2014 Annual Report - Instituto de Telecomunicações

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INSTITUTO DE
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
ANNUAL REPORT
2014
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014
Title
Editors
Carlos Salema, Carlos Fernandes, Nuno Borges
Carvalho, José Ferreira da Rocha, Adolfo Cartaxo,
Mário Figueiredo, Rui Valadas, Luís Alcácer, Pedro
Girão
Date
2015
Version
V5
Distribution
IT
Doc. No.
IT/Dir/2015 v5
Executive
Summary
This document describes IT activities during
2014, as a "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 2014 ............................................................................11
KEY IT INDICATORS ...............................................................................17
Human Resources .....................................................................................17
3.
FINANCIAL OUTLINE ..............................................................................31
4.
RESEARCH AREAS ..................................................................................33
4.1
Wireless Communications ..................................................................33
4.1.1
Area Coordinators ......................................................................33
4.1.2
Human Resources ......................................................................33
4.1.3
Summary of Research Achievements ............................................43
4.1.4
Running and Concluded Projects ..................................................61
4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses ....................................................90
4.1.6
Publications ............................................................................. 107
4.1.7
Other Achievements ................................................................. 132
4.1.8
Other Contributions .................................................................. 135
4.2
Optical Communications .................................................................. 138
4.2.1
Area Coordinators .................................................................... 138
4.2.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 138
4.2.3
Summary of Research Achievements .......................................... 144
4.2.4
Running and Concluded Projects ................................................ 158
4.2.5
Running and Concluded Theses .................................................. 171
4.2.6
Publications ............................................................................. 177
4.2.7
4.2.8
4.3
Networks and Multimedia ................................................................ 191
4.3.1
4.3.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 191
4.3.3
4.3.4
Running and Concluded Projects ................................................ 229
4.3.5
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4.3.6
Publications ............................................................................. 287
4.3.7
4.3.8
4.4
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies ......................................... 345
4.4.1
4.4.2
Human Resources .................................................................... 345
4.4.3
4.4.4
Runing and Concluded Projects .................................................. 372
4.4.5
4.4.6
Publications ............................................................................. 404
4.4.7
4.4.8
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List of Tables
Table 1 – Total operational income in 2014 ...................................................... 37
Table 2 – List of major income sources during 2014 ..........................................38
Table 3 – Major costs in 2014 ........................................................................38
Table 4 – Main asset changes in 2014 ............................................................. 38
Table 5 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in
2014 ....................................................................................................39
Table 6 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in
2014 ....................................................................................................43
Table 7 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications
Area in 2014 ......................................................................................... 46
Table 8 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2014
...........................................................................................................61
Table 9 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2014 ....................................................................................................82
Table 10 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during
2014 ....................................................................................................91
Table 11 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in
2014 .................................................................................................. 124
Table 12 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2014 .................................................................................................. 126
Table 13 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications
Area in 2014 ....................................................................................... 128
Table 14 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2014
......................................................................................................... 145
Table 15 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2014 .................................................................................................. 159
Table 16 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during
2014 .................................................................................................. 161
Table 17 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2014
......................................................................................................... 173
Table 18 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area
in 2014 ............................................................................................... 178
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Table 19 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia
Area in 2014 ....................................................................................... 184
Table 20 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia............... 200
Table 21 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2014 .................................................................................................. 244
Table 22 - List of PhD Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During
2014 .................................................................................................. 251
Table 23 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area in 2014 .................................................................... 291
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 2014 ....................................................... 296
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 2014 .............................................................. 342
Table 28 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area during 2014 .............................................................. 345
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – 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 – Instituto 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, 2011 and 2014. New Site
regulations deriving from it bylaws were approved and implemented in 2011.
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Key developments in 2014 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, now Prof.
Touradj Ebrahimi, 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 2014. The first meeting was held on March 31st,
in the Central Office Building of the Leiria Polytechnic site, to discuss and approve the 2013
Annual Report and Accounts and to discuss and approve an amendment to it statutes. The
second meeting took place on December 19th, in the Meeting Room of the Aveiro site, to
discuss and approve the Work Plan and Budget for 2015 and to discuss and approve a further
amendment to it Bylaws required by law.
The Research Group Coordination Committee also met twice during 2014. On the first meeting,
held on March 19th, at ISCTE-IUL premises, Building II, Room B103, Lisboa, the Draft Proposal
of the 2013 Annual Report was discussed and received a favourable opinion and the
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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intermediate reports of the first batch of internal projects were presented and discussed. On
the second meeting, held on December 15th, in Hotel D. Luis, Coimbra, the Work Plan and
Budget for 2015 was discussed and received a favourable opinion and the final reports of the
first batch of internal projects were presented and discussed.
intermediate reports of the first batch of internal projects were presented and discussed. On
the second meeting, held on December 15th, in Hotel D. Luis, Coimbra, the Work Plan and
Budget for 2015 was discussed and received a favourable opinion and the final reports of the
first batch of internal projects were presented and discussed.
1.3 Highlights of 2014
In 2014, in spite of serious reduction of funding, mainly from FCT strategic funding, the
momentum built in previous years enabled achieving a significant output:
•
16 books;
•
56 book chapters;
• 350 papers in international refereed scientific journals;
• 476 papers in refereed conferences, with published proceedings;
• 4 patents.
Achieved scientific output exceeded by far our forecast, in all areas. A small reduction in the
number of referred conference papers may be attributed the reduction in funding.
Fostering advanced education was also maintained at very high levels:
• 60 PhD theses, submitted and approved,
• 193 MSc theses, submitted and approved,
where the estimated numbers for 2014 were:
• 30 PhD theses, submitted and approved,
• 200 MSc theses, submitted and approved.
The number of PhD theses submitted and approved reached an all time high, roughly 50 %
higher than the previous highest value (42) achieved in 2012. It is worth noting that, for the
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first time, the number of concluded PhD theses is less than 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 2014 with respect to 2013, not only due
to the reduction FCT strategic funding (as explained in more detail below), but also and mainly
because of the decrease in the number of scholarships funded by FCT:
• 223 Ph.D. scholarships, funded by FCT,
• 212 other scholarships, funded by it as follows:
• 32 post-doc scholarships;
• 18 scholarships for MSc students (16 of which finishing their PhD theses) ;
• 87 scholarships for BSc students (doing their MSc theses);
• 48 scholarships for students on the 2nd and 3rd year of their BSc degree;
• 20 R&D starting grants;
• 4 R&D integration grants;
• 1 S&T management;
• 2 invited scientists.
During 2014, 190 projects, of which 156 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 17 FP7 projects and 32 projects funded by
industry.
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 instalments (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
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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.
This got worse for the period 2013-2014 since the 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 k€, in two
instalments (paid in August 30th, and October 31st 2013). As reported in the Annual Report
for 2013, it managed to start submitting cost claims as soon as the FCT platform became online. Since September 12th, it submitted 14 cost claims for a total of 583 k€. Total FCT
payments in 2013 (including the advanced payment) added up to only 570 k€.
In a nutshell, FCT strategic funding for it went down from 2.2 M€ in 2011 (2010 funds), to
1.94 M€ in 2012 (2011-2012 funds) to 570 k€ in 2013.
In the beginning of 2014 it changed the procedure used to submit cost claims, allowing each
site to process its cost claims. This, coupled with FCT decision (announced in June) that they
would increase the reimbursement rate from 80 to 90 %, enabled a much higher execution
rate (2.5 M€ on the 31st of December).
In spite of the fact that the first payments for the period 2013-14 came in with a 9 month
delay (August 30th, and October 31st 2013) FCT imposed the 31st of December 2014 as the
closing date for the contract. Later this date was postponed (albeit with a penalty) to the 31st
of March 2015. The penalty was equal to the loss of 25 % of 2015 funding. Since this funding
may well be reduced (as explained below) to 1.2 M€, meaning that the penalty would be
around 300 k€, well below the 670 k€ still available from the 2013-14 strategic funding
budget it decided to accept the delay in the closure date.
As mentioned in the Annual Report for 2013, 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 favoured smaller units,
it, faithful to its principles, decided to keep the same structure. The proposal was submitted on
the 30th of December 2013.
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The proposal evaluation ran in two phases. For the first phase the proposals were evaluated in
four criteria (with grades from 1 to 5 in each item):
A. Scientific productivity and contribution to the National Scientific and Technological System;
B. Scientific and technological merit of the research team;
C. Scientific and innovative merit of the strategic programme;
D. Feasibility of the work plan and reasonability of the requested budget.
The results of the first phase were made public on the end of June 2014. Most surprisingly it
got very low marks (15/25), distributed as follows: A=4, B=4, C=3 and D=4. Even if the total
(15/20) would allow access to the second phase, the 3 in item C would forbid it.
In addition to many factual errors and mocking phrases that should never be used in an
evaluation report (according to FCT published guidelines), the evaluation report showed hints
of manipulation to achieve a pre-defined result. It suffices to say that C=3 was not the
average grade of the (supposed) 3 evaluators. The average grade of 3 was in item D a
situation that would not bar it from the second phase.
In the first phase rebuttal it appeal was successful and the overall marks was amended to
16/20, A=B=C=D=4.
The visit, the major item of the second phase of the evaluation, had strict rules (imposed by
FCT) that did not take into account neither the number of sites nor the number of researchers
or students involved in the research unit. The visit had to be restricted to one site and 3 hour
duration (1 hour with the directors, 1 hour lab visit and1 hour meeting with researchers and
students.
For the second phase a further item of evaluation was added:
E. Impact of the scientific, technological and cultural output.
it decided to stage the visit in the Aveiro site and to prepare a rather imposing poster and
demo session (with 107 posters, 20 demos and about 200 researchers and students). It was
pretty obvious after the visit that three evaluators were well impressed. And surely the
evaluation report bear it out. The overall grade was 22/25, with A=4, B=4, C=5, D=4, E=5.
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So, for the second time, it strategy was re-evaluated, now to the maximum (further
confirming our initial suspicions).
According to the law it could now appeal again, this time after having had access to the
evaluation forms of the other research units in the area, in particular the only one that had
been graded higher than it. The appeal was submitted on the 19th of January 2015 and is
currently being analysed.
During 2014 two it researchers, namely Prof. Dr. Nuno Borges de Carvalho and Prof. Dr. Mário
Silveirinha were elected to the grade of Fellows of the IEEE. Another it researcher, Prof. Dr.
Mário Figueiredo received the IEEE “2014 Walter R. G. Baker Award”, for the most outstanding
paper reporting original work published in any IEEE archival publications during a 5 year
window before 2014, the and yet another reseacher, Prof. Dr. João Luis Sobrinho, received
the IRTF “2015 Applied Networking Research Prize”.
In addition to the above during 2014 it researchers were awarded the following prizes:
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1 “ANACOM-URSI Portugal 2014 Award”;
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1 First Prize in IEEE AP-S Studeny Design Contest;
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1 IST Best Teacher award;
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1 “Winner of the Open Mind ESEGUR 2014”;
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1 IEEE Communications Society “Outstanding Service Award”;
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1 IEEE Communications Lettersa “Exemplary Reviewer Award;
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1 ICME 2014 “Best Reviewer Award”;
-
1
IEEE
Communications
Society
“Multimedia
Technical
Committee
Outstanding
Leadership Award”;
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22 “Best Paper Award”, of which 5 are “Best Student Paper Awards” and 3 are “Best
Poster Awards”.
It is worthwhile noting that from the 476 papers submitted to international conferences, 22
(about 5%) got the prestigious best paper awards.
During 2014
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•
it received the following distinguished visitors:
Dr. Judy Scharmann, from IEEE, in Lisbon, February, 6
Prof. Henri Angelino, from the National Institute of Informations and Communications
Technology (NICT) of Japan, in Lisbon, February, 17
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•
Portuguese Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, in Lisbon, April, 8
•
Portuguese Secretary of Science, Leonor Parreira, in Lisbon, April, 8
•
Portuguese Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, in Aveiro, April, 22
During 2014 it hosted the following national and international events (details in each scientific
area):
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22 Seminars;
-
1 Colloquim;
-
2 Worshops;
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2 One-week short courses for secondary school (20 pupils each);
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2 Summer Schools;
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2 major International Conferences.
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, from June 30 to July 4, hands-on
introductory course on telecommunications for 10th, 11th an 12th grade high school pupils
with 20 enthusiastic participants and an open-lab two hour session for a similar audience.
Also in cooperation with IST, it organised visits and demonstrations for high school pupils,
involving about 1000 pupils (in 2014).
During 2014 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 2014 it human resources included 732 people distributed as follows:
• 320 researchers (of which 32 were it grantees);
• 239 PhD students (of which 16 were it grantees);
• 164 other it grantees (2 M.Sc, 87 B.Sc, 48 undergraduate students, 20 R&D starting
grants, 4 R&D integration, 2 invited scientists and 1 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 318 researchers holding a PhD Degree, 58 were excluded from FCT’s
integrated members list. Consequently, it had 262 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.
Figure 2.1: Distribution of it human resources between the three sites
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The distribution of researchers and PhD students between sites and delegations is shown in
Figure 2.2. This figure shows, better 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.
Figure 2.2: Distribution of researchers and students per site and delegation
In Figure 2.3 we plot the distribution of researchers and PhD students among associated
universities.
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Figure 2.3: Distribution of it researchers and PhD students
among associated universities
The distribution of it technical and administrative staff is shown on Figure 2.4.
Figure 2.4 Distribution of it technical and administrative staff
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The distributions of foreign post-docs (33) 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
Number
ADI
3
BIOCANT
1
Brisa
1
Ciencia Viva
1
Coriant Portugal
EDP
1
2
ESA
2
ESF
10
EU
28
FCT
Marinha
105
1
Portugal Telecom
1
PT Inovação
6
QREN
18
Serviços
Thales – Alenia Space
7
3
Total
190
Table 2 – Number of active projects in 2014, according to funding source
Publications
Books
Book Chapters
Journals
Conferences
Patents
MSc Thesis
PhD Thesis
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56
350
476
4
195
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Table 3 – Number of published works in 2014
"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;
“PhD Thesis” – Concluded Thesis.
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The scientific productivity in 2014 was 1.33 journal papers per eligible researcher or,
counting each book, bookchapter and journal paper as one publication, 1.61 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 2014
Figure 2.8 : Distribution of journal papers published in 2014 per site
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Figure 2.9 : Distribution of communications in international refereed conferences in 2014 per site
Figure 2.10: Distribution of patents in 2014 per site
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Figure 2.11 : Distribution of it researchers per site/branch in 2014
Figure 2.12 : Distribution of journal papers published in 2014 per site/branch
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Figure 2.13 : Distribution of communications in international refereed
conferences in 2014 per delegation
Figure 2.14 : Distribution of patents in 2014 per delegation
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Even if Figures 2.7 to 2.14 are self explanatory, it is interesting to remark that both at the
levels of papers in journals of communications in international refereed conferences, site
distribution follows very closely research distribution. Differences are considerable at the
number of patents (as would be expected given the small number of patents involved). At
the level of 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 Synergies
it has been trying hard to improve networking not only between its researchers but also
with external researchers. Using it database of journal and conference publications in 2014
figures 2.15 and 2.16 were produced representing it co-authorship network in 2014.
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 2011 — 2014.
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 2014
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Figure 2.16 : Graph showing conference papers co-authorships in 2014
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
3. FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Operational income during 2014 totalled 6.838k€ distributed as indicated in
Table 1. Major income sources (clients of services and sources of subsidies) are
detailed in Table 2. Costs in 2014 totalled 6.076k€ as partially indicated in Table
3. Main asset changes in 2014 are listed in Table 4.
Sources of Income
Amount [k€]
Services to third parties
1.454k€
Subsidies
4.497k€
Other
753k€
Table 1 – Total operational income in 2014
Major clients of services
Amount [k€]
PT Inovação
546k€
Huawei Technologies
346K€
Veniam
161k€
I.P. Beja
82k€
Tekever III
82K€
Brisa
74k€
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Main sources of subsidies
Amount [k€]
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2.307k€
Commission of the European Communities
1.062k€
Universidade de Aveiro
595k€
Agência de Inovação
517k€
Table 2 – List of major income sources during 2014
Costs
Staff
Amount [k€]
1.304k€
Researchers
594k€
Scholarships
2.299k€
Management Costs
35K€
Missions
623k€
Books and journals
Consumables
58k€
313k€
Table 3 – Major costs in 2014
Assets
Amount [k€]
Increase in tangible assets
477k€
Depreciation
630k€
New Technical and Scientific Equipment
444k€
Table 4 – Main asset changes in 2014
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
4. RESEARCH AREAS
4.1 Wireless Communications
4.1.1 Area Coordinators
•
Carlos Cardoso Fernandes
•
Nuno Borges de Carvalho
4.1.2 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
0
21
PhD
2
1
2
Assistant Lecturer
1
0
0
Post. Doc
18
2
1
PhD Student
23
1
27
(Licenciado)
0
0
1
62
5
63
TOTAL
Table 5 – Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communication Area in 2014
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Permanent Collaborators
Position
Post. Doc.
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Abdelgader Mahmoud Abdalla
Mobile Systems - Av
Mahmoud
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Full Professor
Mobile Networks – Av
Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Agregação
Afonso Manuel dos Santos
Antennas and
Barbosa
Propagation – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Alberto de Jesus Nascimento
Mobile Systems - Av
Assistant
PhD
Alexandre Passos de Almeida
Radio Systems – Lx
Agregação
Américo Manuel Carapeto
Professor
Full Professor
Correia
Full Professor
Agregação
Aníbal Manuel de Oliveira
Administrative Aveiro
Duarte
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
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
PhD
Professor
Associate
Rodrigues
Professor
Associate
António José Castelo Branco
Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues de
Oliveira
PhD
Atílio Manuel da Silva Gameiro
Agregação
Carlos Antonio Cardoso
Antennas and
Fernandes
Propagation – Lx
Professor
Full Professor
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Position
Professor
Degree
Name
Group
Agregação
Carlos Eduardo do Rego da
Antennas and
Costa Salema
Propagation – Lx
PhD
Carlos Gaspar Ribeiro
Agregação
Carlos Manuel dos Reis Paiva
Antennas and
Emeritus
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
Propagation – Lx
PhD
Custódio José Oliveira Peixeiro
Professor
Post. Doc.
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
PhD
Daniel Filipe Marques
Castanheira
PhD Student
Coordinator
MSc
PhD
Eduardo Jorge da Costa Brás
Antennas and
Lima
Propagation – Lx
Fernando de Sousa
Communication Theory
Professor
Assistant
– Lx
PhD
Fernando Duarte Nunes
Professor
Assistant
– Lx
PhD
Fernando Jose da Silva Velez
PhD
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues
Antennas and
Prudêncio
Propagation – Lx
Professor
PhD
Full Professor Agregação Francisco António Bucho Cercas
Assistant
PhD
Francisco António Taveira
Professor
Branco Nunes Monteiro
Post. Doc.
Georgios Mantas
Mobile Systems - Av
Gonçalo Valadão
Pattern and Image
Assistant
MSc
Professor
Analysis – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Hugo Miguel Cravo Gomes
Post. Doc.
PhD
Issa Tamer Elfergani
Mobile Systems - Av
Assistant
PhD
João Carlos Marques Silva
Professor
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Position
Associate
Degree
Name
Group
Agregação João José Lopes da Costa Freire Wireless Circuits – Lx
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Associate
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Simões Vaz
PhD
Professor
Assistant
João Manuel Torres Caldinhas
João Nuno Pimentel da Silva
Matos
PhD
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD
Jorge dos Santos Freitas de
Wireless Circuits – Av
Lecturer
Post. Doc.
Oliveira
Associate
Agregação
Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal
Antennas and
Rodrigues da Costa
Propagation – Lx
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Full Professor Agregação
José Carlos da Silva Neves
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Pedro
Assistant
PhD
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro
Professor
da Cunha Sanguino
Post. Doc.
José Manuel Neto Vieira
Jose Manuel Nunes Leitão
– Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq
Mobile Systems - Av
Post. Doc.
PhD
Luís Carlos Carneiro Gonçalves
Assistant
Agregação
Luis Filipe Lourenço Bernardo
PhD
Marco Alexandre dos Santos
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Ribeiro
PhD
Maria João Ramos Marques
Coelho Carrilho do Rosário
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate
PhD
Mário Gonçalo Mestre Verissimo
Antennas and
Silveirinha
Propagation – Co
Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques
Professor
Associate
PhD
Professor
Assistant
da Silva
PhD
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Professor
Full Professor Agregação Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges
de Carvalho
Full Professor
Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca
Pinto
Assistant
PhD
Paulo Gustavo Martins da Silva
PhD
Paulo Jorge Coelho Marques
Mobile Systems - Av
Assistant
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges
Professor
Montezuma de Carvalho
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastiao
PhD
Pedro Manuel de Almeida
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Carvalho Vieira
PhD
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pedro Miguel Ferreira de Oliveira
Professor
Pedrosa
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Miguel Ribeiro Lavrador
PhD
Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Santos
PhD
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Professor
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Coordinator
PhD
Rafael Ferreira da Silva
Antennas and
Caldeirinha
Propagation – Lr
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Rogério Pais Dionísio
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Filipe Rosa Paulo
Associate
PhD
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias
Professor
Post. Doc.
Morgado Dinis
PhD
Post. Doc.
Assistant
PhD
Sara Helena Marques Teodoro
Seiamak Vahid
Mobile Systems - Av
Sérgio de Almeida Matos
Antennas and
Professor
Propagation – Lx
PhD
PhD
Sérgio Ivan Fernandes Lopes
PhD
PhD
Stanislav Maslovski
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Post. Doc.
Sylvain Lannebère
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
Assistant
PhD
Telmo Reis Cunha
PhD
Tiago André Nogueira Morgado
Antennas and
Professor
Post. Doc.
Propagation – Co
Post. Doc.
Tipu Ramrehka
Mobile Systems - Av
Post. Doc.
Wael Dghais
Mobile Systems - Av
Wonhoon Jang
Post. Doc.
PhD
Table 6 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in 2014
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Name
Group
Alireza Esfahani
Mobile Systems - Av
Alírio de Jesus Soares
Boaventura
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Ana Catarina Caniço Cruz
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Andela Zaric
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
André Eduardo Ponciano
Martins
PhD Student
PhD Student Licenciatura
PhD Student
MSc
André Isidoro Prata
António Abreu
António Eduardo Carreiro
Furtado
Assistant
PhD
Antonio Navarro Rodrigues
MSc
Carlos Alberto Barreiro Mendes
Antennas and
Professor
PhD Student
Propagation – Lx
Assistant
Carlos Leme
Carlos Manuel Gutierrez Sá da
Professor
Associate
PhD
Professor
Costa
PhD Student
Carlos Miguel Sendas Pires
David Crespo Ferreira
Antennas and
PhD Student
MSc
Propagation – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
David Emanuel Dias Fernandes
Antennas and
Propagation – Co
PhD Student
Diogo Carlos Alcobia Ribeiro
PhD Student
Eduardo Daniel Castañeda
Trujillo
PhD Student
Emanuel José Soares Bordalo
Teixeira
PhD Student
MSc
Fábio José Silva Amaral
Assistant
PhD
Fernando Manuel Ascenso
Professor
Fortes
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Fernando Santos Azevedo
PhD Student
MSc
Filipe Alexandre da Silva
Rodrigues
PhD Student
Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro
PhD Student
Firooz B. Saghezchi
Mobile Systems - Av
Assistant
PhD
Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva Communication Theory
Professor
– Lx
PhD Student
Hamed Hasani
Antennas and
Propagation – Lx
PhD Student
Hélio Silva
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Almeida e Marques
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
MSc
Joana Rita Alves dos Santos
Antennas and
Silva
Propagation – Lx
João Carlos Roquete Fidalgo
Antennas and
Professor
Canto
Propagation – Lx
PhD Student
João Francisco Martinho Lêdo
Assistant
PhD
Guerreiro
PhD Student
MSc
João Gabriel Rodrigues de
Oliveira
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
PhD Student
João Manuel de Almeida
Antennas and
Monteiro Felício
Propagation – Lx
João Paulo Martins
João Ricardo Vitorino Reis
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
João Tavares
PhD Student
MSc
Joaquim Manuel C.S. Bastos
Mobile Systems - Av
Jorge Miguel da Silva Tavares
PhD
Jorge Paulo Alves Torres
PhD
Jose Fernando da Rocha Pereira
PhD Student
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
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Position
Degree
PhD Student
Name
Group
José Maria Sousa do Vale
Marçal
– Lx
PhD Student
MSc
José Miguel da Silva Bergano
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Carlos Barruncho dos
Santos Gonçalves
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Miguel Mendes
Assistant
Licenciatura
Manuel Dinis
Manuel Joaquim Campos
Professor
PhD Student
Mendes Nunes Duarte
PhD Student
Marco António da Mota
Carvalho Silva Pereira
PhD Student
Mário Jorge Simão de Assunção
Agregação
Mario Jose de Almeida Lanca
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel António Frade Duarte
PhD
PhD
Miguel Ramos Pereira
Mrinalinee Pandey
Muhammad Alam
Mobile Systems - Av
Nelson José Valente da Silva
Professor
Emeritus
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Nuno Cota
PhD Student
MSc
Nuno Miguel Abreu Luís
PhD Student
MSc
Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo
Garrido
PhD Student
MSc
Nuno Ricardo Cordeiro Leonor
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral
MSc
Ricardo Dias Fernandes
Professor
PhD Student
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Ricardo Miguel Romão
Gonçalves
PhD Student
Riccardo Bassoli
Mobile Systems - Av
Assistant
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte
Professor
Oliveira
PhD Student
Rodolfo Vitorino Gomes
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
PhD Student
Assistant
Rui Jorge Ferreira Esteves
PhD
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
PhD
Sérgio Carlos da Conceição
Professor
PhD
Pires
PhD Student
Sérgio Morgadinho Rebelo
Antennas and
Propagation – Lr
PhD Student
Slavisa Tomic
PhD Student
Sofia de Almeida Carvalhão
Sousa
PhD Student
MSc
Susana Mota
Associate
PhD
Telmo Rui Carvalhinho Cunha
Antennas and
Fernandes
Propagation – Lr
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
Tiago Miguel Valente Varum
PhD Student
MSc
Valdemar Monteiro
Mobile Systems - Av
Victor Sucasas Iglésias
Mobile Systems - Av
PhD Student
Table 7 – Non-permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area in
2014
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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, antennas for body-area networks, RFID
antennas, antennas for microwave imaging and antennas for microwave
and mm-wave applications with emphasis on Ka-band communication
satellites.
4.1.3.2.1 Antennas for UWB, localization and body-area network applications
•
Analysis of polarization diversity in UWB antennas both in simulation
and
experimental
work.
Ultrawide
band
antenna
efficiency
measurements and simulation. Extension of Johnston's method for the
evaluation of UWB antenna efficiency;
•
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 or implanted under the skin;
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•
Systematic study of the previously developed UWB antenna (XETS
antenna), aiming at its integration into an automated design tool for
full-wave Electromagnetic solvers;
•
RFID antennas for automated blood-stock management and integration
in patient safety systems in hospitals and e-care applications; a full
system prototype was developed, which won the IEEE APS Student
Design Contest;
•
Design of UWB antennas for microwave medical imaging of breast
tissue. Development of appropriate phantoms, both numerical and
experimental.
Experimental
characterization
of
phantom
electrical
characteristics.
4.1.3.2.2 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; prototype fabrication and test;
- Concepts based on flat zone-plate lens, involving the design of phase
delay printed elements; prototype 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 components,
microstrip patch antenna elements and arrays for space applications at
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Ka band using suspended stripline technology and substrate integrated
waveguide technology (SIW); analysis, design, optimization, fabrication
and test of frequency selective structures.
4.1.3.2.3 Antennas for multi-gigabit wireless networks
- Development of small shaped lenses for multi-gigabit wireless LANs
exploring 3D printing fabrication technology and integration with mmwave ICs at 60 GHz, 120 GHz and beyond in cooperation with University
of Nice and a SME in France;
- Characterization of the complex permittivity of 3D printed samples at
mm-waves;
4.1.3.2.4 Other antenna related topics
˗ On-going
work
on
novel
antenna
beam
steering
for
wireless
applications - development of a demonstrable prototype for beam
steering
using
metamaterials,
including
a
2D
transmitarray
beamsteering using stacked tunable metamaterials;
˗ Participation in the European COST Action IC1301 WIPE - Wireless
Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics, with the topic of Hybrid
FSS and Rectenna design for wireless power harvesting;
4.1.3.3 Waves and Propagation
Work in this sub-area focused on studies of the effects of vegetation media
on the propagation of radiowaves, RF measurement systems at micro- and
millimeter wave frequencies, in addition to building scatter and site
shielding techniques studies, in close collaboration with University of Vigo
(Spain) and University of South Wales (United Kingdom).
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4.1.3.3.1 Radiowave propagation modelling
•
Propagation through vegetation
- Proposal of a time-varying 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 on the development of a 2D ray-tracing based model
for micro- and millimeter-wave propagation through vegetation;
•
RF transparency control of building wall structures, including a review on
the electromagnetic characterization of building materials at micro- and
millimeter wave frequencies, a square loop and square slot frequency
selective surface (FSS) parametric study for equivalent circuit model
optimization and a dual-band single-layer FSS for Wi-Fi applications;
•
On-going work on the design and development of a millimetre wave
wireless
radio
System
prototype
for
Giga-bit/second
multimedia
application, intended for 5G, including the performance and evaluation
of OFDM and SC -FDE over an AWGN propagation channel under RF
impairments using Simulink at 60 GHz, in addition to the performance
and evaluation of OFDM over multipath fading channels under RF
impairments;
•
Improvement of a multi-frequency swept-time delay cross-correlation
channel sounder for propagation studies and SAR imagery at 5G
frequencies.
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4.1.3.3.2 Electromagnetics of Complex Media
•
Characterization and applications of metamaterials:
- Study of the electrodynamics of moving media. Quantum friction in
moving media. Spontaneous parity-time symmetry breaking in moving
media;
- Discovery of electromagnetic instabilities in moving media. Optical
amplification induced by the mechanical motion of polarizable neutral
bodies or atoms;
- Study of optical forces in metamaterials. Proposal of novel mechanisms
for unusual optical manipulations. Demonstration of "optical conveyorbelts" with chiral light;
- Quadrupolar metamaterials: electrodynamics, homogenization and
boundary conditions;
- Graphene and semiconductors superlattices. Nonlinear effects in zerogap semiconductor superlattices. Graphene wormhole. Homogenization
of artificial graphene (2D electron gas);
- Experimental demonstration of a reverse rainbow with a nonlocal
metamaterial;
- Trapping light in plasmonic nanostructures. Embedded eigenvalue
states with infinite lifetimes in bounded structures;
- Giant radiative heat transfer in metamaterials. Super-Planckian thermal
emission in far field;
- Experimental characterization of the reflectivity level of previously
designed thermal blankets for telecommunication satellites based on
multi-layer band gap technology (a joint project with HPS-P and ESA);
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- Design of a new electromagnetic sensor for the detection of structural
flaws in the Terahertz band;
- Proposal of a new device built on metamaterials for the generation of
Terahertz waves which is capable of producing electromagnetic waves in
the Terahertz range from a pump signal of higher frequency;
-
Participation
in
COST
Action
"Tera-MIR
Radiation:
Materials,
Generation, Detection and Applications" devoted to advance novel
materials, concepts and devices for generating and detecting THz (0.3
THz to 10 THz) and Mid Infrared (10 THz to 100 THz).
•
Study bi-isotropic media
- Geometrical representation of Tellegen media in the Riemann sphere.
Geometrical interpretations of duality transformations applied to Tellegen
media. Characterization of the most general subsets of Tellegen media
that can be simultaneously reduced to simple isotropic media with the
same duality transformation. Solution of complex problems involving
Tellegen media using duality transformations. Image theory for the
solution of radiation problems involving Tellegen stratified structures;
- Photonic crystals formed by nonreciprocal materials (Tellegen media or
ferrites) and chiral media. Spectral asymmetry of the band diagrams and
its consequences.
•
Mm-wave passive devices
- Design, fabrication and test of a compact high selectivity dual-band
filter
for
Ka-band,
using
waveguide
E-plane
split-ring
resonator
structure.
4.1.3.4 Circuits and systems for wireless communications
4.1.3.4.1 RF circuit design and measurement
- Modelling and characterization of critical passive structures has
continued leading to a new process of obtained on wafer measurements
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with less inaccuracy due to the microprobes positioning validated up to
40 GHz on a 0.13 mm CMOS technology. On this subject a PhD Thesis
was concluded and will be discussed at IST in 2015, and 2 papers were
sent for possible publication on a Journal;
- A voltage tuned 28 GHz high-pass active filter and different version of
active inductors in 0.25mm SiGe BiCMOS technology was fabricated
and tested including on noise and large signal behaviour. Comparison
between simulation and measurements were performed. A paper on
active inductors was sent for possible publication on a Journal;
- A study on the highest frequency of operation of active inductors with
a CMOS 0.13 mm Si Technology was performed and a grounded active
inductor was obtained up to 16 GHz. On this subject an MSc Thesis was
concluded and presented at B.I.T Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, on
May 2014. After, a study of floating active inductors on the same
technology has started on the mainframe of the PhD work of the same
student, presently as an IST PhD student;
- The complete design of a CMOS monolithic transceiver prototype for
wireless sensor networks was concluded. The chip will be sent for
fabrication at the beginning of 2015. This transceiver presents state of
the art performance at the simulation level. The design gathered the
work developed under three MSc theses and a PhD thesis on going, and
the contribution of other three researchers;
- The study of new control, strategies and analog design techniques to
increase the switching frequency of inductor based dc-dc converters up
to 500 MHz was continued. Preliminary results in a 130 nm CMOS
process indicate the viability of the proposal. An MSc thesis is currently
going on fully integrated dc-dc converters;
- An MSc thesis started on the implementation of a low cost Vector
Network Analyser up to 40 GHz. The study of new topologies to obtain
the necessary wide band couplers and down converters will be
performed.
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4.1.3.4.2 Non-linear circuits and devices
•
Nonlinear Device Modeling
- High-power GaN HEMT transistor models specially conceived to accurately
reproduce the power and efficiency load-pull contours were developed;
- A special emphasis was also put on the study and modeling of the GaN
HEMT trapping effects, namely the drain-lag. First versions of submicrosecond gate and drain pulsers were designed and implemented;
- Using the identified drain-lag trapping effects, a first physically supported
explanation was proposed for the so-called soft-compression of GaN HEMT
transistors.
•
Nonlinear Circuit Simulation Techniques
- An extensive study, analysis and experimental comparison between
different multirate numerical RF simulation techniques was conducted to
improve recently proposed CAD tools specially conceived for the simulation
of nonlinear RF circuits whose stimuli are turned off for unknown periods of
time;
- An innovative mixed time-frequency CAD tool, for the efficient simulation
of the same category of circuits was developed.
•
Power Amplifier Design
- High-power Si LDMOS and GaN HEMT based Doherty amplifier modeling for
accurate efficiency and nonlinear distortion (dynamic AM/AM and AM/PM)
predictions;
- The first explanation on the class-B power amplifier efficiency dependence
on the load resistance was proposed and then an innovative method was
conceived for the prediction of the drain efficiency load-pull contours of
power transistors biased for class B operation;
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•
Digital Pre-Distortion Linearization Techniques
-
Several
indirect
and
direct
learning
techniques
were
studied
for
identification of the digital pre-distorters of wideband and high power
amplifiers. The application of these techniques to mobile communications’
base-stations was implemented and tested;
- A strong emphasis was put on the modeling of PA long term memory
effects and their compensation via digital pre-distortion, in particular the
ones that impact on the linearity of Doherty Pas;
- A theoretical evaluation of polynomial behavioral model simplifications
using
circuit
level
physical
knowledge
and
general
Volterra
series
calculations was developed;
- The nonlinear memory excitation capability of two-tone excitations was
thoroughly studied in order to devise new methods of power-amplifier
dynamic behavior characterization;
- Frequency-selective techniques for tuning PA linearizers were developed;
- Some initial steps were made to extend the digital pre-distortion
techniques
initially
developed
for
power
amplifiers
to
optical
fiber
communication systems.
4.1.3.5 Transmission and Receiving Systems
4.1.3.5.1 Physical Layer
•
MIMO systems
- MIMO systems (namely Massive MIMO) and on iterative frequency-domain
receivers for block transmission techniques with rate-1 Space Time Block
Coding (STBC) for two and four transmit antennas using both Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Single-Carrier (SC) schemes.
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The studied receiver includes an interference canceller which enhances the
performance of the non-orthogonal STBC scheme with 2 and 4 transmit
antennas, allowing performances close to those of orthogonal codes.
- Detection algorithms for MIMO with large antenna arrays: randomised
decoding;s
- Interference suppression using MIMO and physical layer network coding;
- Due to the scarcity of spectrum, mm-waves are currently being considered
as a way to provide ultra-high bit rates in dense urban environments. The
use of mm-waves furthermore enables development of massive MIMO
techniques with reduced sizes. Previous activities at IT from the sub-6 GHz
band were extended towards mm-waves.
•
Other developments for wireless communication systems
- Analytical performance evaluation of multiuser detection schemes;
- Design of frequency-domain equalizers for offset modulations;
- Development and performance evaluation of channel estimation and
carrier synchronization techniques for SC-FDE schemes and comparison with
OFDM schemes;
- Cross-layer design including physical layer and higher layers for packet
combining and multipacket detection schemes;
- Design of optimized multi-dimension constellations.
- Design and performance evaluation of interference alignment techniques;
- Study and application of interference mitigation techniques for single
carrier and OFDM transmissions;ec- Energy efficient multipacket reception
systems;
- Lattice-based physical layer network coding;
- Physical layer protocols for networks with relays;
- Single-carrier modulation with nonlinear frequency domain equalization.
Analytical approach for performance evaluation of a class of receivers with
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joint equalization and carrier frequency synchronization. Iterative frequency
domain
equalization
and
carrier
synchronization
for
multi-resolution
constellations;
- Study of BS cooperation schemes for the uplink of broadband wireless
systems.
4.1.3.5.2 3G/LTE/WiMAX Systems
- Energy savings in 3G using dynamic spectrum access and base station
sleep modes;
- 3G radio network planning for a mobile network operator;
- Performance enhancement in recently deployed LTE wireless networks;
- Automatic network checkup for mobility features in 3G networks;
- Develop novel concepts, methods and algorithms for the efficient selfoptimization of Long term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks, optimizing the
several Radio Resource Management (RRM) parameters in order to balance
variations in
the
system
operation,
traffic,
mobility
and
also
radio
propagation conditions;
- Detail the required input data for the UMTS and LTE optimization process,
its statistical accuracy and the methods of information retrieval. Several
sources of information are being used, such as Operation and Maintenance
(O&M) performance measurements, geo-located O&M traces, as well as
drive tests, combining air interface measurements with location information;
- Test and validate the developed concepts and methods for selfoptimization, through extensive simulation experiments, using a simulation
platform developed from scratch. The focused algorithms concern neighbor
relation definition and optimization, crossed sector detection, coverage
optimization, capacity analysis and 4G performance prediction based on
2G/3G existing measurements;
- Transmitted power formulation for the implementation of spectrum
aggregation in LTE-Advanced over 800 MHz and 2 GHz frequency bands;
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- Aspects of cost/revenue optimization and Enhanced Multi-Band Scheduling
for carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced scenarios by extending the LTE-Sim
simulator with multi-band scheduling algorithms;n
- Interference Coordination and power saving techniques for E-MBMS
Transmissions in LTE-Advanced; i- Dynamic configuration and optimization
of WiMAX networks with relay power saving modes: measurement-based
scenario in a hilly region;
4.1.3.5.3 Software Defined Radio
- Technical approaches and case studies for improved cognitive radio and
spectrum sharing;
- Software defined radio implementation for maritime cognitive radio
communications;
- Study of White Space Devices.
•
Wireless Sensors
- Radiofrequency (RF) energy harvesting for wearable sensors;
- Experimental characterization of wearable antennas and circuits for RF
energy harvesting in WBANs;
- Developing sustainable communication interfaces through fashion design;
- Frame capture and reliability based decider implementation in the MiXiM
IEEE 802.15.4 framework;
- Block acknowledgment mechanisms for the optimization of channel use in
Wireless Sensor Networks;s; Dynamic configuration and optimization of
WiMAX networks with relay power saving modes: measurement-based
•
Signal Processing for GNSS Receivers
- Contribution to the ESA project ROCAT, Techniques for Robust Carrier
Tracking (Under high dynamic/ strong fading/ scintillation conditions), in
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collaboration with GMV and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). The
part
assigned
to
Instituto
de
Telecomunicações
is
the
analysis
of
performance of vector architectures in Global Navigation Satellite System
(GNSS) receivers, with particular emphasis on the VDFLL (vector delay
frequency locked loop);
- Development and performance analysis of vector architectures in the
presence of harsh environments including multipath conditions, ionospheric
scintillation and high dynamics platforms. Performance Comparison of a
VDFLL versus VDLL and scalar GNSS receiver architectures in harsh
scenarios;
- Development of algorithms for the simulation of scintillation effects in
GNSS signals due to random disturbance of the ionospheric layer. Two
different algorithms were proposed which assume that the amplitude of the
faded signals obeys a Nakagami-m distribution. The paper “Practical
Simulation of GNSS Signals in the Presence of Ionospheric Scintillation”,
IEEE/ION PLANS, Monterey, CA, was awarded best paper in Track B of the
PLANS conference;
- Development of interference detection techniques in GNSS signals based
on Gaussianity tests. Specifically, we propose to apply the GiannakisTsatsanis Gaussianity test to detect the presence of weak narrowband
(sinusoidal) and wideband (chirp) interference in GNSS signals. This method
resorts to the computation of the fourth-order autocumulant vector. A
transversal research was carried that brought together contributions on the
following topics of Global Navigation Satellite Systems: auto-correlation
function
of
binary
offset
carrier
modulations;
multipath
mitigation
techniques; near-far effect minimization and weak signals acquisition; code
and carrier phase estimation and a novel technique to merge those
estimates.
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4.1.3.5.4 Radio systems
•
Satellite and aeronautical applications
- Participation in the project “Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial
Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks“ devoted to the
construction/implementation and testing of an UAV system remotely
controlled using terrestrial networks;
- Implementation and Development of Remote Operation and Control of a
Satellite Earth Station. GPS Based Coordinated Positioning System. GPS
Monitoring Station Data Management;
- Data communication between an airplane Airbus A350 and ground
infrastructure.
•
Exploiting TV White Spaces
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. Following the International
research
project
FP7-ICT-COGEUwork
now
is
evolving
to
provide
a
demonstration of TV white spaces for providing internet services in rural
Portugal. This new initiative is sponsored by the European Comission (FP7CREW)
and PT Inovação, have demonstrated a practical deployment of
TVWS in the area of Castelo Branco. Internet coverage in the vicinity was
acheived, where data was streamed using the WLAN standard over legacy
analogue TV frequencies.
•
Green Wireless Communications
The accelerated growth in mobile data traffic in unison with the drive from
European legislation towards more stringent C02 reduction targets have now
placed
energy efficiency at the forefront of system design: where only
spectral efficiency once dominated the performance criteria, now energy
efficiency and spectral efficiency in tandem is a universally accepted marker
for performance.
IT researchers have coordinated a European Research
project Eureka Celtic Green-T project that investigated cooperation and
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smart radio for energy saving in 5G systems. The involved research has
provided material for two books published in 2014.
•
RF Design for 5G systems
To enable a truly energy efficient mobile system design, requires inter-layer
design where energy efficient protocols/algorithms pose system new design
requirements on the hardware/RF layer. In this context, we are interested on
the impact of our energy saving algorithms on the RF circuit and antenna
design. IT has developed a tunable antenna approach that can cover LTE and
UWB frequency bands from 1.5 to 5.5 GHz to support 4G and networking
with consumer devices.
4.1.3.5.5 Architectures, algorithms / protocols for wireless systems
The future wireless systems should fulfil several goals, among which:
provision of true broadband wireless access and enhanced system capacity
when compared to current 4th Generation (4G) networks. 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 it
brings significant challenges, since the fact we no longer have a link but
multiple links raises significantly the complexity of the problem.
The addressed topics were:
- Interference alignment for distributed antenna systems;
- Precoding techniques for Coordinated Multipoint based networks;
- Power allocation strategies for MIMO-OFDM based systems;
- Linear and non-linear precoding techniques;
- Receiver optimization;
- Channel estimation for SISO and MIMO channels;
- Analysis of the front-haul requirements;
- Requirements for ultra dense networks;
- Hardware implementation in FPGA of selected algorithms.
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•
Security for 5G systems
Lightweight security solutions are required to provide a secure end-to-end
solution from the subscriber back to the LTE/LTE-A core. In this context,
research has been carried on security for cooperative clusters and cognitive
radio; Secure Network Coding for video surveillance applications and PKI
solutions for next generation passports. An European project on security
(FP7 Salus - started sept. 2013) coordinated by IT is developing solutions on
how to deliver public safety services over LTE networks, which until now
have been restricted to purpose built TETRA/TETRAPOL networks. A project
workshop/seminar was organized by IT at the PSCE forum (umbrella
organization, which has direct access to various end-users, research
institutes and industrial stakeholders) to obtain the feedback on relevant
issues including identification of gaps, defining of requirements and the
collection of data for the identification of next generation PPDR (Public
Protection and Disaster Relief).
4.1.3.6 Radio Networks
4.1.3.6.1 Radio Resource Management and Network Planning
- Analysis and implementation of IPSec security protocol in LTE access
network;
- Two-phase contention window control scheme for decentralized wireless
networks;
- Definition of a Datacenter fabric in Layer 2 that replaces Spanning tree by
a multipath policy based path calculation algorithm;
- Definition of a policy based multipath inter-domain routing architecture
that can be implemented in SDN with a logically distributed controller;
- Study of multipath simple hop by hop forwarding in policy based path
calculation algorithms;
- Study of Game Theory models to enhance cooperation in Future Wireless
Network Environments;
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- Study of Intelligent Management and Efficient Operation of Big Data
applications;
- Study of Big Data solutions focused on security.
4.1.3.6.2 Hierarchical Networks
While the use of advanced signal processing techniques 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. Considerable spectrum is available when both the dimensions of space
and time are considered, and hence the problem of spectrum scarcity as
perceived today, is in most cases one of inefficient spectrum management
rather than spectrum shortage. 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.
4.1.3.6.3 Other Topics
•
In-Building C-RAN
Related to the cloud Ran and optical wireless convergence activities were
started for in-building in a novel proposal that represents an inversion of
previous designs. As most of the traffic is more and more indoor regenerated
/ terminated a cloud RAN based architecture has been proposed where the inbuilding acts as reservoir for capacity including outdoor. An IT group has led
one EU proposal.
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•
Communication enablers for the internet of things.
The pervasive internet will depart significantly from an human oriented design
towards a multi-requirement design where a significant number of parts will
diverge from human centric designs. A significant number of situations will
deal with a conventional feedback control system where the different parts
are linked through communication infrastructure. Multiple requirements may
arise,
some
of
them
focusing
on
extremely
low
latency,
others
on
determinism, others on capacity. The group has started analysis of the issues,
and has started EU and national proposals that encompass the usage of a
virtual tier where multiple networks can be defined according to the
requirements.
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4.1.4 Running and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
Number
ADI - QREN
1
Brisa Inovação e Tecnologia
1
CAPES/CNPq
1
COST
1
EC, FP7
1
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
1
ESF, COST
2
ESF, PESC
1
EU FP7
2
EU, FP7
3
European Commission
1
European Science Foundation (ESF)
1
European Space Agency (ESA) / European Space Research and
1
Technology Centre (ESTEC)
FCT
8
FCT/IT
1
FCT/PTDC
9
FP7
1
FP7 EC
1
HPS-Portugal, ESA
1
ICT EU
1
IT
3
IT and FCT (Fundation for Science and Technology)
1
IT/LA
7
JU/FCT
2
NATO/Portuguese Navy/Portuguese Ministry of Defense
2
IT/LA
3
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IT/LA
1
Private
1
Private International Company (confidential)
1
QREN
4
QREN-ADI
2
Table 8 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2014
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Activity in Projects
Acron / Ref
ACCUS
Title
ACCUS
Funding
JU/FCT
Descript.
Urban systems like traffic, energy, and outdoor lighting are managed
by self-contained embedded systems. New applications and collective
optimization
“systems
of
require
integration
systems”
of
these
integration
systems,
problem,
presenting
managing
a
emergent
behavior and taking non-availability of components as the norm.
ACCUS aims at methodologies and tools for creating these “systems of
systems”.
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
BenchProM
Title
Benchmarks for High-resolution Mobile Radiowave Propagation Models
Funding
IT/LA
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Descript.
High-resolution propagation models may be of significance to a wide
range of wireless communication systems. However, the proposed
activity will address only for outdoor, mobile propagation, with the
target application of such models being for network design rather than
for the design of air interfaces. The main deliverables envisaged for this
project are: (i) a framework for high resolution mobile propagation
benchmarks; and (ii) a measurement database consisting of hundreds
of measurements made during the course of the project. These will
consist
of
measurements
at
different
locations,
geometries
and
scenarios.
Acron / Ref
Title
BENEFIC
Best
ENergy
EFficiency
solutions
for
heterogeneous
multI-core
Communicating systems
Funding
QREN
Descript.
The main objective of BENEFIC will be in providing a holistic approach
integrating new sources of energy harvesting, innovative approaches of
distributing energy closer to places where it is used. The new methods
developed in this project will allow a better prediction and management
strategies of power consumption at the architecture definition level.
Acron / Ref
CARCODE
Title
Platform for Smart Car to Car Content Delivery
Funding
QREN
Descript.
CarCoDe is the ICT experts’ response to develop a software platform for
automotive domain which evokes the generation of the traffic service
domain ecosystem. The aim is that the tools are automotive, device and
operating
system
independent
software
for
allowing
third
party
developers to generate new innovative applications. The main aim is to
build cross-platform software enablers to support development of co-
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operative in-vehicle services. ICT R&D is needed to facilitate the wide
variety
of
software
applications
with
different
characteristics
and
requirements that shape the future of the European automotive domain.
The
challenges
to
be
solved
are
scalability,
communication
cost,
information abundance and service dependability and security. These
problems are solved with communication medium agnostic content centric
networking,
improved
data
redundancy
between
applications
and
distributed design with virtualization.
Acron / Ref
CODELANCE
Title
CODELANCE
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
To develop an efficient product for video surveillance over wireless
multihop networks to support services like traffic monitoring, fire
detection and real-time events (such as natural disasters) broadcasting.
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;
distributed, where the precoding vectors and power allocation are
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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) will
be
integrated and characterized in this testbed.
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
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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
EC
Descript.
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
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.
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Acron / Ref
COST IC1301
Title
COST-IC1301 WIPE
Funding
ICT EU
Descript.
COST IC1301 - COST action on Wireless Power Transmission.
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
ESF
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
FCT
Descript.
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
Title
CRS-i
Cognitive Radio Standardization-initiative: from FP7 research to global
standards
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
The main objective of CRS-I is to coordinate and support existing and
future FP7 projects and to facilitate the exploitation of their results by
establishing a concentrated approach to Cognitive Radio Systems
standardization. CRS-i has the following three specific objectives:
Offer a consultancy service on standardization to FP7 projects addressing
Cognitive Radio, Dynamic Spectrum Access and Coexistence issues as a
tool
to
facilitate
the
pull
through
the
standards
processes;
Extend and coordinate standardization activities of the ongoing Call 4 &
Call 5 projects beyond the projects lifetime, namely FP7 COGEU ,FP7
QoSMOS, FP7 SACRA and FP7 OneFIT;
Reinforce the collaboration of FP7 projects with USA and Japan‘s
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“cognitive radio stakeholders” with the potential of achieving mass
market and economy of scale.
Acron / Ref
Title
DCFSS-PEV
Development of Chipless RFID Systems with Frequency Selective
Surfaces
Funding
CAPES/CNPq
Descript.
Analysis, design and fabrication of frequency selective surfaces to be
used in chipless RFID systems
Acron / Ref
E2SG
Title
Energy to Smart Grid
Funding
FCT
Descript.
“Energy to Smart Grid” will design mechanisms and policies to assemble,
monitor and control smart grids in the most efficient / reliable way,
through
the
technologies
development
in
sensing/metering,
the
and
following
over-the-grid
demonstration
areas:
node-grid
communication,
of
key
enabling
interfaces,
grid-
grid-topology
and
control, energy routing.
Acron / Ref
Title
E-COOP
Energy-efficient High-Speed Cost-effective COOPerative backhaul for
LTE/LTE-A Small cells
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The E-COOP project aims to extend the notion of femto applications
towards outdoor by employing ''ubiquitous Small cell” access, offering
energy efficient, cost-effective, high speed connectivity to support
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current and future services.
Acron / Ref
FLEXICELL
Title
FLEXICELL
Funding
ADI - QREN
Descript.
Mobile networks are subject to an explosive increase in use, focusing on
video and multimedia services, in a context of continued mobility, which
imposes requirements to telecommunication networks in order to
withstand this type of use, without any decrease on quality of service
experienced.
In order to ensure these requirements, the IT sector is developing
mobile networks, mainly on the mobile segment, based on the increase
of radio cells which will tend to be smaller in a coverage sense (small
cells). On the other hand, in an attempt to maximize the utilization of
network resources while minimizing power consumption, the concept of
''Cloud RAN'', an architecture in which the component BBU (Base Band
Unit) is shared by several RRH (Remote Radio Heads) is starting to be
thinking off. This architecture will further re-use the resources, by
allowing the BBU to be simultaneously used and to support various
access technologies (2G, 3G and 4G). This functionality is achieved
through
the
use
of
specific
protocols,
including
CPRI
and
ORI.
Although there is an evolution in network optimization with C-RAN,
currently,
looking
ahead
in
order
to
go
even
further,
network
optimization can be promoted with the use of metro and access
networks, including fixed ones (including SOPs) to support mobile
backhaul networks.
In order to overcome CPE/RRH current limitations, PT INOVAÇÃO and IT
are launching this project that faces the challenge of joining the
concepts of ''Small Cell'', ''Cloud RAN'' and ''infrastructure sharing'' in an
integrated and unified architecture.
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Acron / Ref
Title
GALNC
Generalized
Linear
Amplification
with
Nonlinear
Components
for
broadband wireless systems
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Broadband wireless systems require high power and spectral efficiencies,
and transmission over severely time-dispersive channels. In this research
theme we consider the design and implementation of digital transmission
techniques with high power and spectral efficiency to be employed in the
uplink of mobile systems or in satellite communications. We consider SCFDE techniques (Single- Carrier with Frequency-Domain Equalization)
combined with powerful IB-DFE (Iterative Block Decision Feedback
Equalizer) receivers [Ben10]. Our main goal is to design signals with low
PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) or even quasi-constant envelope and
high spectral efficiency and employ amplification techniques based on lowcost, highly efficient grossly NL (NonLinear) amplifiers (e.g., class D and E
amplifiers), which are simpler and have higher amplification and output
power than quasi-linear amplifiers [Rey06]. Two approaches will be
followed.
The first one uses LINC techniques (Linear amplification with Nonlinear
Components) [Cox74], where a variable-envelope signal is decomposed
as the sum of two constant-envelope signals, which are separately
amplified
without
distortion
by
two
NL
amplifiers.
Although
LINC
techniques seem an efficient solution for our problem, they have the
following problems:
-The power amplification efficiency reduces with the PAPR of the signals at
the LINC input;
-The LINC decomposition is performed on a sampled version of the signals
and the oversampling requirements can be very high, mainly due to
signals’ zero crossings;
-The
two
amplifiers
must
be
perfectly
matched,
since
amplifiers’
unbalances lead to performance degradation and out-of-band radiation.
To maximize amplification efficiency we use MM (Magnitude Modulation)
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techniques [Tom02, Gom09, Gom10] so as to reduce the PAPR of the
signals at LINC input. Appropriate MM techniques will be developed so as
to avoid zero-crossings and the IB-DFE receiver will be designed taking
into account the adopted MM schemes and eventual residual amplifier
unbalances. The impact of phase and gain mismatches on performance
and out-of-band radiation will be studied to define amplifiers’ matching
requirements. The second approach is less orthodox and takes advantage
of the following:
- A given constellation can be decomposed as the sum of binary
components [Din10];
- The complex envelope of OQPSK (Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)
signals at an appropriate frequency can be regarded as BPSK signals
[Amo77];
- OQPSK signals can have quasi-constant envelope.
Therefore, a given constellation can be decomposed as the sum of several
constant-envelope BPSK (or OQPSK) components that can be separately
amplified without distortion by different NL amplifiers, as in LINC
transmitters, but without oversampling requirements. One problem with
this approach is that the band of constant envelope BPSK/OQPSK signals
is much wider than the minimum Nyquist bandwidth. For this reason, we
replace each BPSK/OQPSK component by an OQPSK-type signal (which is
also the sum of OQPSK terms) specially designed to have quasi-constant
envelope and good spectral characteristics [Mon10]. This approach is
suitable for somewhat loose spectral restrictions. If not, we separate
different frequency channels to the minimum Nyquist band and design
FDE receivers able to cope with strong ACI levels (Adjacent Channel
Interference)
by
combining
the
techniques
of
[Din05,Luz09]
with
receivers specially designed for offset modulations [Mar09,Luz12]. With
this approach, amplifiers’ unbalances do not lead to out-of-band radiation,
however
they
can
lead
to
performance
degradation.
The proposed techniques will be studied both analytically and by
simulation, to check the potential and limitations of each one, taking into
account achievable performance, spectral efficiency robustness and
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complexity issues.
The
main
contributions
of
this
project
are
the
following:
- Design of OQPSK-type signals with quasi-constant envelope and good
spectral characteristics;
- Design of MM schemes specially designed to be combined with LINCtype techniques, namely to reduce the oversampling requirements;
- Design MM schemes for offset modulations and different pulse shapes;
- Design of linear amplification schemes for general constellations that
employ multiple (more than two) grossly NL amplifiers; -FDE design of
MM and OQPSK-type schemes, with or without ACI, eventually taking into
account
residual
amplifiers’
mismatches;
-Definition
of
matching
requirements for multi-amplifier techniques;
- Validation and system simulation for most promising techniques.
Acron / Ref
GANSAT
Title
GANSAT
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
Power Amplifier Design for Space Applications based on GaN transistors
Acron / Ref
Title
GOLD
GOLD - Using Geo-Positioned Indicators for Self-Optimization of LTE
Data Networks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Develop novel concepts, methods and algorithms for the efficient selfoptimization of LTE wireless networks with the objective of enhancing
network capacity, coverage and service quality, while contributing to
significant Operational Expenditure (OPEX) reduction.
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Acron / Ref
GRAPHENE
Title
Graphene Superlattices
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The main goals of this project are:
• Characterization of the time dynamics of electron waves in GSLs using
parallel computational methods
• Tailor the conductivity and nonlinear electric response of graphene.
Acron / Ref
HANCAD
Title
Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Network for the Coordination of Aquatic Drones
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The goals of this project are to design, implement, and evaluate a
heterogeneous
network
architecture
for
aquatic
drones,
and
to
demonstrate the feasibility of collectives of low-cost aquatic drones for
maritime tasks such as environmental monitoring, sea life localization,
and sea border patrolling. Common to such tasks is that they require
collectives composed of large numbers of drones. The feasibility of a
system for such tasks therefore depends on the unit cost (which should
be kept as low as possible), and on the capacity of the network
architecture and control logic to scale. As the number of units increases,
unit failure will become more frequent and fault tolerance must therefore
be built into both the network architecture and the control logic.
The specific challenges to be addressed in the HANCAD project are:
• Development of a scalable, heterogeneous, and fault-tolerant ad-hoc
network architecture for aquatic drones
•
Synthesis
of
decentralized
control
logic
to
maintain
network
connectivity during task execution
• Implementation and demonstration of a collective of 10 low-cost
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aquatic drones performing proof-of-concept tasks.
Acron / Ref
Title
HETCOP
Joint Cooperative and Cognitive Strategies for Heterogeneous Wireless
Systems
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The main technical objectives of the project are to design, implement
and validate a set of techniques that enables efficient coexistence of
heterogeneous systems (macro and smallcells). The aim is to design and
demonstrate
practical
joint
cooperative
and
cognitive
transmission/reception techniques to improve the user’s fairness and
throughput of the entire network. The specific objectives include:
• Design linear precoding techniques to mitigate both intra-system (on
each smallcell or macro-cell) and inter-systems (smallcell/macrocell)
interferences. We consider that some terminals are equipped with
cognitive capabilities to efficient design the precoders, namely the ones
used to mitigate the inter-system interference.
• Design joint precoding and detection techniques for uplink to mitigate
both intra/inter-system interferences. The aim is to combine the
interference alignment with efficient equalization schemes (e.g. IB-DFE
based
ones).
• Design efficient signaling 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 signaling overhead. Moreover, particular emphasis will
be
placed
on
inter-system
feedback
and
quantization
strategies.
• Assessment and validation of the proposed downlink and uplink
algorithms under realist scenarios, trough a multilink level simulator
based on LTE specification.
• Development of an FPGA based testing infrastructure allowing to
experimentally show the feasibility of the proposed algorithms. We
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extend the FPGA infrastructure developed in the previous IT/CELCOP
project for the envisioned heterogeneous network. Selected algorithms
(the
simplest
ones)
will
be
tested
in
this
infrastructure.
Besides these technical objectives we also aim and consider of high
importance the following objectives,
• Attract students for a career in R&D in the field of telecommunications.
• Promotion of research collaborations between research groups within
the Instituto de Telecomunicações.
Acron / Ref
Title
KALens
Compact Lens-Based Mechanically Steered Ka-Band user Terminal
Antenna
Funding
ESA/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
L-DimM-NetCod
Title
Large-Dimensional MIMO Physical Layer Network Coding
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The L-DimM-NetCod project aims to delve into the emerging fields of
massive MIMO and physical layer network coding (PLNC), making use of
a common geometric perspective based on lattice theory. The objective
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is to design PLNC schemes that are robust for terminals and, more
importantly, relays, with a large number of antennas and for cells with a
large number of user terminals. These schemes are to be assessed with
typical channel models for indoor and outdoor scenarios so that an
operational meaning is given to the spectral efficiency of the schemes in
comparison to traditional TDMA.
Acron / Ref
MANY2COMW
Title
Many-to-Many COMmunication Architectures for WIreless Networks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The main innovation aspects that MANY2COMWIN project brings in are:
- an extension of the proposed iterative frequency-domain MPR
technique for SC-FDE systems to be used in a full-duplex channel;
-
a
novel
decentralized
PHY/MAC
architecture
to
support
M2O
PHY/MAC
architecture
to
support
M2M
communications;
-
a
novel
decentralized
communications;
- the implementation of both M2O and M2M architectures in a network
simulator;
- the identification of future aspects, according to the results obtained in
the project;
Acron / Ref
MEMCOPAs
Title
Memory-Effects Compensation in GaN Power Amplifiers
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Nowadays, it is unquestionable that communication systems play a very
important role in our daily routine. Wireless systems, in particular, are
growing in such a way that people have difficulty living without the
services already available. This being the case, any big change, or
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improvement, in terms of power consumption in these systems will
certainly have a big impact on what the available resources usage is
concerned. Moreover, it is not acceptable that technology uses more and
more resources in an unthinkable way without trying to be as efficient as
possible. This project comes exactly in this direction as it tries to push
further state-of-the-art systems that, unfortunately, have their own
problems inherent to their infancy.
Having that in mind, this project is focused on the design and
implementation of a memory-free wireless transmitter built with GaN
transistors. It is undeniable that this technology was a breakthrough in
what efficient and available power are concerned. Unfortunately, it still
suffers from several problems that are yet to be solved. Therefore, the
above referred main objective of this project can be tackled according to
the following different, but interrelated, goals:
(i)
It is recognized that, for understanding something in nature, first
we need to carefully characterize it. In what memory-effects in
GaN transistors are concerned the methodology has to be the
same. So, the objective is to fully characterize them using a set
of reference measurements such as: - static and dynamic AM/AM
and AM/PM amplitude sweeps; - step-up and step-down output
power and phase measurements going from small- into largesignal regimes; - S-parameters for the bias circuitry and
matching networks characterization.
(ii)
Modeling memory-effects in commercial computer added design
simulators
making
it
possible
to
replicate,
in
a
virtual
environment, the real operation of the device and search, in a
more flexible way, for the necessary solutions.
(iii)
Correct the memory-effects (short- and long-term) visible in
todays’ power amplifiers and prove it with a complete prototype
implementation.
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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
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
Title
MultiSound
Improvement of a multi-frequency swept-time delay cross-correlation
channel sounder for propagation studies and SAR imagery
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The objective of this research is to build upon the existing 18, 37 and 61
GHz narrowband (CW) systems already developed under the project
POSC/EEA-CPS/57481/2004 and other previous internal calls of ITCoimbra (2009 and 2010), in order to incorporate the intermediate stage
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(IF) of the swept-time delay cross-correlation channel sounder that was
developed and successfully implemented by the authors in 2010 [2]. The
integration of the existing IF stage into a highly scalable RF stage would
represent an incremental step and also a strategic extension of the RF
measurement facilities available at IT, particularly for a multi-frequency
measurement system capable of measuring channel impulse response,
in addition to the dynamic effects, including Doppler spectra for each
individual
multipath
component,
of
doubly
selective
propagation
channels. The proposed topology for the channel sounder has the
portability to be quickly and easily re-located to various measurement
sites, as well as the flexibility to characterise a wide variety of
frequencies, e.g. 18, 37 and 61 GHz. This is of significance interest for
5G propagation models development.
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
- Promotion of research mobility
Acron / Ref
NEWPASS
Title
NEWPASS
Funding
QREN
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tools
submm
Descript.
NEWPASS targets the development of advanced (microelectronics and
embedded SW) secure platforms suitable for the coming of the 3rd and
4th e-Passport generation currently under discussion at the ICAO (hence
usable and recognized as approved travel document at European and
International level).
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
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.
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Acron / Ref
RADIO-VOIP
Title
Radio-Voip
Funding
QREN-ADI
Descript.
Development of an antenna for maritime communications.
Acron / Ref
Title
Ray-BaM
Ray trace based model for micro- and millimeter-wave propagation
through vegetation
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
To increase the knowledge of the research group on the propagation of
radio waves through vegetation;
To build up the existing model range for radiowave propagation through
vegetation with a novel ray tracing approach;
To find strategies to effectively characterise the vegetation in terms of
radiowave propagation parameters and to find techniques to infer these
parameters from the characteristics of the vegetation;
To find methods suitable for the characterisation of the dynamic effects
inherent in the radiopath when wind is present;
To develop a model capable of dealing with various kinds of forests (both
homogenous and inhomogeneous) and capable of being integrated with
other propagation prediction tools;
To assess the behaviour of the proposed
Acron / Ref
Title
REACH
Rural Broadband Internet Access using Cooperative Mesh Networking in
White Space Spectrum
Funding
EU
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Descript.
This project aims to develop a strong cluster-to-cluster partnership
between research centres in the EU and India to develop advanced
technical solutions for providing high-speed broadband Internet access
in India by deploying cooperative mesh networking in the unlicensed
(white) spectrum.
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
RFWALL
Title
RF transparency control of building wall structures in the Iberian context
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This project aims at studying new propagation enhancement (and
reduction) techniques using Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) for
interference mitigation, coverage enhancement and wireless security in
indoor radio environments. Development deployment and construction of
new FSS structures will be addressed through theoretical investigations
as well as experimental data gathering and model validation at varies
frequencies, from 400 MHz up to 62.4 GHz. FSS are envisaged to be
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deployed to either selectively confine radio propagation in indoor areas,
by artificially increasing the radio transmission loss naturally caused by
building walls, or to channel radio signals into other areas of interest.
Acron / Ref
SALUS
Title
SALUS
Funding
EC, FP7
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
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greatly reduced. In addition, these ideas may enable to boost the
electrical conductivity.
•
Tailoring
superlattices
the
nonlinearities
and
in
electromagnetics
(in
in
graphene
electromagnetic
particular
and
semiconductor
metamaterials
nonlinear
optics)
–
Nonlinear
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
THINGS2DO
Title
THINGS2DO
Funding
JU/FCT
Descript.
THINGS2DO is a project addressing the JU subareas of 1) Energy
Efficiency and 2) Design technologie.
THINGS2DO project is focused on building the Design & Development
Ecosystem for FD-SOI-technology.
Acron / Ref
TRAP
Title
Trapping Light in Open Resonators
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
• Investigate theoretically and experimentally the potentials of new open
resonators based on ENZ-type shields at microwaves.
• Investigate nonlinear effects.
• Extend to electronics our approach of having bound photonic states
coupled to the continuum.
Acron / Ref
VADONetC
Title
Simplified Volterra analysis for dynamical optical networks compensation
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
1 - the definition of a modeling procedure for the communications
channel that allows its postcompensation. In this activity one should
consider as a starting point the physical model provided by the Volterra
Series Transfer Function and study the inclusion of some black box
terms that can improve its performance by introducing the possibility to
be adapted according to slight variations in the system to be modeled.
2 - Implement the practical details associated with the implementation
of such systems in real pre/postcompensation scenarios.
