2013 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

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INSTITUTO DE
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
ANNUAL REPORT
2013
Title
ANNUAL REPORT 2013
Editors
Carlos Salema, Carlos Fernandes, José Ferreira
da Rocha, Pedro Girão, Mário Figueiredo, Rui
Valadas, Nuno Borges Carvalho, Adolfo Cartaxo,
Luís Alcácer
Date
2014
Version
V5
Distribution
IT
Doc. No.
IT/Dir/2014 v5
Executive
Summary
This document defines the Annual Report for IT
as
"Laboratório
Associado"
(Associate
Laboratory).
Keywords
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Table of Contents
1.
2.
INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 9
1.1
History ............................................................................................. 9
1.2
Management ....................................................................................10
1.3
Highlights of 2013 ............................................................................11
KEY IT INDICATORS ...............................................................................20
Human Resources .....................................................................................20
Projects ...................................................................................................26
Publications .............................................................................................. 27
3.
FINANCIAL OUTLINE ..............................................................................35
4.
RESEARCH AREAS ..................................................................................37
4.1
Wireless Communications ..................................................................37
4.1.1
Area Coordinators ......................................................................37
4.1.2
Human Resources ......................................................................37
4.1.3
Summary of Research Achievements ............................................45
4.1.4
Running and Concluded Projects ..................................................59
4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses ....................................................80
4.1.6
Publications ...............................................................................99
4.1.7
Other Achievements ................................................................. 125
4.1.8
Other Contributions .................................................................. 128
4.2
Optical Communications .................................................................. 131
4.2.1
Area Coordinators .................................................................... 131
4.2.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 131
4.2.3
Summary of Research Achievements .......................................... 136
4.2.4
Running and Concluded Projects ................................................ 154
4.2.5
Running and Concluded Theses .................................................. 166
4.2.6
Publications ............................................................................. 173
4.2.7
4.2.8
4.3
Networks and Multimedia ................................................................ 192
4.3.1
4.3.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 192
4.3.3
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4.3.4
Running and Concluded Projects ................................................ 222
4.3.5
4.3.6
Publications ............................................................................. 279
4.3.7
4.3.8
4.4
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies ......................................... 339
4.4.1
4.4.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 339
4.4.3
4.4.4
Runing and Concluded Projects .................................................. 374
4.4.5
4.4.6
Publications ............................................................................. 403
4.4.7
4.4.8
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List of Tables
Table 1 – Total operational income in 2013 ...................................................... 35
Table 2 – List of major income sources during 2013 ..........................................36
Table 3 – Major costs in 2013 ........................................................................36
Table 4 – Main asset changes in 2013 ............................................................. 36
Table 5 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in
2013 ....................................................................................................37
Table 6 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in
2013 ....................................................................................................41
Table 7 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications
Area in 2013 ......................................................................................... 44
Table 8 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2013
...........................................................................................................59
Table 9 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2013 ....................................................................................................80
Table 10 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2013 ....................................................................................................97
Table 11 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in
2013 .................................................................................................. 131
Table 12 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2013 .................................................................................................. 133
Table 13 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications
Area in 2013 ....................................................................................... 135
Table 14 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2013
......................................................................................................... 154
Table 15 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2013 .................................................................................................. 169
Table 16 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2012 .................................................................................................. 172
Table 17 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2013
......................................................................................................... 192
Table 18 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area
in 2013 ............................................................................................... 197
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Table 19 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia
Area in 2013 ....................................................................................... 204
Table 20 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia............... 222
Table 21 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2013 .................................................................................................. 265
Table 22 - List of PhD Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2013 .................................................................................................. 278
Table 23 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area in 2013 .................................................................... 339
Table 24 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Table 25 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and
Enabling Technologies Area in 2013 ....................................................... 344
Table 26 – Number of active projects running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Table 27 – List of MSc Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area during 2013 .............................................................. 396
Table 28 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area during 2013 .............................................................. 402
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – KEY IT INDICATORS
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 History
Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) is a private, not-for-profit organisation, an association of
nine institutions with research and development in the field of Telecommunications:
• Instituto Superior Técnico (IST);
• Universidade de Aveiro (UA);
• Universidade de Coimbra (UC);
• Portugal Telecom Inovação, (PTIn)
• Nokia Siemens Networks S.A
• Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)
• Universidade do Porto (UP)
• ISCTE – Intituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
• Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL)
it is organised around three sites:
• Aveiro, in the University Campus,
• Coimbra, in Site II of the University of Coimbra,
• Lisbon, in Instituto Superior Técnico,
and four branches:
• Leiria, in the “Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão” of the Leiria Polytechnic (IPL),
• Covilhã, in the University of Beira Interior (UBI),
• Porto, shared by the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) and the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Porto (FCUP),
• Lisboa, in (ISCTE-IUL).
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 bylaws were first approved in 1992, modified in 1997, 2003 and 2011. New Site regulations
deriving from it bylaws were approved and implemented in 2011.
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Key developments in 2013 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 1, Prof. Sir
John O’Reilly and Prof. Martin Tomlinson) acting in a personal capacity, and together with the
Accounts Report (after legal certification) are subsequently submitted to the General Assembly
for approval.
The General Assembly met formally twice in 2013. The first meeting was held on March 27th,
in the Meeting Room of the Coimbra site, to discuss and approve the 2012 Annual Report and
Accounts. The second meeting took place on December 19th, in the Meeting Room of the
Rectorate of Universidade da Beira Interior, to discuss and approve the Work Plan and Budget
for 2014 and to discuss and vote (favourably) on the admission of Instituto Politécnico de
Leiria as member of it.
The Research Group Coordination Committee also met twice during 2013. On the first meeting,
held on February 26, at Hotel D. Luis, Coimbra, the Draft Proposal of the 2013 Annual Report
was discussed and received a favourable opinion and the intermediate reports of the first batch
of internal projects were presented and discussed. On the second meeting, held on December
18th, in the anfitheatre of the Aveiro site, the Work Plan and Budget for 2014 were discussed
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it would like to pay tribute to Dr. Roland Hüber who passed away on 13 February 2014, for all the help, support and
friendship since 1998.
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and received a favourable opinion and the final reports of the first batch of internal projects
were presented and discussed.
1.3 Highlights of 2013
In Aveiro it opened a brand new building, with about 2000 m2. The new building that enabled
doubling the available area, includes 480 m2 of lab space, 4 large rooms with a total of 72
work posts and 18 cabinets. The labs are equipped with antistatic floor, non-interruptible
power supplies, compressed air, forced air exhausting , fibre optic links, and access control.
The new building provides much needed adequate facilities for scientific and technological work
both in optical and radio communications.
In 2013 the very serious reduction of funding, mainly from FCT strategic funding, started
affecting it scientific output. Nevertheless the momentum built in previous years enabled
achieving a significant output:
•
19 books;
•
62 book chapters;
• 334 papers in international refereed scientific journals;
• 550 papers in refereed conferences, with published proceedings.
Achieved scientific output exceeded by far our forecast, in all areas.
Fostering advanced education was also maintained at very high levels:
• 40 PhD theses, submitted and approved,
• 193 MSc theses, submitted and approved,
where the estimated numbers for 2013 were:
• 40 PhD theses, submitted and approved,
• 200 MSc theses, submitted and approved.
It is worth noting that, for the first time, the number of concluded PhD theses approaches one
fourth of the number of PhD students, that is, the duration of the thesis work approaches four
years.
The number of scholarships decreased significantly in 2013 with respect to 2012, due to very
reduced FCT strategic funding (as explained in more detail below), that is:
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•
271 Ph.D. scholarships, funded by FCT,
•
187 other scholarships, funded by it as follows:
• 29 post-doc scholarships
• 26 Pd.D. scholarships
• 82 M.Sc. scholarships
• 28 B.Sc. scholarships
• 20 R&D starting grants
• 2 Management of Science and Technology fellowships.
During 2013, 155 nationally funded and 34 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 running 16 FP7 projects.
In the past few years, FCT strategic funding, ie. funding for the IT - Laboratório Associado
contract, was never timely. It suffices to say that funding for 2010, about 2.2 M€, was
received in January 2011 and was executed (98 % rate) until December 31st 2011. Strategic
funding for the period 2011-2012 obeyed new rules: an upfront payment of 20 % of the
approved budget (ie 1.2 M€), followed by the reimbursement of 80 % of the accepted
expenses. The 20 % share was received in two installments (April and August 2011) but its
executing only started in January 2012, since during 2011 it was running with the arrear 2010
strategic funding.
As foreseen right in October 2011, this new payment method was extremely damaging
because FCT was never able to process reimbursements in less than three months. In addition
the number of payment requests increased dramatically from once a year up to twenty or
more (for the IT – Laboratório Associado contract). In effect the delay in reimbursements
exceeded our worse expectations. Not only it reached (in cases) up to 6 months but, worse
still, many expenses were deemed to be non eligible on first the instance, forcing it to
resubmit again and again the same expenses, with renewed justification.
As a consequence of the new funding rules and the pressure they put on the treasury, from
the 5.972 M€ foreseen for the period 2011-2012, it was only able to receive 1.940 M€,
corresponding to 48 cost claims of which 2 are yet to be verified.
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This got worse for the period 2013-2014 since amount foreseen was reduced from 5.972 M€ to
3.178 M€ and the upfront payment was reduced from 20 to 15 %, that is 477 M€, in two
installments (paid in August 30th, and October 31st 2013).
This time it managed to start submitting cost claims as soon as FCT platform was on-line.
Since September 12th, it submitted 14 cost claims totaling 583 k€. Total FCT payments in
2013 (including the advanced payment) add up to 570 k€.
In a nutshell, executed it strategic funding went from 2.2 M€ in 2011 (2010 funds), to 1.94 M€
in 2012 (2011-2012 funds) to 570 k€ in 2013.
As mentioned in the Annual report for 2012, in July 2012, FCT decided unilaterally that mission
grants could not be accepted as eligible, even if these grants are defined in it grant regulation
approved by FCT. FCT did not accept two expert opinions on the matter, stating that it
procedures for mission grants were correct. After thorough examination, the Fiscal Authority
(Autoridade Tributária) stated in writing that these procedures were correct. Yet, FCT insisted
that they would not consider such expenses as eligible and forced to adopt a far more
bureaucratic (and expensive) procedure that may be fiscally punitive of for it researchers.
To complete the bleak picture, it should be mentioned that from August 12th, 2012, it must
comply with the rules of the Code of Public Contracts. The resulting increased bureaucracy is
appalling to say the least and already has negative impact in it activity, not to mention the
increase in administrative staff and bureaucratic costs.
From the above it is quite clear that it management was cautious and did not embark in
borrowing money to execute the contract value (1.6 M€ for 2013) since FCT never guaranteed
that reimbursements were to be paid. This cautious approach earned it a very serious (70 %)
decrease in 2013 strategic funding.
During 2013 FCT decided to organize yet another evaluation of all Portuguese R&D units
making it possible for these units to adopt configurations other than the current one. Although
the funding rules favored smaller units it, faithful to its principles, decided to keep the same
structure. The ever-changing rules of the evaluation, coupled with the enormous amount of
information required, took a heavy toll on it Board of Directors.
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it received the following distinguished visitors:
•Delegation from República Popular de Angola, in Lisbon, April, 3.
• President of IEEE, in Lisbon, Setember, 30.
• Vice-Rector of the Universidade de Lisboa, in Lisbon, October, 4.
• Comissão Parlamentar da Educação, Ciência e Cultura, in Lisbon, October, 16.
• Prof.ª Maria da Graça Carvalho, member of the European Parleament and Dr. Robert JanSmits, Director Geral of DG Research and Innovation (RTD), in Lisboa, December, 12.
During 2013 it hosted the following national and international events (referred by date):
“Um modelo semântico de representação da causação e a necessidade de critérios lógicojurídicos na atribuição da causalidade em direito penal”
Paulo de Sousa Mendes, U Lisboa
December 20, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
“Traceabilty of medical measurements and calibration standardization for blood pressure
measurement devices”
Prof. Sergio Rapuano from the Universidade de Sanio, Italy
December, 17, 2013, 17h30m.
“Entanglement and the second law of thermodynamics”
Marco Pezzuto, University of Trieste
December 13, 2013, 16:15h.
Room P3.10, Mathematics Building, IST
“Computational Complexity of the GPAC”
Amaury Pouly, École Polytechnique
November 29, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
1st Workshop from the CREaTION Project in Research Lines of Excellence
This is the first Workshop from CREaTION, an FCT project in research lines of excellence, a
partnership between IT, IEETA (UA) and INESC-Porto. Innovative aspects from research on
cognitive radio networks and demonstration of the experimental characterization of RF energy
wearable harvesting devices applied to WBANs.
November 18, 2013.
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Seminar – “Complete MDL for Bayesian networks”
Alexandra M. Carvalho, PIAG-IT / IST-UTL
July 19, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
“Ciência Viva no Laboratório - Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias”
In the Framework of “Ciência Viva programme, IT in Lisbon and the Instituto Superior Técnico
have organized the 2nd edition of the traning course on “Introdução às Telecomunicações
(INTELE)”. July 15, 2013
“Negative modalities, consistency and determinedness”
João Marcos, LoLITA - DIMAp - UFRN - Brazil
Seminar – “Do not be afraid of the Unknown”
Carolina Blasio & João Marcos, IFCH - UNICAMP - Brazil & LoLITA - DIMAp - UFRN - Brazil
Seminar – “Complexity with costing and stochastic oracles”
Diogo Poças, IST - Universidade de Lisboa
June 21, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
“CST WORKSHOP” - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico
(Room EA3, Torre Norte, IST, June 18, 2013, 09h00-17h00)
“IEEE International Workshop on Immersive & Interactive Multimedia Communications over
the Future Internet”
Organized jointly with IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC 2013)
9-13 June 2013, Budapest, Hungary
“Completeness and interpolation of almost-everywhere quantification over finitely additive
measures”|
Joao Rasga, SQIG-Instituto de Telecomunições / IST-Universidade de Lisboa
May 24, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
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Seminar – “Population transfer between quantum states to perfection: Stimulated Raman
Adiabatic Passage|”| (STIRAP)
May, 5, 2013, 15:00h, Mathematics Building, IST.
Seminar – “Números primos e dinâmica quântica”
Rúben Sousa, 2º ano de MAEG, ISEG
May, 22, 2013, 13:00h, Mathematics Building, IST.
“Workshop on Quantum Telecommunications” May, 15, 2013, Lisbon
Seminar – “Implementation of quantum logic gates by electron scattering in graphene
nanoribbons“ Guillermo Cordourier-Maruri, University College London
May, 7, 2013, 15:00h.
Seminar – “Improving classical authentication over a quantum channel”
Paulo Mateus, SQIG - IT / IST - UTL
May 3, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
Talk – “Opportunities at the interface between quantum (nano) physics and biology”
Alipasha Vaziri, University of Vienna
April, 18, 2013 15:00h, Room P3.10, Mathematics Building, IST.
Seminar – “Kolmogorov one-way functions” André Souto, SQIG - Instituto de
Telecomunicações, April 12, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
Seminar – “The road towards packet optical transport networks”
April, 9, 2013, 14h30m - 17h30m, ISCTE-IUL.
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics 2013
The International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) is organized by COST Action
IC1106. April, 4, 2013.
Talk – “Satisfiability of exogenous temporal logics and its applications on planning
Manuel Biscaia, SQIG - Instituto de Telecomunicações
March 22, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
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“Non Truth-Functional Semantics”
J.-Y. Béziau, UFRJ - Brazil
March 8, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
Seminar – “Improving Fiber Optics Communication Systems using Single-Photons”
Armando Nolasco Pinto, University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações
February, 14,2013, 15:00h Room P3.10, Mathematics Building, IST.
“Algebraic Kripke frames”
Manuel Martins, U Aveiro
January 25, 2013, Friday, 16h15m.
During 2013 it researchers were awarded the following prizes:
- Ribeiro, M. A.; C. Duque; " Best Non-Student Paper Award ", Loughborough Antennas &
Propagation Conference, Loughborough, United Kingdom , 01-11-2013 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Generalized Image Method for Radiation Problems
Involving the Minkowskian Isotropic Medium ", "3rd place in the Student Paper Competition",
"The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and
Optics" , 01-09-2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Best paper award ", Optics Conference 2013 , 01-07-2013 .
- Xia, F. X.; N. A. Asabere; J. R. Rodrigues; F. B. Basso; N. D. Deonauth; W. W. Wang; " Best
Paper Award - UIC 2013 ", The paper entitled “Socially-Aware Venue Recommendation for
Conference Participants”, presented at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous
Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2013), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, December 18-21, 2013 received
the Best Paper Runner-up Award of the conference. , 01-12-2013 .
- Alexandre, L.; " "Top Reviewer" ", Luís Alexandre was considered "Top Reviewer" by the
Elsevier journal "Pattern Recognition Letters". , 01-10-2013 .
- Simões, T.; J. C. Costa; J. R. Rodrigues; L. H. Hu; " Best Paper Runner-up Award CloudComp 2013 ", The paper entitled “Interchanging Cloud Providers Instances through
Ubiquitous Devices”,
presented at the 4th International Conference on
Cloud Computing
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(CloudComp 2013), Wuhan, China, October 17–19, 2013 receded the Best Paper Runner-up
Award. , 01-10-2013 .
- Francisco, N.; " Honourable mention on CAPES best thesis awards 2012 ", Received an
honourable mention
from
the Brazilian
governmental
agency CAPES
for the thesis:
"Contributions to Efficient Image and Video Compression Using Multiscale Recurrent Patterns",
on the contest for the best theses defended in Brazil in 2012, area of Engineering IV. , 01-102013 .
- Soares, V. S.; " Web Chair – Outstanding Service Award ", 15th IEEE International
Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2013), Lisbon,
Portugal, October 9-12, 2013 , 01-10-2013 .
- Falcão, G.; V. Silva; " ALTERA Europe-wide University Contest 2012-2013 ", ''ALTERA
Europe-wide University Contest 2012-2013'', category of ''Most commercially relevant use of
an FPGA'' for ON-OFF: Opencl-based NOn-binary ldpc decoding For FPGAs'', by João Andrade,
Gabriel Falcão, and Vítor Silva. The award was received at the International Conference on
Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), in September 2nd 2013. , 01-09-2013 .
- Falcão, G.; J. P. B. Barreto; " Google Research Award ", Google Research Award for
“UrbanScan: fast 3D modeling of urban scenes using a new stereo vision approach”, project
funded by Google. , 01-08-2013 .
- Orvalho, V.; J. Miranda; " Perceiving Interactive Sketching Through Facial Expressions ", Best
Demo and Best Poster. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP , 01-08-2013 .
- Silva, H.; A. P. Alves Alves; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; I. Montalvão; L. Alegre; " Best Paper
Award at SouthCHI 2013 ", Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, with the work 'Towards the
Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments' , 01-07-2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; " Distinguished Service Award - IEEE Communications Society ", Received
during ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 09-13, 2013, a Distinguished Service Award by
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications Software by his
outstanding contributions for the communications Software. , 01-06-2013 .
- Fred, A. L. N.; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; " 1st Prize of contest INOVPORTUGAL ", 1st Prize on the
portuguese contest of innovation and entrepreneurship, INOVPORTUGAL, with the project
VITALIDI , 01-05-2013.
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- Farinhas, J.; Q. Ferreira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; " Controlling the Morphologies on Solar Cells
Based on Cross-linked Semiconducting Polymers at the Nanoscale ", Best Poster Award in the
1st Cluster Workshop in Materials and Nanotechnology on December 4–6, 2013 , 01-12-2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; A. Tretyakov; " Best Paper Award ", The Best Paper Award
(1st prize) for the work entitled "Equivalent Circuit Approach for Radiative Heat Transfer
Problems" presented at "The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic
Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials 2013", Bordeaux, France, September 1619, 2013. , 01-09-2013 .
- Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Student Travel Award ", 2013 IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2013) covering registration
fee and travel expenses to present the paper "Calibration and Validation of Homeostasis
Parameters Estimates Produced by DSP Embedded Processing in a Wheelchair" at the
conference. , 01-01-2013 .
it is a member of the CIENCIA VIVA, the National Agency for Scientific and Technological
culture and co-operates in some of its events.
Sponsored by CIENCIA VIVA, it organised a one-week hands-on introductory course on
telecommunications for 10th and 11th grade high school pupils with 15 enthusiastic
participants and an open-lab two hour session for a similar audience, and a number of three
hour activities in four secondary schools in the region of Aveiro, where pupils had to mount a
simple radio transmitter
Also in cooperation with IST, it organised visits and demonstrations for high school pupils,
involving about 1000 pupils (in 2013).
During 2013 it continued the regular publication of its monthly newsletter, which is distributed
electronically to all researchers and PhD students, and also continued its presence in social
networks (Facebook, YouTube and Flickr).
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2. KEY IT INDICATORS
Human Resources
In December 2013 it human resources included 732 people distributed as follows:
• 273 researchers (of which 29 were it grantees);
• 297 PhD students (of which 26 were it grantees);
• 132 other it grantees (82 M.Sc, 28 B.Sc, 20 Initiation to R&D and 2 R&D management);
• 11 technical;
• 19 administrative.
All researchers but 2, hold a PhD degree. As a result of the application of it quality policy,
out from the 271 researchers holding a PhD Degree, 50 were excluded from FCT’s
integrated members list. Consequently, it had 221 eligible researchers.
The distribution of all human resources between the three sites is represented graphically in
Figure 2.1. It is obvious from this figure that the ratios between PhD students and
researchers and grantees and researchers is much higher in Aveiro than in Lisbon a fact
that is partly explained by the much higher involvement of Aveiro in FP7 projects.
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Figure 2.1: Distribution of it human resources between the three sites
The distribution of researchers and PhD students between sites and delegations is shown in
Figure 2.2.
This figure shows, more than the previous one, the lower proportion of PhD
students in relation to the number of researchers in the IST site and, even more seriously,
in the ISCTE delegation.
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Figure 2.2: Distribution of it researchers and PhD students
among associated universities
Unfortunately our accounting systems only provides site information for grantees and thus it
is not yet possible to have a more detailed picture of grantees distribution.
The distribution of it technical and administrative staff is shown on Figure 2.3 and 2.4.
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Figure 2.3 Distribution of it technical staff
Figure 2.4 Distribution of it administrative staff
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The distributions of foreign post-docs (31) and PhD students (61) per nationality are
shown in figures 2.5 and 2.6
Figure 2.5 Distribution of foreign post-docs per nationality
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Figure 2.6 Distribution of foreign PhD student per nationality
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Projects
Funding Agency
ADI
ADI e PT Inovação
BIOCANT
Ciencia Viva/FCT
CISCO
Comissão Europeia
Coriant Portugal/FCT
COST
EDP Distribuição
European Science Foundation (ESF)
European Space Agency
FCT
FCT/CMU
FCT, UT Austin
FCT/CAPES
FCT/GRICES
FCT/PTDC
FCT-Slovak Academy of Sciences bilateral project
FEDER/QREN
FP4
FP7
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
HPS-Portugal, ESA
Industry (Dutch Polymer Institute)
IT
National Funding
NATO/Portuguese Navy/Portuguese Ministry of Defense
Nokia Siemens Networks
ON2
Private International Company (confidential)
PT Inovação
PT Telecom, FCT, UT Austin
Public concourse
QREN
QREN/COMPETE
SoftSim
Thales Alenia Space
Number
2
1
1
1
1
6
1
6
1
1
2
11
2
1
1
1
58
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
28
1
2
1
2
2
13
1
1
7
1
1
2
Table 2 – Number of active projects in 2013, according to funding source
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Publications
Books
Book chapters
Journals
Conferences
Patents
MSc Thesis
PhD Thesis
19
62
334
550
6
193
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Table 3 – Number of published works in 2013
"Books”- Fully authored books and Edited books;
"Journals”- Papers in International refereed journals;
"Conferences”- Communications in International and National refereed conferences;
“Patents” - Patent applications;
"MSc and PhD Theses”- Concluded dissertations.
The scientific productivity in 2013 was 1.51 journal papers per eligible researcher or,
counting each book, bookchapter and journal paper as one publication, 1.85 publications
per eligible researcher.
It is interesting to compare the distribution of the number of researchers per site and
delegation with the number of number of published works (papers in international journals
and communications to refereed conferences). One should note that the sum of the number
of publications per site and/or delegation is higher than the number of publications for it
because a significant number of publications (about 30 %) are authored by researchers
from more than one site and/or delegation. This fact in itself is an important indicator that
it is increasingly operating as a unity rather than as a collection of research units. In the
following, it and CIENCIA paid researchers and their publications are not included
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Figure 2.7 : Distribution of it researchers per site in 2013
Figure 2.8 : Distribution of journal papers published in 2013 per site
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Figure 2.9 : Distribution of communications in international refereed conferences in 2013 per site
Figure 2.10: Distribution of patents in 2013 per site
29
Figure 2.11 : Distribution of it researchers per site/branch in 2013
Figure 2.12 : Distribution of journal papers published in 2013 per site/branch
30
Figure 2.13 : Distribution of communications in international refereed
conferences in 2013 per delegation
Figure 2.14 : Distribution of patents in 2013 per delegation
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Even if Figures 2.7 to 2.14 are self explanatory, it is interesting to remark that at the level
of papers in journals, site distribution follows very closely research distribution. Differences
are slight at the level of communications to conferences and considerable at the number of
patents where the importance of Porto shines. Going into delegations, some differences are
rather more striking, particularly at the level of papers in journals, which could not be seen
at the site level.
Networks and Sinergies
it has been trying hard to improve networking not only between its researchers but also
with external researchers. Using it database of journal publications in 2013 figure 2.13 was
produced representing it co-authorship network in 2013.
In this figure each researcher is represented by a disk whose colour indicates the researcher
scientific area according to the following colour code:
•
Red — Wireless Communications
•
Blue — Optical Communications
•
Orange — Networks and Multimedia
•
Green — Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies.
The disk diameter is proportional to the number of connections originated by each node. The
existence of a paper authored by two or more researchers is represented by a line linking the nodes
involved.
The networking strength is apparent in Figure 2.13 and may be better appreciated in Figure 2.14 that
was obtained using it database for journal papers for the period 2008 — 2012. Although most
connections involve researchers in the same scientific area, there is a significant number of
connections between researchers of different scientific areas, a clear indicator of the synergies it is
fostering. Connections with external authors are not shown for clarity.
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Figure 2.15 : Graph showing journal papers co-authorships in 2013
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Figure 2.16 : Graph showing journal papers co-authorships the period 2008/2012
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
3. FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Operational income during 2013 totalled 6838 k€ distributed as indicated in
Table 1. Major income sources (clients of services and sources of subsidies) are
detailed in Table 2. Costs in 2013 totalled 5889 k€ as partially indicated in Table
3. Main asset changes in 2013 are listed in Table 4.
Sources of Income
Amount [k€]
Services to third parties
1182
Subsidies
4842
Other
814
TOTAL
6838
Table 1 – Total operational income in 2013
Major clients of services
Amount [k€]
PT Inovação
448
Huawei Technologies
228
EDP
62
Nokia Solutions
50
Brisa
50
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Main sources of subsidies
Amount [k€]
2505
Commission of the European Communities
1507
Universidade de Aveiro
502
Agência de Inovação
289
Table 2 – List of major income sources during 2013
Costs
Staff
Amount [k€]
1327
Researchers
501
Scholarships
2142
Missions
594
Books and journals
Consumables
63
254
Table 3 – Major costs in 2013
Assets
Amount [k€]
Increase in tangible assets
440
Depreciation
853
New Technical and Scientific Equipment
381
Table 4 – Main asset changes in 2013
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
4. RESEARCH AREAS
4.1 Wireless Communications
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
4
0
4
Associate Professor
3
1
5
Assistant Professor
11
1
21
PhD
0
1
2
Assistant Lecturer
1
0
0
Post. Doc
17
2
1
PhD Student
26
2
33
(Licenciado)
1
0
1
63
7
69
TOTAL
Table 5 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in 2013
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Permanent Collaborators
Position
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Group
Degree
Name
PhD
PhD
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini
Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Mobile Systems - Av
Mobile Networks – Av
Agregação
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Mobile Systems - Av
Radio Systems – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Afonso Manuel dos Santos
Barbosa
Alberto de Jesus Nascimento
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
MSc
Alexandre Passos de Almeida
Agregação
Américo Manuel Carapeto
Correia
Aníbal Manuel de Oliveira Duarte Administrative Aveiro
António José Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
Antonio Luis Campos da Silva
Antennas and
Topa
Propagation – Lx
António Manuel Restani Graça
Antennas and
Alves Moreira
Propagation – Lx
Armando Carlos Domingues da
Radio Systems – Av
Rocha
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
PhD
PhD
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Atílio Manuel da Silva Gameiro
PhD
Ayman Radwan
Mobile Systems - Av
Full Professor
Agregação
Carlos Antonio Cardoso
Fernandes
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Professor
Emeritus
Agregação
Carlos Eduardo do Rego da
Costa Salema
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Carlos Gaspar Ribeiro
Agregação
Carlos Manuel dos Reis Paiva
PhD
Custódio José Oliveira Peixeiro
PhD
Daniel Filipe Marques
Castanheira
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
PhD
Darlene Maciel Neves
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
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Position
Group
Degree
Name
Post. Doc.
PhD
Du Yang
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Lecturer
Post. Doc.
PhD
Eduardo Jorge da Costa Brás
Lima
Fernando Duarte Nunes
PhD
Fernando Jose da Silva Velez
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Communication Theory
– Lx
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Post. Doc.
Agregação Francisco António Bucho Cercas
PhD
Francisco António Taveira
Branco Nunes Monteiro
MSc
Gonçalo Valadão
PhD
PhD
PhD
Hugo Miguel Cravo Gomes
Issa Tamer Elfergani
João Carlos Marques Silva
Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
Mobile Systems - Av
Agregação João José Lopes da Costa Freire Wireless Circuits – Lx
PhD
João Manuel Torres Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
João Nuno Pimentel da Silva
Matos
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Jorge dos Santos Freitas de
Oliveira
Agregação
Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da Costa
PhD
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Wireless Circuits – Av
PhD
PhD
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Agregação
Agregação
José Carlos da Silva Neves
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte
Pedro
PhD
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro
da Cunha Sanguino
Agregação
Jose Manuel Nunes Leitão
– Lx
PhD
Luís Carlos Carneiro Gonçalves Mobile Networks – Av
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Agregação
Luis Filipe Lourenço Bernardo
PhD
Luís Miguel Moreira Borges
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Marco Alexandre dos Santos
Ribeiro
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Position
Group
Degree
Name
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Maria João Ramos Marques
Coelho Carrilho do Rosário
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
PhD
Mário Gonçalo Mestre Verissimo
Silveirinha
Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques
da Silva
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Agregação Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges
de Carvalho
Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca
Pinto
PhD
Paulo Gustavo Martins da Silva
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
Paulo Jorge Coelho Marques
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges
Montezuma de Carvalho
Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastiao
Pedro Manuel de Almeida
Carvalho Vieira
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz
Pedro Miguel Ferreira de Oliveira Radio Systems – Lx
Pedrosa
Pedro Miguel Ribeiro Lavrador Wireless Circuits – Av
Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos
Santos
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
PhD
Rafael Ferreira da Silva
Caldeirinha
Ramiro Samano Robles
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Filipe Rosa Paulo
Associate
Professor
PhD
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
Post. Doc.
PhD
Sara Helena Marques Teodoro
Seiamak Vahid
Mobile Systems - Av
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
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Position
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Degree
Name
PhD
Sérgio de Almeida Matos
PhD
Stanislav Maslovski
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Sylvain Lannebère
PhD
Telmo Reis Cunha
PhD
Tiago André Nogueira Morgado
PhD
Tipu Ramrehka
Wonhoon Jang
Group
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Mobile Systems - Av
Table 6 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in 2013
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Alireza Esfahani
Alírio de Jesus Soares
Boaventura
Ana Catarina Caniço Cruz
PhD Student
MSc
Andela Zaric
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD
André Eduardo Ponciano
Martins
António Abreu
António Eduardo Carreiro
Furtado
Antonio Navarro Rodrigues
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciatura
António Tavares
MSc
Carlos Alberto Barreiro Mendes
Carlos Leme
PhD
Group
Mobile Systems - Av
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
MSc
Carlos Manuel Gutierrez Sá da
Costa
Carlos Miguel Sendas Pires
Daniel Luís Silveira Robalo
PhD Student
MSc
David Emanuel Dias Fernandes
PhD Student
MSc
Fábio José Silva Amaral
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
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Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Fernando de Sousa
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
Fernando Manuel Ascenso
Fortes
Fernando Santos Azevedo
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
– Lx
PhD
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues
Antennas and
Prudêncio
Propagation – Lx
Filipe Alexandre da Silva
Rodrigues
Firooz B. Saghezchi
Mobile Systems - Av
Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva Communication Theory
– Lx
Francisco José Dinis de Sousa
Fernandes Ganhão
Hamed Hasani
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Hélio Silva
Mobile Systems - Av
Hugo Almeida e Marques
Mobile Systems - Av
Ivo Luís de la Cerda Garcia e
Sousa
Jessica Elizabeth Acevedo
Flores
Joana Rita Alves dos Santos
Antennas and
Silva
Propagation – Lx
João Carlos Roquete Fidalgo
Antennas and
Canto
Propagation – Lx
João Francisco Martinho Lêdo
Guerreiro
João Gabriel Rodrigues de
Oliveira
João Paulo Martins
João Tavares
João Tiago de Figueiredo e
Antennas and
Costa
Propagation – Co
Joaquim Manuel C.S. Bastos
Mobile Systems - Av
Jorge Miguel da Silva Tavares
Jorge Paulo Alves Torres
PhD
Jose Fernando da Rocha Pereira
José Maria Sousa do Vale
Marçal
José Miguel da Silva Bergano
José Miguel Ferreira Preto
Marques Luzio
– Lx
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Group
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
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Position
Degree
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Group
Name
MSc
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq
Luís Carlos Barruncho dos
Santos Gonçalves
Luís Miguel Mendes
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
MSc
Luis Pedro Marques Brás
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Manuel Dinis
Manuel Joaquim Campos
Mendes Nunes Duarte
Marco António da Mota
Carvalho Silva Pereira
Mário Jorge Simão de Assunção Wireless Circuits – Lx
PhD Student
PhD Student
Professor
Emeritus
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
Agregação
Mario Jose de Almeida Lanca
MSc
PhD
Miguel António Frade Duarte
Miguel Ramos Pereira
Mohsen Koohestani
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Muhammad Alam
Nelson José Valente da Silva
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Student
Student
Student
Student
MSc
MSc
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Norberto José Gil Barroca
Nuno Cota
Nuno Miguel Abreu Luís
Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo
Garrido
Nuno Miguel Faria Pires
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral
MSc
Licenciatura
MSc
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
Ricardo Dias Fernandes
Ricardo Matos Abreu
Ricardo Miguel Romão
Gonçalves
Riccardo Bassoli
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte
Oliveira
Rui Jorge Ferreira Esteves
Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio
Systems
Systems
Systems
Systems
–
–
–
–
Lx
Lx
Lx
Lx
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
MSc
Senka Hadzic
Mobile Systems - Av
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Position
PhD Student
Degree
Name
MSc
Sérgio Carlos da Conceição
Pires
Sérgio Morgadinho Rebelo
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
Group
Slavisa Tomic
Susana Mota
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
Associate
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
Telmo Rui Carvalhinho Cunha
Fernandes
Tiago Miguel Valente Varum
PhD Student
MSc
Vahid Nazari Talooki
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
PhD Student
Post. Doc.
MSc
Valdemar Monteiro
Victor Sucasas Iglésias
Wael Dghais
Mobile Systems - Av
Mobile Systems - Av
Table 7 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in
2013
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4.1.3
Summary of Research Achievements
4.1.3.1
Contributing groups
•
Antennas and Propagation - Lx
•
Antennas and Propagation - Co
•
Antennas and Propagation - Lr
•
•
Mobile Systems - Av
•
Radio Systems - Av
•
Radio Systems - Lx
•
•
Wireless Circuits - Lx
4.1.3.2
Antennas and Applications
Work on antennas has been focused on the following main topics:
antennas for UWB systems, small antennas for indoor applications and
antennas for microwave and mm-wave applications with emphasis on
antennas for Ka-band satellite communications.
Antennas for UWB, localization and body-area network
applications
•
Ultrawide band efficiency measurements and simulation. Extension of
Johnston's method for the evaluation of UWB antenna efficiency:
•
Patch loaded band-reject UWB antennas: study of frequency and time
performance.
Design of near-body low-profile UWB antennas for indoor localization
applications and for communications. Performance of UWB antennas in
the proximity of the human body;
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•
Development of new algorithms to enhance UWB-based indoor
localization accuracy;
•
Systematic study of the previously developed UWB antenna (XETS
antenna), aiming at its integration into an automated design tool for
full-wave Electromagnetic solvers.
Satellite antenas (Ground Antennas and Space Borne)
•
Developments on low-cost dielectric lens-based mechanical steerable
beam antennas for dual-band Ka ground terminal satellite services:
- concepts based on shaped dielectric antenna, involving the design of a
dual-band ridged horn antenna and launcher in the Ka-band and
assembly with the lens; fabrication and test;
- concepts based on flat zone-plate lens, involving the design of phase
delay printed elements; fabrication and test.
•
Design of dual-band multi-beam feeds for satellite Ka band reflectors
for satellite deck installation based on the "shared aperture" concept:
- Concept based on metamaterial Fabry-Perot cavity antenna, with
improved tolerance to fabrication accuracy and enhanced performance;
- Concept based on shaped dielectric lens with virtual foci;
•
Analysis, design, optimization, fabrication and test of microstrip patch
antenna elements and arrays for space applications at Ka band using
suspended stripline technology and substrate integrated waveguide
technology (SIW);
•
Analysis, design, optimization, fabrication and test of reflectarrays of
microstrip patch elements.
Other antenna related topics
Other lines of research have been pursued including:
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•
Design and test of implantable compact antennas to be applied under
the human skin for implantable medical device applications (IMD)
working in the Medradio band for extremely low power data relay to a
remote terminal through a dual-band wearable antenna working in
the MedRadio and ISM bands (collaboration with U Athens);
•
Development of small shaped lenses for multi-gigabit wireless LANs
exploring 3D printing fabrication technology and integration with mmwave IC (collaboration with U. Nice);
•
Initial
studies
applications
-
on
novel
antenna
development
of
beam
antenna
steering
arrays
for
with
wireless
electronic
beamforming steering capabilities for various wireless communication
applications.
4.1.3.3
Waves and Propagation
Work in this sub-area focused on the effects of vegetation media on the
propagation of radiowaves, RF measurement systems at micro- and
millimeter wave frequencies, propagation through building walls as well
as fundamental research on electromagnetics of complex media with
possible applications to antennas and guided wave structures.
Radiowave propagation modelling
Developed activities in 2013 mainly included studies of the effects of
vegetation media on the propagation of radiowaves, RF measurement
systems at micro- and millimeter wave frequencies, in addition to the
expansion its core activities to include building scatter and site shielding
techniques studies, in close collaboration with University of Vigo (Spain)
and University of South Wales (former University of Glamorgan) (United
Kingdom), as details:
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•
Noteworthy progress was made on the development of a novel timevarying
radiowave
model
in
vegetation
media
at
micro-
and
millimeter-wave frequencies. The model is based on the discrete
(Radiative Energy Transfer) theory extended to include channel
dynamics, for various vegetation species and frequencies.
•
On-going work in the development of a ray tracing based simulation
platform for realistic doubly selective radio channels, with MIMO
capabilities, including vegetation media. This framework in its present
stage is the integration of various propagation models from the
literature, with a novel method to characterize obstacles present in
the radio path, specifically for vegetation specimens, yielding only to
point scatterers with specific characteristics, which allows a great
variety of obstacles.
•
RF transparency control of building wall structures – initial study on
new propagation enhancement (and reduction) techniques using
Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) for interference mitigation,
coverage
enhancement
and
wireless
security
in
indoor
radio
environments;
Electromagnetics of Complex Media
Work
continued
on
the
characterization
and
applications
of
metamaterials:
•
Proposal of a novel metamaterial element - to be integrated with
existing RFID systems - that enables an ultra-confined interrogation
region.
•
Experimental
demonstration
of
a
nearly
lossless
metamaterial
characterized by broadband anomalous material dispersion.
•
Studies of nonlinear metamaterials based on nanowires and of
solitons in nonlinear wire media.
•
Proposal
of
a
perfect
electron
lens
based
on
graphene
and
semiconductor superlattices. Super-collimation of electron waves.
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•
Demonstration of a giant nonlinear optical response in zero-gap
semiconductor superlattices.
•
Theoretical prediction of a ultrahigh Casimir torque in nanowire
systems.
•
Theoretical explanation of the Fano-type resonances in nested wire
media.
•
Studies of noncontact quantum friction, optical instabilities in moving
media, and spontaneous light emission by moving matter.
•
Homogenization
and novel
boundary
conditions in
quadrupolar
metamaterials.
•
Thermal blanket with low RF reflectivity": main concept and design of
a low-reflecting thermal blanket for telecommunication satellites
using multi-layer band gap structures (a joint project with HPS-P and
ESA).
4.1.3.4
Circuits and systems for wireless communications
RF circuit design and measurement
Analysis of the discrepancies between simulation and test of SiGe and
CMOS prototypes based on EM simulation of the critical passive structures
has continued. A new version of a previous purposed model for quasimicrostrip transmission lines developed for 0.13
m CMO S t e c h n o
beeing studied to include the effect of the transitions between test pads
and the ciruit input transmission lines, and validated up to 40GHz.
A voltage tuned 28GHz high-pass active filter and different version of
active inductors in 0.25
m S iGe w e r e fa b r
study was started on noise and large signal behaviour of Active Inductors
in SiGe. SiGe integrated circuits design has started for 60GHz circuits in
cooperation with IHP foundry: a power amplifier and a frequency
synthesizer.
A study on the possibility of obtaining active inductors up to 30 GHz with
a CMOS 0.13
m t e c h n o lo g y s t a
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in Cooperation with the Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering of B.I.T Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. A 0.13
m CMO S
technology power amplifier designed and sent for fabrication in 2012 was
tested. A high efficiency power amplifier was submitted for fabrication
with the same technology.
The design of a complete transceiver for wireless sensors network (WSN)
compliant with Bluetooth Low Energy standard was started. A proposal for
an internal research project concerning the above mentioned transceiver
has been presented.
A MSc thesis started related with a fully integrated high efficiency
switched dc-dc converter
Radio front-ends
Carrier-Burst Transmitters: in order to profit from the potential efficiency
and linearity offered by switched-mode operating transistors, the viability
of building highly efficient and linear carrier-burst transmitters was
studied. Both carrier-amplitude and carrier-phase burst architectures
were analyzed implemented and tested to evaluate their practical
implementation difficulties.
RF Design for 5G systems: the 5G vision imposes challenging design
requirement on the RF layer, introducing the need for broadband and high
selectivity filters, and energy efficient antennas. Driving our research
work, we at IT are involved in a European Research project that aims at
developing architecture and technologies for implementing agile radio
frequency (RF) transceiver capacities. This will not just require smart RF
architectures in advanced CMOS and BiCMOS technology, but also need
incorporating MEMS technologies and novel simulation methodology for
achieving these complex optimizations. IT have a developed a tunable
MEMS filtering approach that can cover 5 frequency bands (1.6 GHZ –
2.6GHZ) on a single chip, with an insertion loss of around -0.05 dB.
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Power Amplifier Design
Self Oscillating Power Amplifier (SOPA) Analysis: the conditions for
determining the oscillation frequency of SOPA feedback loops were
theoretically derived and verified. The distortion produced by SOPA
architectures was analyzed from both the theoretical and simulations’
perspectives.
Power Amplifier Behavioral Modeling and Linearization: power amplifier
linearization mechanisms were thoroughly analyzed and developed, with
focus on predistortion approaches. Distinct models were used and tailored
to model the PA nonlinear dynamic behavior and techniques for
compensating those effects were designed, implemented and tested in
the laboratory.
Modeling and Design of High-Power Doherty Amplifiers: this work was
first devoted to model the individual amplifiers that constitute the
Doherty arrangement (carrier and peaking power amplifiers), working in
an independent way, and then followed by identifying the amplitude and
phase distortion effects induced by the Doherty dynamic load-modulation.
Other Topics
Several works were carried on Wireless Power Transmission, including a
remote control without battery needs. A battery less remote control was
also proposed.
4.1.3.5
Transmission and Receiving Systems
Radio systems
•
Study, characterization, development and implementation of new
algorithms,
using
software
defined
receivers,
for
coordinated
positioning systems using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
with practical applications, such as navigation systems for the visual
impaired, autonomous train collision detection systems
or assisted
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navigation based on V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communications and
GPS.
•
Evaluation
of
GPS
receiver
autonomous
integrity
monitoring
algorithms Development of track athletics guidance systems for the
visual impaired, based on RTK positioning.
•
Experimental framework that provides 3D Video QoE estimates by
using values from some of the parameters that characterize the
network conditions.
•
Study, implementation and testing of remote controlled UAVs using
terrestrial networks.
•
Exploiting TV White Spaces in Europe: the onset of Digital TV services
in Europe have resulted in vacant TV white spaces, providing the
impetus for new business opportunities for wireless operators to host
a whole range of new services. In 2013, an International research
project called FP7-ICT-COGEU led by IT were the first to demonstrate
a secondary spectrum trading tool for managing white space
spectrum as a commodity. The tool to accomplish this constituted a
geo-location data base, spectrum sensing, white space devices, and a
trading tool, each of which working in synergy to provide a working
demonstrator
for
identifying
white
space
opportunities.
Demonstration use-cases were carried out using real measurements
from incumbent operators in Munich and Slovakia.
•
Initial studies on the design, development and implementation of a
Millimetre Wave Wireless Radio System Prototype for Giga-bit/second
Multimedia Application
Wireless systems employing cooperative diversity/relaying
•
Optimization strategies for small cell networks and planning for mesh
networks with relays, in the context of cognitive radio, addressing
strategies for power saving.
•
Cellular planning and system capacity optimization for 4G mobile
communication systems in the context dynamic spectrum sharing and
aggregation in macro cellular and microcellular topologies.
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•
Planning and deployment for WiMAX, LTE and cellular systems in the
millimetre wavebands, including propagation modelling, cost/revenue
optimization of the planning in challenging topologies with relays in
hilly terrains, in the context of green communications.
•
Energy-aware Medium Access and Control (MAC) protocols for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs), with the inclusion of cognitive radio
aspects.
•
Study and application of interference mitigation and interference
alignment techniques for single carrier and OFDM transmissions.
•
Multi-cell coordination in LTE systems using beamforming techniques.
Architectures, Algorithms / protocols for Wireless Systems
Energy saving for 5G Handsets: 5G handsets are expected to be
multimode in nature, with several technology chips and antennas on the
same board. This high density of interfaces will place stringent demands
on the battery power. Contributing to this line of research, we
have
several ongoing projects and PhD programs on green communications. In
particular, IT have coordinated a European Research project called FP7ICT-C2POWER that investigated cooperation and smart systems for
energy saving in 5G handsets. The final results from the project
concluded that using cooperation in synergy with short-range networking
could reduce the energy consumption in the mobile handset by up to
50%;
and
exploiting
context-aware
phones
can
reduce
energy
consumption in roaming by up to 80%
The future wireless systems should fulfill several goals, among which:
provision of true broadband wireless access and enhanced system
capacity when compared with current 4th Generation (4G) networks.
Obviously, to achieve a generalized deployment all the technical solutions
are constrained by the capital and operational expenditures and should
provide
the
required
flexibility
to
allow
upgradeability
and
reconfigurability. This requires the definition of novel architectures and
the appropriate algorithms / protocols. Cooperation based on remote
radio heads are a promising architecture but bring significant challenges,
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since the fact we no longer have a link but multiple links raises
significantly the complexity of the problem.
The addressed topics were:
•
Design and performance evaluation of interference alignment
techniques for distributed antennas;
•
Precoding techniques for Coordinated Multipoint based networks;
•
Power allocation strategies for MIMO-OFDM based systems;
•
Channel estimations techniques for Relay-assisted based networks;
•
Linear and non-linear precoding techniques;
•
Receiver optimization;
•
Channel estimation for SISO and MIMO channels;
•
Hardware implementation in FPGA of selected algorithms;
•
Design of optimized multi-dimension constellations;
•
Analytical performance evaluation of nonlinear effects on digital
communications;
• Frequency-domain receiver design (equalization, multi-user detection,
multipacket detection, joint detection and synchronization and/or
channel estimation, etc) ;
• Analytical performance evaluation of SC-FDE schemes with iterative
receivers (packet combining, multipacket detection, DS-CDMA, MIMO,
etc.) ;
• Cross-layer design including physical layer and higher layers (packet
combining schemes, multipacket detection) ;
•
Lattice-oriented Physical Layer Network Coding. Detection Algorithms
for Massive MIMO. MIMO detection algorithms based on group theory
properties;
•
Study and application of random matrix theory based methods for
cognitive radio;
•
Signal processing techniques to reduce the envelope fluctuations of
digital communication signals (OFDM, SC-FDE, OQPSK and OQAM,
etc.) ;
•
Multi-access, multi-homing for LTE-Advanced enhancements using
femtocells, in particular IP flow routing via different access systems,
enabling the dynamic movement of IP flows between access systems
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(offloading) and support for handovers when the UE handles multiple
flows;
•
Simulation Methods for Highly Heterogeneous Circuits: specific
nonlinear circuit-level simulation tools using innovative numerical
methods were conceived and developed for the analysis of selfoscillating power amplifiers, SOPAs. These simulation tools were
conceived to be computationally efficient, even in presence of active
and latent sub-circuits and subjected to multi-rate signals as is the
case of SOPAs,
The use of wireless cooperative systems is also of relevance when
considering system capacity. As the demand for wireless services
increases, the solution to accommodate a higher number of users per
square km is, in a cellular architecture, through the reduction of the
cell size. However, as the cell size gets smaller and smaller, the path
loss exponent is reduced and the interference does not undergo the
same scaling effect, which means that the system capacity does not
increase linearly with the reduction of the cell size. One solution to
cope with this problem is to apply intercell interference cancellation,
which again requires cooperation between the base stations, and calls
for the same type of transport infrastructure identified in the previous
point. Research was done on:
•
Scheduling algorithms for DAS, and combination with precoding;
•
Development of system level simulators to support the research;
•
Development of slink level simulators to support the research;
•
Cooperative and Context-Aware Strategies for Energy Saving;
•
Cooperative Positioning in Wireless Networks.
Other Topics
•
Security for 5G systems: security has recently become an important
issue in an era where governments are investing heavily into preventive
measures against cybercrime .These types of malpractice are foreseen as
threats in future 5G scenarios, since confidential information will be
downloaded, uploaded and processed via the small cell network, and
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relayed over the high speed backhaul using foreign relaying nodes.
Therefore, lightweight security solution are required to provide a secure
end-to-end . In line with security research for 5G systems, we address:
Security Cooperation; Secure Network Coding and PKI solutions for next
generation passports. In particular, IT is coordinating a European project
on Security
that will develop solutions on how to deliver public safety
services over LTE networks, which until now have been restricted to
purpose built TETRA/TETRAPOL networks.
•
Comparative study of classical and cloud information technologies.
Study of business models for a 4G environment to optimize the usage
of available wireless network resources.
•
Decision support system for Software as a Service adoption.
•
Study of Game Theory models to enhance the performance of Optical
Networks.
•
Efficiency
enhancement
techniques.
Energy
of
mobile
efficiency
networks
with
improvement
multidomain
in
mobile
communications.
•
Energy-efficient routing for cross-layer design of WSNs in the context
of mobility and the characterization of textile materials for garment
integrated WBAN antennas and sensor devices;
•
Signal Integrity Analysis in IC Devices: because of their future
potential
importance in the circuit- and system-level simulation of
software define radio transceivers, digital I/O buffer behavioural
models were developed and specific laboratory characterization
setups were designed for extracting the model parameters of these
IC circuits.
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4.1.3.6
Radio Networks
Radio Resource Management and Network Planning
•
Common radio resource management in femtocells IMT Advanced
deployment scenarios.
•
Cognitive wireless regional area networks. Integrated Common Radio
Resource
Management
with
Spectrum
Aggregation
over
non-
broadband
data
contiguous frequency, and its energy efficiency.
•
Coverage
quality
for
femtocell
and
macrocell
services. QoS mechanisms analysis in LTE networks. Cell load
balancing in Heterogeneous Scenarios. Compatibility Between PMR
Terminal Equipment. Geo-location in social networks.
•
Resource management of heterogeneous, small dimension and
geographically dispersed cloud computing systems.
•
Energy efficient and QoE-based Radio Resource Management
•
Mobility Management and Security
Hierarchical Networks
The signaling problem - It is expected that the demand for wireless
services will continue to increase in the near and medium term, calling for
more capacity and putting more and more pressure on the spectrum
availability. While the use of advanced signal processing techniques such
as the ones referred in the previous topic,
may enable a very efficient
usage of the spectrum even in the traditional framework of command and
control spectrum management, there is a worldwide recognition that
these methods of spectrum management have reached their limit and are
no longer optimal. In fact spectrum utilization studies carried out at
different locations have shown that most of the assigned (licensed)
spectrum is under-utilized. Considerable spectrum is available when both
the dimensions of space and time are considered, and hence the problem
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of spectrum scarcity as perceived today, is in most cases one of inefficient
spectrum management rather than spectrum shortage. The development
of frequency agile terminals that can sense the spectrum and adapt their
transmission characteristics to use the existing “opportunities” may
provide one tool to address and take advantage of the spectrum underutilization. The development of the so-called cognitive radio (CR)
terminals that can sense the radio environment, reason about it, and
adapt their transmission characteristics to the existing opportunities
represents one trend to address and take advantage of spectrum underutilization. However when it comes to heterogeneous networks there is
the problem of signaling for the coordination of the resources. One cannot
provide excessive information otherwise the core network would be
overloaded but has to provide enough information to allow an effective
coordination. The specific topics dealt with were:
• Random access protocols based on channel state information (CSI).
• Waveforms for optimal coexistence
• Precoder and equalizer design based on limited information exchange and
finite codebooks
• Development of system level simulators for systems employing relays to
support the research
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4.1.4
Running and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
COST
ESF, COST
ESF, PESC
EU, FP7
European Commission
European Space Agency
European Space Agency (ESA) / European Space Research and
Technology Centre (ESTEC)
FCT
FCT/PTDC
FP7 EC
HPS-Portugal, ESA
IT
National Funding
NATO/Portuguese Navy/Portuguese Ministry of Defense
Private International Company (confidential)
PT Inovação
Public concourse
Number
1
4
1
7
1
1
1
1
3
14
1
1
1
3
1
2
2
2
1
Table 8 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2013
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Activity in Projects
Acron / Ref
ADIN
Title
Advanced PHY/MAC Design for Infrastructure-less Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This project aims to integrate MPR, IC, PHY-cooperation, CRD and AM
technologies in a single architecture particularly tailored for ILWNs,
which is itself a challenging task due to the lack of a central coordinator
and
the
spatial
distribution
of
the
nodes.
The
main
goal of the project is to investigate if the theoretical capacity of ILWNs
can be achieved by practical communication systems, or at least
evaluate how far an optimized solution, such as the one proposed in
this project, is from the theoretical capacity bound. The communication
systems’ architecture proposed for each node will be based on a crosslayering design between the physical and the MAC sub-layer.
Acron / Ref
COPWIN
Title
Coordinated MultiPoint Strategies for Future Wireless Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main technical objectives of the project are to design, implement
and validate techniques exploring BSs collaboration for future wireless
systems. The aim is to design and demonstrate practical multicell
transmission and reception techniques that improve user’s fairness and
throughput, namely at the cell-edges. To reach the above main goals,
specific research objectives are:
• Design of practical precoders for the downlink of multicell MIMOOFDM based networks. Initially, we will focus on the intra cluster
interference. Two approaches are considered: full centralized, which
requires that CSI and data of all UTs are available at the CU;
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distributed, where the precoding vectors and power allocation are
computed in a distributed fashion on each BSs. In the second phase a
joint precoding approaches will be designed to remove both intra and
inter cluster interference by exploiting the promising concept of IA.
• Design of efficient multiuser detection techniques for the uplink of
multicell MIMO SC-FDMA based networks. These receivers will be
implemented in the frequency-domain, based on the IB-DFE concept,
eventually taking advantage of the channel decoder output. The
multiuser decoder will be designed taking into account nonlinear effects
in the transmission chain
and
can involve the estimation
and
cancellation of those effects.
• Designing of efficient signalling strategies both for the feedback of
wireless link information and distribution among the cooperating
network elements, aiming to optimize the trade-off between achieved
performance and signalling overhead. Moreover, particular emphasis
will be placed on inter-cluster feedback and quantization strategies.
• Design and optimization of medium access control protocols for the
considered clustered multicell architecture with joint scheduling and
dynamic
link
adaptation.
The
framework
of
multi-objective
optimization, will be used to find the algorithms that efficiently allocate
radio
resources
(power,
carriers)
among
the
different
tiers.
• Assessment and validation of the proposed downlink and uplink
algorithms under realist scenarios, trough a system level simulator
based on LTE specification.
• Development of an FPGA based testbed allowing to experimentally
show the feasibility of the proposed algorithms. The most promising
algorithms
(with
good
complexity/performance
trade-off)
integrated and characterized in this testbed.
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will
be
Acron / Ref
COST IC1004
Title
Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments
Funding
ESF, COST
Descript.
The main objective of the Action is to increase knowledge of
cooperative communications applied to Green Smart Environments, by
exploring and developing new methods, models, techniques, strategies
and tools.
Acron / Ref
Title
COST IC1104
ICT COST Action IC1104 - Random Network Coding and Designs over
GF(q)
Funding
Descript.
European Commission
Random network coding emerged through an award-winning paper by R.
Koetter and F. Kschischang in 2008 and has since then opened a major
research area in communication technology with widespread applications
for communication networks like the internet, wireless communication
systems, and cloud computing. It allows transmitting information through
a network by disregarding any of its topological features. As in traditional
algebraic coding theory, two main research directions in random network
coding are:
1- existence and construction of good and optimal network codes,
2- efficient encoding and decoding schemes for a given network code.
Restriction to the so-called Grassmannian codes has proven to be
advantageous and leads to the theory of designs over GF(q). Worldwide,
there exists a larger number of workgroups focusing on this topic, which
includes several groups located in Europe. This COST Action will set up a
European research network and establish network coding as a European
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core area in communication technology. Its aim is to bring together
experts from pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and
electrical
engineering, who are working
in
the areas
of discrete
mathematics, coding theory, information theory, and related fields.
Acron / Ref
Title
COST TD1301
Development of a European-based Collaborative Network to Accelerate
Technological, Clinical and Commercialisation Progress in the Area of
Medical Microwave Imaging
Funding
Descript.
• One of the most promising emerging medical imaging modalities is
Microwave Imaging (MWI), which is a low-power, low-cost, non-ionising
imaging modality and also has therapeutic capabilities. Most of this MWI
research to date has been accomplished in simulation and laboratory
studies, with only limited translational
research into the clinical
environment.
European researchers have been at the forefront of the development of
MWI. With respect to medical applications, these (mostly independent)
efforts have lead to the design of several microwave-based imaging
devices, most of which are currently undergoing or poised for clinical
trials. Such a reserve of knowledge constitutes a unique opportunity for
European researchers to leverage existing experience and expertise to
streamline the transition from simulation/phantom testing to full clinical
trials and clinical adoption of MWI devices.
• Collaboration will provide a valuable non-competitive framework which
will provide European researchers with the necessary structure and
support to overcome common challenges and bring MWI from “research
bench to patient bedside” in a much shorter period of time, boosting the
European Research Area and its excellence in a worldwide context.
Experience in the commercial evaluation of MWI devices will also be
shared amongst COST participants.
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Acron / Ref
Title
CREATION
Creation – Cognitive Radio Transceiver Design For Energy Efficient Data
Transmission
Funding
Descript.
FCT
The next generation of wireless communication devices must achieve
Gigabit data rates and low power consumption by making more efficient
use of the radio-frequency spectrum and taking advantage of device
interoperability. To meet these requirements, the development of
cognitive radio devices will be far more complex than that of their
predecessors. Large, interdisciplinary development teams are required
to cover areas such as analog RF hardware, digital hardware design,
digital signal processing and system architecture. With the research
team selected for this project we believe to have put together all the
expertise required to face the design challenges of the radios of the
future.
Acron / Ref
GANSAT
Title
GANSAT
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
Power Amplifier Design for Space Applications based on GaN transistors
Acron / Ref
GREENET
Title
An early stage training network in enabling technologies for GREEN radio
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
Current 4G vision envisages higher data rates and multi standard radio
interfaces to provide all users with a continuous seamless connection.
The large number of foreseen devices coupled with the surge in power
requirements for future emerging handsets raises significant challenges
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in terms of:
i)
reducing the energy consumption; and ii) reducing the amount
of electromagnetic radiations.
ii)
GREENET
targets
the
following
main
objectives:
1. Recruitment of ESRs with the clear and long-term objective to
conduct
top-notch
research
and
to
pursue
research
excellence at the national, European, and international levels.
2. Develop training and career plans that are personalized as
possible
to
meet
the
needs
and
desires
of
each
ESR.
3. To allow the ESRs to understand and address key research
challenges
on
energy
efficient
GREENET
communications,
that form pivotal societal and economic concerns for Europe
within the mid-to-long term.
4. Offer to each ESR top-level training and research programs
with the twofold objective to reinforce and corroborate their
own background, as well as to complement this with active
participation in a multi-disciplinary network of research scientists.
5. Complement the typical competences of “applied research”
with
aspects
property
related
rights,
to
writing
project
of
management,
patents,
intellectual
presentation
and
communication skills, writing of technical papers, exploitation of
technical
results
and
creation
of
start-up
companies,
etc.
6. Guide and help the ESRs to build the bridge from academia to
a remarkable and untactful professional career in either the
private or public sectors.
Acron / Ref
GREEN-T
Title
Green Terminals for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Funding
National Funding
Descript.
GREEN-T aims to overcome the energy trap of 4Gmobile systems by
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investigating and demonstrating energy saving technologies for multistandard wireless mobile devices, exploiting the combination of cognitive
radio and cooperative strategies while still enabling the required
performance in terms of data
rate and
QoS
to support active
applications. This notion is further extended by investigating lightweight
security approaches, which is a pivotal requirements of 4G systems that
will constitute a multitude of players from network operators to services
provides cooperating under a converged service platform.
Acron / Ref
Title
KALens
Compact Lens-Based Mechanically Steered Ka-Band user Terminal
Antenna
Funding
European
Space
Agency (ESA)
/
European
Space Research
and
Technology Centre (ESTEC)
Descript.
The main objective of the project is to develop a compact low-profile
lens-based mechanically steered Ka-band antenna for satellite mobile
user terminals. It is intended as a single aperture antenna to operate
simultaneously
in
the
downlink
and
uplink
bands
with
circular
polarization, the scanning being achieved by in-plane lens translation
over a fixed feed. The pros and cons of translating the feed with fixed
lens will be also addressed. Besides the feed design, it requires the
identification of an adequate lens type, its fabrication technology and its
design.
Acron / Ref
mm-SatCom
Title
Millimeter Wave Antennas for Next-Generation Satellite Mass Services
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
1) Research of new compact Ka-band satellite antenna solutions capable
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of operating simultaneously in both uplink and downlink bands. The
antennas will be based on the aperture overlap concept. In one approach
an adequate frequency-selective multi-layer slab is placed above an
array of feeds in order to produce multiple overlapping apertures, each
one ensuring adequate reflector illumination. In another approach of the
project, integrated shaped lens antennas with multiple feeds attached to
its base will be explored with the same objectives.
2)
Design
of compact
low-cost
Ka-band
antennas for terrestrial
terminals, either fixed or installed on moving platforms like cars, trains
or ships. These antennas must have a single steerable beam constantly
pointing towards the satellite as the terminal moves. This will evolve
from a previous concept proposed by the project team, where a
steerable shaped dielectric lens pivots in front of a stationary feed
requiring no rotary joints which are expensive and prone to faults. New
lens configurations will be researched, including flat lens made of
inhomogeneous metamaterial.
Acron / Ref
NEUF
Title
LTE-Advanced Enhancements using Femtocells
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project will take LTE-Advanced as a reference and will explore
possible enhancements to the support of femtocells. It will use
mechanisms to reduce the interference-limited transmission with full
frequency reuse. These include CQI, QoS- and interference- aware
scheduling and RRM with user-grouping, coordinated RRM, exploiting the
spatial degrees of freedoms from multi-antenna systems and OFDMA
through MIMO and beam forming techniques, active interference
management and CoMP transmission, as well as carrier aggregation for
multi-band transmission.
New technologies like aggregate carriers and cooperative multi antennas
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antenna systems as part of LTE-Advanced systems will be evaluated with
respect to their ability to enhance the performance of networked
femtocells based on LTE-A. The availability of Positioning information,
can help provide the network with information on the terminal positions
and, with this, to adapt the transmission scheme to the terminal
avoiding worst channel conditions.
At the network layer, considerable research and development has been
recently focused on the use of small cellular base stations. However,
those cells have only been considered as mere extensions to cellular
networks, allowing the enlargement of service coverage. The use of
these small cells, mostly deployed by consumers, has not yet been fully
explored. There are many services and protocols in the network that
could benefit on the scattering of this kind of cell deployment. This
project will exploit the opportunities that small cells will bring to
improvement on the network architecture. The aim is to a achieve a
much richer small cell, that will provide better support for several
services and protocols that could take advantage on a distributed
architecture
and/or
context
ware
and
localized
information.
Femtocells can have many benefits for both operators and users. From
an operational or deployment perspective however their integration into
the network is quite hard. From the user perspective the deployment of
those
cells
has
to
be
transparent,
therefore
support
for
zero-
configuration networking is a requirement. This project will exploit
network access characteristics of being self-organized inherent to the
SON specification of LTE-A.
The project will include specific activities to study mobility management,
considering its implication network efficiency. The aim will be to support
simultaneous data flows from LTE-A and other access systems (WLAN,
WiMAX), provide policies for guiding and configuring the UE IP flow
routing via different access systems, enable the dynamic movement of
IP flows between access systems (offloading) and support handovers
when the UE handles multiple flows. Cross-layer Media Independent
Handovers standardization efforts have been done on several working
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groups in IEEE, IETF and 3GPP. However the implementation of those
media independent handovers has not yet fully considered the use of
Femtocells in the network. For instance, in IEEE 802.21 access selection
is out o scope of the standard, which is simply an integration enabler for
multi-access radio access technologies. Femtocells will be used to
support
handover
decisions,
by
implementing
media
independent
services. Localized information and their use for supporting handovers
will be considered in detail. In addition, the project will work on the use
of Femtocells on the implementation of decision entities and handover
policy management. Simultaneous multi-Access, multi-homing is another
novel aspect to consider in femtocells. In particular this project will go
beyond “3G complemented by 3rd party access” scenarios, paving the
ways for true multi-access, multi-homing where each flow can influence
the access selection process.
The project will take advantage of Femtocells in multiple ways. The
project will exploit the fine-grained context awareness made possible by
the use of Femtocells in order to support the provision of content rich
services by increasing the user’s Quality of Experience (QoE).
Acron / Ref
Title
NEWFOCUS
New Fromtiers im mm/sub-mm waves integrated dielectric focusing
systems
Funding
ESF, PESC
Descript.
-
Development
of
advanced
analytical
and
numerical
modelling
techniques in electromagnetic theory using complementary formulations
for the analysis, synthesis and optimisation of integrated dielectric
focusing systems
-
Implementation
Benchmarking
of
powerful
measurement
computer-aided-design
facilities
at
mm
and
wavelengths
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tools
submm
- Promotion of research mobility
Acron / Ref
Title
PROENERGY-WSN
Prototypes
for
Efficient
Energy
Self-sustainable
Wireless
Sensor
Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main challenge is the development of an energy self-sustainable
wireless sensor network formed by nodes with energy scavenging
capabilities. Body and movement energy scavenging will be considered
whilst maximizing the energy efficiency. One of the bottlenecks of the
wireless sensor devices performance is the batteries and energy storage.
For indoor environments, rechargeable batteries may be the solution,
although recharging the batteries may be burdensome especially for the
elderly people. As solar cells are not viable with body-worn sensor nodes
(because sensors are preferred to be placed under the clothing), motion
and
body
investigated
heat
based
for
energy
healthcare
harvesting
and
body
techniques
should
monitoring
be
systems.
The main challenge is the development of an energy self-sustainable
wireless sensor network formed by nodes with energy scavenging
capabilities. Body and movement energy scavenging will be considered
whilst maximizing the energy efficiency. One of the bottlenecks of the
wireless sensor devices performance is the batteries and energy storage.
For indoor environments, rechargeable batteries may be the solution,
although recharging the batteries may be burdensome especially for the
elderly people. As solar cells are not viable with body-worn sensor nodes
(because sensors are preferred to be placed under the clothing), motion
and
body
investigated
Besides
heat
based
for
these
energy
healthcare
Wireless
Body
harvesting
and
Area
body
techniques
should
monitoring
Network
(WBAN)
be
systems.
aspects,
contributions will be given on the development and experimental
verification of a hardware solution for WSN protocol performance
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evaluation. This study relates to the modelling and experimental
