas; A. Cartaxo; " Chapter 7: Efficient Discrete
Simulation of Coded Wireless Communication Systems " - Chapter in
Handbook of Research on Discrete Event Simulation Environments:
Technologies and Applications , Evon M. O. Abu-Taieh , Idea-Group Inc. ,
Pennsylvania , 2009.
•
Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Dispersion and losses in
metamaterial
DNG
H-guides
"
-
Chapter
in
Metamaterials
and
Plasmonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications , S. Zouhdi, A.
Sihvola, and A. Vinogradov , Springer , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Nonlocal Homogenization Theory of Microstructured
Materials " - Chapter in Theory and Phenomena of Artificial Materials,
vol. I , F. Capolino , CRC Press,2009.
74
•
Cardoso, F.; L. M. Correia; " Propagation Modelling and Channel
Characterisation " - Chapter in Communications Engineering Desk
Reference , Dahlman,E. , Academic Press , London , 2009.
•
Belov, P. A.; M. Silveirinha; C.R. Simovsky; Y. Hao; " Subwavelength
imaging by arrays of metallic rods " - Chapter in Applications of
Metamaterials , F. Capolino , CRC Press, 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Additional boundary conditions for nonconnected wire
media ", New Journal of Physics , Vol. 11 , No. 113016 , pp. 1 - 27 ,
November , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Anomalous Refraction of Light Colors by a Metamaterial
Prism ", Physical Review Letters , Vol. 102 , No. 193903 , pp. 1 - 4 , May
, 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Artificial plasma formed by connected metallic wires at
infrared frequencies ", Physical Review B , Vol. 79 , No. 035118 , pp. 1 15 , January , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Broadband negative refraction with a crossed wire
mesh ", Physical Review B , Vol. 79 , No. 153109 , pp. 1 - 4 , April ,
2009.
•
Yakovlev, A.; M. Silveirinha; O. Luukkonen; C.R. Simovsky; I.S.
Nefedov; A. Tretyakov; " Characterization of Surface-Wave and LeakyWave Propagation on Wire-Medium Slabs and Mushroom Structures
Based on Local and Nonlocal Homogenization Models ", IEEE Trans. on
Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 57 , No. - , pp. 2700 - 2714 ,
November , 2009.
•
Luukkonen, O.; M. Silveirinha; A. Yakovlev; C.R. Simovsky; I.S.
Nefedov; A. Tretyakov; " Effects of Spatial Dispersion on Reflection From
Mushroom-Type
Artificial
Impedance
Surfaces
",
IEEE
Trans.
on
Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 57 , No. 11 , pp. 2692 - 2699 ,
November , 2009.
75
•
Edwards, ; A Alù; M. Silveirinha; N. Engheta; " Experimental Verification
of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies ", Physical Review
Letters , Vol. 103 , No. 153901 , pp. 1 - 4 , October , 2009.
•
Costa, J. T.; M. Silveirinha; S. Maslovski; " Finite-difference frequencydomain method for the extraction of effective parameters ", Physical
Review B , Vol. 80 , No. 235124 , pp. 1 - 12 , December , 2009.
•
Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Guidance and Leakage Behavior of
Uniaxial Ridge Waveguides ", Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and
Applications , Vol. 23 , No. 13 , pp. 1675 - 1684 , September , 2009.
•
Silveirinha,
M.;
Baena;
Jelinek;
R.M.
Marqués;
"
Nonlocal
homogenization of an array of cubic particles made of resonant rings ",
Metamaterials , Vol. 3 , No. - , pp. 115 - 128 , November , 2009.
•
Maslovski, S.; M. Silveirinha; " Nonlocal permittivity from a quasistatic
model for a class of wire media ", Physical Review B , Vol. 80 , No.
245101 , pp. 1 - 10 , December , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Poynting vector, heating rate, and stored energy in
structured materials: a first principles derivation ", Physical Review B ,
Vol. 80 , No. 235120 , pp. 1 - 11 , December , 2009.
•
Edwards, ; A Alù; M. Silveirinha; N. Engheta; " Reflectionless Sharp
Bends and Corners in Waveguides Using Epsilon-Near-Zero Effects ",
Journal of Appl. Physics , Vol. 105 , - , pp. 044905 - , February , 2009.
•
Rahman, A. R.; P. A. Belov; M. Silveirinha; C.R. Simovsky; Y. Hao; C.
Parini; " The importance of Fabry-Perot resonance and the role of
shielding
in
subwavelength
imaging
performance
of
multiwire
endoscopes ", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS , Vol. 94 , No. 031104 , pp. 1
- 3 , January , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; " Transport of an arbitrary near field component with an
array of tilted wires ", New Journal of Physics , Vol. 11 , No. 083023 , pp.
1 - 22 , August , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; N. Engheta; " Transporting an Image through a
Subwavelength Hole ", Physical Review Letters , Vol. 102 , No. 103902 ,
pp. 1 - 4 , March , 2009 .
76
•
Conceição, H. C.; M. Ferreira Ferreira; J. Barros; " A Cautionary View of
Mobility and Connectivity Modeling in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ", Proc
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Barcelona , Spain ,
, April , 2009.
•
Canto, João R.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " A geometric algebra approach
to the reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves at interfaces
between isotropic and general anisotropic media ", Proc Metamorphose
International
Congress
on
Advanced
Electromagnetic
Materials
in
Microwaves and Optics - METAMATERIALS , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " A New Geometric Perspective on
Bianisotropy Using Clifford Algebra ", Proc Metamorphose International
Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and
Optics - METAMATERIALS , London , United Kingdom , September ,
2009.
•
Canto, João R.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " A novel approach to the
reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves at interfaces
between isotropic and general anisotropic media ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May ,
2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " A Spacetime Algebra Approach to
Moving Bi-isotropic Media ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Charleston , United States , June , 2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; S. Morgadinho Rebelo; T.R. Fernandes; M. ALNuaimi; J. Richter; " An Extension of the dRET Model to include TimeVariant
Channel
Effects
in
Vegetation
Media
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1
, pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Canto, João R.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Analysis of Tellegen H-Guides
", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Charlston , United States,
June , 2009.
77
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Beyond Isotropic Metamaterials:
From Anisotropic to Bianisotropic Media Using the Geometric Perspective
Provided by Clifford Algebra ", Proc Young Scientist Meeting on
Metamaterials , Leganés , Spain , July , 2009.
•
Pinho, P.T.; " Caracterização bidimensional de um canal rádio wimax ",
Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias , Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2009.
•
Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; J.R. Costa; C. R. Medeiros; "
Experimental Demonstration of a Metamaterial with Extreme Index of
Refraction at Microwaves ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Charlestown , United States , June , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, M. A.; C. R. Paiva; " Invisibility cloaks in electromagnetic theory
", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Fé ,
•
Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Leakage, Dispersion and Losses in
Omega
H-Guides
",
Proc
IEEE
AP-S/URSI
International
Symp.
,
Charleston , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Optic axes of general anisotropic
media:
a
geometric
algebra
perspective
",
Proc
Conf.
on
2009.
•
Ribeiro, M. A.; C. R. Paiva; " Relativistic optics with spacetime algebra
using the vacuum form reduction ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International
Symp. , Charleston , United States , June , 2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Vacuum Form Reduction for
Moving Bi-isotropic Media ", Proc Metamorphose International Congress
on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics METAMATERIALS , London , United Kingdom , September , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, M. A.; " Vacuum Form Reduction: Revisiting Relativistic Optics in
Moving Media with Clifford (Geometric) Algebra ", Proc Metamorphose
International
Congress
on
Advanced
Electromagnetic
Materials
in
Microwaves and Optics - METAMATERIALS , London , United Kingdom ,
August , 2009.
78
•
Meireles, R. M.; M. Ferreira Ferreira; J. Barros; " Vehicular Connectivity
Models: From Single-Hop Links to Large-Scale Behavior ", Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Fall) , Anchorage, AK , United
States , September , 2009.
Project Reports
•
Cardoso, F.; " Draft Architectural Framework ", IST , FP7-ICT-2007-1216041-4WARD , April , 2009.
•
Cardoso, F.; " Virtualisation Approach: Concept (Draft) ", IST , FP7-ICT2007-1-216041-4WARD , January , 2009.
System Planning And Radio Resource Management
Book Chapters
•
Rodriguez, J.; A. Gameiro; S.M. Mumtaz; P. Marques; " Ad-hoc
Behaviour in Opportunistic Radio " - Chapter in Studies of Computational
Intelligence , Roger Lee, Gongzu Hu, and Huaikou Miao , Springer, 2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; M. O'Droma; V. Siris; B. Stiller; O. Cabral; I. Ganchev; "
Chapter 6: SERVICES, OPTIMIZATION, AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS " Chapter
in
Traffic
and
QoS
Management
in
Wireless
Multimedia
Networks: COST 290 Final Report (ISBN 978-0-387-85572-1) , Yevgeni
Kouchergavy , Springer , Norwell, MA, USA , 2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; P. Sebastião; R. Costa; D.R. Robalo; C. Comissário; A. J.
Rodrigues; H. Aghvami; " Radio and Network Planning " - Chapter in
Handbook on WiMAX , Ramjee Prasad , Springer, 2009 .
Papers in Journals
•
Velez, F. J.; H. Aghvami; O. Holland; " Basic Limits for Fixed WiMAX
Optimization
Based
in
Economic
Aspects
",
Wireless
Personal
Communications Journal , Vol. (accepted for publication) , August , 2009.
79
•
Duarte, S.; L. M. Correia; " Analysis of Technologies for Long Term
Evolution in UMTS ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 189 - 192 , May , 2009.
•
Pereira, G.; A. J. Rodrigues; P. Sebastião; " Dynamic simulation planning
of mobile WiMAX networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Vila da Feira , Portugal , Vol. , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Rebelo, T. Rebelo; A. J. Rodrigues; " HCS in UMTS/HSPA systems ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Vila da Feira , Portugal , Vol. ,
pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Costa, R.; F. J. Velez; D.R. Robalo; M. Marques; C. Comissário; J.
Riscado; V. Cavaleiro; P. Sebastião; A. J. Rodrigues; " Hybrid WiMAX and
Wi-Fi networks for the support of b-Learning and Telemedicine ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal
, May , 2009.
•
Laxmidas, V.; L. M. Correia; S. Pires; " Modelling of Linear Coverage in
UMTS
Applied
to
Tunnels
and
Bridges
",
Proc
Conf.
on
, pp. 213 - 216 , May , 2009.
•
Mihovska, A.; F. Meucci Meucci; N. Prasad; O. Cabral; F. J. Velez; "
Multi-Operator Resource Sharing Scenario in the Context of IMTAdvanced
Systems,
",
Proc
Wireless
Communications,
Vehicular
Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark ,
May , 2009.
•
Cabral, O.; F. J. Velez; J. Rodriguez; V.M. Monteiro; A. Gameiro; N.
Prasad; " Optimal Load Suitability Based RAT Selection for HSDPA and
IEEE 802.11e ", Proc Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology,
Information Theory and Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark , May , 2009.
•
Meucci, F. Meucci; O. Cabral; A. Mihovska; F. J. Velez; N. Prasad; "
Spectrum
Aggregation
with
Multi-Band
User
Allocation
over
Two
Frequency Bands ", Proc Mobile WiMAX - Towards Ubiquitous Internet ,
Napa Valey , United States , July , 2009.
80
Transmission And Reception Systems
Books
•
Salema, C.; Uma Introdução às TELECOMUNICAÇÕES com Mathematica ,
, IST Press , Lisboa , 2009.
Book Chapters
•
Cruz, P.M.; ; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Receiver Front-End Architectures Analysis and Evaluation " - Chapter in Microwave and Millimeter Wave
Technologies , Dr. Vedran Kordic , In-Tech , Austria , 2009 .
Papers in Journals
•
Kalbasi, R. K.; D. F. Falconer; A. B. Banihashemi; R. Dinis; " A
Comparison of Frequency Domain Block MIMO Transmission Systems ",
IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech. , Vol. 58 , No. 1 , pp. 165 - 175 , January
, 2009.
•
Araújo, T. ; R. Dinis; " A Spectrally Efficient Frequency Diversity
Technique
for
Single-Carrier
Modulations
with
Frequency
Division
Multiplexing ", EUROPEAN TRANSACTIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS ,
Vol. 20 , No. 5 , pp. 513 - 521 , August , 2009.
•
Mumtaz, S.M.; A. Gameiro; P. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " Ad-hoc
Behaviour in Opportunistic Radio ", Journal of Communications and
Networks , Vol. 11 , No. 2 , pp. 186 - 193 , April , 2009.
•
Dinis, R.; P. M. Montezuma; L. B. Bernardo; R. O. Oliveira; P. Pinto; "
Frequency-Domain Multipacket Detection: A High Throughput Technique
for SC-FDE Systems ", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications , Vol. 8 ,
No. 7 , pp. 3798 - 3807 , July , 2009.
•
Silva, M.; R. Dinis; A. Correia; " Frequency-Domain Receivers for Rate-1
Space-Time Block Codes ", Intrnl. Journal of Communications, Network
and System Sciences , Vol. 1 , No. 12 , pp. 9 - 29 , December , 2009.
•
Vieira, P. Vieira; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Improving a Cluster
Based Directional Channel Model in Realistic Macro-Cell Environment ",
Wireless Personal Communications Journal , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
March , 2009.
81
•
Dinis, R.; " Iterative Detection of Multicode DS-CDMA Signals with Strong
Nonlinear Distortion Effects ", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech. , Vol. 58 ,
No. 8 , pp. 4169 - 4181 , October , 2009.
•
Correia, A.; N.S. Souto; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Multiresolution with
Hierarchical Modulations for Long Term Evolution of UMTS ", EURASIP
Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , Vol. 2009 , No. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 11 , February , 2009.
•
Nunes, F.; J. Leitão; F. Sousa; " Nonlinear Filtering in GNSS Pseudorange
Dynamics Estimation Combining Code Delay and Carrier Phase ", IEEE
Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Vol. 3 , No. 4 , pp. 639
- 650 , August , 2009.
•
Gomes, M.; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Power Efficient BackOff Reduction through Polyphase Filtering Magnitude Modulation ", IEEE
Communications Letters , Vol. 13 , No. 8 , pp. 606 - 608 , August , 2009.
•
Dinis, R.; P. Silva; T. Araújo; " Turbo Equalization with Cancelation of
Nonlinear Distortion for CP-Assisted and Zero-Padded MC-CDM Schemes
", IEEE Trans. on Communications , Vol. 57 , No. 7 , pp. 2185 - 2189 ,
August , 2009 .
•
Rodrigues , M.; J. Oliveira; H. Salgado; " MMSE Receivers for NonLinearly Distorted OFDM Signals ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 7 , pp. 1 - 1 , May ,
2009.
•
Deng, W. Deng; F. Fortes; E W Heijden; R. Mahmoudi; A. Roermund; " A
30 GHz Multiplexer with 500 MHz Bandwidth for Digital Phased-array
Applications ", Proc European Conf. on Wireless Technology - ECWT ,
Rome , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 29 - 32 , September , 2009.
•
Deng, W. Deng; F. Fortes; E W Heijden; R. Mahmoudi; A. Roermund; " A
30GHz Integrated Time-Division Multiplexing Front-End for Phased-array
Applications in SiGe ", Proc Asian Solid-State Circuits - A-SSCC , Taipei ,
Taiwan , Vol. 1 , pp. 265 - 268 , November , 2009.
82
•
Delgado, N.; F. Nunes; " A Convex Geometry Approach to Dynamic
GNSS Satellite Selection for a Multi-Constellation System ", Proc Institute
of Navigation GPS/GNSS Conf. , Savannah , United States , September ,
2009.
•
Rodriguez, J.; ; T.D. Dagiuklas ; " A Framework supporting Extreme
Emergency Services ", Proc ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications
Summit , Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Rodrigues , M.; I. Kanaras Kanaras; A. Chorti Chorti; I. Darwazeh; " A
new quasi-optimal detection algorithm for a non orthogonal spectrally
efficient FDM ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Communications and
Information Technologies - ISCIT , Incheon , Korea, South , Vol. 1 , pp.
1 - 1 , September , 2009.
•
Morais, D.; L. Domingos; R. Abreu; J. N. Matos; J. Gomes; " A Possible
MAC Layer Implementation for Dedicated Short Range Communications
", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1
, pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Dias, J.; " A variable splitting augmented Lagrangian approach to linear
spectral unmixing ", Proc IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image
and Signal Processing , Grenoble , France , August , 2009.
•
Nunes, F.; F. Sousa; N. Delgado; " A VDLL Approach to GNSS Cell
Positioning for Indoor Scenarios ", Proc Institute of Navigation GPS/GNSS
Conf. , Savannah , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1690 - 1699 , September ,
2009.
•
Rodriguez, J.; S.M. Mumtaz; A. Gameiro; P. Marques; " Application of
Game
Theory
Ad-hoc
Behaviour
in
Opportunities
Radio
",
Proc
International Conf. on Networking - ICN , Cancun , Mexico , Vol. 1 , pp. 1
- 1 , March , 2009.
•
Vieira, P. Vieira; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Capacity Expectation in
4G MIMO Macro-cell Networks ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia
Communications Symp. - WPMC , Sentai , Japan , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
September , 2009.
•
Cruz, P.M.; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Characterization of a SDR Front-End
Receiver with Multisine Excitations ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , May , 2009.
83
•
Pinho, P.T.; " Comparação UMTS versus DVB-SH ", Proc URSI Seminar of
the Portuguese Committee , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
November , 2009.
•
Sousa, F.; F. Nunes; J. Leitão; " Correlation Losses and Interference
Rejection due to Quantization in CBOC Receivers ", Proc Institute of
Navigation GPS/GNSS Conf. , Savannah , United States , Vol. 1 , pp.
3234 - 3241 , September , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; L. Alves; " Design and Analysis of the Basic Parameters for
Traffic
Information
Communications,
Transmission
Vehicular
Using
Technology,
VLC
",
Proc
Information
Wireless
Theory
and
Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark , May , 2009.
•
Carona, D. C.; R. Prata; A. Serrador Serrador; R. Abreu; J. N. Matos; "
Development of a Communication System Following 802.11p and WAVE
", Proc 16th World Congress for ITS Systems and Services , Stockholm ,
Sweden , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2009.
•
Souto, N.S.; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Efficient Detection Technique for
Multiple Packet Collisions in OFDM Systems ", Proc IEEE Vehicular
Technology
Conference-(VTC-Fall)
,
Anchorage
,
United
States
,
September , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; pasg Gonçalves; R. Pereira; D. Gomes; " Evolution of the
Policy Based Admission Control Mechanisms in the NGN ", Proc
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Marrakech , Morocco ,
May , 2009.
•
Pereira, J.; H. S. Silva; " Generalized Chu Polyphase Sequences ", Proc
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Marrakech , Morocco ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 47 - 52 , May , 2009.
•
Rodrigues , M.; I. Kanaras Kanaras; A. Chorti Chorti; I. Darwazeh; "
Investigation of a semidefinite programming detection for a spectrally
efficient FDM system ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal,
Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , Tokyo , Japan , Vol. 1 , pp.
1 - 1 , September , 2009.
•
Silva, J. C.; R. Dinis; N.S. Souto; " Joint Detection and Channel
Estimation
Systems
with
SC-FDE
Modulations
",
Proc
IASTED
International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and
84
Applications - SPPRA , innsbruck , Austria , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , February ,
2009.
•
Araújo, T. ; R. Dinis; " Loading Techniques for OFDM Systems with
Nonlinear Distortion Effects ", Proc International Symp. on Wireless
Communication Systems - ISWCS , Siena , Italy , pp. 483 - 487 ,
September , 2009.
•
Abreu, R.; R.M. Matos; J. N. Matos; J. Gomes; " Low-Cost, Compatible
Dedicated Short Range Communications Chain for Road ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May
, 2009.
•
Vieira, P. Vieira; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Macro-Cellular Capacity
Enhancement using Spatial Multiplexing MIMO with Linear Antenna
Arrays ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da
Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
Gomes, M.; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Magnitude Modulation
for Peak Power Control of RRC Pulsed-Shaped Signals ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , pp.
209 - 212 , May , 2009.
•
Pereira, J.; H. S. Silva; " M-ary Mutually Orthogonal Complementary
Gold Codes ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO ,
Glasgow , United Kingdom , Vol. - , pp. 1636 - 1640 , August , 2009.
•
Souto, N.S.; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Matched Filter Bound for M-QAM
Hierarchical Constellations with Diversity Reception in Multipath Rayleigh
Fading Channels ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTCFall) , Anchorage , United States , September , 2009.
•
Delgado, N.; F. Nunes; " Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multipath
and Theoretical Accuracy Limits for the New Navigation Signals ", Proc
European Navigation Conf. - ENC-GNSS , Naples , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 12 , May , 2009.
•
Dias, J.; G. Valadão; " Multifrequency absolute phase estimation via
graph cuts ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO ,
Glasgow , United Kingdom , August , 2009.
•
Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; R. Dinis; P. C. Carvalho; " On the use of TCH
Sequences for Synchronization, Channel and Noise Estimation ", Proc
85
IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication ICSPC , omaha , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2009.
•
Cercas, F.C.; J. C. Silva; N.S. Souto; R. Dinis; " Optimum bit-mapping of
TCH codes ", Proc International Workshop on Satellite and Space
Communications - IWSSC , Siena , Italy , Vol. , pp. - , September ,
2009.
•
Pereira, J.; H. S. Silva; " Perfect Periodic Autocorrelation Codes Derived
From M Sequences ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 165 - 168 , May , 2009.
•
Nunes, F.; F. Sousa; J. Leitão; " Performance Analysis of Altimeter-Aided
GNSS Receiver for Indoor Scenarios ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications
- ConfTele , Santa maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May ,
2009.
•
Gomes, M.; F.C. Cercas; V. Silva; M. Tomlinson; " Polyphase Magnitude
Modulation for Peak Power Control ", Proc European Signal Processing
Conf. - EUSIPCO , Glasgow , United Kingdom , August , 2009.
•
Cruz, P.M.; N.B.C. Carvalho; " PWM Bandwidth and Wireless System
Peak-to-Minimum
Power
Ratio
",
Proc
European
Microwave
Week/European Microwave Conf. , Rome , Italy , September , 2009.
•
Correia, A.; N.S. Souto; " Radio Access Network Emulator for LTE ", Proc
International Conf. on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications ,
Marrakech , Morocco , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2009.
•
Gomes, M.; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Real-Time LUT-Less
Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of Single Carrier RRC
Filtered Signals ", Proc IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced
Wireless Communications - SPAWC , Perugia , Italy , June , 2009.
•
Rodrigues , M.; I. Kanaras Kanaras; A. Chorti Chorti; I. Darwazeh; "
Spectrally efficient FDM signals: Bandwidth gain at the expense of
receiver complexity ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications ICC , Dresden , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2009.
•
Delgado, N.; F. Nunes; " Theoretical Performance of the MEDLL
Algorithm
for
the
New
Navigation
Signals
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
May , 2009.
86
•
Dias, J.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Total variation restoration of speckled
images using a split-Bregman algorithm ", Proc IEEE International Conf.
on Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , Vol. , pp. - , September ,
2009.
4.1.7
Other Achievements
Patents
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Dispositivo e sistema
de votação passivo sem fios ", (Pending) PT104873 , December , 2009.
•
Teixeira, A.T.; Costa, L. N. Costa; " Sistema óptico e Método para
monitorização da estrutura física de redes ópticas, baseado no RODT
com elementos reflectivos", December , 2009.
•
Medeiros, C. R.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Wireless Passive Voting
Device and System ", (Pending) PCT/PT2009/000071 , December , 2009.
Awards
•
Vieira, P. Vieira; " Maximização do Desempenho em Redes MacroCelulares 4G Usando Técnicas de Multiplexagem Espacial Multi-Antena ",
Prémio Inovação Jovem Engenheiro 2008 - 2nd place , 01-11-2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Honorable mention from the
Student Paper Contest associated with the 2009 IEEE International
Symposium on Antennas and Propagation ", A Spacetime Algebra
Approach to Moving Bi-Isotropic Media , 01-06-2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; M. Antunes; L. Bento Bento; " SGF - Sistema multifuncional de gestão de frotas ", 2009-2011 Innovation program - PT
Inovação , 01-03-2009.
Miscellaneous
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " ", Book presentation: “Uma Introdução às
telecomunicações com Mathematica” ", Prof. Carlos Salema, IPL , 01-122009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Caracterização Direccional do
Canal Rádio ", Maura Outeiral García, University of Aveiro , 01-12-2009.
87
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Software GNU Radio para
Detector Digital de Sinais CW com baixa SNR ", Emanuel Filipe de
Ornelas Rodrigues, University of Aveiro , 01-12-2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", â€œDesenvolvimento de um modelo de
propagaÃ§Ã£o unificado para o planeamento de redes Wi-Fi, UMTS e
WiMAX, defendida com sucesso pelo aluno Frederico Fialho Varela no
ISCTE-IUL, Nov. 2009 ", 01-11-2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Esquema de controlo de acesso ao meio
para sistemas CSMA/CA p-persistente, defendida com sucesso pelo
licenciado aluno Luís Lopes na Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nov. 2009.
", 01-11-2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Gestão de Recursos em _HSDPA e
HSUPA em cenários multiportadora e multiserviços, defendida com
sucesso pelo aluno Sérrgio de Oliveira Mota no Instituto Superior Técnico
da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 12 de Nov. 2009 ", 01-11-2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; D. Ferreira Ferrira; N. M. Sampaio; " ", NATO
LECTURE SERIES - Waveform Diversity for Advanced Radar Systems ",
RTO-EN-SET-119(2009) , 01-11-2009.
•
Barbiroli, M.; C. Carciofi; Doriana Guiducci Guiducci; D.R. Robalo; F. J.
Velez; P. Sebastião; Frederico F. Varela Varela; " Seminars ", Analysis
of
WiMAX
propagation
measurements
in
outdoor
and
indoor
environments ", COST2100 – Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless
Communications , 01-09-2009.
•
Cabral, O.; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", pectrum Aggregation with MultiBand User Allocation over Two Frequency Bands ", COST 2100Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications , 01-09-2009.
•
Matos, S.A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; " Invited Talks ", Beyond
Isotropic Metamaterials: From Anisotropic to Bianisotropic Media Using
the Geometric Perspective Provided by Clifford Algebra ", , 01-07-2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Controlo de Acesso ao Meio em Redes
ad hoc MÃ³veis IEEE 802.11â€
, defendida com sucesso pelo Mestre
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira na Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1307-2009. ",01-07-2009.
88
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", DESENVOLVIMENTO DE
SISTEMA DE LOCALIZAÇÃO INDOOR DE BAIXO CONSUMO ", Luís Pedro
Marques Brás, University of Aveiro , 01-07-2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Leitor/Gravador RFID – Banda
HF (13.56MHz) ", Alírio de Jesus Soares Boaventura, University of
Aveiro , 01-07-2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; " Invited Talks ", Remote Sensing through a
Vehicular Network ", , 01-07-2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; " Invited Talks ", Mobility Models for the Urban
Connectivity Analysis of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ", , 01-06-2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; " Invited Talks ", Tuning the Network (at 5.9 Ghz)
", 01-06-2009.
•
Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; H. Alves; J. Oliveira; R. Costa; P. Sebastião;
" Seminars ", Field Trials for a Wireless PMP WiMAX Network at 3.5 GHz
", COST2100 – Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications ,
01-05-2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; " Invited Talks ", Vehicular Sensing ", 01-032009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Desenvolvimento de Modelos
de Localização para Tecnologias de Redes sem Fios ", Hugo Tiago
Gonçalves Pinto, UTAD , 01-02-2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Instrumentação de um
Sistema de Recolha Selectiva de Resíduos ", Agostinho Seixas de
Azevedo, UTAD , 01-02-2009.
•
Borges, Luis M.; A. Rente ; F. J. Velez; R. Salvado; A. Lebres; J.
Martinez; P. Araújo; J.M. Ferro; N. Barroca; " Seminars ", Overview of
Progress for the Portuguese Smart Clothing Project ", 9º Seminário da
RTCM – Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis, Covilhã, FCS, 13 de
Fevereiro de 2009 , 01-02-2009.
•
Costa Freire, J.; " Member of Technical Committee ", IEEE Region 8
Committee ", Chairman of Educational Activities Subcommittee , 0101-2009.
89
4.1.8
Other Contributions
Conference Committees
•
International Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems Winsys, Conference Chairman, Rafael Caldeirinha, 01-07-2009.
•
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Technical
Programme Committee, João Costa Freire, 01-01-2009.
•
Young Scientist Meeting on Metamaterials, Sessions Chairman , Sérgio
Almeida Matos, 01-01-2009.
•
NATO/RTO Specialist Meeting on Software Defined RADAR - SET-136,
Organizing Committee, Paulo Marques, 01-01-2009.
•
Scientific Committee, Paulo Marques, 01-01-2009.
•
Sessions Chairman , Paulo Marques, 01-01-2009.
•
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC,
Technical Programme Committee, Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez,
01-01-2009.
•
ICST International Conf. on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems MOBILIGHT, Special Sessions Chairman, Jonathan Rodriguez
Gonzalez, 01-01-2009.
•
International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conf. - Mobimedia,
Technical Programme Committee, Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez,
01-01-2009.
•
The International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless
Technologies - NGWT, Technical Programme Committee, Jonathan
Rodriguez Gonzalez, 01-01-2009.
•
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring), Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando J. Velez, 01-04-2009.
•
Workshop on Secure and Reliable Multimedia Communications and
Coordination for Emergency Services in Heterogeneous Wireless
Networks (PEACE) - PEACE, Sessions Chairman , Jonathan
Rodriguez Gonzalez, 01-01-2009.
90
•
Conf. sobre Redes de Comunicações, Scientific Committee, Fernando
J. Velez, 01-01-2009.
•
NATO/RTO NATO SET-119 Lecture Series on Waveform Diversity for
Advanced Radar Systems, Organizing Committee, Paulo Marques,
01-01-2009.
•
International Workshop on Antenna Technology - IWAT, Technical
Programme Chairman, Carlos Cardoso Fernandes, 01-01-2009.
•
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. , Scientific Committee, Fernando J.
Velez, 01-04-2009.
•
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Scientific
Committee, Fernando J. Velez, 01-01-2009.
•
IEEE International Symp. on Consumer Electronics - ISCE,
Conference Chairman, António Navarro, 01-01-2009.
•
Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory
and Aerospace , Special Sessions Chairman, Fernando J. Velez, 0101-2009.
•
International Conf. and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile
Applications, Services and Technologies - NGMAST, Scientific
•
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Fall), Scientific
•
Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior, Scientific
•
IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Optical Networks - WI-OPT, Technical
Programme Committee, Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez, 01-012009.
Editorial Committees
•
International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) , John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd, Rafael Caldeirinha, Editorial Board, 01-06-2009 to 0105-2015.
91
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Optical Communications
4.2
4.2.1
4.2.2
Coordinators
•
Adolfo Cartaxo
•
José Ferreira da Rocha
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
2
0
0
Associate Professor
2
1
2
Assistant Professor
8
2
5
Post. Doc.
4
0
0
Visiting Professor
1
0
0
PhD Student
21
3
7
(Licenciado)
2
0
0
40
6
14
TOTAL
Table 15 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in 2009
92
Degree
Name
Group
Associate Professor
Position
Agregação
Adolfo Cartaxo
Optical Communications - Lisbon
Associate Professor
PhD
António Teixeira
Optical Communications - Aveiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Armando Nolasco Pinto
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Carlos Ferreira Fernandes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Associate Professor
PhD
Daniel Diogo Trindade
Fonseca
Henrique José A. Silva
Electronic and Optoelectronic
Components - Aveiro
Components - Lisbon
Assistant Professor
PhD
João Pires
Agregação
João Lemos Pinto
Assistant Professor
PhD
João Lopes Rebola
Associate Professor
Agregação
Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira
Full Professor
PhD
José Ferreira da Rocha
Components - Lisbon
Assistant Professor
PhD
José Morgado
Assistant Professor
PhD
Luís Cancela
Assistant Professor
PhD
Manuel Violas
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mário Lima
Post. Doc.
PhD
Paulo André
Post. Doc.
PhD
Paulo Jorge Brandão Moreira
Components - Aveiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Paulo Jorge Marques
Associate Professor
PhD
Paulo Monteiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Rogério Nunes Nogueira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Rui Pedro Oliveira Alves
Components - Aveiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Rui Sousa Ribeiro
Full Professor
Table 16 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in 2009
93
Other Collaborators
Position
PhD Student
PhD Student
Degree
Name
Group
MSc
Ana Maria Sousa da Rocha
Licenciatura Ana Patrícia Santos Ferreira
PhD Student
MSc
António Jorge Morgado
PhD Student
MSc
Berta Neto
Other
MSc
Carlos Alberto Ferreira
Marques
Carlos Miguel Santos Vicente
Components - Aveiro
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Post. Doc.
Research
Grant
PhD Student
Cláudia Sofia Marcos
Machado Reis
Claunir Pavan
Edison Pecoraro
Components - Aveiro
PhD Student
Filipe Manuel Wiener Ferro
de Carvalho
Filipe Marques Ferreira
PhD Student
Hugo Filipe Teixeira Lima
PhD
Hypolito José Kalinowsky
PhD
Student
Jacklyn Dias Reis
Components - Aveiro
João Carlos de Melo Ferreira
João da Silva Pereira
João Manuel Ferreira Pedro
Licenciatura
João Miguel Lopes dos
Santos
José Maria Bastardo de
Miranda Boavida
José Miguel Santos
PhD Student
MSc
Lara Penedo Pellegrino
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro
Components - Aveiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Manfred Niehus
Assistant Professor
PhD
Marek Hajduczenia
PhD Student
MSc
Mário Rui Leiria
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel Ângelo Madureira
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Miguel Vidal Drummond
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Nelson Jesus C. Muga
Components - Aveiro
Visiting Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant Professor
PhD Student
PhD
Student
MSc
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Licenciatura Nelson Manuel Simões Costa
Components - Lisbon
94
Position
Degree
Name
Group
MSc
PhD Student
PhD
Student
MSc
Nuno Alexandre Peixoto
Silva
Paulo Alexandre Ferreirinha
de Almeida
Paulo Fernando da Costa
Antunes
Rogério Pais Dionísio
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Rui Meleiro
PhD Student
MSc
Sérgio Junior
Components - Aveiro
PhD Student
MSc
Silvia Medeiros Vaz Pato
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Teresa Almeida
PhD Student
Licenciatura Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
Components - Aveiro
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Tiago Silveira
Table 17 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2009
95
4.2.3 Summary of Research Achievements
In the following, the achievements in the Optical Communications area are
grouped, under three sub-areas:
- Optical Components and Subsystems
- Optical Communication Systems
- Optical Networking.
Optical Components and Subsystems
The work carried out in this sub-area concentrated on the modeling, performance
evaluation, optimization and implementation of key components and subsystems
for all-optical networks.
The modeling and simulation tools to assess the static and dynamic responses of
optimized, non-conventional DFB laser structures (Distributed Coupling Coefficient
– DCC, Multiple-Phase-Shift – MPS, and Corrugation Pitch Modulated - CPM lasers),
to be used in optical communication systems using direct modulation, was
performed. The optimization of these laser structures (DCC, MPS, CPM or hybrid)
has been implemented using matrix techniques (TMM). An improved model to
discriminate the adiabatic and transient frequency chirping in directly modulated
lasers was developed.
The study of the frequency response of semiconductor PIN photodiodes for optical
communications continued. The effect of wavelength on the transit time limited
frequency response was considered, by using a previously developed numerical
model which may be applied to devices with an arbitrary electric field profile in the
absorption region and non-uniform illumination. The combined effects, regarding
the absorption layer width, bias voltage, temperature, wavelength and direction of
the incident light, on the transit time limited frequency response of PIN photodiodes
were also investigated.
An analytical model accurately describing the evolution of the relative state of
polarization between two signals in high-birefringence fibers was developed and
experimentally validated. The influence of the stimulated Raman scattering in the
96
four-wave mixing process in high-birefringence fibers was theoretically analyzed. A
new method to measure the effective nonlinear parameter of a fiber was developed
and experimentally validated, by comparing theoretical and experimental four-wave
mixing results in a low power regime.
In the area of optical amplification, a new method was developed to mitigate the
transient effect in optical fiber Raman amplifiers. This method is based on a pumpcontrolled gain-locked system and is suitable for pump-reflecting Raman fiber
amplifiers. This method was submitted for a patent registration.
Optical amplification in the visible spectral region for plastic optical fiber
applications was also studied. Reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers have been
characterized under RF modulation, in order to optimize its parameters for radio
over fiber applications.
Work has also been carried out in the area of production and characterization of
components in integrated optics. Passive devices (Y-branch splitter), based on solgel technologies, have been developed for passive optical networks.
In the area of all optical processing for high bit rate optical networks, advanced
techniques for all-optical routing, tunable dispersion compensation, optical filtering,
pulse shaping, clock recovery, optical code division multiplexing and regeneration
were developed.
An acoustic wave generator for optical fibers to be used in tunable filters was
developed.
Research work on all optical signal processing with semiconductor optical amplifiers
started, and a lab experiment has been designed for evaluating new applications,
namely static RAM.
In the area of new techniques and devices for microwave photonics, a novel beam
forming technique for phased array antennas has been studied.
97
Work in the area of optical sensors included: the development and optimization of a
fiber monitoring system, based on fiber sensors and wireless transmission; novel
plastic fiber sensors for refractive index and bending measurement; a novel sensor
for simultaneous refractive index, temperature and stress measurement based on a
tilted fiber Bragg grating; and a novel sensor for simultaneous measurement of
temperature and deformation based on a tapered fiber.
Optical Communication Systems
Advanced modulation formats for optical fiber communication systems were
investigated. A novel semi-analytical method for BER evaluation in simulated optical
DQPSK systems was developed, and an accurate method of performance
assessment for DQPSK systems in presence of receiver imperfections was
proposed. Pseudo-linear transmission regime with high-speed optical singlesideband (OSSB) signals and electrical dispersion compensation was investigated.
An analytical method to estimate the degradation of signal quality in case of OSSB
signals with different modulation formats was investigated.
3R all-optical regenerator work was pursued. The impact of the switching window
shape on the performance of a chain of reamplification, reshaping, and retiming alloptical regenerators based on a non-linear gate was analyzed.
In the area of radio over fiber (RoF) systems, optical filters were developed and
optimized for these systems. Performance of BPSK vs QPSK for optical distribution
of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ultra-wideband (UWB) radio
signals in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks was compared. The state-of-the-art
of joint optical/radio OFDM transmission impairment compensation was identified.
Research on 60 GHz MMW band focused on photonic techniques for generation of
MMW sub-carriers has begun during this reporting period. Transmission of 802.11g
signals over a 10Km RoF link was demonstrated.
The feasibility of a photonic structure for photonic analog-to-digital conversion (PhADC) applications was investigated in the UCELLS project. The main aim is to
realize the ultra wideband radio spectrum management. The proper operation of
the Ph-ADC photonic structure was experimentally demonstrated.
98
A semi-analytical approach that allows evaluating the transmission performance of
direct-detection OFDM signals over optical fiber was proposed. The development of
a rigorous method to assess the performance of the transmission of OFDM signals
in optically preamplified receivers with direct-detection was started.
Optical Networking
The research work on access networks has continued, focused on next generation
passive optical networks (PONs) and their convergence/integration with MANs. The
search for new CDMA codes has been pursued, by exploring their applicability in
access networks with coherent modulation and detection. Work has started on the
functional requirements of fully-converged integrated optical-wireless access
architectures started. The application of Raman amplification in PONs and
demonstration of the concept of optical powering of remote nodes was studied.
Work on optical burst-switched networks continued in 2008. A framework for
routing path optimization by using an ant colony optimization technique was
developed and its performance was evaluated by network simulation. A strategy for
optimizing the structure of an OBS burst-switch by using wavelength contention
minimization algorithms was proposed. The use of Raman amplification in optical
burst switched networks was analyzed and compared (experimentally and by
simulation) with other amplification technologies (EDFAs and SOA).
Work on transporting 100 Gbit Ethernet traffic over OTN (Optical Transport
Network) networks has continued. Work on ILP (Integer Linear Programming) and
heuristic formulations taking into account aspects like virtual concatenation,
multipath routing, and differential delay minimization by including also wavelength
assignment was realized.
The problem of generating physical realistic optical transport network topologies
was addressed. This type of network has characteristics that differ from scale-free
networks, such as the Internet. Based on the analysis of a set of real transport
topologies, relevant characteristics were identified and assessed. A method to
99
generate realistic topologies was proposed and validated by comparing the
characteristics of computer-generated and real-world optical transport networks.
Investigation on physical layer impairments was pursued. An analytical treatment
appropriate to compute the performance of DPSK receivers in the presence of inband coherent crosstalk originated inside the optical nodes was developed.
In the areas of high power in optical networks, guidelines for the transmission of
high power optical signals in fiber systems were derived, and the constraints
resulting from the fiber heating and development of strategies to the mitigation of
the fiber fuse effect were studied.
100
4.2.4
Running and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
Number
COST, NA
2
ESF
2
EU
2
EU-FP7
5
FCT
2
FCT/PTDC
7
JustBit
1
PT Inovação
1
QREN PTIN
1
TOTAL
23
Table 18 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2009
101
Acron / Ref
BONE
Title
BONE
Funding
EU - FP7
Descript.
Establishing a wide expertise knowledge base and sharing of
experiences on the areas of networking and exchanges.
Acron / Ref
BRISA
Title
Breaking waves Interaction with SAnd transport
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Study of the Breaking waves Interaction with SAnd
Acron / Ref
CRT / P407
Title
Control of Transient Response of Fiber Raman Amplifiers
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
In the frame work of this project we are going to analyze the
transient response of fiber Raman amplifiers. We aim to develop a
control system suitable to mitigate the transient effect in fiber Raman
amplifiers. We intend to obtain a low cost Raman amplifier suitable to
be used in CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) systems,
with an high efficient and with a smooth transient response.
Acron / Ref
Title
MP0702
COST
MP0702
-
Towards
functional
sub-wavelength
photonic
structures
102
Funding
COST, NA
Descript.
The main objective of the Action is to establish active links between
European laboratories working in the field of artificial materials for
photonics applications, where the structural dimensions are at or
below the wavelength of light.
Fabrication of such structures has become possible due to the
expertise delivered by nanotechnology, which opens the way to the
study of new functional artificial materials and plasmonic structures,
promising
progress
in
miniaturisation
-
and
which
will
allow
exploration of new aspects of light-matter interaction. The goal is to
increase knowledge about the basic mechanisms of the interaction of
light with matter on a sub-wavelength scale. The scientific innovation
concerns: the basic mechanisms of light-matter interaction in microand nanostructured materials - including metals (plasmonics), the
trade-off between strong localization and propagation losses, photonic
diagnostic instruments, and non-linear effects. The technological
impact of the Action will lead to the implementation of advanced
optical equipment and devices with high performance and low cost.
The scientific transformation resulting from the Action will facilitate
interconnection between topics that will produce new results in the
field of photonics and pave the way to the forthcoming era of
nanophotonics.
Acron / Ref
Title
Panorama
Desenvolvimento de um Sistema de Telecomunicações sustentado em
Plataformas Ópticas e de Rádio Avançadas com gestão integrada
Funding
QREN PTIN
Descript.
O projecto é constituído por actividades de investigação industrial e
desenvolvimento
experimental
cujo
objectivo
é
desenvolver
plataformas ópticas e wireless avançadas para redes metro, acesso e
103
core com gestão integrada, capazes de competir no mercado
internacional e que projectem em definitivo no mercado internacional
a tecnologia que “fala” Português. Com efeito, pretende-se, com este
projecto que incorpora desenvolvimentos técnicos e tecnológicos
significativos, a criação de vários módulos que serão integrados num
sistema
completo
(PANORAMA)
com
características
inovadoras
capazes de garantir uma forte vantagem competitiva para a empresa
promotora no sector em que actua.
Acron / Ref
Title
ROFWDM / PTDC/EEA-TEL/68973/2006
Design
and
Optimisation
of
WDM
Millimetre-Wave
Fibre-Radio
Systems
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main results of this project will be disseminated through
publications in scientific journals and international conferences as
well as technical reports. This will help promote future cooperation
and will allow other R&D institutions to share the results and the
exchange of ideas.
At the national level the results of this project will be reported on two
main
events
in
this
area,
namely
the
''Telecommunications
Conference'' and the ''Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks'' an
yearly event, which INESC and IT-Aveiro are the main organizers.
During the course of the project we propose to organize a workshop,
with the collaboration of all partners, dedicated to the presentation
and dissemination of results.
In addition the partners within this project, based on mutual
cooperation,
will
pursue
the
exploitation
of
results,
namely,
technology transfer, standardization. In order to meet this target the
academic/research
institutions will collaborate
closely
with
the
industrial partner Siemens, SA. Siemens, will use its position as a
leading manufacture of advanced fiber optic and radio networks to
104
explore
possible
scenarios
of
technology
transfer,
system
specifications of WDM fibre-radio system architectures and the
convergence between the super broadband wired and wireless access
networks.
Acron / Ref
Title
THRONE / PTDC/EEA-TEL/66840/2006
Devices and techniques for optical processing in high bit-rate
networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main objectives of the project are:
- Identify the main limitations associated with high capacity optical
communications.
- Investigate and promote new technological solutions for the
identified limitations.
- Investigate and promote new devices for low cost passive all-optical
processing.
- Implementation of a state of the art FBG fabrication system.
- Experimental evaluation of the proposed solutions with the
presentation of prototypes and with an experimental assessment.
Acron / Ref
EURO-FOS
Title
EURO-FOS
Funding
EU - FP7
Descript.
Pan-european lab and experience sharing
105
Acron / Ref
Title
FUTON
Fibre Optic Networks for Distributed, Extendible Heterogeneous Radio
Architectures and Service Provisioning
Funding
EU
Descript.
The FUTON project aims to research develop and validate a flexible
architecture for wireless systems based on the joint processing of the
radio signals from distinct remote antenna units and supported by a
transparent fibre infrastructure. This architecture will enable the high
bit rates targeted in the broadband component of future wireless
systems
and
provide
a
framework
for
the
integration
of
heterogeneous wireless system.
Acron / Ref
FEFOF / PTDC/EEA-TEL/72025/2006
Title
Fuse effect on optical fibers
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project focuses on the feasibility to study the effects of
propagation high power signals on optical fibers.
The following sub-objectives, will be attained:
a) To accurately model the catastrophic fuse effect and foresee its
evolution in accordance with the fiber type and propagation power.
b) To systematically obtain the ignition and propagation power
threshold for different types of fibers (SMF, DSF and NZDFS) for
several bending conditions and analyze the impact of aging in these
values.
c) To fully understand and predict the damage produced in several
types of optical connectors.
d) Develop a solution to isolate the propagation of the catastrophic
fuse effect (fuse stopper).
106
This project will integrate a heterogeneous research group with
knowledge in different research areas, such as telecommunications,
optics and material science. This multidisciplinary group has the
potential to deeply emerge in this subject in order to fully understand
the problem and to successfully conclude the project objectives.
Acron / Ref
MOTION / PTDC/EEA-TEL/73529/2006
Title
Monitoring and compensaTion of Impairments in Optical Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This project will focus on:
- Develop OIM modules to allow the evaluation of multi-channel
oriented impairment, OSNR, XPM and linear crosstalk.
- Develop OIM modules to assess GVD and PMD.
- Study and identify OIC modules to mitigate optical GVD and PMD.
- Experimental evaluation of the produced prototypes.
-To integrate and test the MOTION system on a test network, where
the behavior of a real network can be reproduced.
Acron / Ref
OreO PTDC/CTM/72093/2006
Title
Organic/Inorganic hybrids for Integrated Optics - 2
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
- To investigate sol-gel derived amine functionalised OIH, such as diureasils, modified by ZPO and MA as material
substrate for production of passive IO devices
- To investigate the influence of the processing of the materials as thin
films and monoliths on the PL features of the
undoped host
107
- To investigate the influence of ZPO concentration and different ratios
ZPO:MA on the local structure and PL
features
- To perform waveguide geometric optimization in order to achieve the
required functionalities of the desired
devices
- Fabrication of channel waveguides with the proposed OIH processed
as monoliths an thin films
- To implement enabling solutions for access optical networks, such as
low cost optical power splitters and optical
filters.
- To investigate the role of the OHI processing mode (monoliths and
films) in the structural, photoluminescence and
waveguide features.
Acron / Ref
RoFnet / PTDC/EEA-TEL/71678/2006
Title
Reconfigurable Radio over Fiber network – RoFnet
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The overall objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate the
feasibility of a novel cost effective RoF system architecture that uses
the benefits of combining optical networking concepts with fiber radio
techniques to efficiently manage the network resource usage and to
allow flexible wavelength allocation for the BSs, depending on user
requirements and QoS.
To achieve the overall goal of the project we identify the following
interim objectives:
-Identification of novel network architectures suited for RoF systems,
combining low complexity with flexibility and cost effectiveness;
-To develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a new low cost BS
108
architecture, which uses a RSOA;
-To assess the transmission impairments of wavelength division
multiplexed (WDM) systems combined with subcarrier multiplexing
and employing optical single side band modulation (OSSB);
-To develop wavelength allocation algorithms able to allocate network
resources depending on varying user demand and QoS:
- To liaise with other European projects in order to understand and
possibly integrate relevant developments.
Acron / Ref
Title
SARDANA
Scalable
Advanced
Ring-based
passive
Dense
Access
Network
Architecture (SARDANA)
Funding
EU - FP7
Descript.
Ultr high performance WDM-TDM PON, physical and MAC related
aspects
Acron / Ref
Title
Sub-Lambda / PTDC/EEATEL/71819/2006
Sub-diffraction
imaging
systems
formed
by
microstructured
waveguides
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Development of new imaging systems (based on metamaterial
technology)
with
subwavelength
resolution
at
infrared/optical
frequencies.
Acron / Ref
Title
COST 291
Towards digital optical communications
109
Funding
ESF
Descript.
The primary objective of the COST Action “Towards Digital Optical
Networks” is to focus on novel network concepts and architectures
exploiting the features and properties of photonic technologies, to
enable future telecommunications networks. It is aiming to propose a
new generation of systems and networks that will accommodate the
unpredictable and growing size of data files and messages exchanged
and stored as well as real time services (e.g. voice, video etc) over
global distances requiring an agile Communication Grid supporting
quality of services. These need to provide end-toend bandwidth for
transmission of traffic for applications such as information retrieval,
downloading (often multimedia) web software, exchange of various
type of software (hundreds of Mbytes) and data models (Gbytes) etc
as well as real time multimedia applications.
These systems need to be very flexible and rapidly reactive to
efficiently accommodate the abrupt and unpredictable changes in
traffic statistics introduced by current and future applications with low
endto- end latency. They will enable advanced features such as
efficient and simple multicasting and broadcasting of broadband
signals. In general, they need to support a future proof, flexible,
efficient and bandwidth-abundant fiber-optic network infrastructure
capable of supporting ubiquitous services in a resilient manner offering
protection and restoration capabilities as well as secure services to the
users.