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Acron / Ref
Title
VALUE
Novel dual-band balanced antennas for 700/2600 Mhz LTE frequency
bands
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The goal of VALUE project is to design, fabricate and test a novel family
of compact and low-profile balanced antennas suitable for integration
with mobile handsets.They will be designed for the latest mobile
standards referred to as 4th generation or LTE, and operating within the
range between 700 to 2600 MHz frequency bands with a workable
bandwidth
and
acceptable
power
gain.
This
investigation
also
encompasses the impact on performance and specific absorption rate
(SAR).
Acron / Ref
Title
VISTA
COST IC1102 - Versatile, Integrated and Signal-aware Technologies for
Antennas
Funding
COST
Descript.
Cooperation in antenna field
Acron / Ref
WINCE
Title
Wireless Interference and Coding for Secrecy
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main goal of this project is to advance the state-of-the art on
physical-layer
techniques
to
secure
wireless
networks
under
eavesdropper adversaries that aim to overhear unintended information.
The almost-permanent connectivity of people and things to the Internet
that we are currently approaching poses several security and privacy
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challenges, such as how to assure confidentiality in spontaneous
networks of unknown users/devices, where key-exchange is deemed
difficult. Physical-layer security is gaining interest as a means to provide
an extra layer of security that does not depend on the traditional
cryptographic key-exchange, but takes advantage of the inherent
varying
characteristics
of
wireless
channels
to
establish
secure
communication.
In this work, we plan to develop, implement and evaluate practical
physical-layer security techniques based on coding and spread spectrum
methods. In particular, we plan to develop interleaving for secrecy
mechanisms, where the access to a degraded version of the interleaving
key acts as the source of advantage over an adversary eavesdropper.
Moreover, to provide periods of advantageous communication for
interleaving key exchange, we shall develop spread spectrum frequencyhopping mechanisms combined with jamming over eavesdroppers and
tailor the operation of such mechanisms to provide the highest possible
advantage over the eavesdropper.
The developed techniques shall form the basis for more evolved
physical-layer security schemes, such as combined with cognitive radios
– intelligent radio interfaces that can be programmed and configured
dynamically to react more intelligently to environment changes – to
enable embedded security services in the next generation of spectrum
efficient wireless networks.
Acron / Ref
WMAN
Title
WMAN
Funding
QREN-ADI
Descript.
Development of a passive wireless sensor network
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4.1.5 Running and Concluded Theses
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Rafael
Ferreira da
Silva
Caldeirinha
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Student
CoSupervisors
Eduardo
Castaned
Amilcar
Justino
Pedro Miguel
Rodrigues
Cunha
End
Date
Schedduling for Distribted
wireless networks
1/
2014
Telmo Rui
Planning of broadband
Carvalhinho
mobile networks - case study
Cunha
of IP Leiria Campus 2
Fernandes
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
SC-FDE implementation for
Morgado
USRP using GNU Radio
Dinis,Rodolfo
Alexandre
Duarte Oliveira
Rodolfo
Miguel Filipe
Alexandre
Batista
Duarte
Duarte
Oliveira
António José
André
Castelo
António da
Branco
Costa
Rodrigues
Marques
António José
Francisco
Castelo
Flávio André António Taveira
Branco
Silva Brás
Branco Nunes
Rodrigues
Monteiro
Carlos
Jorge Manuel
Antonio
Lopes Leal
Nuno Santos
Cardoso
Rodrigues da
Fernandes
Costa
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Tiago Cunha
Carvalho
Vieira
Carlos
Antonio
João Felício
Cardoso
Fernandes
António
Tiago Miguel
Manuel
Carrusca
Restani Graça
Parra
Alves Moreira
Title
3/
2014
3/
2014
Spectrum Sensing through
3/
Software Defined Radio
2014
Automatic network checkup
4/
for mobility features in 3G
2014
networks
Interference suppression
using MIMO and physical
layer network coding
4/
2014
Antenas para autoconfinamento da detecção
em aplicações UHF-RFID
5/
2014
Otimização de Redes LTE
Utilizando Técnicas SON
Baseadas em Geolocalização de Eventos
5/
2014
Jorge Manuel
Lopes Leal
Rodrigues da
Costa
Study of a universal planar
5/
antenna for ultrawide band
2014
applications
Nuno Miguel
Faria Pires
Antennas for Wireless Sensor 7 /
Networks
2014
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CoEnd
Title
Supervisors
Date
António José
José Eduardo
Data communication
João Nuno
Castelo
Charters Ribeiro between an airplane Airbus 7 /
Pinto Pereira
da Cunha
Branco
A350 and ground
2014
Tavares
Rodrigues
Sanguino
infrastructure
José Eduardo
Evaluation of GPS
Charters
Filipe de
António José Standalone Single Frequency
7/
Receiver Autonomous
Ribeiro da
Oliveira
Castelo Branco
2014
Integrity Monitoring
Cunha
Salgueiro
Rodrigues
Sanguino
Algorithms
Manuel
Implementação da Camada
Bruno Miguel
Alberto Reis
Adão Paulo
Fisica 4G/LTE numa
7/
Fernandes
plataforma Software Defined 2014
de Oliveira
Soares Silva
Silva
Violas
Radio
Pedro Manuel
Neighbor List and Handover
de Almeida
7/
David Duarte
Optimization for LTE SelfCarvalho
2014
Organizing Networks
Vieira
António José José Maria de
Pedro Manuel de Performance enhancement in
Castelo
Sousa
7/
Almeida
recently deplyed LTE wireless
Branco
Cardoso
2014
networks
Carvalho Vieira
Rodrigues
Marques
Pedro Manuel
QoS-Related Parameters and
de Almeida
Cláudio
Antenna Optimization within 7 /
LTE Self-Organizing
Carvalho
Franco
2014
Vieira
Networks
Adão Paulo
Manuel
Técnicas MIMO para os
Soares
Hugo Filipe
7/
Alberto Reis
futuros sistemas de
Silva,Manuel
2014
de Oliveira Orfao da Silva
transmissão wirelessAlberto Reis de
Violas
(Sistemas de 4G/LTE)
Oliveira Violas
Pedro Manuel
Capacity Management and
de Almeida
9/
Miguel Vale
Load Balancing for 3G/4G
Carvalho
2014
Wireless Access Networks
Vieira
Rodolfo
Estudo de Desempenho de
Alexandre Rui Manuel de
Protocolos Distribuídos de
9/
Jesus Luís
Acesso ao Meio em Redes de 2014
Duarte
Oliveira
Rádio Cognitivo
Medidor de Permeabilidade
Marcos Rafael
Telmo Reis
Magnética baseado em
9/
Vale Almeida
Cunha
Circuitos Osciladores
2014
Martins
Supervisor
Student
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Artur Barbosa
Carvalho
Vieira
Previsão de Desempenho
para Redes Móveis LTE (800
9/
MHz) e UMTS (900 MHz)
2014
baseadas em Redes GSM
(900 MHz) Co-localizadas
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Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Rodolfo
Redes de Acesso Aleatório
Gonçalo
Alexandre
com Capacidade de
Ferreira
Duarte
Recepção de Múltiplos
Lourenço
Oliveira
Pacotes
Francisco
Physical Layer Wireless
António
Filipe Manuel
Techniques for Improved
Alves Ennes
Taveira
Network Throughput:
Branco Nunes
Network Coding, MIMO, and
Ferreira
Monteiro
Full-Duplex
Miguel
António José
Monteiro
3G radio network planning
Castelo
Antunes
for a mobile network
Branco
França
operator
Rodrigues
Martins
João Manuel
Amplificador de potência em
Torres
Tiago Barata
tecnologia SiGe para
Gabriel
Caldinhas
sistemas a 60GHz
Simões Vaz
António José
Analysis and implementation
Castelo
Rui Miguel de
of IPSec security protocol in
Sousa Fortio
Branco
LTE access network
Rodrigues
José Eduardo
Bernardo de
Charters
Ricardo Jorge
Autonomous System for
Matos
Ribeiro da
Fernandes
Track Athletics Guidance for
Patrocinio dos
Cunha
Chaves
the Visual Impaired
Santos
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Desenvolvimento de uma
Charters
Estação GPS Diferencial com
António José
Joel Cardoso
Correções Baseadas em
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Martins
Pseudo-distâncias
Cunha
Rodrigues
Sanguino
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Tiago
Gouveia e
Cunha
José Eduardo
Charters
Rita Vallejo
Ribeiro da
dos Santos
Cunha
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
David Castro
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
Pedro Manuel de
Almeida
Carvalho Vieira
António José
Castelo Branco
Rodrigues
End
Date
9/
2014
10 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
Energy savings in 3G using
11 /
dynamic spectrum access
2014
and base station sleep
modes
GNSS Positioning in MultiConstellation Scenarios
11 /
2014
Low-cost GPS Network
Positioning in Urban
Environment
11 /
2014
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Supervisor
Student
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Luis Miguel
Moreira
Afonso
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Marco Alexandre Monitoring and control of an
11 /
dos Santos
unmanned aerial vehicle
2014
Ribeiro
using wireless networks
João Manuel
Tiago Miguel
Sintetizador de frequência
Torres
Campos
em tecnologia SiGe para
Caldinhas
Freire
sistemas a 60GHz
Simões Vaz
José Eduardo
Charters
João André
António José
Sistema de Gestão de uma
Ribeiro da
Correia Telo Castelo Branco
Frota de Veículos Baseado
Cunha
de Oliveira
Rodrigues
em GPS
Sanguino
António José
José Eduardo
Software defined radio
Germano
Castelo
Charters Ribeiro implementation for maritime
Gonçalves
da Cunha
cognitive radio
Branco
Capela
Rodrigues
Sanguino
communications
Armando
Teaching and Scientific
Carlos
Carlos Ribeiro Susana Mota
Guided Wave Propagation
Domingues da
Demonstrator
Rocha
António José
Inês Sofia
Castelo
Marques
White Space Devices
Branco
Oliveira
Rodrigues
José Eduardo
Francisco
Tiago Filipe
Charters Ribeiro Control and data access for a
António Bucho Arsénio de
da Cunha
satellite earth station
Cercas
Brito
Sanguino
Dynamical systems simulator
Telmo Reis Pedro Amorim
and control - quadrotor
Pais Correia
Cunha
simulator
Aníbal Manuel
João Pedro
Gestão de Desempenho
de Oliveira
Valente Dias
numa Rede Celular
Duarte
Métricas de Gestão de
Aníbal Manuel
Desempenho em Tempo Real
de Oliveira
Rodrigo Dias
e Longo Termo em Redes
Duarte
Celulares
Custódio José
Pedro José da
Microstrip Patch Antennas in
Oliveira
Silva Paraíso
Cylindrical Substrates
Peixeiro
Nuno Miguel
PAssive Intermodulation in
Gonçalves
José Pedro
Wireless Communication
Borges de
Borrego
Scenarios
Carvalho
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
93
Supervisor
Aníbal Manuel
de Oliveira
Duarte
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
Michel
Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Jose Carlos
Esteves
Duarte Pedro
Jose Carlos
Esteves
Duarte Pedro
António
Manuel
Restani Graça
Alves Moreira
António
Manuel
Restani Graça
Alves Moreira
José Eduardo
Charters
Ribeiro da
Cunha
Sanguino
Student
CoSupervisors
Manuel David
Montenegro
Title
End
Date
Previsão de Capacidade para 12 /
Redes Celulares
2014
Rui Miguel
Felix
Fernandes
RF Object Signature
12 /
2014
Francisco
Pedro Valério
António Taveira The limits of MIMO with large 12 /
Catarino
antenna arrays
2014
Branco Nunes
Miguel
Monteiro
Using Exit Time Predictions
Rafael Ribeiro Luís Alexandre
12 /
to Optimize Self-Automated
Nunes
2014
Moreira Matias
Parking Lots
Diogo Rafael
Bento Barros
Amplificador de RF Doherty 3 /
Assimétrico de 2-Vias
2015
Jose Miguel
Gomes
Modelação e Correção dos
3/
Efeitos de Memória Lenta em
2015
Transístores HEMT de GaN
TiaJoão
sequeira Pinto
Diversity solutions for UWB 5 /
antennas
2015
João Vicente
Faria
Flexible antennas for
5/
applications near the human
2015
body
Pedro Rui
Ceia dos
Santos
António José
Assisted Navigation Based
6/
Castelo Branco On V2V Communications and
2015
GPS
Rodrigues
Marco
João Pedro
Alexandre dos
Loureiro
Santos Ribeiro
Alves
José Eduardo
Charters
José Manuel
António José
Ribeiro da
Mateus de
Castelo Branco
Cunha
Jesus Moreira
Rodrigues
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Marco
Charters
António José
Adriano
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Almeida
Cunha
Rodrigues
Durão
Sanguino
Design and Simulation of
6/
Metamaterial Sensors in the
2015
Microwave and Terahertz
Domain
Geo-Location in Social
Networks
6/
2015
GPS/INS Positioning
6/
2015
94
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
José Eduardo
Charters
António José
Gonçalo
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Martins Tomé
Cunha
Rodrigues
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Charters
Ana Rita de
Ricardo Jorge
Ribeiro da
Araújo
Fernandes
Cunha
Guilherme
Chaves
Sanguino
Américo
Manuel
Gil Dias
Carapeto
Correia
Adão Paulo Luis da Graca Antonio Navarro
Magalhaes
Rodrigues
Soares Silva
Title
End
Date
Software Defined Receivers 6 /
2015
for GNSS
Track Athletics Guidance for 6 /
2015
the Visual Impaired
Uso de Femtocells na Rede 6 /
LTE-A
2015
Codificação de Vídeo HEVC e
7/
Transmissão MIMO para
2015
Redes 5G: LTE-Advanced
João Manuel
Carlos Eldio
Pedro Nuno
Conversor redutor comutado
Torres
7/
Soria
Mendonça dos completamente integrado em
Caldinhas
2015
tecnologia CMOS
Azevedo
Santos
Simões Vaz
Pedro Miguel
André
Jose Carlos
Frequency Characterization 7 /
da Silva
Mariano Silva Esteves Duarte
of Single Coil RF Relays
2015
Cabral
Ferreira
Pedro
Protocolo de comunicações
Paulo Bacelar
sem-fios em malha para
7/
Paulo
Ana Santos
Reis Pedreiras
redes de iluminação pública 2015
Bartolomeu
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Spectrum Sensing
Techniques for Cognitive
Radio Networks
Denise
Fonseca
Jorge Aido
Pedro Manuel
de Almeida
Luís Loureiro
Carvalho
Vieira
Daniel Filipe
Marques
Castanheira
7/
2015
Técnicas de Processamento
MIMO para os futuros
7/
Sistemas Celulares
2015
Heterogéneos: LTEAdvanced
Desenvolvimento de uma
Aplicação para Auxílio ao
Projecto Indoor por Antenas 9 /
Distribuídas para UMTS, com 2015
base em Modelos de
Propagação Híbridos
95
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
João
António José
Francisco
Francisco
Castelo
António Taveira
Aragão Aboim
Branco
Branco Nunes
de Sande e
Rodrigues
Monteiro
Lemos
Title
End
Date
Full-duplex radio with
massive MIMO relays
9/
2015
In flight camera control for
automatic target
detection/tracking using UAV
– Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Luís Miguel
Multi-modal biometric
Pedro Neves André Lourenço
Martins Nunes
autentication
António José
Francisco
Francisco
Castelo
Miguel
António Taveira Randomised algorithms for
Branco
Teixeira do
Branco Nunes
massive MIMO
Rodrigues
Rosário
Monteiro
José André
Carlos José
Rui Miguel Neto Redes Mesh com dispositivos
Rocha Sá e
Pereira da
Marinheiro
Móveis
Moura
Silva Meralto
Pedro Nuno
Sistema de comunicação e
David
Mendonça dos
controlo de uma espoleta
Campos
Santos
electrónica
Marco
Alexandre dos
Santos Ribeiro
Fernando
Pereira
Pedro Nuno
Mendonça dos
Santos
Carolina
Mesquita
Sérgio
Armindo
Lopes
Crisóstomo
Miguel
Madureira
Sérgio
Crisostomo
José Maia
António
Jaime Vaz de
Manuel
Castro da
Restani Graça
Silva
Alves Moreira
Carvalho
António
Duarte Nuno
Manuel
Rodrigues
Restani Graça
Varandas
Alves Moreira
Gouveia
Armando
Carlos
Tiago Pereira
Domingues da
Rocha
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
9/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
Sistema de gestão de
9/
energia e activação de uma 2015
espoleta electrónica
Rui Prior
Navegação "Indoor" baseada
em "fingerprinting" de redes 10 /
sem fios e em informação 2015
sensorial de smartphones
Recolha e processamento de
Rui Pedro de
informação de cobertura
10 /
Magalhães Claro
geográfica de redes móveis 2015
Prior
Antennas deformations
effects
11 /
2015
Antennas for localisation
systems
11 /
2015
Detecção de Sinais de Baixa
11 /
CNR por Processamento de
2015
Dados Após-Aquisição
96
CoSupervisors
Marco Alexandre
Nuno Manuel André Filipe
dos Santos
Branco Souto Bastos Vieira
Ribeiro
Supervisor
Student
Title
End
Date
Fault Tolerant Unmanned
Aerial System Design
11 /
2015
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Filipe Manuel Pedro Joaquim
Nogueira
Amaro Sebastiao
Afonso
Monitorização e Controlo de
11 /
Múltiplos Veículos Aéreos
não Tripulados utilizando 2015
Redes 3G/4G sem Fios
Pedro Renato
Tavares Pinho
Fábio Manuel
Martins de
Almeida
Antena MIMO para terminal 12 /
móvel
2015
José Eduardo
Charters
Rita Maria
António José
Ribeiro da
dos Santos
Castelo Branco
Cunha
Pereira
Rodrigues
Sanguino
José Eduardo
João Miguel
Charters
António José
Duarte Mouro
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Alves de
Cunha
Rodrigues
Andrade
Sanguino
Pedro Renato
João Nuno Hugo Manuel
Tavares
Oliveira de
Pimentel da
Pinho,Alírio de
Miranda
Silva Matos
Jesus Soares
Boaventura
João Nuno de
João Nuno
Arnaldo Silva
Oliveira
Pimentel da
Rodrigues de
Ramos da
Silva Matos
Oliveira
Silva
José Eduardo
Charters
António José
Bruno
Ribeiro da
Castelo Branco
Fernandes
Cunha
Rodrigues
Sanguino
José Eduardo
António José
Charters
Raul André
Castelo Branco
Ribeiro da
Rodrigues
Cunha
Sanguino
Attitude Indicator Using
Multiple GPS Receivers
12 /
2015
Carrier Phase Based DGPS
Positioning
12 /
2015
Desenvolvimento de Reader 12 /
para RFID na banda UHF 2015
Frontends RF para
Comunicações Veiculares
Multi-standard
12 /
2015
GSM/RF Localization
Algorithms on a Sensor
Nodes Network
12 /
2015
Integration of Radio
Propagation Models in the
DEMETER Air Navigation
Planning Tool
12 /
2015
Long distance microwave
Francisco
Filipe Careiro Pedro Joaquim radio link using the Moon as 12 /
António Bucho
Soares
Amaro Sebastiao
a passive repeater
2015
Cercas
Alexandre
Passos de
Almeida
José Lourenço
poRsCHE - Remote Control 12 /
via Head movEs
2015
97
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Custódio José
Oliveira
Raúl Ribeiro
Peixeiro
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Marcos
Martins
Fernando Jose Aleksandra
da Silva Velez Nadziejko
Title
End
Date
Printed monopoles
12 /
2015
Transmitter/Receiver
Schemes for Cooperative
Wireless Networks
Heterogeneous Ad-hoc
Network for the Coordination
of Aquatic Drones
José Eduardo
Application and development
Charters Ribeiro
of the new GPS station at
da Cunha
ISCTE for GPS applications.
Sanguino
José Eduardo
Francisco
Jorge
Management of an earth
Charters Ribeiro
António Bucho
Eduardo
station for satellite
da Cunha
Cercas
Gomes Cunha
radionavigation
Sanguino
Francisco
Júlio Rafael
António Bucho Teixeira de
Cercas
Sousa
12 /
2015
7/
2016
12 /
2016
12 /
2016
Table 9 – List MSc Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2013
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
End
Date
Innovative Energyefficient Wireless Sensor
Network Applications
1/
and MAC Sub-layer
2014
Protocols Employing
RTS/CTS with Packet
Concatenation
Fernando Jose Norberto José
da Silva Velez Gil Barroca
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Title
Manuel Alberto Reis
Senka Hadzic
de Oliveira Violas
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Luis Bras
Pedro Renato
Tavares Pinho
Luis Filipe
Lourenço
Bernardo
Francisco
José Dinis de
Sousa
Fernandes
Ganhão
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
“Cooperative Positioning
for Heterogeneous
2/
Wireless Systems”
2014
Antennas for high
resolution location
2/
2014
Optimizing Hybrid ARQ
2/
using Multi-packet
2014
Reception
98
Supervisor
Student
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Kazi
Mohammed
Saidul Huq
Henrique
Salgado
Mário Rui
Silveira
Pereira
Jose Carlos Sérgio Carlos
da Conceição
Esteves
Pires
Duarte Pedro
Fernando Jose
da Silva Velez
Co- Supervisors
Rui Luis Andrade
Aguiar
Jose Fernando da
Rocha Pereira
Pedro Miguel da
Silva Cabral
Daniel Luís
Silveira
Robalo
Francisco
Ganão
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Muhammad
Alam
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Vahid Nazari
Talooki
António
Manuel
Restani Graça
Alves Moreira
Mohsen
Koohestani
End
Date
Advanced Energy
Efficient Coordinated
3/
Multi-point Transmission
2014
for OFDMA
Electromagnetic
bandgap components
and antennas for
broadband
communications
Multi-Standard
Reconfigurable Wireless
Transmitter
Architectures
Planning and Dynamic
Spectrum Management
in Heterogeneous Mobile
Networks with QoE
Optimization
3/
2014
3/
2014
4/
2014
Large-scale Simulation
of Vehicular Ad Hoc
5/
Networks
2014
Michel
Ricardo Jorge
Celestino
Fernandes
Paiva Ferreira
Rui Miguel
Henriques
Dias Morgado
Dinis
Title
Energy-efficient
Diversity Combining for
Luis Filipe Lourenço
6/
Different Access
Bernardo
Schemes in a Multi-Path 2014
Dispersive Channel
Cognitive Networks for
7/
Green and Seamless
User Mobility - MAP-i 2014
Program
Secure and Reliable
Communication
Infrastructure for IPBased Emergency
Applications - Map-i
Program
Anja Skrivervik
7/
2014
Human Body Proximity
9/
Effects on Ultra2014
Wideband Antennas
99
Supervisor
Student
António
Manuel
Nuno Miguel
Restani Graça Faria Pires
Alves Moreira
Rui Miguel
Henriques
José Luzio
Dias Morgado
Dinis
Carlos Manuel
dos Reis Paiva
Filipa
Prudêncio
António José
Ivo Luís de la
Castelo
Cerda Garcia
Branco
e Sousa
Rodrigues
Fernando
Duarte Nunes
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Anja Skrivervik
Small antennas as
wireless system
components
9/
2014
Paulo Montezum
Frequency-domain
receiver design for
OQPSK-type schemes
11 /
2014
Sérgio de Almeida
Matos
Maria Paula dos
Santos Queluz
Rodrigues
José Marçal
Peter Steenkiste
Francisco
Nuno Miguel
António Bucho de Figueiredo
Cercas
Garrido
Augusto
Albuquerque
José Pedro
Borrego
12 /
2014
Design and Evaluation of
2/
a Feasible Virtual Traffic
2015
Lights Protocol
Design of Adaptive
Analog Filters for
2/
Magnetic Front-End Read
2015
Channels
Figures of Merit for the 2 /
Wireless White Spaces 2015
Eduardo
Castaned
Rafael Ferreira
Sérgio
da Silva
Morgadinho
Caldeirinha
Rebelo
11 /
2014
Vector Structures in
GNSS Receivers, Vector
1/
Structures in GNSS
2015
Receivers
Michel
Hugo Marcelo
Celestino
Fernandes da
Paiva Ferreira
Conceição
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Atílio Manuel
da Silva
Gameiro
Revisiting bi-isotropic
media: a new analytical
and geometrical
approach
MIMO techniques in
future high capacity
wireless communication
systems
System Level Simulation
2/
2015
Time-varying wideband
channel model for
Telmo Rui
2/
propagation of
Carvalhinho Cunha
Fernandes,Miqdad radiowaves in vegetation 2015
media
AL-Nuaimi
Carlos Antonio
Jorge Manuel Lopes
Cardoso
Andela Zaric Leal Rodrigues da
Fernandes
Costa
Antennas for Localization
and Identification
3/
Systems
2015
100
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
João José
Lopes da
Costa Freire
Mário Jorge
Simão de
Assunção
Pedro Nuno
Mendonça dos
Santos
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Maria João
Ramos
Marques
Coelho
Carrilho do
Rosário
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Ricardo
Fernandes
Fernando dos
Santos
Azevedo
Title
Modelling of Passice
Structures on Silicon
Technologies
End
Date
3/
2015
João Nuno Pimentel Passive Wireless Sensor 3 /
da Silva Matos
Networks
2015
Fernando Manuel
Ascenso Fortes
Integrated Receiver in
CMOS technology
4/
2015
Wireless Power
Transmission Solutions 4 /
2015
for Wireless
Communications
Alírio
Boaventura
Victor
Sucasas
Iglésias
Electronic Engineering
5/
2015
Riccardo
Bassoli
Electronic Engineering.
5/
2015
Optimal Planning of
Femtocells in LTEAdvanced
5/
2015
Nuno Manuel
Branco Souto
Luís
Gonçalves
Pedro Joaquim
Amaro Sebastiao
Rodolfo
Alexandre
Duarte
Oliveira
Nuno Miguel
Abreu Luís
Antonio
Navarro
Rodrigues
Nalluri
Purnachand
Luis Filipe Mesquita
Nero Moreira Alves
Motion Estimation and
its Hardware
Implementation
6/
2015
Maria João
Ramos
Marques
Coelho
Carrilho do
Rosário
Luís Miguel
Moreira
Mendes
João Manuel Torres
Caldinhas Simões
Vaz
CMOS self-oscillator
mixer for 5GHz
applications
7/
2015
Medium Access Control
6/
Design for Distributed
2015
Opportunistic Radio
Networks
101
Supervisor
Student
João José
Lopes da
Costa Freire
António
Manuel
Sequeira
Abreu
Co- Supervisors
Pedro Nuno
Mendonça dos
Santos
Title
Reducing primary energy
consumption through
lower power losses of
7/
electrical transmission
2015
and distribution systems
Jorge Manuel
Antennas for High Data
Lopes Leal
Eduardo Brás
Carlos Antonio
Throughput
Lima
Rodrigues da
Cardoso Fernandes
Communication Systems
Costa
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Ricardo
João Nuno Pimentel
Electrical Resonant
da Silva Matos
Borges de
Fernandes
Coupling
Carvalho
Jorge Manuel
Lens-based Focal Plane
Lopes Leal
Ana Catarina
Carlos Antonio
Antenna Arrays for
Rodrigues da Caniço Cruz Cardoso Fernandes
Imaging Systems
Costa
Manipulating the
Mário Gonçalo
David
electromagnetic field in
Mestre
Emanuel Dias
the nanoscale with
Verissimo
Fernandes
nonlinear metamaterials
Silveirinha
Luis Manuel
Jesus Sousa
Correia
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
João Manuel
Torres
Caldinhas
Simões Vaz
Custódio José
Oliveira
Peixeiro
Custódio José
Oliveira
Peixeiro
Cognitive Radio for
Military Applications
Eduardo Bolas
Marco António
da Mota
Carvalho
Silva Pereira
8/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
10 /
2015
Power amplifiers for
10 /
wireless communications 2015
Juan R. Mosig
Carlos Alberto
Barreiro
Mendes
Francisco
Filipe Jorge
António Bucho Bolas Casal
Cercas
Ribeiro
8/
2015
Radio Resource
9/
Management Strategies
2015
in
Sina Khatibi
Hamed
Hasani
End
Date
Reflectarrays of Printed 10 /
2015
Elements
Wearable Antennas
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
Approaching Universal
Frequency Reuse
through Base Station
Cooperation
11 /
2015
12 /
2015
102
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
António José
Nuno António
Castelo
Fraga Juliano
Branco
Cota
Rodrigues
João Nuno
Pimentel da
Silva Matos
Tiago Miguel
Valente
Varum
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Firooz B.
Saghezchi
António José
Castelo
Branco
Rodrigues
André
Eduardo
Ponciano
Martins
Fernando Jose
da Silva Velez
Rui Filipe
Rosa Paulo
Pedro Miguel
da Silva
Cabral
Luis Carlos
Cotimos
Nunes
Title
End
Date
Automatic Radio
12 /
Resource Management
2015
for 4G Networks
Pedro Renato
Tavares Pinho
Beamforming antenna
for satellite
communications
12 /
2015
Context-Aware
Cooperative Strategies
12 /
for Energy Saving in
2015
Hybrid Ad-hoc Networks
Pedro Manuel de
Almeida Carvalho
Vieira
Coordinated multiuser
MIMO enhancement for
12 /
LTE advanced wireless
2015
networks
Dimensioning of Mobile
and Wireless
12 /
with Relays in the
2015
Context of 4G
Coexistence,
Mecanismos de geração
e controlo da distorção
Jose Carlos Esteves
12 /
não-linear em
Duarte Pedro
2015
amplificadores Doherty
Ground-Terminal
Carlos Antonio Joana Rita Jorge Manuel Lopes
Antennas for Ka Satellite 1 /
Cardoso
Alves dos
Leal Rodrigues da
Systems
2016
Fernandes
Santos Silva Costa ,Juan R. Mosig
Telmo Rui
Carvalhinho
Cunha
Fernandes
Joao Vitorino
Reis
Rui Miguel
Henriques
Dias Morgado
Dinis
João
Guerreiro
Américo
Manuel
Carapeto
Correia
Carlos Reis
Zaid Al-Daher,Rafael
Ferreira da Silva
Caldeirinha
Novel Antenna Beam
Steering for Wireless
Applications
1/
2016
Paulo Montezuma
Optimum detection of
OFDM signals with
strong nonlinear
distortion effects
1/
2016
Nuno Manuel Branco Comunicação multi-hop 6 /
Souto
com LTE-Advanced
2016
103
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Title
End
Date
Modelação
Comportamental e Pre7/
Distorção Digital de
2016
Transmissores de RF
Pedro Miguel
Ribeiro
Lavrador
Filipe
Barradas
Telmo Reis Cunha
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Eduardo
Moreira da
Mota
Pedro Miguel Alves
Brandão
Jose Carlos
Esteves
Duarte Pedro
Manuel
Joaquim
Campos
Mendes
Nunes Duarte
Pedro Miguel da
Silva Cabral
Amplificadores de
Potência Auto-Oscilantes 9 /
em Transmissores de 2016
Comunicações Sem Fios
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Ricardo
Gonçalves
Pedro Renato
Tavares Pinho
Antennas for Alternative 9 /
Materials
2016
Arnaldo Silva Manuel José
João Nuno Pimentel
Rodrigues de Alves Ventura
da Silva Matos
da Silva
Oliveira
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
Rui Fiel
Cordeiro
Rafael Ferreira Nuno Ricardo
da Silva
Cordeiro
Caldeirinha
Leonor
Armando
Carlos
Flávio Miguel
Domingues da da Silva Jorge
Rocha
Rafael Ferreira
da Silva
Caldeirinha
Rodolfo
Vitorino
Gomes
Rui Miguel
Henriques
Slavisa Tomic
Dias Morgado
Dinis
Manuel Garcia
Sanchez
Predictive Mobile
Gateways for Vehicular 8 /
Networks
2016
Transcetores Flexíveis
para Comunicações
Rádio Cognitivas de
Tempo-real em
Ambientes Veiculares
Transmissores Digitais
Reconfiguráveis de
Elevada Eficiência para
Sistemas de Rádio
Cognitivos
A generic doublyselective 3D vegetation
model using point
scatterers
9/
2016
9/
2016
11 /
2016
Attenuation and
11 /
Depolarization Channel
2016
Modelling at Ka-Band
Design, Development
and Implementation of a
Zaid Al-Daher,Telmo Millimetre Wave Wireless
11 /
Rui Carvalhinho
Radio System Prototype
2016
Cunha Fernandes for Giga-bit/s Multimedia
Application
E�cient Algorithms for
Target Positioning in
12 /
Wireless Sensor
2016
Networks
104
Supervisor
Student
Co- Supervisors
Energy harvesting,
Flexible Antennas and
Wireless Sensor
Networks
Jorge Miguel
Fernando Jose
da Silva
da Silva Velez
Tavares
João Gabriel
Fernando Jose
Rodrigues de
da Silva Velez
Oliveira
Title
Fernando Jose da
Silva Velez
Fernando Jose
da Silva Velez
Diogo Ribeiro
Emanuel José
Soares
Bordalo
Teixeira
Arnaldo Silva
Rodrigues de
Oliveira
12 /
2016
Optimization of
heterogeneous networks 12 /
in 4G scenarios
2016
Radio Resource
Management in
Jessica
Fernando Jose
Heterogeneous Networks
Acevedo
da Silva Velez
applying Spectrum
Flores
Aggregation in WiMAX
and LTE Networks
Rafael Ferreira
Telmo Rui
RF transparency control
da Silva
David Ferreira Carvalhinho Cunha
of building wall
Caldeirinha
Fernandes
structures
Rodolfo
António
Advanced PHY/MAC
Rui Miguel
Alexandre
Eduardo
Design for
Henriques Dias
Duarte
Carreiro
Infrastructure-less
Morgado Dinis
Oliveira
Furtado
Wireless Networks
Henrique José
Lamyae
Antennas for Vehicular
Almeida Silva
Akrou
Energy-efficient HighSofia de
speed Cost-effective
Fernando Jose
Cooperative Backhaul for
Almeida
da Silva Velez Carvalhão
LTE/LTE-A Ultra-dense
Small Cells
Sousa
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
End
Date
12 /
2016
12 /
2016
8/
2017
9/
2017
12 /
2017
Measurement and
12 /
Instrumentation for SDR 2017
Radio Frequency Energy
Harvesting for Millimetre
Waveband Wireless
12 /
Sensor Networks with
2017
Cognitive Radio
Capabilities
João Manuel
Jorge Manuel Lopes
de Almeida
Antennas for Microwave 9 /
Leal Rodrigues da
Imaging
Monteiro
2018
Costa
Felício
Custódio José
Roger
Printed elements for
9/
Oliveira
Lorenzoni
reflectarray applications 2018
Peixeiro
Farias
Carlos Antonio
Cardoso
Fernandes
105
Supervisor
Student
Jonathan
Rodriguez
Gonzalez
Hélio Silva
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Roberto
Magueta
Nirajan
Arjkarniker
Co- Supervisors
Rui Miguel
Henriques Dias
Morgado Dinis
Jon M. Peha
Title
End
Date
Electronic Engineering
12 /
2018
Transmitter and Receiver
Designs for Future mmW
12 /
and massive MIMO
2018
based Wireless Systems
Location Privacy for
Primary Users in
Whitespace
Communication
6/
2019
Table 10 – List of PhD Theses running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2014
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4.1.6 Publications
ANTENNA MODELLING AND DESIGN
Papers in Journals
- Kiourti, A.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; K. S. Nikita; " A Broadband Implantable
and
a
Dual-Band
On-Body
Repeater
Antenna:
Design
and
Transmission
Performance ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 6 , pp.
2899 - 2908 , June , 2014 .
- Koohestani, M.; A. A. Moreira; A. Skrivervik; " A novel compact CPW-fed
polarization diversity ultrawideband antenna ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless
Propagation Letters , Vol. 13 , pp. 563 - 566 , March , 2014 .
- Koohestani, M.; J.-F. Zürcher; A. A. Moreira; A. Skrivervik; " A novel, low-profile,
vertically-polarized UWB antenna for WBAN ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and
Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp. 1888 - 1894 , April , 2014 .
- Elfergani, I.; A. S Hussaini ; J. Rodriguez; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; C
See; s Zhu; N.J McEwan; " Compact and closely spaced tunable printed F-slot
multiple-input–multiple-output antenna system for portable wireless applications
with efficient diversity ", IET Science, Measurement and Technology , Vol. 8 , No. 6
, pp. 359 - 369 , November , 2014 .
- Zaric, A.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Design and Ranging Performance of a
Low Profile UWB Antenna for WBAN Localization Applications ", IEEE Trans. on
Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 12 , pp. 6420 - 6427 , December , 2014 .
- Varum, T.; J. N. Matos; P. Pinho; " Direction of Arrival Estimaation Analysis Using
a 2D Antenna Array ", Procedia Technology , Vol. 17 , No. 1 , pp. 617 - 624 ,
November , 2014 .
- Hussaini , A. S; J. Rodriguez; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; " Multi-Antenna
OFDM
System
Using
Coded
Wavelet
with
Weighted
Beamforming
",
Radioengineering , Vol. 23 , No. 1 , pp. 356 - 361 , April , 2014 .
- Elfergani, I.; A. S Hussaini ; C See; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; N.J
McEwan; s Zhu; J. Rodriguez; R. W. Clarke; " Printed Monopole Antenna with
Tunable Band-Notched Characteristic for Use in Mobile and Ultra-Wide Band
107
Applications ", Intrnl. Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering ,
pp. 1 - 10 , November , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; A. D. Duarte; R. M. Magueta; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " RFID
tags on paper substrate for bottle labelling ", Procedia Technology , Vol. 17 , No. 1 ,
pp. 65 - 72 , November , 2014 .
- Zaric, A.; V. S. Matos; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Viability of wall-embedded
tag antenna for ultra-wideband real-time suitcase localisation ", IET Microwaves
Antennas & Propagation , Vol. 8 , No. 6 , pp. 423 - 428 , April , 2014 .
- Elfergani, I.; A. S Hussaini ; J. Rodriguez; C See; R.A. Abd-Alhameed AbdAlhameed; " Wideband Tunable PIFA Antenna with Loaded Slot Structure for Mobile
Handset and LTE Applications ", Radioengineering , Vol. 23 , No. 1 , pp. 345 - 355 ,
April , 2014 .
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Bisognin, A.; D. Titz; F. Ferrero; R. Pilard; C. A. Fernandes; J.R. Costa; C. Corre;
P. Calascibetta; J. Riviere; A. Poulain; " 3D Printed Plastic 60 GHz Lens: Enabling
Innovative Millimeter Wave Antenna Solution and System ", Proc IEEE International
Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Tampa Bay , United States , pp. 1 - 3 , June ,
2014 .
- Bisognin, A.; D. Titz; C. Luxey; G. Jacquemod; R. Pilard; F. Ferrero; D. Lugara;
J.R. Costa; E.B. Lima; C. A. Fernandes; " A 120 GHz 3D-Printed Plastic Elliptical
Lens Antenna with an IPD Patch Antenna Source ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Ultra-Wideband - ICUWB , Paris , France , September , 2014 .
- Elfergani, I.; A. S Hussaini ; C See; J. Rodriguez; R.A. Abd-Alhameed AbdAlhameed; " A Miniaturised Monopole Wideband Antenna with Reconfigurable Band
Rejection for WLAN/WiMAX ", Proc ICST International Conf. on Wireless Internet WICON , Lisbon , Portugal, pp. 1 - 6 , November , 2014 .
- Ferreira, D.; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; I. Cuinas; T.R. Fernandes; J. Reis; " A Square
Loop Frequency Selective Surface Parametric Study for EC Model Optimisation ",
Proc Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conf. – LAPC , Loughborough ,
United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
108
- Pires, N.; A. A. Moreira; A. Skrivervik; " Comparison of Cavity-based Ultra
Wideband Antenna Efficiency Measurement Methods ", Proc European Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Den Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 493 - 495
, April , 2014 .
- Bisognin, A.; D. Titz; C. Luxey; G. Jacquemod; R. Pilard; F. Gianesello; D. Gloria;
D. Lugara; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Comparizon of 3D printed Plastic and
micromachined
Teflon
Lenses
for
WiGig
modules
",
Proc
IEEE
AP-S/URSI
International Symp. , Memphis , United States , July , 2014 .
- Soares, P. S.; R. Gonçalves; P. Pinho; " Corrugated Horn Antenna for CosmoGal
Satellite with Reduced Dimensions ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Memphis, TN , United States , July , 2014 .
- Silva, J. S.; E.B. Lima; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; JM Mosig; " Design and
Analysis of a Ka-Band Coaxial-to-Quad-Ridged Circular Waveguide Transition ",
Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Hague , Netherlands ,
April , 2014 .
- Zaric, A.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Design of a UWB Stacked Antenna for
Body Area Network Applications ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Memphis , United States , July , 2014 .
- Koohestani, M.; A. A. Moreira; A. Skrivervik; " Feeding Structure Influence on
Performance of Two UWB Antennas Near a Human Arm ", Proc European Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , The Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 8 , pp. 834 - 836
, April , 2014 .
- Koohestani, M.; A. A. Moreira; A. Skrivervik; " Fidelity Concepts Used in UWB
Systems ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. , Memphis, Tennessee ,
United States , pp. 824 - 825 , July , 2014 .
- Cruz, Catarina C.; S.A. Matos; E.B. Lima; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Focalplane multi-beam dual-band dielectric lens for Ka-band ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI
International Symp. , Memphis , United States , July , 2014 .
- Lima, E.B.; S.A. Matos; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " FSS Design for Dual-band
and Low Profile Fabry Pérot Antenna at Ka-band ", Proc European Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Hague , Netherlands , April , 2014 .
109
-
Gonçalves,
R.;
N.B.C.
Carvalho;
P.
Pinho;
"
Intermodulation
in
Active
Reconfigurable Antennas ", Proc Integrated Non-linear Microwave and Millimetrewave Circuits Conf. - INMMIC , Leuven , Belgium , April , 2014 .
- Lima, E.B.; S.A. Matos; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Ka-band Beam Steering
Antenna Using In-plane Lens Translation ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International
Symp. , Memphis , United States , , July , 2014 .
- Zaric, A.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " Low Profile UWB Antenna for Wireless
Body Area Networks ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP ,
The Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 3105 - 3107 , April , 2014 .
- Varum, T.; J. N. Matos; P. Pinho; R. Abreu; " Non-uniform microstrip antenna
array for Rx DSRC communications ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Antennas
and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI , Memphis , United States , Vol. 1 , pp.
1071 - 1072 , July , 2014 .
- Gomes, R.; P. Paraíso; T.R. Fernandes; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; " Passive Phase
Conjugating Array Using FR4 ", Proc Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conf.
– LAPC , Loughborough , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; R. M. Magueta; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " RFID passive tag
antenna for cork bottle stopper ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Memphis, TN , United States , Vol. 1 , July , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; S.R. Rima; R. M. Magueta; A.C. Collado; P. Pinho; N.B.C.
Carvalho; A. G. Georgiadis; " RFID Tags on Cork Stoppers for Bottle Identification
", Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Tampa, FL , United
States , Vol. 1 , June , 2014 .
- Varum, T.; J. N. Matos; P. Pinho; R. Abreu; " The impact of different power
dividers used in a non-uniform planar antenna array ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI , Memphis , United
States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1690 - 1691 , July , 2014 .
- Reis, J.; Zaid Al-Daher Al-Daher; Nigel Copner Copner; Akram Hammoudeh
Hammoudeh; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; T.R. Fernandes; " Two-Dimensional Transmitarray
Beamsteering Using Stacked Tunable Metamaterials ", Proc Loughborough Antennas
and Propagation Conf. – LAPC , Loughborough , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 495 499 , November , 2014 .
110
- Gonçalves, R.; R. M. Magueta; A. D. Duarte; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " UHF
RFID tag antenna for bottle labeling ", Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp. ,
Memphis, TN , United States , Vol. 1 , July , 2014 .
CIRCUITS AND DEVICES
Book Chapters
- Kumar, S. K.; I. Figueiredo; C. G. Graça; G. Falcão; " A GPU accelerated
algorithm for blood detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images " - Chapter in
Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision , J.M.,
Renato, R.S.N.J , Springer, 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Owaida, M- O.; G. Falcão; J. Andrade; C. D. A. Antonopoulos; N. B. Bellas; M. P.
Purnaprajna; D. N. Novo; G. K. Karakonstantis; A. B. Burg; P. I. Ienne; "
Enhancing design space exploration by extending CPU/GPU specifications onto
FPGAs ", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems , September , 2014 .
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; " Flexible design of wide-pipeline based WiMAX
QC-LDPC decoder architectures on FPGAs using high-level synthesis ", Electronics
Letters , Vol. 50 , No. 11 , pp. 839 - 840 , May , 2014 .
- Barradas, F. B.; T.R. Cunha; P.M.L. Lavrador; J. C. Pedro; " Polynomials and LUTs
in PA behavioral modeling: a fair theoretical comparison ", IEEE Trans. on
Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 12 , pp. 3274 - 3284, December, 2014 .
- Roselli, L.R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; F.A. Alimenti; P. M. Mezzanotte; G.O. Orecchini; M.
V. Virili; C. M. Mariotti; R. Gonçalves; P. Pinho; " Smart Surfaces: Large Area
Electronics Systems for Internet of Things Enabled by Energy Harvesting ",
Proceedings of the IEEE , Vol. 102 , No. 11 , pp. 1723 - 1746 , November , 2014 .
- Duarte, M. J. D.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Switching Noise Improvement of a
Limit-Cycle Amplifier Using a Negative Hysteresis Relay ", IEEE Trans. on Power
Electronics , Vol. 29 , No. 6 , pp. 3223 - 3231 , January , 2014 .
111
- Emrick, R.; P.M. Cruz; N.B.C. Carvalho; S. Gao; R. Quay; P. Waltereit; " The
Sky´s the Limit: Key Technologies and Market Trends in Satellite ", IEEE Microwave
Magazine , Vol. 15 , No. 2 , pp. 65 - 78 , March , 2014 .
-
The
Sky's
the
Limit:
Key
Technology
and
Market
Trends
in
Satellite
Communications ", Vol. 15 , No. 2 , pp. 65 - 78 , March , 2014 .
- Fermeiro, J. B. L. Fermeiro; M.R.A. Calado; I. J. S. Correia Correia; S.J.P.S.
Mariano; J. Pombo; " Building a Bioprinter from Scratch for Bioprinting Testing ",
Proc World Congress on Engineering - WCE 2014 , London , United Kingdom , Vol. I
, pp. 323 - 327 , July , 2014 .
- Cunha, T.R.; P. M. Cabral; L. N. Nunes; " Characterizing power amplifier static
AM/PM with spectrum analyzer measurements ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Signals, Systems, Devices - SSD , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , February ,
2014 .
- Andrade, J.; F. P. Pratas; G. Falcão; V. Silva; L. Sousa; " Combining Flexibility
with Low Power: Dataflow and Widepipeline LDPC Decoding Engines in the Gbit/s
Era ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures
and Processors - ASAP , Zurich , Switzerland , pp. 264 - 269 , June , 2014 .
- Ferreira, C. A. F.; J. Silva; " Conversor ressonante auto-sintonizado ", Proc
Jornadas Ibero-Americanas , Tomar , Portugal , July , 2014 .
- Borges, Luis M.; N. Barroca; P. Pinho; Henrique M. Saraiva M. Saraiva; J.
Tavares; Paulo T. Gouveia T. Gouveia; F. J. Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; R.
Gonçalves; " Design and Evaluation of Multi-Band RF Energy Harvesting Circuits
and Antennas for WSNs ", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT ,
Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , May , 2014 .
- Barraca, J.P.B.; L.N.A. Alves; M. Figueiredo; " Electronic Shelf Labeling Employing
Visible Light Communication Concepts ", Proc IEEE/IET International Symposium on
Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP ,
Manchester , United Kingdom , June , 2014 .
- Garrido, N.; F.C. Cercas; " Equalization in hard disk drive read channels ", Proc
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp.
390 - 394 , May , 2014 .
112
- M. Saraiva, Henrique M. Saraiva; Luis M. Borges; P. Pinho; N. Barroca; J.
Tavares; Paulo T. Gouveia T. Gouveia; F. J. Velez; C. Loss; R. Salvado; R.
Gonçalves; " Experimental Characterization of Wearable Antennas and Circuits for
RF Energy Harvesting in WBANs ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTCSpring , Seoul , Korea, South , May , 2014 .
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; K. Kasai; " Flexible Non-Binary LDPC Decoding
on FPGAs ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing - ICASSP , Firenze , Italy , pp. 1936 - 1940 , May , 2014 .
- Barradas, F. B.; T.R. Cunha; P.M.L. Lavrador; J. C. Pedro; " Higher locality nonlinear basis functions of Volterra series based models to improve extraction
conditioning ", Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. , Tampa
FL , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; R. M. Magueta; P. Pinho; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Passive Sensors
Embedded Into Logistic Chains ", Proc URSI General Assembly , Beijing , China ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , August , 2014 .
- Silva, F.; M. Duarte; S. Oliveira; L. C. Correia; A. Christensen; " The Case for
Engineering the Evolution of Robot Controllers ", Proc International Conf. on the
Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE , New York , United States ,
July , 2014 .
- Elfergani, I.; A. S Hussaini ; J. Rodriguez; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; "
Tunable RF MEMS Bandpass Filter With Coupled Transmission lines ", Proc
International Wireless Internet Conf. - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular
Communication - WICON , Lisbon , Portugal , pp. 1 - 6 , November , 2014 .
- Fonseca, P.; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; P.P. Pedreiras; " Uma experiência na
motivação de alunos do 1.º ano de Engenharia. ", Proc Congresso Luso
Moçambicano de Engenharia - CLME , Inhambane , Mozambique , Vol. 1 , April ,
2014 .
- Barradas, F. B.; T.R. Cunha; P.M.L. Lavrador; J. C. Pedro; " Using spline basis
functions in Volterra series based models ", Proc International Workshop on
Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits - INMMIC , Leuven ,
Belgium , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , April , 2014 .
113
- Dghais, W. Dghais; J. Rodriguez; " UTTB FDSOI Back-Gate Biasing for Low Power
and High-Speed Chip Design ", Proc International Wireless Internet Conf. Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication - WICON , Lisbon , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
PHYSICAL MODELLING AND WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION
Papers in Journals
- Leonor, N.; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; T.R. Fernandes; D. Ferreira; M. Sanchez ; " A 2D
ray-tracing based model for micro- and millimeter-wave propagation through
vegetation ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 12 , pp. 1 11 , December , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; J.R. Costa; " A Graphical Aid for the Complex
Permittivity Measurement at Microwave and Millimeter Wavelengths ", IEEE
Microwave Wireless and Components Letters, Vol. 24 , pp. 421 - 423 , May , 2014 .
- Vieira, P.; N. Cota; A. J. Rodrigues; " ''A VLF to UHF Propagation Model for
Evaluation of High-Speed Railway Electromagnetic Interference in RF Monitoring
Base-Stations ", Wireless Personal Communications , Vol. 74 , No. 4 , pp. 1147 1161 , February , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Boundary Conditions for Quadrupolar Metamaterials ", New
Journal of Physics , August , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; N. Engheta; " Giant nonlinearity in zero-gap semiconductor
superlattices ", Physical Review B , Vol. 89 , No. 085205 , pp. 1 - 10 , January ,
2014 .
- Santos, P.; T. Abrudan; A. Aguiar; J. Barros; " Impact of Position Errors on Path
Loss Model Estimation for Device-to-Device Channels ", IEEE Trans. on Wireless
Communications , Vol. 13 , No. 5 , pp. 2353 - 2361 , May , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Optical instabilities and spontaneous light emission by
polarizable moving matter ", Physical Review X , Vol. 4 , No. 031013 , pp. 1 - 13 ,
July , 2014 .
114
- Li, Y. L.; M. Silveirinha; " Radiation from a Short Vertical Dipole in a Metal-Backed
Rod Array ", Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications ,
September , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Spontaneous Parity-Time Symmetry Breaking in Moving Media ",
Physical Review A , Vol. 90 , No. 013842 , pp. 1 - 12 , July , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Theory of Quantum Friction ", New Journal of Physics , Vol. 16 ,
No. 063011 , pp. 1 - 29 , May , 2014 .
- Silveirinha, M.; " Trapping light in open plasmonic nanostructures ", Physical
Review A , Vol. 89 , No. 023813 , pp. 1 - 10 , February , 2014 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; N. Engheta; M. Silveirinha; " Wormhole for electron waves in
graphene ", Physical Review B , Vol. 90 , No. 041406 , pp. 1 - 5 , July , 2014 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; N. Engheta; M. Silveirinha; " “Tunnel” for electron waves in
graphene superlattices ", Proc Metamorphose International Congress on Advanced
Electromagnetic
Materials
in
Microwaves
and
Optics
-
METAMATERIALS
,
Copenhagen , Denmark , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , August , 2014 .
- D. Barbosa ; J.P.B. Barraca; A. B. Boonstra; R. L. Aguiar; A. A. van Ardenne; J. S.
Santader-Vela; L. V. Verdes-Montenegro; " A Sustainable approach to large ICT
Science based infrastructures; the case for Radio Astronomy ", Proc IEEE
International Energy Conf. - ENERGYCON , Dubrovnik , Croatia , May , 2014 .
- Acebron, J. A. A; M. A. Ribeiro; " Efficient parallel solution of the telegraph
equations subject to general boundary conditions by a novel Monte Carlo method ",
Proc Workshop on Numerical Methods on High-Performance Computers - NUMHPC ,
Heidelberg , Germany , December , 2014 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; " Equivalent Circuit Analysis of Super-Planckian
Emission into Far Field ", Proc International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal
115
Radiation: Energy, Manufacturing, Materials, and Sensing - Nanorad2014 ,
Shanghai , China , 46 - 47 , June , 2014 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; P. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " Experimental Assessment of a
Propagation Model for TV White Spaces ", Proc International Wireless Internet Conf.
- Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication - WICON , Lisbon ,
Portugal , November , 2014 .
- Maslovski , S.; C.R. Simovsky; " Theory of super-Planckian metamaterial thermal
emitters ", Proc Days on Diffraction , St. Petersburg , Russia , pp. 126 - 127 , May ,
2014 .
SYSTEM PLANNING AND RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Book Chapters
- Wiecek, D.; F. J. Velez; " Case Studies for Advancing CR Deployment " - Chapter
in Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation: Techno-Economic Studies to Facilitate
Dynamic Spectrum Access , Arturas Arturas Medeisis, and Oliver Holland , Springer
, London , 2014 .
- Velez, F. J.; M. Matinmikko; " Technical Approaches for Improved Spectrum
Sharing " - Chapter in Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation: Techno-Economic
Studies to Facilitate Dynamic Spectrum Access , Arturas Arturas Medeisis, and
Oliver Holland , Springer , London , 2014 .
- Castañeda, E.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " User Selection and Precoding Techniques
for Rate Maximization in Broadcast MISO Systems " - Chapter in Wireless
Communications , M. Khatib , In-Tech, 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Huq, K.; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; R. L. Aguiar; " A Novel Energy Efficient
Packet-Scheduling Algorithm for CoMP ", Computer Communications , pp. 1 - 10 ,
February , 2014 .
116
- Dionísio, R.P.; P. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " Combination of a geolocation database
access with infrastructure sensing in TV bands: The CREW-TV project approach ",
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , pp. 1 - 14 ,
December , 2014 .
- Mumtaz, S.M.; K. Huq; J. Rodriguez; " Direct Mobile to Mobile: Paradigm for 5G ",
IEEE Wireless Communications , Vol. 21 , No. 5 , pp. 14 - 23 , October , 2014 .
- Robalo, D.R.; J. R. Oliveira; 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 ", Wireless Personal
Communications , Vol. submitted to ,February , 2014 .
- Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; " Enhanced Multi-Band Scheduling for Carrier
Aggregation
in
LTE-Advanced
Scenarios
",
EURASIP
Journal
on
Wireless
Communications and Networking , August , 2014 .
- Castañeda, E.; A. Silva; R. Robles; A. Gameiro; " Low-Complexity User Selection
for Rate Maximization in MIMO Broadcast Channels with Downlink Beamforming ",
The Scientific World Journal , Vol. 2014 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 13 , January , 2014 .
- Martins, A.; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; " On the Choice of Positioning and Cluster
Size for Fixed Relay Stations in a LTE Network ", Wireless Personal Communications
, Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- Khan, MAK; D. Yang; J. Rodriguez; R.A. Abd-Alhameed Abd-Alhameed; " Secure
Device to Device Communication in LTE-A ", IEEE Communications Magazine , Vol.
52 , No. 4 , pp. 66 - 73 , May , 2014 .
- Flores, J.; D.R. Robalo; F. J. Velez; " Transmitted Power Formulation for the
Optimization of Spectrum Aggregation in LTE-A over 800 MHz and 2 GHz Frequency
Bands ", Wireless Personal Communications , Vol. 80 , pp. 1 - 20 , December ,
2014 .
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- S.M. Mumtaz; K. Huq; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; R. L. Aguiar; " Energy efficient
interference-aware resource allocation in LTE-D2D communication ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Sydney , Australia , pp. 282 - 287 ,
June , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, L.C.; P. Sebastião; N.S. Souto; A. Correia; " Addressing Cell Edge
Performance by Extending ANDSF and Inter-RAT UE Steering ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS , Barcelona ,
Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 , August , 2014 .
- Franco, C.; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; A. Martins; N. Silva; L. Varela; " Detecção
de Sectores Cruzados em Redes LTE ", Proc 8.º Congresso do Comité Português da
URSI , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2014 .
- K. Huq; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; R. L. Aguiar; " Energy efficiency optimization
in MU-MIMO system with spectral efficiency constraint ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Funchal , Portugal , pp. 1 - 5 ,
June , 2014 .
- Vieira, P.; N. Silva; N. Fernandes ; A. J. Rodrigues; L. Varela; " Improving
Accuracy for OTD Based 3G Geolocation in Real Urban/Suburban Environments ",
Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC , Sidney ,
Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2014 .
- Huq, K.; S.M. Mumtaz; J. Rodriguez; " Investigation on energy efficiency in
HetNet CoMP architecture ", Proc ICC Wireless Communications , Sydney , Australia
, pp. 1112 - 1117 , June , 2014 .
- Cary, F.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Kinect Based System and Artificial Neural
Networks Classifiers for Physiotherapy Assessment ", Proc IEEE International
Workshop on Medical Measurements and , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 ,
June , 2014 .
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- Castañeda, E.; A. Silva; R. Robles; A. Gameiro; " Metrics for Rate Maximization in
Multiuser-MISO Systems with Zero-Forcing Beamforming ", Proc International Conf.
on Telecommunications - ICT , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Duarte, D.; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; A. Martins; N. Silva; L. Varela; "
Optimização da Lista de Células Vizinhas em Redes LTE ", Proc 8.º Congresso do
Comité Português da URSI , Lisbon , Portugal, Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1, November , 2014 .
TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEMS
Books
- Silva, M.; F. A. Monteiro; (eds.); MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond:
Fundamentals and Evolution , CRC Press , FL, USA , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Silva, M.; P. Carvalho; R. Dinis; " Frequency-Domain Packet Combining
Techniques for UWB " - Chapter in MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond:
Fundamentals and Evolution , Mário Marques da Silva and Francisco A. Monteiro ,
CRC-Taylor & Francis Group , FL, USA , 2014 .
- Correia, A.; M. Silva; " Link and System Level simulations for MIMO " - Chapter in
MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution , M. Marques da
Silva, F. A. Monteiro , CRC Press , New York , 2014 .
- Souto, N.S.; F. A. Monteiro; " MIMO optimized for OFDM " - Chapter in MIMO
Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution , M. Marques da Silva,
and F. A. Monteiro , CRC-Taylor & Francis Group , Boca Raton, FL , 2014 .
- Dinis, R.; J. C. Silva; N.S. Souto; " MIMO optimized for Single Carrier Frequency
Domain Equalization " - Chapter in MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond::
Fundamentals and Evolution , M. Silva, F. Monteiro , CRC Press, 2014 .
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- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; R. Dinis; " MIMO optimized for WCDMA " - Chapter in
IMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution , Mario Marques e
Francisco Monteiro , CRC Press , Lisboa , 2014 .
- Silva, M.; A. Correia; " MIMO Techniques and Applications " - Chapter in MIMO
Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution , Mário Marques da
Silva and Francisco A. Monteiro , CRC-Taylor & Francis Group , FL, USA , 2014 .
- 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 , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Prata, A.P.; N.B.C. Carvalho; A.O. Oliveira; " An Agile Digital Radio System for
UHF White Spaces ", IEEE Microwave Magazine , Vol. 15 , No. 1 , pp. 92 - 97 ,
January , 2014 .
- Jang, W.; N.V.S. Silva; A.O. Oliveira; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Analysis on in-band
distortion caused by switching amplifiers ", IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation
, Vol. 8 , No. 5 , pp. 351 - 357 , April , 2014 .
- Teles, J. F. T.; M. Gomes; R. Dinis; V. Silva; " Block-windowed burst OFDM: a
high-efficiency multicarrier technique ", Electronics Letters , Vol. 50 , No. 23 , pp.
1757 - 1759 , November , 2014 .
- Silva, F.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Channel Estimation and Equalization for
Asynchronous Single Frequency Networks ", IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting , Vol. 60 ,
No. 1 , pp. 110 - 118 , March , 2014 .
- Tomasin, S. T.; M.B, Beko; R. Dinis; " Distributed RSS-Based Localization in
Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Second-Order Cone Programming ", Sensors ,
Vol. 14 , No. 10 , pp. 18410 - 18432 , August , 2014 .
120
- Souto, N.S.; R. Dinis; J. C. Silva; " Impact of Channel Estimation Errors on SCFDE Systems ", IEEE Trans. on Communications , Vol. 62 , No. 5 , pp. 1530 - 1540
, May , 2014 .
- Silva, A. ; S.T. Teodoro; R. Dinis; A. Gameiro; " Iterative Frequency-Domain
Detection for IA-Precoded MC-CDMA Systems ", IEEE Trans. on Communications ,
Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp. 1240 - 1248 , April , 2014 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Minimum Codebook Size to achieve
Maximal Diversity Order for RVQ based MIMO Systems ", IEEE Communications
Letters , Vol. 18 , No. 8 , pp. 1463 - 1466 , July , 2014 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Null-Space Cognitive Precoding for
Heterogeneous Networks ", IET Communications , Vol. 8 , No. 5 , pp. 555 - 563 ,
March , 2014 .
- Beko, M.B,; R. Dinis; " Peak Reduction in OFDM using Second Order Cone
Programming Relaxation ", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing , Vol.
2014 , No. 130 , pp. 1 - 10 , August , 2014 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Robust leakage-based distributed
precoder for cooperative multicell systems ", The Journal of Engineering , pp. 1 - 6
, July , 2014 .
- Baldi, MR; F. Chiaraluce; N. Laurenti Laurenti; S. T. Tomasin; F. Renna; " Secrecy
transmission on parallel channels: Theoretical limits and performance of practical
codes ", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security , Vol. 9 , No. 11 , pp.
1765 - 1779 , November , 2014 .
- Castanheira, D.; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Set Optimization for Efficient Interference
Alignment in Heterogeneous Networks ", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications ,
Vol. 13 , No. 10 , pp. 5648 - 5660 , October , 2014 .
- Beko, M.B,; R. Dinis; " Systematic method for designing constellations for
intensity-modulated optical system ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications
and Networking , Vol. 6 , No. 5 , pp. 449 - 458 , May , 2014 .
121
- Robles, R.; A. Gameiro; " Throughput, Stability and Fairness of Carrier-Sense
Multiple
Access
with
Cooperative
Diversity
",
International
Journal
of
Communications (seipub) , Vol. 3 , No. 1 , pp. 21 - 31 , June , 2014 .
- Marques, P.; " A Series of Trials in the UK as Part of the Ofcom TV White Spaces
Pilot ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Communications ,
Rhine River , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2014 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " Analytical Evaluation of Nonlinear Amplifyand-Forward Relay Systems for OFDM Signals ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conf. - VTC-Fall , Vancouver , Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
- Correia, A.; C. Reis; N.S. Souto; M. Silva; " Coordinated Multi-point MIMO
Processing for 4G ", Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS ,
Guanghzou , China , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2014 .
- Ali, S. Ali; D. Castanheira; A. Silva; A. Gameiro; " Downlink cognitive interference
alignment
for
heterogeneous
networks
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ICT , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2014 .
- Dinis, R.; J. Guerreiro; " Efficient Simulation of Nonlinear Effects on Multicarrier
Signals ", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Modelling, Identification and Control MIC , Innsbruck , Austria , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , February , 2014 .
- Cunha, T.; P. Vieira; A. Martins; A. J. Rodrigues; " Energy Savings in 3G Using
Base Station Sleep Modes ", Proc 8.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI ,
Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2014 .
- João, A.; J. Assunção Assunção; A. Silva; R. Dinis; A. Gameiro; " IB-DFE SIC
based Receiver Structure for IA-Precoded MC-CDMA Systems ", Proc European
Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2014 .
- Assunção, J. Assunção; A. Silva; R. Dinis; A. Gameiro; " IB-DFE-based Receivers
for MC-CDMA Systems with Interference Alignment ", Proc IEEE International
122
Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Madeira-Funchal , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- Nunes, F.; F. Sousa; " Interference Detection in GNSS Signals Using the
Gaussianity Criterion ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Lisbon ,
Portugal , Vol. I , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
- Bráz, F. S.; F. E. Ennes Ferreira; F. A. Monteiro; A. J. Rodrigues; " Interference
Suppression with Physical-Layer Network Coding and MIMO for Multi-Way Channels
", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems - SiPS , Belfast ,
United Kingdom , October , 2014 .
- Pedrosa, P.; R. Dinis; F. Nunes; " Joint Equalization and Phase Drift Estimation for
Underwater
Acoustic
Communications
",
Proc
IEEE
Global
Communications
Conference - GLOBECOM , Austin, TX , United States , December , 2014 .
- SimoÞes, A. J. R. S.; M. Gomes; R. Dinis; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; " Magnitude
Modulation applied to LINC transmitters: Paving the Road for Better Efficiency ",
Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall , Vancouver , Canada , September
, 2014 .
- Teles, J. F. T.; M. Gomes; R. Dinis; V. Silva; " Measuring the Magnitude of
Envelope Fluctuations: Should We Use the PAPR? ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conf. - VTC-Fall , Vancouver , Canada , September , 2014 .
- Cercas, F.C.; M. Natale; M. L. López-Coronado; P. Sebastião; J. Sanguino; "
Modern and optimized planning tool for microwave link design ", Proc Wireless
Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace ,
Aalborg , Denmark , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Duarte, D.; P. Vieira; A. J. Rodrigues; A. Martins; N. Silva; L. Varela; " Neighbour
List Optimization for Real LTE Radio Networks ", Proc Asia-Pacific Optical and
Wireless Communications Conf. - APOC , Kuta , Indonesia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
August , 2014 .
123
- Cercas, F.C.; E. Bertran; P. Sebastião; " New acelerated simulation method to
obtain the performance of concatenated codes ", Proc Wireless Communications,
Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Correia, A.; C. Reis; N.S. Souto; M. Silva; " On Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast
Multicast Service for 4G ", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT ,
Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Guerreiro, J.; " On Quasi-Optimum Detection of Nonlinearly Distorted OFDM
Signals ", Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems DOCEIS , Costa da Caparica , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , April , 2014 .
- Cercas, F.C.; A. Luz; P. Sebastião; R. Dinis; " On the Design of Spreading
Sequences for CDMA Systems with Nonlinear OQPSK-type Modulations ", Proc
Wireless
Communications,
Vehicular
Technology,
Information
Theory
and
Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " On the optimum performance of nonlinearly
distorted OFDM signals ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring ,
Seoul , Korea, South , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Sousa, F.; F. Nunes; " Performance Analysis of a VDFLL GNSS Receiver
Architecture under Ionospheric Scintillation and Multipath Conditions ", Proc IEEE
Position, Location and Navigation Symp. - PLANS , Monterey-San Francisco , United
States , Vol. I , pp. 602 - 611 , May , 2014 .
- Gomes, R.; Zaid Al-Daher Al-Daher; Akram Hammoudeh Hammoudeh; Khaled
Sobaihi Sobaihi; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; T.R. Fernandes; " Performance and Evaluation
of OFDM and SC -FDE over an AWGN Propagation channel under RF impairments
using Simulink at 60GHz ", Proc Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conf. –
LAPC , Loughborough , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , November , 2014 .
- Sousa, F.; F. Nunes; " Performance Comparison of a VDFLL versus VDLL and
Scalar GNSS Receiver Architectures in Harsh Scenarios ", Proc ESA Workshop on
124
Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC) , Noordwijk ,
Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 , December , 2014 .
- Almeida, A.; F.C. Cercas; P. Sebastião; " Performance of generalized TCH codes
for Rayleigh channels ", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT ,
Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 384 - 389 , May , 2014 .
- Marques, P.; " Phase correction for passive radar using targets of opportunity ",
Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS , Quebec ,
Canada , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Gante, J. F. C.; M. Gomes; R. Dinis; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; " Power Efficient MIMO
SC-FDE Transmission Using Magnitude Modulation Techniques ", Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall , Vancouver , Canada , September , 2014 .