evaluation of WSN routing and link layer protocols with no degradation
in the sensor nodes performance. Two contention-based WSN MAC
protocols will be compared via modelling, simulation and hardware
experimental measurement approaches. Not only will the energy
spending be addressed, but also throughput, packet delivery rate, and
end-to-end delay. Routing protocols that save energy are also aimed at,
and different QoS metrics will also be considered, trying to reach a
solution that uses the least energy possible, while delivering all the
packets with a very low latency. Aspects of hybrid energy storage will be
considered both in the simulations and hardware verification, envisaging
the improvements to be achieved for the network protocol proposal.
Acron / Ref
R2D2
Title
Network error control for Rapid and Reliable Data Delivery
Funding
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
Descript.
Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the dominant system for fourth generation
(4G) networks, has introduced state-of-the-art fountain coding to
support wireless content streaming and downloading. Even though
fountain coding can be combined with collaborative network coding to
reduce network overhead and improve bandwidth efficiency, there is
great scope for tailoring transceiver designs to the requirements of
content distribution and for developing radically new paradigms capable
of
supporting
high
quality
media
in
next
generation
systems.
The R2D2 project aims to:
- Develop a mathematical framework to identify key relationships
between various network parameters, contribute to the understanding of
network dynamics and assist in the system-level optimisation of
network-coded architectures.
- Leverage the benefits of joint channel coding and network coding and
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propose
joint
transceiver
designs
for
content
delivery.
- Delve into the emerging research field of network error correction and
develop practical implementations of unified channel codes and network
codes that can offer high reliability, low decoding complexity and
increased security from malicious users.
Acron / Ref
RFMLI
Title
Thermal Blanket with Low RF Reflectivity
Funding
HPS-Portugal, ESA
Descript.
The primary objective of this study is to propose a series of concepts
based on metamaterials in combination with the typical materials used in
thermal blankets in order to reduce the blanket’s RF reflectivity in
specific frequency ranges. Concepts will be explored at the C-, Ku, Ka
and Q/V bands.
The new blankets are required to maintain their thermal and mechanical
properties as much as possible and be designed with space flight in mind
using
space
qualified
clean-room
compatible
materials.
Further
requirements include cost effective fabrication compatibility, and reduced
added mass compared to traditional multi-layer blankets.
Acron / Ref
Title
ROMEO
Remote Collaborative Real-Time Multimedia Experience over the Future
Internet
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
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Acron / Ref
Title
SAAS
Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using
Terrestrial Wireless Networks
Funding
Descript.
IT
The main objective of SAAS is to develop an UAV remote control
system that is mostly independent of a specific vehicle model or design
and that makes use of the available terrestrial wireless networks. The
individual challenges and objectives to be addressed are:
• Real-Time Video Transmission and Control using Terrestrial Wireless
Networks: Investigate the possibility of transmitting real time video
and control commands with adequate quality for a pilot to control and
make decisions on the vehicle course using the available radio
networks (GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, LTE).
• Semi-autonomous Flight Control: Develop autonomous control
capabilities for the aircraft to perform its self-rescue in the case of loss
of radio connection and that can also allow a reduced piloting
workload.
•
Remote
Visualization
and
Control
Application:
Implement
an
application for tablet PCs that enables the visualization of the video
captured by the aircraft cameras together with other telemetry
information and allows the pilot to command the aircraft (either using
the
touchscreen,
the
accelerometers
or
an
additional
attached
joystick).
• Prototype Implementation and Flight Tests: Implement a prototype
using a small rotary-wing aircraft (possibly a tricopter/quadcopter) and
evaluate the performance in terms of video reception, control, and
autonomy capability.
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Acron / Ref
SALUS
Title
SALUS
Funding
FP7 EC
Descript.
The main goal of SALUS is to design, implement and evaluate a next
generation communication network for Public Protection and Disaster
Relief (PPDR) agencies, supported by network operators and industry,
which will provide security, privacy, seamless mobility, QoS and
reliability support for mission-critical PMR voice and broadband data
services.
Acron / Ref
TElectronics
Title
Transformation Electronics and Optics
Funding
FCT
Descript.
We propose three major research lines:
• Tailoring the electron mass and the transport properties – In a
semiconductor the effective mass determines the inertia of the electron
to an external stimulus. The finite value of the mobility ultimately limits
the speed of integrated circuits and other devices. In most electronic
circuits the electron flow is supposed to occur along a predetermined
path, e.g. down the passageway connecting two transistors. However,
typically only a small fraction of the available free carriers responds
effectively to an external electric field. We want to show that based on
the superlattice concept it may be possible to engineer the electron mass
tensor in such a way that (i) all the available electronic states contribute
to the electron flow. (ii) the intrinsic electron resistance to movement is
greatly reduced. In addition, these ideas may enable to boost the
electrical conductivity.
•
Tailoring
superlattices
the
nonlinearities
and
in
in
graphene
electromagnetic
and
metamaterials
semiconductor
–
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Nonlinear
electromagnetics
(in
particular
nonlinear
optics)
has
important
applications in frequency multiplication or high-speed data transmission
based on solitons. However, the nonlinear response of most natural
materials is extremely weak. Previous studies have shown that by
tailoring the electronic structure it is possible to enhance the nonlinear
response. Here, we suggest boosting the nonlinear response by
decreasing the intrinsic resistance of the electron to movement in
engineered semiconductor or graphene superlattices. Our objective is to
develop novel electronic materials with enhanced nonlinear response,
and in addition to characterize the solitons supported both by these
structures and by more conventional electromagnetic metamaterials
based on metallic nanowire arrays.
• Effective medium theory – Effective medium theories are of key
importance in the study of “low energy” physical phenomena since they
enable reducing the inherent microscopic complexity of a physical
system
to a
few
effective parameters. Despite the fundamental
differences between photons and electrons, there are many formal
similarities between photonics and electronics, which ultimately result
from the wave-particle duality. However, the theoretical frameworks
typically adopted to describe wave propagation in electromagnetic media
and in semiconductors are usually rather different. As a generalization of
our previous studies in the context of electromagnetic metamaterials, we
propose to develop a general effective medium framework based on the
Hamiltonian formalism that enables describing “macroscopic excitations”
in both electromagnetic metamaterials and semiconductor and graphene
superlattices.
Such
common
framework
will
enable
establishing
straightforward analogies between electronics and photonics.
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Acron / Ref
Title
TERRA
Techno-Economic Regulatory Framework for Radio Spectrum Access for
Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio
Funding
ESF, COST
Descript.
The main objective of this Action is to develop a comprehensive technoeconomic regulatory framework of radio spectrum access rules for
CR/SDR-based wireless applications, catering for envisaged CR/SDR
deployment
scenarios
and
shown
to
benefit
most
optimally
the
development of the wireless industries and consumer interests at large.
Furthermore,
the
Action
will
provide
assistance
to
European
administrations in formulating a European position on radio spectrum
access rules for CR/SDR applications.
This Action will establish a multi-disciplinary European forum focused on
coordinating
techno-economic
harmonised
European
advancement
and
studies
regulatory
broad
for
the
framework
commercial
development
to
deployment
of
facilitate
of
a
the
Cognitive
Radio/Software Defined Radio (CR/SDR) systems. The Action will
leverage on results and experiences from national and international
research
initiatives
and
early
standard-setting
activities
by
recommending sound regulatory policies that would facilitate fastest
possible uptake and proliferation of CR/SDR. The need for this Action has
been supported by European regulators in the European Conference of
Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT). They stated
willingness to use the results of the Action in their work on developing
the
harmonised
European
regulatory
regime
for
CR/SDR.
Very
conveniently, proposals elaborated by the Action could also be used as a
part
of
European
contributions
to
the
forthcoming
World
Radiocommunications Conference in 2012, which has CR/SDR regulatory
policy on its agenda.
Working towards that objective, TERRA will structure its activities in the
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following clusters:
research into development of plausible deployment scenarios for
CR/SDR, based on results of current and future technological R&D
activities, research into what regulations would be technically feasible,
research into what regulatory regime would be economically attractive,
research into overall impact assessment and societal benefits of
developed regulatory scenarios.
Acron / Ref
Title
VISTA
COST IC1102 - Versatile, Integrated and Signal-aware Technologies for
Antennas
Funding
COST
Descript.
Cooperation in antenna field
Acron / Ref
VTL
Title
Virtual Traffic Lights
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Urban transportation is one of the grand challenges of our times. Car
journeys are by far the main player in this transportation, comprising
72% of all passenger kilometers in the European Union (EU) [1]. Traffic
congestion on the road is thus a common reality of the major EU cities,
and has been estimated to cost as much as 1% of the GDP. In its
present form, the use of Traffic Lights (TL) to control and regulate this
road traffic has proven to be very costly and inadequate in terms of
scalability. Leveraging the new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication
capability of modern cars we propose to design and validate an
alternative scheme of urban traffic control that envisions TL as in-vehicle
virtual signs, enabling ubiquity of signalized intersections, and defining
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the synchronization of light phases, cycle durations and green splits
based on distributed and self-organization techniques that govern a
vehicular ad hoc network (VANET).
The non-scalability of TL, and in particular the non-scalability of an
adaptive and intelligent citywide system of TL (a recent survey reports
that 70-90% of the deployed TL are non-adaptive [2]) is a key aspect
that we shall address through the alternative approach proposed in this
project. Even New York City only has 10,800 of its 45,000 intersections
managed by TL [3]. In other cities this percentage is typically smaller. In
addition to traffic flow improvement, TL have also a significant impact on
road safety, as studies report a 33% decrease in vehicle crashes at
intersections
that
have
been
equipped
with
traffic
signals
[4].
Our approach in this project will take advantage of the mandatory
adoption by the automotive industry of the Wireless Access for Vehicular
Environments
(WAVE)
protocol,
and
the
ability
of
vehicles
to
communicate with each other, thus creating a distributed and highly
reliable system of in-vehicle virtual traffic lights (VTL). Our preliminary
simulations of this self-organizing traffic paradigm show a potential to
increase the average flow rates substantially (up to 60%, compared with
a city-level physical TL system [5]), in addition to rendering traffic
control and management more ubiquitous and cost-effective. Our basic
idea is relatively simple: use the core characteristics of VANET, namely
periodic beaconing, location tables and appropriate transport and MAC
protocols to perceive crossing conflicts and elect a leading vehicle that
works as a temporary virtual infrastructure, stopping under a virtual red
light at the entrance of the intersection and broadcasting virtual traffic
light messages that are listened by the vehicles approaching the
intersection. Local optimization of cycle duration, phase layout and green
splits are computed based on the number of vehicles in each approach.
City-level optimization of traffic flow can resort to the synchronization of
leaders in adjacent intersections or even to a traffic information system
that also leverages on VANET communication. Devices on each vehicle
interpret the VTL messages and display the respective color to the
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driver. We envision the computing, communication and display device to
be possible to retrofit on the existing car park, and the project will
produce such devices. By providing unequivocal evidence of the
envisioned
approach
on
the
mitigation
of
traffic
congestion,
its
economical and environmental impact, and increased road safety, the
project intends to pave the way for the adoption of EU legislation
towards
the
equipping
of
all
vehicles
with
VTL.
Our project is a natural follow-up of the DRIVE-IN (Distributed Routing
and Infotainment through Vehicular Inter-Networking) project, funded
by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation and involving an
international partnership with Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
DRIVE-IN has been designing VANET communication protocols and
developing high-scale traffic models and simulators that will support the
design and validation of the in-vehicle VTL system. DRIVE-IN has also
deployed a prototype VANET in the city of Porto, resorting to 450 taxis
where carPCs with windshield displays are installed, together with
802.11p
wifi
cards
for
V2V
and
vehicle-to-infrastructure
(V2I)
communication. This test-bed constitutes a major asset for the research
herein proposed and shall be used for proof-of-concept field experiments
in closed areas of the city.
The
project
is
1
Design
of the VTL communication
–
structured
in
the
following
four
protocol
main
tasks:
and distributed
optimization of traffic flow.
2
-
Security
and
reliability
of
the
VTL
system.
3 - Human-machine interface of the VTL system and usability evaluation.
4 - Hardware design for retrofitting and field trial experiments.
Our team includes experienced researchers with different backgrounds,
including computer science, computer engineering, civil engineering and
mechanical engineering. We leverage on specific expertise in vehicular
networks, intelligent transportation systems, vehicular human-machine
interfaces, wireless networking security and traffic management.
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4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Flávio
Silvestre
João Martins
Minas da
Piedade
End
Date
Design and Implementation of
an Energy Efficient Wireless
Sensor Network for
1/2013
Building/Home Automation
Nuno Manuel João Pedro
Branco Souto Horta Simões
Armando
Carlos
Domingues da
Rocha
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Title
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Detector Digital Síncrono de
Sinal CW baseado em FPGA
José Eduardo
Impact of femtocell
Charters Ribeiro
introduction in operational
da Cunha
mobile networks
Sanguino
A Random Access MAC
Rui Miguel
Protocol for MPR Satellite
Henriques Dias
Networks
Morgado Dinis
2/2013
4/2013
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
José Filipe
Morgado
Vieira
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
António
Manuel
Restani Graça
Alves Moreira
Kathia Sophia
Amarante
Garcia
Optical Switching
5/2013
Jorge André
Wan
Photonic Devices
5/2013
Positioning with Combined
GPS and GLONASS
Observations
5/2013
Pulse Compression in Radar
Applications
5/2013
Pedro Ferrão
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
Ivo Alexandre
José Manuel
de Oliveira
Bioucas Dias
Ribeiro
José Eduardo
Charters
Nelson Flavio António José
Ribeiro da
de Cintra
Castelo Branco
Cunha
Correia
Rodrigues
Sanguino
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
Gonçalo
Fernandes
Martins
Amaral
5/2013
Sistema de posicionamento
coordenado baseado em GPS 5/2013
e LPS
Optical Amplification
6/2013
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Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Ana Filipa
Fazenda
Cabete
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Tiago Jose
Atílio Manuel da
Alves Marques Silva Gameiro
Ricardo João
do Carmo
Plácido
6/2013
Sistema de Controlo de
Tráfego Aéreo por Satélite
6/2013
Sistema de Apontamento para
7/2013
Satélite Alphasat
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Fernando
Diogo Cândido
Duarte Nunes
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Optical Fiber Sistems with
Dispersion Compensation
Esquemas de Cooperação
entre Estações Base para o
7/2013
LTE no Sentido Descendente
Telmo Rui
Planning of broadband mobile
Carvalhinho
networks - case study of IP
7/2013
Cunha Fernandes Leiria Campus 2
Luis Pedro
Atílio Manuel da
Santos Loução Silva Gameiro
Marco
Fernando
Alexandre dos
Pereira
Santos Ribeiro
End
Date
The receiver analysis and
design from a system point of 6/2013
view
José Nogueira
Rafael Ferreira
Amilcar
da Silva
Justino
Caldeirinha
Armando
Tiago
Carlos
Sarmento
Domingues da
Matos
Rocha
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
Title
Inês
Técnicas de Equalização
Iterativas no EspaçoFrequência para Sistemas de 7/2013
4G
In flight camera control for
automatic target
detection/tracking using UAV 9/2013
– Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Multipath mitigation
techniques in GPS/Galileo
Power Amplifier for Radar
Applications
9/2013
9/2013
João Nuno
Roberto Louro
Sensores Passivos em
Pimentel da Silva
Magueta
Suportes de Cortiça
Matos
9/2013
Alcídia Micarla
Afonseca
Pedro Pinho
Duarte
9/2013
Sensores Passivos em
Suportes de Papel
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Supervisor
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Student
Joao Filipe
Pereira Dos
Reis
Marco
João Pedro
Alexandre dos
Loureiro Alves
Santos Ribeiro
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Sincronização de Relógios em
9/2013
redes LoWPAN
Wave propagation in
waveguides with media
having negative permittivity
and permeability
9/2013
Nuno Miguel
Arnaldo Silva
Gonçalves
White Space Technologies
André Prata
Rodrigues de
9/2013
Borges de
based on an agile radio
Oliveira
Carvalho
Nuno Miguel
Bruno Miguel
Gonçalves
Fernandes
Pedro Pinho,
Wide Area Electronics
9/2013
Borges de
Silva
Carvalho
António José
Coverage quality for femtocell
Castelo
Pedro André
and macrocell broadband data 10/2013
Branco
Branco Serra
services
Rodrigues
Francisco
Marco
Pedro Joaquim
Generic Link for Wireless
António Bucho Alexandre
10/2013
Amaro Sebastiao Planning
Cercas
Nunes Damião
António José
Tiago Filipe da Pedro Manuel de Geo-location based on
Castelo
Silva
Almeida Carvalho measurements reports for
10/2013
Branco
Pereirinha
Vieira
UMTS/LTE wireless networks
Rodrigues
Joao Pedro
Antonio Luis
Afonso Silva
Graphical User Interface for
Campos da
10/2013
Rocha
Urban Propagation Models
Silva Topa
Apolinario
António José
Sharing studies and
Castelo
Ana Catarina
compatibility with LTE mobile 10/2013
Branco
Barata Gomes
radio systems
Rodrigues
António José Raquel
Castelo
Cardoso
Small-cells 3G/LTE:
10/2013
Branco
Ribeiro
Geolocation I
Rodrigues
Bettencourt
Aplicações e Serviços
João Nuno
Joaquim José de Baseados em Android para
Pimentel da
Vitor Gomes
11/2013
Castro Ferreira
Sistemas de Transporte
Silva Matos
Inteligentes
Pedro Manuel
Geo-Location based on
de Almeida
Tiago
Measurement Reports for
11/2013
Carvalho
Pereirinha
UMTS Wireless Networks
Vieira
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Supervisor
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Student
Title
End
Date
Carlos Filipe
Ricardo Jorge
Correia
Fernandes
Sequeira de
Chaves
Jesus Simões
Guidance System for Visually
11/2013
Impaired Athletes
Filipe Manuel
Costa Pereira
Integrated Optics Devices
Ricardo Miguel
Carlos Leme
Farinha Alves
João Manuel
André Miguel
Torres
Carvalho
Caldinhas
Costa
Simões Vaz
João Manuel
Patrick
Torres
Goncalves
Caldinhas
Pereira
Simões Vaz
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Daniel Duarte
Silva Matos
Francisco
Ana Filipa
António Bucho
Teixeira
Cercas
Pedro Miguel
Vitor Miguel
da Silva
Melo Soares
Cabral
Pedro Renato Pedro André
Tavares Pinho Gomes Soares
Tiago
Pedro Renato Alexandre
Tavares Pinho Simões
Martins
Paulo Renato
Fernando Jose
Neves Torres
da Silva Velez
Gouveia
Telmo Reis
Cunha
Co- Supervisors
Lisandro
Sérgio Gomes
Lopes
Fernando Jose Henrique
da Silva Velez Morais Saraiva
Carlos Leme
Carlos Leme
11/2013
Projecto de circuitos
integrados em tecnologia
CMOS Interfaces a sensores e 11/2013
Conversores Analógico
Digitais (ADCs)
Radio para sistemas de ultralow power em redes de
11/2013
sensores - Filtros de banda de
base
Radio para sistemas de ultralow power em redes de
11/2013
sensores - Sintetizador de
frequência
Joaquim José de Secure vehicular
Castro Ferreira
communications
11/2013
AirQAsthmaNet -Distributed
air sensor network for asthma 12/2013
assement
Analisador de Espectros
Portátil para Rádio-Frequência 12/2013
usando Arduino
Antena para o satélite
12/2013
CosmoGal
Comparação da
Implementação da rede TDT
12/2013
em Frequência Única e
Multifrequência
Convergence of Wireless
Networks for M2M and
12/2013
Internet of Things in Smart
Environments
Datalogger Remoto
12/2013
Design and Development of
Garment Integrated Energy
12/2013
Harvesting Devices Applied to
WBANs
83
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Jose Eduardo Atílio Manuel da
Leal Moreira Silva Gameiro
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
Frederico Jose
Soares Da
João Dias
Silva
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Tiago Miguel
De Pina
Correia
Rui Miguel
Neto
Marinheiro
Manuel Alberto
Reis de Oliveira
Violas
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Telmo Reis
Cunha
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Américo
Manuel
Carapeto
Correia
Gustavo
Miranda
Castilho Dos
Anjos
Atílio Manuel da
Silva Gameiro
12/2013
Identificação de classe de
veículo e respetiva matrícula
12/2013
Implementação numa FPGA
de Técnicas MIMO Projectadas
12/2013
para Sistemas de 4G
Jose Carlos
Marcos Rafael
Esteves Duarte
Vale Almeida
Pedro
Martins
Pedro Miguel
Rodrigues
Cunha
Gil Dias
12/2013
Sintetizadores de RF para
Software Defined Radio
12/2013
Sistema de Pagamento de
Portagens interoperável na
Europa
12/2013
Técnicas de Processamento
MIMO para Sistemas de 4G
12/2013
Schedduling for Distribted
wireless networks
Eduardo
Castaned
End
Date
IB-DFE with interference
alignment precoding scheme
for MC-CDMA systems
Multi-access control for
Luís Carlos do José André Rocha
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Paço Silva
Sá e Moura
UAV
Armando
Carlos
Tiago Saraiva
Domingues da
Rocha
João Nuno
Arnaldo Silva
Pimentel da
João Dias
Rodrigues de
Silva Matos
Oliveira
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Title
Medidor de Permeabilidade
Magnética baseado em
Circuitos Osciladores
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
Morgado
SC-FDE implementation for
Dinis,Rodolfo
USRP using GNU Radio
Alexandre Duarte
Oliveira
Uso de Femtocells na Rede
LTE-A
1/2014
3/2014
3/2014
3/2014
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Supervisor
Student
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso
Nuno Santos
Fernandes
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Tiago Cunha
Carvalho
Vieira
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso
João Felício
Fernandes
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
Co- Supervisors
Jorge Manuel
Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da
Costa
Title
End
Date
Antenas para autoconfinamento da detecção em
5/2014
aplicações UHF-RFID
Otimização de Redes LTE
Pedro Manuel de Utilizando Técnicas SON
Almeida Carvalho Baseadas em Geo-localização 5/2014
Vieira
de Eventos
Jorge Manuel
Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da
Costa
António José
Pedro Rui Ceia
Castelo Branco
dos Santos
Rodrigues
Nizar
Venturini
Ricardo Jorge
Fernandes
Chaves
Frederico
Miguel de
Azevedo
António
Machado da
Silva
Ricardo Jorge
Fernandes
Chaves
Filipe de
Oliveira
Salgueiro
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
José Manuel António José
Mateus de
Castelo Branco
Jesus Moreira Rodrigues
José Eduardo
Charters
António José
Ribeiro da
Marco Adriano
Castelo Branco
Cunha
Almeida Durão
Rodrigues
Sanguino
Study of a universal planar
antenna for ultrawide band
applications
5/2014
Assisted Navigation Based On
6/2014
V2V Communications and GPS
Autonomous system for track
athletics guidance for the
6/2014
visual impaired
Autonomous Train Collision
Detection System
Evaluation of GPS Receiver
Autonomous Integrity
Monitoring Algorithms
6/2014
6/2014
Geo-Location in Social
Networks
6/2014
GPS/INS Positioning
6/2014
85
Supervisor
Student
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
David Castro
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ana Rita de
Ribeiro da
Araújo
Cunha
Guilherme
Sanguino
Co- Supervisors
Real-Time- Kinematic
Positioning
6/2014
Ricardo Jorge
Fernandes
Chaves
Track Athletics Guidance for
the Visual Impaired
6/2014
Miguel Arantes
Moreira
Alexandre
Francisco
Tiago Filipe
António Bucho
Arsénio de
Cercas
Brito
End
Date
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
António
Manuel
Tiago Miguel Nuno Miguel
Restani Graça
Carrusca Parra Faria Pires
Alves Moreira
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Title
Antennas for Wireless Sensor
7/2014
Networks
Compatibility between private
mobile radio service
7/2014
equipment
José Eduardo
Charters Ribeiro
Control and data access for a
da Cunha
7/2014
satellite earth station
Sanguino
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Pedro Nuno
Carlos Eldio
Mendonça dos
Soria Azevedo
Santos
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
João Nuno
Pinto Pereira
Tavares
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Francisco António
Pedro Valério
Taveira Branco
Detection techniques for
Catarino
Nunes Monteiro Massive MIMO
Miguel
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Paulino Aníbal
Pereira Serra
de Magalhães
Corrêa
Conversor redutor comutado
completamente integrado em 7/2014
tecnologia CMOS
José Eduardo
Charters Ribeiro Data communication between
da Cunha
an airplane Airbus A350 and 7/2014
Sanguino
ground infrastructure
7/2014
Impact of mobile data
evolution in
telecommunications networks 7/2014
and its sustainability
86
Supervisor
Manuel
Alberto Reis
de Oliveira
Violas
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Francisco
António
Taveira
Branco Nunes
Monteiro
Student
Bruno Miguel
Fernandes
Silva
Co- Supervisors
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Title
Implementação da Camada
Fisica 4G/LTE numa
plataforma Software Defined
Radio
End
Date
7/2014
Rui Fortio
IPSec introduction impact in
LTE transport layer
7/2014
Filipe Manuel
Alves Ennes
Ferreira
Lattice-based Physical Layer
Network Coding
7/2014
José Eduardo
Management of an earth
Francisco
Jorge Eduardo Charters Ribeiro station for satellite
António Bucho
7/2014
Gomes Cunha da Cunha
radionavigation
Cercas
Sanguino
Monitoring and control of an
Luis Miguel
Marco Alexandre
Nuno Manuel
unmanned aerial vehicle using
Moreira
dos Santos
7/2014
Branco Souto
wireless networks
Afonso
Ribeiro
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Carvalho
Vieira
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Carvalho
Vieira
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
David Duarte
Neighbor List and Handover
Optimization for LTE SelfOrganizing Networks
7/2014
José Maria de
Pedro Manuel de Performance enhancement in
Sousa
Almeida Carvalho recently deplyed LTE wireless 7/2014
Cardoso
Vieira
networks
Marques
Flávio André
Silva Brás
Francisco António
Taveira Branco
Physical layer network coding 7/2014
Nunes Monteiro
Vítor Manuel
Ferreira
Fonseca
QoS mechanisms analysis in
present mobile networks and 7/2014
in LTE
Cláudio Franco
QoS-Related Parameters and
Antenna Optimization within 7/2014
LTE Self-Organizing Networks
André António
da Costa
Marques
Small-cells 3G/LTE:
Geolocation II
7/2014
87
Supervisor
Manuel
Alberto Reis
de Oliveira
Violas
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Carvalho
Vieira
Student
Co- Supervisors
End
Date
Hugo Filipe
Adão Paulo
Orfao Da Silva Soares Silva
Técnicas MIMO para os
futuros sistemas de
transmissão wireless(Sistemas de 4G/LTE)
Tiago Barata
Gabriel
Amplificador de potência em
tecnologia SiGe para sistemas 9/2014
a 60GHz
Miguel Vale
Capacity Management and
Load Balancing for 3G/4G
Wireless Access Networks
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Luís Loureiro
Carvalho
Vieira
Custódio José
Oliveira
Peixeiro
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Title
7/2014
9/2014
Desenvolvimento de uma
Aplicação para Auxílio ao
Projecto Indoor por Antenas
9/2014
Distribuídas para UMTS, com
base em Modelos de
Propagação Híbridos
Pedro José da Custódio José
Microstrip Patch Antennas in
Silva Paraíso Oliveira Peixeiro Cylindrical Substrates
9/2014
Rodolfo
Performance of cognitive
Alexandre Duarte
9/2014
radio systems
Oliveira
Previsão de Desempenho para
Pedro Manuel
Redes Móveis LTE (800 MHz)
de Almeida
e UMTS (900 MHz) baseadas
Artur Barbosa
9/2014
Carvalho
em Redes GSM (900 MHz) CoVieira
localizadas
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
José Pedro
Galamba
Egídio Reis
Tiago Miguel
Campos Freire
Nuno Manuel Marcos
Branco Souto Martins
Sintetizador de frequência em
tecnologia SiGe para sistemas 9/2014
a 60GHz
Transmitter/Receiver
Schemes for Cooperative
Wireless Networks
10/2014
Long distance microwave
Francisco
Filipe Careiro Pedro Joaquim
radio link using the Moon as a
António Bucho
11/2014
Soares
Amaro Sebastiao passive repeater
Cercas
Armando
Carlos
Domingues da Carlos Ribeiro Susana Mota,
Rocha
Teaching and Scientific
Guided Wave Propagation
Demonstrator
11/2014
88
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Fábio Manuel
Pedro Renato
Martins de
Tavares Pinho
Almeida
José Eduardo
Charters
António José
Joel Cardoso
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Martins
Cunha
Rodrigues
Sanguino
Pedro Miguel
da Silva
Cabral
Pedro Filipe
Gomes
Marques
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
José Pedro
Borrego
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
Rui Miguel
Felix
Fernandes
José Eduardo
Charters
João André
Ribeiro da
Correia Telo
Cunha
de Oliveira
Sanguino
End
Date
Title
Antena MIMO para terminal
móvel
12/2014
Development of a Carrier
Phase based DGPS Station
12/2014
Medidor de Potência Portátil
para Rádio-Frequência usando
12/2014
Arduino
PAssive Intermodulation in
Wireless Communication
Scenarios
12/2014
Pedro
Pinho,Tiago
Miguel Valente
Varum
RF Object Signature
12/2014
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
Sistema de gestão de uma
frota de veículos baseado em 12/2014
GPS
José Eduardo
Charters
António José
Gonçalo
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Martins Tomé
Cunha
Rodrigues
Sanguino
Software Defined Receivers
for GNSS
12/2014
Table 9 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2013
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Francisco
António Bucho Roberto Dimas
Cercas
do Amaral
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Miguel Ramos
Pereira
Co- Supervisors
Title
Terrestrial Digital
Television and new
market opportunities
End
Date
1/2013
Rui Miguel Henriques Time Diversity Solutions
1/2013
Dias Morgado Dinis to Cope With Lost Packets
89
Supervisor
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Student
Darlene Neves
Co- Supervisors
Adão Paulo Soares
Silva
Fernando Jose Luís Miguel
António Sérgio
da Silva Velez Moreira Borges Lebres
Tiago Hipkins
Meireles
Rafal
Glogowski
Channel Estimation And
Parameter Acquisition
Systems Employing
Cooperative Diversity
Enhanced Two-Phase
Contention window MAC
Protocol for Wireless
Sensor Networks
Applications
Nonlocal Effective
Medium Approach to
Wave Propagation in
Metamaterials
Mário Gonçalo
João Tiago de
Mestre
Figueiredo e
Verissimo
Costa
Silveirinha
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
Custódio José
Oliveira
Peixeiro
Title
José A. Fonseca
Nelson José
Valente Silva
2/2013
2/2013
3/2013
Wireless Communications
8/2013
for Assistive Technologies
Printed Millimetre Wave
Antennas
Transmissores
Nuno Miguel
Reconfiguráveis para
Gonçalves Borges de
Rádios Controlados por
Carvalho
Software
Jonathan
“Cooperative Positioning
Manuel Alberto Reis
Rodriguez
Senka Hadzic
for Heterogeneous
de Oliveira Violas
Gonzalez
Wireless Systems”
“Secure and Reliable
Communication
Jonathan
Vahid Nazari
Infrastructure for IPRodriguez
Talooki
Based Emergency
Gonzalez
Applications” - Map-i
Program
Jose Carlos
Behavioural Modelling of
Esteves
Wael Dghais
Telmo Reis Cunha
High-Speed Digital
Duarte Pedro
Devices
Jose Carlos
Nonlinear Behavioural
Hugo Miguel
Esteves
Telmo Reis Cunha
Modelling of Mixed Signal
Santos Teixeira
Duarte Pedro
RF-Digital I/O Devices
3. Innovative Energyefficient Wireless Sensor
Fernando Jose Norberto José
Network Applications and
da Silva Velez Gil Barroca
MAC Sub-layer Protocols
Employing RTS/CTS with
Packet Concatenation
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
End
Date
9/2013
9/2013
12/2013
12/2013
12/2013
12/2013
1/2014
90
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Carlos Manuel
Sérgio de Almeida
Filipa Prudêncio
dos Reis Paiva
Matos
Michel
Zafeiris
Celestino
Kokkinogenis
Paiva Ferreira
Cristina Olaverri
Monreal
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias José Luzio
Morgado Dinis
Paulo Montezuma
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Pedro Renato
Tavares Pinho
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Maria João
Ramos
Marques
Coelho
Carrilho do
Rosário
Luis Bras
Applications of Spacetime
Algebra in
1/2014
Electromagnetics
Decentralised control of
stochastic processes with
1/2014
application to urban
traffic control
Frequency-domain
receiver design for
1/2014
OQPSK-type schemes
Antennas for high
resolution location
2/2014
2/2014
Luís Miguel
Moreira
Mendes
3/2014
João Manuel Torres
Caldinhas Simões
Vaz
Mário Rui
Jose Fernando da
Silveira Pereira Rocha Pereira
Antonio
Navarro
Rodrigues
Nalluri
Purnachand
Sérgio Carlos
da Conceição
Pires
Fernando dos
Santos
Azevedo
CMOS self-oscillator
mixer for 5GHz
applications
Electromagnetic bandgap
components and
antennas for broadband 3/2014
communications
Motion Estimation and its
Luis Filipe Mesquita Hardware
3/2014
Nero Moreira Alves Implementation
Pedro Miguel da
Silva Cabral
Multi-Standard
Reconfigurable Wireless
3/2014
Transmitter Architectures
Simulation of
Metropolitan-scale
Vehicular Networks
Michel
Ricardo
Celestino
Fernandes
Paiva Ferreira
Maria João
Rosário
End
Date
Francisco José
Optimizing Hybrid ARQ
Dinis de Sousa Rui Miguel Henriques
using Multi-packet
Fernandes
Dias Morgado Dinis
Reception
Ganhão
Henrique
Salgado
Jose Carlos
Esteves
Duarte Pedro
Title
Fernando Manuel
Ascenso Fortes
Integrated Receiver in
CMOS technology
3/2014
4/2014
91
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
End
Date
Planning and Dynamic
Spectrum Management in
Heterogeneous Mobile
4/2014
Networks with QoE
Optimization
Fernando Jose Daniel Luís
da Silva Velez Silveira Robalo
António José Ivo Luís de la Maria Paula dos
Castelo Branco Cerda Garcia e Santos Queluz
Rodrigues
Sousa
Rodrigues
Rafael Ferreira Sérgio
da Silva
Morgadinho
Caldeirinha
Rebelo
Telmo Rui
Carvalhinho Cunha
Fernandes,Miqdad
AL-Nuaimi
João José
Lopes da
Costa Freire
Pedro Nuno
Mendonça dos
Santos
Mário Jorge
Simão de
Assunção
Title
MIMO techniques in
future high capacity
wireless communication
systems
6/2014
Time-varying wideband
channel model for
propagation of
6/2014
radiowaves in vegetation
media
Modelling of Passice
Structures on Silicon
Technologies
7/2014
Reducing primary energy
consumption through
lower power losses of
7/2014
electrical transmission
and distribution systems
João José
Lopes da
Costa Freire
Pedro Nuno
António Manuel
Mendonça dos
Sequeira Abreu
Santos
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Eduardo
Castaned
System Level Simulation 7/2014
Manuel
Joaquim
Pedro Miguel da
Campos
Silva Cabral
Mendes Nunes
Duarte
Amplificadores de
Potência Auto-Oscilantes
9/2014
em Transmissores de
Comunicações Sem Fios
Jose Carlos
Esteves
Duarte Pedro
António
Manuel
Nuno Miguel
Restani Graça Faria Pires
Alves Moreira
Fernando Jose Rui Filipe Rosa
da Silva Velez Paulo
Anja Skrivervik
Antennas for integration
into small personal
terminals and Ultra-wide 9/2014
band antennas
Dimensioning of Mobile
and Wireless
Communication Systems
with Relays in the
9/2014
Context of 4G
Coexistence
92
Supervisor
Student
Michel
Hugo
Celestino
Conceição
Paiva Ferreira
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Co- Supervisors
Peter Steenkiste
Title
Distributed Control of
Road Traffic based on
Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networking
End
Date
9/2014
Victor Sucasas
Iglésias
Electronic Engineering
9/2014
Riccardo
Bassoli
Electronic Engineering.
9/2014
Eduardo Bolas
Cognitive Radio for
Military Applications
10/2014
José Pedro
borrego
Figures of Merit for the
Wireless White Spaces
10/2014
Muhammad
Alam
António José André Eduardo Pedro Manuel de
Castelo Branco Ponciano
Almeida Carvalho
Rodrigues
Martins
Vieira
António José Nuno António
Castelo Branco Fraga Juliano
Rodrigues
Cota
“Cognitive Networks for
Green and Seamless User 11/2014
Mobility” - MAP-i Program
Coordinated multiuser
MIMO enhancement for
LTE advanced wireless
11/2014
networks
Automatic Radio
Resource Management
for 4G Networks
12/2014
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
Tiago Miguel
Pedro Renato
Valente Varum Tavares Pinho
Beamforming antenna for
12/2014
satellite communications
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Firooz B.
Saghezchi
Context-Aware
Cooperative Strategies
for Energy Saving in
Hybrid Ad-hoc Networks
Rafael Ferreira
Telmo Rui
da Silva
David Ferreira Carvalhinho Cunha
Caldeirinha
Fernande
Pedro Miguel
da Silva
Cabral
12/2014
RF transparency control
12/2014
of building wall structures
Mecanismos de geração e
Luis Carlos
Jose Carlos Esteves controlo da distorção
1/2015
Cotimos Nunes Duarte Pedro
não-linear em
amplificadores Doherty.
93
Supervisor
Rodolfo
Alexandre
Duarte
Oliveira
Student
Nuno Miguel
Abreu Luís
Fernando
José Marçal
Duarte Nunes
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso
Fernandes
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Andela Zaric
Ricardo
Fernandes
Co- Supervisors
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Jorge Manuel
Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da
Costa
Mário Gonçalo
Mestre
Verissimo
Silveirinha
End
Date
Medium Access Control
Design for Distributed
1/2015
Opportunistic Radio
Networks
Vector Structures in
GNSS Receivers, Vector
1/2015
Structures in GNSS
Receivers
Jorge Manuel Lopes Antennas for Localization
Leal Rodrigues da
and Identification
3/2015
Costa
Systems
João Nuno Pimentel Passive Wireless Sensor
da Silva Matos
Networks
Alírio
boaventura
Nuno Manuel
Pedro Joaquim
Luís Gonçalves
Branco Souto
Amaro Sebastiao
Jorge Manuel
Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da
Costa
António
Manuel
Restani Graça
Alves Moreira
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Title
Wireless Power
Transmission Solutions
for Wireless
Communications
Optimal Planning of
Femtocells in LTEAdvanced
3/2015
4/2015
5/2015
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso Fernandes
Antennas for High Data
Throughput
8/2015
Anja Skrivervik
Compact and integrated
antennas for portable
applications
9/2015
Hélio Silva
Electronic Engineering
9/2015
Joaquim
Oliveira
Estudo e implementação
de moduladores de fase
9/2015
para amplificadores
polares
Eduardo Brás
Lima
Mohsen
Koohestani
Ana Catarina
Caniço Cruz
David Emanuel
Dias Fernandes
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso Fernandes
Lens-based Focal Plane
Antenna Arrays for
Imaging Systems
9/2015
Manipulating the
electromagnetic field in
9/2015
the nanoscale with
nonlinear metamaterials
94
Supervisor
Luis Manuel
Jesus Sousa
Correia
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Custódio José
Oliveira
Peixeiro
Américo
Manuel
Carapeto
Correia
Student
Co- Supervisors
Radio Resource
Management Strategies
in
Sina Khatibi
Marco António
da Mota
Carvalho Silva
Pereira
9/2015
Reflectarrays of Printed
Elements
10/2015
Nuno Manuel Branco Comunicação multi-hop
Souto
com LTE-Advanced
11/2015
Custódio José
Carlos Alberto
Oliveira
Barreiro
Peixeiro
Mendes
Francisco
Filipe Jorge
António Bucho Bolas Casal
Cercas
Ribeiro
End
Date
Power amplifiers for
10/2015
wireless communications
Hamed Hasani Juan R. Mosig
Carlos Reis
Title
Wearable Antennas
11/2015
Approaching Universal
Rui Miguel Henriques Frequency Reuse through
12/2015
Dias Morgado Dinis Base Station Cooperation
Francisco
Nuno Miguel de
Augusto
António Bucho Figueiredo
Albuquerque
Cercas
Garrido
Design of Adaptive
Analog Filters for
Magnetic Front-End Read 12/2015
Channels
Manuel
Joaquim
Self-Oscillating Power
Jose Carlos Esteves
Campos
Amplifiers for Wireless
12/2015
Duarte Pedro
Mendes Nunes
Communications
Duarte
Ground-Terminal
Carlos Antonio Joana Rita
Jorge Manuel Lopes
Antennas for Ka Satellite
Cardoso
Alves dos
Leal Rodrigues da
1/2016
Systems
Fernandes
Santos Silva
Costa ,Juan R. Mosig
Pedro Miguel
da Silva
Cabral
Telmo Rui
Carvalhinho
Cunha
Fernandes
Joao Vitorino
Reis
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias João Guerreiro Paulo Montezuma
Morgado Dinis
Novel Antenna Beam
Steering for Wireless
Applications
1/2016
Optimum detection of
OFDM signals with strong
nonlinear distortion
1/2016
effects
95
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Pedro Miguel
Ribeiro
Lavrador
Filipe Barradas Telmo Reis Cunha
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Ricardo
Gonçalves
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Manuel José
Alves Ventura
da Silva
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Rui Fiel
Cordeiro
Rafael Ferreira Nuno Ricardo
da Silva
Cordeiro
Caldeirinha
Leonor
Rafael Ferreira
Rodolfo
da Silva
Vitorino Gomes
Caldeirinha
Eduardo
Pedro Miguel
Moreira da
Alves Brandão
Mota
Pedro Pinho
Title
Modelação
Comportamental e PreDistorção Digital de
Transmissores de RF
End
Date
7/2016
Antennas for Alternative
9/2016
Materials
Transcetores Flexíveis
para Comunicações Rádio
João Nuno Pimentel
Cognitivas de Tempo-real 9/2016
da Silva Matos
em Ambientes Veiculares
José Manuel Neto
Vieira
Manuel Garcia
Sanchez
Transmissores Digitais
Reconfiguráveis de
Elevada Eficiência para
Sistemas de Rádio
Cognitivos
A generic doublyselective 3D vegetation
model using point
scatterers
9/2016
11/2016
Design, Development and
Implementation of a
Millimetre Wave Wireless
11/2016
Radio System Prototype
for Giga-bit/s Multimedia
Application
Optimizing connectivity in
VANETs using predictive
11/2016
mobile gateways
Fernando Jose Jorge Miguel da
da Silva Velez Silva Tavares
Energy harvesting,
Flexible Antennas and
12/2016
Wireless Sensor Networks
João Gabriel
Fernando Jose
Rodrigues de
da Silva Velez
Oliveira
Optimization of
heterogeneous networks 12/2016
in 4G scenarios
96
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
End
Date
Radio Resource
Management in
Heterogeneous Networks
applying Spectrum
12/2016
Aggregation in WiMAX
and LTE Networks
Fernando Jose Jessica
da Silva Velez Acevedo Flores
Rodolfo
Alexandre
Duarte
Oliveira
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Title
António
Eduardo
Carreiro
Furtado
Advanced PHY/MAC
Rui Miguel Henriques
Design for Infrastructure- 8/2017
Dias Morgado Dinis
less Wireless Networks
Diogo Ribeiro
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Measurement and
12/2017
Instrumentation for SDR
Table 10 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2013
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4.1.6
Publications
ANTENNA MODELLING AND DESIGN
Papers in Journals
- Glogowski, R.; JFZ Zurcher; C. Peixeiro; JM Mosig; " A Low-Loss Planar Ka-Band
Antenna Subarray for Space Applications ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and
Propagation , Vol. 61 , No. 9 , pp. 4549 - 4557 , September , 2013 .
- Santiago, A. G.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Broadband UHF RFID Passive Tag
Antenna for Near-Body Applications ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation
Letters , Vol. 12 , pp. 136 - 139 , March , 2013 .
- Kiourti, A.; K. A. Psathas; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; K. S. Nikita; " Dual-Band
Implantable Antennas for Medical Telemetry: A Fast Design Methodology and
Validation for Intra-Cranial Pressure Monitoring ", Progress In Electromagnetics
Research - PIER , Vol. 141 , pp. 161 - 183 , July , 2013 .
- Liu, D.; J. Hirokawa; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; R. Sauleau; " Guest Editorial for
the Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation at mm- and Sub mm-Waves ", IEEE
Trans. on Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 61 , No. 4 , pp. 1502 - 1507 , April ,
2013 .
- Cruz, Catarina C.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Hybrid UHF/UWB Antenna for
Passive Indoor Identification and Localization Systems ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas
and Propagation , Vol. 61 , No. 1 , pp. 354 - 361 , January , 2013 .
- Glogowski, R.; J.-F. Zürcher; C. Peixeiro; J. Mosig ; " Ka-Band Rectangular
Waveguide to Suspended Stripline Transition ", IEEE Microwave Wireless and
Components Letters , Vol. 13 , No. 11 , pp. 575 - 577 , November , 2013 .
- Koohestani, M.; N. Pires; A. K. Skrivervik; A. A. Moreira; " Performance study of a
UWB antenna in proximity to a human arm ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless
Propagation Letters , Vol. 12 , pp. 555 - 558 , May , 2013 .
99
- Koohestani, M.; N. Pires; A. K. Skrivervik; A. A. Moreira; " Time-domain
performance of a patch-loaded band-reject UWB antenna ", Electronics Letters ,
Vol. 49 , No. 6 , pp. 384 - 385 , March , 2013 .
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Peixeiro, C.; " Basic Antenna Experiments with a Cheap X Band Rectangular
Waveguide Bench ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Orlando , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Glogowski, R.; C. Peixeiro; JM Mosig; " Divide and Conquer Strategy in the
Design of High-Performance Antenna Arrays ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International
Symp. , Orlando , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Cruz, Catarina C.; S.A. Matos; E.L. Lima; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; "
Evaluation of a compressed hyperhemispherical lens as a focal plane feed for Ka
satellite applications ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Orlando , United
States , July , 2013 .
- Glogowski, R.; C. Peixeiro; JM Mosig; " Evaluation of the Polarization Performance
of a Cone-Shaped Antenna Array ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Orlando , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Peixeiro, C.; " High Efficiency Aperture-Coupled Stacked-Patch Antennas with
Foam Substrate ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Orlando , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 , July , 2013 .
- Mesquita, J.M.; N. Pires; A. A. Moreira; " Influence of Deformations on the
Matching of a Flexible Dual-Band Antenna ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas &
Propagation - EUCAP , Gothenburg , Sweden , pp. 3283 - 3285 , June , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " Investigation into cork substrate
printed antennas for RFID applications ", Proc URSI Seminar of the Portuguese
Committee , Lisboa , Portugal , November , 2013 .
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Lima, E.L.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Metamateriais Aplicados a Antenas em
Comunicações por Satélite na banda-Ka ", Proc URSI Seminar of the Portuguese
Committee , Lisbon , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " Metamaterial inspired compact printed
antenna for WLAN applications ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Orlando , United States , July , 2013 .
- Elfergani, I.; Ash Hussaini ; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; J. Rodriguez; "
Modified Small PIFA Frequency Tunable Antenna ", Proc European Wireless - EW ,
Guildford , United Kingdom , pp. 1 - 4 , April , 2013 .
- Tavares, J.; N. Barroca; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; Luis M. Borges; F. J.
Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; P. Pinho; R. Gonçalves; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Spectrum
Opportunities for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting from 350 MHz to 3 GHz ", Proc
URSI Seminar of the Portuguese Committee , Lisbon , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- Tavares, J.; N. Barroca; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; Luis M. Borges; F. J.
Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; P. Pinho; R. Gonçalves; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Spectrum
Opportunities for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting from 350 MHz to 3 GHz ", Proc
International Symp. on Medical Information and Communication Technology ISMICT , Tokyo , Japan , pp. 126 - 130 , March , 2013 .
- Glogowski, R.; C. Peixeiro; JM Mosig; " Synthesis of Arbitrary Planar Arrays with
Optimised
Polarisation
Under
Directivity
Pattern
Constraints
Using
Genetic
Algorithms ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Gotheburg
, Sweden , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , April , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; C. Loss; R. Salvado; " Textile Antenna
for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting for GSM900 and DCS1800 bands ", Proc
IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Orlando , United States , July , 2013 .
- Elfergani, I.; Ash Hussaini ; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; J. Rodriguez; "
Time Modulated Switching and Reactive Loading Techniques applied to a Circular
Array Antenna using Genetic Algorithm Optimisation ", Proc European Conf. on
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Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Gothenburg , Sweden , pp. 347 - 351 , April ,
2013 .
- Matos, V. S.; A. Zaric; C. A. Fernandes; J.R. Costa; " UWB Real Time Localization
Platform For Fast System Performance Evaluation ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI
International Symp. , Orlando , United States , July , 2013 .
CIRCUITS AND DEVICES
Papers in Journals
- Glogowski, R.; JFZ Zurcher; C. Peixeiro; JM Mosig; " Broadband Ka-band
rectangular waveguide to substrate integrated waveguide transition ", Electronics
Letters , Vol. 49 , No. 9 , pp. 602 - 604 , April , 2013 .
- Medeiros, M. C. R. ; C. Martinez Domingo Martinez-Domingo; E. Ramon Ramon;
A.T. Negrier Negrier; E. Sowade Sowade; K.Y. Mitra Mitra; R.R. Baumann
Baumann; I. McCulloch McCulloch; J. Carrabina Jordi Carrabina; H.L. Gomes; "
Inkjet-Printed Organic Electronics: Operational Stability and Reliability Issues ",
ECS Transactions , Vol. 53 , No. 26 , pp. 1 - 10 , October , 2013 .
- Pinciroli, C. P.; R. O. O´Grady; A. Christensen; M. B. Birattari; M. D. Dorigo; "
Parallel Formation of Differently Sized Groups in a Robotic Swarm ", SICE Journal of
the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers , Vol. 52 , No. 3 , pp. 213 - 226 ,
March , 2013 .
- Correia, ALC; J. Teixeira; M. S. Piedade; R. M. Rocha; " Smart Ultra Low Power
Energy Harvesting System ", International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and
Autonomic Systems , Vol. 4 , No. 3 , pp. 102 - 118 , December , 2013 .
- Dorigo, M. D.; D. Floreano; L. M. Gambardella; F. M. Mondada; S. Nolfi; M. B.
Birattari; A. Christensen; N. M. Mathews; R. O. O´Grady; V. T. Trianni; "
Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms ",
IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine , Vol. 20 , No. 4 , pp. 60 - 71 , December ,
2013 .
102
- Pereira, M.; J.M.C.V. Vaz; " A 20 dBm Fully Integrated Single Stage CMOS Power
Amplifier with 40 dB Power Gain ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 175 - 178 , May , 2013 .
- Almeida, N.; J. N. Matos; A.O. Oliveira; J.A. Alves; " A Hardware-Software
Platform for Digital Pre-distortion Development and Validation ", Proc IEEE Eurocon
- Eurocon 2013 , Zagreb , Croatia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Duque, C.; M. A. Ribeiro; N.S. Souto; " Acquisition and Offline Classification of
Electrooculography Events ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
Branco , Portugal , pp. 89 - 92 , May , 2013 .
- Alves, L.N.A.; E. M. Martins; J. C. Duarte Duate; " Amplitude Characterization of
Memristive Devices ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and
Integrated Systems - ICECS , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
December , 2013 .
- Duarte, M. J. D.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Analysis and design of a limit-cycle
amplifier taking into account the propagation delay of the relay ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 85 - 88 ,
May , 2013 .
- Alves, L.N.A.; JLC Cura; " Bandwidth Improvments in Transimpedance Amplifiers
for Visible Light Receiver Front-Ends ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics,
Circuits and Integrated Systems - ICECS , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 1 , December , 2013 .
- L.N.A. Alves; D. Milovancev Milovancev; " Delayed Feedback Amplifiers with
Maximum Flat Group Delay ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits
and Integrated Systems - ICECS , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates , Vol. 1 , pp. 1
- 1 , December , 2013 .
103
- Glogowski, R.; JFZ Zurcher; C. Peixeiro; J. Mosig ; " Double Resonance Transition
From Rectangular Waveguide to Substrate Integrated Waveguide ", Proc European
Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Gotheburg , Sweden , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1
, April , 2013 .
- JLC Cura; L.N.A. Alves; " Folded-Cascode Transimpedance Amplifiers Employing a
CMOS Inverter as Input Stage ", Proc European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design
, Dresden , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2013 .
- J. C. Duarte Duate; E. M. Martins; L.N.A. Alves; " Frequency Characterization of
Memristive Devices ", Proc European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design , Dresden ,
Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2013 .
- Teixeira, H.; T.R. Cunha; J. C. Pedro; " Large signal characterization of high speed
digital buffers for signal integrity analysis of software-defined-radio applications ",
Proc European Microwave Week/European Microwave Conf. , Nuremberg , Germany
, Vol. 1 , pp. 979 - 982 , October , 2013 .
- Torres , J.; J. T. Pereira; " Modeling Double Depletion PIN Photodiodes using the
Finite Element Method ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 241 - 244 , May , 2013 .
- Pratas, F. P.; J. Andrade; G. Falcão; V. Silva; L. Sousa; " Open the Gates: Using
High-level Synthesis Towards Programmable LDPC Decoders on FPGAs ", Proc IEEE
Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP , Austin, Texas ,
United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1274 - 1277 , December , 2013 .
- Duque, C.; M. Duarte; M. A. Ribeiro; S. Oliveira; A. Christensen; N.S. Souto; "
Real Time Control of a Mobile Robot Using Electrooculography ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , pp. 137 - 140 , May ,
2013 .
- Póvoa , R.; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; RST Santos Tavares; J. Gomes; " SingleStage
Amplifiers
with
Gain
Enhancement
and
Improved
Energy-Efficiency
104
employing Voltage-Combiners ", Proc IFIP/IEEE International Conf. on Very Large
Scale Integration , Istambul , Turkey , October , 2013 .
- Szczawinski, P. S.; M. Duarte; S. Oliveira; A. Christensen; " Toward Evolved
Vision-based Control for a Quadrocopter ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
PHYSICAL MODELLING AND WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION
Book Chapters
- Yaghjian, A. D.; A Alù; M. Silveirinha; " Anisotropic representation for spatially
dispersive
periodic
metamaterial
arrays
"
-
Chapter
in
Transformation
Electromagnetics and Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications , D.
H. Werner and D.-H. Kwon , Springer , London , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Facão, M.; M. I. Carvalho; G. Fernandes; Ana M. Rocha; A. N. Pinto; " Continuous
wave supercontinuum generation pumped in the normal group velocity dispersion
regime on a highly nonlinear fiber ", Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptical Physics , Vol. 30 , No. 4 , pp. 959 - 966 , April , 2013 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Effective Medium Response of Metallic Nanowire Arrays with a
Kerr-type Dielectric Host ", Physical Review B , Vol. 87 , No. 165127 , pp. 1 - 13 ,
April , 2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; A. Tretyakov; " Equivalent circuit model of
radiative heat transfer ", Physical Review B , Vol. 87 , No. 155124 , pp. 1 - 15 ,
April , 2013 .
- Mota, S.M.; F. Fontan ; A. Rocha; " Estimation of the Number of Clusters in
Multipath Radio Channel Data Sets ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation ,
Vol. Accepted for publication , December , 2013 .
105
- Fernandes, D.F.; S. Maslovski ; M. Silveirinha; " Fano resonances in nested wire
media ", Physical Review B , Vol. 8 , No. 045130 , pp. 1 - 11 , July , 2013 .
- Mohseni, M.; A. Shabani Shabani; S. Lloyd Lloyd; Y. Omar; H. Rabitz Rabitz; "
Geometrical effects on energy transfer in disordered open quantum systems ",
Journal of Chemical Physics , Vol. 138 , No. 0 , pp. 204309-1 - 204309-12 , May ,
2013 .
- Yaghjian, A. D.; A Alù; M. Silveirinha; " Homogenization of spatially dispersive
metamaterial arrays in terms of generalized electric and magnetic polarizations ",
Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications , pp. 1 - 23 , July ,
2013 .
- Rapoport, Yu. G.; A. Tretyakov; S. Maslovski ; " Nonlinear active Huygens
metasurfaces for reflectionless phase conjugation of electromagnetic waves in
electrically thin layers ", Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications , Vol.
27 , No. 11 , pp. 1309 - 1328 , June , 2013 .
- Hanson, G. H.; M. Silveirinha; P. Burghignoli; A. Yakovlev; " Non-local
susceptibility of the wire medium in the spatial domain considering material
boundaries ", New Journal of Physics , Vol. 15 , No. 083018 , pp. 1 - 24 , August ,
2013 .
- Simovsky, C.R.; S. Maslovski ; I.S. Nefedov; A. Tretyakov; " Optimization of
radiative
heat
transfer
in
hyperbolic
metamaterials
for
thermophotovoltaic
applications ", Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 12 , pp. 14988 - 15013 , June , 2013 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Quantization of the electromagnetic field in nondispersive
polarizable moving media above the Cherenkov threshold ", Physical Review A , Vol.
88 , No. 043846 , pp. 1 - 15 , October , 2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; M. Silveirinha; " Quantum friction on monoatomic layers and its
classical analog ", Physical Review B , Vol. 88 , No. 035427 , pp. 1 - 13 , July ,
2013 .
106
- Li, Y. L.; M. Silveirinha; " Radiation From a Hertzian Dipole Embedded in a WireMedium Slab ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters , Vol. 12 , No. 401
, pp. 1 - 4 , April , 2013 .
- Silveirinha, M.; N. Engheta; " Spatial Delocalization and Perfect Tunneling of
MatterWaves: Electron Perfect Lens ", Physical Review Letters , Vol. 110 , No.
213902 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2013 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Theory of Spatial Optical Solitons in Metallic Nanowire Materials
", Physical Review B , Vol. 87 , No. 235115 , pp. 1 - 9 , June , 2013 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; " Characterization of the dynamics of carriers in
graphene superlattices using microscopic and effective medium models ", Proc
MPNS COST Action Training School – MP1204 TERA-MIR Radiation: Materials,
Generation, Detection and Applications , Cortona , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May ,
2013 .
- Canto, João R.; S.A. Matos; " Compact dielectric version of a uniaxal magnetic
slab: Compression via transformation optics ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; " Electron Dynamics in Graphene Superlattices:
Microscopic and Effective Medium Models ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; A. Tretyakov; " Equivalent Circuit Approach for
Radiative Heat Transfer Problems ", Proc Metamaterials Congress , Bordeaux ,
France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , September , 2013 .
- Assunção, M.; J. Costa Freire; P. M. Santos; " Lumped Model for CMOS
Interconnections lines ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
107
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " MIMO Channel Capacity Spatial
Distribution in a Microcell Environment ", Proc IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conf. - WCNC , Shanghai , China , pp. 3197 - 3202 , April , 2013 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; N. Engheta; " Negative refraction and perfect
tunneling of electron waves in graphene superlattices ", Proc Metamorphose
International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and
Optics - METAMATERIALS , Bordeaux , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , September ,
2013 .
- Torres , J.; C. F. Fernandes; " Numerical Analysis of Dieletric Optical Waveguides
", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1
, pp. 25 - 27 , May , 2013 .
- Mota, S.M.; A. Rocha; F. Fontan ; " Physical and Statistical Analysis of Clustered
Multipath Radio Channel Data ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation EUCAP , Gothenburg , Sweden , April , 2013 .
- Rocha, A.; F. S Jorge Jorge; " Separation of Rain and Ice Contributions for
Depolarization at Ka Band ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation EUCAP , Gothenburg , Sweden , pp. 57 - 60 , April , 2013 .
Project Reports
- Maslovski , S.; M. Silveirinha; " Inputs to WP1110 of “RFMLI: Thermal Blanket
with Low RF Reflectivity” ", IT-Coimbra, January , 2013 .
Maslovski , S.; M. Silveirinha; " Inputs to WP2300 of “RFMLI: Thermal Blanket with
Low RF Reflectivity” ", IT-Coimbra , July , 2013 .
SYSTEM PLANNING AND RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Books
- Rodriguez, J.; S.M. Mumtaz; (eds.); Green Communication for 4G Wireless
Systems , , River Publishers , Aalborg , 2013 .
108
Papers in Journals
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " A smart scheme for relay selection in
cooperative wireless communication systems ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking , Vol. 2013 , No. 146 , pp. 1 - 13 , May , 2013 .
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; T.D. Dagiuklas ; " Coalition
Formation Game Toward Green Mobile Terminals in Heterogeneous Wireless
Networks ", IEEE Wireless Communications , Vol. 20 , No. 5 , pp. 85 - 91 , October
, 2013 .
- Coalition Formation Game Toward Green Mobile Terminals in Heterogenous
Wireless Networks ", IEEE Wireless Communications , Vol. 20 , No. 5 , pp. 2 - 8 ,
October , 2013 .
- Martins, A.; A. J. Rodrigues; P. Vieira; " Comparing Layer 1 and Layer 3 Relay
Stations Deployment in a LTE Network ", i-ETC : ISEL Academic Journal of
Electronics, Telecomunications and Computers , Vol. 2 , No. 1 , July , 2013 .
- Huq, K.; S.M. Mumtaz; F.B. Saghezchi; J. Rodriguez; R. L. Aguiar; " Energy
efficiency of downlink packet scheduling in CoMP ", Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies , pp. 1 - 16 , July , 2013 .
- Martins, A.; A. J. Rodrigues; P. Vieira; " Algoritmo de Otimização para
Posicionamento de Repetidores Fixos numa Rede Celular ", Proc URSI Seminar of
the Portuguese Committee , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , November , 2013 .
- Martins, A.; A. J. Rodrigues; P. Vieira; " Analyzing the Economic Impact of Fixed
Relaying Deployment in a LTE Network ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia
Communications Symp. - WPMC , Atlantic City , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
June , 2013 .
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- Martins, A.; A. J. Rodrigues; P. Vieira; " Deploying Fixed-Relay Stations in a 4G
Macro-cell Network using LTE ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
- Pereira, C.; A. Aguiar; D. E. Lucani; " Dynamic Load Allocation for Multi-homing
via Coded Packets ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Dresden ,
Germany , May , 2013 .
- Vaz, F. V.; L. Gonçalves; P. Sebastião; A. Correia; " Economic and Environmental
Comparative Analysis on Macro-Femtocell deployments in LTE-A ", Proc Wireless
Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace ,
Atlantic City, New Jersey , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, L.; F. V. Vaz; A. Correia; P. Sebastião; " Femtocell deployment in LTEA networks: a sustainability, economical and capacity analysis ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC ,
London , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 3443 - 3447 , September , 2013 .
- Martins, A.; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; " On the Optimization of Deployed Positions
for Fixed Relay Stations in a LTE Cooperative Network ", Proc Conf. on Electronics,
Telecommunications and Computers - CETC , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
December , 2013 .
- Santos, Pedro Santos; A. Dias; P. Vieira; A. Martins; A. J. Rodrigues; " Planning
and Deploying Home Node B Clusters for Dense Wireless Networks ", Proc Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC , Atlantic City , United States ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2013 .
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Simple Wireless Cooperative System to
Enhance the Channel Capacity in Microcell Scenarios ", Proc Wireless Personal
Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC , Atlantic City , United States , June ,
2013 .
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- Marinheiro, R. N.; " Towards Ubiquitous Heterogeneous Mobile Networks ", Proc
International Conf. on on Information and Communication Technologies - ICICT ,
Karachi , Pakistan , December , 2013 .
- Flores, J.; D.R. Robalo; F. J. Velez; " Transmitted Power Formulation for the
Implementation of Spectrum Aggregation in LTE-A over 800 MHz and 2 GHz
Frequency Bands ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. WPMC , Atlantic City , United States , June , 2013 .
-
Robalo,
D.R.;
F.
J.
Velez;
"
Transmitted
Power
Formulation
for
the
Frequency Bands ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. WPMC , Atlantic City , United States , June , 2013 .
TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEMS
Book Chapters
- Robles, R.; A. Gameiro; " An RFID anticolision algorithm assisted by multipacket
reception
and
retransmission
diversity
"
-
Chapter
in
Radio
Frequency
Identification: from system to applications , 15. M.B. Ibne Reaz , In-Tech , Rijeka,
Croatia , 2013 .
- Morgado, A.; P.M. Cruz; N.B.C. Carvalho; " White Space Technology, the
Background " - Chapter in White Space Communications Technologies , N.B.
Carvalho, A. Cidronali and R.G. Garcia , Cambridge University Press , Cambridge,
UK , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Abrudan, T.; A. Haghparast; V. Koivunen; " Time Synchronization and Ranging in
OFDM Systems Using Time-Reversal ", IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and
Measurement , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 15 , September , 2013 .
- Silva, A. ; R. Holakouei Holakouei; D. Castanheira; A. Gameiro; R. Dinis; " A
novel distributed power allocation scheme for coordinated multicell systems ",
111
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , Vol. 30 , No. 30 ,
pp. 1 - 1 , February , 2013 .
- Pereira, T.; M. Violas; J.L. Lourenço; A. Gameiro; A. Silva; C. Ribeiro; " An FPGA
Implementation of OFDM Transceiver for LTE Applications ", Intrnl. Journal On
Advances in Systems and Measurements , Vol. 6 , No. 1-2 , pp. 224 - 234 , June ,
2013 .
- Holakouei, R. Holakouei; A. Silva; D. Castanheira; A. Gameiro; " Coordinated
Precoding Techniques for Multi-cell MISO-OFDM Networks ", Wireless Personal
Communications , Vol. 72 , No. 3 , pp. 1619 - 1631 , March , 2013 .
- Gomes, M.; R. Dinis; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Error rate analysis of
M-PSK with magnitude modulation envelope control ", Electronics Letters , Vol. 49 ,
No. 18 , pp. 1184 - 1186 , August , 2013 .
- Reboredo, H.; J. Xavier; M. Rodrigues ; " Filter Design With Secrecy Constraints:
The MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel ", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , Vol. 61 ,
No. 15 , pp. 3799 - 3814 , August , 2013 .
- Pereira, M.P.; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; P. Pinto; " Frequency-domain
cross-layer diversity techniques: an efficient way of coping with lost packets in
broadband wireless systems ", IEEE Wireless Communications , Vol. 20 , No. 5 , pp.
100 - 108 , October , 2013 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Linear and Nonlinear Precoding Schemes
for Centralized Multicell MIMO-OFDM Systems ", Wireless Personal Communications
, Vol. 72 , No. 1 , pp. 759 - 777 , February , 2013 .
- Cruz, P.M.; N.B.C. Carvalho; M.E. Valkama; " Multi-Stage Mixed Frequency-Time
Simulator for Bandpass Sampling Receiver Front-Ends ", Vol. 2 , No. 1 , June ,
2013.
112
- Robles, R.; A. Gameiro; " Network and Economic Trade-off Performance Regions
of Cognitive Radio Systems with Transmit Power Control ", Applied Mathematics
and Information Science , Vol. 7 , No. 5 , pp. 1755 - 1766 , July , 2013 .
- Sousa, F.; F. Nunes; " New Expressions for the Autocorrelation Function of BOC
GNSS Signals ", Journal Navigation , Vol. -60 , No. -1 , pp. -1 - -9 , March , 2013 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Gameiro; " Novel Windowing Scheme for Cognitive OFDM
Systems ", IEEE Communications Letters , Vol. 2 , No. 3 , pp. 251 - 254 , June ,
2013 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Null-Space Cognitive Precoding for
Heterogeneous Networks ", IET Communications , October , 2013 .
- Pereira, M.P.; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; P. Pinto; " On the use of
frequency-domain cross-layer diversity techniques to cope with lost packets ",
Physical Communication-Elsevier , Vol. 8 , pp. 56 - 68 , September , 2013 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Optimum and Sub-Optimum Receivers for
OFDM Signals with Strong Nonlinear Distortion Effects ", IEEE Trans. on
Communications , Vol. 91 , No. 9 , pp. 3830 - 3840 , September , 2013 .
- Silva, A. ; J. Assunção Assunção; R. Dinis; A. Gameiro; " Performance evaluation
of IB-DFE- based strategies for SC-FDMA systems ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking, Vol. 2013 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , December , 2013 .
- Luzio, M.; R. Dinis; P. M. Montezuma; " Pragmatic Frequency Domain Equalization
for
Single
Carrier
with
Offset
Modulations
",
IEEE
Trans.
on
Wireless
- Gameiro, A.; C. Ribeiro; J. Quaresma Quaresma; " Selective reporting - a half
signalling load algorithm for distributed sensing ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking , Vol. 2013 , No. 191 , pp. 1 - 10 , July , 2013 .
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Renna, F.; M.Bloch Bloch; N. Laurenti Laurenti; " Semi-Blind Key-Agreement over
MIMO Fading Channels ", IEEE Trans. on Communications , Vol. 61 , No. 2 , pp. 620
- 627 , February , 2013 .
- Mumtaz, S.M.; H. Lundqvist; K. Huq; J. Rodriguez; A. R. Radwan; " Smart DirectLTE Communication: An Energy Saving Perspective ", Ad Hoc , Vol. Available online
23 August 2013 , August , 2013 .
- Jiménez, V. P. G.; A. Gameiro; A. G. Armada; " Space-time code diversity by
phase rotation in multi-carrier multi-user systems ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking , Vol. 2013 , No. 148 , pp. 1 - 9 , May , 2013 .
- Robles, R.; A. Gameiro; " Stability Properties of Network Diversity Multiple Access
with Multiple-Antenna Reception and Imperfect Collision Multiplicity Estimation ",
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications , Vol. 2013 , No. 984956 , pp.
1 - 10 , December , 2013 .
- Vieira, P.; N.V Varela; N. Fernandes ; N. G. Guedes; L. Varela; N. R. Ribeiro; " A
SON Enhanced Algorithm for Observed Time Differences Based Geolocation in Real
3G Networks ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC ,
Atlantic City , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2013 .
- Amaral, F.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " An Efficient Channel Estimation and Tracking
Technique for Single Frequency Networks with SC-FDE Modulations ", Proc
International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems - ICSPCS ,
Gold Coast , Australia , December , 2013 .
- Reboredo, H.; F. Renna; A. R. C. Calderbank; M. Rodrigues ; " Compressive
Classification ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT ,
Istanbul , Turkey , July , 2013 .
- Lopes, D. L; D. S. Sousa; P. Vieira; " Coverage/Capacity Analysis for 4th
Generation
Long
Term
Evolution
(LTE)
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Electronics,
114
Telecommunications and Computers - CETC , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
December , 2013 .
- Pedrosa, P.; R. Dinis; F. Nunes; A. J. Rodrigues; " Decision-directed Estimation of
Phase
Noise
in
Iterative
Frequency-domain
Equalization
Schemes
",
Proc
Gold Coast , Australia , December , 2013 .
- Quaresma, J. Quaresma; C. Ribeiro; A. Gameiro; M.Z. Zelenák; J.D. Duplicy; "
Distributed RF sensing framework with radio environment emulation ", Proc IEEE
International Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms CORAL , Madrid , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , June , 2013 .
- Carvalho, P.; ; R. Dinis; M.B, Beko; " Efficient Amplification and Detection of
Multilevel SC-FDE Signals Based on BPSK Components ", Proc IEEE Military
Communications Conf. - MILCOM , San diego , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
November , 2013 .
- Costa, J.H.G.C.; J. Sanguino; A. J. Rodrigues; " Electronic Monitoring in 3D
Environments ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; JCR Ribeiro; P. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " Evaluation of Blind
Sensing Techniques in Multiple Wireless Microphones Environments ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , June , 2013 .
- Pereirinha, T. P.; A. Morgado; P. Vieira; " Geolocation based on Measurements
Reports for deployed UMTS Wireless Networks ", Proc URSI Seminar of the
Portuguese Committee , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2013 .
- Cercas, F.C.; L.oliveira Oliveira; M. Gomes; V. Silva; R. Dinis; " IB-DFE
Performance of Block-Based Single Carrier Coded Transmission with Magnitude
Modulation ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
Portugal , Vol. CD.4 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2013 .
115
- Souto, N.S.; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Impact of Imperfect Channel Estimation on
SC-FDE ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Dresden , Germany
, June , 2013 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; R. Oliveira; " Improving the Performance of
Nonlinear OFDM Schemes with ML-based Receivers ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS , Ilmenau , Germany , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2013 .
- Gomes, M.; R. Dinis; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Iterative FDE Design
for LDPC-coded Magnitude Modulation Schemes ", Proc International Symp. on
Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS , Ilmenau , Germany , August , 2013 .
- Teodoro, S.T.; A. Silva; R. Dinis; A. Gameiro; " Iterative interference alignment
techniques
for
broadband
wireless
systems
with
limited
feedback
",
Proc
Gold Coast , Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , December , 2013 .
- Silva, A. ; R. Dinis; J. M Moreira; A. Gameiro; " Joint Interference Alignment and
IB-DFE scheme for MC-CDMA Systems ", Proc International Conf. on Signal
Processing and Communication Systems - ICSPCS , Gold Coast , Australia , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 1 , December , 2013 .
- Silva, J. C. S. ; R. Dinis; N.S. Souto; M. Silva; " MIMO SC-FDE Transmission
Techniques with Channel Estimation and High-Order Modulations ", Proc Progress in
Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS , Taipei , Taiwan , Vol. 3 , pp. 9 - 99 ,
March , 2013 .
- Silva, M.; R. Dinis; A. Correia; " On Multi-Antenna Systems for Wireless
Transmission Mediums ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. PIERS , Taipei , Taiwan , Vol. 1 , pp. 9 - 99 , March , 2013 .
- Reis, C.; A. Correia; N.S. Souto; M. Silva; " On the Multihop Relays with Multiple
Antennas for LTE-A ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS ,
Taipei , Taiwan , Vol. 2 , pp. 9 - 99 , March , 2013 .
116
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " On the Optimum Performance of Coded
OFDM with Strongly Nonlinear Transmitters ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf.
- VTC-Fall , Las Vegas , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2013 .
- Dinis, R.; F. Ribeiro; F.C. Cercas; A. Silva; " On the Performance of SC-FDE
Receivers for Base Station Cooperation Systems with Rate-Limited Backhaul Links
", Proc International ITG Conf. on Source and Channel Coding - SCC , Munique ,
Germany , January , 2013 .
- Dinis, R.; K. F. Firsanov; S. G. Gritsutenko; " On the Quantizer Design for Base
Station Cooperation Systems with SC-FDE Techniques ", Proc WASET International
Conf. on Electrical, Computer, Electronics and Communication Engineering ICECECE , Zurique , Switzerland , July , 2013 .
- Dinis, R.; S. G. Gritsutenko; E. B. Biberdorf; " On the Sampling Theorem in
Hilbert Spaces ", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern
Recognition and Applications - SPPRA , Innsbruck , Austria , February , 2013 .
- Carvalho, P.; ; R. Dinis; M.B, Beko; " On the use of Multiple Amplifiers and
Antennas for efficient Directive Transmission with large Constellations ", Proc IEEE
Military Communications Conf. - MILCOM , San jose , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 6 , November , 2013 .
- Carvalho, P.; R. Dinis; ; M.B, Beko; " On the Use of Multiple Grossly Nonlinear
Amplifiers for Highly Efficient Linear Amplification of Multilevel Constellations ", Proc
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall , Las Vegas , United States , Vol. 1 , pp.
1 - 5 , September , 2013 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Gameiro; A. Silva; " One-bit Null-Space Cognitive Interference
Alignment for Heterogeneous Networks ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2013 .
117
- Mustafa, S.; " Optimal Power Allocation and Optimal Precoding with Multi-Cell
Processing ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Dresden ,
Germany , June , 2013 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Optimum Asymptotic Performance for
Nonlinearly Amplified OFDM Signals ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTCSpring , Dresden , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Simões, J. Simões; N.S. Souto; " Performance Assessment of IEEE 802.15.4
networks
in
the
Presence
of
WLAN
Interference
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Luzio, R. L.; J. Gomes; P. Vieira; " Performance Gain Evaluation from High Speed
Packet Access Evolution (HSPA+) ", Proc Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications
and Computers - CETC , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , December , 2013 .
- Dinis, R.; S. G. Gritsutenko; " Phase Estimation for OFDM Systems with Strong
Doppler Effects ", Proc IASTED Conf. on Signal and Image Processing , Banff ,
Canada , July , 2013 .
- Ara, M.; H. Reboredo; F. Renna; M. Rodrigues ; " Power Allocation Strategies For
OFDM
Gaussian
Wiretap
Channels
With
a
Friendly
Jammer
",
Proc
IEEE
International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Budapest , Hungary , June , 2013 .
- Amaral, F.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Predicting Channel Response for SC-FDE
Transmission in Fast-Varying Scenarios ", Proc International ITG Conf. on Source
and Channel Coding - SCC , Muenchen , Germany , January , 2013 .
- Reboredo, H.; F. Renna; A. R. C. Calderbank; M. Rodrigues ; " Projections Designs
for Compressive Classification ", Proc IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information
Processing - Global SIP , Austin , United States , December , 2013 .
- Dinis, R.; S. G. Gritsutenko; K. F. Firsanov; " Quantization for Maximal
Preservation
of
Information
",
Proc
IASTED
International
Conf.
on
Signal
118
Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA , Innsbruck , Austria ,
February , 2013 .
- Silva, P.; T. Ferreira; J. Sanguino; A. J. Rodrigues; " Regenerating Data Gaps in
GPS Measurements ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Souto, N.S.; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Reliability of an IB-DFE in the Presence of
Channel Estimation Errors ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring ,
Dresden , Germany , June , 2013 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Taking Advantage of Nonlinear Distortion
Effects to Improve the Performance of OFDM Schemes ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo-Branco , Portugal , Vol. 9 , pp. 49 - 52 ,
May , 2013 .
- Cercas, F.C.; R. Rodrigues; R. Dinis; " Training Sequence Design for Channel
Estimation
with
Nonlinear
OQPSK-Type
Modulations
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. CS.2 , pp. 1 - 5 ,
May , 2013 .
- Ganhão, F.; J. V. Vieira; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; " Type II Hybrid-ARQ for DSCDMA: A Discrete Time Markov Chain Wireless MAC Model ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking - NEW2AN , St.
Petersburg , Russia , August , 2013 .
- Cercas, F.C.; F. Ribeiro; R. Dinis; A. Silva; " Uplink of Base Station Cooperation
Systems with SC-FDE Modulations and IB-DFE Receivers ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. WL1.1 , pp. 1 - 5 ,
May , 2013 .
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WAVES AND PROPAGATION
Papers in Journals
- Torres , J.; António Baptista Baptista; V. Machado; " Analysis of dielectric optical
ring slab waveguides with a layered refractive index ", International Journal of
Electrical Engineering , Vol. Accepted , No. Accepted , pp. Accepted - Accepted ,
August , 2013 .
- Koohestani, M.; N. Pires; A. Skrivervik; A. A. Moreira; " Bandwidth enhancement
of a wearable UWB antenna near a human arm ", Microwave and Optical Tech.
Letters , Vol. 55 , No. 12 , pp. 2965 - 2967 , December , 2013 .
- Oliveira, J. R.; D.R. Robalo; F. J. Velez; O. Holland; H. Aghvami; " Dynamic
Configuration and Optimization of WiMAX Networks with Relay Power Savings
Modes: Measurement-Based Scenario in a Hilly Region ", Radio Science ,
September , 2013 .
- Morgado, T. A.; S. Maslovski ; M. Silveirinha; " Ultrahigh Casimir interaction
torque in nanowire systems ", Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 12 , pp. 14943 - 14955
, June , 2013 .
- Torres , J.; António Baptista Baptista; V. Machado; " Bent-Bent waveguide
Coupling System ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 349 - 352 , May , 2013 .
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Distribuição Espacial da Capacidade de
Canal para Sistemas MIMO numa Microcélula ", Proc URSI Seminar of the
Portuguese Committee , Lisbon , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, M. A.; " Effect of Uniaxial Compression in the Transmittance of a Novel
Terahertz Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring ", Proc Loughborough Antennas
and Propagation Conf. – LAPC , Loughborough , United Kingdom , pp. 122 - 126 ,
November , 2013 .
120
- Morgado, T. A.; S. Maslovski ; M. Silveirinha; " Enhanced Casimir Interaction
Torque in Nanowire Systems ", Proc Metamorphose International Congress on
Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - METAMATERIALS ,
Bordeaux , France , September , 2013 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Generalized image method for radiation
problems involving the Minkowskian isotropic medium ", Proc Metamorphose
International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and
Optics - METAMATERIALS , Bordeux , France , Vol. 1 , September , 2013 .
- Roças, J.; N. Pires; A. A. Moreira; " Human Body Effects on the Matching of a 2.45
GHz Coplanar-fed Antenna ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation EUCAP , Gothenburg , Sweden , pp. 3279 - 3281 , June , 2013 .
- Cota, N.; A. Serrador Serrador; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; " On the Use of
Okumura-Hata Propagation Model on Railway Communications ", Proc Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC , Atlantic City , United States ,
Vol. , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; " Spatial solitons in a nanowire array embedded
in a self-defocusing medium ", Proc Metamorphose International Congress on
Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - METAMATERIALS ,
Bordeaux , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , September , 2013 .
- Morgado, T. A.; J. A. Alves; J. Marcos; S. Maslovski ; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes;
M. Silveirinha; " UHF RFID System with Spatially Ultraconfined Detection Region
based on a Metamaterial Wire Grid ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
WIRELESS CIRCUITS AND DEVICES
Books
- Carvalho, N.B.C.; DM Wegrzyn; Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques
,Cambridge University Press , London , 2013 .
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Book Chapters
- Boaventura, A.; R. D. Fernandes; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Unconventional
RFID Systems " - Chapter in Green RFID Systems , Luca Roselli , Cambridge
University Press , , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Pedro, J. C.; P. M. Cabral; T.R. Cunha; P.M.L. Lavrador; " A Multiple Time-Scale
Power Amplifier Behavioral Model for Linearity and Efficiency Calculations ", IEEE
Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 61 , No. 1 , pp. 606 - 615 , January ,
2013 .
- Jang, W.; N. K. Kriplani ; M.S. Steer; " Behavioural modelling of amplifier
asymmetry in the time domain ", Intrnl. Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic
Networks, Devices and Fields , Vol. 26 , No. 2 , pp. 112 - 126 , March , 2013 .
- Silva, N.V.S.; A.O. Oliveira; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Design and Optimization of
Flexible and Coding Efficient All-Digital RF Transmitters ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave
Theory and Tech. , Vol. 61 , No. 1 , pp. 625 - 632 , January , 2013 .
- Jang, W.; N.V.S. Silva; A.O. Oliveira; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Designing HarmonicControlled Drivers for Switching Power Amplifiers ", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and
Systems - II: Express Briefs , Vol. 60 , No. 5 , pp. 247 - 251 , May , 2013 .
- Boaventura, A.; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Extending Reading Range of Commercial RFID
Readers ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 61 , No. 1 , pp. 48 57 , January , 2013 .
- Teixeira, J.; R. M. Rocha; M. S. Piedade; " MoteIST: A Modular Low-Power
Approach to Wireless Sensor Networks Nodes ", International Journal of Adaptive,
Resilient and Autonomic Systems , Vol. 4 , No. 3 , pp. 82 - 101 , December , 2013 .
- Dghais, W.; H. Teixeira; T.R. Cunha; J. C. Pedro; " Novel Extraction of a TableBased I–Q Behavioral Model for High-Speed Digital Buffers/Drivers ", IEEE Trans.
122
on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology , Vol. 3 , No. 3 , pp. 500
- 507 , March , 2013 .
- Pedro, J. C.; " A Glimpse on Behavioral Modeling Technology for Microwave
Transistors ", Proc IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conf. - WAMICON ,
Orlando , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , April , 2013 .
- Nunes, L. N.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " A large-signal physical model of the
AM/PM characteristic of a RF power amplifier ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Bramco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Pedro, J. C.; ; P.M.L. Lavrador; " A New Large-Signal Intermodulation and
Spurious Analysis Tool ", Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech.
Symp. , Seattle , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2013 .
- Barradas, F. B.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " A new model for the description of
small- and large-signal behaviour of parametric amplifiers ", Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Bramco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " A Physical Model of Power Amplifiers’ AM/AM and