Transparency to various digital signals and protocols is required to
eliminate the need for multilayer complex network architectures
suffering
by
poor
scalability
for
data
services,
high
latency,
complicated network management and high cost. This migration can
be gradually achieved by removing and/or integrating intermediate
layers.
Flat
and
upgradeable
network
architectures
supporting
photonic core and access technologies with intelligent edge nodes at
the interfaces will form a universal infrastructure offering a variety of
110
services supported by multiple operators. The ease of maintenance,
provisioning and resilient operation required in this type of networks
will
be
achieved
through
advanced
routing
and
management
mechanisms, eliminating the requirement for ever increasing amounts
of complex software raising the cost and limiting the network reliability
and availability.
This advanced photonic infrastructure will employ optical signal
processing and dynamic impairment management to eliminate the
limitations of the analogue nature of traditional optical networks,
dense
wavelength
division
multiplexing
technologies
for
signal
transmission and routing, and optical packet and/or burst switching to
provide fine bandwidth granularity, network efficiency and flexibility.
Acron / Ref
TURBO
Title
Transmission of UltRa wide-Band radio signals over Optical fibre
Funding
FCT
Descript.
This project proposes to investigate the performance impairments of
the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra wideband (OFDMUWB) radio signal transmission in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks
and optimize the system parameters through analytical and numerical
simulation work, and to experimentally demonstrate the main results
obtained. Particularly, the study and the assessment of the main
system impairments is performed, such as: (i) electrical crosstalk
associated with multi-channel OFDM-UWB transmission, (ii) linear and
non-linear fibre effects, (iii) optical crosstalk associated with the
transmission of several optical channels using dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM). Different techniques to reduce the
performance
degradation
caused
by
such
limitations
are
also
investigated.
The work to carry out along this project targets the transmission of
OFDM-UWB radio signals in FTTH networks using external modulation
111
(EM) and direct modulation (DM) of the emitter laser.
The transmission of OFDM-UWB radio signals over multi-mode fibre is
also a topic to be investigated in the project, since this type of fibre is
used in the user’s premises due to its easy maintenance and
utilization.
Acron / Ref
Title
UCELLS
Ultra-wide band real-time interference monitoring and CELLular
management Strategies
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
The main objective of UCELLS project is to study and demonstrate the
cellular ultra wideband (UWB) capabilities employing a spectrum
monitoring system based on a photonic analog-to-digital converter in
order to efficiently enable coexistence and compatibility of UWB-based
wireless communications with existing and future mobile and fixed
wireless systems.
112
4.2.5
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
António Teixeira
Pedro Coelho
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Silvia Correia
Henrique José A.
Silva
Henrique José A.
Silva
Adolfo Cartaxo
Co- Supervisors
João Lemos Pinto
Filipe Miguel
Cevada
Bugalho
Paulo
Ferreirinha de
Almeida
Title
characterization of passive optical
2/2009
networks
Integration of optical fibers in 2D and 3D
2/2009
mesh structures
Optical Signal Processing with
Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
Optical SSB Modulators for Signal
Transmission with SCM in the 30 GHz
Band
Distribution of M-PAM ultra-wideband
radio signals in FTTH networks
Tiago Valente
End
Date
2/2009
2/2009
6/2009
António Teixeira
Lúcia Santiago
Beatriz Sousa Santos DSD: interfaces e interações
Mota
Hugo Martins
Reconfigurable networks
6/2009
António Teixeira
André Tiago
Carreira e Silva Rui Escadas Martins
Sistema remotamente alimentado para
redes ópticas passivas. (PON)
6/2009
António Teixeira
João Andrade
Paulo André
strategies for NG-PONs
6/2009
Carlos Paiva
From Electronic Cristals to Photonic
Crystals
7/2009
António Teixeira
António Topa
Sérgio
Alexandre
Santos
Rodrigues
António Topa
Eddy Freitas
André
Edison Pecoraro
Ramkanna
Edison Pecoraro
Venkatachalam
Henrique José A.
Silva
Henrique José A.
Silva
Edison Pecoraro
Carlos Ferreira
Fernandes
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Carlos Paiva
Ana Cláudia
Moreira Dias
José Maria
Bastardo de
Miranda
Boavida
Optical Beam Propagation in
7/2009
Metamaterials
Refractive index tunability studies on solgel derived di-ureasil Zr-oxo-cluster thin 8/2009
films
Management Model for a Gbit-capable
Passive Optical Network
9/2009
Modulation Techniques for Radio over
Fiber Systems with Subcarrier
Multiplexing in Millimeter Waves
9/2009
Edison Pecoraro
Low Cost Cold Extrusion System for
Single Phase Channel Waveguides Based
on Sol-Gel Process
9/2009
José Morgado
Modelling and characterization of a
distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode
10/2009
Filipe Marques
Ferreira
Rubaiyet
Iftekharul
Haque
6/2009
Fernando Pedro
Pereira
Guiomar
Electronic Post-Compensation of
Transmission Impairments in High-Speed 11/2009
Optical Communications Systems
Adolfo Cartaxo
Filipe Manuel
Wiener Ferro
Carvalho
Optical backbone networks with OFDM
signalling
11/2009
Edison Pecoraro
Fikadu Legesse
Edison Pecoraro
Alema
Organic-inorganic hybrid doped with
rhodamine dyes for light emitting
applications
11/2009
113
Supervisor
Student
Paulo André
André Filipe
Moreira Martins
Paulo André
Luis Ferreira
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
Paulo Sérgio
Nogueira de
Morais
Co- Supervisors
Dinis Magalhães
Santos
Andre Quintas
TIAGO JOSE
MONICA
CARVALHO
Mário Lima
António Teixeira
Nuno Santos
Mário Lima
António Teixeira
Claudia
Mendonça
Mário Lima
Paulo Monteiro
Helder Moura
Mário Lima
António Teixeira
João Francisco
Mário Lima
Cruzeiro
Taborda
Fernando
José Ferreira da
Parente
Rocha
Vera Teixeira
Beatriz Sousa Santos
António Teixeira
Jose Girão
António Teixeira
Rui Mesquita
António Teixeira
Gabriel
Gonçalves
Mário Lima
António Teixeira
Paulo Monteiro
José Ferreira da
Rocha
António Teixeira
Adolfo Cartaxo
Mário Lima
Maria Teresa
Pinto Ferreira
Palma Ramalho
António Teixeira
Andreia Alves
Adolfo Cartaxo
Inês Marques
Dias
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Luís Melo
Manfred Niehus
Marco Besugo
Manfred Niehus
Paulo Simões
Manfred Niehus
Dani Brito
Manfred Niehus
Sergio Fereira
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Pedro Reis
End
Date
Estudo de fibras ópticas sujeitas a
12/2009
curvaturas apertadas
Monitorização da topografia de uma praia
12/2009
com sensores em fibra óptica
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
Title
Sensor alimentado pelo processo foto
voltaico
12/2009
sustainable devices for optical netowrks
12/2009
Uso das camadas físicas e de acesso para
12/2009
mapeamento de redes PON
Métodos de Monitorização Óptica para
6/2010
Redes de Acesso
Requisitos para redes opticas passivas
avançadas e de cobertura extendida NG- 6/2010
PON2
Análise de redes de rádio sobre fibra, com
o suporte simultâneo de serviços móveis 6/2010
e fixos
Backoffice web: Distribuição de Serviço
Docente.
6/2010
Efeitos cruzados em serviços sobre PON
6/2010
Extended Front-office to dsd.av.it.pt
6/2010
Extender box para redes opticas passivas
GPON
Front and back office web para o sistema
dsd.av.it.pt
Impacto do interface óptico em sistemas
RoF
Redes opticas passivas avançadas
coerentes NG-PON2
Reduced model for estimating the signal
quality degradation due to transient
effects in optical networks
Mário Lima
6/2010
6/2010
6/2010
6/2010
6/2010
Requisitos para redes opticas passivas de
6/2010
próxima geração XG-PON1
Transmission of OFDM-UWB radio signals
in FTTH networks using directly
6/2010
modulated lasers
Fiber optic refractive index sensors
7/2010
Comunicação Óptica Segura –
Desenvolvimento de sistema de
9/2010
distribuição segura de chaves
criptográficas (quanticas), de baixo custo
e compacto
Desenvolvimento de Aplicações da Visão
9/2010
Estereoscópica baseadas na Polarização
da Luz
Desenvolvimento e Implementação de
9/2010
uma Experiência interactiva à base da
plataforma “Arduino”
Modelação de sinais em fibras ópticas
9/2010
microestruturadas e/ou nanofibras
Control Transient Effects in Optical Raman
10/2010
Amplifiers
114
Supervisor
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Adolfo Cartaxo
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Adolfo Cartaxo
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Adolfo Cartaxo
Adolfo Cartaxo
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Paulo André
Paulo André
Paulo André
Student
Co- Supervisors
João Pedro
Morais Davim
Filipe Miguel
Pando da Silva
Martins
Gil Gonçalo
Paulo André
Martins
Fernandes
Andre Toscano
Estriga
Chibeles
Daniel Macedo
Filipa Andreia
Fernandes
Henriques
Pedro Luís
Benito
Canelhas
Steven Ramos
Carneiro
Vasco
Fernandes
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Maria Rute Ferreira
André
Maria Rute Ferreira
Bruno Ferreira
André
Maria Rute Ferreira
Lionel Xavier
André
Title
End
Date
Ethernet in Transport Networks
10/2010
Modelling and experimental
characterisation of EDFAs and impact on
system performance
10/2010
Production and Characterization of Narrow
10/2010
Diameter Optical Fibers
Reduced model for planning optical
networks resilient to transient effects of
optical amplifiers
The Control Plane of Carrier Ethernet
Networks
along multimode fibre in in-building
networks
in FTTH networks using chirp-managed
lasers
Transmission of Quantum Information
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
Caracterização por elipsometria de filmes
12/2010
finos para aplicações em óptica integrada
Efeito do envelhecimento por elipsometria
12/2010
de filmes finos para óptica integrada
Híbridos Orgânicos/Inorgânicos para
12/2010
Óptica Integrada
Table 19 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2009
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Meire Fugihara
Adolfo Cartaxo
Mário Rui
Guerreiro Leiria
Rui Sousa Ribeiro
Ana Patrícia dos
Paulo Monteiro
Santos Ferreira
Paulo André
António Teixeira
Rui Miguel
Oliveira Meleiro
Tiago Silveira
António Teixeira
Sergio Junior
João Pires
João Pedro
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Henrique José A.
Silva
Co- Supervisors
Title
Optimization of Optical
Telecommunication Systems Using
Distributed Raman Amplification
Optical communication systems with
optical regenerators
Modulation and Equalization Techniques
for Optical Transmission at Ultra-High
Rates
End
Date
10/2009
11/2009
12/2009
Optical processing devices and techniques
3/2010
for next generation optical networks
Paulo Monteiro
Paulo Monteiro
All-optical signal processing
6/2010
Amplificação de sistemas de comunicação
6/2010
ópticos
Contention Minimization Strategies for
6/2010
Optical Burst-Switched Networks
Hugo Lima
Advanced Fiber Sensors
10/2010
Nelia Alberto
Biosensors based on Fiber Bragg Gratings 10/2010
Sílvia Medeiros
Vaz Pato
Next Generation Optical Access Networks 10/2010
115
Supervisor
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Henrique José A.
Silva
Paulo André
António Teixeira
Title
End
Date
Lucia Bilro
Optical Metrology in Medicine and
Rehabilitation
10/2010
Rogério Dionísio António Teixeira
Optical monitoring systems and devices
10/2010
João da Silva
Pereira
Spread Spectrum in Access and
Metropolitan Networks
Integrated multi-functional photonic
devices for optical communication
purposes
Student
Lara Penedo
Pellegrino
Claunir Pavan
João Pires
João Santos
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Nelson de Jesus
Corderio Muga
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Jacklyn Dias
António Teixeira
Paulo André
Paulo Monteiro
Paulo André
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
António Teixeira
Adolfo Cartaxo
Paulo André
Paulo André
Henrique José A.
Silva
Henrique José A.
Silva
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Atílio Gameiro
Paulo Monteiro
Pedro Teixeira
Armando Nolasco
Pinto
Adolfo Cartaxo
Co- Supervisors
High performance devices
Paulo Monteiro
WDM flexible networks
Berta Maria
Barbosa Neto
Miguel Vidal
Drummond
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Carlos Miguel
Vicente
Maria Rute Ferreira
André
Nuno André
Rogério Dionísio
Claudia Reis
Dimensioning Multi-Layers Optical
Networks
Physical and logical aspects of Ethernet
over WDM networks supported in ring
topologies
Polarization Effects in Fiber Optics
Communication Systems
Ultra-wideband radio signal transmission
systems of over optical fibre
Alternative techniques for Raman
amplification
All optical processing in fibre optical
communication systems
Hibridos Orgânicos/inorgânicos para
aplicações de baixo custo em óptica
integrada
10/2010
10/2010
11/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
12/2010
9/2011
10/2011
40g over MMF
12/2011
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Advanced optical generation and
regeneration
12/2011
Paulo André
All-optical routing funcionalities
12/2011
Zoran Vijicij
Natasa Pavlovic
Ali shahpari
Mário Lima
Adballa
Mário Lima
Abdelgader
Nelson Manuel
Daniel Diogo
Simões da
Trindade Fonseca
Costa
Ana Maria
Rocha
Paulo Fernando
da Costa
Antunes
Filipe Marques
Ferreira
Paulo Alexandre
Ferreirinha de
Almeida
Nuno Alexandre
Peixoto Silva
João Carlos de
Paulo Monteiro
Melo Ferreira
Mojtaba
Manuel Violas
Sadeghi
emiters and receivers for next generation
12/2011
access optical networks
Next generation dense optical access
12/2011
networks
Next generation optical converged
12/2011
networks
Optical fibre telecommunication systems
with multi-symbol phase modulation
12/2011
Estudo da Degradação de fibras ópticas
sob o efeito de potências elevadas
12/2011
Sensores ópticos para monitorização
dinâmica de estruturas
12/2011
Optical Transmission Systems with
Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing
10/2012
Radio Over Fibre Systems with Support
for Fixed and Mobile services
10/2012
Quantum Cryptography in Optical Fibers
12/2012
Transient Effects in Optical Networks
12/2012
MIMO techniques for radio over Fiber
2/2013
116
Supervisor
Student
Adolfo Cartaxo
Filipe Manuel
Wiener Ferro de
Carvalho
Paulo André
Ana Pratas
Co- Supervisors
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Title
End
Date
OFDM-based next generation converged
optical-wireless access networks
12/2013
Técnicas de monitorização em redes
ópticas da próxima geração
12/2013
Table 20 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2009
117
4.2.6 Publications
Optical Communication Systems
Book Chapters
•
Teixeira, A.T.; M. J. N. Lima; N.P. Pavlovic; G. Beleffi ; " 4 Evolution of
Optical Access Networks " - Chapter in COST 291 – Towards Digital
Optical Network , Ioannis Tomkos , Springer, 2009.
•
Costa, N.; A. Cartaxo; " Optical DQPSK Modulation Performance
Evaluation " - Chapter in Advances in Lasers and Electro optics , Vedran
Kordic , In-Tech , 2009 .
-
Papers in Journals
•
Solution for the gain of broadband Raman amplifiers with multiple
counter-pumps ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 27 , No. 7 ,
pp. 944 - 951 , April , 2009.
•
Chatzigeorgiou, I; M. Rodrigues ; I. J. Wassell; R Carrasco; " Analysis
and Design of Punctured Rate-1/2 Turbo Codes Exhibiting Low Error
Floors ", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , Vol. 27 ,
No. 6 , pp. 944 - 953 , August , 2009.
•
Fugihara, M.C.F.; A. N. Pinto; " Attenuation Fitting Functions ",
Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 51 , No. 10 , pp. 2294 - 2296
, October , 2009.
•
Papaganakis, I.P.; D. K. Klonidis; P. P. Poggiolini; G. B. Bosco; M.
Omella; J. Prat; D. Fonseca; A.T. Teixeira; A. Cartaxo; I. Tomkos; "
Electronic
distortion
compensation
in
the
mitigation
of
optical
transmission impairments: the view of joint project on mitigation of
optical transmission impairments by electronic means ePhoton/ONe1
project ", IET Optoelectronics , Vol. 3 , No. 2 , pp. 73 - 85 , January ,
2009.
•
Morant, M.; T. M. F. Alves ; R. Llorente; A. Cartaxo; J. Marti; "
Experimental comparison of transmission performance of multi-channel
119
OFDM-UWB signals on FTTH networks ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave
Tech. , Vol. 27 , No. 10 , pp. 1408 - 1414 , May , 2009.
•
Pato, S.; H. S. Silva; P. Monteiro; " Forward Error Correction in 10 Gbit/s
Ethernet Passive Optical Networks ", Journal of Optical Networking , Vol.
8 , No. 1 , pp. 84 - 94 , January , 2009.
•
Meleiro, R.; J. Castro; D. Fonseca; P.S André; P. Monteiro; " In-band
crosstalk penalties in optical networks with narrow optical and electric
filtering ", Optics Express , Vol. 17 , No. 6 , pp. 4605 - 4610 , March ,
2009.
•
Silva, N. A.; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; " Influence of the Stimulated Raman
Scattering on the Four-Wave Mixing Process in Birefringent Fibers ",
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 27 , No. 22 , pp. 4979 - 4988
, November , 2009.
•
Rocha, Ana M.; B. Neto; M. Facão Facão; P.S André; " Low Cost
Incoherent Pumps Solutions for Raman Fiber Amplifier ", Optica Aplicatta
, Vol. 39 , No. 2 , pp. 287 - 293 , July , 2009.
•
Muga, N. J.; M.C.F. Fugihara; M. Ferreira; A. N. Pinto; " Non-Gaussian
ASE Noise in Raman Amplification Systems ", IEEE/OSA Journal of
Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 27 , No. 16 , pp. 3389 - 3398 , August , 2009.
•
Costa, N.; A. Cartaxo; " Novel semi-analytical method for BER evaluation
in simulated optical DQPSK systems ", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
, Vol. 21 , No. 7 , pp. 447 - 449 , April , 2009.
•
Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Performance degradation due to OFDMUWB radio signals transmission along dispersive single-mode fiber ",
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , Vol. 21 , No. 3 , pp. 158 - 160 ,
February , 2009.
•
Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Semi-analytical approach for performance
evaluation of direct-detection OFDM optical communication systems ",
Optics Express , Vol. 17 , No. 21 , pp. 18714 - 18729 , October , 2009.
•
Pavlovic, N.P.; N. Costa; A. Cartaxo; " Single-sideband differential phase
shift keying asynchronous carrier-suppressed return-to-zero — a novel
signaling format optimized for long-haul UDWDM systems ", , Vol. 27 ,
No. 12 , pp. 1990 - 2000 , June , 2009.
120
•
Lima, M. J. N.; A.B. Brízido; A.T. Teixeira; " UMTS Radio over Fiber Link
performance analysis based on low cost uncooled laser ", , Vol. 51 , No.
1 , pp. 6 - 9 , January , 2009.
•
Reis, J.D.; B. Neto; P.S André; A.T. Teixeira; " WDM Ring Performance
Improvement by Means of Four-Wave Mixing Crosstalk Minimization
Algorithm ", Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 51 , No. 8 , pp.
1949 - 1952 , August , 2009.
•
Fonseca, D.F.; A. Cartaxo; P. Monteiro; " 40Gb/s optical single-sideband
transmission resorting to pseudolinear regime and electrical dispersion
compensation ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol.
Monday , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2009.
•
Wake, D. ; S. Pato; J. M. Pedro; E. Lopez; N. J. G. Gomes; P. Monteiro; "
A Comparison of Remote Radio Head Optical Transmission Technologies
for Next Generation Wireless Systems ", Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro
Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS , Belek-Antalya , Turkey , October
, 2009.
•
R.N. Nogueira; M. V. Drummond; C.A.F. Marques; A. Albuquerque; A.T.
Teixeira; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; " Advanced Applications of Fiber Bragg
Gratings for Telecom Systems ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics
Research Symp. - PIERS , Moscow , Russia , Vol. Proceedings , August ,
2009.
•
Pato, S.; J. M. Pedro; J. Santos; H. S. Silva; J. J. O. Pires; P. Monteiro; "
All-Optical Remote Node for Cost-Effective Metro-Access Convergence ",
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria Feira , Portugal
, May , 2009.
•
Ferreira, J.; M.C.F. Fugihara; A. N. Pinto; " Analysis of a Pump Reflecting
Raman Fiber Amplifier ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Conradin, F.; C.A.F. Marques; R.N. Nogueira; L. Almásy; " Analysis of
Different Writing Techniques for Chirped Fibre Bragg Gratings ", Proc
121
, Vol. Proceedings , pp. 403 - 406 , May , 2009.
•
Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " BPSK vs. QPSK Comparison in OFDM-UWB
Signal Distribution over FTTH Networks ", Proc Summer Topical Meetings
- LEOS , Newport , United States , July , 2009.
•
Llorente, R.; M. Morant; T. M. F. Alves ; J.P. Puche; J. Romme; "
Cognitive Radio by Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion Sensing ", Proc
IEEE International Workshop on Cross-Layer Design - IWCLD , Palma
Mallorca , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Pato, S.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; " Comparative evaluation of fibreoptic architectures for next-generation distributed antenna systems ",
Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Ponta
Delgada, Azores , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Niehus, M.; " Comunicação Óptica Segura ", Proc IV Jornadas de
Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores - JETC08
, Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 147 - 154 , January , 2009.
•
Rocha, Ana M.; A. Martins; ; P.S André; " Effect of Bending in SMF Fibers
under High Power ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
ICTON , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol. paper: Th.B2.1 , pp. 0 - 0 , June
, 2009.
•
Oliveira, R.A.; C.A.F. Marques; R.N. Nogueira; A. Pohl; " Fast AcoustoOptic Add-Drop based on Fiber Bragg Grating ", Proc IEEE Lasers and
Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS , Belek , Turkey , October ,
2009.
•
Martins, A.; Ana M. Rocha; P.S André; " High power effects on fiber optic
connectors ", Proc International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conf. IMOC , Belem , Brazil , November , 2009.
•
Sousa, A. S.; M. Dinis-Ribeiro; M. Areia; M. Coimbra; " IDENTIFYING
CANCER REGIONS IN VITAL-STAINED MAGNIFICATION ENDOSCOPY
IMAGES
USING
ADAPTED
COLOR
HISTOGRAMS
",
Proc
IEEE
International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt ,
November , 2009.
•
Costa, N.; A. Cartaxo; " Impact of Inter-Symbol Interference on Optical
DQPSK Systems Performance Evaluation using Equivalent Differential
122
Phase ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON ,
Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol. Tu.B2.3 , June , 2009.
•
Neto, B.; C. Reis; Ana M. Rocha; G. I. Incerti; N. Wada; G. Tosi-Beleffi;
D. Forin; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; " Impact of Transient Response of
Optical Amplifiers Operating with Burst Traffic ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. - ,
pp. 367 - 369 , May , 2009.
•
Santos, J.; P.R.M. Inácio ; J. V. P. Gomes; J. J. O. Pires; M. Freire; P.
Monteiro; " Improving the Upstream Channel Efficiency of Passive Optical
Networks via Frame Aggregation and Compression ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , St. Maria da Feira , Portugal , pp. 371 374 , May , 2009.
•
Morgado, J.; A. Cartaxo; " Influence of laser chirp on the performance of
40Gbit/s optically compensated directly modulated systems ", Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Networks – Mediterranean Winter ICTON MW , São Miguel , Portugal , Vol. 1 , June , 2009.
•
Pato, S.; P. Monteiro; N. J. G. Gomes; T. Kawanishi; A. Gameiro; " NextGeneration Distributed and Heterogeneous Radio Architectures: the
FUTON Project ", Proc IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conf. APMP , Beijing , China , April , 2009.
•
Muga, N. J.; M.C.F. Fugihara; M. Ferreira; A. N. Pinto; " Non-White Noise
Generation Method for ASE Noise Simulation in Systems with Raman
Amplification ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Ponta Delgada - Azores , Portugal ,
June , 2009.
•
Pato, S.; J. M. Pedro; J. Santos; P.R.M. Inácio ; P. Monteiro; " On
Building a Distributed Antenna System with Joint Signal Processing for
Next Generation Wireless Access Networks: The FUTON Approach ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria Feira , Portugal ,
May , 2009.
•
" On Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Gaussian Channels with Arbitrary
Inputs Subject to Jamming ", Proc International Symp. on Information
Theory - ISIT , Seoul , Korea, South , June , 2009.
123
•
Pato, S.; P. Monteiro; H. S. Silva; " On using all-optical burst-mode
power
equalization
in
converged
metro-access
networks
",
Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Ponta Delgada,
Azores , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Cartaxo, A.; T. M. F. Alves ; " Performance evaluation methods of directdetection OFDM systems ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Networks – ICTON , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , June , 2009.
•
Gomes, N. J. G.; S. Pato; P. Monteiro; A. Gameiro; " Radio over Fibre for
the Support of 4th Generation Mobile/Wireless Communications ", Proc
European Workshop on Photonic Solutions for Wireless, Access and InHouse Applications , Duisburg , Germany , May , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; C. Vicente; V.R. Fernandes; L.R. Xavier; E. Pecoraro; P.S
André; R.N. Nogueira; V. Bermudez; P.V.S. Marques; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro;
" Self-Patterned Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Fibre Optics Access
Networks ", Proc ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 ,
Porto de Galinhas , Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 87 - 88 , August , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; C. Vicente; V.R. Fernandes; L.R. Xavier; E. Pecoraro; P.S
André; R.N. Nogueira; V. Bermudez; P.V.S. Marques; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro;
" Self-Patterned Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Fibre Optics Access
Networks ", Proc ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 ,
Porto de Galinhas , Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 87 - 88 , August , 2009.
•
Llorente, R.; M. Castro; J.P. Puche; J. Romme; T. M. F. Alves ; " Sensing
Ultra-Low-Power Radio Signals by Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion
", Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications - ECOC , Viena ,
Austria , September , 2009.
•
Rocha, Ana M.; M. Facão Facão; A. Martins; P.S André; " Simulation of
fiber fuse effect propagation ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Networks – Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Angers , France , Vol.
pronc. , pp. FrP.12 - , December , 2009.
•
Oliveira, R.A.; C.A.F. Marques; C. Mayer; J. Pereira; R.N. Nogueira; A.
Pohl; " Single Device for Excitation of Both Flexural and Longitudinal
Acousto-Optic Effects in Fiber Bragg Gratings ", Proc International
Microwave and Optoelectronics Conf. - IMOC , Pará , Brazil , Vol.
Proceedings ,November , 2009.
124
•
Silva, N. A.; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; " Single-Photon Generation ", Proc
, Vol. 1 , pp. 35 - - , May , 2009.
•
Almeida, A. J.; G. G. Fernandes; A. N. Pinto; " Single-Photon Source
With Adjustable Linear SOP ", Proc Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks SEON , Amadora , Portugal , June , 2009.
•
Orvalho, V.; M. Coimbra; M. D. Dias; M. S. Slater; D. G. Gutierrez; J. F.
Flores; " T-Life: Therapeutic Learning of Facial Emotions ", Proc
European Future Technologies Conf. and Exhibition , Prague , Czech
Republic , April , 2009.
•
Neto, B.; C. Reis; Ana M. Rocha; A.T. Teixeira; N. Wada; P.S André; "
Transience response of traffic based on optical packets with optical
amplifiers
",
Proc
European
Conf.
on
Networks
and
Optical
Communications - NOC , Valladolid , Spain , Vol. - , pp. 545 - 550 , June
, 2009.
Optical Components And Sub-Systems
Book Chapters
•
Teixeira, A.T.; I.P. Papaganakis; G. B. Bosco; D. Fonseca; D. K. Klonidis;
P. P. Poggiolini; I. Tomkos; C. X Xia; " 2 Electronic channel equalization
techniques " - Chapter in COST 291 – Towards Digital Optical Network ,
Ioannis Tomkos , Springer , , 2009.
•
Teixeira, A.T.; D. Forin; G. Beleffi ; I. Tomkos; ; " 3 Optical signal
processing techniques for signal regeneration and digital logic " - Chapter
in COST 291 – Towards Digital Optical Network , Ioannis Tomkos ,
Springer , , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Drummond, M. V.; H. Ito; J.D. Reis; R.N. Nogueira; P. Monteiro; A.T.
Teixeira; N. Wada; " Error-free wavelength conversion at 160 Gbit/s in
PPLN waveguide at room temperature ", Electronics Letters , Vol. 45 ,
No. 22 , pp. 1135 - 1137 , October , 2009.
125
•
Morgado, J.; A. Cartaxo; " Improved model to discriminate adiabatic and
transient chirps in directly modulated semiconductor lasers ", Journal of
Modern Optics , Vol. 56 , No. 21 , pp. 2309 - 2317 , December , 2009.
•
Boavida, J.M.; J. Morgado; C. F. Fernandes; " Optimisation of a
Corrugation-Pitch-Modulated DFB Laser Structure with Inhomogeneous
Coupling Coefficient for Stable Single Longitudinal Mode Operation ",
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-APPLIED PHYSICS , Vol. 48 , No. 3 , pp.
30701 - 30701 , December , 2009.
•
Fernandes, C. F.; J.M. Boavida; J. Morgado; " Optimisation of an
Asymmetric Three Phase-Shift Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Laser
Structure
Concerning
the
Above-Threshold
Stability
",
EUROPEAN
PHYSICAL JOURNAL-APPLIED PHYSICS , Vol. 46 , No. 3 , pp. 30701 30701 , April , 2009.
•
Bonfigli, F. ; M. Vincenti; S. Almaviva; R. Montereali; R.N. Nogueira; H.
Kalinowsky; " Photo-induced gratings in thin color center layers on
lithium fluoride ", APPLIED OPTICS , Vol. 48 , No. 31 , pp. G38 - G43 ,
November , 2009.
•
Drummond,
M.
instantaneous
V.;
P.
frequency
Monteiro;
R.N.
measurement
Nogueira;
system
by
"
Photonic
means
of
RF
a
polarization polarization domain interferometer ", Optics Express , Vol.
17 , No. 7 , pp. 5433 - 5438 , March , 2009.
•
Yan, N.; A.T. Teixeira; T. Silveira; A. P. Ferreira; P. Monteiro; ; ; ; "
Simulation
and
Experimental
Characterization
of
SOA-MZI-Based
Multiwavelength Conversion ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. ,
Vol. 27 , No. 2 , pp. 117 - 127 , January , 2009.
•
Morgado, J.; C. F. Fernandes; J.M. Boavida; " Above-threshold analysis
in an optimized three phase-shift DFB laser structure for stable singlemode operation ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , São Miguel , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1
- 5 , June , 2009.
126
•
Reis, C.; R.P. Dionísio; B. Neto; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; " All-Optical
XOR Based on Integrated MZI-SOA with Co and Counter-Propagation
Scheme
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Transparent
Networks
–
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Angers , France , December , 2009.
•
Correia, S. B.; L. Bilro; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Development of an
all Fibre Interrogator System ", Proc European Society for Engineering
Education Physics Teaching in Engineering Education - PTEE , Wroclaw ,
Poland , September , 2009.
•
André, P.S; E. Pecoraro; Ferreira; Carlos; " DYE-DOPED AMINEFUNCTIONALISED
ORGANIC-INORGANIC
HYBRIDS
FOR
LIGHT
AMPLIFICATION ", Proc ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel
2009 , porto Galinhas , Brazil , August , 2009.
•
Boavida, J.M.; J. Morgado; C. F. Fernandes; " Easily Feasible High-Yield
DFB Laser with High Power Efficiency and Tight Wavelength Tolerance ",
Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS ,
Antalya , Turkey , Vol. 1 , pp. 843 - 844 , October , 2009.
•
Martins, A.; Ana M. Rocha; P.S André; " Efeitos de alta potência em
fibras com curvaturas apertadas ", Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da
Universidade da Beira Interior , covilhã , Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Pereira, J. T.; " Frequency response performance analysis of p-i-n
photodiodes ", Proc International Symp. on Electromagnetic Fields in
Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering - ISEF , Arras ,
France , Vol. 1 , pp. 231 - 232 , September , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; P. Monteiro; R.N. Nogueira; " HiBi-fiber-based
Photonic RF Instantaneous Frequency Measurement System ", Proc
Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON , Amadora , Portugal , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 2 , June , 2009.
•
Boavida, J.M.; C. F. Fernandes; J. Morgado; " Improvements on
Corrugation Pitch Modulated Distributed Coupling Coefficient Distributed
Feedback Laser Structures for Single Longitudinal Mode Operation ", Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Networks – Mediterranean Winter ICTON MW , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. We.D5.4 - We.D5.4 ,
July , 2009.
127
•
Martins, A.; Ana M. Rocha; B. Neto; A.T. Teixeira; M. Facão Facão; R.N.
Nogueira; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; " Modeling of Bend Losses in SingleMode Optical Fibers ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Dionísio, R.P.; " Módulo Expositivo e Interactivo sobre Fenómenos
Ópticos ", Proc Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação CISTI , Póvoa do Varzim , Portugal , June , 2009.
•
Antunes, P.; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; P.S André; " Monitorization of
Sea Sand Transport in Coastal Areas Using Optical Fiber Sensors ", Proc
IEEE Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand , October , 2009.
•
Boavida, J.M.; C. F. Fernandes; J. Morgado; " Near Threshold Regime
Optimization of a Corrugation-Pitch-Modulated DFB Laser Structure with
Inhomogeneous
Coupling
Coefficient
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , St Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 343 - 346 , May , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; R.N. Nogueira; P. Monteiro; M. Violas; P.-Y. Fonjallaz;
" Novel Opto-Electrical Tunable Dispersion Compensator for IM Signals ",
Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications - ECOC , Vienna ,
Austria , Vol. P3.06 , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; P. Monteiro; R.N. Nogueira; " Novel Photonic RF
Instantaneous Frequency Measurement System using a HiBi Fiber-based
Interferometer ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
ICTON , S. Miguel , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; P. Monteiro; R.N. Nogueira; " Novel Photonic RF
Instantaneous Frequency Measurement System Using an HiBi Fiberbased Interefometer ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
André, P.S; Ana M. Rocha; B. Neto; A. Martins; M. Facão Facão; J. L.
Pinto; A.T. Teixeira; R.N. Nogueira; M. J. N. Lima; G. Beleffi ; " Optical
Fibers Bending Limits for the Optical Fiber Infraestructures ", Proc IEEE
AFRICON Conf. in Africa , Nairobi , Kenya , September , 2009.
•
Vicente, C.; R. A. Sá Ferreira; E. Pecoraro; P.S André; R.N. Nogueira; P.
Marques; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro; Carlos; " OPTICAL POWER Y-SPLITTER
PATTERNED ON BULK ZIRCONIUM MODIFIED DI-UREASILS ", Proc
128
European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC ,
Valladolid , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Boavida, J.M.; C. F. Fernandes; J. Morgado; " Optimization of a
Corrugation-Pitch-Modulated
Distributed-Coupling-Coefficient
Laser
Structure ", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Wireless and Optical
Communications - WOC , Banff,Alberta , Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 88 - 93 ,
July , 2009.
•
Penna,
S;
G.
Beleffi
;
P.S
André;
A.T.
Teixeira;
N.
Wada;
"
Optoelectronic Materials and Components characterization for Organic
Inorganic Laser Assembling ", Proc Optoelectronics and Communications
Conf. - OECC , Hong-Kong , China , July , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; Vicente; V.R. Fernandes; G Macedo; E. Pecoraro; R.N.
Nogueira; P.S André; Carlos; " Organic-inorganic hybrids for the new
generation of optical networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Networks – ICTON , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
André, P.S; B. Neto; C. Reis; Ana M. Rocha; N. Wada; G. Beleffi ; A.T.
Teixeira; " Raman amplification challenges for next generation networks
", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Ponta
Delgada , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; P. Monteiro; R.N. Nogueira; " RF Instantaneous
Frequency
Measurement
System
Using
a
Polarization-Based
Interferometer ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Conf. - OFC , San Diego , United
States , Vol. OTuE3 , pp. 1 - 3 , March , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; Vicente; V.R. Fernandes; L.R. Xavier; E. Pecoraro; P.S André;
R.N. Nogueira; V. Bermudez; P. Marques; Carlos; " SELF-PATTERNED
ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRIDS FOR FIBRE OPTICS ACCESS NETWORKS
", Proc ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 , Porto
Galinhas , Brazil , August , 2009.
•
Pereira, J. T.; " Simulação numérica do efeito da temperatura na
resposta em frequência de fotodíodos p-i-n ", Proc Congresso de
Métodos Numéricos em Engenharia , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 350
- 350 , June , 2009.
•
Pereira, J. T.; " The Effect of Temperature on the Frequency Response of
p-i-n
Photodiodes
for
Optical
Communications
",
Proc
Conf.
on
129
, pp. 141 - 144 , May , 2009.
•
Drummond, M. V.; J.D. Reis; R.N. Nogueira; P. Monteiro; A.T. Teixeira;
S. Shinada; N. Wada; H. Ito; " Wavelength Conversion of a 160 Gb/s RZ
OTDM Signal in a PPLN Waveguide at Room Temperature ", Proc
International Conf. on Photonics in Switching - PS , Pisa , Italy , Vol.
Post-deadline paper , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2009.
Optical Networking
Book Chapters
•
" Evolution of optical access networks " - Chapter in COST 291 – Towards
digital optical networks , P. Kourtessis and Y. Shachaf , Springer , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Pires, J. J. O. ; L. G. C. Cancela; " A contribution to study the effect of
multipath coherent crosstalk due to optical network nodes on DPSK
signals ", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , Vol. 21 , No. 20 , pp. 1499
- 1501 , October , 2009.
•
Hajduczenia, M.H.; H. S. Silva; " Comparison of collision avoidance
mechanisms for the discovery process in xPON ", Journal of Optical
Networking , Vol. 8 , No. 4 , pp. 317 - 336 , March , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Contention Minimisation in
Optical Burst-Switched Networks Combining Traffic Engineering in the
Wavelength Domain and Delayed Ingress Burst Scheduling ", IET
Communications , Vol. 3 , No. 3 , pp. 372 - 380 , March , 2009.
•
Pires, J. J. O. ; L. G. C. Cancela; " Simplifying the Error Probability
Analysis
in
Optical
Direct
Detection
DPSK
Systems
",
IEEE
Communications Letters , Vol. 13 , No. 6 , pp. 369 - 371 , June , 2009.
130
•
Pinto, A. N.; C. Pavan; R. Morais; " A Statistical Model to CAPEX Fast
Calculation in Optical Transport Networks ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON , Ilha de São Miguel - Açores , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2009.
•
Santos, J.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Alternatives for the
Virtually-Concatenated Transport of 100 Gb/s Ethernet over OTN ", Proc
Symp. on Enabling Optical Networks - SEON , Amadora , Portugal , Vol. 1
, pp. 1 - 2 , June , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; J. J. O. Pires; J.P.C Carvalho; " Ant Colony Optimization for
Distributed
Routing
Path
Optimization
in
Optical
Burst-Switched
Networks ", Proc International Fuzzy Systems Association and European
Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology IFSA/EUSFLAT , Lisboa , Portugal
, pp. 1 - 6 , July , 2009.
•
Morais , R.; C. Pavan; C. Agra; A. N. Pinto; " Design of Survivable
Optical
Networks
with
Minimum
CapEx
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 307 - 310 , May , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; J. J. O. Pires; J.P.C Carvalho; " Distributed Routing Path
Optimization for OBS Networks based on Ant Colony Optimization ", Proc
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , Honolulu , United
States , pp. 1 - 7 , November , 2009.
•
Pavan, C.; R. Morais ; A. N. Pinto; " Estimating CapEx in Optical
Multilayer Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Pavan, C.; R. Morais ; A. N. Pinto; " Fast Calculation of CapEx in Optical
Multilayer Networks ", Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical
Communications - NOC , Valladolid , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Santos, J.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Multilayer
Optimization of Inverse-Multiplexed 100 Gb/s Ethernet Services over
Optical Transport Networks ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation
Internet Networks (NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 , July ,
2009.
131
•
Hajduczenia, M.H.; H. S. Silva; " Next Generation PON systems ―
current status ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2009.
•
Hajduczenia, M.H.; H. S. Silva; " ngPON standardization status (10GEPON and XG-PON) ", Proc OptiNet China - OptiNet , Beijing , China ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " On the Benefits of Selectively
Delaying Bursts at the Ingress Edge Nodes of an OBS Network ", Proc
IFIP
Working
Conf.
on
Optical
Network
Design
and
Modeling
,
Braunschweig , Germany , February , 2009.
•
Santos, J.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Optical Transport
Network Design for Inverse-Multiplexed 100 Gb/s Ethernet Services with
Minimum Capacity and Buffer Requirements ", Proc International Conf.
on Systems and Networks Communications , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Optimized combination of
wavelength converters and optical buffers for OBS networks using
wavelength contention minimization ", Proc International Conf. on
Photonics in Switching - PS , Pisa , Italy , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2009.
•
Pedro, J. M.; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Optimized Node Dimensioning
in OBS Networks using Contention Minimization in the Wavelength
Domain
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Transparent
Networks
–
Mediterranean Winter - ICTON MW , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol.
Mo.D3.2 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2009.
•
Santos, J.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; J. J. O. Pires; " Optimized ODU
Routing for 100 Gb/s Ethernet over High-Speed Optical Networks with
Distributed Differential Delay Compensation ", Proc European Conf. on
Optical Communications - ECOC , Wien , Austria , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 ,
September , 2009.
•
Garcia, N. M. ; P. Lenkiewicz; M. Freire; P. Monteiro; " Performance
Assessment of Optical Burst Switching Networks Based on a Common
Control Channel with Distributed Control ", Proc 6th IFIP International
132
Conf. on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks - WOCN 2009 ,
Cairo , Egypt , pp. 1 - 5 , April , 2009.
•
Pavan, C.; R. Morais ; A. N. Pinto; " Quantifying the Restoration Capacity
in Optical Mesh Networks ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation
Internet Networks (NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Reis, J.D.; B. Neto; P.S André; A.T. Teixeira; " WDM Ring Performance
Improvement by Means of a Nonlinear Effects Crosstalk Minimization
Algorithm ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , San Diego ,
United States , Vol. CD , pp. JThA77 - - , March , 2009.
4.2.7
Other Achievements
Patents
•
Drummond, M. V.; R.N. Nogueira; " Direccionamento do campo eléctrico
gerado por um agregado de antenas baseado numa linha de atraso
fotónica interferométrica sintonizável ", Submitted , December , 2009.
•
Garcia, N. M. ; M. Freire; P. Monteiro; P. Lenkiewicz; J. M. Santos; "
Method and Device for Processing Data in an Optical Network and
Communication System Comprising Such Device ", nternational Patent
WO/2009/156409 , December , 2009.
•
" Method and Device for Processing Data in an Optical Network and
Communication System Comprising Such Device ", nternational Patent
WO/2009/156409 , December , 2009.
•
André, P.S; Ana M. Rocha; A. Martins; P. Antunes; " Method and monitor
to determined the presence of fuse effect in optical networks ",
PCT/PT2009/00076 , December , 2009.
•
Pinto, A. N.; J. Ferreira; P. Mão-Cheia; " Método e mecanismo para
controlo e mitigação do efeito transitório em amplificadores ópticos de
Raman com reflexão das bombas ", 104930 R , December , 2009.
•
Lima, ; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Microwave and Temperature sensor
based on fiber Bragg gratings ", - , December , 2009.
•
André, P.S; Ana M. Rocha; A. Martins; P. Antunes; " Monitor e método
para a determinação da ocorrência do efeito de fusível em redes ópticas,
133
baseados em redes de difracção escritas numa fibra óptica ", PT 104.975
, December , 2009.
•
Teixeira, A.T.; Costa, L. N. Costa; ; " Remote and passive method to
control the pump power in remote amplification systems ", pp ,
December , 2009.
4.2.8
Other Contributions
•
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Technical Programme
Committee, Adolfo Cartaxo, 01-01-2009.
•
International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Conference
Chairman, António Teixeira, 01-01-2009.
•
European
Conf.
on
Optical
Communications
-
ECOC,
Technical
Programme Committee, António Teixeira, 01-01-2009.
•
IASTED International Conf. on Wireless and Optical Communications WOC, Technical Programme Committee, José Morgado, 01-01-2009
134
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA
4.3
4.3.1
4.3.2
Area Coordinators
•
Mário Figueiredo
•
Rui Valadas
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
1
2
3
Associate Professor
0
1
8
Assistant Professor
7
19
23
Post. Doc.
1
1
9
0
3
0
Assistant Lecturer
1
5
0
PhD Student
7
26
42
(Licenciado)
11
0
0
28
57
85
TOTAL
Table 21 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2009
135
Position
Group
Degree
Name
Associate Professor
PhD
Abel João Gomes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Amaro Sousa
Agregação
Amílcar Sernadas
Assistant Professor
PhD
Ana Fred
Assistant Professor
PhD
Ana Gualdina Almeida
Matos
Full Professor
PhD
Aníbal Manuel de
Oliveira Duarte
Communications – Aveiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD
Communications – Lisbon
Security and Quantum Information
Assistant Professor
PhD
António Carlos
Almeida
António Maria Alarcão
Ravara
António Nogueira
Full Professor
Post. Doc.
Binod Vaidya
Communications – Coimbra
Recognition
Assistant Professor
PhD
Carlos Manuel Costa
Lourenço Caleiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Celino José Martins
Miguel
Cristina Olaverri
Monreal
Daowen Qiu
Pos.Doc.
PhD
Dorabella Maria da
Silva Santos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Edgar Silva Pereira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Fausto José Canhoto
de Paiva Vieira
Recognition
PhD
Fernando Lopes
Signals and Image Processing
Assistant Professor
PhD
Fernando Manuel
Lourenço Martins
Assistant Professor
PhD
Fernando Perdigão
Associate Professor
Agregação
Fernando Pereira
Image Communication
Assistant Professor
PhD
Francisco Fontes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Frutuoso Gomes
Mendes da Silva
Gergely István Bana
PhD
Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença
Ian Robin Marsh
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Assistant Professor
Post. Doc.
136
Position
Group
Degree
Name
Assistant Professor
PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD
Isabel da Piedade
Xavier Machado
Alexandre
Jaime Arsénio de Brito
Ramos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Jan Gunnar Cederquist
Assistant Professor
PhD
Associate Professor
PhD
Associate Professor
PhD
João Filipe Quintas dos
Santos Rasga
João Francisco
Cordeiro de Oliveira
Barros
João Sobrinho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Associate Professor
PhD
Joel José Puga Coelho
Rodrigues
José Brázio
Associate Professor
PhD
José Carlos Teixeira
Assistant Professor
PhD
José Francisco
Monteiro Morgado
Luís A. Alexandre
Assistant Professor
PhD
Luís Cruz
Assistant Professor
PhD
Luís Ducla Soares
Image Communication
Luis Filipe Coelho
Antunes
Luís Henrique Martins
Borges de Almeida
Luis Miguel Pina
Coelho Teixeira
Botelho
Luís Sá
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Full Professor
Associate Professor
Full Professor
Agregação
PhD
Agregação
Assistant Professor
Recognition
Assistant Professor
PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD
Maria Manuela Areias
da Costa Pereira de
Sousa
Maria Paula Prata de
Sousa
Maria Paula Queluz
Associate Professor
Agregação
Mário Figueiredo
Full Professor
Agregação
Mário Freire
PhD
Matteo Naccari
Recognition
Image Communication
Ferreira
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Nikola Paunkovic
Recognition
Recognition
Recognition
Nuno Manuel Garcia
dos Santos
Post. Doc.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant Professor
Image Communication
137
Position
Group
Degree
Name
Assistant Professor
MSc
Assistant Professor
PhD
Nuno Miguel Morais
Rodrigues
Paul Andrew Crocker
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Assistant Professor
PhD
Paulo Alexandre
Carreira Mateus
Paulo Lobato Correia
Assistant Professor
PhD
Paulo Nunes
Image Communication
Assistant Professor
PhD
PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD
Paulo Salvador
Ferreira
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Pedro Araújo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant Professor
PhD
PhD
Pedro Miguel dos
Santos Alves Madeira
Adão
Pedro Ricardo Morais
Inácio
Rui Jorge Henriques
Calado Lopes
Rui L. Aguiar
Associate Professor
PhD
Rui Manuel Rocha
Assistant
Professor
Assistant Professor
PhD
Full Professor
PhD
Rui Miguel Neto
Marinheiro
PhD
Rui Pedro de
Magalhães Claro Prior
Agregação
Rui Valadas
Post. Doc.
MSc
Sara Maria Fernandes
Rato e Costa Marques
Candeias
Sérgio Faria
Assistant Professor
PhD
Susana Sargento
Post. Doc.