- Nunes, F.; F. Sousa; " Practical Simulation of GNSS Signals in the Presence of
Ionospheric Scintillation ", Proc IEEE Position, Location and Navigation Symp. PLANS , Monterey-San Francisco , United States , Vol. I , pp. 50 - 58 , May , 2014 .
- Gomes, M.; V. Silva; F.C. Cercas; M. Tomlinson; " Soft-iterative Magnitude
Demodulation ", Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM ,
Austin - Texas , United States , December , 2014 .
- Marques, P.; " The FP7 CogEU TV White Space Radio Transceiver ", Proc Wireless
Innovation Forum SDR WInnComm , Illinois , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
March , 2014 .
WAVES AND PROPAGATION
Books
- Rocha, A.; J. R. Pereira; Propagação de Ondas Electromagnéticas, LTC Editora ,
Rio de Janeiro , 2014 .
- Pinho, P.; A. Rocha; J. R. Pereira; Propagação guiada de ondas electromagnéticas
LTC Editora , Rio de Janeiro , 2014 .
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Papers in Journals
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Analysis of Waveguides Containing EMCs
(electromagnetic conductors) or PEMCs (perfect electromagnetic conductors) ",
Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications , Vol. 12 , No. 5 ,
pp. 437 - 446 , December , 2014 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; S. Maslovski ; M. Silveirinha; " Asymmetric Mushroom-Type
Metamaterials ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , No. 62 , pp. 8 - 17 ,
January , 2014 .
- Morgado, T. A.; J. Marcos; J. Costa; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; M. Silveirinha; "
Reversed rainbow with a nonlocal metamaterial ", Applied Physics Letters , Vol. 105
, No. 264101 , pp. 1 - 4 , December , 2014 .
- Morgado, T. A.; J. A. Alves; J. Marcos; S. Maslovski ; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes;
M. Silveirinha; " Spatially Confined UHF RFID Detection with a Metamaterial Wire
Grid ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 1 , pp. 378 - 384 ,
January , 2014 .
- Ferreira, D.; I. Cuinas; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; T.R. Fernandes; " A Review on the
Electromagnetic Characterisation of Building Materials at Micro- and Millimetre
Wave Frequencies ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP ,
Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 145 - 149 , April , 2014 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Bi-isotropic Photonic Crystals with
Spectral Asymmetry ", Proc Metamorphose International Congress on Advanced
Electromagnetic
Materials
in
Microwaves
and
Optics
-
METAMATERIALS
,
Copenhagen , Denmark , Vol. 1 , August , 2014 .
- Silva, SS; A. Valente; S.S. Soares; T.R. Fernandes; V. M. C. Ribeiro; "
Coexistence and Interference Tests on a Bluetooth Low Energy Front-End ", Proc
IEEE/SAI Science and Information Conf. - SAI , London , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1014 - 1018 , August , 2014 .
126
- Morgado, T. A.; J. Marcos; J. Costa; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; M. Silveirinha; "
Experimental Verification of Low-Loss Broadband Anomalous Material Dispersion at
Microwaves
",
Electromagnetic
Proc
Metamorphose
Materials
in
International
Microwaves
and
Congress
Optics
-
on
Advanced
METAMATERIALS
,
Copenhagen , Denmark , August , 2014 .
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; " Optical Tractor Beam with Chiral Light ", Proc
8.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
November , 2014 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Photonic Crystals with Tellegen media ",
Proc Congresso do Comité Português da URSI , Lisboa, Portugal, November , 2014 .
- Jorge, F. S Jorge; A. Rocha; " Software for Tropospheric Propagation Statistical
Data Analysis ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , The
Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 4152 - 4156 , April , 2014 .
- Riva, C. R; L. C Castanet; L. C Csurgai-Horvath; O. F Fiser; F. L Lacoste; F. M
Marzano; F. Fontan ; J. M. R. Riera; A. Rocha; M. S Schonhuber; " The Aldo
Paraboni Scientific Experiment: the Preparation and Plans for a European
Measurement Campaign ", Proc Ka and Broadband Communications Conf. , Salerno
, Italy , October , 2014 .
- Rocha, A.; F. S Jorge Jorge; " Worst Month Statistics: Rain and Ka-band
Attenuation Results ", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP ,
The Hague , Netherlands , Vol. 1 , pp. 953 - 956 , April , 2014 .
Project Reports
- Rocha, A.; L. C Castanet; C. R Riva; C. C Capsoni; J. M. R. Riera; P. G. Garciadel-Pino; " Development of high order propagation models for multimedia satellite
communication systems. Task 2 Report: Review of propagation models, data and
campaign preliminary definition ", ONERA DEMR , 107135/12/NL/LvH , January ,
2014 .
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- Rocha, A.; L. C Castanet; C. R Riva; C. C Capsoni; J. M. R. Riera; P. G. Garciadel-Pino; " Development of high order propagation models for multimedia satellite
communication systems. Task 2 Report: Review of propagation models, data and
campaign preliminary definition ", ONERA DEMR , 107135/12/NL/LvH , January ,
2014 .
- Rocha, A.; L. C Castanet; C. R Riva; C. C Capsoni; J. M. R. Riera; P. G. Garciadel-Pino; F. S Jorge Jorge; " Development of high order propagation models for
multimédia satellite communication systems. Task 3 Report: development and
installation of the experimental equipment ", ONERA DEMR , 107135/12/NL/LvH ,
March , 2014 .
WIRELESS CIRCUITS AND DEVICES
Books
- Carvalho, N.B.C.; RGG Gomez-Garcia; AC Cidronali; (eds.); White Space
Communication Technologies , , Cambridge University Press , London , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Pedro, J. C.; T.R. Cunha; " Behavioral Models for Microwave Circuit Design " Chapter in Microwave De-embedding: From Theory to Applications , D. Schreurs
and G. Crupi , Elsevier Science , 2014 .
- Fialho, V.; A.F. Azevedo; F. Fortes; M. Vieira; " RF Synthesizer Loop Filter Design
for Minimal OFDM Inter-carrier Interference " - Chapter in Technological Innovation
for Collective Awareness Systems , Camarinha-Matos, Luis M., Barrento, Nuno S.,
Mendonça, Ricardo , Springer , Lisbon , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Nunes, L. N.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " AM/AM and AM/PM Distortion Generation
Mechanisms in Si LDMOS and GaN HEMT Based RF Power Amplifiers ", IEEE Trans.
on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp. 799 - 809 , April , 2014 .
128
- Pires, S. ; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Envelope Modulator Selection for RF Carrier
Phase-Burst Transmitters ", IEEE Microwave Wireless and Components Letters ,
Vol. 24 , No. 9 , pp. 643 - 645 , September , 2014 .
- Pires, S.P.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Envelope Modulator Selection for RF
Carrier Phase-Burst Transmitters (accepted) ", IEEE Microwave Wireless and
Components Letters , January , 2014 .
- Ameixieira, C. Ameixieira; A. Cardote; R. Meireles; S. Sargento; ; ; J. Barros; "
Harbornet: a real-world testbed for vehicular networks ", IEEE Communications
Magazine , Vol. 52 , No. 9 , pp. 108 - 114 , September , 2014 .
- Pedro, J. C.; T.R. Cunha; " Predictable Behavior: Behavioral Modeling from
Measured Data ", IEEE Microwave Magazine , Vol. 15 , No. 6 , pp. 75 - 90 ,
September , 2014 .
- Boaventura, A.; A.C. Collado; N.B.C. Carvalho; A. G. Georgiadis; " Spatial Power
Combining of Multi-Sine Signals for Wireless Power Transmission applications ",
IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp. 1022 - 1030 ,
April , 2014 .
- Duarte, M. D.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Switching Noise Improvement of a
Limit-Cycle Amplifier Using a Negative Hysteresis Relay ", IEEE Trans. on Power
Electronics , Vol. 29 , No. 6 , pp. 3223 - 3231 , June , 2014 .
-
The
Sky's
the
Limit:
Key
Technology
and
Market
Trends
in
Satellite
Communications ", IEEE Microwave Magazine , Vol. 15 , No. 2 , pp. 65 - 78 , March
, 2014 .
- Carvalho, N.B.C.; A. Boaventura; " Wireless Power Transmission: R&D Activities
Within Europe ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 4 , pp.
1031 - 1045 , April , 2014 .
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- Cruz, P.M.; N.B.C. Carvalho; " A comprehensive analysis of the clipping effects on
signals with different statistical patterns ", Proc Integrated Non-linear Microwave
and Millimetre-wave Circuits Conf. - INMMIC , Leuven , Belgium , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 3 ,
April , 2014 .
- Pedro, J. C.; L. N. Nunes; " A Single-Ended Power Amplifier Behavioral Model for
AM/AM and AM/PM Predictions ", Proc IEEE Topical Conf. on RF Power Amplifiers for
Radio and Wireless Applications - PAWR , Newport Beach , United States , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 79 - 81 , January , 2014 .
- Fernandes, R. D.; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Behavior of resonant electrical
coupling in terms of range and relative orientation ", Proc IEEE Wireless Power
Transfer Conf. - WPTC , Jeju City , Korea, South , Vol. 1 , pp. 118 - 121 , May ,
2014 .
- Santo, A. Espírito; B. J. F. Ribeiro; N. M. Garcia; " Development of a Low Power
Wireless Network to Support Elderly People Based on Ez430-Chronos and Simpliciti
", Proc European Embedded Design in Education and Research Conf. - EDERC ,
Milan , Italy , September , 2014 .
- Pedro, J. C.; L. N. Nunes; " Efficiency dependence on the load-pull ratio of a
Doherty PA ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Microwave Theory and Tech. ,
Seatle , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2014 .
- Pedrosa, P.; R. Dinis; F. Nunes; A. J. Rodrigues; " Joint Equalization and Gaussian
Sums Particle Filtering Phase Noise Estimation ", Proc IEEE International Conf. in
Communications - IEEE ICC , Sidney , Australia , June , 2014 .
- Pedrosa, P.; R. Dinis; F. Nunes; " Joint Equalization and Phase Drift Compensation
for the Underwater Acoustic Channel ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. VTC-Fall , Vancouver , Canada , September , 2014 .
- Cruz, P.M.; D. Ribeiro; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Measurement setup for linear
characterization of a mixed-signal SoC wideband receiver ", Proc IEEE Radio and
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Wireless Symp. - RWS , Newport Beach, CA , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 139 - 141
, January , 2014 .
- Duarte, M. D.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Modeling Efficiency of Carrier
Amplitude Burst Wireless Transmitter Systems ", Proc Integrated Non-linear
Microwave and Millimetre-wave Circuits Conf. - INMMIC , Leuven , Belgium , April ,
2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " Passive Sensors for Food Quality
Monitoring and Counterfeiting ", Proc IEEE Sensors , Valencia , Spain , November ,
2014 .
- Rima, S.R.; R. Gonçalves; A.C. Collado; A. G. Georgiadis; N.B.C. Carvalho; "
Passive UHF RFID Enabled Temperature Sensor Tag on Cork Substrate ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on RFID-Technology and Applications , Tampere , Finland , Vol.
1 , September , 2014 .
- Pedrosa, P.; R. Dinis; F. Nunes; A. J. Rodrigues; " Phase Noise Estimation for MQAM Constellations using Gaussian Sum Particle Filtering ", Proc IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Seoul , Korea, South , May , 2014 .
- Duarte, M. F.; A. Furtado; M. Luís; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; " Practical
Assessment of Energy-Based Sensing through Software Defined Radio Devices ",
Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems - DOCEIS ,
Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 423 , pp. 525 - 532 , April , 2014 .
- Fialho, V.; A.F. Azevedo; F. Fortes; M. Vieira; " RF Synthesizer Loop Filter Design
For Minimal OFDM Inter-Carrier Interference ", Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing,
Electrical and Industrial Systems - DOCEIS , Caparica , Portugal , Vol. 423 , pp. 561
- 568 , April , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, R.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P. Pinho; " Smart Environment Technology as a
Possible Enabler of Smart Cities ", Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and
Tech. Symp. , Tampa, FL , United States , Vol. 1 , June , 2014 .
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- Pedro, J. C.; L. N. Nunes; P. M. Cabral; " Soft compression and the origins of
nonlinear behavior of GaN HEMTs ", Proc European Microwave Conf. - EMC , Roma ,
Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1297 - 1300 , October , 2014 .
- Nunes, L. N.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Study of the GaN HEMT Doherty Power
Amplifier Distortion ", Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp. ,
Tampa Bay , United States , June , 2014 .
- Nunes, L. N.; P. M. Cabral; J. C. Pedro; " Study of the GaN HEMT Doherty Power
Amplifier Distortion ", Proc Integrated Non-linear Microwave and Millimetre-wave
Circuits Conf. - INMMIC , leuven , Belgium , April , 2014 .
- Fernandes, R. F.; J. N. Matos; P. Pinho; T. Varum; " Wi-Fi Intruder Detection ",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Emerging
Security
Information,
Systems
and
Technologies - SECURWARE , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November ,
2014 .
- Fernandes, R. F.; J. N. Matos; P. Pinho; T. Varum; " Wi-Fi Intruder Detection ",
Proc IEEE Conf. on Wireless Sensors - ICWiSe , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 4 , October , 2014 .
- Fernandes, R. D.; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Wireless power transmission
based on resonant electrical coupling ", Proc European Microwave Week/European
Microwave Conf. , Rome , Italy , October , 2014 .
4.1.7 Other Achievements
Awards
- Bernardo, L.; " IEEE Communications Letters 2014 Exemplary Reviewer ", IEEE
Communications Letters 2014 Exemplary Reviewer award , 01-12-2014 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " The most general classes of Tellegen
media reducible to simple reciprocal media: a geometrical approach ", ''Best
student paper award'', ''31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium'' ,
01-08-2014 .
- Zaric, A.; Catarina C. Cruz; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; " First Prize in 2014 IEEE
AP-S Student Design Contest ", International student competition organized by
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IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society in which 2-5 student teams propose, design
and build antennas and a communication system for a specific application scenario.
, 01-07-2014 .
- Fernandes, R. D.; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Research day 2014 at the
University of Aveiro (poster session) ", Best poster award , 01-06-2014 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " The most general classes of Tellegen
media reducible to simple reciprocal media: a geometrical approach ", ''Young
Scientist Award'', ''31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium'' , 01-062014 .
- Cercas, F.C.; E. Cercas Cercas; P. Sebastião; " New acelerated simulation method
to obtain the performance of concatenated codes ", Best Student Paper Award for
this paper presented at Global Wireless Summit, Aalborg, Denmark. , 01-05-2014 .
- Bernardo, L.; B. B. Branco; F. Ganhão; L.I. Irio; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; P. Amaral ;
P. Pinto; " SC-FDE Femtocell Energy Saving using IB-DFE Interference Cancellation
Techniques
",
Second
Best
Paper
Award
at
International
Conf.
on
Telecomunications (ICT’14), Lisboa, Portugal, May 4-7, 2014. , 01-05-2014 .
- Fernandes, R. D.; J. N. Matos; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Wireless Power Transfer
Conference 2014 ", Best paper award , 01-05-2014 .
- Cunha, T.R.; P. M. Cabral; L. N. Nunes; " Best Paper Award - CCSP-SSD'14 ",
Best paper award for the paper ''Characterizing power amplifier static AM/PM with
spectrum analyzer measurements'' presented at the IEEE 11th International MultiConference on Systems, Signals and Devices - Conference on Communication &
Signal Processing, CCSP-SSD’14, Castelldefels-Barcelona, Spain, February 11-14,
2014. , 01-02-2014 .
Miscellaneous
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Navegação de Drones Via GPS ", Tiago
Alexandre Gonçalves Alvané, University of Aveiro (Portugal) , 01-12-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Wireless Power Transmission para Drones
", António Jorge Dinis da Silva de Carvalho, University of Aveiro (Portugal) , 01-122014 .
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- Ferreira, M. ; F. V. Vieira; P. Gomes; H. Conceição; R. Fernandes; L.D. Damas; P.
dÓrey; M. K-S. Kruger-Silveria; " Invited Talks ", Augmented reality driving
supported by vehicular ad hoc networking ", 01-11-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " Member of Technical Committee ", European Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP 2015 ", 01-11-2014 .
- Costa, J.R.; " Technical Audit ", Jury of the ''ANACOM- URSI Portugal Award
2014'' ", ICP/ANACOM , 01-11-2014 .
- Borges, Luis M.; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", Multi-Band Radio Frequency Energy
Harvesting
Storing
in
Super-Capacitor
for
Self-Sustainable
Cognitive
Radio
Networks ", 2nd Workshop from the CREaTION Project in Research Lines of
Excellence , 01-10-2014 .
- Ferreira, M. ; " Invited Talks ", Smart Cities ", 01-10-2014 .
- Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", Enhanced Multi-Band Scheduling for
Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Scenarios ", COST IC 1004 - Cooperative
Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments Meeting, Krakow, Poland ,
01-09-2014 .
- Borges, Luis M.; R. Oliveira; F. J. Velez; " Seminars ", A Double Stage Random
Access Scheme for Decentralized Wireless Networks and Single Radio Cognitive
Networks ", 19º Seminário da RTCM, Caparica , 01-07-2014 .
- Mumtaz, S.M.; " Tutorial ", Direct device to device Communication: A 5G
paradigm ", IEEE ISWCS , 01-07-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " National Delegate ", Expert for Erasmus+ 2014 (Portugal) ",
KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education (KA2) , 01-07-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " Training Course ", Hybrid FSS and rectenna design for
wireless power harvesting ", International Summer School on Wireless Power
Transmission for Space Applications, COST ACTION IC1301 WIPE, University of
Aveiro (Portugal) , 01-06-2014 .
- Mumtaz, S.M.; L-Liang-Yang Liang-Yang; C. Wang Chonggang ; F. Adachi Adachi;
N. Ali Ali; " Guest Editor ", Smart Device-to-Smart Device Communications - II ",
IEEE Communications Magazine , 01-06-2014 .
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- Fernandes, R. D.; " Invited Talks ", Using CST in the development of resonant
wireless power transfer systems as a tool to estimate capacitances ", CST
(computer simulation technology) workshop , 01-05-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Sectorial Antennas for WSN Localization
Systems ", Luis Pedro Marques Brás, University of Aveiro (Portugal) , 01-04-2014 .
- Mumtaz, S.M.; L-Liang-Yang Liang-Yang; C. Wang Chonggang ; F. Adachi Adachi;
N. Ali Ali; " Guest Editor ", Smart Device-to-Smart Device Communications - I ",
IEEE Communications Magazine , 01-04-2014 .
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " National Delegate ", IEEE Appointed Officer - Awards &
Recognition Committee Chair for 2014 ", IEEE Portugal Section , 01-03-2014 .
- Ferreira, M. ; L.D. Damas; H. Conceição; P. dÓrey; R. Fernandes; P. Gomes; P.
Steenkiste; " Invited Talks ", The mobility of parked cars ", 01-03-2014 .
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " Seminars ", IEEE
802.15.4 MAC Layer Performance Enhancement by employing RTS/CTS combined
with Packet Concatenation ", 18º Seminário da RTCM, Coimbra , 01-02-2014 .
4.1.8 Other Contributions
Conference Committees
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Sessions Chairman , Ivo Luís de la
Cerda Garcia e Sousa, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Special Sessions Chairman,
Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Organizing Committee,
Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp., Technical Programme
Committee, Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro , 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Communications and Networking in China – Chinacom,
Technical Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi, 01-01-2014
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- International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Smart Devices - ETSD,
Technical Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi, 01-01-2014
- International Symp. on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes
Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- Global Wireless Summit - GWS, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco
António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS, Technical Programme
Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Network Coding - NetCod, Technical Programme
Committee, João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Conference Chairman, Francisco
António Bucho Cercas , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology ISSPIT, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes
Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Sessions Chairman , Francisco
António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications - ICMCTA,
Sessions Chairman , Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC
, Technical Programme Committee, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha , 01-012014
- International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Organizing Committee, Tomás
Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão, 01-01-2014
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- Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS, Sessions Chairman , Mário
Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-01-2014
- International Symp. on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC, Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva,
01-01-2014
- Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS, Technical Programme
Committee,
Mário
Pedro
Guerreiro
Marques
da
Silva,
01-01-2014
- IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Sessions Chairman , Jorge Manuel Lopes
Leal Rodrigues da Costa , 01-01-2014
Editorial Committees
- EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing , Springer, Francisco António
Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, Special Issue Lead Guest Editor, 01-12-2014 to
01-12-2015
-
IEEE
Communications
communication),
Magazine,
Shahid
IEEE
Mumtaz,
(smart
device
01-02-2014
to
to
smart
device
01-10-2014
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
4.2 Optical Communications
•
Adolfo Cartaxo
•
José Ferreira da Rocha
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
3
0
0
Associate Professor
4
2
4
Assistant Professor
5
1
1
PhD
1
0
2
Post. Doc.
8
1
2
PhD Student
20
1
3
MSc Student
1
0
0
(Licenciado)
1
0
0
43
5
12
TOTAL
Table 11 - Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area in 2014
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Position
Associate
Degree
Agregação Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira
Professor
Post. Doc.
Name
PhD
Group
Optical Communications
Cartaxo
and Photonics – Lx
Ana Maria Sousa da Rocha
and Photonics – Av
Associate
PhD
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Professor
Associate
PhD
Professor
Associate
Agregação
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
PhD
Full Professor
Armando Humberto Moreira
Nolasco Pinto
Carlos Alberto Ferreira
Fernandes
Carlos Miguel Santos
Vicente
Daniel Diogo Trindade
Fonseca
Gokhan Sahin
Associate
PhD
Henrique José Almeida Silva
Professor
Assistant
and Photonics – Co
PhD
João José de Oliveira Pires
Professor
Assistant
PhD
João Lopes Rebola
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
João Manuel Ferreira Pedro
Associate
Agregação Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira
Professor
Full Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
José Rodrigues Ferreira da
Rocha
Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Assistant
PhD
Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences
e Costa Cancela
Manuel Alberto Reis de
Oliveira Violas
Marcelino Pousa
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
MSc
MSc
Associate
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Maria do Carmo Raposo de
Medeiros
Mário José Neves de Lima
Professor
Researcher
PhD
Miguel Vidal Drummond
Assistant
PhD
Natasa Pavlovic
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Post. Doc.
Assistant
PhD
PhD
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Associate
Professor
Associate
Professor
PhD
PhD
PhD
Nelson de Jesus Cordeiro
Muga
Paula Raquel Viegas dos
Santos Nunes Laurêncio
Paulo Alexandre Ferreirinha
de Almeida
Paulo Fernando da Costa
Antunes
Paulo Miguel Nepomuceno
Pereira Monteiro
Agregação Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate
PhD
Rogério Nunes Nogueira
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Rui Fernando Gomes de
Sousa Ribeiro
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Post. Doc.
MSc
Tiago Silveira
Table 12 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in 2014
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
PhD Student
Name
Group
Ali Shahpari
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Licenciatura
MSc
MSc
MSc
MSc
MSc
Álvaro José Caseiro de
Almeida
Ana Patrícia Santos
Ferreira
André Antunes de Carvalho
Albuquerque
António Miguel Barata da
Eira
Fernando Pedro Pereira
Guiomar
Filipa da Rosa Carvalhal
Sequeira
Filipe Manuel Wiener Ferro
de Carvalho
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Position
PhD Student
Degree
Name
Group
MSc
Filipe Marques Ferreira
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Gil Gonçalo Martins
Fernandes
Hugo Filipe Teixeira Lima
PhD Student
Full Professor
MSc
Agregação
João Carlos de Melo
Ferreira
João Lemos Pinto
PhD
PhD
João Miguel Lopes dos
Santos
PhD Student
MSc
Lara Penedo Pellegrino
PhD Student
MSc
Maria de Fátima Fonseca
Domingues
Miguel Ângelo Madureira
PhD Student
MSc
Post. Doc.
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD
PhD
MSc
MSc
PhD
Nuno Alexandre Peixoto
Silva
Pedro Emanuel Domingos
da Cruz
Ricardo Jorge Figueiredo
Oliveira
Rui Manuel Dias Morais
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Position
Assistant
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Rui Pedro Oliveira Alves
Administrative Aveiro
MSc
Sofia Batalha de Oliveira
Pascoal Amado
Somayeh Ziaie
Professor
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Sudhir Kumar Routray
PhD Student
Licenciado
MSc
Licenciatura
PhD Student
Telmo David Pelicano
Almeida
Teresa Almeida
Vanessa Cunha Duarte
PhD Student
MSc
Vítor Manuel Costa Ribeiro
PhD Student
Zoran Vujicic
Table 13 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area in
2014
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•
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.
4.2.3.2.1 Quantum Communications
An approach for single photon generation relies on a source of quantum
correlated photon-pairs. In this kind of sources, typically known as heralded
single photon sources, the detection of one photon of the pair heralds the
presence of its twin photon. We developed a detailed statistical characterization
of an optical signal obtained from a heralded single photon source. The source
is based on the spontaneous four-wave mixing process, and a dispersion shifted
fiber is used to achieve phase matching. At source output, the derivation of the
second-order coherence function shows the importance of choosing carefully
the frequency detuning between the optical fields in order to avoid the
uncorrelated photons generated through Raman scattering. Results indicate
that with an accurate adjustment of the source parameters, it is possible to
obtain an almost perfect conditional single photon source using spontaneous
four-wave mixing. When a transmission fiber is considered, the losses change
the source statistics due to the coupling with the noise absorption reservoir.
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Nevertheless, even at room temperature the impact of the absorption reservoir
tends to be quite small.
We investigated the impact of waveguide loss on the generation rate of
quantum correlated photon-pairs through spontaneous four-wave mixing in a
chalcogenide glass fiber. The obtained results are valid even when the photonpairs are generated in a medium with non-negligible loss, αL >>1. The impact
of the loss is quantified through the analysis of the true, total and accidental
counting rates at waveguide output. We use the coincidence-to-accidental ratio
(CAR) as a figure of merit of the photon-pair source. Results indicate that, the
CAR parameter tends to decrease with the increase of the waveguide length,
until L<1/α. However, a continuous increase of the waveguide length tends to
lead to an increase on the CAR value. In the non-negligible loss regime, αL
>>1, we are able to observe a significant decrease on the value of all
coincidence
counting
rates.
Nevertheless,
that
decrease
is
even
more
pronounced on the accidental counting rate. Moreover, for waveguide length of
the order of L=10/α, we are able to obtain a CAR of the order of 70, which is
higher than the CAR value for the specific case of α=0 with L=2 cm (CAR=42).
This indicates that up to a certain extend the waveguide loss can improve the
degree of quantum correlation between the generated photons.
Among security tasks the bit commitment protocol holds a prominent role as it
represents
a
computational
primitive
for
many
important
information-
processing protocols. We implemented a two-state practical quantum bit
commitment protocol, which security is based on the current technological
limitations, namely the nonexistence of either stable long-term quantum
memories or non-demolition measurements. We analyzed quantitatively the
effects of noise using two common information-theoretic measures: the fidelity
and the relative entropy. In particular, we analyzed the optimal cheating
strategy and show that it is always advantageous for a cheating agent to add
some amount of white noise. We also analyze the protocol's security against
the use of “imperfect” non-demolition measurements and noisy or bounded
quantum memories. Finally, we discuss errors occurring due to a finite detector
efficiency, dark counts, and imperfect single-photon sources.
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We started the implementation of quantum communication systems using
continuous variables. In these systems, the information is coded in the phase of
the photons and coherent detection can be applied. We designed and
implemented a high sensitivity receiver, which is going to allows us to operate
in a regime of extremely low power per bit.
4.2.3.2.2 Numerical Modeling and Simulation
We continue to upgrade the optical simulation platform (OSIP) developed in
University of Aveiro (UA) and in Institute of Telecommunications of Aveiro (IT)
used in research and teaching activities.
We analyzed different configurations of phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs) built
with periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN). These devices were theoretically
and numerically investigated, focusing on their application for amplification in
optical communications systems. For each configuration analytical expressions
for the maximum and minimum gain of the amplifiers were obtained, showing
the influence of the power of the pump and signal waves, as well as the length
and efficiency of the PPLN waveguide. The analytical expressions were
numerically validated by solving the coupled differential equations describing
the nonlinear interactions in the PPLN. The obtained results show that the gain
of all PSA configurations increases with the power of the pump waves, the
length and efficiency of the PPLN device, and it is almost independent of the
power of the signal wave.
The finite element method (FEM) was used in the analysis of the optical
coupling between waveguides with complex geometries, taking into account
their geometrical and material parameters.
PIN resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) and waveguide photodiodes were
investigated. A new RCE structure was proposed and its quantum efficiency and
frequency response were studied in detail. The quantum efficiency calculations
included the standing wave effect and the transit time frequency response was
obtained by a numerical model previously developed for multilayer PIN
photodiode structures. A small signal circuit model was considered when the
capacitive and inductive effects were taken into account. The computed results
enabled us to devise the design rules for the device’s optimization. Waveguide
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and mushroom waveguide photodetector frequency response were also
investigated.
4.2.3.2.3 Components Development and Production
We developed a state of the art platform for production of optical filters in
plastic optical fibers.
A new technique, based on a partially automated process, for smooth end face
termination of three types of plastic optical fibers (mPOF, GI-POF and SI-POF)
was developed. The cross-section shape of the fibers is preserved, and the
microstructure in mPOFs is of good quality, showing no plastic deformations.
The termination is achieved in a fast and easy way independently of the
material properties or structures inside the fiber. The process is reproducible
and it shows that thin diameter POFs can be used. The POFs near field pattern
and the insertion loss are also analyzed, showing good coupling capabilities.
It was reported for the first time the inscription of a Bragg grating in a
polarization
maintaining
microstructured
polymeric
optical
fibre.
The
birefringence of the fibre was created through a special design of the hole
structure through the fibre. A Bragg grating in this type of fibre allows the
creation of two reflection Bragg peaks, where the peak separation is related
with the phase modal birefringence. Our simulation results for the phase modal
birefringence in the 1550 nm region are in accordance with the experimental
results from the reflected Bragg peak separation. The correspondent Bragg
grating will have applications in field of sensors and telecommunications.
We
reported
the
inscription
of
a
Bragg
grating
in
an
undoped
polymethylmethacrylate based microstructured fiber in a time record. The fiber
has been irradiated with a 248 nm ultraviolet radiation, through the phase
mask technique using low fluence and low repetition rate. The experimental
conditions were chosen to modify the core refractive index of the fiber at the
incubation regime and avoiding polymer ablation. The peak reflection of the
Bragg grating was centered in the infrared region with 20 dB reflection and
0.16 nm bandwidth. These spectral properties are well attractive for sensors
and communications applications.
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We
developed
transparency
an
able
experimental
to
setup
manufacture
for
electromagnetically
microcells,
suitable
for
induced
optical
fiber
communications technology. A hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) is
filled with acetylene, to work in the 1500 nm telecommunications window. We
used a HC-PCF with the mode-field diameter compatible with standard singlemode fibers, with the purpose of achieving low-loss splicing and enabling us to
work at low pumping powers. This allows to induce a narrow transparency
window, which can be spectrally adjusted and dynamically controlled.
Photonic integration is an emerging technology which brings reduced power
consumption, reduced space, high reliability and many possibilities. Applications
are many and diverse: telecommunications, biomedical, photonic computing,
etc. We have been working on Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for
telecommunications application and we have created the conditions and knowhow to design, simulate and test those chips including fiber alignments. The
aim in this field is to further develop new solutions for access networks,
coherent communications and free space optics. Packaging and its related
technologies, specifically for high frequencies, is also on our objectives.
We have developed thermo actuated integrated optic devices (Y-branch splitter,
polarization controllers 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.
We have developed a color model for the production of low cost ink jet
printable optical filters for visible wireless optical communications. The
robustness of the produced filters to environmental factors was also studied.
We have carried out Monte Carlo modeling, production and characterization of
luminescent
layers
deposited
over
optical
subtracts
for
utilization
as
luminescent solar concentrators, envisaging the increase of photovoltaic cells
efficiency.
4.2.3.2.4 All Optical Signal Processing
We have been developing techniques for all-optical processing using acoustic
wave in fibers. By applying tunable acoustic waves in fibers, it is possible to
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adjust the properties of optical filters based on fiber Bragg gratings. The
explored applications include adjustable gain equalization for EDFAs, adjustable
notch filters and tunable dispersion compensators. We have also proposed a
tunable inline mode converter based on the acousto-optic effect in optical
microwires. A theoretical model was developed to analyze the interaction
between the acoustic waves and the optical modal coupling in microwires. We
showed that, adjusting the acoustic wave frequency, we can switch between
different optical modes. The conversion efficiency can be adjusted through the
acoustic wave amplitude.
4.2.3.2.5 Sensors
The coating of optical fiber with a specific material has been a common
procedure to improve the performance of the sensors, concerning the
resolution, sensitivity, working range or even to qualify the device to be
susceptible to certain physical or chemical influences. Carbon allotropies, such
as diamond and graphene oxide, due to their characteristics are promising
materials for the coating of the fiber and its use in biosensing applications. One
of the most techniques used to deposit diamond is through the hot filament
chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) process. Since this method occurs at high
temperatures (around 800 ºC), regenerated Bragg gratings are appropriate to
be coated, as result of its thermal resistance. Its production process involves
the inscription of a saturated Bragg grating followed by a time consuming heat
treatment. Taking advantage of the high temperatures characteristic of the
HFCVD process, the simultaneous regeneration of the grating and the coating
of the fiber with diamond was accomplished. The graphene oxide is another
promise material to be used as coating in biotechnology applications due to its
surface chemistry diversity, which can establish chemical
and physical
interactions with diverse chemical species, nanoparticles and bio-structures.
The characterization of different GO coatings onto optical fiber samples,
obtained using different average oxide sheet size and number of layers, was
also carried out. The response of GO-coated tilted fiber Bragg gratings to
refractive index variations was also analyzed, demonstrating the suitability of
this configuration on the development of new sensors.
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The injection molding is an important polymer processing method for
manufacturing plastic components. In this process, temperature is a critical
parameter with influence on the cycle time, crystallization rate and the overall
final part quality. The thermal monitoring of the thermoplastic injection molding
was accomplished; for this a set of fiber Bragg gratings (twelve) were
multiplexed, aiming a two dimensional monitoring of the mold. The results
allowed to identify the different stages of the thermoplastic molding cycle and
to distinguish the injection cycles occurring with lack and excess of polymeric
material. These situations have influence on the cycle time, the maximum
temperature of the mold, and consequently in the quality of the polymeric
pieces produced.
At the moment, it is ongoing the application of a biaxial optical fiber
acceleration sensor developed in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on vibration
monitoring of a hydroelectric generator in the State of Paraná (Brazil). It is also
in the implementation phase, in a mockup oil tank, with the Federal University
of Espírito Santo (Brazil) the use of temperature and level optical sensors, for
use in oil extraction facilities of Petrobras in the State of Espírito Santo (Brazil).
It was also finished the fibre optic connection of the elevated water reservoir of
the University of Aveiro, where a biaxial accelerometer based on Bragg gratings
is applied, to the Instituto de Telecomunicações building. This link allows realtime
vibration
monitoring
of
the
structure,
from
the
Instituto
de
Telecomunicações facilities, without any kind of electronic equipment in the
structure.
The fuse 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. Such voids were recycled as microcavities to be used as Fabry-Perot
interferometers. From those, we were able to develop refractive index, strain,
high temperature and pressure sensors, with a much less expensive method,
when compared with the ones used to fabricate Fabry-Perot devices so far.
Two new fiber optic sensors for cardiovascular wave pressure monitoring were
implemented, one based on fiber Bragg grating technologies and the other on
polymer fiber. The latter is based on light intensity modulation and is a lower
cost solution with promising results.
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Various optical sensors based on plastic and silica optical fibers for the
measurement of temperature, deformation, refractive index and hydrostatic
pressure, were developed.
4.2.3.3 Optical communications systems
4.2.3.3.1 Performance evaluation of optical communication systems and
networks
In this area, we performed the following tasks:
•
Analysis of the signal to noise ratio in coherent optical communication
systems.
•
Study and performance evaluation of the impact of crosstalk in networks
based on ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical and Drop Multiplexer).
•
Evaluation of the impact of in-band and coherent crosstalk in optical
coherent QPSK systems using an analytical model based on the moment
generating function of the receiver decision variable.
•
Generalization of the rigorous formulation to consider the impact of
homodyne crosstalk from optical network elements on OFDM optical
•
Characterization of the impact of homodyne crosstalk with multiple
modulation formats on the performance of M-QAM coherent optical
communication systems and networks.
•
Implementation of multi-canonic Monte Carlo simulation to speed up the
assessment of the performance of optical communication systems and
networks for very low error probabilities
•
Proposal of a technical solution employing virtual carrier-assisted directdetection (DD) to achieve granularity, spectral efficiency and flexibility in
next generation metropolitan (metro) networks using single sideband
(SSB)
multi-band
(OFDM).
The
(MB)
main
orthogonal
system
frequency-division
parameters
were
multiplexing
identified,
and
the
performance of a 42.8 Gb/s SSB DD MB-OFDM (with four bands) metro
network was optimized through numerical simulation. A required OSNR
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for a bit error ratio of 10-3 of 28 dB was demonstrated in a 240-km long
7-band MB-OFDM network.
•
Extensive simulation analysis of the main physical impairments of MBOFDM metro networks was performed. Particularly, the phase to
intensity conversion of laser phase noise due to fibre dispersion and
band selectors, the wavelength drift of lasers, the finite selectivity of
wavelength selective switches and the crosstalk induced by optical
switches, were addressed.
•
Two, three and four-band MB-OFDM systems operating at 42.8 Gb/s
were optimized for a Gaussian band selector (BS) and its performance
was compared with the one of a higher selectivity (2-nd order super
Gaussian) BS. It was shown that the MB-OFDM system presents a
maximum EVM penalty of 1 dB for a BS frequency detuning range of 1.5
GHz, and a EVM difference lower than 1 dB is obtained between the two
considered BS.
•
A simplified expression allowing the estimation of the EVM of each
subcarrier of direct-detection wavelength division multiplexing systems
dominantly impaired by the cross-phase modulation was proposed and
validated. This expression was then extensively used to assess the
dependence of the OFDM signals performance on the number of optical
channels transmitted, on the average optical power per channel at the
fibre input, and to evaluate the capacity of OFDM-based quintuple play
service provisioning in long-reach passive optical networks.
4.2.3.3.2 Long-haul optical communication systems
We proposed a new method for optimizing the launch power in optical fiber
links, particularly in long-haul, dispersion managed links. With this method, it is
possible to quickly predict both the optimum launch power and optimum predispersion compensation value, as opposed to methods based on the numerical
integration of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation which in some scenarios
usually take days to do the same optimization task. The method comprises two
software tools developed in Matlab®. For optimum launch power prediction, the
Gaussian Noise Model was implemented. This is a well-known model for
estimating nonlinear effects in non-dispersion-managed links, and to the best
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knowledge of the authors it is the first time the GN Model is used for
predictions in a dispersion managed scenario. The second tool is an ideal predispersion tool based on the analysis of the scenario dispersion map. It takes
as input the dispersion map of the scenario and quickly computes the predispersion value that averages the dispersion map closer to zero. We validated
the first results comparing the performance in both accuracy and simulation
time of these new tools by simulating a realistic DM scenario that relies on
periodical spans of non-dispersion shifted fiber (NDSF) to perform the
dispersion compensation. The same realistic scenarios were modeled with a
commercial software and Matlab®. The objective was to predict the optimum
launch power and pre-dispersion value for different link lengths and central
channel wavelengths. Results obtained with the Matlab® tools are in good
agreement with the ones from the commercial software for several link
distances up to 2400 km.
4.2.3.3.3 Radio over fiber systems
Photonic technology was developed to support 100 Gbit/s for wireless links,
operating in the W band and employing optical up-conversion.
Part of our studies in this area focused on 5 G fiber backhauling employing
either optical direct detection or coherent optical detection. One funded project
started (Hydra-RoF –Hybrid Dynamic Radio Access Supported by Radio over
Fiber).
Advanced optical transmitter schemes were developed for delivering at
customers’ premises a 1 Gbit/s wired signal and several wireless signals,
through a long-reach WDM-PON network. A dynamic chromatic dispersion precompensation technique based on the chirp induced in a DE-MZM was
demonstrated.
4.2.3.3.4 Optical transmission based on multicore fibers
We developed a simulation platform for phase conjugated twin wave (PCTW)
based transmission techniques, when applied to strongly coupled multicore or
few-mode fiber (FMF) scenarios. We also evaluated the employment of spatial
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light modulator (SLM) based digital holograms in such systems, for performing
channel compensation and core/mode demultiplexing, and when applied to
target scenarios, including free-space optics.
FMFs with up to 12 non-degenerate linearly polarized (LP) modes suitable for
long-haul transmission were designed. Methods were developed to extend the
transmission reach of MDM-FMFs (mode division multiplexing) by limiting the
accumulation of DMD and MDL/MDG along transmission.
An extensive study has been done on the intermodal nonlinear effects in MDMFMF systems, identifying the dominant effects as well as possible techniques to
reduce the corresponding induced penalty.
The use of long-period gratings (LPGs) to distribute optical power from one core
to all the cores in a multi-core fiber (MCF) was theoretically analyzed. Simple
analytical expressions that describe the mode powers evolution along the LPGs
were derived from the coupled mode equations. This study demonstrated the
power transfer between cores in a MCF promoted by identical LPGs. Moreover,
with this technique the pump signal can be distributed to all the cores without
interfering with the transmission signals.
4.2.3.3.5 Optical satellites communications
System design and performance analysis of a novel photonic beamformer for
satellite communications were investigated. The proposed system can improve
10 times the tuning speed, while reducing the power consumption.
4.2.3.3.6 Digital signal processing for optical communication systems
We demonstrated a fully blind processing and reduced complexity nonlinear
equalization (NLE) of a 100G PM-64QAM optical channel in a 50 GHz WDM grid,
achieving a maximum reach of 1524 km over pure silica core fiber at a bit error
rate of 2.7 × 10−2 . The equalization of linear polarization-dependent effects is
performed by a radius-directed constant modulus algorithm (RD-CMA), enabled
by a multiradii training stage, yielding a very small penalty (<0.1 dB in terms
of Q2 factor) relatively to data-aided CMA. Applying a simplified Volterra series
nonlinear equalizer (simVSNE), operating in the frequency domain, we
demonstrated a reach extension of ∼27% relatively to linear equalization. Due
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to its lower spatial resolution requirements, the simVSNE technique was shown
to provide a more efficient NLE than the well-known back-propagation split-step
Fourier method, both in terms of latency and number of complex multiplications
per sample. The potential benefit of NLE for fully blind processing of high-order
QAM optical signals is demonstrated by an incremental reduction of the RDCMA penalty to <0.04 dB.
We have proposed a novel PolDemux technique for complex-modulated signals.
Using the Stokes space polarization representation of the signal samples, we
can accomplish PolDemux of an endless time-varying SOP signal. Moreover,
this technique estimates the inverse rotation matrix adaptively without the
calculation of a best fit plane. The performance of this technique was verified
numerically and compared with the Stokes space based technique that
calculates a best fit plane and with the CMA. Simulation results have shown
that this technique presents a good convergence speed and a good response to
time-varying SOP rotations. The PolDemux technique can integrate a stage for
PDL compensation without compromising its adaptive running. Finally, the
performance of the proposed technique was experimentally validated in terms
of convergence speed and modulation format transparency within an ultradense WDM scenario employing both PM-QPSK and PM-16 QAM modulation
formats.
We
performed
simulations
of
transdermal
optical
communications
for
application in the communication with human body incorporated devices as
pacemakers.
A digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm to mitigate the signal-signal beat
interference (SSBI), in presence and absence of fibre dispersion, in MB-OFDM
DD metro networks was proposed. This algorithm was included in the MB-OFDM
simulator to assess the performance improvement provided by the SSBI
mitigation.
The performance of pre- and post- distortion compensation, using memory
polynomials-based DSP, of multi-signal OFDM-based hybrid optical wireless
long-reach
passive
optical
networks
was
evaluated
theoretically
and
experimentally.
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4.2.3.4
Optical networking
4.2.3.4.1 Optical Transport Networks
Estimation of link-dependent parameters of optical transport networks is quite
complex without the availability of complete network information. However, at
the network planning stage these estimations are to be done with incomplete
information, and need to be accurate. We developed effective methods to
estimate link-dependent parameters of optical transport networks when only
partial information about the network is available. We use the link length
statistical distribution model for these estimations. The improved accuracy of
the proposed methods is achieved without extra network details: only the
network node locations and the total number of links are needed.
We proposed dimensioning models for transport network nodes taking into
consideration the specific traffic multiplexing/grooming architecture. The
models are suitable for multi-period planning and assume node architectures
with different levels of flexibility. Fixed architectures are based on muxponder
modules whereas flexible architectures comprise an electrical cross connect
(EXC). Within the flexible architectures, non-blocking EXC and partial nonblocking EXCs architectures are considered. Importantly, the models also
support hitless re-grooming in flexible architectures. Using the developed
models, we analyzed the impact of node architecture flexibility in the number of
line interfaces required, and assess the potential savings attained by exploiting
hitless re-grooming. Results showed that enhanced flexibility produces more
savings when the client traffic bit rate is much smaller than the line bit rate.
Moreover, hitless traffic re-grooming can assist in mitigating the impact of
flexibility limitations that arise when deploying smaller sized EXCs.
In this area, we have also carried out the following research:
•
Design of optical transport networks using different switching strategies.
•
Development of a multi-period design method to study the problem of
linecards and transceivers allocation in flexible-grid optical networks.
•
Modeling and simulation of the network-wide impact of different
transport (DWDM and OTN) node architectures.
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•
Comparison via network simulation of different strategies for the
placement of a limited number of pre-deployed 3R regenerators in
DWDM transport network operated dynamically or quasi-dynamically.
•
Development and implementation of a framework for the cost-optimized
design of fixed- and flex-rate line-cards and transceivers over multiple
planning cycles of a DWDM network. Sensitivity analysis to the input
conditions (e.g., traffic pattern evolution over the multiple planning
cycles, cost of fixed-rate and flex-rate configurations).
•
Extension of the OTN over DWDM network simulator to support OCh
1+1 protection and shared restoration and ODU 1+1 protection and
shared
restoration, and blocking performance comparison of the
different survivability schemes assuming the same network and traffic
conditions.
•
Investigation of wavelength assignment algorithms for dynamic optical
networks that take into account the impact of homodyne crosstalk.
4.2.3.4.2 Optical Access Networks
Part of the work carried out in this area involved the study of multi-signal
OFDM-based hybrid optical wireless long-reach passive optical networks with
colorless ONUs.
Raman amplification in Passive Optical Networks with the recycling of the
pump signal for the powering of remote nodes was studied.
We have also studied spectral multiplexing techniques for the production of
QR codes.
We continue the cooperation with the RMOM group to develop fiber
transmission solutions for the implementation of an access network to
cooperative radio systems. This includes the development of a test bed
platform which includes radio over fiber links. We are also investigating
solutions for Remote Radio Heads to be part of the platform.
We have developed several techniques and configurations which allowed us
to reach the aggregate record throughput PON having 10 Tbit/s downstream
and 10 Tbit/s burst mode upstream in one single fiber. This work resulted
from a joint activity with NICT Japan.
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Overview
Funding Agency
Number
ADI e PT Inovação
1
BIOCANT
1
Ciencia Viva/FCT
1
COMPETE/FEDER/FCT
1
Coriant Portugal/FCT
1
ESF, COST
2
FCT
1
FCT/PTDC
4
FP7
1
IT
1
IT/LA
3
PT Inovação
1
ADI e PT Inovação
1
BIOCANT
1
Ciencia Viva/FCT
1
COMPETE/FEDER/FCT
1
1
ESF, COST
2
FCT
1
FCT/PTDC
4
FP7
1
IT
1
IT/LA
3
PT Inovação
1
ADI e PT Inovação
1
BIOCANT
1
Ciencia Viva/FCT
1
COMPETE/FEDER/FCT
1
158
1
ESF, COST
2
FCT
1
Table 14 - Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area in 2014
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Acron / Ref
Title
BEACON
ScalaBle & Low-Power Microwave Photonics for FlexiblE, TerAbit
Telecom Payloads & High-speed Coherent Inter-satellite LiNks
Funding
FP7
Descript.
Telecom satellites are growing like giants employing multiple beams to
provide high speed connectivity and broad coverage. Under exploding
capacity requirements, vendors admit that a technology and payload
architecture switch is mandatory. The new technology has to deliver
practical, low-power and scalable components with high performance
under harsh environment conditions. BEACON aims to provide this
technology and disrupt the transition to multibeam Tb/s satellites.
Addressing cost, performance and volume, BEACON invests on the
right
mix
of
3
photonic
technologies
used
in
terrestrial
telecommunications, i.e. GaAs, Si and doped fibres and combines
them to deliver a compact optical beam-forming technology delivering
the massive amount of bandwidth. BEACON develops ultra-linear GaAs
Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM) exhibiting >75dB spurious free
dynamic range, 15dB higher than conventional MZMs. MZMs will
exhibit:
up
to
35GHz
frequency
operation
matching
Ka-band
frequency plans and 1/2 the size of mainstream LiNbO3 MZMs. 6’’
GaAs wafers enable high volume production. BEACON integrates and
co-packages 4xMZM arrays with new packaging method. BEACON
develops the first scalable multi-core rad-hard erbium doped optical
fibre amplifier (EDFA). The EDFA employs new radhard doped
microstructured
fibre
and
enabling:
>50%
electrical
power
consumption reduction than using conventional EDFAs and small form
factor
packaging.
BEACON
integrates
an
innovative
photonic
beamformer (BFN) using CMOS compatible silicon photonic fabrication
together with Ge diodes. The BFN chip consumes <7.5-times less chip
area than lowindex contrast BFNs. It allows 4 orders of magnitude
faster beamsteering. BEACON integrates the system with BFN control
and antenna array to demonstrate that the technology can scale to
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Tb/s capacities with considerable savings in size/power against current
kW consuming systems. Component space assessment will guide the
technology towards fully space qualified systems.
Acron / Ref
Title
CV-Quantum
Improving Security and Capacity Using Continuous Variables Quantum
Communications
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The main scientific objectives of this project are:
1. To propose secure bit commitment and oblivious transfer quantum
protocols based on CV. To improve the security of the proposed
protocols through their experimental validation in a real channel.
2. To evaluate the capacity of an optical fiber for low-energy optical
signals through the investigation of the channel capacity in a scenario
where each symbol used to transmit information contains only fewphotons. We intend to increase the number of bits sent per photon;
3. To optimize the transmitter and the receiver for weak coherent
fields.
Moreover, we also intend to develop post processing techniques as a
solution to improve the efficiency of phase and amplitude information
recovery from low-power signals.
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)
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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
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
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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
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
HYDRA-ROF
Title
Hybrid Dynamic Radio Access supported by Radio over Fiber
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
HYDRA-RoF aims to develop a cost-effective radio-over-fibre solution
for rapid and pervasive LTE femtocell and WiFi deployment scenarios.
The project develops the digital signal processing algorithms required
to compensate (baseband) the transmission impairments of the two
signals transmitted (LTE, WiFi) in the proposed scenario. To take full
advantage
of
such
multi-technology
networks
the
HYDRA-RoF
proposes to develop integration strategies for the different radio
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access technologies (RATs) and based on these integration strategies
develop efficient strategies for load balancing and traffic offloading.
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
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
development
of
devices,
components,
algorithms/protocols
and
systems. It will 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
for
future-generation
heterogeneous communication networks supporting a wide range of
wireless services/applications.
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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
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 MBOFDM signals as an excellent solution to increase the granularity of
capacity allocation. However, these works were presented as a proofof-concept: the MB-OFDM 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
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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
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.
MB-OFDM 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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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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Acron / Ref
sWAT
Title
Next generation Smart Water Grids
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
For smart water grid, further development in water quality monitoring
and grid management has to be made. This is exactly what is
addressed in sWAT project. This water quality platform will be crucial
to further conduct several pilots and to make a proof of concept.
Acron / Ref
Title
TWave
Phase conjugated twin waves to unlock the potential of future spatial
division multiplexed systems (TWave)
Funding
COMPETE/FEDER/FCT
Descript.
Single-mode fiber (SMF) transport systems are rapidly approaching
the Shannon´s limit,pointing to fiber capacities of no more than 100
Tbit/s, corresponding to filling the C and L EDFA bands at a spectral
efficiency of 10 bit/s/Hz. This limit can be derived from an extension
of the Shannon capacity limit to a nonlinear fiber channel, since the
fiber Kerr nonlinearity leads to distortion when the signal power is
increased to achieve sufficient Signal-to-Noise Ratio, the ultimate limit
resulting from the interaction between amplified spontaneous emission
and nonlinearity, which is not deterministic. This may still be not be
enough to answer the capacity requirements in the near future which
points to spectral efficiencies of 20bit/s/Hz over ~1500 km links,
associated
with
the
current
growth
in
capacity
of
fiber-optic
Over the last decades, the steady progress in optical transmission
systems was enhanced by the exploitation of the several properties of
electromagnetic
waves,
namely
time,
phase,
frequency
and
polarization. Since 2010, the research community has generally
agreed that optical transport systems will have to resort to the last
remaining physical dimension (space) by employing spatial division
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multiplexing (SDM), which has the potential to substantially increase
optical transport capacities. Although SDM was first proposed in 1979
(considering MCF) and 1982 (considering MMF), the current progress
is occurring now due to a convergence of technological capabilities
(fiber fabrication methods, mode control and analysis methods,
coherent detection and digital compensation) and the mentioned
emerging necessity. The main challenge in SDM occurs due to
crosstalk between pathways, which is typically small for MCF and high
for MMF. For MCF the crosstalk depends on core number, spacing and
arrangement, while for MMF the modes are prone to randomly couple
during propagation, with different differential mode group delays
(DMGD).
This
requires
multiple-input
multiple-output
linear
equalization techniques, similar to the signal processing techniques
used for polarization de-multiplexing, which poses computational
complexity concerns when considering equalization for long haul mode
division multiplexed (MDM) systems. However, similarly to SMF based
modern telecommunication systems, the nonlinear penalties in MDM
systems
will
eventually
become
the
ultimate
limiting
factor.
In this project we propose to explore the concept of phase conjugated
twin waves (PCTW) in SDM optical systems, which has recently been
proved to cancel out signal-to-signal nonlinear interactions in singlemode fibers by coherently superimposing of a pair of phaseconjugated twin waves, as a means to overcome the nonlinear
impairments arising in mode division multiplexed systems, in a
practical and sustainable way, paving the way for optical transmission
capacities beyond next-generation systems.
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MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Ana Martins
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Luis Miguel
Machado
Mendes
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Luis Miguel
Lima de
Almeida
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Bruna
Paredes
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Francisco
Rodrigues
Hugo Miguel
Moreira de
Almeida
Rui António
Rodrigues
Francisco
Tatiana
Maria do Carmo
Cristina
Raposo de
Tavares
Medeiros
Chantre
Henrique José
Almeida Silva
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
João Pedro
Gonçalves
Frazão do
Rosário
CoSupervisors
Traffic Grooming and Routing
João Manuel and Wavelength Assignment in
Metropolitan Transport
Ferreira Pedro
Networks
Optimization of the
degradation induced by the
Tiago Manuel
MZM and PIN nonlinear effects
Ferreira Alves
in MB-OFDM metropolitan
networks
Giorgia Parca
Contextos de convergência em
redes de Acesso de Nova
geração
Mário José
Photonic integrated tunable
Neves de Lima
transceiver for NGPON2
Rui Fernando
Gomes de
Sousa Ribeiro
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Mariana Silva
João Miguel
Lopes dos
Santos
Jorge Manuel
Torres Pereira
Verónica
Frias de
Matos
4/
2014
5/
2014
6/
2014
6/
2014
Planeamento de Redes de
7/
Transporte de dados para o
2014
SKA (Square Kilometre Array)
Proposta de Estratégia para a
Rede de Fibras Ópticas da EDP
Distribuição
Análise do desempenho de
amplificadores ópticos
reflectivos em redes ópticas de
acesso da próxima geração
MB-OFDM metropolitan
networks with concatenation
Tiago Manuel
of optical add-drop
Ferreira Alves
multiplexers
Marisa
Loureiro
End
Date
All-optical Processing based on 6 /
integrated optics
2014
Mário José
Neves de Lima
João Miguel
Lopes dos
Santos
João José de
Oliveira Pires
Title
7/
2014
10 /
2014
10 /
2014
Network planning and cost
analysis for optical transport
10 /
networks with different
2014
switching solutions
Planning Optical Transport
Networks with Multiple
Survivability Requirements
10 /
2014
Photodetectors for 50 GHz
Optical Receivers
11 /
2014
171
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Susana
Bento
Mário José
Neves de Lima
Antonio Luis
Mário José
José Maricato
Jesus Teixeira
Neves de Lima
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Sérgio
Coelho
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Pompeu
Areias Vale
Santos
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Sofia
Madalena
Figueiredo
Rodrigues
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Mário José
Neves de Lima
Redes de acesso TWDM
(NGPON2)
Software defined access
networks
End
Date
12 /
2014
12 /
2014
Tuning mechanisms in optical
12 /
access networks
2014
Impact of crosstalk induced by
finite isolation of optical
2/
Tiago Manuel
switches on MB-OFDM
2015
Ferreira Alves
metropolitan networks
performance
Limitations of inter-ring OFDMTiago Manuel
2/
band transfer imposed by laser
2015
Ferreira Alves
phase noise
Miguel Sousa Tiago Manuel
Pereira
Ferreira Alves
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Luca
Callegher
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Jorge
Eduardo
Ribeiro da
Costa Lima
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Artur Rafael
Gama
Tavares
Duarte
Tiago Manuel
Ferreira Alves
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
João Adriano
Ramalho
Mourato
João Lopes
Rebola
Title
Performance limitations of 40
Gb/s SSB MB-OFDM
metropolitan networks induced 2 /
by phase-to-intensity
2015
conversion of laser phase
noise
Optimization of the
degradation induced by the
3/
combined nonlinearity of
Sieben's architecture and PIN 2015
in SSB MB-OFDM metropolitan
networks
Experimental demonstration of
10 Gbit/s fibre-to-the-home
4/
network downstream
2015
transmission employing an
electro-absorption modulator
100 Gb/s MB-OFDM
metropolitan networks
5/
employing digital SSBI
2015
mitigation in presence of fibre
PMD effect
Assessment of improvement of
5/
extension of reach of 10 Gbit/s
2015
PONs by using APDs
Impact of in-band crosstalk on
Bruno Rafael Luís Gonçalo the performance of PDM-QPSK
5/
Pereira
optical communication
Lecoq Vences e
2015
Costa Cancela
Pinheiro
systems
172
Supervisor
Student
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Ricardo
Outerelo
Joao Soeiro
Paulo Miguel
Nepomuceno
Pereira
Monteiro
Rafael
Santos Costa
Lúcia Maria
Botas Bilro
Nuno Filipe
Duarte
Oliveira
Nélia Jordão
Alberto
Henrique
Pinho Santos
Nélia Jordão
Alberto
Francisco
Nuno Branco
Serra
Luís Gonçalo
Lecoq Vences e Hélio Simeão
Costa Cancela
Pedro Renato Luís Monteiro
Tavares Pinho
de Brito
Armando
Humberto
Élio Tiago
Moreira Nolasco Sousa Coelho
Pinto
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Inter-ring OFDM-band transfer
limited by the crosstalk
5/
Tiago Manuel
induced by laser's wavelength
2015
Ferreira Alves
drift
Optical Fronthauls for Cloud 5 /
Radio Access Networks
2015
Paulo Silva
João Lopes
Rebola
Desenvolvimento de um
7/
sensor ótico de parâmetros
2015
físicos da água
Plataforma de controlo para
7/
processo de moldação por
2015
injeção plástica
Uso de FBGs para
7/
monitorização da memória de
2015
forma de SMPU/CNT
On the performance of 1610 /
QAM optical signals in ROADMs
2015
based optical networks
Arquitetura WDM-PON com 12 /
geração centralizada
2015
Redes Óticas de Nova Geração
12 /
2015
Table 15 - List of MSc Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2014
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Rogério
Dionísio
Rogério Nunes
Nogueira
Advanced optical generation 3 /
and regeneration
2014
Manuel Alberto
Reis de Oliveira
Violas
Zhansheng
Liu
Nuno Miguel
Gonçalves
Borges de
Carvalho
Research on Nonlinearities in 4 /
Radio over Fiber
2014
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Claudia Reis
Paulo Sérgio de
Brito André
Title
All-optical routing
funcionalities
End
Date
6/
2014
173
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Adballa
Abdelgader
Mário José
Neves de Lima
Paulo
Henrique José
Alexandre
Almeida Silva Ferreirinha de
Almeida
Title
Next generation optical
converged networks
Radio Over Fibre Systems
with Support for Wired and
Wireless Services
End
Date
7/
2014
7/
2014
Paulo Miguel
Design of Optical Transport
8/
Nepomuceno
Networks for Ethernet Traffic 2014
Pereira Monteiro
High Capacity Optical
Daniel Diogo
Henrique José Filipe Marques
Transmission Systems based 9 /
Trindade
Ferreira
on Mode Division Multiplexing 2014
Almeida Silva
Fonseca
João José de
Oliveira Pires
João Santos
Paulo Sérgio de
Brito André
Maria de
Fátima
Fonseca
Domingues
Rogério Nunes
Andre
Nogueira
Albuquerque
Adolfo da
Visitação
Tregeira
Cartaxo
Paula Raquel
Viegas dos
Santos Nunes
Laurêncio
Miguel Vidal
Drummond
Filipe Manuel
Wiener Ferro
de Carvalho
Vitor Lopes
Mário José
Vitor Ribeiro
Neves de Lima
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Zoran Vijicij
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
Ali shahpari
Estudo da degradação do
tempo de vida das fibras
12 /
ópticas e o seu impacte no
2014
desempenho das redes de
comunicações
Active and Passive All-Optical
Signal Processing Devices for 1 /
Efficient Optical
2015
OFDM-based next generation
1/
converged optical-wireless
2015
access networks
Maria do Carmo
Sistemas de Banda Larga em 1 /
Raposo de
Rádio sobre Fibra
2015
Medeiros
Antonio Luis
Jesus Teixeira
All-optical network resources
in the scope of impairment
2/
aware based routing for the
2015
next generation optical
networks
emiters and receivers for next
generation access optical
3/
Natasa Pavlovic
networks
2015
Mário José
Neves de Lima
Next generation dense optical
access networks
3/
2015
Paulo Miguel
Armando
Nepomuceno
Rui Manuel
3/
Humberto
Pereira Monteiro Optical Networks Optimization
Moreira Nolasco Dias Morais
2015
João Manuel
Pinto
Ferreira Pedro
174
Sisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Armando
José Rodrigues
Humberto
Sudhir Kumar
Quality of Signal in
Ferreira da
Moreira Nolasco
Routray
Transparent Optical Networks
Rocha
Pinto
Armando
Paulo Miguel
João Carlos
Humberto
Nepomuceno
Transient Effects in Optical
de Melo
Moreira Nolasco
Pereira Monteiro
Networks
Ferreira
Pinto
Daniel Fonseca
Rogério Nunes
Advanced Fiber Sensors,
Hugo Lima
Nogueira
Advanced Fiber Sensors
Novel techniques and devices
Rogério Nunes
Ricardo
Lúcia Maria
for optical communications
Nogueira
Oliveira
Botas Bilro
and sensing technologies.
Armando
Fernando
Digital Post-Compensation in
Humberto
Pedro Pereira
High-Speed Optical
Moreira Nolasco
Guiomar
Transmission Systems
Pinto
Telmo
Multimode optical components
Rogério Nunes
Paulo Sérgio de
Pelicano
for the next generation of
Nogueira
Brito André
Almeida
optical communications
Armando
Álvaro José
Humberto
Paulo Sérgio de Quantum Communications in
Caseiro de
Moreira Nolasco
Optical Fibers
Brito André
Almeida
Pinto
Rogério Nunes
Vanessa
Miguel Vidal
Microwave Photonics Signal
Nogueira
Duarte
Drummond
Processing Devices
Adolfo da
Pedro
Nonlinear Crosstalk in MBVisitação
Emanuel
Tiago Manuel
OFDM Metropolitan Optical
Tregeira
Domingos da Ferreira Alves
Networks
Cartaxo
Cruz
Armando
Gil Gonçalo
Humberto
Nelson de Jesus
Optical Signal Processing
Martins
Moreira Nolasco
Cordeiro Muga Based on Optical Microfibers
Fernandes
Pinto
António
João José de
João Manuel
Optimization of flexible-grid
Miguel Barata
Oliveira Pires
Ferreira Pedro
optical transport networks
da Eira
Advanced Fiber Optics
Lúcia Maria
Filipa R. C.
Rogério Nunes
Sensors for Water Quality
Botas Bilro
Sequeira
Nogueira
Assessment
Armando
Sofia Batalha
Digital Signal Processing in
Humberto
de Oliveira Nelson de Jesus
High-Speed Optical
Moreira Nolasco
Cordeiro Muga
Pascoal
Pinto
Amado
Rogério Nunes Novel techniques and devices
Nélia Jordão Daniel André Nogueira,Lúcia
for optical plasmonic
Alberto
Pires Duarte
Maria Botas
communications and sensing
Bilro
applications
End
Date
3/
2015
3/
2015
6/
2015
11 /
2015
12 /
2015
12 /
2015
12 /
2015
11 /
2016
12 /
2016
12 /
2016
12 /
2016
1/
2017
11 /
2017
12 /
2017
175
Supervisor
Student
Lúcia Maria
Botas Bilro
Daniel André
Pires Duarte
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Plataforma ótica
Rogério Nunes
multiparâmetro para a
12 /
monitorização da qualidade de 2018
Nogueira
um líquido
Table 16 - List of PhD Theses running in the Optical Communications Area during 2014
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4.2.6 Publications
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Papers in Journals
- Martins, L. P.; A. J. Almeida; N. A. Silva; P.S André; A. N. Pinto; " A different way
to verify the violation of the WWZB inequality ", The European Physical Journal D ,
Vol. 68 , No. 228 , pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2014 .
- Duarte , V. C.; A. Shahpari; M. V. Drummond; A. Teixeira; R.N. Nogueira; " Alloptical OOK-to-QPSK modulation format conversion based on XPM ", Microwave and
Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 56 , No. 2 , pp. 355 - 359 , February , 2014 .
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; " Analysis of Performance Assessment of DirectDetection OFDM Optical Receivers with Imperfect RF Demodulation ", Journal of
Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 6 , No. 2 , pp. 180 - 189 , February ,
2014 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Analytical characterization of four wave mixing
effect in direct-detection double-sideband OFDM optical transmission systems ",
Optics Express , Vol. 22 , No. 7 , pp. 8598 - 8616 , April , 2014 .
- Morant, M.; T. M. F. Alves ; R. Llorente; A. Cartaxo; " Broadband impairment
compensation in hybrid fiber-wireless OFDM long-reach PONs ", IEEE/OSA Journal
of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No. 7 , pp. 1387 - 1393 , April , 2014 .
- Rohde, HR; A. Teixeira; J.D. Reis; A. Shahpari; K. Pulverer; S. wey; " Coherent
Ultra Dense WDM Technology for Next Generation Optical Metro and Access
Networks ", IEEE Journal of Llightwave Technology , Vol. 99 , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 12 ,
April , 2014 .
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Comprehensive characterization of a heralded single
photon
source
based
on
four-wave
mixing
in
optical
fibers
",
Optics
Communications , Vol. 327 , No. 9 , pp. 31 - 38 , September , 2014 .
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- Vujicic , Z.; R.S. Luis; J.M. Mendinueta; A. Shahpari; N.P. Pavlovic; B. J. Puttnam;
Y.K. Kamio; M.N. Nakamura; N. Wada; A. Teixeira; " Demonstration of Wavelength
Shared Coherent PON using RSOA and simplified DSP ", IEEE Photonics Technology
Letters , pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2014 .
- Ji, F. J.; X. C. Chen; W Chen Chen; J. R. Rodrigues; Z. Z. Zhu; " Dynamic p-Cycle
Protection in Spectrum-Sliced Elastic Optical Networks ", IEEE/OSA Journal of
Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No. 6 , pp. 1190 - 1199 , March , 2014 .
- Pereira, J.; H. A. Silva; " Error probability upper bound for perfect sequences
implemented with super-structured fibre Bragg gratings ", IET Signal Processing ,
Vol. 8 , No. 4 , pp. 421 - 428 , June , 2014 .
- Cruz, P. E. D.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Experimental assessment of 10
Gbit/s SSB OFDM IM-DD systems performance employing raised-cosine based
symbol precoding ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No. 8 , pp.
1631 - 1638 , April , 2014 .
- André, P.S; A. Shahpari; A. Teixeira; R.N. Nogueira; A. Sousa; " GROUP
VELOCITY
DISPERSION
MONITORING
FOR
QPSK
SIGNALS
USING
DIRECT
DETECTION ", Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 56 , No. 9 , pp. 2078 2080 , September , 2014 .
- Mahmoud , A.; A. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; J.D. Reis; A. Shahpari; Ricardo Ferreira
Ferreira; " Improved Nonlinear Tolerance in Ultra Dense WDM OFDM Systems ",
Optics Communications , Vol. 326 , No. 0030-4018 , pp. 88 - 93 , September ,
2014 .