AM/PM Distortions and Their Internal Relationship ", Proc IEEE International
Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Seattle , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
June , 2013 .
- Pereira, P.G.; M. Pereira; R.M.F. Alves; A.M.C. Costa; J.M.C.V. Vaz; C.A. Leme; "
All-Digital Phase Locked Loop for Bluetooth Low Energy Transmitters ", Proc Conf.
on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems , San Sebastian , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp.
1 - 1 , November , 2013 .
- Barroca, N.; P. Pinho; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; Paulo T. Gouveia T.
Gouveia; J. Tavares; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; N.B.C.
Carvalho; R. Gonçalves; ; " Antennas and Circuits for Ambient RF Energy
Harvesting in Wireless Body Area Networks ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
123
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , London , United Kingdom ,
September , 2013 .
- Ferreira, J.; A.O. Oliveira; J. A. Almeida; CAC Cruz; " Fail Silent Road Side Unit for
Vehicular Communications ", Proc Workshop on Architecting Safety in Collaborative
Mobile Systems - ASCoMS , Toulouse , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 343 - 354 , September ,
2013 .
- Pires, S.P.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " High-Efficiency RF Transmitters: RF Carrier
Amplitude-Burst ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
Portugal , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2013 .
- Pires, S.P.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Impact of the Amplifier-BandPass
Reconstruction Filter Interaction on the Linearity of Carrier Amplitude-Burst
Transmitters ", Proc IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conf. - WAMICON ,
Florida , United States , pp. 1 - 4 , April , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Increasing the RFID Readability Range
Using Wireless Power Transmission Enhancements ", Proc IEEE Wireless Power
Transfer Conf. - WPTC , Perugia , Italy , May , 2013 .
- Topa, A.; " Linear-Operator Theory for Inhomogeneous Omega Planar Waveguides
", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS , Stockholm , Sweden
, Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , August , 2013 .
- Fialho, V.; F. Fortes; M. Vieira; " Local Oscillator Phase Noise Influence on Single
Carrier and OFDM Modulations ", Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and
Industrial Systems - DOCEIS , Monte de Caparica , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
April , 2013 .
- Pires, S.P.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " RF Carrier Phase-Burst Transmitter ", Proc
IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Seattle , United States ,
pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2013 .
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- Pires, S. ; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " RF Carrier Phase-Burst Transmitter ", Proc
IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Seattle , United States ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " RFID tags on paper substrate for
bottle labelling ", Proc Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers CETC , Lisboa , Portugal , December , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, R.; J.R. Reis; P. Pinho; E. S. Santana; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Smart Floor:
Indoor navigation based on RFID ", Proc IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conf. - WPTC
, Perugia , Italy , May , 2013 .
- Dias, J.; A.O. Oliveira; J. N. Matos; " The Charge Collector System (C2S) – A New
NFC and Smartphone-based Toll Collection System ", Proc IARIA International Conf.
on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications - VEHICULAR
2013 , Nice , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 , July , 2013 .
- Kim, MinJi Kim; T. Klein Klein; E. Soljanin Soljanin; M. M. Médard; J. Barros; "
Trade-off between cost and goodput in wireless: Replacing transmitters with coding
", Proc , Cork , Ireland , September , 2013 .
- Flores, J.; D.R. Robalo; F. J. Velez; " Transmitted Power Formulation for the
Frequency Bands ", Proc URSI Seminar of the Portuguese Committee , Lisbon ,
Portugal , November , 2013 .
4.1.7
Other Achievements
Patents
- Silva, M.; R. Dinis; A. Correia; " RECEPTOR NO DOMÍNIO DA FREQUÊNCIA PARA
MODULAÇÕES SC-FDE COM STBC ", 105495 , April , 2013 .
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Awards
- Ribeiro, M. A.; C. Duque; " Best Non-Student Paper Award ", Loughborough
Antennas & Propagation Conference, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 01-11-2013 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Generalized Image Method for Radiation
Problems Involving the Minkowskian Isotropic Medium ", "3rd place in the Student
Paper Competition", "The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic
Materials in Microwaves and Optics" , 01-09-2013 .
Miscellaneous
- Borges, Luis M.; R. O. Oliveira; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", Opportunistic
electromagnetic energy harvesting enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocols employing
multi-channel scheduled channel polling ", 1st Workshop from the CREaTION
Project in Research Lines of Excellence , 01-11-2013 .
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " Seminars ", Innovative
energy efficient IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer protocol with packet concatenation
employing RTS/CTS and Block Acknowledgment ", 1st Workshop from the
CREaTION Project in Research Lines of Excellence , 01-09-2013 .
- Barroca, N.; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; Paulo T. Gouveia T. Gouveia; J.
Tavares; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; P. Pinho; R. Gonçalves; "
", Antennas and Circuits for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting in Wireless Body Area
Networks ", 17º Seminário da RTCM – Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis,
Porto, DCC/FCUP, 19 de Julho de 2013 , 01-07-2013 .
- Barroca, N.; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " Seminars ", Block Acknowledgment
Mechanisms for the optimization of channel use in Wireless Sensor Networks ", 17º
Seminário da RTCM – Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis, Porto, DCC/FCUP,
19 de Julho de 2013 , 01-07-2013 .
- Borges, Luis M.; F. J. Velez; A. Lebres; N. Barroca; " Seminars ", Frame Capture
Effect and Reliability Based Desider Implementation in the MiXiM IEEE 802.15.4
126
Simulator Framework ", 17º Seminário da RTCM – Rede Temática de Comunicações
Móveis, Porto, DCC/FCUP, 19 de Julho de 2013 , 01-07-2013 .
- Flores, J.; D.R. Robalo; F. J. Velez; " Invited Talks ", Transmitted Power
Formulation for the Implementation of Spectrum Aggregation in LTE-A over 800
MHz and 2 GHz Frequency Bands ", RTCM 2013 Porto, Portugal , 01-07-2013 .
- Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", Transmitted Power Formulation for the
Frequency Bands ", 17º Seminário da RTCM – Rede Temática de Comunicações
Móveis, Porto, DCC/FCUP, 19 de Julho de 2013 , 01-07-2013 .
- Costa, J.R.; C. A. Fernandes; E.L. Lima; C. R. Medeiros; A. Zaric; Catarina C.
Cruz; " Invited Talks ", Indoor identification and localization via radio frequency ",
9th edition of ConfTele Conference on Telecommunicationson via radio frequency ,
01-05-2013 .
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; J. Tavares; F. J. Velez; Paulo T. Gouveia T. Gouveia;
Henrique
M.
Saraiva
M.
Saraiva;
"
Invited
Talks
",
Recolha
de
Energia
Electromagnética do Meio Ambiente para Redes Sem Fios de Área Corporal com
Rádios Cognitivos ", XIV Jornadas de Eng.ª Electrotécnica e das Telecomunicações ,
01-03-2013 .
- Velez, F. J.; S. Sargento; M. Ricardo; " Seminars ", 16º Seminário da RTCM –
Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis ", , 01-02-2013 .
- Tavares, J.; R. Gonçalves; N. Barroca; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; Luis M.
Borges; F. J. Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Seminars ",
Spectrum Opportunities for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting from 350 MHz to 3
GHz ", 16º Seminário RTCM - Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis , 01-022013 .
- Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", Unified model for the mapping between
the Quality of Service and Experience in multimedia applications ", 16º Seminário
da RTCM, Covilhã , 01-02-2013 .
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- Fernandes, C. A.; " Editor of Conference Proceedings ", zteste ", 01-01-2013 .
4.1.8
Other Contributions
Conference Committees
- IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC
, Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-012013
- Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, Jorge
Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa , 01-01-2013
- Future Network and Mobile Summit, Technical Programme Committee, Mário
Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-01-2013
, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes
Monteiro, 01-01-2013
- Future Network and Mobile Summit, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco
António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2013
- European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Sessions Chairman , Jorge
Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa , 01-01-2013
- International Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS, Technical
Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi, 01-01-2013
- Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sessions Chairman , Jorge Manuel Lopes
Leal Rodrigues da Costa , 01-01-2013
- Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS, Sessions Chairman , Mário
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- IEEE Conf. on Computational Complexity, Technical Programme Committee, Mário
- Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium - GIIS, Technical
Programme Committee, Norberto José Gil Barroca, 01-01-2013
- Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-012013
- IEEE International RF and Microwave Conf. - RFM13, Technical Programme
Committee, Issa Tamer Elfergani, 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology ISSPIT, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes
Monteiro, 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp., Technical Programme
Committee, Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro , 01-01-2013
- Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Scientific Committee, João da Silva
Pereira, 01-01-2013
, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Bucho Cercas , 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Localization and GNSS - ICL, Technical Programme
Committee, Fernando Duarte Nunes , 01-01-2013
- Symp. on Innovative Lightwave Technology Evolution for 100GbE Services,
Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-012013
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Editorial Committees
IEEE Communications Magazine , IEEE Wireless Communication Maganize, Shahid
Mumtaz, , 01-10-2013 to
IEEE Wireless Communications , IEEE, Shahid Mumtaz, Guest Editor, 01-11-2013 to
, IEEE Wireless Communication Maganize, Shahid Mumtaz, Guest Editor, 01-112013 to
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
4.2
4.2.1
Optical Communications
Area Coordinators
• Adolfo Cartaxo
• José Ferreira da Rocha
4.2.2
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
3
0
0
Associate Professor
3
2
4
Assistant Professor
6
1
1
PhD
0
1
1
Post. Doc.
9
0
2
Visiting Professor
0
0
0
PhD Student
28
2
5
MSc Student
1
0
0
(Licenciado)
1
0
0
51
6
13
TOTAL
Table 11 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in 2013
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
Agregação Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Optical Communications
Cartaxo
Photonics – Lx
PhD
Ana Maria Sousa da Rocha Optical Communications
Photonics – Av
Associate
PhD
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira Optical Communications
Professor
Photonics – Av
Associate
PhD
Armando Humberto Moreira Optical Communications
Professor
Nolasco Pinto
Photonics – Av
Associate
Agregação
Carlos Alberto Ferreira
Professor
Fernandes
Photonics – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Carlos Miguel Santos Vicente Optical Communications
Photonics – Av
PhD
PhD
Daniel Diogo Trindade
Fonseca
Photonics – Lx
Full Professor
Gokhan Sahin
Photonics – Av
Associate
PhD
Henrique José Almeida Silva Optical Communications
Professor
Photonics – Co
Post. Doc.
PhD
Jacklyn Dias Reis
Photonics – Av
Assistant
PhD
João José de Oliveira Pires Optical Communications
Professor
Photonics – Lx
Assistant
PhD
João Lopes Rebola
Professor
Photonics – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
João Manuel Ferreira Pedro Optical Communications
Photonics – Lx
Associate
Agregação Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira Optical Communications
Professor
Photonics – Lx
Full Professor
PhD
José Rodrigues Ferreira da Optical Communications
Rocha
Photonics – Av
Post. Doc.
PhD
Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro
Photonics – Av
Assistant
PhD
Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences e Optical Communications
Professor
Costa Cancela
Photonics – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Manuel Alberto Reis de
Professor
Oliveira Violas
Photonics – Av
and
MSc
and
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Marcelino Pousa
PhD
PhD
Maria do Carmo Raposo de
Medeiros
Mário José Neves de Lima
PhD
Miguel Vidal Drummond
Photonics – Av
Photonics – Co
Photonics – Av
Photonics – Av
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
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Position
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Degree
Name
PhD
Natasa Pavlovic
Group
Photonics – Av
PhD
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Photonics – Av
PhD
Nelson de Jesus Cordeiro
Muga
Photonics – Av
PhD
Paula Raquel Viegas dos
Santos Nunes Laurêncio
Photonics – Co
PhD
Paulo Fernando da Costa
Antunes
Photonics – Av
PhD
Paulo Miguel Nepomuceno Optical Communications
Pereira Monteiro
Photonics – Av
Agregação Paulo Sérgio de Brito André Optical Communications
Photonics – Lx
PhD
Rogério Nunes Nogueira
Photonics – Av
PhD
Rui Fernando Gomes de
Sousa Ribeiro
Photonics – Av
PhD
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves Optical Communications
Photonics – Lx
MSc
Tiago Silveira
Photonics – Av
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
Table 12 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in 2013
Other Collaborators
Position
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Degree
Name
Abdelgader Mahmoud
Abdalla Mahmoud
Ali Shahpari
Group
Photonics – Av
Photonics – Av
MSc
Álvaro José Caseiro de
Almeida
Photonics – Av
MSc
Ana Oliveira Pratas e
Sousa
Photonics – Av
Licenciatura
Ana Patrícia Santos
Ferreira
Photonics – Av
MSc
André Antunes de
Carvalho Albuquerque
Photonics – Av
MSc
António Miguel Barata da Optical Communications
Eira
Photonics – Lx
MSc
Carlos Alberto Ferreira
Marques
Photonics – Av
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
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Position
PhD Student
Degree
Name
MSc
Cláudia Sofia Marcos
Machado Reis
Eliana Manuela dos Santos
Silva Malheiro
Fernando Pedro Pereira
Guiomar
Filipa da Rosa Carvalhal
Sequeira
Filipe Manuel Wiener Ferro
de Carvalho
Filipe Marques Ferreira
Group
Optical Communications and
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Photonics – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Photonics – Co
PhD Student
Gil Gonçalo Martins
Fernandes
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Filipe Teixeira Lima Optical Communications and
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
João Carlos de Melo
Ferreira
Photonics – Av
Full Professor Agregação
João Lemos Pinto
Photonics – Av
PhD Student Licenciatura João Miguel Lopes dos
Santos
Photonics – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Lara Penedo Pellegrino
PhD Student
MSc
Maria de Fátima Fonseca Optical Communications and
Domingues
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel Ângelo Madureira Optical Communications and
Photonics – Av
PhD Student Licenciatura Nelson Manuel Simões
Costa
Photonics – Lx
PhD Student
PhD
Nuno Alexandre Peixoto Optical Communications and
Silva
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Paulo Alexandre
Ferreirinha de Almeida
Photonics – Co
PhD Student
MSc
Pedro Emanuel Domingos Optical Communications and
da Cruz
Photonics – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Ricardo Jorge Figueiredo Optical Communications and
Oliveira
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Rogério Pais Dionísio
Photonics – Av
PhD Student
Rui Manuel Dias Morais Optical Communications and
Photonics – Av
Assistant
PhD
Rui Pedro Oliveira Alves
Administrative Aveiro
Professor
PhD
PhD
Silvia Medeiros Vaz Pato Optical Communications and
Photonics – Co
PhD Student
Somayeh Ziaie
Photonics – Av
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Position
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Degree
Name
Group
Sudhir Kumar Routray
Photonics – Av
MSc
Telmo David Pelicano
Almeida
Photonics – Av
Licenciatura
Teresa Almeida
Vanessa Cunha Duarte
Photonics – Av
MSc
Vítor Manuel Costa Ribeiro Optical Communications and
Photonics – Av
Zhansheng Liu
Photonics – Av
Zoran Vujicic
Photonics – Av
Table 13 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2013
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4.2.3
4.2.3.1
Contributing groups
•
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
•
Optical Communications and Photonics – Co
•
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
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
4.2.3.2
Optical components and sub-systems
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.
Quantum Communications
Entangled states are important for quantum cryptography, and are used
in several protocols of quantum key distribution. These protocols provide
an alternative to single-photon-based protocols. Entangled states are also
important in fundamental terms, as their behavior is not in agreement
with physical local theories. This contradiction can be shown by the
violation of Bell’s inequalities, as the inequality proposed by Clauser,
Horne, Shimony and Holt (CHSH).
We showed the violation of CHSH inequality using two-particle states. For
this purpose, pure states, arbitrary states, and the Greenberger-HorneZeilinger (GHZ) states were analyzed. Using the spontaneous four-wave
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mixing process we generated entangled photon pairs in highly non-linear
fibers, and experimentally verified the violation of CHSH inequality.
Part of our research efforts focused on the effects of waveguide loss and
nonlinearities on the generation of polarization entangled photon-pairs
through spontaneous four-wave mixing (FWM) in χ(3 materials. We
quantified those effects through the analysis of the coincidence-toaccidental ratio (CAR), and through the CHSH inequality. Two distinct
cases were analyzed. First, we considered a fixed fiber length. Second, we
admitted that the fiber length decreases with the increase of the
waveguide loss coefficient. Results showed that for the first case, for a
fixed value of waveguide loss the CHSH parameter tends to decrease with
the increase of the nonlinear parameter. This is due to the increase
generation of multi-photons on the signal and idler fields, which leads to
an increase on the rate of accidental counts. This was also verified by the
analysis of the CAR. Results also showed that for a fixed value of
nonlinear parameter, increasing the value of the loss coefficient leads to a
strong violation of the CHSH inequality. In the second scenario, the
results showed that a strong violation of the CHSH inequality is observed
for short waveguide lengths. Our findings also showed that a high value
of coincidence counting rate does not necessarily leads to a strong
violation of the CHSH inequality.
During 2013, we extended the idea of “semi-quantum” protocols to other
tasks of quantum information processing. We considered the issue of
semi-quantum secret sharing where a quantum participant Alice can
share a secret key with two classical participants (say two Bobs). After
analyzing the existing protocol, we proposed a new protocol of semiquantum secret sharing. The proposed protocol uses product states
instead of the unimplementable entangled states. We proved that any
attempt of an adversary to obtain information necessarily induces some
errors that the legitimate users could notice.
Another area of our research efforts was quantum signatures (QS). We
start by finding an attack to an existing the QS scheme with an untrusted
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arbitrator, by showing that the dishonest signer can successfully disavow
his/her signature. Then, we suggested a correction to the improved QS
scheme and proved the security of the improved scheme.
In the area of quantum bit commitment, we proposed a two-state
practical quantum bit commitment protocol. For an optical realization of
the protocol, we modeled the errors, which occur due to the noise and
equipment (source, fibers and detectors) imperfections, accumulated
during emission, transmission and measurement of photons. The optical
part is modeled as a combination of a depolarizing channel (white noise),
unitary evolution and two other basis-dependent channels, the phase and
the bit-flip channels. We analyzed quantitatively the effects of noise using
two common information-theoretic measures of probability distribution
distinguishability: the fidelity and the relative entropy. In particular, we
discussed the optimal cheating strategy and showed that it is always
advantageous for a cheating agent to add some amount of white noise.
Numerical Modeling and Simulation
The optical simulation platform (OSIP), used in various research and
teaching activities, was upgraded. New optical and electrical models and
digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms were implemented such as:
Schmidl and Cox Algorithms for frame synchronization, non-data-aided
phase
estimation
algorithms
for
coherent
detection;
electronic
predistortion algorithms to overcome the nonlinear characteristic of MachZehnder IQ Modulator.
We developed also models for the behavior of semiconductor optical
amplifiers
(SOAs)
based
on
discrete
bi-directional
step-by
step
propagation and also on neuronal networks. These techniques allow us to
have higher precision in the results or to have a fast black box modeling
capability.
The optical coupling between waveguides taking into account the
geometrical
and
material
parameters
of
the
optical
devices
was
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optimized. Initial investigation considered the stochastic resonance (SR)
in direct-modulated laser diodes using an analytical approach based on
the laser rate equations for the carrier and photon densities, that include
the cross correlation between the photon and carrier noises. A second
stage of the analysis is underway with the analysis of curve waveguides,
namely considering different profiles of the waveguide refractive index.
New photodetector structures were investigated namely PIN resonant
cavity enhanced (RCE) and waveguide photodiodes. Concerning RCE
devices, the effect of the cavity parameters such as mirror reflectivity,
absorption coefficient and absorption region width on the quantum
efficiency was analysed. For an appropriate set of the cavity parameters,
it was seen that high quantum efficiency could be obtained for very thin
absorption layers at selected wavelengths. The frequency response was
determined by a numerical model previously developed for multilayer PIN
photodiode structures with the inclusion of the capacitive effects.
Optimized RCE devices showed a large improvement of the bandwidthquantum efficiency product compared to the corresponding conventional
PIN structure. Some preliminary work was also done on waveguide
photodetectors in order to investigate their performance relative to
conventional and RCE photodetectors.
Elipsometric models for the optical characterization of graphene layers,
namely thickness and refractive index were developed.
Initial studies in the simulation of transdermal optical communications for
application in the communication with human body incorporated devices
as pacemakers.
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Components Development and Production
We have developed the first high complexity Photonic Integrated Circuit
based on InP technology, in the context of the Multi-Process wafer
program SMART photonics.
A fine control of the microstructured polymer fiber Bragg grating
spectrum properties, such as maximum reflected power and 3-dB
bandwidth, through acousto-optic modulation, was demonstrated. For
simulation purposes, the device was modelled as a single structure,
comprising a silica horn and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG). For similar sized
structures a good correlation between the numerical results and the
experimental data was obtained, allowing the strain field to be completely
characterized along the whole structure. It was also shown that the
microstructured polymer fiber Bragg grating requires less effort from the
piezoelectric actuator to produce modification in the grating spectrum
when compared with a silica fiber Bragg grating. This technique has
potential to be applied on tunable optical filters and tunable cavities for
photonic applications.
We developed a state of the art platform for production of optical filters in
plastic optical fibers. Currently the platform already produces plastic FBGs
with the highest performance in the world. It will enable implementation
of advanced communication systems with plastic optical fibers and
advanced sensors.
Several milestones in sol-gel integrated optics were achieved such as:
implementation of a deep UV (248 nm) photolithographic system,
optimization of the synthesis of sol-gel resins in order to obtain low loss
materials at 1550 nm, demonstration of monomode waveguides and
simulation of packaging solutions based on V-grooves. A sol gel resin with
optical loss of 1.01 dBcm-1 was demonstrated and monomode waveguides
were fabricated.
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Thermo actuated integrated optics devices (Y-branch splitter and Mach
Zehnder modulators) for passive optical networks, based on sol-gel layers
deposited over oxidized silica substrates and recorded using direct UV
laser exposition, were developed.
A color model for the production of low cost ink jet printable optical filters
for
visible
wireless
optical
communications
was
developed.
The
robustness of the produced filters to environmental factors was studied.
Modeling, production and characterization of luminescent layers deposited
over optical substracts for utilization as luminescent solar concentrators,
envisaging the increase of photovoltaic cells, were investigated.
All Optical Signal Processing
We
investigated
phase-sensitive
amplification
(PSA)
and
phase
regeneration of a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) signal using a single
periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. The PPLN was
operated bi-directionally in order to simultaneously achieve phase
correlated signals and phase-sensitive (PS) operation. We used injection
locking for carrier phase recovery and a lead zirconate titanate fiber
stretcher
to
correct
path
length
deviations
in
the
in-line
phase
regenerator. We observed a trade-off between high PS gain provided by
high pumping power and stability of the device.
A new technique for photonic antenna beamforming, using microwave
photonics, was developed. The method is based on true time delay with
polarization-domain interferometers. The concept can improve 10 times
the tuning speed, while reducing the power consumption.
Some of our research efforts concentrated on the feasibility of optical
amplification in the S + C bands using a hybrid optical fiber amplifier
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(HFA) based on a single wavelength pump. Its configuration is based on
an erbium doped amplifier to provide gain over the C band and a
distributed Raman fiber amplifier to attain gain over the S band.
Moreover, the developed amplifier uses standard commercial available
fibers.
The
HFA
was
numerically
characterized
and
its
optimal
configuration was calculated using optimization procedures based on
genetic algorithms. A flexible HFA configuration was achieved allowing a
span length up to 100 km.
We
studied
and
experimentally
demonstrated
the
generation
of
supercontinuum using a continuous pump in the normal group velocity
dispersion regime on a highly nonlinear fiber. We obtained spectral
broadening by pumping a non-microstructured highly nonlinear fiber with
a continuous wave signal obtained from a Raman fiber laser. A theoretical
model was developed to describe the experiment. The experiment was
simulated using a generalized Schrödinger equation containing the actual
Raman response of the fiber and simulated results were in good
agreement with experimental results.
Sensors
We continued our research in the area of the fuse effect in optical fibers.
This effect is the continuous self-destruction of the optical fiber induced
by a high intensity optical signal, creating hollow micro-structures along
the fiber core. Strain and refractive index sensors were developed based
on the reutilization of damage and worthless optical fiber, with enhanced
sensitivity when compared to some previously reported micro-cavity
related sensors, fabricated by more expensive and complex methods.
In 2013, part of our research concentrated on the exploitation of products
previously developed for telecommunication applications, such as Fiber
Bragg gratings, to other application areas.
In the past few years, the use of diamond in distinct fields has grown
considerably, as result of its characteristics, including high hardness, wear
and corrosive resistance, low coefficient of thermal expansion and
excellent response in terms of biocompatibility, non-toxicity and adhesion
to biological material. In the diamond deposition process, temperature is
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a critical parameter for the morphology of the deposited crystals, namely
in the control of the growth rate and crystal size and orientation. We
accomplished the on-line thermal monitoring of the diamond deposition
process obtained by hot filament chemical vapor deposition, using
regenerated
Fiber
Bragg
gratings,
due
to
its
resistance
to
high
temperatures. The deposition occurred around 832 C, in the experimental
conditions used. This procedure can contribute to a better understanding
of the process, leading to a higher control of the deposition, and
consequently the ability to obtain tailored diamond coatings.
Due to their excellent aesthetic properties and the improvement of some
mechanical properties, the dental composites have been acquiring
increasing importance in the context of oral rehabilitation. There are,
however, some disadvantages that may compromise their clinical success,
such
as
polymerization
shrinkage,
which
could
be
associated
to
contraction stress transferred to the tooth, leading to cusp deflection
and/or enamel microcracks. A pilot study regarding the ability of optical
fiber Bragg grating sensors to evaluate the linear polymerization
shrinkage of composite resins was accomplished. The results obtained
suggest that Bragg sensors are a suitable technology to evaluate linear
polymerization shrinkage of dental composites, with clear advantages to
assess the evolution of composite contraction in real time during all
polymerization reaction.
Structural health monitoring is defined as the structural behavior
surveillance during a predetermined time or throughout the structure’s
lifetime, in order to detect materials or structural degradation. The usage
and applicability studies of a developed fiber Bragg grating based biaxial
accelerometer in dynamic measurements on an elevated reinforced
concrete
water
reservoir
was
completed
successfully.
A
low-cost,
compact, intensity-encoded accelerometer based on polymer optical fibers
was developed, to be used in structural health monitoring applications.
The proposed accelerometer sensor element relies on the misalignment
between two polymer optical fibers.
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Optical sensors based on plastic and silica optical fibers for the
measurement of temperature, deformation, refractive index and pressure
were developed.
4.2.3.3
Optical communications systems
Signal processing for optical communications
Employing 100 Gbit/sec polarization-multiplexed quaternary phase-shift
keying (PM-QPSK) signals, we experimentally demonstrated a dualpolarization Volterra series nonlinear equalizer (VSNE), to mitigate intrachannel nonlinearities. The performance of the dual-polarization VSNE
was
assessed
in
both
single
channel
and
in
wavelength-division
multiplexing (WDM) scenarios, providing direct comparisons with its
single-polarization version and with the widely studied back-propagation
split-step Fourier (SSF) approach. In single-channel transmission, the
optimum power increased by about 1 dB, relatively to the singlepolarization equalizers, and up to 3 dB over linear equalization, with a
corresponding bit error rate (BER) reduction of up to 63% and 85%,
respectively.
By
means
of
simulation,
we
demonstrated
that
the
performance of nonlinear equalization can be substantially enhanced if
both optical and electrical filtering are optimized, enabling the VSNE
technique to outperform its SSF counterpart at high input powers.
Starting from a previously proposed frequency domain VSNE, whose
complexity evolves as O(N3), with N being the frequency-domain block
length, we derived a symmetric VSNE filter array formulation for
polarization-multiplexed (PM) signals, whose full VSNE equivalent is up to
3× more computationally efficient, with zero performance penalty.
Performing a direct comparison between the simplified VSNE and the
widely used split-step Fourier method in a long-haul 224 Gbit/sec PM16QAM transmission system, we demonstrated a reduction of over 60%
in terms of computational effort and 90% in terms of equalization latency.
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A Stokes space based technique for digital polarization-dependent losses
(PDL) monitoring and compensation was proposed. The channel PDL
monitoring was carried out with a resolution of 0.15 dB by computing the
mean point of the signal samples represented in the three-dimensional
Stokes space. The presented compensation technique is based on
rotations and translations of the signal samples in the Stokes space, and
provides a PDL compensation of up to 2.5 dB. Error vector magnitude
results showed a gain of about 3 dB (assuming a PDL value equal to 1.5
dB) comparing with a Stokes space based polarization demultiplexing
technique without PDL compensation.
A performance comparison has been carried out between two carrier
phase recovery (CPR) algorithms used to mitigate the impact of the laser
phase noise in an ultra-dense wavelength-division multiplexing passive
optical network WDM-PON (UDWDM-PON) scenario. The algorithms
considered were the classic non-data-aided phase estimation algorithm
based on Viterbi & Viterbi method, and another one based on data-aided
technique which makes use of pilot symbols. The performance of the
algorithms was numerically assessed for Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
(QPSK)
and
Differential
QPSK
(DQPSK)
modulations
formats.
The
obtained results show that the linewidths of the lasers at the optical
network unit and at the optical line terminal play an important role in the
system
performance.
It
was shown
that
fine laser linewidths of
∆ν .Ts = 3 × 10 −4 are required in order to obtain low penalties.
Electronic
predistortion
techniques
were
studied
to
overcome
the
nonlinear characteristic of the Mach-Zehnder IQ-Modulator in coherent
optical transmission systems. A QAM coherent transmitter and the
compensation algorithm were then implemented in a FPGA platform. Cosimulations were performed in order to prove that the designed hardware
was generating correct results. Furthermore, some tests were conducted
using an IQ-Modulator available in the Optics Laboratory. The goal was to
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operate the system under laboratorial conditions and analyse the
performance of the compensation algorithm in a real case scenario.
The performance improvement of direct-detection single and doublesideband OFDM systems achieved by using symbol precoding to reduce
the
signal
peak-to-average
power
ratio
(PAPR)
was
assessed
experimentally. EVM improvement of about 2 dB, and standard singlemode fibre (SSMF) reach increase of 15% were shown in the double
sideband case. In single sideband transmission, a bit error ratio (BER)
improvement of almost two orders of magnitude was shown along 150
km SSMF transmission. In addition, it was also shown that precoding
enables similar BER improvement with 75 km fiber propagation when
nonlinear fiber effects are moderate.
Performance evaluation of optical communication systems and
networks
We developed a DSP-based pseudo real time advanced modulation format
analyzer. This system is fully consistent and is now being used for the
analysis of the data generated in the lab.
A laboratorial module for training and research purposes was developed
for the evaluation of wide range of digital baseband telecommunications
systems, from the basic concepts through to more complex applications.
The
digital
subsystems
that
emulate
different
parts
of
a
digital
transmission system were implemented using Field-Programmable Gate
Array (FPGA) technology.
A simulator used to assess the performance of multi-band orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) systems was developed. From
this simulator, extensive studies were performed in order to gain insight
on the compromise between bandwidth of each OFDM band, bandwidth of
the whole MB-OFDM signal and the corresponding requirements of the
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electrical system devices, spacing between adjacent OFDM bands,
number of subcarriers of each band, spectral efficiency, data-rate of each
band and total system data-rate, in metro networks based on MB-OFDM
signals.
An analytical model for performance evaluation of amplified spontaneous
emission
noise-impaired
direct
detection
single-sideband
MB-OFDM
systems was developed. The bit error ratio (BER) was used as figure of
merit for performance evaluation, and was obtained through an analytical
relationship between the electrical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the
optical SNR (OSNR).
MB-OFDM single sideband transmitters based on electro-absorption
modulators (EAMs) and optical filtering, and on dual parallel MachZehnder modulators (DPMZM) were studied and the overall performance
of the MB-OFDM system employing these transmitters is being assessed.
Preliminary results showed that metro networks using the novel MBOFDM signal proposed to reduce the receiver bandwidth require a OSNR
(for a BER=10-3) of 28 dB in a 240-km long 7-band 40 Gbit/s MB-OFDM
system.
A polynomial-time complexity large-signal model was proposed for
directly modulated laser -based optical OFDM transmission systems.
Closed-form expressions for the variance of the four-wave mixing (FWM)
and cross-phase modulation (XPM) induced in each subcarrier of a double
sideband OFDM system employing direct detection was proposed and
validated.
The behaviour of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, that are used to
describe the eigenfunction expansion of the receiver decision variable of
an optical direct detection differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) system
with
optical
amplification,
was
analysed
for
various
receiver
configurations, and their impact on system performance was investigated.
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The impact of I/Q demodulator imperfections on the performance of
OFDM optical communication systems with RF transmission was studied.
The rigorous formulation to analyse the impact of homodyne crosstalk
from
optical
network
elements
was
generalized
to
OFDM
optical
communication systems. The impact of homodyne crosstalk on the
performance of M-QAM coherent and OFDM direct-detection optical
communication systems and networks was characterised. The impact of
in-band crosstalk and OOK crosstalk signals in optical DPSK and DQPSK
systems was evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation and an analytical
model. A multicanonic Monte Carlo simulation was implemented to speed
up the assessment of the performance of optical communication systems
and networks for very low error probabilities.
Radio over fiber systems
Several multiwavelength, ultra high density, radio over fiber and free
space optics (FSO) systems were developed. We have tested the systems
using OFDM modulation scheme, and achieved the world record in FSO
transmission of 1.6Tbit/s over 80 m in outdoor conditions.
We proposed a wideband dynamic behavioral model for a bulk reflective
semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA), used as a modulator in colorless
radio over fiber (RoF) system, based on a tapped-delay multilayer
perceptron (TDMLP). Quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM) signals
with a rate of 20 Msymbol/s were used to train, validate and test the
model. The TDMLP model can accurately approximate the dynamic
characteristics of the RSOA modulator.
We developed a real-time transceiver using the OFDM signaling scheme.
The transceiver was implemented on a FPGA through Xilinx System
Generator for DSP and includes all the blocks needed for the OFDM
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transmission path. The transmitter frame can be reconfigured for different
pilot and data schemes. In the receiver, time-domain synchronization is
achieved through a joint maximum likelihood (ML) symbol arrival-time
and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimator through the redundant
information contained in the cyclic prefix (CP). A least-squares channel
estimation retrieves the channel state information and a simple zeroforcing scheme has been implemented for channel equalization. Results
show that a rough implementation of the signal path can be achieved by
using only Xilinx System Generator for DSP
The performance of wired and wireless services based on OFDM DSB-RC
transmission over hybrid long reach fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks
was evaluated in the presence of controlled modulation chirp, by biasing a
dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator (DEMZM) below its quadrature
point.
The
transmission
of
wireless
overlay
services
backhauling,
over
bidirectional colourless WDM-PONs was demonstrated. The effect of the
baseband
PON
channel
was
evaluated
both
analytically
and
experimentally.
The transmission of 60 GHz broadband signals over FTTH network was
analyzed, and major advantages and limitations were identified.
The distribution of three OFDM ultra wideband (UWB) bands along directly
modulated
long-reach
(LR)
passive
optical
networks
(PONs)
was
demonstrated experimentally. These experiments demonstrated that the
proposed directly modulated LR-PON is an adequate solution to deliver
the
UWB
signals
to
users’
premises
located
in
sparse
take-up
geographies.
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Optical transmission based on mode group diversity
We analyzed theoretically the power transfer between cores in identical
long-period gratings (LPG) written in dual-core and four-core fibers. The
LPG couples the light from the input core to the cladding mode, and then
the light is transformed into the secondary cores modes through the LPGs
inscribed in it. Using the couple mode theory we achieved simple
analytical expression to describe the coupling between the cores. We
demonstrated that by using the proper grating design we can control the
power transfer efficiency. This concept can be used to distribute a single
pump to the different cores simplifying the coupling and reducing the cost
of optical amplification in multicore fibers.
Optical fiber microwires (OFMs) are nonlinear optical waveguides that
support several spatial modes. The multimodal generalized nonlinear
Schrödinger equation (MM-GNLSE) was deduced taking into account the
linear and nonlinear modal coupling. A detailed theoretical description of
four-wave mixing (FWM) considering the modal coupling was developed.
Both, the intramode and the intermode phase-matching conditions were
calculated for an optical microwire in a strong guiding regime. Finally, the
FWM dynamics was studied and the amplitude evolution of the pump
beams, the signal and the idler were analyzed.
Other relevant results include: design of few-mode fibres (FMFs) with
arbitrary and flattened differential mode delay (DMD) over the C+L band,
using a refractive index profile with a graded core and a cladding trench
(GCCT); analysis of the dependence of DMD in FMFs on the number of
linearly polarized (LP) modes, considering a GCCT profile; design of FMFs
guiding 2 to 12 LP modes with low DMD over the C-band, suitable for
long-haul transmission.
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4.2.3.4
Optical networking
Optical Transport Networks
We evaluated and compared the power consumption and the number of
required slots (footprint) of fixed and flexible transport nodes. The node
architecture was assumed to comprise a grooming structure, and a
reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). Fixed grooming
was achieved using cascades of muxponders. Alternatively, flexible
grooming was achieved with electrical switches. Fixed frequency and fixed
direction
ROADM,
considered.
For
all
and
the
colorless
and
architectures,
directionless
we
presented
ROADM
an
were
accurate
dimensioning model that allows computation of the required modules.
Results showed that to optimize the total power consumption and
footprint of the network, the architecture of each node had to be selected
according to the amount and pattern of the add/drop and regenerated
traffic and the number of pairs of fibers convergent to the node. An
optimization method based on simple rules for node type selection was
proposed.
From the analysis of statistical properties of real networks, we found that
general extreme value (GEV) distribution provides an accurate model for
link length statistics of optical transport networks (OTNs). The parameters
of GEV distribution can be estimated from the average link length of the
OTNs. Expressions for average link lengths, based only on the knowledge
of network coverage area and number of nodes, were improved for better
accuracy. It was shown that the optimized GEV distribution estimates the
link statistics of OTNs with good accuracy (Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic
less than 0.18).
Some of our research efforts focused on multi-thread multi-start local
search strategies to optimize the cost of the next generation of Optical
Transport Networks, taking into account a wide range of engineering
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solutions and constraints whose combination is hard to address, such as:
flexible grid frequency assignment, single and multi-hop grooming,
regenerator placement and inverse-multiplexing.
Placement strategies for pre-deploying 3R regenerators in long-haul
networks were investigated.
The impact of the node architecture in OTN and DWDM networks was
studied.
Strategies for optimizing survivable flexible-grid DWDM networks were
developed.
The impact of evolving current DWDM fixed grid to a flexible grid, routing
and spectrum assignment strategies and network defragmentation was
investigated.
Wavelength assignment algorithms for dynamic optical networks that take
into account the impact of homodyne crosstalk were investigated.
Dynamic network resource allocation techniques were studied and their
performance was evaluated.
Network planning tools to be used in in dynamic environments (with both
service requests and service cancellation) were developed.
Low-cost solutions for deploying 100 GbE in metropolitan networks were
investigated.
Optical Access Networks
In the area of optical access networks we have developed several
techniques and configurations, which allowed us to reach an aggregate
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record throughput in a PON having a bit rate of 10Tbit/s downstream and
10Tbit/s burst mode upstream, in one single fiber. This work resulted
from a joint activity with NICT Japan.
Techniques for energy conservation in optical access networks have been
investigated. The main outcome was an analysis program developed in
Matlab to study the potential for power saving in various access network
architectures. This program examines user activity profiles based on real
data traces, performs the necessary aggregation for selected activity
profiles, and calculates overall power consumption and power saving
potential,
while
taking
simultaneously
device
characteristics
into
consideration. Conclusions on the power saving capacity of various access
technologies were drawn based on the developed software model.
Raman amplification in passive optical networks with the recycling of the
pump signal for the powering of remote nodes was studied.
The capacity of next-generation high-density metro-access networks was
assessed.
Electrical power distribution among coexisting OFDM-based signals in
long-reach passive optical networks was optimized theoretically and
experimentally.
The performance of pre- and post- distortion compensation using memory
polynomials of broadband OFDM signals was compared in long-reach
passive optical networks.
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4.2.4
Overview
Funding Agency
ADI
ADI e PT Inovação
BIOCANT
Ciencia Viva/FCT
ESF COST
ESF, COST
EU, FP7
FCT
FCT/CAPES
FCT/GRICES
FCT/PTDC
IT
Nokia Siemens Networks
PT Inovação
QREN
Number
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
9
4
1
1
1
Table 14 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2013
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Acron / Ref
BIOCANT
Title
Cell illumination platform
Funding
BIOCANT
Descript.
The objectives of the project are to develop an illumination system for
a cell growing system.
Acron / Ref
CITO
Title
CITO
Funding
IT
Descript.
Objectiva o estudo de potenciais soluções para compressão de
imagem totalmente optica com base em transformadas.
Acron / Ref
Title
DiNEq
Digital Nonlinear Equalization in Very-High Speed Coherent Optical
Transmission Systems
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The exponentially growing traffic demand in optical core networks has
exhausted the single-mode fiber capacity within the linear regime. We
aim to develop efficient digital equalization strategies in order to
counteract the signal distortion imposed by fiber nonlinearities, in
very-high speed (>= 100 Gbit/s/ch) and ultra-dense (>= 4 bit/Hz)
multi-wavelength coherent optical transmission systems. Building on
our previous work and experience on this topic, we aim to optimize
some of the currently proposed algorithms, mainly in terms of
computational
requirements, and
to develop
new
solutions for
nonlinear digital equalization in optical fiber systems. Our efforts
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include the extension of nonlinear equalization to polarizationmultiplexing and WDM transmission. We will focus a great deal of our
attention into the problem of inter-channel nonlinear equalization,
developing efficient and moderate complexity techniques to partially
mitigate cross-phase modulation (XPM) and four-wave mixing (FWM)
distortions. We plan to develop simplified approaches to enable
adaptive equalization of XPM resorting to either blind or data-aided
equalizers. We also plan to explore artificial neural networks (ANN)
techniques for fiber impairment mitigation. Given the hardware
implementation advantages of ANNs due to their inherent parallel
nature, we expect to obtain efficient real-time implementation
solutions. During the last couple of years, the interest on few-mode
fibers (FMF) and mode-division multiplexing (MDM) has exploded, with
numerous
publications
in
major
international
conferences
and
journals. This sudden revival of multi-mode signal propagation is
closely
related
with
the
need
to
reduce
the
effect
of
fiber
nonlinearities, which is thereby achieved by increasing the fiber core
area. From the digital signal processing (DSP) point of view, the
adoption of MDM requires an extra effort to implement multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) equalization of inter-modal transmission and
coupling. Although signal impairments in FMFs are currently assumed
to be mostly caused by linear processes, some pioneering works are
already exploiting the impact of nonlinearities in FMFs. A timely
development of nonlinear equalization techniques for MDM signal
transmission is therefore of utmost importance. Within this topic there
are still many problems to be tackled, ranging from development of
modeling numerical tools for nonlinear signal propagation to the
development of lower complexity digital equalization techniques. We
propose to exploit the reported potentialities of the Volterra series
transfer function, extending its scope to MDM transmission, therefore
providing a powerful numerical tool for the analysis and compensation
of inter-modal nonlinearities. The development and optimization of
digital equalization algorithms must be accompanied by meaningful
assessment through simple and accurate figures of merit. We propose
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to develop simple figures of merit for BER gain and required
computational effort for nonlinear equalization algorithms under
different propagation conditions. These figures of merit should guide
the development of new equalization algorithms and the design of new
very high-speed and ultra-dense transmission systems. Finally, we
aim to finalize this project with an experimental test and validation
stage, composed by two implementation phases: offline validation of
the proposed algorithms recurring to experimental data, and hardware
implementation in a field programmable gate array in order to test
real-time operation. This implementation stage will benefit both from
IT facilities and expect investment in coherent optical systems and
from
a
well-established
international
cooperation
with
top-level
European laboratories. Given the current absence of feasible solutions
for the equalization of critical nonlinear fiber impairments, we will
have the opportunity to generate crucial contributions to the state-ofthe-art of coherent optical systems. In fact, solving the nonlinear
limitation on fiber capacity has been identified as one of the key
scientific breakthroughs to enable future Terabit optical channels.
Acron / Ref
Title
IC1101
COST IC1101 - Optical Wireless Communications - An Emerging
Technology
Funding
ESF, COST
Descript.
Wireless transmission via optical carriers opens doors of opportunity
in areas as yet largely unexplored. Offering significant technical and
operational advantages, optical wireless communication (OWC) can
be, in some applications, a powerful alternative to and, in others,
complementary to existing radio frequency (RF) wireless systems.
Variations
of
OWC
can
be
employed
in
a
diverse
range
of
communication applications ranging from very short-range (on the
order of millimetres) optical interconnects within integrated circuits
through outdoor inter-building links (on the order of kilometres) to
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satellite links (larger than 10,000 kilometres). In many respects,
OWC research is still in its infancy and calls for extensive research to
begin to harness the enormous potential of the optical spectrum. This
COST Action will serve as a high-profile consolidated European
scientific platform
for
interdisciplinary OWC
research
activities,
spanning from characterization of diverse propagation media to
modeling,
design
and
algorithms/protocols
development
and
systems.
of
It
devices,
will
components,
make
significant
contributions to the fundamental scientific understanding, technical
knowledge, engineering design and applications while promoting
community awareness of this emerging field. Development of novel
and efficient communication technologies resulting from integrated
research activities made possible through this Action will be a
significant
enabler
communication
networks
for
future-generation
supporting
a
wide
heterogeneous
range
of
wireless
services/applications.
Acron / Ref
MDM-FMF
Title
Mode-Diversity Multiplexing over Few-Mode Fibres
Funding
Descript.
The ever growing demand for higher data rate is rapidly exhausting
the capacity available for single-mode fibres (SMFs). During the last
years, only a marginal increase in the maximum bit rate distance
product using SMFs was observed, since the nonlinear Shannon limit
is being reached. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that even if
significant improvements of standard SMFs (SSMFs) are achieved, the
capacity
increase
per
fibre
is
limited.
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) over few-mode fibres (FMFs) is
emerging as an attractive solution for the required capacity increase
with potential cost, space, and energy savings. An N-fold capacity
increase, with N equal to the number of independent modes of the
FMF, is obtained using MDM. However, FMFs require the usage of
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multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) equalization as it needs to
compensate for the combined effect of differential mode delay (DMD)
and modal crosstalk (XT), which originates a channel impulse
response (CIR) spread over time. In order to reduce the equalizer
complexity
the
fibre
DMD
has
to
be
reduced.
In the literature, different schemes to reduce or compensate DMD
have been proposed: the usage of inherently low DMD FMFs (ILDFMFs); the usage of FMFs with positive DMD followed by FMFs with
negative DMD, usually referred as DMD compensated FMFs (DCFMFs); or the usage of mode permutation within the transmission
fibre, which averages the modes group velocities, thereby reducing
the CIR length. The reported ILD-FMFs and DC-FMFs are not suitable
for ultra-long haul transmission due to high DMD variation within the
C+L band. Regarding the mode permutation scheme, an increase of
the maximum distance reach by a factor of 5 has been shown.
However, a practical implementation of mode permutation is still
missing.
The main objectives of this work are the proposal of design rules for
FMFs with an arbitrary DMD flattened over the C+L band, and the
investigation of schemes for the practical implementation of mode
permutation.
Acron / Ref
Title
MORFEUS
Metro Networks Based on Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency-Division
Multiplexing Signals
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The general objective of this project consists in demonstrating the
new paradigm related to the increase of the flexibility and granularity
of the transmission capacity in metropolitan (metro) optical networks.
Particularly, the implementation of metro networks based on high
data-rate multi-band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MBOFDM) signals employing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is
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analysed and demonstrated as an excellent solution to provide,
simultaneously, high flexibility in capacity allocation, high spectral
efficiency and the possibility of upgrading the network capacity while
keeping
the
system
architecture
almost
unchanged.
Recently, optical transmission systems with high capacity granularity
have been appointed as the most promising solution to be employed
in the integration of the metro and access networks in a single hybrid
optical network. Systems based on MB-OFDM signals have been
recognized as an excellent solution as they allow the integration of
several final users who usually require a capacity quite below the
total network capacity. This access technology has been indicated as
a
good
alternative
to
the
solutions
based
on
time-division
multiplexing currently deployed.
Previous works have experimentally shown the dynamic allocation of
OFDM subcarriers or individual bands of MB-OFDM signals as an
excellent solution to increase the granularity of capacity allocation.
However, these works were presented as a proof-of-concept: the MBOFDM transmission impairments and the traffic allocation optimization
were not analyzed. In addition, the main performance limitations
were not identified as well.
This project has two particular objectives. First, it is focused on the
investigation of the performance impairments imposed by the
physical layer on the high data-rate (maximum bit rate of 40 Gbit/s
per wavelength) MB-OFDM signals transmission in WDM metro
networks and on the system parameters optimization using analytical,
simulation and experimental work. Particularly, the study and the
assessment of the main system impairments is performed, such as:
(i) linear crosstalk associated with the MB-OFDM transmission and
with the finite selectivity of the optical devices required to select the
different bands and wavelengths at each node of the metro network,
(ii) linear and nonlinear fibre effects, (iii) joint nonlinear effect
introduced
by
the
electro-optic
and
opto-electric
conversion
processes.
Second, this project is focused also on the study of the network layer
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of WDM metro networks based on MB-OFDM signals. Particularly, the
assignment of OFDM
bands and wavelengths, and the traffic
distribution along the network are analysed. Routing, wavelength and
band
assignment
(RWBA)
algorithms
are
developed
based
on
maximum wavelength and band reuse in MB-OFDM metro networks.
These algorithms are developed considering the impairments imposed
by the physical layer of the WDM MB-OFDM metro network (cross
layer
design).
The work to carry out along this project is focused on MB-OFDM
signals with intensity modulation - direct detection (IM-DD) systems
for transmitter and receiver cost reduction, an imperative of metro
networks. Different MB-OFDM transmitters are analysed, e. g. MBOFDM transmitters using single sideband modulation implemented
using appropriate (I,Q) modulators or the generation of electrical MBOFDM signals with adequate properties to provide strong robustness
to fibre dispersion induced power fading.
The ultimate goal of the project consists in the experimental
demonstration of the simultaneous transmission of, at least, three
optical channels using MB-OFDM signals in a metro optical network
with insertion/extraction capabilities at the OFDM band level.
Acron / Ref
Title
MP1205
COST Advances in Optofluidics: Integration of Optical Control and
Photonics with Microfluidics
Funding
ESF COST
Descript.
The aim of this COST Action is to establish active interlinks between
laboratories working in the fields of micro and optofluidics, optical
tweezers, nanoscience and photonics, bio and soft materials, focusing
their work towards lab-on-a-chip systems and at promoting long-term
development of these fields in Europe. The goal is to increase the
knowledge in basic physics and biology from the micro- down to the
nano-scale, and to develop the future generation of lab-on-a-chip
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devices for portable and inexpensive, but accurate and reliable
equipments for: (i) diagnostics; (ii) detection, identification and
manipulation of biomolecules and nanomaterials, (iii) biomedical and
environmental microsensing, (iv) advanced imaging, (v) energy
generation.
The scientific innovation concerns advanced concepts of optofluidics
and new generation of optofluidic devices integrating photonics as well
as optical control. Indeed, their technologically relevant research
threads are of significant interest for the academic community and the
industrial R&D. In order to capitalize on recent achievements and go
one
step
forward,
a
platform
as
a
COST
Action,
promoting
interdisciplinary activities, is a relevant tool to exchange expertises
and to explore new opportunities coming from each specific insights
and knowledge.
The Action will focus on selected scientific challenges and will be
organized in three Working Groups:
1-Integrated microfluidic photonics (new concepts of optofluidics);
2-Optical control in microfluidics;
3-Materials (soft, bio and nano) and technologies for optofluidic
devices
Acron / Ref
NGPON2
Title
NGPON2
Funding
ADI e PT Inovação
Descript.
Este projeto tem como objetivo criar uma solução de rede NG-PON2
suportada nas componentes inovadores OLT NG-PON2 e ONT NGPON2
dotados
de
características
e
componentes
de
grande
complexidade ao nível do controlo e da gestão.
Partindo das linhas de orientação definidas no FSAN e ITU-T,
pretende-se introduzir 8 comprimentos de onda adicionais na mesma
fibra ótica. Esta alocação de sinal personalizada e dinâmica será
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possível através do desenvolvimento de um front end optoelectrónico
multicomprimento de onda sintonizável a integrar nos componentes
de rede, nomeadamente OLT e ONT, o que vai permitir a criação de
equipamentos colourless.
Com
efeito,
este
projeto
deverá
permitir
que
estas
novas
componentes venham a ser produzidas pela indústria nacional, de
modo a oferecer soluções completas deste tipo de tecnologia, quer
em termos de componentes ativas, quer em termos de componentes
passivas, no sentido de serem inseridas nas redes óticas de nova
geração dos operadores de telecomunicações.
Assim, no contexto e no seguimento da aposta do Grupo PT de fazer
chegar a fibra ótica a todos os portugueses, espera-se que o projeto
NG-PON2 permita colocar Portugal como um dos países líderes a nível
mundial no desenvolvimento e disseminação da tecnologia GPON e
NG-PON2.
Acron / Ref
Title
ONECI
ONECI
-
Optimizing
Next-generation
Elastic
Core
Network
Infrastructure
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Key objective of the ONECI project: to research in detail a cost and
power efficient transport network architecture able to carry a wide
range of signal bandwidths, varying in real time, direction and
magnitude, some of which will be extremely large possibly exceeding
1Tb/s.
To
achieve
this
objective,
the
ONECI
project
will
study
the:
• Impact of node architecture in energy consumption of optical
transport networks
• Impairment-aware lightpath routing and spectrum allocation in
optical
transport
networks
with
physical-layer
heterogeneity
• Transport systems enabling flexible transmission and switching
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beyond 100Gbps per channel.
• Dynamic network resources allocation at both IP and elastic optical
layers
• Multilayer network optimization tools, enabling both off-line planning
and on-line network re-optimization in elastic optical networks.
Acron / Ref
PIC
Title
Photonic Integrated Circuits for NGPON2
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
Estudo,
desenho
desenvolvimento
e
de
elaboração
das
um
end
front
linhas
ótico
diretoras
para
o
multi-comprimento
sintonizável/selecionável, suportado por tecnologias óticas integradas
(PIC) para ONU/OLT a 10 Gbit/s.
Acron / Ref
Title
POFCOM
Bragg Gratings in Plastic Optical Fibre for communications and
sensing applications
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The possibility of the fibre to the home (FTTH) for simultaneous
transmission of different services such as internet, telephone, digital
television is, in fact, actual. Polymer optical fibres (POF) are being
pointed as a lower-cost and viable alternative to glass fibre in shortdistance applications.
The use of this type of fibre has several advantages such as simpler
and less expensive components, ease to hande and connect and has
greater flexibility and resilience to bending, shock, and vibration.
Moreover, FBG is passive and versatile device that has been used in
the
development
of
components
and
techniques
for
optical
communication systems with high capacity. With this strategy we
intend to reduce cost and in the same time don’t compromise the
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spectral
efficiency.
The global aim of this proposal is to develop new techniques and new
innovative devices based on FBG written in mPOF for optical
communications and sensing technologies.
Acron / Ref
Title
PORTO
Planeamento e Optimização de Redes Ópticas Elásticas Baseadas na
Tecnologia O-OFDM
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Este projecto de cooperação entre Brasil e Portugal dedica-se ao
desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para o planeamento e a
optimização das redes ópticas elásticas através do emprego da
engenharia
de
tráfego,
a
proposição
de
heurísticas,
o
desenvolvimento de modelos de camada física para a transmissão
OFDM especialmente adequados para a utilização no projecto destas
redes, e protocolos eficientes para a atribuição dos recursos na rede.
O intuito principal é a união de esforços de investigadores com
produção científica significativa e alunos de doutoramento e pósdoutoramento na área das redes ópticas dos dois países.
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4.2.5
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Paula Raquel
Viegas dos
Santos Nunes
Laurêncio
Diogo Bento
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
José Paulo
Moisés Ribeiro
Krause Perin
Title
End
Date
Estratégias de Geração e
1/2013
Transmissão de Sinais
em Sistemas OFDM-RoF
Antonio Luis
Ana Lopes
Jesus Teixeira
Mário José Neves
de Lima
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Alexandre
Lemos
Marques
Miguel Vidal
Drummond,Rui
Fernando Gomes
de Sousa Ribeiro
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Bruno
Henriques
João Manuel
Ferreira Pedro
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Henrique José
Almeida Silva
Miguel Vidal
Andre Ribeiro
Drummond,Rui
Pereira da
Fernando Gomes
Silva
de Sousa Ribeiro
Wojciech
Hajduczenia
Lúcia Maria
Botas Bilro
Ricardo
Xavier
Ferreira
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Afonso
Oliveira
João Manuel
Ferreira Pedro
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
Maria Teresa
Pinto Ferreira
Palma
Ramalho
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Catarina Taful
Modelo analítico para
quantificação da
distorção harmónica de
4/2013
sinais OFDM em sistemas
IMDD empregando lasers
modulados diretamente
Advanced modulation
formats for optical access 6/2013
networks
Estudo de sequências de
treino em sistemas óticos 6/2013
coerentes
Optimization and
multilayer planning of
IP/MPLS/OTN networks
6/2013
Simulação de redes
óticas de acesso
coerentes
6/2013
Power Saving Techniques
7/2013
in Access Networks
Accoustic Optical
Modultion with Plastic
10/2013
Fibres for Sensing
Aplications
Designing and
optimization of
heterogeneous
10/2013
OTN/DWDM networks
with intermediate
aggregation
Análise do Desempenho
de uma Ligação Óptica
em Sistemas DWDM
11/2013
Design of OTN networks
João Miguel Lopes
for supporting 100 Gb/s
dos Santos
Ethernet Traffic
11/2013
166
Supervisor
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Armando
Humberto
Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
Student
André
Alexandre
Parreira
Jordão
Alberto
Patrícia
Santos
Fidalgo de
Sousa
Co- Supervisors
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Armando
Humberto
Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Rui Fernando
Gomes de Sousa
Ribeiro
Atribuição e
encaminhamento de
comprimento de onda em 12/2013
redes IP sobre WDM
energeticamente eficiente
Compensation of MZ-IQModulator Nonlinearity
12/2013
Based on FPGA
Algorithms
Tiago Ferreira
Design and Optimization
Amaro Fernandes
Grade Dinis
12/2013
of Elastic Optical
de Sousa
Trota
Networks
Marino
Pedro Renato
Oliveira
Tavares Pinho
Rodrigues
Antonio Luis
Adolfo
Jesus Teixeira Oliveira
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
11/2013
Análise Tecno-Económica
de Redes de Acesso
12/2013
Óticas
Somayeh
Ziaie
Telmo Filipe
Pedrosa
Cavaco
MB-OFDM metropolitan
networks employing
electro-absorption
modulators
End
Date
Study of a scheme of
multiple access in OFDM11/2013
based next generation
optical access networks
Pedro Renato Miguel Alves
Tavares Pinho Henriques
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Title
Ricardo
Ferreira
Figueira
Marco Ribeiro
Fibras Óticas de Plástico
12/2013
em Redes de Acesso
Mário José Neves
de Lima
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira,Rui
Fernando Gomes
de Sousa Ribeiro
12/2013
Módulo para investigação
e ensino de sistemas de 12/2013
comunicações digitais
Optimization algorithms
Amaro Fernandes
applied to Optical
de Sousa
Transport Networks
12/2013
Otimização do Processo
de Comutação em Redes 12/2013
de Transporte
Miguel Duarte
Henriques
Ana Martins
GPON sobre WDM-PON.
João Manuel
Ferreira Pedro
Traffic Grooming and
Routing and Wavelength
4/2014
Assignment in etropolitan
Transport Networks
167
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Optimization of the
degradation induced by
Luis Miguel
Tiago Manuel
the MZM and PIN
Machado
5/2014
Ferreira Alves
nonlinear effects in MBMendes
OFDM metropolitan
networks
Luis Miguel
All-optical Processing
Antonio Luis
Lima de
Giorgia Parca
based on integrated
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira
Almeida
optics
Contextos de
Antonio Luis
Bruna
Mário José Neves convergência em redes
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira Paredes
de Lima
de Acesso de Nova
geração
Photonic integrated
Antonio Luis
Francisco
Mário José Neves
tunable transceiver for
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira Rodrigues
de Lima
NGPON2
Antonio Luis
Mário José Neves Redes de acesso TWDM
Susana Bento
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira
de Lima
(NGPON2)
Antonio Luis
Mário José Neves Software defined access
José Maricato
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira
de Lima
networks
Antonio Luis
Mário José Neves Tuning mechanisms in
Sérgio Coelho
6/2014
Jesus Teixeira
de Lima
Impact of in-band
Bruno Rafael Luís Gonçalo Lecoq crosstalk on the
João Lopes
Pereira
Vences e Costa
9/2014
performance of PDMRebola
Pinheiro
Cancela
QPSK optical
communication systems
Network planning and
cost analysis for optical
João José de
Marisa
João Miguel Lopes
transport networks with 10/2014
Oliveira Pires Loureiro
dos Santos
different switching
solutions
On the performance of
Luís Gonçalo
16-QAM optical signals in
Lecoq Vences e Hélio Simeão João Lopes Rebola
10/2014
ROADMs based optical
Costa Cancela
networks
Planning Optical
João José de
João Miguel Lopes Transport Networks with
Mariana Silva
10/2014
Oliveira Pires
dos Santos
Multiple Survivability
Requirements
Jorge Manuel Verónica Frias
Photodetectors for 50
11/2014
Torres Pereira de Matos
GHz Optical Receivers
Pedro Renato Luís Monteiro
Arquitetura WDM-PON
12/2014
Tavares Pinho de Brito
com geração centralizada
Adolfo da
Assessment of
João Adriano
Visitação
mprovement of extension
Ramalho
12/2014
Tregeira
of reach of 10 Gbit/s
Mourato
Cartaxo
PONs by using APDs
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
168
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Jorge Eduardo
Tiago Manuel
Ribeiro da
Ferreira Alves
Costa Lima
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Pompeu
Areias Vale
Santos
Armando
Humberto
Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Armando
Humberto
Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Daniel Hugo
Gonçalves
Martins
Sofia
Madalena
Figueiredo
Rodrigues
João Pedro
Gonçalves
Frazão do
Rosário
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Miguel Sousa Tiago Manuel
Pereira
Ferreira Alves
Élio Tiago
Sousa Coelho
Limitations of inter-ring
OFDM-band transfer
imposed by laser phase
noise
networks with
concatenation of optical
add-drop multiplexers
Optical Fronthauls for
Cloud Radio Access
Networks
Rafael Santos
Costa
Hugo Miguel
Moreira de
Almeida
Experimental
demonstration of 10
Gbit/s fibre-to-the-home
12/2014
network downstream
transmission employing
an electro-absorption
modulator
Impact of crosstalk
induced by finite isolation
of optical switches on
12/2014
networks performance
IPTV Deliverer over
MPLS-TP
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Rui Fernando
Gomes de Sousa
Ribeiro
End
Date
Title
12/2014
12/2014
12/2014
12/2014
Performance limitations
of 40 Gb/s SSB MB-OFDM
metropolitan networks
12/2014
induced by phase-tointensity conversion of
laser phase noise
Planeamento de Redes de
Transporte de dados para
12/2014
o SKA (Square Kilometre
Array)
Redes Óticas de Nova
Geração
12/2014
Table 15 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2013
169
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Perfect sequences for
optical and mobile
1/2013
communication systems
with CDMA
Adolfo da
Nelson
Optical fibre
Visitação
Manuel
Daniel Diogo
telecommunication
4/2013
Tregeira
Simões da
Trindade Fonseca systems with multi-symbol
Cartaxo
Costa
phase modulation
Arquitecturas de redes de
acesso de banda larga
Maria do
Ricardo Pedro
para redes rádio sobre
Carmo Raposo Custodinho da
6/2013
fibra baseadas em técnicas
de Medeiros Avó
de multiplexagem de
comprimento de onda
Components and
Rogério Nunes Carlos
techniques for high
9/2013
Nogueira
Marques
capacity optical
communications
Armando
Nuno
Humberto
Quantum Cryptography in
Alexandre
12/2013
Moreira
Optical Fibers
Peixoto Silva
Nolasco Pinto
Técnicas de monitorização
Paulo Sérgio
Rogério Nunes
Ana Pratas
em redes ópticas da
12/2013
de Brito André
Nogueira
próxima geração
Paulo
Radio Over Fibre Systems
Henrique José Alexandre
with Support for Fixed and 2/2014
Almeida Silva Ferreirinha de
Mobile services
Almeida
Advanced optical
Antonio Luis Rogério
Rogério Nunes
generation and
3/2014
Jesus Teixeira Dionísio
Nogueira
regeneration
Antonio Luis
Paulo Sérgio de
All-optical routing
Claudia Reis
3/2014
Jesus Teixeira
Brito André
funcionalities
Mário José Neves
Antonio Luis Adballa
Next generation optical
de Lima
3/2014
Jesus Teixeira Abdelgader
converged networks
Henrique José João da Silva
Almeida Silva Pereira
Manuel
Alberto Reis
de Oliveira
Violas
Zhansheng
Liu
Nuno Miguel
Research on Nonlinearities
Gonçalves Borges
4/2014
in Radio over Fiber
de Carvalho
Paulo Miguel
Henrique José Filipe Marques
Nepomuceno
Almeida Silva Ferreira
Pereira Monteiro
High Capacity Optical
based on Mode Group
Diversity Multiplexing
6/2014
170
Supervisor
Student
Armando
João Carlos
Humberto
de Melo
Moreira
Ferreira
Nolasco Pinto
João José de
João Santos
Oliveira Pires
Mário José
Neves de
Lima
Vitor Ribeiro
Armando
Fernando
Humberto
Pedro Pereira
Moreira
Guiomar
Nolasco Pinto
Antonio Luis
Zoran Vijicij
Jesus Teixeira
Maria de
Paulo Sérgio Fátima
de Brito André Fonseca
Domingues
Antonio Luis
Ali Shahpari
Jesus Teixeira
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Co- Supervisors
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira Monteiro
,Daniel Fonseca
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira Monteiro
End
Date
Transient Effects in Optical
6/2014
Networks
Design of Optical Transport
Networks for Ethernet
8/2014
Traffic
All-optical network
resources in the scope of
Antonio Luis Jesus impairment aware based
9/2014
Teixeira
routing for the next
generation optical
networks
Digital Post-Compensation
in High-Speed Optical
12/2014
emiters and receivers for
next generation access
12/2014
optical networks
Estudo da degradação do
tempo de vida das fibras
ópticas e o seu impacte no 12/2014
desempenho das redes de
comunicações
Next generation dense
Mário José Neves
12/2014
de Lima
Natasa Pavlovic
Filipe Manuel
Wiener Ferro
de Carvalho
Armando
Humberto
Rui Manuel
Moreira
Dias Morais
Nolasco Pinto
Title
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira Monteiro
,João Manuel
Ferreira Pedro
OFDM-based next
generation converged
optical-wireless access
networks
12/2014
Optical Networks
Optimization
12/2014
Armando
Quality of Signal in
Humberto
Sudhir Kumar José Rodrigues
Transparent Optical
Moreira
Routray
Ferreira da Rocha Networks
Nolasco Pinto
Active and Passive AllOptical Signal Processing
Rogério Nunes Andre
Miguel Vidal
Devices for Efficient
Nogueira
Albuquerque Drummond
Optical Communication
Systems
12/2014
1/2015
171
Supervisor
Student
Paula Raquel
Viegas dos
Vitor Lopes
Santos Nunes
Laurêncio
Rogério Nunes
Hugo Lima
Nogueira
Rogério Nunes Ricardo
Nogueira
Oliveira
Telmo
Rogério Nunes
Pelicano
Nogueira
Almeida
Armando
Álvaro José
Humberto
Caseiro de
Moreira
Almeida
Nolasco Pinto
Rogério Nunes Vanessa
Nogueira
Duarte
Adolfo da
Pedro
Visitação
Emanuel
Tregeira
Domingos da
Cartaxo
Cruz
Armando
Gil Gonçalo
Humberto
Martins
Moreira
Fernandes
Nolasco Pinto
António
João José de
Miguel Barata
Oliveira Pires
da Eira
Co- Supervisors
Maria do Carmo
Raposo de
Medeiros
Title
End
Date
Sistemas de Banda Larga
em Rádio sobre Fibra
1/2015
Advanced Fiber Sensors
6/2015
Novel techniques and
Lúcia Maria Botas devices for optical
Bilro
communications and
sensing technologies.
Multimode optical
Paulo Sérgio de
components for the next
Brito André
generation of optical
communications
11/2015
12/2015
Paulo Sérgio de
Brito André
Quantum Communications
12/2015
in Optical Fibers
Miguel Vidal
Drummond
Microwave Photonics
11/2016
Signal Processing Devices
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Nonlinear Crosstalk in MBOFDM Metropolitan Optical 12/2016
Networks
Nelson de Jesus
Cordeiro Muga
Optical Signal Processing
Based on Optical
Microfibers
João Manuel
Ferreira Pedro
Lúcia Maria
Botas Bilro
Filipa R. C.
Sequeira
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Armando
Humberto
Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
Sofia Batalha
de Oliveira
Pascoal
Amado
Nélia Jordão
Alberto
Rogério Nunes
Daniel André
Nogueira,Lúcia
Pires Duarte
Maria Botas Bilro
12/2016
Optimization of flexiblegrid optical transport
12/2016
networks
Advanced Fiber Optics
Sensors for Water Quality 1/2017
Assessment
Digital Signal Processing in
High-Speed Optical
11/2017
Novel techniques and
devices for optical
12/2017
plasmonic communications
and sensing applications
Table 16 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2013
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4.2.6
Publications
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Book Chapters
- Lopes, V. Lopes; D. Bento Bento; P. Laurêncio; M. C. R. Medeiros; " Optical
Strategies for Generating and Transmitting Signals in OFDM-RoF Systems " Chapter in Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things , Springer , Springer,
2013 .
- Mustafa, S.; " The MAC Poisson Channel: Capacity and Optimal Power Allocation "
- Chapter in IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies, Lecture Notes in
Electrical Engineering , Haeng Kon Kim, Sio-Iong Ao and Burghard B. Rieger ,
Springer, 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Effects of Losses and Nonlinearities on the Generation
of Polarization Entangled Photons ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 31 ,
No. 8 , pp. 1309 - 1317 , April , 2013 .
- Pohl, A.; R.A. Oliveira; R. Ezequiel Silva; C.A.F. Marques; P.T. Neves; K. Cook; J.
Canning; R.N. Nogueira; " Advances and new applications using the acousto-optic
effect in optical fibers - review paper ", Photonic Sensors , Vol. 3 , No. 1 , pp. 1 25 , March , 2013 .
- Perin, J. P. K. Perin; M. Ribeiro; A. Cartaxo; " Comments on “Large-signal theory
of the effect of dispersive propagation on the intensity modulation response of
semiconductor lasers ", Journal of Lightwave Technology , Vol. 31 , No. 8 , pp.
1337 - 1339 , April , 2013 .
- Torres , J.; V. Machado; " Coupling Analysis in Concentric Ring Waveguides ",
IEEE Journal of Llightwave Technology , Vol. 31 , No. 13 , pp. 2140 - 2145 , July ,
2013 .
173
- Alves , T. M. F.; M. Morant; A. Cartaxo; R. Llorente; " Design of directly
modulated long-reach PONs reaching 125 km for provisioning of hybrid wiredwireless
quintuple-play
service
",
Journal
of
Optical
Communications
and
Networking , Vol. 5 , No. 8 , pp. 848 - 857 , August , 2013 .
- Ferreira, F. M.; D.F. Fonseca; H. A. Silva; " Design of Few-Mode Fibers with
Arbitrary and Flattened Differential Mode Delay ", IEEE Photonics Technology
Letters , Vol. 25 , No. 5 , pp. 438 - 441 , March , 2013 .
- Guiomar, F. P.; J.D. Reis; A. Carena Carena; G. B. Bosco; A. Teixeira; A. N. Pinto;
" Experimental demonstration of a frequency-domain Volterra series nonlinear
equalizer in polarization-multiplexed transmission ", Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 1
, pp. 276 - 288 , January , 2013 .
- Torres , J.; " Frequency Response Optimization of Dual Depletion InGaAS/InP Pin
Photodiodes ", International Journal of Electrical Engineering , July , 2013 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; " Impact of the Modulation Chirp of a DEMZM on the
Transmission of Signals Based on OFDM ", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , Vol.
25 , No. 3 , pp. 283 - 286 , February , 2013 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; " Investigation of wired and wireless services based on
OFDM DSB-RC transmission in the presence of modulation chirp of a DEMZM ",
Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 25 , pp. 30764 - 30777 , December , 2013 .
- Lobato, A.; F. M. Ferreira; B. Inan; A. Adhikari ; M. Kuschnerov; " MaximumLikelihood Detection in Few-Mode Fiber Transmission with Mode-Dependent Loss ",
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , Vol. 25 , No. 12 , pp. 1095 - 1098 , June ,
2013 .
- Liu, Z.; M. Violas; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Modeling and Simulation of a Reflective
Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Modulator Using X-Parameters® ", IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters , Vol. 25 , No. 3 , pp. 272 - 274 , February , 2013 .
174
- Alves , T. M. F.; R. S. Sambaraju; A. Cartaxo; A. G. Ngoma; " OFDM-WDM LRPON with ultra-bendable fiber for last-mile distribution of quintuple-play service ",
Chinese Optics Letters , Vol. 11 , No. 3 , pp. 030606-1 - 030606-6 , March , 2013 .
- Cancela, L. G. C.; J. J. O. Pires; " On the Behaviour of Eigenfunctions and
Eigenvectors in the Performance Analysis of Optical Direct Detection DPSK
Receivers with Optical Amplification ", Journal of Optical Comm. , Vol. 34 , No. 3 ,
pp. 145 - 154 , September , 2013 .
- Shahpari, A.; G. Parca; V. Carrozzo; G. Beleffi ; A. Teixeira; " Optical wireless
transmission at 1.6-Tbit∕s (16 × 100 Gbit∕s) for next-generation convergent urban
infrastructures ", Optical Engineering , Vol. 52 , No. 11 , pp. 116102-1 - 116102-5 ,
November , 2013 .
- Sousa, A.; C.A.F. Marques; R.N. Nogueira; P.S André; " OSNR MONITORING
USING FIBER BRAGG GRATING IN HIGH BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL FIBERS ",
Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 55 , No. 1 , pp. 6 - 8 , January , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Performance comparison of power fading mitigation
techniques in multiband OFDM-UWB signals transmission along LR-PONs ", Chinese
Optics Letters , Vol. 11 , No. 8 , pp. 080602-1 - 080602-6 , August , 2013 .
- Perin, J. P. K. Perin; M. Ribeiro; A. Cartaxo; " Polynomial-time complexity largesignal model for DML-based OOFDM transmission systems ", IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters , Vol. 25 , No. 24 , pp. 2393 - 2396 , December , 2013 .
- Ferreira, F. M.; D.F. Fonseca; A. Lobato; B. Inan; H. A. Silva; " Reach
Improvement of Mode Division Multiplexed Systems using Fiber Splices ", IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters , Vol. 25 , No. 12 , pp. 1091 - 1094 , June , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; M. Morant; A. Cartaxo; R. Llorente; P. C. Cluzeaud; R. S.
Sambaraju; " Real-time ultra-wideband video streaming in long-reach passive
optical networks with wireless radiation in the 10 and 60 GHz Bands ", Chinese
Optics Letters , Vol. 11 , No. 10 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2013 .
175
- Guiomar, F. P.; A. N. Pinto; " Simplified Volterra Series Nonlinear Equalizer for
Polarization-Multiplexed
Coherent
Optical
Systems
",
IEEE/OSA
Journal
of
Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 31 , No. 13 , pp. 3879 - 3891 , December , 2013 .
- Carvalho, F. C.; A. Cartaxo; " Study on Electrical Power Distribution Among
Coexisting OFDM-Based Wired-Wireless Signals Along Long-Reach Passive Optical
Networks ", Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 5 , No. 7 , pp.
813 - 824 , July , 2013 .
- Fernandes, G.; A. J. Almeida; M. Niehus; A. N. Pinto; " Theoretical Analysis of
Multimodal Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Microwires ", IEEE/OSA Journal of
Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 31 , No. 2 , pp. 195 - 202 , January , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Transmission of OFDM-UWB radio signals in IM–DD
optical fiber communication systems employing optimized dual parallel Mach–
Zehnder modulators ", Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 5 ,
No. 2 , pp. 159 - 171 , February , 2013 .
- Marques, C.A.F.; R.A. Oliveira; A. Pohl; R.N. Nogueira; " Tunability of the FBG
group delay through acousto-optic modulation ", Optical Fiber Technology , Vol. 19
, No. 2 , pp. 121 - 125 , March , 2013 .
- Pinto, A. N.; N. A. Silva; A. J. Almeida; N. J. Muga; " Using Quantum Technologies
to Improve Fiber Optic Communication Systems ", IEEE Communications Magazine ,
Vol. 8 , No. 51 , pp. 42 - 48 , August , 2013 .
- Liu, Z.; M. Violas; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Wideband Dynamic Behavioral Modeling of
Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Using a Tapped-Delay Multilayer