Licenciado
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Image Communication
Recognition
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto Orvalho
Victor Manuel Letra
Macedo Marques
Vitor Silva
Communications - Aveiro
Recognition
William Ricardo
Carson
Tiago Travassos Vieira
Vinhoza
Licenciatura
Vasco Lagarto
Assistant Professor
Table 22 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area in 2009
138
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
Adriano Nunes Raposo
PhD Student
Alfredo Miguel Matos
Licenciado
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Álvaro Henrique C. Gomes
MSc
André Lourenço
PhD Student
André Nuno Carvalho Souto
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD
Student
MSc
PhD Student
André Zúquete
Andreia Sofia da Costa Teixeira
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Group
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter
Waves - Aveiro
Recognition
Antonio Carlos de Oliveira Júnior
António Luís Morais Costa da Silva
Lopes
Arlindo Oliveira da Veiga
Artur Ferreira
Recognition
Azmol Huda
Bruno José Conchinha Montalto
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
MSc
Carla Calado Lopes
MSc
Carlos Jorge Santiago
PhD Student
MSc
Catarina Brites
Image Communication
PhD Student
MSc
Cláudio Ribeiro Neves
PhD Student
Daniel Corujo
PhD Student
Danillo Bracco Graziosi
PhD Student
MSc
David Coutinho Gomes Antão
PhD Student
MSc
Diogo Gomes
Licenciatura
Diogo Resende Rainho
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Eduardo Marta
Eduardo Oliveira Estanqueiro
Rocha
Emanuel Martins
PhD Student
Farhan Riaz
PhD Student
Fernando António Carvalho
Marcos
Filipe Cabral Pinto
Licenciado
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Filipe Cruz Gomes Soares
Recognition
139
Position
Degree
PhD Student
Name
Filipe dos Santos Neves
PhD Student
MSc
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
PhD Student
MSc
Gerhard Maierbacher
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
Gonçalo Nuno Vinhas Leitão
MSc
Licenciado
Henrique José Monteiro Oliveira
Image Communication
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva
PhD Student
MSc
João Ascenso
Recognition
Image Communication
João Carlos Silvestre
Assistant
Lecturer
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
Group
Licenciatura
João Ferreira da Silva
João Manuel Barbosa de Oliveira
João Manuel Maia Duarte
João Manuel Pires Leitão Caldeira
João Paulo Barraca
João Paulo Cordeiro
João Paulo Vilela
Licenciatura
João Pedro Oliveira
Recognition
PhD
João Vasco Paulo Gomes
Student
Joaquim Manuel Pereira Mateus
MSc
José Miguel de Carvalho Catela
Teixeira
MSc
Karina Girardi Roggia
Ke Zhang
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Lino Miguel Moreira Ferreira
PhD Student
Luis David Moreira Pedrosa
PhD Student
Luís Miguel Lopes de Oliveira
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
Luís Miguel Silva
PhD
Student
MSc
PhD Student
Assistant
Lecturer
Luisa Marina Araújo Lima
Manuel Mota Ferreira
Márcio Daniel Tavares de Melo
MSc
Marco Gomes
140
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
Maria Cecília dos Santos Rosa
PhD Student
Mariana Almeida
Group
PhD Student
Paulo Jorge Ferreira Baptista
Pinheiro Cordeiro
Recognition
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
Paulo Paiva Monteiro
PhD Student
MSc
Marta Isabel Belchior Lopes
PhD Student
Miguel Pereira dos Santos Silva
PhD Student
Munnujahan Ara
PhD Student
PhD Student
Nelson Carreira Francisco
Óscar Pereira
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Paulo Roberto Almeida Moreira
Costa
Paulo Vasco Oliveira
PhD Student
PhD Student
Paulo Alexandre Correia da Silva
Neves
Paulo André Pais Fazendeiro
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Pawel Andruszkiewicz
Pedro Alexandre Cardoso Baltazar Security and Quantum Information
Pedro Alexandre Gonçalves
Pedro Daniel Correia
Radio Microwaves and Millimeter
Waves - Aveiro
PhD Student
Pedro José Gonçalves Ribeiro
PhD Student
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Licenciado
PhD Student
Pedro Capão
MSc
Pedro Naia Neves
Ricardo Azevedo Guerra Pereira
Ricardo João Rodrigues Gonçalves Security and Quantum Information
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
Rui Abreu Ferreira
PhD Student
Rui Costa Cardoso
PhD Student
Rui Filipe Mendes Alves da Costa
PhD Student
Rodolphe Marques
PhD Student
Samah Ahmad Mohammad
Mustafa
Sandro Moiron
PhD Student
Ricardo Jorge Alves Cordeiro
MSc
141
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
PhD Student
Sérgio Figueiredo
PhD Student
Sérgio Marcelino
PhD Student
Sónia Pelizzari
PhD Student
Sylvain Tony Marcelino
PhD Student
Tiago José Gomes Quelhas
PhD Student
MSc
Tomás Brandão
PhD Student
Licenciatura
PhD Student
Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Soares
Vinay Uday Prabhu
PhD Student
Vitor Jesus
Licenciado
MSc
Vitor Simões Ribeiro
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Yasser Rashid Revez Omar
Group
Recognition
Table 23 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia Area in
2009
142
4.3.3 Summary of Research Achievements
The work in the area of Networks and Multimedia is organized in several topics:
-
Architectures and protocols;
-
Security and quantum information;
-
Traffic engineering;
-
Network operations, management, and planning;
-
Network applications and services
-
Processing, analysis and coding of audio and visual information;
-
Pattern recognition and automatic learning;
In the following, we briefly summarize the main achievements in each of these
topics.
Architectures And Protocols
Mathematical foundations of Internet routing – Contrary to many other areas
of engineering, Networking and the Internet developed almost exclusively through
experimentation, without firm supporting models. The Internet is a success, but
one is left to wonder whether its behavior is understood, whether its growth is
sustainable, and whether better designs are possible for itself and its subsystems.
Good models are important in this regard. We set out a model to understand the
connectivity provided by route-vector protocols subject to routing policies at the
various nodes. We identified two algebraic properties that lead to fundamental
theorems and efficient computation of this type of connectivity: export-myopia and
export-isotonicity. Export-myopia means that the decision to export a route to a
neighbor node depends only on the previous neighbor node from which the route
was learned, and not on the attributes of the route. Export-isotonicity means that if
a node does not export a route to a neighbor node, then it also does not export to
the same neighbor node any less preferred route. Under export-myopia and exportisotonicity, we were able to prove a link version of Menger's theorem for usable
paths stating that the minimum number of links that usably separates a node from
the destination equals the maximum number of usable link-disjoint paths from the
former to the latter, and that a route-vector protocol does find a usable path
whenever one exists. In the end, we were able to present a polynomial-time
algorithm to compute the connectivity of route-vector protocols. Our work can thus
be regarded as a generalization of classical connectivity results for when not all
143
paths are usable and they are to be discovered through a route-vector protocol. We
have applied the theory to an annotated description of the Internet provided by the
CAIDA data sets. We quantified the loss in Internet connectivity due to the
traditional routing policies which substantiate the localized, competitive behavior of
ISPs. We also presented more general routing policies and assessed their
connectivity. And we determined how much of the Internet intrinsic connectivity is
recovered with simple backup policies.
Network Coding Multicast in Satellite Networks - The broadcast nature of
satellite networks such as DVB-RCS based systems provides a highly effective
medium for content distribution, especially in the case of geographically scattered
clients. Non-realtime services typically rely on application level protocols that often
use forward error correction (FEC) and carousel data cycling schemes in
unidirectional links. The presence of a feedback channel in satellite networks is
mostly unexploited in the context of reliable multicast services. We show that
network coding protocols, which mix different packets by means of algebraic
operations, offer a native and transparent solution for reliable multicast over
satellites. When employing a feedback channel, network coding can reach near
real-time performance at an efficiency level close to known theoretical bounds for
lossy satellite links.
Network Coding Simulation in Large-Scale Topologies - We developed NECO,
a high-performance simulation framework dedicated to the evaluation of network
coding (NC) based protocols. Its main features include: (1) definition of graphs
representing the topology (which can be generated randomly or predefined by
means of a standard representation), (2) modular specification of network coding
protocols, (3) visualization of the network operation and (4) extraction of key
statistics. The simulator is entirely written in Python and can be easily extended to
account for extra functionalities due to its modular architecture. As a proof-ofconcept we carried out and published a comprehensive study of the impact of
network topology on the performance of network coding with respect to throughput
and achievable security levels. Our findings, which can be used to find the best
overlay topologies for network coding at the application layer, confirm that the
benefits of network coding are largely dependent on the network topology.
Network Coding Meets TCP – We propose a mechanism that incorporates
network coding into TCP with only minor changes to the protocol stack, thereby
144
allowing incremental deployment. In our scheme, the source transmits random
linear combinations of packets currently in the congestion window. At the heart of
our scheme is a new interpretation of ACKs - the sink acknowledges every degree
of freedom (i.e., a linear combination that reveals one unit of new information)
even if it does not reveal an original packet immediately. Such ACKs enable a TCPlike sliding-window approach to network coding. Our scheme has the nice property
that packet losses are essentially masked from the congestion control algorithm.
Our algorithm therefore reacts to packet drops in a smooth manner, resulting in a
novel and effective approach for congestion control over networks involving lossy
links such as wireless links. Our experiments show that our algorithm achieves
higher throughput compared to TCP in the presence of lossy wireless links. We also
establish the soundness and fairness properties of our algorithm.
Optimization of Wireless Communication Systems - This research work has
been exploring the intersections between information theory and estimation theory
in the analysis, design and optimization of future communications systems. The
most relevant research problems include [18]: (a)The optimization of linear
precoders for multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian channels with arbitrary
inputs; (b)the optimization of linear precoders for fading multiple-input multipleoutput Gaussian channels with arbitrary inputs. Of particular relevance is the use of
the simple connection between the derivative of the mutual information and the
nonlinear MMSE to address open problems in the optimization of the reliable
information transmission rate of communications systems in innovative manners.
Probabilistic
Flooding
in
Dense
Networks
-
We
consider
probabilistic
information dissemination in stochastic networks. In our problem setup a source
node intends to deliver a message to all other nodes in the network (“flooding”).
First, the source node transmits the message to all its neighbouring nodes. Each of
them then forwards the received message with some network-wide probability pf. A
natural question arises: which forwarding probability pf should each node use such
that a flooded message is obtained by all nodes with high probability? In other
words, what is the minimum pf to achieve a high global outreach probability? We
first present a generic approach to estimate the probability of achieving global
outreach. We then focus on Erdos Renyi random graphs (ERGs) and Random
Geometric graphs (RGGs). For ERGs we are able to derive the exact expression for
the global outreach probability given the network topology and the flooding
parameters. For RGGs we derive an asymptotic expression. A simulation study
145
complements these results. We also take a system design perspective to show
parameter settings that lead to global outreach.
Energy-Efficient Routing in Underwater Sensor Networks - Underwater
wireless sensor networks consist of a certain number of sensors and vehicles that
interact to collect data and perform collaborative tasks. Designing energy-efficient
routing protocols for this type of network is essential and challenging because
sensor nodes are powered by batteries, which are difficult to replace or recharge,
and because underwater communications are severely affected by network
dynamics, large propagation delays and high error probability of acoustic channels.
Practical Source-Network Coding for Sensor Networks - Considering the case
of correlated sources, where data from one source already contains some
information about other sources, information theoretic results tell us that the
amount of data, which needs to be transmitted from the source to the sink (at a
given quality), can be reduced by considering the source correlations within the
coding scheme. Distributed source coding techniques allow us to do so. In scenarios
where correlated source data needs to be communicated over a network it is
possible to perform distributed source coding and network coding separately.
However, this approach is shown to be non-optimal in general scenarios. The
solution to this problem would be to perform joint source-network coding which is a
highly challenging task mostly due to the complexity of the decoder. The problem
lies within the fact that the decoding complexity of distributed source coding
schemes generally increases exponentially with the number of source nodes. We
show how to perform near-optimal, yet computationally tractable, joint sourcenetwork decoding using factor graphs and belief propagation techniques. Also
provided is a proof-of concept in form of a working implementation.
Protocols and Architectures for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks - The goal of this
line of research is to investigate how vehicle-to-vehicle communication can improve
the user experience and the overall efficiency of vehicle and road utilization.
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication will be enabled by means of Vehicular Ad-Hoc
NETworks (VANETs), a novel type of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that has
recently attracted significant interest from governments, academia, and industry,
due to its potential to help save lives, increase the traffic efficiency, and provide a
more pleasurable experience for drivers and passengers. VANETs provide an
opportunity for myriad of new applications, including location-based information
146
dissemination, vehicle based social networking and distributed interactive games.
Our results so far include a detailed study of urban connectivity in VANETs using
our large-scale traffic simulator DIVERT, an evaluation of the quality of service that
can be guaranteed in highway environments with unicast sessions, and various
prototypes including the see-through truck, a system that helps drivers overtake
trucks by feeding a video stream of what the truck sees using a the vehicle-tovehicle wireless link.
Transport architectures for satellite networks – Phase 2 of project TOP,
dealing with the study of algorithms for TCP congestion control appropriate for
satellite network environments, was completed successfully during 2008. This
phase dealt with the implementation and test of the algorithm developed in Phase
1. The work performed in 2008 consisted of further refinement of the test plan
towards the performance evaluation of a prototype implementation, followed by a
measurement campaign performed at the ESA-ESRIN site (Frascati, Italy) site using
an Eutelsat satellite link.
Networking and security issues in real-time applications - This research
stream was focused on problems related to high-speed network infrastructures and
security issues for real-time multimedia applications in an evolution scenario where
some applications and services have gradually migrated from the client-server
paradigm to the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigm. Particular attention was
paid to the following issues: (i) Autonomic and Real-time Detection and
Classification of Encrypted P2P File Sharing Traffic and P2P TV Traffic; (ii)
Autonomic and Real-time Detection of Internet Traffic Anomalies; (iii) Strategies for
Robust Media Streaming over P2P Networks Based on Multiple Description Coding;
(iv) Tradeoff Between Network Performance and Security Issues in High-Speed and
Low-Latency Communications; (v) Detection of Intensive Attacks in Real-Time and
High-Speed Networked Environments; (vi) High-speed Technologies, Protocols and
Architectures for Multimedia Networks.
Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks - GEMS continued to work on the Home
Networking
area
completing
the
development
of
a
distributed
middleware
architecture for applications and devices to seamlessly interoperate and capable of
creating an automated home solution with service discovery facilities covering the
entertainment, security, communications and automation aspects and coping with
the self-organization, integration and user-friendliness requirements that are typical
147
of such environments. This project has been funded by LEMe as a result of an
internal LEMe project contest. This resulted in a MSc successfully completed. From
September onwards, the project has entered a second phase were applications
based on the middleware developed in the first phase are being developed. The
integration with networked embedded systems for monitoring and actuation
purposes in the home environment is also foreseen.
Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks - In the area of Delay Tolerant Networks
(DTN) NetGNA proposed a new network architecture called Vehicular Delay Tolerant
Network (VDTN). A VDTN layered architecture was proposed. The main objective of
this architecture is to provide a low-cost connectivity solution for isolated and
dispersed regions with no networks infrastructure. VDTN architecture handles nonreal time applications, exploiting vehicles to enable connectivity under unreliable
scenarios with unstable links and where an end-to-end path may not exist.
Intuitively, the use of stationary store-and-forward devices (relay nodes) located at
crossroads where vehicles meet them and should improve the message delivery
probability. The proposed architecture is based on the concept of Delay Tolerant
Networks (DTN) and can be applied to various scenarios, including rapid
deployment of emergency communication systems when all communication links
have failed. We evaluated routing strategies for rural connectivity, the performance
improvement with relay nodes, and the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on
VDTNs. New Scheduling and Dropping Policies for Traffic Differentiation on VDTNs
were also proposed. The first version of a VDTN prototype was presented. The work
on VDTNs is supported by the Internal Project VDTN@Lab, a joint collaboration
between Covilhã and Aveiro groups. Our group is also involved on the NoE Euro-NF
FP7-IST Project, leading the workpackage JRA 1.2 – Core and Metro Architectures.
Wireless Sensor Networks & eHealth - In area of sensor networks we proposed
a solution for detecting intra-fraction motion in patients undergoing radiation
treatment using a low-cost wireless accelerometer. Another important contribution
from sensors application on eHealth is a novel intra-body sensor for vaginal
temperature monitoring. The motivation for including IP on wireless sensor
networks was discussed taking into account future research goals related with Plugand-Play functionalities for IPv6-enabled wireless sensor networks. The work on
wireless sensor networks and eHealth is supported by the Internal Project
BodySens. On eHealth, beyond applications of wireless sensor networks and mobile
and ubiquitous applications, we surveyed the state of the art on health information
148
systems, addressing their concepts, methodologies, tools and applications. Several
security approaches were proposed for user authentication for wireless sensor
networks, for voice transmission over multipath wireless ad-hoc network, and a
trust management scheme for enhancing security in pervasive wireless networks.
Our group is also involved on the NoE Euro-NF FP7-IST Project.
Wireless sensor networks - GEMS continued its efforts in this area. As a whole,
GEMS has been involved in 6 projects. Regarding our participation in NEWCOM ++
(Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications), a NoE FP7-IST Project
addressing research problems in the field of wireless networks, namely the
challenges posed by ubiquitous network infrastructure and architectures, our group
has been particular active in
one of the technical work-packages (WP11) of the
project, which started in 1/2008. In WP11 - Opportunistic Networks - the pervasive
communication scenarios, were delay-tolerant applications are expected to play and
important role are the main targets. Opportunistic networks exploit human (and/or
machine) mobility and local forwarding in order to distribute data. Information can
be stored and passed, taking advantage of node’s mobility, or forwarded over a
wireless link when an appropriate contact is met. In this context, the proposal,
design and development of a new routing protocol for opportunistic environments,
has been carried out, which resulted in a MSc dissertation and a publication
submitted to an international conference in the area. As for the projects that
started in previous years, the effort on specific applications of WSN involving
interesting engineering problems continued throughout 2009, while a consolidation
of the work on the campus WSN test-bed (called Tagus-SensorNet) has been
carried out in 2009. The platform has been evolving since its deployment in 2007
and gave rise to interesting experiments and research work. Some results were
shared with the scientific community through a journal paper describing the
development
and
deployment
of
the
Tagus-SensorNet,
published
in
the
International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet). Furthermore, new results
regarding energy management of the Tagus-SensorNet platform have also been
submitted to the same journal, and we are waiting its evaluation. Finally, we have
been able to develop a new sensor node hardware which will allow us to, not only
have domain on the software part of WSN but also on the hardware part and, in
particular, on the HW-level aspects of energy management; this is a natural
evolution of the group's hardware area from where several sensor boards (3
presently) have emerged in the last 3 years. Also, we have launched a project
149
concerning the operation and maintenance problems of WSNs - Modulus - involving
the design and development of a new WSN's middleware capable of ease the setup
and maintenance (and beyond) of complex WSN applications.
Vehicular ad-hoc networks - So far, in most vehicular applications, navigation
and communication are viewed as separate capabilities with little or no relationship
between each other. Although much work has already been done related to the
enhancement of vehicular communication protocols, they do not consider the
leveraging of rich data sets provided by GPS receivers, such as position
information, roadmap geometry, and traffic conditions, which would improve the
utilization of the wireless medium and provide higher quality of service for a wide
range of applications. With this goal in mind, we shall seek for opportunities to use
GPS data at every layer of the communications protocol stack. The work being
performed aims to improve transport layer communications with geographic
information in a cross-layer approach, studying the influence of lower layer
characteristics and enhancements, mainly related to the MAC layer, in the transport
layer. On the other side, the reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communication depends
on
several
factors:
vehicles
density,
location,
mobility
models
and
radio
propagation. In this sense, the support of infrastructure points, denoted as Road
Side Units (RSU), may be used to increase reliability in vehicular communications.
However,
the
number
of
RSUs
needs
to
be
minimized
to
decrease
the
communications cost; this requires an unusual optimization process, which needs to
operate in this extremely dynamic environment. The choice of the optimal number,
location and characteristics of RSUs to significantly optimize communication,
dependent on the vehicular network and road characteristics, aided by GPS traffic
information and dynamic trends on traffic loads, are problems that are subject of
this work. The research of network protocols and extended network applications in
these optimized networks will be also addressed.
Wireless Mesh Networks - Distributing multimedia content over wireless networks is challenging due to the limited resource availability and the unpredictability
of wireless links. As more and more users demand wireless access to (real-time)
multimedia services, the impact of constrained resources is different for different
media types. Therefore, understanding this impact and developing mechanisms to
optimize content delivery under resource constraints according to user perception
will be key in improving user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a novel
scheduling algorithm for multi-hop wireless networks, which optimizes packet
150
delivery for multiple audio, video and data flows according to user perceivable
quality metrics. We formulate a multidimensional optimization problem to minimize
the overall distortion while satisfying resource constraints for the wireless links. Our
Quality-of-Experience
(QoE)-optimized
scheduler
makes
use
of
models
to
determine the user’s perception of quality that are specific to the type of service
being provided.
Context-aware Virtual Wireless Mesh Networks – The flexibility and selforganization properties of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), and the benefits arising
from the split of a physical network in several context-aware Virtual Networks
(VNs), are a two-fold force to deal with the huge heterogeneity of user
requirements and network resources in a future Internet architecture. In this scope,
we provide a novel context-aware architecture for WMNs, that supports user
requirements on demand by the deployment of several adaptable VNs for different
context-aware purposes. We developed an analytical model for the proposed
architecture. We aim to provide and define the limits of our multi-VN approach, in
terms of the number of VNs, attached mesh clients, and virtual nodes per VN, in
order to accomplish feasible delays for different data or control communication
requirements.
Wireless access networks - The IEEE 802.16 standard represents the state-ofthe-art in technology for metropolitan area broadband wireless access networks.
The point-to-multipoint (PMP) mode of IEEE 802.16 has been designed to enable
quality of service (QoS) in operator-controlled networks and, thus, is foreseen to
complement existing third generation cellular networks. In contrast, the optional
mesh mode of operation in IEEE 802.16 enables the setup of self-organizing
wireless multi-hop mesh networks. A distinguishing characteristic of the IEEE
802.16 standard is its support for QoS at the MAC layer. However, the QoS
specifications and mechanisms for the PMP and the mesh mode are not consistent.
Research has been performed to integrate a novel QoS architecture in order to
enhance the IEEE 802.16 mesh mode of operation. In particular, we have evaluated
scheduling algorithms and admission control mechanisms, and the tradeoffs
involved when implementing such mechanisms in 802.16 mesh mode, focusing on
the efficient management of the available bandwidth resources. In order to
evaluate and validate the performance of the developed mechanisms, a simulation
study is being developed, based on the NS2 and NCTUS simulation tools.
151
Home networks and residential gateways – The constant evolution of the
home network solutions/equipments (HGWs and STBs included) obliges also a
continuous research and learning effort. Manufactures of Home Network solutions,
alternatives to the UTPcat5e structured network, for the existing home transport
medium (air, electric, coaxial, phone networks) are making evolutions that are
been
testing
(e.g.
PLC,
Wi-Fi,
HPNA).
The
results
of
the
research
and
experimentation of different equipments/solutions obtained are enabling high
knowledge recognition on this “Home Networking” technologic area. On example of
that is the collaboration with PTCom on the equipment’s technical specifications for
the commercial Triple-Play deployment (meo) and respective conformity tests
support. The evolution of the current used HGW for the PTCom commercial TriplePlay service (meo) will be the introduction of a "middleware" in this equipment
which allows the life cycle management of new personalized services. In the market
there are many alternatives (e.g. OSGi, HAVi), but still under development or in
commercial products with a lack of maturity, not allowing operators to invest these
new approaches as part of their trading platforms. The existing knowledge on OSGi
obtained by the participation on different IST projects (e.g. IST@Home, MUSE)
allows the current work on this technology. The current development of an OSGi
platform promotes the development of an innovative support for advanced and
innovative
residential
services
controlled
by
the
operator
PTCom.
Another
complementary objective of this activity is the design of an OSGi test suite.
Heterogeneous
networking
issues
-
Research
has
been
performed
in
heterogeneous networks, focused on the evolution towards fixed and mobile,
convergent, next generation architectures. This work covered areas of: QoS support
across different technologies and networks (infrastructure and ad-hoc) and over
different administrative domains; mixed mobility types with QoS integration and
mobility management in multi-access environments, using IEEE 802.21 to support
media independent handovers, and mechanisms for intelligent handover decisions
commonly performed by the user and network (specific technologies supported:
Ethernet, 802.11, 802.16, DVB and 3G); multicast communications with QoS and
mobility; mobility of both mobility of the listeners and of the sources in multicast
environments, where the movement of sources is made transparent to the
receivers; real-time bidirectional communications in unidirectional technologies
(DVB), making use of a different technology return channel, covering aspects of
QoS and mobility; and privacy support using virtual identities and identity based
152
mobility. New developments are being addressed in the integration of LTE with
these architectures, specifically addressing mobility and QoS.
Context-aware multiparty session - In future scenarios, context-aware services
and multicasting will together drive a new trend, since context-awareness can
exploit situations in which users share the same interests and request similar
services, increasing the effectiveness of session and network control. In these
environments, where groups may be created based on context, multicast takes a
new lead to the communications environment. However, context-aware networks
also introduce personalized concepts: any change to context, such as, location,
mobility, velocity, preferences, presence, can change the overall services and
network environments, requiring the network and multicast sessions to be
completely restructured in a very dynamic way. This dynamicity poses scalability
problems in current networks. We proposed an efficient architecture for contextaware multiparty session and network control which dynamically adapts to
contexts’ and networks’ dynamics and maintains the connectivity with the expected
requirements over session lifetime. We consider the concepts of dynamic session
and network control, driven by context, but introduce the concept of abstract trees
in the network to increase the stability of the network to any context change.
Joint Compression and Security. For some decades secure communication
systems have been employing a modular approach to security. These systems
usually perform encryption using conventional cryptographic primitives that are
insensitive to the characteristics of the communications channel, relying on
mathematical operations assumed to be hard to compute, such as prime
factorization and the discrete logarithm function. They do not take into account the
specificities of the data being encoded nor some essential mechanisms for data
transmission such as quantization and data compression. For applications with realtime constraints it is important to minimize the computational overhead introduced
by the use of cryptographic primitives. This minimization could be achieved by
relying
on
specif
properties
of
the
transmitted
data
and
the
underlying
communication system. In particular, coding techniques have been shown to allow
reliable and efficient encryption. Using intelligent coding procedures we can design
lightweight secure protocols that introduce little overhead to the encryption. In this
153
line of research we propose the use of coding techniques to perform lightweitght
encryption. Our contribution focuses on two different buiding blocks of a
communications system. First, we rely on quantization as a means of obtaining
security. Secondly, we develop cipher mechanisms, that perform an analysis of the
output of the source coder to compute a keystream used in encryption of the
source messages.
Soundness and completeness of formal encryption - In their seminal work,
Abadi and Rogaway show that the formal (Dolev-Yao) notion of indistinguishability
is sound with respect to the computational model: pairs of messages that are
indistinguishable in the formal model become indistinguishable messages in the
computational model. However, this result has two weaknesses. First, it cannot
tolerate key-cycles. Second, it makes the too-strong assumption that the
underlying cryptography can hide all aspects of the plaintext, including its length.
Both of these weaknesses stem from a ’gap’ between the formal and computational
models, and we consider and close both weaknesses in this paper. It is shown that
the recently-introduced notion of KDM-security can provide soundness even in the
presence of key- cycles, which is the first time a gap has been closed by
strengthening the computational model. Encryption that reveals the length of
plaintexts is considered, and it is used to motivate a general examination about
information-leaking encryption. In particular, the conditions under which an
encryption scheme , which may leak some partial information, will provide
soundness and completeness to some (possibly weakened) version of the formal
model.
Improving authentication schemes with quantum information -
The
problem on how quantum resources can improve the security of authentication
protocols has been addressed. The starting point is the protocol introduced by
Brassard in 1983. In that protocol, the shared key is the seed of a pseudo-random
generator (PRG) and a hash function is used to create the authentication tag of a
public message. It was shown that a quantum encoding of secret bits offers more
security than the classical XOR function introduced by Brassard. Furthermore, we
proof that quantum resources can simultaneously improve both secrecy of the key
generated by the PRG as secrecy of the tag obtained with a hidden hash function.
Moreover, the proposed quantum protocol can be also used in order to authenticate
the quantum channel itself.
154
Farness constrains for the Dolev-Yao attacker - Fairness constraints for the
Dolev-Yao attacker, when checking liveness properties, were investigated. It was
showed that any fairness constraint that makes the standard Dolev-Yao attacker
sound w.r.t. an (honest) buffer, under the fair scheduling constraint, is a nonregular property.
Design of new security protocols - A fair contract signing protocol was propose
using quantum tamper-proof devices. In the proposed protocol the signing agents
do not need to communicate with a third trusted party during the signing phase,
which has been proved to be impossible using only classical information in
asynchronous networks. The protocol relies on decoherence of quantum information
to encode a global clock that works as a synchronization mechanism. The protocol
can be implemented with existing quantum technology.
Attacker with cryptanalytical capabilities - A probabilistic model for the
analysis of security protocols was purposed. The proposed model allows one to
reason about attackers that extend the usual Dolev-Yao adversary with explicit
probabilistic statements representing their (partial) knowledge of the properties of
cryptographic primitives.
An entropy-based approach was developed to estimate
the probability of a successful attack on a cryptographic protocol given the
prescribed knowledge of the attacker. This quantity was shown to be NP-hard to
compute, but it is useful to analyze a few practical examples.
Commitment and authentication - A question raised in the paper Constructions
and Bounds for Unconditionally Secure Non-Interactive Commitment Schemes, by
Blundo et al., 2002, was answered and it was shown that there is a close relation
between unconditionally secure commitment schemes and unconditionally secure
authentication schemes. Moreover it was also shown that an unconditionally secure
commitment scheme can be built from such an authentication scheme and an
unconditionally secure cipher system.
Traffic Engineering
Traffic engineering of Ethernet networks - In this activity, we address the
problem of how to use the IEEE 802.1S Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) to
improve load balance, service disruption and survivability of Metro Ethernet
networks. We are pursuing two different sets of traffic engineering problems. In the
first set, we are defining optimization models and developing suitable solving
155
techniques able to obtain optimal solutions. In particular, we have already
published different models and solution techniques, based on Dantzig-Wolfe
decompositions, to solve optimally different objective functions related to optimal
network load balance. A conference paper was published in proceedings of INOC
2009, Pisa, Italy. This activity is being conducted in collaboration with Prof. Filipe
Alvélos (Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho). In the second set of
problems, we are conducting collaboration with Prof. Michal Pioro (University of
Warsaw, Poland) in order to deal with the min-max optimization of link loads, using
the polish previous work on max-min fairness. A conference paper was published in
proceedings of NGI 2009, Aveiro, Portugal (published in IEEE Xplore) and a journal
paper
was
submitted
in
2009
and
accepted
for
publication
in
2010
in
Telecommunication Systems (Springer).
Traffic engineering of MPLS networks – The traffic engineering problem was
addressed aiming to minimize the routing hop-count while guaranteeing network
survivability based on multiple disjoint paths. A conference paper was published in
proceedings of INOC 2009, Pisa, Italy and a journal paper was submitted in 2009
and accepted for publication in 2010 in International Transactions in Operational
Research (Wiley-Blackwell). This activitiy has been done in collaboration with Prof.
Luis Gouveia (Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional, Faculdade
de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa).
Minimum interference routing algorithms – Minimum interference routing
algorithms
aim
to
reduce
the rejections
rate
of
future
requests
for the
establishment of bandwidth guaranteed paths (such as MPLS LSPs). They are
intended to be used in online traffic engineering and, therefore, they make no
assumption regarding future request arrivals. We have conducted a throughout
analysis of several minimum interference routing algorithms and introduced novel
scenarios to simulate these algorithms. We have analyzed the suitability of these
routing algorithms to scenarios where demands are bidirectional and to scenarios
where 1+1 protection may be required. Then, we have developed a new algorithm,
named, Minimum Interference with K-Shortest Paths Identification, that exploits the
possibility of reducing not only the interference when routing new demands but also
protecting the maximum unsplitable bandwidth path. This work was done under the
dissertation of a Professional Master in Information Networking (MSIN) between
University of Aveiro and Carnegie Mellon University.
156
Detection of Internet applications - We have developed a statistical method to
identify Internet applications that (i) selects the flow features that are stable across
traffic traces, both in time and space, resorting to the so-called effect size, and (ii)
performs classification based on the principal components of the (stable) flow
features. Application of the method was carried out on traffic traces of Orange
(France Telecom) network. We have also explored the use of multi-scaling traffic
analysis for the same purpose.
Detection and characterization of P2P Internet applications - Peer-to-peer
file-sharing systems have gained tremendous popularity in the past few years. The
traffic generated by P2P systems, and particularly BitTorrent, represents the major
portion of the global Internet traffic, largely overtaking the traffic share of the
World Wide Web. More users are continually joining such systems and more objects
are being made available, seducing even more users to join. An accurate mapping
of traffic to their applications can be very important for a broad range of network
management
and
measurement
tasks
including
traffic
engineering,
service
differentiation, performance/failure monitoring, and security. Traditional mapping
approaches have become increasingly inaccurate because many applications use
non-default or ephemeral port numbers, use well-known port numbers associated
with other applications, change application signatures or use traffic encryption. We
developed two new identification methodologies, one based on neural networks and
other based on principal component analysis. Both methodologies are able to
identify flow patterns generated by P2P Internet applications while overcoming the
limitations
of
existing
approaches.
The
results
obtained
show
that,
when
conveniently utilized, both methodologies constitute a valuable tool to identify P2P
Internet applications since they are able to achieve good performance results while,
at the same time, avoid the most important disadvantages presented by the other
identification methods. Nowadays, we see P2P systems evolving towards a Video on
Demand (VoD) platform. One of the main challenges of these systems is to
efficiently share data in the dynamic and continuously evolving Ad-Hoc networks of
users. This ability heavily depends on the peers' locations and characteristics on
this type of networks. Therefore, it is important to identify and characterize the
usage profiles of such P2P application. Towards that objective, we used the current
BitTorrent system to evaluate the peer-level characteristics of users sharing video
contents. These characteristics include geographical location, peers availability and
peers “distance”, measured in terms of the round trip time. From the results
157
obtained, we conclude that peers sharing video content present some unexpected
locality features that, if conveniently exploited, could greatly benefit VoD P2P
systems both in technological and service marketing terms.
Detection of network intrusions and anomalies - The detection of network
compromised hosts is currently performed at the network and host levels but any
one of these options presents important security flaws: at the host level, antivirus,
anti-spyware and personal firewalls are ineffective in the detection of hosts that are
compromised via new or target-specific malicious software while at the network
level network firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems were developed to protect
the network from external attacks but they were not designed to detect and protect
against vulnerabilities that are already present inside the local area network. We
presented a new approach for the identification of illicit traffic that tries to
overcome
some
of
the
limitations
of
existing
approaches,
while
being
computationally efficient and easy to deploy. The approach is based on neural
networks and is able to detect illicit traffic based on the historical traffic profiles
presented by "licit" and "illicit" network applications. The evaluation of the proposed
methodology relies on traffic traces obtained in a controlled environment and
composed by licit traffic measured from normal activity of network applications and
malicious traffic synthetically generated using the SubSeven backdoor. The results
obtained show that the proposed methodology is able to achieve good identification
results, being at the same time computationally efficient and easy to implement in
real network scenarios.
Network modeling for performance prediction - Wired and wireless network
traffic exhibits peculiar and unpredictable behaviors that can be attributed to the
combination of different factors: the varying number of users, the capacity of the
network access links/points, network traffic matrices, users' mobility, background
traffic, diversity of applications, services and user behaviors. This scenario creates
an increasing need for tools that can cope with the continuous appearance of new
applications and QoS requirements and is able to aid in the global management
tasks of IP networks. We proposed an integrated management framework for
wireless and wired networks that utilizes the network models based on neural
networks previously developed and a new set of procedures allowing (i) to predict
network Quality of Service (QoS) evolution for varying number of users and user
characteristics and (ii) to assess the need for network upgrades. Additionally, the
research team have started the evolution of the network models based on neural
158
networks towards a integrated Markovian based model able to jointly characterize
users' behaviours and network characteristics and predict network performance in
future operational scenarios.
Congestion control in packet networks – We researched congestion control in
heterogeneous links, following an end-to-end approach. This has been one of the
hot research topics in the networking community, where alternatives to currently
deployed versions of TCP have been discussed and tested. The objective is to
improve both the performance in high speed links and the efficiency of TCP
congestion control procedures. Currently, several TCP versions (under testing) can
already be found in different operating system distributions. We have been testing
(within a MSc work) some existing solutions and discussing alternatives for
implementation in high-speed networks in the presence of significant delays (i.e.
large bandwidth-delay product links). In addition to the previous topic, we have
been involved in the more specific research of congestion control in wireless links.
Although some of the TCP versions that have been proposed to improve the
performance in heterogeneous links may also work better in wireless links, there
are particular characteristics in wireless links that have been considered: the high
error rate and the difficulty in distinguish between error losses and congestion
losses. We have been looking for end-to-end solutions to these problems. We also
researched congestion control in the Internet, following a router-assisted approach.
Although much more difficult to deploy (because it requires the cooperation of all
routers in the path, as well as the destination), this approach has shown better
results in terms of stability and performance than the end-to-end approach. In
addition to the modeling and stability assessment of router algorithms, we have
been looking at alternative and effective congestion signaling schemes based on
explicit binary marking, for the control of window-based and rate-based sources.
Network Operations, Management and Planning
In-Network
management
-
Self-adaptation
in
the
scope
of
in-network
management is the capability of each node (and therefore of the network), to react
to changes insuring the proper network behavior, according to the defined
management policies. INM applications such as real-time monitoring and situationawareness provide state and context information to the decision processes within
the self-adaptation applications. The optimization includes the support of local
159
resources optimization (through predictive approach) and reconfiguration, accessnetwork selection and assisted routing (as optimal path selection). These functions
require the ability to discover the nodes, perform network bootstrap, and manage
entry/leave nodes. In this work we started the specification process of the selfadaptation mechanism to support in-network management, considering the
information that needs to be transferred between nodes and the decision process.
We are currently studying and applying game theory and Bayesian networks to
support this cooperation process.
Cross-layer
measurements
-
Service
Performance
Evaluation
is
usually
associated with connectivity related services, such as the provisioning of an internet
connection. Now operators are beginning to explore new business opportunities on
the All-over-IP world and beyond. New solutions are being deployed focusing on the
multimedia interactive contents. New network architectures will require extensions
to provide a clear vision on the service delivery quality, and new approaches on
cross-layer information will be envisioned. This work provides an insight on the
cross-layer overview of the current 3GPP networks, while featuring the analysis
until the end-to-end performance and end-user perception. It employs a correlation
between the most relevant parameters at each layer and underlines their
contribution to the upper layers. It further provides an analytical qualitative
analysis of the overall service performance by evaluating simulation results which
are sustained by both network and service performance metrics.
Network Applications and Services
Network virtualisation – We have built a small-scale network virtualisation
testbed, based on XEN technology, where key features of network virtualisation can
be demonstrated: on-demand creation, reconfiguration and elimination of virtual
networks; migration of virtual resources; auto-discovery of physical and virtual
resources. An additional result of this activity will be a network virtualisation
management system, to provide the network infrastructure owner with the
capability to enforce virtual resource management policies. The ultimate goal of this
activity is the demonstration and evaluation of the concept of network virtualisation
from the perspective of a network provider.
Identity Management – Motivated by the actual demand for identity and privacy
management, we have built an user-centric Identity Management prototype that
160
incorporates the major state of the art technologies. In future scenarios and
networks, Identity management plays a key role for service composition and
service/network integration (vertical integration). To demonstrate future network
scenarios, the prototype was integrated with NGN network functions, enhanced it
with a new identity layer that provides a user-centric way to integrate Telco with
Web2.0 services.
Personal Smart Spaces (PSSs) – Development of PSSs that provide a minimum
set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other
smart spaces during their everyday life. Unlike isolated smart spaces (such as
smart homes) these PSSs will be capable of learning and reasoning about all kinds
of users their intentions, preferences and context. They will endowed with proactive
behaviours
which
enable
them
to
share
context
information
with
neighbouring PSSs, resolve conflicts between preferences of multiple users, make
recommendations and act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited
resources, services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy
and be sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their robustness and dependability.
The communication between PSSs in a peer-to-peer mode is over JxTA and the
service platform that supports several service enablers, as for example the group
manager and resource sharing, is an OSGi Open Platform.
Context framework and context-aware service enablers for multicast
content delivery– Development of a global context-aware framework specifically
intelligent for multiparty services. This framework will allow the mediation and
aggregation of context information coming from a large number of sources and
types of context providers (e.g. operator context providers as location, Internet
providers as Facebook and private context providers as for example Wireless
Sensor Networks). A context broker will be the access point for context-aware
applications and services to access raw and inferred context information. This
Framework will also include the design and develop of context-aware service
enablers specifically for delivering content in multicast-broadcast environments;
dynamically create and modify groups, intelligently select content, automatically
set-up, modify multicast sessions and allocate network resources are some of the
important functionalities provided by this service enabling platform. Integration of
this framework with already existing platforms and/or components (as for example
IMS, TISPAN RACS,...) will also be provided. The main objective of this work is to
161
evolve multimedia multicasting to exploit the increasing integration of mobile
devices with our everyday physical environment.
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - In the area of mobile and ubiquitous
computing we proposed a new system for fall detection and automatic notification,
using a regular PDA with an accelerometer and GPS. This system is designed for
being used both inside hospital and in a regular daily life of senior people. Another
proposal
is
the
MP-Collaborator,
a
mobile
collaboration
tool
in
pervasive
environment. It was created to improve and optimize the communication between
collaborators in any organization. MP-Collaborator draws information from location,
user status and Pocket Outlook Calendar to create a user availability profile, which
is published to any other user in the network. Based on availability status, the user
can be reached using a simple phone call ora message. Through the opportunistic
use of available mobile technologies MP-Collaborator provides a simple but critical
service - user presence service.
Processing, Analysis and Coding of Audio and Visual Information
Distributed video coding – During 2009, we continued to have distributed video
coding as its main activity in the video coding area. The main topics addressed
were:
1. Definition of efficient encoder rate control solutions for transform domain DVC,
thus avoiding a feedback channel to perform efficient rate control.
2. Motion compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) is one of the most efficient
solutions to generate side information (SI) in the context of DVC. However, it
creates SI with rather significant motion compensated errors for some frame
regions while rather small for some other regions depending on the video content.
In this context, a low complexity Intra mode selection algorithm has been
developed to select the most ‘critical’ blocks in the WZ frame and help the decoder
with some reliable data for those blocks.
3. Characterization of the DVC coding efficiency when motion compensated frame
interpolation (MCFI) techniques are used to generate the side information. An
efficiency analysis of motion interpolation side information estimators has been
performed using a DVC compression efficiency rate model relating the power
spectral of the estimation error to the accuracy of the MCFI motion field.
162
4. In a feedback channel based DVC architecture, the high decoding complexity is
mainly due to the Slepian–Wolf decoding and the repetitive request-decode
operation, especially when there is no initial encoder rate estimation or iterative
motion refinement is employed. In this context, an early stopping criterion for the
LDPC syndrome belief propagation decoder has been developed that is able to
reduce the number of decoding iterations.
5. While state-of-the-art DVC codecs have shown promising RD performance, most
DVC codecs in the literature do not consider low delay requirements which are
relevant for some of the addressed applications. In this context, an efficient, low
delay and fully practical DVC codec based on the Stanford DVC approach has been
developed.
6. To improve the turbo coding performance in the context of DVC, a probability
flipping approach acting as an outer loop of the common turbo decoding operation
has been developed. Whenever a turbo decoded bitplane is not error-free, the
proposed method tries to correct bitplane errors by iteratively refining the a priori
data for the most likely in error bit positions, followed by turbo re-decoding.
Perceptual video coding: In this topic, the work carried out in 2009 focused on:
1. Study of spatial visual just noticeable distortion models for integration in a
H.264/AVC standard codec to improve the final rate-distortion performance. Three
masking aspects related to lossy transform coding and natural video contents have
been considered: frequency band decomposition, luminance component variations
and pattern masking.
2. Decoder side estimation mechanism for a just noticeable distortion perceptual
model integrated in a H.264/AVC codec to improve its RD performance. The
proposed estimation avoids having to send the perceptual weights used during the
quantization of each frequency coefficient.
Video
Transcoding
and
Scalability
-
In
the
topic
of
video
adaptation/transcoding, we developed fast methods to adapt H.264/AVC video
streams from high spatial resolution to mobile terminals. The research in flexible
video coding using scalability was focussed on scalable coding of video summaries
with arbitrary temporal rates in two layers.
Rate control – In 2009, research on how to efficiently combine error resilience and
rate-control techniques for frame-based video coding systems, such as those based
163
on the H.264/AVC video coding standard, was continued. A method for efficiently
and automatically taking into account the packet loss rate of the network when
performing coding mode decisions for video transmission was developed. With this
method, the generated H.264/AVC bitstreams are both efficient and are perfectly
adapted to the channel error characteristics. We have also worked on Automatic
and adaptive error resilient rate-control techniques for frame-based video coding
systems that are able to adapt the encoding decisions to the network error
conditions (e.g., packet loss rate) and the available bit rate.
Quality evaluation - Continuing the work started three years ago, during 2009
research has been focused on no-reference, objective metrics for quality evaluation
of video sequences, subject to lossy encoding (MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC) and
transmission errors (packet losses). A new perceptual metric for the quality
estimation of H.264/AVC encoded sequences, has been developed.
Video error resilience - In 2009, research on how to efficiently combine error
resilience and rate-control techniques for frame-based video coding systems, such
as those based on the H.264/AVC video coding standard, was carried out. The
major achievement was the proposal of a method that efficiently and automatically
takes into account the packet loss rate of the network used for video transmission
when performing coding mode decisions at the encoder. This method can be used
to efficiently generate error resilient H.264/AVC bitstreams that are perfectly
adapted to the channel error characteristics.
Medical Image Analysis - Our research addresses how computer vision may be
a key factor for developing automated or semi-automated computer assisted
decision systems for gastroenterology.
We have also worked on assisted annotation of microscopy imaging. Biology
laboratories produce massive amounts of microscopy data, which typically takes
days to manually process. Computer vision, along with other research fields such as
Human-Computer Interaction, can pave the way for what is currently known as
high-throughput microscopy imaging: full automation of the imaging capture and
analysis process, significantly boosting Biology research.
We have carried out research on breast cancer detection, focusing in the following
topics: utilization of high performance cluster computing
technologies for paralell
3D/4D medical image processing (jointly performed with Microsoft Portugal);
development of new approaches for early diagnosis and prevention of breast cancer
164
through computer aided diagnosis (jointly performed with Siemens); analysis of
ultrasound images and case studies regarding breast cancer (jointly performed with
the School of Health Sciences, UBI).
Medical Signal Analysis – We have address state-of-the-art digital audio signal
processing research challenges for extracting clinical features from auscultation, as
well as providing a clinical second opinion on specific heart pathologies. We pay
particular attention to aortic pulmonary signal decomposition and its correlation
with pulmonary arterial pressure, researching novel algorithms that can enable us
to assist clinicians in the detection of pulmonary arterial hypertension situations.
The goal of the CMU|Portugal Vital Responder research project is to explore the
synergies between innovative wearable technologies, scattered sensor networks,
intelligent building technology and precise localization services to provide secure,
reliable and effective first-response systems in critical emergency scenarios. Using
Vital Jacket® technology, our research team works on signal processing and
human-computer interaction tasks.
Computer Graphics - A new oversimplified geometric data structure for
applications in computer games, virtual reality, and computer graphics was
developed.
A new algorithm for the simulation of fluids (for applications in computer games,
virtual reality,and computer graphics) was introduced, based on a simplified version
of the Navier-Stokes equations and a Gauss-Seidel red-black scheme. This
algorithm runs on both CPUs and GPUs and is a 3D variant of Stam's stable fluids
that runs on GPU using CUDA technology.
We have developed a high-performance GPU-based algorithm for triangulating and
rendering biomolecules for molecular modeling.
We have designed and implemented a 3D graphics library for the web without the
complexity of the X3D technology or any add-ons. The graphics library runs directly
on the browser.
We have proposed an engineering software principle to easily turn a multiplayer
FPS (first-person shooter game, like Quake) into a massively multiplayer online FPS
game using grid technology. This is in progress in order to build an API for building
FPS games on a grid.
Image Restoration – We have proposed a new approach to handle non-additive
noise models (namely multiplicative and Poissonian) in image recovery problems.
Our approach uses two main building blocks: variable splitting, yielding a
165
constrained optimization problem; handling this optimization problem using an
augmented Lagrangian method. We show that the resulting algorithms are
instances of the alternating direction method of multipliers and that the conditions
guaranteeing its convergence are satisfied. Experiments show that our approach
yields state-of-the-art performance.
Another topic of research concerned fast algorithms for the optimization problems
resulting from sparsity-inducing regularization to imaging inverse problems
(including compressive sensing). In this context, we have introduced new
algorithms of the augmented Lagrangian family, which achieve state-of-the-art
performance.
Calculus and Languages for Sensor Networks - Sensor networks are rather
challenging to deploy, program, and debug. Current programming languages for
these platforms suffer from a significant semantic gap between their specifications
and underlying implementations. This fact precludes the development of (type-)safe
applications, which would potentially simplify the task of programming and
debugging deployed networks. In this paper we define a core calculus for
programming sensor networks and propose to use it as an assembly language for
developing type-safe, high-level programming languages.
Assisted Analysis of Cellular Images - Biology research laboratories such as
IBMC (Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular) produce a large quantity of
microscopy images that need to be analyzed. An example of an analysis is to count
the number of cells and parasites in a given image to infer the infection level. In
most situations, this analysis is performed entirely manually by the researchers
themselves or by people hired specifically for this purpose. This manual analysis
has some drawbacks: it is a slow procedure, since its made by humans, its prone to
errors (by a number of factors such as counter’s fatigue, stress, etc), and
recounting is crucial for reliability of the analysis. Another important factor in
manual counting is that in some cases it can lead to seasickness of the person
doing it, since he is looking at a moving scene, his brain process this information as
if he is also moving but, another hand, getting in conflict with the signals from the
inner ear, that’s saying he is not moving. To overcome these limitations it is
necessary to eliminate the human factor, reduce the costs and the time spent in
this kind of tasks. This can be achieved by automating the entire process.Therefore,
we are developing a software that it will analyze automatically a given set of
cellular images using state-of-the-art image processing algorithms.
166
Digitally enhanced stethoscope for clinical usage - The DigiScope project
involves signal processing (clinical feature extraction), data mining (pathology
detection using audio features and patient record information) and the ability to not
only collect heart audio signals, but also to extract patient record information by
communicating directly and efficiently with typically heterogeneous and complex
hospital information systems. We argue that the key to robust solutions lies in a
stronger interaction with the clinical community, both for understanding the needs
of cardiologists and robust clinical validation of the methods and of the final
prototype. The main constituents of a cardiac cycle are the first heart sound
(typically referred to as S1), the systolic period, the second heart sound (S2) and
the diastolic period. Whenever a clinician is performing an auscultation, he tries to
identify these individual components, and is trained to analyze related features
such as rhythm, timing instants, intensity of heart sound components, splitting of
S2, etc. Currently, an infrastructure composed by an integrated electronic patient
record system, auscultation storage and retrieval system (all developed by our
team), is running on the Royal Portuguese Hospital in Pernambuco-Brazil, having a
team of physicians collecting patient data and auscultations and storing them on
the IT’s server.
A System to Re-Use Facial Rigs in Animations - Facial animation in films and
videogames are strongly dependent on a fixed rig that is custom created for each
character. The rig is defined in the early stages of the development and is
conditioned by the characters morphology. We present a portable character rigging
system that integrates into current animation production pipelines enabling digital
artists to create more lifelike characters in less time about 90-99% faster, when
compared to traditional animation techniques. It automatically transfers the rig and
animations created in one character to different characters, independent of their
shape and appearance. Artists are not forced to use predefined rigs and can
preserve the original mesh they created. As a result, the system improves the
workflow in CG productions, the modeling and animation teams can now work in
parallel.
Pattern Recognition and Automatic Learning
Biometrics – We continued our work on the development of a non-cooperative
multimodal recognition system. Work was done in robust iris image segmentation
and face recognition in the visible wavelength.
167
The use of distributed source coding concepts and hash functions
to secure
biometric data was investigated. This new approach makes it possible to generate
many different templates from the same biometric data, which can be canceled if
they are compromised. Furthermore, it also guarantees that the original biometric
data cannot be recovered from the stored data, thus guaranteeing its privacy.
We
have
started
to
investigate
new
approaches
to
using
the
one-lead
electrocardiogram (ECG) signal as a biometric, both for authentication and
identification.