- André, P.S; A. Sousa; " IN LINE 40 Gb/s GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION
MONITORING ", Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 56 , No. 1 , pp. 206 208 , January , 2014 .
- Morant, M.; R. Llorente; J. H. Herrera; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; M. H. Herman;
" Integrated FTTH and in-building fiber-coax OFDM field trial ", IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters , Vol. 26 , No. 8 , pp. 809 - 812 , April , 2014 .
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- Loura, R. Loura ; A. J. Almeida; P.S André; A. N. Pinto; P. Mateus; N. Paunkovic;
" Noise and measurement errors in a practical two-state quantum bit commitment
protocol ", Physical Review A , Vol. 89 , No. 5 , pp. 052336-1 - 052336-15 , May ,
2014 .
- Llorente, R.; M. Morant; E. P. Pellicer; M. H. Herman; Z. N. Nagy; T. M. F. Alves ;
A. Cartaxo; J. H. Herrera; J. C. Correcher; et. al.; " On-the-field performance of
quintuple-play long-reach OFDM-based WDM-PON optical access networks ", Optics
Express , Vol. 22 , No. 6 , pp. 6203 - 6209 , March , 2014 .
- Carvalho, F. C.; A. Cartaxo; " Optimal electrical power distribution among
coexisting OFDM-based signals in LR-PONs: theoretical and experimental analyses
", Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 6 , No. 6 , pp. 559 570 , June , 2014 .
- Reis, J.D.; A. Shahpari; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; S. Ziaie ; D. Neves; M. J. N.
Lima; A. Teixeira; " Terabit+ (192x10 Gb/s) Nyquist Shaped UDWDM Coherent PON
with Upstream and Downstream over a 12.8 nm Band ", IEEE/OSA Journal of
Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No. 4 , January , 2014 .
- Routray, S.; " The Changing Trends of Optical Communication ", IEEE Potentials
Magazine , Vol. 33 , No. 1 , pp. 28 - 33 , February , 2014 .
- Fonseca, D.F.; J. Morgado; A. Cartaxo; " Transmission improvement due to preemphasis of multi-band OFDM-UWB signals in LR-PONs using directly modulated
lasers ", Journal of Modern Optics , Vol. 61 , No. 6 , pp. 461 - 469 , April , 2014 .
- Shahpari, A.; A. Mahmoud ; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; G. Parca; J.D. Reis; V.
Carrozzo; M. J. N. Lima; G. Beleffi ; A. Teixeira; " Ultra High Capacity PON Systems
with Free-Space Optical Communications ", Fiber and Integrated Optics , Vol. 33 ,
No. 3 , pp. 149 - 162 , July , 2014 .
- Luis, R.S.; A. Shahpari; J.D. Reis; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; Z. Vujicic ; B. J.
Puttnam; Mendinueta J Mendinueta; M. J. N. Lima; N. Wada; A. Teixeira; " Ultra
High Capacity Self-Homodyne PON With Simplified ONU and Burst-Mode Upstream
", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 4 , January , 2014 .
179
- Lopes, V. Lopes; P. Laurêncio; M. C. R. Medeiros; " 100 Gbit/s W-Band OFDM-RoF
Systems
Employing
Optical
Up-Conversion
Strategies
",
Proc
International
Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal ,
pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2014 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; A. Teixeira; R.N. Nogueira; " Advanced optical modulation and
format conversion ", Proc International Conference on Applications of Optics and
Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , May , 2014 .
- Duarte , V. C.; M. V. Drummond; R.N. Nogueira; " All-optical modulation format
conversion from OOK to DP-QPSK based on fiber nonlinearity ", Proc SPIE
International Conf. on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro ,
Portugal , Vol. 9286 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Cruz, P. E. D.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Analytical modeling for performance
evaluation of ASE noise-impaired direct-detection single-sideband multi-band
optical OFDM systems ", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Photonics, Optics and
Laser Technology - PHOTOPTICS , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 134 - 141 ,
January , 2014 .
- Cruz, P. E. D.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Analytical modelling for performance
evaluation of distortion-impaired direct-detection single-sideband optical OFDM
systems employing virtual-carriers ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Cartaxo; " Capacity of hybrid wired-wireless OFDM LR-PONs
limited by cross-phase modulation ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent
Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Monteiro, P.; R. Oberland; M. M. Almeida; R. F. S. Ribeiro; A Bassem; "
Challenges in Digital Data Backhaul networks for Square Kilometre Array radio
telescope ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON ,
Graz , Austria , June , 2014 .
180
- Amado, S. B.; F. P. Guiomar; S. Ziaie ; A. Teixeira; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; "
Clock and carrier recovery in high-speed coherent optical communication systems ",
Proc II International Conf. on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP , Aveiro ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , May , 2014 .
- Henning, L.F.; M. C. R. Medeiros; P. Monteiro; A. Pohl; " Colourless ONU based on
Self Seed Signal RSOA in a WDM-PON ", Proc International Telecommunications
Network Strategy and Planning Symposium - networks , Madeira , Portugal , pp. 1 5 , September , 2014 .
- Ferreira, F. M.; D.F. Fonseca; H. A. Silva; " Design of Few-Mode Fibers With Up to
12 Modes and Low Differential Mode Delay ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON , Graz , Austria , Vol. Th.B1.2 , pp. 1 - 4 , July ,
2014 .
- Alves , T. M. F.; A. Alberto Alberto; A. Cartaxo; " Direct-detection multi-band
OFDM metro networks employing virtual carriers and low receiver bandwidth ", Proc
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , San Francisco , United States , March ,
2014 .
- Lobato, A.; F. M. Ferreira; J. Rabe; M. Kuschnerov; B. Spinnler; B. Lankl; "
Enhanced Performance for MDL-impaired Few-Mode Fiber Transmission ", Proc
Optoelectronics and Communications Conf. - OECC , Melbourne , Australia , Vol.
TU4B-3 , pp. 1 - 3 , July , 2014 .
- Cruz, P. E. D.; P. F. Rosário; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Exhaustive Gaussian
approach for performance evaluation of direct-detection OFDM systems employing
square and cross QAM ", Proc IEEE International Telecommunications Symp. , São
Paulo , Brazil ,pp. 1 - 4 , August , 2014 .
- Shahpari, A.; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; M. J. N. Lima; A. Teixeira; " Free space
optical communications for ultra high-capacity PON system ", Proc International
Vol. CD , pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2014 .
181
- Shahpari, A.; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; V. M. C. Ribeiro; Z. Vujicic ; F. P.
Guiomar; S. Ziaie ; M. J. N. Lima; A. N. Pinto; A. Teixeira; " Free space optics
hybrid PTMP advanced modulation bidirectional PON ", Proc European Conf. on
Optical Communications - ECOC , Cannes , France , Vol. CD , pp. P.7.16 - P.7.16 ,
September , 2014 .
- Shahpari, A.; R.S. Luis; J.D. Reis; Z. Vujicic ; M. J. N. Lima; N. Wada; A. Teixeira;
" Fully Coherent Self- Homodyne Bi-directional Enhanced Performance PON ", Proc
OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , San Francisco , United States , Vol. CD ,
pp. W4G.1 , March , 2014 .
- Monteiro, P.; A. Gameiro; " Hybrid fibre infrastructures for cloud radio access
networks ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Graz ,
Austria , June , 2014 .
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; " Impact of In-Band Crosstalk due to Mixed Modulation
Formats with Multiple Line Rates on Direct-Detection OFDM Optical Networks
Performance ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON , Graz ,
Austria , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , July , 2014 .
- Rebola, J. L. ; L. G. C. Cancela; J. J. O. Pires; " Impact of Multi-Rate and MultiFormat Crosstalk Signals on the Performance of 40 Gbit/s DQPSK Optical Receivers
", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology PHOTOPTICS , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , January , 2014 .
- Mendes, M. M.; P. E. D. Cruz; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Impact of the band
selector detuning on DD multi-band OFDM virtual-carrier assisted metro network
performance ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON ,
Graz , Austria , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Ferreira, Ricardo Ferreira; A. Shahpari; S. B. Amado; P. Costa Costa; F. P.
Guiomar; A. N. Pinto; A. Teixeira; " Impact of TWDM on optional real-time QPSK
WDM channels ", Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications - ECOC , Cannes
, France , Vol. CD , pp. P.7.19 - P.7.19 , September , 2014 .
182
- Rosário, P. F.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " Impact of WSS delay distortion on
the ROADM cascade performance in virtual carrier-assisted DD multi-band OFDM
metro networks ", Proc International Telecommunications Symp. , São Paulo ,
Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , August , 2014 .
- Almeida, P. ; H. A. Silva; " LTE Signals Transmission With Modulation Efficiency
and Robustness Against Chromatic Dispersion Improved Based
Modulation
in
Cloud-RoF
Access
Networks
",
Proc
International
on DEMZM
Conf.
on
Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Reis, J.D.; A. Shahpari; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; D. Neves; M. J. N. Lima; A.
Teixeira; " Nyquist Signaling for Spectrally-Efficient Optical Access Networks
[Invited Paper] ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , San Francisco ,
United States , Vol. CD , pp. W3G3, March , 2014 .
- Guerreiro, J.; R. Dinis; P. Carvalho; " On the Impact of the Clipping Techniques on
the Performance of Optical OFDM ", Proc International Joint Conf. on e-Business
and Telecommunications (ICETE) , Vienna , Austria , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , August ,
2014 .
- Ferreira, Ricardo Ferreira; A. Shahpari; M. J. N. Lima; A. Teixeira; " Photonic
Integrated Transceiver for Hybrid PONs ", Proc International Telecommunication
Network Strategy and Planning Symp. - Networks , Madeira , Portugal , Vol. CD ,
pp. fri.s22.3 - fri.s22.3 , September , 2014 .
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Photon-Pair Generation in Chalcogenide Glass: Role of
Waveguide Linear Absorption ", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Photonics,
Optics and Laser Technology - PHOTOPTICS , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 5 - 10 ,
January , 2014 .
- Almeida, T.; P.S André; A. Sousa; " Quality of service degradation due to time
transients induced by erbium doped fibers amplifiers in GPON extended range
networks ", Proc 19th Optoelectronics and Communications Conf. (OECC) and the
39th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) - OECC/ACOFT
2014 , Melbourne , Australia , pp. 425 - 427 , January , 2014 .
183
- Guiomar, F. P.; S. B. Amado; A. N. Pinto; " Reducing the Complexity of Digital
Nonlinear Compensation for High-Speed Coherent Optical Communication Systems
", Proc International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014
, Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9826 , pp. 92864L-1 - 92864L-9 , August , 2014 .
- Rosário, P. F.; T. M. F. Alves ; A. Cartaxo; " ROADM cascade performance in DD
multi-band OFDM metro networks employing virtual carriers ", Proc IEEE Photonics
Conf. - IPC , San Diego , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 , October , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, V. M. C.; R.S. Luis; B. J. Puttnam; N. J. Muga; A. Shahpari; M. J. N.
Lima; S. Shinada; N. Wada; A. Teixeira; " Sub-microsecond Packet Polarization
Alignment Using All-optical Polarization Attraction ", Proc Optoelectronics and
Communications Conf. - OECC , Melbourne , Australia , pp. 1 - 3 , July , 2014.
- Guiomar, F. P.; A. Carena Carena; G. B. Bosco; A. N. Nespola; A. N. Pinto; "
Transmission of PM-64QAM over 1524 km of PSCF using Fully-Blind Equalization
and Volterra-Based Nonlinear Mitigation ", Proc European Conf. on Optical
Communications - ECOC , Cannes , France , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2014 .
- Pinto, A. N.; N. A. Silva; A. J. Almeida; N. J. Muga; " Using Single Photons to
Improve Fiber Optic Communication Systems ", Proc International Conference on
Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9286 , pp.
92861B-1 - 92861B-10 , May , 2014 .
- Lopes, V. Lopes; P. Laurêncio; M. C. R. Medeiros; " W-Band OFDM-RoF Systems
Employing Optical Up-Conversion ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical
Networks - ICTON , Graz , Switzerland , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND SUB-SYSTEMS
Books
-
Nogueira,
R.N.
;
C.A.F.
Marques;
Fiber
Optic
Components
for
Optical
Communications and Sensing , , Scholars Press , Germany , 2014 .
184
Papers in Journals
- Muga, N. J.; A. N. Pinto; " Adaptive 3D Stokes Space Based Polarization
Demultiplexing Algorithm ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No. 19
, pp. 3290 - 3298 , October , 2014 .
- André, P.S; M.R. Ferreira; " Colour multiplexing of quick-response (QR) codes ",
Electronics Letters , Vol. 50 , No. 24 , pp. 1828 - 1830 , November , 2014 .
- Dghais, W. Dghais; V. M. C. Ribeiro; Z. Liu; Z. Vujicic ; M. Violas; A. Teixeira; "
Efficient RSOA Modelling using Polar Complex-Valued Neural Networks ", Optics
Communications , pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2014 .
- Vicente, C.; P. P. Lima; V. Bermudez; L. D. Carlos; P.S André; R. A. Sá Ferreira; "
Fabrication of low-cost thermo-optic variable wave plate based on waveguides
patterned on di-ureasil hybrids ", Optics Express , Vol. 22 , No. 22 , pp. 27159 27168 , October , 2014 .
- Trindade, A.; T Falcão; F Carramate; Ferreira I; R. A. Sá Ferreira; P.S André; "
Low-cost spectrograph based on a WebCam: a student project ", International
Journal of Electrical Engineering Education , Vol. 51 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 11 , January ,
2014 .
- Correia, S.; V. Bermudez; S. J. L. R. Ribeiro; P.S André; M.R. Ferreira; Carlos; "
Luminescent solar concentrators: challenges for lanthanide-based organic–inorganic
hybrid materials ", Journal of Materials Chemistry , Vol. 2 , No. 2 , pp. 5580 - 5596
, February , 2014 .
- Lu, G.-W.; A. Albuquerque; B. J. Puttnam; T. Sakamoto; M. V. Drummond; R.N.
Nogueira; A. Kanno; S. Shinada; N. Wada; T. Kawanishi; " Pump-linewidth-tolerant
optical wavelength conversion for high-order QAM signals using coherent pumps ",
Optics Express , Vol. 22 , No. 5 , pp. 5067 - 5075 , March , 2014 .
- Fernandes, G.; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; " Tunable Mode Conversion Using Acoustic
Waves in Optical Microwires ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech. , Vol. 32 , No.
19 , pp. 3257 - 3265 , October , 2014 .
185
- Drummond, M. V.; R.N. Nogueira; " 32 Gbaud QPSK and 16QAM field trial
transmission over 560 km with GaAs IQ modulator for hybrid integration over SOI
photonic circuits ", Proc Fotonica AEIT Italian Conf. on Photonics Technologies ,
Naples , Italy , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2014 .
- Pinto, A. N.; R. M. Ferreira; F. P. Guiomar; A. Teixeira; S. Ziaie ; A. Shahpari; N.
J. Muga; " Digital Equalization of Optical Nonlinearities in Very High-Speed Optical
Communication Systems ", Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
ICTON , Graz , Austria , Vol. We.D1.1 , pp. 1 - 5 , July , 2014 .
- Muga, N. J.; A. N. Pinto; " Dynamic Method for Stokes Space Based Polarization
Demultiplexing of Advanced Modulation Formats ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria , Vol. Tu.B1.6 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
July , 2014 .
- Tiburcio, B.; G. Fernandes; M. Monteiro; S. Rodrigues; M. I. Carvalho; M. Facão;
M. Ferreira; A. N. Pinto; " Experimental setup for electromagnetically induced
transparency observation in hollow-core fibers ", Proc International Conference on
Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9286 , pp.
92860H-1 - 92860H-8 , August , 2014 .
- Albuquerque, A.; B. J. Puttnam; J. Hirohashi; M. V. Drummond; S. Shinada; R.N.
Nogueira; N. Wada; " Investigation of PPSLT waveguides for applications in optical
communication systems ", Proc II International Conf. on Applications of Optics and
Photonics - AOP , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 2 , pp. 92861K - 92861K , May , 2014 .
- Fernandes, G.; N. J. Muga; A. N. Pinto; " Mode conversion based on the acoustooptic effect for mode division multiplexed transmission ", Proc International
Vol. 9286 , pp. 92863J-1 - 92863J-8 , August , 2014 .
- Matos, V.M.; J. T. Pereira; " Numerical Analysis and Optimization of Resonant
Cavity-Enhanced p-i-n Photodiodes ", Proc WSEAS International Multiconf. on
186
Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers - CSCC , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol.
1 , pp. 62 - 68 , October , 2014 .
- Dionísio, R.P.; R.N. Nogueira; A. Teixeira; " Parametric impairments analysis of
all-optical format conversion techniques with a MZI-SOA ", Proc International
May , 2014 .
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Photon-Pair Generation in Lossy Waveguides ", Proc II
International Conf. on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP , Aveiro , Portugal
, Vol. 9286 , pp. 92861E-1 - 92861E-7 , May , 2014 .
- Lu, G.-W.; A. Albuquerque; B. J. Puttnam; T. Sakamoto; M. V. Drummond; R.N.
Nogueira; A. Kanno; S. Shinada; N. Wada; T. Kawanishi; " Pump-LinewidthTolerant Optical Data Exchange between 16QAM and QPSK with 50-GHz ChannelSpacing
using
Coherent
DFB
Pump
",
Proc
European
Conf.
on
Optical
Communications - ECOC , Cannes , France , Vol. 40 , pp. P.2.18 - P.2.18 ,
September , 2014 .
OPTICAL NETWORKING
Papers in Journals
- Routray, S.; G. Sahin; R. F. Rocha; A. N. Pinto; " Estimation of Link-Dependent
Parameters in Optical Transport Networks From Statistical Models ", IEEE/OSA
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , Vol. 6 , No. 7 , pp. 601 - 609 ,
July , 2014 .
- Reis, C.; G. Parca; A. Maziotis; P.S André; N. Calabretta; C. Kouloumentas; T
Chattopadhyay; D. Erasme; H. Avramopoulos; A. Teixeira; " Experimental analysis
of an all-optical packet router ", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and
Networking , Vol. 6 , No. 7 , July , 2014 .
187
- Cartaxo, A.; T. M. F. Alves ; M. M. Mendes; " 42.8 Gb/s SSB DD MB-OFDM metro
networks assisted by virtual carriers: system parameters optimization ", Proc
International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria , pp. 1
- 4 , July , 2014 .
- Ferreira, Ricardo Ferreira; A. Shahpari; M. J. N. Lima; A. Teixeira; " Context
Requirements in Future Access Networks ", Proc International Telecommunication
Network Strategy and Planning Symp. - Networks , Madeira , Portugal , Vol. CD ,
pp. thu.s16.3 - thu.s16.3 , September , 2014 .
- Sousa, A. F.; C. B. Lopes; P. Monteiro; " Design Cost and Spectrum Efficiency
Comparison of Fixed-Grid and Flex-Grid Optical Networks with Grooming ", Proc
International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium networks , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2014 .
- Reis, J.D.; A. Shahpari; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; D. Neves; M. J. N. Lima; A.
Teixeira; " Dowstream and Upstream Nyquist Band Optimization for Heterodyne
Coherent PON ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC , San Francisco ,
United States , Vol. CD , pp. W2A25 , March , 2014 .
- Cancela, L. G. C.; J. L. Rebola; J. J. O. Pires; " DQPSK Error Performance in the
Presence of In-Band Interferers with Different Modulation Formats ", Proc European
Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC , Milão , Italy , June , 2014 .
- Routray, S.; R. F. Rocha; A. N. Pinto; " Estimating the parameters of optical
transport networks from their circumferential ellipses ", Proc International Conf. on
Telecommunications - ICT, Lisbon , Portugal, Vol. 21 , pp. 119 - 123 , May , 2014 .
- Morais, R.M.; J. M. Pedro; P. Monteiro; A. N. Pinto; " On the Impact of Client to
Line Port Blocking in the Interface Count and Footprint of Transport Networks ",
Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON , Graz , Austria ,
July , 2014 .
188
- Pedro, J. M.; S. Pato; " On the Value Proposition of the Contentionless Add/Drop
ROADM Property in DWDM Transport Networks ", Proc International Conf. on
Transparent Networks – ICTON , Graz , Austria , July , 2014 .
- Almeida, T.; M. V. Drummond; N.P. Pavlovic; P.S André; R.N. Nogueira; " Optimal
launch power prediction of a 100G PM-DQPSK dispersion-managed link with the
Gaussian noise model ", Proc II International Conf. on Applications of Optics and
Photonics - AOP , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9286X , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
- Pedro, J. M.; " Pre-Deployment of Regenerators in DWDM Networks and the
Impact of Mismatches between Planning and Operation ", Proc OSA Optical Fiber
Communications - OFC , San Francisco , United States , pp. 1 - 3 , March , 2014 .
Awards
- Dionísio, R.P.; A. Teixeira; R.N. Nogueira; " Best Student Paper Award on Optical
Communications and Sensors ", AOP2014, Aveiro Portugal , 01-05-2014 .
- Silva, N. A.; A. N. Pinto; " Best Student Paper Award ", for the paper entitled
''Photon-Pair Generation in Chalcogenide Glass - Role of Waveguide Linear
Absorption'' presented at the International Conference on Photonics, Optics and
Laser Technology (PHOTOPTICS), held in Lisbon - Portugal , 01-01-2014 .
- European Conf. on Networks and Communications - EUCNC, Technical Programme
Committee, Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2014
-
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Telecommunications
,
Technical
Programme
Committee, Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves , 01-01-2014
- ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems - OPTICS, Technical
Programme Committee, Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves , 01-01-2014
189
- International Conf. on Optical Communications Systems - OPTICS, Scientific
Committee, João Lopes Rebola, 01-01-2014
- European Conf. on Networks and Communications - EUCNC, Scientific Committee,
João Lopes Rebola, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Special Sessions Chairman, Adolfo
da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Technical Programme Committee,
Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2014
- Conf. on Lasers and Electro-optic - CLEO, Scientific Committee, Adolfo da
Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2014
-
International
Conf.
on
Telecommunications
-
ICT,
Technical
Programme
Committee, Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo , 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Photonics - ICP - ICP, Technical Programme Committee,
- European Conf. on Networks and Communications - EUCNC, Scientific Committee,
Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences e Costa Cancela , 01-04-2014
- ICETE International Conf. on Optical Communication Systems - OPTICS, Scientific
Committee,
Luís
Gonçalo
Lecoq
Vences
e
Costa
Cancela
,
01-05-2014
- SPIE International Conf. on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014,
ganizing Committee, Vanessa Cunha Duarte , 01-01-2014
- Symposium on Modelling and Simulation in Computer Sciences and Engineering MSCSE 2014 , Technical Programme Committee, Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro, 01-012014
- International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014,
Organizing Committee, Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Technical Programme
Committee,
Maria
do
Carmo
Raposo
de
Medeiros
,
01-01-2014
- International Telecommunications Symp., Technical Programme Committee,
- IEEE International Telecommunications Symp., Technical Programme Committee,
190
ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA
4.3 Networks and Multimedia
•
Mário Figueiredo
•
Rui Valadas
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
0
1
5
Associate Professor
3
0
7
Assistant Professor
12
5
17
Post. Doc.
9
1
6
Coordinator Professor
1
1
1
PhD Student
14
6
22
MSc Student
1
0
0
(Licenciado)
7
0
0
47
14
58
TOTAL
Table 17 – Overview of human resources in Networks and Multimedia Area in 2014
191
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate
Agregação
Abel João Padrão Gomes
Network
Professor
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Full Professor
Agregação
Alexandra Sofia Martins de
Pattern and Image
Carvalho
Analysis – Lx
Amílcar dos Santos Costa
Security and
Sernadas
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Professor
Assistant
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD
Ana Gualdina Almeida Matos
Professor
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Associate
PhD
Ana Luisa Nobre Fred
Professor
Assistant
Analysis – Lx
PhD
Anders Lyhne Christensen
Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image
Information
Technology - Lx
PhD
André Filipe Torres Martins
Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
André Nuno Carvalho Souto
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Antonio Manuel Duarte Nogueira Telecommunications
Professor
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
PhD
Augusto José Venâncio Neto
Professor
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Carla Calado Lopes
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
192
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Assistant
PhD
Carlos Eduardo Ramos dos
Security and
Santos Lourenço
Quantum
Professor
Information –Lx
Associate
PhD
Professor
Carlos Manuel Costa Lourenço
Security and
Caleiro
Quantum
Information –Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
Post. Doc.
PhD
Daniel Cardoso de Moura
Networked Systems
– Po
Assistant
PhD
Daniel da Silva Graça
Professor
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Researcher
PhD
Daniel Nunes Corujo
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
PhD
Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes
Professor
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Post. Doc.
PhD
Eduardo Oliveira Estanqueiro
Telecommunications
Rocha
and Networking –
Av
Post. Doc.
PhD
Evariste Logota
Mobile Systems Av
Coordinator
PhD
Fernando José Pimentel Lopes
Professor
Associate
Processing – Co
Agregação
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Multimedia Signal
PhD
Fernando Manuel Bernardo
Multimedia Signal
Pereira
Processing – Lx
Fernando Manuel Santos Perdigão Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
193
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Post. Doc.
PhD
Francesco Renna
Information Theory
– Po
Assistant
PhD
Francisco Manuel Marques Fontes
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Francisco Miguel Alves Campos
Security and
de Sousa Dionísio
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
Professor
Assistant
Processing – Co
PhD
Henrique José Monteiro Oliveira
Professor
Assistant
PhD
PhD
Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço
Pattern and Image
Proença
Analysis – CV
João da Silva Pereira
Multimedia Signal
Professor
Assistant
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
Professor
Assistant
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD
Professor
João Filipe Quintas dos Santos
Security and
Rasga
Quantum
Information –Lx
Associate
PhD
Professor
Associate
PhD
Professor
João Francisco Cordeiro de
Networked Systems
Oliveira Barros
– Po
João Luís Costa Campos
Network
Gonçalves Sobrinho
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso
Professor
Assistant
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
PhD
João Paulo Barraca
Professor
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
Professor
PhD
João Pedro Afonso Oliveira da
Pattern and Image
Silva
Analysis – Lx
194
Position
Degree
Assistant
PhD
Name
Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira Embedded Systems
Professor
Assistant
Group
– Av
PhD
Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Associate
PhD
José Alberto Gouveia Fonseca
Professor
Associate
Embedded Systems
– Av
PhD
José Brázio
Professor
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Associate
Agregação
José Manuel Bioucas Dias
Professor
Assistant
Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
PhD
José Manuel Peixoto do
Pattern and Image
Professor
Nascimento
Analysis – Lx
Post. Doc.
Julio Angel Cano Romero
Networked Systems
– Po
Assistant
PhD
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Professor
Assistant
Processing – Co
PhD
Professor
Associate
Agregação
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Full Professor
Post. Doc.
Multimedia Signal
Agregação
PhD
Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla
Multimedia Signal
Soares
Processing – Lx
Luís Filipe Barbosa de Almeida
Pattern and Image
Alexandre
Analysis – CV
Luis Filipe Fernandes Silva
Multimedia Signal
Marcelino
Processing – Lr
Luís Henrique Martins Borges de
Pattern and Image
Almeida
Analysis – Lx
Luís Manuel Cerqueira Barreto
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes
Information
Technology - Lx
195
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Associate
PhD
Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida
Networked Systems
Professor
Assistant
– Po
PhD
Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes
Professor
Full Professor
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
Agregação
Maria Cristina de Sales Viana
Security and
Serôdio Sernadas
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Maria Manuela Areias da Costa
Multimedia Signal
Pereira de Sousa
Processing – Cv
Maria Paula Antunes Abrantes
Security and
Gouveia
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz
Multimedia Signal
Rodrigues
Processing – Lx
Maria Paula Prata de Sousa
Network
Professor
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Full Professor
Full Professor
Agregação
Agregação
Mariana Sá Correia Leite de
Pattern and Image
Almeida
Analysis – Lx
Mário Alexandre Teles de
Pattern and Image
Figueiredo
Analysis – Lx
Mario Marques Freire
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Michel Celestino Paiva Ferreira
Professor
Assistant
– Po
PhD
Miguel Tavares Coimbra
Professor
Post. Doc.
Networked Systems
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD
Nikola Paunkovic
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
196
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
PhD
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Associate
PhD
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues
Professor
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Post. Doc.
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Coordinator
PhD
Professor
Coordinator
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Paulo Alexandre Carapinha
Pattern and Image
Marques
Analysis – Lx
Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Neto
Embedded Systems
Alves Afonso
– Av
Paulo André Pais Fazendeiro
Pattern and Image
Professor
Assistant
Analysis – CV
PhD
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Professor
Assistant
– Av
PhD
Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes
Professor
Assistant
Embedded Systems
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
PhD
Professor
Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra
Telecommunications
Ferreira
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
PhD
Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia
Professor
Post. Doc.
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
PhD
Pedro Alexandre Cardoso Baltazar
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Alexandre Sousa Gonçalves Telecommunications
Professor
and Networking –
Av
Coordinator
Professor
PhD
Pedro António Amado Assunção
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
197
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
PhD
Pedro Daniel Frazão Correia
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Figueiredo Santana
Professor
Assistant
Information
Technology - Lx
PhD
Pedro José Guerra de Araújo
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Professor
Post. Doc.
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD
Pedro Miguel Naia Neves
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio
Professor
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
Post. Doc.
Ricardo Jorge Teixeira de Sousa Embedded Systems
– Av
Full Professor
Agregação
Rui Jorge Morais Tomaz Valadas
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Associate
Agregação
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Professor
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Associate
Licenciatura
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Professor
Associate
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD
Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha
Professor
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro
Networked Systems
Prior
– Po
198
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Assistant
PhD
Sancho Moura Oliveira
Information
Professor
Post. Doc.
Post. Doc.
Technology - Lx
PhD
PhD
Sara Maria Fernandes Rato e
Multimedia Signal
Costa Marques Candeias
Processing – Co
Seil Jeon
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
PhD
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo Networked Systems
Professor
Coordinator
– Po
Agregação
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
Professor
Post. Doc.
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD
Sérgio Marcelino
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Associate
PhD
Professor
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda
Network
Sargento
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Researcher
Post. Doc.
PhD
PhD
Tânia Cláudia dos Santos Pinto
Networked Systems
Calçada
– Po
Tiago Travassos Vieira Vinhoza
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa
Multimedia Signal
Brandão
Processing – Lx
Valter Filipe Miranda Castelão da Telecommunications
Silva
and Networking –
Av
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Vasco Lagarto
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
199
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Assistant
PhD
Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Network
Soares
Architectures and
Professor
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto
Interactive
Orvalho
Multimedia - Po
Vitor Manuel Mendes Silva
Multimedia Signal
Professor
Processing – Co
Table 18 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Networks and Multimedia Area in 2014
Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Adriano Nunes Raposo
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
Alexandre Kimiyaki Ligo
Networked Systems
– Po
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Álvaro Henrique C. Gomes
PhD Student
MSc
André Amorim de Faria Cardote
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
MSc
André Braga Reis
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
MSc
André Manuel Longo Moreira
Networked Systems
– Po
Assistant
Professor
PhD
André Zúquete
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
200
Position
Degree
PhD Student
Name
Group
Andreia Filipa Torcato Mordido
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
PhD Student
Ângela Cristina Marques de
Multimedia Signal
Oliveira
Processing – Cv
Angelo Miguel Pires Arrifano
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
PhD Student
Assistant
PhD
Professor
PhD Student
MSc
António Damião das Neves
Networked Systems
Rodrigues
– Po
António Luís Morais Costa da
Information
Silva Lopes
Technology - Lx
Bruno José Conchinha Montalto
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
Bruno Miguel Correia da Silva
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Bruno Miguel Ferreira de Oliveira
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
Carlos David Magalhães Queiroz
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Carlos Jorge Santiago
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
Assistant
PhD
Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida
Professor
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
201
Position
Degree
PhD Student
MSc
Name
Group
Carlos Miguel Silva Couto Pereira Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
Caroline Conti
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
PhD Student
Catarina Alexandre Nunes Runa
Interactive
Miranda
Multimedia - Po
Chandrashekhar N. Padole
Pattern and Image
Analysis – CV
PhD Student
Cumhur Ozan Çetinaslan
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
Daniel Cláudio Pereira
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
David Walter Figueira Jardim
Information
Technology - Lx
PhD Student
Diogo João de Sousa Ferreira
Networked Systems
– Po
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Diogo Resende Rainho
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
PhD Student
Elga Cristina Gato Correia
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
PhD Student
Fabio de Lima Hedayioglu
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
MSc
Fernando António Carvalho
Network
Marcos
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Fernando Goulart da Silva
Information
Technology - Lx
Post. Doc.
Filipe Cabral Pinto
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
202
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Filipe dos Santos Neves
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
Filipe Manuel Rodrigues Casal
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
Filippo Basso
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Gil Melfe Mateus Santos
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
MSc
Gonçalo Nuno Vinhas Leitão
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
Guilherme Henrique Caçador
Security and
Ramos
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Guilherme Ribeiro Corrêa
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD Student
MSc
Hana Khamfroush
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
Hugo Filipe Pereira da Silva
Information Theory
Reboredo
– Po
Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva
Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
PhD Student
Hugo Marcelo Fernandes da
Networked Systems
Conceição
– Po
203
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Hugo Moreira de Sousa Pinto
Networked Systems
– Po
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Isabel da Piedade Xavier
Information
Machado Alexandre
Technology - Lx
Jaime Arsénio de Brito Ramos
Security and
Professor
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Jan Gunnar Cederquist
Professor
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
MSc
João Alfredo Fazendeiro
Network
Fernandes Dias
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
João Filipe Monteiro Carreira
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD Student
João Francisco Cardoso Gante
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
MSc
João Guilherme Pereira
Networked Systems
Rodrigues
– Po
João Manuel Barbosa de Oliveira
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
João Manuel Maia Duarte
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Assistant
PhD
João Manuel Pires Leitão Caldeira
Lecturer
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
João Maria Duarte Andrade
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
204
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
João Monteiro Soares
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Assistant
MSc
João Paulo Cordeiro
Lecturer
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
João Paulo Patriarca de Almeida Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
MSc
Joaquim Manuel Pereira Mateus
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Jorge Daniel Leonardo Proença
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD Student
Jorge Henrique Santos Oliveira
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
Jorge Miguel Carvalho Gomes
Information
Technology - Lx
PhD Student
MSc
José Carlos G. P. Miranda
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Assistant
PhD
José Francisco Monteiro Morgado
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
José Luís Pimentel Antunes do
Network
Vale Matos
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
José Mário Figueiredo Serra
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
MSc
José Miguel de Carvalho Catela
Network
Teixeira
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
205
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Ke Zhang
Information Theory
– Po
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Lino Miguel Moreira Ferreira
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
Post. Doc.
PhD
Lucas Guardalben
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
Luís Alexandre Moreira Matias
Networked Systems
– Po
Full Professor
PhD Student
Agregação
MSc
Luis António Serralva Vieira de
Multimedia Signal
Sá
Processing – Co
Luis David Moreira Pedrosa
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
Luís Filipe Nunes Quaresma de
Network
Oliveira
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Filipe Silva Camacho
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Luís Miguel Barbosa da Costa
Interactive
Leite
Multimedia - Po
L
PhD Student
MSc
uís Miguel Lopes de Oliveira
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Associate
Professor
PhD
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho Teixeira
Information
Botelho
Technology - Lx
206
Position
Degree
PhD Student
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Name
Group
Luis Miguel Ramos Barbara
Networked Systems
Cunha Pinto
– Po
Luís Miguel Silva
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
PhD Student
Malik Saad Sultan
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
MSc
Manuel Mota Ferreira
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
Mara Elisa de Paiva Fernandes
Security and
Matias
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Márcio Daniel Tavares de Melo
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
PhD Student
Maria Margarida Carreira Pires
Embedded Systems
Urbano
– Av
Maricica Nistor
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc
Miguel Antunes Dias Alfaiate
Pattern and Image
Simões
Analysis – Lx
Miguel Pereira dos Santos Silva
Network
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Miguel Raul Dias Rodrigues
Professor
PhD Student
Information Theory
– Po
Licenciatura Miguel Sousa Borges de Almeida Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
PhD Student
Milton Armando Cunguara
Embedded Systems
– Av
207
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
PhD
Nelson Carreira Francisco
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
PhD Student
MSc
Nelson Filipe Capela
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Nuno Alexandre Tavares
Network
Coutinho
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
Orlando Ricardo Esteves Pereira
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Ousmane Diallo
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Paul Andrew Crocker
Professor
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Paulo Alexandre Correia da Silva
Network
Neves
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Paulo Jorge Ferreira Baptista
Network
Pinheiro Cordeiro
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Paulo Roberto Almeida Moreira
Network
Costa
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Pawel Andruszkiewicz
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Licenciado
MSc
Pedro Capão
208
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Pedro Daniel Rosete Bento
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD Student
MSc
Pedro Emanuel Rodrigues Gomes Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
MSc
Pedro José Gonçalves Ribeiro
Security and
Quantum
Information –Lx
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves
Security and
Madeira Adão
Quantum
Information –Lx
PhD Student
PhD Student
PhD Student
Pedro Miguel Salgueiro dos
Networked Systems
Santos
– Po
Pedro Miranda de Andrade de
Networked Systems
Albuquerque dÓrey
– Po
Pedro Mota Mendes
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
MSc
Pedro Tavares Barata Bastos
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
Pedro Tiago Magalhães Gomes
Networked Systems
– Po
Licenciado
MSc
Ricardo Azevedo Guerra Pereira
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Post. Doc.
PhD Student
PhD
MSc
Ricardo da Costa Branco Ribeiro
Pattern and Image
Matias
Analysis – Lx
Ricardo João Rodrigues
Security and
Gonçalves
Quantum
Information –Lx
Licenciado
MSc
Ricardo Jorge Alves Cordeiro
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
209
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Ricardo Jorge Fernandes
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
MSc
Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de
Network
Matos
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Romeu Rabaça Monteiro
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Costa Cardoso
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Rui Jorge Henriques Calado
Network
Lopes
Architecture and
Protocols – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Rui Manuel Pacheco Meireles
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
Rui Pedro Quaresma Braz
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Sérgio Duarte Correia
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
Sérgio Emanuel Duarte Dias
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Cv
PhD Student
MSc
Sílvio Brás Filipe
Pattern and Image
Analysis – CV
PhD Student
Susana Pereira Bulas Cruz
Networked Systems
– Po
PhD Student
MSc
Sylvain Tony Marcelino
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lr
210
Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD Student
MSc
Teresa de Jesus Baptista Vieira
Interactive
Multimedia - Po
PhD Student
Thaísa Leal da Silva
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Co
PhD Student
Tiago Hipkin Meireles
Embedded Systems
– Av
PhD Student
MSc
Tiago Silvestre Condeixa
Network
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
Assistant
PhD
Professor
Victor Manuel Letra Macedo
Network
Marques
Architectures and
Protocols – Av
PhD Student
Vinay Uday Prabhu
Information Theory
– Po
MSc
Vitor Simões Ribeiro
Telecommunications
and Networking –
Av
PhD Student
Xiangrong Zeng
Pattern and Image
Analysis – Lx
PhD Student
MSc
Xiem HoangVan
Multimedia Signal
Processing – Lx
PhD Student
Zahid Iqbal
Networked Systems
– Po
Table 19 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Neteworks and Multimedia Area in
2014
211
•
Information Theory – Po
•
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.
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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
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
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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
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.
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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
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.
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Complexity Scalability of HEVC Video Encoders
This line of research is looking into the problem of efficiently scaling the
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
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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.
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
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extract domain-specific image descriptors amenable to use in large retinal
image database searches. The results were presented as two oral
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
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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.
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.
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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
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
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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.
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.
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We have also developed parallel kernels to perform the computation of
intensive medical imaging ultrasound systems in real-time, by adopting
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 Pattern and Image Analysis
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
protocols in NGN, and test automation tools for the extraction of QoS/QoE
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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:
cryptographic
algorithms
algebraic
for
equational
theories
reasoning
and
under
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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Overview
Funding Agency
Number
IT
1
IT
1
ADI, SII&DT - Projectos em Co-Promoção
1
COST Office via the European Science Foundation and the Horizon 2020
1
COST-ESF
1
EC
1
EDP Solidária 2013 - Fundação EDP
1
ESF, COST
1
EU, FP7
4
European Commission
2
FCT
8
FCT - Portugal-Carnegie Mellon
1
FCT PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
1
FCT, UT Austin
1
FCT/CMUP
1
FCT/PTDC
13
FCT/PTDC
1
FEDER/QREN
1
IT
6
IT/LA
3
IT-FCT
1
IT-LA
1
Prestação de serviços
1
Prestação Serviços
1
PT Inovação
4
PT-Portugal Telecom
1
QREN
5
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QREN - PTInovação
1
QREN/COMPETE
1
FCT
1
Table 20 – Number of active projects in the Networks and Multimedia Area during 2014
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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.
Acron / Ref
Title
3DSERVICIS
Scalable Error Resilient 3D Holoscopic Video Coding for Immersive
Systems
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Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in terms of 3D
holoscopic content representation, processing and coding. To enable
adequate compatibility (to some extent) with legacy displays (e.g., 2D,
stereoscopic, or multi-view) efficient scalable representations will be
investigated. Whenever appropriate, the emerging scalable extensions of
the High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) standard will be explored by
extending these solutions to 3D holoscopic content. Additionally, since
some envisaged delivery channels are critical in terms of channel
errors/data losses, this project will also investigate new error control
techniques that are specific for 3D holoscopic content.
Acron / Ref
3DVQM
Title
3D Video Quality Monitor
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The project is focussed on research and development of 3D video
perceptual quality monitoring in error prone networks, such as the near
future 3DTV services over IP or DVB networks. The challenge is to
establish a set of (Quality of Experience) QoE metrics and their
relationship with objective measurements that affect the overall QoE.
These metrics are computed from a combination of transport network
layer information, quality features of 3D video signal and coding
parameters embedded in compressed streams. The project seeks to
investigate No-Reference (NR) methods such that blind 3D quality
assessment can be carried out at any point of the delivery chain
including the receiving terminal. Such an approach is rather more
challenging than Full-Reference (FR) or even Reduced-Reference (RR)
methods, where either the original signal or partial information about it
is available.
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Acron / Ref
Title
AAPELE
COST IC1303 AAPELE - Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for
Enhanced Living Environments
Funding
COST
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
CancerSys
Title
Multiscale modeling for personalized therapy of bone metastasis
Funding
FCT
Descript.
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
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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
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.
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Acron / Ref
Title
CodeStream
CodeStream - Codificação em Rede para Distribuição de Conteúdos em
Tempo Real
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
O objectivo deste projecto é ultrapassar as barreiras que existem entre a
codificação
avançada
e
a
arquitectura
de
sistemas
de
tempo real, oferecendo conhecimento fundamental e soluções práticas
para
a
entrega
de
conteúdos
multimédia
através
de
redes
sem fios não fiáveis. Focando em cenários do tipo multicast com vários
transmissores
e
receptores
concorrentes,
investigaremos
como
a
codificação em rede (network coding), que consiste na mistura de
pacotes
e
fluxos
de
informação
diferentes
através
de
operações algébricas, pode ser utilizada para aumentar a fiabilidade da
entrega
de
pacotes
sob
grandes
limitações
temporais.
O
principal desafio a ser ultrapassado é a latência extremo-a-extremo
causada
pelos
esquemas
de
codificação,
que
são
tipicamente
optimizados para o débito e não para o tempo que decorre até que o
receptor
tenha
pacotes
suficientes
para
descodificar.
A
ideia
chave para resolver este problema é utilizar de forma inteligente o canal
de retorno (feedback) e as mensagens de confirmação
(acks).
Acron / Ref
COST IC1106
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.
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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
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
CFS
Title
Towards Super Multiview Video: Light Fields Coding
Funding
CNPq: Ciência sem Fronteiras
Descript.
The
main
objective
of
this
project
is
to
develop
efficient
coding solutions for super multiview light fields, which are able to
provide more immersive experiences to the users. Beside compression
efficiency, these codecs shall consider other requirements such as
random access and limited computational complexity. To have a wider
research approach to the problem, both predictive and distributed coding
solutions will be considered. Whenever relevant, the MPEG uses cases
and requirements will be considered to bring more practical relevance to
this project.
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Acron / Ref
E-M2M 2
Title
Battery Efficient Mobile M2M GW
Funding
Prestação de serviços
Descript.
1. Avaliação de desempenho e definição de melhorias a implementar
2. Desenho de melhorias propostas
3. Implementação e avaliação de desempenho das medidas a testar
4. Protótipo final
5. Escrita de um artigo para publicação
Acron / Ref
GAPOTT
Title
GAPOTT
Funding
QREN - PTInovação
Descript.
Investigação nos conceitos de redes auto-organizados, que serão
necessários para o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de adaptação da
rede às necessidades dos utilizadores e serviços, incluindo os conceitos
que têm como base as tecnologias Peer-to-Peer, e conceitos de Content
Delivery Networks (CDNs) que se adaptam às necessidades dos
consumidores e que permitem melhorar a QoE dos utilizadores.
Distribuição de conteúdos OTT de forma prática e do ponto de vista de
sistema, em que o foco está no utilizador e na utilização dos serviços
OTT. Por um lado, os diferentes modelos de distribuição serão avaliados
de um ponto de vista de performance, de forma a providenciar uma
experiência de utilização satisfatória. Por outro lado, os padrões de
utilização dos sistemas e serviços OTT existentes serão avaliados,
analisados e caracterizados, com base em conjuntos de dados de
utilização fornecido pelas entidades participantes, que podem ser
utilizadas
para
estabelecer
modelos
de
consumo
por
parte
dos
utilizadores.
Esta abordagem permitirá uma avaliação dos diferentes sistemas de
distribuição
sob
condições
realistas
de
utilização.
Sugestões
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de
mecanismos de cache de conteúdos com base nestes padrões de
utilização serão exploradas e fornecidas bem como as políticas de
manutenção e gestão destes objetos. Estas decisões terão um impacto
significativo em vários cenários, como por exemplo situações de flash
crowd, ou gestão de caches para operadores móveis em que as
limitações de recursos são comuns e as políticas de caching são
determinantes para uma entrega de serviço de qualidade.
Acron / Ref
GEMINI
Title
GEMINI - GastroEnterology Made INteractIve
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The main goal of the GEMINI project is to create an interactive Computer
Assisted
Decision
(CAD)
system
that
can
be
used
during
a
gastroenterology examination.
The
main
objectives
of
the
GEMINI
project
are:
- Identify interaction opportunities within a gastroenterology exam room
environment,
model
relevant
personas
and
define
scenario
characteristics.
- Design, develop and deploy an interactive prototype for enhanced
information
access
within
a
gastroenterology
exam
room.
- Research novel computer vision algorithms that can be integrated into
the final prototype.
- Publish results in high-impact scientific journals and conferences.
Acron / Ref
Title
GLANCES
Generalized Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components for Power
and Spectral Efficient Broadband Wireless Systems
Funding
IT
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Descript.
Broadband wireless systems require high power and spectral efficiencies,
and transmission over severely time-dispersive channels. Developing on
the concept of Linear Amplification with Non- Linear Components (LINC),
the main technical objective of the project is to design, implement and
validate a new set of digital transmission techniques with high power
and spectral efficiency for future wireless broadband systems to be
employed in the uplink of mobile systems or in satellite communications.
Our main goal is to design signals with low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio
(PAPR) or even quasi-constant envelope and high spectral efficiency,
employing amplification techniques based on low- cost, highly efficient
grossly NonLinear (NL) amplifiers (e.g., class D and E amplifiers), which
are simpler and have higher amplification and output power then quasilinear amplifiers. Since a grossly NL amplifier is only suitable for signals
with quasi-constant envelope, we will develop new signal designs and/or
transmission
techniques
compatible
with
grossly
NL
amplifiers.
This research project combines theoretical development (including signal
and receiver design), CMOS implementation of key components (with
emphasis on matched amplifiers and output power combination with
minimum
losses)
and
FPGA-based
implementation
for
an
overall
system’s proof of concept, for the most promising techniques.
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
HeartBIT
Novel pervasive technologies for the prevention and monitoring of
cardiovascular diseases
Funding
IT
Descript.
With this project we seek to create both hardware and software for the
prevention
and
monitoring
of
cardiovascular
diseases
based
on
physiological data collected in a pervasive manner, with integrated
patient / user identity recognition. The system will be supported by lowcost instrumentation, and it will integrate an identity recognition layer
based
on
multimodal
physiological
data
and
cloud-based
signal
processing and pattern recognition algorithms for clinical diagnostics in a
continuous data acquisition framework. The team integrates clinical
partners that will identify pervasive ECG parameters applicable to health
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status monitoring, validate their clinical content, structure and design
reports
taking
into
account
the
continuous
or
near-continuous
monitoring capabilities of our approach, benchmark the prototypes
against gold-standard devices, and perform case studies with end-users.
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.
Acron / Ref
Hycos
Title
Hyperspectral Compressive Sensing and Unmixing
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
Hycos project aims at the definition and implementation of advanced
new
compressive
sensing
techniques
for
hyperpsectral
imagery.
Aiming at the use of these techniques on applications under real-time
or near real-time restrictions, particular attention will also be given to
the efficient parallel implementation on graphics computing units (GPUs)
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Acron / Ref
Hyrax
Title
Future Cities
Funding
Comissão Europeia
Descript.
Auxiliar ao lançamento de um centro de competências para as cidades
do futuro.
Acron / Ref
Title
GOLEM
Crowd-Sourcing de Dispositivos Móveis para o Desenvolvimento de
Edge-Clouds
Funding
Descript.
FCT/CMUP
We will aim to develop and demonstrate three new compelling
applications: crowd-sourced image search on a distributed photo gallery,
crowd-sourced user-generated replays inside a stadium, and crowdsourced real-time road conditions. What makes these applications novel
is that (i) we essentially drive all of the processing to the edge, (ii) the
data to be processed is essentially created at the edge, (iii) we build on
the idea of dynamic collections of wireless devices in proximity with each
other, for a temporary period of time, (iv) we favor performing the
computation at the edge over sending all of the data to a central server,
and (v) we rely on untrusted devices sharing data with each other,
including allowing other devices to query them and to dispatch
computation remotely and wirelessly to them. These aspects (i)-(v) are
fairly unique, and currently, there does not exist any infrastructure to
support these proximity-aware crowd-sourced applications reliably,
securely and effectively.
Acron / Ref
ICSI
Title
Intelligent Cooperative Sensing for Improved traffic efficiency
Funding
EU, FP7
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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.
Acron / Ref
LETSREAD
Title
Automatic assessment of reading ability of children
Funding
IT
Descript.
This work aims to develop a technological module for Portuguese
children, able to detect
mispronunciations, hesitations and
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other
disfluency indicators, in order to compute an overall reading ability
index. The main problem consists in the detection of mispronunciations,
which requires detailed acoustic models and new detection techniques
dealing with speech variability using models of allowable pronunciations.
The developed methods can be put to use in a prototype application,
useful not only for the children, but also for the teachers and tutors that
are involved in their education. The proposed system could be used in
the near future in primary schools as a complimentary way of
assessment of students or as a speech therapy tool.
Acron / Ref
LPNE
Title
Lembrar para não Esquecer
Funding
EDP Solidária 2013 - Fundação EDP
Descript.
A contribuição deste projeto para a resolução dos problemas associados
à doença de Alzheimer enquadra-se numa perspetiva não farmacológica,
através
do
desenvolvimento
de
uma
aplicação
informática.
Os objetivos da aplicação informática são predominantemente dois: ajudar os profissionais de saúde (médicos, enfermeiros, auxiliares de
saúde, etc.) a acompanhar a evolução da doença em doentes já
diagnosticados; - ajudar os doentes através da realização de jogos que
auxiliem a estimulação das suas capacidades cognitivas (através de
elementos textuais, ou multimédia). A aplicação a ser desenvolvida,
chamada MEM+ pressupõe que o doente se encontra num estado
intermédio da doença, i.e., o doente ainda consegue andar, reconhecer
pessoas e associar palavras a cores e objetos. Esta solução consistirá no
desenvolvimento de uma aplicação informática, com a capacidade de
gerar questionários, com base nas experiências de vida do doente, de
forma a testar e estimular a sua memória. Serão também gerados
relatórios com base nos resultados dos questionários. A aplicação
permitirá inserir uma representação da vida do doente, os eventos por
que passou (com as pessoas e locais relacionados) e as pessoas que
fazem ou fizeram parte da sua vida. Com base na informação recolhida
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serão definidos grupos de memórias, com base nos quais, serão gerados
questionários
estruturados.
Através
da
resposta
a
questionários
pretende-se estimular a memória, tentando travar a evolução da
doença, e ao mesmo tempo serão recolhidos dados que permitirão
representar/estudar a evolução da doença num grupo amplo de
pacientes
ao
longo
de
um
período
de
tempo.
Estas
perguntas
beneficiarão da introdução de conteúdos multimédia, e o relatório final
providenciará ao doente uma história que relata os eventos da sua vida
que foram abordados naquele questionário. Em termos tecnológicos,
esta
aplicação
proporcionará
a
possibilidade
de
aplicar
conceitos
inovadores de Inteligência Artificial num ambiente distinto com objetivos
terapêuticos.
Acron / Ref
MacSeNet
Title
Machine Sensing Training Network
Funding
EC
Descript.
The aim of this Innovative Training Network is to train a new generation
of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early stage researchers
(ESRs) in the research area of measurement and estimation of signals
using knowledge or data about the underlying structure. With its
combination of ideas from machine learning and sensing, we refer to this
research topic as “Machine Sensing”. We will train all ESRs in research
skills needed to obtain an internationally-recognized PhD; to experience
applying their research a non-Academic sector; and to gain transferable
skills such as entrepreneurship and communication skills. We will further
encourage an open “reproducible research” approach to research,
through open publication of research papers, data and software, and
foster an entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented attitude through
exposure to SME and spin-out Partners in the network. In the research
we undertake, we will go beyond the current, and hugely popular, sparse
representation and compressed sensing approaches, to develop new
signal models and sensing paradigms. These will include those based on
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new structures, nonlinear models, and physical models, while at the
same time finding computationally efficient methods to perform this
processing. We will develop new robust and efficient Machine Sensing
theory and algorithms, together methods for a wide range of signals,
including: advanced brain imaging; inverse imaging problems; audio and
music signals; and non-traditional signals such as signals on graphs. We
will apply these methods to real-world problems, through work with nonAcademic partners, and disseminate the results of this research to a
wide range of academic and non-academic audiences, including through
publications, data, software and public engagement events.
Acron / Ref
MC-WMNs
Title
MC-WMNs: Multiple Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Acron / Ref
MEDICOMP
Title
Spatiotemporal compression of volumetric medical images
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
In this project, we aim to develop new spatiotemporal prediction tools, as
an alternative to the traditional frame-by-frame intra and inter prediction
techniques. Since motion estimation is one of most computationally
demanding tasks on hybrid video codecs, the alternative spatiotemporal
techniques can give an important contribute while developing low
complexity/high
performance
video
codecs.
Particularly,
it
was
demonstrated that not only the Least-squares prediction can achieve
competitive results when compared to the traditional motion estimation,
but also that there exists a strong correlation between edges in space and
object trajectories in the time domain. Based on these observations, we
believe that both the spatial and temporal redundancy can be exploited
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with similar approaches, namely using three- dimensional coding units.
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
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.
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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
Descript.
FEDER/QREN
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 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 and dissemination of the results).
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Acron / Ref
MUVIS
Title
MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
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 telepresence systems. Visual sensor networks are characterized by: 1) Interview 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
distributed coding approach provides a significant architectural benefit
since it does not require any 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-theart 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
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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 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 ncoder) 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 errorprone networks (typically wireless).
Acron / Ref
Title
PAConvex
Beyond
Convexity:
Non-Convex
Optimization
and
Game-Theoretic
Approaches for Imaging Inverse Problems
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
Imaging inverse problems (IIPs) abound in the modern world. Medical
imaging (CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound), remote sensing, seismography, nondestructive inspection, digital photography, astronomy, all involve at their
computational
core
the
solution
of
IIPs:
they
produce
visual
representations (images) of an underlying reality from indirect/imperfect
observations. In a nutshell, the goal of this project is to advance the state
of the art in computational methods for IIPs, by exploiting the promising
new possibilities that lie outside of the classical convex optimization
approaches.
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IIPs are ill-posed: even if the observation operator is perfectly known, the
observations do not uniquely and stably determine the solution. This
difficulty is dealt with by seeking a compromise between data fidelity
(fitting the observed data) and adherence to properties that the unknown
image is known/desired to have. The classical way to seek this balance is
to formulate an optimization problem (usually convex, more by reasons of
mathematical tractability than model adequacy), where the objective
function includes a term encouraging data fidelity and another (the
regularizer/prior) penalizing undesirable solutions; in this approach,
convex optimization takes center stage and has been in the limelight of
computational imaging.
If the observation operator is only partially known (in the so-called blind
problems), the goal is to infer, not only the underlying image, but also the
missing information about the observation model. Blind problems are
obviously more ill-posed, requiring regularizers/priors that better model
the images of interest. Moreover, variational formulations of blind IIPs are
naturally non-convex, thus out of reach
optimization
tools
developed
in
the
past
for the efficient convex
decade
for
the
convex
formulations of non-blind IIPs. Consequently, the methods that have been
proposed for blind problems lack convergence guarantees and require
"tricks" in order to work well (e.g., careful initialization and continuation
procedures), making it hard to trace their (non)success to the behavior of
the optimization algorithm or the (in)adequacy of the objective function.
Non-convexity also stems from using non-convex regularizers, even in
non-blind IIPs, e.g., constraints/penalties on the number of coefficients
that represent the image on some frame or dictionary. These non-convex
regularizers are central in the recent theory of compressive sensing and
much research has been devoted to finding conditions under which similar
solutions are obtained with convex relaxations. Very recently, algorithms
that directly tackle the non-convex formulations have been proposed by
exploiting particular properties of the observation operator, namely their
restricted isometry properties (RIP). However, in IIPs, the RIP is
essentially impossible to guarantee, making the application of these non-
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convex approaches an open research front.
This project aims at advancing the state of the art in computational
methods for IIPs, by departing from the convex optimization realm and its
limitations, in several directions:
a) We will investigate optimization methods for non-convex formulations
of blind IIPs; unlike previous approaches, we seek methods with
theoretical guarantees and without careful user interaction. Of course,
non-convex optimization can only be approached by exploiting specific
characteristics of the class of problem in hand; this is precisely the
strategy we will follow. In particular, a recently proposed new class of
algorithms for non-convex structured functions, based on the KurdykaLojasiewicz
property,
is
a
promising
tool
for
this
quest.
b) We will develop algorithms for non-convex regularization, by exploiting
the lines of attack that have recently been successfully followed for
compressed sensing (CS). However, unlike in CS, the observation
operators in general IIPs do not exhibit RIP, thus other characterizations
are
needed
to
support
the
sought
for
theoretical
guarantees.
c) For blind IIPs, we will seek formulations of the compromise between
data fitness and regularization as equilibrium (rather than optimization)
problems, namely via variational inequalities (VIs) and game theory.
Since optimization problems are particular cases of VIs but the reciprocal
is not true, this approach contains and extends the standard optimization
formulation, opening the door to more general criteria and computational
methods. For example, blind deblurring can be formulated as an
equilibrium problem (a game) between estimating the underlying image
and estimating the blur.
Acron / Ref
QoEVIS
Title
Quality of Experience in Video Streaming
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
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Acron / Ref
Title
RHEUMUS
RHEUMUS
-
Sistema
de
análise
de
imagens
de
ecografia
para
reumatologia
Funding
Descript.
QREN
Research novel computer vision algorithms for the quantification of
muscular-skeletal hand parameters associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
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 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.
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Acron / Ref
SBikee
Title
Smart Bikeemotion
Funding
ADI, SII&DT - Projectos em Co-Promoção
Descript.
Bike sharing systems have been very successful in many cities worldwide.
In Aveiro, Portugal, the BUGA system was pioneer, but it has never
evolved to an automated operation mode. The first automated bike
sharing system in Portugal, was deployed in Vilamoura in 2011/12. There
are some relevant examples of popular and effective bike sharing system
in Europe, notably in London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid and Hamburg.
Current automated bike sharing systems require docking stations to park
the bicycles, to interface with the user and to connect them to the
backhauling information system. The evolution of these systems was
mostly concentrated on the information systems, improving the usability,
the
access
(mobile
phone
and
web)
and
the
payment
process.
We are witnessing a growing dissemination of electric bicycles. These
bicycles behave like conventional bicycles, as they can be used without
electrical motor support, or as semi-assisted electrical bikes (“pedelecs”),
since the driver has to move the pedals. With electrical motor support,
the autonomy is around 100km without significant driver physical effort,
except the need to move the pedals. It is expected that this technology
will multiply by 5 (from 6% today to 30%) the number of potential users
of bike shared systems, encompassing people moving for work, people
aged over 60 and people with poor physical shape unable to ride a
standard bicycle for medium size journeys. The recently concluded
bikeemotion® project, integrating Ponto.C, Ubiwhere, Micro I/O and the
University of Aveiro, has developed a prototype fourth generation (station
less) bike sharing system adaptable to any bicycle, in which the bicycle
includes not only the locking system, but also GPS and mobile
communications. In July 2013 the bikeemotion® prototype was awarded
the “Urban Planning and Urban Design – Cycling Visionaries Award –
Voting Prize”, during the Velo-City 2013 held in Vienna Austria.
The Smart Bikeemotion project continues the work of the bikeemotion®
project
to develop
the fifth
generation
of bike sharing
systems,
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accommodating
the
use
of
electric
bicycles
and
the
consequent
broadening of the range of users.
The R&D activities of the project include the following lines of work:
• Embedding of sensors in the bicycle and in the driver to monitor
biological signals, e.g. ECG, blood pressure, skin conductivity, etc.
• Close the control loop between the bio-sensors and the electrical motor.
•
Extend
the
communication
capabilities
of
the
bikeemotion®
architecture.
• Energy harvesting and smart battery charging.
• Cloud-based information system to manage the bike-sharing system
• Human machine interface
Acron / Ref
S-DiaSelMan
Title
Smart Diabetes Self-Management Care
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Diabetes is a rising disease in terms of number of people affected and the
costs associated with its treatment. 439 million adults and USD490 billion
are estimated by 2030. Portugal had, in 2011, 12.7% of the population
between 20 and 79 with the disease.
This project aims to develop a smartphone application to help the diabetic
patient deal with managing the disease. A first step is to enable data
recordings of the daily diabetic life in an intuitive and simple way, so not
to be a burden, which can undermine the gathering of the information.
This information taking should be seen more as a process (e.g.: having a
meal implies registering carbohydrates, glycaemia, insulin) than a direct
and separate register of several records.
A second step is to incorporate the knowledge/protocols of doctors and
nurses into the application. These protocols allow to react to certain
patterns of behaviour, detected by the records taken. As an example, it
could warn the user that it made exercise 2h ago and that perhaps her
insulin dose should be adjusted, or that the current illness situation (that
has been going on for 2 days) would merit an insulin correction.
A third phase would be the pattern analysis of the data gathered, to
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search for patterns in two ways. One would be to provide feedback for the
patient regarding some behaviour/actions that may be inducing erratic or
bad disease control, e.g. detection of recurring low values before bedtime
occurring when high values of carbohydrates where consumed at dinner
time. The other perspective, would be for a more global analysis using the
aggregated data from several patients for medical purposes. Here insights
on
insulin
adjustments,
approaches,
unknown
differences
correlations
between
could
be
patients
using
analysed
same
from
an
endocrinologist point of view with more data to support it.
Acron / Ref
Title
SensaBusNet
Sensing
data
and
Delay-Tolerant
Delivery over Vehicular Ad-hoc
Networks
Funding
Descript.
IT/LA
The goal of the project is to deliver fundamental knowledge as well as key
networking and data processing modules for a vehicular mesh network
capable of retrieving data collected by large numbers of sensor nodes.
Special attention will be given to energy-aware machine-to-machine
protocols and lightweight store-and-forward mechanisms.
Acron / Ref
SpaRTaNt
Title
Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Training Network
Funding
EC
Descript.
The aim of this Initial Training Network is to train a new generation of
interdisciplinary researchers in sparse representations and compressed
sensing, contributing to Europe’s leading role in scientific innovation. By
bringing together leading academic and industry groups with expertise in
sparse representations, compressed sensing, machine learning and
optimization, and with an interest in applications such as hyperspectral
imaging, audio signal processing and video analytics, this project will
create
an
interdisciplinary,
transnational
and
intersectorial
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training
network to enhance mobility and training of researchers in this area.
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
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
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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.
Acron / Ref
Title
VR2
VitalResponder 2.0: Intelligent management of critical events of stress,
fatigue and smoke intoxication in forest firefighting
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
Evolução nas redes ad-hoc para fornecer uma solução de conectividade
para
suportar
redes
de
sensores
e
bombeiro
de
monitoramento e coordenação em um ambiente de incêndios florestais;
• Evolução na tecnologias de sensors, junto com uma redução no seu
custo
unitário,
oferecem
a
possibilidade
sem
precedentes
de implantação de cost-effective sensor;
• Soluções de monitorização móveis, para a monitorização da saúde
humana (ECG, acelerometros ...) e do ambiente (CO, temperatura,
pressão, ...) que oferecem um grande potencial para aferir o estado de
saúde pessoal para detectar stress e fadiga [1]
• Avanços nos modelos computacionais de fogo e comportamento de
emissões
de
fumo,
em
conjunto
com
os
dados
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dos
sensores, para fornecer em tempo real uma simulação de situações de
incêndio
no
local
e
com
a
antecedência
necessária
de
forma a permitir um posicionamente seguro/eficiente das equipas na
terreno.
Acron / Ref
Title
VR2MARKET
Desenvolvimento dum Produto para Monitorização Móvel e Vestível da
Saúde de Profissionais de Primeira Resposta e de outras Profissões de
Risco
Funding
Descript.
Prestação Serviços
Consolidating the technology developed in VR and VR2, improving
even further its scalability and adaptability to a wider set of requirements
from different hazardous professions.
Improving the methodologies, specially the Data Analysis and psyco-‐
physiology indicators to better detect trends and health threatening
events of these professionals.
Converging to a scalable, adaptable, mobile and integrated cloud
services based ICT platform that can be configurable to attend different
health surveillance scenarios in different professions.