Perceptron ", Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 3 , pp. 3354 - 3362 , February , 2013 .
- Carvalho, F. C.; P. Cruz; A. Cartaxo; " Impact of electrical power distribution
optimization
of
coexisting
OFDM-based
signals
in
converged
dispersion-
176
compensated LR-PON ", Proc IEEE Photonics Conf. - IPC , Bellevue , United States ,
Vol. WG4.2 , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2013 .
- Zhang, K.; M. Tomlinson; M. Z. Ahmed Ahmed; " A Modified McEliece Public Key
Encryption System with a Higher Security Level ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Information Science and Technology , Yangzhou , China , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , March ,
2013 .
- Duarte , Vanessa C. Duarte; M. V. Drummond; R.N. Nogueira; " All-optical phase
modulated format conversion for high transmission rates based on fiber nonlinearity
", Proc 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on
Optics, Lasers, and Applications , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 87854 , pp. 87854M-1 87854M-6 , November , 2013 .
- Reis, J.D.; A. Shahpari; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; F. P. Guiomar; D. Neves; A. N.
Pinto; A. Teixeira; " Analysis of Transmission Impairments on Terabit Aggregate
PONs ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States ,
Vol. CD , pp. OM2A5 , March , 2013 .
- Cruz, P.; T. M. F. Alves ; F. C. Carvalho; A. Cartaxo; " Assessment of performance
improvement of DD-OFDM systems achieved by symbol precoding ", Proc IEEE
Photonics Conf. - IPC , Bellevue , United States , Vol. MG1.3 , pp. 119 - 120 ,
September , 2013 .
- Parca, G.; A. Shahpari; V. Carrozzo; G. Beleffi ; A. Teixeira; " Broadband free
space optical urban links for next generation infrastructures and services ", Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain ,
Vol. CD , pp. Tu.B3.2 , June , 2013 .
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Characterization of a fiber based heralded single photon
source at telecom wavelength ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto , Portugal , Vol.
8785 , pp. 8785F0-1 - 8785F0-5 , July , 2013 .
- Shahpari, A.; J.D. Reis; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; Z. Vujicic ; M. J. N. Lima; A.
Teixeira; " Coherent UDWDM–PON Guard Band for Legacy Video and 10G–NRZ
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Systems ", Proc Optoelectronics and Communications Conf. - OECC , Kyoto , Japan
, Vol. CD , pp. WP1-4, July , 2013 .
- Pinto, A. N.; " Communicating Using Single Photons ", Proc Conf. on
- Rapp, L. R.; N.P. Pavlovic; " CORRELATION BETWEEN AGING MARGIN AND
REPAIR MARGIN ", Proc SubOptic , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , April , 2013 .
- Bento, D. Bento; V. Lopes Lopes; P. Laurêncio; M. C. R. Medeiros; " Delivery of
broadband 60 GHz signals over FTTH networks ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON, Cartagena , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4, June , 2013 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; " Driving a DEMZM to Generate Wired and Wireless
OFDM Services in Hybrid Long-reach Optical Access Networks ", Proc International
Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Ferreira, J.; D.F. Fonseca; P. Monteiro; A. N. Pinto; L. R. Rapp; " Dynamics of
SHB and SDP on 9XX EDFAs: Dependence on spectral allocation of input channels ",
Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena ,
Spain , Vol. Th.A2.3 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2013 .
- Pavlovic, N.P.; L. R. Rapp; " EFFICIENCY OF ROPA AMPLIFICATION FOR
DIFFERENT ", Proc SubOptic , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , April , 2013 .
- Ferreira, J.; D.F. Fonseca; P. Monteiro; A. N. Pinto; " Efficient Algorithm for
Designing Broadband Raman Fiber Amplifiers ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2013 .
- Vujicic , Z.; N.P. Pavlovic; A. Shahpari; A. Teixeira; " Efficient Dynamic Wideband
Model for Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber
Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , Vol. , pp. JW2A.34 , March ,
2013 .
178
- Pinto, A. N.; B. Amado; N. J. Muga; F. P. Guiomar; " Equalization of Fiber
Impairments Using High-Speed Digital Signal Processing ", Proc International Conf.
on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Experimental assessment of the performance of
bidirectional OFDM-based wireless-wired services in next-generation LR-PONs ",
Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena ,
Spain , June , 2013 .
- Cruz, P.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Experimental demonstration of PAPR
reduction in 10 Gbit/s SSB-OFDM direct-detection systems through symbol
precoding ", Proc International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conf. - IMOC , Rio
de Janeiro , Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Experimental distribution of OFDM-UWB radio
signals along directly modulated long-reach PONs indicated for sparse geographical
areas ", Proc ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems OPTICS , Reykjavik , Iceland , July , 2013 .
- Parca, G.; A. Shahpari; V. Carrozzo; G. Beleffi ; A. Teixeira; " FSO for broadband
multi service delivery in future networks ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on
Optical Wireless Communications - IWOW , Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom
, Vol. CD , pp. PP15 - pp19 , October , 2013 .
- da Silva, A.R. P. S; M. V. Drummond; R. F. S. Ribeiro; P. Monteiro; " Impact and
compensation techniques of laser phase noise in ultra-dense coherent access
networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON ,
Cartagena , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Marques, A. L.; M. V. Drummond; R. F. S. Ribeiro; P. Monteiro; " Impact of
different impairments in the Schmidl and Cox Frame Detection algorithm ", Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Shahpari, A.; S. Ziaie ; J.D. Reis; Z. Vujicic ; M. J. N. Lima; A. Teixeira; " Impact
of Splitter Configuration Strategies on Power Consumption in PON ", Proc
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Optoelectronics and Communications Conf. - OECC , Kyoto , Japan , Vol. CD , pp.
TuPP-5 , July , 2013 .
- Marques, C.A.F.; L. Bilro; D. J. Webb; R.N. Nogueira; " Inscription of narrow
bandwidth Bragg gratings in polymer optical fibers ", Proc European Workshop on
Optical Fibre Sensors , Krakow , Poland , Vol. Procedings , pp. 8794-120 - , May ,
2013 .
- Lobato, A.; F. M. Ferreira; J. Rabe; M. Kuschnerov; B. Spinnler; B. Lankl; " Mode
Scramblers
and
Reduced-Search
Dependent-Loss-Impaired
Maximum-Likelihood
Transmission
",
Proc
Detection
European
Conf.
for
Mode-
on
Optical
Communications - ECOC , London , United Kingdom , Vol. Th.2.C.3 , September ,
2013 .
- Lobato, A.; F. M. Ferreira; J. Rabe; B. Inan; A. Adhikari ; M. Kuschnerov; " ModeDependent-Loss Mitigation for Mode-Division Multiplexed Systems ", Proc OSA
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications - SPPCom , Rio Grande , Puerto Rico
, pp. 1 - 3 , July , 2013 .
- Shahpari, A.; J.D. Reis; S. Ziaie ; M. J. N. Lima; A. N. Pinto; A. Teixeira; " Multi
system Next-Generation PONs impact on Video Overlay ", Proc European Conf. on
Optical Communications - ECOC , London , United Kingdom , Vol. CD , pp. Tu.3.F.3
, September , 2013 .
- Pavlovic, N.P.; R.N. Nogueira; " On the Pulse Shape Performance of CP-QPSK
Signal with Optimum Pre-Compensation in Submarine Systems ", Proc OSA Optical
Fiber Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. NM2E.3 NM2E.3 , March , 2013 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; " On-Light: Optical Social Network ", Proc SPIE Education and
Training in Optics and Photonics - ETOP , Porto , Portugal , July , 2013 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; " On-Light: Optical Social Network ", Proc SPIE Education and
Training in Optics and Photonics - ETOP , Porto , Portugal , July , 2013 .
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- Llorente, R.; M. Morant; E. P. Pellicer; M. H. Herman; Z. N. Nagy; T. M. F. Alves ;
et. al.; " On-the-field demonstration of quintuple-play service provision in longreach OFDM-based WDM-PON access networks ", Proc European Conf. on Optical
Communications - ECOC , London , United Kingdom , Vol. We.4.F.1 , September ,
2013 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; " Optical Single Sideband Generation Optimized to
Support Multi-Services OFDM over Hybrid Long-Reach FTTH Networks ", Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain ,
June , 2013 .
- Teixeira, A.; J.D. Reis; " Optical transmission modeling by means of Volterra
series (Invited Paper) ", Proc SPIE Photonics West , San Francisco , United States ,
Vol. 8647 , pp. 8647-15 , February , 2013 .
- da Silva, A.R. P. S; M. V. Drummond; P. Monteiro; R. F. S. Ribeiro; " Performance
Comparison Among Different Carrier Phase Recovery Algorithms ", Proc Conf. on
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; " Performance Evaluation of Direct-Detection OFDM
Optical Receivers with RF Down-Conversion ", Proc IEEE Photonics Conf. - IPC ,
Bellevue , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2013 .
- Cruz, P.; A. Cartaxo; " Performance improvement of OFDM signals in EAM-based
communications through precoding ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 61 - 64 , May , 2013 .
- Almeida, A. J.; L. M. Pinto; P.S André; A. N. Pinto; " Photon-Pair States and
Violation of CHSH Inequality ", Proc Conf. on Quantum Cryptography - QCRYPT ,
Waterloo , Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , August , 2013 .
- Supe, A.; G. Fernandes; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; M. Ferreira; " Pump and Filtering
Optimization in Mamyshev Regenerator ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 8785 , pp. 8785CI - 8785CI-6 , July , 2013 .
181
- Llorente, R.; M. Morant; E. P. Pellicer; M. H. Herman; Z. N. Nagy; J. H. Herrera; J.
C. Correcher; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; et. al.; " Radio-over-fiber quintuple-play
service provision for deep fiber-to-the-home passive networks ", Proc IEEE
- Guiomar, F. P.; B. Amado; N. J. Muga; J.D. Reis; A. Teixeira; A. N. Pinto; "
Simplified Volterra Series Nonlinear Equalizer by Intra-Channel Cross-Phase
Modulation Oriented Pruning ", Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications ECOC , London , United Kingdom , pp. We.3.C.6 - , September , 2013 .
- Shahpari, A.; J.D. Reis; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; D. Neves; M. J. N. Lima; A.
Teixeira; " Terabit+ (192 x 10 Gb/s) Nyquist Shaped UDWDM Coherent PON with
Upstream and Downstream over a 12.8 nm Band ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber
Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , Vol. CD , pp. PDP5B.3, March ,
2013 .
- Pavlovic, N.P.; R.N. Nogueira; " TOWARD LOW-COST HIGH-SPEED SUBMARINE
TRANSMISSION UPGRADES ", Proc SubOptic , Paris , France , April , 2013 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; M. C. R. Medeiros; " Transmission of LTE Signals for
Femtocells over Long-reach FTTH networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 277 - 280 , May , 2013 .
- Teixeira, A.; G. Parca; A. Shahpari; J.D. Reis; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; A.
Mahmoud ; M. J. N. Lima; G. Beleffi ; V. Carrozzo; " Ultra High Capacity PON
Systems ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Cartagena ,
Spain , Vol. 15 , June , 2013 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; M. Morant; A. Cartaxo; R. Llorente; " Wired-wireless services
provision in FSAN NG-PON2 compliant long-reach PONs: performance analysis ",
Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , March ,
2013 .
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OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND SUB-SYSTEMS
Books
- André, P.S; H Varum; (eds.); ACCELEROMETERS PRINCIPLES, STRUCTURE AND
APPLICATIONS, Nova Publisher , New york , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Nogueira, R.N. ; L. Bilro; N. Alberto; H. Lima; J. L. Pinto; " Optical Fiber Sensors "
- Chapter in Optical, Acoustic, Magnetic, and Mechanical Sensor Technologies ,
Krzysztof Iniewski , CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 .
- Nogueira, R.N. ; L. Bilro; N. Alberto; H. Lima; J. L. Pinto; " Optical Fiber Sensors:
Devices and Techniques " - Chapter in in Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications ,
Krzysztof Iniewski , CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Marques, C.A.F.; L. Bilro; L. Khan; R.A. Oliveira; D. J. Webb; R.N. Nogueira; "
Acousto-Optic Effect in Microstructured Polymer Fiber Bragg Gratings: Simulation
and Experimental Overview ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 31 , No.
10 , pp. 1551 - 1558 , May , 2013 .
- Boogert, FJ; M.A.S. Martins; L. Bilro; S. Prats; R.N. Nogueira; J. J. Keizer; "
Assessing the potential of a newly-developed turbidity sensor for estimating
sediment yields from recently burnt catchments ", Flamma , Vol. 4 , No. 3 , pp. 139
- 141 , February , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, V. M. C.; M. J. N. Lima; A. Teixeira; " Comparison of optical performance
monitoring techniques using artificial neural networks ", Neural Computing and
Applications , Vol. NEW APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN
MODELING & CONTROL , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , April , 2013 .
183
- Muga, N. J.; A. N. Pinto; " Digital PDL Compensation in 3D Stokes Space ",
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 31 , No. 13 , pp. 2122 - 2130 , July ,
2013 .
- Vujicic , Z.; R.P. Dionísio; A. Shahpari; N.P. Pavlovic; A. Teixeira; " Efficient
Dynamic Modeling of Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ", IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 1 , April , 2013 .
- Nolasco, M; d Vaz; M Freitas; P. P. Lima; P.S André; M.R. Ferreira; M Vaz; R
Claro; L. D. Carlos; " Engineering highly efficient Eu(III)-based tri-ureasil hybrids
toward luminescent solar concentrators ", Journal of Materials Chemistry , Vol.
2013 , No. 1 , pp. 7339 - 7350 , May , 2013 .
- Leitão, C. Leitão; L. Bilro; N. Alberto; P. Antunes; H. Lima; P.S André; R.N.
Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Feasibility studies of Bragg probe for non-invasive carotid
pulse waveform assessment ", Journal of Biomedical Optics , Vol. 18 , No. 1 , pp.
017006-1 - 017006-6 , January , 2013 .
- Marques, C.A.F.; L. Bilro; N. Alberto; D. J. Webb; R.N. Nogueira; " Narrow
Bandwidth Bragg Gratings Imprinted in Polymer Optical Fibers for Different Spectral
Windows ", Optics Communications , Vol. 307 , pp. 57 - 61 , October , 2013 .
- Albuquerque, A.; B. J. Puttnam; M. V. Drummond; A. Szabo; D. Mazroa; S.
Shinada; N. Wada; R.N. Nogueira; " Phase-sensitive amplification in a single bidirectional PPLN waveguide ", Optics Express , Vol. 21 , No. 19 , pp. 22063 - 22069
- Sá Ferreira, R. A.; C.A Brites; Vicente; P. P. Lima; A. Santos; P. Marques; M
Hiltunen; Carlos; P.S André; " Photonic-on-a-chip: a thermal actuated MachZehnder interferometer and a molecular thermometer based on a single di-ureasil
organic-inorganic hybrid ", Laser and Photonics Review , Vol. 7 , No. 6 , pp. 1 - 9 ,
October , 2013 .
184
- Lian, l; L Fu; P.S André; J Lin; " PMMA Coated BaF2:Er3+ Nanoparticles via a
Novel One-Step Reverse-Emulsion Polymerization Process ", BULLETIN OF THE
KOREAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY , Vol. 34 , No. 8 , pp. 2451 - 2454 , August , 2013 .
- Albuquerque, A.; B. J. Puttnam; M. V. Drummond; S. Shinada; N. Wada; R.N.
Nogueira; " PPLN Poling Design Based on a Discrete Layer Peeling Algorithm
Combined With a Deleted-Reversal Method ", Journal of Lightwave Technology ,
Vol. 31 , No. 23 , pp. 3892 - 3900 , December , 2013 .
- Ferreira, R. X. ; L. Bilro; S. Prats; J. J. Keizer; R.N. Nogueira; " Advanced Sensor
and Method to Measure Turbidity ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Muga, N. J.; A. N. Pinto; " Digital Signal Processing for Coherent Detection: a 3D
Stokes Space Based Approach ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Supe, A.; G. Fernandes; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; M. Ferreira; " Effective Nonlinear
Parameter Measurement using FWM in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber ", Proc OSA 3rd
Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications - WSOF 2013 , Sigtuna
, Sweden , pp. W3.27 , August , 2013 .
- Oliveira, R.; L. Bilro; C.A.F. Marques; R.N. Nogueira; " Effects of strain on the
sensitivity to temperature in a doped polymer optical fiber Bragg grating ", Proc
RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Supe, A.; G. Fernandes; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; M. Ferreira; " Experimental
characterization of a highly nonlinear fiber ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 8785 , pp. 87854D - 87854D-8 , July , 2013 .
- Tiburcio, B.; G. Fernandes; A. N. Pinto; " Extremely small-core photonic crystal
fiber fusion splicing with a single-mode fiber ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 8785 , pp. 8785FF - 8785FF-6 , July , 2013 .
185
- Torres, J. Torres; J. T. Pereira; " Modeling double depletion PIN photodiodes using
the Finite Element Method ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
- Muga, N. J.; G. Fernandes; A. N. Pinto; " Nonlinear Polarizers in Low-Birefringence
Optical Fibers ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 8785 , pp.
8785F4-1 - 8785F4-5 , July , 2013 .
- Novo, C.; L. Bilro; R. X. Ferreira; N. Alberto; P. Antunes; R.N. Nogueira; J. L.
Pinto; " Optical fibre monitoring of Madeira wine estufagem process ", Proc
RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto , Portugal , Vol. Proceedings SPIE , pp. 1 - 5 , June ,
2013 .
- Nogueira, R.N. ; L. Bilro; C.A.F. Marques; R. Oliveira; J. Heidarialamdarloo; "
Optical filtering in plastic optical fibers ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , Vol. Th B2.2 , pp. 1 - 4 , June ,
2013 .
- Novo, C.; L. Bilro; R. X. Ferreira; N. Alberto; P. Antunes; C. Leitão Leitão; R.N.
Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Plastic optical fibre sensor for quality control in food
industry ", Proc European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors , Warsaw , Poland ,
Vol. 8794 , pp. UNSP 879411 - UNSP 879411 , May , 2013 .
- Albuquerque, A.; B. J. Puttnam; M. V. Drummond; S. Shinada; R.N. Nogueira; N.
Wada; " Single-pump, tunable wavelength conversion of 8×12.5 Gsymbol/s QPSK
channels
in
a
quasi-rectangular
PPLN
",
Proc
European
Conf.
on
Optical
Communications - ECOC , London , United Kingdom , Vol. 39 , pp. P.2.10 - P.2.10 ,
September , 2013 .
- Albuquerque, A.; B. J. Puttnam; M. V. Drummond; S. Shinada; R.N. Nogueira; N.
Wada; " Single-pump, Tunable Wavelength Converter Based on PPLN Waveguides
Designed by the Layer Peeling ", Proc IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic
Network (PN) , Sapporo , Japan , Vol. 113 , pp. 19 - 24 , August , 2013 .
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- Muga, N. J.; F. P. Guiomar; A. N. Pinto; " Stokes Space Based Digital PolDemux
for Polarization Switched-QPSK Signals ", Proc Conf. on Lasers and Electro-optic CLEO , San Jose , United States , Vol. CM1G.4 , June , 2013 .
- Marques, C.A.F.; L. Bilro; R. X. Ferreira; A. Pohl; R.N. Nogueira; " Time Response
of Bragg Gratings in microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber ", Proc Internacional
Conf. on Plastic Optical Fibers - POF , Buzios - Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , Vol. Proc ,
pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2013 .
OPTICAL NETWORKING
Books
- Garcia, N. M. ; Architectures, Algorithms and Protocols for IP Optical Burst
Switching Networks , , Scholars Press , Saarbrücken, Germany , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Morais, R.M.; A. N. Pinto; " chapter 7, Topological Design Using Genetic
Algorithms, pp. 153-173, " - Chapter in Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks
Design: Advancing Techniques , Yousef S. Kavian and Z. Ghassemlooy, DOI:
10.4018/978-1-4666-3652-1, ISBN13: 9781466636521, ISBN10: 1466636521,
EISBN13: 9781466636538 , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference ,
Hershey, USA , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Morais, R.M.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; A. N. Pinto; " Impact of Node Architecture
in the Power Consumption and Footprint Requirements of Optical Transport
Networks ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 5 ,
No. 5 , pp. 421 - 436 , May , 2013 .
- Routray, S.; R. F. Rocha; R.M. Morais; A. N. Pinto; " Statistical Model for Link
Lengths
in
Optical
Transport
Networks
",
IEEE/OSA
Journal
of
Optical
Communications and Networking , Vol. 5 , No. 7 , pp. 762 - 773 , July , 2013 .
187
- Monteiro, P.; A. F. Sousa; M. P. Ribeiro; T. F. Trota; G. Sahin; " Algorithms in the
deployment of optical transport networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Networks – ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. Mo.B4.3 - Mo.B4.3 , June ,
2013 .
- Cancela, L. G. C.; J. L. Rebola; J. J. O. Pires; " Analytical Assessment of the
Impact of OOK Crosstalk Signals on a DPSK Direct Detection System ", Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Pato, S.; N.B Borges; J. M. Pedro; " Capacity prospects of future high density
metro-access networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks
- ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Eira, A.E.; J. M. Pedro; D.F. Fonseca; S. S. Spaelter; " Defragmentation of
Fixed/Flexible grid Optical Networks ", Proc Future Network and Mobile Summit ,
Lisbon , Portugal , pp. 1 - 10 , July , 2013 .
- Eira, A.E.; J. M. Pedro; J. J. O. Pires; D.F. Fonseca; S. S. Spaelter; "
Defragmentation-Based Capacity Enhancement for Fixed to Flexible-Grid Migration
Scenarios in DWDM Networks ", Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications ECOC , London , United Kingdom , pp. 1 - 3 , September , 2013 .
- Eira, A.E.; J. M. Pedro; J. J. O. Pires; " On the Impact of Optimized Guard-Band
Assignment for Superchannels in Flexible-Grid Optical Networks ", Proc OSA Optical
Fiber Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , pp. 1 - 3 , March , 2013 .
- Santos, J.; G. L. Lehmann; J. M. Pedro; " Optimized Brownfield Deployment of
100-GbE over Metro Networks using 4x25G and 10x10G Optical CFP Interfaces ",
Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , Anaheim , United States , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 3 , March , 2013 .
- Pedro, J. M.; A.E. Eira; J. J. O. Pires; " Performance Comparison of Optical
Channel Formats to Realize 400G Data Rates in Transport Networks under Dynamic
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Traffic ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON ,
Cartagena , Spain , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Teixeira, A.; A. Shahpari; J.D. Reis; M. J. N. Lima; " Spectral Management in
Flexible Multiwavelength PONs ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC ,
Anaheim , United States , Vol. CD , pp. JW2A09, March , 2013 .
- Pedro, J. M.; " Stochastic-based Framework for 3R Regenerator Placement in
DWDM Transport Networks under Dynamic Traffic ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013.
- Yahaya, C. Y.; M. L. Latiff; N. M. Garcia; " Study on the performance of slotted
and non-slotted Optical Burst Switching networks ", Proc IEEE International Conf.
on Photonics - ICP , Melaka , Malaysia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1-8 , October , 2013 .
- Morais, R.M.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; A. N. Pinto; " The cost Dependence
between the node architecture, the grooming scheme and the traffic pattern in
optical networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Pinto, A. N.; R.M. Morais; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; " Total Cost of Ownership
Comparison Between Single and Mixed Line Rate Networks ", Proc International
Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Cartagena , Spain , pp. 1 - 4 ,
June , 2013 .
4.2.7
Other Achievements
Prototypes
- Ferreira, Ricardo Ferreira; A. Shahpari; J.D. Reis; A. Teixeira; " Coherent Receiver
Analayzer ", 2 , December , 2013 .
Patents
- Rodrigues, C.Rodrigues; P. Mão-Cheia; F. P. Guiomar; A. N. Pinto; J.D. Reis; A.
Teixeira; " Método de Equalização Não-Linear do Canal Óptico no Domínio da
Frequência ", 105765 , September , 2013 .
189
Awards
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Best paper award ", Optics Conference 2013 , 0107-2013 .
Miscellaneous
- Laurêncio, P.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Radio over fiber broadband access networks
architectures based on wavelength division multiplexing techniques ", 01-06-2013.
4.2.8
Other Contributions
- IEEE International Conf. in Communications - IEEE ICC , Technical Programme
Committee, Maria do Carmo Raposo de Medeiros , 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Technical
Programme Committee, Maria do Carmo Raposo de Medeiros , 01-01-2013
- ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems - OPTICS, Scientific
Committee, Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences e Costa Cancela , 01-01-2013
- Future Network and Mobile Summit, Scientific Committee, Luís Gonçalo Lecoq
Vences e Costa Cancela , 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on 3D Converged IT and Optical Communications - 3DOC
2013, Scientific Committee, João Lopes Rebola, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Sessions Chairman
, Paulo Alexandre Ferreirinha de Almeida, 01-01-2013
- Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, Adolfo
da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2013
- ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems - OPTICS, Scientific
Committee, João Lopes Rebola, 01-01-2013
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- Mosharaka International Conf. on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
- M-WCMC, Technical Programme Committee, Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves , 01-012013
- ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems - OPTICS, Technical
Programme Committee, Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves , 01-01-2013
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 –NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA
4.3 Networks and Multimedia
4.3.1
Area Coordinators
• Mário Figueiredo
• Rui Valadas
4.3.2
Human Resources
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
0
1
5
Associate Professor
2
0
7
Assistant Professor
13
5
17
Post. Doc.
7
1
8
Coordinator Professor
1
1
1
Assistant Lecturer
0
1
0
PhD Student
16
3
25
MSc Student
1
0
0
(Licenciado)
7
0
0
47
12
63
TOTAL
Table 17 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2013
192
Position
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Degree
Name
Agregação
Abel João Padrão Gomes
PhD
Ana Gualdina Almeida
Matos
Ana Luisa Nobre Fred
Group
Network Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD
Alexandra Sofia Martins de Pattern and Image Analysis
Carvalho
– Lx
Agregação Amílcar dos Santos Costa
Security and Quantum
Sernadas
Information –Lx
PhD
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Networked Systems – Po
PhD
PhD
MSc
Post. Doc.
PhD
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Information –Lx
Pattern and Image Analysis
– Lx
Anders Lyhne Christensen Information Technology - Lx
André Filipe Torres Martins Pattern and Image Analysis
– Lx
André Nuno Carvalho
Souto
Information –Lx
Andreia Sofia da Costa
Teixeira
Information –Lx
Antonio Manuel Duarte
Telecommunications and
Nogueira
Networking – Av
Augusto José Venâncio
Neto
Networking – Av
Carla Calado Lopes
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Carlos Eduardo Ramos dos
Santos Lourenço
Information –Lx
Carlos Manuel Costa
Lourenço Caleiro
Information –Lx
Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro
Multimedia Signal
Brites
Processing – Lx
Daniel Cardoso de Moura
Daniel da Silva Graça
Information –Lx
Daowen Qiu
Information –Lx
Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes Telecommunications and
Networking – Av
Eduardo Oliveira
Estanqueiro Rocha
Networking – Av
Evariste Logota
Mobile Systems - Av
193
Position
Coordinator
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Fernando José Pimentel
Multimedia Signal
Lopes
Processing – Co
Agregação Fernando Manuel Bernardo
Multimedia Signal
Pereira
Processing – Lx
PhD
Fernando Manuel Santos
Multimedia Signal
Perdigão
Processing – Co
PhD
Francesco Renna
Information Theory – Po
PhD
Francisco Manuel Marques Network Architectures and
Fontes
Protocols – Av
PhD
Gabriel Falcão Paiva
Multimedia Signal
Fernandes
Processing – Co
PhD
Henrique José Monteiro
Multimedia Signal
Oliveira
Processing – Lx
PhD
Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Pattern and Image Analysis
Proença
– CV
PhD
João da Silva Pereira
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD
João Filipe Quintas dos
Santos Rasga
Information –Lx
PhD
João Francisco Cordeiro de Networked Systems – Po
Oliveira Barros
PhD
João Luís Costa Campos
Network Architecture and
Gonçalves Sobrinho
Protocols – Lx
PhD
Joao Miguel Duarte
Multimedia Signal
Ascenso
Processing – Lx
PhD
João Paulo Barraca
Networking – Av
PhD
João Pedro Afonso Oliveira Pattern and Image Analysis
da Silva
– Lx
PhD
Joaquim José de Castro
Embedded Systems – Av
Ferreira
PhD
Joel José Puga Coelho
Rodrigues
Protocols – Cv
PhD
José Alberto Gouveia
Fonseca
PhD
José Brázio
Protocols – Lx
Agregação José Manuel Bioucas Dias Pattern and Image Analysis
– Lx
PhD
José Manuel Peixoto do
Nascimento
– Lx
PhD
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD
Luís Eduardo de Pinho
Multimedia Signal
Ducla Soares
Processing – Lx
194
Position
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Degree
Name
Agregação
Luís Filipe Barbosa de
Almeida Alexandre
Group
– CV
PhD
Luis Filipe Fernandes Silva
Multimedia Signal
Marcelino
Processing – Lr
Agregação
Luís Henrique Martins
Borges de Almeida
– Lx
PhD
Luís Manuel Cerqueira
Barreto
Protocols – Av
PhD
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes Information Technology - Lx
PhD
Luis Miguel Pinho de
Almeida
PhD
Marco Alexandre Cravo
Multimedia Signal
Gomes
Processing – Co
Agregação
Maria Cristina de Sales
Viana Serôdio Sernadas
Information –Lx
PhD
Maria Manuela Areias da
Multimedia Signal
Costa Pereira de Sousa
Processing – Cv
PhD
Maria Paula Antunes
Abrantes Gouveia
Information –Lx
PhD
Maria Paula dos Santos
Multimedia Signal
Queluz Rodrigues
Processing – Lx
PhD
Maria Paula Prata de Sousa Network Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD
Mariana Sá Correia Leite Pattern and Image Analysis
de Almeida
– Lx
Agregação Mário Alexandre Teles de Pattern and Image Analysis
Figueiredo
– Lx
Agregação
Mario Marques Freire
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
PhD
Michel Celestino Paiva
Ferreira
PhD
Miguel Tavares Coimbra Interactive Multimedia - Po
PhD
PhD
PhD
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Coordinator
Professor
PhD
Nikola Paunkovic
Information –Lx
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos
Santos
Protocols – Cv
Nuno Miguel Morais
Multimedia Signal
Rodrigues
Processing – Lr
Óscar Narciso Mortágua
Pereira
Networking – Av
Paulo Alexandre Carapinha Pattern and Image Analysis
Marques
– Lx
195
Position
Associate
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Degree
Name
Agregação
Paulo Alexandre Carreira
Mateus
Paulo Alexandre Ferreira
Neto Alves Afonso
Paulo André Pais
Fazendeiro
PhD
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
PhD
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Full Professor
Agregação
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Agregação
PhD
Information –Lx
– CV
Paulo Bacelar Reis
Pedreiras
Paulo Jorge Lourenço
Multimedia Signal
Nunes
Processing – Lx
Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra Telecommunications and
Ferreira
Networking – Av
Paulo Luis Serras Lobato
Multimedia Signal
Correia
Processing – Lx
Pedro Alexandre Cardoso
Baltazar
Information –Lx
Pedro Alexandre Sousa
Gonçalves
Networking – Av
Pedro António Amado
Multimedia Signal
Assunção
Processing – Lr
Pedro Daniel Frazão
Multimedia Signal
Correia
Processing – Lr
Pedro Figueiredo Santana Information Technology - Lx
Pedro José Guerra de
Araújo
Pedro Miguel Alves
Brandão
Pedro Miguel Naia Neves
Pedro Ricardo Morais
Inácio
Ricardo Jorge Teixeira de
Sousa
Rui Jorge Morais Tomaz
Valadas
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Licenciatura Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
PhD
Group
Rui Manuel Rodrigues
Rocha
Rui Pedro de Magalhães
Claro Prior
Protocols – Cv
Protocols – Av
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Protocols – Lx
Networking – Av
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Protocols – Lx
196
Position
Group
Degree
Name
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Sancho Moura Oliveira
Information Technology - Lx
PhD
Sara Maria Fernandes Rato
e Costa Marques Candeias
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
Post. Doc.
PhD
Seil Jeon
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Sérgio Armindo Lopes
Crisóstomo
Networking – Av
Coordinator
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
PhD
Sérgio Marcelino
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Licenciado
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Susana Isabel Barreto de
Miranda Sargento
PhD
Tânia Cláudia dos Santos
Pinto Calçada
PhD
Tiago Travassos Vieira
Vinhoza
PhD
Tomás Gomes da Silva
Serpa Brandão
PhD
Valter Filipe Miranda
Castelão da Silva
Licenciatura
Vasco Lagarto
PhD
PhD
PhD
Vasco Nuno da Gama de
Jesus Soares
Verónica Costa Teixeira
Pinto Orvalho
Vitor Manuel Mendes Silva
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Information –Lx
Protocols – Av
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
Networking – Av
Networking – Av
Protocols – Cv
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
Table 18 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area in 2013
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Adriano Nunes Raposo
PhD Student
Alexandre Kimiyaki Ligo
Licenciado
Licenciatura Álvaro Henrique C. Gomes
Group
Protocols – Cv
197
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
André Amorim de Faria
Cardote
André Braga Reis
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Protocols – Av
Protocols – Av
André Lourenço
– Lx
André Manuel Longo Moreira Networked Systems – Po
André Zúquete
Protocols – Av
Andreia Filipa Torcato
Mordido
Information –Lx
Ângela Cristina Marques de
Oliveira
Angelo Miguel Pires Arrifano
PhD Student
Group
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Protocols – Lx
Antonio Carlos de Oliveira
Júnior
António Damião das Neves
Rodrigues
António Luís Morais Costa da Information Technology - Lx
Silva Lopes
Arlindo Oliveira da Veiga
Protocols – Cv
Artur Ferreira
– Lx
Bruno José Conchinha
Montalto
Information –Lx
Bruno Miguel Correia da
Silva
Protocols – Cv
Bruno Miguel Ferreira de
Oliveira
Carlos David Magalhães
Multimedia Signal
Queiroz
Processing – Cv
Carlos Jorge Santiago
Networking – Av
Carlos Manuel Ribeiro
Almeida
Protocols – Lx
Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Protocols – Av
Carlos Miguel Silva Couto
Pereira
Caroline Conti
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
198
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Catarina Alexandre Nunes
Runa Miranda
Chandrashekhar N. Padole
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
Daniel Cláudio Pereira
Daniel Enrique Lucani
Roetter
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Daniel Nunes Corujo
David Walter Figueira Jardim
PhD Student
Diogo João de Sousa Ferreira
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Diogo Resende Rainho
PhD Student
Elga Cristina Gato Correia
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Post. Doc.
Fabio de Lima Hedayioglu
Fernando António Carvalho
Marcos
Fernando Goulart da Silva
Filipe Cabral Pinto
PhD Student Licenciatura
Filipe Cruz Gomes Soares
PhD Student
MSc
Filipe dos Santos Neves
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Filipe Manuel Rodrigues
Casal
Frank Juergen Knaesel
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da
Silva
Gil Melfe Mateus Santos
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
Gonçalo Nuno Vinhas Leitão
MSc
Guilherme Ribeiro Corrêa
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
Hana Khamfroush
Helena Isabel Aidos Lopes
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Filipe Pereira da Silva
Reboredo
Group
– CV
Interactive Multimedia – Po
Networking – Av
Information Technology –
Lx
Networking – Av
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Protocols – Cv
Lx
Protocols – Av
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Protocols – Cv
Information –Lx
Protocols – Av
Protocols – Cv
Protocols – Cv
Protocols – Cv
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
– Lx
199
Position
Degree
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD
PhD
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Name
Group
Hugo Humberto Plácido da Pattern and Image Analysis
Silva
– Lx
Hugo Marcelo Fernandes da Networked Systems – Po
Conceição
Hugo Moreira de Sousa Pinto Networked Systems – Po
Isabel da Piedade Xavier
Machado Alexandre
Lx
Jaime Arsénio de Brito
Ramos
Information –Lx
Jan Gunnar Cederquist
Information –Lx
João Filipe Monteiro Carreira
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
João Guilherme Pereira
Rodrigues
João Manuel Barbosa de
Oliveira
Protocols – Lx
João Manuel Maia Duarte
Protocols – Lx
João Manuel Pires Leitão
Caldeira
Protocols – Cv
João Maria Duarte Andrade
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
João Monteiro Soares
Protocols – Av
João Paulo Cordeiro
Protocols – Cv
João Paulo Patriarca de
Almeida
Joaquim Manuel Pereira
Mateus
Protocols – Cv
Jorge Miguel Carvalho
Gomes
Lx
José Carlos G. P. Miranda
Protocols – Lx
José David Pereira Coutinho Pattern and Image Analysis
Gomes Antão
– Lx
José Francisco Monteiro
Morgado
Protocols – Cv
José Luís Pimentel Antunes Network Architecture and
do Vale Matos
Protocols – Lx
José Mário Figueiredo Serra Interactive Multimedia – Po
José Miguel de Carvalho
Catela Teixeira
Protocols – Lx
200
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Ke Zhang
PhD Student Licenciatura Lino Miguel Moreira Ferreira
PhD Student
Lucas Guardalben
PhD Student
Luís Alexandre Moreira
Matias
Full Professor Agregação Luis António Serralva Vieira
de Sá
PhD Student
MSc
Luis David Moreira Pedrosa
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Associate
Professor
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Protocols – Av
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
Protocols – Lx
Luís Filipe Nunes Quaresma Network Architecture and
de Oliveira
Protocols – Lx
Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Luís Filipe Silva Camacho
Information –Lx
Luís Miguel Barbosa da Costa Interactive Multimedia – Po
Leite
Luís Miguel Lopes de Oliveira Network Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho
Teixeira Botelho
Lx
Luis Miguel Ramos Barbara
Cunha Pinto
Licenciatura
Luís Miguel Silva
Networking – Av
MSc
Manuel Mota Ferreira
Protocols – Lx
Mara Elisa de Paiva
Fernandes Matias
Information –Lx
MSc
Márcio Daniel Tavares de
Melo
Protocols – Av
Maria Margarida Carreira
Pires Urbano
Maricica Nistor
MSc
Miguel Pereira dos Santos
Silva
Protocols – Lx
PhD
Miguel Raul Dias Rodrigues
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student Licenciatura
PhD Student
Group
Miguel Sousa Borges de
Almeida
Milton Armando Cunguara
– Lx
201
Position
Degree
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciado
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Licenciado
Post. Doc.
Name
Munnujahan Ara
PhD
Group
Nelson Carreira Francisco
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
MSc
Nelson Filipe Capela
Protocols – Av
MSc
Nuno Alexandre Tavares
Coutinho
Protocols – Av
Nuno Gonçalo Coelho Costa Network Architectures and
Pombo
Protocols – Cv
Nuno Miguel Monteiro
Barbosa
Orlando Ricardo Esteves
Pereira
Protocols – Cv
PhD
Paul Andrew Crocker
Protocols – Cv
MSc
Paulo Alexandre Correia da Network Architectures and
Silva Neves
Protocols – Cv
MSc
Paulo Jorge Ferreira Baptista Network Architectures and
Pinheiro Cordeiro
Protocols – Cv
Licenciatura
Paulo Paiva Monteiro
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
MSc
Paulo Roberto Almeida
Moreira Costa
Protocols – Lx
MSc
Pawel Andruszkiewicz
Protocols – Cv
MSc
Pedro Capão
MSc
Pedro Emanuel Rodrigues
Gomes
MSc
Pedro José Gonçalves Ribeiro
Information –Lx
PhD
Pedro Miguel dos Santos
Alves Madeira Adão
Information –Lx
Pedro Miguel Salgueiro dos
Santos
Pedro Miranda de Andrade
de Albuquerque dÓrey
MSc
Pedro Tavares Barata Bastos Interactive Multimedia – Po
Pedro Tiago Magalhães
Gomes
MSc
Ricardo Azevedo Guerra
Pereira
Protocols – Av
PhD
Ricardo da Costa Branco
Ribeiro Matias
– Lx
202
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Licenciado
MSc
Ricardo João Rodrigues
Gonçalves
Ricardo Jorge Alves Cordeiro
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD Student
MSc
Ricardo Jorge Fernandes
Ricardo Jorge Gamelas de
Sousa
Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de
Matos
Ricardo Roberto Duarte
Marau
Romeu Rabaça Monteiro
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Costa Cardoso
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD
Rui Filipe Mendes Alves da
Costa
Rui Jorge Henriques Calado
Lopes
Rui Manuel Pacheco Meireles
Rui Pedro Quaresma Braz
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
PhD Student
Group
Information –Lx
Networking – Av
Protocols – Av
Protocols – Av
Protocols – Cv
Protocols – Lx
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Sérgio Duarte Correia
Protocols – Cv
Sérgio Emanuel Duarte Dias Network Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Sílvio Brás Filipe
– CV
Susana Pereira Bulas Cruz
Sylvain Tony Marcelino
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Teresa de Jesus Baptista
Vieira
Thaísa Leal da Silva
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
Tiago Silvestre Condeixa
Protocols – Av
Victor Manuel Letra Macedo Network Architectures and
Marques
Protocols – Av
Vinay Uday Prabhu
Vitor Simões Ribeiro
Xiangrong Zeng
Networking – Av
– Lx
203
Position
Degree
Name
PhD Student
MSc
Xiem HoangVan
PhD Student
PhD Student
Ye Can
Zahid Iqbal
Group
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
Table 19 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia Area in
2013
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4.3.3
4.3.3.1
Contributing groups
•
•
Information Tecnology – Lx
•
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
•
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
•
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
•
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
•
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
•
Security and Quantum Information – Lx
4.3.3.2
Scope and Objectives
The general medium term research direction in IT-Networks and
Multimedia will aim at several goals:
• A global network integrating multiple technologies and services,
providing end-to-end quality of service (QoS), ubiquitous access,
and security. The common denominator of such heterogeneous
global network will almost surely be the Internet Protocol (IP).
• New ways of storing/communicating, retrieving/accessing,
processing, and presenting large volumes of multimedia data text, still images, video, and audio.
The area of Networks and Multimedia includes 74 researchers with a
PhD degree, and more than 130 PhD students and other collaborators.
The research in this scientific area is organized in groups, with their
main future research goals and topics of expertise are listed below.
4.3.3.3
Networks
Vehicular networks
Multi-hop message forwarding based on geographic coordinates is a
fundamental building block for vehicular communication. However, the
unstable links and wide range of node densities make it challenging to
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design an algorithm suitable for vehicular use. We introduced DAZL, a
new forwarding protocol that combines three concepts in a novel way.
First, multiple nodes cooperate in packet forwarding. Compared with
traditional single relay schemes, this provides robustness against changes
in topology and packet delivery rates. Second, network layer slotting is
used to control duplication and contention in high density scenarios.
Third, a
distributed prioritization algorithm is used to opportunistically
maximize hop length. Through both experiments and simulations, we
show that DAZL provides improvements of up to 60% in throughput over
single relay forwarding, while ensuring low latency and replication.
Network Coding
We proposed the first network coding protocol for enhancing the reliability
and speed of data gathering in smart grids. At the heart of our protocol
lies the idea of tunable sparse network coding, which adopts the
transmission
of
sparsely
coded
packets
at
the
beginning
of
the
transmission process but then switches to a denser coding structure
towards the end. Our systematic mechanism maintains the sparse
structure during the recombination of packets at the intermediate nodes.
The performance of our protocol is compared by means of simulations of
IEEE reference grids against standard master-slave protocols used in real
systems. Our results show that network coding achieves 100% reliability,
even for hostile network conditions, while gathering data 10 times faster
than
standard
master-slave
schemes.
We
further
considered
the
performance of network coding for a wireless cooperative network in
which a source wants to transmit M data packets to two receivers. We
assume that receivers can share their received packets with each other or
simply wait to receive the packets from the source. The problem of
finding an optimum packet transmission policy that minimizes the
completion time in such a network is solved by modeling the problem as a
Markov Decision Process (MDP). Our analysis is useful for a series of
network coding and forwarding schemes with or without feedback. Our
results show that the optimal network coding solution in terms of
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completion time, outperforms broadcasting with network coding by a
factor of 2.13 and outperforms forwarding mechanisms by a factor of 6.1.
Beyond computing the optimal completion time, we identify the critical
decision policies derived from the MDP solution.
Another line of network coding research deals with consumer demand for
high-quality video over wireless networks, which is increasing at fast
pace. The resulting technical challenges are particularly stringent in
crowded spaces, where the density of users far exceeds the ability to
deploy cellular base stations or WiFi infrastructure in a cost effective way.
To address this problem, we present a reliable and scalable live streaming
solution based on wireless multicast with real-time network coding. At the
core of our approach is a timely delivery scheme that uses a minimum
amount of feedback from the receivers to generate coded repair packets
that are simultaneously useful to a large number of users. Our protocol,
which we implemented and tested in a real-world wireless testbed, differs
from traditional wireless unicast and multicast schemes in that (a) the
feedback messages of the users are treated jointly and (b) the repair
mechanism considers both the playout deadlines of individual packets and
the list of packets already received by the clients. In comparison with a
standard video approach that sends an MPEG-2 encoded stream over
802.11 unicast links, our solution offers real-time guarantees for all users
commensurate with the link quality and an 11x improvement in termsof
bandwidth usage. A commercial version of the proposed solution shows a
strong increase in the number of clients that can access video streams
simultaneously over a single WiFi hotspot. This work led to a startup
company called Streambolico, which is currently funded and selling this
product for IPTV servers, tablets and smartphones.
4.3.3.4
Multimedia Signal Processing
Speech Processing
Our main research topics in 2013 on speech processing were in the area
of speech recognition and acoustic and language modelling, namely on
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characterization of speech styles using acoustic and prosodic information;
characterization of hesitations in continuous speech. We should also
mention the creation of pronunciation dictionaries and tools for European
Portuguese. We continues our work on the acoustic, phonetic, and
prosodic characterization of speech of patients suffering from Parkinson's
disease.
Signal Processing
The main topics of the research in signal processing have focused the
study
of
bandwidth
limited
single-carrier
with
frequency
domain
equalization (SC-FDE) systems with low envelope fluctuations by the use
of magnitude-modulation (MM) techniques for peak-to-average power
ratio (PAPR) control. In particular the following subjects have been
addressed: development of a theoretical framework for MM; development
of MM proof of concept in reconfigurable computing devices (e.g.: FPGA,
DSP); development of turbo IB-DFE (iterative block decision feedback
equalizers), for block-based SC-FDE transmissions using MM techniques
for coded (channel) and uncoded transmissions.
New research fronts have been initiated on the following topics: use of
MM techniques in the context of Linear-Amplification with Non-Linear
Components (LINC) systems. development of MM techniques applied to
OFDM transmissions; development of advanced techniques of Jamming
and coding for Physical Layer security; advanced signal processing
techniques for cataract characterization.
Image and Video Coding and Processing
The description of the research carried out in 2013 on this wide topic will
be divided into several sub-sub-topics.
Complexity Scalability of HEVC Video Encoders
This line of research is looking into the problem of efficiently scaling the
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complexity of the HEVC video encoder looking for solutions that among
others will allow embedded platforms to control the amount of power
during video coding. The techniques developed so far have resulted in two
three journal papers and several conference communications. A book
chapter describing the application of these and similar techniques to video
encoding in mobile environments has been accepted and will be published
soon.
Fast intra coding procedures for HEVC
The intra coding operations defined in the HEVC standard require a
significant amount of computation power during HEVC compatible video
encoding. Due to the importance of intra-only encoding for applications
like video surveillance and high quality video encoding in portable
professional video cameras, it is worth finding ways to reduce the
complexity of these encoding operations. In this line of research several
possible solutions to achieve a reduction of intra encoding complexity.
The results obtained so far have been published in several conferences
and a journal paper is currently being prepared.
3D Video summarization
When a user needs spend less time to view a video clip than its total
runtime it usually resorts to fast-forward viewing mode. This strategy
however is not necessarily the best one as it treats the entire movie as
equally relevant. A better solution is to use a summarization preprocessing stage, to identify the more relevant frames of the video clip
allowing a compliant player to reproduce only those frames marked as
belonging to the summary. The special case of 3D video poses additional
challenges related to the importance of depth information. New solutions
for the problem are being researched and some results have already been
presented at scientific meetings and a journal paper is being prepared.
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Video Quality Assessment
Research and implementation of automatic tools for real-time analysis of
the quality of visual contents, to be integrated on a quality control system
for audiovisual content has been developed. In particular, the following
specific tasks have been accomplished: state of
the art of the main
causes/sources of degradation of visual contents, as well as the current
methods of assessing the video quality; identification and selection of the
main modular functions of video quality analysis, and associated control
parameters, to integrate on a quality control system of audiovisual
content; automatic detection of pillar box, letter box, and window box on
a video sequence, and the existence of logotypes and subtitles on those
video artifacts.
3D video represented in one of the several accepted formats (stereo,
texture+depth, multi view) and transmitted in packet switched networks
(after encoding) is subjected to significant degradations when packet
losses occur. The goal of the research activities currently being carried
out under this topic is the modeling and test of final QoE estimators that
are able to predict the final quality of decoded video as perceived by
human observers. A family of low-complexity models based on neural
networks and making use of packet-layer only information have been
developed which present good performance. The preliminary results have
been presented in scientific conferences and two additional publications
are being prepared, one for submission to a journal and a second one for
presentation at a conference.
Retinal Image Processing
In this line of research work has been done on the processing of retinal
images to identify anatomical structures, quantify image quality and
extract domain-specific image descriptors amenable to use in large retinal
image database searches. The results were presented as two oral
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communications at scientific conferences and integrated into an industrial
software suite.
Image Restoration
In this research front, we have continues to work on very fast algorithms
for image deconvolution, and have extended previous work of ours to
take into accound unknown boundary conditions, a long standing problem
in this area. We have also developed a new criterion, based on the
spectral whiteness of the residuals, to be used to stop iterative image
deconvolution algorithms, as well as a criterion to tune the regularization
parameter that is inherent to this class of methods. Both advances were
published in the top image processing journal (the IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing). We have also made further progress in blind image
deconvolution,
where
we
have
developed
a
new
approach
that
outperforms the previous state of the art in this very competitive
problem.
Distributed Video Coding Based on Side Information
A classification taxonomy of side information (SI) creation methods
consisting of four classes, notably guess, try, hint and learn, was
proposed. SI creation representative methods were selected for a detailed
rate-distortion (RD) performance comparison. SI creation methods,
considering complexity constraints at the encoder, i.e. less or similar to
H.264/AVC Intra and H.264/AVC zero motion were analysed. A side
information creation algorithm, which plays a central role in the
distributed
video
coding
overall
RD
performance
was
proposed,
integrating perspective transform motion modelling. With this solution the
trajectories and deformations of each object are accurately tracked and
the quality of the side information frame was improved. Also, a new side
information creation framework integrating perspective transform motion
modelling. This solution is able to better locally track the trajectories and
deformations of each object and increase the accuracy of the overall side
information estimation process.
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Epipolar Geometry-Based Multiview Video Coding
An efficient SI creation solution for multiview DVC (MV-DVC) was
proposed, which simultaneously addresses the inter-view correlation
exploitation and SI fusion challenges, with a strong impact on the overall
MV-DVC codec RD performance. On one hand, the proposed inter-view SI
creation technique efficiently exploits inter-view correlation taking into
account the scene geometry, achieving a high quality inter-view created
SI frame. On the other hand, the proposed time-view driven fusion mask
creation approach is able to efficiently fuse the temporal SI and the interview SI, creating a high quality fused SI frame.
SIFT-Based Multiview Video Coding
In the most efficient MV-DVC solutions available, the final SI is obtained
by a fusion process that combines, at the pixel or at the block level, a
temporally generated SI with an interview generated SI. In this context, a
novel MV-DVC
solution was developed to improve the state-of-the-art
MV-DVC RD performance with two key contributions: i) a novel interview
SI creation technique using local SIFT descriptor-based homographies to
compensate the disparity between adjacent view frames; and ii) a novel
fusion technique based on a pixel-level foreground detection process
considering both the temporal and interview information. According to the
obtained experimental results, the proposed solution improves the RD
performance associated to the current MV-DVC state-of-the-art solutions,
exhibiting bitrate savings of around 10% for the same output video
quality.
Scalable Video Coding
A distributed scalable video coding framework was proposed in which the
base layer is compressed with the predictive video coding architecture
(Intra or Inter) while the enhancement layers are coded with a DVC
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principle. Thus, the development of a novel HEVC base layer backward
compatible
scalable
video
coding
extension
that
provides
quality
scalability has started; in the enhancement layer DVC tools allow to have
an Intra EL encoder and an Inter EL decoder.
Depth Map Coding for 3D Video
The multi-view plus depth format is a promising representation approach
for 3D as it allows synthesizing more views at the decoder than
those
explicitly transmitted. In this work, platelet coding scheme which uses
piece-wise linear
functions and quad-tree decomposition to model the
depth information was used as starting point. The platelet-based depth
map coding efficiency is evaluated and several prediction methods were
proposed to enhance its performance.
3D Holoscopic Video Coding
Research on video coding and processing techniques for 3D video has
continued. In
particular, 3D holoscopic scalable video coding has been
investigated to guarantee that 3D holoscopic video will be visible in 2D
high definition monitors as well as 3D stereoscopic monitors.
Perceptual Error Protection
Perceptual error protection: To enhance the error resilience of typical
predictive video coding schemes, the perceptual relevance of the video
content can be considered, as distortions occurring in different regions of
a picture have a different impact on the user's final experience. Thus, a
perceptually driven error protection video coding solution that enhances
the error resilience of a state-of-the-art H.264/AVC predictive video codec
was proposed by using the principles and tools of the distributed video
coding paradigm as well as perceptual considerations.
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Medical Image Segmentation and Analysis
An extended version of our 3D image segmentation and reconstruction
model that belongs to the Deformable Models family of algorithms was
developed The proposed model is capable of processing large image
volumes in competitive times and in fully 3D environment.
In the area of analysis of images for breast cancer diagnosis, the
following results have already been achieved: analysis and classification
of breast tumor lesions in MRI using multifractal approaches (3D
lacunarity and log detrended fluctuation cumulant-based multifractal
analysis); a method for tissue separation in ultrasound images, with
application to breast cancer diagnosis.
4.3.3.5
Parallel Computing
In this topic, we have continued our investigation and development of
parallel kernels and data structures for accelerating computationally
intensive
algorithms
for
error
correcting
codes
used
in
data
communications, and also in the area of medical imaging. We have
developed novel Domain-Specific Language contexts for implementing
faster kernels using
a low programming-effort. Our developments
include: LDPC decoders for VLSI systems used in DVB-S2 satellite
communications;
parallel LDPC decoding kernels for programmable
multicore architectures such as GPUs using the CUDA programming
model, with the objective of reducing computation times in Monte Carlo
simulations; parallel kernels to accelerate the computation of intensive
medical imaging applications, such as radial distortion elimination in
endoscopic systems, by using efficient strategies that minimize the
bottleneck caused by concurrent memory communications.
We have also developed parallel kernels to perform the computation of
intensive medical imaging ultrasound systems in real-time, by adopting
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two
distinct
approaches:
a
purely
software-based
one
using
programmable devices such as GPUs, and a hardware-oriented approach
based on recent high-level synthesis tools that are capable of translating
OpenCl parallel kernels to HDL architectures for execution on FPFAs.
These advances have allowed the acceleration of compute-intensive
kernels for real-time segmentation and for the detection of shape-based
objects in medical imaging contexts, namely in the gastrointestinal tract.
Finally, we have developed a Domain-Specific Language for LDPC
decoders, built on the Scala programming language, to generate efficient
hardware and software modules to be integrated in either communication
systems or other related simulation purposes.
4.3.3.6
Biometrics and Health-Related Applications
In the area of biometrics, namely on people recognition, several
biometrics traits obtained from a hand image were studied, notably finger
surfaces,
palm
print,
hand
geometry
and
palm
veins.
Biometric
recognition in uncontrolled environments was explored, to allow the
usage of biometric recognition when the subject cooperation is not
expectable (e.g., surveillance and forensics), or whenever only a very
limited user cooperation is to be asked for (e.g., access
research effort
control). This
included the development of biometric recognition
solutions using frontal gait using 2D plus depth information, and its
combination with iris information captured at a distance and periocular
information .
We have development a biometric verification systems using a mobile
device running the Android operating system, notably using hand or gait
information.
We have developed a biometric recognition solutions to be used for
forensic applications, notably based on incomplete and latent palmprints,
and on information collected by a mobile device.
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New methods for far infrared face image segmentation and recognition
were proposed and published; a study on iris surface deformation and
normalization also was published; analysis of degraded data acquired
under less constrained conditions was done, namely without cooperation
from the subjects to be identified, which raises the challenges associated
with reliable biometric recognition.
A proposal of a numeric/linguistic interface whose main characteristic is to
obtain the numerical values of the smartphone's accelerometer and their
subsequent conversion to a limited set of linguistic terms was done. This
can be used in the development of mobile applications for physiotherapy
and health, especially those aimed at better levels of health and wellbeing through motivation for the practice of physical activity.
A system was developed that aims to reduce the difficulties in the
deployment of real world automatic drug administration systems, based
on a multi-model architecture that allows for adaptive rule creation and
algorithm effectiveness evaluation,
focused on the automatic control of
hypertension in the intensive care unit.
3D Object Recognition
In the 3d object recognition area, several proposals for set distance
functions where made and compared with existing distances resulting in a
publication; two studies of 3D keypoint detectors where made and
published; a new 3D point cloud descriptor evolved using a genetic
algorithm was develop and published.
Deep Learning
In the (very active and hot) area of deep neural networks, the impact of
the cost-functions used when training a stacked auto-encoder was studied
resulting in a publication.
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Visual Sensor Networks
Visual sensor networks can be characterized by a large number of
wireless low power sensing nodes that are empowered with sight and are
capable of complex visual processing tasks. In such scenario, sensor
nodes acquire visual data and perform local processing to obtain local
image features, which are delivered to other network nodes. Thus,
methods to acquire and code local features were proposed, considering
the scarce resources in visual sensor networks, namely energy, memory
and bitrate constraints.
Video Analysis
Work or intelligent transportation systems (ITS) has been developed,
focusing on: the analysis of road pavement images for the automatic
detection of cracks and their characterization. This type of analysis is
valuable tool for the supervision and management support of road
infrastructures. We have also worked on automatic analysis of road traffic
congestion, from video snippets available from the internet. Namely, a
system for the automatic analysis of road flexible
pavement surface
images (CrackIT) has been developed, addressing the problems of crack
detection, crack type characterization, and a severity level assignment to
each detected crack, following a set of guidelines inspired on the
Portuguese Distress Catalog and whenever found
appropriate adopting
the definitions used by other national distress catalogs, like the USA,
French, and Spanish catalogs.
We have addressed the problem of video segmentation and classification
for power line maintenance inspection. The goal is the automatic
detection and counting of stork nests in Very High Voltage line supports,
of Rede Eléctrica Nacional (REN)
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4.3.3.7
Architectures, Protocols and Services
Internet Routing
The Internet routing system needs to scale as the number of Autonomous
Systems and announced IP prefixes continues to grow, and forwarding
tables are indexed at increasing line-speeds. We investigated route
aggregation strategies that scale the Internet routing system. These
strategies have the following characteristics: they operate with the
current BGP protocol; they preserve the routing policies intended by each
node; they are distributed procedures that automatically react to changes
in network topology; they lead to savings on the order of 80% in the
amount of routing state. The strategies have solid foundations on the
theory of routing and distributed algorithms and were extensively
evaluated.
Wireless Sensor Networks
The development of two applications for the Android platform was
completed. One of the applications interacts with wireless sensors placed
in the home. Its goal is to monitor and control power consumption. The
other application allows group tracking and navigation among a set of
cyclists equipped with sensors in their smartphones.
We developed mechanisms to aggregate information collected by sensors,
in a network-centric context. The mechanisms lead to power-efficient
sensor networks. They were implemented on top of the IPv6 protocol for
wireless sensor networks, called 6LowPAN.
Interactive Multimedia
In the context of network support to interactive multimedia, we worked
on service management and quality assessment in new generation
networks. More specifically, we worked on the identification of the
relationships
between
standard
telecommunication
requirements
formalisms (ITU-T User Requirements Notation), the main signalling
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protocols in NGN, and test automation tools for the extraction of QoS/QoE
parameters. We quantitatively identified the network element resources
that are required for the deployment of recommended telecommunication
services in an NGN scenario.
We identified the relevant metadata ontologies that can be used in the
assessment and support of QoE in networked multimedia systems, for
different types of audio-visual content. A prototype was designed and
developed for the production of metadata extracted during the subjective
QoE assessment of multimedia content.
Satellite Communications
A hardware module was developed for the communications sub-system of
the Portuguese CubeSat satellite. The expected launch date for the
satellite is 2015.
Mesh Networks
We
developed
a
test-bed
for
continued
investigation
of
the
communications aspects of wireless mesh networks. An important aspect
of the test-bed is its remote network management platform.
Secrecy Codes
We addressed the design of secure communication systems based on punctured
codes where the encoder is deterministic and objective (as opposed to stochastic
nested codes). In particular, we consider the use of LDPC codes over the erasure
wiretap channel in two distinct scenarios. First, an instance of the system where the
puncturing pattern is public is considered. In this case it is shown that it is possible to
communicate with negligible leakage at the price of increased rate and the use of a
MAP decoder by the legitimate receiver. In the second scenario we consider a
system where the puncturing pattern is secret. We study the performance of finite
block-length codes and show that high equivocation-rates can be achieved for large
puncturing probabilities. These results suggest a simple approach to secrecy: given
the erasure probability of the main channel, randomly generate a puncturing pattern
that satisfies a
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reliability constraint and punctures each bit with high probability. If the puncturing
pattern is known only to the legitimate party, secrecy will be naturally achieved as a
result of the eavesdroppers ignorance of the positions of the punctured bits. Other
achievements in this area include scalar quantizers with secrecy constraints and
spherical codes for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel with continuous input alphabets.
4.3.3.8
Traffic Engineering
Traffic Classification and Intrusion Detection
A key problem in the classification of Internet traffic is the absence of
reliable ground-truths. Classification methods are based on a sample
where the class partition of the observations is known. In real
applications, the reference used is frequently imperfect, which results in
uncertainty about the real class the objects belongs to. This information is
called imperfect ground-truth. We proposed a method to overcome the
need for a perfect ground-truth and we compare its performance with
some other classification methods, namely: the classification ule that
minimizes the total probability of misclassification; and the Naive Bayes
rule.
We have worked on exploring behavioral patterns through entropy in
multimedia peer-to-peer traffic for the detection and classification of
multimedia peer-to-peer traffic using the entropy over behavioral patterns
in data flows. We have worked on traffic characterization in the dark
based on the entropy of the Internet Protocol (IP) packet lengths. The
research work was focused on the identification of Peer-to-Peer Voice
over
IP
sessions
using
codec
related
properties
and
on
traffic
characterization in the dark, mostly focused on constructing a classifier
based on
matching histograms with live traffic in real-time. We have
studied the use of machine learning techniques to aid devising rules for
intrusion detection.
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Fundamentals of Networking
Physical-layer security: impact of physical-layer security strategies on the
secure connectivity of large-scale wireless networks.
Network coding: delay, fairness, security and applications in video
streaming and peer-to-peer systems.
Information
security:
algorithms
for equational
reasoning
under
cryptographic algebraic theories and their integration in a probabilistic
model for the analysis of guessing and other offline attacks, and to
design and study a suitable equational-based probabilistic dynamic
epistemic companion logic.
Applicability
of
the
notion
of
algorithmic
information
theory
to
cryptographic primitives.
One-way functions: we take a fresh look into one way functions trying to
give an individual approach to this concept based on time bounded
kolmogorov complexity. we propose a new definition of one-way function
and study its connection with classical one way functions (namely weak,
string and deterministic one way functions). we also prove some results
concerning relating classical one way functions and the expected value of
kolmogorov complexity.
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4.3.4
Overview
Funding Agency
Comissão Europeia
COST Office via the European Science Foundation and the Horizon 2020
COST-ESF
EC
ESF, COST
EU, FP7
EU-FP7
FCT
FCT - Portugal-Carnegie Mellon
FCT, UT Austin
FCT/CMU
FCT/PTDC
FCT/PTDC
FEDER/QREN
IT
PT Inovação
PT Telecom, FCT, UT Austin
PT-Inovação
PT-Portugal Telecom
QREN
QREN/COMPETE
Number
1
1
1
1
1
5
2
4
1
1
2
21
1
1
11
7
1
1
1
4
1
Table 20 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia Area during 2013
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Acron / Ref
Title
3D-ConTourNet
3D Content Creation, Coding and Transmission over Future Media
Networks
Funding
EC
Descript.
This COST Action undertakes coordinated research collaboration, at
European level, in 3D multimedia creation, encoding, delivery and
reception
of
services
and
applications
over
future
networking
technologies. A scientific framework is devised to integrate the main
elements of the delivery chain, such as 3D content creation and
encoding evolution, transmission across heterogeneous networks and
user
consumption,
taking
perceived
quality
as
an
overall
key
performance factor. Several individual R&D efforts are currently running
across Europe, targeted at 3D technologies. This Action aims at beyond
this trend by tightening closer together scattered efforts and integrating
all technological elements with user 3D quality perception. To reach this
goal, this Action fuels cooperation between researchers and industry
experts, envisaging production of technical and scientific deliverables for
researchers, scientists, engineers and managers, new business model
recommendations for content and service providers through joint
meetings across academia and industry, plus documentation and
multimedia presentations to promote 3D technology in the society. The
benefits include increased relevancy of European research, contribution
to the development and sustainability of new and better 3D multimedia
communications technology and provision of a platform for faster
launching and adoption of related new products and services across
Europe for end users’ beneficiary
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Acron / Ref
Title
AAPELE
COST IC1303 AAPELE - Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for
Enhanced Living Environments
Funding
COST Office via the European Science Foundation and the Horizon 2020
Descript.
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an area of research based on
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), medical research,
and sociological research. AAL is based on the notion that technology
and science can provide improvements in the quality of life for people in
their homes, and that it can reduce the financial burden on the budgets
of European healthcare providers. The concept of Enhanced Living
Environments (ELE) refers to the AAL area that is more related with the
Information and Communication Technologies.
To design, plan, deploy and operate, an AAL system often comprehends
the integration of several scientific areas. The Architectures, Algorithms
and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE) COST Action
addresses the issues of defining software, hardware and service
architectures for AAL, on studying and creating more efficient algorithms
for AAL, particularly those related to the processing of large amounts of
data and of biosignals in lossy environments, and on the research of
protocols for AAL or, with more detail, on studying communication and
data transmission protocols for AAL.
This Action aims to promote interdisciplinary research on AAL, through
the creation of a research and development community of scientists and
entrepreneurs, focusing on AAL algorithms, architectures and platforms,
having in view the advance of science in this area and the development
of new and innovative solutions.
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Acron / Ref
Title
AIPIP
Advances in Image Processing and Inverse Problems: Applications in
Medical and Earth Observation Imagery, and Biomathematics
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The PI of this project is Prof. Isabel Narra de Figuiredo, Full Professor at
the Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra.
Acron / Ref
Title
CATARATA
Development Of New Methodologies Based On Ultrasound Techniques
For In Vivo Cataract Characterization
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Cataract is a clouding or opacity that develops in the crystalline lens of
the eye. For clinical prognostic and therapeutic purposes it is very
important to identify the cataract type and the disease stages especially
in its early stages (Paunk 2007). With increasing relevancy, the
ultrasounds
appear
as
powerful,
noninvasive
and
less
expensive
technique for tissue evaluation. Concerning to cataract treatment,
phacoemulsification is the most common surgical procedure by using a
hand-held ultrasonic device to fragment the clouded lens into small
pieces that are then aspirated (Wilson 2005). To emulsify the cataract,
the selection of the optimal ultrasound energy level is of fundamental
importance to prevent the endothelial cells damage and the posterior
capsule rupture. This unrecovered injury can be avoided if the hardness
of
the
cataractous
lens
is
previously
and
correctly
estimated.
The applicability of the ultrasound methods for characterizing both
normal and cataractous lenses has been studied for decades. Two
important ultrasound parameters, velocity and frequency- dependent
attenuation have been used trying to evaluate the hardness of the
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cataractous lens in porcine and human eye tissue. The most important
one is related to the fact the results only provide information about the
cataract presence and respective hardness globally, because evaluation
is made considering the anterior and posterior reflected lens signals.
Thus, important information as the exact regional hardness of cataract is
not achieved with this methodology. Also, there is no adequate
noninvasive characterization of regional location and hardness of
cataract. This is of particular importance for estimating the optimal
phacoemulsification energy, which should be adjusted for the different
hardness levels that can be found in all extension of cataract. In this
project it is intended to use the backscattering signals, instead of the
anterior and posterior lens echo signals frequently used in literature, to
extract features capable to characterize the mechanical properties of
tissues, namely scatter density and mean scatter size for subsequent
correlation with the lens hardness. Time and frequency domain features
will be evaluated in order to identify the most powerful ones. Several
feature classifiers such as Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector
Machines, k-Nearest neighbors, and Naive Bayes will be tested and their
potential evaluated for quantification of regional changing of cataract
hardness.
To develop a medical device for cataract surgery and clinicians support
to access cataract hardness and location for any type of cataract, and
determine in real-time the optimal energy for phacoemulsification, preclinical studies will be performed in vitro, in porcine lens, and in vivo in
rats animal models that simulate different types of cataract. The animal
models will allow the translation from pre-clinical to clinical research.
Acron / Ref
Title
ComFormCrypt
ComFormCrypt - Computational
Semantics of Formal
Methods in
Cryptography
Funding
FCT/PTDC
226
Descript.
This project addresses the problem of correct symbolic abstractions of
cryptographic primitives for the purpose of symbolic, automated proving
of security properties of protocols.
Computer security has been of major interest in the past two decades.
This field provides both interesting research problems and important
applications to everyone's life such as e-commerce and e-government,
hence the need for designing better and safer security protocols. Proving
security of protocols however is a difficult task that sometimes cannot be
performed by hand, therefore several tools have been designed to deal
with such a complex problem [B01,BMV05,P98]. But the need for such
(automated) tools is not only due to the complexity of the protocols. If
we consider the simple protocol proposed by Needham and Schroeder in
1978 [NS78], it was not until 1996 that Lowe discovered his famous
attack on the protocol using the CSP-model checker FDR [L96] and
suggested a fix. The attack used a flaw in the protocol design, the
encryption itself was assumed to be perfectly secure. With this ''perfect''
cryptography assumption the protocol is simple enough to be easily
analyzed by standard model-checkers and theorem provers. The fix was
shown to be safe as long as encryption was perfect.
But what happens when the cryptographic primitives are not perfect,
which is the case in real life where we can always guess a key with small
probability?
After
some
positive
results
regarding
cryptographic
soundness of such abstractions, Warinschi [W03] showed that the same
attack discovered by Lowe against the NS protocol, could be performed
against the corrected version if a somewhat weak but standard
encryption scheme is used, the El-Gamal encryption scheme. This result
turned the attention of the research community for the need of
soundness results for formal cryptography, ie, the importance to
characterize when protocols proved correct using perfect cryptography
are
correct
when
implemented
with
computational
cryptography.
Computational soundness of formal cryptography is an active research
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area and members of this team have been involved in several of its
fronts
[ABS05,ABHS05,ABHS09,AF06,AFGZN08,BHO07,BHO09,BMS06]
Symbolic models provide abstractions for the study of cryptography that
are amenable for automatic verification of complex protocols but assume
''perfect cryptography'' [DY93]. Messages, keys, encryptions, attacks, all
appear as formal objects described with symbolic operations, axioms,
derivation rules; cryptographic operations are modeled as functions on a
space of symbolic expressions and security properties are also treated
symbolically. This method ignores the probabilistic nature of encryptions.
It provides a powerful way to describe how an adversary may interfere,
corrupt, deceive participants of a protocol, and grab this way information
not
addressed
to
him.
This
method
is
much
easier
to
handle
mathematically than the computational, the proofs can be automated
but, as the probabilistic nature is ignored, security within this framework
does not necessarily mean security in the real world. Real probabilistic
attacks that are outside the framework of this model may still happen
[W03]
On the other hand in the computational model cryptographic operations
act on strings of bit and their security properties are defined in terms of
probability
and
computational
complexity
[GM84].
Computational
security proofs make use of techniques of these theories; proofs have to
be done by hand (ie cannot be automated) and are different for each
protocol. Good protocols are those in which attackers cannot do
something bad too often and efficiently enough. This is a very detailed
description, closer to reality as it involves the notion of efficient
computation, hence complexity and probabilities. However, even for
mildly complex protocols this approach simply becomes too difficult and
impossible to handle.
The unification of these two models is absolutely necessary for symbolic
security proofs to be trustable. So far in the literature there are
fragmented attempts done by different research groups, but as their
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treatment lack sound mathematical basis, the results themselves and
how they are related are questionable
(AR02,ABHS09,AF06,BPW03,C01,CC08,DDMST05,MW04)
We expect this research project to deliver new insights to the
relationship between the symbolic and computational models, clarify the
applicability and limitations of existing approaches to this problem, and
provide sound mathematical foundations that can be used in the future
as a common framework and technique for sound symbolic abstraction
of new cryptographic primitives.
The ultimate goal of this research is to develop/adapt fully automated
tools for symbolic models that, via our soundness results, entail strong
cryptographic
guarantees
to
the
computational
model,
hence
substituting the tedious complexity-theoretic proofs of computational
cryptography by automated ones
Acron / Ref
COST IC 1106
Title
Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age
Funding
COST-ESF
Descript.
Forensics is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer
questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime
or a civil action” [Wikipedia]. Since many such questions boil down to
identifying, or verifying the identity, of people allegedly involved in some
action, a clear relationship exists between forensics and biometrics.
Biometrics developed a number of techniques which can clearly facilitate
the identification of people involved in criminal actions or civil incidents.
Thus, although the two communities have traditionally often operated in
relative
isolation,
there
are
many
scenarios
where
the
synergic
cooperation of multimodal biometrics and forensics can be successfully
applied. To address such multifaceted areas it is important to develop an
interdisciplinary network with complementary competences, to foster the
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birth of a new community which can develop novel technological
solutions to crucial issues and new challenges in forensic science.
The Action will promote new partnerships, will provide education and
training, will contribute to develop new standards and best practices, will
produce awareness of the potential benefits of advanced technologies for
evidence analysis in forensic cases and will stimulate improved mutual
understanding of collaborative working models linking the academic and
industrial sectors
Acron / Ref
Title
EPIC
EPIC - Efficient Pattern-matching Image Compression on many-core
systems
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main goal of this project is to study the implementation of high
performance recurrent pattern matching-based compression algorithms
in many-core platforms, namely in Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
Acron / Ref
Future Cities
Title
Future Cities
Funding
Comissão Europeia
Descript.
Auxiliar ao lançamento de um centro de competências para as cidades
do futuro.
Acron / Ref
GOLEM
Title
GOLEM: Realistic Virtual Humans
Funding
EU, FP7
230
Descript.
The overall objective of GOLEM is to share knowledge between Industry
and Academia in order to successfully achieve the following scientific and
technological objectives. The main goal of the project is to carry out
multidisciplinary research that will result in technology that radically
improves the visual appearance and behaviour of virtual characters
(avatars), while streamlining the production pipeline and keeping them
customizable and affordable. This will have a relevant impact in 1)
industries (such as movies or games) 2) academia (by advancing the
state of the art in the related research fields) and 3) neuroscience (by
using the avatars in novel experiments about presence in virtual
environments).
GOLEM encompasses two complementary objectives; the first objective
is the development of a novel, optimized pipeline that covers capture,
synthesis and animation of realistic virtual humans in real time, which
will enhance current state-of-the-art techniques to create virtual humans
in fields such as game production or cinematography. It is estimated
that its development will save up to 90% of time in the animation
process.
Based on the achieved results, the second objective of this project is to
conduct novel research on presence in virtual environments.
Acron / Ref
GreenEyes
Title
Networked energy-aware visual analysis
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
The potential of the Internet of Things is leading to a paradigm shift with
an ambitious long-term vision, in which battery-operated sensing nodes
are empowered with sight and are capable of complex visual analysis
tasks. Unfortunately, this is out of reach with the current technology.
GreenEyes will develop a comprehensive set of new methodologies,
algorithms and protocols, to empower wireless sensor networks with
vision capabilities comparable to those achievable by power-eager smart
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camera systems. The key tenet is that most visual analysis tasks can be
carried out based on a succinct representation of the image, which
entails both global and local features, while it disregards the underlying
pixel-level representation. Still, under severe energy constraints it is