Classification methods – A new criterion based on the use of the minimum
entropy of the error for building decision trees was proposed. For reservoir
networks, a method was proposed to make possible the use of these recurrent
networks for static pattern recognition problems, the proposed method was
benchmarked in 25 standard pattern recognition problems and a study of the
influence of the main model parameters was done.
Compression Based Classification – In 2009 we have continued to work on text
classification methods based on lossless compression algorithms of the Lempel-Ziv
family.
Most
approaches
to
text
classification
rely
on
some
measure
of
(dis)similarity between sequences of symbols. Information theoretic measures have
the advantage of making very few assumptions on the models which are considered
to have generated the sequences, and have been the focus of recent interest. In
this line of work we have used the Ziv-Merhav method and the Cai-Kulkarni-Verdú
methods for the estimation of relative entropy from sequences of symbols, with
excellent results in authorship attribution tasks.
Clustering – Exploiting the notion of Evidence Accumulation Clustering (EAC), and
a resampling-based cluster stability measure, we have continued to work on the
problem of learning similarities from data. The developed similarity learning method
was shown to have state-of-the-art discriminatory capacity and to better revela the
intrinsic cluster structure of the data. We also explored combination techniques
based on the EAC paradigm, but with different weighting of the clusterings using
quality measures. Fusion techniques from supervised and unsupervised learning
(classifier fusion and cluster ensemble methods) were exploited simultaneously in
the problem of features selection, yielding new promising techniques.
Information Theory and Estimation Theory – we have carried out research on
the intersections of information theory and estimation theory and their applications
168
in the analysis, design and optimization of communications systems and in
physical-layer security.
Speech
Analysis
–
We
have
investigated
the
representativeness
of
the
coarticulation phenomenon in European Portuguese and described its regular
characteristics. The results will allow setting up models to reconstruct graphemephone conversion rules for Portuguese multi-pronunciation speech systems.
169
4.3.4 Running and Concluded Projects
Overview
Number
Funding Agency
DAAD
1
DoCoMo
1
EU-FP7
7
3
European Science Foundation
1
FCT
4
FCT/CAPES
1
FCT/PTDC
7
QREN/Telecom Inovação
1
FLAD
2
GRICES
1
GRICES-CNRS
1
8
National Science Foundation - QREN
2
1
Projecto Europeu do 6º Programa Quadro
1
projecto interno da Rede de Excelência do 7º Programa
1
Quadro Euro-NF
PT Inovação
1
1
Total
45
Table 24 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia
Area during 2009
170
Acron / Ref
AVATAR
Title
3D Face Animation
Funding
QREN
Descript.
Project AVATAR aims to develop 3D animated face models that are
synchronized with speech. The input to the system can be either speech
or text. In the case of speech input, a recognizer is used followed by a
converter from phonemes to visemes. In the case of text input, a
synthesizer is used to create both the audio (speech) and the sequence
of visemes. 3D face animations, created after the sequence of visemes,
need to run on browser to allow the development of rich and interactive
WEB applications.
The project is funded by QREN where IT participates as a subcontractor.
Acron / Ref
Affective Mouse
Title
Affective Mouse
Funding
National Science Foundation - QREN
Descript.
This project aims at determining the role of emotions on the learning
process and the way in which these can influence the results of the
process. The goal is to develop a Human-computer interaction device
(which is envisioned as a computer mouse) that measures multiple
electrophysiological signals from the children and simultaneously allows
the interaction with a multimedia Web application with games and
educational exercises. Thus we want to know how different activities
influence the physiological signals while completing the exercises/games
on the Web platform. The system will allow the tutor to follow-up the
learning process, adopt incentive measures, and adjust the learning
171
process according to the emotive signals of the children. As a result of
the R&D project a physiological signal database will be produced on
didactic and cognitive exercises, this way creating a base structure for
advanced studies in affective computing and real interaction/learning
environments.
Acron / Ref
Title
OneLab2
An Open Federated Laboratory Supporting Network Research for the
Future Internet
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
Experimentally driven research is key to success in today’s Internet.
Many test beds support research and development, and product
prototyping
in
communication
networks.
However,
they
tend
to
specialise in particular access technologies or services, or explore near
term product offerings, often with limited availability and openness. An
open and sustainable large-scale shared experimental facility will allow
European industry and academia to innovate today and to design the
future Internet. The OneLab2 project will leverage the original OneLab
project’s PlanetLab Europe test bed and its international visibility to
make this facility a reality.
OneLab2 is built on three complementary pillars. The Platform Pillar will
operate PlanetLab Europe, extending PlanetLab service across Europe,
and federating with other PlanetLab infrastructures worldwide. It will
integrate new features into the system. The Tools Pillar will enhance the
test-bed-native network monitoring service that supports experiments.
And the Customers Pillar will meet the needs of the facility’s customers
by providing them with access to diverse facilities, achieved through
federating different types of test bed. An experimental facility must
know its customers. OneLab2 will do this by directly involving pilot
customers who are testing novel ideas in networking research.
172
Acron / Ref
Title
Future-COM
Analysis, Design and Optimization of Future Communications Systems From Theory to Practice
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main objective of the research project FUTURE-COM: Analysis,
Design and Optimization of Future Communications Systems: From
Theory to Practice is to explore a novel framework based on the
interplay between information theory and estimation theory in the
analysis, design and optimization of communications systems with
relevance in practice. The advent of the information age has also been
igniting the development of a whole telecommunications infrastructure
to support the ubiquitous access to the Internet at ever increasing
information rates. The last decade has in fact witnessed an exponential
growth in wireless communications systems and services, e.g., 2nd and
3rd generation systems as well as WiFi and WiMax, with this revolution
being fuelled by constant technological breakthroughs to enhance
transmission performance over the wireless medium. The discipline of
information theory has been constantly at the heart of this revolution,
since it establishes the fundamental limits of communications systems.
Yet, the presence of complex communication system features often
precludes system design in a rigorous information-theoretic way due to
the lack of appropriate mathematical tools, with system designers often
resorting to engineering experience and insight. We propose a different
approach: the analysis, design and optimization of communications
systems based on connections between the key quantities in information
theory and estimation theory. The expected outcomes of this two-year
collaborative research project are: i) essential theoretic and practical
methodologies to design enhanced communications systems in a
rigorous information theoretic way; and ii) novel technical solutions to
optimize current telecommunications systems, including WiFi, WiMax
and LTE wireless networks, as well as digital subscriber line (DSL)
networks. Our research team gathers considerable expertise in a wide
range of complementary topics such as information theory, estimation
173
and detection theory and communications systems and networks, all of
which are necessary to meet both the theoretical and practical
challenges of this research. High level publishable and patentable results
are expected.
Acron / Ref
EURO-NF
Title
Anticipating the Network of the Future
Funding
EU, 7º Programa Quadro
Descript.
arquitecturas de redes heterogéneas e monitorização de Qualidade de
Serviço e avaliação do estado das redes IP
Acron / Ref
SIMBAD
Title
Beyond features: similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
The challenge of automatic pattern analysis and recognition (or machine
learning) is to develop computational methods which learn to distinguish
among a number of classes from examples, with a view to endow
artificial systems with the ability to improve their own performance in
the light of new external stimuli. This ability is instrumental in building
next-generation artificial cognitive systems which, as opposed to
traditional machine or computer systems, can be characterized as
systems which cope with novel or indeterminate situations, which aim to
achieve general goals as opposed to solving specific problems, and
which integrate capabilities normally associated with people or animals.
The
socio-economic
implications
of
this
scientific
endeavor
are
enormous, as it will have applications in a wide variety of real-world
scenarios ranging from industrial manufacturing to vehicle control and
traffic safety, to remote and on-site (environmental) sensing and
monitoring, and to medical diagnostics and therapeutics. This project
aims at bringing to full maturation a paradigm shift that is currently just
174
emerging within the pattern recognition domain, where researchers are
becoming increasingly aware of the importance of similarity information
per se, as opposed to the classical feature-based approach. Indeed, the
notion of similarity has long been recognized to lie at the very heart of
human cognitive processes and can be considered as a connection
between perception and higher-level knowledge, a crucial factor in the
process of human recognition and categorization. We shall undertake a
thorough study of several aspects of purely similarity-based pattern
recognition
methods,
from
the
theoretical,
computational,
and
applicative perspective. We aim at covering a wide range of problems
and
perspectives,
considering
both
supervised
and
unsupervised
learning paradigms, generative and discriminative models, and our
interest will range from purely theoretical problems to real-world
practical applications. We shall apply our algorithms to challenging
biomedical problems that lend themselves particularly well to similaritybased approaches, namely, to the analysis of tissue micro-array images
of renal cell carcinoma and to magnetic resonance brain imaging for the
diagnosis of mental illness.
Acron / Ref
BLEP / PTDC/DES/72946/2006
Title
Biomechanics of Locomotion in Elderly People
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project has the main objective of developing a set of experimental
tools for the study of the risk of fracture in elderly people. The risk of
fracture is related to the risk of fall and to bone resistance. The aim of
this study is to develop a risk profile that can be used to identify
community-residing elderly at high risk of falling and to establish
strategies to prevent falls in healthy older adults and to identify the
variables associated with an increased risk of falls and fractures. The
use of advance clustering techniques for data reduction should allow the
identification of the relevant variables for kinematics and kinetics
parameters that are fundamental for the maintenance and development
of the balance and locomotion skills of daily live in elderly population
175
and also to identify high-risk groups for falls and fractures. The results
of the questionnaire assessment, field tests and laboratory studies
should allow the establishment of guidelines for the development of
exercise and perceptive training programs.
Acron / Ref
COST 2101
Title
Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards
Funding
European Science Foundation
Descript.
The main objective of this COST Action is to investigate novel
technologies for unsupervised multimodal biometric authentication
systems
using
a
new
generation
of
biometrics-enabled
identity
documents and smart cards, while exploring the added-value of these
technologies for large-scale applications with respect to European
requirements in relation to the storage, transmission, and protection of
personal data.
Acron / Ref
BIONSE
Title
Biometrics with Enhanced Security using Distributed Source Coding
Funding
IT
Descript.
One of the main goals of this project is to develop a solution supporting
the generation of different templates from the same biometric and thus
supporting cancelable biometrics. Another goal is to ensure biometric
privacy, not allowing the original biometric data to be recovered from
the stored. For this purpose, not invertible hash functions will be used
together with concepts from distributed source coding.
Acron / Ref
Title
CALLAS
Calculi and Languages for Sensor Networks
176
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main goals of the CALLAS (Calculi and Languages for Sensor
Networks) research project are: to contribute towards a fundamental
understanding of wireless sensor networks by developing formal tools
based
on
process
calculi;
to
provide
adequate
programming
architectures for dynamically configurable sensor nodes; and to validate
the proposed designs in real-life prototype sensor applications.
Wireless sensor networks, made of tiny, low-cost devices capable of
sensing the physical world and communicating over radio links, are
significantly different from classical wireless networks such as GSM or
wireless LANs: (a) the design of a sensor network is strongly driven by
its particular application, (b) sensor nodes are highly constrained in
terms of power consumption and computational resources (CPU,
memory),
and
configuration
(c)
and
large-scale
distributed
sensor
software
applications
updates
require
without
self-
human
intervention.
Previous work on fundamental aspects of wireless sensor networks has
mostly focused on communication-oriented models, in which the sensor
nodes are assumed to store and process the data, coordinate their
transmissions, organize the routing of messages within the network, and
relay the data to a remote receiver. Although some of these models
provide useful insights (e.g. into the connectivity characteristics or the
overall power efficiency of sensor networks) there is a strong need for
formal methods that capture the inherent processing and memory
constraints, and illuminate the massively parallel nature of in-network
computation.
Our take is to develop process calculi for sensor networks building on
formalisms for concurrent distributed systems and mobile code (most
notably, pi-calculus). The envisioned tools will enable us to (a) prove the
correctness
and
feasibility
of
different
data
gathering
and
communication protocols (e.g. by exploiting behavioral equivalence
between processes), and (b) carry out formal comparisons of different
177
schemes by quantifying the minimum amount of required resources.
Based on the results of the first task we will attack another fundamental
problem in sensor networks: the need for sensor programming
languages with self-configuration and distributed update capabilities. We
propose to develop specifically tailored high level idioms for sensor
networks that capitalize on notions such as mobile code and selfmaintenance.
Finally, we will implement and test the developed programming tools on
a sensor networking prototype. Real-life experiments will allow us to
better understand sensor networking constraints and further improve
our designs. We believe that our interdisciplinary team of computer
scientists and electrical engineers is well equipped to contribute both in
theory
and
in
practice
to
the
advancement
of
sensor
network
programming.
Acron / Ref
C-Mobile
Title
Advanced MBMS for the future mobile world
Funding
EU,IST Programme
Descript.
The strategic objective of C-MOBILE is to foster the evolution of the
mobile broadcast business by providing enhancements to the 3GPP
MBMS for systems beyond 3G. It will address both resource efficiency
and service flexibility, by close coupling of broadcast and communication
capabilities on all layers, covering the radio access, core network and
the service enablers, across multiple technologies, providing a smooth
migration for MBMS evolution, which will be in line with the vision of a
federated global multicast broadcast transport as well as emerging
beyond 3G standards. Within the radio access network it will propose
new radio interface technologies, radio resource management and new
topological approaches in the architecture for an efficient support of
enhanced
MBMS
services
allowing
a
commercially
attractive
implementation. C-MOBILE will help to understand how best to organise
and schedule MBMS content from the BM-SC through the core network,
178
radio access, to the end users. Since this is multimedia content,
interactions with the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem are expected and
C-MOBILE will explicitly investigate how best MBMS can make use of
capabilities provided by the IMS. The current concept of group
communication is narrow within Release 6 MBMS specification. CMOBILE will research, investigate and define ways to use multicast
technology to support personalized services and in particular the
concept of multicast content community where users also contribute to
the multicast service. Key market and business requirements for
multicast-broadcast services will be identified to aid defining research
directions, leading also to new business models involving the various
players. To that end it is critical to understand the needs of multicastbroadcast users, network operators, and content providers. The project
intends to make important contributions to the standardisation bodies
and to prove experimentally or via system level simulations innovative
concepts.
Acron / Ref
C-CAST
Title
Context Casting
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
Descript.
Project Context Casting (C-CAST) main objective is to evolve mobile
multimedia multicasting to exploit the increasing integration of mobile
devices with our everyday physical world and environment. The key
motivation for this project and why we believe Europe needs a project
on Context Casting is because multicasting is the key enabler that will
make mobile context aware services commercially attractive. Use of
mobile multicast communication especially for multimedia content has
always been a very attractive proposition. There will be many situations
when a multicast or broadcast will be a much more affective and
appropriate form of communication service but the majority are
dynamic, situation specific and consequently great service opportunities
are lost. C-CAST is based on two main competence areas: creation of
179
context awareness and multicasting technologies. Context information
defines groups that demand the same information or service. These
services are delivered efficiently by multicasting bearers. The project will
research, investigate and define ways to use the situation/environment
of a user (a mobile device) to initiate group communication. This
environment mediated multicast may be triggered by an event or
something in the physical environment offering a situation or context
orientated service. C-CAST will provide an end-to-end context-aware
communication framework specifically for intelligent multicast-broadcast
services.
Acron / Ref
CAMYM
Title
Context-Aware Mobility in Wireless Mesh networks
Funding
Descript.
Identifying wireless mesh network categories of mobility solutions;
• Context-aware optimization of handover decision (Multi-constraint ABC
- addressing
context and specific characteristics of WMNs);
• Location-based organization of context with semantic P2P overlay
interaction;
• Markovian modelling of predictive location-awareness;
• The role and performance of transport overlays in WMN when
considering the reconfiguration
of the network and the overlay, through context and mobility;
• Seamless handover support in wireless mesh networks;
• Performance, scalability.
Acron / Ref
Title
DeLKeTI / PTDC/EEA-TEL/72572/2006
Development and Learning of Kernels for Text and Images
180
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
1. Development of techniques to approximate the universal distance for
sequences and multidimensional data; this will lead to an approximate
universal kernel. Using the ability of compression algorithms to
approximate the universal distance, kernels will be tailored to each
particular problem by exploiting different characteristics of the data.
2. Application of universal kernels in learning algorithms such as support
vector machines or kernel logistic regression.
3. Theoretical characterization of the concentration properties (bounds)
of the approximations to the universal distance, namely by exploiting
known connection to Shannon's information.
4. Development of kernel learning techniques, in which the distance
measure is learned from data (in supervised, semi-supervised, or nonsupervised modes), rather than specified a priori.
5. Application of the developed kernels to problems in text and image
analysis; e.g., categorization, desambiguation, clustering.
Acron / Ref
Title
DRIVE-IN
Distributed
Routing
and
Infotainment
through
VEhicular
Inter-
Networking
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Acron / Ref
DVB-Probe
Title
DVB-Probe - Sistema de monitorização portátil para DVB-T e DVB-S2
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
Develope a portable DVB probe for Digital Television
181
Acron / Ref
new.WIVES
Title
Exploiting New Ways of Interaction in Virtual Environments
Funding
IT
Descript.
The Computer Graphics and Multimedia group at IT-Covilhã proposes
this project to exploit new ways of interaction in virtual environments
using a minimum of technological assets.
Acron / Ref
Title
FI-WI
FIbre-WIreless Access: Future Integrated Access Architecture Based on
Optical and Broadband Wireless Technologies
Funding
Descript.
The main objective of the project is to build an access and metropolitan
network architecture that integrates upcoming optical and broadband
wireless
technologies,
thereby
enjoying
the
complementary
characteristics of these technologies, so that the user will be able to
access diverse communication services in a transparent manner and with
a high degree of ubiquity, being able to move among different networks,
while maintaining a high resource utilization efficiency. Key issues in this
context are future end user needs, integrated QoS support and
optimized
service
provisioning.
The
project
will
unveil
research
opportunities, issue recommendations and propose novel mechanisms
associated with the convergence within this heterogeneous access
scenario and will thus serve as a basis for long-term research projects in
this direction.
Acron / Ref
Title
FLAD/2-05/08
Foundations of Future Wireless Communications Systems: Analysis,
182
Design and Optimization
Funding
FLAD and National Science Foundation
Descript.
The main objective of the research project Foundations of Future
Communications Systems: Analysis, Design and Optimization is to
explore a novel framework based on the interplay between information
theory and estimation theory in the analysis, design and optimization of
communications systems with relevance in practice. The advent of the
information age has also been igniting the development of a whole
telecommunications infrastructure to support the ubiquitous access to
the Internet at ever increasing information rates. The last decade has in
fact witnessed an exponential growth in wireless communications
systems and services, e.g., 2nd and 3rd generation systems as well as
WiFi and WiMax, with this revolution being fuelled by constant
technological breakthroughs to enhance transmission performance over
the wireless medium. The discipline of information theory has been
constantly at the heart of this revolution, since it establishes the
fundamental limits of communications systems. Yet, the presence of
complex communication system features often precludes system design
in a rigorous information-theoretic way due to the lack of appropriate
mathematical tools, with system designers often resorting to engineering
experience and insight. We propose a different approach: the analysis,
design
and
optimization
of
communications
systems
based
on
connections between the key quantities in information theory and
estimation theory. The expected outcomes of this three-year embryonic
research are: essential theoretic and practical methodologies to design
enhanced communications systems in a rigorous information theoretic
way;
and
novel
telecommunications
technical
systems,
solutions
including
to
WiFi
optimize
and
WiMax
current
wireless
networks, as well as digital subscriber line (DSL) networks. Our research
team gathers considerable expertise in a wide range of complementary
topics
such
as
information
theory,
estimation
theory
and
communications systems and networks, all of which are necessary to
meet both the theoretical and practical challenges of this research. High
183
level publishable and patentable results are expected.
Acron / Ref
GEN-CAN
Title
Generic Transport in Context-Aware Networks
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The GEN-CAN project will implement a new architecture to efficiently
support context-aware multi-party sessions in the NGNs, through
generic
transport
and
network
coding
concepts
to
enhance
the
information transfer in a mobility environment. The issues to be
addressed in the design of the new architecture include the following (we
assume the availability of context information and mainly steer our focus
on four important correlative sub-areas):
(1) Context-Aware Network Resource Provisioning,
(2) Intelligent Context-Based Network Selection in the heterogeneous
networks environment, (3) Support of Network Coding, (4) ContextAided Seamless Mobility.
Acron / Ref
MuMoMgt
Title
Gestão de Mobilidade e Multicast em Redes de Acesso Heterogéneas
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The project intends to define, develop and deploy a Wireless Access
Network that supports multicast traffic in a mobility environment and
manages network resources efficiently. The main objectives are:
(1) To propose, design and evaluate a signalling mechanism to manage
multicast
sessions
over
heterogeneous
wireless
networks;
(2) To propose and evaluate a mobility solution to provide seamless
handover
of
multicast
groups;
(3) To propose and evaluate resource management algorithms to
184
support multicast groups over heterogeneous wireless technologies.
This Wireless Access Network shall be exploitable not only by the
conventional Internet Service Providers (ISP), such as PT, but also by
the content providers that will exploit the DVB spectrum. Since DVB is a
broadcast technology, it is necessary to provide a return channel in a
different technology, so both types of wireless providers need to
cooperate.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
InfoMob
Information Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
The main objective of the project is to devise and evaluate algorithms
and protocols to support targeted information mobility in wireless ad hoc
networks. The project will define and work in the following items:
• Applications and frameworks in which information mobility is suitable
and definition of the intrinsic characteristics of such applications and
frameworks
• Protocols and algorithms suitable for the defined scenarios
• Performance evaluation of the proposed protocols and algorithms
Acron / Ref
KLog / PTDC/MAT/68723/2006
Title
KLog - Logics for Security
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The KLog project envisages to investigate and apply the tools and
techniques of mathematical logic, in a broad sense, to the systematic
study and design of special purpose classical and quantum kleistic (from
the greek word kleisis) logics, that may provide a deeper understanding
of the various aspects of information security, and ultimately contribute
185
to the improvement of the available toolset of formal methods. This
research will contribute to a better understanding of the relevant
concepts and their relationships, and help to solve and clarify some of
the open problems and key concerns of the area. The subjects to be
addressed include the design and study of logics for reasoning about
classical security protocols in distributed settings, ranging from the ideal
world of perfect cryptography to the more realistic probabilistic setting
where polynomially bounded adversaries are assumed, while also
exploring type-theoretical logic systems targeted at flexible information
flow analysis in languages supporting code mobility and declassification
that could be used to express distributed protocols; and the logical
study of quantum computation and information and its applications to
security, eventually leading to quantum extensions of the logics for
classical security, by considering quantum computation capabilities and
quantum communication channels. The project will also not neglect the
development of the logical foundations of combined logics and their
algebraic
counterparts
motivated
by
the
more
applied
research.
Accordingly, the project is organized in three tasks: (T0) Logic in
Computing; (T1) Logic for Classical Security; and (T2) Logic for
Quantum Security.
Acron / Ref
Title
MOGGY / PTDC/EIA/70830/2006
MOGGY - A Browser-Based Massive Multiplayer Online Game Engine
Architecture
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
A game engine is a structured collection of several software modules (i.e.
2D
and
3D
graphics,
physics,
collision
detection,
input/output,
sound, artificial intelligence, network, database, and graphical user
interface modules) that together enable to run video games on a
computer, game console, PDA, etc.
The essential difference between a traditional game engine and a MMOG
(Multiplayer Online Game) engine lies in the network and database
modules. Usually, MMOGs have large databases over a distributed
186
network of servers sometimes handling a huge number of logged-on
users.
Distributed,
real-time
MMOGs
are
a
real
challenge
for
current
networking technologies in terms of quality of service (depending on
networking resources such as bandwidth, latency, and computational
power), network architectures and topologies (peer-to-peer, client/server,
server-network), data and control architectures (centralized, distributed,
replicated), scalability (i.e. adaptation to the resource changes as a result
of the increase of players), and security (fighting back against cheaters
and vandals).
It is true that here is not much we can do about networking resources.
However, by choosing a suited architecture for networking, data, and
control, we can rid MMOGs of some resource limitations, or use
compensatory
techniques to
relax
their
requirements.
The
main
requirements for a MMOG engine are the following:
scalabilty, fault tolerance and persistence, computational efficiency, and
security.
This project aims to research solutions to fulfill these requirements, as
well as friendly game rules learning mechanisms, that at present tend to
limit the development of more powerful and user friendly BBMMOGs.
For that, we propose to use on-demand grid technology as the underlying
infrastructure for hosting online games. Although it has been geared
initially towards First Person Shooter (FPS) games (the worst case in
terms of processing), several of the gaming services are applicable to
MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Palying Games) and BBMMOG
games as well.
FPS games require a tremendous amount of server resources, and, due
to interactivity requirements, they also require that the server resources
be placed close to the players. Since concentration of player populations
can vary dramatically over time, intelligent on-demand allocation of
computing resources is critical to optimize server utilization while
maximizing game playing satisfaction. In addition, a grid-based shared
infrastructure provides economies of scale and industrial scale resiliency,
necessary prerequisites for a successful online gaming industry.
187
Acron / Ref
Vital Responder
Title
Monitoring Stress among First Responder Professionals
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Acron / Ref
MOMO
Title
Multi-Overlays for Multi-hOming (MOMO)
Funding
Rede de Excelência do 7º Programa Quadro Euro-NF
Descript.
Propose and investigate efficient mechanisms to create, maintain, and
reconfigure virtual wireless networks realized by multi-overlays. High
potential topics for multi-overlay design are cross-layer schemes,
signalling interfaces between the different entities involved, and how to
map different context characteristics to multiple overlays.
Acron / Ref
NECOVID
Title
NECOVID: Negative Covert Biometric Identification
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Perform negative biometric recognition, based on samples acquired
under non-controlled imaging conditions and setups
Acron / Ref
N-CRAVE
Title
Network Coding for Robust Architectures in Volatile Environments
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
188
Descript.
N-CRAVE will deliver a proof-of-concept for network coding as the major
enabler in
dynamic wireless network environments with multiple
communicating peers, where robustness is a key challenge. The simple,
yet disruptive idea of network coding is that nodes are allowed to not
only forward but also process and mix the incoming independent
information flows. The objective is to develop solutions for architecting
and
controlling
wireless
networks
in
performance-challenged
and
resource-constrained environments.
N-CRAVE will advance knowledge of fundamentals of network coding for
improving attainable performance limits of networked systems for
capacity, throughput, latency, complexity and energy with a view
towards practically encountered scenarios. Key protocol components of
the access, transport and network layers that operate hand-in-hand with
network coding will be developed. In doing so, novel lightweight
techniques will be designed based on convex optimization, linear algebra
and backpressure control principles for transporting maximal amount of
data over the network. Emphasis will be placed on advanced modes of
information
transport
such
as
multi-cast
and
group-to-group
communication with multiple simultaneous sessions in highly volatile
environments.
Innovative content distribution and storage methods will be developed
for various wireless architectures and application-driven performance
metrics, such as throughput, delay and fairness. A major goal will be to
make
the
techniques
viable
in
dynamically
changing,
volatile
environments by preserving low computational complexity and signalling
load.
Besides inherent benefits of network coding in capacity provisioning and
robustness, positive ramifications in security will be used to fortify
confidentiality, secrecy and resilience to data corruption and other
threats. Finally the project will deliver an experimental wireless test-bed
on which various network coding techniques will be implemented and
validated.
189
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
Net-PEEC
Network Coding Protocols for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
DoCoMo
The most striking difference between network coded peer to peer
networks and its classical non coded counterpart, is that operations
carried out by the nodes are not limited to storing and forwarding copies
of requested fragments. In fact, they are allowed to combine different
fragments using linear combinations, thus mixing and spreading the data
among multiple packets. By means of this coding and dissemination
approach, we enhance the degree of diversity in the network and thus
increase the likelihood that packets received from different sources carry
useful data that can be decoded for timely play out.
The main goal of this project is thus to exploit the rich body of network
coding theory towards developing highly efficient and robust protocols
for content distribution in peer to peer networks. The expected outcomes
of this research are (a) an in depth understanding of the applicability of
network coding to distributed storage and dissemination with particular
focus on the requirements imposed by streaming media, (b) a set of
protocols that can be readily used for this task, (c) performance
evaluation both analytically and by means of computer simulation.
Acron / Ref
VISNET II / IST-1-038398
Title
Networked audiovisual media technologies
Funding
EU,IST Programme
Descript.
The main goal of VISNET II is the provision of a working environment
with appropriate integration activities and research infrastructure that
will ease and stimulate the interaction and cooperation among European
researchers and institutions with recognized excellence in various fields
embraced by audiovisual networking technologies. The fulfilment of this
objective will promote and contribute to the advances of research in this
190
area and ultimately improve the quality and quantity of research results.
Due to the high commitment of this NoE in conducting extensive
dissemination activities, results will easily span across its borders, thus
benefiting the whole scientific and technological communities.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
PANORAMA
PANORAMA
Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN) e em colaboração com
a Portugal Telecom Inovação
Descript.
Novas arquitecuras de redes
Acron / Ref
P3DTV
Title
Performance Optimisation in 3D TV Broadcasting Services
Funding
Descript.
This project addresses the emerging 3D TV broadcasting services by
investigating the problems associated with transmission of different
stereo video coding formats. It is comprised of two main parts that run in
parallel and communicate between each other by exchanging technical
information in order to optimise the performance of the broadcasting
system in terms of received quality and channel useful capacity. The
research on 3D video deals with characterisation and optimisation of 3D
video coding algorithms by developing and testing suitable error
resilience methods for broadcasting such type of content. On the decoder
side the project addresses error concealment methods to cope with
transmission errors and improve the quality delivered to users. The
particular issues related to coded depth information are receiving special
attention in this project as this is the major component of 3D video which
makes it different from classical 2D. Appropriate distortion measures for
depth will be used to optimise performance. The project makes use of the
most recent video coding standard for video (H.264/AVC) and its
extension for multiview coding (H.264/MVC).
191
Finally, a method to characterise the radio propagation channel will be
developed for varying deployment scenarios. A refined method is required
to effectively measure the signal coverage in DVB-T networks and to
extract the effective parameters for the error pattern generator required
for both source and channel coding optimisation of DVB-T transmissions.
Additionally, the measured data to be obtained and included in a
database for various geometries and at a number of frequencies will
represent a quantum improvement, both in volume and accuracy of the
database presently available to system designers. This will form a
framework to radio system designers to propose fading mitigation
techniques based on link level analysis using the proposed error pattern
generator.
Acron / Ref
SECURE-COM
Title
Physical-Layer Security - From Theory to Practice
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main objective of the research project SECURE-COM: Physical-Layer
Security: Theory and Practice is to explore the fundamental reliability and
security limits of communications channels as well as to conceive,
investigate and develop practical reliable and secure transmission
schemes. The issues of privacy and security in wireless communication
networks have taken on an increasingly important role as these networks
continue to flourish worldwide. Traditionally, security is viewed as an
independent feature with little or no relation to the remaining data
communication
tasks
and,
therefore,
state-of-the-art
cryptographic
algorithms are insensitive to the physical nature of the wireless medium.
However,
there
has
been
more
recently
a
renewed
interest
on
information-theoretic security – widely accepted as the strictest notion of
security – which calls for the use of physical-layer techniques exploiting
the inherent randomness of the communications medium to guarantee
both reliable communication between two legitimate parties as well as
secure communication in the presence of an eavesdropper. This two-year
collaborative research project builds upon the information-theoretic
192
security foundations to i) study the fundamental reliability and security
limits of communications channels and ii) conceive, investigate and
develop
novel
practical
reliable
and
secure
physical-layer
based
transmission schemes. Our research team gathers considerable expertise
in a wide range of complementary topics such as information and
communications theory (in particular, code design), signal processing for
MIMO systems, communications systems and network, and security, all of
which are necessary to meet both the theoretical and practical challenges
of this research. High level publishable and patentable results are
expected.
Acron / Ref
QPMSN
Title
QoS and Performance Management in Satellite Networks
Funding
Internal
Descript.
Satellite systems are becoming important actors in the provision of
internet access and services in remote areas. For this purpose, the
satellite link has to be seen just like any other internet core link, from the
point of view of the functionality required to support Quality of Service
(QoS). Additionally, it is desirable that it do so at a high level of
performance. The proposed work aims at studying architectures for the
support of QoS in satellite networks and mechanisms for increasing the
satellite
networks
levels
of
performance
for
the
provision
of
communication services.
Acron / Ref
Title
QuantTel
Quantum Secure Telecommunications
Funding
Descript.
QuantTel is a project that joins the theoretical expertise of the Security
and Quantum Information Group (SQIG) at IT Lisbon and the skills in
quantum optics experiments of the Optical Communications group (OCAv) at IT Aveiro to tackle new challenges in the emergent area of
193
quantum secure telecommunications. Its scientific objectives are:
1. To design a quantum protocol for the authentication of classical
messages with enhanced security and to implement the respective
prototype with single photons in optical fibers and nano-fibers;
2. To develop a quantum protocol for contract signing and to implement
it in the laboratory using entangled photons.
Furthermore, this 24 months project aims at gathering the interest and
expertise in quantum telecommunications within IT in order to develop
internationally-competitive research and train new human
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
QSec
Quantum Security
FCT/PTDC
The main goal of the project is to address and tackle some of the most
challenging open problems in the area of quantum security. Significant
original results are expected in several fronts, such as: design and
analysis of quantum protocols, model checking of quantum systems,
quantum cryptoanalysis of classical protocols, quantum solutions to
classical impossibilities. Several applications will be investigated with the
purpose of understating how they can be speed up using quantum
information. The focus will be on cryptographic tasks, such as zero
knowledge proof systems, e-voting, authentication and contract signing.
A model-checking tool for quantum systems will be produced within the
project, as well as a simulator for testing quantum attacks on symmetric
cryptosystems.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
PICS
Robust joint source/channel coding for multimedia communications
GRICES-CNRS
194
Descript.
The MDC makes it possible to control easily the amount of redundancy
introduced in the transmitted signal while maintaining good quality
decoding whatever the state of the channel. However, in the case of non
stationary noisy channel, few works have been dedicated to the tuning
of the redundancy according to the noise level. The goal of this project is
to design a MDC that controls automatically this redundancy between
the descriptors according to the channel state. Furthermore, in case of
embedded devices we also propose to introduce distributed coding to
move the complexity from the coder to the decoder. The proposed
framework includes a wavelet transform and an optimal bit allocation
process of the binary resource across the different descriptors and the
different wavelet subbands. Our model will take into account both the
knowledge
of
the
channels
characteristics
(heterogeneity,
non
stationarity, ...) and the propagation conditions encountered in a real
environment.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
SCODE
SCODE- Scanned COmpound Document Encoder
FCT/PTDC
The main objective of this work is to investigate and develop an usable
version of a MMP based scanned documents encoder, that is able to
improve on the encoding performance of current state-of-the-art
compound image encoders, like DjVu. In order to achieve this, some
important tasks must be achieved:
- investigate and develop efficient methods for layer-based or blockbased image segmentation, for optimisation of the overall
MMP-based encoder´s performance;
- optimise the dictionary adaptation process in order to increase the
coding performance of MMP for the images corresponding to the
segmented layers or block types;
- efficiently implement a computational version of the method and
195
investigate relevant functional optimizations, in order to reduce the
computational complexity of the algorithm without compromising its
coding efficiency;
- perform a set of experimental tests in order to compare the encoding
performance of the new method with the one of other
state-of-the-art methods.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
SENECA
Secure Network Coding and Applications
DAAD
Descript.
Intend to investigate the codification vulnerabilities on network in terms
of security and proposal non cryptographic solutions.
Acron / Ref
SENECOM
Title
Secure Network Communications
Funding
GRICES
Descript.
The goal of this project is to develop secure communication protocols
based on information-theoretic principles.
Acron / Ref
SWIFT
Title
Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications
Funding
EU-FP7 ICT
196
Descript.
SWIFT will develop a standards aligned model for user data linked to
identities or personae with the user in control of the information
exchanged. It will separate management from resolution of identities at
all layers, i.e. from the service to link, considering both privacy and
“need-to-know” concerns.
SWIFT’s user-centric Id approach addresses three views: 1) users have
complete control over privacy and disclosed information dependent on
the service accessed; 2) services can use a generic treatment of
authentication, authorization, access control independent of the layer
services managed by a unique identity; 3) commercial players can
leverage new business solutions for operator, service provider or 3rd
parties through its federation approach.
As a STREP, SWIFT aims to primarily impact technology research and
related standardization in the manufacturing and telecom operator
domains. The consortium is balanced accordingly. The social and legal
domain will be addressed by liaisons and cooperations.
Acron / Ref
VDTN@Lab
Title
Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks
Funding
IT
Descript.
The project is proposing the implementation of a VTDN prototype to
validate the VTDN architecture and demonstrate its efficiency and
applicability
in
order
to
determine
limits
of
these
networks
relationships between parameters.
Acron / Ref
CAPES
Title
Video coding with MMP
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Develope algorithmd for video coding with MMP.
197
and
Acron / Ref
VT/Windsor
Title
Video transcoding between H.264 and MPEG-2
Funding
Descript.
Acron / Ref
WIPHYSEC
Title
Wireless Physical-Layer Security
Funding
FLAD
Descript.
The main goal of this project is to develop novel security technologies and
coding strategies that exploit the physical properties of wireless channels
to provide superior confidentiality.
198
4.3.5 Running and Concluded Theses
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Susana Sargento
David Vieira
Francisco Fontes
Susana Sargento
Nuno Gil
Victor Manuel Letra
Macedo Marques,
Desempenho de Redes Wimax com
1/2009
Topologia em Malha
Integração de uma AGCF num Cenário
1/2009
IMS/TISPAN”
Susana Sargento
João Diogo
Monteiro
Francisco Fontes
Mobility and QoS in Wimax Networks
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Hugo Reboredo
Sérgio Faria
Isaac Duarte
Rui Manuel Rocha
Pedro Melo
Ana Fred
Liliana Medina
Amaro Sousa
Nuno Filipe
Oliveira Novo
Rui Manuel Rocha
João Vicente
Rui Neves
Rui Manuel Rocha
Sérgio Santos
Rui Neves
Rui Manuel Rocha
Telmo Fernandes
Pedro Rebelo
Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença
Ricardo Carreira
Susana Sargento
Rui Valbom
Susana Sargento
João Soares
José Miguel Brito
Paulo Salvador Ferreira Mendes
Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença
João Oliveira
Susana Sargento
Cláudia Sequeira
António Nogueira
Saul Manuel
Sequeira Parada
Susana Sargento
Tiago Condeixa
Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença
Processamento de Sinal Turbo em
Sistemas de Comunicações Ópticas
Sense and Avoid Collison System for
UAV
Sensopolitan - Monitoring vibrations in
subway tunnels using WSN
Identification of Stress States from
ECG Signals using Unsupervised
Learning Methods
Management of IP Multimedia
Sessions using IM-SSF
GolfSense - WSN-based monitoring
system for golf courses
GolfWater - WSN-based irrigation
management system for golf courses
1/2009
3/2009
3/2009
3/2009
5/2009
6/2009
6/2009
6/2009
Intelligent Home Networking
6/2009
Alternative Iris Recognition System
7/2009
Avaliação do Desempenho de QoS e
Mobilidade para sessões multicast em 7/2009
redes dinâmicas
Avaliação do Desempenho de Redes
de Acesso Heterogéneas com Suporte 7/2009
de Mobilidade
António Nogueira
Caracterização de tráfico e utilzadores
7/2009
P2P-TV
Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental
X-ray Images
Colecção de dados de Qualidade de
Experiência do utilizador final em
Aplicações Home Entertainment
7/2009
7/2009
Impact of Network Security on Speech
7/2009
Quality
Implementação de Mecanismos de
QoS e Mobilidade para sessões
multicast em redes dinâmicas
7/2009
Gil Santos
Noisy Iris Recognition
7/2009
Susana Sargento
André Reis
Quality of Experience based Packet
Scheduling of Multiple Audio and Video 7/2009
Streams over WiMax Networks
António Nogueira
Miguel Ângelo
Lopes Gaspar
Veiga
Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença
Miguel Gaspar
Síntese de Imagens de Íris Com Ruído 7/2009
Susana Sargento
André Cardote
Soluções de Implementação de Redes
7/2009
WIMAX
Paulo Salvador
Ferreira
Simulation of MPLS networks: a
pedagogical perspective
7/2009
199
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Maria Paula Queluz
Bruno Rodrigues
Tomás Brandão
Maria Paula Queluz
António
João Pedro Shirley Rodrigues,Tomás
Brandão
João Sobrinho
Tiago Quelhas
Fernando Perdigão
Nelson Alexandre
Santos Marto
da Costa Pereira de
Sousa
Marco Bernardo
Luís Ducla Soares
Catarina Mota
Maria Paula Prata de
Sousa
Etelvina Pinho
Title
End
Date
Video Quality Evaluation for Streaming
Applications – I (effect of compression 7/2009
artefacts)
Video Quality Evaluation for Streaming
7/2009
Applications – II (effect of packet
losses)
Assessing the connectivity of the
9/2009
Internet
Automatic Speech Segmentation and
9/2009
Labeling
Caracterização, modelação e
implementação de transformações
9/2009
cromáticas em imagens digitais para
observadores com cromatopsia visual.
Creation and Visualization of High
9/2009
Dynamic Range Images
Fault Tolerant Multi Player Games
9/2009
HMM-based Speech Synthesis for
9/2009
Portuguese
Secure Biometric Recognition System
Luís Ducla Soares
Tiago Santos
9/2009
Using Distributed Source Coding
Transmissão de Imagens e Vídeos com
Rui Brás
Mário Freire
Codificação por Descritores Múltiplos 9/2009
da Costa Pereira de
em Canais de Redes de Fibra Óptica
Sousa
Transmissão de Imagens e Vídeos com
Marisa Quaresma Mário Freire
da Costa Pereira de
Codificação por Descritores Múltiplos 9/2009
Sousa
em Redes Peer-to-Peer
Triphone Training for Speech
Fernando Perdigão
Nelson Marto
9/2009
Recognition
Video Object Detection in Large Public
Paulo Nunes
Flávio Azevedo
9/2009
Environments
Video Object Tracking in Large Public
Paulo Nunes
Marco Ferreira
9/2009
Environments
Automatic Generation of Natural
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho Luis Filipe
10/2009
Language Service Descriptions from
Teixeira Botelho
Gonçalves
OWL-S Service Descriptions
Ricardo João Mah
Biometrics for Personal Recognition
10/2009
Fernando Perdigão
Hélio Ribeiro
Batista
Gonçalo Filipe da
Luís Ducla Soares
Fonseca Lourenço
Joao Filipe
Coruche Gaspar
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Francisco Oliveira
Mário Freire
David Alexandre
Carvalho
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira
Rodrigues
Fernando Pereira
António Nogueira
10/2009
10/2009
Low Complexity Video Coding for
Sensor Networks
11/2009
Low Delay Distributed Video Coding
11/2009
Resource Reservation Protocols for
Optical Burst Switched Networks
Tiling Slideshow: An Audiovisual
Presentation Method for Consumer
Photos
Bruno Alexandre
Conde Tomás
10/2009
Objective Evaluation of Segmentation
10/2009
Quality
Real-Time Computer Vision Tools for
Capsule Endoscopy Exam Analysis
Towards the Detection of Encrypted
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Traffic and
Peer-to-Peer TV Traffic Using Deep
Packet Inspection Methods
Miguel Calhau
Guerreiro
Contente
António Miguel
dos Santos
Francês Tomé
José Manuel
Boavida Gregório
Fábio Blessa
Paulo Salvador Ferreira Fernandes Lino
Enhancing the Security of Biometrics
with Distributed Source Coding
Development of a BotNet Detection
System
11/2009
11/2009
12/2009
200
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Luís Cruz,Victor
Daniel Neto dos
Santos
Fernando Lopes
Bruno Carmo
Paulo Salvador Ferreira
Carlos Miguel dos
António Nogueira
Santos Miranda
Fernando Lopes
Pedro Silva
Susana Sargento
Tiago Carapeto
Susana Sargento
João Borges
Susana Sargento
Rui Inácio
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Fabio Headyioglu
Fernando Perdigão
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira
Sérgio Faria
Luís Miguel Belo
da Silva
Pedro Alexandre
Oliveira Fernandes
João Pedro Filipe
da Silva
Gonçalo Nuno
Silva do Carmo
Ricardo Gomes
Title
DVB-T Transmission for In-building
MATV, SMATV and CATV
Implementation of Realistic Scenarios
for Ground Truth Purposes
Network Integration of Video
Surveillance Systems
Optimização de Recursos em Redes
com Gestão Automatizada e Embebida
na Rede
QoS de Serviços IP (VoIP e VoD) em
Redes Cabladas e Não-Cabladas
VoIp Service Performance Evaluation
over 4G networks
DigiScope - DIGItally enhanced
stethoSCOPE for clinical usage
Pitch Determination Algorithms
End
Date
12/2009
12/2009
12/2009
12/2009
12/2009
12/2009
1/2010
1/2010
Audiovisual coding simulation
4/2010
framework
Audiovisual tiling slideshow application
4/2010
for consumer photos
Depth coding for multi-view plus depth
4/2010
3D video
Telmo Fernande
DVT-T Probe
4/2010
Ana Sofia
Fernando Pereira
Clemente Cabrita
Berto Oliveira
Fernando Pereira
Paulo Nunes
Casquinha
Nuno Miguel
Pedro Amado Assunção Martins Correia
Gomes
H.264/AVC perceptually controlled
4/2010
video coding
H.264/AVC Video Coding: Analysis and
4/2010
Encoder Control
Internet de alta velocidade usando
redes de televisão por cabo - migração 5/2010
para DOCSIS 3.0
António Carlos Almeida Hugo Miguel Louro
Congestion control in wireless links
6/2010
Real Time Video Streaming and
Multimedia Sharing over the Internet
from a Mobile Phone
6/2010
Secure Biometrics Recognition
6/2010
Rui Daniel Casaca
da Trindade
Mauricio Bernardo
Abreu Ramalho
Susana Sargento
Carlos Campos
Paulo Nunes
Nádia Mateus
Fortes
Paulo Nunes
Susana Sargento
Frutuoso Gomes
Mendes da Silva
Susana Sargento
Susana Sargento
António Nogueira
Hugo Miguel
Campelo
Luís Ducla Soares
Rodrigues Almeida
João Sintra
Armando Manuel
Nunes Machado
Daniel Matos
Paulo Serralheiro
João Paulo Morais
Machado
Avaliação de arquitecturas distribuídas
para serviços multicast em redes
7/2010
dinâmicas
Background Modelling for People
7/2010
Tracking in Video Surveillance
Scenarios
Coding and Processing of 3D
Holoscopic Video
7/2010
Colecção de dados de Qualidade de
Experiência do utilizador final em
Aplicações Home Entertainment (2)
7/2010
ComputerScience@UBI - An animation
7/2010
film
Comunicação entre elementos da rede
7/2010
na Internet do Futuro
Comunicação entre Veículos
7/2010
Conception and implementation of
laboratorial experiments on MPLS
7/2010
201
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
André Miguel
António Carlos Almeida Vieira Rodrigues
António Nogueira
Luís Nuno
Rodrigues Ferreira Paulo Salvador
Ferreira
Póvoa
António Nogueira
Júlio César
Ferreira
Susana Sargento
João Nogueira
Susana Sargento
Nelson Capela
Paulo Salvador
Ferreira
Frutuoso Gomes
Mendes da Silva
Rodrigues
Susana Sargento
Frutuoso Gomes
Mendes da Silva
Susana Sargento
Susana Sargento
Luís Ducla Soares
Congestion Control in Wireless Links
7/2010
Correlation of network information: a
logarithmic approximation
7/2010
7/2010
End-to-end congestion control
algorithms for the Internet
7/2010
Nuno André
Caetano Barreiros
Games on Blender
7/2010
Vasco Miguel
Alves dos Santos
Interactive Projections in Classroom
7/2010
Orlando Ricardo
Esteves Pereira
Gonçalo da Cruz
Moura Dias
Carlos Marques
Filipe André
Lourenço Canento
Ana Fred
João Luís Dias
Cardoso
Daniel Saragoça
Fernando Pereira
Nuno Miguel
Ventura Couto
Pedro Amado Assunção Simão Cardeal
Sérgio Faria
Mário Reis
Luís Cruz
Luis Coelho
Tiago Miguel de
Sousa Nunes
7/2010
Multiresolution in Animation Systems
7/2010
Paulo Lobato Correia Secure Face Recognition
7/2010
7/2010
7/2010
Affective Mouse - Electrophysiological
8/2010
Signal Processing for Affective
Computing
João Miguel
Barros Silva
Mendes
Luís Cruz
7/2010
Mobilidade com Contexto para
Sessões Multicast em Redes
Dinâmicas
Quality of Experience based joint
Packet Scheduling and Link Selection
of Multimedia Streams over WiMax
Mesh Mode
Redes em Malha Virtuais para
Optimização de Conectividade
João Quintas
Ângela Cunha
7/2010
Mobile Platform-independent Solutions
7/2010
for Body Sensor Network Interface
Daniel Figueira
Ana Fred
Pedro Miguel dos
Santos Alves Madeira
Adão
End
Date
Correlation of network information: a
mathematical approximation
Demonstrador de Criação de Redes
Virtuais no Âmbito de Operador
Demonstrador de Mobilidade em
Redes de Acesso Heterogéneas
António Carlos Almeida João Poupino
Frutuoso Gomes
Mendes da Silva
Title
Salviano Soares
Telmo Fernande
Identification of Stress levels using
Electrophysiological Signals
8/2010
Electronic Voting
9/2010
Face detection and segmentation for
realistic avatar construction
9/2010
Image compression with edge-based
inpainting
9/2010
Métodos de medição e avaliação de
QoS de serviços multimédia em redes 9/2010
IP
SAVA
9/2010
Video Summarization using Visual
Attention Models
9/2010
3D Holoscopic Video Object
Segmentation
10/2010
202
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho
Carlos Correia
Teixeira Botelho
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho
Jairo Avelar
Teixeira Botelho
Fernando Lopes
Márcio Carvalho
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Gil Ramos
Fernando Perdigão
Fernando Perdigão
Sérgio Faria
Sérgio Faria
Inácio Fonseca
João Carlos Cunha
Gomes
Carla Sofia Moura
da Cruz Pereira de
Carvalho
Fábio Sousa
Igor Silva
Title
Ferramentas O3F: Editor CO3L e
Sistema de Informação de Ontologias
O3F
Ferramentas para O3F: Conversor de
UML para O3F
Automated Scripting for Web Page
Testing
Connections between Information
Theory and Estimation Theory
End
Date
10/2010
10/2010
12/2010
12/2010
Model Training for a Portuguese
Speech Synthesis System
1/2011
Speech Synthesis System from a
Sequence of Phones
1/2011
Sistema Electrónico para Lubrificação
9/2011
Sistema Electrónico para Segurança
9/2011
Table 25 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During 2008
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Sérgio Faria
Nuno Miguel
Vitor Silva
Morais Rodrigues
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
William Carson
Luís Cruz
Lino Ferreira
Mário Freire
Pedro Ricardo de
Paulo Monteiro
Morais Inácio
Mário Figueiredo
João Pedro
Oliveira
Mário Figueiredo
Manya Vital
Afonso
Maria Paula Queluz
Tomás Brandão
Susana Sargento
Pedro Neves
Fernando Perdigão
Carla Calado
Lopes
Rui L. Aguiar
João Paulo Silva
Barraca
Pedro Amado
Assunção
José Bioucas Dias
Title
Codificação de dados utilizando
correspondência aproximada de padrões
multiescala recorrentes
Performance Modelling and Design of Bit
Interleaved Coded Modulation
Scalable video coding with dynamic
regions of interest
Study of the Impact of Intensive Attacks
on the Self-Similarity Degree of the
Network Traffic in Intra-Domain
Aggregation Points
End
Date
3/2009
7/2009
12/2009
12/2009
Wavelet-based image reconstruction and
12/2009
restoration
Fast Algorithms for Compressed Sensing 1/2010
Francisco Fontes
Quality-of-service in video
communications, based on
watermarking.