Perform a business concept validation and a manufacture supply
chain strategy for guiding the path from prototype to the market
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MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Isabel da Piedade
Xavier Machado Tiago Amaral
Alexandre
David José
Paulo Jorge
Cabaço
Lourenço Nunes
Mendes
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Ivan Silva
Orvalho
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
€-Hour
9/
2015
2D-to-3D Video
Conversion
7/
2014
3D Facial Scanning
10 /
2015
3D video quality
measures for video
Pedro Rocha
subject to texture and
depth losses
3D-HEVC computational
Luis Alberto da
Nuno
complexity reduction
Silva Cruz
Carvalho
techniques
Luís Eduardo de
4K Ultra HD Decoding
Miguel Delfino Paulo Jorge
Pinho Ducla
and Visualization
Rodrigues Lourenço Nunes
Soares
System
A comparative study of
Miguel Tavares
the sound quality of
Cristiana Pinto
Coimbra
electronic stethoscopes
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Sérgio Faria
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Pedro Jorge
Madeira
Tavares
Paulo André Pais
Micael Costa
Fazendeiro
Joel José Puga
Coelho Rodrigues
Daniel
Fernando
Mendes
Rodrigues
A dynamic event
processing framework
for high performance
streams
A Framework for
Creating Applications for
Different Mobile
Operating Systems
A Mobile Application to
Improve the Quality of
Life via Exercise and
Rehabilitation
A Mobile Healthcare
Solution for Ambient
Assisted Living
Environments
7/
2015
7/
2015
7/
2015
9/
2015
11 /
2014
11 /
2014
7/
2015
11 /
2014
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Supervisor
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Student
CoSupervisors
João Ribeiro
Joel José Puga
Diogo João
Coelho Rodrigues Pinto Ribeiro
José André Rocha Ana Patricio
Sá e Moura
Salgueiro Pais
Luís Eduardo de
Pinho Ducla
Soares
David de
Oliveira
Gonçalves
Joel José Puga Didier Martins
Ribeiro
Coelho Rodrigues
Gabriel Falcão
João António
Paiva Fernandes Batista Maria
Gabriel Falcão
Paiva Fernandes
Carlos André
Faria da
Graça
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues Rocha
Tiago Xavier
Furtado
Miguel Tavares
Carlos Vicente
Coimbra
Luís Eduardo de
Pinho Ducla
Soares
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Pedro
Lourenço
Daniel
Sabugueiro
Oliveira
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
Title
A new algorithm for
automatic annotation
and segmentation of
fluorescence microscope
images with Leishmania
infections
A New Model of Webbased Application to
Social Networking
Management Systems
A SDN proposal for
managing a legacy
network infrastructure
A Super-Resolution
Imaging System
A Web-based Solution
for Virtual Machine
Instances Migration
Across Type 2
Hypervisors
Accelerating the
Luís Filipe
Processing of Neural
Barbosa de
Networks for Object
Almeida
Recognition Using LowAlexandre
power Devices
Acceleration of
computer-assisted
Isabel
image inspection
Figueiredo,
algorithms in medical
endoscopy
ActiveTSN - Actuation in
Carlos Almeida
the Tagus-Sensornet
Adaptação de um
registo clinico hospitalar
para dispositivos móveis
com conetividade
limitada
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
An Inpainting System
End
Date
9/
2015
11 /
2014
9/
2014
10 /
2014
11 /
2014
9/
2014
9/
2014
5/
2015
8/
2014
7/
2015
An off-the-shelf platform
for automatic and
9/
interactive text
messaging using Short- 2014
Message-Service
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Supervisor
Student
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
João Teixeira
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
José Carlos
Lima
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Paulo Pereira
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
CoSupervisors
José Miguel
Loureiro (cosuperv: João
Sousa FEUP)
Diogo Roberto
de Melo e
Vitor S. Costa
Diogo
Machado
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Sara
Francisco
Maria Paula dos
Santos Queluz
Rodrigues
Nuno
Rodrigues
Pedro Miguel dos Miguel Abreu
Santos Alves
Malafaia
Madeira Adão
Mendes Belo
Aida Silva
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
António Pinto
Análise de algoritmos de
processamento de sinal
e métodos de
classificação de padrão
funcional para aplicação
de função respiratória
de smartphone
Analysis and
Classification of
Microelectrode Signals
Acquired During Deep
Brain Stimulation
Surgeries
Analysis of Network
Attacks and Security
Events using Modern
Data Visualization
Techniques
Aplicação Android para
controlo e receção de
dados de UAVs
Apoio ao controlo
diabético baseado em
registos e protocolos
médicos
Automatic Descriptor
Learning for
Gastroenterology
Rui Pedro de
Magalhães
Claro Prior
End
Date
8/
2014
9/
2014
10 /
2015
7/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
Automatic detection of
flashing video content
4/
2015
Automatização de
Provas de Correcção de
Protocolos de Segurança
10 /
2015
Avaliação de Factores
Criticos para a Adoção
de Soluções Cloud
Computing por
Empresas dos Açores
José André Rocha Oscar Campos
Sá e Moura
Neto
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Title
9/
2014
Avaliação Quantitativa
da Deglutição
9/
2015
Battery-efficient Mobile
M2M Gateway
11 /
2015
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Supervisor
Paulo Luis Serras
Lobato Correia
Paulo Luis Serras
Lobato Correia
Student
Miguel Reis
Moitinho de
Almeida
Joao Paulo
Sim Sim
Lopes
CoSupervisors
Title
Biometric Identification
from Forensic Video
Surveillance Evidence
Biometric Recognition
using Android Devices
Biophone- Sistema de
aquisição de dados
biométricos para
smartphones Android
Block-Windowed Burst
Vitor Manuel
OFDM with Frequency
Mendes Silva
Domain Equalization
BMS para o protótipo
Moisés Simões
FST05e/FST06e do
Piedade
Projecto FST Novabase
Calibration of Biometric
Recognition Data for
Forensic Evaluation
Classication of
Vegetation Types in
Military Region
Gabriel de
Rui Manuel
Carlos Manuel
Mira Godinho
Ribeiro Almeida
Rodrigues Rocha
Cruz
Telmo Gabriel
Simões
Fernandes
Bruno Manuel
Rui Manuel
Baraças dos
Rodrigues Rocha
Santos
Filipe Leite de
Paulo Luis Serras
Almeida da
Lobato Correia
Costa Guapo
Marco Alexandre
Cravo Gomes
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Miguel
Gonçalves
João Pedro
Afonso Oliveira
da Silva
João Alves
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
Gilberto Jorge
Nuno Miguel
Morais
Rodrigues
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
André Filipe
Rodrigues
Guarda
Nuno Miguel
Morais
Rodrigues
Classificação automática
do modo de condução
Codificação compatível
vídeo 3D com o
algoritmo HEVC
Codificação de imagens
médicas utilizando
transformações
geométricas
José Pedro
Fernando Manuel
Joao Miguel
Codificação de
Quadrilheiro
Bernardo Pereira
Duarte Ascenso Informação Holográfica
Peixeiro
João Miguel
Nuno Miguel
Sérgio Manuel
Codificação preditiva de
Pereira da
Morais
imagens médicas
Maciel Faria
Silva Santos
Rodrigues
Coding of 3D video for
transmission in P2P,
Luis Alberto da
hybrid and SDN
Nuno Girão
Silva Cruz
networks
Nuno Miguel
Morais Rodrigues
Ricardo
Monteiro
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
Compensação de
disparidade com
transformações
geométricas
End
Date
4/
2015
4/
2015
11 /
2015
9/
2015
11 /
2014
10 /
2015
11 /
2014
9/
2015
10 /
2014
12 /
2015
1/
2017
12 /
2015
7/
2015
11 /
2014
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Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Maria Paula Prata Paula Marisa
de Sousa
Sampaio
Title
Computerized Adaptive
Assessment of Learning
Criação de plataformas
digitais para a
divulgação da atividade
do ConservadorRestaurador
Joao Manuel
Diana Moreira
Mourão Patricio
Andre
Rui Luis
Critical Ethernet based
Alexandre
Andrade Aguiar
in OpenFlow
Nunes Martins
Patrício
CUDA-MMP - Codificação
Rodrigues
Nuno Miguel
de imagens com
Tiago Ribeiro Domingues,Sér
Morais Rodrigues
sistemas com múltiplos
gio Manuel
núcleos
Maciel Faria
DAPhone- Sistema de
Rui Manuel
Miguel Moura
aquisição de dados para
Dionísio
dispositivos iOS/Android
Rodrigues Rocha
Pedro Alexandre
Sousa Gonçalves
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Orangel
Azuaje
Bruno Silva
Susana Isabel Goncalo Neto
de Oliveira
Barreto de
Miranda Sargento
Pardal
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
Data Gathering on a
WiFi Mesh Network
Jorge Manuel
DC-DC Converter for the
Correia
Aerospace Industry
Guilherme
Demonstrador de uma
Rede de Operador com
Tecnologia OpenFlow e
Serviços na Cloud
Valter Filipe
Miranda
Demonstrador para rede
Hugo Araujo
tempo-real HaRTES
Castelão da
Silva
Susana Isabel
Nuno Alexandre
Demonstrator of
Barreto de
Bojan Magušic
Tavares
Vhicular Networks
Miranda Sargento
Coutinho
Desenvolvimento de
Aplicações para Redes
Susana Isabel
Veiculares com
Tiago Marques
Barreto de
Informação de Veículos
Miranda Sargento
e de Sensores dos
Dispositivos Móveis
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
End
Date
12 /
2015
12 /
2014
7/
2014
1/
2015
2/
2015
10 /
2015
5/
2014
12 /
2014
7/
2015
7/
2015
7/
2014
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Supervisor
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues Rocha
Fernando José
Pimentel Lopes
Mario Marques
Freire
Isabel da Piedade
Xavier Machado
Alexandre
Fernando Manuel
Santos Perdigão
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Pedro Miguel
Desenvolvimento de
Castanheira
Software para o
Natário
ISTnanosat-1
Pedro Nuno
Design and
Costa
Inácio Fonseca Development of Home
Sacramento
Automation Applications
Detection of Abnomal
Pedro Manuel
Performance in Xen
Madureira
Cloud Platform
Correia
Environments
Developing an Agile
Pedro Silva
Platform for Knowledge
Management
Developing Techniques
Orlando
for Automatic
Oliveira Costa
Assessment of Reading
Digital auscultation of
pathological swallowing
Marta Sousa
sounds
End
Date
11 /
2015
3/
2014
10 /
2014
9/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2015
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Inês Carneiro
Digital auscultation of
swallowing sounds
9/
2015
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Fábio José
Sousa
Rodrigues
Dissection of Modern
Malicious Software
11 /
2014
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
João Paulo
Barraca
Gabriel Falcão
Paiva Fernandes
Fernando Manuel
Bernardo Pereira
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Distribuição e renovação
Armindo
Luis Filipe
de chaves em protocolos
9/
Basso Maia da
multicast
Coelho Antunes
2015
Cunha
João Paulo
DSCL e GSCL na
Barraca
plataforma ETSI M2M
Patrício
Efficient and portable
Pedro Nuno
Rodrigues
techniques for image
Henriques Domingues,Nun
coding using manycore
Maia Cordeiro o Miguel Morais
platforms
Rodrigues
Eduardo
Efficient Static Light
Gustavo Alves
Antônio da
Fields Coding
Silva
E-learning in focused
Cristina
echocardiography – a
Oliveira
new model
André Valente
Ricardo
Óscar Narciso
Manuel Silva
Mortágua Pereira
Batista
E-learning Platform
Based on Paulo Freire's
Method
12 /
2014
7/
2015
9/
2015
9/
2014
10 /
2014
266
Supervisor
Student
Gabriel Falcão
Paiva Fernandes
Manuel José
Torres
Rodrigues
Susana Isabel
Gonçalo
Barreto de
Miguel Vieira
Miranda Sargento
Gomes
Maria Paula Prata
de Sousa
Rui Manuel
Ferreira da
Cunha
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Afonso Bastos
Luis Filipe
Fernandes Silva Silvia Martins
Marcelino
João Luís Costa
Campos
Gonçalves
Sobrinho
João Paulo
Barraca
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
CoTitle
Supervisors
Mário Gonçalo
Electron Wave
Mestre
Propagation in Graphene
using Parallel Computing
Verissimo
Silveirinha
on GPUs with CUDA
Encaminhamento e
André Zúquete Segurança em Redes
Veiculares
Escalabilidade de Jogos
Online Comparação de
uma versão ClienteServidor com uma
versão Peer-to-Peer
para o jogo WebRun
Estimating Fuel
Consumption from GPS
Data
Estudo sobre utilização
Catarina Helena
de jogos em
Branco Simões
plataformas móveis para
Silva
crianças
André
Magalhães
Sousa
Evaluating route
aggregation in the
Internet
Evolução da Telefonia
na Web
Extração e classificação
automática de zonas
verdes para fins de
cartografia militar
Extracting Forensic
Evidence from
Surveillance Videos
Bruno Cruz
Joel Augusto
Joanes
D'Assunção
Paulo Luis Serras João Miguel
Lobato Correia Delfino Satiro
Ricardo Jorge
Gamelas de
Sousa
Facial expressions in
sign language videos
André Maia
Gabriel Falcão Nuno Ricardo
Vicente
Paiva Fernandes
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Mariana
Dimas Julião
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Nádia Bento
Vítor Silva
Pedro Miguel dos
João Carlos
Bruno Filipe
Santos Alves
Serrenho Dias
Guia de Sousa
Madeira Adão
Pereira
End
Date
2/
2015
7/
2015
11 /
2014
10 /
2014
6/
2014
10 /
2014
7/
2014
9/
2015
10 /
2015
8/
2014
Fast Raptor codes on
mobile multicore
platforms
Features Sets for Stress
Discrimination
Fusão de imagem para a
detecção de pessoas
camufladas
12 /
2014
Geração Automática de
Testes de Software
10 /
2015
7/
2015
9/
2015
267
Pedro Miguel dos
Rafael Farias
Santos Alves
Baltazar
Madeira Adão
CoSupervisors
João Carlos
Serrenho Dias
Pereira
Pedro Alexandre
Rui Nuno
Sousa Gonçalves Carrulo Braz
Daniel Nunes
Corujo
Supervisor
Student
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
Carla Susana
Ferreira Leite
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Pedro
Brochado
Valter Filipe
Miranda
Castelão da
Silva
João Nuno
Ricardo Penas Diogo Nuno
Pimentel da Silva
Conde
Pereira Gomes
Matos
Sérgio Armindo
Carlos
Lopes Crisóstomo
Piedade
Title
End
Date
Geração Automática de
Testes de Unitários
10 /
2015
Gestão integrada de
cloud usando redes
definidas por software
Gestão Pessoal de
diabetes – sistema de
aconselhamento
7/
2015
11 /
2014
Gestor de redes
Ethernet para
datacenters
7/
2015
Global Localization
System
12 /
2015
GPS Telematics
7/
2015
HazardSense- Redes de
Sensores Aplicadas a
Rui Manuel
Diogo Filipe Carlos Manuel
Ambientes de Prevenção
Rodrigues Rocha Tomas Guerra Ribeiro Almeida
de Catástrofe
11 /
2015
Alexandre da
Joao Miguel
HEVC Cross Segment
Silva Pratas
Duarte Ascenso
Decoding
Gabriel
Tiago
Alexandre
High Power Processor Rui Manuel
Moisés Simões
Placa de processamento
Vicente dos
Rodrigues Rocha
Piedade
do ISTnanosat
Santos
Carvalho
High throughput storage
Rui Pedro de
Pedro Miguel for health devices realMagalhães Claro Pedro Oliveira
Alves Brandão
time information
Prior
12 /
2014
IB-DFE Techniques
João Francisco
Vitor Manuel Applied to Multi-Antenna
Cardoso
Systems
Mendes Silva
Gante
9/
2014
Fernando Manuel
Bernardo Pereira
Marco Alexandre
Cravo Gomes
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
João Pedro
Afonso Oliveira
da Silva
Jorge Pimenta
Júlio Ribeiro
1/
2017
9/
2014
Identificação de minas
terrestres em imagens
no infravermelho
9/
2015
Identificação do
condutor a partir do
modo de condução
9/
2015
268
Supervisor
Student
Carlos Manuel
Ribeiro Almeida
Fabio
Alexandre
Pereira Grego
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Jesse Wade
Brandao
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Sérgio Manuel
Rodrigues da
Costa
CoSupervisors
Susana Isabel
Joao Pedro
Ferreira Silva
Barreto de
Miranda Sargento
Mendes
Title
Implementação de
Sistema de Garantia de
Receita em Operadores
de Telecomunicações
utilizando o software
RAID como Framework
Implementation of Fixed
Priority Schedulers on a
hard-real time Baseband
Multiprocessor
Implementing a Loyalty
Card for Smartphones
using a Bitcoin like
Approach
Informação da Cidade e
Hotspots WiFi para
melhorar as
Comunicações entre
Veículos
Interactive CAD system
for gastroenterology
Interactive Systems for
Gastroenterology
Miguel Tavares
Eduardo Alves
Coimbra
Miguel Tavares
Diogo
Coimbra
Abrantes
Pedro Filipe
Rui Manuel
Moisés Simões ISTnanotest: testing the
Rodrigues
ISTnanosat-1
Rodrigues Rocha
Piedade
Coelho
Iterative Block
Frequency Domain
Mário Alberto
equalisation Techniques
Marco Alexandre
Vitor Manuel
Soares
for LINC systems
Cravo Gomes
Mendes Silva
Castanheira
employing Ring-Type
Magnitude Modulation
Alexandra Sofia
Martins de
Carvalho
José Maria
Líbano
Monteiro
Luis Alberto da
Ricardo Rocha
Silva Cruz
Isabel da Piedade
Xavier Machado
Alexandre
Vanessa
Magalhães
Susana Vinga
Learning from short
multivariate time series
(on going)
Load balancing for
parallel 3D HEVC coding
Looking for an answer Developing an
application for
controlling the
progression of
Alzheimer's illness
End
Date
6/
2015
12 /
2014
11 /
2014
12 /
2014
8/
2014
9/
2015
10 /
2015
9/
2015
11 /
2014
7/
2015
9/
2015
269
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Susana Isabel
Andre Ferraz
Barreto de
Salvador
Miranda Sargento
Mecanismos de
Avaliação da Qualidade
de Ligação e de
Handovers entre várias
tecnologias
Susana Isabel
Gonçalo da
Barreto de
Silva Pessoa
Miranda Sargento
Ricardo Jorge
Mecanismos de
Magalhães de
Comunicação Tolerantes
Matos,Tiago
ao Atraso para Redes
Silvestre
Veiculares
Condeixa
Fabio
Cristiano
Mecanismos de
Mobilidade
em Redes de
Outeiro de
Veículos
Aleluia
Martins
Ricardo
Rui Pedro de
Pedro Miguel
Miguel
Middleware para
Magalhães
Alves Brandão
Carneiro de
dispositivos médicos
Claro Prior
Faria
Telma
Mobile Alert: Combining
Paulo Luis Serras
Cristovão de Isabel Trancoso Human Motion Detection
Lobato Correia
Oliveira
and Voice Analysis
Nuno Manuel
Mobile application for
Garcia dos
Luís Costa
detection of voice
Santos
pattern changes
Ricardo Jorge
Mobile Healthcare on a
Ana Cristina
Travanca
M2M Mobile Gateway
Costa Aguiar
Morgado
Ana Cristina
Ricardo
Mobile Healthcare on a
Costa Aguiar
Morgado
M2M Mobile System
Mobilidade de
Susana Isabel
Duarte Jorge
Utilizadores entre redes
Barreto de
Pires dos
4G e WiFi num
Miranda Sargento
Santos
Ambiente de Operador
Susana Isabel
Joao Pedro
Mobilidade distribuída
Barreto de
Coelho de
pelos hotspots WiFi num
Miranda Sargento
Azevedo
ambiente de estrada
Mobilidade em Redes
Veiculares com
Susana Isabel
André Miguel
Tiago Silvestre Conectividade Dinâmica
Barreto de
Tavares
e Balanceamento de
Condeixa
Miranda Sargento
Martins
Carga
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda Sargento
Mobilidade em Redes
Susana Isabel
Marco Rafael
Tiago Silvestre Veiculares com Múltiplos
Barreto de
Tenrinho
Pontos de Acesso à
Condeixa
Miranda Sargento
Oliveira
Infra-Estrutura
End
Date
7/
2014
7/
2015
7/
2014
9/
2015
4/
2015
7/
2015
7/
2014
9/
2014
7/
2014
12 /
2014
7/
2015
7/
2015
270
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Francisco Jose
Rui Manuel
Moisés Simões
Alves Correia
Rodrigues Rocha
Piedade
Pires
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues Rocha
Rúben Filipe
Afonso
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Francisco Vaz
Miranda Sargento
Nuno
Fernando José
Alexandre
Pimentel Lopes
Bettencourt
Martins
João Paulo
Barraca
Maria Paula dos
Santos Queluz
Rodrigues
José Maria
Fernandes
Ilan Perogaro
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
Rui Almeida
Tomás Gomes
da Silva Serpa
Brandão
Paulo Jorge
Cardoso
Carrasqueira
Nuno Miguel
Morais Rodrigues
João Silva
Ana Cristina
Costa Aguiar
Jorge Silva
Mário Alexandre
Afonso Morato
Teles de
Figueiredo
Marco Alexandre Pedro Daniel
Cravo Gomes
Rosete Bento
End
Date
Módulo de controlo do
ISTnanosat-1
11 /
2015
Módulo de determinação
Moisés Simões
e controlo de atitude do
Piedade
ISTnanosat-1
Sara Maria
Tiago António Fernandes Rato
Fernando Manuel
Coroado Silva
e Costa
Santos Perdigão
Ferreira
Marques
Candeias
Fernando Manuel
Santos Perdigão
Title
11 /
2015
My Personal Travel
Companion
7/
2015
Network Distributed 3D
Video Quality Monitoring
System
11 /
2014
NSCL na plataforma
ETSI M2M
Objective Video Quality
Assessment in IPTV
Networks
Online Portuguese
Speech Synthesis
System
Online Portuguese Verb
Conjugation and
Pronunciation System
Patrício
OPENCL-MMP Rodrigues
Codificação de imagens
Domingues,Sér
com sistemas com
gio Manuel
múltiplos núcleos
Maciel Faria
Parallel Feature
Fernando Silva
Selection Algorithms
Patch-Based Image
Denoising and Inpaiting
using Gaussian Mixture
Models
Peak-to-Average Power
in Orthogonal Frequency
Vitor Manuel
Division Multiplexing
Mendes Silva
Systems
12 /
2014
4/
2015
10 /
2014
9/
2015
1/
2015
10 /
2015
10 /
2014
9/
2014
271
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Performance
Assessment of
Joel José Puga
João Nuno
11 /
Aggregation and
Coelho Rodrigues Gabriel Isento
2014
Deaggregation
Algorithms in Vehicular
Delay-Tolerant Networks
PI* - Provision and
Rui Jorge
João Paulo
performance evaluation
12 /
Henriques Calado
of telecommunication
Marques
2014
Lopes
service over Raspberry
Jarreta
PI
Pedro Miguel
Planning and verification
11 /
Figueiredo
Tiago Vitorino
of multipath routing
2014
Amaral
protocols
Plataforma de Gestão
João Paulo
Bruno Miguel
Diogo Nuno
12 /
M2M
Cunha Faria Pereira Gomes
Barraca
2014
Maria Paula Prata
de Sousa
Carlos
Augusto
Maria Paula Prata
de Sousa
Alfredo
Fernandes
Paulo Luis Serras
Lobato Correia
Abel Ricardo
Marcão
Ribeiro
Plataforma para calcular
o índice de
sustentabilidade de
cadeias de
abastecimento
Plataforma robusta para
gestão de produção
Pedro Miguel dos
Rafael Vassalo Luís Manuel
Santos Alves
Cortês
Antunes Veiga
Madeira Adão
João Paulo
Daniel Borges André Zúquete
Barraca
Alexandra Sofia
Martins de
Carvalho
Eduardo Oliveira
Estanqueiro
Rocha
José Jorge
dos Reis
Ivo Petiz
11 /
2015
Post-Processsing of
Videos for Vehicle
Counting
11 /
2014
Private and Reliable
CloudBox
10 /
2015
Private Android
7/
2014
Prognostic prediction in
patients with
Sara Alexandra
Amyotrophic Lateral
Cordeiro
Sclerosis using graphical
Madeira
models (on going)
Paulo Jorge
Salvador Serra
Ferreira
,Antonio
Manuel Duarte
Nogueira
11 /
2015
Project MODCOMP
11 /
2014
6/
2014
272
CoTitle
Supervisors
Paulo Jorge
Salvador Serra
Eduardo Oliveira Hugo Diogo
Ferreira
Project MODCOMP
Estanqueiro
Antunes
,Antonio
Lopes Fonseca
Rocha
Manuel Duarte
Nogueira
José Nuno
Rui Pedro de
Campos
Pedro Miguel
Questionários
Magalhães Claro
Esperança
Alves Brandão
Psicológicos
Prior
Vieira da
Costa
Luis Filipe
João Pedro
Realidade Aumentada
Fernandes Silva
dos Santos
Filipe Pinto
Aplicada ao Ensino PréMarcelino
Nobre Órfão
escolar
Real-time
implementation of
João
combined Ring-Type
Marco Alexandre
Vitor Manuel
Alexandre
Magnitude Modulation
Cravo Gomes
Mendes Silva
Abreu Ferreira
and LINC techniques on
SoC Zynq-7000
Architecture
Real-time symmetrybased dense stereo
Gabriel Falcão
João Pedro
Ricardo Ralha
matching for 3D
Paiva Fernandes
Barreto
reconstruction
Supervisor
Student
Susana Isabel
Tiago Rafael
Barreto de
Correia
Miranda Sargento
Almeida
Lucas
Guardalben
Susana Isabel
André Paulo
Barreto de
Bastos
Miranda Sargento
Lucas
Guardalben
Sérgio Armindo
Eder Moreno
Lopes Crisóstomo
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
Pedro Alexandre
Sousa Gonçalves
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Eduardo Filipe
Amaral
Soares
Rui Pedro de
Magalhães
Claro Prior
Diogo Manuel
Paulo Bacelar
Andril Da
Reis Pedreiras
Silva Branco
Pedro
Alexandre
Diogo Branco
Sousa
Gonçalves
Rede de Comunicações
Tolerante a Atraso para
a Marinha
Redes de Conteúdos
para Serviços TV com
Gravações Automáticas
Redes sem fios
oportunistas
End
Date
6/
2014
10 /
2015
11 /
2014
9/
2015
2/
2015
7/
2015
7/
2015
10 /
2015
Reliable Wireless
Multicast Framework in
Javascript
11 /
2014
Reserva de Recursos
para redes tempo real
7/
2015
Reserva de Recursos
para redes tempo real
(HARTES)
7/
2015
273
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Marco Alexandre
Cravo Gomes
António José
Ribeiro
Simões
Vitor Manuel
Mendes Silva
Sancho Moura
Oliveira
Tiago Luís
Santos
Rodrigues
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Ana Sofia
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Luis Perez
Pedro Miguel dos
Santos Alves
Madeira Adão
Ion Craciun
Title
Ring-type Magnitude
Modulation for LINC:
Paving the road for
better efficiency
End
Date
5/
2014
Anders Lyhne Robótica evolucionária e
inteligência artificial.
Christensen
9/
2015
Sail and rig shape and
from single images
Seamless and Strong
Authentication on the
Internet of Things Based
on User Activity and
Quick Response Codes
9/
2015
Self-Regulation in P2P
Systems
10 /
2015
Luís Manuel
Antunes Veiga
Ana Luisa
Nobre Fred
Sistema de Aquisição e
,Hugo
Análise de Sinais em
Humberto
Ambiente Desportivo
Plácido da Silva
Sistema de aquisição
ecográfica para
Marco Alexandre João Suzana
Vitor Manuel
oftalmologia usando
Cravo Gomes
Ferreira
Mendes Silva
uma arquitectura SoC
Zynq-7000
Jorge Miguel
Paulo Luis Serras
Silverio do
Lobato Correia
Carmo
7/
2015
4/
2015
9/
2015
Gonçalo
Lourenço
Rui Prior
Sistema de
armazenamento de
ficheiros Hybrid Cloud
12 /
2014
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Nuno Oliveira
Valter Filipe
Miranda
Castelão da
Silva
Sistema de localização
para colmeias
7/
2015
João Pedro
Afonso Oliveira
da Silva
João Rita
Sérgio Armindo
Lopes Crisóstomo
Sistema de
recomendação para
unidades curriculares
Sistema de
Reconhecimento de
Artur Ferreira Ricardo Leitão
Impressões Digitais
Baseado em FPGA
Sistema de visualização
Marco André
Fernando
ecográfica para
Marco Alexandre
Manuel Santos
Florindo
oftalmologia usando
Cravo Gomes
Perdigão
Ferreira
dispositivos Android
9/
2015
10 /
2014
9/
2015
274
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Marco Alexandre
Cravo Gomes
João Filipe
Teles Nunes
Vitor Manuel
Mendes Silva
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Celina Gomes
Marco Alexandre Fabio Ferreira
Dias
Cravo Gomes
João Paulo
Barraca
João Paulo
Vilela
Title
Sistema OFDM multisímbolo: Uma
abordagem
multiportadora eficiente
Sistemas de apoio a
gastroenterologia
Sistemas de codificação
para segurança na
camada física baseados
em técnicas de
interleaving aleatório e
jamming
End
Date
9/
2014
9/
2015
7/
2014
Sistemas de
Luis Filipe
Comunicação por Luz de
Gonçalo Faria Mesquita Nero
Baixo Débit
Moreira Alves
12 /
2014
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
Nuno C.
Garcia
Social Network Analysis
cromo meio de suporte
à análise da fraude em
seguros
8/
2015
Fernando Manuel
Santos Perdigão
Luís Miguel
Bagagem
Castela
Speech Browsing
9/
2015
Fernando Manuel Vítor Hugo
Joao Miguel
Bernardo Pereira Nunes Gomes Duarte Ascenso
Sérgio Manuel
Maciel Faria
Filipe Xavier
Graça Gama
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
David Martins
Nuno Miguel
Morais
Rodrigues
Statistical
Reconstruction for
Predictive Video Coding
Técnicas eficientes para
processamento de
mapas de profundidade
em codificadores de
vídeo multivista
Tele Enfermeiro
Teste e avaliação de
Leonel Cesar
Miguel Tavares usabilidade de app para
Brito dos
Coimbra
gestão de diabetes em
Santos
Android
Cesar Augusto
TRAC - Sistema de
Rui Manuel
Evora da Silva
Controlo de Acessos
Rodrigues Rocha
Gaspar
baseado em RFID
Nuno Manuel Celina Micaela
Tracking platform using
Garcia dos
Afonso
off-the-shelf
Santos
Alexandre
components
Pedro Miguel
Transmissão de Vídeo
José André Rocha
Sousa
Escalável em Redes
Sá e Moura
Almeida
DiffServ
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
5/
2014
3/
2015
11 /
2014
9/
2015
5/
2015
7/
2015
9/
2015
275
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Susana Isabel
Luis Carlos
Barata Duarte
Barreto de
Miranda Sargento
Guedes
Title
Transmissão
Oportunística de
Informação Através dos
Veículos
End
Date
12 /
2014
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
Emanuel
Grancho
Unconstraiuned
Periocular recognition
6/
2014
Pedro Miguel
Alves Brandão
André
Fernando
Lopes Pereira
USB Smartphone
Attacks
7/
2014
Maria Paula Prata
Samuel Alves
de Sousa
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Using the Cloud in Lab
10 /
Classes
2014
Vehicles and Buildings
11 /
Discrimination in Military
2014
Environment
Jorge Leitão
Isabel da Piedade Nelson Manuel
Xavier Machado
Catarino
Alexandre
Mendes
Ana Cristina
Damien Rosa
Costa Aguiar
João Daniel
Fernando Manuel
da Silva
Santos Perdigão
Cardoso
António Rafael
Ana Cristina
Rodrigues
Costa Aguiar
Franco
Dinis
Cambraia
Marco Alexandre
Lopes
Cravo Gomes
Sarmento
Pereira
Virtual Post Office
3/
2015
Wearable Computing in
a Bike Sharing System
2/
2015
Web Speech Recognition
System
9/
2015
WiFi Roaming for an
Urban Route
7/
2014
Wireless interference
and interleaving for for
secrecy coding
techniques
9/
2015
Table 21 - List of MSc. Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During 2014
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos
Santos
Title
End
Date
Mesfin
Workineh
(Not defined yet 2)
6/
2015
Nesredien
Suleiman
(Not defined yet)
6/
2015
Student
CoSupervisors
276
Supervisor
Student
Title
Luís Eduardo de
Pinho Ducla
Soares
CoSupervisors
End
Date
Caroline
Conti
Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes
3D Holoscopic Video
Coding
7/
2015
Pedro António
Amado Assunção
Sylvain
Marcelino
Salviano
Soares,Sérgio
Manuel Maciel
Faria
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Joao Almeida
Oliveira Barros
Verónica Costa Bruno Miguel
Teixeira Pinto
Ferreira de
Orvalho
Oliveira
Verónica Costa
Pedro Mota
Teixeira Pinto
Mendes
Orvalho
Fernando Manuel
Santos Perdigão
Ana Luisa Nobre
Fred
Fernando Manuel
Santos Perdigão
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Mario Marques
Freire
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Luís Henrique
Martins Borges
de Almeida
Adaptation and Quality
6/
Optimization in Future 3D
2015
Video Delivery Services
Adaptive Codes for
Physical-Layer Security
5/
2014
An interactive facial
muscle system for CG
Films and videogames
6/
2015
Automated Facial
1/
Animation Rigging System 2017
Sara Maria
Jorge Daniel
Automatic
Fernandes Rato
Leonardo
characterization of
e Costa Marques
Proença
reading ability in children
Candeias
Automatic Document
André
Organization using SemiLourenço
Structured Information
Arlindo
Luis António
Automatic speech and
Oliveira da
Serralva Vieira
speaker segmentation
Veiga
de Sá
and labelling
Autonomic and
Cooperative Decision
Arnaldo Silva
Carlos
Rodrigues de Model for Network Agents
Ferreira
in self-management
Oliveira
networks
Autonomic Quantification
Ângela
and Classification of the
José Alberto
Cristina
Breast Tissue
Fonseca
Marques de
Classification in 2D
Moutinho
Oliveira
Ultrassound Images
Behavioral Analysis and
Miguel
Detection of Malware in
Ângelo Silva
Cloud Computing
Neto
Environments
Biomedical image
Filipe
classification/segmentatio
Condessa
n
Miguel
Antunes Dias
José Manuel
Blind Image Deblurring
Alfaiate
Bioucas Dias
Simões
1/
2017
11 /
2014
2/
2014
9/
2015
3/
2015
9/
2017
12 /
2015
12 /
2016
277
CoTitle
Supervisors
Luís Henrique
José Manuel
Miguel
Martins Borges Blind image deconvolution
Bioucas Dias
Simões
de Almeida
Body signal analysis for
Miguel Tavares
Pedro Gomes
monitoring fatigue in first
Coimbra
responders
José
Cancelable Biometrics for
Ana Luisa Nobre
Humberto
Fred
Biosignals
Bento
Classification of
Mário Alexandre
David Pereira
Sequences using
Teles de
Coutinho
Compression-Based
Figueiredo
Distances
João Francisco
Coding for Networks-onCordeiro de
Pedro Santos
Chip
Oliveira Barros
Fernando Manuel Hoang Van
Joao Miguel
Combined predictiveBernardo Pereira
Xiem
Duarte Ascenso distributed video coding
Susana Isabel
Communication
Barreto de
Pedro Miguel
João Soares
Architecture for Mobile
Miranda
Naia Neves
Cloud Services
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Communication between
Paulo Jorge
Barreto de
Lucas
nodes and domains in
Salvador Serra
Miranda
Guardalben
self-management
Ferreira
Sargento
networks
Communications and
Middleware for
Luis Filipe
Cooperating
Luis Miguel Pinho
Nunes
Pedro Lima
Heterogeneous and
de Almeida
Quaresma de
Autonomous Mobile
Oliveira
Robots
End
Date
Fernando Manuel
Bernardo Pereira
Renam
Castro
3/
2018
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Guilherme
Riberio
Corrêa
Joao Miguel
Duarte Ascenso
Dhiraj K.
Shah
João Filipe
Quintas dos
Santos Rasga
Filipe Manuel
Rodrigues
Casal
Supervisor
Student
Eduardo Antônio Compact Descriptors for
da Silva
Visual Data
Complexity Control of
HEVC Video Coders and
Decoders
Fernando Manuel
Bernardo Pereira
Compression of 3D
Geometry Information
1/
2016
6/
2015
3/
2017
6/
2014
7/
2015
9/
2015
1/
2015
4/
2014
3/
2015
2/
2015
10 /
2018
Computability,
Computational Complexity
11 /
and Kolmogorov
2017
Complexity relative to
Arithmetic Oracles
278
Supervisor
Mario Marques
Freire
Student
CoSupervisors
Filipe Cruz
Gomes
Soares
Daniel Enrique
Lucani Roetter
Hugo Moreira
de Sousa
Peter Steenkiste
Pinto
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
Christopher Rui Luis Andrade
Aguiar
Viana
Title
Computer-Aided
Detection and Diagnosis
of Breast Cancer in 2D
and 3D Medical Imaging
Through Multifractal
Analysis
Congestion Control for
Future Internet
Context Awareness
Collaborative
Communications
Converged Mobile
Communications in
Multiple Integrated
Networks
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Frank
Pedro Miguel
Miranda
Kanesel
Naia Neves
Sargento
João Francisco
Cyber -physical systems
Cordeiro de
Luis Pinto
for Smart Buildings
Oliveira Barros
Ana Luisa Nobre
Data Clustering using
João Duarte
Fred
Constraints
João Francisco
Density-Based Routing in
Cordeiro de
Rui Meireles Peter Steenkiste
Vehicular Ad-hoc
Oliveira Barros
Networks
Francisco Manuel
Dependable Wireless
Paulo Jorge
José Alberto
Madureira e
Real-Time
de Campos
Gouveia Fonseca
Castro Vasques Communications for Open
bartolomeu
de Carvalho
Environments
Designing cardiac
Miguel Tavares
Daniel
pathology screening
Coimbra
Pereira
systems for hospitals
using digital stethoscopes
Developing Safety Critical
ANTÓNIO
Applications based on the
Paulo Bacelar
LUÍS
Luis Miguel Pinho
Flexible Time-Triggered
de Almeida
Reis Pedreiras
FERREIRA
Paradigm
MARQUES
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Fabio
Headyioglu
Sérgio Manuel
Luis Filipe
Nuno Miguel
Maciel Faria
Rosário Lucas Morais Rodrigues
Ana Luisa Nobre
Helena Aidos
Fred
DigiScope - DIGItally
enhanced stethoSCOPE
for clinical usage
Disparity compensation
using Least Squares
End
Date
7/
2014
7/
2015
2/
2015
12 /
2016
7/
2015
2/
2015
6/
2015
7/
2014
1/
2016
7/
2015
6/
2014
11 /
2015
Dissimilarity Increments
Statistics and
11 /
Dimensionality Reduction 2014
in Unsupervised Learning
279
Supervisor
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Pedro António
Amado Assunção
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
Mário Alexandre
Teles de
Figueiredo
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Rui Manuel
Rodrigues Rocha
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Student
CoSupervisors
Dynamic and Adaptive
Luís Emanuel
PLuis Miguel
Resource Reservation in
Moutinho
Pinho de Almeida
Complex Distributed
Silva
Systems
Pedro
Easy Facial Constraints: A
Tavares
Dynamic Industry
Barata
Standard
Bastos
Nuno Alexandre
Tavares
Enhancing Opportunistic
Ricardo
Coutinho,Tiago Transport of Information
Maurício Dias
Silvestre
in Vehicular Networks
Condeixa
A. M.
Error resilience and
Kondoz,Sérgio concealment of multi view
João Carreira
Manuel Maciel video-plus-depth for high
Faria
efficiency video coding
Event Detection for
Capsule Endoscopy Video
Paulo Alves
Exams
Facial Skin Shading
Teresa de
Parametrization System
Jesus Batista
for Real Time Rendering
Vieira
of Emotions
Feature Selection and
Discretization Techniques
Artur Ferreira
for High-Dimensional
Data
Hugo
Filter Design with Secrecy
Reboredo
Constraints
Flexible and Adaptive
Moisés Simões Architecture for Wireless
José Catela
Multimedia Sensor
Piedade
Networks
Framework for Balancing
the Trade-offs between
Musa
Cost of Security and
Performance of Devices in
Samaila
the Internet of Things
Fernando Manuel
Eduardo Antônio
Felipe Ribeiro
Bernardo Pereira
da Silva
Abel João Padrão
Gomes
Title
Rui Pedro
Monteiro
Amaro
Duarte
Full Parallax Super
Multiview Video Coding
End
Date
9/
2017
3/
2015
9/
2018
3/
2016
6/
2015
8/
2015
2/
2014
11 /
2014
10 /
2015
9/
2017
9/
2018
Geometric Representation
1/
and Animation of Natural
2016
Phenomena
280
Supervisor
Student
Abel João Padrão
Gomes
Sérgio
Emanuel
Duarte Dias
CoSupervisors
Verónica Costa
Catarina
Teixeira Pinto
Alexandre
Runa Miranda
Orvalho
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
André
Cardote
Peter Steenkiste
Nelson
Capela
Pedro Miguel
Naia Neves
Miguel Tavares
Jorge Oliveira
Coimbra
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Joao
Guilherme
Pereira
Rodrigues
Miguel Raul Dias
Rodrigues
Ke Zhang
Miguel Raul Dias
Vinay Prabhu
Rodrigues
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Nuno
Coutinho
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
João Miguel
Gonçalves
Verónica Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Orvalho
José Mário
Figueiredo
Serra
Title
End
Date
Geometric Representation
1/
and Recognition Methods
2015
in Protein Docking
Geometrical Deformations
Activated with Motion
11 /
Capture for Subtle Facial 2015
Animation
Geo-optimized and cross2/
layer transport
2014
communications
Gestão de Mobilidade
Inteligente e
Transparente
HeartSafe – Assessing
Heart Function for
Unsupervised Homecare
applications through
Multi-Channel
Auscultation
9/
2015
1/
2017
Information Gathering in
7/
Intelligent Transportation
2015
Systems
Information-Theoretic
Security 2
Information-Theoretic
Security 3
Integração Transparente
de Redes Heterogéneas
Integrated Identity and
Context Management
Architecture for PrivacyEnabled ContextAwareness
6/
2014
6/
2015
2/
2014
2/
2015
Intelligent Facial
Animation: Creating
12 /
Emphatic Characters with
2015
Stimuli Based Animation
281
Supervisor
Student
Mónica Maria
Verónica Costa
da Costa
Teixeira Pinto
Madeira
Orvalho
Queirós de
Oliveira
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Hao
Hongxing
Diogo Nuno
Pereira Gomes
Mário
Antunes
Carlos Manuel
Costa Lourenço
Caleiro
Andreia
Mordido
Vitor Manuel
Mendes Silva
Pedro António
Amado Assunção
Mário Alexandre
Teles de
Figueiredo
Paulo Alexandre
Carreira Mateus
Antonio Manuel
Duarte Nogueira
Ana Luisa Nobre
Fred
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
CoSupervisors
Title
Interactive Technology for
Emotional Recognition in
Psychosocial
Rehabilitation in people
with Decit in
Communication
Interferometric phase
estimation via sparse
coding in the complex
domain
Knowledge Extraction
Rui Luis Andrade
from unstructured
Aguiar
Context Information
Logic in Security
Memory-Aware Parallel
LDPC Decoding over
Gabriel Falcão
GF(q) for Homogeneous
Paiva Fernandes
and Heterogeneous
Multicore Architectures
Methods for Quality
Filipe dos
Enhancement of Voice
Salviano Soares
Santos Neves
Communications Over
Erasure Channels
Model and Feature
Cláudia
Margarida
Selection for Categorical
Silvestre
Cardoso
Mixture Models
David
Model-checking for
Henriques
security
Nuno
Paulo Jorge
Modeling and Analysis of
Gonçalves
Salvador Serra Network Resilience: the
Rodrigues
Ferreira
Security Perspective
Hugo
Multi-Modal Modeling of
Humberto
Cognition and Emotion
Placido da
Silva
Multiple Description
Ângelo
Coding with Side
Information optimized for
Arrifano
Wireless Sensors
Gil Melfe
Negative Object
Mateus
recognition
santos
João Maria
Duarte
Andrade
Hugo Pedro
Martins Carriço
Proença
João Francisco
Susana Bulas
Cordeiro de
Cruz
Oliveira Barros
Network Coding for
Sensor Networks
End
Date
10 /
2015
8/
2014
9/
2015
1/
2016
12 /
2015
3/
2015
2/
2015
1/
2015
12 /
2015
6/
2015
11 /
2016
3/
2015
7/
2015
282
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
João Francisco
Cordeiro de
Oliveira Barros
Hana
Khamfroush
Maricica
Nistor
Daniel Enrique
Lucani Roetter
Michel Celestino
Paiva Ferreira
Pedro
Emanuel
Rodrigues
Gomes
Fausto José
Canhoto de
Paiva Vieira
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Mário Alexandre
Teles de
Figueiredo
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Diogo
Ferreira
Peter Steenkiste
Network Coding for
11 /
Cooperation in Dynamic
2014
Wireless Networks
Network Coding Protocols
7/
with Delay and Energy
2014
Constraints
Next-Generation Driver
Information Systems
6/
2014
Ocean acoustic
tomography
10 /
2015
Opportunistic Networks:
Exploring the White
Spaces
9/
2015
Optimization Methods for
12 /
Group-Sparsity
2015
Regularization
Xiangrong
Zeng
André Reis
O. K. Tonguz
Optimizing Vehicular
9/
Communications through
2015
Hybrid Networks
Organizational Crisis
Preparedness and
Response in a Networked
World:
Parallelization techniques
Luis Alberto da Thaísa Leal
for H.264/AVC and newer
Silva Cruz
da Silva
standards
Peak-to-Average Power in
Rui Miguel
Marco Alexandre Pedro Daniel
Orthogonal Frequency
Henriques Dias
Cravo Gomes Rosete Bento
Division Multiplexing
Morgado Dinis
Systems
Performance Assessment
João Manuel
Joel José Puga
of Mobility Solutions for
Pires Leitão
Coelho Rodrigues
IPv6-based Healthcare
Caldeira
Wireless Sensor Networks
of Real-Time Data
Joel José Puga
Ousmane
Management on Wireless
Coelho Rodrigues
Diallo
Sensor Networks
Rui Jorge
Henriques
Calado Lopes
José Luís P.A.
Vale Matos
End
Date
Network Coding Protocols 7 /
for Video Streaming
2015
João Pedro
Ehsan
Carvalho Oliveira
Zamanizadeh
de Miranda Reis
João
Nogueira
Title
9/
2015
9/
2015
10 /
2018
4/
2014
5/
2014
283
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Joel José Puga
Coelho Rodrigues
Luis Miguel
Lopes de
Oliveira
Amaro
Fernandes de
Sousa
of Routing Protocols in
6/
IPv6 Over Wireless
2015
Sensor Mesh Networks
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
Miguel
Almeida
Orlando
Remédios
Performance evaluation in 12 /
next generation networks 2016
Joel José Puga
Coelho Rodrigues
Bruno Miguel
Correia da
Silva
João Alfredo
Joel José Puga
Fazendeiro
Coelho Rodrigues Fernandes
Dias
Title
Performance Evaluation of
Cooperation Mechanisms
for Mobile Health
Applications
Performance of
Management Solutions
and Cooperation
Approaches for Vehicular
Delay- Tolerant Networks
Periocular biometric
recognition at visible
wavelength
Hugo Pedro
Chandrashek
Martins Carriço
har Padolle
Proença
João Francisco
Saurabh
Physical-Layer Security in
Cordeiro de
Large-Scale Networks
Shintre
Oliveira Barros
Paulo Alexandre
Manuel
Probabilistic ModelCarreira Mateus
Biscaia
checking
João Francisco
Public Policies for
Alexandre
Cordeiro de
Intelligent Transportation
Ligo
Oliveira Barros
Systems
António
Publish-Subscribe
Ana Cristina
Damião das
Peter Steenkiste
Communication in the
Costa Aguiar
Neves
Future Internet
Rodrigues
João Manuel
QoE measurements with
Rui Miguel Neto
Dias de
Agents cooperation on
Marinheiro
Almeida
Personal Cells
Qualidade subjectiva e
Maria Manuela
Marco
objectiva de imagens e
Areias da Costa
Bernardo
vídeos, incluindo o caso
Pereira de Sousa
3D
Paulo Alexandre
Vítor Rocha
Quantum Adiabatic
Ricardo Loura
Carreira Mateus
Vieira
Computation
Paulo Alexandre
João
Nikola Paunkovic
Quantum Walks
Carreira Mateus
Rodrigues
QUIS-CAMPI Biometric
Hugo Pedro
João Carlos
Recognition from
Martins Carriço
Raposo
Surveillance Data
Proença
Neves
End
Date
2/
2015
8/
2015
11 /
2015
7/
2015
1/
2015
7/
2015
12 /
2017
6/
2015
9/
2015
1/
2015
1/
2015
6/
2016
284
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Gabriel Falcão
Rui Jorge
Paiva Fernandes Melo Teixeira
Miguel Tavares
Coimbra
Malik Saad
Sultan
Pedro António
Lino Ferreira
Amado Assunção
Abel João Padrão
Gomes
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Rui Sérgio
Viegas
Rodrigues
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Vitor Mirones Victor Marques
Miranda
Sargento
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Romeu
O. K. Tonguz
Miranda
Monteiro
Sargento
Verónica Costa
Ozan
Teixeira Pinto
Çetinaslan
Orvalho
Ana Luisa Nobre
Fred
Susana Isabel
Barreto de
Miranda
Sargento
José Manuel
Bioucas Dias
Sancho Moura
Oliveira
José Manuel
Lopes Braz
Pereira
Waldir Junior
Paulo Mendes
Miguel
Almeida
Ricardo Nuno
Vigário
Miguel
António
Frade Duarte
Anders Lyhne
Christensen
Title
Real-Time Urban 3D
Modeling by Combining
Stereo from Symmetry
with General Purpose
Programming in the
Graphics Processing Unit
(GPGPU)
RHEUMUS - Sistema de
análise de imagens de
ecografia para
reumatologia
Scalable Video Coding
using spatio-temporal
segmentation.
End
Date
2/
2015
9/
2017
7/
2015
SegmentaÃ§Ã£o de
Malhas GeomÃ©tricas
1/
2016
Self in-network resource
management
12 /
2016
Self-Organization in
Vehicular Ad-Hoc
Networks
9/
2015
Simulation of Deformable
12 /
Solid and Rigid Bodies on
2015
Facial Models
SINEHMA: TOWARDS A
MULTIMODAL
STEREOSCOPIC
6/
INTERACTIVE
2017
ENVIRONMENT FOR
HUMAN CENTERED DATA
PROCESSING AND
VISUALIZATION
Social-aware
9/
Opportunistic Routing for
2014
Delay-Tolerant Networks
Source Separation of
2/
Phase-Locked Signals
2015
Synthesizing Control
Systems for Autonomous
1/
Robots using a
2016
Combination of
Engineering and Artificial
Evolution
285
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Synthetic aperture in the
João Leonel
frequency-domain: a new
Gabriel Falcão
Marco Alexandre
framework for real-time
Almeida
Cravo Gomes
Paiva Fernandes
high-resolution of medical
Amaro
ultrasound imaging
Carlos David
Towards Autonomic
Mario Marques
Magalhães
Detection of Encrypted
Freire
Queiroz
Peer-to-Peer Traffic
Carlos Miguel
Towards efficient M2M
Ana Cristina
Silva Couto
communications
Costa Aguiar
Pereira
Amaro
Traffic optimization in
Pedro Nicolau Fábio Rodrigo
Fernandes de
aggregated
Faria da Fonseca Valadão Rico
Sousa
heterogeneous networks
Susana Isabel
User-Centric Mobility with
Barreto de
Tiago
Quality of Experience
Miranda
Condeixa
Handover Optimization
Sargento
Pedro
Vehicular
Michel Celestino Miranda de
Communications for
Efficient and Sustainable
Paiva Ferreira Albuquerque
d'Orey
Mobility
View-Switching
Fernando Manuel
Ana De
Interactive Video
Pascal Frossard
Bernardo Pereira
Abreu
Experience
Verónica Costa Luís Miguel
Teixeira Pinto
Barbosa da
Virtual puppets
Orvalho
Costa Leite
Susana Isabel
Virtualização de Redes
Barreto de
Márcio Melo Jorge Carapinha
numa Perspectiva de
Miranda
Operador
Sargento
Wireless Protocols to
José Alberto
Tiago Hipkin Joaquim José de
support Vehicular Safety
Castro Ferreira
Gouveia Fonseca
Meireles
Apllications
End
Date
1/
2018
12 /
2015
6/
2016
12 /
2017
3/
2014
7/
2014
10 /
2015
10 /
2015
2/
2014
7/
2015
Table 22 - List of PhD Theses running in the Networks and Multimedia Area During 2014
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4.3.6 Publications
ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS
Books
- Garcia, N. M. ; J. R. Rodrigues; (eds.); Ambient Assisted Living, CRC Press , Boca
Raton, FL, USA , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Garcia, N. M. ; J. R. Rodrigues; " Ambient Assisted Living " - Chapter in Ambient
Assisted Living , Nuno M. Garcia, Joel Rodrigues , CRC Press , Boca Raton, Fl, USA ,
2014 . " Drivers for 5G: the 'Pervasive Connected World' " - Chapter in
Fundamentals of 5G Mobile Networks , Jonathan Rodriguez , John Wiley & Sons,
2014 .
- Gamecho, B.; J. Guerreiro Guerreiro; A. P. Alves Alves; A. Lourenço; H. Silva; L.
Gardeazabal; J. Abascal; A. L. N. Fred; " Evaluation of a Context-Aware Application
for Mobile Robot Control Mediated by Physiological Data: The ToBITas Case Study "
- Chapter in Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and
User Adapted Services, Springer, 2014 .
- Sofia, R. Sofia; T. Condeixa; S. Sargento; " Mobility Estimation in the Context of
Distributed Mobility Management " - Chapter in LCNS User-centric Wireless Local
Loop – Future Perspectives , Aldini, Alessandro, Bogliolo, Alessandro , Springer,
2014 .
- Gaspar, P. D. G.; V. F. Felizardo; N. M. Garcia; " Monitoring And Assisted
Therapeutic Devices " - Chapter in Ambient Assisted Living , Nuno M. Garcia, Joel
Rodrigues , CRC Press , Boca Raton, Fl, USA , 2014 .
- Azevedo, S. G. Azevedo; Paula Prata Sousa; P. Fazendeiro; " The role of radio
frequency identifi cation (RFID) technologies in improving process management and
product tracking in the textiles and fashion supply chain " - Chapter in Fashion
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supply chain management using radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies ,
W. K. Wong and Z. X. Guo , Woodhead Publishing, 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Neves, P. N.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. Chen; A. V Vasilakos; " A Multi-channel
Architecture for IPv6-enabled Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Featuring PnP
Support ", Journal of Network and Computer Applications , Vol. 37 , No. 1 , pp. 12 24 , January , 2014 .
- Lloret, J. L.; M. G. Garcia; J. T. Tomas; J. R. Rodrigues; " Architecture and
Protocol for InterCloud Communication ", Information Sciences , Vol. 258 , No.
February , pp. 434 - 451 , February , 2014 .
- Condeixa, T.; S. Sargento; " Centralized, Distributed or Replicated IP Mobility? ",
IEEE Communications Letters , Vol. 18 , No. 2 , pp. 376 - 379 , September , 2014 .
- Condeixa, T.; S. Sargento; " Context-aware Adaptive IP Mobility Anchoring ",
Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks , Vol. 71 , No. 4 , pp. 84 - 99 , October ,
2014 .
- Dias, João A. F. F. Dias; J. R. Rodrigues; L. Z. Zhou; " Cooperation Advances on
Vehicular Communications: A Survey ", Vehicular Communications, Elsevier , Vol. 1
, No. 1 , pp. 22 - 32 , March , 2014 .
- Monteiro, V.M.; K. Huq; S.M. Mumtaz; C.P. Politis; J. Rodriguez; " Energy efficient
load balancing for future self-organized shared networks ", Telecommunication
Systems , Vol. DOI 10.1007 , No. s11235-014-9888-1 , November , 2014 .
- Capela, N.; S. Sargento; " Multihoming and Network Coding: A new Approach to
Optimize the Network Performance ", Computer Networks , Vol. 75 , pp. 18 - 36 ,
September , 2014 .
- Prior, R.P.; D. E. Lucani; Y. P. Phulpin; M. Nistor; J. Barros; " Network Coding
Protocols for Smart Grid Communications ", IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid , Vol. 5 , No.
3 , pp. 1523 - 1531 , May , 2014 .
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- Dias, João A. F. F. Dias; J. R. Rodrigues; S. u. Ullah; L. S. Shu; " Performance
Evaluation of a Cooperative Reputation System for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant
Networks ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , Vol. 88
, No. 1 , pp. 2 - 13 , May , 2014 .
- Dias, João A. F. F. Dias; J. R. Rodrigues; L. Z. Zhou; " Performance Evaluation of
Cooperative Strategies for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks ", Transactions on
Emerging Telecommunications Technologies , Vol. 25 , No. 8 , pp. 815 - 822 ,
August , 2014 .
- Ullah, S. u.; J. R. Rodrigues; F. K. Khan; C. Verikoukis; Z. Z. Zhu; " Protocols and
Architectures for Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks ", Intrnl. Journal of
Distributed Sensor Networks , Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 705470 , pp. 3 pages -,
September , 2014 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; Maribel Santos Santos; " Reusable Business Tier
Components: Based on CLI and Driven by a Single Wide Typed Service ", Vol. 2 ,
No. 1 , pp. 37 - 60 , September , 2014 .
- Oliveira, L.oliveira; H. Hongbin; T. Abrudan; L. Almeida; " RSSI-based relative
localisation for mobile robots ", Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks , Vol. 13 , pp. 321 - 335 ,
February , 2014 .
- Condeixa, T.; S. Sargento; " Studying the Integration of Distributed and Dynamic
Schemes in the Mobility Management ", Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks ,
Vol. 60 , pp. 46 - 59 , February , 2014 .
- Monteiro, V.M.; ; K. Huq; S.M. Mumtaz; H.M. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " 3D VIDEO
STREAMING
TRANSMISSION
OVER
OFDMA-BASED
SYSTEMS
",
Proc
IEEE
International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , October , 2014 .
- Zarrin, J. Zarrin; J.P.B. Barraca; R. L. Aguiar; " A Self-organizing and Selfconfiguration Algorithm for Resource Management in Service-oriented Systems ",
289
Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Funchal
, Portugal , June , 2014 .
- Rico, F.; P. Fonseca; A. F. Sousa; " A testbed for developing, simulating and
experimenting multipath aggregation algorithms ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 4 , September , 2014 .
- Borges, Luis M.; R. Oliveira; F. J. Velez; " A Two-Phase Contention Window
Control Scheme for Decentralized Wireless Networks ", Proc IEEE Wireless
Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC , Istanbul , Turkey , April , 2014 .
- Amaral , P.; L. Bernardo; P. Pinto; " An L2 policy based multipath fabric ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Sydney , Australia , Vol. 2014 ,
pp. 3607 - 3613 , June , 2014 .
- Almeida, L.; A. Santos; L. Oliveira; " Comparing Adaptive TDMA against a Clock
Synchronization Approach ", Proc Workshop on Architecting Safety in Collaborative
Mobile Systems - ASCoMS , Firenze , Italy , Vol. LNCS 8696 , pp. 71 - 79 ,
September , 2014 .
- Marques, A. M.; V.V. Vasconcelos; P.P. Pedreiras; L. Almeida; " Comparing
Scheduling Policies for a Message Transient Error Recovery Server in a TimeTriggered Setting ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation - ETFA , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September ,
2014 .
- Sargento, S.; C. P. Parada; " Congestion Control for Radio Networks ", Proc ICST
International Conf. on Wireless Internet - WICON , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1
- 1 , November , 2014 .
- Reis, J. ; L. Oliveira; H. Xia Xia; A. Santos; L. Almeida; " Controlling transmissions
to mitigate WiFi overloads ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2014 .
290
- Sargento, S.; " Data Rate Adaptation Mechanisms in Vehicular Networks ", Proc
International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium networks , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- , ; J. Romero; A. R. Pereira Pereira; L. Almeida; " Demonstrating reliable and
timely multicast for streaming in last hop wireless networks ", Proc IEEE Real-Time
Systems Symp. - RTSS , Rome , Italy , December , 2014 .
- Furtado, A.; M. Luís; L.I. Irio; R. Oliveira; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; " Detection of
Licensed Users' Activity in a Random Access Ultra Wideband Cognitive System ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Ultra-Wideband - ICUWB , Paris , France , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 91 - 95 , September , 2014 .
- Carvalho, J.C.; T. Condeixa; S. Sargento; " Distributed mobility management in
dynamic environments: V2i networks ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Computers and Communications - ISCC , Madeira , Portugal , June , 2014 .
- Figueiredo, Sérgio Figueiredo; Seil Jeon; R. L. Aguiar; " Empowering IP Multicast
for Multimedia Delivery over Heterogeneous Mobile Wireless Networks ", Proc
International Conf. on Computer Communications , Toronto , Canada , pp. 211 212 , April , 2014 .
- Sousa, Paula Prata; R. M. F. C. Cunha; P.A. Araújo; " Escalabilidade do jogo
WebRun: Versão Cliente-Servidor versus Versão Peer-to-Peer ", Proc VideoJogos VJ , Barcelos , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 10 , November , 2014 .
- Pereira, O.; DDR Regateiro; R. L. Aguiar; " Extending RBAC Model to Control
Sequences
of
CRUD
Expressions
",
Proc
International
Conf.
on
Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering - SEKE , Vancouver , Canada , Vol. 1 , pp.
463 - 469 , July , 2014 .
- Barroca, N.; Luis M. Borges; F. J. Velez; P. Chatzimisios; " IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
Layer Performance Enhancement by employing RTS/CTS combined with Packet
Concatenation ", Proc IEEE International Conf. in Communications - IEEE ICC ,
Sydney , Australia , June , 2014 .
291
- Cruz, CAC; A.O. Oliveira; J. Ferreira; J. N. Matos; " Implementing Deterministic
Vehicular Communications: Rationale and Challenges ", Proc IEEE Vehicular
Networking Conf. - VNC , Paderborn , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , December ,
2014 .
- Almeida, L.; MB Behnam; P.P. Pedreiras; " Managing end-to-end resource
reservations ", Proc IEEE Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time
Embedded Systems - CRTS , Rome , Italy , December , 2014 .
- Sargento, S.; " Network Mobility for Vehicular Networks ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp.
1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- Parreira, B.; J. Soares; J. Carapinha; M. Melo; S. Sargento; " OpenFlow Network
Control Demonstrator ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC ,
Sydney , Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- Sargento, S.; J. Nogueira; " QoE Assessment of an Adaptive Video Streaming ",
Proc ICST International Conf. on Wireless Internet - WICON , Lisbon , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November , 2014 .
- Sargento, S.; J. M. F. Fernandes; A. Cardote; " REINVENT: Accessing Vehicular
Networks in Mobile Applications ", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computers and
Communications - ISCC , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
- Pereira, O.; DDR Regateiro; R. L. Aguiar; " Role-Based Access Control
Mechanisms Distributed, Statically Implemented and Driven by CRUD Expressions
", Proc IEEE Symp. on Computers and Communications (ISCC) , Funchal , Portugal
, Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , July , 2014 .
- Jeon, Seil; Carlos Guimarães Guimarães; R. L. Aguiar; " SDN-Based Mobile
Networking for Cellular Operators ", Proc ACM International Workshop on Mobility in
the Evolving Internet Architecture - MobiArch , Maui Island , United States , Vol. ,
pp. 13 - 18 , September , 2014 .
292
- Gomes, G.T; A. Zúquete; S. Sargento; " Self-adapted Protocol for Intra and Interechelons Communications ", Proc International Telecommunications Network
Strategy and Planning Symposium - networks , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 1 , June , 2014 .
- Almeida, L.; J. Romero; " Streaming video to large number of clients using WiFi
multicast with scheduled acknowledgements ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de
Informática , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 2 , September , 2014 .
- Cardote, A.; S. Sargento; " Vehicular Testbed Management ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Control, Communications and Signal Processing - ISCCSP ,
Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , June , 2014 .
Project Reports
- Logota, E.; " Final report on synchronised 3D media networking with real time
audiovisual communication support ", Instituto de Telecomunicações, January ,
2014 .
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Papers in Journals
- Gomes, A.; " A continuation algorithm for planar implicit curves with singularities
", Computers & Graphics , Vol. 38 , No. 1 , pp. 365 - 373 , February , 2014 .
- Barbosa, A.; P.N.M.P Pereira; João A. F. F. Dias Dias; F. S. Silva; " A New
Methodology of Design and Development of Serious Games ", International Journal
of Computer Games Technology , Vol. 2014 , No. ID 817167 , pp. 1 - 8 , June ,
2014 .
- Blom, K.J.B.; A.R. Rivas; X. Alvarez; C Çetinaslan; B. Oliveira; V. Orvalho; M. S.
Slater;
"
Achieving
Participant
Acceptance
of
their
Avatars
",
Presence:
Teleoperators and Virtual Environments , Vol. 23 , No. 3 , pp. 287 - 299 , October ,
2014 .
293
- Gomes, A.; A. Raposo; " Efficient deformation algorithm for plasmid DNA
simulations ", BMC Bioinformatics , Vol. 15 , No. 301 , pp. 1 - 14 , September ,
2014 .
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; " Optimized Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform on
GPUs for Non-Binary LDPC Decoding ", Elsevier Parallel Computing , Vol. 40 , No. 9
, pp. 449 - 453 , May , 2014 .
- Costa, R.; A. Gomes; " Towards a Trust Framework for Multi-User Virtual
Environments ", Lectures Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 8579 , pp. 754 - 768 ,
July , 2014 .
- Dias, S.; A. Gomes; " Triangulating Molecular Surfaces over a LAN of GPUEnabled Computers ", Parallel Computing , Vol. 40 , No. 10 , pp. 1 - 13 , December
, 2014 .
- Silva, I.S.; PFL Lopes; F.B. Batista; J.C. Calado; I. Alexandre; " Fluxo – Um jogo
pedagógico sobre o Sistema Circulatório ", Proc Encontro Português de Computação
Gráfica - EPCG , Leiria , Portugal , November , 2014 .
- Almeida, R.A.; P.S. Sousa; L.B. Brito; PFL Lopes; I. Alexandre; " Gestual Life –
Jogo Educativo de Língua Gestual Portuguesa ", Proc Encontro Português de
Computação Gráfica - EPCG , Leiria , Portugal , November , 2014 .
- Mesquita, G.; T.G. Gomes; V.T. Amaral; G.J. Junior; PFL Lopes; I. Alexandre; "
Khronosaurus, uma aventura no tempo ", Proc Iberian Workshop on Serious Games
and Meaningful Play , Barcelona , Spain , June , 2014 .
- Orvalho, V.; C. L. Loconsole; C.R. Miranda; G. A. K. Kyriazis; A. F. Frisoli; " RealTime Emotion Recognition: a Novel Method for Geometrical Facial Features
Extraction ", Proc International Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , January , 2014 .
294
- Freitas, JF; M. D. Dias; V. Orvalho; " The IRIS Project: A Liaison between Industry
and Academia towards Natural Multimodal Communication ", Proc IberSPEECH 2014
– VIII Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and IV Iberian SLTech Workshop IberSPEECH 2014 , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 338 - 347 ,
November , 2014 .
NETWORK APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
Book Chapters
- Fernandes, D. A. B. F.; L. F. B. Soares Soares; J. V. Gomes; M. Freire; P.R.M.
Inácio ; " A Quick Perspective on the Current State in Cybersecurity " - Chapter in
Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Technologies Security , Babak
Akhgar, Hamid R. Arabnia , Elsevier Science , , 2014 .
- Caldeira, JC; J. R. Rodrigues; " Body Area Networks for Healthcare " - Chapter in
McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2014 , McGraw-Hill , McGraw Hill ,
USA , 2014 .
- Soares, L. F. B. Soares; D. A. B. F. Fernandes; J. V. Gomes; M. Freire; P.R.M.
Inácio ; " Cloud Security: State of the Art " - Chapter in Security, Privacy and Trust
in Cloud Systems , Surya Nepal, Mukaddim Pathan , Springer, 2014 .
- Logota, E.; F.B. Saghezchi; H. R. Marques; J. Rodriguez; " Cooperative Strategies
for Energy Saving and End-to-End QoS Control " - Chapter in Novel 3D Media
Technologies , A. Kondoz, and T. Dagiuklas , Springer , New York , 2014 .
- Silva, J. C. S. ; A. A. Arsénio; N. M. Garcia; " Mobility and Multihoming Data
Transmission Protocls " - Chapter in Ambient Assisted Living , Nuno M. Garcia, Joel
Rodrigues , CRC Press , Boca Raton, Fl, USA , 2014 .
- Soares, V. S.; J. R. Rodrigues; " Vehicular delay-tolerant networks (VDTNs) " Chapter in Advances in Delay-tolerant Networks (DTNs): Architecture and Enhanced
Performance , J. J. P. C. Rodrigues , Woodhead Publishing, 2014 .
295
Papers in Journals
- Lima, Christopher Lima; M. Antunes; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; T. Mota; " A
Context-Aware Framework for Collaborative Activities in Pervasive Communities ",
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies , Vol. 5 , No. 2 , pp.
31 - 43 , July , 2014 .
- Calvo, IC; L. Almeida; A. Noguero; F. Pérez; M. Marcos; " A Flexible-TimeTriggered Service for Real-Time CORBA ", Computer Standards and Interfaces , Vol.
36 , No. 3 , pp. 531 - 544 , March , 2014 .
- Han, G. H.; C. Z. Zhang; J. L. Lloret; L. S. Shu; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Mobile
Anchor Assisted Localization Algorithm Based on Regular Hexagon in Wireless
Sensor Networks ", The Scientific World Journal , Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 219371
, pp. 1 - 14 , July , 2014 .
- Sendra, S. S. ; A. L. Lloret; J. L. Lloret; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Wireless Sensor
Network Deployment to Detect the Degeneration of Cement used in Construction ",
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) , Vol. 15 , No.
1/2/3 , pp. 147 - 160 , March , 2014 .
- Pereira, O.; JC Caldeira; L. S. Shu; J. R. Rodrigues; " An Efficient and Low Cost
Windows Mobile BSN Monitoring System Based on TinyOS ", Telecommunication
Systems , Vol. 55 , No. 1 , pp. 115 - 124 , January , 2014 .
- García-Gómez, J. G.; I. T. de la Torre; J. V. Vicente; M. R. Robles; M. L. LópezCoronado; J. R. Rodrigues; " Analysis of mobile health applications for a broad
spectrum of consumers: a user experience approach ", Health Informatics Journal ,
Vol. 20 , No. 1 , pp. 1741 - 2811 , March , 2014 .
- dÓrey, P.; M. Ferreira; " Can Ride-Sharing Become Attractive? A Case Study of
Taxi-Sharing Employing a Simulation Modelling Approach ", IET Intelligent
Transport Systems , Vol. 99 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 19 , July , 2014 .
296
- Wen, Y. W.; X. Z. Zhu; J. R. Rodrigues; C. C. Chen; " Cloud Mobile Media:
Reflections and Outlook ", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia , Vol. 16 , No. 4 , pp. 885 902 , June , 2014 .
- Aguiar, R. L.; D. Gomes; J.P.B. Barraca; N.L. Lau; " CloudThinking as an
Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics ", Wireless Personal Communications ,
Vol. 76 , No. 2 , pp. 231 - 244 , May , 2014 .