imperative to optimize the computation, the coding and the transmission
of the features. On the computation and coding side, GreenEyes will
tackle the problem by reversing the conventional compress-then-analyze
paradigm. That is, image features are collected by sensing nodes,
processed, and delivered to final destination(s) in order to enable higher
level visual analysis tasks by means of either centralized or distributed
detectors and classifiers, somewhat mimicking the processing of visual
stimuli in the early visual system. The transmission of visual features is
subject to tight application-dependent requirements (bandwidth/delay
guarantees), and may be affected by network conditions. Therefore, on
the communication side, GreenEyes will pursue the design of networking
tools for wireless multimedia sensor networks for energy efficient
distributed control, information delivery and in-network processing
optimized for the visual analysis task.
Acron / Ref
Title
HeartSafe
HeartSafe - Assessing Heart Function for Unsupervised Homecare
Applications through Multi-Channel Auscultation
Funding
FCT-PTDC
Descript.
The main scientific goal of this project is to research algorithms
applicable in long-term home monitoring contexts for the assessment of
cardiac function, the key variable in cardiovascular disease (CVD)
management, using a multi-channel heart sound auscultation approach.
Clinical applications will be developed for early detection of Heart Failure
(HF) decompensation episodes in elderly and neonatal populations; both
will be clinically assessed using in-hospital studies.
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Acron / Ref
ICSI
Title
Intelligent Cooperative Sensing for Improved traffic efficiency
Funding
European Union (FP7)
Descript.
The goal of the project is to define a new architecture to enable
cooperative sensing in intelligent transportation systems and to develop
a reference end-to-end implementation. The project results will enable
advanced traffic and travel management strategies, based on reliable
and real-time input data. The effectiveness of such new strategies,
together with the proposed system, will be assessed in two field trials.
Acron / Ref
LearningS
Title
Learning from Sequences
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main objectives of this project are fourfold:
1.To advance on state-of-the-art approaches on unsupervised and semisupervised learning, with emphasis on cluster ensemble methods;
2. To expand these pattern recognition methods to the analysis and
modeling of sequence data, corresponding either to sequences of
symbols, such as in text, or sequential data in which observations are
ordered in time, namely time series;
3. To foster fast implementation of application scenarios of proposed
techniques by developing a web-based graphical interface and algorithms
toolbox;
4. To address practical real world problems, by applying the developed
methodology and algorithms to automatic analysis of bio-signals and
textual data.
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Acron / Ref
LIFEisGAME
Title
LIFEisGAME: LearnIng of Facial Emotions usIng Serious GAMEs
Funding
FCT, UT Austin
Descript.
To carry out research that leads to a system capable of facial synthesis
in real time with cinematographic quality
To explore different models to define the most adequate tangible user
interface to allow an immersive behavior when interacting with people
that sufer of ASD To disseminate results to the public and to the
scientific community
Acron / Ref
MC-WMNs
Title
Redes em Malha Múltiplas baseadas em Contexto
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Acron / Ref
MODCOMP
Title
Modeling User Behavior in Social Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Social networks have become an integral part of the digital life of
nowadays society. Indeed, the preponderance of these networks has
increased significantly in the last years, allowing users to share different
types of multimedia contents with the community [FB, FK, YT, TW, LN,
Ala08]. In the last years, we have also assisted to a dramatic increase on
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the number of attacks on these networks in order to obtain and access
confidential data from several users. In this manner, it is possible to
create and execute powerful targeted social network attacks which, by
exploiting the information shared on such networks, can become more
credible and difficult to detect. Indeed, according to a recent report, the
number of phishing attacks over social networks has increased more
than 1200% during 2010 [Microsoft11].
The project Social Network User Behavior Modeling aims at analyzing
and modeling the behaviors of social networks users in order to create
behavior models. With such models, the project aims at increasing the
knowledge the users have of their connections and of the social network
in general, creating a trust relationship between the user and the
remaining community. These models will also allow the detection of
profile changes, or behavior models, in order to detect compromised
accounts or accounts created by hackers with the purpose of accessing
informations other users may share over the mentioned networks. The
creation of such models enables the social network to map each user to
group, allowing a more efficient, direct and secure management of
existing groups of users as well as the creation of novel groups. Novel
recommendation systems can also be proposed. All the mentioned
aspects illustrate the importance of this project.
Acron / Ref
Title
MOG-QC on the GO
MOG-QC on the GO - Desenvolvimento de um sistema integrado de
controlo da qualidade de conteúdos audiovisuais
Funding
FEDER/QREN
Descript.
The main objective of the project ?Quality Control on the Go? (QC OTG)
is the development of a tool, integrated in the process of capture and
ingest, which enables the analysis, in real time, of the quality of audiovisual content in three dimensions - video, audio and file container - in
an automatic way and compliant with acquisition systems based on files
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and SDI . This project is promoted by the consortium formed by MOG
Technologies (leader), IST, ISCTE-IUL and IPN.
The new product to be developed under the scope of this project is
targeted at the audio-visual and broadcast sectors (especially producers
of audio-visual content), presenting a set of innovative features, of which
we highlight: analysis, detection of artifacts of audio and video contents
in various formats (already available or near completion, as for example
Sony XAVC) and with different targets (UHDTB, HDTV, Internet, Mobile);
Fully integration of the features of capture and ingest with the system of
quality control of the video, audio, and file container, ensuring the
operation proceeds at real time; Integration of a library with a wide
range of modular functions that enable extraction and analysis of
information of video and audio (semantic and syntactic); Higher
efficiency of the ingest process by introducing a single step of quality
control therefore reducing the necessary computational resources.
Aiming at fulfilling the goals and innovative characteristics that the
project proposes, the consortium has established a methodology that
comprises research and industrial development activities, counting with
the involvement of a total of 26 human resources of the consortium and
with a total investment of 1.192.093,72 Euros (including the acquisition
of
equipment
and
expenses
with
activities
of
promotion
dissemination of the results).
Acron / Ref
Move4Health
Title
Move4Health
Funding
PT-Portugal Telecom
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and
Descript.
Move4Health project is a one year project that aims to improve motor
skill abilities of impaired individuals to achieve better control of the body,
by means of therapeutic learning tools. Move4Health shows how it is
possible to apply a pioneer serious game approach to teach and asses
people to physically navigate the world, combining real-time markerless
motion capture (MoCap), virtual reality (VR) or 3D environments.
Physically navigate the world means that people require considerable
skills to control the body for both fine (e.g. writing) and large motor (e.g.
walking) movements. Move4Health focuses on large motor skills. Today,
most rehabilitation therapies still use non-interactive techniques. This
interactive solution targets the health care industry: the games will help
individuals to explore their limits and control their physical awareness in
a fun way without inducing stress.
Acron / Ref
MuViDisco
Title
Multiview Video Disparity Compensation using Geometric Transforms
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main objective of this project is to develop a novel prediction model
that we expected to increase the performance of traditional 3D video
encoders. This technique will efficiently exploit geometric transformations
to warp each image block from one view to another, thus modeling the
disparity effect.
Acron / Ref
MUVIS
Title
MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
237
Descript.
Distributed video coding (DVC) is a compression paradigm based on two
key Information Theory results from the 70s: the Slepian-Wolf and the
Wyner-Ziv theorems. Contrary to the available predictive video codecs,
DVC codecs exploit the source statistics at the decoder providing
functional benefits such as: 1) flexible distribution of the computational
complexity between encoder and decoder; 2) in-built robustness to
channel losses; 3) exploitation of Inter-view data correlation at the
decoder.
These functional benefits are very important for visual sensor networks,
a network of wireless low-power video camera nodes, used for a wide
range of applications such as surveillance, monitoring of remote areas or
tele-presence systems. Visual sensor networks are characterized by: 1)
Inter-view correlation between camera nodes with overlapped views; 2)
up-link communication between many encoders (one at each camera
node) to a few decoders; 3) independent compression of each view,
since collaboration between cameras is difficult to implement or rather
inefficient.
Due to these characteristics, it is not efficient (or possible) to compress
each captured view at a central node with the typical predictive
approach, e.g. using the recent multi-view video coding H.264/MVC
(Multi-view Video Coding) standard, since it implies to exploit spatial,
temporal and Inter-view correlations at a rather high complexity
encoder.
The
architectural
distributed
benefit
since
coding
it
approach
does
not
provides
require
a
any
significant
Inter-camera
communication to explore the Inter-view correlation while the predictive
approach requires the availability of all views at some central encoding
location, forcing communication between cameras. This project will
advance state-of-the-art by developing competitive multi-view DVC
solutions
for
visual
sensor
networks,
notably
by
proposing:
1. Side information (SI) creation and correlation noised modeling: To
fully exploit the potential of the multi-view distributed video coding
paradigm, high quality side information (an estimation of the source
created at the decoder) must be created by (jointly) exploiting temporal
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and Inter-view correlations. In this case, solutions that combine
temporal and Inter-view SI estimators by using preliminary decoded data
as helper information will be proposed. In addition, correlation noise
models capturing the statistical correlation between the side information
(available
at
the
decoder)
and
the
source
(available
at
the
encoder) will also be proposed along with the estimation of the relevant
parameters.
2. Hybrid predictive-distributed video coding: The combination of
predictive coding techniques, to exploit the temporal correlation, with
distributed coding techniques, to exploit the Inter-view correlation, may
be a successful “cocktail” to obtain improved rate-distortion (RD)
performance. This approach was never exploited before (as much as the
authors know) and will require to reinvent popular coding techniques at
both encoder and decoder. In this case, it is also expected to obtain
error resilience improvements, which is quite important in this type of
error-prone networks (typically wireless).
Acron / Ref
OCaaS
Title
OCaaS
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
Open Charging as a Service.
The project intends to develop a charging platform for Cloud based
Services
Acron / Ref
PANORAMA
Title
PANORAMA II - REDES
Funding
QREN
Descript.
Pretende-se
dar
continuidade
ao
estudo,
especificação
e
desenvolvimento de mecanismos de QoS e mobilidade desenvolvidos,
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evoluindo no contexto de mobilidade inteligente. No projecto PANORAMA
evoluiu-se a plataforma da PT Inovação, ArQoS, com avaliação da
capacidade disponível em ligações sem fios e com o suporte de probes
móveis
que
permitem
activar
tráfego
e
handovers
e
avaliar
o
desempenho dos mesmos:
• Avaliação da capacidade disponível em ligações sem fios Wi-Fi e HSPA
através
de
mecanismos
de
monitorização
não
intrusiva;
• Desenvolvimento de probes móveis, ou seja, probes que possam ser
activadas para medir o impacto na rede e no tráfego dos processos de
handover. O trabalho efectuado culminou no desenvolvimento de uma
testbed com várias tecnologias para obtenção de dados, efectuando
vários tipos de handover bem como a activação de tráfego durante a
ocorrência deste.
• Mecanismos de QoS e Mobilidade em Redes Inter-Tecnologia que
consistiu em especificar, simular e implementar uma arquitectura de
mobilidade e QoS que permite ter handovers transparentes entre redes
heterogéneas,
Pretende-se
IEEE
dar
802.11,
continuidade
IEEE
ao
802.16,
estudo,
3G
UMTS.
especificação
e
desenvolvimento de mecanismos e componentes que, funcionando ao
nível do elemento de rede, dotem consigam dotar os mesmos de
interfaces de gestão e capacidades de resolução de tarefas de forma
automática. As interfaces de gestão disponibilizadas pelo elemento de
rede destinam-se não só à comunicação máquina-máquina (M2M), mas
também comunicação homem-máquina. O primeiro grupo de interfaces
permite a operacionalização da rede com supervisão central, onde todos
os elementos de rede são geridos por um sistema com a visão ao nível
da
rede.
Permite
ainda
a
interação
entre
elementos
de
rede,
nomeadamente para troca de informação de contexto, descoberta de
topologia, de capacidades de recursos e de estado. Este mecanismo de
comunicação entre elementos de rede é essencial para a definição de
comportamentos automáticos visando uma rede auto governada (self-*).
A comunicação homem-máquina permite ao operador de rede interagir
diretamente com o equipamento avaliando o seu estado e executando
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tarefas de configuração.
Atualmente a gestão e o aprovisionamento de redes de telecomunicações
é executado por intervenção humana direta recorrendo a ferramentas
onde o nível de conhecimento das tecnologias exigido é muito alto ou
recorrendo a scripts pouco flexíveis. É conhecido que a margem de erro
é elevada levando a custos operacionais que poderiam ser otimizados.
Na arquitectura do Panorama I resultou um conjunto de aplicações
globalmente designadas por agentes, que garantem a gestão dos
equipamentos desenvolvidos através dos mecanismos convencionais
(interface SNMP). Foi incluído também uma interface XML/HTTP utilizada
por uma aplicação gráfica de supervisão local (designada por webTI),
visando uma evolução do protocolo usado pelo sistema de gestão central
(SNMP) para uma solução mais eficiente. Foi igualmente integrado um
plano de controlo opcional, baseado nas normas GMPLS, que permite o
auto aprovisionamento de recursos na rede no estabelecimento de
caminhos.
Este
operacionalização
conjunto
imediata
de
dos
desenvolvimentos
sistemas
garantiu
desenvolvidos
e
a
a
sua
integração na rede de um operador.
Neste
trabalho
esta
arquitectura
será
implementada
através
do
OpenFlow, nomeadamente ao nível do agente.
Acron / Ref
Title
PCRF-Mob
PCRF Mobilidade: Mobilidade e Controlo de Recursos em Ambientes 4G e
Wi-Fi
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
Atualmente, o LTE posiciona-se como a principal rede de acesso 4G.
Paralelamente, para áreas locais, a tecnologia Wi-Fi continuou a sua
ascensão e solidificou a sua presença no mercado, complementando as
redes wireless metropolitanas 3G (UMTS), 3.5G (HSPA) e 4G (LTE).
Como complemento à rede de acesso LTE, o organismo de normalização
3GPP definiu a plataforma EPC (Evolved Packet Core) com o objetivo de
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controlar as funcionalidades da rede de acesso LTE (e também de outras
redes de acesso, e.g. Wi-Fi, WiMAX, UMTS, ...), permitir a integração
com plataformas de serviços IMS e também a ligação com a Internet.
Num projecto do Programa Inovação 2012-2013 tem sido desenvolvido
um mecanismo de controlode admissão para a plataforma Policy
Charging
and
Rules
Function
(PCRF)
da
PT
Inovação.
Mais
concretamente, para evitar o congestionamento da rede de acesso
LTE/EPC, foi especificado e desenvolvido um mecanismo para controlo
de admissão com auxílio de métricas e indicadores provenientes da rede,
e a integração com mecanismos de reserva de recursos na rede
EPC/LTE.
Neste projecto será endereçado o processo de mobilidade entre redes 4G
e WiFi, que inclui os mecanismos de decisão de mobilidade no PCRF e
sua interacção como ANDSF, e o próprio processo de mobilidade que
permita realizar o handover trasparente entre estas redes. Serão
definidos
cenários
de
utilização
e
serão
realizados
testes
de
funcionamento ao nível dos processos envolvidos na mobilidade de
serviços com um conjunto de requisistos, considerando principalmente a
capacidade e o estado decada uma das redes.
Acron / Ref
Title
QUALINET
European Network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and
Services
Funding
ESF, COST
Descript.
The goal of this Action is to establish a strong network on Quality of
Experience (QoE) with participation from both academia and industry.
Its main objective will be to develop and to promote methodologies to
subjectively and objectively measure the impact in terms of quality of
future multimedia products and services.
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Acron / Ref
Title
RECI
Apoio à Mobilidade Suportada por Controlo Partilhado e Interfaces
Homem-Máquina Avançados
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Development of fast methods and algorithms using parallel computing to
obtain 3D models of urban scenes from stereo/trinocular video acquired
in real-time by cameras mounted on a moving vehicle.
Acron / Ref
REMAR
Title
Redes DTN para comunicações de emergência
Funding
QREN
Descript.
O projecto REMAR pretende assim realizar diversas atividades de
investigação industrial e desenvolvimento experimental que permitam
obter uma rede tolerante à disrupção para o estabelecimento de
comunicações
elementos
permanentes,
pertencentes
digitais
aos
e
de
diversos
banda-larga
serviços
de
entre
os
emergência
e
forças de segurança, chamados a intervir em caso de catástrofe natural
(e.g.,tsunamis, sismos e incêndios) ou em situações de emergência em
que exista deterioração ou inutilização das diversas infra-‐estruturas (por
exemplo, atentados terroristas ou distúrbiossociais). Entende-se que o
projecto REMAR irá desenvolver capacidades necessárias para a troca de
dados
multimédia
localização)
e
(que
posteriormente
coordenação
e
podem
orientação
ser
de
usados
forças
(e.g,
para
bi--
direccionalidade de dados para troca de informação biométrica e envio e
alertas) mesmo em cenários hostis. A entidade esponsável pelo projecto
REMAR é a TEKEVER ommunication Systems Lda., uma pequena
empresa cuja principal atuação consiste na criação, desenvolvimento,
integração e aplicação de conceitos revolucionários na área das
comunicações
rádio
móveis,
cognitivo
e
as
tais
como
DTNs.
o
Software
Pretende-se
Defined
assim
ntribuir
Radio,
o
para
a
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modernização e evolução dos mercados da defesa e segurança, com
uma
tecnologia
de
vanguarda
que
permita
aumentar,
de
forma sustentável e em cooperação, a qualidade dos meios de
comunicação,
informação
e
acção
disponíveis,
garantindo
a
sua
interoperabilidade e continuidade operacional. O projecto REMAR aponta
pois para a criação de uma linha de produtos altamente inovadora, que
propõe revolucionar o atual estado-da-arte das comunicações de
emergência: a utilização de DTNs nas comunicações de emergência. E
porque trata-se de um verdadeiro esforço de inovação, a gestão e
mitigação de risco foram adequadamente enquadradas na abordagem
que a EKEVER Communication Systems delineou para o projecto, e que
assenta na evolução de umproduto já existente no atual portfolio da
empresa: o nó ad‐hoc WAC ou Wireless Adaptive Communications. As
atividades de investigação industrial do Projecto REMAR no que respeita
então ao desenvolvimento das capacidades necessárias para as DTNs
visam pois alcançar melhorias significativas no WAC.
Acron / Ref
ROCOP2P
Title
Robust Video Coding for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The main objectives of this project, are:
- Study the use of MAP-decoding of MVs when applied to packet
networks. Analysis of complexity constraints related with MAP decoding.
Analysis of performance when compared to previous central decoding
presented in [24], in the context of P2P transmissions. MAP decoding
present excellent robustness but with some complexity, so we must
study his feasibility and found the best trade of between robustness and
complexity.
- Specification of a bit allocation model based on multi-resolution
analysis (wavelets) that effectively enables highly scalable video coding.
In this case the bit-allocation should consider simultaneously temporal
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and spatial decomposition.
- Optimization of the number of descriptions and bit allocation of video
information based on contextual peer information such as number of
available peers, rarity/abundance of a determined bitstream-chunk, etc..
- With these contributions we also aim to improve the video quality of
state-of-the-art applications demanding video transmission using lowcomplexity.
Acron / Ref
SDN
Title
SDN: Gestão de recursos para Soft Defined Networks (SDNs)
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
A tendência actual e futura é de que as redes de comunicação se tornem
bastante complexas, tanto a nível do número de elementos como a nível
da sua diversidade e complexidade. Durante os últimos anos tem havido
um esforço muito significativo no desenvolvimento de soluções de
controlo e de gestão das redes autonómicas, que permitam colocar
alguma parte deste controlo e gestão nos próprios elementos da rede
para aumentar a escalabilidade e resiliência da mesma. Em paralelo, o
conceito de redes programáveis por software, as Software Defined
Networks (SDNs), tem vindo a ganhar uma grande preponderância tanto
ao nível dos fabricantes de equipamentos como a Cisco e a Juniper, como
ao nível dos operadores de telecomunicações. A tecnologia OpenFlow tem
vindo a ser proposta como sendo uma das tecnologias que revolucionará
as redes da Internet do Futuro, no sentido de as tornar programáveis e
flexíveis. Este conceito permite desacoplar o controlo da rede (por
exemplo, decisões de encaminhamento) da topologia da rede (por
exemplo,
interfaces
e
como
estas
se
interligam).
Num projecto do Programa Inovação 2011-2012 foram desenvolvidos
mecanismos de controlo e gestão distribuída na rede, através da
descoberta automática dos elementos de uma rede, efectuada de forma
distribuída, e da reserva de recursos/estabelecimento de caminhos
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totalmente distribuído, através de um mecanismo de aprendizagem,em
que é necessária apenas uma visão parcial da rede. Estes mecanismos
foram testados nas plataformas MPLS-TP da PTIN através das suas
componentes
de
gestão
local
e
controlo,
de
acordo
com
as
recomendações ASON.
Por outro lado, no âmbito de um mestrado conjunto, tem
sido
desenvolvida uma testbed de OpenFlow, que permitirá realizar um
conjunto de experiências de criação e remoção dinâmica de redes e de
caminhos
entre
os
diferentes
elementos
de
rede.
Este projecto tem como objectivo juntar estes dois mundos, que têm sido
objecto de estudo em dois departamentos distintos da PTInovação, no
sentido de desenvolver um mecanismo de gestão autonómica de recursos
para redes programáveis (SDN) através da tecnologia OpenFlow. Numa
rede com tecnologia OpenFlow, o controlo da rede será realizado pelo
OpenFlow controller, o qual terá de tomar decisões de routers/redes que
serão
escolhidos
para
os
diferentes
fluxos;
estas
decisões
serão
implementadas nos switches OpenFlow. No entanto, numa rede de
grandes dimensões e muito dinâmica, o OpenFlow controller terá uma
carga de processamento muito elevada para gerir todas as decisões.
Neste sentido, é importante dotar o OpenFlow de mecanismos de decisão
que permitam aprender dinamicamente o estado da rede e o impacto das
várias decisões tomadas, no sentido de permitir tomar decisões de gestão
de recursos com informação incompleta da rede. A distribuição das
decisões pelos vários elementos da rede, em cooperação com o OpenFlow
controller, será também endereçada.
Acron / Ref
Title
Serv-CPS
Serv-CPS: Server-based Real-Time Ethernet Communication Architecture
for Cyber-Physical Systems
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
The objective of this project is developing a network framework, based on
switched Ethernet, suitable to support CPS, by including an explicit and
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efficient support to component-oriented design methodologies.
The framework shall support:
-Heterogeneous
traffic
classes
with
temporal
isolation;
- Partitioning and virtualization mechanisms;
- Hierarchical multi-level server composition;
- Dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration of servers with temporal
guarantees;
- Analytical tools for supporting the design of CPS;
- Middleware for service management;
Acron / Ref
TICE.Healthy
Title
Systems of Health and Quality of Life
Funding
QREN/COMPETE
Descript.
The TICE.Healthy – Systems of Health and Quality of Life project seeks to
develop, integrate and test innovative technological approaches that will
serve as a basis for new products and services for markets linked to the
aspect of “Health and Quality of Life.”
Acron / Ref
TICE.Healthy
Title
Systems of Health and Quality of Life
Funding
QREN/COMPETE
Descript.
The TICE.Healthy – Systems of Health and Quality of Life project seeks to
develop, integrate and test innovative technological approaches that will
serve as a basis for new products and services for markets linked to the
aspect of “Health and Quality of Life.”
Acron / Ref
UDICMI
Title
Ultra High Definition Image Communication for Medical Imaging
Funding
QREN
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Descript.
Develop new techniques for high definition medical image compression
Acron / Ref
VERE
Title
VERE: Virtual Embodiment and Re-Embodiment
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
This project aims at dissolving the boundary between the human body
and surrogate representations in immersive virtual reality and physical
reality. Dissolving the boundary means that people have the illusion that
their surrogate representation is their own body, and act and have
thoughts that correspond to this. The work in VERE may be thought of as
applied presence research and applied cognitive neuroscience, and it
would also significantly add to scientific knowledge in these areas .
Imagine that you could transfer your self to an artificial body – a virtual
body as represented in virtual reality or a physical robotic body. Recent
advances in cognitive neuroscience show that internalising a body beyond
ourselves
(external,
remote,
alien)
is
possible,
that
our
body
representation is highly malleable and may be altered by appropriate
changes to the normal stimulus contingencies that we are used to in
every day life.
The purpose of this research is to make such body transference possible
with two different modes (virtual and physical). On top of this technical
achievement, that would be underpinned through ongoing neuroscience
research on body representation, would be a number of practical
applications that will be constructed and investigated during the project.
Acron / Ref
VOCE
Title
Voice Coach for Reduced Stress
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
VOCE shall develop methods and algorithms that enable the online
classification of stress from live speech with the goal of providing
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feedback cues to the speaker in real-time to improve his communication
skills. The work will focus on detecting and classifying stress in speech by
leveraging advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques,
complemented with psychological analysis of different aspects of stress
perception.
Specifically,
the
tasks
shall
produce
the
following
deliverables:
1) a large database of spontaneous speech samples multiply tagged for
being used in the development of automatic stress recognition methods;
2) speech feature extraction algorithms that are capable of real-time
performance, as well as the tagging of the samples in the database.; 3) a
reduced set of features relevant for stress classification, a classification
algorithm that can classify stress levels in real-time, a benchmark
evaluation of the various machine learning approaches to automatic stress
classification, using similar evaluation methodology and sample data set;
4) an application that integrates the results of the previous tasks and
evaluate its accuracy and response times, both in laboratory settings with
elicited emotions and in real-life trials.
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4.3.5
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Student
Co- Supervisors
Luís António
Vitor Manuel
Correia de
Mendes Silva
Oliveira
Técnicas Iterativas de
Igualização na Frequência
para Sistemas Monoportadora com Modulação
de Magnitude
Vasco
Joao Miguel Duarte Bit-depth scalable
Nascimento Ascenso
distributed video coding
End
Date
2/2013
3/2013
Improved H.264/AVC Video
Pedro André
Compression with RegionJoao Miguel Duarte
Faria
based Geometric
3/2013
Ascenso
Monteiro
Transforms
André
Catarina Isabel
Seixas Dias Carvalheiro Brites
Perceptual Error Protection
Using Distributed Video
3/2013
Coding Principles
Bruno
Coelho
LA6 - Local Aggregation in
the Internet of Things
5/2013
Pedro Diogo
PEPEonBOARD
5/2013
Eduardo
Bettencourt
Sense Companion Controlling home sensors
with smartphone
Nuno Manuel
Arley Leal
Garcia dos
Barros da
Santos
Silveira
João Paulo
Barraca
Title
Aleksander
Pleszko
5/2013
Forecasting Resource Needs
6/2013
in Networks
Joaquim José de
Castro Ferreira
Management of a Hard-QoS
6/2013
Switch
250
Supervisor
Student
Sancho
Moura
Oliveira
João Paulo
Ribeiro
Alves
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Diogo Miguel
Augusto
Lopes
Co- Supervisors
Anders Lyhne
Christensen
Tiago
Travassos
Vieira
Vinhoza
NXTTour: an open source
robotic system operated
over the internet
End
Date
6/2013
Acesso à Internet de Redes
Veiculares através de
7/2013
Gateways Móveis
Paulo
Ivo
Joaquim José de
Bacelar Reis Alexandre
Castro Ferreira
Pedreiras
Costa Alves
Angélico
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Title
Demonstrador para Switch
Ethernet Tempo-Real
7/2013
Desenvolvimento de
Aplicações de Segurança e
7/2013
Entretenimento para Redes
Veiculares
Filipe
Ferreira De
Oliveira
Tiago
Moreira
Pedro Miguel Rocha Estimating Stress Levels
Almeida
with Physiologic Sensors
Heart Sound Analysis for
Joao Manuel
Cardiac Pathology
Ana Isabel
Patrício
Identification: Detection
Rodrigues Castro
Pedrosa
and Characterization of
Heart Murmurs
7/2013
7/2013
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Joao Paulo
De Jesus
Aparicio
João Paulo
Barraca
Paulo Jorge
Joaquim José de
Henriques
Castro Ferreira
de Sousa
Integration of the WAVE
Short Message Protocol
(WSMP) with a IEEE
802.11p controller
7/2013
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Diogo
Emanuel Da
Silva Jordao
Carreira
Mobilidade das
Comunicações de Veículos
entre Hotspots WiFi
7/2013
Maria Paula
dos Santos
Queluz
Rodrigues
Tomás Gomes da
Rui Almeida Silva Serpa
Brandão
Objective Video Quality
Assessment in IPTV
Networks
7/2013
Pedro Miguel Naia
Neves
Integração da Cloud com a
7/2013
rede do Operador
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Supervisor
Student
Fábio
Joel José
Alexandre
Puga Coelho
Afonso
Rodrigues
Canelo
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Performance Assessment of
Security Mechanisms for
Cooperative Mobile Health 7/2013
Applications
Pedro Miguel
Plataforma eLearning para
Diogo Nuno Pereira
Programação
Oliveira
7/2013
Gomes
Estima
Manuel João
Privacy-aware Messaging on
Ana Cristina
Sampaio
Smartphone Mesh Network 7/2013
Costa Aguiar
Martins
Self-organizing mesh
Ana Cristina
Rui Archer
network of android devices 7/2013
Costa Aguiar
João Paulo
Barraca
Pedro
Miguel
Ricardo
Ângelo Silva
Morais Inácio Neto
Luis Miguel
Ana Cristina da Cunha e
Costa Aguiar Silva Martins
Costa
Joel José
Joel
Puga Coelho Lourenço
Rodrigues
Fernandes
João Carlos
Marques
Silva
Duarte
Nogueira
Traffic Classification Based
on Statistical Tests for
Matching Empirical
Distributions of Internet
Protocol Packet Lenghts
Urban Routing for Bicycles
Connect2me
Uma Arquitetura de
Transferência de Ficheiros
Otimizada a Redes Sociais
Luís Filipe
Barbosa de
Almeida
Alexandre
Uma nova representaçã̃o
para objetos 3D captados
por câmaras com sensores
de profundidade
João Ricardo
Luis Alberto
Simões
da Silva Cruz
Soares
7/2013
Web Services Approach for
Ambient Assisted Living in
7/2013
Mobile Environments
Mário Pedro
Guerreiro
Marco
Marques da
Brotas
Silva
Dominik
Wegrzyn
7/2013
8/2013
8/2013
8/2013
3D IPTV Quality Assessment 9/2013
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Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Rui Cardoso
Machado
Alexandre
Paul Andrew
João
Crocker
Gouveia
Pedro
Alexandre
Sousa
Gonçalves
Nuno
Almeida
Title
A story in the museum II
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
9/2013
Authentication Mechanisms
9/2013
in Cloud Based Services
João Paulo Barraca
Gateway de EthernetZigBee
Maria
Daniel
Manuela
Alexandre
Regiões de Interesse em
Areias da
Leitão
Vídeos 3D
Costa Pereira
Piedade
de Sousa
Pedro
Alexandre
André
Reserva de Recursos para
João Paulo Barraca
Sousa
Almeida
Automotive Ethernet
Gonçalves
Rui Pedro de
Magalhães
Nuno Peralta
CLOAS Replatform
Claro Prior
Paulo Luis
Serras
João Ricardo
Hand Veins Recognition
Lobato
Gonçalves
System
Correia
Neves
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
End
Date
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
10/2013
10/2013
Aníbal
Caixinha
IS for Alzheimer Illness
10/2013
Ricardo
Ribeiro
Learning Maths
10/2013
Narrow-Band Image
Processing for
Gastroenterological
Examinations
10/2013
Ricardo
Jorge
Bruno
Gamelas de
Mendes
Sousa
253
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Synthetic Aperture
Beamforming Processing on
GPUs Using OpenCL
Gabriel Falcão João Leonel
Paiva
Almeida
Fernandes
Amaro
Joel José
Puga Coelho
Rodrigues
Paulo Luis
Serras
Lobato
Correia
Pedro Miguel
Alves
Brandão
Edgar
Tavares da
Horta
Guilherme
Miguel
Gonçalves
Neves
João Graça
Paulo Luis
Serras
Lobato
Correia
10/2013
Android Gait Recognition
System
11/2013
Diabetes Management in a
mobile environment
11/2013
EmergenSIG: An Integrated
Location - based System for 11/2013
Emergency Management
Jorge
António
Ferreira de
Soure
Pedro Miguel
Alves
João
Brandão
Mesquita
End
Date
An Ambient Assisted Living
Solution for Mobile
11/2013
Environments
Joel José
Bruno Daniel
Puga Coelho
Marques dos
Rodrigues
Santos
Fernando
José
Pimentel
Lopes
Title
GSM-R Implementation in
the National Rail Network 11/2013
Pilot Project - Internship at
Refer Telecom
Ana Cristina Costa
Aguiar
Monitoring First Responders
with a Wireless Sensor
11/2013
Network Running IPv6
Lúcia Marília
Luís Eduardo de
On High Resolution
Matos
Pinho Ducla Soares Palmprint Matching
Carreira
11/2013
João Filipe Paulo Jorge
Oliveira Lino Lourenço Nunes
Scalable 3D Holoscopic
Video Coding
11/2013
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Roberto José
Gomes Silva
Social sensing application
for Smartphone
11/2013
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
João Rui
Almeida
Eusébio da
Silva Rosa
Tagus Mesh Network - Rede
experimental para avaliação
de arquitecturas e
11/2013
protocolos de redes em
malha
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Fernando Silva
254
Supervisor
Fernando
José
Pimentel
Lopes
Pedro
António
Amado
Assunção
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Pedro
António
Amado
Assunção
Student
Title
End
Date
Tânia
Cristina
Oliveira
Crespo
The Role of the
Telecommunications
Network in the Automation
and Telecontrol of the
National Electricity
Distribution System11/2013
Analysis and Mitigation of
the Risk Associated with the
Failure of the SDH
Equipment in the EDP GridInternship at EDP
Bruno Feitor
3D video Quality Monitor
based on non-reference
packet layer model
12/2013
Nuno Miguel Arnaldo Silva
Vicente
Rodrigues de
Ruivo Nunes Oliveira
Adaptação Automática da
Taxa de Transmissão em
Redes Veiculares
12/2013
Luis Pinto
Asymmetric 3D video
coding based on regions of 12/2013
perceptual relevance
Diogo
Pedro
Alexandre
Ricardo
Baptista
Morais Inácio
Fernandes
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Pedro
Miranda
Direito
Sargento
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço
Nunes
Co- Supervisors
David Miguel
Fernandes
Paulo
Joao Pedro
Bacelar Reis Nogueira
Pedreiras
Bastos
Auditing the Quality of
Cryptographic Material in
Virtual Machines
12/2013
Decomposição da Latência
por Segmento numa Rede
Móvel de Banda Larga
12/2013
Fast Stereo Matching Using
Local Methods and Mean
12/2013
Shift Segmentation
Fixed Priority Schedulers on
a hard-real time Baseband
Multiprocessor: LTE
12/2013
Transceiver Modeling
255
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Paulo
Michael
Bacelar Reis
Costa
Pedreiras
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Implementação em FPGA de
um Switch Ethernet
12/2013
Distribuído para Sistemas
Embutidos
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
André Zúquete
Mobilidade Distribuída em
Ambientes Dinâmicos: Rede 12/2013
de Hotspots WiFi e Veículos
Ana Luisa
Nobre Fred
João Paulo
Barraca
Mario
Marques
Freire
Jonathan
Gabriel
Oliveira
Carvalho
Marta
Cristina
Cardoso
Borralho
Henrique
Gaspar Pres
Luís Alves
Neves da
Costa
André Filipe
Prata
Ferreira
Pedro
Liliana Filipa
Ricardo
Baptista
Morais Inácio Soares
Antonio
Manuel
Duarte
Nogueira
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Joao Miguel
Duarte
Ascenso
PadMetrics: HumanComputer Interaction Based
12/2013
Biometrics for Tablet
Devices
Plataforma Inteligente para
Sistemas de Iluminação
12/2013
Pública
Secure and Efficient Storage
of Multimedia Content in
Public Cloud Environments 12/2013
Using Joint Compression
and Encription
Secure Authentication
Mechanisms for the
Management Interface in
12/2013
Cloud Computing
Environments
Malique
Seidi
Security Problems in the
Communications
Infrastructure of a High
Level Teaching Institution
12/2013
Bruno
Miguel Pinho
Tavaress
Transmissão Oportunística
de Informação em
Ambientes Veiculares
12/2013
José Moreira
Error control schemes for
IPTV multicast
3/2014
Joao Miguel
Duarte
Divyesh
Ascenso
Virchande
HTTP based video
streaming
3/2014
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Supervisor
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Fabio
João Paulo Vilela
Ferreira Dias
Sergurança em redes sem
fios através de técnicas
avançadas de Jamming e
codificação
3/2014
Nelson
Manuel
Catarino
Mendes
Virtual Post Office
3/2014
Tiago Xavier
Carlos Almeida
Furtado
ActiveTSN - Actuation in the
5/2014
Tagus-Sensornet
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Tiago
Alexandre
Moisés Simões
Vicente dos
Piedade
Santos
Carvalho
High Power Processor Placa de processamento do 5/2014
ISTnanosat
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
António José
Vitor Manuel
Ribeiro
Mendes Silva
Simões
Implementação e avaliação
de desempenho de técnicas
LINC para sinais de
5/2014
magnitude modulation para
modulações com offset
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues
Rocha
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Vítor Hugo
Nunes
Gomes
Joao Miguel Duarte Statistical Reconstruction
5/2014
Ascenso
for Predictive Video Coding
Criação de plataformas
digitais para a divulgação
da atividade do
Conservador-Restaurador
Joao Manuel
Diana
Mourão
Moreira
Patricio
Paulo
Bacelar Reis
Elio Tomas
Pedreiras
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
João
Francisco
Cardoso
Gante
Joaquim José de
Castro Ferreira
Vitor Manuel
Mendes Silva
Demonstrador para rede
tempo-real HaRTES
6/2014
6/2014
de desempenho de
receptores IB-DFE para
técnicas MIMO SC-FDE com 6/2014
baixas flutuações de
envolvente
257
Supervisor
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
Marco
Alexandre
Cravo
Gomes
Student
Pedro Daniel
Vitor Manuel
Rosete
Mendes Silva
Bento
João Filipe Vitor Manuel
Teles Nunes Mendes Silva
Eduardo
Oliveira
Ivo Petiz
Estanqueiro
Rocha
Eduardo
Oliveira
Estanqueiro
Rocha
Co- Supervisors
Paulo Jorge
Salvador Serra
Ferreira ,Antonio
Manuel Duarte
Nogueira
Paulo Jorge
Hugo Diogo
Salvador Serra
Antunes
Ferreira ,Antonio
Lopes
Manuel Duarte
Fonseca
Nogueira
Hugo Pedro
Martins
Emanuel
Carriço
Grancho
Proença
Paulo Jorge David José
Lourenço
Cabaço
Nunes
Mendes
Luís Eduardo Miguel
de Pinho
Delfino
Ducla Soares Rodrigues
End
Date
de desempenho de técnicas
OFDM and filterbank
multicarrier com sinais de 6/2014
baixas flutuações de
envolvente
Implementações e avaliação
de desempenho de
receptores para técnicas
6/2014
filterbank multicarrier
Project MODCOMP
6/2014
Project MODCOMP
6/2014
Unconstraiuned Periocular
recognition
6/2014
2D-to-3D Video Conversion 7/2014
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
Pedro
Pedro Jorge
Ricardo
Madeira
Morais Inácio Tavares
Luís Eduardo David de
de Pinho
Oliveira
Ducla Soares Gonçalves
Luís Eduardo
Pedro
de Pinho
Lourenço
Ducla Soares
Paulo Luis
Miguel Reis
Serras
Moitinho de
Lobato
Almeida
Correia
Title
4K Ultra HD Decoding and
Visualization System
7/2014
A Framework for Creating
Applications for the Web
and Different Mobile
Operating Systems
7/2014
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
A Super-Resolution Imaging
7/2014
System
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
An Inpainting System
7/2014
Biometric Identification
from Forensic Video
Surveillance Evidence
7/2014
258
Supervisor
Maria Paula
Prata de
Sousa
Student
Paula Marisa
Sampaio
Nuno Miguel
Tiago
Morais
Ribeiro
Rodrigues
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Co- Supervisors
Computerized Adaptive
Assessment of Learning
Tiago
Marques
Mario
Marques
Freire
Pedro
Manuel
Madureira
Correia
End
Date
7/2014
CUDA-MMP - Codificação de
Patrício Rodrigues
imagens com sistemas com
Domingues,Sérgio
7/2014
múltiplos núcleos
Manuel Maciel Faria
Goncalo
Neto de
Oliveira
Pardal
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Title
Ana Cristina Mariana
Costa Aguiar Dimas Julião
Susana
Joao Pedro
Isabel
Ferreira
Barreto de
Silva
Miranda
Mendes
Sargento
Alexandra
José Maria
Sofia Martins Líbano
Susana Vinga
de Carvalho Monteiro
Susana
Isabel
Andre Ferraz
Barreto de
Salvador
Miranda
Sargento
Susana
Fabio
Isabel
Cristiano
Barreto de
Outeiro de
Miranda
Aleluia
Sargento
Martins
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Luís Costa
Santos
Demonstrador de uma Rede
de Operador com
7/2014
Tecnologia OpenFlow e
Serviços na Cloud
Desenvolvimento de
Aplicações para Redes
Veiculares com Informação
7/2014
de Veículos e de Sensores
dos Dispositivos Móveis
Detection of Abnomal
Performance in Xen Cloud
Platform Environments
Discrimination Power of
Teager Energy Operator in
Stess Detection
7/2014
7/2014
Informação da Cidade e
Hotspots WiFi para
7/2014
melhorar as Comunicações
entre Veículos
Learning from short
multivariate time series (on 7/2014
going)
Mecanismos de Avaliação
da Qualidade de Ligação e
de Handovers entre várias
tecnologias
7/2014
Mecanismos de Mobilidade
em Redes de Veículos
7/2014
Mobile application for
detection of voice pattern
changes
7/2014
259
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Ricardo
Ana Cristina Jorge
Costa Aguiar Travanca
Morgado
Susana
Isabel
Duarte Jorge
Barreto de
Pires dos
Miranda
Santos
Sargento
Susana
Isabel
Joao Pedro
Barreto de
Coelho de
Miranda
Azevedo
Sargento
Title
End
Date
Mobile Healthcare on a M2M
7/2014
Mobile Gateway
Mobilidade de Utilizadores
entre redes 4G e WiFi num 7/2014
Ambiente de Operador
Mobilidade distribuída pelos
hotspots WiFi num
7/2014
ambiente de estrada
Nuno Miguel
Morais
João Silva
Rodrigues
OPENCL-MMP - Codificação
Patrício Rodrigues
de imagens com sistemas
Domingues,Sérgio
7/2014
com múltiplos núcleos
Manuel Maciel Faria
Alexandra
José Jorge
Sofia Martins
dos Reis
de Carvalho
Prognostic prediction in
patients with Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis using
7/2014
graphical models (on going)
Paulo Luis
Serras
Lobato
Correia
Sara Alexandra
Cordeiro Madeira
Ana Luisa Nobre
Jorge Miguel
Fred ,Hugo
Silverio do
Humberto Plácido
Carmo
da Silva
Sistema de Aquisição e
Análise de Sinais em
Ambiente Desportivo
Susana
Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Luis Carlos
Barata
Duarte
Guedes
Transmissão Oportunística
de Informação Através dos 7/2014
Veículos
Maria Paula
Prata de
Sousa
Samuel
Alves
Using the Cloud in Lab
Classes
António
Ana Cristina Rafael
Costa Aguiar Rodrigues
Franco
Ricardo
Jorge
Gamelas de André Maia
Sousa
7/2014
7/2014
WiFi Roaming for an Urban
7/2014
Route
Facial expressions in sign
language videos
8/2014
260
Supervisor
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
Student
Co- Supervisors
Tiago
Amaral
€-Hour
Gabriel
Carlos André
Falcão Paiva Faria da
Isabel Figueiredo
Fernandes
Graça
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
Carlos
Vicente
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
João
Teixeira
Title
Avaliação das redes
hospitalares no âmbito da
migração para SONHOv2
José André
Rocha Sá e
Moura
Avaliação de Factores
Criticos para a Adoção de
Soluções Cloud Computing
por Empresas dos Açores
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
Sérgio
Manuel
Maciel Faria
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
Aida Silva
Gilberto
Jorge
9/2014
Acceleration of computerassisted image inspection
9/2014
algorithms in medical
endoscopy
Adaptação de um registo
clinico hospitalar para
9/2014
dispositivos móveis com
conetividade limitada
Análise de algoritmos de
processamento de sinal e
métodos de classificação de
padrão funcional para
9/2014
aplicação de função
respiratória de smartphone
Pedro Miguel João
Alves
Francisco
Brandão
Moreira Sá
Oscar
Campos
Neto
End
Date
9/2014
9/2014
Avaliação Quantitativa da
Deglutição
9/2014
Codificação compatível
Nuno Miguel Morais
vídeo 3D com o algoritmo
Rodrigues
HEVC
9/2014
Pedro Silva
Developing an Agile
Platform for Knowledge
Management
9/2014
Cristina
Oliveira
E-learning in focused
echocardiography – a new
model
9/2014
Carla
Pedro Miguel
Susana
Alves
Ferreira
Brandão
Leite
Gestão Pessoal de diabetes
– sistema de
9/2014
aconselhamento
261
Supervisor
Student
Rui Pedro de
Pedro
Magalhães
Oliveira
Claro Prior
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
Isabel da
Piedade
Xavier
Machado
Alexandre
Miguel
Tavares
Coimbra
Co- Supervisors
Title
High throughput storage for
Pedro Miguel Alves health devices real-time
9/2014
Brandão
information
Eduardo
Alves
Interactive CAD system for
9/2014
gastroenterology
Looking for an answer Developing an application
for controlling the
progression of Alzheimer's
illness
Plataforma Web: De que
forma pode promover a
partilha de conhecimentos
entre Técnicos de
Radiologia?
Vanessa
Magalhães
Liliana
Dores
Portable Kernels to Speed
UP Convolutional Neural
Gabriel
João António Luís Filipe Barbosa
Networks for Real-time
Falcão Paiva Batista
de Almeida
Object Recognition
Fernandes
Maria
Alexandre
Scenarios
José André
Rocha Sá e
Moura
Flavio
Barbosa
Monteiro
Fortes
9/2014
9/2014
9/2014
Proposta de Gestão de
Dispositivos Móveis através 9/2014
do OpenFlow
Reconstrução 3D em tempo
real usando estimação
stereo baseada na análise 9/2014
de foto-simetria
Gabriel
Ricardo
Falcão Paiva
Ralha
Fernandes
Eduardo
Pedro Miguel
Filipe
Alves
Amaral
Brandão
Soares
João Pedro Marco
Afonso
António
Oliveira da Moura
Silva
Rebelo
Miguel
Celina
Tavares
Gomes
Coimbra
Pedro Miguel
David
Alves
Martins
Brandão
End
Date
Rui Pedro de
Magalhães Claro
Prior
Reliable Wireless Multicast
Framework in Javascript
9/2014
Sistema de monitorização
Nuno Miguel de
de consumos de energia
Figueiredo Garrido
eléctrica
9/2014
Sistemas de apoio a
gastroenterologia
9/2014
Tele Enfermeiro
9/2014
262
Supervisor
José André
Rocha Sá e
Moura
Student
Co- Supervisors
Ana Patricio
Salgueiro
Pais
André
Pedro Miguel
Fernando
Alves
Lopes
Brandão
Pereira
Verónica
Costa
Teixeira
Ivan Silva
Pinto
Orvalho
Sérgio
Armindo
Lopes
Crisóstomo
Cristiano
Monteiro
Paulo Luis
Serras
Lobato
Correia
Joao Paulo
Sim Sim
Lopes
Nuno Miguel
Ricardo
Morais
Monteiro
Rodrigues
Pedro
Fábio José
Ricardo
Sousa
Morais Inácio Rodrigues
Óscar
Ricardo
Narciso
Manuel Silva
Mortágua
Batista
Pereira
João Luís
Costa
André
Campos
Magalhães
Gonçalves
Sousa
Sobrinho
Pedro Miguel
dos Santos
Adelino
Alves
Portela
Madeira
Adão
Title
End
Date
Uma Proposta para a
Gestão de uma Infraestrutura de rede que não
suporte directamente o
protocolo OpenFlow
9/2014
USB Smartphone Attacks
9/2014
3D Facial Scanning
10/2014
Alocação de Máquinas
Virtuais em Nuvens Verdes
baseada na Afinidade de
10/2014
Recursos
Biometric Recognition using
10/2014
Android Devices
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
Compensação de
disparidade com
10/2014
transformações geométricas
Dissection of Modern
Malicious Software
10/2014
E-learning Platform Based
on Paulo Freire's Method
10/2014
Evaluating route
10/2014
aggregation in the Internet
Geração Automática de
Casos de Teste na
Ferramenta AnyTester
10/2014
263
Supervisor
Student
Pedro Miguel
dos Santos Bruno Filipe
Alves
Guia de
Madeira
Sousa
Adão
Sérgio
Pedro
Manuel
Ricardo
Rodrigues
Morais Inácio
da Costa
Paulo Luis
Telma
Serras
Cristovão de
Lobato
Oliveira
Correia
Tiago
Fernando
António
Manuel
Coroado
Santos
Silva
Perdigão
Ferreira
Fernando
Nuno
José
Alexandre
Pimentel
Bettencourt
Lopes
Martins
Sérgio
Carlos
Armindo
Miguel
Lopes
Martins de
Crisóstomo Castro
Sérgio
Armindo
Gonçalo
Lopes
Lourenço
Crisóstomo
Co- Supervisors
João Carlos
Serrenho Dias
Pereira
Title
Geração Automática de
Testes de Software
Isabel
Trancoso,Hugo
Meinedo
Mobile Alert: Combining
Human Motion Detection
and Voice Analysis
10/2014
Sara Maria
Fernandes Rato e
Costa Marques
Candeias
Online Portuguese Speech
Synthesis System
10/2014
Optimization and
Complexity Reductions in
HEVC Intra Coding
10/2014
SifoxPhone versão Touch
Screen
10/2014
Rui Prior
Pedro Miguel
dos Santos
Alves
Nina
Madeira
Mortazavi
Adão
André
Alexandre
Nunes
Martins
10/2014
Implementing a Loyalty
Card for Smartphones using 10/2014
a Bitcoin like Approach
Sistema de armazenamento
10/2014
de ficheiros Hybrid Cloud
Técnicas eficientes para
Sérgio
processamento de mapas
Filipe Xavier Nuno Miguel Morais
Manuel
de profundidade em
Graça Gama Rodrigues
Maciel Faria
codificadores de vídeo
multivista
Pedro
Alexandre
Sousa
Gonçalves
End
Date
Rui Luis Andrade
Aguiar
10/2014
Verification of
Cryptographic Protocols
using First Order Logics
10/2014
Critical Ethernet baseada
em OpenFlow
11/2014
264
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
João Nuno
Ricardo
Diogo Nuno Pereira
Pimentel da
Global Localization System 12/2014
Penas Conde Gomes
Silva Matos
Implementation of Fixed
Paulo
Jesse Wade
Priority Schedulers on a
Bacelar Reis
12/2014
Brandao
hard-real time Baseband
Pedreiras
Multiprocessor
Maria Paula Rui Manuel
State Management in Online
Prata de
Ferreira da
12/2014
Games
Sousa
Cunha
Table 21 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During 2013
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Evariste
Logota
Context-Aware
Control Design For
Multicast-Aware
Networks
1/2013
Ricardo
Matos
Context-based
Wireless Mesh
Networks
1/2013
Paulo da Costa
Luis da Fonseca
Pinto
Pedro António
Amado
Assunção
Pedro Miguel
Figueiredo
Amaral
Multipath inter1/2013
domain policy routing
João Paulo
Barraca
Rasool
Sadeghi
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
José Carlos
Guedes dos
Prazeres
Miranda
Pedro Correia
Rui Luis
Vitor Manuel
Andrade Aguiar Jesus Silva
Advanced Multiple
Vitor Manuel Mendes
Description Coding
Silva
for Video
Cooperative
Rui Luis Andrade
Communications in
Aguiar
Multi-Rate IEEE.
802.11 Networks
A. Augusto Sousa
2/2013
2/2013
Intuitive Real Time
Facial Interaction and 2/2013
Animation
Service Provisioning
in Dense Network
Operator Scenarios
2/2013
265
Supervisor
Student
Rui Pedro de
Patrick
Magalhães Claro Kwadwo
Prior
Agyapong
Co- Supervisors
Marvin Sirbu
Rui Luis
Daniel Corujo
Andrade Aguiar
Miguel Raul Dias Munnujahan
Rodrigues
Ara
Rui Luis
Óscar Pereira Maribel Santos
Andrade Aguiar
Paulo Luis
Serras Lobato
Correia
Henrique
José Monteiro
Oliveira
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
João Miguel
Gonçalves
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Nuno Miguel
Monteiro
Barbosa
Miguel Raul Dias Samah
Rodrigues
Mustafa
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Bruno Miguel
Ferreira de
Oliveira
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Can Ye
Title
Future Internet
Architectures:
Implications of
5/2013
Design Choices on
Economic Incentives
and Public Policy
Communication
Models for the Future 6/2013
Mobile Internet
Information-Theoretic
6/2013
Security 1
A Framework for
Bridging the Gap
Between the ObjectOriented and the
7/2013
Relational Paradigms
in Telecommunication
Systems
Crack Detection and
Characterization in
Flexible Road
7/2013
Pavements using
Digital Image
Processing
Integrated Identity
and Context
Management
7/2013
Architecture for
Privacy-Enabled
Context-Awareness
Auto-rigging applied
to markless MoCap
Adão Paulo Soares
Silva
End
Date
12/2013
Connections between
Information Theory
and Estimation
Theory and
12/2013
Applications to
Wireless
Communications
An interactive facial
muscle system for CG
1/2014
Films and
videogames
Biomedical Signal
Processing for Critical 1/2014
Infrastructures
266
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Pedro
Michel Celestino
Miranda de
Paiva Ferreira
Albuquerque
d'Orey
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
André
Peter Steenkiste
Miranda
Cardote
Sargento
Paulo Alexandre David
Carreira Mateus Henriques
João Pedro Carvalho
José Manuel
Ehsan
Oliveira de Miranda
Bioucas Dias
Zamanizadeh
Reis
Arlindo
Oliveira da
Veiga
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Lucas
Guardalben
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
Christopher
Viana
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Connected Vehicles
for Energy-efficient
Driving
1/2014
Model-checking for
security
1/2014
Ocean acoustic
tomography
1/2014
Automatic speech
and speaker
Luis António Serralva
segmentation and
Vieira de Sá
labelling
Communication
between nodes and
Paulo Jorge Salvador domains in selfSerra Ferreira
management
networks
Rui Luis Andrade
Aguiar
End
Date
Geo-optimized and
cross-layer transport 1/2014
communications
Probabilistic Modelchecking
Paulo Alexandre Manuel
Carreira Mateus Biscaia
Fernando
Manuel Santos
Perdigão
Title
Context Awareness
Collaborative
Communications
1/2014
2/2014
2/2014
2/2014
Nuno
Coutinho
Integração
Transparente de
2/2014
Redes Heterogéneas
Waldir Junior Paulo Mendes
Social-aware
Opportunistic Routing
2/2014
for Delay-Tolerant
Networks
Tiago
Condeixa
User-Centric Mobility
with Quality of
2/2014
Experience Handover
Optimization
267
Supervisor
Student
Ana Luisa Nobre André
Fred
Lourenço
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Automatic Document
Organization using
Semi-Structured
3/2014
Information
Computer-Aided
Detection and
Filipe Cruz
Diagnosis of Breast
Mario Marques
Gomes
Cancer in 2D and 3D 3/2014
Freire
Soares
Medical Imaging
Through Multifractal
Analysis
Learning Action
Luis Miguel Pina
Control Rules through
Coelho Teixeira Paulo Costa
Observation of
3/2014
Botelho
Software Agent
Bodies
Susana Isabel
Virtualização de
Barreto de
Redes numa
Márcio Melo Jorge Carapinha
3/2014
Miranda
Perspectiva de
Sargento
Operador
Efficient resource
management of
Rui Jorge
heterogeneous, small
Rui Miguel Neto
Ferreira
dimension and
4/2014
Marinheiro
Esteves
geographically
dispersed cloud
computing systems
Performance
Assessment of
Joel José Puga João Manuel
Mobility Solutions for
Coelho
Pires Leitão
4/2014
IPv6-based
Rodrigues
Caldeira
Healthcare Wireless
Sensor Networks
Performance
Assessment of RealJoel José Puga
Ousmane
Time Data
Coelho
Mbaye B. Sene
4/2014
Diallo
Management on
Rodrigues
Wireless Sensor
Networks
Performance
Assessment of
Joel José Puga Luis Miguel
Routing Protocols in
Amaro Fernandes de
Coelho
Lopes de
IPv6 Over Wireless
4/2014
Sousa
Rodrigues
Oliveira
Sensor Mesh
Networks
268
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Mário Alexandre
David Pereira
Teles de
Coutinho
Figueiredo
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Fabio
Headyioglu
Mário Alexandre
Teles de
Artur Ferreira
Figueiredo
Miguel Raul Dias
Ke Zhang
Rodrigues
Miguel Raul Dias
Vinay Prabhu
Rodrigues
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Pedro Santos
Oliveira Barros
Ana Luisa Nobre
João Duarte
Fred
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Rui Meireles Peter Steenkiste
Oliveira Barros
Ana Luisa Nobre
Helena Aidos
Fred
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Title
End
Date
Classification of
Sequences using
6/2014
Compression-Based
Distances
DigiScope - DIGItally
enhanced
6/2014
stethoSCOPE for
clinical usage
Hybrid
generative/discrimina
6/2014
tive supervised
learning
6/2014
Security 2
6/2014
Security 3
Coding for Networks7/2014
on-Chip
Data Clustering using
7/2014
Constraints
Density-Based
Routing in Vehicular 7/2014
Ad-hoc Networks
Dissimilarity
Increments Statistics
and Dimensionality
7/2014
Reduction in
Unsupervised
Learning
Hana
Khamfroush
Geographical
Network Coding
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Joao
Guilherme
Pereira
Rodrigues
Information
Gathering in
Intelligent
Transportation
Systems
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Susana Bulas
Cruz
Network Coding for
Sensor Networks
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Diogo
Ferreira
Network Coding
Protocols for Video
Streaming
7/2014
7/2014
7/2014
7/2014
269
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Maricica
Nistor
Network Coding
Delay
7/2014
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Saurabh
Shintre
Physical-Layer
Security in LargeScale Networks
7/2014
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Joel José Puga
Coelho
Rodrigues
Simulation of
Intelligent
R. Rossetti
Transportation
Systems
Miguel
Source Separation of
Ricardo Nuno Vigário
Almeida
Phase-Locked Signals
FACIAL SKIN
SHADING
Teresa de
PARAMETERIZATION
Jesus Batista
SYSTEM FOR REALVieira
TIME RENDERING OF
EMOTIONS
Performance
Evaluation of
Bruno Miguel
Cooperation
Correia da
Mechanisms for
Silva
Mobile Health
Applications
José Luís
Pereira
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Luís Filipe
Barbosa de
Almeida
Alexandre
João Soares
Frank
Kanesel
Sílvio Brás
Filipe
7/2014
8/2014
8/2014
Assessing Complexity
of Physiological
9/2014
Signals
Teresa
Luis Filipe
Sarmento
Coelho Antunes
Henriques
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
7/2014
Pedro Miguel Naia
Neves
Pedro Miguel Naia
Neves
Communication
Architecture for
9/2014
Mobile Cloud Services
Converged Mobile
Communications in
Multiple Integrated
Networks
9/2014
Development of a
biologically plausible
visual saliency
algorithm and its
9/2014
implementation on
GPGPU architecture
270
Supervisor
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
Student
Co- Supervisors
End
Date
Mónica Maria
da Costa
Madeira
Queirós de
Oliveira
Interactive
Technology for
9/2014
Emotion Recognition
Joao Almeida
Joint protection and
data compression
Mário
Antunes
Rui Luis Andrade
Aguiar
Michel Celestino
Cristina Olaverri
Pedro Gomes
Paiva Ferreira
Monreal
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Luís Miguel
Barbosa da
Costa Leite
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Pedro
Tavares
Barata
Bastos
Rui Manuel
José Catela
Rodrigues Rocha
Miguel Raul Dias Hugo
Rodrigues
Reboredo
Chandrashek
har Padolle
João Manuel
Rui Miguel Neto
Dias de
Marinheiro
Almeida
9/2014
Knowledge Extraction
from unstructured
9/2014
Context Information
Next-Generation
Driver Information
Systems
9/2014
Qualidade subjectiva
e objectiva de
imagens e vídeos,
9/2014
incluindo o caso 3D
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa Marco
Pereira de
Bernardo
Sousa
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
Title
Virtual puppets
Easy Facial
Constraints: A
Dynamic Industry
Standard
Moisés Simões
Piedade
9/2014
10/2014
Flexible and Adaptive
Architecture for
Wireless Multimedia 10/2014
Sensor Networks
Filter Design with
Secrecy Constraints
11/2014
Periocular biometric
recognition at visible
11/2014
wavelength
QoE measurements
with Agents
cooperation on
Personal Cells
11/2014
271
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Real-Time Urban 3D
Modeling by
Combining Stereo
Gabriel Falcão Rui Jorge
from Symmetry with
11/2014
Paiva Fernandes Melo Teixeira
General Purpose
Programming in the
Graphics Processing
Unit (GPGPU)
Adaptation and
Pedro António
Salviano
Sylvain
Quality Optimization
Amado
Soares,Sérgio Manuel
12/2014
Marcelino
in Future 3D Video
Assunção
Maciel Faria
Delivery Services
Pedro António
Algoritmos de
Amado
Filipe dos
Salviano Soares
Reconstrução de
12/2014
Assunção
Santos Neves
Sinal e Aplicações
Autonomic
Quantification and
Mario Marques
José Alberto Fonseca Classification of the
12/2014
Freire
Moutinho
Breast Tissue
Classification in 2D
Ultrassound Images
Body signal analysis
Miguel Tavares
Pedro Gomes
for monitoring fatigue 12/2014
Coimbra
in first responders
Tiago Miguel
Characterization and
Antonio Manuel
Paulo Jorge Salvador
Amaral de
Modeling of M2M
12/2014
Duarte Nogueira
Serra Ferreira
Sousa
Traffic
Developing Safety
António Luís
Critical Applications
Paulo Bacelar
Luis Miguel Pinho de
Ferreira
based on the Flexible 12/2014
Reis Pedreiras
Almeida
Marques
Time-Triggered
Paradigm
Event Detection for
Miguel Tavares
Paulo Alves
Capsule Endoscopy
12/2014
Coimbra
Video Exams
Paulo Jorge
Methodologies for
João
Antonio Manuel
Salvador Serra
Network Entities
12/2014
Rodrigues
Duarte Nogueira
Ferreira
Profiling
Modeling and
Nuno
Antonio Manuel
Paulo Jorge Salvador Analysis of Network
Gonçalves
12/2014
Duarte Nogueira
Serra Ferreira
Resilience: the
Rodrigues
Security Perspective
Hugo
Multi-Modal Modeling
Ana Luisa Nobre Humberto
of Cognition and
12/2014
Fred
Placido da
Emotion
Silva
Ângela
Cristina
Marques de
Oliveira
272
Supervisor
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Pedro António
Amado
Assunção
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Gil Melfe
Mateus
santos
Negative Object
recognition
André Reis
Optimizing Vehicular
Communications
12/2014
through Hybrid
Networks
Lino Ferreira
O. K. Tonguz
Luis Alberto da Silva
Cruz
12/2014
Scalable Video
Coding using spatiotemporal
12/2014
segmentation.
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Scalable video coding
Pedro António Amado with dynamic regions
Lino Ferreira
12/2014
Assunção
of interest
Mario Marques
Freire
Carlos David
Magalhães
Queiroz
Towards Autonomic
Detection of
Encrypted Peer-toPeer Traffic
Sérgio
Emanuel
Duarte Dias
Geometric
Representation and
Recognition Methods 1/2015
in Protein Docking
Abel João
Padrão Gomes
Carlos Manuel
Costa Lourenço Andreia
Caleiro
Mordido
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Logic in Security
Public Policies for
Intelligent
Transportation
Systems
Alexandre
Ligo
Paulo Alexandre
Ricardo Loura Vítor Rocha Vieira
Carreira Mateus
Paulo Alexandre
João
Carreira Mateus
Rodrigues
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Guilherme
Riberio
Corrêa
Nikola Paunkovic
12/2014
1/2015
1/2015
Quantum Adiabatic
Computation
1/2015
Quantum Walks
1/2015
Complexity Control of
HEVC Video Coders
2/2015
and Decoders
273
Supervisor
Luis Miguel
Pinho de
Almeida
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Luís Eduardo de
Pinho Ducla
Soares
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Student
Co- Supervisors
Luis Filipe
Nunes
Pedro Lima
Quaresma de
Oliveira
Mesfin
Workineh
(Not defined yet 2)
6/2015
Nesredien
Suleiman
(Not defined yet)
6/2015
Caroline
Conti
Paulo Jorge Lourenço 3D Holoscopic Video
Nunes
Coding
Hoang Van
Xiem
Joao Miguel Duarte
Ascenso
Hugo Moreira
de Sousa
Peter Steenkiste
Pinto
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Luis Pinto
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
End
Date
Communications and
Middleware for
Cooperating
3/2015
Heterogeneous and
Autonomous Mobile
Robots
Daniel Enrique
Lucani Roetter
Joel José Puga
Coelho
Rodrigues
Title
7/2015
Combined predictivedistributed video
7/2015
coding
Congestion Control
for Future Internet
7/2015
Cyber -physical
systems for Smart
7/2015
Buildings
Performance of
Management
João Alfredo
Solutions and
Fazendeiro
Cooperation
8/2015
Fernandes
Approaches for
Dias
Vehicular DelayTolerant Networks
Autonomic and
Cooperative Decision
Carlos
Arnaldo Silva
Model for Network
9/2015
Ferreira
Rodrigues de Oliveira Agents in selfmanagement
networks
Nelson
Capela
Pedro Miguel Naia
Neves
Gestão de Mobilidade
Inteligente e
9/2015
Transparente
João
Nogueira
Peter Steenkiste
Opportunistic
Networks: Exploring
the White Spaces
9/2015
274
Supervisor
Student
Rui Jorge
Henriques
Calado Lopes
José Luís P.A.
Vale Matos
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Thaísa Leal
da Silva
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Fernando
Manuel
Bernardo
Pereira
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Organizational Crisis
Preparedness and
9/2015
Response in a
Networked World:
Parallelization
techniques for
9/2015
H.264/AVC and
newer standards
Self-Organization in
Vehicular Ad-Hoc
Networks
9/2015
Ana de Abreu Pascal Frossard
View-Switching
Interactive Video
Experience
10/2015
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
Nuno Miguel Morais
Luis Filipe
Rodrigues
Rosário Lucas
Disparity
compensation using
Least Squares
11/2015
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Catarina
Alexandre
Runa Miranda
Face Tracking and
11/2015
Emotion Classification
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Filipe
Condessa
Biomedical image
classification/segmen 12/2015
tation
Luís Henrique
Martins Borges
de Almeida
Miguel
Antunes Dias José Manuel Bioucas
Alfaiate
Dias
Simões
Blind Image
Deblurring
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
José Mário
Figueiredo
Serra
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Jose Serra
Vitor Manuel
Mendes Silva
João Maria
Duarte
Andrade
Romeu
Monteiro
O. K. Tonguz
Gabriel Falcão Paiva
Fernandes
12/2015
Intelligent facial
animation: Creating
emphatic characters 12/2015
with stimuli based
animatio
Intelligent Facial
Animation: Creating
emphatic characters 12/2015
with stimuli based
animation
Memory-Aware
Parallel LDPC
Decoding over GF(q)
for Homogeneous
12/2015
and Heterogeneous
Multicore
Architectures
275
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Mário Alexandre
Xiangrong
Teles de
Zeng
Figueiredo
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Ozan
cetinaslan
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Daniel
Pereira
Abel João
Padrão Gomes
Abel João
Padrão Gomes
Anderson
Vinicius de
Oliveira
José André
Rocha Sá e
Moura
Pedro Ramos
Brandão
Pedro António
Amado
Assunção
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
João Carreira
João Carlos
Raposo
Neves
Carlos Miguel
Silva Couto
Pereira
Diogo
Alexandre
Baptista
Fernandes
End
Date
Optimization Methods
for Group-Sparsity
12/2015
Regularization
Simulation of
Deformable Solid and
12/2015
Rigid Bodies on Facial
Models
Designing cardiac
pathology screening
systems for hospitals
1/2016
using digital
stethoscopes
Rui Pedro
Monteiro
Amaro
Duarte
Rui Sérgio
Viegas
Rodrigues
Nuno Miguel
Morais
Rodrigues
Title
Geometric
Representation and
1/2016
Animation of Natural
Phenomena
SegmentaÃ§Ã£o de
Malhas
1/2016
GeomÃ©tricas
Sérgio Manuel Maciel
Video compression
Faria ,Eduardo
using flexible
Antônio da Silva
partition blocks
2/2016
Virtualização de Alto
2/2016
Nível
A. M. Kondoz,Sérgio
Manuel Maciel Faria
Error resilience and
concealment of multi
view video-plus3/2016
depth for high
efficiency video
coding
QUIS-CAMPI
Biometric Recognition
6/2016
from Surveillance
Data
Towards efficient
M2M communications 6/2016
An Orthogonal Layer
to Provide Security,
Resilience and
9/2016
Tolerance in Cloud
Computing
276
Supervisor
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Student
Co- Supervisors
Miguel
Ângelo Silva
Neto
Automated Facial
Animation Rigging
System
Pedro Mota
Mendes
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Fernando
Manuel Santos
Perdigão
Miguel
Almeida
Multiple Description
Coding with Side
Information
optimized for
Wireless Sensors
Orlando Remédios
Vitor Mirones Victor Marques
Jorge Oliveira
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
João Ricardo
Simões
Soares
José
Ana Luisa Nobre
Humberto
Fred
Bento
11/2016
11/2016
Performance
evaluation in next
12/2016
generation networks
Self in-network
resource
management
Automatic
Sara Maria Fernandes
Jorge Daniel
characterization of
Rato e Costa Marques
Leonardo
reading ability in
Candeias
Proença
children
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
End
Date
Detection of Malware
in Cloud Computing
Environments using 9/2016
Behavioral Analysis
Maria
Manuela Areias
Ângelo
da Costa Pereira
Arrifano
de Sousa
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Title
12/2016
1/2017
HeartSafe –
Assessing Heart
Function for
Unsupervised
Homecare
1/2017
applications through
Multi-Channel
Auscultation
3D ideo coding for
transmission in peer2/2017
to-peer networks
Cancelable Biometrics
3/2017
for Biosignals
277
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Filipe Manuel
Rodrigues
Casal
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
António
Damião das
Neves
Rodrigues
João Leonel
Gabriel Falcão
Almeida
Paiva Fernandes
Amaro
End
Date
Sinehma: Towards A
Multimodal
Stereoscopic
Interactive
6/2017
Environment For
Human Centered
Data Processing And
Visualization
Computability,
Computational
Complexity and
11/2017
Kolmogorov
Complexity relative
to Arithmetic Oracles
José Manuel
Ana Luisa Nobre
Lopes Braz
Fred
Pereira
João Filipe
Quintas dos
Santos Rasga
Title
Peter Steenkiste
IoT and M2M
Communications in
the Future Internet
Marco Alexandre
Cravo Gomes
Synthetic aperture in
the frequencydomain: a new
framework for real- 1/2018
time high-resolution
of medical ultrasound
imaging
12/2017
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4.3.6
Publications
ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS
Books
- Sargento, S.; M. Klonowski; M. Cesana; M. Ara; S. Sargento; A Special Issue of
Ad Hoc Networks on “Smart Solutions for Mobility Supported Distributed and
Embedded Systems” , Elsevier Science , n , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " A Concurrent Tuple Set
Architecture for Call Level Interfaces " - Chapter in Computer and Information
Science , Lee, Roger , Springer , 2013 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " ABC Architecture: a New
Approach to Build Reusable and Adaptable Business Tier Components Based on
Static Business Interfaces " - Chapter in CCIS - Evaluation of Novel Approaches to
Software Engineering , Maciaszek, Leszek A.; Zhang, Kang , Springer, 2013 .
- Luís, M.; R. Oliveira; R. Dinis; L. Bernardo; " Advances on Medium Access Control
for Cognitive Radio Networks " - Chapter in Communication Systems: New
Research , Vyacheslav Tuzlukov , Nova Publisher , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; H. R. Marques; J. Rodriguez; F. P. B. Pascual Blanco; M. N. S. Nuñez
Sanz; I. D. E. Digón Escudero; " Dynamic QoS Support for P2P Communications " Chapter in 3D Future Internet Media , Kondoz, Ahmet; Dagiuklas, Tasos , Springer ,
New York , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Logota, E.; C. Campos; S. Sargento; A. Neto; " Advanced Multicast Class-based
Bandwidth Over-Provisioning ", Computer Networks , Vol. 57 , No. 9 , pp. 2075 2092 , April , 2013 .
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- Sousa, Paula Prata; P. Fazendeiro; C. A. Augusto; S. Azevedo; V. C. CruzMachado; " Collaborative Environment for Supply Chain Assessment ", Iberian
Journal of Information Systems and Technologies , Vol. 12 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 15 ,
December , 2013 .
- Barraca, J.P.B.; Rasool Sadeghi Sadeghi; R. L. Aguiar; " Collaborative Relaying
Strategies in Autonomic Management of Mobile Robotics ", Wireless Personal
Communications , Vol. 70 , No. 3 , pp. 1077 - 1096 , June , 2013 .
- Barraca, J.P.B.; Rasool Sadeghi Sadeghi; R. L. Aguiar; " Collaborative Relaying
Strategies in Autonomic Management of Mobile Robotics ", April , 2013 .
- Pinto, F.; N. Carapeto; A. Videira; T. Frazão; M. Homem; " Context-aware
Multimedia Distribution to Mobile Social Communities ", Intrnl. Journal of Handheld
Computing Research (IJHCR) , Vol. 4 , No. 3 , pp. 63 - 92 , September , 2013 .
- Lopes, A.L.; L.M. Botelho; " Distributed Coordination of Heterogeneous Agents
Using a Semantic Overlay Network and a Goal-Directed Graphplan Planner ", PLOS
One , Vol. 8 , No. 5 , pp. 1 - 13 , May , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; R. H. Hsing; M. Chen; B. J. Jiao; B. Vaidya; " Guest Editorial on
Vehicular Networking Protocols ", Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,
Vol. 36 , No. 3 , pp. 959 - 960 , May , 2013 .
- Jeon, Seil; R. L. Aguiar; N. K. Kang; " Load-Balancing Proxy Mobile IPv6 Networks
with Mobility Session Redirection ", IEEE Communications Letters , Vol. 17 , No. 4 ,
pp. 808 - 811 , April , 2013 .
- Zuniga, JC; LM Contreras; C. Bernardos; Seil Jeon; Y. Kim Kim; " Multicast
Mobility Routing Optimizations for Proxy Mobile IPv6 ", International Engineering
Task Force (IETF) RFC , No. 7028 , pp. 1 - 29 , September , 2013 .
- Coutinho, N.; S. Sargento; " On the Analysis of Hierarchical Autonomic Control of
Multiparty Services ", IEEE Network , Vol. 27 , No. 1 , pp. 45 - 51 , January , 2013 .
280
- Althunibat, S.; V. Iglésias; H.M. Marques; J. Rodriguez; R. T. Tafazolli; F. Granelli
Granelli; " On the Trade-off between Security and Energy Efficiency in Cooperative
Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio ", IEEE Communications Letters , No. 99 ,
pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2013 .
- Ganhão, F.; M. Pereira; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; P. Pinto; " Performance
Analysis of an Hybrid ARQ Adaptation of NDMA Schemes ", IEEE Trans. on
Communications , Vol. 61 , No. 8 , pp. 3304 - 3317 , August , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; C. Campos; S. Sargento; A. Neto; " Scalable Resource and Admission
Control
in
Class-Based
Differentiated
Networks
",
Recent
Patents
on
Telecommunications , Vol. 2 , No. 2 , October , 2013 .
- Pinto, F.; P. Chainho; N. Pássaro; F. Santiago; D. Corujo; D. Gomes; " The
Business of Things Architecture ", Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications
Technologies , Vol. 44 , No. 4 , pp. 441 - 452 , May , 2013 .
- Albano, M.; S. Hadzic ; J. Rodriguez; " Use of negative information in positioning
and tracking algorithms ", Telecommunication Systems , Vol. July 2013 , No. 1 , pp.
1 - 15 , July , 2013 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " Runtime Values Driven by
Access Control Policies Statically Enforced at the Level of the Relational Business
Tiers ", Proc International
Conf.
on
Software
Engineering
and
Knowledge
Engineering - SEKE , Boston , United States , Vol. I , pp. 1 - 7 , June , 2013 .
- Costa, M.C.; A.O. Oliveira; PP Pedreiras; "A RRR RedBox for Safety-Critical
Networked Embedded Systems ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Evora ,
Portugal , September , 2013 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " A Concurrent Tuple Set
Architecture for Call Level Interfaces ", Proc IEEE/ACIS International Conf. on
281
Computer and Information Science, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2008 , Niigata , Japan , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 143 - 158 , June , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; J. Rodriguez; " A Cross-layer Resource Over-Provisioning Architecture
for P2P Networks ", Proc 18th International Conf. on Digital Signal Processing (DSP
2013), Special Session on 3D Immersive , Santorini , Greece , July , 2013 .
- Barros, G. B.; J. V. Vieira; F. Ganhão; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; P. C. Carvalho; R.
Oliveira; P. Pinto; " A soft-handover scheme for LEO satellite networks ", Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall , Las Vegas , United States , September ,
2013 .
- Barroca, N.; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " Block Acknowledgment Mechanisms for
the optimization of channel use in Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC ,
London , United Kingdom , September , 2013 .
- Crocker, P.; A.R. Rocha; " C4G e-infrastructure ", Proc EU.ORG EPOS PP Regional
Conf. - EPOSPP , Barceçon , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , November , 2013 .
- Condeixa, T.; S. Sargento; " Dynamic Mobile IP Anchoring ", Proc IEEE
- Vieira, J. V.; F. Ganhão; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; M.B, Beko; R. Oliveira; P. Pinto; "
Energy-Efficient QoS Provisioning in Random Access Satellite NDMA Schemes ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks - ICCCN ,
Nassau , Bahamas, The , July , 2013 .
- Neto, A.; J. C. L. Castillo Lema; E. Logota; J. Rodriguez; " Hybrid Framework for
Scalable Resource Control in Multi-ingress Networks ", Proc Globecom 2013
Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks and Services (GC13 WS - MENS) ,
Atlanta , United States , December , 2013 .
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- Barroca, N.; Paulo T. Gouveia T. Gouveia; F. J. Velez; " Impact of Switching
Latency Times in Energy Consumption of IEEE 802.15.4 Radio Transceivers ", Proc
- Condeixa, T.; L.G Guardalben; G.T Gomes; S. Sargento; R. Sofia Sofia; " MakeWithout-Break Horizontal IP Handovers for Distributed Mobility Management
Schemes ", Proc Globecom 2013 Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks
and Services (GC13 WS - MENS) , Atlanta , United States , December , 2013 .
- Kang, N. K.; R. Sofia Sofia; S. Sargento; " Multihop Mobility Metrics based on Link
Stability
",
Proc
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Advanced
Technologies
for
Communications - ATC , Barcelona , Spain , March , 2013 .
- Cunguara, MAC; TOS Silva; PP Pedreiras; " On the Application of Block
Transmissions
For
Improving
Control
over
Lossy
Networks
",
Proc
IEEE
International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA ,
Cagliary , Italy , pp. 1 - 8 , September , 2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; MC Cunguara; TOS Silva; " On the Control of Lossy Networks with
Hold Strategy ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems SIES , Porto , Portugal , pp. 290 - 298 , June , 2013 .
- Pinto, L. M. ; P. Santos; S.C. Crisóstomo; T. Abrudan; J. Barros; " On-the-fly
deployment of wireless sensor networks for indoor assisted guidance ", Proc
International Conf. on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications - CPSNA
, Taipei , Taiwan , pp. 1 - 4 , August , 2013 .
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Protocol to Find and Select a Relay in
Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications
- ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 105 - 108 , May , 2013 .
- Vieira, J. V.; F. Ganhão; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; M.B, Beko; R. Oliveira; P. Pinto; "
Random Access NDMA MAC Protocols for Satellite Networks ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking - NEW2AN , St.
Petersburg , Russia , June , 2013 .
283
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " Reusable Business Tier
Architecture Driven by a Wide Typed Service ", Proc IEEE/ACIS International Conf.
on Computer and Information Science, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2008 , Niigata , Japan , Vol.
1 , pp. 135 - 141 , June , 2013 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " Runtime Values Driven by
Access Control Policies Statically Enforced at the Level of the Relational Business
Tiers ", Proc International
Conf.
on
Software
Engineering
and
Knowledge
Engineering - SEKE , Boston , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , June , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; C. Campos; S. Sargento; A. Neto; " Scalable Resource and Admission
Management in Class-based Networks ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Communications - ICC , Budapest , Hungary , June , 2013 .
- Marques, A. M.; V.V. Vasconcelos; PP Pedreiras; L. Almeida; " Schedulability
Analysis of Server-Based Error-Recovery Mechanisms for Time-Triggered Systems
", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
- ETFA , Cagliari , Italy ,pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2013 .
- Crocker, P.; A. P. Peixinho; " Secret Sharing for High Security Codes on SmartCards ", Proc European Conf. on Information Warfare and Security - ECIW ,
Jyväskylä , Finland , Vol. 12 , pp. 45 - 54 , July , 2013 .
- Moreira, W.; P. Mendes; S. Sargento; " Social-aware Opportunistic Routing
Protocol based on User's Interactions and Interests ", Proc Springer International
Conf. on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless - ADHOC-NOW , Barcelona , Spain ,
October , 2013 .
- Ashjaei, M.A.; PP Pedreiras; MB Behnam; TN Nolte; L. Almeida; " Supporting
Multi-Hop Communications with HaRTES Ethernet Switches ", Proc IEEE Real-Time
Systems Symp. - RTSS , Vancouver , Canada , December , 2013 .
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " Two innovative energy
efficient IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer protocols with packet concatenation:
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employing RTS/CTS and multi-channel scheduled channel polling ", Proc IEEE 802
Plenary Session , Dallas , United States , November , 2013 .
Project Reports
-
Logota,
E.;
"
Analysis
of
current
urban
ecosystems
",
Instituto
de
Telecomunicações , ACCUS Nº. 333020 , November , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; " Dissemination Plan ", Instituto de Telecomunicações , ACCUS Nº.
333020 , November , 2013 .
- Logota, E.; H. M. C. Marques Marques; " Report on real - time Audio - Visual
communication overlay for remote users ", Instituto de Telecomunicações , May ,
2013 .
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Papers in Journals
- Fuentes, C.F.; V. Orvalho; X. Alvarez; P. H. Haggard; " Does My Face FIT?: A Face
Image Task Reveals Structure and Distortions of Facial Feature Representation ",
PLOS One , Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 9 , October , 2013 .
- Falcão, G.; " How fast can parallel programming be taught to undergraduate
students? ", IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol.32 , No. 4 , pp. 28 - 29 , August , 2013 .
- Leite, L.; V. Orvalho; " Inter-Acting: Understanding interaction with performancedriven puppets using low-cost optical motion capture device ", Intrnl. Journal of
Advanced Computer Science , Vol. 3 , No. 2 , pp. 0 - 0 , February , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, M. R. ; A. Gomes; " A Skillet-Based Recoloring Algorithm for Dichromats
", Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services HealthCom , Lisbon , Portugal , October , 2013 .
285
- Pereira, D.; P. Gomes; E. Mota; E. Costa; R. Correia; M. Coimbra; " Combining a
tablet and an electronic stethoscope to create a new interaction paradigm for
teaching cardiac auscultation ", Proc International Conf. on Human-Computer
Interaction - HCII , Las Vegas , United States , July , 2013 .
- Ferreira, A. F.; F. S. Silva; " Gamágio: A Game For Plagiarism Prevention ", Proc
VideoJogos - VJ , Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , September , 2013 .
- Serra, J.; " Intelligent Facial Animation ", Proc Foundations of Digital Games 2013
- FDG-2013 , Crete , Greece , pp. 1 - 3 , May , 2013 .
- Pesqueira, P, R.; F. S. Silva; " Interactive visualization of 3D models in WebGL ",
Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Évora , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 76 - 83 ,
September , 2013 .
- Mendonça, R. M.; P. Santana; F. M. Marques; A. Lourenço; J. Silva; J. B. Barata; "
Kelpie: A ROS-Based Multi-Robot Simulator for Water Surface and Aerial Vehicles ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - SMC , United
Kingdom , January , 2013 .
- Bastos, P.B; " Multimodal Rig Interfaces for Character Facial Animation ", Proc
FCSH-TKB
International
Conf.
on
Multimodal
Communication:
Language,
Performance and Digital Media , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 46 - 47, May, 2013 .
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; V. Savin; " Near-LSPA Performance at MSA
Complexity ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Budapest ,
Hungary , Vol. 1 , pp. 1874 - 1878 , June , 2013 .
- Amaro, J. A.; G. Falcão; B. Y. Y. Yiu; A. C. Y. Yu; " Portable Parallel Kernels for
High-speed Beamforming in Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP ,
Vancouver , Canada , May , 2013 .
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NETWORK APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
Books
- Rodrigues, J. R.; (eds.); Advancing Medical Practice through Technology:
Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality , , IGI global,
Medical Information Science Reference , Hershey , 2013 .
- Taludker, A.; N. M. Garcia; (eds.); Convergence through all IP Networks , CRC
Press , Boca Raton, FL, USA , 2013 .
-
Rodrigues,
J.
R.;
(eds.);
Digital
Advances
in
Medicine,
E-Health,
and
Communication Technologies , , Idea-Group Inc. , Hershey, PA , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; K. L. Lin; J. L. Lloret; (eds.); Mobile Networks and Cloud
Computing Convergence for Progressive Services and Applications , , IGI global,
Medical Information Science Reference , Hershey , 2013 .
- Zúquete, A.; Segurança em Redes Informáticas, 4a Edição Actualizada e
Aumentada , , FCA - Editora de Informática, Lda. , Lisboa , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Azevedo, S.; P. Fazendeiro; V. C. Cruz-Machado; " A fuzzy LARG index model to
the automotive supply chain " - Chapter in Airports and the Automotive Industry:
Security Issues, Economic Efficiency and Environmental Impact , Michal Zajac and
Roman Nowaczek , Nova Publisher, 2013 .
- Taludker, A.; N. M. Garcia; G. M. J. Jayatheertha; " All IP Networks: Introduction
" - Chapter in Convergence through all IP Networks , Asoke K Talukder, Nuno M.
Garcia, G. M. Jayateertha , CRC Press, 2013 .
- Hadzic , S.; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; " Cooperative Game Theory and Its
Application in Localization Algorithms " - Chapter in Game Theory Relaunched ,
Hardy Hanappi , In-Tech, 2013 .
287
- Ordoñez, B. ; U. F. Moreno; J. Cerqueira; L. Almeida; " Generation of trajectories
using predictive control for tracking consensus with sensing and connectivity
constraint " - Chapter in Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks , Anis Koubaa,
Abdelmajid Khelil , Springer, 2013 .
- Garcia, N. M. ; N. R. C. G. Garcia; " IP over Optical Fiber " - Chapter in
Convergence through all IP Networks , Asoke Taludker, Nuno M. Garcia, G. M.
Jayatheertha , Pan Stanford Publishing , Singapore , 2013 .
- Costa, J. C.; J. R. Rodrigues; " Mobile Cloud Computing: Technologies, Services,
and Applications " - Chapter in Mobile Networks and Cloud Computing Convergence
for Progressive Services and Applications , Joel J.P.C. Rodrifgues, Kai Lin, Jaime
Lloret , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference , Hershey , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; P. João; I. T. de la Torre; " Recent Advances in Intelligent
Tutoring Systems: a Case Study " - Chapter in Handbook of Research on Teaching
and Learning in K-20 Education , Victor C.X. Wang , Idea-Group Inc. , Hershey, PA,
USA , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Mwangoka, J.; P. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " TV White Spaces Exploitation through
a Bicameral Geolocation Database ", Telecommunications Policy , Vol. 37 , No. 2-3 ,
pp. 116 - 129 , March , 2013 .
- Silva, B.; F. C. Canelo; J. R. Rodrigues; I. L. Lopes; L. Z. Zhou; " A Data
Encryption Solution for Mobile Health Applications in Cooperation Environments:
DE4MHA ", Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) , Vol. 15 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 11
, April , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; I. L. Lopes; B. Silva; I. T. de la Torre; " A New Mobile Ubiquitous
Computing Application to Control Obesity: SapoFit ", Informatics for Health and
Social Care , Vol. 38 , No. 1 , pp. 37 - 53 , January , 2013 .
288
- Silva, B.; J. R. Rodrigues; I. L. Lopes; T. M. Machado; " A Novel Cooperation
Strategy for Mobile Health Applications ", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
- Rosa, P. R.; F. B. Basso; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Weight-Aware Recommendation
Algorithm for Mobile Multimedia Systems ", Mobile Information Systems , Vol. 9 ,
No. 2 , pp. 139 - 155 , April , 2013 .
- Azketa, E.; J. J. Gutirrez; M. Natale; L. Almeida; M. Marcos; " Algoritmo genetico
permutacional para el despliegue y la planificacion de sistemas de tiempo real
distribuidos ", Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial , Vol.