Acesso Sem Fios de Banda Larga em
Ambientes de Redes Heterogéneas de
Próxima Geração
6/2010
6/2010
Automatic processing techniques for
speech recognition
6/2010
Estabelecimento de Redes de
Comunidades Sobreponiveis
6/2010
203
Supervisor
Fernando Pereira
João Francisco
Barros
Paulo Alexandre
Carreira Mateus
João Francisco
Barros
João Francisco
Barros
João Francisco
Barros
Student
Co- Supervisors
João Miguel
Duarte Ascenso
6/2010
Informed Network Coding for Minimum
Decoding Delay
6/2010
Pedro Alexandre
Cardoso Baltazar
Model Checking of Quantum Security
Protocols
7/2010
Luísa Lima
Secure Network Coding
7/2010
Sérgio Crisóstomo
Network Coding in Dynamic Networks:
Self-Organization Aspects and Topology
Control
7/2010
João Paulo Vilela
Secure User Cooperation in Wireless
Networks
7/2010
Performance Assessment of Vehicular
Delay Tolerant Networks
7/2010
Rate control in distributed video coding
7/2010
Sergio Assunção
Susana Sargento
Luís Barreto
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Ioannis Kanaras
Susana Sargento
Marcel Calvacanti
Mário Freire
Filipe Cruz Gomes
Soares
Luis Miguel Pina
Coelho Teixeira
Botelho
Rui Manuel Rocha
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
João Francisco
Barros
Rui Costa
Nuno Figueiredo
Study of Sensor Network Protocols Inside
7/2010
Ubiquitous Systems
Controlo de Congestionamento em Redes
8/2010
sem Fios
Bandwidth Efficient Multicarrier Systems
9/2010
for Wireless Communications
Enabling Multimedia Services over
9/2010
Wireless Mesh Networks
Generalization of the Embedded Branch
Process for Automatic Detection of Breast 9/2010
Cancer
João Carlos Silva
António Luis
Lopes
Manuel M.
Ferreira
Hybrid P2P Protocol based in BitTorrent
9/2010
Complex Problem Decomposition and
Delegation in Unstructured Dynamic
Agent Networks
10/2010
CommonSense - Community-based self12/2010
organization of WSN
João Oliveira
Design and Optimisation of DWDM
Millimetre-Wave Fibre-Radio Systems
12/2010
Rui Costa
Information Flows in Complex Networks
12/2010
Carlos Sá da Costa
Elsa Alexandra
Cabral da Rocha
Cardoso
Stijn Viaene,Carlos Performance Management of Higher
Sá da Costa
Education Degrees
Rui L. Aguiar
Alfredo Miguel
Melo Matos
Susana Sargento
João Francisco
Barros
Paulo Oliveira
Rui L. Aguiar
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
End
Date
Improving compression efficiency in
distributed video coding systems
Vasco Nuno da
Gama de Jesus
Rodrigues
Soares
Catarina Isabel
Fernando Pereira
Carvalheiro Brites
Paulo Alexandre
Correia da Silva
Rodrigues
Neves
Carlos Sá da Costa
Title
Vitor Manuel
Jesus Silva
Fahran Riaz
12/2010
Privacidade em Redes Heterogéneas de
Próxima Geração
12/2010
Secure Data Gathering in Sensor
Networks
12/2010
Service Provisioning in Dense Network
Operator Scenarios
12/2010
Computer Assisted Analysis of NarrowBand Imaging Endoscopy Exams
1/2011
204
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Sérgio Faria
Danillo Bracco
Graziosi
Eduardo Antônio
da Silva,Nuno
Miguel Morais
Rodrigues
Codificação de imagens utilizando o
algoritmo MMP
3/2011
Mário Figueiredo
André T. Martins
Pedro Aguiar
Kernel based methods for text retrieval
and semantic desambiguation
6/2011
Mário Freire
João Vasco Paulo
Gomes
Paulo Monteiro
Susana Sargento
Evariste Logota
Susana Sargento
Miguel Almeida
Susana Sargento
Vitor Mirones
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Lino Ferreira
Mário Figueiredo
David Pereira
Coutinho
Mário Figueiredo
Artur Ferreira
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Pedro Correia
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Detection and Limitation of Peer-to-Peer
7/2011
Traffic in Information Networks
Context-Aware Control Design For
Multicast-Aware Networks
Performance evaluation in next
Orlando Remédios
generation networks
Augusto Neto
Victor Marques
Luís Cruz
Vitor Silva
Filipe dos Santos
Salviano Soares
Neves
Paulo Jorge
Ferreira Baptista Juan GomezPinheiro Cordeiro Pulido
Self in-network resource management
Scalable Video Coding with embedded
new features
Data retrieval and classification using
information distances
Hybrid generative/discriminative
supervised learning
Advanced Multiple Description Coding for
Video
Algoritmos de Reconstrução de Sinal e
Aplicações
9/2011
9/2011
9/2011
11/2011
12/2011
12/2011
12/2011
12/2011
Complexity Constrained Video Coding for
12/2011
FPGA-Based Implementation
Image Processing for Supervision and
Management Support of Road
Infrastructures
12/2011
Data Clustering using Constraints
4/2012
João Manuel Pires
Leitão Caldeira
Rodrigues
Integration of Intra-Body Sensors in
Wireless Sensor Networks
7/2012
Joel José Puga Coelho Luís Miguel Lopes
Amaro Sousa
Rodrigues
de Oliveira
Performance Assessment of Routing
Protocols in IPv6 Over Wireless Sensor
Mesh Networks
7/2012
Ana Fred
Fernando Perdigão
Fernando Perdigão
Susana Sargento
Henrique José
Monteiro Oliveira
João Duarte
Cláudio Ribeiro
Neves
Arlindo Oliveira
da Veiga
Ricardo Matos
Susana Sargento
Nuno Coutinho
Susana Sargento
António Videira
Susana Sargento
Márcio Melo
Luis Miguel Pina
Coelho Teixeira
Botelho
João Francisco
Barros
João Francisco
Barros
Luís Sá
Automatic Detection of Voice Pathologies 9/2012
Luís Sá
Automatic speech and speaker
segmentation and labelling
9/2012
Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks
9/2012
Integração Transparente de Redes
Heterogéneas
9/2012
N/A
9/2012
Sérgio Pires
Jorge Carapinha
Virtualização de Redes numa Perspectiva
9/2012
de Operador
Paulo Costa
Learning Action Control Rules through
Observation of Software Agent Bodies
10/2012
Rui Meireles
Geo-optimized Protocols for Vehicular
Ad-hoc Networks
11/2012
Mari Nistor
Network Coding with Feedback
11/2012
205
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
Pedro Amado
Assunção
Salviano
Sylvain Marcelino Soares,Sérgio
Faria
Ana Fred
André Lourenço
Ana Fred
Helena Aidos
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Munnujahan Ara
Information-Theoretic Security 1
Ana Fred
Hugo Humberto
Placido da Silva
Susana Sargento
João Soares
Pedro Neves
Susana Sargento
Lucas Guardalben
Paulo Salvador
Ferreira
Susana Sargento
Frank Kanesel
Pedro Neves
Susana Sargento
André Cardote
Peter Steenkiste
Susana Sargento
André Reis
O. K. Tonguz
Susana Sargento
Tiago Condeixa
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Samah Mustafa
Multi-Modal Modeling of Cognition and
Emotion
Communication Architecture for Mobile
Cloud Services
Communication between nodes and
domains in self-management networks
Converged Mobile Communications in
Multiple Integrated Networks
Geo-optimized and cross-layer transport
communications
Optimizing Vehicular Communications
through Hybrid Networks
User-Centric Mobility with Quality of
Experience Handover Optimization
Connections between Information Theory
and Estimation Theory and Applications
to Wireless Communications
Miguel Raul Dias
Ke Zhang
Rodrigues
Miguel Raul Dias
Vinay Prabhu
Rodrigues
Michel Celestino Paiva Pedro Gomes
Ferreira
Tiago Quelhas
João Sobrinho
Adaptation and Quality Optimization in
Future 3D Video Delivery Services
End
Date
12/2012
Automatic Document Organization using
12/2012
Semi-Structured Information
Dissimilarity Increments Statistics and
12/2012
Dimensionality Reduction in
Unsupervised Learning
Cristina Olaverri
Monreal
12/2012
12/2012
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
12/2013
12/2013
12/2013
Next-Generation Driver Information
Systems
9/2014
Routing in enterprise networks
9/2014
Table 26 - List of PhD Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During 2009
206
4.3.6 Publications
Architectures And Protocols
Books
•
Barcoci, E. B.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. D. Diaz; A. A. Abouaissa; H. B.
Boeglen;
(eds.);
2009
Second
International
Conference
on
Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009) ,
, IEEE Computer Society , Colmar, France , 2009.
•
Duarte, A. M. O. D.; S.C. Campos; (eds.); Agenda Regional para a
Empregabilidade : Plano de Acção para a Promoção da Empregabilidade
no
Norte
de
Portugal
,
CCDRN
-
Comissão
de
Coordenação
e
Desenvolvimento da Região Norte , Porto , 2009.
Book Chapters
•
Ferreira, A.; L. Barreto; R. Correia; S. Sargento; L. Antunes; " Accessing
an existing virtual electronic patient record with a secure wireless
architecture " - Chapter in Chapter II - Mobile Health Solutions for
Biomedical Applications , Professor Joseph Tan and Professor Phillip Olla ,
IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; " Arquitecturas e Nível de Sistema " - Chapter in
Comunicações Áudiovisuais - Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações
,
Fernando Pereira , IST Press , Lisboa , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; K. Pentikousis; F. Fontes; " WiMAX Cross-Layer
System for Next Generation Heterogeneous Environments " - Chapter in
Wimax In-Tech Web Book , na , In-Tech , 2009 .
Papers in Journals
•
Sargento, S.; R. L. Aguiar; S. Sargento; " A cross-system approach for
multimedia services with IP multicast in 4G networks ", Wireless Personal
Communications Journal , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , February , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; R. L. Aguiar; F. Fontes; " Design and
Experimental Evaluation of QoS and Mobility Support over Integrated
207
802.16 MANs and LANs ", IEEE Vehicular Technology Society News ,
December , 2008.
•
Neves, P.; M. Melo; S. Sargento; " Evaluation of WiMAX Networks with
Mobility
",
Revista
do
Departamento
de
Electrónica
e
de
Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , March ,
2009.
•
Ampatzis, C. A.; E. T. Tuci; V. T. Trianni; A. Christensen; M. D. Dorigo; "
Evolution of Autonomous Self-Assembly in Homogeneous Robots ",
Artificial Life , Vol. 4 , No. 15 , pp. 465 - 484 , June , 2009.
•
Christensen, A.; R. O. O Grady; M. D. Dorigo; " From Fireflies to Fault
Tolerant Swarms of Robots ", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation , Vol. 13 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 12 , August , 2009.
•
Natkaniec, M.N.; S. Sargento; " Supporting QoS in Integrated Ad-Hoc
Networks ", Wireless Personal Communications , October , 2009.
•
O Grady, R. O.; A. Christensen; M. D. Dorigo; " SWARMORPH: MultiRobot
Morphogenesis
Using
Directional
Self-Assembly
",
IEEE
Transactions on Robotics , Vol. 25 , No. 3 , pp. 738 - 743 , June , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Technological Solutions for WiMAX Network Planning ",
Revista
do
Departamento
de
Electrónica
e
de
Telecomunicações,
Universidade de Aveiro , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , March , 2009.
•
Alexandre, R. Alexandre; Paula Prata Sousa; A. Gomes; " A Grid
Infrastructure for Online Games ", Proc ACM International Conf. on
Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human - ICIS
, Seoul , Korea, South , Vol. 403 , pp. 670 - 673 , November , 2009.
•
S.
Sargento;
"
Advanced Mobility
in
Broadband
Wireless Access
Scenarios ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Wireless and Mobile
Computing, Networking and Communications - WiMob , Marrakech ,
Morocco , October , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Architecture for Context-Aware Multiparty Delivery in
Mobile Heterogeneous Networks ", Proc International Conf. on Ultra
Modern Telecommunications - ICUMT , St. Petersburgh , Russia , October
, 2009.
208
•
Matos, R.M.; S. Sargento; " Context-aware Connectivity and Mobility in
Wireless Mesh Networks ", Proc International ICST Conf. on Mobile
Networks And Management , Athens , Greece , October , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Context-aware Control for Personalized Multiparty
Sessions in Mobile Multihomed Systems ", Proc International ICST Conf.
on Mobile Networks And Management , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Context-Aware Multiparty Networking ", Proc ICT Mobile
and Wireless Communications Summit , Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Context-Aware Self-Optimization in Multiparty Converged
Mobile Environments ", Proc International ICTS Conf. on Autonomic
Computing and Communication Systems - Autonomics , Limassol ,
Cyprus , September , 2009.
•
Neto, A.; S. Sargento; F. Pinto; E. Logota; " Context-Aware Session and
Network Control in Future Internet ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Communications - ICC , Dresden , Germany , June , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks: A Case for
Network Virtualization ", Proc Euro-NF Workshop on Traffic Engineering
and Dependability in the Network of the Future , Santander , Spain ,
June , 2009.
•
Almeida,
M.;
S.
Sargento;
"
Cross
Layer
Design
Approach
for
Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Contents ", Proc International
Workshop on Cross Layer Design - IWCLD , Mallorca , Spain , June ,
2009.
•
Barroca, N.; F. J. Velez; J.M. Ferro; Luis M. Borges; A. Lebres; " Desenho
de Protocolos de Controlo de Acesso ao Meio Eficientes do Ponto de Vista
Energético em Redes de Sensores Sem Fios ", Proc Conf. da Engenharia UBIEngenharias , Covilhã , Portugal , November , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Enabling Identity Aware Applications ", Proc Conf. sobre
Redes de Computadores - CRC , Oeiras , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; M. Melo; F. Fontes; K. Pentikousis; " Enhanced
Media
Independent
Handover
Framework
",
Proc
IEEE
Vehicular
Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Barcelona , Spain , April , 2009.
209
•
Matos,
R.M.;
P.
Neves;
S.
Sargento;
"
Evaluating
WiMAX
QoS
performance in a real testbed ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " FastM in WMN: a Fast Mobility Support extension for
Wireless Mesh Networks ", Proc International Conf. on Advances in Mesh
Networks (MESH) , Athens , Greece , June , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " IEEE 802.16 Packet Scheduling with traffic prioritization
and cross-layer optimization ", Proc ICST International Conf. on Mobile
Lightweight Wireless Systems - MOBILIGHT , Athens , Greece , May ,
2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Information Mobility: a New Paradigm for Content
Dissemination ", Proc European Conf. on Wireless Technology - ECWT ,
Rome , Italy , September , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Integration of Optical and Wireless Technologies in the
Metro-Access: QoS Support and Mobility Aspects ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf.
on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , July ,
2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; " Media Independent Handovers: LAN, MAN and
WAN
Scenarios
",
Proc
IEEE
Global
Telecommunications
Conf.
-
GLOBECOM , Honolulu (Hawaii) , United States , November , 2009.
•
Costa, R.; S. Sargento; " Mobility between Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc
Environments: Experimental Validation ", Proc IEEE Symp. on Computers
and Communications (ISCC) , Sousse , Tunisia , July , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; " Mobility Management for NGN WiMAX:
Specification and Implementation ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on a
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks - WoWMoM , Kos ,
Greece , June , 2009.
•
S. Sargento; " Mobility of Sources and Listeners in IP Multicast-enabled
Networks ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation Internet Networks
(NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Multicast Mobility in Heterogeneous Technologies:
Experimental Validation ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. GLOBECOM , Honolulu (Hawaii) , United States , December , 2009.
•
Neto, A.; S. Sargento; E. Logota; J. Antoniou; F. Pinto; " Multiparty
Session and Network Resource Control in the Context Casting (C-CAST)
210
project ", Proc International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking
(FMN) , Coimbra , Portugal , June , 2009.
•
Melo, M.; S. Sargento; J. Carapinha; " Network Virtualisation from an
Operator Perspective ", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC ,
Oeiras , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Pereira, T.; S. Sargento; " QoS and Mobility in IEEE 802.16 networks in
Heterogeneous
Scenarios
",
Proc
ICT
Mobile
and
Wireless
Communications Summit , Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; V. Jesus; " QoS in 4G Scenarios in Mobile Environments:
Experimental Validation ", Proc ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications
Summit , Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Omar, Y.; P. Mateus; ; " Quantum Tags for the Authentication of
Classical Public Messages ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, St Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 09 , pp. 000 - 003 , May , 2009.
•
Henriques, R. A.; R. M. Rocha; " Sensor Network Deployment based on
Data Variability ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa
Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Ferreira, N. F.; T. Meireles; Jo. A. Fonseca Fonseca; J. N. Matos; J.
Gomes; " WAVE Based Architecture for Safety Services Deployment in
Vehicular Networks ", Proc 8th International Conf. on Fieldbuses , Ansan
, Korea, South , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2009.
•
S.
Sargento;
"
WiMAX
Deployment,
Planning
and
Optimization:
Application to Different Scenarios ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Rocha, R. M.; " WiMAX QoS - Dynamic Service Flow Management ", Proc
, May , 2009.
Network Applications and Services
Books
•
Rodrigues,
J.
R.;
(eds.);
Health
Information
Systems:
Concepts,
Methodologies, Tools and Applications, IGI global, Medical Information
Science Reference , Hershey, PA, USA , 2009.
211
•
Dongwan, -; M. Freire; - Monteiro; M. Sousa; Vazão Vasques; (eds.);
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM
Press , New York , 2009 .
Book Chapters
•
Vaidya,
B.;
J.
R.
Rodrigues;
J.
P.
Park;
"
HOTP-Based
User
Authentication Scheme in Home Networks " - Chapter in Advances in
Information Security and Assurance, LNCS 5576 , Park, J.H.; Chen, H.H.; Atiquzzaman, M.; Lee, C.; Kim, T.-H.; Yeo, S.-S. , Springer, 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; P. Neves; R.M. Matos; B. Sousa; G. Landi; M. Curado; K.
Pentikousis; " Mobility Management Architecture for WiMAX Networks " Chapter in WIMAX Architecture Book , Ramjee Prasad and Fernando
Velez , Springer , N/A , 2009 .
Papers in Journals
•
Rodriguez, J.; T.D. Dagiuklas ; M.T. Tsagkaropoulos; S.K. Kotsopoulos;
I.P. Politis; " A Middleware Architecture Supporting Seamless and Secure
Multimedia Services across Inter-Technology Radio Access Network ",
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS , October , 2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; J. C. Caldeira; B. Vaidya; " A Novel Intra-body Sensor
for Vaginal Temperature Monitoring ", Sensors , Vol. 9 , No. 4 , pp. 2797
- 2808 , April , 2009.
•
Aguiar,
R.
L.;
"
An
Operational
Conceptual
Model
for
Global
Communication Infrastructures ", , Vol. 49 , No. N/A , pp. 335 - 351 ,
May , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; R.M. Matos; S. Sargento; " Implementation Mobility in WiMAX
Networks
",
Revista
do
Departamento
de
Electrónica
e
de
Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , pp. N/A - N/A
, March , 2009.
•
Coutinho, N.; S. Sargento; V. Jesus; " Intelligence in Mobility Decisions
", Revista do Departamento de Electrónica e de Telecomunicações,
Universidade de Aveiro , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , March , 2009.
212
•
Vaidya, B.; T.H Kim; J. P. Park; Y. J. Lee; " Secure Ubiquitous
Connectivity in Hybrid Multipath Wireless Ad hoc Network ", Intrnl.
Journal of Communication Systems , Vol. 22 , No. 9 , pp. 1153 - 1176 ,
September , 2009.
•
Chatzigeorgiou, I; M. Rodrigues ; I. J. Wassell; R Carrasco; " The
Augmented State Diagram and its Application to Convolutional and Turbo
Codes ", IEEE Trans. on Communications , Vol. 57 , No. 7 , pp. 1948 1958 , July , 2009.
•
Barros, J.; O. Tonguz; " Unicast Communication over VANET: A Reality
Check ", September , 2009.
•
Almeida, J. A.; G. Maierbacher ; J. Barros; " Low-Complexity Index
Assignments for Secure Quantization ", Proc Annual Conf. on Information
Sciences - CISS , Baltimore , United States , March , 2009.
•
Ferreira, D. F.; L. Lima Lima; J. Barros; " NECO: NEtwork COding
Simulator.
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Simulation
Tools
and
Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS) ,
Rome , Italy , March , 2009.
•
A Biosensor and Data Presentation Solution for Body Sensor Networks ",
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira ,
•
Neves, P. N.; J. C. Caldeira; O. P. Pereira; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Biosensor
and Data Presentation Solution for Body Sensor Networks ", Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal ,
May , 2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; F. B. Beirão; B. Vaidya; " A Decentralized RFID
Authentication Solution for Embedded Systems ", Proc International
Conf. on Systems and Networks Communications , Porto , Portugal ,
September , 2009.
•
Denko, M.; I. W. Woungang; J. R. Rodrigues; H. C. Chao; " A Trust
Management Scheme for Enhancing Security in Pervasive Wireless
Networks ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM ,
Honolulu , United States , Vol. CD , November , 2009.
213
•
Kim, MinJi Kim; M. M. Médard; J. Barros; R. Kötter; " An Algebraic
Watchdog for Wireless Network Coding ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT , Seoul , Korea, South , June ,
2009.
•
Crisostomo , S.; U. S. Schilcher; J. Barros; C. Bettstetter Bettstetter;
" Analysis of Probabilistic Flooding: How do we Choose the Right
Coin? ", Proc IEEE International Communications Conf. , Dresden ,
Germany , June , 2009.
•
Lima, L. Lima; J. Barros; R. Kötter; " Byzantine Attacks against
Network Coding in Peer to Peer Distributed Storage ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT , Seoul , Korea,
South , June , 2009.
•
Conceição, H. C.; M.F. Ferreira; J. Barros; " Cautionary View of
Mobility and Connectivity Modeling in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ",
Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Barcelona
, Spain , April , 2009.
•
Neto, A.; S. Sargento; F. Pinto; E. Logota; " Context-Aware Session
and Network Control in Future Internet ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Communications - ICC , Dresden , Germany , June , 2009.
•
Rocha, E.; P. Salvador; A. N. Nogueira; " Detection of illicit Traffic
Based on Multiscale Analysis ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM ,
Split, Hvar, Korcula , Croatia , September , 2009.
•
Rocha, E.; P. Salvador; A. N. Nogueira; " Discriminating Internet
Applications Based on Multiscale Analysis ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on
Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , July ,
2009.
•
Barros, J.; R.C. Costa; Munaretto; J. Widmer; " Effective Delay
Control for Online Network Coding ", Proc IEEE INFOCOM , Rio de
Janeiro , Brazil , April , 2009.
•
Rosa, P. R.; P. N. Neves; B. Vaidya; J. R. Rodrigues; " G-Sense - A
Graphical Interface for SENSE Simulator ", Proc IARIA International
Conf. on Advances on System Simulation - SIMUL , Porto , Portugal ,
pp. 88 - 93 , September , 2009.
214
•
Vaidya, B.; J. P. Park; J. R. Rodrigues; " HOTP-based User
Autenthication Scheme in Home Networks ", Proc International
Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous
Environments - NASSUE 2009 , Seoul , Korea, South , June , 2009.
•
Vaidya, B.; M. Chen; J. R. Rodrigues; " Improved Robust User
Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc Conf. on
Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks - WCSN , Allahabad ,
India , December , 2009.
•
Farahmand, F. F. ; K. K. Khadivi; J. R. Rodrigues; " Improving
Radiation Oncology Using a Low-Cost Wireless Accelerometer ", Proc
IEEE Conf. on Local Computer Networks , Zurich , Switzerland , Vol.
CD , pp. 724 - 729 , October , 2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; H. C. Conceição; R. Fernandes; R. Rei ; "
Locating Cars through a Vision Enabled VANET ", Proc IEEE Intelligent
Vehicles Symp. - IV , XI'An , China , June , 2009.
•
Assignments for Secure Quantization ", Proc Annual Conf. on
Information Sciences - CISS , Baltimore MD , United States , March ,
2009.
•
Information Sciences - CISS , Baltimore , United States , March ,
2009.
•
2009.
•
2009.
•
Information Sciences - CISS , Baltimore MD , United States , March ,
2009.
215
•
Ferreira, M.F.; " Mining Spatial Data from GPS Traces for Automatic
Road Network Extraction ", Proc International Symp. on Mobile
Mapping Technology - ISMMT , São Paulo , Brazil , July , 2009.
•
Lima, F. Lima; M. Ferreira Ferreira; " Mining Spatial Data from GPS
Traces for Automatic Road Network Extraction ", Proc International
Symp. on Mobile Mapping Technology - ISMMT , Presidente Prudente,
São Paulo , Brazil , July , 2009.
•
Neves, P. N.; J. R. Rodrigues; " Motivação para Utilização de IP em
Redes de Sensores sem Fios ", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de
Computadores - CRC , Oeiras , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Silva, B. S.; P. N. Neves; M. Denko; J. R. Rodrigues; " MPCollaborator: A Mobile Collaboration Tool in Pervasive Environment ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications - WiMob , Marrakech , Morocco ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 344 - 349 , October , 2009.
•
Sundararajan, J. K. S.; D. S. Shah; M.M. Medard; J. Barros; "
Network Coding meets TCP ", Proc IEEE INFOCOM , Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , April , 2009.
•
Vieira, F. V.; J. Barros; " Network Coding Multicast Framework for
Broadband Satellite Systems ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Vieira, F. V.; J. Barros; " Network Coding Multicast in Satellite
Networks ", Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation Internet
Networks (NGI) , Aveiro , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Ferreira, D F; L. L. Lima; J. Barros; " Network Coding Protocols: Does
Topology Matter? ", Proc Future Internet Architectures Workshop:
New Trends in Service Architectures (2nd Euro-NF Workshop) ,
Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Rodrigues , M.; A. R. Ramos ; " On Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
Gaussian Channels with Arbitrary Inputs Subject to Jamming ", Proc
IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT , Seoul ,
Korea, South , June , 2009.
•
Soares, J. M.; B. Gonçalves; R. M. Rocha; " Power Management
Extensions for Tagus-SensorNet ", Proc The Second International
216
Workshop on Sensor Networks - SN 2009 , San Francisco , United
States , August , 2009.
•
Soares, J. M.; B. Gonçalves; B. Gonçalves; " Power Management
Extensions for Tagus-SensorNet ", Proc The Second International
Workshop on Sensor Networks - SN 2009 , San Francisco , United
States , August , 2009.
•
Lima, L. L.; J. Barros; A L T Toledo; M. M. Médard; " Protecting the
Code:
Secure
Multiresolution
Network
Coding
",
Proc
IEEE
Information Theory Workshop - ITW , Volos , Greece , June , 2009.
•
Vaidya, B.; J. Silva; J. R. Rodrigues; " Robust Dynamic User
Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc ACM
International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile
Networks , Tenerife , Spain , Vol. 0 , pp. 88 - 91 , October , 2009.
•
Vaidya, B.; H. Lim; " Secure Framework for Multipath Multimedia
Streaming over Wireless Ad Hoc Network ", Proc IEEE Wireless
Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC , Budapest , Hungary
, pp. 1 - 6 , April , 2009.
•
Vaidya, B.; M. Denko; J. R. Rodrigues; " Secure Framework for Voice
Transmission over Multipath Wireless Ad-hoc Network ", Proc IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , Honolulu , United
States , November , 2009.
•
Mendes, A.; J. C. Caldeira; J. R. Rodrigues; " Sensor Sem Fios para
Monitorização da Temperatura Intra-Corporal ", Proc Conf. sobre
Redes de Computadores - CRC , Oeiras , Portugal , Vol. CD , October
, 2009.
•
Lopes, I. L.; B. Vaidya; J. R. Rodrigues; " SensorFall – An
Accelerometer
Based
Mobile
Application
",
Proc
Computational
Science and Its Applications - ICCSA , Jeju island , Korea, South ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 749 - 754 , December , 2009.
•
Borges, Luis M.; F. J. Velez; S. Lebres; " Taxonomy for Wireless
Sensor Networks Services Characterisation and Classification ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Vila da Feira , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 433 - 436 , May , 2009.
217
•
Baptista, N. Baptista; R.P. Prior; " Telephone Interface for the Email
Service ", Proc First International Conf. on Advanced Service
Computing , Athens , Greece , November , 2009.
•
Pinho, E. Pinho; E. Aires Aires; Paula Prata Sousa; " Tolerância a
Falhas em Jogos On-line ", Proc VideoJogos - VJ , Aveiro , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , November , 2009.
•
Lima, L. Lima; J. Barros; M. M. Médard; A L T Toledo; " Towards
Secure Multiresolution Network Coding ", Proc IEEE Information
Theory Workshop - ITW , Volos , Greece , June , 2009.
•
Martins, F.; L.B.L. Lopes; J. Barros; " Towards the Safe Programming
of
Wireless
Sensor
Networks
",
Proc
Programming
Language
Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software ETAPS 2009 , York , United Kingdom , March , 2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; M Paralta Paralta; P. Mestre Mestre; C. Serôdio
Serôdio; J. Rodriues Rodrigues; " TraceMe – Indoor Real Time
Location System ", Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON ,
Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2009.
•
Pinto, Pedro Pinto; J. Barros; Moe Win Win; " Wireless Physical-Layer
Security: The Case of Colluding Eavesdroppers ", Proc International
Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT , Seoul , Korea, South , June ,
2009.
Project Reports
•
Sargento, S.; " Applications of INM Concepts ", N/A , FP7-ICT-20071-216041 , June , 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Preliminary Report on System Architecture ", N/A ,
Projecto Interno IT GEN-CAN , April , 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Requirements and Global Reference Architecture ",
N/A , FP7-ICT-2007-216462 , February , 2009.
•
Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; M. Antunes; L. Bento Bento; J. Quaresma
Quaresma; " SGF - Sistema multi-funcional de Gestão de Frotas ",
Instituto de Telecomunicações , SGF , May , 2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Specification of context detection and context-aware
multiparty transport ", N/A , FP7-ICT-2007-216462 , June , 2009.
218
Network Operations, Management and Planning
Book Chapters
•
Oliveira, R.; A. Pacheco; C. Pascoal; R. Valadas; P. Salvador; " On
the Dependencies between Internet Flow Characteristics " - Chapter
in Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet
, Rui Valadas and Paulo Salvador , Springer , Berlin Heidelberg New
York , 2009.
•
Oliveira, R.; A. Pacheco; C. Bourbonnais; R. Valadas; P. Salvador; "
On the Dependencies between Internet Flow Characteristics " Chapter in Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future
Internet , Rui Valadas and Paulo Salvador , Springer , Berlin
Heidelberg New York , 2009.
•
Gonçalves, J.; P. Salvador; A. N. Nogueira; R. Valadas; " Peer-Level
Analysis of Distributed Multimedia Content Sharing " - Chapter in
Traffic Management and Traffic Engineering for the Future Internet ,
Rui Valadas and Paulo Salvador , Springer , Berlin Heidelberg New
York , 2009.
•
Gomes, J. V. P.; P.R.M. Inácio ; M. Freire; M. Sousa; P. Monteiro; "
The Nature of Peer-to-Peer Traffic " - Chapter in The Handbook of
Peer-to-Peer Networking , Xuemin Shen, Heather Yu, John Buford
and Mursalin Akon , Springer , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Costa, R.; S. Sargento; R. L. Aguiar; " Development of a Hybrid
Simulation and Emulation Testbed For VANETs ", Vol. 5 , No. 1 , June
, 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; L. A. Couto; J. P. Barraca; S. Sargento; " FastM:
Design and Evaluation of a Fast Mobility Mechanism for Wireless Mesh
Networks ", International Journal On Advances in Networks and
Services - IARIA , June , 2009.
•
Sebastião, P.; F. J. Velez; R. Costa; D.R. Robalo; A. J. Rodrigues; "
Planning and deployment of WiMAX networks ", Wireless Personal
Communications Journal , August , 2009.
219
•
Aguiar, R. L.; pasg Gonçalves; R. Pereira; J. L. Oliveira; " A graphical
user interface for policy composition in CIM-SPL ", Proc IEEE
International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and
Services - MENS 2009 , St.-Petersburg , Russia , October , 2009.
•
Preguiça, R.; L. M. Correia; C. Caseiro ; " Comparison between
UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira ,
Portugal , Vol. Mobile and Wireless Comunications , pp. 217 - 220 ,
May , 2009.
•
Carvalho, David A. Carvalho; M. Freire; M. Sousa; " Detection of
Encrypted Traffic in eDonkey Network Through Application Signatures
", Proc International Conf. on Advances in P2P Systems - AP2PS ,
Sliema , Malta , Vol. , pp. 174 - 179 , October , 2009.
•
Carvalho, David A. Carvalho; M. Sousa; M. Freire; " Detection of
Peer-to-Peer TV Traffic Through Deep Packet Inspection ", Proc Conf.
sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC , Oeiras , Portugal , Vol. , pp. 1
- 6 , October , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; R. A. Ferreira Ferreira; A. Matos; S. Sargento; "
Enabling Identity-Aware Applications ", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de
Computadores - CRC , Oeiras , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; L. A. Couto; J. P. Barraca; S. Sargento; " FastM in
WMN: a Fast Mobility Support extension for Wireless Mesh Networks
", Proc International Conf. on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH) ,
Athens , Greece , June , 2009.
•
Monteiro, C.; P. Salvador; A. N. Nogueira; R. Valadas; " Integrated
System for Collecting, Processing and Storing Network Information ",
•
Aguiar, R. L.; pasg Gonçalves; J. L. Oliveira; R. Pereira; " Managing
QoS in a NGN using a PBM approach ", Proc International Conf. on
Systems
and
Networks
Communications
,
Porto
,
Portugal
,
September , 2009.
220
•
Marques, A.; L. M. Correia; S. Pires; " Modelling of Building Height
Interference
Dependence
in
UMTS
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal ,
Vol. 4 , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2009.
•
Lima, L. Lima; D. F. Ferreira; J. Barros; " Network Coding Protocols:
Does
Topology
Matter?
",
Proc
ICT
Mobile
and
Wireless
Communications Summit , Santander , Spain , June , 2009.
•
Zarpelão, B. Z.; M. P. Proença; L. M. Mendes; J. R. Rodrigues; "
Parameterized
Anomaly
Detection
System
with
Automatic
Configuration ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. GLOBECOM , Honolulu , United States , Vol. CD , November , 2009.
•
Gomes, J. V. P.; P.R.M. Inácio ; B. Lakic; M. Freire; H. S. Silva; P.
Monteiro; " Studies for Modeling Basic Aspects of Source Traffic ",
Portugal , pp. 327 - 330 , May , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; " Taxonomy for GP-Aware Mobility ", Proc International
ICST Conf. on Mobile Networks And Management , Atenas , Greece ,
October , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; " Technoeconomic study for a Mobile WiMAX solution in
an emerging market: a case study for Luanda ", Proc International
Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Marrakech , Morocco , May ,
2009.
•
Zarpelão, B. Z.; M. P. Proença; L. M. Mendes; J. R. Rodrigues; "
Three Levels Network Analysis for Anomaly Detection ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Software, Telecommunications and Computer
Networks - SoftCOM , Split – Hvar – Korcula , Croatia , Vol. CD ,
September , 2009.
Network Performance Evaluation and Design
Book Chapters
•
Velez, F. J.; O. Cabral; D. Staehle; D. Moltchanov; T. Bohnert; H. van
den Berg; " Chapter 3: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND TRAFFIC
MODELLING " - Chapter in Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless
221
Multimedia Networks: COST 290 Final Report (ISBN 978-0-38785572-1) , Yevgeni Kouchergavy , Springer , Norwell, MA, USA ,
2009.
•
Cabral, O.; A. S. Martinez; F. J. Velez; " IEEE 802.11E BLOCK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT POLICIES " - Chapter in Advances in Electrical
Engineering and Computational Science , IAENG , Springer , Lecture
Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 39 , 2009.
•
Almeida, A. C. M.; C. Belo; " Router-Assisted Congestion Control with
Probabilistic
Marking
"
-
Chapter
in
Traffic
and
Performance
Engineering for Heterogeneous Networks , D. Kouvatsos , River
Publishers , 2009.
•
Ferro, J.M.; F. J. Velez; " Routing in a Custom-made IEEE 802.11e
Simulator " - Chapter in Advances in Electrical Engineering and
Computational Science , IAENG , Springer, 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Pedrosa , L.; P. Melo; R. M. Rocha; R. Neves; " A Flexible Approach
to WSN Development and Deployment ", International Journal of
Sensor Networks , Vol. 6 , No. 3/4 , pp. 199 - 211 , October , 2009.
•
Farahmand, F. F. ; K. K. Khadivi; J. R. Rodrigues; " Detecting IntraFraction Motion in Patients Undergoing Radiation Treatment Using a
Low-Cost Wireless Accelerometer ", Sensors , Vol. 9 , No. 9 , pp.
6715 - 6729 , August , 2009.
•
Costa, R.; S. Sargento; R. L. Aguiar; " Development of a Hybrid
Simulation
and
Emulation
Testbed
For
VANET
",
Revista
do
Departamento de Electrónica e de Telecomunicações, Universidade
de Aveiro , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , March , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; F. F. Farahmand; J. R. Rodrigues; " Impact of Vehicle
Movement Models on VDTN Routing Strategies for Rural Connectivity
", International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation ,
Vol. 3 , No. 2 , pp. 103 - 111 , December , 2009.
•
Cabral, O.; A. S. Martinez; F. J. Velez; " Implementation of IEEE
802.11e Block Acknowledgement Policies ", IAENG Intrnl. Journal of
222
Computer Science (IJCS) , Vol. 36 , No. 1 , pp. 85 - 93 , February ,
2009.
•
B. Lakic; M. Freire; M. Sousa; P. Monteiro; " The Design and
Evaluation of the Simple Self-Similar Sequences Generator ",
Information Sciences , Vol. 179 , No. 23 , pp. 4029 - 4045 ,
November , 2009.
•
Fernandes, M.F.; " zteste ", IEEE Microwave Magazine , Vol. 12 , No.
13 , pp. 14 - 15 , January , 2009 .
•
Silva, R. S.; V. L. Leithardt; J. Silva; C. R. Geyer; F. B. Boavida; J. R.
Rodrigues; " A Comparison of Approaches to Node and Service
Discovery in 6lowPAN Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc ACM
International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile
Networks , Tenerife , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 44 - 49 , October , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; F. F. Farahmand; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Layered
Architecture for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks ", Proc IEEE
Symp. on Computers and Communications (ISCC) , Sousse , Tunisia ,
July , 2009.
•
J. Rodriguez; Rasool Sadeghi Sadeghi; " A Load balanced aware
routing protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks ", Proc International
Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Marrakech , Morocco , May ,
2009.
•
A Proposed P2PSIP Framework for Extreme Emergency Situations in a
Wireless
Environment
",
Proc
International
Mobile
Multimedia
Communications Conf. - Mobimedia , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2009.
•
Rodriguez,
J.;
"
A
Proposed
P2PSIP
Framework
for
Extreme
Emergency Situations in a Wireless Environment ", Proc International
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conf. - Mobimedia , London ,
United Kingdom , September , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; H. Einsiedler; J. Moreno; " A Requirements analysis for
the Protocol Stack of the Future Internet ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Communications - ICC , Dresden , Germany ,June , 2009.
223
•
J. Rodriguez; ; P. Marques; A. Zúquete; " A Security Framework for
Cognitive Radio IP Based Cooperative Protocols ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun PIMRC , Tokyo , Japan , September , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; pasg Gonçalves; J. L. Oliveira; " An evaluation of
network management protocols ", Proc IFIP/IEEE International Conf.
on Network Control and Engineering for Quality of Service, Security
and Mobility - NetCon , New York , United States , June , 2009.
•
Soares, J. M.; R. M. Rocha; " CHARON: Routing in Low-Density
Opportunistic Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc 2nd IFIP Wireless
Days 2009 , Paris , France , December , 2009.
•
Dias, J. D.; J. I. Isento; B. S. Silva; V. S. Soares; P. Salvador; A. N.
Nogueira; J. R. Rodrigues; " Creation of a Vehicular Delay-Tolerant
Network Prototype ", Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da
Beira Interior , Covilhã , Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; D. Gomes; A. Matos; " Deploying and testing a NGN
testbed ", Proc International Conf. on Testbeds and Research
Infrastructures for the development of Networks and Communities ,
Washington D.C. , United States , April , 2009.
•
Neves, P.; S. Sargento; M. Melo; F. Fontes; K. Pentikousis; "
Enhanced Media Independent Handover Framework ", Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Spain , Spain , April
, 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; F. F. Farahmand; J. R. Rodrigues; " Evaluating the
Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant
Networks ", Proc IARIA International Conf. on Communication
Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ , Colmar , France ,
July , 2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; B. Vaidya; " Evaluation of Resource Reservation
Protocols for IP over OBS Networks ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON , Ponta Delgada , Portugal , Vol. CD ,
June , 2009.
•
Morais, R.; C. Pavan; A. N. Pinto; C. Agra; " Genetic Algorithm for
the Design of Survivable Optical Transport Networks: Operators
224
Comparison ", Proc Congresso da APDIO , Lisbon , Portugal ,
September , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; J. R. Rodrigues; F. F. Farahmand; " Impact Analysis of
the Shortest Path Movement Model on Routing Strategies for VDTNs
in a Rural Region ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Pavan, C.; R. Morais; A. N. Pinto; " Impact of the Traffic Model on the
Restoration
Coefficient
in
Optical
Transport
Networks
",
Proc
International Conf. on Decision Support for Telecommunications and
Information Society - DSTIS , Coimbra , Portugal , September , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; J. R. Rodrigues; P. Salvador; A. N. Nogueira; "
Improvement of Messages Delivery Time on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant
Networks ", Proc International Workshop on Next Generation of
Wireless and Mobile Networks - NGWMN , Vienna , Austria ,
September , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; F. F. Farahmand; J. R. Rodrigues; " Improving
Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network Performance with Relay Nodes ",
Proc Euro-Ngi Conf. on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI) ,
Aveiro , Portugal , July , 2009.
•
Melo, P.; L. Pedrosa ; R. M. Rocha; " Interconnecting WSNs with Fast
Moving Nodes: Experiments in Real-World Scenarios ", Proc The
Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks - SN 2009 , San
Francisco, California , United States , August , 2009.
•
Rodriguez, J.; ; " Load Balanced DSR Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc
Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , S. M.
•
Ferreira, D F; L. L. Lima; J. Barros; " NECO: NEtwork COding
Simulator ", Proc International Conf. on Simulation Tools and
Techniques
for
Communications,
Networks
and
Systems
(SIMUTOOLS) , Rome , Italy , March , 2009.
•
Cabral, O.; A. S. Martinez; F. J. Velez; A. Mihovska; N. Prasad; "
Optimization of Multi-Service IEEE802.11e Block Acknowledgement ",
Proc Radio and Wireless Conf. - RAWCON , S. Diego , United States ,
January , 2009.
225
•
Aguiar, R. L.; " Paths to Mobility Support in the Future Internet ",
Proc IST Mobile Communications Summit , Santader , Spain , June ,
2009.
•
Rodriguez, J.; " Quality of Service for Flat Routing Protocols in Mobile
Ad
hoc
networks
",
Proc
International
Mobile
Multimedia
Communications Conf. - Mobimedia , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2009.
•
Soares, V. S.; F. F. Farahmand; J. R. Rodrigues; " Scheduling and
Drop Policies for Traffic Differentiation on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant
Networks
",
Proc
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Software,
Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM , Split –
Hvar-Korcula , Croatia , September , 2009.
•
Ferro, J.M.; O. Cabral; F. J. Velez; " Seeking for an Optimal Route in
IEEE 802.11e Ad-Hoc Networks ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference-(VTC-Fall) , Anchorage , United States , September ,
2009.
•
Aguiar, R. L.; V. Jesus; P. Steenkiste; " Supporting Dynamic InterDomain Network Composition: Domain Discovery ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Dresden , Germany ,
June , 2009.
•
Sebastião, D.S.; L. M. Correia; " Towards an Optimisation of
Parameters Setting in WLANs ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Barcelona , Spain , April , 2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; H. C. Conceição; R. Fernandes; O. Tonguz; "
Urban Connectivity Analysis of VANETs through Stereoscopic Aerial
Photography ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Fall)
, Anchorage, AK , United States , September , 2009.
•
Neves, R.; " WIMAXmeter: Test & Measurement benvh for WIMAX
systems ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa
maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 201 - 203 , May , 2009.
226
Pattern Recognition and Automatic Learning
Books
•
Filipe, JBF; A. L. N. Fred; B. S. Sharp; (eds.); Agents and Artificial
Intelligence , , Springer , Berlin , 2009.
•
Fred, A. L. N.; Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, INSTICC
PRESS , Milan , 2009.
Book Chapters
•
Fazendeiro, P.; J. Oliveira ; " Semantic Driven Fuzzy Clustering for
Human-Centric Information Processing Applications " - Chapter in
Human-Centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling ,
Andrzej Bargiela and Witold Pedrycz , Springer, 2009.
•
Oliveira,
H.;
P.L.
Correia;
"
Supervised
Crack
Detection
and
Classification in Images of Road Pavement Flexible Surfaces " Chapter in Recent Advances in Signal Processing , In-Tech , In-Tech ,
Austria , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Adaptive
total
variation
image
deblurring:
a
majorization-
minimization ", Signal Processing , Vol. 89 , No. 9 , pp. 2479 - 2493 ,
September , 2009.
•
Oliveira, J. Pedro; J. Dias; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Adaptive total
variation image deblurring: a majorization-minimization approach ",
Signal Processing , Vol. 89 , No. 9 , pp. 2479 - 2493 , September ,
2009.
•
Proença, H.; " An Iris Recognition Approach Through Structural
Pattern Analysis Methods ", Expert Systems , July , 2009.
•
Lopes, M.; J-C. Wolff; " Investigation into classification/sourcing of
suspect counterfeit Heptodin™ tablets by near infrared chemical
imaging ", Analytica Chimica Acta , Vol. 633 , No. 1 , pp. 149 - 155 ,
February , 2009.
227
•
Proença, H.; L. Alexandre; " Iris Recognition: Analysis of the Error
Rates Regarding the Accuracy of the Segmentation Stage ", IMAGE
AND VISION COMPUTING , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , January , 2009.
•
Proença, H.; " Iris Recognition: On the Segmentation of Degraded
Images Acquired in the Visible Wavelength ", IEEE Trans. on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence , September , 2009.
•
Martins, A.; N. Smith; E. Xing; P. Aguiar; M. A. T. Figueiredo; "
Nonextensive Information Theoretic Kernels on Measures ", Journal of
Machine Learning Research , Vol. 10 , No. , pp. 935 - 975 , April ,
2009.
•
Ferreira, A.J. Ferreira; Oliveira; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " On the
Suitability of Suffix Arrays for Lempel-Ziv Data Compression ",
Communications in Computer and Information Science Series , Vol.
48 , pp. 267 - 280 , October , 2009.
•
Bicego, M.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Soft clustering using weighted oneclass support vector machines ", Pattern Recognition , Vol. 42 , No. 1
, pp. 27 - 32 , January , 2009.
•
Proença, H.; L. Alexandre; " The UBIRIS.v2: A Database of Visible
Wavelength Iris Images Captured On-The-Move and At-A-Distance ",
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , Vol. 1 ,
No. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , January , 2009.
•
Marques, P.; " A novel moving target indication strategy for traffic
monitoring using SAR ", Proc International Radar Conf. - RADAR ,
Bordeaux , France , Vol. TBD , pp. TBD - TBD , October , 2009.
•
Neves, C.; A. Veiga; L. V. Sá; F. Perdigão; " Audio Fingerprinting
System for Broadcast Streams ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 481 - 484 ,
May , 2009.
•
Oliveira, H.; P.L. Correia; " Automatic Road Crack Segmentation
Using Entropy and Image Dynamic Thresholding ", Proc European
Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Glasgow , United Kingdom ,
August , 2009.
228
•
Alexandre, L.; M.J.E. Embrechts; J.L. Linton; " Benchmarking
Reservoir Computing on Time-Independent Classification Tasks ",
Proc IEEE International Joint Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks IJCNN , Atlanta , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 89 - 93 , June , 2009.
•
Seabra, J S; A. L. N. Fred; " Biometric Identification System based on
Thyroid Tissue Echo-morphology ", Proc International Joint Conf. on
Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC , Porto
, Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 186 - 192 , January , 2009.
•
Proença, H.; " Biometric Recognition: When Is Evidence Fusion
Advantageous? ", Proc International Symp. on Visual Computing IVC , Las Vegas , United States , Vol. 2 , pp. 698 - 708 , October ,
2009.
•
Almeida, M.S.C.; L.B. Almeida ; " Blind deblurring of foregroundbackground images ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image
Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , November , 2009.
•
Almeida, M.S.C.; L.B. Almeida ; " Blind deblurring of two-layer
images ", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad ,
Aveiro , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Fred, A. L. N.; ; " Combining Data Clusterings with Instance Level
Constraints ", Proc Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information
Systems , Milan , Italy , Vol. 1 , May , 2009.
•
Sá, J.; J.G. Gama; R.S. Sebastião; L. Alexandre; " Decision Trees
Using the Minimum Entropy-of-Error Principle ", Proc International
Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns - CAIP , Munster
, Germany , Vol. LNCS 5702 , pp. 799 - 807 , September , 2009.
•
Marques, P.; " Directional Moving Target Indication for Civil Traffic
Monitoring Using Single Channel SAR ", Proc IEEE Radar Conf. RADARCON , Pasadena , United States , May , 2009.
•
Oliveira, C.; A. L. N. Fred; " ECG-BASED AUTHENTICATION: Bayesian
vs. Nearest Neighbour Classifiers ", Proc International Conf. on Bioinspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC , Porto
, Portugal , January , 2009.