- Matos, R.; C . M. M. Marques; S. Sargento; " Context-Aware Control of UserCentric Virtual Networks: Centralized vs Distributed Approaches ", Elsevier Journal
of Computer Networks , Vol. 74 , pp. 4 - 21 , October , 2014 .
- Mendes, L. M.; J. R. Rodrigues; J. L. Lloret; S. S. Sendra; " Cross-layer Dynamic
Admission Control for Cloud-based Multimedia Sensor Networks ", IEEE Systems ,
Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 235 - 246 , March , 2014 .
- Carvalho, L. C.; G. F. Fernandes; M. A. Assis; J. R. Rodrigues; M. P. Proença; "
Digital Signature of Network Segment for Healthcare Environments Support ",
Innovation and Research in BioMedical Engineering , Vol. 35 , No. 6 , pp. 299 - 309
, December , 2014 .
- Zhou, L. Z.; Z. Y. Yang; Y. W. Wen; J. R. Rodrigues; " Distributed Wireless Video
Scheduling with Delayed Control Information ", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and
Systems for Video Tech. , Vol. 24 , No. 5 , pp. 889 - 901 , May , 2014 .
- Hadzic , S.; D. Yang; M. Violas; J. Rodriguez; " Energy Efficient Mobile Tracking in
Heterogeneous Networks using Node Selection ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking , Vol. 2014 , No. 2 , pp. 1 - 10 , January , 2014 .
- Talooki, V.; J. Rodriguez; H.M. Marques; " Energy Efficient and Load Balanced
Routing for Wireless Multi-hop Network Applications ", Intrnl. Journal of Distributed
Sensor Networks , Vol. 2014 ,pp. 1 - 33 , January , 2014 .
- Boban, M.; J. Barros; O. Tonguz; " Geometry-Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel
Modeling for Large-Scale Simulation ", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology , Vol.
63 , No. 9 , pp. 4146 - 4164 , November , 2014 .
297
- Kumar, N. K.; N. C. Chilamkurti; J. R. Rodrigues; " Learning Automata-based
Opportunistic Data Aggregation and Forwarding Scheme for Alert Generation in
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ", Computer Communications , Vol. 39 , No. 1 , pp. 22 32 , February , 2014 .
- Kumar, N. K.; N. C. Chilamkurti; J. R. Rodrigues; " Learning Automata-based
Opportunistic Data Aggregation and Forwarding Scheme for Alert Generation in
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ", Computer Communications , Vol. 39 , No. Feb.2014 ,
pp. 22 - 32 , January , 2014 .
- Kim, MinJi Kim; T. Klein Klein; E. Soljanin Soljanin; J. Barros; M. M. Médard; "
Modeling Network Coded TCP: Analysis of Throughput and Energy Cost ", Mobile
Networks and Applications , Vol. 19 , No. 6 , pp. 790 - 803 , December , 2014 .
- Lima, D. L.; A. A. Aquino; H. R. Ramos; E. A. Almeida; J. R. Rodrigues; " OASys:
An opportunistic and agile system to detect free on-street parking using intelligent
boards embedded in surveillance cameras ", Journal of Network and Computer
Applications , Vol. 46 ,pp. 241 - 249 , November , 2014 .
- Diallo, O.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. Sene Sene; J. N. Niu; " Real-Time Query Processing
Optimization for Cloud-based Wireless Body Area Networks ", Information Sciences
, Vol. 284 , No. 14 , pp. 84 - 94 , November , 2014 .
- Diallo, O.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. Sene Sene; F. X. Xia; " Real-Time Query Processing
Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks ", Intrnl. Journal of Sensor Networks ,
pp. 1 - 12 , January , 2014 .
- 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 , Vol. 13 , No. 2 , pp. 113 - 170 , April , 2014 .
- Diallo, O.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. Sene Sene; J. L. Lloret; " Simulation framework for
real-time database on WSNs ", Journal of Network and Computer Applications , Vol.
39 , No. 2014 , pp. 191 - 201 , March , 2014 .
298
- Sendra, S. S. ; E. G. Granell; J. L. Lloret; J. R. Rodrigues; " Smart Collaborative
Mobile System for Taking Care of Disable and Elderly People ", Mobile Networks and
Applications , Vol. 19 , No. 3 , pp. 287 - 302 , June , 2014 .
- Ferreira, M. ; P. Gomes; M. K-S. Kruger-Silveria; F. V. Vieira; " The Virtual Drive
", A Global Village , Vol. 12 , pp. 40 - 44 , June , 2014 .
- Pereira, C.; A. Aguiar; " Towards Efficient Mobile M2M Communications: Survey
and Open Challenges ", Sensors , Vol. 14 , No. 10 , pp. 19582 - 19608 , October ,
2014 .
- Boban, M.; R. Meireles; J. Barros; P. Steenkiste; O. Tonguz; " TVR - Tall Vehicle
Relaying in Vehicular Networks ", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing , Vol. 13 , No. 5
, pp. 1118 - 1131 , May , 2014 .
- Oliveira, L. M. R.; J. R. Rodrigues; A. E. Elias; B. Z. Zarpelão; " Ubiquitous
monitoring solution for Wireless Sensor Networks with push notifications and endto-end connectivity ", Mobile Information Systems , Vol. 10 , No. 1 , pp. 19 - 35 ,
February , 2014 .
- Oliveira, L.; J. R. Rodrigues; A. E. Elias; G. H. Han; " Wireless Sensor Networks in
IPv4/IPv6 Transition Scenarios ", Wireless Personal Communications , Vol. 78 , No.
4 , pp. 1849 - 1862 , October , 2014 .
- Robalo, D.R.; F. J. Velez; " A Model for Mapping between the Quality of Service
and Experience for Wireless Multimedia Applications ", Proc IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring , Seoul , Korea, South , May , 2014 .
- Sean Alvarenga, S. A.; B. Z. Zarpelão; V. S. Soares; " A Notification Architecture
for Smart Cities based on Push Technologies ", Proc Conf. Latinoamericana en
Informática - CLEI , Montevideo , Uruguay , September , 2014 .
299
- Cunguara, MAC; TOS Silva; P.P. Pedreiras; " A Novel Dynamical Approach to
(m,k)-firm
Scheduling
",
Proc
IEEE
International
Workshop
on
Factory
Communication Systems - WFCS , Tolouse , France , May , 2014 .
- Esfahani, A.; A. Nascimento; J. Rodriguez; J. Neves; " An Efficient MAC-Signature
Scheme for Authentication in XOR Network Coding ", Proc IEEE International Symp.
on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Madeira , Portugal , Vol. Workshops ,
pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2014 .
- Esfahani, A.; D. Yang; A. Nascimento; J. Rodriguez; " An Improved Homomorphic
Message Authentication Code Scheme for RLNC-Enabled Wireless Networks ", Proc
IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of
Communication Links and Networks - IEEE CAMAD , Athens , Greece , Vol.
CODELANCE , pp. 1 - 5 , December , 2014 .
- Matos, A.; J. F. Santos; T. Rezk; " An Information Flow Monitor for a Core of DOM
", Proc Trustworthy Global Computing , Rome , Italy , Vol. XV , pp. 1 - 16 ,
September , 2014 .
- Logota, E.; J. Rodriguez; H. R. Marques; " Analysis of the Impact of Denial of
Service Attacks on Centralized Control in Smart Cities ", Proc International Wireless
Internet Conf. - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication - WICON ,
Lisbon , Portugal , November , 2014 .
- Lele, A. L. ; O. M. Moreira; K. B. Berkel; J. B. Bastos; P.P. Pedreiras; " Analyzing
preemptive Fixed Priority Scheduling of Data Flow Graphs ", Proc IEEE/ACM/IFIP
Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia - ESTIMedia , New Dheli
, India , October , 2014 .
- Bhukya, D. P.; CG Gonçalves; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; " Benchmarking the
Performance of Hypervisors on Different Workloads ", Proc IARIA International
Conf. on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA , Nice , France , October , 2014 .
- Antunes, M.; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; " Context Storage for M2M Scenarios ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. in Communications - IEEE ICC , Sidney , Australia , June ,
2014 .
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- Sadeghi, Rasool Sadeghi; J.P.B. Barraca; R. L. Aguiar; " Cooperation Metric for
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks ", Proc International Conf. on New Technologies,
Mobility and Security - NTMS , Dubai , United Arab Emirates , April , 2014 .
- Aguiar, A.; E. S. Soares; P. Brandão; T.M. Magalhães; J. M. F. Fernandes; I. O.
Oliveira; " Demo: Wireless IP mesh on Android for fire-fighter monitoring ", Proc
ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks - CHANTS , Maui , United States ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , September , 2014 .
- Silva, L.S.; M.A. Ashjaei; P.P. Pedreiras; MB Behnam; R. J. B. Bril; L. Almeida; TN
Nolte; " Demonstrating the Multi-Hop Capabilities of the HaRTES Real-Time
Ethernet Switch (Open Demo Session) ", Proc IEEE Real-Time Systems Symp. RTSS , Rome , Italy , December , 2014 .
- Rio, R. R.; V. S. Soares; A. F. Fonte; B. Z. Zarpelão; " Desenvolvimento de uma
Plataforma Tecnológica para Recolha, Armazenamento e Gestão de Informação
Estratégica da Águas do Centro S.A. ", Proc Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de
Informação - SBSI , Londrina , Brazil , May , 2014 .
- Pereira, A. P.; E.Correia Correia; P. Brandão; " Download the Latest Malware, Free
of Charge ", Proc BlackHat Europe , Amesterdam , Netherlands , October , 2014 .
- Carreira, J.; V. De Silva De Silva; E.E. Ekmekcioglu; A. Kondoz; P.A. Assunção;
S.M.M. Faria; " Dynamic Motion Vector Refreshing for Enhanced Error Resilience in
HEVC ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol.
, pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
- Ashjaei, M.A.; P.P. Pedreiras; MB Behnam; L. Almeida; TN Nolte; " Dynamic
Reconfiguration in Multi-Hop Switched Ethernet Networks ", Proc Workshop on
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems - APRES , Berlin , Germany , April
, 2014 .
- Marques, A. M.; V.V. Vasconcelos; P.P. Pedreiras; L. Almeida; V. Silva; " Efficient
Transient Error Recovery in FlexRay Using the Dynamic Segment ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA ,
Barcelona , Spain , September , 2014 .
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- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Enhancing MIMO Channel Capacity
Through the Use of Cooperation in Realistic Microcell Environments ", Proc Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC , Sydney , Australia ,
September , 2014 .
- Ashjaei, M.A.; P.P. Pedreiras; MB Behnam; L. Almeida; TN Nolte; " Evaluation of
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multi-Hop Switched Ethernet Networks ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA ,
Barcelona , Spain , September , 2014 .
- Leite, C. S. F. L.; P. Brandão; " Gestão Pessoal de Diabetes – Sistema de
Aconselhamento (poster) ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Porto ,
Portugal , September , 2014 .
- Khan, S. K. ; P.P. Pedreiras; J. Ferreira; " Improved Real-Time Communication
Infrastructure for ITS ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Porto , Portugal ,
September , 2014 .
- Diallo, O.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. Sene Sene; G. H. Han; J. N. Niu; " Improving the
Data Processing in WSNs through Combination of a Distributed Approach and
Statistical Techniques ", Proc IEEE Communications, Computing and Applications
2014 (ComComAp 2014) , Beijing , China , Vol. 2014 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2014 .
- Pereira, C.; S. Frade Frade; P. Brandão; R. Correia; A. Aguiar; " Integrating Data
and Network Standards into an Interoperable E-Health Solution ", Proc SSH: IEEE
Workshop on Service Science for eHealth - SSH , Natal , Brazil , pp. 1 - 6 , October
, 2014 .
- Coelho, BC; R. M. Rocha; " LA6 - Local Aggregation in the Internet of Things ",
Proc INSTICC 3rd International Conf. on Sensor Networks - SENSORNETS 2014 ,
Lisboa , Portugal , pp. 103 - 110 , January , 2014 .
- Adão, P.; CB Bozzato; GDR Dei Rossi; RF Focardi; FLL Luccio; " Mignis: A
Semantic Based Tool for Firewall Configuration ", Proc IEEE Computer Security
Foundations Workshop - CSFW , Vienna , Austria , pp. 351 - 365 , July , 2014 .
302
- Soares, J.; S. Sargento; " Optimizing the Embedding of Cloud Network Virtual
Infrastructures ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Telecommunications , Lisbon ,
Portugal , May , 2014 .
- Alves, S. Alves; Paula Prata Sousa; " Proposal for an Agnostic Architecture of
Cloud-based Computing Labs ", Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática , Porto ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 244 - 259 , September , 2014 .
- Ashjaei, M.A.; MB Behnam; P.P. Pedreiras; R. J. B. Bril; L. Almeida; TN Nolte; "
Reduced Buffering Solution for Multi-Hop HaRTES Switched Ethernet Networks ",
Proc IEEE IEEE International Conf. on Embedded and Real-Time Computing
Systems and Applications - RTCSA , Chongqing , China , August , 2014 .
- Ashjaei, M.A.; P.P. Pedreiras; MB Behnam; R. J. B. Bril; L. Almeida; TN Nolte; "
Response Time Analysis of Multi-Hop HaRTES Ethernet Switch Networks ", Proc
IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS , Tolouse
, France , May , 2014 .
- Antunes, M.; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; " Scalable Semantic Aware Context Storage
", Proc International Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud - FiCloud ,
Barcelona , Spain , August , 2014 .
- Francisco, R.; T. Crespo; C.F. Ferreira; F. Lopes; " SDH Equipment Failures´Risk
Analysis and Mitigation on EDPD´s Telecommunication Network ", Proc Protection,
Automation and Control World Conf. - PacWorld , Zagreb , Croatia , Vol. I , pp. 1 8 , June , 2014 .
- Ferreira, M. ; L.D. Damas; H. Conceição; P. dÓrey; R. Fernandes; P. Steenkiste;
" Self-Automated Parking Lots for Autonomous Vehicles based on Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networking ", Proc IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp. - IV , Dearborn, Michigan ,
United States , June , 2014 .
- Antunes, M.; D. Gomes; R. L. Aguiar; " Semantic-based Publish/Subscribe for
M2M ", Proc CyberC , Shanghai , China , October , 2014 .
303
- Garibai-Martinez, R. G-M.; L. L. F. Ferreira; G. N. Nelissen; P.P. Pedreiras; L. P.
Pinho; " Towards a Holistic Analysis for Fork-Join Parallel/Distributed Real-Time
Tasks ", Proc Euromicro Conf. on Real-Time Systems - ECRTS , Madrid , Spain , July
, 2014 .
- Antunes, M.; J.P.B. Barraca; D. Gomes; P. O. Oliveira; R. L. Aguiar; " Unified
platform for M2M Telco Providers ", Proc International Conf. on Ubiquitous
Computing and Ambiente Intelligenc , Belfast , United Kingdom , December , 2014 .
- Pereira, A. P.; E.Correia Correia; P. Brandão; " USB connection vulnerabilities on
Android smartphones: default and vendors’ customizations ", Proc IFIP TC6 and
TC11 Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conf. on Communications and Multimedia Security CMS , Aveiro , Portugal , September , 2014 .
- Alves, S. Alves; Paula Prata Sousa; " Using the cloud to build a computing lab ",
Proc Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI , Barcelona ,
Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 928 - 933 , June , 2014 .
NETWORK OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Books
-
Rodrigues,
J.
R.;
(eds.);
Advances
in
Delay-tolerant
Networks
(DTNs):
Architecture and Enhanced Performance , Woodhead Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2014 .
- Radwan, A. R.; J. Rodriguez; Energy Efficient Smart Phones for 5G Networks,
Springer , Cham, switzerland , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Rodrigues, J. R.; V. S. Soares; " An Introduction to Delay and DisruptionTolerant Networks (DTNs) " - Chapter in Advances in Delay-tolerant Networks
(DTNs): Architecture and Enhanced Performance , Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues ,
Woodhead Publishing , Oxford, UK , 2014 .
304
Papers in Journals
- Han, G. H.; X. J. Jiang; A. Q. Qian; J. R. Rodrigues; L. C. Cheng; " A Comparative
Study of Routing Protocols of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks ", The
Scientific World Journal , Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 415415 , pp. 11 pages , June ,
2014 .
- Coutinho, N.; D. Figueira Figueira; S. Sargento; " A Control Framework for
Abstract Multiparty Transport ", Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications ,
September , 2014 .
- Xiaoyu, L. X.; W. L. Liangtian; G. H. Han; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Novel DOA
Estimation Algorithm using Array Rotation Technique ", Future Internet , Vol. 6 ,
No. 1 , pp. 155 - 170 , March , 2014 .
- Assis, M. A.; J. R. Rodrigues; M. P. Proença; " A Seven-Dimensional Flow Analysis
to Help Autonomous Network Management ", Information Sciences , Vol. 278 , No.
pp. 900 - 913 , September , 2014 .
- Parada, C. P.; M. S. Santos; D. Corujo; Seil Jeon; R. L. Aguiar; " ANDSF e HS2.0:
Uma Experiência Seamless entre Rede Móvel e Wi-Fi ", Revista Saber e Fazer
Telecomunicações , No. 9, December , 2014 .
- Bali, R. B.; N. K. Kumar; J. R. Rodrigues; " Clustering in Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networks: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Solutions ", Vehicular Communications,
Elsevier , Vol. 1 , No. 3 , pp. 134 - 152 , July , 2014 .
- Buiati, F.; D. R. C. Rupérez; L. Villalba; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " Design and
Evaluation of a Decentralized Information Service Architecture for IEEE 802.21
Networks ", International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) ,
Vol. 15 , No. 4 , pp. 275 - 288 , April , 2014 .
- Diaz, J. D. ; J. L. Lloret; J. J. Jimenez ; S. S. Sendra; J. R. Rodrigues; " Fault
Tolerant Mechanism for Multimedia Flows in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Based on
Fast Switching Paths ", Mathematical Problems in Engineering , Vol. 20 , No. Article
ID 361543 , pp. 12 pages , September , 2014 .
305
- Jeong, S. J.; J. R. Rodrigues; J. C. Cano; " Foreword by Guest Editors for the
Special Issue on the 2013 ICUFN Conference ", Wireless Personal Communications ,
Vol. 78 , No. 4 , pp. 1827 - 1831 , November , 2014 .
- Han, G. H.; A. Q. Qian; C. Z. Zhang; Y. W. Wang; J. R. Rodrigues; " Localization
Algorithms in Large-scale Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks: a quantitative
comparison ", Intrnl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks , Vol. 2014 , No.
Article ID 379382 , pp. 1 - 11 , March , 2014 .
- Zhu, C. Z. ; Y. W. Wang; G. H. Han; J. R. Rodrigues; J. L. Lloret; " LPTA: Location
Predictive and Time Adaptive Data Gathering Scheme with Mobile Sink for Wireless
Sensor Networks ", The Scientific World Journal , Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 476253
, pp. 1 - 14 , September , 2014 .
- Caldeira, JC; J. R. Rodrigues; P. Lorenz; " MAC Layer Handover Mechanism for
Continuous Communication Support in Healthcare Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
", Telecommunication Systems , pp. 1 - 14 , November , 2014 .
- Ferreira, B. F.; J. R. Rodrigues; J. Dias; J. I. Isento; " Man4VDTN - A Network
Management
Solution
for
Vehicular
Delay-Tolerant
Networks
",
Computer
Communications , Vol. 39 , pp. 3 - 10 , February , 2014 .
- Iorga, R. I.; E. B. Barcoci; R. M. Miruta; A. Pinto; G. C. Carneiro; T.C. Calçada; "
Management driven hybrid multicast framework for content aware networks ", IEEE
Communications Magazine , Vol. 52 , No. 1 , pp. 158 - 165 , January , 2014 .
- Tsai, C. T.; J. R. Rodrigues; " Metaheuristic Scheduling for Cloud: A Survey ",
IEEE Systems , Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 279 - 291 , March , 2014 .
- Figueiredo, Sérgio Figueiredo; Carlos Guimarães Guimarães; D. Corujo; R. L.
Aguiar;
"
MI3M:
A
framework
for
media
independent
multicast
mobility
management ", Computer Networks , Vol. 70 , No. 9 , pp. 345 - 365 , September ,
2014 .
- Guimarães, Carlos Guimarães; D. Corujo; A. de la Oliva de la Oliva; Y. Ohba; R.
L. Aguiar; " Multicast Group Membership Management in Media Independent
306
Handover Services ", Computer Networks , Vol. 62 , No. 7 , pp. 55 - 68 , April ,
2014 .
- Salvador, P.; A. N. Nogueira; JM Mendes; I.P. Petiz; " Statistical characterization
of P2P-TV services and users ", Telecommunication Systems , Vol. 55 , No. 3 , pp.
363 - 376 , March , 2014 .
- Muranho , J.; A. Ferreira; J. M. Sousa; A. Gomes; A. Marques Marques; "
Technical performance evaluation of water distribution networks based on EPANET
", Procedia Engineering , Vol. 70 , pp. 1201 - 1210 , June , 2014 .
- Guimarães, Carlos Guimarães; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " Enhancing openflow with
Media Independent Management capabilities ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
Communications - ICC , Sydney , Australia , pp. 2995 - 3000 , June , 2014 .
- Quevedo, J.; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " A case for ICN usage in IoT environments
", Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM , Austin, Texas ,
United States , December , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, P.; AANM Martins; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " A fail-safe SDN bridging
platform for cloud networks ", Proc International Telecommunication Network
Strategy and Planning Symp. - Networks , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
September , 2014 .
- Castillo-Lema, J.; A. Neto; F. Silva; P. R. Rosa; R. L. Aguiar; A. Ishimori; F.
Farias; A. Abelém; " Additions to the ETArch Control Plane to Support Multimedia
QoS-Guaranteed Content Transport over OpenFlow-Enabled SDN Future Internet
Systems ", Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM , Austin,
Texas , United States , December , 2014 .
- Marques, A. M.; V.V. Vasconcelos; P.P. Pedreiras; VFS Silva; L. Almeida; "
Assessment
of
FTT-CAN
master
replication
mechanisms
for
safety-critical
applications ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory
Automation - ETFA , Barcelona , Spain , September , 2014 .
307
Assessment
of
FTT-CAN
master
replication
mechanisms
for
safety-critical
applications ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory
Automation - ETFA , Barcelona , Spain , September , 2014 .
- Soares, J.; B. Parreira; M.D. Dias; J. Carapinha; S. Sargento; " Cloud4NFV: A
Platform for Virtual Network Functions ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Cloud
Networking - CloudNet , Luxemburg, October , 2014 .
- Quevedo, J.; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " Consumer driven information freshness
approach for content centric networking ", Proc IEEE The 2nd Workshop on Name
Oriented Mobility - INFOCOM 2014 - NOM , Toronto , Canada , pp. 482 - 487 , April
, 2014 .
- Mavromoustakis, C. M.; G. M. Mastorakis; A. B. Bourdena; E. P. Pallis; G.
Kormentzas; J. R. Rodrigues; " Context-oriented Opportunistic Cloud Offload
Processing for Energy Conservation in Wireless Devices ", Proc IEEE Global
Communications Conference - GLOBECOM , Austin , United States , pp. 111 - 117 ,
December , 2014 .
- Pena, E. P.; L. C. Carvalho; S. B. Barbon; J. R. Rodrigues; M. P. Proença; "
Correlational Paraconsistent Machine for anomaly detection ", Proc IEEE Global
Communications Conference - GLOBECOM , Austin , United States , pp. 551 - 556 ,
December , 2014 .
Efficient Transient Error Recovery in FlexRay Using the Dynamic Segment ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA
, Barcelona , Spain , September , 2014 .
- Silva, F.; J. Castillo-Lema; A. Neto; F. Silva; P. R. Rosa; D. Corujo; Carlos
Guimarães Guimarães; R. L. Aguiar; " Entity title architecture extensions towards
advanced quality-oriented mobility control capabilities ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Funchal , Portugal , pp 1 - 6 ,
June , 2014 .
308
- Castillo-Lema, J.; F. Silva; F. Silva; P. R. Rosa; Carlos Guimarães Guimarães; D.
Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; " Evolving Future Internet Clean-Slate Entity Title Architecture
with Quality-Oriented Control Plane Extensions ", Proc Advanced International Conf.
on Telecommunications , Paris , France , July , 2014 .
- Guimarães, Carlos Guimarães; D. Corujo; F. Silva; P. R. Rosa; A. Neto; R. L.
Aguiar; " IEEE 802.21-enabled Entity Title Architecture for Handover Optimization
", Proc IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC , Istanbul ,
Turkey , pp. 2671 - 2676 , April , 2014 .
- Djedje, S.D.; P.L. Correia; " PROPOSTA DE REDE METROPOLITANA PARA A
CIDADE DE MAPUTO ", Proc Congresso Luso Moçambicano de Engenharia - CLME ,
Inhambane , Mozambique , Vol. 1 , pp. 387 , April , 2014 .
- , ; D. Corujo; R. L. Aguiar; Iván Vidal Vidal; Jaime G. Reinoso Garcia-Reinoso; K.
Pentikousis; " Research Challenges Towards a Managed Information-Centric
Network of Things ", Proc European Conf. on Networks and Communications EUCNC , Bologna , Italy , June , 2014 .
- Ferreira, C.; N. Neto; F. Silva; J. Pereira; A. Neto; D. Corujo; Carlos Guimarães
Guimarães; P. R. Rosa; S. Kofuji; " Towards a Carrier Grade SDN Controller:
Integrating OpenFlow with Telecom Services ", Proc Advanced International Conf.
on Telecommunications , Paris , France , July , 2014 .
- Ferreira, C.; N. Neto; A. Mota; F. Silva; J. Pereira; A. Neto; D. Corujo; Carlos
Guimarães Guimarães; P. R. Rosa; S. Kofuji; R. L. Aguiar; " Towards a Carrier
Grade SDN Controller: Integrating OpenFlow with Telecom Services ", Proc
Advanced International Conf. on Telecommunications , Paris , France , July , 2014 .
NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND DESIGN
Book Chapters
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; " Cooperative Paradigm for Energy
Saving " - Chapter in Energy Efficient Smart Phones for 5G Networks , Ayman
309
Radwan, Jonathan Rodriguez , Springer , International Publishing, Switzerland ,
2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Reis, A.B.; S. Sargento; F.N. Neves; O. Tonguz; " Deploying Roadside Units in
Sparse Vehicular Networks: What Really Works and What Does Not ", IEEE Trans.
on Vehicular Technology , Vol. 63 , No. 6 , pp. 2794 - 2806 , July , 2014 .
- Ferreira, D.; R.C. Costa; J. Barros; " Real-Time Network Coding for Live
Streaming in Hyper-Dense WiFi Spaces ", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications , Vol. 32 , No. 4 , pp. 773 - 781 , April , 2014 .
- Monteiro, D. M.; J. R. Rodrigues; J. L. Lloret; S. S. Sendra; " A Hybrid NFCBluetooth Secure Protocol for Credit Transfer Among Mobile Phones ", Security and
Communication Networks , Vol. 7 , No. 2 , pp. 335 - 337 , February , 2014 .
- Diaz, J. D. ; J. L. Lloret; J. J. Jimenez ; J. R. Rodrigues; " A QoS-Based Wireless
Multimedia Sensor Cluster Protocol ", Intrnl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
, Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 480372 , pp. 1 - 17 , May , 2014 .
- Ernst, J. E.; S. K. Kremer; J. R. Rodrigues; " A Survey of QoS/QoE mechanisms in
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ", Physical Communication-Elsevier , Vol. 13 ,
No. Part B , pp. 61 - 72 , December , 2014 .
- Jain, S. J.; N. K. Kishore; M. C. Chawla; V. S. Soares; " Composite Mechanisms
for Improving Bubble Rap in Delay Tolerant Networks ", The Journal of Engineering
, pp. 1 - 7 , January , 2014 .
- Jain, S. J.; M. C. Chawla; V. S. Soares; J. R. Rodrigues; " Enhanced Fuzzy LogicBased Spray and Wait Routing Protocol for Delay Tolerant Networks ", Intrnl.
Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) , May , 2014 .
- Puñal, O.; C. Pereira; A. Aguiar; J. Gross; " Experimental Characterization and
Modeling of RF Jamming Attacks on VANETs ", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology
, No. 99 , pp. 34 - 42 , September , 2014 .
310
- Soares, V. S.; J. R. Rodrigues; F. F. Farahmand; " GeoSpray: A Geographic
Routing Protocol for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks ", Information Fusion , Vol.
15 , pp. 102 - 113 , January , 2014 .
Caldeira, JC; J. R. Rodrigues; P. Lorenz; S. u. Ullah; " Impact of Sensor Nodes
Scaling and Velocity on Handover Mechanisms for Healthcare Wireless Sensor
Networks with Mobility Support ", Journal Computers in Industry, November, 2014 .
- Sobrinho, J. L. S.; " Interconnecting Routing Instances ", IEEE/ACM Trans. on
Networking , Vol. 22 , No. 2 , pp. 540 - 553 , April , 2014 .
- Khamfroush, H.; D. E. Lucani; Phd Pahlevani; J. Barros; " Network-coded
cooperation over time-varying channels ", IEEE Trans. on Communications , Vol. 62
, No. 12 , pp. 4413 - 4425 , December , 2014 .
- Caldeira, JC; J. R. Rodrigues; M. G. Gilg; P. Lorenz; " Performance assessment of
a
new
intra-mobility solution
for
Healthcare
Wireless
Sensor
Networks
",
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) , Vol. 15 , No.
1,2,3 , pp. 215 - 226 , January , 2014 .
- Cabral, M. C.; J. R. Rodrigues; João A. F. F. Dias Dias; J. I. Isento; A. V. Vinel; "
Performance Evaluation of a Real Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network Testbed ",
Intrnl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks , Vol. 2014 , No. Article ID 219641 ,
pp. 11 pages. , December , 2014 .
- Zhu, C. Z.; L. Y. Yang; L. S. Shu; V. López; J. R. Rodrigues; " Sleep Scheduling
for Geographic Routing in Duty-cycled Mobile Sensor Networks ", IEEE Trans. on
Industrial Electronics , Vol. 61 , No. 11 , pp. 6246 - 6355 , November , 2014 .
- Furtado, A.; L.I. Irio; R. Oliveira; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; " Spectrum Sensing
Performance in Cognitive Radio Networks with Multiple Primary Users ", IEEE Trans.
on Vehicular Tech. pp. 1 - 10 , September , 2014 .
311
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; " A Coalitional Game-Theoretic
Approach to Isolate Selfish Nodes in Multihop Cellular Networks ", Proc IEEE
International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC , Funchal , Portugal
, pp. 1 - 6 , June , 2014 .
Fernandes, D. A. B. F.; M. N. Neto; L. F. B. Soares Soares; M. Freire; P.R.M. Inácio
; " A Tool for Estimating the Hurst Parameter and for Generating Self-Similar
Sequences ", Proc The Society for Modeling and simulation International Summer
Computer Simulation Conf. - SCSC , Monterey , United States , Vol. 46 , pp. 0 - 8 ,
July , 2014 .
- Furtado, A.; L.I. Irio; R. Oliveira; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; " Characterization of the
Spatial False Alarm effect in Cognitive Radio Networks ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks - ICCCN , Shanghai , China , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 8 , August , 2014 .
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. R. Radwan; J. Rodriguez; M. Taha; " Coalitional Relay
Selection Game to Extend Battery Lifetime of Multi-standard Mobile Terminals ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Sydney , Australia , pp.
508 - 513 , June , 2014 .
- Velez, F. J.; O. Cabral; D.R. Robalo; O. Holland; H. Aghvami; F. Meucci Meucci; A.
Mihovska; N. Prasad; R. Prasad; " Cost/Revenue Performance in an IMT-Advanced
Scenario with Spectrum Aggregation Over Non-Contiguous Frequency Bands ", Proc
ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit , Lisbon , Portugal , May , 2014 .
- Sobrinho, J. L. S.; L. V. Vanbever; FL Le; J. R. Rexford; " Distributed Route
Aggregation on the Global Network ", Proc ACM International Conf. on emerging
Networking EXperiments and Technologies - CoNEXT , Sydney , Australia , pp. 161
- 172 , December , 2014 .
- dÓrey, P.; M. Boban; " Empirical Evaluation of Cooperative Awareness in
Vehicular Communications ", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall ,
Seoul , Korea, South , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
312
- Sousa, I.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; " Enhancing the MIMO Channel Capacity
in Manhattan-Like Scenarios ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO ,
Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2014 .
- Holland, O.; R.P. Dionísio; P. Marques; " Extensive TV White Spaces Trials in the
UK as part of the Ofcom TV White Spaces Pilot ", Proc IEEE International Workshop
on Cognitive Cellular Communications , Rhine River , Germany , pp. 1 - 5 ,
September , 2014 .
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. Nascimento; J. Rodriguez; " Game Theory and Pricing
Strategies for Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid ", Proc IEEE/IET
International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal
Processing - CSNDSP , Manchester , United Kingdom , pp. 1 - 5 , July , 2014 .
- Amaral , P.; P. Pinto; L. Bernardo; " Multipath policy routing for the inter-domain
scenario ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC , Sydney ,
Australia , Vol. 2014 , pp. 3215 - 3221 , June , 2014 .
- Khamfroush, H.; D. E. Lucani; J. Barros; " Network coding for wireless
cooperative networks: Simple rules, near-optimal delay ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Communications - ICC , Sydney , Australia , Vol. 1 , pp. 255 - 260 , June ,
2014 .
Sofia, R. Sofia; S. Sargento; " Node Spatial Correlation aware Routing Metrics for
User-Centric Environments ", Proc International Conf. on New Technologies,
Mobility and Security - NTMS, Dubai , Saudi Arabia, Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , April , 2014 .
- Reis, A.B.; S. Sargento; O. Tonguz; " Parameters that Affect Safety Message
Delay in Sparse Infrastructure-less Vehicular Networks ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Communications - ICC, Sidney , Australia , pp. 2568 - 2574 , June , 2014 .
- Maffei, ; F. Ganhão; L.I. Irio; L. Bernardo; R. Dinis; R. Oliveira; P. Amaral ; P.
Pinto; " SC-FDE Femtocell Energy Saving using IB-DFE Interference Cancellation
Techniques ", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Lisboa ,
Portugal , May , 2014 .
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PATTERN RECOGNITION AND AUTOMATIC LEARNING
Books
- Fred, A. L. N.; JBF Filipe; (eds.); Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Springer , New
York , 2014 .
- Scharcanski, JC; H. Proença; E. D. Du; Signal and Image Processing for
Biometrics : State of the Art and Recent Advances., Springer , Berlin , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Martins, A.; " AD3 : A Fast Decoder for Structured Prediction " - Chapter in
Advanced Structured Prediction , Sebastian Nowozin, Peter V. Gehler, Jeremy
Jancsary and Christoph H. Lampert , MIT Press, 2014 .
- Proença, H.; " Biometric Identification from Facial Sketches of Poor Fidelity:
Comparison of Human and Machine Performance, " - Chapter in Signal and Image
Processing for Biometrics : State of the Art and Recent Advances , Jacob
Scharcanski, Hugo Proença, Eliza Yingzi , Springer , New York , 2014 .
- Aidos, H.; A. L. N. Fred; " Learning similarities by accumulating evidence in a
probabilistic way " - Chapter in Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis,
Computer Vision, and Applications , Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and Edwin Hancock
, Springe, 2014 .
- Pombo, N.; N. M. Garcia; K. B. Bousson; V. F. Felizardo; " Machine Learning
Approaches to Automated Medical Decision Support Systems " - Chapter in
Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Algorithms ,
Pendiant Vasant , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, 2014 .
- Leite, N. Leite; R. Neves; N.H. Horta; F. Melício Melício; A.C.R. Rosa; " Solving a
Capacitated Exam Timetabling Problem Instance using a Bi-objective NSGA-II " Chapter in Studies in Computational Intelligence , Kurosh Madani, António Dourado,
Agostinho Rosa, Joaquim Filipe , Springer , Heidelberg , 2014 .
314
- Proença, H.; " Using Ocular Data for Unconstrained Biometric Recognition " Chapter in Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions , Maria De Marsico, Michele
Nappi, Massimo Tistarelli, IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Fazendeiro, P.; J. Oliveira ; " Observer biased fuzzy clustering ", IEEE Trans. on
Fuzzy Systems , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 12 , February , 2014 .
- Ma, W.; J. Dias; T. Chan; N. Gillis; Gader; A. Plaza; A. Ambikapathi; C. Chi; " A
signal processing perspective on hyperspectral unmixing ", IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine , Vol. 31 , No. 1 , pp. 67 - 81 , January , 2014 .
- Khodadadzadeh, M.; J. Li; A. Plaza; J. Dias; " A subspace-based multinomial
logistic regression for hyperspectral image classification ", IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Letters , Vol. 11 , No. 12 , pp. 2105 - 2109 , December , 2014 .
- Gomes, P. G.; P. Santana; J. B. Barata; " A Vision-based Approach to Fire
Detection ", International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems , Vol. 11 , No. 149
, pp. 1 - 12 , September , 2014 .
- Carmona, P. L. Carmona; A. L. N. Fred; " Advances in pattern recognition
applications and methods ", Neurocomputing , Vol. 123 , pp. 1 - 2 , January, 2014 .
- Silva, H.; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; N. Raposo; M. Aires-de-Sousa; " Check Your
Biosignals Here: A New Dataset for Off-the-Person ECG Biometrics ", Computer
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Motion Estimation in HEVC Video Coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image
Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , October , 2014 .
- Simões, M.; J. Dias; L.B. Almeida ; J. Chanussot; " Hyperspectral image
superresolution: an edge-preserving convex formulation ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , October ,
2014 .
- Veganzones, A.; M. Simões; G. Licciardi; J. Chanussot; " Hyperspectral superresolution of locally low rank images from complementary multisource data ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 5
- 5 , October , 2014 .
- Conti, C. ; P. Nunes; L. D. Soares; " Impact of Packet Losses in Scalable 3D
Holoscopic Video Coding ", Proc SPIE Photonics Europe: Optics, Photonics and
Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications , Brussels , Belgium , pp. 91380E 91380E–15 , April , 2014 .
- Salmistraro, M.; L. L. Rakêt; C. Brites ; J. Ascenso; S. Forchhammer; " Joint
Disparity and Motion Estimation Using Optical Flow for Multiview Distributed Video
Coding ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Lisbon , Portugal ,
September , 2014 .
- Conti, C. ; P. T. Kovács; T. Balogh; P. Nunes; L. D. Soares; " Light-Field Video
Coding Using Geometry-Based Disparity Compensation ", Proc 3DTV Conf. - 3DTVCON , Budapest , Hungary , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Monteiro, P.; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Local Feature Selection for Efficient Binary
Descriptor Coding ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP ,
Paris , France , October , 2014 .
- Lucas, L.; C. Conti; P. Nunes; L. D. Soares; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; C.L.P. Pagliari;
E. Silva; S.M.M. Faria; " Locally Linear Embedding-Based Prediction for 3D
Holoscopic Image Coding Using HEVC ", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. EUSIPCO , Lisbon , Portugal , September , 2014 .
329
- Moço, N.; P.L. Correia; " Mobile Forensics: A Smartphone-Based Activity Logger ",
Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Lisbon , Portugal , May ,
2014 .
- Goes, A. ; F. Pereira; P. Frossard; " Multiview Video Representations for QualityScalable Navigation ", Proc Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP ,
Valletta , Malta , December , 2014 .
- Castro, A. C.; S. S. Mattos; M. Coimbra; " Noninvasive Blood Pressure and the
Second Heart Sound Analysis ", Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC , Chicago , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 ,
August , 2014 .
- Dumic, E.; S. Grgic; L. A Cruz; P.A. Assunção; " Objective Quality Measures
Comparison of Impaired 3D Video Sequences from the UC3D Database ", Proc 3DTV
Conf. - 3DTV-CON , Budapest , Hungary , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , July , 2014 .
- Carreira, L.; P.L. Correia; L. D. Soares; " On High Resolution Palmprint Matching
", Proc International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF , Valetta , Malta
, March , 2014 .
- HoangVan , X.; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Optimal Reconstruction for a HEVC
Backward
Compatible
Distributed
Scalable
Video
Codec
",
Proc
Visual
Communications and Image Processing - VCIP , Valletta , Malta , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
December , 2014 .
- Domingues, P.D.; J.S. Silva; ; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; M. Carvalho; S.M.M. Faria;
" Optimizing Memory Usage and Accesses on CUDA-based Recurrent Pattern
Matching Image Compression ", Proc International Conf. on Computational Science
- ICCS , Guimaraes , Portugal , June , 2014 .
- Katkovnik, V.; K. Egiazarian; J. Dias; " Phase imaging via sparse coding in the
complex domain based on high-order SVD and nonlocal BM3D techniques ", Proc
IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1
- 5 , October , 2014 .
330
- Loconsole, C. L.; C.R. Miranda; V. Orvalho; " Real-Time Emotion Recognition: a
Novel Method for Geometrical Facial Features Extraction ", Proc International Conf.
on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - VISAPP , Lisbon , Portugal , January ,
2014 .
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; " Revisiting the Quadratic Programming Formulation of
Sparse Recovery ", Proc SIAM Conf. on Imaging Science - SIAM-IS , Hong Kong ,
China , May , 2014 .
- Faria, S.M.M.; J. Carreira; P.A. Assunção; A. Kondoz; " Selective motion vector
redundancies for improved error resilience in HEVC ", Proc IEEE International Conf.
on Image Processing - ICIP , Paris , France , October , 2014 .
- Moço, N.; P.L. Correia; L. D. Soares; " Smartphone-Based Palmprint Recognition
System ", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT , Lisbon , Portugal
, May , 2014 .
- Brites , C.; V. Gomes; J. Ascenso; F. Pereira; " Statistical Reconstruction for
Predictive Video Coding ", Proc Visual Communications and Image Processing VCIP , Valletta , Malta , December , 2014 .
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; " Teaching an Old Trick to an Old Dog: Revisiting the
Quadratic Programming Formulation of Sparse Recovery Using ADMM ", Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP , Florence
, Italy , May , 2014 .
- Correia, P.L.; L. Yee; P.F. Fonseca; A.C. Campos; " Underwater video analysis for
species abundance control: the crustacean Norway lobster – a case study ", Proc
International Workshop on Marine Technology - Martech , Lisbon , Portugal ,
October , 2014 .
- Mota, V. G. M.; G. Falcão; M. A. Antunes; J. P. B. Barreto; U. Nunes; " Using the
GPU for fast symmetry-based dense stereo matching in high resolution images ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP
, Florence , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
331
SPEECH ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
- Candeias, S.; D. Celorico; J. Proença ; A. Veiga; C. Lopes; F. Perdigão; "
HESITA(te) in Portuguese ", Proc European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC , Reykjavik
, Iceland , May , 2014 .
- Mendonça, G.; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; C. Shulby; R. Toniazzo; A. Klautau; S.
M. Aluísio; " A Method for the Extraction of Phonetically-Rich Triphone Sentences ",
Proc International Telecommunications Symposium - ITC , São Paulo , Brazil ,
August , 2014 .
- Veiga, A.; C. Lopes; L. V. Sá; F. Perdigão; " Acoustic Similarity Scores for
Keyword Spotting ", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of
Portuguese - PROPOR , São Carlos , Brazil , Vol. 8775 , pp. 48 - 58 , October ,
2014 .
- Hämäläinen, A. Hämäläinen; Cho, H. Cho; S. Candeias; T.Pellegrini Pellegrini;
Abad, A. Abad; M.Tjalve Tjalve; I. Trancoso; M. D. Dias; " Automatically
Recognising
European
Portuguese
Children's
Speech:
Pronunciation
Patterns
Revealed by an Analysis of ASR Errors ", Proc International Conf. on Computational
Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR , S. Carlos , Brazil , Vol. 8775, October , 2014 .
- "Automatically Recognising European Portuguese Children's Speech: Pronunciation
Patterns Revealed by an Analysis of ASR Errors ", Proc International Conf. on
Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR , S. Carlos , Brazil , Vol. 8775 ,
October , 2014 .
- Proença , J.; A. Veiga; S. Candeias; J. Lemos; C. Januário; F. Perdigão; "
Characterizing Parkinson's Disease Speech by Acoustic and Phonetic Features ",
Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR ,
São Carlos , Brazil , Vol. 8775 , pp. 24 - 35 , October , 2014 .
332
- Hämäläinen, A. Hämäläinen; S. Candeias; Cho, H. Cho; H. Meinedo; Abad, A.
Abad; T.Pellegrini Pellegrini; M.Tjalve Tjalve; I. Trancoso; M. D. Dias; " Correlating
ASR Errors with Developmental Changes in Speech Production: A Study of 3-10Year-Old European Portuguese Children’s Speech ", Proc INTERSPEECH Workshop
on Child Computer Interaction - WOCCI , Singapore , September , 2014 .
- Veiga, A.; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; " Grafone - Online Grapheme to Phoneme
Converter for European Portuguese ", Proc International Conf. on Computational
Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR , São Carlos , Brazil , October , 2014 .
- Marquiafável, V.; C. Shulby; A. Veiga; J. Proença ; S. Candeias; F. Perdigão; "
Rule-Based Algorithms for Automatic Pronunciation of Portuguese Verbal Inflections
", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR ,
São Carlos , Brazil , Vol. 8775 , pp. 36 - 47 , October , 2014 .
- Proença , J.; A. Veiga; F. Perdigão; " The SPL-IT Query by Example Search on
Speech system for MediaEval 2014 ", Proc MediaEval , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. 1263
, October , 2014 .
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
- Gonçalves, L.C.; P. Sebastião; N.S. Souto; A. Correia; " Subscriber Group
Behavioral Analysis for Data-Centric Service Consumption Beyond LTE-Advanced ",
Proc Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and
Aerospace , Aalborg , Denmark , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
Prototypes
- Lopes, F.; N. A. B. Martins; L. A Cruz; P.A. Assunção; " Network Distributed 3D
Video Quality Monitoring System ", 351 , November , 2014 .
- Calçada, T.C.; D.C. Moura; " UrbanSense Platform " , June , 2014 .
333
Patents
- Logota, E.; S. Sargento; A. Neto; " A Method and Apparatus for Class-Based
Networks Control (Pending) ", 107.518 , March , 2014 .
- Fred, A. L. N.; H. Silva; " Dispositivo e Método para Medição do Tempo de
Propagação da Resposta Galvânica da Pele ", 106509 , September , 2014 .
Awards
- Corrêa, G.; P.A. Assunção; L. Agostini; L. A Cruz; " Best Paper Award (ICECS
2014) ", Best Paper Award at the 21st IEEE International Conference on
Electronics,
Circuits,
and
Systems
(ICECS
2014)
for
the
paper
entitled
"Classification-Based Early Termination for Coding Tree Structure Decision in
HEVC". Award given by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. , 01-12-2014 .
- Sobrinho, J. L. S.; L. V. Vanbever; FL Le; J. R. Rexford; " Distributed Route
Aggregation on the Global Network ", IRTF 2015 Applied Networking Research Prize
, 01-12-2014 .
- Correia, P.L.; A.R.M. Ribeiro; " Prémio ANACOM-URSI Portugal 2014 ", The work
“Automatic vehicle courting based on surveillance video streams”, by Abel Ribeiro
and Paulo Lobato Correia, received (ex-aequo) the ANACOM-URSI 2014 award in
Lisbon, Portugal , 01-11-2014 .
- Pedreiras, P.P.; T. Silva; R. L. Lopes; L. Almeida; " Winner of the "Open Mind
ESEGUR 2014 - Innovation on the Security Sector" competition ", Winner of the
"Open Mind ESEGUR 2014 - Innovation on the Security Sector" competition, with
the work “IstreamS: Intelligent stream management for Security applications" , 0111-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; D. W. Wu; J. Q. Qi; Y. C. Cai ; " Best Paper Award - WCSP 2014
", Dan Wu, Yueming Cai, Jiannan Qi, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, ”Uplink Dynamic
Resource Sharing of Underlaying D2D and Cellular Communications”, 2014
International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP
334
2014), Hefei, China, October 23-25, 2014. This paper received the Best Paper
Award of the conference. , 01-10-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; O. Diallo; M. Sene Sene; G. H. Han; J. N. Niu; " Best Paper
Award - ComComAp 2014 ", Ousmane Diallo, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Mbaye Sene,
Guangjie Han, Jianwei Niu, “Improving the Data Processing in WSNs through
Combination
of
a
Distributed
Approach
and
Statistical
Techniques”,
Communications, Computing and Applications 2014 (ComComAp 2014), Beihang
University, Beijing, China, October 20-22, 2014. This paper received the Best Paper
Award of the conference. , 01-10-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; " Outstanding Service Award - IEEE Communications Society ",
Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Communications Society as the Technical
Program Chair of the 16th International Conference on E-Health Networking,
Applications and Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014), Natal, Brazil, October 16-19,
2014. , 01-10-2014 .
- Orvalho, V.; MO Oliveira; A.M. Marques; C. Q. Queirós; " Usabilidade de um
videojogo português (protótipo) para a promoção do reconhecimento emocional
facial em crianças com perturbação do espectro do autismo ", Best Paper Award |
IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia | 2º Congresso da Ordem dos
Psicólogos Portugueses | Lisbon, Portugal , 01-09-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; D. R. Ribeiro; G. H. Han; J. N. Niu; " Best Paper Award CHINACOM 2014 ", Diogo J. P. Ribeiro, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Guangjie Han,
Jianwei Niu, “SNetGNA Communities: A New Proposal of Web Application to Online
Social
Networking
Management
Systems”,
9th
International
Conference
on
Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM 2014), Maoming, China,
August 14-16, 2014. This paper received the Best Paper Award of the conference. ,
01-08-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; A. S. Santiago; JC Caldeira; S. S. Sendra; " Best Paper Award MITA 2014 ", Aristides J. M. Santiago, João M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel J. P. C.
Rodrigues, and Sandra Sendra, “A Mobile Health Application for Real-time Patients
Monitoring”,
The
10th
International
Conference
on
Multimedia
Information
335
Technology and Applications (MITA 2014), Hong-Kong, July 8-11, 2014. This paper
received the Best Paper Award of the conference. , 01-07-2014 .
- Conti, C. ; L. D. Soares; P. Nunes; " Best Poster Award COST Interaction 2014,
Budapest ", Awarded on the Best Poster competition of COST training school on
Rich 3D Content: Creation, Perception and Interaction for the poster titled ''Display
Scalable 3D Holoscopic Video Coding''. , 01-07-2014 .
- Correia, P.L.; " Best Reviewer Award ", Best reviewer of ICME 2014, 01-07-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; B. Silva; I. L. Lopes; T. M. Machado; L. Z. Zhou; " 2013 Best
Paper Award on eHealth - IEEE Communications Society ", The paper Bruno M. C.
Silva, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Ivo M. C. Lopes, Tiago M. F. Machado, and Liang
Zhou, “A Novel Cooperation Strategy for Mobile Health Applications”, in IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Emerging
Technologies in Communications - eHealth, IEEE Communications Society, ISSN:
0733-8716,
Vol.
31,
Issue
9,
September
2013,
pp.
28-36,
DOI:
10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP.0513003, received the 2013 Best Paper Award as the best
paper published among journals and conferences of the IEEE Communications
Society, in 2013. , 01-06-2014 .
- Rodrigues, J. R.; " 2014 IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Technical Committee
Outstanding Leadership Award ", 2014
IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Technical
Committee Outstanding Leadership Award: received at ICC 2014, Sydney,
Australia, June 10-14, 2014 by the IEEE Communications Society for the
“outstanding contributions for the Multimedia Technical Committee”. , 01-06-2014 .
- Conti, C. ; P. Nunes; L. D. Soares; " Scientific Awards ISCTE-IUL 2014, Lisbon ",
Awarded for the paper titled ''Inter-Layer Prediction Scheme for Scalable 3-D
Holoscopic Video Coding'' , 01-06-2014 .
- Correia, P.L.; " Best Teacher Award - Instituto Superior Técnico ", Received an
award for best teacher in IST, during the celebration of IST's 103rd anniversary, on
May 23, 2014. , 01-05-2014 .
336
- Rodrigues, J. R.; C. Z. Zhang; G. H. Han; J. J. Jiang; G. L. Liu; L. S. Shu; " Best
Paper Award - ComManTel 2014 ", Chenyu Zhang, Guangjie Han, Jinfang Jiang, Lei
Shu, Guogao Liu, Joel J.P.C Rodrigues, “A Collaborative Localization Algorithm for
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, The 2nd International Conference on
Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2014), Da Nang,
Vitnam, April 27-29, 2014. This paper received the Best Paper Award of the
conference. , 01-04-2014 .
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; S. Wright; R. Nowak; " 2014 Walter R. G. Baker Award ",
2014 Walter R. G. Baker Award, for the paper "Sparse Reconstruction by Separable
Approximation", published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009. ,
01-01-2014 .
Miscellaneous
- Lopes, F.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Design and Development of Mobile Applications ",
ISEC-MSc-2014 , 01-12-2014 .
- Barraca, J.P.B.; " Tutorial ", Domotics DIY - M2M Communications ", 01-09-2014 .
- Barraca, J.P.B.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", USB connection vulnerabilities on Android
smartphones ", 01-07-2014 .
- Gomes, M.; " PhD Thesis Jury ", Secure Coding Schemes and Code Design for the
Wiretap Channe ", Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto - Candidata: Ke
Zhang , 01-06-2014 .
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Fernando
Manuel Bernardo Pereira , 01-01-2014
-
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Information
Networking
-
ICOIN,
Technical
Programme Committee, Seil Jeon, 01-02-2014
337
- International Wireless Internet Conf. - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular
Communication - WICON, Technical Programme Committee, Evariste Logota, 0101-2014
- Springer International Conf. on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless - ADHOC-NOW,
Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-012014
- Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and on Formal and
Computational Cryptography - FCS-FCC, Scientific Committee, Pedro Miguel dos
Santos Alves Madeira Adão, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
(QUATIC), Scientific Committee, Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves Madeira Adão, 0101-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Technical
Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Joao Miguel
Duarte Ascenso , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Technologies for Communications - ATC,
Technical Programme Committee, Seil Jeon, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical
Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Catarina
Isabel Carvalheiro Brites , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme
Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Technical Programme
Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites , 01-01-2014
338
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Scientific Committee, Pedro Miguel dos Santos
Alves Madeira Adão, 01-01-2014
- International Special Session on Smart Medical Devices - From Lab to Clinical
Practice - SmartMedDev, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miguel Alves
Brandão, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Technical
Programme Committee, Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto Orvalho, 01-01-2014
- ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture MobiArch, Technical Programme Committee, Seil Jeon, 01-01-2014
- Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-012014
- IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical
Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2014
- IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of
Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Soares, 01-01-2014
- IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical
- IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications
- ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus
Soares, 01-01-2014
- IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO,
339
- International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF, Technical Programme
Chairman, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia , 01-01-2014
- Sessions Chairman, Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar , 01-01-2014
- International Convention MIPRO, CIS – Intelligent Systems - MIPRO, Technical
Programme
Committee,
Paulo
Luis
Serras
Lobato
Correia
,
01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR,
Technical Programme Chairman, Sara Maria Fernandes Rato e Costa Marques
Candeias, 01-01-2014
- Technical Programme Committee, Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, 01-012014
- International Conf. on ICT Convergence - ICTC, Technical Programme Committee,
Seil Jeon, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Ubiquitous and Future Networks - ICUFN, Technical
Programme Committee, Seil Jeon, 01-07-2014
- IEEE Symp. on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics - ISCAIE 2014,
Technical Programme Committee, Issa Tamer Elfergani, 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Maria Paula
dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2014
- IASTED International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks PDCN, Technical Programme Committee, Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida, 01-012014
- International Wireless Internet Conf. - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular
Communication - WICON, Technical Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi,
01-01-2014
340
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Special Sessions Chairman, Paulo
Luis Serras Lobato Correia , 01-01-2014
- International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing , Technical Programme
Chairman, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira , 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Luís
Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares , 01-01-2014
- IEEE GLOBECOM Technical Symposia: Communications Software, Services and
Multimedia Application - GC CSSM, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2014
- ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles , Technical Programme
Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2014
- International Multimedia Modeling Conf. (MMM), Scientific Committee, Fernando
- International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, Scientific
Committee, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Organizing Committee,
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira , 01-01-2014
- 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço
Nunes , 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Fernando
- IEEE International Conf. on Telecommunications , Organizing Committee, Paulo
Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2014
- Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica - EPCG, Technical Programme
341
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Technical Programme Committee,
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes , 01-01-2014
-
Jornadas
sobre
Sistemas
Reconfiguráveis
-
REC,
Technical
Programme
Committee, Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Organizing
Committee, Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes, 01-01-2014
- International Workshop on Image Analysis and Image Enhancement - IAIE-2014,
Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-012014
Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Technical Programme
Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 01-01-2014
- International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Scientific
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo
Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
- IEEE/ VTS/ UC/ IPC-ISEC Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference - IEEE-VPPC ,
Technical Programme Committee, André Manuel dos Santos Mendes, 01-01-2014
- ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE,
- International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - (Nets4Cars
/ Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts), Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da
Gama de Jesus Soares, 01-01-2014
342
- International Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Technology - ICMWT, Technical
- International Conf. on IT Convergence and Security - ICITCS, Technical
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Carlos
Manuel Ribeiro Almeida, 01-01-2014
Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2014
- Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Sistemas Computacionais - SBESC,
Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
- International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - Nets4CarsFall, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 0101-2014
- Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems - APRES, Paulo
Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES, Technical
Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS,
Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 01-01-2014
Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso , 01-01-2014
Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso , 01-01-2014
343
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Paulo Jorge
Lourenço Nunes , 01-01-2014
- European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, Tomás
Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão, 01-01-2014
IEEE Signal Processing Letters , IEEE, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso , Associate
Editor, 01-12-2014 to 01-12-2018
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine , IEEE, José Manuel Bioucas Dias ,
Guest Editor, 01-10-2014 to 01-10-2015
Pattern Recognition Letters , Elsevier, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Guest
Editor, 01-01-2014 to 01-06-2014
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING TECHONOLOGIES
4.4 Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
• Pedro Girão
• Luís Alcácer
Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Professor Emeritus
0
0
1
Full Professor
1
2
3
Associate Professor
0
2
9
Assistant Professor
5
4
14
PhD
1
0
0
Post-Doc
3
0
10
Coordinator Professor
0
1
2
PhD Student
2
3
19
(Licenciado)
0
0
1
12
12
59
TOTAL
Table 23 – Overview of the human resources in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2014
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
Position
Degree
Name
Group
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Amaro Fernandes de Sousa
Applied Mathematics - Av
PhD
Ana Luisa Mendonça
Organic Electronics – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Ana Maria de Matos Charas
Professor
Assistant
PhD
André Manuel dos Santos
Professor
Mendes
Assistant
PhD
António Eduardo Vitória do
Professor
Espírito Santo
Full
Agregação
António Manuel Cruz Serra
Professor
Associate Agregação Artur Fernando Delgado Lopes
Professor
Ribeiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Carlos Alberto Farinha Ferreira
Assistant
Professor
Post. Doc.
Power Systems – Co
Power Systems - Cv
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Electronics - Lx
PhD
Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Integrated Circuits – Av
PhD
Dorabella Martins da Silva
Santos
Eduardo de Sousa Saraiva
Full
Agregação
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Fernando Manuel Lourenço
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Professor
Martins
Assistant
PhD
Fernando Manuel Tim Tim
Instrumentation and
Professor
Janeiro
Measurements – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Francisco Andre Correa Alegria
Instrumentation and
Professor
Measurements – Lx
Associate Agregação
Helena Maria dos Santos
Instrumentation and
Professor
Geirinhas Ramos
Measurements – Lx
Henrique Leonel Gomes
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Professor
Researcher
PhD
Hugo Ribeiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Joana Catarina Mendes
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
PhD
Joao Manuel Mourão Patricio
Applied Mathematics – Co
MSc
João Paulo Neto Torres
Applied Electromagnetics Lx
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Position
Degree
Full
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Full
Professor
Licenciado
Agregação
Name
Group
Joaquim João de Alarcão
Judice
PhD
Jorge Manuel Correia
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Guilherme
Agregação Jorge Manuel Ferreira Morgado Organic Electronics – Lx
Agregação José António Marinho Brandão Applied Electromagnetics Faria
Lx
Licenciatura José Augusto Alves Gouveia
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Coordinator Agregação José Miguel Costa Dias Pereira
Instrumentation and
Professor
Measurements – Lx
Assistant
PhD
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero
Professor
Moreira Alves
Professor Agregação
Luís Joaquim Alcácer
Emeritus
Coordinator
PhD
Luis Miguel Merca Fernandes Applied Mathematics – Co
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Manuel Fernando Martins de
Professor
Barros
Coordinator
PhD
Manuel José de Matos
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Manuel Ventura Guerreiro das Applied Electromagnetics Professor
Neves
Lx
Associate Agregação Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha
Professor
Vieira Vieira Borges
Assistant
PhD
Maria Cecília dos Santos Rosa Applied Mathematics – Cv
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Maria do Rosário Alves Calado
Power Systems - Cv
Professor
Associate
PhD
Maria Madalena de Almeida
Professor
Correia Gomes Martins
Associate
PhD
Marina Perdigão
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Michael Filipe Gonçalves
Salvador
Post. Doc.
Mohammad Hamed
Physics of Information - Lx
Mohammady
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mónica Jorge Carvalho
Figueiredo
Post. Doc.
Mónica Luísa Chaves de
Andrade Afonso
Assistant Agregação
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Nuno Gonçalo Bandeira Brás
Instrumentation and
Professor
Measurements – Lx
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Position
Degree
Post. Doc.
Name
Group
Octavi Boada Kerans
Assistant
PhD
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Professor
Paulo Alexandre Carreira
Professor
Mateus
Full
Agregação Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva
Professor
Girão
Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Pedro Nicolau Faria da Fonseca
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Quirina Alexandra Tavares
Ferreira
Assistant
PhD
Raúl Daniel Lavado Carneiro
Professor
Martins
Assistant
PhD
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira
Professor
Neves
Post. Doc.
PhD
Rui Miguel Martins de Azevedo
Meira
Associate
PhD
Rui Teives Henriques
Professor
Post. Doc.
PhD
Sandra Isabel Godinho Dias
Assistant
PhD
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da Cruz
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Silvério Simões Rosa
Professor
Sílvio José Pinto Simões
Professor
Mariano
Researcher
PhD
Vasco Daniel Bigas Bonifácio
Assistant
Professor
Associate
Professor
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Security and Quantum
Information –Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Systems - Cv
PhD
Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa
Agregação
Vitor Manuel de Oliveira Maló
Machado
Applied Electromagnetics Lx
Table 24 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2014
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Other Collaborators
Position
Degree
Name
PhD
António Mário Ribeiro
Student
Martins
PhD
Asal Kiazadeh
Student
PhD
Benedikt Mark Richter
Student
PhD
MSc
Bruno Miguel Santos Mera
Student
PhD
Bruno Ricardo Oliveira
Student
Baptista
Assistant
PhD
Celino José Martins Miguel
Professor
PhD
Dário Jerónimo Pasadas
Student
PhD
Licenciatura
David Filipe Correia
Student
Guilherme
Full
Agregação Dinis Gomes de Magalhães
Professor
dos Santos
PhD
Fábio Mendes Castanheira
Student
PhD
MSc
Joana Farinhas
Student
PhD
José Álvaro Nunes Pombo
Student
PhD
José António da Costa
Student
Salvado
PhD
MSc
José Carlos Sequeira Martins
Student
dos Santos
Assistant
PhD
José Carlos Teixeira
Professor
Assistant
PhD
Jose Luis Vieira Cura
Professor
PhD
MSc
José Manuel Matias Pinto
Student
PhD
MSc
Leonardo Filipe Gonçalves
Student
Novo
PhD
MSc
Luís Filipe Soldado
Student
Granadeiro Rosado
PhD
Luís Miguel Antunes Caseiro
Student
PhD
Luis Miguel Freire de
Student
Menezes Pestana
PhD
Marco Pezzutto
Student
Group
Power Systems - Cv
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Systems - Cv
Power Systems - Cv
Power Systems - Cv
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Power Systems - Cv
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Position
Degree
Name
Group
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
Post. Doc.
MSc
Maria da Graça Laranjo
Mendes Brotas
Mauro Edgar Pereira
Figueiredo Santos
Mohsen Bandarabadi
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
PhD
PhD
Student
PhD
Student
External
Consultant
Assistant
Professor
MSc
Nuno Calado Correia
Lourenço
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
Shantanav Chakraborty
Shlomo Zalka Rotter
Sima Pouyandeh
Tiago Jorge Rocha
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
Instrumentation and
Measurements – Lx
MSc
PhD
MSc
PhD
PhD
Vitor Viegas
PhD
Yasser Rashid Revez Omar
Power Systems - Cv
Power Systems - Cv
Table 25 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling
Technologies Area in 2014
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•
Applied Electromagnetics - Lx
•
•
Applied Mathematics- Co
•
Applied Mathematics- Cv
•
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
•
•
•
•
•
•
Power Systems – Cv
•
Security and Quantum Information – Lx
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 in 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 other
areas.
4.4.3.3 Expertise and Research Topics
•
Applied Electromagnetics
The activities in Applied Electromagnetics were focused in the broad domain of
the Electromagnetic Field Theory and its applications to electric, magnetic, and
optical devices. In 2014 the following subjects have been addressed:
-
Transmission-line structures
-
Electric and magnetic field problems
-
Computational electromagnetics
The activities carried out in 2014 yielded the following output: 5 papers in
international refereed journals; 1 national patent; supervision of 5 MSc students
and 1 PhD student.
•
Transmission-line structures
- Research on magnetic transmission lines initiated in 2012 has been continued.
The novel topic of HMTL, i.e. hybrid multiwire transmission lines, started to be
analyzed. The analysis includes electric/magnetic coupling between a multiwire
electric
transmission
line
subsystem
(EMTL)
and
a
multiwire
magnetic
transmission line subsystem (MMTL); the determination of the propagation
modes of the HMTL being based on the solution of a high-order eigenvalue
problem and Sylvester equations.
- Numerical evaluation of the longitudinal impedances of a three phase
underground cable, and numerical evaluation of the transverse capacitances of
an overhead line with bundled conductors, were analyzed, taking into account
the presence of proximity effects.
- Propagation parameters of medium frequency transmission-line communication
systems in mine tunnels were evaluated using an approximate image technique.
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Results were obtained for the case of single and multiple conductors running
parallel to the tunnel wall.
•
Electric and magnetic field problems
Research on electric and magnetic field problems focused on the important
problem of magnetic field mitigation, with emphasis on the possible utilization of
mitigation plates to reduce the magnetic field created by underground cable
currents.
•
Computational electromagnetics
The
development
of
computational
methods
and
software
tools
for
electromagnetic field calculation is key for most of the reported research
activities, namely, the development of hybrid methods using both analytical and
numerical formulations. During 2014, the topic of electromagnetic propagation in
bent and ring slab waveguides and lasers received special attention:
4.4.3.4 Applied Mathematics
The research in Applied Mathematics in Telecommunications has been focused
on Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis, Optimization,
Ring Theory, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, Metapopulation Dynamics,
Teaching of Mathematics, Engineering Solutions and Human Sciences.
The most relevant research topics are presented below:
•
Numerical Linear Algebra
Preconditioning and convergence of iterative methods for the solution of linear
systems of equations, generalized inverses and its applications.
•
Complementarity Problems
Design, convergence analyses, implementation and testing of interior-point
algorithms,
active-set
methods,
sequential
quadratic
algorithms
and
enumerative methods.
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•
Global Optimization:
-
Complementarity
linearization
algorithms,
techniques
programming,
for
eigenvalue
positive
bilevel
semi-definite
programming,
complementarity
and
quadratic
problems
and
reformulationand
bilinear
mathematical
programs with complementarity constraints.
- Solution of structured optimization models arising in telecommunications, civil
engineering, and finance.
•
Optical core networks
- Efficient ILP models and heuristic solutions for (i) the network design problem
with fixed-grid and flexible grid setups and (ii) for the impairment aware routing
problem.
- Lightpath admission control algorithms for optical networks based on integer
linear programming methods and performance evaluation based on simulations.
- Hybrid approaches based on column generation and local search heuristics, for
energy efficient routing in telecommunications networks.
- Routing algorithms for 6LoWPAN mesh networks.
- ILP efficient models for (i) wireless mesh network design with node degree
constraints, (ii) the single PON network design with unconstrained splitting
stages and (iii) the optimal layout of wind farms for electrical power generation.
•
Metric for human performance measurement
- Evaluation metrics, to measure the human performance in different sports and
different players, by maintaining the cooperation with the PhD student Filipe
Clemente.
In
specific
a
set
of
publications
were
published
based
on
computational metrics that used bidimensional data from players.
- Three grants were financied by scientific awards from IT (“PC192”), that
resulted in works associated with individual and collective analysis on team
sports, network analysis in team sports and predictive factors of performance in
special populations.
- It were published some articles about mathematical models to estimate the
final outcome from Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), thus giving a closure to the Phd
work of Micael S. Couceiro.
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- An EEG band was acquired to begin the preliminary studies of neuronal activity
to evaluate the attentional focus, concentration and brain stimulus during certain
activities.