10 , pp. 344 - 355 , January , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; I. T. de la Torre; G. F. Fernández-Cardeñosa; M. L. LópezCoronado; " Analysis of the Security and Privacy Requirements of Cloud-Based ",
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) , Vol. 15 , No. 8 , pp. 1 - 9 , August ,
2013 .
- Pombo, N.; P.A. Araújo; J.C. Viana; " Applied Computer Technologies in Clinical
Decision Support Systems for Pain Management:A Systematic Review ", Journal of
Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems , July , 2013 .
- Matos, R.; S. Sargento; A. H. Hess; K. Tutschku; H. d. M. de Meer; " Contextbased
Wireless
Mesh
Networks:
A
Case
for
Network
Virtualization
",
Telecommunication Systems , Vol. 52 , No. 3 , March , 2013 .
- Barreda-Pérez, M. B.; I. T. de la Torre; M. L. López-Coronado; J. R. Rodrigues; T.
G. García; " Development and Evaluation of a Web-based Tool to Estimate Type 2
Diabetes Risk: Diab_Alert ", Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 19 , No. 2 , pp. 81 87 , February , 2013 .
- de la Torre, I. T.; S. A. Álvaro-Muñoz; M. L. López-Coronado; J. R. Rodrigues; "
Development and performance evaluation of a new RSS tool for a Web-based
system: RSS_PROYECT ", Journal of Network and Computer Applications , Vol. 36 ,
No. 1 , pp. 255 - 261 , January , 2013 .
289
- Zhou, L. Z.; Z. Y. Yang; J. R. Rodrigues; M. G. Guizani; " Exploring Blind Online
Scheduling for Mobile Cloud Multimedia Services ", IEEE Wireless Communications ,
Vol. 20 , No. 3 , pp. 54 - 61 , June , 2013 .
- Noguero, A.; IC Calvo; F. Pérez; L. Almeida; " FTT-MA: A Flexible Time-Triggered
Middleware Architecture for Time Sensitive, Resource-Aware AmI Systems ",
Sensors , Vol. 13 , No. 5 , pp. 6229 - 6253 , May , 2013 .
- Boban, M.; O. Tonguz; J. Barros; " Geometry-Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel
Modeling for Large-Scale Simulation ", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology , May ,
2013 .
- Chen, C. C.; X. Z. Zhu; Y. W. Wen; J. R. Rodrigues; " Guest Editorial - Special
section on Cloud-based Mobile Media: Infrastructure, Services, and Applications ",
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia , Vol. 15 , No. 4 , pp. 721 - 722 , June , 2013 .
- Han, G. H.; J. J. Jiang; W. S. Shen; L. S. Shu; J. R. Rodrigues; " IDSEP: A Novel
Intrusion Detection Scheme based on Energy Prediction in Cluster-based Wireless
Sensor Networks ", IET Information Security , Vol. 7 , No. 2 , pp. 97 - 105 , June ,
2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; L. P. Pedro; T. V. Vardasca; I. T. de la Torre; H. M. Martins; "
Mobile Health Platform for Pressure Ulcer Monitoring with EHR Integration ", Health
Informatics Journal , Vol. 19 , No. 4 , pp. 300 - 311 , December , 2013 .
- Simões, T.; J. R. Rodrigues; I. T. de la Torre; " Personal Learning Environment
Box (PLEBOX): A New Approach to Enhance E-Learning Platforms ", Computer
Applications in Engineering Education , Vol. 21 , No. S1 , pp. E100 - E109 , August ,
2013 .
- Fernandes, D. A. B. F.; L. F. B. Soares Soares; J. V. Gomes; M. Freire; P.R.M.
Inácio ; " Security Issues in Cloud Environments - A Survey ", Intrnl. Journal of
Information Security , pp. 0 - 62 , September , 2013 .
290
- Simões, ões T.; J. R. Rodrigues; J. C. Costa; " Towards a Novel Service Learning
Platform: A Second Generation Learning Solution ", International Journal of Web
and Grid Services , Vol. 9 , No. 4 , pp. 323 - 338 , October , 2013 .
- Lopes, I. L.; B. Vaidya; J. R. Rodrigues; " Towards an Autonomous Fall Detection
and Alerting System on a Mobile and Pervasive Environment ", Telecommunication
Systems , Vol. 52 , No. 4 , pp. 2299 - 2310 , June , 2013 .
- Boban, M.; R. Meireles; J. Barros; P. Steenkiste; O. Tonguz; " TVR - Tall Vehicle
Relaying in Vehicular Networks ", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing , May , 2013 .
- Han, G. H.; L. S. Shu; A. P. Pathan; J. R. Rodrigues; A. M. Mellouk; " Wireless
Sensor Networks Based on Environmental Energy Harvesting ", Intrnl. Journal of
Distributed Sensor Networks , Vol. 2013 , No. Article ID 816063 , pp. 1 - 2 , July ,
2013 .
- Pinto, A.; T. Calçada; " Data plane efficiency of a hybrid multicast approach for
content aware networks ", Proc Future Network and Mobile Summit , Lisbon ,
Portugal , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2013 .
- Silva, Silva J.; I. Fonseca; D.C. Coelho; F. Lopes; " The Impact of the Automation
and Control Systems on the Energy Performance of Buildings: A Case study of a
Hotel Building ", Proc Energy for Sustainability Conf. - Sustainable Cities: Designing
for People and the Planet , Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September ,
2013 .
- Cunguara, MAC; TOS Silva; PP Pedreiras; " “Multipath Data Aggregation on WSN
", Proc IEEE + ACM Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Sensor Networks
(part of CPSWeek) - SPADES-Nets , Philadelphia , United States , April , 2013 .
- " A Framework for QoE Measurements of Realtime Scalable Video Coding
Streaming Using Conventional Servers and Clients ", Proc Springer International
291
Conf. on Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication - AIM ,
Bangalore , India , April , 2013 .
- Almeida, JMDA; R. N. Marinheiro; J. C. Silva; J.A. Moura; " A Framework for QoE
Measurements of Realtime Scalable Video Coding Streaming Using Conventional
Servers and Clients ", Proc Springer International Conf. on Advances in Information
Technology and Mobile Communication - AIM , Bangalore , India , Vol. 1 , pp. 85 90 , April , 2013 .
- Mendes, J. M.; F. V. Vigário; M. N. Neto; M. Freire; P.R.M. Inácio ; " Automatic
Derivation Rules for Iptables ", Proc International Conf. on Engineering - ICEUBI ,
Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 2 , pp. 0 - 10 , November , 2013 .
- Vilela, J.P.; J. Barros; " Collision-free Jamming for Enhanced Wireless Secrecy ",
Proc IEEE International Workshop on Data Security and Privacy in Wireless
Networks , Madrid , Spain , June , 2013 .
- Almeida, L.; J. Reis; PP Pedreiras; R. Marau ; " Demonstrating Dynamic Ethernet
Virtualization for Efficient Bandwidth Management ", Proc IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symp. - RTSS , Vancouver , Canada , Vol. 1-RTSS@Work , pp. 1 - 1 , December ,
2013 .
- Marques, A. M.; V.V. Vasconcelos; PP Pedreiras; L. Almeida; " Error Recovery in
Time-Triggered Communication Systems Using Servers ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES , Porto , Portugal , pp. 205 - 212 ,
June , 2013 .
- Madaleno, R.M.; R. N. Marinheiro; " Identification and ranking of relevant criteria
for the selection of Software as a Service ", Proc Information Systems and
Technologies (CISTI), 2013 8th Iberian Conference on - CISTI , Lisbon , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 41 - 46 , June , 2013 .
- Iqbal, Z.; L. Almeida; " Implementing Virtual Channels in Ethernet using
Hierarchical Sporadic Servers ", Proc International Workshop on Real-Time
Networks - RTN , Paris , France , Vol. 01 , pp. 1 - 7 , July , 2013 .
292
- Yang, D.; J. Bachmatiuk; V. Talooki; J. Rodriguez; " Improved CodeCast For SVC
Video Multicast ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling
Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks - IEEE CAMAD , Berlin ,
Germany , pp. 14 - 17 , September , 2013 .
- P. B., P. B. S.; D. E. Lucani; J. B. S. Sousa; " Joint Route Planning for UAV and
Sensor Network for Data Retrieval ", Proc IEEE International Systems Conference SysCon , Orlando, FL , United States , April , 2013 .
- Almeida, J.A.; M. Boban; S.S. Shintre; J. Barros; " Low-complexity secret key
distribution for Vehicular Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Castelo Branco , Portugal ,pp. 0 - 5 , May , 2013 .
- Médard, M. M.; J. Barros; " Melting Pad: A Secure, Efficiently Decodable Coding
Scheme ", Proc IEEE Military Communications Conf. - MILCOM , San Diego , United
States , November , 2013 .
- Cunguara, MAC; TOS Silva; PP Pedreiras; " Multipath Data Aggregation on WSN ",
Proc IEEE + ACM Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Sensor Networks
(part of CPSWeek) - SPADES-Nets , Philadephia , United States , April , 2013 .
- Oliveira, L.; J. R. Rodrigues; Carlos Neto Neto; A. F. Sousa; " Network admission
control solution for 6LoWPAN networks ", Proc International Conf. on Innovative
Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing , Taichung , Taiwan , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 472 - 477 , July , 2013 .
- Mustafa, S.; " Network Coding Mechanisms for Ka-Band Satellite Time Varying
Channel ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Commun - PIMRC , London , United Kingdom, Vol.1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2013 .
- Alves, J. P. R. ; S. Oliveira; A. Christensen; " NXTTour: an open source robotic
system operated over the internet ", Proc Workshop on Open Source and Design of
Communication - OSDOC2013 , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 18 - 23, July , 2013 .
293
- Costa, B; S. Oliveira; L. Nunes; " Profiling Web Users Preferences with Text
Mining Plan2See – dynamic formulation of conceptual groups ", Proc CISTI 2013 8ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias da Informação , Lisbon , Portugal
, Vol. 2 , pp. 73 - 76 , June , 2013 .
- Soares, L. F. B. Soares; D. A. B. F. Fernandes; M. Freire; P.R.M. Inácio ; " Secure
User Authentication in Cloud Computing Management Interfaces ", Proc IEEE
International Performance Computing and Communications Conf. - IPCCC , San
Diego , United States , Vol. 32 , pp. 6 - 8 , December , 2013 .
- Lucani, D. E.; P. B. S. P. B.; J. B. S. Sousa; " Spare the Mule, Help your
Neighbors: Robot Route Planning for Data Retrieval on Large Scale Sensor
Networks ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation - ICRA ,
Karlsruhe , Germany , May , 2013 .
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; " Structuring Irregular Binary LDPC Decoding on
Graphics Processors ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
- Gomes, P.; F. V. Vieira; M. Ferreira; " Sustainable Highways with Shadow Tolls
based on VANET Advertising ", Proc ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr
Inter-NETworking - VANET , Taipei , Taiwan , June , 2013 .
Yang, D.; J. Bachmatiuk; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; " Symmetric Video Multicast
over Multihop Wireless Network Using Inter-/Intra-Session Network Coding ", Proc
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , Atlanta , United States , pp.
1 - 5 , December , 2013 .
- Ballesteros, A.B.; D.G. Gessner; J. Proenza Proenza; PP Pedreiras; " Towards
Preventing Error Propagation in a Real-Time Ethernet Switch ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA ,
Cagliari , Italy , pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2013 .
- Liu, S. Liu; M. Araújo Araújo; R. Krishnan Krishnan; E. Brunskill Brunskill; R.
Rossetti; J. Barros; " Understanding Sequential Decisions via Inverse Reinforcement
294
Learning ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Mobile Data Management - MDM ,
Milan , Italy , June , 2013 .
- Conceição, H.; M. Ferreira; P. Steenkiste; " Virtual Traffic Lights in Partial
Deployment Scenarios ", Proc IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp. - IV , Gold Coast ,
Australia , June , 2013 .
NETWORK OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Books
- Nogueira, A. N.; P. Salvador; (eds.); A Practical Approach to Corporate Networks
Engineering , , River Publishers , Aalborg , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Soares, J.; R. Monteiro; M. Melo; S. Sargento; J. Carapinha; " The Cloud inside
the Network: a virtualization approach to resource allocation " - Chapter in
Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing: Design and Applications ,
Hussein Mouftah, Burak Kantarci , Idea-Group Inc. , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Oliveira, L.; J. R. Rodrigues; A. F. Sousa; J. L. Lloret; " A Network Access Control
Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks ", Sensors , Vol. 13 , No. 1 , pp. 1210 - 1230 ,
January , 2013 .
- " A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks ", Sensors , Vol.
13 , No. 1 , pp. 1210 - 1230 , January , 2013 .
- Oliveira, L.; J. R. Rodrigues; A. F. Sousa; J. L. Lloret; " Denial of Service
Mitigation Approach for IPv6-enabled Smart Object Networks ", Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience , Vol. 25 , No. 1 , pp. 129 - 142 , January ,
2013 .
295
- Gomes, J. V.; P.R.M. Inácio ; M. Sousa; M. Freire; P. Monteiro; " Detection and
classification of peer-to-peer traffic: A survey ", ACM Computing Surveys , Vol. 45 ,
No. 3 , pp. 1 - 40 , June , 2013 .
- Silva, J. C.; R. N. Marinheiro; J.A. Moura; " Differentiated Classes of Service and
Flow Management using An Hybrid Broker ", ACEEE International Journal on
Communication , Vol. 4 , No. 2 , pp. 13 - 22 , December , 2013 .
- Caldeira, JC; J. R. Rodrigues; P. Lorenz; " Intra-Mobility Support Solutions for
Healthcare Wireless Sensor Networks – Handover Issues ", IEEE Sensors Journal ,
Vol. 13 , No. 11 , pp. 4339 - 4348 , November , 2013 .
- Pombo, N.; P.A. Araújo; J.C. Viana; " Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Decision
Support
Systems
for
Pain
Management:
A
Systematic
Review
",
Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine , December , 2013 .
- Melo, M.; S. Sargento; U. Killat Killat; A. Timm-Giel; J. Carapinha; " Optimal
Virtual Network Embedding: Node-Link Formulation ", IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management , October , 2013 .
- Matias, L.; J.G. Gama; M. Ferreira; JMM João Mendes-Moreira; L.D. Damas; "
Predicting Taxi–Passenger Demand Using Streaming Data ", IEEE Trans. on
Intelligent Transportation Systems , Vol. 14 , No. 3 , pp. 1393 - 1402 , September ,
2013 .
- Salvador, P.; A. N. Nogueira; JM Mendes; I.P. Petiz; " Statistical characterization
of P2P-TV services and users ", Telecommunication Systems , August , 2013 .
- Lima, Christopher Lima; D. Gomes; M. Antunes; R. L. Aguiar; " A Context- Aware
Framework for CSCW Applications in Enterprise Environments ", Proc IADIS
International Conf. Collaborative Technologies 2013 - CT , Prague , Czech Republic
, July , 2013 .
296
- Lopes, J.L.; S. Sargento; A. Zúquete; " A Dependable Alternative to the Spanning
Tree Protocol ", Proc European Workshop on Dependable Computing - EWDC ,
Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. LNCS 7869 , pp. 148 - 164 , May , 2013 .
- Lopes, J.L.; S. Sargento; A. Zúquete; " A Dependable Alternative to the Spanning
Tree Protocol ", Proc European Workshop on Dependable Computing - EWDC ,
Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. LNCS 7869 , pp. 148 - 164 , May , 2013 .
- Gomes, G.T; L.G Guardalben; P. Salvador; S. Sargento; " A Genetic Algorithm
Approach
to
Improve
Network
Nodes
Association
",
Proc
IEEE
Global
Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , Atlanta , United States , December ,
2013.
- Einsiedler, H.; R. L. Aguiar; A. G. Gavras; H. Schotten Schotten; " A new metamodel for Future Internet architectures ", Proc Future Network and Mobile Summit ,
Lisbon , Portugal , pp. 1 - 11 , July , 2013 .
- Gomes, G.T; L.G Guardalben; P. Salvador; S. Sargento; " A Spanning Tree
Protocol over Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ", Proc IEEE International Workshop
on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms - SCPA , Budapest , Hungary ,
June , 2013 .
- Cota, N.; A. Serrador Serrador; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; " An Enhanced Radio
Network Planning Methodology for GSM-R Communications ", Proc Conf. on
2013 .
- Figueiredo, Sérgio Figueiredo; Carlos Guimarães Guimarães; R. L. Aguiar; T.Ngu
Nguyen; L. Y. Yadin; N. Carapeto; C. P. Parada; " Broadcasting User Content over
Novel Mobile Networks ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC ,
Budapest , Hungary , pp. 3613 - 3618 , June , 2013 .
- Aguiar, R. L.; D. Gomes; " Cloud Thinking - Simplifying Big Data Processing ",
Proc Target Conf. 2013, Probing Big Data for answers , Groningen , Netherlands ,
April , 2013 .
297
- Yang, D.; J. Bastos; S.M. Mumtaz; C. Verikoukis; J. Rodriguez; " Communitybased Sequential Paging for LTE-A Cellular Network ", Proc IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Dresden , Germany , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Guimarães, Carlos Guimarães; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; F. O. Oliveira; "
Empowering Software Defined Wireless Networks Through Media Independent
Handover Management ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM
, Austin , United States , December , 2013 .
- Silva, F.; D. Corujo; Carlos Guimarães Guimarães; J. Pereira; P. R. Rosa; S.
Kofuji; A. Neto; R. L. Aguiar; " Enabling Network Mobility by Using IEEE 802.21
Integrated with the Entity Title Architecture - Workshop de Pesquisa Experimental
da Internet do Futuro (WPEIF)
", Proc
Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de
Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos , Brasilia , Brazil , May , 2013 .
- Pavan, C.; R.M. Morais; A. N. Pinto; " Evaluation of Ongoing Capacity Provisioning
Methods in Optical Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Castelo Branco , Portugal , pp. 337 - 340 , May , 2013 .
- Guardalben, L.G; G.T Gomes; R.S. Sousa; P. Salvador; S. Sargento; " Lightweight
Discovery
and
Exchange
of
Network
Information
in
Distributed
Network
Management ", Proc IFIP/IEEE International Symp. on Integrated Network
Management - IFIP/IEEE IM , Ghent , Belgium , Vol. , pp. 740 - 743 , May , 2013 .
- Melo, M.; S. Sargento; J. Carapinha; " Network Virtualization: a Step Closer For
Seamless Resource Mobility ", Proc IFIP/IEEE International Symp. on Integrated
Network Management - IFIP/IEEE IM , Ghent , Belgium , pp. 692 - 695 , May , 2013
- Matias, L.; J.G. Gama; M.F. Ferreira; JMM João Mendes-Moreira; L.D. Damas; "
On Predicting the Taxi-Passenger Demand: A Real-Time Approach ", Proc
Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA , Angra do Heroísmo , Portugal ,
September , 2013 .
- Guardalben, L.G; T. Condeixa; G.T Gomes; P. Salvador; S. Sargento; " On the
Analysis
of
Dissemination
Management
Information
through
an
Eyesight
298
Perspective ", Proc Globecom 2013 Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks
and Services (GC13 WS - MENS) , Atlanta , United States , December , 2013 .
- Ferreira, R. A. Ferreira; A. Matos; R. L. Aguiar; " Recognizing Entities Across
Protocols with Unified UUID Discovery and Asymmetric Keys ", Proc IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , Austin , United States , December , 2013.
- Lima, Christopher Lima; D. Gomes; M. Antunes; R. L. Aguiar; " Social Awareness
in Pervasive Communities for Collaborative Work ", Proc International Workshop on
Applications of Affective Computing in Intelligent Environments - ACIE , Athens ,
Greece , July , 2013 .
- Quevedo, J.; R. L. Aguiar; " Testing Performance of MLP Neural Networks for
Intrusion Detection with MATLAB ", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC
, Leiria , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- Antunes, M.; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; " Towards behaviour inference in smart
environments ", Proc The Conf. on Future Internet Communications - CFIC ,
Coimbra , Portugal ,May , 2013 .
Project Reports
- Crocker, P.; " Relatório Final do Projeto ", PT Inovação, July , 2013 .
NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND DESIGN
Book Chapters
- Almeida, G. A.; J. R. Rodrigues; L. Oliveira; " 6LoWPAN - Interconnecting Objects
with IPv6 " - Chapter in Convergence through all IP Networks , Asoke K. Talukder,
Nuno M. Garcia, Jayateertha G. M. , Pan Stanford Publishing , Singapore , 2013 .
- Alam , M.; M. Albano; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; " Context Based Node
Discovery Mechanism for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks " - Chapter in
Green Communication for 4G Wireless Systems , Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan
Rodriguez , River Publishers , 2013 .
299
- Saghezchi, F.B.; M. Alam ; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; " Cooperative Strategies
for Power Saving in Multi-standard Wireless Devices " - Chapter in The Future
Internet , Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras , Springer , Berlin , 2013 .
- Alam , M.; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; " Resource Allocation and Energy
Calculation in WPANs based on WiMedia MAC " - Chapter in Green Communication
for 4G Wireless Systems , Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez , River Publishers ,
2013 .
- Alam , M.; M. Albano; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; " Throughput Fairness Analysis
of Reservation Protocols for WiMedia MAC " - Chapter in Green Communication for
4G Wireless Systems , Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez , River Publishers ,
2013 .
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Optimization of a p-persistent Network Diversity Multiple Access Protocol for a SCFDE System ", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications , Vol. 12 , No. 12 , pp.
5953 - 5965 , December , 2013 .
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3D/2D IPTV Distribution using WiMAX and WLAN Technologies ", Multimedia Tools
and Applications , Vol. 67 , No. 1 , pp. 7 - 30 , November , 2013 .
- Hasan, M. M.; F. F. Farahmand; J. J. Jue; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Study of EnergyAware Traffic Grooming in Optical Networks: Static and Dynamic Cases ", IEEE
Systems , Vol. 7 , No. 1 , pp. 161 - 173 , March , 2013 .
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Discovery for Short Rang Cooperation ", European Trans. on Telecommunications ,
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the performance of single-radio wireless mesh networks ", Telecommunication
Systems , Vol. 65 , No. 2 , pp. 1 - 21 , August , 2013 .
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and Throughput Analysis of Reservation Protocols of WiMedia MAC ", Journal of
Green Engineering , pp. 1 - 20 , November , 2013 .
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Cable Access Networks in Future Smart Cities ", IEEE Communications Magazine ,
Vol. 51 , No. 6 , pp. 94 - 100 , June , 2013 .
- Oliveira, R.; M. Luís; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; P. Pinto; " Improving Path Duration in
High Mobility Vehicular ad hoc Networks ", Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks , Vol. 11 , No.
1 , pp. 89 - 103 , January , 2013 .
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Networking , December , 2013 .
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Principle, Infrastructure, and Application ", IEEE Communications Magazine , Vol.
51 , No. 1 , pp. 84 - 89 , January , 2013 .
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Nodes on the Performance of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks ", Mobile Networks
and Applications , Vol. 18 , No. 6 , pp. 867 - 878 , September , 2013 .
- Luís, M.; R. Oliveira; R. Dinis; L. Bernardo; " Towards a Realistic Primary Users'
Behavior in Single Transceiver Cognitive Networks ", IEEE Communications Letters ,
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Delay-Tolerant Networks – A Novel Solution for Vehicular Communications ", IEEE
Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine , Vol. 5 , No. 4 , pp. 10 - 19 , October
, 2013 .
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for Decentralized Single Radio Cognitive Networks ", Proc IEEE International Symp.
on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS , Imenau , Germany , pp. 1 - 5 ,
August , 2013 .
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Design and Validation ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and
Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , London , United Kingdom , September , 2013 .
- Luís, M.; R. Oliveira; R. Dinis; L. Bernardo; " Channel Availability Assessment for
Cognitive Radios ", Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and Industrial
Systems - DOCEIS , Caparica , Portugal , Vol. 394 , pp. 495 - 505 , April , 2013 .
- Gouveia, J.; P. Crocker; - Melo de Sousa; " E-Id Authentication and Uniform
Access to Cloud Storage Service Providers ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science - CloudCom , Bristol , United Kingdom , Vol. 5 ,
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WiFi/WiMedia Relaying in Hybrid Ad-Hoc Networks ", Proc IEEE International Conf.
on Communications and Information Technology - ICCIT , Beirut , Lebanon , pp.
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through Network Coding ", Proc IEEE GLOBECOM International workshop on Control
Techniques for Efficient Multimedia Delivery - CTEMD , Atlanta , United States ,
December , 2013 .
- Coutinho, N.; S. Sargento; R.P. Prior; " Enhancing Abstract Multiparty Transport
through Network Coding ", Proc IEEE GLOBECOM International workshop on Control
Techniques for Efficient Multimedia Delivery - CTEMD , Atlanta , United States ,
December , 2013 .
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in 802.11n Networks Through Payload Extension ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Communications - ICC , Budapest , Hungary , pp 1 - 6 , June , 2013 .
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Wireless Cooperative Network Using Network Coding ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , London , United
Kingdom , September , 2013 .
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Networks ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Commun - PIMRC , London , United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2013 .
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Distributed and Dynamic Mobility Management Strategy - A Simulation Study ",
Proc IFIP Wireless Days 2013 , Valencia , Spain , November , 2013 .
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Books
- Gorgulho, A. Gorgulho; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; Intelligent Financial Portfolio
Composition based on Evolutionary Computation Strategies , , Springer , Heidelberg
, 2013 .
- Canelas, A.; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; Investment Strategies Optimization based on a
SAX-GA Methodology , , Springer , Heidelberg , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; " Hyperspectral Imagery Framework for Unmixing
and Dimensionality Estimation " - Chapter in Pattern Recognition - Applications and
Methods , Pedro Latorre Carmona, J. Salvador Sánchez, Ana L.N. Fred , Elsevier
Science , , 2013 .
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Pelillo; " A MAP approach to evidence accumulation clustering " - Chapter in Pattern
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Recognition Applications and Methods 2013, Revised Selected Papers , Maria De
Marsico and Ana Fred , Springer , Vilamoura , 2013 .
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Accumulation Clustering Using the Confidence of the Objects’ Assignments " Chapter in PAKDD 2012 Workshops, Lectune Notes in Computer Science , T. Washio
and J. Luo , Springer , , 2013 .
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Class imbalance in the prediction of dementia from neuropsychological data " Chapter in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, volume 8154 of Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, pages 138-151 , Luis Miguel Correia, Luís Paulo Reis
and José Manuel Cascalho , Springer , Angra do Heroísmo, Açores , 2013 .
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Human Behavior Recognition Based on Biosignal Analysis " - Chapter in Human
Behavior Recognition Technologies: Intelligent Applications for Monitoring and
Security , Hans W. Guesgen and Stephen Marsland , IGI global, Medical Information
Science Reference , , 2013 .
- Lourenço, A.; S. Bulo Bulo; A. L. N. Fred; M. Pelillo; " Consensus Clustering with
Robust Evidence Accumulation " - Chapter in Energy Minimization Methods in
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , Heyden, Anders and Kahl, Fredrik and
Olsson, Carl and Oskarsson, Magnus and Tai, Xue-Cheng , Springer , Lund , 2013 .
- Lourenço, A.; S. Bulo Bulo; C. C. Carreiras; H. Silva; A. L. N. Fred; M. Pelillo; "
Dominant Set Approach to ECG Biometrics " - Chapter in CIARP 2013, Part I, LNCS
8258 proceedings , ? , Springer , Havana , 2013 .
- Pombo, N.; K. B. Bousson; P.A. Araújo; " From Data to Knowledge: Towards
Clinical Machine Learning Automation " - Chapter in Ambient Assisted Living , Nuno
M. Garcia, Joel José P.C. Rodrigues, Dirk Christian Elias, Miguel Sales Dias , CRC
Press , , 2013 .
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- Proença, H.; " Iris Recognition in the Visible Wavelength: Issues and Trends " Chapter in Handbook of Iris Recognition , Mark J. Burge and K. Bowyer, ISBN: 9784471-4401-4 , Springer , , 2013 .
- Fred, A. L. N.; A. Lourenço; H. Aidos; S. Bulo Bulo; N. Rebagliati; M. A. T.
Figueiredo; M. Pelillo; " Learning Similarities from Examples under the Evidence
Accumulation Clustering Paradigm " - Chapter in Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis
and Recognition , Marcello Pelillo , Springer , , 2013 .
- Aguiar, P.; M. Bicego; U. Castellani; M. A. T. Figueiredo; A. Martins; V. Murino; A.
Perina; A. Ulas; " On the combination of information-theoretic kernels with
generative embeddings " - Chapter in Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and
Recognition , M. Pelillo , Springer , London , 2013 .
- Prudêncio, J. P.; A. Aguiar; D. E. Lucani; " Physical Activity Recognition from
Smartphone Embedded Sensors " - Chapter in Pattern Recognition and Image
Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7887 , João M. Sanches, Luisa
Micó , Jaime S. Cardoso , Springer , , 2013 .
- Leite, N. Leite; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; F. Melício Melício; A.C.R. Rosa; " Solving an
Uncapacitated Exam Timetabling Problem Instance using a Hybrid NSGA-II " Chapter in Studies in Computational Intelligence , Kurosh Madani, António Dourado,
Agostinho Rosa, Joaquim Filipe , Springer , Heidelberg , 2013 .
- Silva, H.; A. P. Alves Alves; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; I. Montalvão; L. Alegre; "
Towards the Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments " Chapter in LNCS [to appear] , , Springer , , 2013 .
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Multifractal Analysis of Breast Tumor Lesions in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , No. 99 , pp. 10 24 , July , 2013 .
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Strategies on Financial Markets based on Pattern Discovery Techniques ", Expert
Systems with Applications , January , 2013 .
- Lourenço, A.; H. Silva; C. C. Carreiras; A. P. Alves Alves; A. L. N. Fred; " A webbased platform for biosignal visualization and annotation ", Multimedia Tools and
Applications , pp. 1 - 28 , February , 2013 .
- Nascimento, J.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; J. S. Marques; " Activity Recognition Using A
Mixture of Vector Fields ", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , Vol. 22 , No. 5 , pp.
1712 - 1725 , May , 2013 .
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Segmentation: Evaluation and Comparison ", Pattern Analysis and Applications ,
Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 15 , December , 2013 .
- Dorigo, M. D.; M. B. Birattari; C Blum; A. Christensen; A. P. Engelbrecht; R. G.
Gross; T. Stutzle; " ANTS 2012 special issue ", Swarm Intelligence , Vol. 7 , No. 2-3
, pp. 79 - 81 , September , 2013 .
- Duarte, M. J. D.; A. P. Pinho; " Bacterial DNA Sequence Compression Models
Using Artificial Neural Networks ", Entropy , Vol. 15 , No. 9 , pp. 1 - 14 , August ,
2013 .
- Bicego, M.; A. Ulas; U. Castellani; A. Perina; V. Murino; P. Aguiar; M. A. T.
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for classification ", Neurocomputing , Vol. 101 , No. 1 , pp. 161 - 169 , January ,
2013 .
- Proença, H.; " Compensating for Pose and Illumination in Unconstrained Periocular
Biometrics ", Intrnl. Journal of Biometrics , Vol. 5 , No. 3/4 , pp. 336 - 359 ,
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Boundaries Using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers ", IEEE Trans. on
Image Processing , Vol. 22 , No. 8 , pp. 3074 - 3086 , August , 2013 .
- Carvalho, A. M.; P. Adão; P. Mateus; " Efficient Approximation of the Conditional
Relative Entropy with Applications to Discriminative Learning of Bayesian Network
Classifiers ", Entropy , Vol. 15 , No. 7 , pp. 2716 - 2735 , July , 2013 .
- Gomes, J.; P. Urbano; A. Christensen; " Evolution of swarm robotics systems with
novelty search ", Swarm Intelligence , Vol. 7 , No. 2-3 , pp. 115 - 144 , September
, 2013 .
- Filipe, S.; L. Alexandre; " From the human visual system to the computational
models of visual attention: a survey ", Artificial Intelligence Review , Vol. 39 , No. 1
, pp. 1 - 47 , January , 2013 .
- Li, J.; P. Marpu; A. Plaza; J. Dias; J. A. Benediktsson; " Generalized composite
kernel
framework for hyperspectral image classification ", IEEE Trans. on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing , Vol. 51 , No. 9 , pp. 4816 - 4829 , September ,
2013 .
- Gamboa, H.; H. Silva; A. L. N. Fred; " HiMotion: A New Research Resource for the
Study of Behavior, Cognition, and Emotion ", Multimedia Tools and Applications ,
pp. 1 - 31 , July , 2013 .
- Dias, J.; A. Plaza; G. Camps-Valls; N. Nasrabadi; P. Scheunders; J. Chanussot; "
Hyperspectral remote sensing data analysis and future challenges ", IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, Vol. 1 , No. 2, pp. 6 - 36 , June , 2013 .
- Proença, H.; " Iris Biometrics: Indexing and Retrieving Heavily Degraded Data, ",
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Synthesis of Degraded Ocular Images ", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and
Security , Vol. 8 , No. 7 , pp. 1115 - 1125 , June , 2013 .
- Costa, P.; L.M. Botelho; " Learning by Observation of Agent Software Images ",
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , Vol. 47 , No. 47 , pp. 313 - 349 , June ,
2013 .
- Iordache , M.; J. Dias; A. Plaza; Somers; " MUSIC-CSR: hyperspectral unmixing
via multiple signal classification and collaborative sparse regression ", IEEE Trans.
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 19 , December , 2013 .
- Santana, P.; R. M. Mendonça; L. C. Correia; J. B. Barata; " Neural-Swarm Visual
Saliency for Path Following ", Applied Soft Computing , Vol. 13 , No. 6 , pp. 3021 3032 , January , 2013 .
- Antão, DPC; H. Silva; H. Gamboa; A. L. N. Fred; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Novel
fiducial and non-fiducial approaches to electrocardiogram-based biometrics systems
", IET Biometrics , Vol. 2 , No. 2 , pp. 64 - 75 , June , 2013 .
- Almeida, M.S.C.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Parameter Estimation for Blind and NonBlind Deblurring Using Residual Whiteness Measures ", IEEE Trans. on Image
Processing , Vol. 22 , No. 7 , pp. 2751 - 2763 , July , 2013 .
- Proença, H.; " Performance Evaluation of Image Local Keypoints Detection and
Matching Techniques, ", Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal , October ,
2013 .
- Proença, H.; JC Moreno; " Periocular Biometrics: Constraining the EGM Algorithm
to Biologically Plausible ", IET Biometrics , November , 2013 .
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Learning , April , 2013 .
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Geoscience and Remote Sensing , Vol. 51 , No. 7 , pp. 4032 - 4044 , July , 2013 .
- Almeida, M.; J. Dias; R. V. Vigário; " Separation of phase-locked sources in
pseudo-real MEG data ", EURASIP Journal on Appl. Signal Processing , Vol. 2013 ,
No. 32 , February , 2013 .
- Zeng, X.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Solving OSCAR regularization problems by
proximal splitting algorithms ", September , 2013 .
- Sousa, R.Sousa; JSCardoso Cardoso; " The Data Replication Method for the
Classification with Reject Option ", Artificial Intelligence Communications , June ,
2013 .
- Santana, P.; L. C. Correia; R. M. Mendonça; N. A. Alves; J. B. Barata; " Tracking
Natural Trails With Swarm-Based Visual Saliency ", Journal of Field Robotics , Vol.
30 , No. 1 , pp. 64 - 86 , January , 2013 .
- Martins, A.; M. Almeida; N. A. Smith; " "Turning on the Turbo: Fast Third-Order
Non-Projective Turbo Parsers" ", Proc Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics - ACL , Sofia , Bulgaria , pp. 617 - 622 , August , 2013 .
- Filipe, S.B.F.; L. Alexandre; " A Comparative Evaluation of 3D Keypoint Detectors
", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1
, pp. 145 - 148 , May , 2013 .
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- Duarte, J.; A. L. N. Fred; F. Jorge Duarte Duarte; " A Constraint Acquisition
Method for Data Clustering ", Proc Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP , Havana , Cuba , November , 2013 .
- Wegrzyn, DM; L. Alexandre; " A Genetic Algorithm-Evolved 3D Point Cloud
Descriptor ", Proc Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition - CIARP , Havana
, Cuba , Vol. LNCS 8258 , pp. 20 - 23 , November , 2013 .
- Zeng, X.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " a novel sparsity and clustering regularization ",
Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad , Lisbon , Portugal ,
November , 2013 .
- Carreiras, C. C.; A. Lourenço; H. Silva; A. L. N. Fred; " A Unifying Approach to
ECG Biometric Recognition Using the Wavelet Transform ", Proc International Conf.
on Image Analysis and Recognition , Póvoa do Varzim , Portugal , June , 2013 .
- Martin, E; J. Dias; A. Plaza; " A. Plaza, "Hyperspectral Coded Aperture (HYCA): A
New Technique for Hyperspectral Compressive Sensing ", Proc European Signal
Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Marrakech , Morocco , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , September ,
2013 .
- Duarte, F.; A. Lourenço; A. Abrantes; " Activity Classification using a SmartPhone
", Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services HealthCom , Lisbon , Portugal , October , 2013 .
- Ferreira, A.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " An Incremental Bit Allocation Strategy for
Supervised Feature Discretization ", Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and
Image Analysis , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. LNCS7887 , pp. 526 - 534 , June , 2013 .
- Antão, DPC; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " An Information Theoretic Approach to Text
Sentiment Analysis ", Proc International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications
and Methods - ICPRAM , Barcelona , Spain , January , 2013 .
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- Marques, A.S.; P.L. Correia; " Automatic Road Pavement Crack Detection Using a
Support Vector Machine ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo
Baranco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Cigarro Matos, A.; A. Lourenço; J. M. P. Nascimento; " Biometric Recognition
System Using Low Bandwidth ECG Signals ", Proc International Conf. on E-Health
Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom , Lisbon , Portugal , October ,
2013 .
- Alves, A. P. Alves; H. F. Silva; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; " BITalino: A
Biosignal Acquisition System based on the Arduino ", Proc INSTICC International
Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices , Barcelona , Spain ,
February , 2013 .
- Almeida, M.S.C.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Blind Image Deblurring with Unknown
Boundaries Using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Melbourne , Australia , September
, 2013 .
- Magalhães, FMagalhaes; R.Sousa Sousa; FMAraujo M. Araújo; M.V. Correia; "
Compressive Sensing based Face Detection without Explicit Image Reconstruction
using Support Vector Machines ", Proc International Conf. on Image Analysis and
Recognition , Póvoa de Varzim , Portugal , Vol. -1 , pp. -1 - -1 , June , 2013 .
Pelillo; " Consensus Clustering using Partial Evidence Accumulation ", Proc Iberian
Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis , Funchal , Portugal , June , 2013.
- Duarte, J.; A. L. N. Fred; F. Jorge Duarte Duarte; " Data Clustering Validation
using Constraints ", Proc International Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and
Information Retrieval - KDIR , Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal , Portugal , September ,
2013 .
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- Veiga, A.; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; " Developing a Hybrid Grapheme to Phoneme
Converter for European Portuguese ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
, Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 297 - 300 , May , 2013 .
- Silva, F.; L. C. Correia; A. Christensen; " Dynamics of Neuronal Models in Online
Neuroevolution of Robotic Controllers ", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Artificial
Intelligence - EPIA , Angra do Heroísmo, , Portugal , Vol. LNAI 8154 , pp. 90 - 101 ,
August , 2013 .
- Silva, H.; A. Lourenço; F. A. L. Canento; A. L. N. Fred; " ECG Biometrics:
Principles and Applications ", Proc International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and
Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC, Spain , February , 2013 .
- Santos, M. S. Santos; A. L. N. Fred; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; " EIGEN HEARTBEATS
FOR USER IDENTIFICATION ", Proc International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and
Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC , Barcelona , Spain , February , 2013 .
- Cigarro Matos, A.; A. Lourenço; J. M. P. Nascimento; " Embedded System for ECG
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Approach applied to EEG Analysis ", Proc International Conf. on Pattern Recognition
Applications and Methods - ICPRAM , Barcelona , Spain , February , 2013 .
- Zeng, X.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Exploiting two-dimensional group sparsity in 1-bit
compressive sensing ", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad ,
Lisbon , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- " Exploratory EEG Analysis Using Clustering and Phase-Locking Factor ", Proc
INSTICC International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing Biosignals , Barcelona , Spain , February , 2013 .
- Carreiras, C. C.; H. Aidos; H. Silva; A. L. N. Fred; " Exploratory EEG Analysis
Using Clustering and Phase-Locking Factor ", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on
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Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals , Barcelona , Spain ,
February , 2013 .
- Almeida, M.; A. Martins; " Fast and Robust Compressive Summarization with Dual
Decomposition and Multi-Task Learning ", Proc Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics - ACL , Sofia , Bulgaria , August , 2013 .
- Silva, H.; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; A. K. Jain; " Finger ECG Signal for User
Authentication: Usability and Performance ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - BTAS , Washington DC , United
States , September , 2013 .
- Almeida, M.S.C.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; " Frame-based image deblurring with
unknown boundary conditions using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Melbourne , Australia ,
September , 2013 .
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", Proc CISTI 2013 - 8ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias da
Informação , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 659 - 664 , June , 2013 .
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Impact of SVM Multiclass Decomposition Rules for Recognition of Cancer in
Gastroenterology Images ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computer-Based
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I. Dutra; M. Coimbra; " Knowledge on heart condition of children based on
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2013 .
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Framework
for
Mobile
Interaction
Recording
and
Display
",
Proc
INSTICC
International Conf. on Health Informatics - Healthinf , Barcelona , Spain , February
, 2013 .
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Computation Theory and Applications - NTCA , Vilamoura , Portugal , September ,
2013 .
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Evolutionary Computation Conf. - GECCO , Amsterdam , Netherlands , pp. 1 - 3 ,
July , 2013 .
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Robots for Environmental Monitoring of Water ", Proc Technological Innovation for
the Internet
of Things, IFIP Advances in
Information and Communication
Technology , Monte Caparica , Portugal , Vol. 394 , pp. 183 - 191 , January , 2013 .
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Algorithms for Biometric Applications ", Proc International Conf. on Bio-inspired
Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC , Barcelona , Spain ,
February , 2013 .
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IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE , Taipei , Taiwan , January
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Earnings using Genetic Algorithms ", Proc Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conf. - GECCO , Amsterdam , Netherlands , pp. 1 - 3 , July , 2013 .
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Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
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Proc Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados - JOCLAD , Guimaraes , Portugal
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Feature
Discretization
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Pattern
Recognition
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ANALYSIS,
AND
CODING
OF
AUDIO
AND
VISUAL
INFORMATION
Book Chapters
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Scheme Supporting 3D Video Streaming Services " - Chapter in 3D Future Internet
Media , Kondoz, Ahmet; Dagiuklas, Tasos , Springer , New York , 2013 .
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in Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks , Ce Zhu, Yuenan Li ,
CRC Press , Boca Raton, FL, USA , 2013 .
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2013 .
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2013 .
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Oliveira,
H.O.;
P.L.
Correia;
"
Automatic
Road
Crack
Detection
and
Characterization ", IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems , Vol. 14 , No.
1 , pp. 155 - 168 , March , 2013 .
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hyperspectral unmixing ", IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , Vol. 52
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", IET Image Processing , September , 2013 .
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Lossy and lossless image encoding using multi-scale recurrent pattern matching ",
IET Image Processing , Vol. 7 , No. 6 , pp. 556 - 566 , August , 2013 .
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- Monteiro, P.; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Perspective Transform Motion Modeling for
Improved Side Information Creation ", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
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soft sparse multinomial logistic regression ", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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Ziv
Video
Coding:
Classifying
and
Reviewing
",
Signal
Processing:
Image
Communication , Vol. 28 , No. 7 , pp. 689 - 726 , August , 2013 .
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loopy belief propagation and active learning ", IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and
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Depth Inter-levels Correlation Structure ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. EUSIPCO , Marrakech , Morocco , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2013 .
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with
Improved
Spatial
and
Temporal
Prediction
",
Proc
Conf.
on
- Ferreira, L.F.; P.A. Assunção; L. A Cruz; " 3D Video Key-Frame Selection based on
Colour and Depth ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco
, Portugal , pp. 165 - 168 , May , 2013 .
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320
Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI , Veszprém , Hungary , pp. 1 - 6 , June
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Systems ", Proc 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON , Aberdeen , United Kingdom ,October ,
2013 .
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enhancement in spatial asymmetric stereo video decoding ", Proc Conf. on
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Video Coding ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
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of
Leishmania
infections
in
fluorescence
microscopy
images
",
Proc
AIMI
International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR , Póvoa de Varzim ,
Portugal , June , 2013 .
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detection of stork nests on VHV towers ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
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on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
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Faria; " Compressao de mapas de profundidade usando predicao e funcoes
polinomiais ", Proc Simpósio Brasileiro das Telecomunicações , Fortaleza , Brazil ,
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, Vancouver , Canada , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2013 .
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CONCEALMENT
USING
INTER-VIEW
WARPING
VECTORS
FROM
GEOMETRIC
TRANSFORMS ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP ,
Melbourne , Australia , September , 2013 .
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Coding Extension ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castele Branco ,
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marks in retinal images ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computer-Based
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", Proc International Conf. on Digital Signal Processing , Santorini , Greece , July ,
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Concealment
for
H.264/AVC
Stereo
Video
Decoders
",
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May
, 2013 .
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thresholding and (modified) total variation projection ", Proc International Conf. on
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on Tree Depth Levels Relationship ", Proc Picture Coding Symp. , San Jose California , United States , December , 2013 .
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Unit
Texture
and
Quad-tree
Interlevel
Correlation
",
Proc
Conf.
on
2013 .
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Partial Palmprint Recognition Technique ", Proc International Workshop
on
Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF , Lisbon , Portugal , April , 2013 .
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Performance with Decoder Side Information ", Proc Picture Coding Symp. , San Jose
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Histogram Local Binary Patterns for Classification of Narrow-band Gastroenterology
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Society - EMBC , Osaka , Japan , July , 2013 .
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International
Conf.
on
Health
and
Social
Care
Information
Systems
and
Technologies - HCist , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , October , 2013 .
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Computing
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327
- Correia, Pedro F.; P.A. Assunção; V. Silva; " Unbalanced Multiple Description
Video Coding ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , May , 2013 .
- Melo, R. M.; M. A. Antunes; J. P. B. Barreto; G. Falcão; N. C. Gonçalves; "
Unsupervised intrinsic calibration from a single frame using a 'plumb-line' approach
", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision - ICCV , Sydney , Australia ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 , December , 2013 .
- Conti, C. ; P. Nunes; L. D. Soares; " Using self-similarity compensation for
improving inter-layer prediction in scalable 3D holoscopic video coding ", Proc SPIE
Optics and Photonics , San Diego , United States , August , 2013 .
- Francisco, N.; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; M. Carvalho; S.M.M. Faria; " Video
Compression Using 3D Multiscale Recurrent Patterns ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS , Beijing , China , Vol. 1 , pp. 1412 - 1415 ,
May , 2013 .
- Francisco, N.; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; E. Silva; M. Carvalho; S.M.M. Faria; "
Volumetric
Directional
Prediction
for
Video
Compression
",
Proc
Conf.
on
, 2013 .
SPEECH ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
- Pellegrini, T.Pellegrini; A. Hämäläinen Hämäläinen; P. Boula de Mareüil Boula de
Mareüil; M.Tjalve Tjalve; I. Trancoso; S. Candeias; M. D. Dias; D. Braga Braga; " A
corpus-based study between elderly and young speakers of European Portuguese:
acoustic correlates and their impact on speech recognition performance ", Proc
ISCA
-
Conf.
of
the
International
Speech
Communication
Association
-
INTERSPEECH , Lyon , France , August , 2013 .
328
- Veiga, A.; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; " Acoustic Phonetic and Prosodic Features of
Parkinson s Disease Speech ", Proc Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in
Information and Human Language Technology - STIL , Fortaleza , Brazil , Vol. 1 ,
October , 2013 .
- " Acoustic, Phonetic and Prosodic Features of Parkinson's Disease Speech ", Proc
Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language
Technology - STIL , Fortaleza , Brazil ,October , 2013 .
- " Acoustic, Phonetic and Prosodic Features of Parkinson's Disease Speech ", Proc
Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language
Technology - STIL , Fortaleza , Brazil , October , 2013 .
- Veiga, A.; D. Celorico; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; " Acoustical Characterization of
Vocalic Fillers in European Portuguese ", Proc ISCA, Interspeech satellite workshop
on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech - DiSS , Stockholm , Sweden , Vol. 54(1) ,
pp. 63 - 66 , August , 2013 .
- Medeiros, R. B.; G. S. Moniz; M. M. Batista; I. Trancoso; L. Nunes; " Comparing
different machine learning approaches for disfluency structure detection in a corpus
of university lectures ", Proc Speech and Language Technology in Education - SLaTE
, Grenoble , France , August , 2013 .
- Medeiros, R. B.; G. S. Moniz; M. M. Batista; I. Trancoso; L. Nunes; " Disfluency
Detection Based on Prosodic Features for University Lectures ", Proc Annual Conf. of
the International Speech Communication Association - Interspeech , Lyon , France ,
August , 2013 .
- Candeias, S.; D. Celorico; A. Veiga; F. Perdigão; " HESITA(tions) in Portuguese: a
database ", Proc ISCA, Interspeech satellite workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous
Speech - DiSS , Stockholm , Sweden , August , 2013 .
- Candeias, S.; A. Veiga; F. Perdigão; " On the influence of the Parkinson disease in
vowel production ", Proc Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia - PaPI , Lisbon ,
Portugal , June , 2013 .
329
- Candeias, S.; A. Veiga; F. Perdigão; " Sistema automático de pronunciação de
verbos ", Proc Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human
Language Technology - STIL , Fortaleza , Brazil , October , 2013 .
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
- Fernandes, R.; F. V. Vieira; M. Ferreira; " Parallel Microscopic Simulation of
Metropolitan-scale Traffic ", Proc Annual Simulation Symp. , San Diego , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , April , 2013 .
4.3.7
Other Achievements
Patents
- Logota, E.; S. Sargento; A. Neto; " A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSBASED NETWORKS CONTROL (Pending) ", CI-12-029 , January , 2013 .
- Teixeira, J.; R. M. Rocha; M. S. Piedade; " Arquitetura Reconfigurável para
Sistemas Embebidos Orientados-à-missão ", PT 107370 , December , 2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; R. S. Santos; L. Almeida; " DYNAMIC REAL-TIME ETHERNET
SWITCH (pending) ", 107.132 , August , 2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; V. S. Soares; " Método de Encaminhamento Geográfico para
Redes Veiculares com Ligações Intermitentes ", PT 106012 , October , 2013 .
Awards
- Xia, F. X.; N. A. Asabere; J. R. Rodrigues; F. B. Basso; N. D. Deonauth; W. W.
Wang; " Best Paper Award - UIC 2013 ", The paper entitled “Socially-Aware Venue
Recommendation for Conference Participants”, presented at the 10th IEEE
International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2013),
330
Vietri sul Mare, Italy, December 18-21, 2013 received the Best Paper Runner-up
Award of the conference. , 01-12-2013 .
- Alexandre, L.; " "Top Reviewer" ", Luís Alexandre was considered "Top Reviewer"
by the Elsevier journal "Pattern Recognition Letters". , 01-10-2013 .
- Simões, Simões T.; J. C. Costa; J. R. Rodrigues; L. H. Hu; " Best Paper Runner-up
Award - CloudComp 2013 ", The paper entitled “Interchanging Cloud Providers
Instances through
Ubiquitous Devices”, presented
at
the 4th
International
Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2013), Wuhan, China, October 17–19,
2013 receded the Best Paper Runner-up Award. , 01-10-2013 .
- Francisco, N.; " Honourable mention on CAPES best thesis awards 2012 ",
Received an honourable mention from the Brazilian governmental agency CAPES for
the thesis: "Contributions to Efficient Image and Video Compression Using
Multiscale Recurrent Patterns", on the contest for the best theses defended in Brazil
in 2012, area of Engineering IV. , 01-10-2013 .
- Soares, V. S.; " Web Chair – Outstanding Service Award ", 15th IEEE
International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE
Healthcom 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-12, 2013 , 01-10-2013 .
- Falcão, G.; V. Silva; " ALTERA Europe-wide University Contest 2012-2013 ",
''ALTERA
Europe-wide
University
Contest
2012-2013'',
category
of
''Most
commercially relevant use of an FPGA'' for ON-OFF: Opencl-based NOn-binary ldpc
decoding For FPGAs'', by João Andrade, Gabriel Falcão, and Vítor Silva. The award
was received at the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and
Applications (FPL), in September 2nd 2013. , 01-09-2013 .
- Falcão, G.; J. P. B. Barreto; " Google Research Award ", Google Research Award
for “UrbanScan: fast 3D modeling of urban scenes using a new stereo vision
approach”, project funded by Google. , 01-08-2013 .
331
- Orvalho, V.; J. Miranda; " Perceiving Interactive Sketching Through Facial
Expressions ", Best Demo and Best Poster. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception,
SAP , 01-08-2013 .
- Silva, H.; A. P. Alves Alves; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; I. Montalvão; L. Alegre; "
Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013 ", Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, with
the
work
'Towards
the
Detection
of
Deception
in
Interactive
Multimedia
Environments' , 01-07-2013 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; " Distinguished Service Award - IEEE Communications Society ",
Received during ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 09-13, 2013, a Distinguished
Service
Award
by
IEEE
Communications
Society
Technical
Committee
on
Communications Software by his outstanding contributions for the communications
Software. , 01-06-2013 .
- Fred, A. L. N.; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; " 1st Prize of contest INOVPORTUGAL ", 1st
Prize
on
the
portuguese
contest
of
innovation
and
entrepreneurship,
INOVPORTUGAL, with the project VITALIDI , 01-05-2013 .
Miscellaneous
- Pedreiras, PP; " PhD Thesis Jury ", RT-WiFi: Um Mecanismo para Comunicação de
Tempo-Real em Redes IEEE 802.11 Infraestruturadas ", Ricardo Moraes , 01-122013 .
- Nunes, P.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Regiões de Interesse em Vídeos 3D ", Daniel
Alexandre Leitão Piedade , 01-11-2013 .
- Brandão, P.; " Invited Talks ", The need to make sense of all the data ", ICHI2013 , 01-11-2013 .
- Miranda, C.; P. Mendes; " Seminars ", Tracking Faces - A step by step guide to
create an application ", , 01-10-2013 .
- Lopes, F.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Scalable Video Coding using Spatio-Temporal
Segmentation ", PhD Proposal Jury - FCTUC , 01-09-2013 .
332
- Pereira, F.; " Invited Talks ", Visual representation: a great present but what
future ? ", EUSIPCO'2013 , 01-09-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " Member of Advisory Committee ", “Framework for the
development of Parallel and Distibuted Real-Time Embedded Systems ", Ricardo
Garibai - ISEP , 01-08-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", “Gateway de Ethernet ZigBee ", Nuno Almeida
, 01-07-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Comunicacoes Veiculares Multiprotocolo Nao IP
", Paulo Sousa , 01-07-2013 .
- Brandão, P.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Monitorização Vital e Ambiental com recurso a
Redes de Sensores sem Fios ", , 01-07-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Sincronizacao de Relogios em Redes LowPAN ",
Joao Reis , 01-07-2013 .
- Garcia, N. M. ; " Member of Technical Committee ", The IEEE EUROCON 2013 ", ,
01-07-2013 .
- Garcia, N. M. ; " Member of Technical Committee ", 4th International Symposium
in Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2013) ", , 01-05-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Auto-sincronização em sistemas de controlo
distribuídos ", Miguel Rodas - FEUP , 01-04-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", “Sistema de Vídeo Vigilância sobre Ethernet
com Qualidade de Serviço dinâmica ", Joao Resi - FEUP , 01-03-2013 .
- Gomes, M.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Precoding Techniques for Coordinated Multicell
Systems ", Universidade de Aveiro - Candidato: Reza Holakouei , 01-03-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Rede de Sensores Sem Fios para Veículo
Frigorífico e/ou Industria Alimentar ", Vasco Sottomaior - FEUP , 01-03-2013 .
333
- Pedreiras, PP; IS Shin; " Editor of Conference Proceedings ", SIGBED Review,
Volume 10, Number 1 - Special Issue on the 4th Workshop on Adaptive and
Reconfigurable Embedded Systems ", , 01-02-2013 .
- Nunes, P.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Viabilização da Televisão Digital Terrestre em
Pequenos e Médios Broadcasters utilizando o Datacasting ", Roberto Dimas Ribeiro
do Amaral , 01-01-20
4.3.8
Other Contributions
- IARIA International Conf. on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols,
Architectures and Services - MOPAS, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno
da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems ITST 2013, Conference Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- International
Conf. on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web
Technologies - ICADIWT, Conference Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues,
01-01-2013
- International Conf. on ICT Convergence - ICTC, Technical Programme Committee,
Seil Jeon, 01-01-2013
- International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF, Conference
Chairman, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia , 01-01-2013
- ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE,
Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-012013
334
- XIII Escola Regional de Informática da Região Norte - ERIN2, Technical
Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme
Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2013
- IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical
- Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee,
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria , 01-01-2013
- IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications
- ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Soares, 01-01-2013
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Technical Programme Committee,
Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of
Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Soares, 01-01-2013
- IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical
- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Technical
Programme Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2013
- 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço
Nunes , 01-01-2013
- Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language
Technology - STIL, Technical Programme Committee, Sara Maria Fernandes Rato e
Costa Marques Candeias, 01-01-2013
335
- Future Network and Mobile Summit, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo
Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme
Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2013
Committee, Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Emerging Research Areas - AICERA, Technical Programme
Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2013
- Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Sistemas Computacionais - SBESC,
Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2013
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Sessions Chairman , Pedro Miguel dos Santos
Alves Madeira Adão, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Network and Service Management - CNSM, Sessions
Chairman , Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar , 01-01-2013
-
Portuguese
Conf.
on
Artificial
Intelligence -
EPIA,
Technical
Programme
Committee, Alexandra Sofia Martins de Carvalho, 01-01-2013
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Joaquim
José de Castro Ferreira, 01-01-2013
- Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems - APRES, , Joaquim
José de Castro Ferreira, 01-01-2013
- Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Technical Programme Committee,
Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH), Special Sessions
Chairman, João Paulo Barraca, 01-01-2013
336
, Technical Programme Committee, João Paulo Barraca, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services HealthCom, Conference Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites , 01-01-2013
- International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocol and Algoritms - SCPA,
Conference Chairman, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES, Technical
Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2013
- Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Technical Programme Committee,
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2013
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo
Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical
Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Technical Programme
Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2013
- IASTED International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks PDCN, Technical Programme Committee, Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida, 01-012013
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Carlos
Manuel Ribeiro Almeida, 01-01-2013
337
- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Scientific
Committee, Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves Madeira Adão, 01-01-2013
- Future Network and Mobile Summit, Technical Programme Committee, João Paulo
Barraca, 01-01-2013
Vehicular Communications , Elsevier, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial
Board, 01-07-2013 to 01-07-2013
IET Biometrics , IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Paulo Luis
Serras Lobato Correia , Associate Editor, 01-09-2013 to 01-12-2018
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing , IEEE, Fernando Manuel
Bernardo Pereira , Editor-In-Chief, 01-01-2013 to 01-12-2015
Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks , Elsevier, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues,
Editorial Board Member, 01-12-2013 to
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 – BASIC SCIENCES AND 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
3
8
Assistant Professor
4
4
14
PhD
1
0
0
Post-Doc
3
2
11
Coordinator Professor
1
1
2
Assistant Lecturer
0
2
0
PhD Student
3
7
20
MSc Student
0
0
1
(Licenciado)
0
0
1
13
21
61
TOTAL
Table 23 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2013
339
Position
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Assistant
Professor
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Amaro Fernandes de Sousa Applied Mathematics - Av
PhD
PhD
Ana Luisa Mendonça
Ana Maria de Matos Charas
Organic Electronics – Lx
PhD
André Manuel dos Santos
Mendes
António Eduardo Vitória do
Espírito Santo
António Manuel Cruz Serra
Power Systems – Co
PhD
Agregação
Agregação
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Artur Fernando Delgado
Lopes Ribeiro
Carlos Alberto Farinha
Ferreira
Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Dorabella Martins da Silva
Santos
Edgar Silva Pereira
Power Systems - Cv
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Electronics - Lx
Integrated Circuits – Av
Applied Mathematics - Av
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Agregação Eduardo de Sousa Saraiva
PhD
Fernando Manuel Lourenço Applied Mathematics – Cv
Martins
PhD
Fernando Manuel Tim Tim
Instrumentation and
Janeiro
Measurements – Lx
PhD
Francisco Andre Correa
Instrumentation and
Alegria
Measurements – Lx
Agregação
Helena Maria dos Santos
Instrumentation and
Geirinhas Ramos
Measurements – Lx
Agregação
Henrique Leonel Gomes
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Agregação
PhD
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Hugo Ribeiro
Joana Catarina Mendes
Joao Manuel Mourão Patricio Applied Mathematics – Co
Joaquim João de Alarcão
Judice
Jorge Manuel Correia
Guilherme
Applied Mathematics – Co
Integrated Circuits - Lx
340
Position
Associate
Professor
Full Professor
Licenciado
Coordinator
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Professor
Emeritus
Coordinator
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Coordinator
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
Degree
Jorge Manuel Ferreira
Morgado
Agregação
José António Marinho
Applied Electromagnetics Brandão Faria
Lx
Licenciatura José Augusto Alves Gouveia
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Agregação
José Miguel Costa Dias
Instrumentation and
Pereira
Measurements – Lx
PhD
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero
Moreira Alves
Agregação
Luís Joaquim Alcácer
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Luis Miguel Merca
Fernandes
Mafalda Ludovino Almeida Physics of Information - Lx
Manuel Fernando Martins de Integrated Circuits - Lx
Barros
Manuel José de Matos
PhD
Manuel Ventura Guerreiro Applied Electromagnetics das Neves
Lx
Agregação
Maria Beatriz Mendes
Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
PhD
Maria Cecília dos Santos
Rosa
PhD
Maria do Rosário Alves
Power Systems - Cv
Calado
PhD
Maria Madalena de Almeida Applied Mathematics – Co
Correia Gomes Martins
PhD
Marina Perdigão
PhD
PhD
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Group
Agregação
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Name
PhD
PhD
Michael Filipe Gonçalves
Salvador
Mohammad Hamed
Physics of Information - Lx
Mohammady
Mónica Jorge Carvalho
Figueiredo
Mónica Luísa Chaves de
Andrade Afonso
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Nuno Gonçalo Bandeira Brás
Octavi Boada Kerans
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
341
Position
Assistant
Professor
Full Professor
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
Degree
Name
PhD
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Agregação Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva
Girão
Agregação Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Associate
Professor
Post. Doc.
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Agregação
PhD
Agregação
Group
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Quirina Alexandra Tavares
Ferreira
Raúl Daniel Lavado Carneiro
Instrumentation and
Martins
Measurements – Lx
Rita França de Sousa
Rodrigues
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Integrated Circuits - Lx
Neves
Rui Miguel Martins de
Azevedo Meira
Rui Teives Henriques
Sandra Isabel Godinho Dias Organic Electronics – Lx
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da
Cruz
Silvério Simões Rosa
Sílvio José Pinto Simões
Mariano
Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa
Power Systems - Cv
Vitor Manuel de Oliveira
Maló Machado
Applied Electromagnetics Lx
Table 24 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2013
Other Collaborators
Position
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Degree
Name
MSc
Ana Carla Vicente Vieira
Ana Margarida de Matos
Bragança
António Mário Ribeiro
Martins
Asal Kiazadeh
Group
Power Systems - Cv
342
Position
PhD Student
Degree
Name
MSc
Bruno Miguel Gil Rosa
PhD Student
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Full Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Bruno Miguel Santos Mera Physics of Information - Lx
Bruno Ricardo Oliveira
Baptista
Celino José Martins Miguel
Dário Jerónimo Pasadas
David Filipe Correia
Guilherme
Agregação Dinis Gomes de Magalhães
dos Santos
MSc
Domingos Augusto
Teixeira Terra
Licenciatura Eduardo Correia Pinheiro
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
Group
Eunice de Fátima Fragoso
Ribeiro
Joana Farinhas
João Paulo Neto Torres
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Applied Electromagnetics Lx
Power Systems - Cv
Power Systems - Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Lecturer
Assistant
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD
José Álvaro Nunes Pombo
José António da Costa
Salvado
José Carlos Sequeira
Martins dos Santos
José Carlos Teixeira
MSc
José Luís Silva
PhD
Jose Luis Vieira Cura
MSc
MSc
José Manuel Matias Pinto
Leonardo Filipe Gonçalves
Novo
Luís Filipe Soldado
Granadeiro Rosado
Luís M. Oliveira
Luís Miguel Antunes
Caseiro
Luis Miguel Freire de
Menezes Pestana
PhD Student
MSc
Assistant
Lecturer
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Systems - Cv
343
Position
Degree
Name
PhD
Maria Celeste de Almeida
Gouveia
Maria da Graça Laranjo
Mendes Brotas
Mauro Edgar Pereira
Figueiredo Santos
Mohsen Bandarabadi
Natália Gameiro
Nuno Calado Correia
Lourenço
Nuno Miguel Amaral Freire
Nuno Rafael Mendonça
Lourenço
Paulo Roberto Ferreira da
Rocha
Pedro Miguel Domingos
Serra
Purnachand Nalluri
Qian Chen
Ricardo Miguel Ferreira
Martins
Rui Pedro Gouveia Mendes
Shlomo Zalka Rotter
Tânia Isabel de Almeida
Braz
Tiago Jorge Rocha
Associate
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
PhD Student
External
Consultant
Assistant
Professor
PhD
PhD
Group
Power Systems - Cv
Power Systems - Cv
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Vitor Viegas
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Yasser Rashid Revez Omar Physics of Information - Lx
Table 25 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area in 2013
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4.4.3
4.4.3.1
Contributing groups
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Applied Electromagnetics - Lx
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Applied Mathematics - Av
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Applied Mathematics- Co
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Applied Mathematics- Cv
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Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Power Systems - Cv
4.4.3.2
Scope and Objectives
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies (BS&ET) is a multidisciplinary research
line providing transversal background support to IT activities and mission. Most of
the work in this line was related to electronics and optoelectronics. This applies to
the activities of the following groups: Applied Electromagnetics (AE), Integrated
Circuits (IC), Power Systems (PS), Organic Electronics (OE), Power Electronics (PE)
and Instrumentation and Measurements (IM). The activities in Applied Mathematics
(AM) supported research performed in other areas, developing tools relevant to
telecommunications, and applications to Simulation, Mathematical Modelling and
Systems Stability. Physics of Information was focused on quantum information
theory, nanoenergetics and quantum effects.
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In addition, there were activities falling under the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies (BS&ET) research line pursued by research groups belonging to
Networks and Multimedia, in Information Theory (ITh).
4.4.3.3
Applied Electromagnetics
The work focused on activities in the broad domain of the Electromagnetic
Field Theory and its applications to electric, magnetic, and optical devices.
In 2013 the following interrelated subjects have been addressed:
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Transmission-line structures
-
Electric and magnetic field problems
-
Computational electromagnetics
Transmission-line Structures
The research on transmission-line structures is multifaceted,
encompassing theory and applications, and aims at a variety of targets:
- Research on magnetic transmission lines (MGTL) initiated in 2012 has
been continued. The theory of MGTLs was enriched with the introduction
of new concepts such as magnetic charges, magnetic currents and
magnetic voltages. A comparative analysis of the high frequency behavior
of electric transmission lines and magnetic transmission lines with parallel
plane geometry was performed. The two-wire MGTL equations were
employed to derive a physical model of the ideal transformer. MGTL
theory was generalized to multi-wire systems.
- The problem of the numerical evaluation of the series-impedance
parameters (resistance and inductance) of uniform power cables, taking
into account transverse variations of conductivity and permeability of
cable conductors and soil, was analyzed by resorting to a developed
method that employs elemental current strips instead of current
filaments.
- A simplified analysis of the capacitive and inductive coupling between an
overhead power line and a neighboring multi-conductor victim circuit was
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carried out. The analysis, valid when the interaction length is small
compared to a quarter wavelength, avoids the unnecessary complexity of
modal analysis techniques. Results obtained have been validated through
direct electromagnetic field computation.
Electric and Magnetic Field Problems
Group research on electric and magnetic field problems encompassed two
aspects:
- A novel full time-domain theory for the analysis of the skin effect in
solid cylindrical conductors, without any detour into the frequency
domain, was established.
- Magnetic fields produced by underground power cables can endanger
human safety; the important problem of magnetic field mitigation using
shielded cables was addressed.
Computational electromagnetics
The development of computational methods and software tools for
electromagnetic field calculation is key for most of the reported research
activities of the Group, in particular, the development of hybrid methods
using both analytical and numerical formulations.
During 2013, the following topics received special attention:
- Simulation of the magnetic field in a magnetic core for FFC NMR
relaxometry.
- Capacitance matrix evaluation in power cables using the method of
moments.
- Electromagnetic propagation in bent and ring slab waveguides and
lasers.
4.4.3.4
Applied Mathematics
The research in Applied Mathematics in Telecommunications has been
focused on Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra. Collaboration with
engineers on the solution of some models of engineering, namely in
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telecommunications, has be enhanced. The most relevant research topics
are presented below:
Linear Algebra and Optimization
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Numerical
Linear
Algebra:
Preconditioning
and
convergence
of
iterative methods for the solution of linear systems of equations,
generalized inverses and its applications.
•
Complementarity
implementation
and
Problems:
testing
design,
of
convergence
interior-point
analyses,
algorithms,
active-set
methods, sequential quadratic algorithms and enumerative methods.
•
Global Optimization: complementarity algorithms, positive semi-
definite
and
reformulation-linearization
programming,
quadratic
complementarity
and
problems
bilinear
and
techniques
programming,
mathematical
for
bilevel
eigenvalue
programs
with
complementarity constraints.
•
Solution
of
structured
optimization
models
arising
in
telecommunications, civil engineering, and finance.
•
Hybrid approaches for models in telecommunications based on
column generation and local search heuristics.
•
Efficient reformulation techniques for hop and degree constrained
problems.
•
Routing algorithms for 6LoWPAN mesh networks.
•
Introduction to physical layer technology, modeling and architectures
for elastic optical networks.
•
Network design of optical networks with PON technology.
•
Traffic engineering of energy aware routing in telecommunication
networks under multi-period traffic.
•
Efficient modelling techniques for hop and degree constrained
problems
•
Research focused on Matrix Analysis contains topics such as:
application to Differential Equations, Numerical Algorithms and recently
Biological Mathematics, where we study epidemiological models and
Metapopulation Dynamics with aplication to demographics. Another
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component is the study of Communtig Matrices and Matrix Equations and
its application to the Linear Systems.
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Research focused on the topic of Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) with the
Phd student Micael S. Couceiro. The objective was to evaluate the
performance of MRS algorithms and develop a Semi-Markov model to
estimate the final outcome based on the number of robots and mission.
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Research focused on the understanding of coordination processes
among football players. The work was carried out alongside with the PhD
student Filipe M. Clemente, with the objective to develop mathematical
and statistical metrics to further understand the individual and collective
behaviour of football teams.
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Developing tactical metrics to inspect collective synchronization of
soccer teams, it was supervised the researcher and PhD student Filipe
Clemente in your project granted by Instituto de Telecomunicações.
Throughout 2013 it were developed eight tactical metrics to inspect the
coordination between teammates during soccer match. Such metrics used
the positional
reference of players during match to inspect how
synchronization happens to achieve the soccer main goal: attack and
defend.
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Developing individual metrics to inspect the predictability and stability
of soccer players, it was supervised the researcher and PhD student Filipe
Clemente in your project granted by Instituto de Telecomunicações.
Throughout
2013
it
were
developed
two
metrics
to
inspect
the
predictability and stability of soccer players. Based on their trajectories it
was possible to inspect the regularity how players returns to their tactical
region.
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In mathematics education, the research focused on the Mathematical
Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) that prospective teachers must possess,
so as to teach and understand the mathematical concepts, especially
geometry and statistics.
Graph Theory
•
A note on a conjecture about commuting graphs.
•
Balanced Zero-Divisor Graphs of Matrix Rings.
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Research focused on optimal control problems for an homogeneous
system of linear diffusion, numerical resolutions of this problem with
techniques of mathematical programming and applications to biological
and chemical reactions.
Logic and Computation
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Meet-combination of logics:
The product of matrix logics, possibly with additional interaction axioms,
is shown to preserve a slightly relaxed notion of Craig interpolation. The
result is established symbolically, capitalizing on the complete
axiomatization of the product of matrix logics provided by their meetcombination. Along the way preservation of the metatheorem of
deduction is also proved. The computation of the interpolant in the
resulting logic is proved to be polynomially reducible to the computation
of the interpolants in the two given logics. Illustrations are proved for
classical, intuitionistic and modal propositional logics.
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Logic for reasoning about faulty circuits:
A complete extension of classical propositional logic is proposed for
reasoning about circuits with unreliable gates. The pitfalls of extrapolating
classical reasoning to such unreliable circuits are extensively illustrated.
Several metatheorems are shown to hold with additional provisos.
Applications are provided in verification of logic circuits and improving
their reliability.
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Importing logics:
The transference of preservation results between importing (a logic
combination mechanism that subsumes several asymmetrical
mechanisms for combining logics like temporalization, modalization and
globalization) and unconstrained fibring is investigated. For that purpose,
a new (more convenient) formulation of fibring, called biporting, is
introduced. The equivalence between fibring and biporting is established
by showing that satisfaction and semantic consequence are preserved. In
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consequence, particular cases of importing, like temporalization,
modalization and globalization are shown to be subsumed by fibring. As
an illustration, the preservation of the finite model property by fibring is
carried over to importing and then to globalization.
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Almost-everywhere quantification:
We give an axiomatization of first-order logic enriched with the almosteverywhere quantifier over finitely additive measures. Using an adapted
version of the consistency property adequate for dealing with this
generalized quantifier, we show that such a logic is both strongly
complete and enjoys Craig interpolation, relying on a (countable) model
existence theorem. We also discuss possible extensions of these results to
the almost- everywhere quantifier over countably additive measures.
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Modal Logics:
We present an extension of the mosaic method aimed at capturingdimensional modal logics. As a proof-of-concept, we define the method
for logics arising from the combination of linear tense operators with an
“orthogonal” S5-like modality. We show that the existence of a model for
a given set of formulas is equivalent to the existence of a suitable set of
partial models, called mosaics, and apply the technique not only in
obtaining a proof of decidability and a proof of completeness for the
corresponding Hilbert-style axiomatization, but also in the development of
a mosaic-based tableau system. We further consider extensions for
dealing with the case when interactions between the two dimensions
exist, thus covering a wide class of bundled Ockhamist branching-time
logics, and present for them some partial results, such as a non-analytic
version of the tableau system.
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Quantum Turing machines:
A simple notion of quantum Turing machine with deterministic, classical
control is proposed and shown to be powerful enough to compute any
unitary transformation which is computable by a finitely generated
quantum circuit. An efficient universal machine with the s-m-n property is
presented. The BQP class is recovered. A robust notion of plain
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Kolmogorov complexity of quantum states is proposed and compared with
those previously reported in the literature.
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Algebraic logic
We define and study abstract valuation semantics for logics, an
algebraically well-behaved version of valuation semantics. In the context
of the behavioral approach to the algebraization of logics, we show, by
means of meaningful bridge theorems and application examples, that
abstract valuations are suited to play a role similar to the one played by
logical matrices in the traditional approach to algebraization.
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Computational of dynamical systems
In this topic we analyzed the computational power of dynamical systems
robust to infinitesimal perturbations. Previous work on the subject has
delved on very specific types of systems. Here we obtain results for
broader classes of dynamical systems (including those systems defined by
Lipschitz/analytic functions). In particular we showed that systems robust
to infinitesimal perturbations only recognize recursive languages. We also
showed the converse direction: every recursive language can be robustly
recognized by a computable system. By other words we showed that
robustness is equivalent to decidability.
4.4.3.5
Instrumentation and Measurements
The work on Instrumentation and Measurement focused on the broad
domain of Metrology. In 2013 the main topics addressed were:

Analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue conversion;

Non-destructive testing;

Sensors and transducers;

Signal acquisition and automated and telemetric measuring systems;

Signal processing applied to sensors and instrumentation.
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Analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue conversion

Study of the uncertainty of analogue to digital converter test
methods, namely of the Histogram Test Method, the Random Noise Test
Method and the the Sine Fitting Test Method.
Non-destructive testing
Work in the area of non-destructive testing using eddy currents went on.
Applications were extended to determine thicknesses. Different types of
excitation currents have been used: pulsed eddy currents (PEC),
sinusoidal and poly-harmonic currents.
The use of digital signal processing algorithms to process and interpret
data provided by the sensors used in the laboratory for eddy current
testing proved to be very effective to overcome the poor performance of
some of these sensors. Some of the crack characteristics like length and
orientation are now obtained using the measurement system developed
at the Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory.
Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been used to material thickness
classification. A further application, like the detection of corrosion inside a
pipeline, is being envisaged.
An application to detect defects inside a tube has been tested and is being
developed.
Cooperation with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro started this year.
The objective is the development of a NDT testing system to detect
cracks and modifications on the paramagnetic properties on the wall
tubes of reformer furnaces.
Novel low-cost handheld instruments to detect cracks and other defects in
a plate of conductive material have been implemented and the prototypes
are working properly. One of these instruments uses a planar excitation
coil with a giant magneto-resistor as the sensing element and the
visualization of the defect can be depicted in real-time on a LCD display.
The other instrument is able to measure both amplitude and phase of the
sensor output voltage (corresponding to the secondary magnetic field
with the crack information) and transmitted to the PC wirelessly to be
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depicted as phasors. Cooperation with Embraer Portugal started. Samples
are being tested.
A non-destructive testing technique based on speed induced currents is
being tested. The conductive material being tested moves in a time
constant magnetic field and due to the movement the induced currents in
the conductor generate a secondary magnetic field. When the current flow
pattern is disturbed by the existence of defects, variations of the
magnetic field occur and information about the defects can be assessed
by measuring the magnetic field. As far as the authors know this is an
original method, that has not yet it been reported in the literature, and
presents undoubted advantages when the material to be tested is in
motion relative to the test sensor.
Sensors and transducers

Geometric optimization of a differential planar eddy currents probe
for non-destructive testing.

Magnetic tunnel junction based eddy current testing probe for
detection of surface defects.

Progress in the interoperability of marine observatories has been
carried out.

Sensors with analogue outputs will have their connectivity augmented
with an embedded Transducer Electronic Data Sheet, which contains
technical information to identify the sensor. Data will be formatted
according to IEEE 1451.0 standard and interoperability in OBSEA and
MBARI observatories is already a fact concerning some equipment issues.

Some work based on the Precise Time Synchronization Standard,
IEEE 1588 related with ocean observatories has been carried out. A GPS
virtual pulse-per-second signal generator to be installed at OBSEA
observatory to timestamp sensor data in a sub millisecond range is being
done. OBSEA is a cabled seafloor observatory 4 km offshore Vilanova I la
Geltru (Barcelona, Spain) at 20 m water depth, interconnected to the
coast by an energy and communication mixed cable.
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Static and dynamic characterization of sensors and measurement
system
(polarography,
heavy
metals
detectors,
turbidity,
pH
and
conductivity sensors).
Signal acquisition and automated and telemetric measuring
systems
•
DSP based implementation of a non-destructive testing measurement
system based on heterodyne operation.
•
Implementation and development of I&M industrial transmission
systems based on Foundation Fieldbus (FF), HART e CAN protocols.
•
Application of the 1451 standard: implementation of a Network
Capable Application Processor (NCAP) based on a XML platform.
•
In the domain of biomedical applications worth mentioning:
o
Imaging of torso using multimodal EIT
o
Malaria characterization
o
First steps at using magnetophorese
o
Design and implementation of smart sensing platform Qk for cardio
respiratory and motor activity monitoring for elderly. During the year was
concluded a new multi-microcontroller modular platform characterized by
Bluetooth, ZigBee and USB communication capabilities. The developed
smart sensing platform has started to be used as a first prototype on
physiotherapy monitoring considering the IMU implemented units.
o
Design and implementation of a microwave Doppler radar sensing
module for respiration and cardiac activity assessment. Software and new
validation tests were carried out.
o
Development and implementation of the first prototype for validation
of oscillometric blood pressure measurement devices based on EMFIT. A
set of tests were carried out.
o
In the domain of environmental applications:
o
Development of a WSN for indoor air quality monitoring based on
Jennic motes and a smart coordinator implemented using Rasbery Pi.
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o
Design and implementation of a client-server application including a
geographic information system associated with an implemented WSN for
indoor air quality monitoring.
Signal processing applied to sensors and instrumentation
•
Real-time processing of multi-frequency eddy currents testing signals.
•
Time domain processing of pulsed differential eddy currents testing
signals.
•
An uncertainty analysis of the stereo-vision prototype developed to
measure the cloud base height using digital cameras has been performed.
A study of the system geometry has shown that it can be changed to nonvertical so that both cloud height and atmospheric visibility can be
measured simultaneously with the prototype.
•
A statistical analysis of the noise in impedance measurements has
been performed with the aim of determining thresholds that stop iterative
search procedures.
•
Defect characterization with eddy current testing using nonlinear-
regression feature extraction and artificial neural networks.
•
An electric circuit simplification algorithm compatible with the
evolutionary
procedure
used
to
characterize
unknown
equivalent
impedances. This has improved the convergence properties of the
developed algorithm.
•
Development
instrumentation
converters,
of
and
calibration
advanced
signal
measurements
and
processing
applications
auto-calibration
techniques
for
(non-linear
procedures
A/D
applied
to
different measurement systems, advanced signal processing technique).
•
Impedance estimation of a vibrating wire viscosity sensor using multi-
harmonic signals.
In 2013, the following services to external entities were rendered:
•
Collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN) in automating
the operation of their ion implanter.
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Collaboration with the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Department of
Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in the measurement of
different quantities related to the flow of water in channels built for
scientific research.
4.4.3.6
Integrated Circuits
CMOS integrated circuit design
CMOS integrated circuit design – This line of research results

from the gathered experience of this group on the field of integrated
circuit design. Current research efforts are focusing on the design of
visible light communication transceivers using LEDs. Topics under
research are addressing energy efficiency measures for integrated circuit
amplifiers design
communication
and LED drivers able to support
functionalities.
Under
the
topic
of
dimming and
energy
efficient
integrated circuit amplifier design, the main objective is to advance new
design strategies able to optimize circuit performance without impairing
power
consumption.
The
design
of
LED
drivers
presents
several
challenges, namely: efficiency optimization, integration of dimming
functions with the transmission of signals using unconstrained modulation
schemes, and handling large currents - especially for high power LEDs
often used for illumination purposes.

Integration in CMOS Technology – “SoC”: Continuation of
research,
development
and
practical
implementation
of
very
high
frequency and high performance DC-DC converters in CMOS technology
for power management RF-CMOS, “System On a Chip - SoC”. Study of
new MOS switching methods (including multi-threshold switching) to
reduce the impact of the introduction of switching DC-DC converters in
“System On a Chip - SoC”. Continuation of the study on new design
methodologies of QSW converters for SoC. Conclusion of the project
concerning the integration in CMOS technology of resonant topologies.
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Analog IC design and automation

IC Design Automation: R & D on hybrid multi-objective
evolutionary computation and soft computing techniques applied to
analog IC design for systems, circuits and physical level synthesis,
optimization and modeling. The development of AIDA environment
including automatic circuit-level optimization and layout generation will
address 130nm and 65nm technology nodes and will be integrated with
industrial tools, such as, HSPICE, ELDO, CALIBRE and CADENCE Design
framework.

The development of SCALES simulation tool for pipeline ADCs
will be extended to integrate a system-level optimization kernel.

Analog IC Design: R & D on highly-efficient class D and G
audio amplifiers, Pipeline ADC for the aerospace industry, Non-linear Data
Converters.
Sensors development and design

SAW Based Sensors Development and Design – Under this line of
research the main objective is to develop surface acoustic wave (SAW)
devices. Being inherently wireless and passive, SAW devices can be used
as sensors or as RFID tags. Diamond films are extremely resistant to
wear and corrosion and can be deposit on the devices to protect them
from hazardous operating conditions. This line of research resulted from
the cooperation of the Integrated Circuits group with researchers from the
Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Aveiro. The
activities under this line of research proceeded under the framework of a
national funded project (project JISIS: PTDC/EEA-TEL/104004/2008),
that ended in September 30th 2013. During this project, piezoelectric
substrates and devices were coated with diamond. A proper read-out unit
was also developed. Work will proceed in 2014 also with financing from
(SI-IDT) QREN under project Seesaw (nº 21634), which involves two
members of the team.

Memristive devices characterization and applications to sensing
devices – This is a new research trend started during 2013. Memristive
devices have been proposed a long time ago by Leon O. Chua as devices
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able to complete the set of four basic two terminal elements. Originally
called memristors, these devices were able to establish the lacking
connection between charge and flux, thus completing the set of six
possible two-by-two relation of the four electrical variables. Essentially,
memristors, behave as resistors with the capacity to remember the
current which has passed through them. These devices occur very
frequently at many levels, starting from nanometric materials which
exhibit these strange properties, to brain synapses which behave as
memristors, to more mundane examples such as thermistors or high
intensity discharge lamps. Very recently, this topic become a very hot
topic of research, since the production of a small nanometric device
composed by layers of oxygen doped titanium dioxide was announced by
Hewlett Packard. Currently, these devices are being consider for the next
generation memory chips due to their high integration possibilities and
also due to the fact that these are passive devices. The group is currently
addressing two research trends: 1) device characterization – due to the
lack of agreement between modeling approaches, this line of research
bears the potential of high publication record. Current efforts are
considering novel characterization approaches able to comply with
existing device formulation. Cooperation with the group of wireless
communications is already established targeting nonlinear modeling
approaches; 2) the exploitation of these devices as sensing devices for
multiple applications – in essence, a single memristive device can detect
changes and produce different answers accordingly, thus bypassing the
need of analog to digital conversion followed by threshold comparison
most common for sensing architectures. This also motivates an active
dialogue with other fields of science, namely with physics and materials
sciences, which bring forth potential for successful project proposals.
Following these line, three project proposals have been submitted during
the year of 2013, bring together members from TEMA (on a EU founded
FET Xtrack proposal, which did not succeeded), CICECO and the Wireless
Communication Group form IT-Aveiro.

Diamond UV sensors for deep space and sun monitoring – Being a
wide band-gap material, diamond may be used as a UV sensor for both
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deep-space exploration and sun UV emission monitoring. Again, this
research originated in the collaboration between the Integrated Circuits
group and the Physics and Mechanical Engineering departments at the
University of Aveiro. First results are expected in 2014.
Electronics and systems for dedicated applications
•
Electronic design for visible light communication systems – This line of
research has started with project VIDAS (PTDC/EEA-TEL/75217/2006).
This project addressed the deployment of visible light communication
concepts under the application of traffic information broadcasting. The
reasoning behind this project was to take profit from the LEDs that make
part of most traffic light under operation in our street, and to use them as
modulating devices, so that traffic signaling and information broadcasting
can coexist in parallel. Illumination systems are currently adopting LEDs
as illumination devices, due to their long life expectancy and low power
consumption characteristics. Using these illumination devices for both
illumination and information transmission will offer several research
opportunities. One member of this group is now leading a special interest
group on visible light communications applications on the framework of
the IC 1101 COST action on “Optical Wireless – a promising technology.
Recent collaboration between the integrated circuits, the optics and the
mobile communications groups are now concentrating efforts on the
exploitation two trends: 1) high speed visible light communication links
for outdoor applications; and 2) optical wireless means for both
energizing and communications with implantable medical devices, trough
transdermal channels – this particular line of research offers several
advantages over traditional approaches using radio frequency means,
starting with higher security against unauthorized access. Three project
proposals have been submitted on these research lines, joining efforts
with
INESC-TEC,
the
Optics
group
in
Lisbon
and
the
Mobile
Communications group in Aveiro.
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TDOA Telemetry for Wildlife Tracking Systems – Traditional telemetry
solutions for wildlife tracking and surveillance resort to two main
approaches: RF tracking systems, and GPS based data loggers. RF
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tracking systems are crude and require human intervention. On the other
end, GPS based data loggers have the ability to be very accurate, but
they are also very expensive. Moreover, GPS based systems are not a
good choice for small animals (as for instance the case of small birds).
This has led the Integrated Circuits group members to advance a new
solution able to deliver accurate position information, and to reduce the
volume of the identifiers. This solution is based on TDOA (Time Difference
Of Arrival) measurements. Initial research as demonstrated the feasibility
of our intents. It was also established a close cooperation with
researchers from Biology as well as industry (Biotrack).
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High speed synchronization - the field high speed synchronization is
now advancing new collaboration opportunities with the Mobile Networks
group in Aveiro site. To maximize the available processing performance
on modern reconfigurable devices, most high density digital systems are
currently implemented as Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous
(GALSs) systems. In this research line, group members will explore the
feasibility of using a GALSs approach in the implementation of digital
transceivers for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. This can
bring several advantages: a) shorter critical paths, which would be
confined to synchronous domains; b) lower power consumption, as each
domain can operate at the optimal frequency; c) reduced complexity and
power associated with distributing a low-skew clock to the entire die; d)
better usage of available implementation area, due to reduced routing
complexity; e) increased design scalability and flexibility; and f) lower onchip Power Supply Noise (PSN), as it spreads current demands in time.
On the other hand, this is an especially attractive design style in current
commercial high-performance FPGAs as it can take advantage from the
available multiple global and regional clock routing resources. FPGA
specific advantages are: a) reduced probability of having critical timing
violations precluding the system’s implementation on cheaper FPGAs; b)
lower implementation time; c) more flexible floor-planning; and d) easier
partial reconfiguration.
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Radio astronomy methods for deep space exploration
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Radio Astronomy Methods for Deep Space Exploration – The research
under this line has counted with the approval of a new FP7 project:
BIOSTIRLING 4 SKA, starting in June. 2013. This project is installing in
Moura, South of Portugal a mini solar thermal power plant constituted by
several 12-meter parabolic dishes equipped with Stirling engines at the
focus and a storage hybrid system using bio mass and Hydrogen pile to
assist the SKA phased array antennas deployed there for 24/7 operations.
The team will collaborate on monitoring of Radio frequency Interference
produced by the DC power conversions and will coordinate with IT Optics
groups on the deployment of smart optical sensors grid to monitor
deformation of Stirling engine structure.
Furthermore, the team has
successfully led the SKA National Consortium to participate in several
approved SKA Element Consortia of the SKA Pre-Construction Phase,
integrating national industry in leadership tasks. Part of this works is
supported with industry in-kind efforts and later advances will be
tributary to ENGAGE National Infrastructure Roadmap Call (pending
evaluation). a major achievement in projects of this kind. and will
collaborate on monitoring of Radio frequency Interference produced by
the DC power conversions and will coordinate with IT Optics groups on
the deployment of smart optical sensors grid to monitor deformation of
Stirling engine structure. GEM: Pursue the design of the 10GHz received
with adapted SDR techniques for FPGA integration of a full complex
correlator with 1GHz bandwidth. As part of this study, develop LNAs to
test at space chambers in INPE (National Institute for Space Research Brazil) for integration in AST-1 mini-satellite; one group member made a
long term visit to INPE, where a new Dewar has been produced by INPE
for IT to enable testing of low noise RF components. Cross exchange with
Brazil will continue.
Other topics
•
Energy Efficient Concepts for Public Illumination Systems – Public
illumination systems are predicted to be dominated by solid state lighting
devices in the next few years. LEDs, present several advantages to other
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illumination devices in current use. The exploitation of these advantages
and the advancement of collaborative control strategies for these systems
are currently a hot topic for both research and industrial sectors. The
activities under this line of research started with the participation on an
International funded project, involving several participants from the
European community (project LITES: CIP-ICT-PSP-2008-2/238916, still
active). The major achievements under this line of research are the
dissemination of the group activities both at national and international
levels, and the direct contact of several actors from the industrial sector
that may result in future collaborations. It was achieved with success the
implementation of a prototype working in a real case scenario, within the
University of Aveiro campus. This prototype will enable the gathering of
real data demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed solutions.
Future
perspectives
on
this
line
aim
towards
the
conception
of
collaborative strategies able to reduce power consumption. New project
proposals, building up from recent collaboration between the Integrated
Circuits group and the Advanced Telecommunications and Networks group
are posing new design perspectives for these systems. Namely the
exploitation of sensor networking concepts able to promote efficiency and
raise new value added services.
•
Computational Finance: R & D on intelligent computation and pattern
recognition techniques together with fundamental and technical analysis
applied to stock market data for robust portfolio composition, adaptive
investment strategies definition and data acquisition.
4.4.3.7
Organic Electronics
In 2013, the scientific activities in Organic Electronics, focused on the
fabrication and test of organic electronic devices, and include 1) Inkjet
printed
electronics,
2)
Bioelectronics,
3)
Solar
cells
and
solar
concentrators, 4) Nanostructured films, 5) Devices at the molecular level,
6) Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), 7) Organic memories, the 8)
Physical properties of materials for organic electronics. Atomic Force
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Microscopy and other techniques were used for the characterization of
materials and devices.
The detailed activities included:
Ink-jet printed electronics
i) Work focused in producing stable and reliable electronic circuits such as
ring-oscillators and simple logic circuits. All-inkjet printed transistors were
successful fabricated with an operational stability as good as devices
produced in high vacuum conditions. The results have been present at the
major conferences in the area.
ii) Work on ''Biocellulose for Printed Organic Electronics'': fabrication and
characterization of electrodes on biocompatible substrates for medical
applications.
iii)
Silver
chloride
electrodes
fabricated
by
inkjet
printing
for
electromyography.
iv) Work on Organic Electrochemical Transistors.
v) New devices based in substrates produced by ink-jet technology have
been tested in biosensors from cells of Pseudomonas Aureginosa designed
to detect amides, namely acrylamide, in environmental and food samples.
These new biosensors have a increased performance when compared to
devices constructed by the traditional membrane/ion selective electrode
way.
Bioelectronics
i) Implantable organic nanoelectronics: continuation of the work in the
European Project I-ONE which aims at the fabrication and test a
multifunctional implantable circuit targeted to repair Spinal Cord Injury
(SCI). The work done in 2013 included the manufactory of organic
electronics devices based on the organic field effect transistor (OFETs) for
supplying local electrical stimuli.
ii) Exploratory work on the use of conjugated polymers and devices based
on PEDOT-PSS to study the effect of electric fields on cells culture.
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Solar cells and solar concentrators
i) Studies (fabrication, characterization and studies of the active layers
morphology) on various systems, namely cross-linkable conjugated
polymers and regular-polythiophene nanowires.
ii) Study of active molecules, derived from perylene, in dye-sensitized
solar cells (also known as Graetzel cells).
iii) Activities, via IST, in a Marie Curie training network (POCAONTAS)
that aims to explore the use of carbon nanotubes in photovoltaic cells,
and also in a european project (PHOCS) that aims to explore the use of
conjugated polymers in photoelectrochemical cells that can produce
hydrogen. Our contribution in both of these projects is the preparation of
new conjugated polymers.
iv) Design, preparation and structural of new organic small molecules to
fabricate organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). Such materials included crosslinking (photoresist) capability.
The introduction of the cross-linking
capability aims at increasing the thermal stability of the OPVs as well as
fabricating OPVs with organic nanostructured interfaces by utilizing
methods adapted to the patterning of cross-linkable polymers.
v) Synthesis of new conjugated small molecules, namely phenylene
vinylene oligomers containing either a bis(oligoether)phenyl ring or a
benzothiadiazole central unit and either carbazole or triphenylamine end
capping groups. The photophysical characterization of two of these
compounds revealed amplified spontaneous emission in neat drop cast
films. One of them was also characterized in terms of its two-photon
photoluminescence.
vi) Design and synthesis (in course) of conjugated polymers with
potential applications in interacting differently with carbon nanotubes
according with their quirality.
vii) Activities developed over 2013 within the scope of tasks 2 and 3 of
the post-doctoral grant reference SFRH/BPD/73682/2010 (FCT).
T a sk
2 - Development and characterization of optimized donor/acceptor films
for photovoltaic devices of P3HT nanowires - was finalized and an article
was submited;
- Study
T a sk 3of low band gap polymers for
photovoltaic devices - is still ongoing with an article in preparation.
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parallel, conjugated copolymers synthesized in the group were tested in
bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using PCBM as the acceptor.
viii) A General Route to Enhance Polymer Solar Cell Performance with
Plasmonic Nanoprisms: In collaboration with the groups of Prof. Alex Jen
(UW) and David Ginger (UW) we were able to successfully demonstrate
enhancements in power conversion efficiencies in the order of 18% in
organic solar cell devices. This was demonstrated with three different lowbandgap polymer blends. Silver nanoprisms with variable localized
surface plasmon resonances were employed as plasmonic nanoantennas.
A manuscript has been submitted to Advanced Materials.
ix) Tailoring Charge Transfer in Polymer Quantum Dot Composites with
Quantum Dot Size: studied on the driving force for charge transfer in high
performance quantum dot/polymer solar cells by varying the size of the
PbS quantum dots. We observed that both the photoinduced absorption
signal associated with charge generation on the polymer phase, and the
external quantum efficiency of the hybrid solar cells decrease in
magnitude with increasing quantum dot size. This work was done in
collaboration with the group of Prof. David Ginger (UW). A manuscript has
been submitted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Nanostructured films
- The fabrication of nanostructured films of a fluorescent and conjugated
polymer,
as
optical
sensors
for
explosive
compounds,
such
as
nitrobenzene. The utilized polymer was previously prepared in the group
and the method of nanostructuring was also developed in the group. This
method relies on the phase separation which occurs in solution, while a
blend of two polymers is deposited by spin coating onto a substract, and
the further cross-linking of one of the polymer followed by the washing
(removal)
of
the
non-cross-linkable
polymer.
The
characteristic
insolubility of the remaining film together with the high surface area are
great advantages for these films perform as sensors when utilizing
solutions. Nitro-compounds, such as benzene demonstrated to quench
effectively the fluorescence of the films.
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Devices at the molecular level
i) Achievements under the project "Drug Delivery Control at the Molecular
Level":
- Preparation and characterization of nanostructured monolayers of a
heparin disaccharide unit on graphite surface using Scanning Tunnelling
microscopy (STM) at solid liquid interface. Several factors that influence
the
adsorption
of
molecules
on
graphite
were
considered.
More
specifically, factors as temperature, solvent type and mixed monolayers
were studied in order to understand the best conditions to improve the
heparine adsorption.
- Preparation and characterization of monolayers composed by ocular
drugs encapsulated on cyclodextrins (CD) and adsorbed on heparine. This
work involved the following tasks:
a) Preliminary studies about the necessary conditions to encapsulate the
ocular drug into the CD carriers and UV-Visible and/or fluorescence
spectroscopy was used to identify the CD+drug complex formation.
b) Characterizations of each monolayer by atomic force microscopy
c) Monitorization of drug release kinetic by UV-Visible and/or fluorescence
spectroscopy
ii) Support in all Atomic Force Microscopy measurements needed in the
characterization of materials and devices within the Organic Electronics
Group of IT.
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)
i)
The characterization of electrochemical properties of new small
luminescent molecules - (boron derivatives) and their application in
Organic Light Emitting Diodes.
ii) New OLED using calixarene-based conjugated polymers have been
produced and tested. These new OLEDs have been studied under
magnetic fields using a new conductivity cell specially designed and
constructed for these measurements. The calixarene compounds were
also used to produce new fluorescence sensors to detect the presence of
nitro explosives. The construction of these devices has been developed
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using traditional spin-coating techniques but also using ink jet printing
techniques.
Organic memories
i) Resistive nonvolatile organic memories. We have continued our studies
on memories based on blends of conjugated polymers and cross-linked
conjugated polymers with a ferroelectric polymer P(VDF-TrFE). We have
also progressed in the characterization of the active layer morphology.
ii)
Research
on
the
fundamental
understanding
of
the
operating
mechanism of resistive switching memories, namely on the factors
controlling the switching speed of these emergent non-volatile memories.
This work started in collaboration with Philips Research in Eindhoven, NL
and it is now being pursued in collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute
in Mainz, Germany.
This year the group produced two important journal papers and a review
article on this topic.
Physical properties of materials for organic electronics
Study by ESR and magnetisation measurements of the effect of bimetallic coordination in compounds used as building blocks for molecular
conductors and magnets. Exploitation of new single component molecular
conductors.
Physics of Information

Physics of Information is a new research area at Instituto de
Telecomunicações, aiming to promote research and advanced training in
the physics of information in physical, chemical and biological systems. In
particular, during 2013 research was developed on quantum information
theory, nanoenergetics and quantum effects in biological systems and
their applications to energy transfer and sensing.

On the quantum information front, IT has developed work on
characterizing genuine multiparticle entanglement for permutationally
invariant states using the approach of positive partial transpose mixtures.
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Furthermore, IT has advanced quantum algorithms to compute real
temperature Ising partition functions and knot invariants with quantum
simulators. We have also proposed a graphene-enabled low-control
quantum gates between static and mobile spins, launching a new
research direction exploiting the unique properties of this novel twodimensional material for low-control quantum information processing.

On the quantum effects in biological systems front, namely in the
context of EU FP7 project PAPETS, IT has explored various design
principles for efficient excitation energy transport in complex quantum
systems. In particular, we investigated energy transfer efficiency in
randomly disordered geometries consisting of up to 20 chromophores to
explore spatial and spectral properties of small natural/artificial LightHarvesting Complexes (LHC), and found that the efficiency saturates to
its maximum value if the systems contain around 7 or 14 chromophores,
respectively. Remarkably, these optimum values coincide with the
number of chlorophylls in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein complex and
LHC
II
monomers,
respectively,
suggesting
a
potential
natural
optimization with respect to chromophoric density. Furthermore, we have
found
the phenomenon
of disorder-assisted
quantum
transport
in
suboptimal decoherence regimes: i.e. in weak dephasing regimes, away
from optimal levels of environmental fluctuations, the average effect of
increasing disorder is to improve the transport efficiency until an optimal
value for disorder is reached. These studies suggest that by engineering
the distributions of disorder in excitonic transport systems, better
performances can be achieved, if decoherence is below the optimal
regime. This has potential applications for the design of artificial lightharvesting systems or photosensing devices.