•
Oliveira, H.; P.L. Correia; " Evaluation of Pre-processing in Road
Pavement Image Analysis ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications -
229
ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. , pp. 263 - 266 , May
, 2009.
•
Tou, J. T.; Y. T. Tay; L. Yee; " EVALUATION OF SPEED AND
ACCURACY
FOR
COMPARISON
OF
TEXTURE
CLASSIFICATION
IMPLEMENTATION ", Proc International Workshop on Advanced
Image Technology - IWAIT , Seoul , Korea, South , January , 2009.
•
Fred, A. L. N.; LM Medina; " Identification of Stress States from ECG
Signals Using Unsupervised Learning Methods ", Proc Portuguese
Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad , Aveiro , Portugal , October ,
2009.
•
Radius, R. A.; P. Marques; " Improved SOVE Algorithm for Full
Velocity Vector Estimation of Ships using Amplitude Data ", Proc
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 469 - 472 , May , 2009.
•
Santos, R.S.; L. Alexandre; " Improving Spectroface using Preprocessing and Voting ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Intelligent
Computing and Intelligent Systems - ICIS , Shanghai , China , Vol. 4
, pp. 552 - 556 , November , 2009.
•
Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; " Learning Dependent Sources useing
Mixtures of Dirichlet: Applications on Hyperspectral Unmixing ", Proc
IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing:
Evolution in Remote Sensing - WHISPERS 2009 , Grenoble , France ,
August , 2009.
•
Ferreira, A.J. Ferreira; Arl Lourenço; B.P. Pinto; J.T. Tendeiro; "
Modifications and Improvements on Iris Recognition ", Proc INSTICC
International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing Biosignals , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 72 - 79 , January , 2009.
•
Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; " Nonlinear Mixture Model for
Hyperspectral Unmixing ", Proc SPIE - Conf. on Image and Signal
Processing for Remote Sensing , Berlin , Germany , Vol. 7477 ,
September , 2009.
•
Proença, H.; " On the Feasibility of the Visible Wavelength, At-ADistance and On-The-Move Iris Recognition ", Proc IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence - WCCI , Nashville , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 9 - 15 , March , 2009.
230
•
Proença, H.; G. Santos Santos; " On the Role of Interpolation in the
Normalization of Non-Ideal Visible Wavelength Iris Images ", Proc
International Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Security - CIS ,
Beijing , China , December , 2009.
•
Ferreira, A.J. Ferreira; Oliveira; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " On the use of
suffix arrays for memory-efficient Lempel-Ziv data compression ",
Proc IEEE Data Compression Conf. - DCC , Snowbird , United States ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 444 - 444 , March , 2009.
•
Embrechts, M.J.E.; L. Alexandre; J.L. Linton; " Reservoir computing
for static pattern recognition ", Proc European Symp. on Artificial
Neural Networks - ESANN , Bruges , Belgium , Vol. 1 , pp. 245 - 250 ,
April , 2009.
•
Alexandre, L.; M.J.E. Embrechts; " Reservoir size, spectral radius and
connectivity in static classification problems ", Proc International
Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN , Limasol , Cyprus , Vol.
LNCS 5768 , pp. 1015 - 1024 , September , 2009.
•
Oliveira, H.; P.L. Correia; " Road Surface Cracks Detection Using
Unsupervised
Strategies
",
Proc
Portuguese
Conf.
on
Pattern
Recognition - RecPad , Aveiro , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Tou, J. T.; Y. T. Tay; L. Yee; " Rotational Invariant Wood Species
Recognition through Wood Species Verification ", Proc , Dong Hoi ,
Vietnam , April , 2009.
•
Silvestre, C.; M. Cardoso; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Selecting categorical
features in model-based clustering ", Proc International Conf. on
Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR , Funchal ,
Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Marques, P.; " Selective MTI for Traffic Monitoring Using Single
Channel SAR ", Proc NATO/RTO Specialist Meeting on Software
Defined RADAR - SET-136 , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. CD-ROM , June ,
2009.
•
Marques, P.; " Synthetic Aperture Radar: Principles and Applications
of AI in Automatic Target Recognition ", Proc IEEE Portugal
International Symp. on Computational Intelligence for Engineering
Systems - ISCIES , Porto , Portugal , Vol. TBD , pp. TBD - TBD ,
November , 2009.
231
•
Lourenço,
Arl;
A.
L.
N.
Fred;
"
Towards
Scalable
Evidence
Accumulation ", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition RecPad , Aveiro , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; " Unsupervised Hyperspectral Signal
Subspace Identification ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 441 - 444 ,
May , 2009.
•
Horta, N.H.; R. Neves; A. Gorgulho Gorgulho; " Using GAs to Balance
Technical Indicators on Stock ", Proc Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conf. - GECCO , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. , pp. - , July ,
2009.
•
Carona, D. C.; P. Marques; " Vessel Detection and Velocity Estimation
Using SAR Amplitude Images ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 437 - 440 ,
May , 2009.
Processing,
Analysis,
and
Coding
of
Audio
and
Visual
Information
Books
•
Pereira, F.; (eds.); Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas
e Aplicações , , IST Press , Lisbon , 2009.
Book Chapters
•
Pereira, F.; S.M.M. Faria; " Codificação de imagem " - Chapter in
Comunicações audiovisuais: tecnologias, normas e aplicações ,
F.Pereira , IST Press , Lisbon , 2009.
•
Faria, S.M.M.; F. Pereira; " Codificação de vídeo " - Chapter in
Comunicações audiovisuais: tecnologias, normas e aplicações , F.
Pereira , IST Press , Lisboa , 2009.
•
Correia, P.L.; " Conceitos Básicos de Codificação Digital " - Chapter in
Comuncações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações ,
232
•
Pereira, F.; " Descrição de conteúdos audiovisuais " - Chapter in
Comunicações audiovisuais: tecnologias, normas e aplicações ,
F.Pereira , IST Press , Lisbon , 2009.
•
Pereira, F.; C. Brites ; J. Ascenso; " Distributed video coding: basics,
codecs and performance " - Chapter in Distributed source coding:
theory, algorithms and applications , Michael Gastpar and Pier Luigi
Dragotti , Academic Press , 2009.
•
Pereira, F.; " Introdução " - Chapter in Comunicações audiovisuais:
tecnologias, normas e aplicações , F.Pereira , IST Press , Lisbon ,
2009.
•
Fernandes , G. Falcão; V. Silva; J. S. M. Marinho; L. Sousa; " LDPC
Decoders
for
the
WiMAX
(IEEE
802.16e)
based
on
Multicore
Architectures " - Chapter in WIMAX, New Developments , Aleksandar
Lazinica , In-Tech , Vienna, Austria , 2009.
•
Ferreira, A.; I. Trancoso; F. Pereira; C. Salema; " Mecanismos
Humanos de Produção e Percepção Audiovisual " - Chapter in
Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações ,
•
Salema, C.; A. Ferreira; " Som, Luz e Cor " - Chapter in
Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações ,
•
Salema, C.; " Televisão Analógica " - Chapter in Comunicações
Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações , Fernando Pereira ,
IST Press , Lisboa , 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; S. Moiron; M. Ghanbari; S.M.M. Faria; " Video
Transcoding Techniques " - Chapter in Recent Advances in Multimedia
Signal Processing and Communications , M. Grgic, K. Delac, M.
Ghanbari , Springer , HeidelBerg , 2009.
•
Moiron, S.; M. Ghanbari; P.A. Assunção; S.M.M. Faria; " Video
Transcoding Techniques " - Chapter in Recent Advances in Multimedia
Signal Processing and Communications , Grgic, Mislav; Delac,
Kresimir; Ghanbari, Mohammed , Springer , 2009.
233
Papers in Journals
•
Gomes, A.; J. Morgado; E. Pereira; " A BSP-Based Algorithm for
Dimensionally
Non-Homogeneous
Planar
Implicit
Curves
with
Topological Guarantees ", ACM Transactions on Graphics , Vol. 28 ,
No. 2 , pp. 1 - 24 , April , 2009.
•
Martins , R.; C. Brites ; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Adaptive deblocking
filter for transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding ", IET Signal
Processing , Vol. 3 , No. 6 , pp. 315 - 328 , December , 2009.
•
Yasakethu, S.; W. Weerakkody; W. Fernando; F. Pereira; A. Kondoz;
" An improved decoding algorithm for DVC over multipath error prone
wireless channels ", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video
Tech. , Vol. 19 , No. 10 , pp. 1543 - 1548 , October , 2009.
•
Valadão, G. ; J. Dias; " CAPE: Combinatorial Absolute Phase
Estimation ", JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AOPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION , Vol. 26 , No. 9 , pp. 2093 2106 , September , 2009.
•
Sofke, S.; F. Pereira; E. Mueller; " Dynamic quality control for
transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding ", EURASIP Jounal on
Image and Video Processing , Vol. 2009 , December , 2009.
•
Nunes, P.; F. Pereira; " Joint Rate Control Algorithm for Low-Delay
MPEG-4 Object-Based Video Encoding ", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and
Systems for Video Tech. , Vol. 19 , No. 9 , pp. 1274 - 1288 ,
September , 2009.
•
Naccari, M. ; M. Tagliasacchi; S. Tubaro; " No-reference video quality
monitoring of H.264/AVC coded video ", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia ,
Vol. 11 , No. 5 , pp. 932 - 946 , August , 2009.
•
Filho, E. B. L; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; M. Carvalho; S.M.M.
Faria; V. Silva; " On ECG Signal Compression With 1-D Multiscale
Recurrent Patterns Allied to Preprocessing Techniques ", IEEE Trans.
on Biomedical Engineering , Vol. 56 , No. 3 , pp. 896 - 900 , March ,
2009.
•
Fernandes , G. Falcão; S. Yamagiwa; V. Silva; L. Sousa; " Parallel
LDPC Decoding on GPUs using a Stream-based Computing Approach
234
", Journal of Computer Science and Technology , Vol. 24 , No. 5 , pp.
913 - 924 , September , 2009.
•
Moiron, S.; M. Ghanbari; " Reduced Complexity Intra Mode Decision
for Resolution Reduction on H.264/AVC Transcoders ", IEEE Trans. on
Consumer Electronics , Vol. 55 , No. 2 , pp. 606 - 612 , May , 2009.
•
Martins , R.; C. Brites ; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Refining side
information for improved transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding
", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech. , Vol. 19 , No.
9 , pp. 1327 - 1341 , September , 2009.
•
Wright, S.; R. Nowak; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Sparse reconstruction by
separable approximation ", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , Vol. 57
, No. 7 , July , 2009.
•
Navarro, A.; P.A. Assunção; S.M.M. Faria; V. Silva; S. Moiron; "
Video transcoding from H.264 to MPEG-2 with reduced computational
complexity ", , Vol. 24 , No. 8 , pp. 637 - 650 , September , 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; S. Moiron; S.M.M. Faria; V. Silva; A. Navarro; "
Video
Transcoding
Computational
from
H.264/AVC
Complexity
",
to
Signal
MPEG-2
with
Reduced
Processing:
Image
Communication , Vol. 24 , No. 8 , pp. 637 - 650 , September , 2009.
•
Moiron, S.; S.M.M. Faria; P.A. Assunção; V. Silva; A. Navarro; "
Video
transcoding
computational
from
H.264/AVC
complexity
",
to
Signal
MPEG-2
with
reduced
Processing:
Image
Communication , June , 2009.
•
Afonso, M.; J. Dias; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " A Bregman iterative
approach to linear inverse problems with compound regularizers ",
Proc Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured
Representations - SPARS’09 , Saint-Malo , France , April , 2009.
•
Cruz, L. A; " A fast FPGA implementation of the inter-layer deblocking
filter for H.264/SVC ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Sousa, M.; P. Lenkiewicz; M. Freire; " A New 3D Image Segmentation
Method for Parallel Architectures ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
235
Multimedia and Expo - ICME , New York , United States , Vol. 1 , pp.
1813 - 1816 , June , 2009.
•
Albonico, A.; G. Valenzise; M. Naccari; M. Tagliasacchi; S. Tubaro; "
A reducedreference video structural similarity metric based on noreference estimation of channel induced distortion ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP , Taipei , Taiwan , Vol. , pp. 1857 - 1860 , April , 2009.
•
Coimbra, M.; M. Dinis-Ribeiro; " A Review of Current Computer Aided
Diagnosis Systems for Polyp Detection in Virtual Colonoscopy ", Proc
•
Couto, D.C.C.; P.L. Correia; " An Objective Metric for the Evaluation
of
Image
Segmentation
Quality
Using
Human
Visual
System
Characteristics ", Proc International Workshop on Video Processing
and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics - VPQM , Scottsdale ,
United States , January , 2009.
•
Rosa, P. R.; P.L. Correia; " Automatic Road Pavement Crack
Detection
using
Boosting
Classifiers
",
Proc
European
Signal
Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Glasgow , United Kingdom , August ,
2009.
•
Silva, F. S.; A. Gomes; " BEDS: Uma Estrutura de Dados para Malhas
Triangulares ", Proc Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica EPCG , Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 63 - 71 , October , 2009.
•
Santos, D.; P.L. Correia; " Car Recognition Based on Back Lights and
Rear View Features ", Proc Workshop on Image Analysis for
Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS , London , United Kingdom ,
May , 2009.
•
Graziosi, D. B. G.; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; S.M.M. Faria; M.
Carvalho;
V.
Silva;
"
Codificação
de
Imagens
com
Predição
Adaptativa Baseada no Critério de Mínimos Quadrados ", Proc
Simpósio Brasileiro das Telecomunicações , Blumenau , Brazil ,
September , 2009.
•
Ascenso, J.; F. Pereira; " Complexity Efficient Stopping Criterion for
LDPC Based Distributed Video Coding ", Proc International Mobile
236
Multimedia Communications Conf. - Mobimedia , London , United
Kingdom , September , 2009.
•
Lucas, LFR; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; S.M.M. Faria; " Compound Image
Segmentation for Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Coding ", Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 267 - 270 , May , 2009.
•
Figueiredo, M. A. T.; J. Dias; " Deconvolution of Poissonian images
using variable splitting and augmented Lagrangian optimization ",
Proc IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing - SSP , Cardiff ,
•
Corrêa, G.; T. Silva; L. A Cruz; L. Agostini; " DESIGN OF AN
INTERLAYER DEBLOCKING FILTER ARCHITECTURE FOR H.264/SVC
BASED ON A NOVEL SAMPLE-LEVEL FILTERING ORDER ", Proc IEEE
Workshop on Signal Processing Systems , Tampere , Finland , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 102 - 108 , September , 2009.
•
Huang, X.; C. Brites ; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; S. Forchhammer; "
Distributed video coding with multiple side information ", Proc Picture
Coding Symp. , Chicago , United States , Vol. - , pp. - - - , May ,
2009.
•
Correia, Pedro D.F.; P.A. Assunção; V. Silva; " Drift-free Multiple
Description Intra Video Coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , November , 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; P.F. Correia; V. Silva; " Drift-free Multiple Description
Intra Video Coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image
Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , Vol. 1 , pp. 625 - 628 , November ,
2009.
•
Correia, P.; V. Silva; P.A. Assunção; " Drift-free Multiple Description
Intra Video Coding, ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image
Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November ,
2009.
•
Santos, T.; G.F. Lourenço; L. D. Soares; P.L. Correia; " Enhancing
Biometrics Security ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Figueiredo, M. A. T.; J. Dias; M. Afonso; " Fast frame-based image
deconvolution using variable splitting and constrained optimization ",
237
Proc IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing - SSP , Cardiff ,
•
Graziosi, D. B. G.; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; S.M.M. Faria; "
Fast Implementation for Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Image Coding ",
•
Moiron, S.; M. Ghanbari; " Fast Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC
using Dynamic SearchWindow ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. , pp. 259 - 262 , May
, 2009.
•
Corrêa, G.; T. Silva; L. A Cruz; L. Agostini; " Filtering Order for the
H.264 Deblocking Filter and its Hardware Design Targeting the SVC
Interlayer Prediction ", Proc South Symp. on Microelectronics - SIM ,
Pelotas , Brazil , Vol. , pp. 231 - 234 , May , 2009.
•
G. Corrêa; L. A Cruz; L. Agostini; " Filtro Redutor de Efeito de Bloco
Entre Camadas do Padrão H.264/AVC Escalável ", Proc International
Workshop IberCHIP , Buenos Aires , Argentina , March , 2009.
•
Semedo, S. M. V. S.; Abreu; A. Veiga; " Handwriting Spirals and
Human Hand Movement Analysis ", Proc Thematic Conferences on
Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - VipImage ,
Porto , Portugal , October , 2009.
•
Fernandes , G. Falcão; V. Silva; L. Sousa; " How GPUs can
outperform ASICs for fast LDPC decoding ", Proc ACM International
Conf. on Supercomputing - ICS , New York , United States , June ,
2009.
•
Dias, J.; J. Li; A. Plaza; " HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
BASED ON A FAST BREGMAN SPARSE MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC
REGRESSION ALGORITHM ", Proc 6th EARSeL SIG IS workshop , TelAviv , Israel , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , March , 2009.
•
Afonso, M.; J. Dias; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Image Denoising with
Compound Regularization Using a Bregman Iterative Algorithm ",
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria de Feira ,
•
Nunes, P.; L. D. Soares; F. Pereira; " Improved network-aware
macroblock intra coding refresh for error-resilient H.264/AVC video
238
coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP ,
Cairo , Egypt , November , 2009.
•
Graziosi, D. B. G.; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; S.M.M. Faria; M.
Carvalho; " Improving Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Image Coding
with Least-squares prediction mode ", Proc IEEE International Conf.
on Image Processing - ICIP , cairo , Egypt , Vol. , pp. - , November ,
2009.
•
Ascenso, J.; F. Pereira; " Low complexity intra mode selection for
efficient distributed video coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Multimedia and Expo - ICME , New York , United States , July , 2009.
•
Sousa, L.; V. Silva; G. Falcão Fernandes ; " MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS
FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING: SOURCE AND CHANNEL CODING ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME , Cancun ,
Mexico , July , 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; P.F. Correia; V. Silva; " Multiple Description Coding
Scheme
for
H.264/AVC
Intra
Slices
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Vol. 1 , May , 2009.
•
Correia, Pedro D.F.; P.A. Assunção; V. Silva; " Multiple Description
Coding Scheme for H.264/AVC Intra Slices ", Proc Conf. on
May , 2009.
•
Souza, DFS; E. Silva; A. D. Dutra; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; S.M.M.
Faria; V. Silva; " Otimização Taxa-Distorção para Quadros-B no
Padrão H.264/AVC ", Proc Simpósio Brasileiro das Telecomunicações ,
Blumenau , Brazil , September , 2009.
•
Pereira, F.; " Panel on Quality of Experience: Tools, Targets and
Trends ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia
Experience - QoMEX , San Diego , United States , July , 2009.
•
Brandão, T.; L. R. Roque; M.P. Queluz; " Quality assessment of
H.264/AVC encoded video ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Sta. Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. CDROM , April , 2009.
•
Figueiredo, M. A. T.; J. Dias; " Recent Advances in Iterative
Shrinkage/Thresholding ", Proc Approximation and Optimization in
239
Image Restoration and Reconstruction , Porquerolles , France , June ,
2009.
•
Sousa, M.; M. Freire; " REGPROT: JPEG 2000 registry protection for
lossy transmission channels ", Proc Visual Communications and
Image Processing - VCIP , San Jose , United States , Vol. 7257 , pp. 1
- 8 , January , 2009.
•
Li,
J.;
J.
Dias;
A.
Plaza;
"
Semi-Supervised
Hyperspectral
Classification and Segmentation with Discriminative Learning ", Proc
Europe Remote Sensing - SPIE , Berlin , Germany , Vol. 7477 , pp.
74770F-1 - 74770F-8 , August , 2009.
•
"
SEMI-SUPERVISED
HYPERSPECTRAL
IMAGE
CLASSIFICATION
BASED ON A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD AND SPARSE MULTINOMIAL
LOGISTIC REGRESSION ", Proc IEEE International Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS , Cape Town , South Africa , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 1-4 , July , 2009.
•
Li, J.; J. Dias; A. Plaza; " SEMI-SUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD AND SPARSE
MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION ", Proc IEEE International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS , Cape Town , South
Africa , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1-4 , July , 2009.
•
Li, J.; J. Dias; A. Plaza; " Semi-Supervised Hyperspectral Image
Segmentation ", Proc IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image
and Signal Processing , Grenoble , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , August
, 2009.
•
Selesnick,
I.;
overcomplete
M.
A. T.
wavelet
Figueiredo;
transforms:
"
Signal restoration
comparison
of
analysis
with
and
synthesis priors ", Proc SPIE Wavelets XIII , San Diego , United
States , Vol. 7446 , August , 2009.
•
De Simone, F.; M. Naccari; M. Tagliasacchi; F.D. Dufaux; S. Tubaro;
T.E.
Ebrahimi;
"
Subjective
assessment
of
H.264/AVC
video
sequences transmitted over a noisy channel ", Proc IEEE International
Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX , San Diego ,
United States , Vol. , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2009.
•
Naccari, M. ; M. Tagliasacchi; S. Tubaro; " Subjective evaluation of a
no-reference video quality monitoring algorithm for H.264/AVC video
240
over a noisy channel ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image
Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , Vol. , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2009.
•
Silva, F. S.; " Teaching Animation in Computer Science ", Proc ACM
SIGGRAPH Asia - SA , Yokohama , Japan , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 ,
December , 2009.
•
Sousa, M.; P. Lenkiewicz; M. Freire; " The Dynamic Topology
Changes Model for Unsupervised Image Segmentation ", Proc IEEE
Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP , Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 5 - 7 , October , 2009.
•
Sousa, M.; P. Lenkiewicz; M. Freire; " The Whole Mesh Deformation
Model for 2D and 3D Image Segmentation ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , Vol. 1 , pp. 7 - 11 ,
November , 2009.
•
Dias, J.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Total variation restoration of speckled
images using a split-Bregman algorithm ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt , November , 2009.
•
Soares , F.; M. Freire; " Towards the Detection of Microcalcifications
on Mammograms Through Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
", Proc IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia , Victoria, B.C. , Canada
, Vol. 1 , pp. 677 - 681 , August , 2009.
•
Nascimento, J.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; J. S. Marques; " Trajectory
analysis in natural images using mixtures of vector fields ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Cairo , Egypt ,
November , 2009.
•
Gomes, A.; A. Raposo; " Triangulation of Molecular Surfaces using an
Isosurface Continuation Algorithm ", Proc Computational Science and
Its Applications - ICCSA , Yongin , Korea, South , Vol. , pp. 145 - 153
, June , 2009.
•
Pereira, F.; " Video Compression: Discussing the Next Steps ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME , New York ,
United States , June , 2009.
•
Ferreira, L.F.; L. A Cruz; P.A. Assunção; " Video Summary Generation
and
Coding
Using
Temporal
Scalability
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feiria , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 283 - 286 , May , 2009.
241
•
Ferreira, LF; L. A Cruz; P.A. Assunção; " Video Summary Generation
and
Coding
Using
Temporal
Scalability
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Vol. 1 , pp. 283 - 286 , May , 2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; L.F. Ferreira; L. A Cruz; " Video Summary Generation
and
Coding
Using
Temporal
Scalability
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Vol. 1 , May , 2009.
•
Barbosa, A. F. S. B.; F. S. Silva; " WiiPlay: A 3D Third Person Game
in XNA ", Proc International Conf. on Advances in Computer
Entertainment Technology - ACE , Athens , Greece , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2
, October , 2009.
•
Barbosa, A. F. S. B.; F. S. Silva; " WiiPlay: A New Gameplay Concept
", Proc VideoJogos - VJ , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 ,
November , 2009.
•
Barbosa, A. F. S. B.; F. S. Silva; " WiiPlay: A XNA Third Person Game
", Proc Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica - EPCG , Covilhã ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 325 - 326 , October , 2009 .
SPEECH ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
Papers in Journals
•
Candeias, S.; J.Morais Barbosa; " Pronunciation Rules in Portuguese
Regional Speech (PORT REG) for Coarticulation Process ", Research in
Computing Science , Vol. 41 , pp. 257 - 264 , February , 2009 .
•
Silva, B.; H. Mendes; C. Lopes; A. Veiga; F. Perdigão; " A Fast
Discriminative Training Algorithm For Minimum Classification Error ",
Proc I Iberian SLTech - I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech
and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages , Lisbon , Poland ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 53 - 56 , September , 2009.
•
Lopes, C.; F. Perdigão; " A Hierarchical Broad-Class Classification to
Enhance Phoneme Recognition ", Proc European Signal Processing
242
Conf. - EUSIPCO , Glasgow , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1760 1764 , August , 2009.
•
Lopes, C.; F. Perdigão; " Global Discriminative Training of a Hybrid
Speech Recognizer ", Proc I Iberian SLTech - I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft
Workshop
on
Speech
and
Language
Technologies
for
Iberian
Languages , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 57 - 60 , September ,
2009.
•
Veiga, A.; C. Neves; F. Perdigão; L. V. Sá; " Out-Of-Vocabulary and
Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Using Phone Models ",
•
Lopes, C.; F. Perdigão; " Phonetic Recognition Improvements through
Input Feature
Set Combination
and Acoustic Context
Window
Widening ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria
da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 449 - 452 , May , 2009.
•
Candeias, S.; F. Perdigão; " Syllable Structure in Dysfunctional
Portuguese Children Speech ", Proc International Clinical Linguistics
Conference - CL , Madrid , Spain , pp. 12 - 17 , November , 2009.
Traffic Engineering
Book Chapters
•
Nogueira, A. N.; P. Salvador; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; " A Hierarchical
Approach based on MMPPs for Modelling Self-similar Traffic over
Multiple Time Scales " - Chapter in Heterogeneous Networks: Vol. I Traffic Engineering, Performance Evaluation Studies & Tools ,
Demetres Kouvatsos , Elsevier Science, 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Juárez, J. M. J.; R. R. P. Paulo; F. J. Velez; " Modelling and
Simulation of B3G Multi-service Traffic in the Presence of Mobility ",
Wireless Networks Journal , January , 2009.
•
Nogueira, A. N.; P. Salvador; A. Couto; R. Valadas; " Towards the
On-line Identification of Peer-to-peer Flow Patterns ", Journal of
Networks , Vol. 4 , No. 2 , pp. 108 - 118 , April , 2009.
243
•
Salvador, P.; A. N. Nogueira; U.F. França; R. Valadas; " Framework
for Zombie Detection using Neural Networks ", Proc IARIA The
Fourth International Conf. on Internet Monitoring and Protection ICIMP 2009 , Venice , Italy , May , 2009.
•
Salvador, P.; A. N. Nogueira; R. Valadas; " Markovian Models for
Medical
Signals
on
Wireless
Sensor
Networks
",
Proc
IEEE
International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking - MAN
2009 , Dresden , Germany , June , 2009.
•
Ferreira, M. Ferreira; H. C. Conceição; R. Fernandes; O. Tonguz; "
Steroscopic Aerial Photography: An Alternative to Model-Based
Urban Mobility Approaches ", Proc ACM SIGCOMM , Beijing , China ,
September , 2009.
4.3.7 Other Achievements
Patents
•
Freire, M.; N. M. Garcia; P. Lenkiewicz; P. Monteiro; J. M. Santos; "
Method and Device for Processing Data in an Optical Network and
Communication System Comprising Such Device ", International
Patent WO 2009/156409 A1 , December , 2009.
•
Almeida, M.S.C.; L.B. Almeida ; " Processo de Focagem Cega de
Imagens ", September , 2009.
Awards
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; V. S. Soares; F. F. Farahmand; " Best Paper Award CTRQ 2009 ", Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C.
Rodrigues, “Evaluating the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on
Vehicular
Delay-Tolerant
Networks”,
The
Second
International
Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of
Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20 - 25, 2009, IEEE
244
Computer Society, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3696-5. Este artigo recebeu um
Best Paper Award da conferência. , 01-06-2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; B. Vaidya; J. P. Park; " Best Paper Award - ISA 2009
and Workshops ", Binod Vaidya, Jong Hyuk Park, and Joel J. P. C.
Rodrigues, “HOTP-based User Autenthication Scheme in Home
Networks”, Advances in information Security and Assurance (ISA
2009), Seul, Korea, June 25-27, LNCS 5576, Springer-Verlag, June
2009, pp. 672-681. This paper received the Best Paper Award of the 3rd.
International Conference on Information Security and Assurance and its
Workshops. , 01-06-2009.
•
Duarte, A. M. O. D.; " HP Innovations in Education grant 2009 ", HP
Innovations in Education grants are targeted at key faculty responsible
for undergraduate degree programs. The focus is on proposals that are
enhancing
degree
programs
in
engineering,
computer
science,
information systems, and information technology. HP Innovations in
Education grants distinguish academics that are committed to exploring
the innovations at the intersection of teaching, learning, and technology. ,
01-06-2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; " IARIA Fellow ", Joel was distinguished with the
Grade of IARIA Fellow by his services in International Conferences and
contributions for the state of the art improvement. , 01-06-2009 .
- Pereira, F.; " Menção Honrosa do Prémio UTL/Santander Totta ",
Menção Honrosa do Prémio UTL/Santander Totta na área da Engenharia
Electrotécnica , 01-01-2009.
Miscellaneous
•
Sargento, S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Cenários de convivência de
serviços de mensagens entre redes ", Departamento de Informática
da Universidade do Minho , 01-12-2009.
245
•
Sargento, S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Controlo de admissão adaptativo
em sistemas de tempo real ", Departamento de Informática da
Universidade do Minho , 01-12-2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Filtragem colaborativa de correio
electrónico não solicitado Raul Graciano Oliveira Rodrigues ",
Departamento de Informática da Universidade do Minho , 01-122009.
•
Sargento, S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", A Voice Based Telephone Interface
for Email ", Departamento de Ciências de Computadores da
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto , 01-11-2009.
•
Silva, F. S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", GPU-based Isosurface Rendering ",
Pedro Infante Gonçalves Boavida, FCT/UNL , 01-11-2009.
•
Silva, F. S.; " Editor of Conference Proceedings ", Actas do 17º
Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica ", ISBN: 978-97298464-3-4 , 01-10-2009.
•
Sobrinho, J. L. S.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Examiner of a PhD Thesis at
the University of Cambridge ", , 01-10-2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Member of Technical Committee ", Membro do Painel
de Discussão “A Internet do Futuro” na Conferência de Redes de
Computadores ", 01-10-2009.
•
Sobrinho, J. L. S.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Jury of a PhD thesis at the
University of Coimbra ", , 01-09-2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " Member of Technical Committee ", Participação no
Juri de Avaliação de um Concurso de Professor na Universidade de
Oslo ", , 01-06-2009.
•
Barros, J.; " Invited Talks ", Protection of the environment ", , 0106-2009.
•
Assunção, P.A.; " Technical Audit ", FP7/ICT Project Review ",
Adamantium , 01-05-2009.
•
Garcia, N. M. ; " Invited Talks ", Security in Internet: things to do
and things to avoid today and in the future (Segurança na Internet:
coisas a fazer e coisas a evitar hoje e no futuro) ", 01-02-2009.
•
Fred, A. L. N.; " Member of Technical Committee ", Chair of IAPR
Publications
and
Publicity
Committee
",
Chair
of
the
IAPR
246
Publications and Publicity Committee for the term 2008-2010 , 0101-2009.
•
Sargento, S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Controlo de Tráfego Baseado em
Políticas ", Departamento de Informática da Universidade do Minho ,
01-01-2009.
•
Garcia, N. M. ; " National Delegate ", COST Action IC0703 “Data
Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA): theory, techniques, tools and
applications for the future networks” ", COST IC0703 , 01-01-2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; " Member of Editorial Board ", International Journal
of Computing & Information Technology ", IJCIT , 01-01-2009.
•
Rodrigues, J. R.; " Editor-in-Chief ", International journal of EHealth and Medical Communications ", IJEHMC , 01-01-2009.
•
Pereira, F.; " Member of Editorial Board ", Signal Processing
Magazine ", 01-01-2009.
4.3.8 Other Contributions
•
International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conf. - Mobimedia, ,
Fernando Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
Picture Coding Symp., Scientific Committee, Fernando Pereira, 0101-2009
•
Innovations in NGN - Future Network and Services , Technical
Programme Committee, Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN),
Technical Programme Committee, Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service
through Simulation in the Future Internet (QoSim), Technical
•
International
Conf.
on
Simulation
Tools
and
Techniques
for
Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS), Technical
•
IARIA The Fourth International Conf. on Internet Monitoring and
Protection - ICIMP 2009, Technical Programme Committee, João Vasco
Paulo Gomes , 01-01-2009
247
•
International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications,
Technical Programme Committee, Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues,
01-01-2009
•
IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and
Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco
Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2009
•
Euro-Ngi
Conf.
on
Next
Generation
Internet
Networks
(NGI),
Organizing Committee, Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP,
Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Networking - ICN, Technical Programme
Committee, Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based
Surveillance, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira,
01-01-2009
•
European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee,
•
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Scientific
Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-012009
•
Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
WIAMIS, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 0101-2009
•
Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Technical
•
International Workshop on Packet Video, Scientific Committee,
•
IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and
Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco
Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2009
248
•
International Workshop on Quantum Cryptography and Security LQCIL, Organizing Committee, Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves
Madeira Adão, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE
Pacific-Rim
Conf.
on
Multimedia,
Technical
Programme
Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
ACM - Multimedia, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando
Pereira, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing , Technical
•
International
Network
Optimization
Conf.
-
INOC,
Scientific
Networks,
Technical
Committee, Amaro Sousa, 01-01-2009
•
IASTED
International
Conf.
on
Sensor
Programme Committee, João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira
Barros, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Technical
Programme Committee, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Independent Component Analysis and Signal
Separation,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Luís
Henrique
Martins Borges de Almeida , 01-01-2009
•
Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications - MASTA, Scientific
Committee, Luis Miguel Pina Coelho Teixeira Botelho, 01-012009
•
International ICST Conf. on Mobile Networks And Management,
•
International
Applications,
Conf.
Technical
on
Signal
Programme
Processing
and
Committee,
Multimedia
Maria
Paula
Queluz, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking MAN 2009, Technical Programme Committee, António Nogueira,
01-01-2009International Conf. on Next Generation Internet Networks
- NGI, Organizing Committee, António Nogueira, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking MAN 2009, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Salvador
Ferreira, 01-01-2009
249
•
International Conf. on Next Generation Internet Networks - NGI,
Organizing Committee, Paulo Salvador Ferreira, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT,
•
IEEE Symp. on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Technical
•
International Conf. on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH), Technical
•
ICT
Mobile
and
Wireless
Communications
Summit,
Technical
•
Annual Simulation Symp. , Technical Programme Committee, Susana
Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
Iberoamerican Symp. in Computer Graphics - SIACG, Scientific
Committee, Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva, 01-01-2009
•
Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Chairman, Joel
José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
Technical Programme Committee, Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
International
Workshop
on
Pattern
Recognition
in
Information
Systems, Conference Chairman, Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
International Joint Conf. on Biomedical Engineering Systems and
Technologies - BIOSTEC, Conference Chairman, Ana Fred, 01-012009
•
International
Conf.
on
Knowledge
Discovery
and
Information
Retrieval - KDIR, Conference Chairman, Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
IFIP International Conf. on New Technologies, Mobility and Security Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop - NTMS, Technical Programme
Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services
in Ubiquitous Environments - NASSUE 2009, Technical Programme
Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Computing and
Security Services - WIMUCS 2009, Technical Programme Chairman,
Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
250
•
Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Special Sessions Chairman,
Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
Technical Programme Committee, António Nogueira, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Conf. on Software, Telecommunications and
Computer Networks - SoftCOM, Technical Programme Chairman, Joel
José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP, Technical Programme Committee, Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking MAN
2009,
Conference
Chairman,
Joel
José
Puga
Coelho
Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Symp. on
Social Computing and Networking -
SocialNet 2009, Technical Programme Committee, Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos Santos, 01-01-2009
•
First Asian Himalayas International Conf. on Internet - AH-ICI2009,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Nuno
Manuel
Garcia
dos
Santos, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Ultra Modern Telecommunications - ICUMT,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Nuno
Manuel
Garcia
dos
Santos, 01-01-2009
•
European Conf. on Universal Multiservice Networks - ECUMN,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Nuno
Manuel
Garcia
dos
Santos, 01-01-2009
•
18th International Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks
- ICCCN 2009, Technical Programme Committee, Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos Santos, 01-01-2009
•
Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI ,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Nuno
Manuel
Garcia
dos
Santos, 01-01-2009
•
International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - TMA
2009, Technical Programme Committee, Nuno Manuel Garcia dos
Santos, 01-01-2009
•
ACM/IEEE International Symp. on Modeling, Analysis International
Symp. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile
251
Systems - MSWIM, Organizing Committee, Joel José Puga Coelho
Rodrigues, 01-01-2009
•
International
Conf.
and
Applications,
Services
Exhibition
and
on
Next
Technologies
-
Generation
NGMAST,
Mobile
Technical
•
6th IFIP International Conf. on Wireless and Optical Communications
Networks - WOCN 2009, Sessions Chairman , Nuno Manuel Garcia
dos Santos, 01-01-2009
•
Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Salvador Ferreira, 01-012009
•
Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica - EPCG, Organizing
Committee, Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva, 01-01-2009
•
Symp. on Computer Graphics and Image Processing - SIBGRAPI,
Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 0101-2009
•
Thematic Conferences on Computational Vision and Medical Image
Processing - VipImage, Sessions Chairman , Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença, 01-01-2009
•
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Scientific Committee,
Sérgio Faria, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications,
Technical Programme Chairman, Sérgio Faria, 01-01-2009
•
International
Conf.
on
Telecommunications
-
ICT,
Technical
Programme Committee, Sérgio Faria, 01-01-2009
•
AIMI International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR,
Technical Programme Committee, Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
Euro-NF Workshop on Traffic Engineering and Dependability in the
Network of the Future, Organizing Committee, Susana Sargento,
01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining - MLDM, ,
Ana Fred, 01-01-2009
•
ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and
Mobile
Networks,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
Susana
Sargento, 01-01-2009
252
•
Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Technical Programme
Committee, Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
International
Workshop
on
Self-Organizing
Systems,
Technical
•
MOBICOM 2009 - The 15th Annual International Conference on
Mobile Computing and Networking, Technical Programme Committee,
Susana Sargento, 01-01-2009
•
International
Information
and
Telecommunication
Technologies
Symp. - I2TS, Technical Programme Committee, Susana Sargento,
01-01-2009
•
•
•
Scientific Committee, Luis Miguel Pina Coelho Teixeira Botelho,
01-01-2009
•
Quality
of
Service
-
CTRQ,
Technical
Programme
Committee,
António Nogueira, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks
(MediaWin), Technical Programme Committee, Susana Sargento,
01-01-2009
Editorial Committees
•
IEEE Communications Magazine , IEEE Communications Society, Joel
José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Associate Technical Editor, 01-01-2009
to
International
Journal
of
Network
Protocols
and
Algorithms
,
Macrothink Institute, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Associate
Editor , 01-05-2009 to
•
IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING , Elsevier, Hugo Pedro Martins
Carriço Proença, Guest Editor, 01-01-2009 to 01-06-2009
•
Intrnl. Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) ,
Information Resources Management Association , António Nogueira,
Editorial Review Board , 01-01-2009 to
253
•
Intrnl. Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) ,
IGI Global, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editor-in-Chief, 01-012009 to
•
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , IEEE, Fernando Pereira, Editorial
Board, 01-01-2009 to 01-12-2010
•
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia , IEEE, Fernando Pereira, Associate Editor,
01-01-2009 to 01-12-2010
•
Intrnl. Journal of Computing & Information Technology , International
Science Press, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board
Member, 01-01-2009 to 01-12-2010
254
ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – BASIC SCIENCES & ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
4.4
4.4.1
4.4.2
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area Coordinators
•
Pedro Girão
•
Luís Alcácer
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Professor Emeritus
0
0
1
Full Professor
1
2
3
Associate Professor
0
4
6
Assistant Professor
4
4
15
Post-Doc
0
1
5
0
1
2
Assistant Lecturer
0
4
0
PhD Student
1
4
16
(Licenciado)
0
0
1
TOTAL
6
20
49
Table 27 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences ans Enabling Technologies
Area in 2009
255
Position
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Full Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Licenciado
Assistant
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
Post. Doc.
Professor
Emeritus
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Adérito Neto Alcaso
Power Systems
MSc
Ana Charas
Technology and Materials
Anders Lyhne Christensen
PhD
André Manuel dos Santos Mendes
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Power Systems
Agregação
António Cardoso
Power Systems
Agregação
António Cruz Serra
Agregação
Artur Lopes Ribeiro
PhD
Beatriz Borges
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Power Electronics
PhD
Carlos Eduardo Ramos dos Santos
Lourenço
Security and Quantum
Information
PhD
Daniel da Silva Graça
Agregação
Dinis Magalhães Santos
PhD
Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Agregação
Eduardo de Sousa Saraiva
Information
Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Aveiro
- Aveiro
Power Systems
PhD
Fernando Tim Tim Janeiro
PhD
Francisco Alegria
PhD
Francisco Miguel Alves Campos de
Sousa Dionísio
Agregação
Helena Ramos
PhD
João Manuel Patrício
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Applied Mathematics
Agregação
Joaquim Júdice
Applied Mathematics
PhD
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Agregação
Jorge Morgado
- Lisbon
José Augusto Alves Gouveia
PhD
José Cura
Agregação
José Dias Pereira
PhD
Kerry Ojakian
Agregação
Luís Alcácer
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Information
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
- Aveiro
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Information
256
Position
Coordinator
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
Associate
Professor
Full Professor
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Luís Merca Fernandes
Applied Mathematics
Licenciatura
Luis Nero Alves
PhD
PhD
PhD
- Aveiro
Manuel Fernando Martins de Barros Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Lisbon
Manuel Lameiras de Figueiredo
Campagnolo
Information
Manuel Matos
Maria Celeste Gouveia
Applied Mathematics
Maria Cristina de Sales Viana
Serôdio Sernadas
Maria Madalena Martins
Information
Applied Mathematics
PhD
Maria Paula Antunes Abrantes
Gouveia
Nuno Horta
PhD
Octavian Postolache
PhD
Pedro Ramos
Agregação
Pedro Silva Girão
Post. Doc.
PhD
Quirina Ferreira
Information
- Lisbon
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Raúl Martins
PhD
Rui Neves
PhD
Rui Teives Henriques
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
- Lisbon
PhD
Sérgio Cruz
Power Systems
PhD
Tomás Radil
Instrumentation and
Mesurement
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Agregação
PhD
PhD
Table 28 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2009
Other Collaborators
Group
Position
Degree
Name
MSc
MSc
Acácio Manuel Amaral
Ana Carla Vicente Vieira
Power Systems
Power Systems
PhD Student
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
Ana Luisa Mendonça
Carlos Ferreira
Power Electronics
Licenciatura
David Filipe Correia Guilherme
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Eduardo Correia Pinheiro
Integrated Circuits and Systems Lisbon
Instrumentation and Mesurement
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Hugo Marques
Power Electronics
257
Group
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Ribeiro
Power Electronics
PhD Student
MSc
Joana Farinhas
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Jorge Oliveira Estima
Power Systems
MSc
José Carlos Sequeira Martins dos
Santos
José Luís Silva
José Manuel Matias Pinto
PhD Student
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
PhD Student
Luis Filipe Morgado
PhD Student
Luís Filipe Silva Camacho
PhD Student
Luís Filipe Soldado Granadeiro
Rosado
Luís M. Oliveira
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
Power Systems
Information
Power Systems
M´hamed Drif
Power Systems
MSc
Marina Perdigão
Power Systems
PhD Student
MSc
Mauro Edgar Pereira Figueiredo
Santos
Mónica Figueiredo
PhD Student
MSc
Natália Gameiro
Integrated Circuits and Systems Aveiro
Power Systems
PhD Student
PhD
Student
Nuno Gonçalo Bandeira Brás
PhD Student
Raúl Domingos Monteiro
Power Electronics
PhD Student
Tânia Isabel de Almeida Braz
PhD Student
Applied Mathematics
PhD Student
MSc
Teresa Margarida Gonçalves
Ferreira Gaspar
Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa
PhD Student
MSc
Vitor Viegas
Power Electronics
Table 29 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area in 2009
258
4.4.3
Summary of Research Achievements
The multidisciplinary area falling under the general heading of Basic Sciences and
Enabling Technologies comprises the following lines of research:
- Technology and Materials
- Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Radioastronomy
- Instrumentation and Measurement
- Power Electronics and Power Systems
- Applied Mathematics
- Logic and Computation
Scope and Objectives
In 2009, the scientific activities in Technology and Materials dealt with Organic
Electronics and related subjects: i) aiming at ultralowcost, lightweight and flexible
electronic devices for displays, circuits, photovoltaic solar cells, and systems that
can be printed on anything and placed anywhere, ii) towards unimolecular devices
(one molecule — one device).
The detailed activities included:
Materials development, fabrication and test of individual organic electronic devices:
1) Development of a new spin coating approach to fabricate insoluble patterned
thin films of semiconducting and electroluminescent polymers, tuned to specific
applications
in
organic
electronics,
namely
photovoltaic
cells,
OLEDs
and
chemosensors.
2) Characterization and application of a blend of green emitting polymers to
improve the performance of polymer-based light-emitting diodes; work on the role
of charge trapping dopants on polymer-based LEDs with the use of a new electrontrap dopant; study of the effect of additives to PEDOT:PSS conductivity and to the
performance of LEDs using it.
3)
Synthesis
of
new
materials
for
polymer-based
photovoltaic
cells
and
characterisation of the devices.
4) Development of organic memories, with special emphasis on resistive nonvolatile
memories.
259
5) Development of cross-linkable polymers for the preparation of active patterns
using Scanning Near-Field Optical lithography (SNOL) in collaboration with the
University Colledge London, UCL (UK) (Prof. Franco Cacialli)
Towards unimolecular devices:
1) Studies on the formation and characterisation using AFM/STM of molecular
monolayers (SAMs) on gold and graphite surfaces (UNIME project). The studies
involved thiol molecules and perylene derivatives. The electrical properties of the
SAMs were also characterised using STS. Theoretical calculations by quantum
chemistry of the shape of molecules and their relevant molecular orbitals, in order
to identify features on atomic force microscopy (AFM) images.
Other activities:
1) Activities within the EU-funded project (POLYCOM), via Instituto Superior
Tecnico,
included the preparation and characterisation of spirofluorene-based
dopants for PMMA-based thin films and plastic optical fibers. The synthesis of new
dopants for this kind of applications was continued.
2) New issues on the magnetoresistance of low-dimensional conductors were
enlightened by mesaurements in different crystallographic directions on a perylene
based conductor having an Au dthiolate as counterion (work in collaboration with
ITN and NHMF, Florida).
3) The synthetic effort on new molecular based systems featuring combined
magnetic- and electrical-designed properties has proceeded with some pyridinedithiolene complexes being studied.
Scope and Objectives:
Objectives: The Integrated Circuit and Systems group addresses the development
of design automation tools for “System-on-Chip” applications, the design of stateof-the-art Analog and Mixed-Signal IC prototypes, the development of E-Design/ELearning
environments
to
support
design
activities
and
the
research
and
development intelligent computation techniques applied to computational finance.
1) IC Design Automation: R & D on evolutionary computation techniques applied to
analog IC design for circuit and system level design optimization, symbolic analysis
for automatic topology generation.
2) Analog IC Design: R & D on reconfigurable analog and mixed signal systems for
4G mobile terminals, low-power ultra-high speed analogue-to-digital converter for
260
ultra-wideband wireless communications, DC-DC converters for aerospace industry,
audio amplifiers class D and G.
3) Computational Finance: R & D on intelligent computation and pattern recognition
techniques applied to stock market for portfolio composition, investment strategies
definition and data acquisition.
Radioastronomy
The activity of this group consists of the development of instrumentation for
measurement and characterization of low-level radiation from outer space, in the
microwave region. Instrumentation refers both to the electronics and physical
infrastructure, including antenna mounts, drives and ancillary equipment, such as
data acquisition for environmental and meteorological variables.
GEM project:
The Cassegrain 9-meter dish from Vertex/General Dynamics offered by Portugal
Telecom was successfully installed.
The IF of the 5GHz receiver, a double arm feeding a polarimeter correlator with
circular polarization components was designed, tested and assembled. It is a new
type of state-of-the art radioastronomy polarimeters, with a cryogenic frontend,
using LNAs based on ultra-low noise InP HEMTs, characteristics designed at IT,
manufactured by Chalmers University of Technology, after license from JPL/NASA.
A new optics configuration for the antenna, comprising a new corrugated horn feed,
modelled with GRASP (ESA certified) was produced. A new module for antenna
precision control was designed and tested: 3AC - Antenna Attitude Automatic
Control, with TELESAL funding. GEM will contribute also to the calibration of the
MWR receiver aboard the JUNO Polar Orbiter planetary spacecraft, which will be
launched in 2010 to Jupiter to monitor the jovian atmosphere through radiometric
analysis in the 1-10GHz band.
PrepSKA:
This project effectively started in late 2008. Preparation for the implementation
plan, concerning: network study and information gathering on best current
technologies for the digital data back haul between telescope stations; and time
and LO distribution; recollection of data on super-low noise pHEMT transistors.
261
These could be candidates for LNA frontends and IF part of receivers and at the
same time respond to cost issues of mass production of important components for
the Square Kilometer Array.
Instrumentation and Measurement
The Instrumentation and Measurement Group works in the broad domain of
Metrology. In 2009 the main topics addressed were:
• Analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue conversion;
• Measurement of electrical quantities;
• Sensors and transducers;
• Signal acquisition and automated and telemetric measuring systems;
• Signal processing applied to sensors and instrumentation.
1) The effect of phase noise and jitter on the Histogram Test of ADCs was studied.
2) A study of the uncertainty of analogue to digital converter test methods, namely
of the Histogram Test Method, the Random Noise Test Method and the Sine Fitting
Test Method was conducted. Different non-ideal effects like additive noise, jitter,
phase noise and harmonic distortion were taken into consideration.
3) The work on multi harmonic sine fitting algorithm for impedance measurement
and power quality analysis was continued.
4)
A
DSP
based
impedance
measurement
prototype
was
developed
and
implemented. The system includes a DDS to generate the sine signal at the desired
measurement frequency. Overall, preliminary results demonstrate the stability of
the measurement system without any significant temperature or aging drifts.
5) IT internal project CLASSE, which aims at classifying defects inside conductive
non-magnetic plates, continued. The mathematical basis of non destructive testing
is being developed in two parts. In the first part, the physics of the induction
system is simulated in the forward problem either using a numerical method like
the finite element method (FEM) or an artificial intelligent technique (ANN). The
simulated system is used to preview the correspondence between first order
variations in the secondary magnetic field to conductive perturbations in the
conductive body. The second part of this study is the formulation of the inverse
relation of this correspondence in order to reconstruct the conductivity images for a
262
three dimensional sample object. Since the signal from a deeper voxel is smaller
than surface voxel, measurement noise corrupts more the information from deeper
voxels. However, the relation between the magnetic measurements and the
conductivity distribution is nonlinear. Thus, one way to estimate the solution is to
linearize the forward problem around an initial conductivity distribution and update
the conductivity distribution using a suitable algorithm by comparing the calculated
fields with the measurements. Several algorithms can be used to minimize the
norm of ||S x - b|| when solving for x. These algorithms must be investigated in
order to select the one that provides the best performance for the problem to be
evaluated. The mathematical relation between the conductivity distribution and the
measurements is the backbone of the imaging algorithm.