- It was started a new cooperation with PhD Frutuoso Silva (IT Member) in order
to apply the augmented reality in some human activities.
•
Mathematics education
It was started the edition of a didactic book about Mathematical Knowledge for
Teaching that prospective teachers must possess so as to teach and understand
the mathematical concepts, in specific statistics.
Application
to
Differential
Equations,
Numerical
Algorithms
and
recently
Biological Mathematics, where we study Metapopulation Dynamics with aplication
to demographics.
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.
Research focused on generalizing results on ordinary integers to rings of
algebraic integers. In this year this research was focused on extension of the
well-known Menon's identity for rational integers is generalized to a residual
finite Dedekind domain.
Research focused on zero divisor graphs and in commuting graphs.
4.4.3.5 Instrumentation and Measurements
The activities in Instrumentation and Measurement were focused on the broad
domain of Metrology. In 2014, the activities can be included in the following
main topics:
- 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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• Non-destructive testing
- A new design of a two-channel feedback trans-admittance amplifier was
concluded. This shall be used in a new probe with the possibility of applying
magnetic fields with spatial direction control.
- The inspection on aluminium plates has been carried out using the linear
motion system acquired in 2013 for the Instrumentation and Measurement
Laboratory. The non-destructive method used is based on motion induced
eddy currents. Tests were performed to conclude about the defect depth in a
conductive plate and the sensitivity of the method with velocity.
- Cooperation with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro started. The
objective is the development of a NDT testing system to detect cracks and
modifications on the paramagnetic properties of the wall tubes of reformer
furnaces. Some preliminary work has already been done within this area
concerning the study of the invariance on the giant magneto-resistor sensor
(GMR) output response in the measurement of different plate thicknesses
when the problem is resized.
- Also related with this area some experimental work concerning the
comparison of the performance of giant magneto-resistor (GMR) and
anisotropic magneto-resistor (AMR) sensors for remote field eddy current
testing in stainless steel tubes. Two remote field eddy current probes were
built to compare detection and characterization capabilities in standard
defects like longitudinal and transverse defects.
- An inversion problem algorithm applied in eddy current inspection using a
sinusoidal magnetic field with fixed-amplitude, in a metallic plate sample with
machined crack defects is being developed. The magnetic sensor used is a
giant magnetoresistance (GMR) with high sensitivity.
- Thickness evaluation of metallic plates is being determined using pulsed
eddy currents (PEC). The behaviour (linearity, robustness) of several features
(i.e., time to peak or peak value) has been studied to conclude on thickness
evaluation.
• Sensors and transducers
- New eddy current probes and digital signal processing algorithms for
friction stir welding testing.
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- A new probe to generate a spatial uniform magnetic field on the surface of
a conductor was designed and constructed.
- Implementation of an electronic system for non-destructive testing using
eddy currents array probes.
- Magnetic tunnel junction based eddy current testing probe for detection of
surface defects.
- Static and dynamic characterization of sensors and measurement system
(polarography, heavy metals detectors, turbidity, pH and conductivity
sensors).
- A non-vertical geometry of the stereo-vision prototype for cloud height
measurement was deployed in the field. Its calibration was performed with
photos of the night sky that do not exhibit parallax.
- The characterization of vibrating wire viscosity sensor using multiharmonic
signals was obtained.
- 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 is carried out. A GPS virtual pulse-persecond 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, Stain) at
20 m water depth, interconnected to the coast by an energy and
communication mixed cable.
•
Signal
acquisition
and
automated
and
telemetric
measuring
systems
- Development and implementation of a DSP-based three-phase power
quality measurement system.
- Impedance frequency response measurements with multiharmonic stimulus
and estimation algorithms in embedded systems.
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- Implementation and development of I&M industrial transmission systems
based on Foundation Fieldbus (FF), HART e CAN protocols.
- In the domain of biomedical applications worth mentioning:
o
Imaging of torso using multimodal EIT
o
Magnetophoresis
o
Instrumentation and digital signal processing for medical and
biomedical applications, namely in the framework of project EHRPhysio.
o
Design and implementation of different kind of smart walkers
including sensors for force, and acceleration and Bluetooth
communication. A hardware and mobile software prototype was
developed.
o
Design and implementation of microwave Doppler radar sensing
module for gait assessment using a rollator and a radar array.
o
Development of two platforms and Kinect serious games for
physiotherapy and appropriate web and mobile interface for game
configuration and data analysis. Several tests were carried out.
o
Development and tests of stethoscope prototype for cardiac
monitoring.
o
Developments and tests of a new wheelchair platform for stress
and motor activity assessment.
-
In the domain of environmental applications:
o
Signal acquisition, digital signal processing, virtual networked
instrumentation, and calibration procedures and systems for
environmental applications.
o
New tests concerning air quality monitoring using Jennic motes
and a smart coordinator implemented using Rasbery Pi.
o
Wireless sensor network for smart composting monitoring and
control.
•
Signal processing applied to sensors and instrumentation
- Signal processing for environment monitoring sensors.
- Real-time processing of multi-frequency eddy currents testing signals:
design, implementation and evaluation.
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-
Development
instrumentation
of
advanced
and
signal
measurements
processing
applications
techniques
(non-linear
for
A/D
converters, calibration and auto-calibration procedures applied to different
measurement systems).
- The Gene Expression Programming algorithm was evolved so that it can
be used for multiport characterization. The algorithm was adapted for use
with s-parameter measured data.
In 2014, 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 went on.
4.4.3.6 Integrated Circuits
• IC Design Automation
- Circuit and Layout Level: 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 was demonstrated for 130nm technology
node and is integrated with industrial tools, such as, HSPICE, ELDO,
CALIBRE and CADENCE Design framework. The AIDA-C is in use by THALES
Alenia Space (FR) supporting the design of analog IC for the aerospace
industry.
- System Level: The development of SCALES simulation tool for pipeline
ADCs was concluded and the tool is in use by THALES Alenia Space (FR)
supporting the design of data converters at system level for the aerospace
industry.
• CMOS integrated circuit design
Design of visible light communication transceivers using LEDs. Topics under
research are addressing energy efficiency measures for integrated circuit
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amplifiers
design
and
LED
drivers
able
to
support
dimming
and
communication functionalities.
• Analog IC Design
R & D on highly-efficient class D and G audio amplifiers, Pipeline ADC for the
aerospace industry, Non-linear Data Converters
• High-speed synchronization
To maximize the available processing performance on modern reconfigurable
devices, most high density digital systems are currently implemented at ITAveiro as Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALSs) systems.
• Materials and Devices
Due to the lack of agreement between modeling approaches, current efforts
are considering novel characterization approaches able to comply with
existing
device formulation. Cooperation
communications
is
already
established
with
the group
targeting
of wireless
nonlinear
modeling
approaches;
- Memristive devices are being explored as sensing devices since they can
bypass the need for analog to digital conversion followed by the threshold
comparison that is most common for sensing architectures. - SAW based
sensors are being researched using diamond film layered structures, which
are extremely resistant to wear and corrosion and can be deposited on the
SAW devices to protect them from hazardous operating conditions. Thanks
to results obtained so far, an active collaboration with a German company,
Saw Components, has already been established.
• Communications System Design and Architectures
- Electronic design for visible light communication systems – current
research is focusing on applications and international cooperation, mainly
motivated by the groups participation on the European COST action IC1101
- OPTICWISE.
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• Other topics
Energy Efficient Concepts for Public Illumination Systems – A prototype
working in a real case scenario, within the University of Aveiro campus, was
achieved with success demonstrating the potential to explore more than
70% energy savings when compared to other technologies.
• 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 2014, the scientific activities in Organic Electronics focused on the following
topics:
1) New
Materials
Development,
2) Organic
Electronic
Devices,
3) Bioelectronics, 4) Organic Solar cells, 5) Nanotechnology.
The detailed activities included:
•
New Materials Development
- Synthesis and characterization of new semiconducting polymers and
molecules for organic electronic applications.
- Preparation of new conjugated polymers with carbon nanotubes for
photovoltaic
cells
photoelectrochemical
—
cells
Marie
to
Curie
produce
(POCAONTAS),
hydrogen
—
— European
and
in
project
(PHOCS).
- Synthesis of new conjugated/semiconducting electron-acceptor nonfullerenes with potential applications in organic photovoltaic cells.
- Physical properties of materials for organic electronics.
- Theoretical calculations and simulation by quantum chemical methods to
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predict molecular geometry, frontier energy levels, band gaps, and VIS-UV
spectra to assist the design and synthesis of new molecules for solar cells.
•
Organic Electronic Devices
- Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) with new boron complexes.
- Reliability and stability of organic electronic devices: Degradation in light
output of an Organic Light Emitting diode (OLED). Dielectric surface
passivation techniques to neutralize defects and improve the operational
stability of thin-film organic transistors.
- Semiconductor interfaces and defects with LiF interlayers.
- Creation of electronic defects at metal/semiconductor interfaces under an
electrical field.
- Inkjet printed organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs).
- Resistive nonvolatile organic memories based on blends of conjugated
polymers and cross-linked conjugated polymers with a ferroelectric polymer
P(VDF-TrFE).
•
Bioelectronics
- Inkjet-printed poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate
(PEDOT: PSS) on biocellulose and on glass substrates were used to
electrically record calcium wave oscillations generated by glioma cells in
vitro. The results are under preparation to submit to Applied Physics Letters.
- Use of conjugated polymers and devices based on PEDOT-PSS to study the
effect of electric fields on cells culture.
•
Organic Solar cells
- Flexible organic tandem solar modules with 6% efficiency:
- Air-processed organic tandem solar cells on glass.
- Performance limits of plasmon-enhanced organic photovoltaics.
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- Low-temperature Solution-Processed Kesterite Solar Cells.
- Degradation of inverted and encapsulated P3HT:PCBM solar cells under
damp heat.
- Integration of newly synthesised semiconducting small molecules in
laboratory device prototypes of organic photovoltaic cells.
- Fabrication, characterization and studies of the active layers morphology
on various systems: cross-linkable conjugated polymers, additives and
exciton blocking layers.
- Organic photovoltaic cells with optimized cathode interlayers, consisting on
devices structures of the type ITO/PEDOT:PSS/active(organic) layer/Al.
Nanotechnology
•
-
Preparation
and
characterization
of
nanostructured
biocompatible
monolayers on graphite using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) at the
solid/liquid interface in drug delivery systems for glaucoma treatment.
- Theoretical calculations and simulation to predict molecular geometry and
molecular interactions to assist the interpretation of STM and AFM images.
- Development of software to denoise STM images.
4.4.3.8 Physics of Information
Physics
of
Information
is
a
recent
research
area
at
Instituto
de
Telecomunicações, aiming at promoting research and advanced training in
the role of thermodynamics, quantum physics and relativity in information
encoding, transmission and processing. In particular, during 2014, research
was developed on:
- Quantum information theory, nanoenergetics
- Quantum effects in biological systems and their applications to energy
transfer and sensing.
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•
Quantum information
IT has worked on quantum data buses based on spin chains and showed
how they can transfer any entangled state of many qubits with arbitrary
fidelity. Furthermore, we have shown how graphene allows the design of
low-control quantum gates between static and mobile qubits. We have also
worked on quantum simulation, namely proposing low-depth quantum
circuits for condensed matter systems, as well as quantum walks subjected
to environmental effects and with synthetic magnetic fields. The latter,
include a proposal for implementation with quantum integrated photonic
circuits, namely in the context of the IT project QuSim. We have also
proposed a new method for the systematic dimensionality reduction of
quantum walks, and applied to prove optimal spatial on non-regular graphs,
as well as quantum state transfer robust to defects in the network. Finally,
we have started investigating the quantum correlations between two
accelerated parties.
•
Quantum effects in biological systems
- Namely in the context of EU FP7 project PAPETS, IT has obtained the
energy transfer efficiency for several networks and proposed a new semiclassical
method
to
simulate
the
vibrational
dynamics
of
complex
biomolecular networks, and study the classical and quantum components of
that dynamics.
- In the nanoenergetics and quantum thermodynamics front, in the context
of the EU FP7 project
LANDAUER, we continued our work on the optimal
heat cost of resetting quantum bits. Furthermore, we worked on the
modeling of Y-branch quantum dot switches. This effort is part of a larger
goal of using quantum resources to make irreversible computation more
energy efficient by designing novel ICT switches.
- IT has played a key role in the creation and coordination of the FCT
Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information (DPPMI), which started at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, in
January 2014.
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4.4.3.9 Power electronics
• Audio power amplifiers
Continuing the study and development of power supply/amplifier integration
and
single
stage
development
of
switching
audio
compensation
power
methods
for
amplifiers.
Focus
application
on
on
the
resonant
topologies in order to improve circuit linearity with low level signals.
Development of frequency tracking PLL circuits for resonant converters.
• Single stage AC-DC converters
The most important drawbacks, common to full bridge AC-DC high frequency
converters
were
identified
and
new
solutions
where
achieved
and
successfully solved. As a result a final optimized high performance topology,
with reduced DC bus capacitors was achieved. These results were published
in two high impact factors IEEE journals: IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics on 2014.
• ZVS dual half bridge converters
An analysis on optimal phase shift and duty cycle trajectory was made,
aiming to enhance the efficiency of Dual Half Bridge power converters. The
resultant optimal surface trajectories can be used on Zero Voltage Switching
control strategies. Experimental validation is expected by means of using a
new laboratorial prototype.
• Resonant converters and contactless energy transfer
- Modeling, simulation and experimental realization of various prototypes for
contactless battery chargers were made. As a result, new coil geometries for
optimizing the coupling factor of coreless transformers for contactless
energy transmission were developed. This work was published on two
International Elsevier Journals: Measurement and Waste Management
- Development of resonant topologies for Induction Lamps balasts’. Results:
one MSc Thesis concluded.
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• Integration in CMOS technology – SoC
- Research, development and implementation of very high frequency and
high performance DC-DC converters in CMOS technology for power
management RF-CMOS, System On a Chip - SoC. Colaoration with the
wireless circuits group of IT in Lisbon.
- 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.
- Project concerning the integration in CMOS technology of resonant
topologies targeting new core processes.
- Study and development of power supply/amplifier integration and single
stage switching audio power amplifiers.
- Development of compensation methods for application on resonant
topologyes in order to improve circuit linearity with low level signals.
- Development of frequency tracking PLL circuits for resonant converters.
4.4.3.10 Power Systems
• 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 selfoscillating electronic ballasts). A comparative evaluation among the classical
dimming methods presented in the literature applied to a SOEB and its
interaction with the PFC stage were investigated. This research was done in
collaboration with Prof. Alysson Seidel from UFSM (Brazil). A journal paper
was prepared and accepted for publication in IEEE – TIA for 2015.
A
conference paper was prepared to be submitted to APEC 2015. The paper
was accepted.
• DC-DC converters topologies for EV applications
A variable inductor has been implemented, which reduces the core size and
improves the ripple content of the inductor current by controlling the core
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saturation in a reduced-scale 1 kW bidirectional converter prototype. The
research was done in collaboration with INESC-Coimbra and a journal paper
was prepared and accepted for publication in IEEE – TIE in 2015. Other
developed research was the control and magnetic core optimization of an
isolated DC-DC converter. From this work a prototype was built.
• Investigating new applications for magnetic regulators (lighting
applications – LED Lamps and others)
A new DC-fed dimmable LED driver based on a Resonant Switched-Capacitor
Topology (RSCT) where an analogue based dimming feature is accomplished
by means of a variable inductor (VI) was designed and built. A Master
Student (Marco Martins) conducted this work. The student is currently
evaluating the preliminary performance of a 22W lamp driver prototype. A
conference digest was prepared for ECCE 2015. The optimization of the VI
electromagnetic behaviour is being studied by a 3D finite element model.
• IPT systems for electric vehicle charging
Control strategies were implemented for bidirectional IPT systems and
resonant topologies with compensation were used. This IPT configuration is
important for V2G utilization. Simulation and experimental results were
obtained. The efficiency and the power transference capability obtained by
simulation were experimentally validated trough a developed prototype. A
single controller placed on the primary side of an IPT system was studied and
simulated. This controller allows charging EV batteries with a constant
current.
A
full-bridge
topology
for
on-board
IPT
chargers
was
also
researched. The results obtained in this topic allowed the publication of two
conference papers.
• Multilevel converters for green energy
- It was prepared a test bench with a doubly-fed induction generator,
supplied by NPC converters. This setup is being used to develop research
activities on condition monitoring of wind generators and, so far, results
regarding rotor faults were obtained. From this research two conference
papers were published.
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- A single-phase with cascaded H-bridges converter was developed for low
voltage distortion applications without output filter. This proposal was
investigated for voltage sources for remote loads and grid connected.
• Thermal behavior of a three-phase induction motor
This topic has been investigated and a new motor operating condition was
evaluated for eccentricity faults. A 2D finite element model was developed
and several experimental tests were performed. During experimental tests, a
previously designed data acquisition system was used to simultaneously
measure thermal, electrical and mechanical data.
 Predictive control
Predictive control algorithms for induction and synchronous reluctance
motors were developed and tested in simulation environment. This control
strategy was also tested in the simulation model of a regenerative and
programmable AC-AC source.
• Three-phase power transformers
Continued 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. Real-time monitoring procedures were
developed and implemented.
•
Uninterruptible power supply of double conversion
The research on this topic concerning fault diagnostic techniques in UPS
remains active and the result was the publication of two papers, one journal
paper (IEEE TIE - early access) and one conference paper. Over the past
year, an inverter and a rectifier with NPC topologies were produced.
Simultaneously, a digital platform was developed to control both converters
at the same time.
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•
Converters
- Development of new control algorithms and strategies for Hybrid Solar PVWind-Battery solutions for power systems.
- Simulation Models of hybrid Electric Traction Systems/Fast Charging
Stations Network.
- Development of Models and Construction of Drivers and Control Systems
for Linear Switched Reluctance Actuators
•
Motors
- Characterization and Measurement of Acoustic and Electrical Noises in
Linear Actuators.
- Development of Variable Switched Reluctance Technology for Sea-wave
Energy Conversion at Low Speeds;
- Development of Actuators for Moving and Control of Three-Dimensional
Bioprinters.
•
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.
•
Other Topics
- Proposal of new methods for surface potential and resistance calculation of
grounding systems and electrodes.
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4.4.3.11 Security and Quantum Information
•
Quantum protocols
- In collaboration with J. Rodrigues R. Loura, N. Paunkovic, A. Souto and
P. Adão, the security analysis of quantum oblivious transfer protocols and
analysis of the implementation of quantum bit commitment.
- Security: In collaboration with A. Souto and A. Sernadas, we started
the notion of OT based on algorithmic information.
- Applied logic: In collaboration with A. Sernadas, C. Sernadas and J.
Rasga we proposed a variation of the logic for faulty gates.
- Information theory: In collaboration with A. Carvalho an EM algorithm
to cluster behaviour of pharmaceutical responses of drugs was proposed.
- Model checking: In collaboration with A. Platzer, V. Rocha Vieira and D.
Henriques, the bounds for numerical
approximation of SDE with
applications to quantitative model checking were established.
•
Research infrastructures for radioastronomy
- The Square Kilometer Array (SKA): in the framework of the FP7 project
BIOSTIRLING 4 SKA, a mini solar thermal power plant is being installed
in Moura, South of Portugal 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 operation. 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.
- The SKA Pre-Construction Phase: the team has successfully led the
ENGAGE SKA National Consortium to participate in several approved SKA
Element Consortia of the SKA Pre-Construction Phase, integrating
national industry in leadership tasks with very high industry in-kind
efforts. The ENGAGE National Infrastructure Roadmap Call was approved
for inclusion in the National Roadmap of Infrastructures of Strategic
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Relevance, a major achievement in projects of this kind. ENGAGE SKA
will guide contribution with industry innovation efforts towards PreConstruction Phase (Telescope Manager, Signal and Digital Transport,
AAMID, Software Data Processor and INFRA).
- Development of the GEM radiostation: Pursue the design of the 10 GHz
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.
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4.4.4 Runing and Concluded Projects
Overview
Funding Agency
Number
FCT/PTDC
1
FP7/Cleansky
1
EC, FP7
1
EDP Distribuição
1
EU, FP7
4
EU-FP7
1
FCT
6
FCT (M-ERA.NET)
1
FCT/PTDC
4
FCT-IT
1
FCT-MCTES
1
FEDER/QREN
1
FP4
1
FP7
2
FP7/Cleansky
1
Friday, Ciência e Engenharia do Lazer, S.A.
1
IT
3
IT/LA
2
Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los
1
Retos de la Sociedad, en el marco del Plan Estatal de Investigación
Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016 Espanha
QREN
1
SoftSim
1
THALES-Alenia Space
3
Table 26 – Number of active projects running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area in 2014
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Activity in projects
Acron / Ref
AIDA-C
Title
AIDA-C: Analog IC Optimizer
Funding
THALES-Alenia Space
Descript.
Analog EDA Software Development
Acron / Ref
Artificial Leaves
Title
Artificial Leaves
Funding
FCT-MCTES
Descript.
Development of low cost, light weight, flexible (foldable and
rollable), ionic current organic photovoltaic cells (OPVCs) based on
water-soluble photoactive polimers and sensitizer dyes embedded in
a biocompatible matrix.
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
CORATAM
Title
Control of Aquatic Drones for Maritime Tasks
Funding
FCT
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Descript.
The primary contribution of the project will be twofold: (i) we will
demonstrate a number of collective behaviors on a system of aquatic
drones to show that systems of such drones have the potential to
take on important maritime tasks, and (ii) we will explore the
application of our novel hybrid approach to the synthesis of selforganized controllers for multirobot systems.
Acron / Ref
Title
DISRUPTIVE
DISRUPTIVE - A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and MixedSignal Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems
Funding
FCT
Descript.
A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal
Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems
Acron / Ref
Title
DP-PMI
Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information:
Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DP-PMI)
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of
Information: Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DPPMI) aims at providing advanced curricular and research training in
the recent developments and fundamental challenges in information
sciences and technologies.
Acron / Ref
Title
HER-Physio
Electronic Health Records: Needs, Requirements, and Barriers of
Adoption in Physiotherapy
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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
EvalTubes
Title
Remaining Life Evaluation of Catalytic Furnace Tubes
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The objective of this paper is to evaluate from the output surface
the damage of the catalytic tubes of the columns of the reformer
furnaces in order to predict its remaining life. Catalytic tubes are the
most critical components in reformer furnaces. Reformer furnaces
are widely used in the petrochemical industry to produce hydrogen
from hydrocarbons. It is in the radiant tubes containing a catalyst
that
the
hydrogen
production
takes
place,
as
a
result
of
endothermic reactions between hydrocarbons (mostly methane) and
water vapor. These reactions proceed at a temperature range
between 800 and 900ºC and the working pressure in a reformer
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furnace is between 2 and 5 MPa. These are severe working
conditions that cause structural damage in the tubes. It is necessary
to develop methods for the inspection of tube degradation and for a
realistic prediction of its residual life. Some analytical methods have
been developed to estimate reformer columns service life or the
time to failure, as the assessment of damage and advance planning
of column replacement should be made to ensure that failures or
unplanned shutdowns are avoided. However, direct methods to
evaluate the probable extent of damage and remaining life in a
particular furnace are always much more preferable. Nowadays,
direct
tests
are
performed
destructively
by
examining
metallographically the microstrutural changes and creep damage on
a series of ring samples cut along the length of single tube removed
from the reformer furnace. The objective of this project is to project
and implement an in-situ measurement system to inspect through a
nondestructive testing (NDT) technique, based on eddy currents,
reformer tubes damages to infer about its remaining life.
The eddy current method is based on the excitation of the material
with a time variable magnetic field. In this way, the electromotive
force developed inside the material will give rise to electric eddy
currents. These currents are related to the conductivity distribution
of the body and exhibit certain patterns that can be predicted by
measuring the total magnetic field in the vicinity of the material. In
the presence of defects, such as cracks due material fatigue, the
eddy currents deviate from its normal geometrical configuration,
and this perturbation on the eddy currents can be sensed by
magnetic sensors placed close to them. This technique enables not
only the detection of cracks due to material fatigue but also the
appearance of intermediate stages that are correlated with the
micro-structural changes that occur during service. This project
deals
with
a
challenging
problem
very
important
for
the
petrochemical industry. It is to be developed in partnership with
colleagues from the Laboratório de Ensaios Não Destrutivos,
Corrosão e Soldadura from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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They shall provide us characterized samples taken from reformer
furnace tubes with different damages and degradation. The work
included within this proposal will complement their work on the
failure analysis and remaining life assessment of the tubes based on
the microstructural
observations they perform using different
techniques like light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy,
transmission electron microscopy and diffraction and carried out
within a research project supported by Petrobras. It is our belief
that the success of this work in partnership would enable our
participation in future projects now that the agreement with
Instituto
de
Petróleo
e
Gás
and
Petrobrás
is
underway.
This project besides its technical and scientific objectives is also
focused on promoting nondestructive evaluation issues to young
researchers. It is a multidisciplinary field of study, linking different
areas of knowledge, which embraces issues like: (1) technology
development; (2) image processing and recognition; (3) modeling
and algorithms; (4) measurement techniques. In Portugal there are
very few competencies within the nondestructive testing knowledge
area in spite of the abundance of industrial relevance for them and
as a result Portugal is losing competitiveness in a 600 million global
market.
Acron / Ref
GeTFun
Title
GeTFun - Generalizing Truth-Functionality
Funding
EU-FP7
Descript.
The scientific guideline of the GeTFun project is to study and relate
various well-motivated ways in which the attractive properties and
meta-properties of truth-functionality may be generalized to cover
more extensive logical grounds. Besides the abstract, model- and
proof-theoretical aspects, the project will keep a strong focus in
meaningful
application
phenomena
involved
areas
goes
where
beyond
the
the
complexity
scope
of
of
the
standard
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approaches. The impact and relevance of the proposed line of work
should
accordingly
be
measured
directly
by
its
foundational
character with respect to a better and deeper understanding of
meaning in logics modeling complex phenomena and, of necessity,
suitable general forms of compositional reasoning.
Acron / Ref
Title
HYPOVEG
Experimental Characterization of Instream-Hyporheic Fluxes in
Vegetated Channels and Wetlands
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
The project will provide a conceptual model for the hydrodynamics
of exchange processes between the hyporheic region and the
surface in vegetated areas. As the findings of the project will
eventually mature into simulation tools that will positively impact
river (bio)engineering practices, the immediate innovations pertains
essentially to fluid mechanics and to instrumentation, comprising:
- a new database of flows within and over the bed of idealized
vegetated streams;
- a Navier-Stokes solver based on Lagrangian SPH discretization,
applicable
to
open-channel
connected
domains
(porous
flows
media
and
flows
and
within
vegetated
multiply
regions);
- a new time-resolved PIV and LIF instrumentation will be
developed, remaining available, once the project is terminated, to
Portuguese and international research groups.
The innovative aspect of the instrumentation must be highlighted:
the time-resolved PIV-LIF system is a sophisticated measuring
device that will create the conditions for major advances in realm of
fluid
mechanics
and
mass
transport
with
applications
environmental problems.
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to
Acron / Ref
Title
INSPECT
INSPECT - Integrated Nano Sensor Probes and Electronics for Eddy
Currents Testing
Funding
Descript.
FCT/PTDC
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)
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
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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
Title
INTMARSIS
Interoperability
and
implementation
of
autonomous
marine
platforms for seismic monitoring
Funding
Programa
Estatal
de
Investigación,
Desarrollo
e
Innovación
Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, en el marco del Plan Estatal
de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016
Espanha
Descript.
The study of seismic activity has played a key role in increasing the
understanding
of
the
dynamics
of
the
Earth
and
its
internal structure. Variations in real time seismicity provides
knowledge of the state of local and regional stresses in the
short and medium term, essential information to study the potential
seismic
risk
that
may
affect
infrastructures
and
population located in the area . Seismic information is obtained
indirectly
from
the
knowledge
of
traveling
time
of
seismic
waves and their trajectories. For this, it is important to record these
waves
with
different
azimuths
using
seismic
sensors.
The resolution of these measurements depends on the coverage and
number
of
sensors
capable
of
recording
these
waves and their arrival times. On land, the resolution, and coverage
is
adequate
at
the
regional
level,
and
is
relatively
easy to be increased in specific cases using portable seismic stations
(e.g. for microseismic studies). However, it is important to note that
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the dynamics of the lithosphere associated with the interaction of
tectonic plates happens mostly in ocean basins and margins, yet the
distribution of marine seismic stations is far from their equivalent in
land, either because of the technological complexity related with the
environment, or the difficulties to access the recorded data.
Recent seismic activity, possible induced, in the Gulf of Valencia or
the
intense
underwater
seismic
activity
associated
with the eruption of El Hierro (2011-2012) shows the importance of
controlling
the
seismicity
located
in
the
sea
that
is
not
covered by the terrestrial monitoring networks. To overcome this
problem,
the
INTMARSIS
project
will
integrate
different
measurement and data communication technologies in a new design
with a buoy on surface and a seafloor seismometer. The integration
of real time data generated by marine seismometers will be possible
thanks to the development of wireless communication systems, the
increasing potential for miniaturization of sensors, storage devices
and
data
processing,
which
have
opened
the
door
to
a new generation of distributed intelligent sensor networks that are
connected by communication networks. To enable the exchange of
instruments between different systems and platforms is necessary
the standardization of these. Therefore, standardization should
begin at the sensor level because this gives a good integration of
the information flow. In observing systems with a limited number of
instruments,
it
is
always
possible
to
individually
integrate
each instrument in the measurement system. However, in the
future
systems
of
heterogeneous
observation
and
dynamic
variable, this concept will not be practical. The joint efforts of the
research team, and industrial EPOs with extensive experience in the
various technological challenges of the project, will permit the
design,
construction
and
assembly
of
a
new
generation
of
interoperable marine seismometers that will delivered acquired
information in real time. This will represent a significant advance
over existing devices, decreasing the technological dependence and
promoting the development of own technologies.
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Acron / Ref
LANDAUER
Title
LANDAUER - Operating ICT basic switches below the Landauer limit
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
The scientific objective of this project is to test the fundamental
limits in energy dissipation during the operation of physical switches
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-QPVs
Towards very efficient organic photovoltaic cells through utilizing
liquid crystal phases as electron-acceptors
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
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
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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´-
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
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
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
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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 have impact for the reliability, availability,
maintainability
and
safety
(RAMS)
of
rolling
stock
infrastructure, focused on the axle bearings.
Acron / Ref
Title
Funding
NOVO
Non volatile polymer memories for flexible electronics
FCT/PTDC
384
and
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
OPERA
Title
OPERA - Layout-Aware Analog IC Design Automation
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The OPERA project addresses the problem of analog and mixedsignal (AMS) IC design automation. The OPERA project proposes the
development, implementation and test of an highly accurate and
efficient methodology for the automatic design of circuit-level
analog blocks by putting together both, previous work from the
research teams, and in deep knowledge from researchers in the
area of Analog IC Design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA),
Evolutionary Computation.
Acron / Ref
Title
PAPETS
PAPETS - Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer and
Sensing
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
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
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
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important challenges as the development of more efficient light
harvesting technologies or artificial odour sensors.
Acron / Ref
Title
QuantumLandauer
QuantumLandauer – Beating Landauer’s Limit in the Quantum
Regime
Funding
EU, FP7
Descript.
We aim to investigate how heat dissipation may be lowered beyond
Landauer’s limit by utilising quantum mechanical phenomena,
specifically that of quantum uncertainty. The objectives may be
enumerated thusly:
(i) Uncertainty in the form of environmental noise; (ii) Uncertainty
by
using
non-orthogonal
quantum
states
as
the
logical
“0”
and “1''; (iii) The interplay between uncertainty and quantum
correlations between the logical register and some third-party
system.
Acron / Ref
QuSim
Title
QuSim – Integrated Photonics Quantum Simulations
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
QuSim is an original and innovative project whose main scientific
goal
is
to
physically
environment]assisted
simulate
quantum
for
the
dynamics,
first
namely
time
using
integrated photonics circuits.
Acron / Ref
Title
RADESOL
RADESOL-Design
racional
de
misturas
para
células
solares
ploméricas
386
Funding
FCT (M-ERA.NET)
Descript.
The project proposal has as a main objective to achieve a more
profound
understanding
at
the
molecular
scale
of
the
nanomorphologyperformance relationship in active layer blends for
bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells, and thus focuses
specifically on the relationship between the molecular structures and
supramolecular organization within the active layer and the device
physics responsible for the solar cell performance. As such, the
research activities involved concentrate on the synthesis of active
organic materials, the study of the physicochemical properties of
the active layer (components and
blend), the morphological
structure of the blend, and the electro-optical characterization of
devices prepared from these blends
Acron / Ref
RTMGear
Title
Real Time Monitoring Power Reduction Gearbox
Funding
Clean Sky
Descript.
To instrument a gearbox with different kinds of sensors; this
includes developing energy transfer systems, mounting the sensors
and develop the reading electronics.
Acron / Ref
STM Image
Title
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Image Processing Tools
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The project aims the development of software to analyse scanning
tunneling microscopy (STM) images. More specically, we will
develop
computational
tools
to
correct
the
acquired
images from ''artefacts'', such as drift and noise, in order to allow
the correct image analysis, the tracking of adsorbed molecules and
the determination of the crystalline lattice.
387
Acron / Ref
VLCLighting
Title
Visible Light Communications for LED based Public Lighting Systems
Funding
IT
Descript.
Project VLCLighting aims at the exploitation of Visible Light
Communication (VLC) concepts on public lighting systems. Like PLC,
VLC is based on an existing infrastructure. Using LEDs for both
illumination and communication purposes presents new design
perspectives, able to promote system performance: replacing PLC or
Zigbee interfaces by a VLC transceiver allows the reduction of
deployment
and/or
operational
costs,
and
improves
energy
efficiency. More important than this, VLC enables better service
support:
the
visible
light
spectrum
is
not
constrained
by
international regulations.
Acron / Ref
Title
WHALE
WHALE
-
Design,
construction
and
certification
of
the
first
the
first
portuguese manned submarine
Funding
Friday, Ciência e Engenharia do Lazer, S.A.
Descript.
Design,
construction
and
DNV-GL
certification
of
portuguese manned submarine (two and three seats) for scientific
and touristic purposes. The submarine will dive up to 300 m deep.
388
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Michel Celestino
Rui Duarte
Paiva Ferreira Alves da Costa
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Diogo Jose
Domingues
Regateiro
Manuel Fernando
Filipe Cardoso
Martins de Barros
Antonio Luis
Diana Raquel
Campos da Silva
Piteira Félix
Topa
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
David Neves
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Márcio Cabral
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Ricardo
Lourenço
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Bruno Cardoso
Paulo André Pais
Fazendeiro
João Silva
Mónica Jorge
Carvalho
Figueiredo
João
Fazendeiro
Sílvio José Pinto
José Daniel
Simões Mariano Teixeira Paços
Joao Manuel
Mourão Patricio
Bruno Grácio
Rui Luis
Andrade
Aguiar
Title
Desenvolvimento de APIs de
video chamada para
ambientes desktop e para
ambientes mobile com
sistema Android
RBAC seguro, dinâmico e
distribuído para aplicações
relacionais
Access Control over Near
Field Communication
Acousto-Optic Devices
Nuno Calado
Correia
Lourenço
Manuel
Fernando
Martins de
Barros
Pedram
Ghamisia
End
Date
7/
2015
7/
2014
11 /
2015
4/
2014
AIDA-C: Cluster Computing
10 /
applied to Circuit Level
2015
Synthesis and Simulation
AIDA-C: Variation-Aware
Synthesis
5/
2015
AIDA-CMK: Multi-Algorithm
5/
Optimization Kernel applied
2014
to Analog IC Sizing
AIDA-X: Aplicação de
Software para Extracção de
5/
Netlists de Layouts de
2015
Circuitos Interados
Analógicos
An Embryo Quality
11 /
Assessment Application for
2014
ART Laboratories
Analisador de Energia
Reconfigurável
Análise do desempenho dos
algoritmos de procura do
ponto de máxima potência
em inversores ligados à rede
eléctrica
Análise e Implementação de
Métodos Numéricos para
Resolução de Sistemas de
Equações Lineares de
Grandes Dimensões
3/
2015
7/
2015
12 /
2015
389
Supervisor
Student
Nuno Miguel de
Figueiredo
Garrido
CoSupervisors
Laycene
Gaspar
Carlos Serrão
Pedro Ricardo
Morais Inácio
Francisco
Vigário
Artur Fernando
Delgado Lopes
Ribeiro
André Diogo
Caldeira
Martins
Rafael Melo
Coimbra
Luís Miguel
Martins Nunes
Simone
Gonçalves
Rui Luis
Andrade
Aguiar
Avaliação de plataforma de 11 /
gestão de diabetes
2015
Carregamento Inteligente de 11 /
Veículos Eléctricos
2015
Classroom Acess Control and 11 /
Inteligent Management
2015
Coding, Bill of Materials and
Production Monitoring in the 3 /
Automation Industry 2015
Internship at Zeugma
CoherentPaaS European
Project – “Real-Time
8/
Network Performance
2015
Analysis in a Telco
Environment Use Case”
Company resilience trend
9/
detection in energy
2015
consumption data
Ricardo
Computational treatment of
Daniel Bhatt Alexandre de
a psychological model of
Matos Antunes
Ambaram
personal crises development
Ferreira
Conceção e Projecto de Data
Óscar Narciso Mickael Santos
Warehouse: Olhar o Futuro
Maribel Santos
Mortágua Pereira
Creolo
do Ensino Básico e
Secundário em Portugal
Context-driven Framework
Óscar Narciso
Hugo Dos
for Enforcing Accessing
André Zúquete
Mortágua Pereira Santos Frade
Control Policies to Sensitive
Data at Runtime
Luis Miguel Pina
Coelho Teixeira
Botelho
End
Date
Aplicação móvel Android
10 /
para gestão e visualização
2015
de um sistema NIALM
Assessing and Addressing
the Security of Persistant
6/
Data in the Android
2015
Operating System
Helena Maria
Aumento da Precisão na
dos Santos Navegação GPS com Medição 9 /
do Campo Magnético
Geirinhas
2015
Ramos
Terrestre
Avaliação de desempenho
11 /
em unidades de
2014
fornecimento ininterrupto
António Eduardo
Vitória do Espírito Nuno Martins
Santo
Pedro Ângelo
dos Reis
Pedro Miguel
Moreira (coAlves Brandão
superv: João
Fonseca,
FMUP)
Maria do Rosário Miguel Duarte
Alves Calado
Beirão
Manuel Fernando
Pedro Alves
Martins de Barros
Cláudia
Fernando José
Alexandra
Inácio Fonseca
Pimentel Lopes
Coimbra
Serrão
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Title
9/
2014
12 /
2014
8/
2015
390
CoEnd
Title
Supervisors
Date
Alexandre
Paulo Bacelar
Controlador de Tempo Real 7 /
Tiago Lopes Moutela Nunes
Reis Pedreiras
baseado em Raspberry PI 2015
da Mota
Valter Filipe
Controlador e device drivers
Paulo Bacelar
Miranda
12 /
Renato Lopes
para seguidor solar de 2
2014
Reis Pedreiras
Castelão da
eixos
Silva
Controlo de próteses
Maria do Rosário Filipa Baptista
multifuncionais através da 11 /
Alves Calado
Moreira
2015
simulação de sinais
mioeléctricos
Marco
Controlo de um Helicóptero:
Manuel Fernando
Alexandre
12 /
aplicações militares e de
Martins de Barros
2015
Antunes
proteccção civil
Mendes
Miguel
Óscar Narciso
8/
Alexandre do José Moreira
Database Paradigms
Mortágua Pereira
2015
Souto Soares
Valter Filipe
Desenvolvimento de
Paulo Bacelar
Miranda
controlador e software de 12 /
Tome Matos
2014
Reis Pedreiras
Castelão da
parametrizacao para
Silva
caldeiras a pellets
Design and Construction of a
Artur Fernando
Test Rig Prototype to
9/
Delgado Lopes Tillmann Laux
Execute Full-Battery Runtime 2014
Ribeiro
Test for Pico-PV Systems
Design of a radiation
Jorge Manuel
Nuno Cavaco
hardened curvature
10 /
António Fitas
Correia
2015
Gomes Horta
compensated bandgap
Guilherme
adjustable through OTP
Design of behavioral models,
Jorge Manuel
transistor level schematic
Nuno Cavaco
10 /
Telmo Oliveira
Correia
and simulation benches for
2015
Gomes Horta
Guilherme
innovative analog design
flow based on IT / AIDA-C
DETERMINAÇÃO DA
Helena Maria dos
Artur Fernando
Ruben Filipe
PROFUNDIDADE DE
6/
Santos Geirinhas
Delgado Lopes
Costa Menezes
DEFEITOS EM PLACAS
2015
Ramos
Ribeiro
METÁLICAS
Development and
Pedro Miguel
implementation of a DSP- 11 /
Luis Magalhães
Pinto Ramos
based three-phase power 2014
quality measurement system
Development of a Tool to
Support the Maintenance
Luís Carlos
Fernando José
3/
Inácio Fonseca Management in Industrial
Ribeiro
Pimentel Lopes
2015
Lighting
Cardoso
Supervisor
Student
391
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Development of tracking
Marco Alexandre
Nuno Manuel methodologies for human to 9 /
Tiago Antunes
dos Santos
Branco Souto smart phone interfaces using 2015
Ribeiro
EOG and EMG biosignals
EHR & Kinect for
Physiotherapy (Framework
Pedro Manuel
Octavian Adrian
9/
para fisioterapia assistida
Francisco Cary Brito da Silva
baseado na tecnologia Kinect 2014
Postolache
Girão
com suporte para Registro
de Saúde Electrónico)
Electric Vehicle with Drive
André Manuel dos
System and Battery Charger 2 /
Fábio Pereira
Santos Mendes
Based on a Cascaded
2015
Multilevel Converter.
Electrical characterization of
Henrique Leonel
12 /
Vitaly Parkula
electronic circuits produced
2014
Gomes
by ink-jet printing”.
Luís Filipe
Electronic System for NonPedro Miguel
Ruben
Soldado
6/
Destructive Testing using
Pinto Ramos
Abrantes
Granadeiro
2014
Eddy Currents Array Probes
Rosado
Electronic transducer to
measure the response of
Henrique Leonel
Ana Luísa
6/
living cells (in vitro) to
Gomes
Garcias Mestre
2015
chemical and biochemical
stimulus.
Ana Raquel
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Pedro Ricardo
6/
Correia
Services for Mobile
Morais Inácio
2015
Figueira
Operating Systems
Energia das ondas. Análise
Maria do Rosário Helder José
11 /
do potencial da costa
Alves Calado
Aragão Martins
2014
portuguesa.
Energy Efficiency in the
Cement Industry and
Fernando José Pedro Samuel
Optimization of Equipment 9 /
Inácio Fonseca
Pimentel Lopes
Vitor Simões
Consignment Processes - 2014
Internship at Cimpor Indústria de Cimentos SA
Equalização Iterativa para
Atílio Manuel
Adão Paulo
Francisco
sistemas Multicelulares no
7/
da Silva
Soares Silva
Oliveira
Sentido Ascendente: LTE- 2014
Gameiro
Adv
Estado da arte e desafios em
João Bernardo
Maria do Rosário
tecnologias de Bioimpressão. 11 /
Lopes
Alves Calado
Contribuição nas abordagens 2014
Fermeiro
3D a jacto de biotinta
Carlos Alberto
Hugo
7/
ESTÁGIO ‐ Line.ipt
Farinha Ferreira
Magalhães
2015
392
End
Date
Ana Cristina
Afonso Vilaca
Estimation of Fuel
7/
Costa Aguiar
Bastos Silva
Consumption from GPS Data 2014
Adalberto
Estimation of Mechanical and
Fernando José
Junqueira
Fernando
Electrical Parameters in
2/
Pimentel Lopes
Livramento
Ferreira
Three-Phase Squirrel Cage 2014
Correia
Induction Motors
Extending the RBAC model
Óscar Narciso
7/
Ritika Thakur
to Support Orchestration of
Mortágua Pereira
2015
CRUD Expressions
Fault diagnosis and parasitic
Sérgio Manuel
Luis Alberto
9/
currents in bearings of
Ângelo da Cruz Correia Lopes
2014
inverter-fed motors
Pedro Miguel
Fault diagnosis and
Sérgio Manuel
10 /
Machado
protection of phase-shifting
2014
Ângelo da Cruz
Apóstolo
transformers
Rui Fuentecilla
FOREX PATTERN- Prever
José Pedro de Nuno Cavaco
6/
Maia Ferreira
Mercados de Futuros de
Oliveira Alves Gomes Horta
2015
Neves
Câmbios com Padrões
Óscar Narciso Jose Filipe Dias Diogo Nuno
8/
Game Tracking
Mortágua Pereira
Rego
Pereira Gomes
2015
Manuel Fernando
Gestão de presenças em
12 /
Pedro Alves
Martins de Barros
instituições de ensino
2015
Nuno Gabriel
Maria do Rosário
Gestão e Monitorização da 11 /
Simões
Alves Calado
rega em produção agrícola 2015
Martins
Luis Alberto da
Hybrid classifiers for retinal 7 /
João Sousa
Silva Cruz
pathology screening
2015
Nuno Calado
IDA-C: Evolutionary
Nuno Cavaco
10 /
André Ferreira
Correia
Optimization Techniques
2015
Gomes Horta
Lourenço
applied to Analog IC Design
Implementação em
José Manuel
João Pedro
hardware reconfigurável de 12 /
Mario Vestias
Peixoto do
José do
método de separação de 2014
Nascimento
Rosário
dados hiperespetrais
Implementation of an
electric drive based on
Sérgio Manuel Sérgio Cláudio
3/
synchronous reluctance
Ângelo da Cruz da Silva Júnior
2015
motors for a wide speed
range
Maria Eduarda
Influência do Efeito de
Vitor Manuel de
Diogo André
de Sampaio Proximidade no Cálculo dos 11 /
Oliveira Maló
Batista arriço
Pinto de
Coeficientes de Capacidade 2014
Machado
Almeida Pedro
da Linha Geminada
Influência do Efeito de
Maria Eduarda
Vitor Manuel de
Proximidade no Cálculo dos
Ana Isabel Vaz de Sampaio
11 /
Parâmetros Longitudinais de
Oliveira Maló
Brito
2014
Pinto de
um Cabo Subterrâneo
Machado
Almeida Pedro
Trifásico
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
393
Supervisor
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
Marco
Maria do
Instalações de Microgeração
Lourenço
Rosário Alves
e Sua Evolução com o
Fonseca
Calado
Enquadramento Legal
Gonçalves
Eduardo Filipe
Interactive Voice Response
Michel Celestino
Leite da Cunha
para Call Center de Taxis
Paiva Ferreira
Lima
Daniel Filipe
Isolated DC-DC power
André Manuel dos
Fonseca
Santos Mendes
converter for UPSs
Ferreira
Octavian Adrian
K-Physio - Kinect for
Tiago Marques
João Silva
Postolache
Physiotherapy
Octavian Adrian Nuno Miguel
KSGphysio – Kinect Serious
Postolache
Santos Duarte
Game for Physiotherapy
Maria Beatriz
António Carlos
Mendes Batalha
de Campos
João Moreira
Lampadas de Indução
Vieira Vieira
Simões
Borges
Baptista
LED Lamp Driver Based on a
André Manuel dos Marco Andre
Marina
Switched Capacitor
Santos Mendes Cunha Martins
Perdigão
Converter with Variable
Resonant Tank
António Pedro
Luis Filipe
Pedro Nicolau
Lighting System for Indor
Gonçalves
Mesquita Nero
Faria da Fonseca
Robot Positioning
Vilas-Boas
Moreira Alves
Valter Filipe
Paulo Bacelar
Miranda
Logger solar independente
Pedro Freire
Reis Pedreiras
Castelão da
de inversor
Silva
Pedro Nicolau
Diogo Micael
Low-Power, Highly-Reliable
Faria da Fonseca Repas Curto
IR Range Detection Systems
Manutenção e controlo de
Manuel Fernando Filipe Manuel
qualidade em linha de
Martins de Barros Vicente Nunes
embalamento
Sílvio José Pinto
Simões Mariano
Helena Maria dos
Artur Fernando
Ruben Filipe
Santos Geirinhas
Delgado Lopes
Costa Menezes
Ramos
Ribeiro
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Micael José
Pedrosa
Capitão
Manuel Fernando Ricardo Carlos
Martins de Barros Vasco Pereira
Octavian Adrian
Postolache
Rúben Tiago
Lopes Costa
Measurement System to
evaluate Defects Depth in
Metallic Plates
End
Date
10 /
2014
7/
2014
9/
2014
3/
2014
9/
2014
11 /
2014
2/
2015
6/
2015
7/
2015
6/
2015
12 /
2014
7/
2015
Mediator Framework for
12 /
Inserting Data into Hadoop 2014
Metodologias para a
11 /
Reabilitação Energética de
2015
Escolas: Um caso de estudo
M-Health – Mobile
9/
Applications for Healthcare:
2014
Physitherapy Context
394
CoEnd
Title
Supervisors
Date
Maria Eduarda
Vitor Manuel de
Mitigation Plates for the
Pedro Daniel
de Sampaio
11 /
Oliveira Maló
Magnetic Field of
Vieira Morgado
2014
Pinto de
Machado
Underground Cables
Almeida Pedro
Ricardo Miguel
Modeling and simulation of
Sérgio Manuel
Landeira
3/
Ângelo da Cruz
Rodrigues
2015
motors
Branco
Carlos Alberto
Módulo Conversor para
12 /
João Silva
Farinha Ferreira
Energias Renováveis
2015
New cross-linkable organic
Ana Maria de
Manuel José de
12 /
Cristiana Costa
compounds for applications
Matos
2014
Matos Charas
in photovoltaic cells
Pedro Ricardo Ricardo Xavier
Password Habits and
6/
Morais Inácio
Paiva
Cracking Toolkit
2015
Rui Fuentecilla
Tiago Miguel
PATTERN - Identificações
Nuno Cavaco
11 /
Maia Ferreira
Marques
Padrões em Mercados
2015
Gomes Horta
Neves
Branco
Bolsistas
Michel Celestino Justino Manuel
Plataforma de Supervisão de 7 /
Paiva Ferreira Godinho Lopes
Percursos
2014
Alexandre
Plataforma de teste de
José Luís Sá
7/
Telmo Reis Cunha
Moutela Nunes
técnicas avançadas de
Nogueira
2014
da Mota
controlo
Portfolio - Previsão de
Rui Fuentecilla
António Daniel Nuno Cavaco
mercados financeiros
3/
Maia Ferreira
Ventura Silva Gomes Horta
utilizando Computação
2014
Neves
Inteligente
Paulo Bacelar
Porting GNU binutils for the 7 /
Joao Pires
Reis Pedreiras
EVP DSP
2014
Telmo Filipe
Sérgio Manuel
9/
Reis dos
Marco Ferreira Power line analyzer with PLC
Ângelo da Cruz
2015
Santos
Maria Beatriz
Mendes Batalha
12 /
Marcelino
Power Supply Based in a
Marco Pinto
Vieira Vieira
Santos
Piesoelectric Transformer 2014
Borges
Luís Miguel
9/
Nelson Pereira Elsa Cardoso
Predicting ATM usage
Martins Nunes
2015
Pedro
Luís Miguel
Sancho Moura Profiling Web based users
7/
Bonifácio
Oliveira
Martins Nunes
preferences with Text Mining 2014
Costa
Projecto de um Conversor
Redutor CC-CC Comutado
Vitor Manuel da
Miguel
3/
para SoC de impacto
Silva Costa
Andrade
2015
reduzido
Supervisor
Student
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Andre Filipe
Garcia
Purchasing Integrated
Management System
11 /
2015
395
Supervisor
Student
José António
Marinho Brandão
Faria
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
José Manuel
dos Santos
Duarte
Rui Pedro
Fernandes
David João
Apolinário
Simões
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Paul Andrew
Crocker
CoSupervisors
Rui Luis
Andrade
Aguiar
Nuno Miguel
Alves dos
Santos
Álvaro Moisés
da Silva
Oliveira
Maria Beatriz
ist153679
Hugo
Mendes Batalha
Fernando
Ribeiro,Hugo
Vieira Vieira
Bruno Nabais
dos Santos
Borges
Ferreira Franco
Marques
Fabio Patricio
André Manuel dos
Domingues
Santos Mendes
Goncalves
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da Cruz
Fernando Manuel
Filipe Carretas
Tim Tim Janeiro
Pedro José
Guerra de Araújo
Celso Nave
Maria Cecília dos Helga Cristina
Santos Rosa
Oliveira Coelho
Octavian Adrian
José Miguel
Postolache
Lopes Barreiro
Óscar Narciso
Mortágua Pereira
Vedran
Semenski
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Andre Martins
Ribeiro
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
António Pinto
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Samuel Filipe
Soares
Ferreira
Title
End
Date
Qualificação de Redes de
Fibra Óptica Multigigabit
5/
2014
Resonant converters for
charging electric vehicles
Role-based Access Control
Model for Data Stores in Big
Data Environments
Security and
Privacy
for
Implantable Cardioverter
Defibrillators
Sensorless control of a
motor
2/
2015
8/
2015
11 /
2014
2/
2015
Single Stage Converter for
6/
Application in Photovoltaic
2014
Pannels
Single-phase multilevel
2/
converter for photovoltaic
2015
systems
Sistema Automático de Baixo
Custo para Medição da
11 /
Altura da Base das Nuvens e 2014
da Visibilidade Atmosférica
Sistema de
7/
acompanhamento da
2014
diabetes
Sistema de Gestão de
7/
Qualidade: Proposta para a
2015
Fundação Aurora Borges
9/
Smart Mountain Bike
2014
SMARTIE – Secure and
8/
Smarter Cities Data
2015
Management
Jorge Manuel
SPACE-DC/DC - II:
12 /
Correia
Conversor DC-DC para a
2015
Guilherme
Industria Aeroespacial
STOCKS: Optimização MultiRui Fuentecilla
Objectivo de Portfólios de 12 /
Maia Ferreira
2015
Activos Financeiros
Neves
Study of power transformers
2/
in isolated DC-DC
2015
converters.
396
Supervisor
Student
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da Cruz
Diogo Emanuel
Santos
Cavaleiro
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Miguel Costa
Adão Paulo
Soares Silva
Alicia João
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
David Poceiro
Nuno Manuel
Garcia dos Santos
Diana Patrícia
Sabugueiro
Oliveira
Rui Fuentecilla
Maia Ferreira
Neves
Helder de
Oliveira Mota
Pedro Nicolau
Faria da Fonseca
Luis Alberto da
Silva Cruz
Filipe Manuel
Lourenço
Duarte
Rui Peliteiro
CoSupervisors
Title
Synchronous reluctance
motor drives for the traction
system of electric vehicles
Technology
Commercialization in the
Area of Analog IC Design
Automation
Atílio Manuel
Técnicas de Cooperação
da Silva
entre Estações Base para os
Gameiro
Futuros Sistemas Celulares
Paulo
Alexandre
Utilização de sondas lambda
em caldeiras de biomassa
Ferreira Neto
Alves Afonso
Validação do questionário de
processos de estudos revisto
e do questionário de autoeficácia académica geral.
Impacto de um programa de
intervenção por SMS numa
amostra de estudantes do
ensino superior.
VALUE - Estratégia de
Nuno Cavaco
investimento baseada em
Gomes Horta,
Warren Buffett
Luis Filipe
Visible Light Indoor
Mesquita Nero
Positioning for Mobile Robots
Moreira Alves
Volumetric medical image
compression
End
Date
2/
2015
5/
2014
7/
2014
7/
2015
9/
2014
11 /
2015
6/
2015
7/
2015
Table 27 – List of MSc Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2014
PhD Theses
Supervisor
Student
Nuno Manuel
Paula Sousa
Garcia dos Santos
Nuno Manuel
Virginie
Garcia dos Santos
Felizardo
Paulo Bacelar
Reis Pedreiras
Milton
Armando
Cunguara
CoSupervisors
Title
(Not defined yet 3)
(Not defined yet 4)
Tomás Oliveira
e Silva
End
Date
6/
2015
6/
2015
Adaptive control techniques
for networked embedded
3/
systems
2014
397
Supervisor
Student
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Ricardo
Martins
Luis Miguel Merca
Fernandes
Carlos Filipe
Perquilhas
Baptista
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
David
Guilherme
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
António
Canelas
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Mauro Santos
Helena Maria dos
Santos Geirinhas Dário Pasadas
Ramos
Maria do Rosário
Alves Calado
José António
da Costa
Salvado
Yasser Rashid
Revez Omar
Sima
Pouyandeh
Daniel da Silva
Graça
Amaury Pouly
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da Cruz
Hazem
Radwan Hadla
Maria do Rosário
Alves Calado
Rui Pedro
Gouveia
Mendes
CoSupervisors
Title
AIDA-L: Automatic Analog
Integrated Circuits Layout
Generator
ALgoritmos de Optimização
Luis Miguel
para Modelos de
Merca
Planeamento de Redes de
Fernandes
Transporte
Amplificadores de Elevado
Desempenho para Áudio,
Amplicadores de Elevado
Desempenho para Áudio
Jorge Manuel
Analog IC Design
Correia
Automation in Deep
Guilherme
Nanometer Technologies
Arquitecturas
Jorge Manuel
Reconfiguráveis de Elevado
Correia
Desempenho p/ Terminais
Guilherme
Móveis da 4G e 5G
Caracterização da Forma
Artur Fernando
Geométrica de Defeitos
Delgado Lopes
Ocultos em Materiais
Ribeiro
Condutores por Imagiologia
de Indução Magnética
António
Caracterização e Análise do
Eduardo
Ruído Acústico em
Vitória do
Actuadores de Relutância
Espírito Santo
Variável Comutados
Classical and quantum
vibrational dynamics of
proteins: from structure to
function
Continuous-time
computation models: from
Olivier
computability to
Bournez
computational complexity
Control of synchronous
reluctance motors for
traction drives
End
Date
12 /
2015
12 /
2015
12 /
2015
12 /
2016
12 /
2015
12 /
2015
6/
2015
10 /
2018
10 /
2015
9/
2017
Desenvolvimento de
Tecnologias de Relutância
Variável Comutada para
12 /
Geração de Energia Eléctrica
2015
a Partir da Energia das
Ondas. Adaptação a Outras
Fontes de Energia Renovável
398
Supervisor
Fernando Manuel
Tim Tim Janeiro
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Helena Maria dos
Santos Geirinhas
Ramos
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Anders Lyhne
Christensen
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Abel João Padrão
Gomes
Aníbal Manuel de
Oliveira Duarte
Henrique Leonel
Gomes
Sílvio José Pinto
Simões Mariano
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da Cruz
Student
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Desenvolvimento,
implementação e
Gonçalo
caracterização de uma
1/
António de
Pedro Miguel
plataforma de baixo custo
2018
Oliveira
Pinto Ramos
para monitorização da
Ceboleiro
qualidade de energia em
cidades inteligentes
Design and Optimization of
Cascode-Free Dynamic
12 /
Ricardo Póvoa
João Goes Amplifiers in Deep-nanoscale
2016
CMOS Technologies with
High Energy-Efficiency
Artur Fernando Deteção de Defeitos Usando
12 /
Tiago Rocha Delgado Lopes Correntes Induzidas pelo
2015
Ribeiro
Movimento
Development and
José Carlos
Implementation of an
Sequeira
3/
Impedance Measuring
Martins dos
2015
System Applied to Viscosity
Santos
Sensors
2/
Fernando Silva
Distributed Online Learning
2016
Dosimetric and electrical
characteristics of a FFF Linac
Pedro Manuel
and modern Quality
12 /
Paulo Ferreira Brito da Silva
Assurance procedures for 2016
Girão
Intensity Modulated and
Rotational Radiotherapy
Dynamic Geometric Modeling
Adriano Nunes
3/
of Plasmidic DNA for
Raposo
2015
Therapeutical Purposes
António
Ecosistemas de Informação 11 /
Manuel
e Aprendizagem
2015
Cerqueira Alvs
Electrical characterization of
electronic devices for
4/
Paulo Rocha
applications in non-volatile 2014
memories
Eléctrodos de terra: análise
António Mário
e projecto optimizado a dois 11 /
Ribeiro Martins
estratos
2015
Fernando
Miguel Soares
Mamede dos
Santos
Humberto
Matos Jorge
Energy management
associated to the production
9/
and storage based on
2015
renewable energy sources
399
CoSupervisors
Supervisor
Student
Carlos Manuel
Costa Lourenço
Caleiro
Bruno José
Conchinha
Montalto
David Basin
Sérgio Manuel
Ângelo da Cruz
Mohsen
Bandar Abadi
André Manuel
dos Santos
Mendes
Joana Catarina
Mendes
Debarati
Mukherjee
Dinis Gomes
de Magalhães
dos Santos
Anders Lyhne
Christensen
Miguel Duarte
Sancho Moura
Oliveira
Jorge Manuel
Joana Tavares Ana Maria de
Farinhas
Ferreira Morgado
Matos Charas
Luís Miguel
Martins Nunes
David Jardim
Miguel Sales
Dias
Nuno Gonçalo
Pedro José
Coelho Costa
Guerra de Araújo
Pombo
Maria do Rosário
Alves Calado
Raúl Daniel
Lavado Carneiro
Martins
Ana Gualdina
Almeida Matos
Bruno Miguel
Gil Rosa
José Fragoso
Gérard Boudol
Santos
Nuno Lourenço
Luis Miguel Pina
Coelho Teixeira
Botelho
Paulo Costa
Artur Fernando
Dário Jerónimo
Delgado Lopes
Pasadas
Ribeiro
António Eduardo Pedro Miguel
Vitória do Espírito
Domingos
Santo
Serra
Nuno Paulo
Maria do Rosário
Ferreira
Alves Calado
Henriques
Equivalence properties and
probabilistic reasoning in
symbolic security protocol
analysis
Fault Tolerance in Multilevel
Converters for Wind Power
Generators
Heat spreading diamond
films on GaN devices for
thermal management of
power electronics circuits
Hierarchical Evolution of
Controllers for Complex
Tasks
High efficiency polymerbased photovoltaics through
morphology control
Human Activity Recognition
& Prediction
End
Date
6/
2014
12 /
2015
10 /
2017
12 /
2015
4/
2015
6/
2016
Information Technologies for 1 /
Pain Management
2014
João Bernardo
Lopes
Fermeiro
Nuno Cavaco
Gomes Horta
Title
Helena Maria
dos Santos
Geirinhas
Ramos
António João
Carvalho de
Albuquerque
João Manuel
Ferreira
Calado
Integrating and Managing
Renewable Power Generation 11 /
Considering Controllable 2017
Loads
Intracardiac Rehography by
4/
Magnetic Induction
2014
Tomography
Language Based Security for 12 /
Distributed Mobile Code
2014
Layout-Aware Analog IC
12 /
Sizing in Deep Nanometer
2014
Technologies
Learning Control Knowledge
3/
by Observation in Software
2014
Agents
Métodos Electromagnéticos
de Deteção e Caraterização 12 /
de Fissuras em Materiais 2015
Condutores Planos
Microbial Fuel Cells
11 /
Optimization for use in water
2016
monitoring systems
Modelação e Simulação
6/
Probabilística de Sistemas de
2015
Tracção Eléctrica
400
CoSupervisors
Supervisor
Student
Sílvio José Pinto
Simões Mariano
José Álvaro
Nunes Pombo
Yasser Rashid
Revez Omar
Marco Pezzutto
Mauro
Paternostro
Pedro Miguel
Pinto Ramos
Luís Filipe
Soldado
Granadeiro
Rosado
Moisés Simões
Piedade
Aníbal Manuel de
Oliveira Duarte
Carla Raquel
Castro
Madureira
Raquel Matias
da Fonseca
Title
Modelos Optimizados para
Sistemas de Miniprodução
9/
Híbridos Instalados em
2015
Edíficios e Áreas Envolventes
Nanoenergetics and
12 /
Quantum Thermodynamics 2017
New Eddy Current Probes
and Digital Signal Processing 12 /
Algorithms for Friction Stir 2014
Welding Testing
NEW GENERATION
NETWORKS AND THE
2/
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2015
UNIVERSAL SERVICE IN
PORTUGAL
New materials for organic
3/
solar concentrators and
2015
photovoltaic cells
Maria da Graça
Ana Maria de
Laranjo
Matos Charas
Mendes Brotas
Tânia Isabel
Non volatile resistive
Jorge Manuel
de Almeida
memories
Ferreira Morgado
Braz
Anders Lyhne
Novelty Search in
Jorge Gomes
Christensen
Heterogeneous Systems
Anders Lyhne
Gustavo
Online Evolution of Adaptive
Paulo Urbano
Christensen
Martins
Robot Behaviour
Optimal Stock Market
Rui Fuentecilla
Investments Based on
José Manuel Nuno Cavaco
Maia Ferreira
Evolutionary Computation
Matias Pinto Gomes Horta
Neves
Techniques and Technical
Analysis
Francisco Andre
Optimization of the
José Lopes
Correa Alegria
operation of a Ion Implanter
Atílio Manuel
Adão Paulo
Syed Saqlain
Physical Layer Cooperation
da Silva
Soares Silva
Ali
for Heterogeneous Systems
Gameiro
Polymeric Resistive RAMs:
Henrique Leonel
Elucidating the Switching
Qian Chen
Gomes
Mechanism
Processamento e análise de
imagens ultra-som 2D e 3D:
Maria Manuela
aplicação à detecção
Rui Brás
Areias da Costa
automática do cancro da
Pereira de Sousa
mama
Jorge Manuel
Ferreira Morgado
Yasser Rashid
Revez Omar
Benedikt
Richter
Dieter Lüst
End
Date
Quantum Information in
Gravity and in Black Holes
6/
2015
2/
2016
12 /
2017
1/
2016
12 /
2014
9/
2016
2/
2015
9/
2015
8/
2018
401
Supervisor
Student
Maria Manuela
Areias da Costa
Pereira de Sousa
Przemyslaw
Lenkiewicz
Pedro José
Guerra de Araújo
Filipe Nuno
Mateus Dias
Quinaz
Yasser Rashid
Revez Omar
Shantanav
Chakraborty
Vitor Manuel de
Oliveira Maló
Machado
João Paulo
Neto Torres
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Research Topic: High
Performance Computing for
12 /
3D and 4D Image
Segmentation: Application to 2014
Automatic Detection of
Breast Cancer
Resposta farmacológica
automática e em tempo real
7/
em pacientes com
2015
regurgitação mitral em
cuidados intensivos
Robustness and Protection of
12 /
Quantum Algorithms in
2017
Noisy Regimes
Semiconductor Ring LASER 7 /
Simulation
2014
Sistemas de Controlo e
Predição de Posição e
Maria do Rosário
6/
Velocidade de Actuadores
Alves Calado
2015
Lineares de Alto
Desempenho
Synthesis of conjugated
Jorge Manuel
Rajesh
Ana Maria de
11 /
polymers to sort carbon
2016
Ferreira Morgado Veeravarapu Matos Charas
nanotubes by chirality
The role of disorder and
Yasser Rashid
decoherence in quantum
12 /
Leonardo Novo
2016
Revez Omar
transport and quantum
computation
Thermal Behaviour of a
Bruno Ricardo
André Manuel dos
Sérgio Manuel Three-Phase Induction Motor 9 /
Oliveira
Santos Mendes
Ângelo da Cruz
Fed by a Fault Tolerant
2015
Baptista
Multilevel Inverter
Helena Maria dos
Thickness Measurement
12 /
Santos Geirinhas
Jakub Kral
Radislav Šmid
Using Transient Eddy
2015
Ramos
Current Techniques
Topological Phases of Matter
12 /
Yasser Rashid
Vítor Rocha Vieira Bruno Mera
and Quantum Information
2016
Revez Omar
Luís Miguel
Freire de
Menezes
Pestana
Maria do Rosário
Alves Calado
Rita Jorge
Cerqueira
Pinto
Towards a “green building”
approach: Automation
System Building for
11 /
integrate and manage
electric energy exchange in 2017
buildings including
renewable power generation
and electric vehicle facilities
402
Supervisor
Student
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Luís Miguel
Antunes
Caseiro
CoSupervisors
Title
End
Date
Uninterruptible power supply
of double conversion with
9/
internal fault tolerance,
2015
based on multilevel
topology.
Luís
Armando Carlos
Wideband Digital Polarimeter
José Miguel da Cupido,Domin
3/
for Radioastronomy
Domingues da
Silva Bergano gos da Silva
2015
Applications
Rocha
Barbosa
Table 28 – List of PhD Theses running in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
during 2014
403
4.4.6 Publications
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Books
- Omar, Y.; M. Mohseni; Gregory S. Engel Engel; Martin B. Plenio Plenio; Quantum
Effects in Biology , , Cambridge University Press , Cambridge , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; M. Couceiro Couceiro; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; "
Developing a football tactical metric to estimate the sectorial lines: A case study " Chapter in Computational Science and Its Applications , Murgante, Misra, Rocha,
Torre, Rocha, Falcão, Taniar, Apduhan e Gervasi , Springer , Guimarães , 2014 .
- Mendes, R.; A. Pedrosa; F. Martins; G. Dias ; P. Mendes; " Efeitos da Precisão da
Informação de Retorno sobre o Resultado na Aprendizagem Motora em Crianças " Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança VII , Carlos Neto, João
Barreiros, Rita Cordovil e Filipe Melo , Faculdade de Motricidade Humana , Lisboa ,
2014 .
- Bento, P. M.; F. Clemente; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Efeitos de um Programa de
Treino no Desempenho Técnicoe Tomada de Decisão de Futebolistas SUB-10 " Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Crainça VII , Carlos Neto, João
Barreiros, Rita Cordovil e Filipe Melo , Faculdade de Motricidade Humana , Lisboa ,
2014 .
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Efeitos dos Jogos Reduzidos e
condicionados no Desempenho Técnico de Praticantes Sub-10 " - Chapter in
Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança VII , Carlos Neto, João Barreiros,
Rita Cordovil e Filipe Melo , Faculdade de Motricidade Humana , Lisboa , 2014 .
- Moura, J.A.; J. C. Silva; R. N. Marinheiro; " Game Theory for Collaboration in
Future Networks " - Chapter in Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular
404
Network Technologies , Ramona Trestian, Gabriel-Miro Muntean , IGI global,
Medical Information Science Reference , Hershey , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Jogos Reduzidos e Condicionados no
Basquetebol: Influência no Desempenho Técnico de Praticantes Sub-10 " - Chapter
in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança VII , Carlos Neto, João Barreiros,
Rita Cordovil e Filipe Melo , Faculdade de Motricidade Humana , Lisboa , 2014 .
- Silva, F.; L. C. Correia; A. Christensen; " Modelling Synchronisation in Multirobot
Systems with Cellular Automata: Analysis of Update Methods and Topology
Perturbations " - Chapter in Emergence, Complexity, Computation, Vol. 13: Robots
and Lattice Automata , Georgios Sirakoulis and Andrew Adamatzky , Springer ,
Berlin , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; "
Practical implementation of computational tactical metrics for the football game:
Towards an augmenting perception of coaches and sport analysts " - Chapter in
Computational Science and Its Applications , Murgante, Misra, Rocha, Torre, Rocha,
Falcão, Taniar, Apduhan e Gervasi , Springer , Guimarães , 2014 .
- Martins, F.; E. Pereira; M. A. Vicente; José Vitória; " Stability of Matrix Differential
Equations with Commuting Matrix Constant Coefficients " - Chapter in Mathematical
Methods in Engineering , N. Miguel F. Ferreira e J. A. Tenreiro Machado , Springer ,
Coimbra , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Iblisdir, S. ; M. Cirio; O. Kerans; G. K. Brennen; " Low depth quantum circuits for
Ising models ", Annals of Physics , Vol. 340 , No. 205 , pp. 205 - 251 , January ,
2014 .
- Rosa, Cecília; E. Pereira; " A Model Structured in Classes for the Study of Student
Population Evolution ", JOURNAL OF SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY (NATURAL SCIENCE) ,
Vol. 20 , No. 2 , pp. 127 - 137 , April , 2014 .
405
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; M. Couceiro Couceiro; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; " A
network approach to characterize the teammates interactions on football: A single
match analysis ", Cuadernos de Psicología del Deporte , Vol. 14 , No. 3 , pp. 141 148 , December , 2014 .
- A network approach to characterize the teammates' interactions on football: A
single match analysis ", Cuadernos de Psicología del Deporte , Vol. 13 , No. 3 , pp.
141 - 148 , December , 2014 .
- Dias , G.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Clemente; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " A NEW
APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF GOLF PUTTING ", South African Journal for Research
in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation , Vol. 36 , No. 2 , pp. 61 - 77 ,
September , 2014 .
- Ferreira, D.; J. F. Oliveira; J. C. Pedro; " A novel time-domain CAD technique
based on automatic time-slot division for the numerical simulation of highly
nonlinear RF circuits ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 1
, pp. 18 - 27 , January , 2014 .
- Ferreira, D. F.; J. F. Oliveira; J. C. Pedro; " A novel time-domain CAD technique
based on automatic time-slot division for the numerical simulation of highly
nonlinear RF circuits ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 62 , No. 1
, pp. 18 - 27 , January , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; R. Rocha; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Acute Effects of Different
Formats of Small-Sided and Conditioned Handball Games on Heart Rate Responses
in Female Students During PE Classes ", Sports , Vol. 2 , No. 2 , pp. 51 - 58 , June ,
2014 .
- Clemente, F.; D. P. Wong; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Acute effects of number of
players and scoring method on physiological, physical, and technical performance in
small-sided soccer games ", Research in Sports Medicine , Vol. 22 , No. 4 , pp. 1 34 , December , 2014 .
406
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; A. Figueiredo; R. Mendes; "
Análise de jogo no Futebol: Métricas de avaliação do comportamento coletivo ",
Motricidade , Vol. 10 , No. 1 , pp. 14 - 26 , February , 2014 .
- Amaral, P.; I. M. B. Bomze; J. J. Júdice; " Copositivity and constrained fractional
quadratic problems ", Mathematical Programming , Vol. 146 , No. 1 , pp. 325 - 350
, June , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Developing aerobic and anaerobic fitness
using small-sided soccer games: Methodological proposals ", Strength and
Conditioning , Vol. 36 , No. 3 , pp. 76 - 87 , June , 2014 .
- Dias , G.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; J. M. P. Barreiros; F. Clemente; R. Mendes; F.
Martins; " Distance and slope constraints: adaptation and variability in golf putting
", Motor Control , Vol. 18 , No. 3 , pp. 221 - 243 , July , 2014 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Clemente; F. Martins; J. A. Machado; " Dynamical
Stability and Predictability of Football Players: The Study of One Match ", Entropy ,
Vol. 16 , No. 2 , pp. 645 - 674 , January , 2014 .
- Castillo, D. R.; H. P. Cabrera; P.A. Assunção; " Edge detection based on
Krawtchouk polynomials ", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics ,
November , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Inspecting players’
connections on football teams by using network metrics: A pilot study ", motriz ,
Vol. 20 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 30 , November , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; M. Couceiro Couceiro; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; "
Inspecting teammates’ coverage during attacking plays in a football game: A case
study ", International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport , Vol. 14 , No. 2 ,
pp. 384 - 400 , June , 2014 .
Intelligent Systems for Soccer Analysis: Weighted Centroid ", Ingenieria e
Investigacion , Vol. 34 , No. 3 , pp. 1 - 6 , December , 2014 .
407
- Ferrão, M. E. Ferrão ; Paula Prata Sousa; " Item Response Models in
Computerized Adaptive Testing: a simulation study ", Lectures Notes in Computer
Science , Vol. 8581 , No. 1 , pp. 552 - 565 , July , 2014 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Martins; R. P. Rocha; N. M. Ferreira; " Mechanism and
Convergence Analysis of a Multi-Robot Swarm Approach Based on Natural Selection
", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems , Vol. 75 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 31 , June ,
2014 .
- Pombo, N.; P.A. Araújo; " Medical Decision-making Inspired from Aerospace
Multisensor Data Fusion Concepts ", Informatics for Health and Social Care , pp. 1 13 , January , 2014 .
- Miguel, C.M.; " Menon's identity in residually finite Dedekind domains ", J.
Number Theory , Vol. 137 , No. 137 , pp. 179 - 185 , January , 2014 .
- Ivanova, M. O.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; " Merging the fields of swarm
robotics and new media: Perceiving swarm robotics as new media ", Maejo
International Journal of Science and Technology , Vol. 8 , No. 2 , pp. 143 - 160 ,
June , 2014 .
- 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. 5 ,
pp. 2382 - 2394 , May , 2014 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Martins; F. Clemente; G. Dias ; R. Mendes; " On a fuzzy
approach for the evaluation of golf players ", Maejo International Journal of Science
and Technology , Vol. 8 , No. 1 , pp. 86 - 99 , April , 2014 .
- 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. 59 , No. 1-2 , pp. 113 - 134 , October , 2014 .
408
- Fernandes, L. M.; J. J. Júdice; H. Sherali; M. Fukushima; " On the Computation of
All Eigenvalues for the Eigenvalue Complementarity Problem ", Journal of Global
Optimization , Vol. 59 , No. 2-3 , pp. 307 - 326 , July , 2014 .
- Brás, M.; J. J. Júdice; H. Sherali; " On the Solution of the Inverse Eigenvalue
Complementarity Problem ", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , Vol.
162 , No. 1 , pp. 88 - 106 , May , 2014 .
- Fernandes, L. M.; J. J. Júdice; M. Fukushima; A.I. Iusem; " On the symmetric
quadratic eigenvalue complementarity problem ", Optimization Methods and
Software , Vol. 29 , No. 4 , pp. 751 - 770 , May , 2014 .
- Júdice, J. J.; " Optimization with Linear Complementarity Constraints ", Pesquisa
Operacional
,
Vol.
34
,
No.
1
,
pp.
559
-
584
,
June
,
2014
.
- Gomes, J.; P. Urbano; A. Christensen; " PMCNS: Using a Progressively Stricter
Fitness Criterion to Guide Novelty Search ", Vol. 4 , No. 2 , pp. 1 - 19 , September ,
2014 .
Soccer Team’s Tactical Behaviour: Measuring Territorial Domain ", Journal of Sports
Engineering and Technology , Vol. 228 , No. 4 , pp. 1 - 23 , December , 2014 .
- Gouveia, L.; P. M. Moura; M. Ruthmair; A. F. Sousa; " Spanning trees with
variable degree bounds ", European Journal of Operational Research , Vol. 239 ,
No. 3 , pp. 830 - 841 , December , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; " Using
collective metrics to inspect spatio-temporal relationships between football players
", South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation ,
Vol. 36 , No. 2 , pp. 1 - 20 , March , 2014 .
- Brou, H.; V. Rato; F. Martins; " A modelação matemática como prática de sala de
aula no ensino da subtração ", Proc Conf. Internacional de Investigação, Práticas e
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Contextos em Educação - IPCE 2014 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 73 - 79 , May ,
2014 .
- Miguel, C.M.; " A Note on a Conjecture about Commuting Graphs ", Proc Joint
ALAMA-GAMM/ANLA , Barcelona , Spain , Vol. I , pp. 48 - 48 , July , 2014 .
- Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; " A novel method for skin lesion segmentation using a multiscale Local Normalization ", Proc Health2014 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 48 , pp. 292 - , May , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; R. Mendes; F. Martins; " Applying centrality metrics to identify the
prominent football players ", Proc VIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación
Española de Ciencias del Deporte , Caceres , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 583 - 586 ,
November , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; F. Martins; R. Mendes; " Applying networks and graph theory to
match analysis: Identifying the general properties of a graph ", Proc VIII Congreso
Internacional de la Asociación Española de Ciencias del Deporte , Caceres , Spain ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 587 - 590 , November , 2014 .
- Gomes, J.; P. Mariano; A. Christensen; " Avoiding Convergence in Cooperative
Coevolution with Novelty Search ", Proc International Conf. on Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS , Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1149 - 1156 , May ,
2014 .
- Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; " Characterization and evaluation of skin lesions using
symbolic dynamics ", Proc Health2014 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 48 , pp. 290, May ,
2014 .
- Ribeiro, C.; F. Martins; M. Montes; " Conhecimento matemático para ensinar de
futuros professores na exploração de tópicos de Organização e tratamento de
dados. ", Proc II Congresso Nacional de Formação de Professores e XII Congresso
Estadual Paulista sobre Formação de Educadores , São Paulo , Brazil , Vol. 1 , pp.
2071 - 2083 , April , 2014 .
410
- Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; " Continuous Autonomic Nervous System Evaluation and
Inertial Analysis ", Proc Health2014 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 48 , pp. 290 , May ,
2014 .
- " Detection of Licensed Users' Activity in a Random Access Ultra Wideband
Cognitive System ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Ultra-Wideband - ICUWB ,
Paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
- Gomes, J.; " Evolution of Heterogeneous Multirobot Systems Through Behavioural
Diversity ", Proc International Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
- AAMAS , paris , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 1729 - 1730 , May , 2014 .
- Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; " Growth model in melanocytic skin lesions: a geometric
look to skin pigmented lesions ", Proc Health2014 , Leiria , Portugal , Vol. 48 , pp.
288 , May , 2014 .
- Couceiro, M. Couceiro; F. Clemente; G. Dias ; P. Mendes; F. Martins; R. Mendes; "
On an Entropy-based Performance Analysis in Sports ", Proc International Electronic
Conf. on Entropy and its Applications , Pittsburgh, , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 20 , November , 2014 .
- Mendes, R.; F. Martins; F. Clemente; " PROGRAMA DE TREINO DE LANÇAMENTO
DE LINHA LATERAL NO FUTEBOL: EFEITOS NO DESEMPENHO TÉCNICO E TOMADA
DE DECISÃO ", Proc Conf. Internacional de Ciências no Treino de Futebol , Coimbra
, Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 18 - 21 , May , 2014 .
- Saghezchi, F.B.; A. Nascimento; J. Rodriguez; " Quadratic Programming for
Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid ", Proc International Wireless Internet
Conf. - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication - WICON , Lisbon ,
Portugal , pp. 1 - 8 , November , 2014 .
- Silva, F.; L. C. Correia; A. Christensen; " Speeding up Online Evolution of Robotic
Controllers with Macro-neurons ", Proc EvoStar European Conf. on the Applications
of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications , Granada , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8
, April , 2014 .
411
- A. Santos, A. A. Santos; J. Andrade; " Stochastic Volatility Estimation with GPU
Computing ", Proc Conf. on Indirect Estimation Methods in Finance and Economics ,
Allensbach , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2014 .
- Mendes, P.; R. Rocha; F. Martins; G. Dias ; J. P. Fuentes; " Um constrangimento
extrínseco no desempenho do primeiro serviço de ténis ", Proc XIV Congreso
Nacional y I Congreso Internacional de Psicología de la Actividad Física y del
Deporte , Cáceres , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 20 - 20 , May , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; " Um
constrangimento extrínseco no desempenho do primeiro serviço de ténis ", Proc XIV
Congreso Nacional y I Congreso Internacional de Psicología de la Actividad Física y
del Deporte , Cáceres , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 20 - 20 , May , 2014 .
- Clemente, F.; M. Couceiro Couceiro; F. Martins; R. Mendes; A. Figueiredo; " Using
network to inspect the teammates interations on football: a meso-analysis ", Proc
XIV Congreso Nacional y I Congreso Internacional de Psicología de la Actividad
Física y del Deporte , Cáceres , Spain , Vol. 1 , pp. 18 - 18 , May , 2014 .
ELECTROMAGNETICS
Papers in Journals
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " A Geometrical Approach to Duality
Transformations for Tellegen Media ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. ,
Vol. 62 , No. 7 , pp. 1417 - 1428 , July , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " A multimodal approach to the analysis of the attenuation properties of
MF communication systems in mine tunnels ", Journal of Electromagnetic Waves
and Applications , Vol. 28 , No. 13 , pp. 1581 - 1595 , September , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " Approximate evaluation of the wave propagation parameters of MF TL
communication systems for mine tunnels using image theory ", Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications , Vol. 28 , No. 4 , pp. 515 - 530 , February
, 2014 .
412
- Fernandes, D.F.; M. Silveirinha; " Bright and Dark Spatial Solitons in Metallic
Nanowire Arrays ", Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications ,
Vol. 12 , No. 4 , pp. 340 - 349 , August , 2014 .
- Rosado, L. S.; FC Cardoso; SC Cardoso; P.M. Ramos; PF Freitas; M. S. Piedade; "
Eddy currents testing probe with magneto-resistive sensors and differential
measurement ", Sensors and Actuators A-Physical , Vol. 212 , No. 1 , pp. 58 - 67 ,
June , 2014 .
- Prudêncio, F.; S.A. Matos; C. R. Paiva; " Exact Image Method for Radiation
Problems in Stratified Isorefractive Tellegen Media ", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and
Propagation , Vol. 62 , No. 9 , pp. 4637 - 4646 , September , 2014 .
- Cardoso, FC; L. S. Rosado; FR Franco; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; EP Paz; SC
Cardoso; P.M. Ramos; M. S. Piedade; PF Freitas; " Improved Magnetic Tunnel
Junctions Design for the Detection of Superficial Defects by Eddy Currents Testing
", IEEE Trans. on Magnetics , Vol. 50 , No. 11 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " Inception of transients and transient suppression methods ",
International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems , Vol. 24 , No. 1 , pp. 141 152 , January , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " Magnetic charge, magnetic current, magnetic scalar potential, and
electric vector potential ", Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters , Vol. 56 , No. 5 ,
pp. 1107 - 1111 , May , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " Multimodal propagation in multiconductor transmission lines ", Journal
of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications , Vol. 28 , No. 14 , pp. 1677 - 1702 ,
October , 2014 .
- Mendes, R.; M.R.A. Calado; S.J.P.S. Mariano; " Identification of some tubular
topologies of linear switched reluctance generator for direct drive applications in
ocean wave energy conversion ", Proc International Association of Engineers
413
(IAENG) World Congress on Engineering - WCE , London , United Kingdom , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 396 - 400 , July , 2014 .
- Maslovski , S.; " Negative Dynamic Friction and Related Instabilities in Layers of
Moving Media ", Proc Metamaterials Congress , Copenhagen , Denmark , pp. 1 - 2 ,
August , 2014 .
IMPACT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ON SOCIETY
Books
- Mumtaz, S.M.; J. Rodriguez; Smart Device to Smart Device Communication,
Springer , USA , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Felizardo, V. F.; P. S. Sousa; DO Oliveira; CA Alexandre; R. G. C. Couto; N. M.
Garcia; IP Pires; " E-Heatlh: Current status and future trends " - Chapter in
Handbook
of
Research
on
Democratic
Strategies
and
Citizen-Centered
E-
Government Services , Cemal Dolicanin, Ejub Kajan, Dragan Randjelovic, Boban
Stojanovic , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, 2014 .
- Alves, AMA; A.S.P. Pereira; HC Castanheira; I.D. Direito; A. M. O. D. Duarte; "
Stimulating Learning via Tutoring and Collaborative Simulator Games " - Chapter in
Digital Systems for Open Access to Formal and Informal Learning , D. Sampson et
ali , Springer , Heidelberg , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Nistor, M.; D. E. Lucani; J. Barros; " Hardware Abstraction and Protocol
Optimization for Coded Sensor Networks ", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking , March
, 2014 .
- Borges, Luis M.; F. J. Velez; A. Lebres; " Survey on the Characterization and
Classification of Wireless Sensor Network Applications ", IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials , Vol. 16 , No. 4 , pp. 1860 - 1890 , December , 2014 .
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- Direito, I.D.; A.S.P. Pereira; A. M. O. D. Duarte; " The Development of Skills in
the ICT Sector: Analysis of Engineering Students’ Perceptions about Transversal
Skills ", Intrnl. Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) , Vol. 30 , No. 6 , pp. 1556 1561 , July , 2014 .
- Oliveira, DO; DO Oliveira; N. M. Garcia; GE Esgalhado; " A validated
multidisciplinary study on the assessment of SMS messages as a mean to improve
self-efficacy in university students ", Proc International Conf. on Education,
Technologies and Computers - ICETC 2014 , Lodz , Poland , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
September , 2014 .
- Lemos, C.L.; H. Coelho; R.J. Lopes; " Agent-Based modeling of protests and
violent confrontation: a micro-situational, multi-player, contextual rule-based
approach ", Proc World Congress on Social Simulation - WCSS , São Paulo , Brazil ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
- Lemos, C.L.; H. Coelho; R.J. Lopes; " An Agent-Based Model of Civil Violence with
Imprisonment Delay and Legitimacy Feedback ", Proc World Conference on
Complex Systems - WCCS , Agadir, Morocco , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , November , 2014 .
- Oliveira, DO; DO Oliveira; N. M. Garcia; GE Esgalhado; " An off-the-shelf platform
for automatic and interactive text messaging using Short Message Service ", Proc
International Conf. on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management
Applications - CISIM 2014 , Ho Chi Min City , Vietnam , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , October ,
2014 .
- Martins, M.; F. Lopes; I. Fonseca; C.F. Ferreira; F.M. Barbosa; " Collaborative
projects involving industry and academia to enhance electrical engineering
education: The perspective of three Portuguese Higher Education Institutions at the
master degree level ", Proc European Association for Education in Electrical and
Information Engineering EAEEIE Annual Conf. - EAEEIE , Cesme , Turkey , Vol. I ,
pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2014 .
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- Graça, J. G.; P. Brandão; C. N. Neves; C. E. Esteves; M.P. Pereira; S. B. Belo; Z.
S. Sousa; D. C. Carvalho; " Diabetes Management on smartphones ", Proc Kenes
International International Conf. on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for
Diabetes - ATTD , Vienna , Austria , Vol. A-113 , pp. 16 - 16 , February , 2014 .
- Graça, J. G.; C. N. Neves; " Diabetes Management on smartphones ", Proc Kenes
International International Conf. on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for
Diabetes - ATTD , Vienna , Austria , Vol. A-113 , pp. 16 - 16 , February , 2014 .
- Graça, J. G.; P. Brandão; C. N. Neves; C. E. Esteves; S. B. Belo; Z. S. Sousa; D.
C. Carvalho; " Gestão de Diabetes em Smartphones ", Proc Sociedade Portuguesa
de Endocrinologia Diabetes e Metabolismo Congresso Português de Endocrinologia ,
Vilamoura , Portugal , February , 2014 .
- Caixinha, A.; I. Alexandre; " MEM+ a Computerised Application for Alzheimer's
Patients ", Proc International Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems
and Technologies - HCIST , Troia , Portugal , Vol. 16 , pp. 1424 - 1433 , September
, 2014 .
- Lemos, C.L.; R.J. Lopes; H. Coelho; " Quantitative measures of emergent
properties in Agent-Based models of street protests and violent confrontation ",
Proc Brazilian Workshop on Social Simulation - BWSS , São Paulo , Brazil , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 5 , November , 2014 .
- Dias, S.; AB Bessa; A.A.R. Baptista; N. M. Garcia; " Web platforms for conference
management ", Proc Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems - CENTERIS , Troia ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , October , 2014 .
INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Books
- Silva, H.; A. H. Holzinger; S. Fairclough; D. Majoe; (eds.); Physiological
Computing Systems , , Springer , Heidelberg , 2014 .
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Book Chapters
- Ribeiro, M.R; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " A Novel Smart Sensing Platform for
Vital Signs and Motor Activity Monitoring " - Chapter in Sensing Technology:
Current Status and Future Trends I , Mason, A.; Mukhopadhyay, S.C.; Jayasundera,
K.P.; N. Bhattacharyya, Springer , Heidelberg , 2014 .
- Costa, M.F.A.; P. Fazendeiro; " A Simple Movement Classification System for
Smartphones with Accelerometer " - Chapter in New Perspectives in Information
Systems and Technologies, Volume 2 , A. Rocha et al. , Springer , 2014 .
- Silva, J.P.R.P.; P. Fazendeiro; F.P. Mondéjar; S. P. Pinto; " ARTE: An Embryo
Quality Assessment Tool " - Chapter in New Perspectives in Information Systems
and Technologies, Volume 2 , A. Rocha et al. , Springer , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Janeiro, F. M.; L. Carretas; K. Kandler; F. Wagner; P.M. Ramos; " Advances in
cloud base height and wind speed measurement through stereophotogrammetry
with low cost consumer cameras ", Measurement , Vol. 51 , pp. 429 - 440 , May ,
2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; J. Kral; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " An SVM Approach
with Electromagnetic Methods to Assess Metal Plate Thickness ", Measurement ,
Vol. 54 , No. 8 , pp. 201 - 206 , August , 2014 .
- Silva, H.; A. L. N. Fred; RCM Martins; " Biosignals for Everyone ", IEEE Pervasive
Computing , Vol. 13 , No. 4 , pp. 64 - 71 , October , 2014 .
- Silva, H.; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; RCM Martins; " BIT: Biosignal Igniter Toolkit
", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine , Vol. 115 , No. 1 , pp. 20 - 32 ,
June , 2014 .
- Melo, L.; J. Rodrigues; A. F. Farinha; C.A.F. Marques; L. Bilro; N. Alberto; J. P.
Tomé; R.N. Nogueira; " Concentration sensor based on a tilted fiber Bragg grating
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for anions monitoring ", Optical Fiber Technology , Vol. 20 , pp. 422 - 427 , May ,
2014 .
- Jardan, D.J; JFG Gil; F.M Martins; L.F. Ferreira; R. P. Pinto; " Continuous
Autonomic Nervous System Evaluation and Inertial Analysis ", Revista de Saúde
Pública , Vol. 1 , No. 48 , pp. 290 - 290 , May , 2014 .
- Antunes, P.; J. M. S. Dias; H Varum; P.S André; " Dynamic structural health
monitoring of a civil engineering structure with a POF accelerometer ", Sensor
Review , Vol. 34 , No. 1 , pp. 36 - 41 , January , 2014 .
- Santos, J.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Ramos; " Impedance Frequency Characterization of
a Vibrating Wire Viscosity Sensor with Mutiharmonic Signals ", Measurement , Vol.
55 , pp. 276 - 287 , September , 2014 .
- Santos, J.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Ramos; " Impedance frequency response
measurements with multiharmonic stimulus and estimation algorithms in embedded
systems ", Measurement , Vol. 48 , No. 1 , pp. 173 - 182 , February , 2014 .
- Martínez, M. L. M.; F. X. M. F. Farré; O. C. Casas; M. Q. Quílez; G. H. Hornero;
P.M. Ramos; B. Borges; H.S. Marques; P.M. Girão; et. al.; " Intelligent composting
assisted by a wireless sensing network ", Waste Management , Vol. 34 , No. 4 , pp.
738 - 746 , April , 2014 .
- Cardoso, FC; L. S. Rosado; RF Ferreira; EP Paz; SC Cardoso; P.M. Ramos; M. S.
Piedade; PF Freitas; " Magnetic tunnel junction based eddy current testing probe for
detection of surface defects ", Journal of Appl. Physics , Vol. 115 , No. 17 , pp.
17E516-1 - 17E516-3 , May , 2014 .
- de Vito, L.; O. Postolache; SR Rapuano; " Measurements and Sensors for Motion
Tracking in Motor Rehabilitation ", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Magazine , Vol. 1 , No. 6 , pp. 30 - 38 , June , 2014 .
- Jardan, D.J; JFG Gil; F.M Martins; L.F. Ferreira; R. P. Pinto; " MODULAR
BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL REGISTRATION SYSTEM ", Revista de Saúde Pública , Vol. 1 ,
No. 48 , pp. 314 - 314 , May , 2014 .
418
- Antunes, P.; F. Domingues; N. Alberto; P.S André; " Optical Fiber Microcavity
Strain Sensors Produced by the Catastrophic Fuse Effect ", IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters , Vol. 26 , No. 1 , pp. 78 - 81 , January , 2014 .
- Alberto, N.; Raul Simões Simões; R.N. Nogueira; V. Neto Neto; " Optimisation of
tailored diamond coating conditions onto optical fibres through the Taguchi method
", Diamond and related materials , Vol. 43 , pp. 60 - 65 , January , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; A. L. Ribeiro; " Present and Future Impact of Magnetic Sensors in
NDE ", Procedia Engineering , Vol. 86 , No. 1 , pp. 406 - 419 , November , 2014 .
- 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 , Vol. 63 , No. 5 , pp. 1262 1271 , May , 2014 .
- Pasadas, D.; A. L. Ribeiro; T. Rocha; H. G. Ramos; " Remote field eddy current
tube inspection using giant magneto-resistance sensors ", International Journal of
Industrial Electronics and Drives , Vol. 1 , No. 3 , pp. 167 - 173 , July , 2014 .
- Solanas, AS; CP Patsakis; MC Conti; IV Viachos; VR Ramos; FF Falcone; O.
Postolache; P A Perez Martinez; RP Di Pietro; AM Martinez Balleste; " Smart Health:
A Context-Aware Health Paradigm within Smart Cities ", IEEE Communications
Magazine , Vol. 1 , No. 8 , pp. 74 - 81 , August , 2014 .
-
Ribeiro,
D.;
P.M.
Cruz;
N.B.C.
Carvalho;
"
Synchronous
Oversampled
Measurements for the Extraction of Mixed-Signal Behavioral Models in Digital to
Analog Integrated Transmitters ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol.
62 , No. 12 , pp. 3183 - 3192 , December , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; T. Rocha; " Using Excitation Invariance
in the Characterization of Defects by Eddy Current Image Constructions ", Procedia
Engineering , Vol. 86 , No. 2014 , pp. 440 - 451 , November , 2014 .
- Casas, O. C.; M. L. M. Martínez; F. X. M. F. Farré; M. Q. Quílez; G. H. Hornero;
P.M. Ramos; B. Borges; H.S. Marques; P.M. Girão; et. al.; " Wireless Sensor
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Network for Smart Composting Monitoring and Control ", Measurement , Vol. 47 ,
No. 1 , pp. 483 - 495 , January , 2014 .
- Postolache, O.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; " Wireless sensor network-based
solution for environmental monitoring: water quality assessment case study ", IET
Science, Measurement and Technology , Vol. 1 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 7 , June , 2014 .
- Ferreira, R. X. ; L. Bilro; C.A.F. Marques; R. Oliveira; R.N. Nogueira; " 23rd
International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors ", Proc Optical Fiber Sensors
Conf. , Santander , Spain , Vol. 9157 , pp. 915793-1 - 915793-4 , June , 2014 .
- Oliveira, R.; C.A.F. Marques; L. Bilro; R.N. Nogueira; " 23rd International
Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors ", Proc Optical Fiber Sensors Conf. , Santander
, Spain , Vol. 9157 , pp. 915794-1 - 915794-4 , June , 2014 .
- Santo, A. Espírito; A. J. C. Albuquerque; " A Distributed Sensor Network Powered
by Energy Harvesting Technologies for Wastewater Process Monitoring ", Proc
International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management , Oporto ,
Portugal , Vol. 1 , July , 2014 .
- Pinto, R. J. C. Pinto; I. P. P. P. Xavier Xavier; M.R.A. Calado; S.J.P.S. Mariano; "
Analysis of the human reaction to odors using electroencephalography responses ",
Proc World Congress on Engineering - WCE 2014 , London , United Kingdom , Vol. I
, pp. 243 - 247 , July , 2014 .
- Postolache, G.; P.M. Girão; O. Postolache; " Applying smartphone apps to drive
greater
patient
engagement
and
personalized
physiotherapy
",
Proc
IEEE
International Workshop on Medical Measurements and , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 1 - 6 , June , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, D.; P.M. Cruz; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Automatic Characterization of RF DACs
for Software Defined Radio Applications ", Proc IEEE International Microwave
Theory and Tech. Symp. , Tampa , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2014 .
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- Silva, H.; J. Guerreiro Guerreiro; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; RCM Martins; "
BITalino: A Novel Hardware Framework for Physiological Computing ", Proc
International Conf. Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS , Lisbon , Portugal ,
January , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, D.; P.M. Cruz; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Characterization of SDR/CR Front-Ends
for Improved Digital Signal Processing Algorithms ", Proc European Signal
Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO , Lisbon , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , June , 2014 .
- Carretas, L.; F. M. Janeiro; " Cloud Height Estimation with a Single Digital Camera
and Artificial Neural Networks ", Proc European Geosciences Union - EGU , Vienna ,
Austria , Vol. 1 , April , 2014 .
- Rosado, L. S.; FC Cardoso; FR Franco; Ricardo Ferreira Ferreira; EP Paz; SC
Cardoso; P.M. Ramos; PF Freitas; M. S. Piedade; " Detection of micrometric surface
defects in titanium using magnetic tunneling junction sensors ", Proc European
Conf. on Non-Destructive Testing , Praha , Czech Republic , Vol. 2014 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
October , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; T. Rocha; " Determination of Crack
Depth in Aluminum Using Eddy Currents and GMR Sensors ", Proc Review of
Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - QNDE , Boise , United States ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 372 - 372 , July , 2014 .
- Santo, A. Espírito; B. J. F. Ribeiro; N. M. Garcia; " Development of a Low Power
Wireless Network to Support Elderly People Based on Ez430-Chronos and Simpliciti
", Proc 6th European DSP Education and Research Conf. - EDERC2014 , Milan , Italy
, September , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; H. G. Ramos; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; " Eddy Current Evaluation of
Fatigue Crack Depths in Planar Metallic non-Ferromagnetic Materials ", Proc
RELACRE 3ª Conferência Nacional em Ensaios Não Destrutivos - 3CNEND , Lisboa ,
Portugal , Vol. Resumos , pp. 63 - 65 , December , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; H. G. Ramos; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; " Eddy Current Evaluation of
Fatigue Crack Depths in Planar Metallic non-Ferromagnetic Materials ", Proc
421
RELACRE 3ª Conferência Nacional em Ensaios Não Destrutivos - 3CNEND , Lisboa ,
Portugal , Vol. Resumos , pp. 63 - 65 , December , 2014 .
- Ramos, P.M.; R. A, Abrantes; L. S. Rosado; M. S. Piedade; " Embedded
Measurement System for Non-Destructive Testing using New Eddy Currents Planar
Array Probe ", Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. I2MTC , Montevideo , Uruguay , Vol. 1 , pp. 583 - 588 , May , 2014 .
- Santos, J.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Ramos; " Embedded Viscosity Measurement
System using a Vibrating-Wire Sensor ", Proc IEEE International Instrumentation
and Technology Conf. - I2MTC , Montevideo , Uruguay , Vol. 1 , pp. 824 - 828 ,
May , 2014 .
- Ramos, P.M.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Girão; " Evaluation of the uncertainty of
electrical impedance measurements: the GUM and its supplement 2 ", Proc IMEKO
Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium , Madeira , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 8 ,
September , 2014 .
- Alves, A. P. Alves; João Martins Martins; H. Silva; A. Lourenço; A. L. N. Fred; H.
F. Ferreira; " Experimental Study and Evaluation of Paper-based Inkjet Electrodes
for ECG Signal Acquisition ", Proc International Conf. Physiological Computing
Systems - PhyCS , Lisbon , Portugal , pp. 275 - 281 , January , 2014 .
- Afonso, PAF; " Fall body detection with Kalman filter and SVM ", Proc Portuguese
Conf. on Automatic Control - CONTROLO , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 407 - 416 ,
July , 2014 .
- Crvalho, H.; O. Postolache; " Health Monitoring using Textile Sensors and
Electrodes ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and ,
Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2014 .
- Cary, F.C.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Kinect Based System and Serious Game
Motivating Approach for Physiotherapy Assessment and Remote Session Monitoring
", Proc International Conf. on Sensing Technology - ICST , Liverpool , United
Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
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Duarte,
N.D;
O.
Postolache;
"
KSGphysio
–
Kinect
Serious
Game
for
Physiotherapy ", Proc International Workshop on Electromagnetic Compatibility and
Engineering in Medicine and Biology - EPE-W , Iasi , Romania , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
October , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, D.; P.M. Cruz; N.B.C. Carvalho; " Large-Signal Characterization of a
Mixed-Signal SoC Receiver for Multiband SDR/CR Designs ", Proc European
Microwave Week/European Microwave Conf. , Rome , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
October , 2014 .
- Guilherme, J.G.; N.H. Horta; M. Mauro; " Logarithmic AD Conversion Using
Latched Comparators and a Time-to-Digital Converter ", Proc IEEE International
Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Integrated Systems - ICECS , Marseille , France ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 319 - 322 , December , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; A. L. Ribeiro; D. Pasadas; " Magnetic Sensors
Assessment in Velocity Induced Eddy Current Testing ", Proc IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Technology Conf. , Montevideo , Uruguay , May , 2014 .
- Santos, J.; F. M. Janeiro; P.M. Ramos; " Measurement Time Optimization of
Impedance Spectroscopy Techniques Applied to a Vibrating Wire Viscosity Sensor ",
Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp. , Benevento , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 880 - 884 , September ,
2014 .
- Girão, P.M.; O. Postolache; G. Postolache; P.M. Ramos; J. M. Dias Pereira; "
Microwave Doppler Radar in Unobtrusive Health Monitoring ", Proc IMEKO Joint
IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium , Funchal , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 ,
September , 2014 .
- Sequeira, F.; Lopes, N. Lopes; Gomes, M. T. S. R. S. R. Gomes; Rudnitskaya, A.
Rudnitskaya; R.N. Nogueira; L. Bilro; " Molecularly imprinted polymer grafted on a
polymeric optical fibre for ammonium sensing ", Proc II International Conf. on
Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP , Aveiro , Portugal , pp. 72 - 72 , May ,
2014 .
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- Ramos, H. G.; J. Torres ; A. L. Ribeiro; " NDT Inspections Exploiting Invariances
on Scale Transformations ", Proc Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive
Evaluation - QNDE , Boise , United States , July , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; H. G. Ramos; " Open Crack Depth Evaluation
Using Eddy Current Methods and GMR Detection ", Proc METROAEROSPACE ,
Benevento , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 117 - 121 , May , 2014 .
- Madeira, R.; O. Postolache; " PhysioMate - Pervasive Physical Rehabilitation based
on NUI and Gamification ", Proc International Workshop on Electromagnetic
Compatibility and Engineering in Medicine and Biology - EPE-W , Iasi , Romania ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2014 .
- Ramos, P.M.; D. A. Aguiam; L. S. Rosado; M. S. Piedade; " Portable Instrument
for Eddy Currents Non Destructive Testing based on Heterodyning Techniques ",
Proc
IEEE
International
Instrumentation
and
Technology
Conf.
-
I2MTC
,
Montevideo , Uruguay , Vol. 1 , pp. 1368 - 1372 , May , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; A. L. Ribeiro; " Present and Future Impact of Magnetic Sensors in
NDE ", Proc International Conf. on Structural Integrity - ICONS , Kalpakann , India ,
, February , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; A. L. Ribeiro; D. Pasadas; " Probe Optimization for
Velocity Induced Eddy Current Testing in Aluminium ", Proc 12th IMEKO TC10
Workshop on Technical Diagnostics , Warsaw , Poland , June , 2014 .
- Alberto, N.; H. Kalinowsky; V. Neto Neto; R.N. Nogueira; " Regeneration of FBGs
during the HFCVD diamond fiber coating process ", Proc International Conference
on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9286 ,
pp. 928643-1 - 928643-4 , August , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; T. Rocha; H. G. Ramos; " Remote Field Eddy Current
NDT in Tubes Using Anisotropic Magneto-Resistors ", Proc IMEKO TC10 Workshop
on Technical Diagnostics , Warsaw , Poland , Vol. 1 , pp. 60 - 64 , June , 2014 .
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- Janeiro, F. M.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; P.M. Ramos; " RFID Chip
Characterization
through
S-Parameter
Measurements
and
Gene
Expression
Programming ", Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. I2MTC , Montevideo , Uruguay , Vol. 1 , pp. 207 - 211 , May , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; A. L. Ribeiro; " THE NEED TO UPDATE MEASURING SYSTEMS FOR
NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING ", Proc Air-Days 2014 , Lisboa , Portugal , October ,
2014 .
- Alberto, N.; R.N. Nogueira; V. Neto Neto; " Thermal monitoring of the
thermoplastic injection molding process with FBGs ", Proc International Conference
on Applications of Optics and Photonics - AOP2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , Vol. 9286 ,
pp. 928642-1 - 928642-4 , August , 2014 .
- Alegria, F.; O. B. Birhukova; S. L. Guillén Ludeña; A. H. C. Heleno Cardoso; "
Three dimensional flow field at confluent fixed-bed open channels ", Proc River Flow
2014 , Lausanne , Switzerland , Vol. 1 , pp. 1007 - 1014 , September , 2014 .
- Postolache, O.; V.V. Viegas; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; G. Postolache; "
Toward Developing a Smart Wheelchair for User Physiological Stress and Physical
Activity Monitoring ", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements
and , Lisboa , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 5 , June , 2014 .
- Viegas, V.V.; J. M. Dias Pereira; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; " Transducer
Electronic Data Sheets: Why Not Print Them? ", Proc International Conf. and
Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering - EPE , Iasi , Romania , October ,
2014 .
- Janeiro, F. M.; J.R. Costa; C. A. Fernandes; P.M. Ramos; " Ultra High Frequency
Circuit Identification through Gene Expression Programming ", Proc IMEKO TC4
Symp. , Benevento , Italy , Vol. 1 , pp. 885 - 888 , September , 2014 .
- Postolache, O.; M.R Ribeiro; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; G. Postolache; "
Unobtrusive Sensing for Gait Rehabilitation Assesment ", Proc EAI International
Pervasive Health Workshop on Patient Rehabilitation research Techniques - REHAB ,
Oldenburg , Germany , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 4 , May , 2014 .
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- Alberto, N.; R.N. Nogueira; V. Neto Neto; " Use of fibre Bragg grating sensors for
the thermal assessment of the thermoplastic injection moulding process ", Proc
International Conf. on Polymers and Moulds Innovations - 2014 - PMI2014 ,
Guimarães , Portugal , pp. 95 - 99 , September , 2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; T. Rocha; D. Pasadas; A. L. Ribeiro; " USING A MOUSE AS A
POSITIONING DEVICE IN AN HANDHELD DETECTOR OF SUB-SURFACE CRACKS ",
Proc RELACRE 3ª Conferência Nacional em Ensaios Não Destrutivos - 3CNEND ,
Amadora , Portugal , pp. 66 - 68 , December , 2014 .
- Ribeiro, A. L.; D. Pasadas; H. G. Ramos; T. Rocha; " Using Excitation Invariance
in the Characterization of Defects by Eddy Current Image Constructions ", Proc
International Conf. on Structural Integrity - ICONS , Kalpakkam , India , February ,
2014 .
- Teixeira, A.; O. Postolache; " Wireless Sensor Network and Web based
Information
System
for
Asthma
Trigger
Factors
Monitoring
",
Proc
IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf. , Montevideo , Uruguay , Vol.
1 , pp. 1 - 5 , May , 2014 .
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Books
- Rocha, F.; R. Martins; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; Electronic Design Automation of
Analog ICs combining Gradient Models with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
,Springer , Heidelberg , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Canelas, A.; R. Martins; R. Póvoa ; N. Lourenço; J.G. Guilherme; N.H. Horta; "
Enhancing an Automatic Analog IC Design Flow by using a Technology-Independent
Module Generator " - Chapter in Performance Optimization Techniques in Analog,
Mixed-Signal, and Radio-Frequency Circuit Design , Mourad Fakhfakh, Esteban
Tlelo-Cuautle, Maria Helena Fino , IGI global, Medical Information Science
Reference, 2014 .
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- Póvoa , R.; N. Lourenço; A. Canelas; R. Martins; N.H. Horta; " Synthesis of LCOscillators using Rival Multi-Objective/Multi-Constraint Optimization Kernels " Chapter in Performance Optimization Techniques in Analog, Mixed-Signal, and
Radio-Frequency Circuit Design , Mourad Fakhfakh, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, Maria
Helena Fino , IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Mauro, M.; N.H. Horta; J.G. Guilherme; " A survey on nonlinear analog-to-digital
converters ", Integration, The VLSI Journal , Vol. 47 , No. 1 , pp. 12 - 22 , January
, 2014 .
- Costa, V.C.; M. A. Andrade; " DC-DC Buck Converter with Reduced Impact ",
Procedia Technology , Vol. 17 , No. 1 , pp. 791 - 798 , October , 2014 .
- Martins, R.; N. Lourenço; A. Canelas; N.H. Horta; " Electromigration-aware analog
Router with multilayer multiport terminal structures ", Integration, The VLSI Journal
, Vol. 47 , No. 4 , pp. 532 - 547 , September , 2014 .
- Fonseca, P.; P.P. Pedreiras; C. Cardeira; " Monitorização e gestão da
disponibilidade de sistemas de produção – Identificação de necessidades (1.ª parte)
", Robotica , Vol. 1 , No. 96 , pp. 4 - 6 , June , 2014 .
- Póvoa , R.; N. Lourenço; N.H. Horta; RST Santos Tavares; J. Goes; " A CascodeFree Single-Stage Amplifier using a Fully-Differential Folded Voltage-Combiner ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems , Marselha ,
France , December , 2014 .
- Guilherme, J.G.; N.H. Horta; B. Silva; " A Rad-Hard DC-DC Converter Controller ",
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Integrated Systems ICECS , Marseille , France , Vol. 1 , pp. 439 - 442 , December , 2014 .
- Guilherme, J.G.; N.H. Horta; DG Guilherme; " Automatic Layout Generation of
Power MOSFET Transistors in Bulk CMOS ", Proc IEEE International Conf. on
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Electronics, Circuits and Integrated Systems - ICECS , marseille , France , Vol. 1 ,
pp. 606 - 609 , December , 2014 .
- Horta, N.H.; N. Lourenço; A. Canelas; R. Martins; " Electromigration-Aware and
IR-Drop Avoidance Routing in Analog Multiport Terminal Structures ", Proc Design,
Automation and Test in Europe Conf. , Dresden , Germany , March , 2014 .
- Horta, N.H.; N. Lourenço; R. Martins; R. Póvoa ; A. Canelas; " LC-VCO Automatic
Synthesis Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Techniques ", Proc IEEE International
Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS , Melbourne , Australia , June , 2014 .
- Andrade, J.; A. V. Vosougui; G. W. Wang; G. K. Karakonstantis; A. B. Burg; G.
Falcão; V. Silva; J. R. C. Cavallaro; " On the Performance of LDPC and Turbo
Decoder Architectures with Unreliable Memories ", Proc Asilomar Conf. on Signals,
Systems, and Computers , Pacific , United States , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , November ,
2014 .
- Fonseca, P.; S. Velastin; " Um modelo de desenvolvimento de projetos em
sistemas embedded ", Proc Congresso Luso Moçambicano de Engenharia - CLME ,
Inhambane , Mozambique , April , 2014 .
LOGICS AND COMPUTATION
Books
- Carmo, J.; A. Sernadas; C. Sernadas; F. Dionísio; C. Caleiro; Introdução à
programação em Mathematica -- Terceira Edição (Introduction to Programming in
Mathematica -- Third Edition) , IST Press , Lisboa , 2014 .
Book Chapters
- Andrade, J.; G. Falcão; V. Silva; S. Yamagiwa; L. Sousa; " Accelerating
Conventional Processing Using GPU Clusters: LDPC Decoders " - Chapter in
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology , Phillip A. Laplante, Editor-inChief, Engineering Division , Taylor & Francis , Pennsylvania State University,
Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , 2014 .
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- Caleiro, C.; S. Marcelino; P. Baltazar; " Deciding theoremhood in fibred logics
without shared connectives " - Chapter in JY Beziau's Festschrift , A. Buchsbaum, A.
Koslow , Springer, 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Rasga, J.; A. Sernadas; C. Sernadas; " Fibring as biporting subsumes asymmetric
combinations ", Studia Logica , Vol. 102 , No. 5 , pp. 1041 - 1071 , November ,
2014 .
- Sernadas, A.; J. Rasga; C. Sernadas; P. Mateus; " Approximate reasoning about
logic circuits with
single-fan-out
unreliable gates ", Journal
of
Logic and
Computation , Vol. 24 , No. 5 , pp. 1023 - 1069 , October , 2014 .
- Qiu, D. Qiu; F You; " Coding-Based Quantum Private Database Query Using
Entanglement ", Quantum Information and Computation , Vol. 14 , No. 1-2 , pp. 91
- 106 , January , 2014 .
- Rasga, J.; C. Sernadas; A. Sernadas; " Craig interpolation in the presence of
unreliable connectives ", Logica Universalis , Vol. 8 , No. 3-4 , pp. 423 - 446 ,
December , 2014 .
- Mateus, P.; M. Biscaia; D. Henriques; " Decidability of Approximate Skolem
Problem and Applications to Logical Verification of Dynamical Properties of Markov
Chains ", ACM Trans. on Computational Logic , Vol. 16 , No. 1 , pp. 4 - 4 ,
December , 2014 .
- Pereira, O.; R. L. Aguiar; D. Xenakis Xenakis; " Distributed and Typed Role-based
Access Control Mechanisms Driven by CRUD Expressions ", International Journal of
Computer Science: Theory and Application , Vol. 2 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 11 , October ,
2014 .
- Marcelino, S.; A. Kurucz; " Non-finitely axiomatisable two-dimensional modal
logics ", Journal of Symbolic Logic , Vol. 77 , No. 3 , pp. 970 - 986 , March , 2014 .
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- Adão, P.; P. Mateus; L. Viganò; " Protocol Insecurity with a Finite Number of
Sessions and a Cost-Sensitive Guessing Intruder is NP-Complete. ", Theoretical
Computer Science , Vol. 538 , No. 1 , pp. 2 - 15 , June , 2014 .
- Qiu, D. Qiu; X. Zou; F You; P. Mateus; " Security Problems in the Quantum
Signature Scheme with a Weak Arbitrator ", Intrnl. Journal of Theoretical Physics ,
Vol. 53 , No. 2 , pp. 603 - 611 , January , 2014 .
- Marcelino, S.; C. Caleiro; " Conservativity of fibred logics via reflective
translations ", Proc AiML.net Advances in Modal Logic - AiML , Groningen ,
Netherlands , August , 2014 .
- Caleiro, C.; S. Marcelino; " Conservativity of fibred logics via reflective
translations ", Proc AiML.net Advances in Modal Logic - AiML , Groningen ,
Netherlands , Vol. 1 , August , 2014 .
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International Conf. on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing - PDP ,
Turin , Italy , February , 2014 .
- Caleiro, C.; S. Marcelino; J. Marcos; " On the characterization of broadly truthfunctional logics ", Proc GeTFun Compositional Meaning in Logic - GeTFun , Vienna ,
Austria , Vol. 1 , July , 2014 .
- Amaro, J. A.; B. Y. Y. Yiu; G. Falcão; M. Gomes; A. C. Y. Yu; " Rapid Prototyping
of Real-Time FPGA Beamformers for Synthetic Aperture Imaging Based on High
Level Synthesis ", Proc IEEE IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - IUS ,
Chicago , United States , September , 2014 .
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ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Book Chapters
- Gomes, H.L.; H.L. Gomes; " Chapter 3-Molecular, Polymer and hybrid organic
memory devices (OMDs)” " - Chapter in Advances in Non-volatile Memory and
Storage Technology , Y. Nishi , Woodhead Publishing , 2014 .
- Bernardo , G.; J. Morgado; " Fluorescence spectroscopy " - Chapter in
Characterization of Polymer Blends: Miscibility, Morphology and Interfaces , S.
Thomas, Y. Grohens, P. Jyotishkumar , Wiley , 2014 .
Papers in Journals
- Salvador , M.; " A General Route to Enhance Polymer Solar Cell Performance
using Plasmonic Nanoprisms ", Advanced Energy Materials , Vol. 4 , No. 9 , pp.
1400206-1 - 1400206-7 , March , 2014 .
- Ferreira, Q. ; A. Bragança; L.A. Alcácer; J. Morgado; " Conductance of WellDefined Porphyrin Self-Assembled Molecular Wires up to 14 nm in Length ", Journal
of Physical Chemistry C , Vol. 118 , No. 3 , pp. 7229 - 7234 , March , 2014 .
- Spyropoulos, G. S.; M. Salvador ; " Flexible organic tandem solar modules with
6% efficiency: combining roll-to-roll compatible processing with high geometric fill
factors ", Energy & Environmental Science , Vol. 7 , pp. 3284 - 3290 , July , 2014 .
- Rodrigues, R.; R. Meira; Q. Ferreira; A. Charas; J. Morgado; " Improving the
Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells upon Addition of Polyvinylpyridine ", Materials , Vol.
7 , No. 12 , pp. 8189 - 8196 , December , 2014 .
- Bory, B.F.; J. Wang; H.L. Gomes; " Lithium Fluoride Injection Layers Can Form
Quasi-Ohmic Contacts for Both Holes and Electrons ", Applied Physics Letters , Vol.
105 , No. 23 , pp. 123302 - 123306 , December , 2014 .
- Bory, B.F..; P. R. F. Rocha; H.L. Gomes; " Lithium fluoride injection layers can
form quasi-Ohmic contacts for both holes and electrons ", Applied Physics Letters ,
431
- Araújo, M.; R.V. Viveiros; T. C. Correia; IC Correia; V.B. Bonifácio; TC Casimiro;
AAR Aguiar-Ricardo; " Natural melanin: A potential pH-responsive drug release
device ", Intrnl. Journal of Pharmaceutics , Vol. 469 , No. 1 , pp. 140 - 145 , July ,
2014 .
- Salvador , M.; " Performance limits of plasmon-enhanced organic photovoltaics ",
Applied Physics Letters , Vol. 105 , No. 033304 , pp. 033304-1 - 033304-5 , July ,
2014 .
- Restani, R.R.; A. Bragança; J. Morgado; V.B. Bonifácio; " Polyurea dendrimer for
efficient cytosolic siRNA delivery ", RSC Advances , Vol. 97 , No. 4 , pp. 54872 54878 , October , 2014 .
- Bonifácio, V.B.; A. Bragança; M. Araújo; " Polyurea Dendrimer-Perylene SelfImprinted Nanoshells for Trace Explosive Detection ", Particle & Particle Systems
Characterization , August , 2014 .
- Lourenço, A.L.; TC Casimiro; V.B. Bonifácio; " Reborn water-soluble CdTe
quantum dots ", Talanta , Vol. 125 , pp. 319 - 321 , July , 2014 .
Nagaoka, H. N.; M. Salvador ; " Size-Dependent Charge Transfer Yields in
Conjugated Polymer/Quantum Dot Blends ", Journal of Physical Chemistry C , Vol.
118 , No. 11 , pp. 5710 - 5715 , February , 2014 .
- Gawande, MG; V.B. Bonifácio; RL Luque; PB Branco; RV Varma; " Solvent-Free
and Catalysts-Free Chemistry: A Benign Pathway to Sustainability ", ChemSusChem
, Vol. 7 , No. 1 , pp. 24 - 44 , January , 2014 .
- Lourenço, A.L.; R.V. Viveiros; A. M. Moro; JC Lima; V.B. Bonifácio; TC Casimiro; "
Supercritical CO2-assisted synthesis of an ultrasensitive amphibious quantum dotmolecularly imprinted sensor ", RSC Advances , Vol. 108 , No. 4 , pp. 63338 63341 , November , 2014 .
- Brotas, G.; J. Farinhas; Q. Ferreira; R. Rodrigues; I.L. Martins; J. Morgado; A.
Charas; " Synthesis, characterization, and applications in photovoltaic cells of
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oxetane-functionalized P3HT derivatives ", Journal of Polymer Science: Part A:
Polymer Chemistry , Vol. 52 , No. 5 , pp. 652 - 663 , March , 2014 .
- Rodrigues, R.; Q. Ferreira; A. Mendonça; J. Morgado; " Template role of
polyhexylthiophene nanowires on efficient bilayer photovoltaic cells ", Synthetic
Metals , Vol. 190 , pp. 72 - 78 , April , 2014 .
- Suresh, D.; P. S. Lopes; B. F. Ferreira; C. A. F. Figueira; C. S. B. Gomes; P.
Gomes; R. Paolo; A. Maçanita; A. Charas; J. Morgado; " Tunable Fluorophores
Based on 2‐(N‐Arylimino)pyrrolyl Chelates of Diphenylboron: Synthesis, Structure,
Photophysical Characterization, and Application in OLEDs ", Chemistry A. European
Journal , Vol. 20 , No. 14 , pp. 4126 - 4140 , April , 2014 .
- Medeiros, M. C. R. ; H.L. Gomes; et. al.; " Semiconducting polymer microelectrodes and electrical noise based techniques as a tool to probe living cells in
vitro ", Proc Materials Research Society Symp. , Boston , United States , pp. 1 - 1 ,
December , 2014 .
POWER ELECTRONICS AND POWER SYSTEMS
Papers in Journals
- Mendes, A. M. S.; M. Bandarabadi; S. M. A. Cruz; " Fault diagnostic algorithm for
three-level neutral point clamped AC motor drives, based on the average current
Park’s vector ", IET Power Electronics , Vol. 7 , No. 5 , pp. 1127 - 1137 , May ,
2014 .
- Ribeiro, H.R.; B. Borges; " High Performance Voltage Fed AC-DC Full-Bridge
Single-Stage PFC with Reduced DC Bus Capacitor ", IEEE Trans. on Power
Electronics , Vol. 1 , No. 99 , pp. 1 - 13 , July , 2014 .
- Freire, Nuno M. A.; J. O. Estima; A. J. M. Cardoso; " New Approach for Current
Sensor Fault Diagnosis in PMSG Drives for Wind Energy Conversion Systems ", IEEE
Trans.
on
Industry
Applications
,
pp.
1
-
10
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,
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- Ribeiro, H.R.; B. Borges; " Solving Technical Problems on the Full-Bridge SingleStage PFCs ", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics , Vol. 61 , No. 5 , pp. 2264 2277 , May , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, P. F. C. G.; S. M. A. Cruz; " A New Delay Compensation Method for
Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Induction Motor Drives ", Proc
European Conf. on Power Electronics and Applications , Lappeenranta , Finland ,
Vol. CD-ROM , pp. 1 - 10 , August , 2014 .
- A. Pinto, R. A. Pinto; J. Álvarez; M. Perdigão; R. N. do Prado do Prado; " A new
technique to equalize branch currents in multiarray LED lamps based on variable
inductor ", Proc IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting , Vancouver ,
Canada , October , 2014 .
- Perdigão, M.; J. Álvarez; E. S. Saraiva; " A review on low-pressure discharge lamp
modelling ", Proc Universities Power Engineering Conf. - UPEC , Cluj Napoca ,
Romania , September , 2014 .
- Perdigão, M.; M. F. Menke; A. R. Seidel Seidel; R. A. Pinto A. Pinto; J. Álvarez; " A
review on variable inductors and variable transformers: Applications to lighting
drivers ", Proc IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting , Vancouver ,
Canada , October , 2014 .
- Marques, Emanuel G. Marques; A. M. S. Mendes; " Constant Current Controller
For Electric Vehicles Chargers Based On IPT Systems ", Proc IEEE/ VTS/ UC/ IPCISEC Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference - IEEE-VPPC , Coimbra , Portugal ,
Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2014 .
- Bandarabadi, M.; S. M. A. Cruz; A. M. S. Mendes; " Detection of Stator and Rotor
Faults in a DFIG Based on the Stator Reactive Power Analysis ", Proc IEEE Industrial
Electronics Conf. - IECON , Dallas , United States, pp. 1 - 8 , October , 2014 .
- Pestana, L.; M.R.A. Calado; S.J.P.S. Mariano; " Direct Instantaneous Thrust
Control optimization of a linear switched reluctance actuator by Pulse-width
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modulation duty ratio adjustment ", Proc International Conf. on Environment and
Electrical Engineering - EEEIC , krakow , Poland , Vol. 1 , pp. 464 - 468 , May ,
2014 .
- Afonso, PAF; " Experimental evaluation of unmanned solar powered electric
floating platform ", Proc Workshop on European Unmanned Maritime Systems UMS , Porto , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 1 , May , 2014 .
- Mendes, A. M. S.; L. Caseiro; S. M. A. Cruz; " Fault tolerance in back-to-back
three-level neutral-point-clamped induction motor drives ", Proc IEE International
Conf. on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives - PEMD , Manchester , United
Kingdom , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , April , 2014 .
- Marques, Emanuel G. Marques; D A Abreu; M. Perdigão; J P Trovão Trovão; A. M.
S. Mendes; " Full-Bridge Topology for IPT System On-Board Charger ", Proc IEEE/
VTS/ UC/ IPC-ISEC Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference - IEEE-VPPC ,
Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. USB , pp. 1 - 6 , October , 2014 .
- Bandarabadi, M.; S. M. A. Cruz; A. M. S. Mendes; " Inter-turn fault detection in
doubly-fed induction generators for wind turbine applications using the stator
reactive power analysis ", Proc Renewable Power Generation Conf. (RPG) , Naples ,
Italy , pp. 1 - 8 , September , 2014 .
- Ferreira, F.; A. Correia; F. Lopes; " Novel In-field Method to Estimate Mechanical
Parameters in Induction Motor Driven Systems ", Proc International Conf. on
Electrical Machines , Berlin , Germany , Vol. I , pp. 1 - 5 , September , 2014 .
- Gonçalves, A. P. Gonçalves; S. M. A. Cruz; F. Ferreira; A. M. S. Mendes; ATA
Almeida; " Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drive for Electric Vehicles Including
Cross-Magnetic Saturation ", Proc IEEE/ VTS/ UC/ IPC-ISEC Vehicle Power and
Propulsion Conference - IEEE-VPPC , Coimbra , Portugal , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 ,
October , 2014 .
435
QUANTUM INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Papers in Journals
- Cordourier-Maruri, G. ; Y. Omar; R. de Coss; S. Bose; " Graphene-enabled lowcontrol quantum gates between static and mobile spins ", Physical Review B , Vol.
89 , No. 7 , pp. 075426-1 - 075426-6 , February , 2014 .
- Sousa, R.; Y. Omar; " Pretty good state transfer of entangled states through
quantum spin chains ", New Journal of Physics , Vol. 16 , pp. 2 - 12 , December ,
2014 .
- Argentieri, G. A.; F. B. Benatti; R. F. Floreanini; M. Pezzutto; " Violations of the
second law
of thermodynamics by a
non-completely positive dynamics ",
Europhysics Letters , Vol. 107 , No. 5 , pp. 1 - 8 , September , 2014 .
- Mohammady, M.; M. Mohseni; Y. Omar; " Minimising heat dissipation of bit
erasure by controlling a finite-size quantum reservoir ", Proc Workshop on , Belfast
, United Kingdom , August , 2014 .
- Mohammady, M.; M. Mohseni; Y. Omar; " Minimizing heat dissipation of bit
erasure by controlling a finite-size quantum reservoir ", Proc International Iran
Conf. on Quantum Information 2014 - IICQI 2014 , Esfehan , Iran , September ,
2014 .
TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS
Papers in Journals
- Neves, A.; I. C. Santos; J.T.C. Coutinho; L. Pereira; R. T. Henriques; E. B. Lopes;
H. Alves; M. Almeida; D. Belo; " 5-Methylthiophene-2,3-dithiolene Transition Metal
Complexes ", European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , Vol. 284 , No. 8 , pp. 3989
- 3999 , August , 2014 .
436
- Mallik, A.K.M.; J. C. Mendes; S. Rotter; S.B. Bysakh; " Detonation Nanodiamond
Seeding Technique for Nucleation Enhancement of CVD Diamond – Some
Experimental Insights ", Advances in Ceramic Science and Engineering , Vol. 3 , No.
pp. 36 - 45 , May , 2014 .
- Salvador , M.; " Edge-Gold-Coated Silver Nanoprisms: Enhanced Stability and
Applications in Organic Photovoltaics and Chemical Sensing ", Journal of Physical
Chemistry C , Vol. 118 , No. 23 , pp. 12459 - 12468 , May , 2014 .
- Salvador , M.; " Nanoscale Surface Potential Variation Correlates with Local S/Se
Ratio in Solution-Processed CZTSSe Solar Cells ", Nano Letters , Vol. 14 , No. 12 ,
pp. 6926 - 6930 , November , 2014 .
- Mallik, A.K.M.; S.B. Bysakh; M.S. Sreemany; S.R. Roy; J.C. Ghosh; S.R. Roy; J.
C. Mendes; J.G. Gracio; S.D. Datta; " Property mapping of polycrystalline diamond
coatings over large area ", Journal of Advanced Ceramics , Vol. 3 , No. 1 , pp. 56 70 , March , 2014 .
- Mukherjee, D.M.; J.G. Gracio; J. C. Mendes; " Selective nano-diamond deposition
using soft lithography ", Proc 5th International Conf. on Advanced Nanomaterials ANM 2014 , Aveiro , Portugal , pp. 308 - 308 , July , 2014
Prototypes
- Pereira, J.; et. al.; " Dispositivo mecânico e eletrónico para cadeiras de rodas ",
Modelo de Utilidade nº 11027 , July , 2014 .
Patents
- Pereira, J.; H. A. Silva; " Codificador e descodificador eletrónico de sinais
ortogonais e perfeitos ", 106755 Pending , July , 2014 .
437
-
Afonso,
PAF;
P.
Gonçalves;
"
Controlo
de
pastagens
com
animais
",
20141000101645 , December , 2014 .
- Faria, J.; " Dispositivo formado por uma linha magnética de transmissão, para uso
em circuitos integrados, para aplicações na tecnologia terahertz ", PT 106056 ,
August , 2014 .
Awards
- Calado, M.R.A.; R. Mendes; S.J.P.S. Mariano; " Best Paper Award of The 2014
International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ", Paper: Mendes,
R.P.G., Calado, M.R.A., Mariano, S.J.P.S., Identification of some tubular topologies
of linear switched reluctance generator for direct drive applications in ocean wave
energy conversion., The 2014 International Conference of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, London, U.K., 2-4 July, 2014. , 01-10-2014 .
- Bandarabadi, M.; S. M. A. Cruz; A. M. S. Mendes; " Detection of Stator and Rotor
Faults in a DFIG Based on the Stator Reactive Power Analysis ", Best presentation
Recognition , 01-10-2014 .
Miscellaneous
- Ferreira, C. A. F.; " Invited Talks ", Eletromagnetismo e Ondas ", 01-12-2014 .
- Barros , M.B.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Sistema de visão artificial para controlo de
qualidade de uma linha de embalamento de notas (Banco de Portugal)", 01-122014 .
- Ferreira, C. A. F.; " MSc Thesis Jury ", Sistemas de Instrumentação em Unidades
de Injeção ", 01-12-2014 .
- Ferreira, C. A. F.; " Seminars ", Semana C&T ", 01-11-2014 . ~
- Barros , M.B.; " Invited Talks ", The Internet of things - ", ES Jácome Ratton Tomar , 01-11-2014 .
438
- Girão, P.M.; O. Postolache; G. Postolache; P.M. Ramos; J. M. Dias Pereira; "
Invited Talks ", Microwave Doppler Radar in Unobtrusive Health Monitoring ", 2014
Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium , 01-09-2014 .
- Charas, A.; " Member of Advisory Committee ", External evaluator for European
Commission Research Executive Agency ", 01-06-2014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; " Member of Editorial Board ", Acta IMEKO ", 01-05-2014 .
- Charas, A.; " Member of Advisory Committee ", Independent evaluator of ''The
Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Award'' projects ", 01-04-2014 .
- Charas, A.; " National Delegate ", Cost Action - Stable Next-Generation
Photovoltaics: Unraveling degradation mechanisms of Organic Solar Cells by
complementary characterization techniques (StableNextSol) ", MP1307 , 01-012014 .
- Ramos, H. G.; " Member of Technical Committee ", Member of the WG for the
IEEE
P21451-001
Standard
",
IEEE
P21451-001,
01-01-2014
.
- Ramos, H. G.; " Member of Technical Committee ", TC-10 IMEKO ", TC-10 IMEKO
, 01-01-2014 .
- Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Organizing Committee, Pedro Ricardo Morais
Inácio , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC, Technical
Programme
-
IEEE
Committee,
International
Pedro
Conf.
on
Manuel
Smart
Brito
da
Silva
Instrumentation,
Girão
,
01-01-2014
Measurements
and
Applications - ICSIMA, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da
Silva Girão , 01-01-2014
439
- International Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS,
Scientific Committee, Anders Lyhne Christensen, 01-01-2014
-
IEEE
International
Workshop
on
Medical
Measurements
and,
Conference
Chairman, Octavian Adrian Postolache , 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Sensing Technology - ICST, Technical Programme
- First International Conf. on Sensor Networks - SENSORNETS, Conference
- IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA,
Conference Chairman, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão , 01-01-2014
- Conf. Internacional de Ciências no Treino de Futebol, Fernando Manuel Lourenço
Martins, 01-01-2014
- Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management Conf. - MPMM,
Scientific
Committee,
Fernando
José
Pimentel
Lopes
,
01-01-2014
- IMEKO Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão
, 01-01-2014
- IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Sessions Chairman , Marina
Perdigão, 01-01-2014
- International Conf. on Electromagnetic Fields, Health and Environment - EHE'06,
Scientific Committee, Vitor Manuel
de Oliveira
Maló Machado,
01-04-2014
- Jornadas Ibero-Americanas , Sessions Chairman , Carlos Alberto Farinha Ferreira ,
01-01-2014
- International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium networks, Technical Programme Committee, Amaro Fernandes de Sousa , 01-012014
440
- INFORMS Telecommunications , Scientific Committee, Amaro Fernandes de Sousa
, 01-01-2014
- METROAEROSPACE, Technical Programme Committee, Artur Fernando Delgado
Lopes Ribeiro , 01-01-2014
- IEEE International Conf. on Signals, Systems, Devices - SSD, Technical
Programme Committee, Octavian Adrian Postolache , 01-01-2014
ACTA IMEKO , Open Journal Systems 2.2.3.0, Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas
Ramos, editor, 01-05-2014 to 01-05-2020
ACTA IMEKO , IMEKO, Fernando Manuel Tim Tim Janeiro , Layout editor, 01-052014 to
ACTA IMEKO , IMEKO, Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos , Editorial Board, 01-06-2014 to
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