Finally, on the nanoenergetics and quantum thermodynamics front, in
the context of the EU FP7 project LANDAUER, we have investigated the
optimal heat cost of resetting a quantum bit by effecting a unitary
interaction between it and a finite dimensional thermal reservoir. This is
part of a larger goal of using quantum resources to make irreversible
computation more energy efficient by designing novel ICT switches.
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4.4.3.8
Power electronics
Audio power amplifiers
Development of new modulators and resonant topologies in order to
improve circuit performance and spectral output characteristics.
Development method for bandwidth extension of resonant based
switching audio amplifiers. Development of models for power
supply/amplifier integrated solution. Research on methods for PFC
integration and their respective control (single stage topologies for
switching audio power amplifiers).
Active power filters
Development and definition of new design criteria for hybrid power filters
with the objective of reducing volume, weight and cost, although
maintaining high efficiency.
Definition of new design criteria for the already developed and optimized
full-bridge single stage converters in order to significantly reduce the
energy stored in aluminum electrolytic capacitors, namely the DC bus
capacitor. It is expected that this improvement will result in a much more
attractive and low cost solution with considerable impact in the industry.
Resonant contactless energy transfer
Development of new prototypes for wireless energy transfer systems,
making use of new geometries for both the emitter and the receiver.
Study of LLC resonant converter topologies aiming its application to
wireless energy transfer systems.
Part of this work is being developed under the support of the Seventh
Framework Program COMPO-BALL in collaboration with the Group of
Instrumentation and Measurement of IT Lisbon Pole.
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Other Topics
Switching power Inverters for interfacing renewable energy sources with
the electric grid
Continuing the development of boost and buck boost single-stage
topologies to realize the interface between the AC mains, 230Vrms, and
Photo Voltaic Panels assuring high efficiency and low cost. Analysis,
characterization and optimization of the Z-Source converter for use in
photovoltaic panel’s grid-interface solutions. Study of new control
strategies for ZVS Dual Half Bridge Converters: Optimal Phase Shift and
Duty Cycle Trajectory Control.
4.4.3.9
Power Systems
Converters
• Development of new control algorithms and strategies for Hybrid Solar
PV-Wind-Battery solutions for power systems.
• Simulation Models of hybrid Electric Traction Systems/Fast Charging
Stations Network.
• DC-DC converters topologies for EV applications - Critical aspects of
converters for EV applications are related to core material limitations,
saturation and core losses, both of which depend on the changing flux.
Therefore, the work was dedicated to the modelling and characterization
of these converters and in order to improve the behaviour of magnetic
components.
• Multilevel NPC converters - It were developed fault tolerant control
strategies for NPC multilevel for wind power applications. Simulations
results were obtained and experimental tests were carried out for double
fed induction machines.
• Uninterruptible power supply of double conversion - A Matlab/Simulink
model for a back-to-back three-level NPC converter with fault tolerance
was developed. A fault diagnostic method for rectifier and inverter was
implemented in order to trigger the fault-tolerant algorithms.
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Motors
• Development of Drivers for Linear Switched Reluctance Actuators
(LSRA) and new control approaches.
• Analysis and characterization of the noise profiles of linear actuators in
different conditions, operating regimes and also for different control
algorithms.
• Motors coupled to time-varying loads - Diagnostic methods were
developed able to diagnose induction motor faults specially the ones
related with the rotor bars and magnetic circuit. Taking into account that
induction machines are very often supplied by power electronic
converters, new fault diagnosis methods were investigated in order to
detect and locate faults in machines operating in closed-loop.
• Three-phase induction motors – The study about induction motor faults
such as rotor/stator eccentricity, rotor broken bars and stator winding
short-circuit fault continued to be developed. A prototype to study these
faults started being developed.
• Thermal Behavior of a Three-Phase Induction Motor – Finite element
model coupled to a three level NPC converter drive model developed in
Matlab/Simulink platform for transient simulations. This global model
allows to study the induction machine behavior fed by the three level NPC
converter under regular and faulty operation. Experimental tests were
accomplished.
Energy Harvest
• Development of systems for generating energy from sea waves, by the
adoption of linear absorption point device based on the principle of
variable switched reluctance, keeping in mind its adaptability to other
energy harvesting systems.
• Microbial Fuel Cells Optimization for use in water monitoring systems The efficient use of water systems requires the availability of monitoring
systems to collect the necessary information to improve system
management. During this research period special attention was devoted
to understand the operation of Microbial Fuel Cells and how these
structures can be used to produce energy.
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Other Topics
• Proposal of new methods for surface potential and resistance calculation
of grounding systems and electrodes.
• Object Oriented Model in Reconfigurable Distributed Embedded Systems
– Object definition and mechanism to allow communication between this
have been under research during the last research year
• Control techniques for electronic ballasts - The work was mainly focused
on investigating new control techniques for electronic ballasts based on
magnetic regulators, mainly in CFLs application, for SOEB (self-oscillating
electronic ballasts) and/or DSOEB (dimmable self-oscillating electronic
ballasts).
• Magnetic coupling topologies of IPT systems for electric vehicle charging
- Several magnetic circuit geometries were simulated with a finite
element software. The efficiency and the power transference capability
obtained by simulation were experimentally validated trough a developed
prototype.
• Three-phase power transformers - Continue the research on power
transformer windings and core faults, both in core-type and shell-type
transformers,
new
simulations
models
were
developed
and
new
experimental tests were also performed. On-site tests were successfully
conducted at a power generation plant in transformers rated 60 MVA, 10
kV/ 240 kV, hence demonstrating the usefulness and applicability of the
new diagnostic tool developed.
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4.4.4
Runing and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
EC, FP7
EDP Distribuição
EU, FP7
FCT
FCT/PTDC
FCT/PTDC
FCT-Slovak Academy of Sciences bilateral project
FEDER/QREN
FP4
FP7
Industry (Dutch Polymer Institute)
IT
PT Inovação
QREN
SoftSim
Thales Alenia Space
Number
1
1
3
2
12
1
1
1
1
2
1
10
1
2
1
2
Table 26 – Number of active projects running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2013
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Activity in projects
Acron / Ref
Title
BIOSTIRLING 4 SKA
A Cost Effective and Efficient Approach for a New Generation of
Solar Dish-Stirling Plants Based on Storage and Hybridization
Funding
EC, FP7
Descript.
Acron / Ref
DERMCLASS
Title
DERMCLASS
Funding
FEDER/QREN
Descript.
DERMCLASS
–
Feature
extraction
and
artifact
removal
in
dermoscopic images
Acron / Ref
Title
DOLPHIN
Development of Pre-operational Services for Highly Innovative
Maritime Surveillance Capabilities
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
DOLPHIN
aims
at
developing
new
tools
providing
effective
improvements of the state of art capabilities in Maritime Surveillance
with respect to users’ needs, in particular by filling present
Technological Gaps and by developing new algorithms and Decision
Support Modules.
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Acron / Ref
Title
EHR-Physio
Electronic Health Records: Needs, Requirements, and Barriers of
Adoption in Physiotherapy
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The aim of the project is to design Electronic Health Records for
Physiotherapy using determined requirements from perspective of
patients and physiotherapists needs and perceived barriers to
adoption. Patient-Physiotherapist-Designer (PPD) Framework will
describe the concerns and attitudes that patients and their caregiver
might have on the concept of electronic health records, as well as
potential barriers to acceptance, such as variation in computer
skills, and technology awareness. Qualitative and quantitative
analysis of collected data using Delphi process, The Inventory of
Patients Needs on EHRs for Physiotherapy, The Inventory of
Physiotherapists
Perspectives
on
EHRs
for
Physiotherapy
and
conclusions from Patient-Physiotherapist-Designer (PPD) Framework
will give an overview with respect to the needs of EHRs for the
domain of Physiotherapy. The pilot deployments will allow usability
tests and evaluation of methods for data collection in physiotherapy
practice.
Acron / Ref
ICS
Title
Intelligent Cell Surfaces (ICS)
Funding
FCT
Descript.
CS vision is a bio-mimicking breadboard designed for quantitative
studies of cell response (in terms of motility, adhesion, selfaggregation, functionality, differentiation) to external stimuli in time
and space. The breadboard is engineered with sensing units for
measuring signals and inducing stimuli, and actuating devices and
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structures for directing the motion of the different cell types.
Acron / Ref
Title
INSPECT
INSPECT - Integrated Nano Sensor Probes and Electronics for Eddy
Currents Testing
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This research proposal aims to develop a state of the art NonDestructive Testing (NDT) system to overcome current testing
limitations on some specific industrial applications. The system will
include
a
new
eddy
currents
probe,
combining
coils,
a
Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors array and Complementary MetalOxide Semiconductor (CMOS) microelectronic circuits, which will
work together with an eddy current generation element. Since the
probe aims to be efficient for both superficial (requiring high
frequency operation) and buried defects (requiring low frequency
operation), coils have the disadvantage of having a frequency
dependent sensitivity, which is lower at low frequencies. Moreover,
coils also have a low spatial resolution, due to its millimeters range
size. While coils measure magnetic flux, MR sensors measure
magnetic field thus having a frequency independent sensitivity.
Therefore, by adding MR sensors to the probe, its scope of detection
increases, and also its spatial resolution, since MR sensors can have
dimensions on the micrometer range. Other advantage of MR
sensors is the fact that they are usually produced using thin film
technology allowing high resolution and repeatability. In order to
increase
the
number
of
MR
sensors
in
the
probe,
CMOS
microelectronic circuits will be included to perform multiplexing and
therefore reducing the number of outputs. The CMOS circuit will also
bias the MR sensors, and apply low-noise amplification and filtering.
To cope with the new probe high data throughput, the system will
also include an high performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
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unit. The DSP unit will be based on a Field-Programmable Gate
Array (FPGA) and high speed and resolution data converters. A
scalable processing architecture will explore high parallelism within
the FPGA processing core to perform digital demultiplexing, filtering
and demodulation of the multiple sensors signals. Also, the DSP unit
will configure the gain, bandwidth and the sensors addressing
mechanism by communicating with the microelectronic circuits.
Results will be displayed in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) running
on
a
computer
connected
with
the
developed
system.
Characterization and testing on real and relevant NDT applications
will evaluate the new system performance.
Acron / Ref
I-One
Title
Implantable Organic Nano-Electronics
Funding
FP4
Descript.
The vision of I-ONE is to fabricate and test a multifunctional
implantable circuit targeted to repair Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). The
device integrates: (i) organic electronics devices based on the
organic field effect transistor (OFETs). They serve for supplying local
electrical stimuli (ii) transducing neuralsignals; (iii) restoring the
interrupted synapsis; (iv) sensing inflammation; and (v) local
delivery on-demand of drugs, neuro-transmitters, inhibitors, and
growth factors.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
Descript.
LANDAUER
LANDAUER - Operating ICT basic switches below the Landauer limit
EU, FP7
The scientific objective of this project is to test the fundamental
limits in energy dissipation during the operation of physical switches
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representing the basic elements of logic gates. We address the
physical limits arising from a generic switch mechanism that is
common to any digital device, with specific reference to the
fundamental limit arising from the decrease of information in the
computation
procedure,
also
known
as
Landauer
limit.
The
technological objective of this project is to introduce new conceptual
devices that, through novel computing paradigms with radically
improved efficiency, are capable of trading the minimum amount of
energy dissipated with the computational precision.
Acron / Ref
Title
LIQ-OPVs
Towards very efficient organic photovoltaic cells through utilizing
liquid crystal phases as electron-acceptors
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
We propose, as a solution to seek more efficient OPVs and reduce
production costs, the exploitation of discotic liquid crystalline (LC)
phases
as
alternative
acceptors
to
fullerenes.
Discotic LCs are excellent candidates for OPVs due to their good
absorptivity in the visible spectrum and for being homeotropically
aligned by annealing and surface effects. The LC phases will be
designed to combine favourable characteristics, namely: high
absorptivity where the solar emission is more intense, electronacceptor character relative to poly(alkylthiophene)s, and ability to
assemble in nanostructures with enhanced charge mobility. To
ensure
the
morphological
stability
of
the
resulting
LC
supramolecular structures, they will be synthesised as cross-linkable
materials.
We will deal with two classes of disc-like materials, both recognized
as good electron acceptors, and with tunable LUMO levels, from
which new materials with LC properties will be derivatized: electron
acceptors
from
the
class
of
fluorenes
(Fs)
and
the
N,N´-
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Dicyanoquinone Diimines (DCNQIs). Whereas DCNQIs have only
been explored as crystalline conductive salts, electron-acceptors
from the Fs class have never been prepared as liquid crystal
materials.
Our workplan includes: i) screening among known DCNQIs and Fs
and selection of those with more favourable photophysical and
electron-acceptor character in relation to poly(alkylthiophene)s; ii)
synthesis of new LC materials as derivatives of those exhibiting
more promising properties; iii) investigation of their self assembly
character
and
development
of
methodologies
to
build
film
morphologies including the donor component; iv) characterisation of
the active layers in terms of photophysical properties; v) fabrication
and characterisation of OPV cells.
Acron / Ref
LOPIX
Title
LOPIX - Low Power Information Exchange
Funding
QREN
Descript.
Design, development and test a wireless communications system
for intelligent power metering at home based, in a first stage, on
ZigBee wireless technology and, in the final stage, on 6LowPAN
technology. This project is a sub-contract with WITH under a QREN
funded contract.
Acron / Ref
Title
MAXBE
Interoperable Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance Strategies for
Axle Bearings
Funding
Descript.
FP7
The axle bearing damage process has safety and economic
implications on the exploitation of railways systems, as proved by
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the selection of this topic for inclusion in the present call for
research proposals of the FP7 of the EU. Axle bearing damage has
been the object of intense attention by railway operators and
transportation authorities, leading to a variety of approaches and
systems currently in place to deal with the problem. However in
Europe there is some lack of standardisation which justifies R&D
work on condition monitoring and early diagnosis of axle bearings
by
technology
integration.
Moreover
the
current
European
documents do not present any guidelines for the maintenance
management of the rolling stocks with regards to axle bearings,
which
make
the
association
of
monitoring,
diagnosis
and
maintenance an interesting approach. The MAXBE project appears in
this context and its strategic objective is to provide validated and
demonstrated
concepts,
strategies
and
guidelines
for
the
interoperable axle bearing monitoring and diagnosis that support
the railway operators and managers dealing with the threats
imposed
by
the
existence
of
axle
bearing
defects.
The consortium for the MAXBE project comprises 17 partners
(industry, leading universities, end-users and a SME) from 8
member states, representing operators, axle bearing manufactures,
key players in the railway community and experts in the field of
monitoring, maintenance and rolling stock. The presence in the
consortium of one axle bearing manufacturer, market leader in the
field, and three operators and railway managers, as end-users, is
decisive for the enhancement and optimisation of the axle bearing
diagnosis and maintenance strategies and for the definition of the
new proposed approaches for the interoperability. The MAXBE
project
will
maintainability
have
impact
for
the
and
safety
(RAMS)
reliability,
of
rolling
availability,
stock
infrastructure, focused on the axle bearings.
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and
Acron / Ref
Title
MOLDELIV
Drug Delivery Control at the Molecular Level
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The objective of this project is to follow the process of drug delivery
on a biocompatible monolayer controlling the mechanism at the
molecular level, using scanning tunnelling microscopy(STM). More
specifically, nanostructured monolayers of a heparin disaccharide
unit will be deposited on a titanium (Ti) surface over which a
monolayer with an ocular drug encapsulated in cyclodextrin(CD) will
be put together by a self-assembling process. The drug release
process will then be followed. The motivation for this research is
rooted on the concern of physicians collaborating in this project for
an alternative solution to the drugs administration system used in
the glaucoma therapeutics. The conventional methods consist on
eye drops administration, for which only 20% of the active drug in
one droplet achieves the ocular anterior chamber, the remaining
being drained through the nasolacrimal duct or run down the chin.
Another problem relates to the patient noncompliance since half of
glaucoma patients do not use their ophthalmic medication properly.
A potentially alternative solution to the current therapeutics could
be the delivery of drugs into the eye using intraocular devices
similar which are already used in glaucoma treatment. These
devices
could
be
coated
with
self-assembled
monolayers
as
proposed for investigation in this project, incorporating the same
drugs
as
those
used
in
the
conventional
therapeutics.
The idea is to use STM to prepare the self-assembled monolayers
and to control the release of the drug (â -blockers and/or á2
adrenergic agonist)
from
the
CD
carriers,
using
a
stepwise
procedure which is commonly used by the team work of this project
to investigate supramolecular structures. In particular, the PI of this
project showed that the CDs form inclusion complexes with these
drugs. The STM uses a droplet of a non volatile solvent between the
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STM tip and the substrate where it is possible to inject molecules
sequentially until the desired supramolecular structure is obtained.
During the process, images with molecular resolution are obtained
in real time from the moment the molecules are injected until a fully
packed monolayer is achieved. Images can also be obtained to
follow and control the release process. More specifically, the images
which
will
be
obtained
and
examined
are
those
of
the
- heparin on the titanium surface,
- the CD+drug complex,
- release of the drug from the CD.
Using this method, a dissacharide unit of heparin will be assembled
on a Ti substrate to obtain a nanostructured monolayer. Then,
CD+drug complexes will assembly on the heparin. The fact that we
have molecular resolution will enable the real time observation of
the release of the drug at this scale in a biological environment, and
that was never done. To control the process under the biological
conditions and without loosing the molecular level detail, an
electrochemical STM cell will be used at a later stage. The method is
similar to the one used in STM at the solid/liquid interface but in this
case the monolayers will be prepared and characterized in water.
The experiments will be made in conditions similar to those in the
human body, namely, pH, temperature, salt concentration. This
environment will allow a realistic study of the processes in the drug
release mechanism. This research addresses a new strategy to study
drug
delivery,
since
usually
such
systems
are
evaluated
by
spectroscopy in solution to study drug delivery systems in a large
scale. They don’t take into account the interactions at the molecular
level that occur between drug and carrier. The detailed knowledge of
the system at the molecular scale will allow its optimization in large
scale
and
potentiate
the
development
of
new
devices
therapeutics.
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or
Acron / Ref
Multipass
Title
Multipass
Funding
Thales Alenia Space
Descript.
IT tasks:
a) Support in the definition of the technologies to apply in the
Decision
b)
Support
Support,
the
System
to
implement
implementation,
with
in
the
technical
project;
revisions;
c) Coordination of the MsC. thesis associated to the project;
d) Coordination of the scientific dissemination activities.
Acron / Ref
Title
NOVO
Non volatile polymer memories for flexible electronics
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This project aims to investigate the operating mechanism and the
role of phase separation details of non-volatile resistive polymer
memories
based
on
blends
of
conjugated
and
ferroelectric
polymer2.
Acron / Ref
Title
PAPETS
PAPETS - Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer and
Sensing
Funding
Descript.
EU, FP7
Project PAPETS – Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer
and Sensing aims at exploring the newly emerging frontier between
biology and quantum physics, to determine the role of coherent
vibrational dynamics in the efficiency of energy storage in natural
and artificial light harvesting systems, as well
as in odour
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recognition. The project will be developed in close collaboration
between theorists and experimentalists, and is expected to yield an
understanding
of
photosynthesis
and
olfaction
at
the
most
fundamental level, thus contributing in a unique way to such
important challenges as the development of more efficient light
harvesting technologies or artificial odour sensors.
Acron / Ref
SCALES
Title
SCALES - Simulation Tool for Pipeline ADCs
Funding
Thales Alenia Space
Descript.
Developement of a simulation tool do do architecture study of an
integrated Analog-to-Digital Converter
Acron / Ref
SoftSim
Title
Soft SIM Card Development
Funding
SoftSim
Descript.
This project aims to exploration the SOFT-SIM concept in the
context of the business area known as machine-to-machine (M2M).
Acron / Ref
TDK4PE
Title
Technology & Design Kit for Printed Electronics (TDK4PE)
Funding
FP7
Descript.
The goal of Technology & Design Kit for Printed Electronics
(TDK4PE) is to set a fundamental change in the way printed
electronics (PE) are designed and manufactured in Europe, with the
aim of reducing costs and time-to-market by more than an order of
magnitude
for
more
complex
designs
than
ever
before
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by
addressing
thousands
of
transistors
on
a
substrate.
The key is to develop a methodology to enable application-specific
PE circuit implementation. This will be achieved by adopting a
methodology similar to the silicon microelectronics one: using a
Technology and Design Kit to abstract physics to a point where
engineers could address physical design with sufficient certainty and
great freedom for creativity. This TDK will support circuit design at
physical, full-custom, and cell-based levels.
386
4.4.5
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Ana Maria de Soraia
Matos Charas Lourenço
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
CoSupervisors
New Cross-linkable Donor
Manuel José de Polymers for Nanostructured
Matos
OPV cells
João
Guilherme
Vítor Ribeiro
Pereira
Rodrigues
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Helena Maria
dos Santos
Johannes
Geirinhas
Hofstadler
Ramos
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Custódia
Domingos
1/2013
2/2013
3/2013
Combined Pattern Recognition
and Genetic Algorithms for
5/2013
Day Trading Strategy
Development of an automated
measurement system to
5/2013
evaluate ear protetions
Pedro Manuel
Mario Ribeiro Brito da Silva
Girão
Bráulio
Fernando José
Sérgio
Pimentel
Santos de
Lopes
Passos
End
Date
CO2 and pH intra-body blood
concentrations for respiratory 5/2013
pacer
João
Carreiras
Rui Fuentecilla
Daniel
Maia Ferreira
Gonzalez
Neves
Albarran
Mining Geographic Data for
Fuel Consumption Estimation
Technical Solutions for a
Housing Project with Self
Energy Production in Angola
Fernando José Ernesto João
Pimentel
Casimiro
Lopes
Quiçama
Raúl Daniel
Lavado
Carneiro
Martins
Title
Smart Sensor Platform for
physiological and motor
activity monitoring with
5/2013
application in Human Machine
Interfacing
Electrical Maintenance and
Control and Instrumentation Inácio Fonseca
6/2013
Internship at Central
Termoelétrica do Ribatejo, SA
User management using ITIL
good practices
6/2013
387
Supervisor
Ana Teresa
Fernandes
Pereira
Pedro José
Guerra de
Araújo
Student
João Pedro
Martins
Bruno Nave
Fernando José Nuno Filipe
Pimentel
Gomes
Lopes
Soares
Pedro José
Guerra de
Araújo
Carlos
Eduardo
Ramos dos
Santos
Lourenço
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da
Cruz
André Manuel
dos Santos
Mendes
Vitor
Marcelino
Pedro faria
João António
Carvalho
Agostinho
Rui Neto
André Manuel
Emanuel
dos Santos
Marques
Mendes
Sérgio Manuel
André Pereira
Ângelo da
Gonçalves
Cruz
Paul Andrew
Crocker
Adolfo
Peixinho
Paul Andrew
Crocker
João Silveira
André Manuel
dos Santos
Fábio Pereira
Mendes
CoSupervisors
Title
Design and fabrication of
electrodes for
electromyography
End
Date
7/2013
Gerontologia – Sistemas de
Acompanhamento de Pessoas
7/2013
Idosas
Project and Monitoring of
Energy Production Systems
Based on Renewable Energy
Sources
7/2013
Telemedicina e Telecuidados
7/2013
Jaime Arsénio An Artificial Bidimensional
de Brito
Model for Bursting Behaviour
Ramos
in Neurons
9/2013
Bearing fault diagnosis in a
three-phase induction motor
9/2013
Bidirectional Power Converter
for Contactless Battery
9/2013
Chargers in Electric Vehicles
Contactless Power Transfer for
Electric Vehicle Battery
9/2013
Charger
Control of the doubly-fed
induction machine, for the
study of the impact of power
9/2013
systems faults on the behavior
of wind generators
Digital Certificates and
Threshold Cryptography
9/2013
E-ID Based Cryptography
9/2013
Electric Vehicle with Drive
System and Battery Charger
Based on a Cascaded
Multilevel Converter
9/2013
388
Supervisor
Artur Ferreira
Student
CoSupervisors
GuideMe - Service for
Consulting, Publication and
Recommendation of Touristic
Locations
Artem
Umanets
Implementation of selective
automatic control of a
residential elevator in a DSP
André Manuel Luis Pedro
dos Santos
Duarte
Mendes
Coimbra
Sérgio Manuel
Filomeno
Ângelo da
Vieira
Cruz
Paul Andrew
Crocker
Fábio Bento
Power Transformers for High
Frequency Applications
Predictive control of electric
drives based on three-phase
induction motors
Sérgio Manuel Pedro Filipe
Ângelo da
da Costa
Cruz
Gonçalves
Search acceleration methods
for large retinal image
databases
Diana
Luis Alberto
Craveiro
da Silva Cruz
Mourão
Development of a System for
Pedro de Pinho Automatic Detection of Air
Ana Rita da
e Costa
Embolism Using a Precordial
Costa Tedim
Amorim
Doppler
Carlos Miguel
Hugo dos
Schwarz
Santos
Gonçalves
Marques
Henriques
Luís Pereira
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
9/2013
Role played by the tertiary or
compensating winding in the
diagnosis of faults in power
9/2013
transformers
Sérgio Manuel Ricardo
Ângelo da
André
Cruz
Almeida Brás
Maria Beatriz
Mendes
Batalha Vieira
Vieira Borges
Manuel
Fernando
Martins de
Barros
End
Date
Modelling, simulation and
diagnosis of core faults in
9/2013
three-phase induction motors
Paralelização e Implementação
em Cluster e Grelha de
9/2013
Métodos para a reconstrução
de Imagens
André Manuel Antonio
dos Santos
Ricardo Jorge
Mendes
Santos
Ana Isabel
Rodrigues
Castro
Title
9/2013
10/2013
High Frequency LLC Resonant
10/2013
Converter
Carlos Alberto
Mobilidade Urbana - Patins
Farinha
Eléctricos
Ferreira
10/2013
389
Supervisor
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Student
CoSupervisors
José Miguel
David Vinhas Costa Dias
Pereira
Title
End
Date
Monitorização de Sinais Vitais
e Localização Baseada na
Tecnologia RFID para
10/2013
Utilizadores de Cadeiras de
Rodas
João Pedro
Nuno Miguel Marco
Afonso Oliveira Sistema de monitorização de
de Figueiredo António
da Silva
consumo de energia eléctrica
Garrido
Moura Rebelo
10/2013
Manuel
Fernando
Martins de
Barros
10/2013
Carlos Alberto Sistema de produção de
Pedro Abelha Farinha
energia renovável para casa
Ferreira
auto-sustentável
Assistentes Pessoais Sensíveis
ao Contexto para Ambientes
11/2013
Móveis
António Luís
Sérgio
Morais Costa
Cerqueira
da Silva Lopes
Automatic visual recognition
Miguel Tavares
of calories in a meal
Coimbra
11/2013
Electrical characterization of
Pedro Miguel
Maria do
electronic interfaces to
Henrique
Cavaco
Carmo Raposo communicate with
Leonel Gomes Carrilho dos
de Medeiros
electrogenic cells in vitro
Santos Inácio
11/2013
Pedro Miguel Pedro
Alves Brandão Rodrigues
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
Margarida
Telo da
Gama Leão
Ponce
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Diogo
Aguiam
Finite-Difference TimeDomain 1D Code to Simulate
FMCW Reflectometry 11/2013
Application to ITER
Luís Filipe
Soldado
Granadeiro
Rosad
Maria Beatriz
Ricardo José Hugo dos
Mendes
Bonito
Santos
Batalha Vieira
Santana
Marques
Vieira Borges
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Ana Filipa
Teixeira
Jorge Manuel
Filipa
Ferreira
Soareas
Morgado
Heterodyning Non Destructive
Testing Electronic System
11/2013
Based on Eddy Currents
Inversor de Fonte de
Impedância para Aplicações
em Fontes de Energia
Renovável
11/2013
AirQAsthmaNet - Distributed
Francisco
air sensor network for asthma
António Bucho
12/2013
assement
Cercas
Cell growth/differentiation
using conjugated polymers
12/2013
390
CoTitle
Supervisors
Nuno Miguel Joaquim José
Paulo Bacelar
Controlador e device drivers
Falcao de
de Castro
Reis Pedreiras
para caldeiras a pellets
Moura
Ferreira
Manuel
Marco
Controlo de um Helicóptero:
Fernando
Alexandre
aplicações militares e de
Martins de
Antunes
proteccção civil
Barros
Mendes
Octavian
Ricardo
Adrian
KAffect Comp
Paulino
Postolache
Metodologias de
Hugo Rafael
Paulo Bacelar
desenvolvimento de sistemas
Mendes
Reis Pedreiras
embedded
Tavares
Supervisor
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Student
End
Date
12/2013
12/2013
12/2013
12/2013
Serious Game based on Kinect
and affective computing
12/2013
Nuno Filipe
Correia Dias
João de
Paulo Bacelar Morais
Reis Pedreiras Sarmento
Matos
Armando
Sistema de Apontamento
Carlos
Programado para Antena
Domingues da
Parabólica
Rocha
Vital Signs monitoring and
José Miguel
localization using weelchair
David Vinhas Costa Dias
and embedded sensors and
Pereira
RFID for wheelchairs'users
12/2013
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
12/2013
Rui Fuentecilla António
Nuno Cavaco
Maia Ferreira Daniel
Gomes Horta
Neves
Ventura Silva
Portfolio - Previsão de
mercados financeiros
utilizando Computação
Inteligente
Fernando
Manuel Tim
Tim Janeiro
Desenvolvimento de um
Contador de Energia Eléctrica 3/2014
Inteligente
Luís Miguel
Leitão da
Silva
José Carlos
Sequeira
Martins dos
Santos
Electronic measurement
system for viscosity sensor
based on its impulsive
response
1/2014
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Henrique
Carvalho
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Ruben
Abrantes
Luís Filipe
Soldado
Granadeiro
Rosado
Electronic System for NonDestructive Testing using Eddy 3/2014
Currents Array Probes
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Tiago
Marques
João Silva
K-Physio - Kinect for
Physiotherapy
3/2014
3/2014
391
Supervisor
Antonio Luis
Campos da
Silva Topa
Student
CoSupervisors
Diana Raquel
Piteira Félix
Alexandre
Moutela Nunes
da Mota
Valter Filipe
Paulo Bacelar
Miranda
Renato Lopes
Reis Pedreiras
Castelão da
Silva
Fernando
Manuel Tim
Nuno Palma
Tim Janeiro
Paulo Bacelar
Tiago Lopes
Reis Pedreiras
Joaquim José
Paulo Bacelar
Tome Matos de Castro
Reis Pedreiras
Ferreira
Pedro
Luís Miguel
Bonifácio
Martins Nunes Costa
Title
End
Date
Acousto-Optic Devices
4/2014
Controlador de Tempo Real
baseado em Raspberry PI
6/2014
Controlador e device drivers
6/2014
para seguidor solar de 2 eixos
Controlo e Aquisição de Dados
num Sistema de Estéreo-Visão 6/2014
Desenvolvimento de
controlador e software de
parametrizacao para caldeiras 6/2014
a pellets
Sancho Moura Profiling Web based users
Oliveira
preferences with Text Mining
6/2014
Qualificação de Redes de FO
Multigigabit
6/2014
José Manuel
José António
dos Santos
Marinho
Duarte
Brandão Faria
Mariana
Paulo Bacelar Alexandra
Reis Pedreiras Aleixo de
Barcelos
RTCTools - Plataforma para
Alexandre
Ensino de Controlo Automático
Moutela Nunes
6/2014
baseada em XenomaiLab
da Mota
Maria Beatriz
Mendes
Batalha Vieira
Vieira Borges
Hugo
Ribeiro,Hugo
dos Santos
Marques
Fernando
Bruno Nabais
Ferreira
Franco
Fernando
Manuel Tim
Tim Janeiro
Filipe
Carretas
Sílvio José
Pinto Simões
Mariano
Marco
Lourenço
Fonseca
Gonçalves
Single Stage Converter for
Application in Photovoltaic
Pannels
6/2014
Sistema Automático de Baixo
Custo para Medição da Altura
da Base das Nuvens e da
6/2014
Visibilidade Atmosférica
Maria do
Rosário Alves
Calado
Analysis of the technical
feasibility of connecting micro
arrays of PV systems to the
7/2014
distribution network
392
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Title
End
Date
Equalização Iterativa para
sistemas Multicelulares no
7/2014
Sentido Ascendente: LTE-Adv
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Francisco
Oliveira
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Pedro José
Guerra de
Araújo
Afonso Vilaca
Bastos Silva
Estimation of Fuel
Consumption from GPS Data
Celso Nave
Sistema de acompanhamento
7/2014
da diabetes
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Mónica Jorge
Carvalho
Figueiredo
Luís Miguel
Martins Nunes
Luis Miguel
Pina Coelho
Teixeira
Botelho
Luís Miguel
Martins Nunes
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Alicia João
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
7/2014
Técnicas de Cooperação entre
Estações Base para os Futuros
7/2014
Sistemas Celulares
João
Fazendeiro
Analisador de Energia
Reconfigurável
9/2014
Valéria
Pacheco
Big Data in Intelligent
Transport Systems
9/2014
Daniel Bhatt
Ambaram
Computational treatment of a
psychological model of
9/2014
personal crises development
Nuno
Antunes
Francisco
Cary
Pedro Manuel
Brito da Silva
Girão
Dynamic Sheduling and
9/2014
Timetabling
EHR & Kinect for
Physiotherapy (Framework
para fisioterapia assistida
baseado na tecnologia Kinect 9/2014
com suporte para Registro de
Saúde Electrónico)
Electron Wave Propagation in
Mário Gonçalo
Gabriel Falcão Manuel José
Graphene using Parallel
Mestre
Paiva
Torres
Computing on GPUs with
9/2014
Verissimo
Fernandes
Rodrigues
CUDA
Silveirinha
Luís Miguel
Martins Nunes
André Manuel
dos Santos
Mendes
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Paulo Gil
Daniel Filipe
Fonseca
Ferreira
Nuno Miguel
Santos
Duarte
Hierarchical Reinforcement
Learning
9/2014
Isolated DC-DC power
converter for UPSs
9/2014
KSGphysio – Kinect Serious
Game for Physiotherapy
9/2014
393
Supervisor
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Student
CoSupervisors
Rúben Tiago
Lopes Costa
Recommender Systems for
Telecommunications Data
André Manuel
dos Santos
Rui Pedro
Mendes
Fernandes
José Miguel
Lopes
Barreiro
André Manuel Samuel Filipe
dos Santos
Soares
Mendes
Ferreira
Carlos Serrão
João Silva
Smart Mountain Bike
9/2014
Aplicação móvel Android para
gestão e visualização de um
10/2014
sistema NIALM
Image Segmentation using
Focal Point Clustering: a
Parametric Analysis
MAcBETh IV: Evolutionary
Optimization Techniques
applied to Analog IC Design
Nuno Cavaco Ricardo
Gomes Horta Lourenço
Paulo André
Pais
Fazendeiro
9/2014
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Services for Mobile Operating
10/2014
Systems
João Leite
Andre
Nuno Cavaco
Martins
Gomes Horta
Ribeiro
Resonant converters for
charging electric vehicles
Study of power transformers
9/2014
in isolated DC-DC converters.
Ana Raquel
Pedro Ricardo
Correia
Morais Inácio
Figueira
Paulo André
Pais
Fazendeiro
9/2014
Stator fault diagnosis in threephase induction motor drives
with rotor field-oriented
9/2014
control
Sérgio Manuel Ana Carolina
Ângelo da
Monteiro
Cruz
Nujo
Nuno Miguel
Laycene
de Figueiredo
Gaspar
Garrido
End
Date
M-Health – Mobile Applications
for Healthcare: Physitherapy
9/2014
Context
Luís Miguel
Paulo
Martins Nunes Carvalho
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Title
Jorge Manuel
Correia
Guilherme
10/2014
10/2014
SPACE-DC/DC - II: Conversor
DC-DC para a Industria
10/2014
Aeroespacial
A Linguistic Framework for
Embryo Viability Assessment
11/2014
394
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Óscar Narciso Micael José
Mortágua
Pedrosa
Pereira
Capitão
Óscar Narciso Diogo Jose
Mortágua
Domingues
Pereira
Regateiro
BigData
Pedro Miguel
Naia Neves
Distributed and Dynamic
Access Control to Protect
Sensitive Data on Cloud
Computing Environments
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
FOREX PATTERN- Prever
Mercados de Futuros de
Câmbios com Padrões
Maria Beatriz
António Carlos
Mendes
de Campos
Batalha Vieira João Moreira
Lampadas de Indução
Simões
Vieira Borges
Baptista
Óscar Narciso Mickael
Mortágua
Santos
Maribel Santos
Pereira
Creolo
Rui Fuentecilla Tiago Miguel
Nuno Cavaco
Maia Ferreira Marques
Gomes Horta
Neves
Branco
Óscar Narciso
Andre Filipe
Mortágua
Garcia
Pereira
Helga
Maria Cecília
Cristina
dos Santos
Oliveira
Rosa
Coelho
Óscar Narciso
Jose Filipe
Mortágua
Dias Rego
Pereira
Luís Miguel
Carvalho
Proença
11/2014
11/2014
Estado da arte e desafios em
tecnologias de Bioimpressão.
Contribuição nas abordagens 11/2014
3D a jacto de biotinta
João
Maria do
Bernardo
Rosário Alves
Lopes
Calado
Fermeiro
Maria Cecília
dos Santos
Rosa
End
Date
Energia das ondas. Análise do
potencial da costa
11/2014
portuguesa.
Maria do
Helder José
Rosário Alves Aragão
Calado
Martins
Rui Fuentecilla
José Pedro
Maia Ferreira
de Oliveira
Neves
Alves
Title
11/2014
11/2014
Online Analytical Processing
for Supermarkets
11/2014
PATTERN - Identificações
Padrões em Mercados
Bolsistas
11/2014
Purchasing Integrated
Management System
11/2014
Sistema de Gestão de
Qualidade: Proposta para a
Fundação Aurora Borges
11/2014
Typestate Oriented
Programming Paradigm
11/2014
Valorização do CAP de Caria
através de uma Proposta de
Sistema de Gestão de
Qualidade
11/2014
395
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Rui Fuentecilla
Helder de
Nuno Cavaco
Maia Ferreira
Oliveira Mota Gomes Horta
Neves
Joao Manuel
Mourão
Patricio
Bruno Grácio
Liliana
Ana Maria de
Marques
Matos Charas
Martelo
Title
End
Date
VALUE - Estratégia de
investimento baseada em
11/2014
Warren Buffett
Análise e Implementação de
Métodos Numéricos para
Resolução de Sistemas de
12/2014
Equações Lineares de Grandes
Dimensões
New cross-linkable organic
Manuel José de compounds for applications in
12/2014
Matos
photovoltaic cells
Alexandre
Plataforma de teste de
José Luís Sá
Moutela Nunes técnicas avançadas de
Nogueira
da Mota
controlo
Paulo Bacelar
Porting GNU binutils for the
Joao Pires
Reis Pedreiras
EVP DSP
Maria Beatriz
Mendes
Marcelino
Power Supply Based in a
Marco Pinto
Batalha Vieira
Santos
Piesoelectric Transformer
Vieira Borges
Projecto de um Conversor
Vitor Manuel Miguel
Redutor CC-CC Comutado
da Silva Costa Andrade
para SoC de impacto reduzido
Rui Fuentecilla STOCKS: Optimização MultiNuno Cavaco
António Pinto Maia Ferreira Objectivo de Portfólios de
Gomes Horta
Neves
Activos Financeiros
Telmo Reis
Cunha
12/2014
12/2014
12/2014
12/2014
12/2014
Table 27 – List of MSc Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2013
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Maria Beatriz
Mendes
Carlos
Batalha Vieira Ferreira
Vieira Borges
Edgar Silva
Pereira
Fernando
Marcos
Co- Supervisors
Title
Luis António
Switching Audio
Serralva Vieira de
Amplifiers
Sá
End
Date
2/2013
Matrix Algorithms, Matrix
Algorithms
3/2013
396
Supervisor
Rui Teives
Henriques
Student
Co- Supervisors
Ana Isabel
Dulce Belo
Soares Neves
Inês Cristina
Aníbal Manuel
Direito
de Oliveira
Baptista da
Duarte
Silva
Anabela Sousa
Pereira
Eduardo
Pinheiro
Information Technologies
1/2014
for Pain Management
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Henrique
Qian Chen
Leonel Gomes
Milton
Paulo Bacelar
Armando
Reis Pedreiras
Cunguara
Maria da
Jorge Manuel
Graça Laranjo
Ferreira
Mendes
Morgado
Brotas
Jorge Manuel
Ferreira
Morgado
12/2013
Electrical characterization
of electronic devices for
1/2014
applications in nonvolatile memories
Nuno Gonçalo
Coelho Costa
Pombo
Rui Fuentecilla
José Manuel
Maia Ferreira
Matias Pinto
Neves
Complexos de metais de
transição com base em
6/2013
ligandos ditiolenos
contendo grupos
tiofénicos
Construção de
Competências
12/2013
Transversais no Sector
das Telecomunicações
Pedro Manuel Brito Vital Signals Monitoring
da Silva Girão
for Wheelchair users
Henrique
Paulo Rocha
Leonel Gomes
Pedro José
Guerra de
Araújo
End
Date
Fabrication and
characterization of
electronic devices based 12/2013
on nanoparticles
Henrique
Asal Kiazadeh
Leonel Gomes
Octavian
Adrian
Postolache
Title
Tomás Oliveira e
Silva
Ana Maria de
Matos Charas
Joana Tavares Ana Maria de
Farinhas
Matos Charas
Optimal Stock Market
Investments Based on
1/2014
Evolutionary
Computation Techniques
and Technical Analysis
Polymeric Resistive
RAMs: Elucidating the
1/2014
Switching Mechanism
Adaptive control
techniques for networked 3/2014
embedded systems
New materials for organic
solar concentrators and 3/2014
photovoltaic cells
High efficiency polymerbased photovoltaics
4/2014
through morphology
control
397
Supervisor
Raúl Daniel
Lavado
Carneiro
Martins
Jorge Manuel
Ferreira
Morgado
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Student
Co- Supervisors
Francisco
Andre Correa
Alegria
Intracardiac Rehography
4/2014
by Magnetic Induction
Tomography
Tânia Isabel
de Almeida
Braz
Non volatile resistive
memories
Development and
Implementation of an
Impedance Measuring
System Applied to
Viscosity Sensors
José Carlos
Sequeira
Martins dos
Santos
Fault Tolerant Cascade
Multilevel Inverter For
Electric Vehicle
Applications
Luís Filipe
Soldado
Granadeiro
Rosado
José Lopes
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Filipe Nuno
Mateus Dias
Quinaz
4/2014
6/2014
6/2014
Non-Destructive Testing
6/2014
Based on Eddy Currents
Optimization of the
operation of a Ion
Implanter
Fault Tolerance in
Sérgio Manuel Mohsen
André Manuel dos
Multilevel Converters for
Ângelo da Cruz Bandar Abadi Santos Mendes
Wind Power Generators
Vitor Manuel
João Paulo
Semiconductor Ring
de Oliveira
Neto Torres
LASER Simulation
Maló Machado
Energy management
Fernando
associated to the
Sérgio Manuel Miguel Soares Humberto Matos
production and storage
Ângelo da Cruz Mamede dos Jorge
based on renewable
Santos
energy sources
Language Based Security
Ana Gualdina José Fragoso
for Distributed Mobile
Gérard Boudol
Almeida Matos Santos
Code
Pedro José
Guerra de
Araújo
End
Date
Bruno Miguel
Gil Rosa
André Manuel
Toni dos
dos Santos
Santos Alves
Mendes
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Title
Resposta farmacológica
automática e em tempo
real em pacientes com
regurgitação mitral em
cuidados intensivos
6/2014
7/2014
8/2014
9/2014
9/2014
9/2014
398
Supervisor
Antonio Joao
Marques
Cardoso
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Tolerância a Falhas em
Accionamentos Baseados
em Geradores Síncronos
10/2014
de Ímanes Permanentes
Aplicados em Turbinas
Eólicas
Nuno Miguel
Amaral Freire
Armando
Luís
Ultra Low Noise Receiver
Carlos
José Miguel da
Cupido,Domingos for Space and Ground
10/2014
Domingues da Silva Bergano
da Silva Barbosa Applications
Rocha
Caracterização e Análise
Maria do
José António António Eduardo
do Ruído Acústico em
Rosário Alves da Costa
Vitória do Espírito
11/2014
Actuadores de Relutância
Calado
Salvado
Santo
Variável Comutados
Eléctrodos de terra:
Sílvio José
António Mário
análise e projecto
Pinto Simões Ribeiro
11/2014
optimizado a dois
Mariano
Martins
estratos
Modelação e Simulação
Maria do
Nuno Paulo
João Manuel
Probabilística de
Rosário Alves Ferreira
11/2014
Ferreira Calado
Sistemas de Tracção
Calado
Henriques
Eléctrica
Sistemas de Controlo e
Luís Miguel
Maria do
Predição de Posição e
Freire de
Rosário Alves
Velocidade de Actuadores 11/2014
Menezes
Calado
Lineares de Alto
Pestana
Desempenho
ALgoritmos de
Luis Miguel
Carlos Filipe
Optimização para
Merca
Perquilhas
Modelos de Planeamento 12/2014
Fernandes
Baptista
de Redes de Transporte
Helena Maria
dos Santos
Geirinhas
Ramos
Tiago Rocha
Abel João
Adriano Nunes
Padrão Gomes Raposo
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Nuno
Lourenço
Artur Fernando
Delgado Lopes
Ribeiro
Caracterização da Forma
Geométrica de Defeitos
Ocultos em Materiais
12/2014
Condutores por
Imagiologia de Indução
Magnética
Dynamic Geometric
Modeling of Plasmidic
12/2014
DNA for Therapeutical
Purposes
Layout-Aware Analog IC
Sizing in Deep
12/2014
Nanometer Technologies
399
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Métodos
Artur Fernando Dário
Helena Maria dos Electromagnéticos de
Delgado Lopes Jerónimo
Santos Geirinhas Deteção e Caraterização 12/2014
Ribeiro
Pasadas
Ramos
de Fissuras em Materiais
Condutores Planos
Research Topic: High
Performance Computing
Maria Manuela
for 3D and 4D Image
Areias da
Przemyslaw
12/2014
Segmentation:
Costa Pereira Lenkiewicz
Application to Automatic
de Sousa
Detection of Breast
Cancer
Signal Processing for
Luis Alberto da Sérgio Duarte
Radio Assisted Location 12/2014
Silva Cruz
Correia
Systems
Helena Maria
Thickness Measurement
dos Santos
Jakub Kral
Radislav Šmid
12/2014
Using Transient Eddy
Geirinhas
Current Techniques
Ramos
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Paula Sousa
(Not defined yet 3)
6/2015
Santos
Nuno Manuel
Virginie
Garcia dos
(Not defined yet 4)
6/2015
Felizardo
Santos
Modelos Optimizados
Sílvio José
para Sistemas de
José Álvaro
Pinto Simões
9/2015
Miniprodução Híbridos
Nunes Pombo
Mariano
Instalados em Edíficios e
Áreas Envolventes
Processamento e análise
Maria Manuela
de imagens ultra-som 2D
Areias da
e 3D: aplicação à
Rui Brás
9/2015
Costa Pereira
detecção automática do
de Sousa
cancro da mama
André Manuel Bruno Ricardo
Sérgio Manuel
dos Santos
Oliveira
Ângelo da Cruz
Mendes
Baptista
André Manuel Luís Miguel
dos Santos
Antunes
Mendes
Caseiro
Thermal Behaviour of a
Three-Phase Induction
Motor Fed by a Fault
Tolerant Multilevel
Inverter
9/2015
Uninterruptible power
supply of double
conversion with internal 9/2015
fault tolerance, based on
multilevel topology.
400
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Continuous-time
Daniel da Silva
computation models:
Amaury Pouly Olivier Bournez
10/2015
Graça
from computability to
computational complexity
António
Gestão de aplicações de
Eduardo
Fábio Mendes Bruno Jorge
baixo consumo em
11/2015
Vitória do
Castanheira
Ferreira Ribeiro
sistemas embutidos
Espírito Santo
distribuídos
Amplificadores de
Elevado Desempenho
Nuno Cavaco David
para Áudio, Amplicadores 12/2015
Gomes Horta Guilherme
de Elevado Desempenho
para Áudio
Arquitecturas
Reconfiguráveis de
Nuno Cavaco
Jorge Manuel
Mauro Santos
Elevado Desempenho p/ 12/2015
Gomes Horta
Correia Guilherme
Terminais Móveis da 4G e
5G
Desenvolvimento de
Tecnologias de
Relutância Variável
Maria do
Rui Pedro
Comutada para Geração
Rosário Alves Gouveia
12/2015
de Energia Eléctrica a
Calado
Mendes
Partir da Energia das
Ondas. Adaptação a
Outras Fontes de Energia
Renovável
Hierarchical Evolution of
Anders Lyhne
Sancho Moura
Miguel Duarte
Controllers for Complex 12/2015
Christensen
Oliveira
Tasks
Analog IC Design
Nuno Cavaco Ricardo
Automation in Deep
1/2016
Gomes Horta Martins
Nanometer Technologies
Anders Lyhne Fernando
Distributed Online
2/2016
Christensen
Silva
Learning
Novelty Search in
Anders Lyhne
Jorge Gomes
Heterogeneous Systems 2/2016
Christensen
Luís Miguel
David Jardim
Martins Nunes
Jorge Manuel
Correia
Guilherme
Abbas
Abdolalipour
Human Activity
Miguel Sales Dias Recognition & Prediction 6/2016
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Reconfigurable ADC
Architecture for LowCost/Power 4G Multi
standard Terminals
7/2016
401
Supervisor
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
António
Eduardo
Vitória do
Espírito Santo
Jorge Manuel
Ferreira
Morgado
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Student
Co- Supervisors
Syed Saqlain
Ali
Atílio Manuel da
Silva Gameiro
Pedro Miguel
Domingos
Serra
António João
Carvalho de
Albuquerque
Rajesh
Veeravarapu
Ana Maria de
Matos Charas
Pedro Manuel
Paulo Ferreira Brito da Silva
Girão
Yasser Rashid
Bruno Mera
Revez Omar
Yasser Rashid Leonardo
Revez Omar
Novo
Joana Catarina Debarati
Mendes
Mukherjee
Yasser Rashid Daniele
Revez Omar
Ancora
Yasser Rashid Marco
Revez Omar
Pezzutto
Yasser Rashid Shantanav
Revez Omar
Chakraborty
Joana Catarina
Mendes
Title
End
Date
Physical Layer
Cooperation for
9/2016
Heterogeneous Systems
Microbial Fuel Cells
Optimization for use in
11/2016
water monitoring
systems
Synthesis of conjugated
polymers to sort carbon 11/2016
nanotubes by chirality
Dosimetric and electrical
characteristics of a FFF
Linac and modern Quality
12/2016
Assurance procedures for
Intensity Modulated and
Rotational Radiotherapy
Limits to heat dissipation
12/2016
in quantum systems
The role of disorder and
decoherence in quantum
12/2016
transport and quantum
computation
Heat spreading diamond
films on GaN devices for
10/2017
thermal management of
power electronics circuits
Classical and quantum
vibrational dynamics of
12/2017
proteins: from structure
to function
Quantum
12/2017
Thermodynamics
Robustness and
Protection of Quantum
12/2017
Algorithms in Noisy
Regimes
Table 28 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2013
402
4.4.6
Publications
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Books
- Rosa, Cecília; A Influência do IPG na Região da Guarda - Impacto das Instituições
de Ensino Superior no Desenvolvimento Regional , , Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
, Guarda , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Madeira, I.; R. Mendes; F. Martins; F. Clemente; G. Dias ; " Demonstração e
instrução ao vivo na aprendizagem da pirueta " - Chapter in Estudos em
Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança VI , Isabel M. Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho, João
Barreiros, Olga Vasconcelos , Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro , Vila
Real , 2013 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; "
Desenvolvimento de métricas de avaliação tática no futebol: análise de um estudo
de caso em futebolistas sub-12 " - Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor
da Criança VI , Isabel M. Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho, João Barreiros, Olga
Vasconcelos , Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro , Vila Real , 2013 .
- Garcia, M.; R. Mendes; F. Martins; P. Mendes; " Influência do estatuto do modelo
e forma de demonstração na aprendizagem do movimento de batimento de direita
no ténis " - Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança VI , Isabel M.
Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho, João Barreiros, Olga Vasconcelos , Universidade de
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro , Vila Real , 2013 .
- Martins, F.; F. Clemente; M. Couceiro Couceiro; T. Coelho; J. G. Gonçalves; D. S.
Santos; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; " Observação dos princípios táticos no futebol:
aplicação do índice de dispersão " - Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor
da Criança VI , Isabel M. Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho, João Barreiros, Olga
Vasconcelos , Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro , Vila Real , 2013 .
403
Papers in Journals
- Gomes, A.; J. Morgado; " A Generalised Regula Falsi Method for Finding Zeros and
Extrema of Real Functions ", Mathematical Problems in Engineering , Vol. 2013 ,
No. 394654 , pp. 1 - 9 , May , 2013 .
- Santos, D.; A. F. Sousa; F. Alvelos; " A hybrid column generation with GRASP and
path relinking for the network load balancing problem ", Computers and Operations
Research , Vol. 40 , No. 12 , pp. 3147 - 3158 , December , 2013 .
- Rosa, Cecília; E. Pereira; " A method for Construct Sets of Commuting Matrices ",
Journal of Mathematics Research , Vol. 5 , No. 3 , pp. 1 - 7 , September , 2013 .
- Ghamisia, P.; F. Sepehrban; L. Kumar; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; " A New
Method for Compression of Remote Sensing Images Based on Enhanced Differential
Pulse Code Modulation Transformation ", ScienceAsia , Vol. 39 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 16 ,
June , 2013 .
- Miguel, C.M.; " A note on a conjecture about commuting graphs ", Linear Algebra
and its Applications , Vol. 438 , No. 12 , pp. 4750 - 4756 , March , 2013 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; M. O. Ivanova; R. Mendes; "
Activity Profiles of Soccer Players During the 2010 World Cup ", Journal of Human
Kinetics , Vol. 38 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 15 , September , 2013 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " An Online Tactical
Metrics applied to Football Game ", Research Journal of Applied Sciences,
Engineering and Technology , Vol. 5 , No. 5 , pp. 1700 - 1716 , September , 2013 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Clemente; F. Martins; " Analysis of Football Player’s
Motion in View of Fractional Calculus ", Central European Journal of Physics , Vol.
11 , No. 6 , pp. 714 - 723 , October , 2013 .
- Miguel, C.M.; " Balanced zero-divisor graphs of matrix rings. ", Lobachevskii
Journal of Mathematics , Vol. 34 , No. 2 , pp. 137 - 141 , April , 2013 .
404
- Harrison, W. K. Harrison; J.A. Almeida; M.Bloch Bloch; S.W.M. McLaughlin; J.
Barros; " Coding for Secrecy ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Special Issue on
Signal Processing for Cyber-security and Privacy , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 0 - 10 ,
September , 2013 .
- Amaral, P.; I. M. B. Bomze; " Copositivity and constrained fractional quadratic
problems ", Mathematical Programming , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 26 , June , 2013 .
- Amaral, P.; I. M. B. Bomze; J. J. Júdice; " Copositivity and constrained fractional
quadratic problems ", Mathematical Programming , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 26 , June
, 2013 .
- Henriques, T.; H. G. Gonçalves; L. Antunes; M. Matias; J. B. Bernardes; C. C-S
Costa-Santos; " Entropy and compression: two measures of complexity ", Journal of
Evaluation in Clinical Practice , June , 2013 .
- Ivanova, M. O.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; " Fostering Swarm Robotics as
New Media Objects ", Wulfenia , Vol. 20 , No. 3 , pp. 167 - 183 , March , 2013 .
- Henriques, T.; L. Antunes; J. B. Bernardes; M. Matias; C. C-S Costa-Santos; "
Information-based measure of disagreement for more than two observers: a useful
tool to compare the degree of observer disagreement ", BMC Medical Research
Methodology , Vol. 13 , No. 47 ,March , 2013 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; G. Dias ; R. Mendes; "
Interpersonal Dynamics: 1v1 sub-phase at sub-18 football players ", Journal of
Human Kinetics , Vol. 36 , No. 6 , pp. 181 - 191 , March , 2013 .
- Sousa, A. F.; C. B. Lopes; D. Santos; " Load balance optimization of
telecommunication networks with two differentiated services ", Electronic Notes in
Discrete Mathematics , Vol. 41 , pp. 351 - 358 , June , 2013 .
Measuring Collective Behaviour in Football Teams: Inspecting the impact of each
405
half of the match on ball possession ", Intrnl. Journal of Performance Analysis in
Sport , Vol. 13 , No. 3 , pp. 1 - 22 , December , 2013 .
Measuring the tactical behaviour using technological metrics: Case study of a
football game ", Intrnl. Journal of Sports Science and Coaching , Vol. 8 , No. 4 , pp.
- , November , 2013 .
- Ghamisia, P.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; J. A. Benediktsson; " Multilevel
Image
Segmentation
based
on
Fractional-Order
Darwinian
Particle
Swarm
Optimization ", IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , Vol. 52 , No. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 14 , June , 2013 .
- Fernandes, L. M.; J. J. Júdice; H. Sherali; M. F. Forjaz; " On an enumerative
algorithm for solving eigenvalue complementarity problems ", Computational
Optimization and Applications , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 22 , January , 2013 .
- Brás, M.; J. J. Júdice; H. Sherali; " On the Solution of the Inverse Eigenvalue
Complementarity Problem ", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , Vol.
1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 19 , November , 2013 .
- Fernandes, L. M.; J. J. Júdice; M. Fukushima; A.I. Iusem; " On the symmetric
quadratic eigenvalue complementarity problem ", Optimization Methods and
Software , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 19 , November , 2013 .
- Gouveia, M. C.G.; " On the Toeplitz pencil conjecture ", Linear and Multilinear
Algebra , Vol. 61 , No. 6 , pp. 784 - 790 , August , 2013 .
- Teixeira, A.T.; L. Antunes; A. Matos; A. Pinto; A. Souto; " One-way functions
using Algorithmic and Classical Information Theories ", Theory of Computing
Systems , Vol. 52 , No. 1 , pp. 162 - 178 , January , 2013 .
- Pereira, J.; H. A. Silva; " Optimal design of perfect DFT sequences ", Physical
Communication-Elsevier , Vol. 7 , No. 1 , pp. 92 - 104 , June , 2013 .
406
- Santos, D.; A. F. Sousa; F. Alvelos; M. Pióro; " Optimizing network load
balancing: an hybridization approach of metaheuristics with column generation ",
Telecommunication Systems , Vol. 52 , No. 2 , pp. 959 - 968 , February , 2013 .
- Li, L.; D. Qiu Qiu; P. Mateus; " Quantum secret sharing with classical Bobs ",
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , Vol. 46 , No. 1 , pp. 045304 045304 , January , 2013 .
- Oliveira, J. F.; J. C. Pedro; " Recent Developments on Hybrid Time-Frequency
Numerical Simulation Techniques for RF and Microwave Applications ", Journal of
Function Spaces and Applications , Vol. 2013 , No. 578326 , pp. 1 - 11 , February ,
2013 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; " Soccer Teams Behaviors:
Analysis of the team’s distribution in function to ball possession ", Research Journal
of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology , Vol. 6 , No. 1 , pp. 130 - 136 ,
January , 2013 .
- Yousif, W. S; J. L. S. Santos; M. Martins; " The Explicit Group USSOR Method for
Solving Ellptic Partial Differential Equations ", Neural, Parallel, and Scientific
Computations , Vol. 21 , No. 1 , pp. 279 - 292 , January , 2013 .
- Mendes, P.; J. P. Fuentes; R. Mendes; F. Martins; F. Clemente; M. Couceiro
Couceiro; " The variability of the serve toss in tennis under the influence of artificial
crosswind ", Journal of Sports Science and Medicine , Vol. 12 , No. 1 , pp. 309 - 315
, January , 2013 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Clemente; F. Martins; " Toward the Evaluation of
Research Groups based on Scientific Co-authorship Networks: The RoboCorp Case
Study ", Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research , Vol. 31 , No. 1 , pp. 36 - 52 ,
September , 2013 .
407
- Morgado, L.F.; M. L. Morgado; N. Silva; R. Morais; " A mathematical moddel for
electromagnetic energy harvesters ", Proc International Conf. Computational and
Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering - CMMSE , Almeria , Spain , Vol.
4 , pp. 1089 - 1096 , June , 2013 .
- Tedim, A. T.; P. A. Amorim; A. C. Castro; " A new scheme for manual infusion of
propofol, allowing individualization of doses required for anesthesia induction and
adequacy of the initial maintenance rate - Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
", Proc SNACC - Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care SNACC
Annual Meeting , San Francisco , United States , Vol. 25 (4) , pp. 478 - 478 ,
October , 2013 .
- Tarapore, D.; A. Christensen; P. Lima; J. Carneiro; " Abnormality Detection in
Multiagent Systems Inspired by the Adaptive Immune System ", Proc International
Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS , Saint Paul , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 533 - 533 , May , 2013 .
- Gomes, P.; M. Kaiseler; B.L. Lopes; C. Q. Queirós; M. Coimbra; " Are standard
heart rate variability measures associated with the self-perception of stress of
firefighters in action? ", Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society - EMBC , Osaka , Japan , July , 2013 .
- Martins, F.; C. Ribeiro; " Atribuir sentido Aos raciocínios associados Às resoluções
de alunos no caso da subtração ", Proc ESECS IP Leiria Investigação, Práticas e
Contextos em Educação - IPCE 2013 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 192 - 200 ,
May , 2013 .
- Castro, A. C.; P. A. Amorim; M. Coimbra; " Cardiovascular variability and
nociception/anti-nociception balance during anesthesia ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Computer-Based Medical Systems - CBMS , Porto , Portugal , pp. 245 250 , June , 2013 .
408
- Pereira, V.P.; - Melo de Sousa; P. Crocker; " Criptografia Homomórfica como um
Serviço: da Implementação à sua Aplicação ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de
Informática , Evora , Portugal , Vol. 5 , pp. 383 - 394 , September , 2013 .
- Almeida, J.A.; G. Maierbacher ; J. Barros; " Designing Scalar Quantizers with
Secrecy Constraints ", Proc IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing
- Global SIP , Austin TX , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , December , 2013 .
- Santos, D.; C. B. Lopes; A. F. Sousa; F. Alvelos; " Energy Efficient Routing for
Telecommunication Networks with Multiperiod Traffic ", Proc Congresso da APDIO ,
Bragança , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 323 - 332 , June , 2013 .
- Martins, M. M.; G. Falcão; I. Figueiredo; " Fast Aberrant Crypt Foci Segmentation
on the GPU ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing - ICASSP , Vancouver , Canada , May , 2013 .
- Martins, F.; F. Clemente; M. Couceiro Couceiro; " From the individual to the
collective analysis at the football game ", Proc MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN
ENGINEERING - MME13 , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 217 - 231 , July , 2013 .
- Nascimento, M.; C. Ribeiro; J. A. Martins; F. Martins; M. V. Pires; C. Martins; M.
Rodrigues; J. Castro; A. Caseiro; " Giving sense to student’s productions - a way to
improve (future) teachers’ knowledge and training. ", Proc Congress of European
Research in Mathematics Education , Antalya , Turkey , Vol. 1 , February , 2013 .
- Castro, A. C.; T. T. V. Vinhoza; S. S. Mattos; M. Coimbra; " Heart Sound
Segmentation
of
Pediatric
Auscultations
Using
Wavelet
Analysis
",
Proc
International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC
, Osaka , Japan , pp. 3909 - 3912 , July , 2013 .
- Gomes, A.; F. Martins; H. Pinto; I. Sebastião; C. Ribeiro; " Improving teachers’
Mathematical and (Portuguese) Language Knowledge for Teaching using tasks:
Portrayal of a project. ", Proc International Symp. Elementary Mathematics
Teaching , Praque , Czech Republic , Vol. 1 , August , 2013 .
409
- Fernandes, O.; G. Dias ; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Clemente; F. Martins; J. M. A.
Luz; C. Figueiredo; R. Mendes; " New Technologies to the Study the Golf Putting ",
Proc International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support ,
Algarve , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 185 - 191 , September , 2013 .
- Gomes, A.; C. Ribeiro; H. Pinto; F. Martins; " Prospective teachers’ knowledge on
the (possible) relationships between squares and rectangles ", Proc CIEAEM65 ,
Torino , Italy , Vol. 1 , July , 2013 .
- Almeida, J.A.; J. Barros; " Random Puncturing for Secrecy ", Proc Asilomar Conf.
on Signals, Systems, and Computers , Pacific Grove, CA , United States , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 5 , November , 2013 .
- Fernandes, D. A. B. F.; L. F. B. Soares Soares; M. Freire; P.R.M. Inácio ; "
Randomness in Virtual Machines ", Proc IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing
Conf. - UCC , Dresden , Germany , Vol. 6 , pp. 1 - 4 , December , 2013 .
- Almeida, J.A.; C. T. Torezzan; J. Barros; " Spherical Codes for the Gaussian
Wiretap Channel with Continuous Input Alphabets ", Proc IEEE Workshop on Signal
Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications - SPAWC , Darmstadt , Germany
, pp. 0 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Perez, L. P. L. P.; J. P. S. C. Costa; J. V. Gomes; M. Freire; P.R.M. Inácio ; "
Strong
Authentication
with
Quick
Response
Codes
",
Proc
Conf.
on
May , 2013 .
- Sá, A.S.; F.B. Bento; R.M.S. Fernandes; P. Crocker; " THE ROLE OF GNSS DATA
FOR WATER VAPOR MONITORING ", Proc International Conf. on Engineering ICEUBI , Covilhã , Portugal , Vol. 2 , pp. 100 - 112 , November , 2013 .
- Rosa, Cecília; E. Pereira; " Um Modelo de Metapopulações para o Estudo da
Evolução do Número de Alunos numa Instituição de Ensino ", Proc CISTI 2013 - 8ª
Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias da Informação , Lisboa , Portugal ,
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ELECTROMAGNETICS
Books
- Faria, J.; (eds.); Análise de Circuitos , , IST Press , Lisboa - PT , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Faria, J.; M. E. Pedro Pedro; " Magnetic Field Originated by Power Lines " Chapter
in
Electromagnetic
Fields:
Principles,
Engineering
applications
and
Biophysical effects - Chp. 4 , Myung-Hee Kwang, Sang-Ook Yoon , Nova Publisher ,
New York , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Faria, J.; " A comparison between electric and magnetic parallel plane strip
transmission lines in the framework of a quasi-TEM analysis ", Intrnl. Review of
Electrical Engineering - IREE , Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 422 - 429 , February , 2013 .
- Faria, J.; " A physical model of the ideal transformer based on magnetic
transmission line theory ", Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications , Vol.
27 , No. 3 , pp. 365 - 373 , March , 2013 .
- Neves, M.; M. E. Pedro Pedro; V. Machado; " Accurate Numerical Method to
Evaluate the Capacitances of Multi-conductor Power Cables ", Electric Power
Systems Research , Vol. 103 , No. 1 , pp. 184 - 191 , October , 2013 .
- Faria, J.; " Electric and magnetic coupling between neighboring multiconductor
transmission lines considering short interaction lengths ", IEEE Trans. on Power
Delivery , Vol. 28 , No. 1 , pp. 475 - 482 , January , 2013 .
- Faria, J.; " Formulation of multiwire magnetic transmission-line theory ", Progress
In Electromagnetics Research - PIER , Vol. B , No. 49 , pp. 177 - 195 , March ,
2013 .
411
- Rosado, L. S.; J. C. Gonzalez; T. S. Santos; P.M. Ramos; M. S. Piedade; "
Geometric optimization of a differential planar eddy currents probe for nondestructive testing ", Sensors and Actuators A-Physical , Vol. 197 , No. 1 , pp. 96 105 , August , 2013 .
- Faria, J.; MS Raven; " On the success of electromagnetic analytical approaches to
full
time-domain
formulation
of
skin
effect
phenomena
",
Progress
In
Electromagnetics Research - PIER , Vol. M , No. 31 , pp. 29 - 43 , July , 2013 .
- Faria, J.; " Reformulation of magnetic transmission line theory using magnetic
charges, magnetic currents, and magnetic voltages ", Journal of Electromagnetic
Waves and Applications , Vol. 27 , No. 17 , pp. 2145 - 2154 , September , 2013 .
- Machado, V.; A. Roque Roque; S. Ramos Ramos; J. Barão Barão; D. M. Sousa
Sousa; " Simulation of the Magnetic Induction Vector of a Magnetic Core to be Used
in FFC NMR Relaxometry ", Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism , Vol.
26 , No. 1 , pp. 133 - 140 , January , 2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; M. Silveirinha; " Classical Analogue of Quantum Friction ", Proc
Metamaterials Congress , Bordeaux , France ,Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , September , 2013 .
-
Maslovski
,
S.;
M.
Silveirinha;
"
Electromagnetic
quantum
friction
on
monomolecular layers ", Proc Days on Diffraction , St. Petersburg , Russia , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 130 - 130 , May , 2013 .
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Maslovski
,
S.;
"
Electronics
for
Metamaterials
",
Proc
Conf.
on
, 2013 .
- Mendes, B. M. ; J. A. Alves; M. A. Ribeiro; " Matching of Plasma Frequency
Between Wire Structures with Cylindrical and Rectangular Shapes ", Proc Conf. on
2013 .
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- Topa, A.; " Recent Advances on the Analysis and Design of Metamaterial
Waveguides ", Proc Encuentro Ibérico de Electromagnetismo Computacional - EIEC
, Dénia , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2013 .
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Waveguides With a Minkowskian Isotropic Medium Cladding ", Proc Conf. on
May , 2013 .
IMPACT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ON SOCIETY
Books
- Mumtaz, S.M.; J. Rodriguez; Green Communication for 4G Wireless Systems , ,
River Publishers , Allborg , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Fazendeiro, P.; S. Azevedo; V. C. Cruz-Machado; " A framework proposal to
assess the LARG index of a supply chain in a fuzzy context " - Chapter in Handbook
of
Research
on
Enterprise
2.0:
Technological,
Social,
and
Organizational
Dimensions , Maria Manuela Cruz- Cunha, Fernando Moreira, and Joao Varajao , IGI
global, Medical Information Science Reference , 2013 .
- Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; P.A. Assunção; F.T. Tavares; S. C. Cardeal; " Methods
for Quality Assessment in Enterprise VoIP Communications " - Chapter in
Sociotechnical Enterprise Information Systems Design and Integration , Maria CruzCunha, João Varajão & António Trigo , IGI global, Medical Information Science
Reference , Hershey, PA , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- dÓrey, P.; M. Ferreira; " ITS for Sustainable Mobility: A Survey on Applications
and Impact Assessment Tools ", IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems ,
pp , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 17 , December , 2013 .
413
- Pinto, Filipe Pinto; P. Chainho; N. Pássaro; F. Santiago; D. Corujo; D. Gomes; "
The
Business
of
Things
Architecture
",
Transactions
on
Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies , Vol. 24 , No. 4 , pp. 441 - 452 , June , 2013 .
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Business
of
Things
Architecture
",
Transactions
on
Emerging
The
Business
of
Things
Architecture
",
Transactions
on
Emerging
- Lucas da Silva, M.; D. Gonçalves; H. Silva; " User-tuned Content Customization
for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders ", Procedia Computer Science ,
November , 2013 .
- Nistor, M.; J. Barros; D. E. Lucani; " Hardware Abstraction for Protocol Design in
Coded Wireless Sensor Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
Castelo Branco , Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Souza, de Souza, D.F.; J. Ascenso; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; S.M.M. Faria; F.
Pereira; " Improving H.264/AVC Video Coding with Geometric Transforms ", Proc
- Costa, R.; L. Marcelino; C.S. Silva; " Profile-based System for Nutritional
Information Management ", Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking,
Applications and Services - HealthCom , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 602 - 606 ,
October , 2013 .
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Geographic Multicasting in Wireless Networks ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications
- ConfTele , Porto , Portugal , May , 2013 .
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- Aguiar, A.; M. Kaiseler; H. Meinedo; T. Abrudan; P. R. Rocha Almeida; " Speech
Stress Assessment using Physiological and Psychological Measures ", Proc ACM
Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science - MCSS , Zurich ,
Switzerland , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2013 .
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Book Chapters
- Rodrigues, H. Rodrigues; P. Antunes; A. Costa; P.S André; H Varum; " Dynamic
Measurements as Support to the Analysis and Condition Assessment of Structures "
- Chapter in Accelerometers: Principles, Structure and Applications , Paulo Sérgio
de Brito André and Humberto Varum , Nova Publisher , New York , 2013 .
- Moschita, A.; D. M. Macii; F. Alegria; P. Carbone; " Histogram-Based Techniques
for ADC Testing " - Chapter in Design, Modeling and Testing of Data Converters Signals and Communication Technology , P. Carbone, Sayfe Kiaei, Fang Xu ,
Springer , Berlin , 2013 .
- Moschita, A.; " Histogram-Based Techniques for ADC Testing " - Chapter in
Design, Modeling and Testing of Data Converters - Signals and Communication
Technology , P. Carbone, Sayfe Kiaei, Fang Xu , Springer , , 2013 .
- Antunes, P.; C. Leitão Leitão; H. Rodrigues Rodrigues; R Travanca; J. L. Pinto; A.
Costa; H Varum; P.S André; " Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Based Accelerometers
and
Applications " -
Chapter in
Accelerometers:
Principles, Structure and
Applications , Paulo Sérgio de Brito André and Humberto Varum , Nova Publisher ,
New York , 2013 .
- Alberto, N.; L. Bilro; P. Antunes; C. Leitão Leitão; H. Lima; P.S André; R.N.
Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; " Optical Fiber Technology for eHealthcare " - Chapter in
Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency
in Healthcare and Social Care , Maria Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Miranda, and Patricia
Gonçalves , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference , USA , 2013 .
415
- Quinaz, F.Q.; P. Fazendeiro; P.A. Araújo; M. C. B. Castelo Branco; " Soft methods
for automatic drug infusion in medical care environment " - Chapter in Handbook of
Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare
and Social Care , Isabel Maria Miranda, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, and Patricia
Goncalves , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference , , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Antunes, P.; J. M. S. Dias; H Varum; P.S André; " A Plastic Optical Fiber
Accelerometer Suitable for Marine Applications ", Marine Engineering Frontiers , Vol.
1 , No. 4 , pp. 69 - 74 , November , 2013 .
- Salvado, J. A. C.; M.R.A. Calado; A. Espírito Santo; " A Simple yet Effective SemiAnechoic Chamber for the Acoustic Characterization of an LSRA ", IEEE Latin
America Transactions , Vol. 11 , No. 5 , pp. 1190 - 1200 , September , 2013 .
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; V.V. Viegas; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " A SMART AND
DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TO ACQUIRE AND ANALYZE MECHANICAL
MOTION PARAMETERS ", Metrology and Measurement Systems , pp 461 - 474 ,
September , 2013 .
- Pereira, N. M.; O. Abe; P. Antunes; F. Domingues; A. Sousa; L. Ferreira Ferreira;
H Varum; L. Costa ; P.S André; " Conjugation of optical and microwave techniques
to monitor the early age concrete cure ", Instrumentation Science and Technology ,
Vol. 41 , No. 2 , pp. 117 - 124 , April , 2013 .
- Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Contactless Impedance Cardiography
Using Embedded Sensors ", Measurement Science Review , Vol. 9 , No. 3 , pp. 157
- 164 , June , 2013 .
- Rosado, L. S.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Ramos; M. S. Piedade; " Defect characterization
with eddy currents testing using nonlinear-regression feature extraction and
artificial neural networks ", IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement , Vol.
62 , No. 5 , pp. 1207 - 1214 , May , 2013 .
416
- Antunes, P.; H. Rodrigues Rodrigues; H Varum; P.S André; " Elevated water
reservoir monitoring using optical fiber accelerometer ", Instrumentation Science
and Technology , Vol. 41 , No. 2 , pp. 125 - 134 , April , 2013 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " Faraday Induction Effect
Applied to the Detection of Defects in a Moving Plate ", Review of Progress in
Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation , Vol. 32a , No. 1511 , pp. 428 - 432 , June
, 2013 .
- Viegas, V.V.; J. M. Dias Pereira; " Foundation Fieldbus: From Theory To Practice ",
Intrnl. Journal of Computing , Vol. 12 , No. 2 , pp. 115 - 124 , June , 2013 .
- Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; " Gene Expression Programming for Automatic Circuit
Model
Identification in
Impedance Spectroscopy:
Performance
evaluation
",
Measurement , Vol. 46 , No. 10 , pp. 4379 - 4387 , December , 2013 .
- Janeiro, F. M.; J. Santos; P.M. Ramos; " Gene Expression Programming in Sensor
Characterization: Numerical Results and Experimental Validation ", IEEE Trans. on
Instrumentation and Measurement , Vol. 62 , No. 5 , pp. 1373 - 1381, May , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; A. L. Ribeiro; H. G. Ramos; " GMR array uniform eddy current
probe for defect detection ", Measurement , Vol. 46 , No. 1 , pp. 4369 - 4378 ,
December , 2013 .
- Antunes, P.; H Varum; P.S André; " Intensity-Encoded Polymer Optical Fiber
Accelerometer ", IEEE Sensors Journal , Vol. 13 , No. 5 , pp. 1716 - 1720 , May ,
2013 .
- Alegria, F.; " Measurement Challenges in Trying to Understand Our Brain ",
Measurement , Vol. 48 , No. 8 , pp. 2950 - 2962 , October , 2013 .
- Teixeira, H.; W. Dghais; T.R. Cunha; J. C. Pedro; " Measurement Setup for
RF/Digital
Buffers
Characterization
",
IEEE
Trans.
on
Instrumentation
and
Measurement , Vol. 62 , No. 7 , pp. 1892 - 1899 , July , 2013 .
417
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; " METHOD FOR UNOBTRUSIVE
MEASUREMENT OF INDOOR AIR ", Environmental Engineering and Management
Journal , Vol. 12 , No. 6 , pp. 1239 - 1254 , June , 2013 .
- Martinho, E.; M. A. Abreu; A. O. Oliveira; F. Alegria; M. E. P. Pampulha; "
Monitoring of Biophysicochemical Changes in a Silty Clay Soil Contaminated with
LNAPL’s ", Geoderma - A Global Journal of Soil Science , Vol. 197-198 , No. 1 , pp.
108 - 116 , April , 2013 .
- Pereira, V.; J.C. Marques; M.J. Carvalho; M. Chen; R. Sol; C. Novo; L. Bilro; P.
Antunes; N. Alberto; J. L. Pinto; " Multiparameter Optical Monitoring of Madeira
Wine ", International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) , Vol. 9 , pp. 62 - 64 ,
December , 2013 .
- Pires, N.; C.M. Mendes; M. Koohestani; A. Skrivervik; A. A. Moreira; " Novel
approach to the measurement of Ultra Wideband antenna efficiency ", IEEE
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters , Vol. 12 , pp. 1512 - 1515 , November ,
2013 .
- Cunguara, MAC; TOS Silva; PP Pedreiras; " On Oscillation Free Controller Changes
Vol. 62 , No. 3 , pp. 262 - 268 , March , 2013 .
- Rosado, L. S.; M. S. Piedade; P.M. Ramos; " Real-Time Processing of MultiFrequency Eddy Currents Testing Signals: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
", IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement , No. 99 ,October , 2013 .
- Girão, P.M.; P.M. Ramos; O. Postolache; J. M. Dias Pereira; " Tactile Sensors for
Robotic Applications ", Measurement , Vol. 46 , No. 3 , pp. 1257 - 1271 , April ,
2013 .
- Kral, J.; R. Šmid; H. G. Ramos; A. L. Ribeiro; " The Lift-Off Effect in Eddy
Currents
on
Thickness
Modeling
and
Measurement
",
IEEE
Trans.
on
Instrumentation and Measurement , Vol. 62 , No. 7 , pp. 2043 - 3047 , July , 2013 .
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- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; Filipe Monteiro Monteiro; Marcin Gorski
Gorski; J.P. Castro Gomes; " Wireless sensor networks for temperature and
humidity monitoring within concrete structures ", Construction and Building
Materials , Vol. 40 , pp. 1156 - 1166 , March , 2013 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; J. Kral; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " Assessing Metal Plate
Thickness: an SVM Approach with Electromagnetic Methods ", Proc 12th IMEKO
TC10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics , Florence , Italy , June , 2013 .
- Fred, A. L. N.; J. Guerreiro Guerreiro; RCM Martins; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; "
BITalino:A Multimodal Platform for Physiological Computing ", Proc International
Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO , Reykjavik ,
Iceland , July , 2013 .
- Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Calibration and Validation of
Homeostasis Parameters Estimates Produced by a DSP Embedded in a Wheelchair
", Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC ,
Minneapolis , United States , Vol. I , May , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; " Comparative analysis of two systems
for unobtrusive heart signal ", Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC , Osaka , Japan , Vol. I , pp. 1 - 4 , July ,
2013 .
- Carreiras, C. C.; A. Lourenço; H. Silva; A. L. N. Fred; " Comparative Study of
Medical-grade and Off-the-person ECG Systems ", Proc International Workshop on
Pervasive Electrocardiography - IWoPE , Vilamoura , Portugal , September , 2013 .
- Deboodt , Deboodt Bjorn; L.F. Ferreira; C. Ribeiro; Pedro G. Martinho G.
Martinho; " CONTROLLING REAL TIME PROCESSING VARIABLES IN A HYBRID
INJECTION MOULD ", Proc International Conf. on Advanced Research in Virtual and
Rapid Prototyping - VRAP , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2013 .
419
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " DEFECT DETECTION WITH
VELOCITY INDUCED EDDY CURRENTS USING A PERMANENT MAGNET ", Proc 18th
International Workshop on Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation - ENDE 2013
, Bratislava , Slovakia , June , 2013 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; A. L. Ribeiro; D. Pasadas; " Determination of Linear
Defect Depths from Eddy Currents Disturbances ", Proc Review of Progress in
Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - QNDE , Baltinore , United States , July ,
2013 .
- Alberto, N.; Raul Simões Simões; R.N. Nogueira; V. Neto Neto; " Diamond
chemical vapour deposition on optical fibres ‐ Deposition parameters optimization
through Taguchi method ", Proc International Conf. on Diamond and Carbon
Materials , Riva del Grada , Italy , September , 2013 .
- Gouveia, J.; P.M. Ramos; " DSP based data acquisition system with on-board
processing ", Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp. , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 132 - 137 ,
July , 2013 .
- Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Dual Architecture Platform for
Unobtrusive Wheelchair User Monitoring ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA , Gatineau , Canada , May , 2013.
- Pasadas, D.; T. Rocha; A. L. Ribeiro; H. G. Ramos; " ECT CHARACTERIZATION OF
A LINEAR DEFECT FROM MULTIPLE ANGLE MEASUREMENTS ", Proc IMEKO TC4
Symp. , Barcelona , Spain , July , 2013 .
- Sequeira, F.; S. Prats; R.N. Nogueira; J. J. Keizer; L. Bilro; " Experimental
assessment of a plastic optical fibre based turbidity sensor ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS
2013 , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Silvestre, F. S; A. Rocha; A.O. Oliveira; " FPGA Based Beacon Receiver Detector
for Propagation Experiments ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
420
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; J. Tavares; F. J. Velez; R. CHÁVEZ-SANTIAGO; I.
Balasingham; " Identification of the Opportunistic Radio Frequency Bands for
Energy
Harvesting
in
Wireless
Body
Area
Networks
",
Proc
Conf.
on
- Santos, J.; P.M. Ramos; " Impedance Estimation of a Vibrating Wire Viscosity
Sensor Using Multi-Harmonic Signals ", Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp. , Barcelona , Spain ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 259 - 264 , July , 2013 .
- Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; " Improving the convergence of gene expression
programming in impedance spectroscopy ", Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp. , Barcelona ,
Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 138 - 143 , July , 2013 .
- Rocha, T.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; A. L. Ribeiro; " Metal Plate Thickness
Classification In Eddy Current Testing Using Support Vector Machine ", Proc IMEKO
TC4 Symp. , Barcelona , Spain , July , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, M.R; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Modular Platform Architecture for Fast
Prototyping of Vital Signs and Motor Activity Monitors ", Proc IEEE International
Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC , Minneapolis , United States , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 6 , May , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; " Multi-channel architecture for
evaluation of automated oscillometric blood pressure devices ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA , Gatineau
, Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , May , 2013 .
- Gonçalves, SG; RCM Martins; " Non-contact wearable single forearm cardiac
biopotential
acquisition
device
",
Proc
IMEKO
Joint
IMEKO
TC1-TC7-TC13
Symposium , Genova , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2013 .
- Silva, H.; C. C. Carreiras; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; " Off-the-person
Electrocardiography ", Proc International Congress on Cardiovasular Technologies CARDIOTECHNIX , Vilamoura , Portugal , September , 2013 .
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- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; T. Rocha; " Regularization methods to
assess the eddy current density inside conductive non-ferromagnetic media ", Proc
Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - QNDE , Baltimore ,
United States , July , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; H. G. Ramos; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; " Remote Field Eddy Current
Inspection of Metallic Tubes Using GMR Sensors ", Proc IEEE Instrumentation and
Measurement Technology Conf. , Minneapolis , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
April , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; " Sensor Network for Environment
Monitoring: Water Quality Case Study ", Proc IMEKO TC19 Symp , Lecce , Italy ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; M.R Ribeiro; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; " Smart Sensors and
Pervasive
Computing
for
Healthcare
",
Proc
IEEE
Conf.
on
e-Health
and
Bioengineering - EHB , Iasi , Romania , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , November , 2013 .
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; " Smart Sensors Architecture for Health Status
Assessment of Wheelchair Users ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; " Smart Sensors Architecture for Health Status
Assessment of Wheelchair Users ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele ,
- Alberto, N.; Raul Simões Simões; V. Oliveira; H. Kalinowsky; V. Neto Neto; R.N.
Nogueira;
" Thermal
monitoring
of the diamond
deposition
process using
regenerated FBG ", Proc European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors , Kraków ,
Poland , Vol. 8794 , pp. 879408-1 - 879408-4 , May , 2013 .
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Differential Eddy Currents Testing Signals ", Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp. , Barcelona ,
Spain , Vol. 19 , pp. 345 - 350 , July , 2013 .
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- Ribeiro, A. L.; H. G. Ramos; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; " Using Giant MagnetoResistance Sensors in Remote Field Eddy Current Tube Inspection ", Proc IMEKO
TC10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics , Florence , Italy , June , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; T. Rocha; " USING TIKHONOV
REGULARIZATION TO DETERMINE THE EDDY CURRENT DENSITY IN A PLATE ", Proc
18th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation - ENDE
2013 , Bratislava , Slovakia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2013 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " Velocity Induced Eddy
Currents Technique to Inspect Cracks in Moving Conducting Media ", Proc IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf. , Minneapolis , United States ,
May , 2013 .
- Pereira, T.P.; H. Crvalho; A.C. Catarino; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Wearable
Biopotential Measurement Using the TI ADS1198 Analog Front-End and Textile
Electrodes ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and
Applications - MeMeA , Gatineau , Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , May , 2013 .
Project Reports
- Ramos, H. G.; " Kernel Method Applied to Non Destructive Evaluation ", Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia, May , 2013 .
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Books
- Martins, R.; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; Generating Analog IC Layouts with LAYGEN
II , , Springer , Heidelberg , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Lourenço, N.; R. Martins; M.B. Barros ; N.H. Horta; " Analog Circuit Design based
on Robust POFs using an Enhanced MOEA with SVM Models " - Chapter in
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Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Systematic Design , Mourad Fakhfakh, Esteban
Tlelo-Cuautle, Rafael Castro-Lopez , Springer , , 2013 .
Gross, R. G.; R. O. O´Grady; A. Christensen; M. D. Dorigo; " The Swarm-bot
experience: Strength and Mobility through Physical Cooperation " - Chapter in
Handbook of Collective Robotics , Serge Kernbach , Pan Stanford Publishing ,
Stanford , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Dghais, W.; T.R. Cunha; J. C. Pedro; " A Novel Two-Port Behavioral Model for I/O
Buffer Overclocking Simulation ", IEEE Trans. on Components, Packaging and
Manufacturing Technology , August , 2013 .
- Guilherme, J.G.; N.H. Horta; " A survey on nonlinear analog-to-digital converters
", Integration, The VLSI Journal , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , June , 2013 .
- Brás, L.; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Evaluation of a Sectorised Antenna in an
Indoor Localization System ", IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation , Vol. 7 , No.
8 , pp. 679 - 685 , June , 2013 .
- Martins, R.; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; " LAYGEN II – Automatic Layout Generation
of Analog Integrated Circuits ", IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of
Integrated Circuits and Systems , Vol. 32 , No. 11 , pp. 1641 - 1654 , November ,
2013 .
- Martins, R.; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; " Routing Analog ICs using a Multi-Objective
Multi-Constraint Evolutionary Approach ", Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal
Processing , June , 2013 .
- Cadete, F.C.; N. Lourenço; M.B. Barros ; R. Martins; N.H. Horta; " A New
Metaheuristc Combining Gradient Models with NSGA-II to Enhance Analog IC
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Synthesis ", Proc IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC , Cancun ,
Mexico , June , 2013 .
- Dghais, W.; T.R. Cunha; J. C. Pedro; " Behavioral Modeling Approaches for Digital
I/O Buffers ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco ,
- Cadete, F.C.; R. Martins; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; " Enhancing a Layout-Aware
Synthesis Methodology for Analog ICs by Embedding Statistical Knowledge into the
Evolutionary Optimization Kernel ", Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical
and Industrial Systems - DOCEIS , Lisbon , Portugal , April , 2013 .
- Nalluri, P; L.N.A. Alves; A. Navarro; " FPGA Based Synchronous Multi-Port SRAM
Architecture for Motion Estimation ", Proc Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis
- REC , Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. 9 , pp. 89 - 92 , February , 2013 .
- Andrade, J.; V. Silva; G. Falcão; " From OpenCL to Gates: the FFT ", Proc IEEE
Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP , Austin, Texas ,
United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1238 - 1241 , December , 2013 .
- Silva, T.; L. Agostini; L. A Cruz; " HEVC Intra Coding Acceleration Based on Tree
Inter-level Mode Correlation ", Proc Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures,
Arrangements, and Applications - SPA , Poznan , Poland , pp 88 - 93 , September ,
2013 .
- Serra, P.D.S; A. Espírito Santo; " Introdução ao Estudo dos Sistemas Embutidos
no Ensino Pré-Universitário ", Proc International Conf. on Engineering - ICEUBI ,
Covilhã , Portugal , November , 2013 .
- Martins, R.; N. Lourenço; A. Canelas; N.H. Horta; " Multi-Port Multi-Terminal
Analog Router based on an Evolutionary Optimization Kernel ", Proc IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation - CEC , Cancun , Mexico , June , 2013 .
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LOGICS AND COMPUTATION
Books
- Carmo, J.; M.P.G. Gouveia; F. Dionísio; Elementos de Matemática Discreta , ,
College Publications , London , 2013 .
Book Chapters
- Matos, A.; J. Cederquist; " Informative Types and Effects for Hybrid Migration
Control " - Chapter in Runtime Verification - 4th International Conference, RV 2013,
Rennes, France, September 24-27, 2013. Proceedings , Axel Legay and Saddek
Bensalem , Springer , 2013 .
- Basin, D.; C. Caleiro; " Symbolic Probabilistic Analysis of Off-line Guessing " Chapter in ESORICS 2013 - LNCS 8134 , ESORICS , Springer , , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Caleiro, C.; R. Gonçalves; " Abstract valuation semantics ", Studia Logica , Vol.
101 , No. 4 , pp. 677 - 712 , July , 2013 .
-
Caleiro,
C.;
J.
Marcos;
MV
Volpe;
"
Bivalent
semantics,
generalized
compositionality and analytic classic-like tableaux for finite-valued logics ",
Theoretical Computer Science , July , 2013 .
- Rasga, J.; W. Lotfallah Lotfallah; C. Sernadas; " Completeness and interpolation
of almost-everywhere quantification over finitely additive measures ", Mathematical
Logic Quarterly , Vol. 59 , No. 4-5 , pp. 286 - 302 , December , 2013 .
- Novo, L.N.; T. M. Moroder; O. G. Gühne; " Genuine multiparticle entanglement of
permutationally invariant states ", Physical Review A , Vol. 88 , No. 012305 , July ,
2013 .
426
- Rasga, J.; A. Sernadas; C. Sernadas; " Importing Logics: Soundness and
Completeness Preservation ", Studia Logica , Vol. 101 , No. 1 , pp. 117 - 155 ,
February , 2013 .
- Sernadas, C.; J. Rasga; A. Sernadas; " Preservation of Craig interpolation by the
product of matrix logics ", Journal of Applied Logic , Vol. 11 , No. 3 , pp. 328 - 349 ,
May , 2013 .
- Ramos, J.; C. Caleiro; " Classical and intuitionistic propositinal logic ", Proc World
Congress and School on Universal Logic - UNILOG , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 244 - 245 , March , 2013 .
- Ramos, J.; C. Caleiro; " Classical and intuitionistic propositional logic ", Proc Logic
Colloquium , Evora , Portugal , July , 2013 .
- Caleiro, C.; S. Marcelino; " Combining logics, cryptofibred semantics and
completeness preservation ", Proc World Congress and School on Universal Logic UNILOG , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , April , 2013 .
- Caleiro, C.; S. Marcelino; P. Baltazar; " Conservativeness and decidability of fibred
logics ", Proc Logic Colloquium , Evora , Portugal , July , 2013 .
- Novo, L.N.; M. Mohseni; Y. Omar; " Environment-assisted quantum transport in
disordered graphs ", Proc Quantum simulations and quantum walks , Pisa , Italy ,
November , 2013 .
- Amaral, T.; I. Alexandre; " From 7 to 77: I teach you and you teach me! ", Proc
International Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART , Barcelona ,
Spain , February , 2013 .
- Gomes, M.; V. Silva; R. F. Ferrão; " Magnitude Modulation on Reconfigurable
Computing Devices ", Proc International Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and
Applications - FPL , Porto , Portugal , September , 2013 .
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- Caleiro, C.; J. Marcos; C. B. Blasio; " On B-entailment ", Proc Logic Colloquium ,
Evora , Portugal , July , 2013 .
- Serra, J.; Pedro A. Nogueira Nogueira; " Personality Simulation in Interactive
Agents Through Emotional Biases ", Proc European Conf. on Modelling and
Simulation - ECMS 2013 , Aalesund , Norway , pp. 1 - 7 , May , 2013 .
- Casal, F.; J. Rasga; " Revisiting the Equivalence of Shininess and Politeness ",
Proc International Conf. on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and
Reasoning - LPAR , Stellenbosch , South Africa , Vol. 8312 , pp. 1 - 15 , December ,
2013 .
- Mota, Francisco Mota; Scott Aaronson Aaronson; L. Antunes; A. Souto; "
Sophistication as Randomness Deciency ", Proc Workshop on Descriptional
Complexity of Formal Systems - DCFS , London , Canada , July , 2013 .
- Adão, P.; RF Focardi; FLL Luccio; " Type-Based Analysis of Generic Key
Management APIs ", Proc IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop - CSFW ,
New Orleans , United States , pp. 97 - 111 , June , 2013 .
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Papers in Journals
- Oliveira, S.O.; S.I.G. Dias; I. C. Santos; R. T. Henriques; S. Rabaça; M. Almeida;
" An Electropolymerisable Pyridine-Functionalised Gold Bis(dithiolene) Complex ",
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , Vol. 2013 , No. 18 , pp. 3133 - 3136 ,
June , 2013 .
- Cerdeira, A.; D. Belo; S. Rabaça; L. Pereira; J.T.C. Coutinho; D. Simão; R. T.
Henriques; O. Bruyndonckx; M. Fourmigué; M. Almeida; " Heterodimetallic
Structures Based on Cyano-Substituted Bis(dithiolene) Complexes and Ni and Cu
Cyclam Cations ", European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , Vol. 2013 , No. 26 ,
pp. 4612 - 4618 , September , 2013 .
428
- Du, Qian Du; H.L. Gomes; " Reversible post-breakdown conduction in aluminum
oxide-polymer capacitors ", Applied Physics Letters , Vol. 102 , No. 15 , pp. 153509
- 153509-4 , May , 2013 .
- Mendonça, A.; A. Charas; R. Paolo; F. Scotognella; G. L. Lanzani; J. Morgado; "
Synthesis and photophysical properties of new oligophenylene vinylenes showing
amplified spontaneous emission ", Optical Materials , Vol. 35 , No. 12 , pp. 2160 2165 , October , 2013 .
- Rocha, P. R. F.; A. Kiazadeh; H.L. Gomes; " The role of internal structure in the
anomalous switching dynamics of metal-oxide/polymer resistive random access
memories ", Journal of Appl. Physics , Vol. 113 , No. 13 , pp. 134504 - 134504-6 ,
April , 2013 .
- Alcácer, L.A.; A. T. P. Pereira; J. Morgado; H. F. Ferreira; João Martins Martins; "
Applications of Inkjet Printing for Organic Electronics: Organic Thin-Film Transistors
and Electrodes for Electromyography ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , pp. 249 - 250 , May , 2013 .
- Farinhas, J.; Q. Ferreira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; " Controlling the Morphologies on
Solar Cells Based on Cross-linked Semiconducting Polymers at the Nanoscale ",
Proc Cluster Workshop in Materials and Nanotechnology , Lisboa , Portugal , pp. 65
- 65 , December , 2013 .
- Bragança, A.; J. Morgado; Q. Ferreira; " Fabrication of a Nanosized Drug Delivery
System ", Proc Cluster Workshop in Materials and Nanotechnology , Lisbon ,
Portugal , December , 2013 .
- Meira, R. Meira; G. Brotas; J. Farinhas; Q. Ferreira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; "
Nanostructuring semiconducting polymers in organic photovoltaic cells ", Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 237 240 , May , 2013 .
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- Brotas, G.; J. Farinhas; J. Morgado; A. Charas; " New Cross-linkable Small
Molecules as Electron-donors for Organic Photovoltaic Cells ", Proc Challenges in
chemical Renewable Energy - ISACS12 , Cambridge , United Kingdom , September ,
2013 .
- Mendonça, A.; A. Charas; J. C. Clark; J. C.-G. Gonzalez; L. B. Bazzana; A. N.
Nocivelli; G. L. Lanzani; J. Morgado; " Organic dopants for Plastic Optical Fibres
exhibiting gain and ultrafast optical switching ", Proc RIAO/OPTILAS 2013 , Porto ,
Portugal , July , 2013 .
- Bragança, A.; J. Morgado; Q. Ferreira; " Self-assembled monolayers with drug
delivery functionality ", Proc Trends in Nanotechnology , Seville , Spain , September
, 2013 .
Project Reports
- Alcácer, L.A.; " BIOCELULOSE PARA A ELECTRÓNICA ORGÂNICA IMPRESSA ",
Instituto de Telecomunicações , PTDC/CTM/102144/2008 , September , 2013 .
POWER ELECTRONICS AND POWER SYSTEMS
Book Chapters
- Oliveira, L. M. R.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Modeling and Characterization of Leakage
Inductances for Transformer Winding Fault Studies " - Chapter in Technological
Innovation for the Internet of Things , Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Slavisa Tomic and
Paulo Graça , Springer , , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Freire, Nuno M. A.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A Fault-Tolerant Direct Controlled PMSG
Drive for Wind Energy Conversion Systems ", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics ,
pp. 1 - 14 , December , 2013 .
- Estima, J. O.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A New Algorithm for Real-Time Multiple OpenCircuit Fault Diagnosis in Voltage-Fed PWM Motor Drives by the Reference Current
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Errors ", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics , Vol. 60 , No. 8 , pp. 3496 - 3505 ,
August , 2013 .
- Stabile, A.; C. B. Boccaletti; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A Power Loss Measurement
Method Applied to Static Power Converters ", IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and
Measurement , Vol. 62 , No. 2 , pp. 344 - 352 , February , 2013 .
- Fabbri, G.F.; C. B. Boccaletti; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Adding ICT to Transformation
Systems: Monitoring and Management System for the Electric Vehicle Fleet on the
Island of Ventotene ", Intrnl. Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering , Vol. 5 ,
No. 2 , pp. 268 - 272 , April , 2013 .
- Costa, V.C.; P. M. Santos; B. Borges; " Design Methologies for Integrated
Inductor-Based Soft-Switching DC-DC Converters ", i-ETC : ISEL Academic Journal
of Electronics, Telecomunications and Computers , Vol. 2 , No. 1 , pp. id-17-1 - id17-9 , July , 2013 .
- Gacio, D. Gacio; J. Álvarez; M. Perdigão; E. S. Saraiva; " Effects of the Junction
Temperature in the Dynamic Resistance of White LEDs ", IEEE Trans. on Industry
Applications , Vol. 49 , No. 2 , pp. 750 - 760 , January , 2013 .
- Ribeiro, E.; A. J. M. Cardoso; C. B. Boccaletti; " Fault-Tolerant Strategy for a
Photovoltaic DC--DC Converter ", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics , Vol. 28 , No. 6
, pp. 3008 - 3018 , June , 2013 .
- Freire, Nuno M. A.; J. O. Estima; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Open-Circuit Fault Diagnosis
in PMSG Drives for Wind Turbine Applications ", IEEE Trans. on Industrial
Electronics , Vol. 60 , No. 9 , pp. 3957 - 3967 , September , 2013 .
- Petrucci, L.; G.F. Fabbri; C. B. Boccaletti; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Powering and
Cooling of a Server Room Using a Hybrid Trigeneration System ", Intrnl. Journal of
Computer Theory and Engineering , Vol. 5 , No. 2 , pp. 263 - 267 , April , 2013 .
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- Ferreira, C. A. F.; B. Borges; " Sine Wave Amplitude Modulation Concept for
Linear Behaviour of Phase Modulated Resonant Converters ", IEEE Trans. on
Industrial Electronics , Vol. 60 , No. 5 , pp. 2074 - accepted , May , 2013 .
- Mariano, S.J.P.S.; M.R.A. Calado; " Mini-Production with Solar Photovoltaic Energy
in Portugal ", Proc International Conf. on Environment and Electrical Engineering EEEIC , Wroclaw , Poland , November , 2013 .
- Mendes, R.; M.R.A. Calado; S.J.P.S. Mariano; " Performance Analysis of Linear
Switched Reluctance Generator for Different Teeth Shapes. The Generation Quality
Factor ", Proc International Conf. on Environment and Electrical Engineering EEEIC , Wroclaw , Poland , November , 2013 .
- Freire, Nuno M. A.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A Fault-Tolerant PMSG Drive for Wind
Turbine Applications with Minimal Increase of the Hardware Requirements ", Proc
Appl. Power Electronics Conf. , Long Beach , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 ,
March , 2013 .
- Estima, J. O.; Natália S. Gameiro Gameiro; A. J. M. Cardoso; " A New Diagnostic
Technique for Real-Time Diagnosis of Power Converter Faults in Switched
Reluctance Motor Drives ", Proc IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. - APEC , Long
Beach , United States , pp. 1 - 7 , March , 2013 .
- Mendes, A. M. S.; " Analysis and Modeling of Different Magnetic Coupling
Topologies for IPT Battery Charging Systems ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics and Electronic Engineering - ISEF , Ohrid ,
Macedonia, FYOM , Vol. USB , pp. 1 - 6 , September , 2013 .
- Freire, Nuno M. A.; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Fault-Tolerant Converter for AC Drives
using Vector-Based Hysteresis Current Control ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives , Valencia , Spain ,
Vol. - , pp. 1 - 8 , September , 2013 .
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- Ribeiro, H.R.; B. Borges; C. A. F. Ferreira; " Full-Bridge Single-Stage PFC with
Reduced DC Bus Capacitor and Improved Light Load Operation as a Solution for
Modern SMPS ", Proc IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition - ECCE ,
Denver , United States , pp. 3413 - 3418 , September , 2013 .
- Quispe, E. Q.; X. Fernández; A. M. S. Mendes; A. J. M. Cardoso; " Influence of the
Positive Sequence Voltage on the Derating of Three-Phase Induction Motors under
Voltage Unbalance ", Proc IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conf. ,
Chicago , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 100 - 105 , May , 2013 .
- Mariano, S.J.P.S.; J. Pombo; M.R.A. Calado; " Power System Stabilizer Design
Based on Output Optimal Control Techniques ", Proc International Conf. on
Environment and Electrical Engineering - EEEIC , Wroclaw , Poland , November ,
2013 .
- " Recent Advances in Fault Diagnosis by Park's Vector Approach ", Proc IEEE
Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis - WEMDCD , Paris ,
France , Vol. 1 , pp. 279 - 288 , March , 2013 .
- " Recent Advances in Fault Diagnosis by Park's Vector Approach ", Proc IEEE
Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis - WEMDCD , Paris ,
France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , March , 2013 .
- Baptista, B. Baptista; A. M. S. Mendes; M. Bandarabadi; S. M. A. Cruz; " The
Performance of a Three-Phase Induction Motor fed by a Three-Level NPC Converter
with Fault Tolerant Control Strategies ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives , Valencia , Spain ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 , August , 2013 .
- Baptista, B. Baptista; A. M. S. Mendes; S. M. A. Cruz; " Thermal Study of an
Induction Motor fed by a Fault-Tolerant Multilevel Inverter using FEM ", Proc
International Symp. on Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and
Electronic Engineering - ISEF , Ohrid , Macedonia, FYOM , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
September , 2013 .
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TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS
Book Chapters
- Caixinha, A.; V. Magalhães; I. Alexandre; " Do you remember or have you
forgotten? " - Chapter in Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing
Health and Social Care , Ricardo Martinho (School of Technology and Management,
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal), Rui Rijo (School of Technology and
Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal), Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
(Polytechnic Insitute of Cavado and Ave, , IGI global, Medical Information Science
Reference , , 2013 .
- O´Grady, R. O.; A. Christensen; M. D. Dorigo; " SWARMORPH: Morphogenesis
with Self-assembling Robots " - Chapter in Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward
Programmable Complex Systems , Doursat, René; Sayama, Hiroki; Michel, Olivier ,
Springer , Berlin , 2013 .
Papers in Journals
- Ferreira, Q. ; P. Gomes; P. A. R. Ribeiro; N. C. J. Jones; S.V. Hoffmann; ; O. O.
Oliveira; M. R. Raposo; " Determination of Degree of Ionization of Poly(allylamine
hydrochloride)
(PAH)
and
Poly[1-[4-(3-carboxy-4
hydroxyphenylazo)benzene
sulfonamido]-1,2-ethanediyl, sodium salt] (PAZO) in Layer-by-Layer Films using
Vacuum Photoabsorption Spectroscopy ", Langmuir , Vol. 29 , No. 1 , pp. 448 - 455
, January , 2013 .
- Ferreira, Q. ; A. Bragança; O. N. O. Oliveira; N.M.M. Moura Moura; M.A.F.Faustino
Faustino; L.A. Alcácer; J. Morgado; " Dynamics of porphyrin adsorption on highly
oriented pyrolytic graphite monitored by scanning tunnelling microscopy at the
liquid/solid interface ", Applied Surface Science , Vol. 273 , pp. 220 - 225 , May ,
2013 .
- Costa, MFC; T. Morlat; J. Marques; A. Ramos; T. Girard; A. Fernandes; A. Kling
Kling; I. Lázaro Roche; RCM Martins; J. Puibasset Puibasset; " Fabrication and
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response of high concentration SIMPLE superheated droplet detectors with different
liquids ", Astroparticle Physics , Vol. 49 , pp. 28 - 43 , September , 2013 .
- " Fabrication and response of high concentration SIMPLE superheated droplet
detectors with different liquids ", Astroparticle Physics , Vol. 49 , pp. 28 - 43 ,
September , 2013 .
- Morgado, J.; A. T. P. Pereira; A. Bragança; Q. Ferreira; S. C. M. Fernandes; C. S.
R. F. Ferreira; A. J. D. Silvestre Silvestre; C. Pascoal Neto; L.A. Alcácer; " Selfstanding chitosan films as dielectrics in organic thin-film transistors Author(s) ",
Express Polymer Letters , Vol. 7 , No. 12 , pp. 960 - 965 , December , 2013 .
- Justino, L. L. G.; M. L. Ramos; P. E. Abreu; A. Charas; J. Morgado; U. Scherf; B.
F. Minaev; H. Agren; H. Burrows; " Structural and Electronic Properties of Poly(9,9dialkylfluorene)- Based Alternating Copolymers in Solution: An NMR Spectroscopy
and Density Functional Theory Study ", Journal of Physical Chemistry C , Vol. 117 ,
No. 35 , pp. 17969 - 17982 , July , 2013 .
- Ferreira, Q. ; M. R. Raposo; P.A. Ribeiro; " Villain Fractal Growth of poly 1 4 3
carboxy 4 hydroxyphenylazo benzenesulfonamido 1 2 ethanediyl sodium salt J
aggregates onto layer by layer films and its effect on film absorbance spectrum ",
Journal of Appl. Physics , Vol. 113 , No. 24 , pp. 243508 - 243515 , June , 2013 .
-
Villain's
fractal
growth
of
poly[1-[4-(3-carboxy-4-hydroxyphenylazo)
benzenesulfonamido]-1,2-ethanediyl, sodium salt] J-aggregates onto layer-by-layer
films and its effect on film absorbance spectrum ", Journal of Appl. Physics , Vol.
113 , No. 24 , pp. 243508 - 243515 , June , 2013 .
- Simoes, R.; J. C. Mendes; L.P. Pereira; V. Neto Neto; " Application of diamond
and other carbon related materials photovoltaic solar cells ", Proc International
Conf. on Diamond and Carbon Materials , Riva del Garda , Italy , pp. P.1.014 - N.A.
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- Morgado, J.; " Células solares orgânicas: a Química na procura de soluções
energéticas sustentáveis (Comunicação convidada) ", Proc Encontro Nacional da
SPQ , Aveiro , Portugal , June , 2013 .
- Mendes, J. C.; D.M. Mukherjee; R.P. Polini; S. Rotter; J.G. Gracio; " Combined
effect of seeding suspensions and novel nucleation process (NNP) on HFCVD
diamond initial growth ", Proc International Conf. on Diamond and Carbon Materials
, Riva del Garda , Italy , P1.077 - N.A. , September , 2013 .
Simoes, R.; J. C. Mendes; L.P. Pereira; V. Neto Neto; " Diamond and other Carbon
Related Materials Applications in Photovoltaic Solar Cells ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Electro/Information Technology , Rapid City , United States , Vol. -- , pp.
978-1-4673-5208-6/13, May , 2013 .
- Morgado, J.; " Organic electronics: the materials road from diodes to lasers
(invited, abstract) ", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele , Castelo Branco
, Portugal , May , 2013 .
- Morgado, J.; " Simple approach to prepare nanostructured donor/acceptor
interfaces for photovoltaic applications (invited)_abstract only ", Proc International
Conf. on Advanced Polymeric Materials - ICAPM , Kottayam , India ,
October ,
2013.
- Ferreira, Q. ; A. Bragança; L.A. Alcácer; J. Morgado; " Stepwise method to
fabricate
conductive
molecular
wires
characterized
by
scanning
tunneling
microscopy ", Proc Trends in Nanotechnology , Sevilha , Spain , September , 2013 .
Project Reports
- Mendes, J. C.; " Diamond-based Surface Acoustic Wave Devices: a reverse
fabrication design ", University of Aveiro / IT , PTDC/EEA-TEL/104004/2008 ,
September , 2013 .
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4.4.7
Other Achievements
Awards
- Farinhas, J.; Q. Ferreira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; " Controlling the Morphologies on
Solar Cells Based on Cross-linked Semiconducting Polymers at the Nanoscale ",
Best Poster Award in the 1st Cluster Workshop in Materials and Nanotechnology on
December 4 – 6, 2013 , 01-12-2013 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; A. Tretyakov; " Best Paper Award ", The Best
Paper Award (1st prize) for the work entitled "Equivalent Circuit Approach for
Radiative Heat Transfer Problems" presented at "The 7th International Congress on
Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials
2013", Bordeaux, France, September 16-19, 2013. , 01-09-2013 .
- Pinheiro, E.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Student Travel Award ", 2013 IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2013) covering
registration fee and travel expenses to present the paper "Calibration and
Validation of Homeostasis Parameters Estimates Produced by DSP Embedded
Processing in a Wheelchair" at the conference. , 01-01-2013 .
Miscellaneous
- Sá, A.S.; F.B. Bento; P. Crocker; " Invited Talks ", A Study of GNSS Water Vapor
Reconstruction Parameters ", Oral Presentation Agu Fall Meeting SãoFrancisco 2013
, 01-12-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Sistema de Controlo e Gestao de Tiro
Desportivo ", Hugo Loureiro - UA , 01-12-2013 .
- Martins, F.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Motivação para a construção das aprendizagens
no 1º e 2º Ciclo do Ensino Básico ", ESE Coimbra , 01-11-2013 .
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- Paunkovic, N.; P. D. S. Sacramento; V. Vieira; " Invited Talks ", Quantum
information and many-body physics. CFIF Mini–Workshop on Theoretical Condensed
Matter Physics, IST, 12 November, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal ", Talk , 01-11-2013 .
- Girão, P.M.; " Invited Talks ", Metrologia: Passado, Presente e Futuro. Reflexões
de um Apaixonado ", , 01-09-2013 .
- Charas, A.; " Invited Talks ", Nanostructured Surfaces of Conducting Polymers
and Applications in Organic Photovoltaic Cells ", 5th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and
Interfaces, RICI5 , 01-06-2013 .
- Martins, F.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", A grande caminhada na escalada do tesouro
educação ", ESE Coimbra , 01-05-2013 .
- Barros , M.B.; " Invited Talks ", Introduction to Telecommunications - They talk,
talk ... ", High school seminar - ESSMO Tomar , 01-05-2013 .
- Barros , M.B.; " Invited Talks ", Introduction to Telecommunications - They talk,
talk ... ", High school seminar - ESJR Tomar , 01-05-2013 .
- Charas, A.; " Invited Talks ", Organic Photovoltaic cells - Conftele 2013 ", , 01-052013 .
- Paunkovic, N.; J. Bouda; " Invited Talks ", Quantum Commitments Based on
Complementarity
-
Contract
Signing.
IT
Workshop
on
Quantum
Telecommunications, 15 – 17 May 2013, Lisbon, Portugal ", Talk , 01-05-2013 .
- Rocha, A.R.; P. Crocker; " Invited Talks ", An e-Infrastructure architecture for the
Portuguese Solid Earth Community ", European Geosciences Union - General
Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria , 01-04-2013 .
- Charas, A.; " Seminars ", Nanostructuring semiconducting polymers utilizing the
spin coating technique; applications in organic photovoltaic cells ", , 01-04-2013 .
- Pedreiras, PP; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Desenvolvimento de um sistema SCADA para
uma CPV ", Jaime Lima - FEUP , 01-03-2013 .
438
- Barros , M.B.; C. A. F. Ferreira; " Training Course ", Escolher Ciência, Viver com
Energia - Ciência Viva ", Projecto da Ciência Viva , 01-02-2013 .
- Borges, B.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Reprodução Áudio com Técnicas de Alto
Rendimento
-
Modulação
de
Amplitude
em
Conversores
Ressonantes
para
Amplificação Áudio - Carlos Alberto Farinha Ferreira ", , 01-02-2013 .
4.4.8
Other Contributions
- International Conf. on Continuous Optimization - ICCOPT 13, Organizing
Committee, Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice , 01-01-2013
- International Network Optimization Conf. - INOC, Scientific Committee, Amaro
Fernandes de Sousa , 01-01-2013
-
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Computational
Intelligence
and
Multimedia
Applications, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão ,
01-01-2013
- IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf., Technical Programme
Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 01-01-2013
- IEEE International Conf. on Signals, Systems, Devices - SSD, Technical
Programme Committee, Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos , 01-01-2013
- Logic Colloquium, Organizing Committee, Daniel da Silva Graça, 01-01-2013
- CIM International Conf. and Advanced Schools Mathematics of Planet Earth - MPE,
Scientific Committee, Daniel da Silva Graça, 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering - SEKE,
Sessions Chairman , Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira , 01-01-2013
439
- International Conf. on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES
2012, Scientific Committee, Luis Miguel Merca Fernandes , 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Continuous Optimization - ICCOPT 13, Organizing
Committee, Luis Miguel Merca Fernandes , 01-01-2013
- International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - IJCAI, Scientific Committee,
Anders Lyhne Christensen, 01-01-2013
- IMEKO Symp. on Temperature and Thermal Measurements in Industry and
Science - TEMPMEKO, Organizing Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão ,
01-01-2013
- IMEKO TC19 Symp, Conference Chairman, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 0101-2013
- IEEE International Conf. on Signals, Systems, Devices - SSD, Technical
Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 01-01-2013
- International Symp. on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering - ATEE, , Pedro
Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 01-01-2013
-
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Smart
Instrumentation,
Measurements
and
Applications - ICSIMA, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da
Silva Girão , 01-01-2013
- Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro
Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 01-01-2013
- International Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART, Scientific
Committee, Anders Lyhne Christensen, 01-01-2013
- European Conf. on Artificial Life - ECAL, Scientific Committee, Anders Lyhne
Christensen, 01-01-2013
440
- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Organizing
Committee, Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa, 01-01-2013
Applied Intelligence , Springer, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Review Board Member,
01-11-2013 to
Swarm Intelligence , Springer, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Editorial board member,
01-03-2013 to
Journal of Mathematics Research , Canadian Center of Science and Education ,
Maria Cecília dos Santos Rosa, Refereeing, 01-03-2013 to
441

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