The classification of defects in metallic plates is carried out analysing the images
produced by magnetic field sensors, which detect the magnetic field produced by
the eddy currents when the material is subject to a primary time-varying excitation
field. To produce a correct classification those images must be clear (noise-free)
and acquired in the same conditions. During 2009 a fruitful work on signal
processing was carried out in order to proceed with that classification. The obtained
signal is very sensitive to probe/plate distance, and therefore the attenuation law
with
distance
was
determined.
All
the
disturbances
originated
by
probe
misalignments were identified and corrected. Another important result was the
determination of the images that should be obtained when the probe was rotated.
Using the previous results it was possible to characterize the dimensions of a crack
in an aluminium plate.
6) A study on the uncertainty characterization of ellipse and sine fitting algorithms
on impedance measurements was conducted.
7) Signal processing algorithms (ellipse fitting and sine fitting) to be applied on DSP
based instruments were optimized
8) New procedures for online detection of broken bars in induction machines were
developed.
9) Atmospheric optical properties using digital photography were determined.
10) The algorithm for two-channel sinewave parameter estimation based on
spectral fitting was improved to include weighted least-squares, thus significantly
improving the precision of the estimated parameters and reducing the number of
required iterations for convergence. In addition, the theoretical Cramér-Rao lower
bound of the estimator is now used to control the convergence criteria. This
263
innovative approach further reduces the number of iterations, increasing the speed
of the algorithm. The sine-fitting algorithms implementations were improved so
that they require less memory. This modification is crucial due to the fact that the
initial memory requirements of the algorithms effectively limited the number of
samples that could be processed. With this further improvement, the number of
samples can be significantly increased and thus further reduce the precision of the
estimated parameters.
11) Automatic tracking algorithms for millimetre-wave antennas were developed.
12) Advanced signal processing techniques for instrumentation and measurements
applications (non-linear A/D converters, calibration and auto-calibration procedures
applied to different measurement systems, advanced signal processing technique)
were developed.
13) Static and dynamic characterization of sensors and measurement system
(polarography, heavy metals detectors, turbidity, pH and conductivity sensors)
were performed.
14) An I&M industrial transmission systems based on Foundation Fieldbus (FF),
HART e CAN protocols was implemented.
14) Different architectures of water quality monitoring nodes that include the RFID
UHF components as part of IEEE1451.4 standard for smart sensors implementation
were designed and tested. A patent in the area of IEEE1451.4 implementation was
registered.
15) In the domain of biomedical applications worth mentioning:
•
The design and implementation of ubiquitous architecture associated with
cardiac and respiratory activity monitoring for elderly and persons with
severe restriction of mobility;
•
The design and implementation of physiological parameters (BCG, PPG)
measurement channels embedded on wheelchair. A smart wheelchair
prototype characterized by fully capabilities on biomedical signal sensing is
under construction;
•
The development of novel algorithms including the Independent Component
Analysis to obtain accurate estimation of heart rate and respiration rate from
the signals delivered by sensors embedded in a wheelchair. A patent in the
area of ubiquitous sensing system materialized by a wheelchair was
registered.
264
In 2009, the following services to external entities were rendered:
•
Collaboration with the Department of Minas of the Instituto Superior Técnico
and with Universidade de Aveiro in measuring moisture in stone panels
found in ancient churches.
•
Collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN) in automating the
operation of their ion implanter.
•
Development and implementation of an instrumentation network for
broadband RF spectrum monitoring for ANACOM.
Power Electronics and Power Systems
Audio Power Amplifier
Continuing the study and development of single stage switching audio power
amplifiers. Focus on new pulse width no-linear modulators and in passive filter
topologies in order to improve circuit performance.
Active Power Filters and Power Factor Compensation
Optimization of filter passive components in hybrid power filters. Continuing the
study, development and experimental realization of single stage power factor
corrector topologies and control processes. Analysis of new high performance
topologies that are based in component reduction and equal distribution of the
input current by the four bridge switches. Development of control strategies and
preliminary studies of the conducted noise in new achieved topologies.
Resonant Contactless Energy transfer
Preliminary studies involving new PWM resonant topologies for contactless energy
transmission.
Experimental
characterization,
modeling
and
development
of
piezoelectric transformers for high performance power supplies.
Switching Converters for Renewable Energy Resources
Development of boost and buck-boost single stage topologies, for interface between
the ac mains and a Photo Voltaic Panel. Initial studies in collaboration with INESCINOV for development of a new converter for wind turbines.
265
High Performance DC-DC Converters for “System On a Chip (SoC)”
Development and study of techniques for achieving high performance integrated
DC-DC
converters.
Development
of
an
integrated
audio
power
amplifier.
Continuation of research, development and practical implementation of very high
frequency high performance DC-DC converters in CMOS technology for power
management RF-CMOS, “System On a Chip (SoC)”. Achievement of new design
methodologies of QSW converters for Soc). Conclusion of the project concerning
the integration in CMOS technology of resonant topologies.
Microelectronics research was developed in strong collaboration with collaboration
with IT RMOM Group and with IT Integrated Circuits and Systems Group. Also there
has been collaboration with INESC in this area, in the development of an integrated
audio power amplifier.
COLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY - EMI MEASUREMENTS
Collaboration with CIEEE of IST on - EMI conducted noise measurements in
industrial equipment - First contacts to develop a digital universal control for power.
electronic converters dedicated to renewable energy conversion.
Power Systems
1) Work on electronic ballasts, and simulation of power electronics systems. Site
www.dimmingit.com Teses de Mestrado concluídas: Uma Nova Tecnologia de
Regulação de Fluxo Luminoso, Fevereiro, 2009 University of Coimbra, Bruno R. O.
Baptista Caracterização de Métodos de Controlo de Fluxo Luminoso em Lâmpadas
Fluorescentes, Set 2009, University of Coimbra, Moisés A. Martins Estudo do
Desenvolvimento de um Balastro Electrónico Baseado em Elementos Magnéticos
Saturáveis, Set 2009, University of Coimbra, Pedro P. Silveira
2) Most of the research was done in the field of matrix converters, foccused on the
development of diagnostic techniques to detect and locate faults in this type of
converter. - Diagnosis of faults in induction machines, with emphasis on static and
dynamic eccentricity - Commissioning of electric drives using vector control
systems, including the implementation of several off-line and on-line methods. Diagnosis of faults in regenerative drives, namely the ones based on back-to-back
converters.
266
Applied Mathematics
Research was developed in the following fields of Mathematics:
Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra. Apart from some more theoretical
oriented studies, my research has mainly been focused in the design, convergence
analysis, implementation and testing of algorithms for the solution of many
important problems in these areas. I have also been collaborating with researchers
of other areas in the design and solution of some models of engineering and
finance. The most relevant topics are presented below. i). Numerical Linear
Algebra: Preconditioning and convergence of iterative methods for the solution of
linear systems of equations. ii). Complementarity Problems: design, implementation
, convergence analysis implementation and testing of interior-point algorithms,
active-set methods, sequential quadratic algorithms and enumerative methods. iii).
Global
Optimization:
complementarity
algorithms,
positive
semi-definite
and
reformulation-linearization techniques for bilevel programming, quadratic and
bilinear
programming
and
mathematical
programs
with
complementarity
constraints. iv). Discrete Optimization: global optimization algorithms for linear,
nonlinear and complementarity problems with integer variables. v). Solution of
Structured
Optimization
complementarity
Models,
problems.
vi).
namely
Design
finance
and
models
solution
and
of
eigenvalue
models
in
telecommunications.
Logic and Computation
1) Research work during 2006 focused on exploring the computational capabilities
of naturally inspired continuous-time dynamical systems, namely recurrent neural
networks featuring complex spatiotemporal regimes. The research was situated in
the framework of the emergent field of natural computing, or computing with
natural paradigms. In particular, connections began being established with the area
of reservoir computing, with concrete suggestions for the harnessing of complexity
aiming at greater flexibility and adequacy in the online computation of dynamical
functions. The development of so-called chaotic modules was proposed as a
configurable way of generating complex dynamical behavior with physically realistic
neural nets, in view of applications that may benefit from that source of complexity.
In 2009 the computational capabilities of naturally inspired continuous systems
were investigated, following previous work. In a general setting of computing via
267
suitable perturbations of dynamical systems, spatially extended systems were
especially
considered,
although
not
exclusively.
A
careful
examination
of
computational processes in the living brain assisted in proposing and consolidating
new
formal
computing
paradigms
and
algorithms,
based
on
dynamical
characteristics previously overlooked in the literature.
2) Computability in dynamical systems: We intend to propose computability results
about some classical topics from dynamical systems theory (smale horseshoe,
stable manifold theorem, etc.). Analog computation: We intend to propose lower
and upper bounds on the computational capabilities of analytic dynamical systems
operating under the presence of perturbations.
3) We developed various function algebra characterizations for the functions of
computable analysis. While computable analysis is defined via Turing Machines, our
function
algebras
are
defined
using
differential
equations;
thus
our
work
characterizes a discrete model with a continuous model. We improved the work of
others, and were able to re-use our earlier techniques, thus evidencing the
generality of our approach. We also investigated other analog machine models. I
continued work on a kind of type theory for Bounded Arithmetic, a subtheory of
Peano Arithmetic with close ties to computational complexity theory
268
4.4.4
Runing and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
Number
Ciência Viva
2
CRUP
1
DSIC/ Ministerio de Education y Ciencia Espanhol
1
EC - FP7
1
EU - FP7
2
FCT/POCI
3
FCT/POSC
3
FCT/PTDC
11
ICP/ANACOM
1
1
7
Total
33
Table 30 – Number of active projects running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2009
269
Activity in projects
Acron / Ref
Title
POLYCOM
Plastic Optical Fibers with Embedded Active Polymers for Data
Communications
Funding
EU,IST Programme
script.
Development of low-loss polymer optical fibers and waveguides
with integrated gain and ultrafast optical switching functionalities.
The work to be carried out by IT researchers (under the contract
signed by Instituto Superior Tecnico) involves the synthesis of novel
conjugated luminescent polymers to be dispersed in Plastic Optical
Fibers (POFs) matrices (e.g. PMMA). The development of low loss
POFs matrices is also part of IT contribution
Acron / Ref
Title
PREMAID
Design of Railway Power Trains for Better Reliability and Easier
Maintenance - Predictive Maintenance
Funding
EU,TOK-IAP
Descript.
The main objective of this project is to minimize the impact of the
component
and/or
the
system
aging
(conducting
to
component/system failure) on the commercial use of the trains and
therefore allowing higher availability of the traction system. The
availability of the equipment is limited by their downtime for
maintenance operations.
270
Acron / Ref
Title
IMPANA / PTDC/EEA-ELC/72875/2006
Development and implementation of an impedance analyzer based
on analog to digital conversion and powerful signal processing
algorithms
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The research team’s expertise in test and characterization of analog
to digital converters, signal processing algorithms, power quality
measurements, development of modern digital instrumentation and
impedance measurements will be used in the development and
implementation of an inexpensive accurate impedance analyzer to
operate in the frequency range from 10 Hz up to 1 MHz.
Following
the
team’s
previous
work,
a
instrument
prototype
including all the system electronics and the software will be built.
The device is based on the traditional I-V method coupled with
analog to digital conversion and signal processing algorithms to be
executed in the prototype digital signal processor. The algorithms to
be implemented will determine the parameters of the sine signals
that best fit the acquired samples of two channels and thus estimate
the unknown impedance parameters.
The accuracy of the final instrument will depend on the project
progress but basic accuracies of 0.1% for the impedance magnitude
and 0.01º for the phase or better are expected.
Acron / Ref
MATRIX / PTDC/EEA-ENE/67350/2006
Title
Electric Drives Based on Matrix Converters
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main objective of this project is to develop an electric drive,
based on matrix converters, with self-diagnostic and fault-tolerant
capabilities. The drive, which will rely on the use of induction motors
271
and PMSMs, will allow to detect and locate any fault in the matrix
converter. After its detection, the control system of the drive will
enter in a fault-tolerant operating mode, according to which the
control
strategy
will
be
modified
in
order
to
minimize
the
consequences of the fault and thus maintaining the system running,
although with degraded performance.
Besides the detection of faults in the matrix converter, and in the
case of the induction motor drive, the integrated diagnostic system
should also be able to detect faults in the motor, namely stator and
rotor faults, bearing faults and airgap eccentricity.
The
drive
obtained
with
these
new
features
combines
the
advantages of the matrix converter with the high reliability granted
by the integrated and fault-tolerant diagnostic/control system.
Acron / Ref
BE_NT_REG / PTDC/EEA-ENE/66859/2006
Title
Electronic Ballasts: a new dimming technology
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
To develop new techniques for the regulation of the luminous flux of
fluorescent lamps.
Acron / Ref
CRACK / PTDC/EEA-ELC/67719/2006
Title
Flaw Imaging in Metals by Contactless Conductivity
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The measuring principle is based on the phenomenon whereby the
impedance of a coil generating a time-varying magnetic field
changes in the presence of a conductive material as eddy currents
are induced in the material. Therefore the idea of a contactless
electrical conductivity imaging system (CECIS) is based on a sensor
272
composed of two coils. One of the coils, designated the transmitter
coil, is driven by an alternating current and generates an oscillating
magnetic field that induces currents inside the object to be tested.
These induced currents are related to the conductivity distribution of
the body. Another coil, the receiver coil, measures the total
magnetic field. One component of the magnetic field is related to
the primary imposed currents and the other component is related to
the induced eddy currents. As the signal originated from deeper
voxel significantly attenuates before it reaches the receiving coil the
information gets easily corrupted by measurement noise. By
incorporating into the design a real time digital signal processor able
to perform advanced signal processing techniques it is possible to
increase significantly the range of the sensor. Two solutions are
envisaged to accumulate data either by relocating the probe several
times using a XY scanning mechanism or by using an array of
sensors, i. e., several probes in the vicinity of the object to be
tested.
The mathematical basis of this methodology is developed in two
parts. In the first part, the physics of the induction system is
simulated in the forward problem either using a numerical method
like the finite element method (FEM) or an artificial intelligent
technique (ANN). The simulated system is used to preview the
correspondence between first order variations in the secondary
magnetic field to conductive perturbations in the conductive body. A
set of equations in the discrete form can be formulated: Sx=b,
where x is the unknown conductivity perturbation vector, b is the
magnetic field measurement vector and S is the sensitivity matrix.
The second part of this study is the formulation of the inverse
relation
of
this
correspondence
in
order
to
reconstruct
the
conductivity images for a three dimensional sample object: b=S x +
y, where y represents unknown measurement noise present in the
real scenario. Since the signal from a deeper voxel is smaller than
surface voxel, measurement noise corrupts more the information
from deeper voxels. However, the relation between the magnetic
273
measurements and the conductivity distribution is nonlinear. Thus,
one way to estimate the solution is to linearize the forward problem
around
an
initial
conductivity
distribution
and
update
the
conductivity distribution using a suitable algorithm by comparing the
calculated fields with the measurements. Several algorithms can be
used to minimize the norm of ||S x - b|| when solving for x. These
algorithms must be investigated in order to select the one that
provides the best performance for the problem to be evaluated. The
mathematical relation between the conductivity distribution and the
measurements is the backbone of the imaging algorithm.
Acron / Ref
InADC / PTDC/EEA-ELC/68843/2006
Title
InADC-In depth analysis of analog to digital converter methods
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main goal of this research project is the advancement of the
knowledge in the area of analogue to digital
converter
testing.
We
propose
the
pursuit
of
the
following
objectives:
a) Study of the precision of Independently based Gain and Offset
Error;
b) Development of a Weighted Least Squares Estimator for gain and
offset error estimation;
c) Study of the influence of additive noise in the bias of ADC gain
and offset error estimation;
d) Study of the use of sinusoidal stimulus signals instead of
triangular stimulus signal as suggested in the IEEE
1057-94 standard procedure for ADC random noise estimation;
e) Derivation of an exact estimator for ADC random noise
estimation;
274
f) Study of the influence of sinusoidal amplitude and offset on the
bias and precision of the estimation of the fitted
sine wave parameters;
g) Derivation of an expression for the minimum number of samples
required to achieve a given upper bound on the
estimation bias and precision;
h) Study of the precision of novel sine-fitting algorithms used in
impedance measurement
Acron / Ref
Title
SPEED / PTDC/EEA-ELC/66857/2006
Low Power Ultra-High Speed Analogue-to-Digital Converter for
Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The major goal of this project is to design, integrate in a 90nm
CMOS technology and experimentally evaluate a calibration-free 2channel time-interleaved 6-bit 1GS/s CMOS Pipeline ADC with an EE
better than 0.2-0.3 pJ per conversion step and at the same time
achieving a very low die area. Many novel techniques will be
addressed to reach such goal such as, intensive use of passive
structures,
amplifier
sharing,
simple
amplifier
topology
and
exhaustive circuit optimization. A second aim of the project will be
to include, on-chip, an efficient solution for providing built-in selftesting capability.
Acron / Ref
GEM – 2 / PTDC/CTE-AST/65925/2006
Title
Polarimetry Instrumentation for a Galactic Survey at 2.3-10GHz
Funding
FCT/PTDC
275
Descript.
2nd Phase of the International Galactic Emission Mapping at
Portugal.
- test and installation of the 2.3GHz total power radiometer
assembled in Brazil (by Marco bersannelli, Deputy-PI of Planck
Surveyor sattellite) to complete the 2.3 GHz North Hemisphere
survey in S-band
- Calibration with cold load/hot load of the C-band correlator;
calibration and first-light fo the polarimeter receiver.
Overal: production of the first digital complex base-band crosscorrellator using FPGA chips applyed to radioastronomy surveys.
Acron / Ref
Title
ARCOCELL / PTDC/CTM/64127/2006
Specially
Designed
Materials
and
Architectures
for
Organic
Photovoltaic Cells
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The overall objective of the project is the development of new
conjugated
polymers
and
strategies
to
optimise
the
texture/morphology of electron-donor/electron-acceptor systems to
prepare organic photovoltaic cells with improved efficiencies.
In order to achieve this goal, several approaches are going to be
carried out, namely:
i) combine donor and acceptor blocks in single chains linked by
saturated bridges to create abrupt D/A interfaces and to obtain
films
with
controlled
morphologies
adequate
to
favor
the
photovoltaic phenomena in the device structure;
ii) ) use of adequate substituents to modify the donor and acceptor
units to optimise their electron affinity or ionisation potential and to
control their supramolecular arrangement;
iii) synthesis of donor and acceptor crosslinkable polymers to
prepare segregated D/A columnar-like domains, at the micro- or
276
submicrometer dimensions, by exploring a new method using the
inherent tendency of polymer blends to phase segregation;
iv) exploring the use of crosslinkable polymers to fabricate
multilayer device structures, in particular tandem cells.
The photophysical study of the new materials prepared under the
project will also be performed (luminescent properties) in order to
establish structure - fundamental properties relevant to the design
of optimal structures with photovoltaic effect.
Acron / Ref
UNIME / PTDC/FIS/72831/2006
Title
UNIME-Unimolecular Electronics
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project aims at:
i) the design and and synthesis of conjugated oligomers to act as
molecular wires or molecular rectifiers;
ii) address individual molecular wires and rectifiers and measure
their current-voltage characteristics;
iii) the study of the assembly of these two-terminal devices on
specific surfaces.
Acron / Ref
Title
VIDAS / PTDC/EEA-TEL/75217/2006
VIsible
light
communications
for
advanced
Driver
Assistance
Systems
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
systems using white and coloured LEDs commonly used in outdoor
traffic lighting scenarios (namely, vehicle and traffic lights). To
achieve this target, several research issues must be addressed:
- To characterise the outdoor optical communication channel
277
through field measurements, including signal (LEDs) and noise
sources.
- To develop theoretical models of the outdoor visible-light
communication channel (emitter, propagation, receiver and noise
sources).
- To analyse adequate modulation schemes adjusted for outdoor
visible-light communication systems.
- To develop a system design for traffic scenarios.
- To develop an experimental prototype in order to demonstrate the
utilisation of visible light in transmission systems for outdoor
applications.
Main project results will be presented in targeted scientific
conferences and journals and exploited to create synergies with
other European partners.
Acron / Ref
ESPECTRO
Title
Spectrum Monitorization and Control. Integration of Infrastructures
Funding
ICP/ANACOM
Descript.
The purpose of this project is to automate the measuring
procedures used in the different Monitoring Centers of ANACOM
(Portuguese Telecommunications Regulator) to monitor and control
the
radiofrequency
spectrum
in
Portuguese
territory.
The
automation must allow remote operation, that is to say, to perform
tests for instance in Azores from another Center, namely the main
one sited in Barcarena.
Acron / Ref
Title
Prep_SKA
A Preparatory Phase proposal for the Square Kilometer Array
278
Funding
EC - FP7
Descript.
The baseline design for the SKA is an interferometer array capable
of imaging the radio sky at frequencies from ~70 MHz to ~25 GHz,
and providing an all-sky monitoring capability at frequencies below
1 GHz. The telescope is to be built in three phases, and will be able
to carry out significant scientific observations as it is being built.
The concept involves parabolic dishes with innovative feeds to
maximize a combination of spatial and frequency coverage; at
lower frequencies phased arrays can become cost-effective and
offer new operational capabilities. Technological innovation, closely
paralleling commercial IT developments, is the key to the design
concepts under investigation and to the target cost of 1.5 billion
Euro. Data transport rates are likely to be in the range of 100 Gigabits/sec to Tera-bits/sec, with Petaflop capacity required for the
central processor. Much of the required technology is currently
being developed in the course of specific design studies (including
the EC funded FP6 SKA Design Study, SKADS) and the construction
of several SKA Pathfinder instruments around the world. The final
step of integrating the accumulated R&D knowledge into a detailed
system design for the SKA, is planned to take place from 2008 to
2011, with the first three years being under the aegis of PrepSKA.
Acron / Ref
BPMeas
Title
Blood Pressure Measurement
Funding
Descript.
The project objective is to develop models and measurement
systemas associated with Blood Pressure Measurement through a
international
participation
of
IEEE
scientist
from
different
universities and research institutions.
279
Acron / Ref
Title
CLASSE
Detection, Classification and Estimation of Defects in Metallic Plates
Subject to Manual Inspection
Funding
IT Internal
Descript.
Non destructive testing (NDT) is of paramount importance for
ensuring the integrity of materials. Eddy currents testing (ECT) is
one of several methods like, remote field testing (RFT), flux leakage
and Barkhausen noise, that use electromagnetic theory to examine
conducting materials. It is a particularly attractive test because it
offers both very high detectability and high scanning speeds.
Besides direct contact with the test material is not necessary.
Nowadays, with the use of microprocessor based measuring
instruments, the potential and user-friendliness of eddy currents
testing has been greatly enhanced. The role of the computer has
two different components: one related with the possibility to
automate the measuring system (data acquisition control, data
processing, signal classification and displaying) and other with
numerical
modeling
of
the
testing
process.
The
computing
capabilities are used to quantitatively predict eddy current signals
for realistic situations and to evaluate crack profiles from testing
signals by solving the inverse problem of the physical phenomenon
under test. At this time the tasks related to the data acquisition,
signal processing and graphical representation, are already under
way, with some work already published [1-6,8,9]. The point is that
the inverse problem of computing the crack profiles from the eddy
currents data is ill-posed, i.e., the crack profiles are not univocally
determined by the measured eddy currents. A possible approach to
mitigate the ill-posedness nature of this inverse problem is to
classify the crack profiles according to the different types of
material defects. The idea is to exploit the a priori knowledge of the
problem and thus select the proper defect model. In order to
investigate the assumptions of the technique, particularly, patterns
identification,
a
huge
amount
of
data
is
essential
280
and
experimentation is necessary.
Acron / Ref
HEAD
Title
HEAD – Integrated Class D Audio Amplifier with High Efficiency
Funding
IT Internal
Descript.
This project proposes to develop a novel class D audio amplifier for
portable applications with high efficiency and very low harmonic
distortion. Currently the research of portable audio codecs using
mix linear-switching techniques is under high development, aiming
high efficiency and audio fidelity. The class D amplifier is one of the
most used circuit solution to obtain high efficiency.
Acron / Ref
Title
Space-DCDC
Space-DCDC – DC-DC controller for space applications
Funding
Internal IT
Descript.
This project proposes to develop a novel DC-DC control IC for
space applications, in a Europen technology as the AMS 0.35um
CMOS. This solution will allow minimizing the number of external
components by lowering the need to qualify several different
components. The circuit will include all the control circuitry
necessary for the DC-DC converter, and allow the use of voltage or
current mode control and current limitation.
Acron / Ref
Title
AZOMAGCON
Transition metal complexes based on new thio-azo ligands for
heterobimetallic networks and molecular conductors
281
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This project aims at the preparation of new transition metal
complexes with thio-azo ligands and to test their use in the
preparation of magnetic heterobimetallic complexes and extended
networks and their use in molecular conductors. Development of
synthetic routes to prepare new divalent ligands and metal
complexes
and
study
of
correlation
between
molecular
and
crystalline structure with magnetic and electrical properties in this
type of solids.
282
4.4.5
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Eduardo de Sousa
Saraiva
Student
Title
Beatriz Borges
Balastros Electrónicos: Uma nova
Tecnologia de Regulação
Jorge Manuel
Conversores DC-DC para a Industria
António Bañon
Correia Guilherme Aeroespacial - II
Moisés Simões
Vitor Almeida
Electronic Steering Wheel for FST Car
Piedade
On the Use of Logic Programming over
Rodrigo Fernandes
João Honrado
Spatial Databases
Mice pacemaker for induction of
Cristiano Tavares
Luís Carvalho
arrithmias and auricular arrhythmia's
Ângela Maria
A Euclidean Model for Euclidean
Quadrado Gil Robalo
Geometry
Célia Margarida
A problem on optimal transportation
Fonseca martins
with several generalizations
Fernanda Maria
Computing areas using Green´s
Marques Martins
Theorem and a Software Planimeter
Pacheco
Fátima Maria da Luz
Cónicas
Augusto Teixeira
Paulo Jorge Costa
Control strategies and fault diagnosis in
Pereira
induction generators for wind power
Development of a laboratory prototype
Marco Alexandre
André Manuel dos
of an electric drive based on a matrix
Neves Ferreira
Santos Mendes
converter with fault-tolerant capabilities
Duarte Rodrigues
From Electronic Crystals to Photonic
Carlos Paiva
Pires
Crystals
Implementation of a fault-tolerant
Pedro Miguel Martins
electric drive based on a back-to-back
da Silva
converter
Sérgio Filipe Pestana
Implementation of advanced techniques
for the commissioning of electric drives
Mendes
Pedro Braga
Marcelino Santos Integrated Audio Power Amplifier
António Topa
Filipa Isabel
Rodrigues Prudêncio
Nuno Horta
Francisco Alegria
Michel Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Raúl Martins
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Sérgio Cruz
António Topa
Sérgio Cruz
Sérgio Cruz
Bruno Ricardo
Oliveira Baptista
Co- Supervisors
Marina Perdigão
Carlos Paiva
Michel Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Fernanda Lima
Sérgio Cruz
Henry Amaral
António Cardoso
António Topa
Romeu Correia
Amado
Carlos Paiva
António Cardoso
Andrea Alonso Pérez
António Topa
Walid Karam
Azzubaidi
António Cardoso
Olavo José Benta da
Silva Brites
António Cardoso
José Luís de Jesus
Fernandes
Eduardo de Sousa
Saraiva
Moisés Augusto
Martins
Carlos Paiva
Marina Perdigão
Metamaterial Waveguides for
Microwaves and Millimeter Waves
Mineração de Dados Espaciais de
Registos GPS para a Extracção
Automática de Rodovias
Modeling and simulation of static and
dynamic eccentricity in induction
machines fed by a matrix converter
Moving Media in Minkowski Space Time
Algebra
Organização da Manutenção na Gestão
de Activos Escolares
Relativistic Electrodynamics with
Minkowski spacetime algebra
End
Date
2/2009
5/2009
5/2009
5/2009
6/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
7/2009
Accionamentos Baseados em Motores
Síncronos de Ímanes Permanentes, com
9/2009
Capacidade de Regeneração de Energia,
para Veículos Eléctricos Híbridos
Aplicação de Accionamentos Baseados
9/2009
em Geradores Síncronos de Ímanes
Permanentes em Turbinas Eólicas
Caracterização de métodos de controlo
9/2009
de fluxo luminoso em lâmpadas
fluorescentes
283
Supervisor
Student
António Cardoso
Fernando Miguel da
Costa Sequeira Leitão
Francisco Alegria
João Vicente
Sérgio Cruz
Sérgio Cruz
Co- Supervisors
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Nuno Filipe Borges
Torres dos Santos
Filipe Alexandre
Almeida Fernandes
Eduardo de Sousa
Saraiva
Pedro Pires Silveira
Marina Perdigão
Francisco Alegria
João Ribeiro
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Luís Cruz
Edgar Lopes
Luís Cruz
José Ricardo Estêvão
Cabeças
Nuno Horta
Pedro Sousa
Beatriz Borges
André Coelho Pinto
Pedro Ramos
Luis Filipe de Almeida
Mendes
Pedro Ramos
Jose Carlos Sequeira
Martins dos Santos
Nuno Horta
António Gorgulho
Pedro Ramos
Luis Filipe Soldado
Granadeiro Rosado
Hugo Ribeiro
Rui Neves
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Title
End
Date
Desenvolvimento e Aplicação de um
Sistema de Gestão da Manutenção
9/2009
Assistida por Computador numa Base
Aérea
Design of an Electronic Engine Control
9/2009
Unit – FST
Development in Labview environment of
9/2009
a platform for learning electric circuits
Development of e-learning tools in
9/2009
Labview environment
Estudo do Desenvolvimento de um
9/2009
Balastro Electrónico Baseado em
Elementos Magnéticos Saturáveis
On Road Dyno for Formula Student Car
9/2009
– FST
Sistema para localização e identificação
9/2009
de logomarcas
Sistema portátil e autónomo para
9/2009
aquisição de vídeo no âmbito de um
dispositivo médico
Modelação Inteligente de Circuitos e
10/2009
Sistemas Integrados Analógicos com
Recurso a Sistemas Difusos
One Stage Converter for Photovoltaic
10/2009
Panel
Development of a analog acquisition
module for digital protection of motors 11/2009
and generators
Impedance Measurement System Based
11/2009
on dsPIC
MFUNDS: Computação Inteligente
11/2009
aplicada à Gestão de Fundos de
Investimento
Welding flaw detection
11/2009
Análise de Imagens Médicas para o
Diagnóstico do Cancro da Mama
12/2009
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
Richard Guise
Beatriz Borges
Leandro Alberto
Pedro Santos
CMOS technology monolithic integration
12/2009
of a switched DC-DC converter
Telmo Reis Cunha
João Pedro Pires da
Cruz
Luis Nero
Alves,Telmo Reis
Cunha
Desenho de PADs digitais de
entrada/saída em tecnologia CMOS
Telmo Reis Cunha
Luis Girão Mendes
Gouveia
Telmo Reis Cunha
Ana Charas
Joana Farinhas
Manuel Matos
Luís Cruz
José Carlos Pinto dos
Santos
Fernando Tim Tim
Janeiro
José Manuel Botelho
Pinela do Ó
João Francisco
Alves Martins
Beatriz Borges
Marco Pinto
Marcelino Santos
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Florbela da Conceição
Andrade dos Santos
Ricardo Ferreira
Rocha
Sistema de Monitorização do Nível de
Preenchimento de Ecopontos
Aplicações de compostos orgânicos
como camada activa em células
fotovoltaicas
Compressão de imagem de baixa
complexidade para tele-contagem
Levantamento, estudo e análise crítica
das protecções eléctricas da rede de
distribuição de energia eléctrica.
Power Supply Based in a Piesoelectric
Transformer
12/2009
12/2009
1/2010
2/2010
2/2010
3/2010
Bertrand´s Postulate
7/2010
Design of a single-phase high voltage
catenary for electric trains equipped
with Interlaced Four Quadrant
Converters
7/2010
284
Supervisor
António Cardoso
Edgar Silva Pereira
Maria Paula Prata
de Sousa
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Luís Cruz
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Diagnóstico de Análise de Avarias em
Accionamentos Baseados em Gerados
Síncronos de Ímanes Permanentes
Aplicados em Turbinas Eólicas
7/2010
E-learning Project for Dyslexia
7/2010
Benjamim Marques
Fault tolerance in Distributed Objects
7/2010
Bruno Miguel
Marrucho de Oliveira
Flávio Alexandre
Almeida Gaspar
Ana Luisa de Sousa
Marques e Silva
Luis Pedro Tavares
Santos
Rita M. Simões
Santos Viais
Pedro Rodrigues
Modeling and control of a multilevel
7/2010
converter used in electric traction.
New Traction topologies for electric
7/2010
vehicle using renewable energy.
Pythagorean approximations and
7/2010
continued fractions
The dimensioning and the correct use of
7/2010
a three-phase induction motor
Nuno Miguel Amaral
Freire
Anabela Rocha
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Ana Isabel Marques
Rodrigues
Manfred Niehus
Hugo Rodrigues
Sérgio Cruz
Marco Filipe Pereira
de Sousa
Sérgio Cruz
Hugo Filipe Martins
Rogrigues
Michel Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Ricardo Castro
Erdos`proof of Euler´s Formula
9/2010
Classificação Multimodal da Retina
9/2010
Different proofs of the infinity of primes 9/2010
Fibras ópticas especiais como sensores
ambientais e biológicos
Impact of power systems faults on the
behavior of wind power generators
Simulator of Electric Materials in
Labview Environment for Electrical
Engineers
Translating Spatial Logic Queries to
PostGIS
9/2010
9/2010
9/2010
9/2010
Pedro Miguel Assis
Pereira dos Santos
Nuno Horta
FOLLOW - Aplicação de Modelos para
Seguir Misseis aos Mercados Bolsistas
9/2010
Rui Neves
Micael Jose
Goncalves Soares
Rui Manuel Rocha Sistema de pontuação de Taekwondo
9/2010
Francisco Alegria
João Mendes
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Beatriz Borges
Pedro Martins
Fernando Tim Tim
Janeiro
Luís Miguel Leitão da
Silva
Francisco Alegria
João Costa
Beatriz Borges
Raúl Miguel Macedo
da Silva
Rui Neves
Beatriz Borges
Mohamed de Jesus
Beatriz Borges
Daniel Almeida
Nuno Horta
Gil Reis
Nuno Horta
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Francisco Carvalho
Nuno Horta
Frederico Cadete
Nuno Horta
Miguel Vilhena
Aquisição de Dados em Tempo Real
para Carro de Competição FST (Formula 10/2010
Student)
Converters for Renwable Energy
10/2010
Sources
Desenvolvimento de um Contador de
10/2010
Energia Eléctrica Inteligente
Estacao movel para mediadas da
10/2010
qualidade do ar
Interface Inverter Between Eolic
Turbine and AC Mains
10/2010
Resonant Pole Inverter
10/2010
Single Stage Converters for
Photovoltaic Pannels: Control circuit for
MPPT
“RFIDnet” - Planeamento de Rede RFID
com Recurso a Técnicas de Computação
Evolutiva
Amplificador Classe D Integrado para
Audio Digital
Jorge Manuel
Amplificador Hi-Fi para Audio Portátil de
Correia Guilherme Elevada Eficiência
CREDIT: Computação Inteligente
R. Neves,
aplicada à Análise de Risco na
Atribuição de Crédito
Hugo Ribeiro
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
10/2010
285
Supervisor
Student
Nuno Horta
Carla Duarte
Nuno Horta
António Proença
Nuno Horta
Adriano Simões
Rui Neves
Paulo Miguel Verde
Antunes Parracho
Pedro Ramos
Filipe Daniel Bastos
da Silva Macedo
Pedro Ramos
Pedro Xavier
Pedro Ramos
Nuno Santos
Pedro Ramos
Helena Rosa
Pedro Ramos
João Pedro Pinto
Rosa Dias
Pedro Ramos
Frederico Carvalho
Pedro Ramos
Pedro Ramos
Pedro Ramos
Rui Neves
Rui Neves
Co- Supervisors
Pedro Agulha
Inês Sousa
Nuno Horta
António Ribeiro
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
Ângelo Miguel
Arrifano
End
Date
Jorge Manuel
EVOLUTION III: Optimização Inteligente
10/2010
Correia Guilherme de Circuitos e Sistemas Integrados
PLASTIC: Projecto de Circuitos
10/2010
Integrados Orgânicos
STOCKS: Computação Inteligente
Rui Neves
10/2010
aplicada à Gestão de Portefólios de
Acções
PATTERN - Identificações de Padrões
Nuno Horta
11/2010
em Mercados Bolsistas
Development of a hardware platform for
PLC communications in the CENELEC A 12/2010
band
Electrical power meter and power
12/2010
quality analyzer
Impedance measurement system based
12/2010
on dsPIC ou DSP for viscosity sensor
Labview based impedance
12/2010
measurement system
Modelling Implementation of adaptive
12/2010
communication protocol for PLC
communications in the CENELEC A band
Motor diagnosis electronic system
based on signature analysis of vibration 12/2010
and current
Grisha Tulcidas
Joana Vicente
Guerreiro Mendes
Manuel António
Ferreira da Silva
Title
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Rui Neves
Smart Electricity Meter
12/2010
Smart Power Metering Device
12/2010
Real time power quality monitoring
2/2011
system for 3-phase power grid
FLOOD - Movimentos de Fundos entre
9/2011
Mercados
FOREX - Prever Mercados de Futuros de
9/2011
Câmbios
ATOM: Computação Inteligente aplicada
à Optimização dos Intervalos de
10/2011
Decisão de Indicadores Técnicos na
Gestão de Activos Fin.
Joint Source-Channel Robust Coding for
9/2012
Multimedia Communications
Table 31 – List of MSc Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2009
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Beatriz Borges
Raúl Domingos
Monteiro
Nuno Horta
Manuel Barros
António Cardoso
Joaquim Júdice
M'hamed Drif
S. Rosa
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Resonant Switching Technologies for
3/2009
Mains Converters
Síntese e Optimização Automática de
Jorge Manuel
5/2009
Circuitos e Sistemas Baseada em
Correia Guilherme
Técnicas de Computação Evolutiva
Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Drives by the
7/2009
Motor Signature Analysis
The Eigenvalue Complementarity
10/2009
Problem
286
Supervisor
Student
Beatriz Borges
Hugo Marques
Beatriz Borges
Vitor Manuel da
Silva Costa
António Cardoso
Acácio Manuel
Raposo Amaral
António Cruz Serra
Edgar Silva Pereira
António Cardoso
Natália dos Santos
Gameiro Gonçalves
Abel João Gomes
Adriano Nunes
Raposo
Beatriz Borges
Beatriz Borges
Pedro Santos
Maria Cecila Rosa
Rui Miguel Afonso
Gomes da Fonseca
End
Date
3/2010
High Frequency DC-DC Converters for
3/2010
“System–on–a–Chip (SoC)”
Fault Diagnostics in Digitally Controlled
DC-DC Converters, by the Application of
5/2010
Measurement Techniques Based on
States Estimation
Magnetic Induction Tomography
5/2010
Matrix Equations
6/2010
Domingos da Silva
Polarized Microwave Galactic Emission
Barbosa
Mapping in the Northern Hemisphere
Fault Tolerance in Switched Reluctance
Motor Drives
6/2010
7/2010
Dynamic Geometric Modeling of Plasmidic
9/2010
DNA for Therapeutical Purposes
David Vaz
Hugo Ribeiro
Carlos Ferreira
Title
Active Power Filters
Nuno Gonçalo
Bandeira Brás
Dinis Magalhães
Santos
Michel Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Co- Supervisors
Luís Sá
Modeling, Querying and Mining Spatial
Databases through Logic Programming
9/2010
Power Factor Correctors
10/2010
Switching Audio Amplifiers
10/2010
11/2010
Jorge Morgado
Ana Luísa Mendonça
Plastic Optical Fibers doped with
conjugated polymers showing gain
Rui L. Aguiar
Mónica Jorge
Carvalho de
Figueiredo
Sincronização em Sistemas Integrados a
12/2010
Alta-Velocidade
António Cardoso
Carlos Alberto
Figueiredo Ramos
Aproveitamento Electrotérmico de
Sistemas Fotovoltaicos em Complexos
Desportivos
1/2011
Técnicas de controlo para balastros
electrónicos baseadas no uso de
elementos controláveis reactivos
2/2011
Eduardo de Sousa
Saraiva
Marina Mendes
Sargento Domingues
Perdigão
Pedro Silva Girão
Vítor Viegas
José Dias Pereira
Design and Implementation of a
NCAP/XML Platform Based on IEEE 1451
6/2011
Standard for Industrial Fieldbus
Applications
José Dias Pereira
Vítor Manuel
Rodrigues Viegas
Pedro Silva Girão
Plataformas de Interoperabilidade para
Redes de Comunicação Industrial
6/2011
Maintenance Management and
Organization of School Buildings
7/2011
Octavian
Postolache,Pedro
Silva Girão
Vital Signals Monitoring Wheelchair
8/2011
Integration of IEEE 1451 with OGC-SWE
12/2011
and Ocean Instruments
António Cardoso
Ana Carla Vicente
Vieira
Octavian Postolache Eduardo Pinheiro
Helena Ramos
Joaquin del Rio
Fernandez
Antoni Manuel
Helena Ramos
Marco Corrado
Pasquale Daponte
António Cardoso
Jorge Oliveira
Estima
Using Alternative Stimulus Signals for
Testing ADCs
Análise do Desempenho de Motores
Síncronos de Ímanes Permanentes
Quando Alimentados Através de Um
Conversor Tolerante a Falhas
12/2011
2/2012
287
Supervisor
António Cardoso
Jorge Morgado
Edgar Silva Pereira
Student
Co- Supervisors
António Manuel
Luzano de Quadros
Flores
Tânia Isabel de
Almeida Braz
Fernando Marcos
Edgar Silva Pereira
Joaquim Manuel
Pereira Mateus
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
Ricardo Jorge
Antunes Bichinho
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
Przemyslaw
Lenkiewicz
Francisco Alegria
José Lopes
Nuno Horta
David Guilherme
Nuno Horta
Mauro Santos
António Cardoso
Eunice de Fátima
Fragoso Ribeiro
António Cardoso
Luís Manuel Ramos
de Oliveira
Jacques Aveline
Loureiro da Silva
2/2012
Non volatile resistive memories
4/2012
Matrix Algorithms
6/2012
Metapopulation in Epidemic Models
6/2012
Human Visual Perception in Image
Compression
9/2012
Diagnóstico de Avarias em Sistemas de
Energia para Telecomunicações
9/2012
10/2012
12/2012
12/2012
1/2013
Diagnóstico de Avarias nos Enrolamentos
3/2013
de Transformadores Trifásicos
Luís Filipe Soldado
Granadeiro Rosado
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Rui Neves
José Manuel Matias
Pinto
Nuno Horta
José Carlos Sequeira
Martins dos Santos
End
Date
Utilização do Motor de Indução no
Diagnóstico de Avarias em Cargas
Acopladas
Research Topic: High Performance
Computing for 3D and 4D Image
Segmentation: Application to Automatic
Detection of Breast Cancer
Optimization of the operation of a Ion
Implanter
Amplicadores de Elevado Desempenho
para Áudio
Arquitecturas Reconfiguráveis de Elevado
Jorge Manuel
Desempenho p/ Terminais Móveis da 4G
Correia Guilherme
e 5G
Pedro Ramos
Pedro Ramos
Title
Non-Destructive Testing Based on Eddy
11/2013
Currents
OPTIMAL STOCK MARKET INVESTMENTS
BASED ON EVOLUTIONARY
1/2014
COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES AND
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Development and Implementation of an
Impedance Measuring System Applied to 2/2014
Viscosity Sensors
Table 32 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2009
288
4.4.6
Publications
Applied Mathematics
Papes in Journals
•
Pereira, E.; F. Martins; " Block Eigenvectors Obtained by Block Hotteling
Deflation ", Far East Journal of Appl. Mathematics , Vol. 36 , No. 3 , pp.
379 - 387 , October , 2009.
•
Lopes, M.; J-C. Wolff; J. Dias; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Determination of the
composition of counterfeit Heptodin™ tablets by near infrared chemical
imaging and classical least squares estimation ", Analytica Chimica Acta ,
Vol. 641 , No. 1-2 , pp. 46 - 51 , May , 2009.
•
Júdice, J. J.; P. Amaral; L. M. Fernandes; H. Sherali; " On optimal zeropreserving corrections for inconsistent linear systems ", Journal of Global
Optimization , Vol. 45 , No. 1 , pp. 645 - 666 , January , 2009.
•
Júdice, J. J.; H. Sherali; I. Ribeiro; S. Rosa; " On the asymmetric
eigenvalue complementarity problem ", Optimization Methods and
Software , Vol. 24 , No. 1 , pp. 549 - 586 , January , 2009.
•
Inácio , P.R.M.; B. Lakic; M. Freire; M. Sousa; P. Monteiro; " The Design
and Evaluation of the Simple Self-Similar Sequences Generator ",
Information Sciences , Vol. 179 , No. 23 , pp. 4029 - 4045 , November ,
2009.
•
Kovacec, A.; M. C.G. Gouveia; " The Hankel Pencil Conjecture ", Linear
Algebra and its Applications , Vol. 431 , No. 9 , pp. 1509 - 1525 ,
October , 2009.
•
Lima, L. L.; J. Barros; R. Kötter; " Byzantine Attacks against Network
Coding in Peer to Peer Distributed Storage ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT , Seoul , Korea, South , July , 2009.
•
Júdice, J. J.; " Complementary approaches for the computation of the
independent number of a graph ", Proc WSEAS Multiconf. in Appl
289
Mathematics , Puerto de la Cruz , Spain , pp. 178 - 183 , December ,
2009.
•
Pinho, P.T.; " FDTD with selective update: a method to minimize the
simulation time ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa
Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , May , 2009.
•
Sousa, Paula Prata; A. Pinto Pinto; " Ferramenta para Visualização da
Estrutura de Matrizes Esparsas de Grande Dimensão em GPU: GPU-MV ",
Proc Actas de Engenharias , Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
November , 2009.
•
Rodrigues , M.; P. Aguiar Aguiar; " Neuronal connectivity inference from
spike trains using an empirical probabilistic causality measure ", Proc
Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting - CNS , Berlin , Germany ,
Vol. 18 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2009.
•
Júdice, J. J.; A. Almeida; L. M. Fernandes; J. M. Patrício; " On the
computation of a nonnegative matrix factorization and its application in
telecommunications ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Santa M. da Feira , Portugal , Vol. , pp. 485 - 488 , May , 2009.
•
Sousa, Paula Prata; A. M. Ferreira Ferreira; A. Marques Marques; A.
Gomes; " Resolução de Sistemas de Equações Esparsas em GPU ", Proc
Actas de Engenharias , Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , November ,
2009.
•
Lopes, M.; J-C. Wolff; J. Dias; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Spectral unmixing
via minimum volume simplices: application to near infrared spectra of
counterfeit tablets ", Proc IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and
Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing - WHISPERS 2009 ,
Grenoble , France , August , 2009.
Impact of Telecommunications on Society
Papers in Journals
•
Monteiro, F. A.; " Faster and faster: a look at the remarkable
achievements in error-free digital communications ", BlueSci , Vol. 5 ,
No. 15 , pp. 14 - 15 , April , 2009 .
290
•
Neves, D. M. Neves; C. Ribeiro; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Channel
Estimation Schemes for OFDM Relay-Assisted Systems ", Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference-(VTC-Spring) , Barcelona , Spain , Vol.
69th , pp. 1 - 5 , April , 2009 .
Instrumentation and Measurement
Book Chapters
•
Ramos, P.M.; SR Rapuano; RCM Martins; P. Daponte; " Frequency and
time-frequency domain analysis tools in measurement " - Chapter in
Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science ,
Franco Pavese and Alistair B. Forbes , Birkhäuser , Boston , 2009.
•
Oliveira, C.; D.S. Sebastião; D. Ladeira; L. M. Correia; " Measurements "
- Chapter in Electromagnetic Field Exposure: Risk Communication in the
context
of
Uncertainty
,
Pozo,C.,
Papameletiou,D.,
Wiedeman,P.,
Ravazzani,P. and Deventer,E. , EC , Bruxelles , 2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; " Modelling of Oscillometric Blood Pressure
Monitors - from white to black box models " - Chapter in Recent
Advances in Biomedical Engineering , Aleksandar Lazinica , In-Tech ,
Vienna , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Amaral, A.M.R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A Simple Offline Technique for
Evaluating the Condition of Aluminum-Electrolytic-Capacitors ", IEEE
Trans. on Industrial Electronics , Vol. 56 , No. 8 , pp. 3230 - 3237 ,
August , 2009.
•
Janeiro, F. M.; P.M. Ramos; " Application of Genetic Algorithms in
Sinewave Fitting ", Trans. on Systems, Signals and Devices , Vol. 4 , No.
4 , pp. 563 - 574 , December , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; " Bias of amplitude estimation using three-parameter sine
fitting in the presence of additive noise ", Measurement , Vol. 42 , No. 5 ,
pp. 748 - 756 , June , 2009.
291
•
Ramos, P.M.; A.C. Serra; " Comparison of frequency estimation
algorithms for power quality assessment ", Measurement , Vol. 42 , No.
9 , pp. 1312 - 1317 , November , 2009.
•
Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; T. Radil; " Comparison of Impedance
Measurements in a DSP using Ellipse-fit and Seven-Parameter Sine-fit
Algorithms ", Measurement , Vol. 42 , No. 9 , pp. 1370 - 1379 ,
November , 2009.
•
Buiatti, G. M. Buiatti; J. A. M-R Martín-Ramos; A.M.R. Amaral; P. D.
Dworakowski; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Condition Monitoring of Metallized
Polypropylene
Film
Capacitors
in
Railway
Power
Trains
",
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 ,
No. 10 , pp. 3796 - 3805 , October , 2009.
•
Shariat-Panahi, S.; Alegria; A. Manuel; " Design and Test of a High
Resolution
Acquisition
System
for
Marine
Seismology
",
IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine , Vol. 12 , No. 2 , pp. 8 - 15
, April , 2009.
•
Oliveira, C.; D.S. Sebastião; D. Ladeira; G.C. Carpinteiro; M.A. Antunes;
L. M. Correia; C. A. Fernandes; " Electromagnetic fields emitted by
fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps ", RadioProtecção , Vol. II ,
No. 14/15 , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; A.A. Anand; P.S. Sinha; G. Postolache; "
Health status and air quality parameters monitoring based on mobile
technology
and
WPAN
",
Intrnl.
Journal
Advanced
Media
and
Communication , Vol. 3 , No. 1/2 , pp. 139 - 153 , April , 2009.
•
Postolache, G.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " HRV and BPV neural network
model with wavelet based algorithm calibration ", Measurement , Vol. 42
, No. 6 , pp. 805 - 814 , July , 2009.
•
Shariat-Panahi, S.; Alegria; A. Manuel; A.C. Serra; " IEEE 1057 Jitter
Test of Waveform Recorders ", , Vol. 58 , No. 7 , pp. 2234 - 2244 , July ,
2009.
•
Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " IEEE Instrumentation &
Measurement Magazine ", , Vol. 12 , No. 6 , pp. 21 - 24 , December ,
2009.
•
Janeiro, F. M.; P.M. Ramos; " Impedance Measurements Using Genetic
Algorithms and Multiharmonic Signals ", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
292
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 , No. 2 , pp. 383 - 388
, February , 2009.
•
Sebastião, D.S.; D. Ladeira; M.A. Antunes; L. M. Correia; " Influence of
temporal and spatial sampling parameters on electromagnetic field ",
RadioProtecção , Vol. II , No. 14 e 15 , pp. 85 - 96 , May , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; F. Almeida; E. Martinho; " Measuring soil contamination with
the time
domain induced polarization
method
using
LabVIEW ",
Measurement , Vol. 42 , No. 7 , pp. 1082 - 1091 , August , 2009.
•
Radil, T.; P.M. Ramos; A.C. Serra; " New Spectrum Leakage Correction
Algorithm for Frequency Estimation of Power System Signals ", IEEE
No. 5 , pp. 1670 - 1679 , May , 2009.
•
Antunes, P.; Lima; N. Alberto; H. Rodrigues Rodrigues; Pedro Pinto
Pinto; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; H Varum; A. Costa; P.S André; "
Optical Fiber Accelerometer System for Structural Dynamic Monitoring ",
IEEE Sensors Journal , Vol. 9 , No. 11 , pp. 1346 - 1354 , November ,
2009.
•
Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " PDF-based Progressive
Polynomial Calibration Method for Smart Sensors Linearization ", IEEE
No. 9 , pp. 3245 - 3252 , September , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; A.C. Serra; " Precision of Independently Based Gain and Offset
Error of an ADC using the Histogram Method ", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 , No. 3 , pp. 512 - 521
, March , 2009.
•
Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; M. Tlemçani ; A.C. Serra; " Recent
developments on impedance measurements with DSP based ellipse
fitting algorithms ", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND
MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 , No. 5 , pp. 1680 - 1689 , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; " Smart Sensors Network
for Air Quality Monitoring Applications ", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 , No. 9 , pp. 3253 3261 , September , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; A.C. Serra; " The Histogram Test of ADCs with Sinusoidal
Stimulus is Unbiased by Phase Noise ", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
293
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT , Vol. 58 , No. 11 , pp. 3847 3854 , November , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; F. Carvalho; P. Agulha; D. Pasadas; O. Postolache; H. G.
Ramos; A. L. Ribeiro; " 2D Magnetic Field Mobile Sensing System for
Eddy Current Testing ", Proc IEEE Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand ,
October , 2009.
•
Pasadas, D.; F. Carvalho; P. Agulha; O. Postolache; H. G. Ramos;
Alegria; " 2D Magnetic Field Mobile Sensing System for Eddy Current
Testing 15jul ", Proc IEEE Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand ,
October , 2009.
•
" A 2D Magnetic Field Mobile Sensing System for Eddy Current Testing ",
Proc IEEE Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand , October , 2009.
•
Guilherme, J.G.; " A Low-cost EEG Stand-alone device for brain computer
interface ", Proc Biomedical Engineering Conf. - BioMED , Porto , Portugal
, Vol. 1 , pp. 430 - 433 , January , 2009.
•
Brás, N.B.; RCM Martins; A.C. Serra; " A Survey on the Implementation
of a Magnetic Induction Tomography Prototype: Theoretical Description
and Experimental Issues ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 121 - 124 , May , 2009.
•
Silva, H.; G. Martins; S. P. Palma; P. Mil-Homens; M. Valamatos; " An
Automated Athlete Performance Evaluation System. From theory to
practice ", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics
and Devices - Biodevices , Porto , Portugal , January , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; " An IEEE1451.x and RFID
compatibility unit for water quality monitoring ", Proc IMEKO World
Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2009.
•
Serra, A.C.; " Analog to Digital Converters Testing ", Proc INMETRO 8th
International Seminar on Electrical Metrology - VIIISemetro , Joao
Pessoa , Brazil , Vol. 1 , June , 2009.
•
Janeiro, F. M.; P.M. Ramos; " Application of Genetic Algorithms for
Estimation of Impedance Parameters of Two-Terminal Networks ", Proc
294
IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC ,
Singapore , Singapore , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 602 - 606 , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; J M Joaquim; G. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Artificial
Neural network approach for obesity-hypertension classification ", Proc
INSTICC
International
Conf.
on
Bio-inspired
Systems
and
Signal
Processing - Biosignals , Porto , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 514 - 520 ,
January , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; " Bias In ADC Terminal Based Gain and Offset Estimation Using
the Histogram Method ", Proc IMEKO , Lisbon , Portugal , September ,
2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Blood Pressure and Heart
Rate Variabilities Estimation Using Ballistocardiography ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. I ,
pp. 125 - 128 , May , 2009.
•
Alves, M.; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; " CAN Protocol: A Laboratory
Prototype for Fieldbus Applications ", Proc IMEKO World Congress ,
Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 454 - 457 , September , 2009.
•
Alberto, N.; L. Carvalho; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Characterization of
polymerization reaction of self-curing dental cements using fibre optic
sensors ", Proc International Conf. on Biodental Engineering , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 034 , pp. 1 - 3 , June , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; H. G. Ramos; " City-Wide Mobile Air Quality Measurement
System ", Proc IEEE Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand , October ,
2009.
•
Janeiro, F. M.; F. Wagner; P.M. Ramos; A. M. Silva; " CLOUD BASE
HEIGHT ESTIMATION USING A LOW-COST DIGITAL CAMERA ", Proc
IMEKO World Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 2270 - 2273 ,
September , 2009.
•
Alegria, ; " Comparison of the Precision of Gain and Offset Estimations
Obtained with the Histogram Test of ADCs ", Proc IMEKO World Congress
, Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Compressed Sensing
Implementation in Cardiac Signals ", Proc International Workshop on
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems , Rende ,
Italy , Vol. I , pp. 96 - 101 , September , 2009.
295
•
Ramos, P.M.; T. Radil; F. M. Janeiro; A.C. Serra; " Development and
Implementation of Algorithms for Power Quality Measurements ", Proc
, Vol. 1 , pp. 117 - 120 , May , 2009.
•
Prats, S.; L. Bilro; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; J. J. Keizer; " Development
of a POF based sensor device for measuring water turbidity in recently
burnt forest fires ", Proc Internacional Conf. on Plastic Optical Fibers POF , Sydney , Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 0 - 4 , September , 2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Digital Notch Filters
Implementation with Fixed-point Arithmetic ", Proc IMEKO World
Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 491 - 496 , September , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, A. L.; Alegria; O. Postolache; H. G. Ramos; " Eddy Current
Inspection of a Duralumin Plate ", Proc IEEE Instrumentation and
Measurement Technology Conf. , Singapore , Singapore , Vol. CD-ROM ,
May , 2009.
•
Oliveira, C.; D.S. Sebastião; D. Ladeira; G.C. Carpinteiro; M.A. Antunes;
L. M. Correia; C. A. Fernandes; " Electromagnetic fields emitted by
compact fluorescent lamps ", Proc The Bioelectromagnetics Society 30th
Annual Meeting - BEMS , Davos , Switzerland , June , 2009.
•
Antunes, M.A.; C. Oliveira; D.S. Sebastião; D. Ladeira; G.C. Carpinteiro;
L. M. Correia; C. A. Fernandes; " Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by
Fluorescent
and
Compact
Fluorescent
Lamps
",
Proc
Conf.
on
2009.
•
"
Electromagnetic
Fields
Radiated
by
Fluorescent
and
Compact
Fluorescent Lamps ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
•
Bilro, L.; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; " Enhanced Bend Sensitivity of a
Side-polished POF based Sensor ", Proc Internacional Conf. on Plastic
Optical Fibers - POF , Sydney , Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 0 - 4 , September ,
2009.
•
Alegria, ; " Error in the IEEE 1057 Standard Random Noise Test of ADCs
", Proc IMEKO , Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2009.
•
Sebastião, D.S.; D. Ladeira; M.A. Antunes; C. Oliveira; L. M. Correia; "
Fontes de Campos Electromagnéticos em Radiofrequência ", Proc
296
Congresso Português de Protecção Contra Radiações - CPPCR , Lisbon ,
Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Radil, T.; P.M. Ramos; " Frequency Domain Based Algorithm for
Estimation of Single-Tone Multichannel Signals ", Proc IEEE International
Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC , Singapore , Singapore ,
Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 973 - 977 , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; S.A. Antunes; F.A. Tavares; " Global
Instrumentation Network for Broadband RF Spectrum Monitoring ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria da Feira , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; H. G. Ramos; A. L. Ribeiro; Alegria; " GMR Based Eddy
Current Sensing Probe for Weld Zone Testing ", Proc IEEE Sensors ,
Chrischurch , New Zealand , Vol. 1 , pp. 73 - 78 , October , 2009.
•
Radil, T.; P.M. Ramos; A.C. Serra; " Improved Method for Detection and
Classification of Transients and Waveform Distortions Using Sine Fitting
Algorithms ", Proc International Conf. on Renewable Energies and Power
Quality - ICREPQ , Valencia , Spain , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 485.1 - 485.5 ,
April , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; G.F. Ferraria; N. Barroso; J. M. Dias Pereira;
G. Postolache; " Indoor Monitoring of Respiratory Distress Triggering
Factors Using a Wireless Sensing Network and a Smart Phone ", Proc
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf. , Singapore ,
Singapore , Vol. 1 , pp. 451 - 456 , May , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, A. L.; H. G. Ramos; " Modelização por Elementos Finitos do
Processo de Ensaio não Destrutivo Utilizando Correntes de Foucault ",
Proc Congresso de Métodos Numéricos em Engenharia , Barcelona ,
Spain , Vol. USB-Mem pen , July , 2009.
•
P. Antunes; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; P.S André; " Monitorization of Sea
Sand Transport in Coastal Areas Using Optical Fiber Sensors ", Proc IEEE
Sensors , Christchurch , New Zealand , October , 2009.
•
Rosado, L.; TS Santos; M. S. Piedade; P.M. Ramos; PV Vilaça; " New
non-destructive test technique on metal inspection ", Proc IMEKO World
Congress , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. Portugal , pp. 443 - 448 , September ,
2009.
297
•
Viegas, V.V.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; " Open Controller for
Distributed Instrumentation Systems ", Proc International Workshop on
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems , Rende,
Cosenza , Italy , Vol. to be defined , September , 2009.
•
Neto, V. Neto; J. Santos Santos; N. Alberto; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; J.
Grácio Grácio; " Optimization of diamond coatings on optical fibre
sensors for biological use ", Proc International Meeting on Development
in Materials, Processes and Applications of Emerging Technologies - MPA
, Manchester , United Kingdom , Vol. MPA37 , July , 2009.
•
Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; T. Radil; " Performance comparison of three
algorithms for two-channel sinewave parameter estimation: seven
parameter sine fit, ellipse fit, spectral sinc fit ", Proc IMEKO World
Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 480 - 484 , September , 2009.
•
Trindade, I. G.; R. Miguel; J. Lucas; J. E. Araújo; N. M. Garcia;
Piezoresistive Sensors for Medical applications ", Proc 4th International
Conf. on Surfaces Coatings and Nanostructured Materials - NanoSmat
2009 , Rome , Italy , pp. 1 - 1 , December , 2009.
•
Bilro, L.; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; " POF Technology for Pressure
Sensing and Resin Cure Monitoring ", Proc European Society for
Engineering Education Physics Teaching in Engineering Education - PTEE
, Wroclaw , Poland , September , 2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Pulse Arrival Time and
Ballistocardiogram Application to Blood Pressure Variability Estimation ",
Proc IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and ,
Cetraro , Italy , Vol. I , pp. 132 - 136 , May , 2009.
•
Antunes, P.; Lima; Pedro Pinto Pinto; H Varum; P.S André; " Sensor
óptico para monitorização do comportamento dinâmico de estruturas ",
Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior , Covilhã ,
•
Radil, T.; P.M. Ramos; A.C. Serra; " Single-phase power quality analyzer
based on a new detection and classification algorithm ", Proc IMEKO
World Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 917 - 922 ,
September , 2009.
298
•
Viegas, V.V.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; " Smart Transducer Block
Enables Plug & Play Transducers ", Proc IMEKO World Congress , Lisbon ,
Portugal , September , 2009.
•
Borges, Luis M.; S. Lebres; P. Araújo; F. J. Velez; A. Rente ; R. Salvado;
J. Jose Martinez; N. Barroca; J.M. Ferro; " Smart-Clothing, Innovation on
Mobile Healthcare ", Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias , Covilha
, Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Vasconcelos, V.; Alegria; " Solar Powering of a Mobile Telemetry Station
for Air Quality Monitoring ", Proc IMEKO , Lisbon , Portugal , September ,
2009.
•
Lima, ; P. Antunes; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Temperature and strain
discrimination using a single fibre Bragg grating written in a tapered
optical fibre ", Proc Optical Fiber Sensors Conf. , Edinburgh , United
Kingdom , October , 2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Unifying Visions on
Continuous, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring ", Proc DARPA
Workshop on Continuous, Non-Invasive Monitoring of Blood Pressure CNIMBP , San Diego , United States , Vol. I , pp. 3 - 3 , June , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J M Joaquim; G. Postolache; " Unobstrusive
Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate Monitor Embedded on a Wheelchair ",
Proc IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and ,
Cetraro , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , May , 2009.
•
Ramos, H. G.; A. L. Ribeiro; Alegria; O. Postolache; " Using a Mouse
Pointer as a Positioning Device in Eddy Current Testing ", Proc IMEKO
World Congress , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 00 , pp. 0 - 0 , September ,
2009.
•
Amaral, A.M.R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Using a Simple Charge-Discharge
Circuit to Estimate Capacitors Equivalent Circuit at Their Operating
Conditions ", Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology
Conf. - I2MTC , Singapore , Singapore , Vol. 1 , pp. 737 - 742 , May ,
2009.
•
Alegria, ; " Using Sinusoidal Instead of Triangular Stimulus Signals on
the IEEE 1057 Standard Random Noise Test of ADCs ", Proc IMEKO ,
Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2009.
299
•
Ramos, H. G.; O. Postolache; Alegria; A. L. Ribeiro; " Using the Skin
Effect to Estimate Cracks Depths in Mettalic Structures ", Proc IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf. , Singapore ,
Singapore , May , 2009.
•
Ramos, H. G.; A. L. Ribeiro; O. Postolache; Alegria; " Virtual Instrument
to
Detect
Defects
in
Conductive
Materials
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, A. L.; O. Postolache; H. G. Ramos; " Weld Testing Using Eddy
Current Probes and Image Processing ", Proc IMEKO World Congress ,
Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. PEN DRIVE , September , 2009.
•
Borges, Luis M.; N. Barroca; F. J. Velez; S. Lebres; " Wireless Flex
Sensor Belt Networks for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk
Pregnancies ", Proc IMEKO World Congress , Lisbon , Portugal ,
September , 2009.
Project Reports
•
Ramos, H. G.; " Relatório Técnico Científico de Progresso ", FCT ,
PTDC/EEA-ELC/67719/2006 , January , 2009.
Book Chapters
•
Rodrigues , M.; P. Xiau Xiao; I Chatzigeorgiou; I. J. Wassell; R Carrasco;
" Design Considerations and Algorithms for Broadband Fixed WiMAX
Systems " - Chapter in VLSI and Computer Architecture , Kenzo
Watanabe , Nova Publisher , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Guilherme, J.G.; " A 2.5 mW 80 dB DR 36 dB SNDR 22 MS/s Logarithmic
Pipeline ADC ", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits , Vol. 44 , No. 10 ,
pp. 2755 - 2765 , October , 2009.
300
•
Silva, A.; N.H. Horta; J.G. Guilherme; " Reconfigurable multi-mode
sigma–delta modulator for 4G mobile terminals ", Integration, The VLSI
Journal , Vol. 42 , No. 1 , pp. 34 - 46 , January , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, A.; T. Costa; R. Gama; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; " A bandgap
Voltage Reference with Only CMOS Transistors ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Santa maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. I ,
pp. 69 - 72 , May , 2009.
•
Barros , M.B.; J.G. Guilherme; N.H. Horta; " Analog Circuits Optimization
based on Evolutionary Computation Techniques ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Feira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
April , 2009.
•
Gama, R.; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; " Design of a low-power, open loop,
multiply-by-two amplifier with gain-accuracy improved by local-feedback
", Proc International Conf. Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems - MIXDES , Lodz , Poland , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2009.
•
Sousa, P.; C. Duarte; ; J.G. Guilherme; N.H. Horta; " Enhancing Analog
IC Design Optimization Kernels with Simple Fuzzy Models ", Proc
European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design , Antalya , Turkey , August
, 2009.
•
Sousa, P.; C. Duarte; N.H. Horta; " FUGA: A Fuzzy-Genetic Analog
Circuit Optimization ", Proc Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf.
- GECCO , Montreal , Canada , July , 2009.
•
Costa, T.; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; " Low-Area 4th-Order Shared-Amplfier
Sigms-delta Modulator ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Santa maria da Feira , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 65 - 68 , May , 2009.
•
Figueiredo, M.; R. L. Aguiar; " Time Precision Comparison of Digitally
Controlled Delay Elements ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Circuits
and System , Taipei , Taiwan , May , 2009.
301
Logic and Computation Theory
Books Chapters
•
Caleiro, C.; R. Gonçalves; " Algebraic valuations as behavioral logical
matrices " - Chapter in WoLLIC 2009, Selected Papers, volume 5514 of
Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 13-25 , M. Kanazawa, H.
Ono e R. de Queiroz , Springer ,2009.
•
Caleiro, C.; R. Gonçalves; " Algebraic valuations as behavioral logical
matrices " - Chapter in WoLLIC 2009, Selected Papers, volume 5514 of
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence , H. Ono, R. de Queiroz, M.
Kanazawa , Springer , , 2009.
•
Lourenço, C.L.; " Brain Dynamics Promotes Function " - Chapter in
Unconventional Computation, 8th International Conference, UC 2009,
Ponta Delgada, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009, Proceedings. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5715 , Calude, C.S.; Costa, J.F.G.d.;
Dershowitz, N.; Freire, E.; Rozenberg, G. , Springer, 2009.
•
Caleiro, C.; J. Marcos; " Classic-like analytic tableaux for finite-valued
logics " - Chapter in WoLLIC 2009, Selected Papers, volume 5514 of
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 268-280 , H. Ono, R. de
Queiroz, M. Kanazawa , Springer, 2009.
•
Graça, D.; " Computing domains of attraction for planar dynamics " Chapter
in
Proceedings
of
the
8th
International
Conference
on
Unconventional Computation (UC 2009), volume 5715 of Lecture Notes
in Computer Science , C. S. Calude, J. F. Costa, N. Dershowitz, E. Freire,
and G. Rozenberg , Springer , Ponta Delgada, Açores , 2009.
•
Vaz, C. V.; C. F. Ferreira; A.R. Ravara; " Dynamic Recovering of Long
Running
Transactions
"
-
Chapter
in
Proceedings
of
the
fourth
Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing, volume 5474 of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, pages 201-215 , Christos Kaklamanis and
Flemming Nielson , Springer, 2009.
•
Chadha, R.; P. Mateus; A. Sernadas; C. Sernadas; " Extending classical
logic for reasoning about quantum systems " - Chapter in Handbook of
Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures: Quantum Logic, pages 325-372
, K. Engesser, D. Gabbay and D. Lehmann , Elsevier Science, 2009.
302
•
Costa, P. Costa; R. Rocha Rocha; M. Ferreira Ferreira; " Relational
Models for Tabling Logic Programs in a Database " - Chapter in
Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management ,
Dietmar Seipel, Michael Hanus, Armin Wolf , Springer , Würzburg , 2009.
•
Ferreira, A.; R. Correia; L. Antunes; D. Chadwick; " Security of Electronic
Medical Records " - Chapter in Chapter III - Handbook of Research on
Distributed
Medical
Informatics
and
E-Health
,
A.
Lazakidou,
K.
Siassiakos , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, 2009.
•
Baltazar, P.; P. Mateus; " Temporalization of probabilistic propositional
logic " - Chapter in Logic Foundations of Computer Science 2009, volume
5407, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 46-60 , S. Artemov and
A. Nerode , Springer, 2009.
•
Vaz, D. Vaz; V. S. Costa Costa; M. Ferreira Ferreira; " User Defined
Indexing " - Chapter in Logic Programming , Patricia M. Hill, David
S.Warren , Springer , Pasadena, CA , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Sernadas, A.; C. Sernadas; J.R. Rasga; M. Coniglio; " A graph-theoretic
account of logics ", Journal of Logic and Computation , Vol. 19 , No. 19 ,
pp. 1281 - 1320 , January , 2009.
•
Li, L.; D. Qiu Qiu; " A note on quantum sequential machines ",
Theoretical Computer Science , Vol. 410 , No. 26 , pp. 2529 - 2535 ,
January , 2009.
•
Long, Y.; D. Qiu Qiu; D. Long; " An entanglement measure based on
two-order minors ", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical ,
Vol. - , No. 42 , pp. 265301 - 265301 , January , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; H. Xing; " Automata theory based on complete residuated
lattice-valued logic: A categarical approach ", Fuzzy Sets and Systems ,
Vol. 160 , No. 16 , pp. 2416 - 2428 , January , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; H. Xing; F. Liu; " Automata theory based on complete
residuated lattice-valued logic: Pushdown automata ", Fuzzy Sets and
Systems , Vol. 160 , No. 16 , pp. 1125 - 1140 , January , 2009.
303
•
Caleiro, C.; R. Gonçalves; " Behavioral algebraization of daCosta's
mathcal-systems ", Journal of Appl. Non-Classical Logics , Vol. 19 , No. 2
, pp. 127 - 148 , January , 2009.
•
Caleiro, C.; R. Gonçalves; M.M. Martins; " Behavioral algebraization of
logics ", Studia Logica , Vol. 91 , No. 1 , pp. 63 - 111 , January , 2009.
•
Pinto, A.; A. Souto; A. Matos; L. Antunes; " Commitment and
Authentication Systems ", , Vol. 53 , No. 3 , pp. 175 - 193 , January ,
2009.
•
Pinto, A.; A. Souto; A. Matos; L. Antunes; " Commitment and
authentication systems ", Designs, Codes and Cryptography , Vol. 53 ,
No. 3 , pp. 175 - 193 , December , 2009.
•
Graça, D.; N. Zhong; J. Buescu; " Computability, noncomputability and
undecidability of maximal intervals of IVPs ", Trans. of the American
Mathematical Society , Vol. 361 , No. 6 , pp. 2913 - 2927 , January ,
2009.
•
Graça, D.; J. Buescu; M.L. Campagnolo; " Computational bounds on
polynomial
differential
equations
",
APPLIED
MATHEMATICS
AND
COMPUTATION , Vol. 215 , No. 4 , pp. 1375 - 1385 , January , 2009.
•
Antunes, L.; A. Matos; A. Souto; P. Vitányi; " Depth as Randomness
deficiency ", Theory of Computing Systems , Vol. 45 , No. 4 , pp. 724 739 , January , 2009.
•
Liu, F.; D. Qiu Qiu; " Diagnosability of Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems: A
Fuzzy Approach ", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems , Vol. 17 , No. 13
, pp. 372 - 384 , January , 2009.
•
Collin, P.; D. Graça; " Effective Computability of Solutions of Differential
Inclusions - The Ten Thousand Monkeys Approach ", Journal of Universal
Computer Science , Vol. 15 , No. 6 , pp. 1162 - 1185 , January , 2009.
•
Jiayan, W.; H. Yi; D. Qiu Qiu; " Entanglement Properties of Adiabatic
Quantum Algorithms ", Intrnl. Journal of Quantum Information , Vol. 7 ,
No. 8 , pp. 1 - 9 , September , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; F. Liu; " Fuzzy discrete-event systems under fuzzy
observability and a test algorithm ", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
, Vol. 17 , No. 3 , pp. 578 - 589 , January , 2009.
304
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; S. Yu; " Hierarchy and equivalence of multi-letter quantum
finite automata ", Theoretical Computer Science , Vol. 410 , No. 30-32 ,
pp. 3006 - 3017 , January , 2009.
•
Carnielli , W.; J.R. Rasga; C. Sernadas; " Interpolation via translations. ",
Mathematical Logic Quarterly , Vol. 55 , No. 5 , pp. 515 - 534 , January ,
2009.
•
Basin, D.; C. Caleiro; J. Ramos; L. Viganò; " Labelled tableaux for
distributed temporal logic ", Journal of Logic and Computation , Vol. 19 ,
No. 6 , pp. 1245 - 1279 , January , 2009.
•
Sernadas, A.; C. Sernadas; J.R. Rasga; M. Coniglio; " On graph-theoretic
fibring of logics ", Journal of Logic and Computation , Vol. 19 , No. 19 ,
pp. 1321 - 1357 , January , 2009.
•
Wu, L.; L. Li; X. Zou; D. Qiu Qiu; L. Li; " On mathematical theory of the
duality computers ", Quantum Information Processing , Vol. 8 , No. 14 ,
pp. 37 - 50 , January , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; Y. Long; D. Long; " Perfect teleportation between arbitrary
split of six partites by a maximally genuinely entangled six-qubit state ",
Intrnl. Journal of Quantum Information , January , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; Y. Long; D. Long; " Perfect teleportation of unknown qudit
by a D-level GHZ channel ", Intrnl. Journal of Quantum Information ,
January , 2009.
•
Qiu, D. Qiu; H. Yi; W. Jiayan; " Practical full and partial separability
criteria for multipartite pure states based on the coefficient matrix
method ", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , Vol. 42 ,
No. 42 , pp. 425306 - 425306 , October , 2009.
•
Li, L.; D. Qiu Qiu; L. Li; L. Wu; X. Zou; " Probabilistic broadcasting of
mixed states ", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & General , Vol. 42 ,
No. 13 , pp. 175302 - 175302 , January , 2009.
•
Zou, X.; D. Qiu Qiu; L. Li; L. Wu; L. Li; " Semiquantum-key distribution
using less than four quantum states ", Physical Review A , Vol. - , No. 79
, pp. 052312 - 052312 , January , 2009.
•
Situ, Haozhen; D. Qiu Qiu; " Simultaneous dense coding ", Journal of
Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , Vol. 43 , No. 5 , pp. 055301 055301 , January , 2009.
305
•
Antunes, L.; L. Fortnow; " Sophistication Revisited ", Theory of
Computing Systems , Vol. 45 , No. 1 , pp. 150 - 161 , June , 2009.
•
Adão,
P.;
G.
Bana;
J.
Herzog;
A.
Scedrov;
"
Soundness
and
completeness of formal encryption: the cases of key-cycles and partial
information leakage ", Journal of Computer Security , Vol. 17 , No. 5 ,
pp. 737 - 797 , December , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, P. Ribeiro; H. Simões Simões; M. Ferreira Ferreira; " Teaching
Artificial
Intelligence
and
Logic
Programming
in
a
Competitive
Environment ", Informatics in Education , Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 85 - 100 ,
January , 2009.
•
Caleiro,
C.;
"
Modeling
and
reasoning
about
an
attacker
with
cryptanalytical capabilities ", Proc Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of
Programming Languages - QAPL , York , United Kingdom , March , 2009.
•
Fernandes , G. Falcão; L. Sousa; V. Silva; J. S. M. Marinho; " Parallel
LDPC Decoding on the Cell/B.E. Processor ", Proc International Conf. on
High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers - HiPEAC ,
Paphos , Cyprus , January , 2009.
•
Gamboni, M.; " Responsive Choice in Mobile Processes - Short Talk ",
Proc LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE - LICS 2009 , Los Angeles, California
, United States , August , 2009.
•
Antunes, L.; L. Fortnow; " Worst-Case Running Times for Average-Case
Algorithms ", Proc IEEE Conf. on Computational Complexity , Paris ,
France , July , 2009.
Power Electronics and Power Systems
Book Chapters
•
Cardoso, A. J. M.; L.oliveira Oliveira; " Power Transformers Fault
Diagnostics
by
Park’s
Vector
Approach
"
-
Chapter
in
Modern
Transformers in Practice: Analysis, Design and Measurement , Xose
López-Fernández, H. Bülent Ertan and Janusz Turowski , Springer ,
London , 2009 .
306
Papers in Journals
•
Perdigão, M.; J. Álvarez; E. S. Saraiva; " Magnetically-controlled
dimming technique with isolated output ", Electronics Letters , Vol. 45 ,
No. 14 , pp. 756 - 758 , July , 2009.
•
" Projeto e implementação de um reator eletrônico microcontrolado, de
elevado fator de potência, orientado a lâmpadas de vapor metálico ", ,
Vol. 20 , No. 3 , pp. 405 - 416 , September , 2009.
•
Valtchev, S.; B. Borges; " Resonant Contactless Energy Transfer with
Improved Efficient ", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics , Vol. 24 , No. 3 ,
pp. 685 - 699 , March , 2009.
•
Drif, M.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " The Use of the Instantaneous Reactive
Power Signature Analysis for Rotor Cage Faults Diagnostics in ThreePhase Induction Motors ", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics ,
Vol. 56 , No. 11 , pp. 4606 - 4614 , November , 2009.
•
Amaral, A.M.R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Using Hybrid Systems Theory to
Simulate the Behaviour of Step-Down DC-DC Converters ", Acta
Electrotechnica et Informatica , Vol. 9 , No. 4 , pp. 37 - 41 , December ,
2009 .
•
Álvarez, J.; M. Perdigão; D. Gacio Gacio; E. S. Saraiva; " A digitallycontrolled universal ballast based on magnetic regulator and PSoC device
", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE , Seoul ,
Korea, South , July , 2009.
•
Perdigão, M.; B. Baptista Baptista; J. Álvarez; E. S. Saraiva; " A
Dynamic-Inductance Model for Magnetically Controlled Electronic Ballasts
", Proc Universities Power Engineering Conf. - UPEC , Glasgow , United
Kingdom , September , 2009.
•
Perdigão, M.; J. Álvarez; E. S. Saraiva; " A New Integrated Variable
Transformer Topology for Electronic Ballasts ", Proc IEEE Industrial
Electronics Conf. - IECON , Porto , Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Cruz, S. M. A. ; M. Ferreira; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A New Method for the
Detection and Location of Faults in Matrix Converters ", Proc IEEE
307
International Electric Machines and Drives Conf. , Miami, FL , United
States , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 194 - 199 , May , 2009.
•
Costa, V.C.; P.M. Santos; B. Borges; " An Improved Design Method for
Monolithic CMOS Quasi-Square-Wave DC-DC Converters ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria Feira , Portugal , Vol. , pp. - ,
May , 2009.
•
Reis, C.; F.M. Barbosa; " Assessment of Voltage Stability of Electrical
Power Systems: A Simulational Survey ", Proc International Conf. of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering - ELECO , Bursa , Turkey , pp. 373
- 376 , November , 2009.
•
Cruz, S. M. A. ; M. Ferreira; " Comparison between back-to-back and
matrix converter drives under faulty conditions ", Proc European Power
Electronics Conf. - EPE , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. P1 - P10 ,
September , 2009.
•
Pestana, H. A. P.; C. A. F. Ferreira; H.R. Ribeiro; P. Matos; " Constant
Power Electronic Gear for Electrical Vehicle ", Proc International Conf. on
Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives - POWERENG , Lisbon ,
Portugal , 396 - 401 , March , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, H.R.; B. Borges; " Control Strategy for a High Efficiency Single
Stage Converter ", Proc IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
(ECCE 2010) - ECCE , San José , United States , Vol. - , pp. 604 - 610 ,
September , 2009.
•
Ferreira, C. A. F.; B. Borges; L. V. Sá; " Design of One Cycle Control for
Low Distortion Bipolar Switching Inverters ", Proc IEEE Industrial
Electronics Conf. - IECON , Porto , Portugal , November , 2009.
•
Cruz, S. M. A. ; M. Ferreira; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Diagnosis of open-circuit
faults in matrix converters ", Proc European Power Electronics Conf. EPE , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. P1 - P11 , September ,
2009.
•
Caseiro, J. C.; A. M. S. Mendes; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Fault Diagnosis on a
PWM Rectifier AC Drive System with Fault Tolerance Using the Average
Current Park’s Vector Approach ", Proc IEEE International Electric
Machines and Drives Conf. , Florida , United States , Vol. - , pp. 695 701 , May , 2009.
308
•
Estima, J. O.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Impact of Inverter Faults in the Overall
Performance of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives ", Proc
IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conf. , Miami , United
States , Vol. , pp. 1319 - 1325 , May , 2009.
•
Reis, C.; F.M. Barbosa; " Line Indices for Voltage Stability Assessment ",
Proc IEEE Bucharest PowerTech 2009 , Bucharest , Romania , June ,
2009.
•
Reis, C.; A. Andrade; F.M. Barbosa; " Line Stability Indices for Voltage
Collapse Prediction ", Proc International Conf. on Power Engineering,
Energy and Electrical Drives - POWERENG , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. , pp.
239 - 243 , March , 2009.
•
Perdigão, M.; J. Álvarez; D. Gacio Gacio; E. S. Saraiva; " Magneticallycontrolled
Electronic
Ballasts
with
Isolated
Output:
The
Variable
Transformer Solution ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial
Electronics - ISIE , Seoul , Korea, South , Vol. xx , pp. xx - xx , July ,
2009.
•
Reis, C.; A. Andrade; F.M. Barbosa; " Methods for PreventingVoltage
Collapse
",
Proc
International
Conf.
of
Electrical
and
Electronics
Engineering - ELECO , Bursa , Turkey , Vol. - , pp. 368 - 372 , November
, 2009.
•
Cruz, S. M. A. ; M. Ferreira; A. M. S. Mendes; A. J. M. Cardoso; "
Modulated Error Voltages for the Diagnosis of Faults in Matrix Converters
", Proc IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2010) ECCE , San Jose, CA , United States , Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 2263 - 2270 ,
September , 2009.
•
Ferreira, C. A. F.; B. Borges; L. V. Sá; " One Cycle Control Design for
High
Performance
Two-Level
Power
Inverters
",
Proc
Conf.
on
2009.
•
Pérez, A. A. P.; A.V. Vieira; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Organização e Gestão da
Manutenção de Elementos Contra Incêndios em Edifícios Escolares ",
Proc Congresso Nacional de Manutenção Industrial , Figueira da Foz ,
Portugal , Vol. 26 , pp. 1 - 14 , November , 2009.
•
Ferreira, C. A. F.; B. Borges; L. V. Sá; " Output Filter Solutions for Class
D Power Amplifiers: Analysis, Characterization and Recent Developments
309
", Proc AES 37th Conf. Class D Audio Amplification , Hillerød , Denmark ,
August , 2009.
•
Mendes, A. M. S.; " Performance Analysis of Three-Phase Pwm Rectifiers
for High Power Quality Applications ", Proc International Conf. on
Renewable Energies and Power Quality - ICREPQ , Valencia , Spain , Vol.
CDROM , pp. 1 - 6 , April , 2009.
•
Estima, J. O.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Performance Evaluation of DTC-SVM
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives Under Inverter Fault
Conditions ", Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. - , pp. 1 - 5 , November , 2009.
•
Pérez, A. A. P.; A.V. Vieira; A. J. M. Cardoso; " School Buildings Assets Maintenance Management and Organization for Vertical Transportation
Equipments
",
Proc
International
Society
of
Engineering
Asset
Management World Congress of Engineering Asset Management WCEAM , Athens , Greece , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 9 , September , 2009.
•
" School Buildings Assets - Maintenance Management and Organization
for Vertical Transportation Equipments ", Proc International Society of
Engineering Asset Management World Congress of Engineering Asset
Management - WCEAM , Athens , Greece , Vol. 1 , September , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, H.R.; B. Borges; C. A. F. Ferreira; " Single Stage Techniques for
Power Factor Correction ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Santa Maria da Feira , Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Ribeiro, H.R.; F.S. Silva; S. Pinto; B. Borges; " Single Stage, Inverter for
PV Applications with One Cycle Sampling Technique in the MPPT
Algorithm ", Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON , Porto ,
•
Amaral, A.M.R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " State Condition Estimation of
Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors Used on the Primary Side of ATX Power
Supplies ", Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 447 - 452 , November , 2009.
•
Caseiro, J. C.; A. M. S. Mendes; A. J. M. Cardoso; " The Usage of a PWM
Rectifier to Improve Three-Phase Induction Motor Drive Performance
under Fault Conditions ", Proc European Conf. on Power Electronics and
Applications , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. - , pp. 1 - 10 , September , 2009.
310
•
Reis, C.; B. Neto; R.P. Dionísio; G. I. Incerti; G. Tosi-Beleffi; D. Forin;
Ana M. Rocha; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; " Transience analysis of bursty
traffic with Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON , São Miguel,Azores , Portugal , Tu.B2.4 - , June , 2009.
•
" Uninterruptible Energy Production in Standalone Power Systems for
Telecommunication ", Proc International Conf. on Renewable Energies
and Power Quality - ICREPQ , Valencia , Southern Ocean , Vol. - , pp. 1 6 , April , 2009.
•
Amaral, A.M.R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Using a Sinusoidal PWM to Estimate
the ESR of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors ", Proc International Conf.
on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives - POWERENG , Lisbon
, Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 691 - 696 , March , 2009.
•
Reis, C.; A. Andrade; F.M. Barbosa; " Voltage Stability Analysis of
Electrical
Power
System
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Power
Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives - POWERENG , Lisboa ,
Portugal , Vol. - , pp. 244 - 248 , March , 2009 .
Project Reports
•
Perdigão, M.; " Electronic Ballasts: A new dimming technology ", IT ,
PTDC/EEA-ENE/66859/2006 , December , 2009.
Papers in Journals
•
Matos, M.; " Biosensor for acrylamide based on an ion-selective electrode
using whole cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa containing amidase activity
", Biocatalysis and Biotransformation , Vol. 27 , No. 2 , pp. 143 - 151 ,
March , 2009.
•
Rabaça, S.; A. Cerdeira; I. C. Santos; L. Pereira; M. Fourmigué; R. T.
Henriques;
M.
Almeida;
"
Complexes
based
on
asymmetrically
substituted pyridine-dithiolene ligands [M(4-pedt)(2)] (M = Au, Cu, Ni;
4-pedt = 1-(pyridin-4-yl)-ethylene-1,2-dithiolate): Synthesis, structure
311
and physical properties ", Polyhedron , Vol. 28 , No. 6 , pp. 1069 - 1078
, April , 2009.
•
Fernandes, M.; S.S.N. Nobre; M. Gonçalves; A. Charas; J. Morgado; R.
A. Sá Ferreira; L. D. Carlos; V. Bermudez; " Dual role of a di-urethanesil
hybrid doped with europium -diketonate complexes containing either
water ligands or a bulky chelating ligand ", Journal of Materials
Chemistry , Vol. 19 , No. 6 , pp. 733 - 742 , January , 2009.
•
Graf, D.; J. S. Brooks; E. Choi; M. Almeida; R. T. Henriques; J. C. Dias;
S. Barroso; " Geometrical and orbital effects in a quasi-one-dimensional
conductor ", Physical Review B , Vol. 80 , No. 15 , pp. 155104 - 155104 ,
October , 2009.
•
Charas, A.; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; J. Farinhas; M. Matos; L.A. Alcácer; J.
Morgado; " Insoluble Patterns of Cross-Linkable Conjugated Polymers
from Blend Demixing in Spin Cast Films ", Macromolecules , Vol. 42 , No.
, pp. 7903 - 7912 , October , 2009.
•
Paolo, R.; H. Burrows; J. Morgado; A. Maçanita; " Photodynamics of a PV
Trimer in High-Viscosity Solvents and in PMMA Films: A New Insight into
Energy
Transfer
versus
Conformational
Relaxation
in
Conjugated
Polymers ", ChemPhysChem , Vol. 10 , No. 2 , pp. 448 - 454 , February ,
2009.
•
Morgado, L.; L.A. Alcácer; J. Morgado; " Polymer light-emitting diodes
efficiency dependence on bipolar charge traps concentration ", Research
Letters in Materials Science , Vol. 2009 , No. nd , pp. 503042-1 503042-4 , September , 2009.
•
Morgado, L.; L.A. Alcácer; J. Morgado; " Polymer light-emitting diodes
efficiency dependence on bipolar charge traps concentration ", Research
Letters in Materials Science , Vol. 2009 , No. 503042 , pp. 1 - 4 , July ,
2009.
•
Bernardo , G.; G. B. Gonçalves; P. B. Barquinha; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; G.
Brotas Brotas; L.P. Pereira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; R. M. Martins; E. F.
Fortunato; " Polymer light-emitting diodes with amorphous indium-zinc
oxide anodes deposited at room temperature ", Synthetic Metals , Vol.
159 , No. 11 , pp. 1112 - 1115 , June , 2009.
•
Brooks, J. S.; S. Rabaça; I. C. Santos; R. T. Henriques; M. Almeida; "
Pyridine-Functionalised
(Vinylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene
(VDT-TTF)
312
Derivatives and Their Dithiolene Analogues ", European Journal of
Inorganic Chemistry , Vol. 2009 , No. 21 , pp. 3084 - 3093 , April , 2009.
•
Aguiar, P.; " Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Vanadium
Salan Complexes in Oxygen Transfer Reactions ", Inorganic Chemistry ,
Vol. 48 , No. 8 , pp. 3542 - 3561 , March , 2009.
•
Pessoa, J.; R. T. Henriques; F. Avecilla; I. Correia; " Synthesis,
Characterization, and Application of Vanadium-Salan Complexes in
Oxygen Transfer Reactions ", Inorganic Chemistry , Vol. 48 , No. 8 , pp.
3542 - 3561 , April , 2009.
•
Farinhas, J.; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; S. Fonseca; H. Burrows; M. Matos; L.A.
Alcácer; J. Morgado; A. Charas; " Columnar-grain Films of Conjugated
Polymers ", Proc International Symp. on Flexible Organic Electronics IS-FOE09 , Halkidiki , Greece , Vol. 1 , pp. 90 - 90 , July , 2009.
•
Pecoraro, E.; P.S André; Carlos; " d-U600 Aerogels and Xerogels: Low
Density Hybrids Materials for Thermal and Microwave Insulation ", Proc
ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 , Porto de Galinhas
, Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 358 - 359 , August , 2009.
•
Arruda, K. S.; L.P. Camargo; Carlos; V. Bermudez; Ferreira; E. Pecoraro;
Y. M. Messaddeq; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro; " Luminescent Amidosil Hybrids
from Ricinoleic Acid and 3-Aminopropyltriethoxisilane ", Proc ISGS XVth
International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 , Porto de Galinhas , Brazil ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 351 - 351 , August , 2009.
•
Farinhas, J.; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; M. Matos; J. Morgado; A. Charas; "
Patterned films formed via spin coating blends of semiconducting and
insulating polymers ", Proc Encontro Nacional de Química-Física da SPQ ,
Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 111 - 111 , June , 2009.
•
Charas, A.; J. Farinhas; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; M. Matos; L.A. Alcácer; J.
Morgado; " Patterned films of semiconducting polymers made by spin
coating ", Proc International Symp. on Flexible Organic Electronics - ISFOE09 , Halkidiki , Greece , Vol. , pp. 54 - 54 , July , 2009.
313
•
Charas, A.; A. Mendonça; J. C. Clark; G. L. Lanzani; L. B. Bazzana; A. N.
Nocivelli; J. Morgado; " Plastic Optical fibers with Gain and switching ",
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Sta Maria da Feira ,
•
Ferreira, Q. Ferreira; J. Morgado; " Properties of thiols self-assembled
monolayers on gold ", Proc Encontro Nacional de Química-Física da SPQ ,
Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 11 - 11 , June , 2009.
•
Pecoraro, E.; J. L. Ferrari; R. R. Gonçalves; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro; Carlos; "
RED
&
GREEN
UPCONVERSION
FROM
SiO2-Ta2O5:Yb3+/Er3+
ENCLOSED IN d-U(600) HYBRIDS FOR LIGHT AMPLIFICATION ", Proc
ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 , Porto de Galinhas
, Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 60 - 61 , August , 2009.
•
Morgado, J.; A. Charas; G. Bernardo ; Q. Ferreira Ferreira; L.A. Alcácer;
"
ROLE
OF
INTERFACES
IN
POLYMER-BASED
ELECTRONIC
DEVICES(abstract only) ", Proc III Reunión Ibérica de Coloides e
Interfases - RICI , Granada , Spain , July , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; C. Vicente; V.R. Fernandes; L.R. Xavier; E. Pecoraro; S. J. L.
R. Ribeiro; L. D. Carlos; " Self-Patterned Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for
Fibre Optics Access Networks ", Proc ISGS XVth International Sol-Gel
Conf. - Sol-Gel 2009 , Porto de Galinhas , Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 87 - 88 ,
August , 2009.
•
Borges, Luis M.; N. Barroca; F. J. Velez; A. Lebres; " Smart-Clothing
Wireless Flex Sensor Belt Network for Foetal Health Monitoring ", Proc
International Workshop on Wireless Pervasive Healthcare - WiPH 2009 ,
London , United Kingdom , March , 2009.
•
Bilro, L.; H. Cunha; J. L. Pinto; R.N. Nogueira; " Technical Textiles with
Embedded Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors ", Proc Optical Fiber Sensors
Conf. , Edimburgh , United Kingdom , Vol. 7503 , pp. 75035T - 75035T-4
, October , 2009.
•
Ferreira, ; C. Vicente; E. Pecoraro; P.S André; R.N. Nogueira; N. Wada; "
Zirconium Modified Di-ureasils Organic-Inorganic Hybrids as Substrates
for Waveguide and Bragg Gratings Patterned via Direct Laser Writing and
Nano Imprint Lithography ", Proc Hybrid Materials Conf. , Tours , France
, Vol. 1 , pp. B1125 - B1125 , March , 2009.
314
4.4.7
Other Achievements
Patents
•
Matias, A.; H. Gamboa; Silva; H. Silva; " Blood Vessels Pricking Aiding
Electronic Device ", Patente de Invenção Nacional nº 104343 , March , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; " Módulo de identificação e aquisição de dados
para transdutores com saída analógica em tensão ou corrente ", PT300909 ,
November , 2009.
•
anches, J.; R. Neves; T. Paiva; " Sistema de monitorização da temperatura
central para diagnóstico de distúrbios de sono ", Portugal , May , 2009.
•
Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; E.C. Pinheiro; " Unidade de
sistema ubíquo para monitorização de parâmetros fisiológicos em sujeitos
humanos e sua identificação/localização baseada em sensores inteligentes
não obstrutivos e leitor RFID embebidos numa cadeira de rodas, com
módulo de computação ubíqua bas ", PT104602 , September , 2009 .
Awards
•
Girão, P.M.; " Doctor Honoris Causa ", Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical
University "GH. Asachi", Iasi , 01-09-2009.
•
Perdigão, M.; B. Baptista Baptista; J. Álvarez; E. S. Saraiva; " Shortlisted
Best Presentation UPEC 2009 ", Shortlisted Best Presentation UPEC 2009: "A
Dynamic-Inductance Model for Magnetically Controlled Electronic Ballasts, M.
S. Perdigão, B. Baptista, J. M. Alonso, E. S. Saraiva, Universities Power
Engineering Conference, 2009. ", 01-09-2009.
Miscellaneous
•
Paunkovic, N.; V. Vieira; P.D. Sacramento; P. Nogueira; V. K. Dugaev; "
Tutorial ", Quantum Information and Phase Transitions: Fidelity and State
Distinguishability,2009 Arnold Sommerfield Summer School "Condensed
Matter Physica and Ultra cold Quantum Gases" - Poster session, ", Poster
Session , 01-10-2009.
•
Velez, F. J.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Sistema de Monitorização da Humidade do
Solo para Gestão Eficiente de Irrigação, defendida com sucesso pelo
315
licenciado Helder Filipe de Brito Neves na Universidade da Beira Interior,
Set. 2009 ", , 01-09-2009.
•
Pinheiro, E.C.; " Invited Talks ", Continuous, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure
Monitoring: Unifying Visions ", DARPA CNIMBP Workshop , 01-06-2009.
•
Gouveia, M. C.G.; " Invited Talks ", H-polynomials ", MAT-TRIAD, Bedlewo,
Poland , 01-03-2009.
•
Borges, B.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Resonant Switching Technologies for Mains
Converters -Raúl Domingos Monteiro- IST ", 01-03-2009 .
4.4.8
Other Contributions
•
IEEE International Conf. on Social Computing - SocialCom-09, Technical
Programme Committee, Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos, 01-01-2009
•
ISGS
XVth
International
Sol-Gel
Conf.
-
Sol-Gel
2009,
Organizing
Committee, Edison Pecoraro, 01-01-2009
•
IMEKO World Congress, Organizing Committee, Fernando Tim Tim Janeiro,
01-01-2009
•
IMEKO World Congress, Organizing Committee, António Cruz Serra, 01-012009
•
IEEE
Instrumentation
and
Measurement
Technology
Conf.,
Technical
Programme Committee, António Cruz Serra, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE AFRICON Conf. in Africa, Technical Programme Chairman, Helena
Ramos, 01-01-2009
•
IMEKO World Congress, Organizing Committee, Helena Ramos, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE AFRICON Conf. in Africa, Scientific Committee, Helena Ramos, 01-012009
•
IEEE AFRICON Conf. in Africa, Technical Programme Committee, Artur Lopes
Ribeiro, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and, Technical
Programme Committee, Octavian Postolache, 01-01-2009
316
•
IEEE
Instrumentation
and
Measurement
Technology
Conf.,
Technical
Programme Committee, Octavian Postolache, 01-01-2009
•
IMEKO World Congress, Organizing Committee, Raúl Martins, 01-01-2009
•
International Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives POWERENG, Technical Programme Committee, Beatriz Borges, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and System, Technical Programme
Committee, Maria Helena Silva Fino, 01-01-2009
•
IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Technical Programme
Committee, Maria Helena Silva Fino, 01-01-2009
317

2009 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Transcrição

Documentos relacionados

November Line Up Please find your flight to see the aircraft

friends major purchases – 1998

1. introduction - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Acknowledgements

2010 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

2003 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

2011 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Luís Paulo Sant`ana

a PDF version of the programme

2007 - Institute For Systems and Robotics

2015 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações