INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
ANNUAL REPORT
2016
ANNUAL REPORT 2016
Title Editors
Carlos Salema, Carlos Fernandes, Nuno Borges Carvalho, José Ferreira da Rocha, Adolfo Cartaxo, Mário Figueiredo, Rui Aguiar, Luís Alcácer, Pedro Girão
Date
2017
Version
V3
Distribution
IT
Doc. No.
IT/Dir/2017 v3
Executive Summary
This document describes IT activities during 2016, as "Laboratório Associado" (Associate Laboratory).
Keywords
Table of Contents 1
2
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1
History............................................................................................... 6
1.2
Management ....................................................................................... 6
1.3
Highlights of 2016.................................................................................. 7
Key IT Indicators ................................................................................................................................ 11 2.1
Human Resources ................................................................................. 11
2.2
Projects ............................................................................................ 23
2.3
Publications ........................................................................................ 24
3
Financial Outline ................................................................................................................................ 25
4
Research Areas .................................................................................................................................. 27 4.1
Wireless Communications ........................................................................ 27
4.1.1
Coordinators ................................................................................. 27
4.1.2
Human Resources ........................................................................... 27
4.1.3
Running and Concluded Projects ........................................................... 41
4.1.4
Summary of Research Achievements ...................................................... 65
4.1.5
Running and Concluded Theses ............................................................ 73
4.1.6
Publications .................................................................................. 80
4.1.7
Other Achievements ........................................................................ 95
4.1.8
Other Contributions ......................................................................... 98
4.2
Optical Communications ........................................................................ 102
4.2.1
Coordinators ............................................................................... 102
4.2.2
Human Resources ......................................................................... 102
4.2.3
Summary of Research Achievements .................................................... 108
4.2.4
Running and Concluded Projects ......................................................... 114
4.2.5
Running and Concluded Theses .......................................................... 126
4.2.6
Publications ................................................................................ 129
4.2.7
Other Achievements ...................................................................... 139
4.2.8
Other Contributions ....................................................................... 139
4.3
Networks and Multimedia ...................................................................... 141
4.3.1
Coordinators ............................................................................... 141
4.3.2
Human Resources ......................................................................... 141
4.3.3
Summary of Research Achievements .................................................... 159
4.3.4
Running and Concluded Projects ......................................................... 185
4.3.5
Running and Concluded Theses .......................................................... 213
4.3.6
Publications ................................................................................ 225
4.3.7
Other Achievements ...................................................................... 252
4.3.8
Other Contributions ....................................................................... 255
4.4
Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies ..................................................... 263
4.4.1
Coordinators ............................................................................... 263
4.4.2
Human Resources ......................................................................... 263
4.4.3
Summary of Research Achievements .................................................... 273
4.4.4
Running and Concluded Projects ......................................................... 287
4.4.5
Running and Concluded Theses .......................................................... 307
4.4.6
Publications ................................................................................ 315
4.4.7
Other Achievements ...................................................................... 340
4.4.8
Other Contributions ....................................................................... 343
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List of Tables Figure 1: Distribution of it human resources between the three sites ............................. 12 Figure 2: Distribution of researchers students and grantees per site .............................. 12 Figure 3: Distribution of it researchers and PhD students.............................................. 13 Figure 4: Distribution of it technical and administrative staff ......................................... 13 Figure 5: Distribution of foreign post-docs per nationality ............................................. 14 Figure 6: Distribution of foreign PhD student per nationality ......................................... 15 Figure 7: Distribution of researchers per gender .......................................................... 15 Figure 8: Distribution of PhD students per gender ........................................................ 16 Figure 9: Distribution of it researchers per site in 2016 ................................................ 17 Figure 10: Distribution of it PhD students per site in 2016 ............................................ 17 Figure 11: Distribution of it staff (technical) per site in 2016 ......................................... 17 Figure 12: Distribution of it staff( administrative) per site/branch in 2016 ...................... 18 Figure 13: Distribution of it PhD students per site/branch in 2016 ................................. 18 Figure 14: Distribution of it researchers per site/branch in 2016 .................................... 18 Figure 15: Distribution of journal papers published in 2016 per site/branch .................... 19 Figure 16: Distribution of communications in international refereed conferences in 2016 .. 19 Figure 17: Distribution of patents in 2016 per site/delegation ....................................... 20 Figure 18: Graph showing journal papers co-authorships in 2016 .................................. 21 Figure 19: Graph showing conference papers co-authorships in 2016 ............................. 22
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1
Introduction
1.1
History
Instituto de Telecomunicações (it) is a private, non-profit organisation, an association of nine institutions with activities, research and development in the field of Telecommunications: • • • • • • • • •
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade de Aveiro (UA) Universidade de Coimbra (UC) Altice Labs Nokia Solutions and 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, at the University Campus • Coimbra, at Site II of the University of Coimbra • Lisbon, at Instituto Superior Técnico and four branches: • Leiria, at the “Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão” of the Leiria Polytechnic (IPL) • Covilhã, at 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, at (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, 2014 and 2015. New site regulations deriving from it bylaws were approved and implemented in 2011.
Key developments in 2016 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 site members of the Board of Directors plus one or two senior site members. 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.
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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 (Prof. Sir John O’Reilly, Prof. Touradj Ebrahim and Prof. Thomas Brazil) 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 2016. The first meeting was held on March 29th, in the room Celas at the Hotel D. Luis, in Coimbra, to discuss and approve the 2015 Annual Report and Accounts. The second meeting took place on December 22th, in the Meeting Room of the Lisbon site, to discuss and approve the Work Plan and Budget for 2017. The Research Group Coordination Committee also met twice during 2016. On the first meeting, held on March 16th, at Building II, of ESTG - IPL, in Leiria to discuss a draft proposal of the it Code of Practice and a draft proposal of the 2016 Annual Report that received a favourable opinion. On the second meeting, held on December 20th, in Room C104, Building 2, ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon, the draft proposal of the it Code of Practice was further discussed and amended together with a set set of Regulations. In addition the Work Plan and Budget for 2017 was discussed and received a favourable opinion.
1.3
Highlights of 2016
In 2016, the scientific output was: • • • • •
16 books 52 book chapters 389 papers in international refereed scientific journals 431 papers in refereed conferences, with published proceedings 10 patents
whereas the forecast was: • • • •
10 books 50 book chapters 300 papers in international refereed scientific journals 420 papers in refereed conferences, with published proceedings
Achieved scientific output exceeded by far our forecast, namely in the number of papers in international referred scientific journals. The small reduction in the number of referred conference papers may be attributed the reduction in expected funding. Fostering advanced education was also maintained at very high levels: • 34 PhD theses, submitted and approved • 231 MSc theses, submitted and approved while the estimated numbers for 2016 were:
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• 40 PhD theses, submitted and approved • 200 MSc theses, submitted and approved The number of PhD theses submitted and approved decreased significantly from the all time high (62) reached in 2015 and from our forecast for 2016. This is due to the major reduction of Ph.D. scholarships granted by FCT since 2013. This (unfortunate) decision by FCT even if it is reversed in 2017 it will significantly decrease not only the number of Ph.D. students, but what is possibly even more serious, it discouraged many of the best M.Sc. students to proceed towards a Ph.D. The number of MSc theses submitted and approved exceeded our forecast, possibly because control mechanisms put in place ensure that almost all M.Sc. students hosted by it are now properly accounted for.
The number of scholarships decreased significantly in 2016 with respect to 2015, not only due to the reduction of 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: • 176 Ph.D. scholarships, funded by FCT • 199 other scholarships, funded by it as follows: • 31 post-doc scholarships • 34 scholarships for BSc graduates • 85 scholarships for MSc graduates • 45 R&D starting grants • 1 start R&D scholarship • 3 S&T management scholarships During 2016, 169 projects, of which 121 nationally funded and 48 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 10 running European Commission funded projects, 8 COST projects, 2 ESA funded projects, 2 international industry funded projects, 10 projects funded by structural funds. It should be noted that not all projects mentioned in section 2 are funded through it. In the past few years, FCT strategic funding, ie. funding for the IT - Laboratório Associado contract, in addition to a sharp decrease was never timely. Strategic funding for the period 2011-2012 was 3.0 M€/year, for the period 2013-2014 decreased to 1.6 M€/year (100 % execution rate) and for 2015 decreased to 1.2 M€. In March 2016 funding for the period 20152017 has finally amended to 7.2 M€ (first payment arrived in April 2016). Since 2015 had already passed by, this means effectively funding for 2016 and 2017 amounted to 3 M€/year. Unfortunately the new rules that came along with the strategic funding have prevented the use of the new funds to the much needed lab equipment because equipment costs are no longer eligible, being replaced by depreciation costs. Since depreciation costs are usually about 1/5 of acquisition cost, this new rule not only places an unacceptable pressure on our
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banking account but also introduces an unacceptable uncertainty on it capacity to honour its commitments (the current funding period terminates on the 31st of March 2018). In 2016, one it researcher, Prof. Dr. Mário Figueiredo was named, for the third time on a row, the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2016. It is also worth while mentioning the “Outside Team Award”, from Huawei Technologies Sweden, for outstanding collaboration in the design of microwave frequency power amplifiers. In addition to the above, during 2016 it researchers were awarded the following prizes: -
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EURASIP Technical Achievment Award – Mário Figueiredo; Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2015 - Mário Figueiredo; Exemplary Reviewer Award 2015 – Francisco Monteiro; Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2015 – José Bioucas; AAAI Best Robot Video Award - Anders Lyhne Christensen, Miguel António Frade Duarte, Vasco Costa, Tiago Rodrigues, Jorge Miguel Carvalho Gomes, Fernando Goulart da Silva, Sancho Oliveira; IEEE Senior Member – Sérgio Cruz; Luís Vidigal Prize 2015 - João de Sande e Lemos, Francisco Rosário, Francisco Monteiro, António Rodrigues; Best Paper Award - Fernando Goulart da Silva, Luís Correia, Anders Lyhne Christensen; Best Paper Award "On the Mobile Intelligence of Autonomous Vehicles" - José Azevedo, Pedro d´Orey, Michel Ferreira; EU prize for women innovators - Susana Sargento;
- Certificate of Appreciation - IEEE Communications Society - Symposium Chair - Joel Rodrigues; - 1st place Student Poster Competition - Ricardo Correia, Nuno Borges de Carvalho; - Elsevier/Sensing & Bio-Sensing Research Award 2015 - Maria do Carmo de Medeiros, Henrique Leonel Gomes, Luís Joaquim Alcácer; - Winner of EDA Competition Award - Jorge Guilherme, Carlos Silva - Best Paper Award at International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) – Ricardo Martins, António Canelas, Nuno Lourenço, Nuno Horta; - IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award - José Carlos Pedro; - Best ICALP Paper (2016) - Olivier Bournez, Daniel Graça, Amaury Pouly; - Best Student Paper Award, WINSYS 2016 - Marco Sousa, Pedro Vieira; - Camões Prize 2016 for the Technologies for the Portuguese Language - Jorge Proença, Dirce Celorico, Carla Calado Lopes, Miguel Sales Dias, Michael Tjalve, Andreas Stolcke, Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão; - Award for IEEE DL Seminar at University of Calcutta - Octavian Postolache;
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Distributed Connectivity Management in Networks of Multiple Robots in Area Coverage Tasks - Sidney Roberto Carvalho, Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida, Ubirajara Franco Moreno; Best Student Paper Award - Fernando Goulart da Silva, Luís Correia, Anders Lyhne Christensen; Best Symposium Award - Rodolfo Oliveira; ICTC Service Award - Joel Rodrigues; 2nd place at PixelsCamp (former CodeBits) - Hugo Plácido da Silva, Ricardo Pereira, Paulo Pires; Best Young Rsearcher Paper - CINPAR 2016 - Carlos Alberto Ferreira Marques, Paulo Antunes, Nélia Alberto, José Melo, Paulo André, Humberto Varum; Prémio Científico 2016 Universidade de Lisboa/Santander Universidades - José Brandão Faria; 1º place, Best Student Paper Award, 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI Miguel Monteiro, Pedro Vieira; 1st place ANACOM-URSI Portugal prize - Ricardo Marques Correia, Nuno Borges de Carvalho; 2nd place, Best Student Paper Award, 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI - Marta Veríssimo, Pedro Vieira; A feasibility study on the extension of the point scatterer formulation to raised canopy forests - Nuno Leonor, Rafael Caldeirinha, Manuel Garcia Sanchez, Telmo Carvalhinho Cunha Fernandes; IEEE ICST Award for invited speech – Octavian Postolache; Outstanding Reviewer Award at IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing 2016 Conference - João Miguel Ascenso; Pedagogical Excellence - Alexandre Passos de Almeida.
During 2016 it hosted the following national and international events (details in each scientific area): -
8 Seminars; 16 Talks; 2 Colloquium; 5 Workshops; 2 One-week short courses for secondary school (20 pupils each); 1 Technology Fair (TECHDAYS); 7 major International Conferences. 2 Symposiuns
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 27 to July 1, hands-on introductory course on telecommunications for 10th, 11th an 12th grade high school students with 20 enthusiastic participants and an open-lab two hour session for a similar audience.
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Also in cooperation with IST, it organised visits and demonstrations for high school pupils, involving about 1000 pupils (in 2016). During 2016 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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2.1
Human Resources
In December 2016 it human resources included 667 people distributed as follows: • 294 researchers holding a PhD (of which 31 were it grantees) • 176 PhD students • 168 other it grantees (85 MSc, 34 BSc, 45 R&D starting grants, 1 R&D integration and • 3 R&D management) • 11 technical • 18 administrative All researchers but 2, hold a PhD degree. As a result of the application of it quality policy, out from the 294 researchers holding a PhD Degree, this is equivalent to 143 FTE (full time equivalent). The distribution of all human resources between the three sites is represented graphically in Figure 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 European Community funded projects.
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Figure 1: Distribution of it human resources between the three sites
The distribution of researchers PhD students and grantees between sites is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Distribution of researchers students and grantees per site
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In Figure 3 we plot the distribution of researchers and PhD students among associated universities.
Figure 3: Distribution of it researchers and PhD students
The distribution of it technical and administrative staff is shown on Figure 4.
Figure 4: Distribution of it technical and administrative staff
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The distributions of foreign post-docs (30) and PhD students (43) per nationality are shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6.
Figure 5: Distribution of foreign post-docs per nationality
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Figure 6: Distribution of foreign PhD student per nationality
Gender distribution for researchers and PhD students, shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8 is remarkably similar.
Figure 7: Distribution of researchers per gender
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Figure 8: Distribution of PhD students per gender
The scientific productivity in 2016 was 1.32 journal papers per researcher or, counting each book, book chapter and journal paper as one publication, 1.55 publications per 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.
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Figure 9: Distribution of it researchers per site in 2016
Figure 10: Distribution of it PhD students per site in 2016
Figure 11: Distribution of it staff (technical) per site in 2016
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Figure 12: Distribution of it staff( administrative) per site/branch in 2016
Figure 13: Distribution of it PhD students per site/branch in 2016
Figure 14: Distribution of it researchers per site/branch in 2016
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Figure 15: Distribution of journal papers published in 2016 per site/branch
Figure 16: Distribution of communications in international refereed conferences in 2016
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Figure 17: Distribution of patents in 2016 per site/delegation
Even if Figures 14 to 16 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 researchers distribution. Major differences are at Covilhã and Lisboa ISCTE, the former with more journals papers and the latter with fewer journal papers than their number of researchers. As far as conference papers, Lisboa ISCTE and Porto stand out with a higher share of output compared to its share of researchers. Differences are considerable at the number of patents (as would be expected given the small number of patents involved).
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 2016 figures 18 and 19 were produced representing it co-authorship network in 2016. 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 19. 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. On the other hand networking outside the same scientific are is almost nonexisting in journal papers an indication that long term collaboration between researchers of different areas and or sites is not yet widespread.
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Figure 18: Graph showing journal papers co-authorships in 2016
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Figure 19: Graph showing conference papers co-authorships in 2016
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2.2
Projects
Funding Agency
Number
(confidential)
2
ADI
1
CAPES/CNPq
2
CRUP
1
EC
3
EC/FP7
7
EDP
1
ESA
2
ESA-ESTEC
2
ESF/COST
11
EU/FP7
1
FCT
27
FCT (M-ERA.NET)
1
FCT/ CMU
4
FCT/CAPES
1
FCT/CMU
1
FCT/COMPETE/FEDER
1
FCT/JU
2
FCT/PESSOA
1
FCT/PTDC
9
Friday, Ciência e Engenharia do Lazer, S.A.
1
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IEEE, TC-25
1
IT
14
IT/LA
30
Ministério da Defesa
1
Ministério da Ciência e Inovação Espanhol
1
NATO
1
PT Inovação
2
QREN/COMPETE
1
Thales Alenia Space
1
EU/H2020
6
Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
2
P2020
6
Tyco Electronics
1
Ampleon
1
National Instruments
1
Huawei Technologies Sweden
1
Table 1 – Number of active projects in 2016, according to funding source
2.3
Publications
Books
Book Chapters
Journals
Conferences
Patents
MSc Thesis
PhD Thesis
16
52
389
420
10
228
34
Table 2 – Number of published works in 2016
"Books"- Fully authored books, Editor books, "Journals"- Papers in International refereed journals "Conferences"- Communications in International and National refereed conferences; "Patents" - Patent applications; "MSc and PhD Theses"- Concluded dissertations.;
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3
Financial Outline Operational income during 2016 totalled 6.163k€, with its main items distributed in Table 1. Major income sources (clients of sources and sources of subsidies) are detailed in Table 2. Costs in 2016 totalled 5.751k€ as partially indicated in Table 4. Main assets changes in 2016 are listed in Table 5.
Main items
Amount (k€)
Services to third parties
997 k€
Subsidies
4.790 k€
Other
376 k€ Table 1 – Operational income in 2016
Sources of Subsidies
Amount [k€]
FCT
2.411 k€
European Commission
1.616 k€
University of Aveiro
411 k€
AdI
291 k€ Table 2 – Main sources of subsidies in 2016
Clients
Amount (k€)
Altice Labs
245 k€
European Space Agency
125 k€
Huawei Technologies
66 k€
Veniam
55 k€
IEEE
35 k€
Brisa
32 k€
Ministry of Defence
27 k€ Table 3 – Major clients in 2016
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Costs
Amount [k€]
Staff
1.328 k€
Researches
296 k€
Encargos de Gestão
37 k€
Scholarships
1.906 k€
Missions
580 k€
Books and Journals
199 k€
Consumables
297 k€ Table 4 – Major costs in 2016
Assets
Amount [k€]
Increase in tangible assets
415 k€
Depreciations
445 k€
New technical and scientific equipment
387 k€
Table 5 – Main asset changes in 2016
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4 Research Areas 4.1
Wireless Communications 4.1.1 Coordinators
Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
4.1.2 Human Resources Overview IT – Aveiro
Position
IT – Coimbra
IT – Lisboa
IT Branch – ISCTEIUL
IT Branch – Leiria
IT Branch – Porto
Professor Emeritus
0
0
2
0
0
0
Administrative Assistant
0
1
1
0
0
0
Technical Officer
3
0
1
0
0
0
Communication Advisor
0
0
1
0
0
0
MSc
0
0
1
0
0
0
PhD
0
0
3
0
0
0
Researcher
4
1
3
0
0
0
Full Professor
4
0
5
0
0
0
Associate Professor
3
1
10
0
0
0
Coordinator Professor
0
0
1
0
1
0
Assistant Professor
12
0
30
0
1
0
Assistant Lecturer
1
0
0
0
0
0
Post. Doc.
17
3
5
1
1
0
PhD Student
23
1
32
0
6
2
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MSc Student
4
0
4
0
0
0
Licenciado
3
0
5
0
0
0
Under-Grad Student
1
0
2
0
0
0
External Author
1
0
0
0
0
0
Other
1
0
1
0
0
0
Total
77
7
107
1
9
2
Permanent Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group
Abdelgader Mahmoud Abdalla Mahmoud
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Afonso Manuel dos Santos Barbosa
Full Professor
Agregação
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Américo Manuel Carapeto Correia
Full Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Lx
Ana Rita Baeta Rodrigues
Technical Officer
Licenciatura
Administrative Lisboa
Aníbal Manuel de Oliveira Duarte
Full Professor
Agregação
Mobile Systems - Av
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira
Associate Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
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António Rodrigues dos Santos
Licenciado
Armando Carlos Domingues da Rocha
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues de Oliveira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Atílio Manuel da Silva Gameiro
Associate Professor
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Ayman Radwan
Researcher
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes
Full Professor
Agregação
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema
Professor Emeritus
Agregação
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Carlos Manuel dos Reis Paiva
Associate Professor
Agregação
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Carlos Miguel Nogueira Gaspar Ribeiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Claudia Marina Monica de Oliveira Barbosa
Technical Officer
Licenciatura
Administrative Aveiro
Custódio José Oliveira Peixeiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Daniel Filipe Marques Castanheira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
David Emanuel Dias Fernandes
Post. Doc.
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Co
Radio Systems – Av
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Eduardo Daniel Castañeda Trujillo
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Fardin Derogarian Miyandoab
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Fernando Duarte Nunes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Communication Theory – Lx
Fernando Jose da Silva Velez
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues Prudêncio
Post. Doc.
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Firooz B. Saghezchi
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Francisco António Bucho Cercas
Full Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Lx
Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Georgios Mantas
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Issa Tamer Elfergani
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Ivo Luís de la Cerda Garcia e Sousa
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
João Francisco Martinho Lêdo Guerreiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
João Manuel Lampreia de Almeida Santos
Communication Advisor
Administrative Lisboa
João Miguel da Gama Gomes Prata
Technical Officer
Administrative Aveiro
João Nuno Pimentel da Silva Matos
Associate Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
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Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Researcher
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Jorge dos Santos Freitas de Oliveira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Av
Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa
Associate Professor
Agregação
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
José Carlos da Silva Neves
Full Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Av
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
Full Professor
Agregação
Wireless Circuits – Av
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Luis Filipe Lourenço Bernardo
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Lx
Luís Miguel Fernandes
PhD Student
Administrative Lisboa
Luzia Adelaide Sampaio Costa
Technical Officer
Administrative Aveiro
Maria Liliana Ferraz Garanito
Administrative Assistant
Administrative Coimbra
Mário Gonçalo Mestre Verissimo Silveirinha
Associate Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Co
Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva
Associate Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Miguel António Frade Duarte
Post. Doc.
MSc
Information Technology Lx
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Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Nuno Miguel Abreu Luís
Post. Doc.
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
Full Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Av
Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca Pinto
Associate Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Lx
Paulo Gustavo Martins da Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Paulo Jorge Coelho Marques
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges Montezuma de Carvalho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Av
Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Pedro Miguel Ribeiro Lavrador
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Av
Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos Santos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
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Rui Filipe Rosa Paulo
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Associate Professor
Agregação
Radio Systems – Lx
Sérgio de Almeida Matos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Sérgio Ivan Fernandes Lopes
Researcher
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Shahid Mumtaz
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Stanislav Maslovski
Researcher
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Co
Susana Mota
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Sylvain Lannebère
Post. Doc.
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Co
Telmo Reis Cunha
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Av
Telmo Rui Carvalhinho Cunha Fernandes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Tiago André Nogueira Morgado
Post. Doc.
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Co
Valdemar Monteiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Victor Sucasas Iglésias
Post. Doc.
PhD
Mobile Systems - Av
Wonhoon Jang
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
Other Collaborators Name Pedro Miguel Alvito Fernandes da Silva
Position PhD Student
Degree
Group Radio Systems – Lx
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Ala Eddine Gharsellaoui
PhD Student
Alexandre Passos de Almeida
Assistant Professor
Alireza Esfahani
PhD Student
Mobile Systems - Av
Aliyu Buba Abdullahi
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Ana Catarina Caniço Cruz
PhD Student
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
André Eduardo Ponciano Martins
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
André Isidoro Prata
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Av
António Eduardo Carreiro Furtado
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
Antonio Luis Campos da Silva Topa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
António Manuel Sequeira Abreu
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Antonio Navarro Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Carlos Alberto Barreiro Mendes
PhD Student
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Carlos Leme
Assistant Professor
Carlos Manuel Gutierrez Sá da Costa
Associate Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Caroline Loss
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Av
Catarina Isabel Alves Lopes
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
Cátia Franco
Under-Grad Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Administrative Aveiro
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Wireless Circuits – Lx
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Daniel António da Costa Dinis
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
Daniel Filipe Simões Malafaia
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
David Crespo Ferreira
PhD Student
David Gil
Licenciado
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Diogo Carlos Alcobia Ribeiro
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
Diogo Rafael Bento Barros
PhD Student
Wireless Circuits – Av
Eduardo Jorge da Costa Brás Lima
PhD Student
Emanuel José Soares Bordalo Teixeira
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Erik Farias da Silva
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Fábio José Silva Amaral
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
Fernando de Sousa
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Communication Theory – Lx
Fernando Manuel Ascenso Fortes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Filipe Canedo da Mota e Sá
Under-Grad Student
Radio Systems – Av
Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Filipe Miguel Esturrenho Barradas
Researcher
Wireless Circuits – Av
MSc
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
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Flávio Miguel da Silva Jorge
PhD Student
Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva
Assistant Professor
Fred Niemela
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Av
Gonçalo Carvalho
MSc Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Gonçalo Valadão
Assistant Professor
Gustavo Miranda Castilho dos Anjos
PhD Student
Mobile Networks – Av
Hafssaa Latioui
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Hugo Miguel Cravo Gomes
Post. Doc.
Hugo Rafael Almeida Marques
PhD Student
Mobile Systems - Av
Jegannathan Srinivasan
External Author
Radio Systems – Av
Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva
PhD Student
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
João Carlos Marques Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
João Carlos Roquete Fidalgo Canto
Assistant Professor
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
João Henriques
Licenciado
João José Lopes da Costa Freire
Associate Professor
Agregação
Wireless Circuits – Lx
João M. Ferro
PhD Student
Licenciatura
Radio Systems – Lx
Radio Systems – Av
PhD
PhD
PhD
Communication Theory – Lx
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
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João Manuel A. Monteiro Felício
PhD Student
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
João Manuel Torres Caldinhas Simões Vaz
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Lx
João Miguel Madeira Cardeiro
MSc Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
João Miguel Pereira de Almeida
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
João Paulo Madaleno
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Av
João Reis
Licenciado
João Ricardo Vitorino Reis
PhD Student
Joaquim Manuel C.S. Bastos
PhD Student
Jorge Miguel da Silva Tavares
PhD Student
Jorge Paulo Alves Torres
Assistant Professor
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Jorge Venes
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
José Garcia
Assistant Lecturer
Radio Systems – Av
José Carlos Ribeiro
PhD Student
Mobile Systems - Av
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Jose Fernando da Rocha Pereira
Associate Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
José Manuel Neto Vieira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Av
MSc
Radio Systems – Av Antennas and Propagation – Lr
MSc
Mobile Systems - Av
Radio Systems – Lx
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Jose Manuel Nunes Leitão
Full Professor
José Maria Marçal
PhD Student
Communication Theory – Lx
José Miguel Pereira Azevedo
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Késia Cristiane dos Santos Farias
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Kristian Starhed
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Av
Lamyae Akrou
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Co
Luciano Assumpção Colin
Licenciado
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Luís Carlos Barruncho dos Santos Gonçalves
PhD Student
Luis Filipe Lopes Salvado
MSc Student
Luis Miguel do Rosario Irio
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
Luís Miguel Mendes
PhD Student
MSc
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Luís Miguel Moreira Mendes
PhD Student
Manuel Dinis
Assistant Professor
Manuel Joaquim Campos Mendes Nunes Duarte
PhD Student
Marco Alexandre dos Santos Ribeiro
Assistant Professor
Marco António da Mota Carvalho Silva Pereira
PhD Student
Agregação
MSc
Communication Theory – Lx
Radio Systems – Lx
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Administrative Lisboa
Licenciatura
Radio Systems – Av Wireless Circuits – Av
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Wireless Circuits – Lx
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Maria João Ramos Marques Coelho Carrilho do Rosário
Assistant Professor
Mário Jorge Simão de Assunção
PhD
Mehdi Rostami
MSc Student
Licenciatura
Radio Systems – Av
Miguel Ramos Pereira
PhD
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Mrinalinee Pandey
PhD Student
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Nirajan Rajkarnikar
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Nuno António Fraga Juliano Cota
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Lx
Nuno Miguel Faria Pires
PhD
PhD
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Nuno Ricardo Cordeiro Leonor
PhD Student
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Parinaz Naseri
Researcher
Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastiao
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Pedro Marin Fernandes
MSc Student
Pedro Miguel Ferreira de Oliveira Pedrosa
Post. Doc.
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Ricardo João Luís Marques Correia
PhD Student
MSc
Radio Systems – Av
PhD
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
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Ricardo Rei
Under-Grad Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Roberto Louro Magueta
PhD Student
Rodolfo Vitorino Gomes
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Roger Lorenzoni Farias
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Rui Fiel Cordeiro
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Av
Rui Manuel Sousa Rodrigues
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Radio Systems – Lx
Rui Rodrigues
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Radio Systems – Av
Samaneh Moeini
PhD Student
Sara Helena Marques Teodoro
Post. Doc.
Sérgio Jesus
Licenciado
Sérgio Morgadinho Rebelo
PhD Student
Sherif Busari
PhD Student
Mobile Systems - Av
Slavisa Tomic
PhD Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Sofia de Almeida Carvalhão Sousa
PhD Student
Solange Silva
PhD Student
Antennas and Propagation – Lx
Syed Saqlain Ali
PhD Student
Mobile Networks – Av
Tiago Miguel Valente Varum
PhD Student
MSc
Mobile Networks – Av
Wireless Circuits – Av PhD
Mobile Networks – Av
Radio Systems – Lx Licenciatura
Licenciatura
MSc
Antennas and Propagation – Lr
Radio Systems – Lx
Radio Systems – Av
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4.1.3 Running and Concluded Projects Overview Funding Agency
Number
ADI
1
CAPES/CNPq
1
EC
1
EC/FP7
1
ESA
2
ESA-ESTEC
2
ESF/COST
4
EU/FP7
1
FCT
5
FCT/JU
2
FCT/PTDC
3
IEEE, TC-25
1
IT
6
IT/LA
12
Ministério da Defesa
1
EU/H2020
4
Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
1
P2020
3
Tyco Electronics
1
Ampleon
1
National Instruments
1
Huawei Technologies Sweden
1
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Activity in Projects Acron / Ref
SALUS SEC-2012.5.2-1
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
COST IC1104 IC1104
Title
ICT COST Action IC1104 - Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q)
Funding
ESF/COST
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
COPWIN PTDC/EEI-TEL/1417/2012
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 MIMO-OFDM 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 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.
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Acron / Ref
mm-SatCom PTDC/EEI-TEL/0805/2012
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 multilayer 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
CREATION EXCL/EEI-TEL/0067/2012
Title
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.
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Acron / Ref
GANSAT FP7 - GANSAT
Title
GANSAT
Funding Descript.
Power Amplifier Design for Space Applications based on GaN transistors
Acron / Ref
COST TD1301 TD1301
Title
Development of a European-based Collaborative Network to Accelerate Technological, Clinical and Commercialisation Progress in the Area of Medical Microwave Imaging
Funding
ESF/COST
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.
Acron / Ref
KALens AO/1-7493/13/NL/AD
Title
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
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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
GOLD PEST2013
Title
GOLD - Using Geo-Positioned Indicators for Self-Optimization of LTE Data Networks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Develop novel concepts, methods and algorithms for the efficient self-optimization of LTE wireless networks with the objective of enhancing network capacity, coverage and service quality, while contributing to significant Operational Expenditure (OPEX) reduction.
Acron / Ref
TRAP C00355
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
HETCOP PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
Title
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
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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 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
L-DimM-NetCod P1275
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 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
VADONetC
Title
Simplified Volterra analysis for dynamical optical networks compensation
Funding
IT/LA
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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.
Acron / Ref
BenchProM PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013/BenchProM
Title
Benchmarks for High-resolution Mobile Radiowave Propagation Models
Funding
IT/LA
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
RFWALL IT/PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013/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 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.
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Acron / Ref
MultiSound PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013/MultiSound
Title
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/EEACPS/57481/2004 and other previous internal calls of IT-Coimbra (2009 and 2010), in order to incorporate the intermediate stage (IF) of the swept-time delay crosscorrelation 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
DCFSS-PEV MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq/FAPs Nº 71/2013
Title
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
COST IC1301 IC1301
Title
COST-IC1301 WIPE
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
COST IC1301 - COST action on Wireless Power Transmission.
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Acron / Ref
ACCUS 333020
Title
ACCUS
Funding
FCT/JU
Descript.
Urban systems like traffic, energy, and outdoor lighting are managed by selfcontained embedded systems. New applications and collective optimization require integration of these systems, presenting a “systems of systems” integration problem, managing 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
THINGS2DO THINGS2DO
Title
THINGS2DO
Funding
FCT/JU
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
Ray-BaM PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013/BenchProM
Title
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 models base on comparison with actual measurement performed in various environments.
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Acron / Ref
VALUE PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
Title
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).
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E-COOP Energy-efficient High-Speed Cost-effective COOPerative backhaul for LTE/LTE-A Small cells
Title
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 current and future services.
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REACH ICI+/2014/342-896
Title
Rural Broadband Internet Access using Cooperative Mesh Networking in White Space Spectrum
Funding
EU/FP7
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.
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Acron / Ref
1-way PTDC/EEITEL/ 4543/2014
Title
“One-way” propagation and light trapping with metamaterials
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Develop novel paradigms for light trapping and unidirectional waveguiding and scattering.
Acron / Ref
SPEED-5G 671705
Title
SPEED-5G
Funding
EU/H2020
Descript.
The objective of SPEED-5G is to research and develop technologies that address the well-known challenges of predicted growth in mobile connections and traffic volume. A major challenge is the cost of meeting the objective, in terms of both infrastructure and deployment. Today, lack of dynamic control across wireless network resources is leading to unbalanced spectrum loads and a perceived capacity bottleneck. These will be solved by SPEED-5G through eDSA (extended DSA), which is resource management with three degrees of freedom: densification, rationalized traffic allocation over heterogeneous wireless technologies, and better load balancing across available spectrum. SPEED-5G will investigate indoor and indoor/outdoor scenarios where capacity demands are the highest, but also where the eDSA will be the most effective at exploiting co-operation across technologies and bands. The project will focus on two major innovations which are currently missing: resource management techniques across technology ‘silos’, and medium access technologies to address densification in mostly unplanned environments. It will leverage flexible radio approaches expected in 5G (e.g. FBMC). SPEED-5G has a very strong consortium, with a mix of operators, industrial partners, SMEs and leading European research institutes. They bring considerable knowledge and technology background to the project in architecture, resource management, protocols, radios, standardization, trials and tests, along with the most advanced of trial facilities, like the 5GIC centre. The SPEED-5G innovations will be considered in an architectural framework consistent with the 5GPPP. They will be researched, implemented and trialled in SPEED-5G in order to reach high level of maturity and confidence. This will guarantee impact on the 5GPPP program as a whole, on standards and on European technical leadership.
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Acron / Ref
IDTS IDTS - 3522
Title
Infotainment Distributed Test System
Funding
P2020
Descript.
O projeto IDTS (referência n.º 3522) realizado através de uma parceria entre a empresa Controlar – Eletrónica Industrial e Sistemas, Lda. e o Instituto de Telecomunicações, cofinanciado pelo FEDER através do POCI/COMPETE2020, tem como principal objetivo criar um sistema de testes distribuído/descentralizado que permita realizar uma panóplia de testes com características díspares em várias UUTs em simultâneo.
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TROANTE
Title
TROANTE – DESENVOLVIMENTO DE TECNOLOGIA UAV PARA UTILIZAÇÃO DE ÂMBITO CONJUNTO E DUAL
Funding
Ministério da Defesa
Descript.
Develop Radio Systems for UAV's
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UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
UID/EEA/50008/2013
Funding
FCT
Descript.
To define and manage the rules for the distributions of this funding
Acron / Ref
LSAPROBE 100
Title
LARGE SCALE ASSESSMENT OF KA/Q BAND ATMOSPHERIC CHANNEL USING THE ALPHASAT TDP5 PROPAGATION BEACON CEOS
Funding
ESA
Descript.
Development of earth-satellite microwave propagation models and mainly
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Acron / Ref
PROMOSATCOM
Title
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH ORDER PROPAGATION MODELS FOR MULTIMEDIA SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Funding
ESA
Descript.
Development of Earth-Satellite Propagation Models at Ka-band and above
Acron / Ref
IRACON COST CA15104
Title
COST CA15104 - Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and beyond
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
Radio Communications have become one of the pillars on which our Society relies for performing many daily tasks. Today, the number of connected devices is increasing exponentially, reflecting not only enthusiastic smartphone adoption but also increasing connectivity of machines, sensors, vehicles and other devices for health and smart environments. The Inclusive Radio Communications (IRACON) concept defines those technologies aimed to support wireless connectivity at any rates, for any communicating units, and in any type of scenarios. The Wireless Internet of Things beyond 2020 will require revolutionary approaches in Radio Access technologies, networks and systems. Some theoretical foundations have to be revisited and breaking technologies are to be discovered during the coming decade. This COST Action aims at scientific breakthroughs by introducing novel design and analysis methods for the 5th-generation (5G) and beyond-5G radio communication networks. Challenges include i) modelling the variety of radio channels that can be envisioned for future inclusive radio, ii) capacity, energy, mobility, latency, scalability at the physical layer and iii) network automation, moving nodes, cloud and virtualisation architectures at the network layer, as well as iv) experimental research addressing Over-the-Air testing, Internet of Things, localization and tracking and new radio access technologies. The group of experts supporting this proposal comes from both academia and industry, from a wide spread of countries all over Europe, with the support of some non-COST institutions and R&D associations and standardisation bodies worldwide. The proposers have also long experience on COST Actions in the Radiocommunications field.
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Acron / Ref
FUTEBOL 688941
Title
FUTEBOL
Funding
EU/H2020
Descript.
Current wireless trends (cell densification, coordinated communication, massive MIMO) pose a new set of challenges that require the joint consideration of optical and wireless network architectures. These problems are of direct impact to emerging economies such as Brazil, with highly heterogeneous infrastructure capabilities and demand, as well as to more established markets such as the EU, which aims to regain its leadership in the next generation of telecommunication technologies. FUTEBOL establishes the research infrastructure to address these research challenges through innovation over this infrastructure, with a consortium of leading industrial and academic telecommunications institutions.
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PURE-5GNET UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Cooperative Multi-band Access Strategies for 5G Ultra Dense Networks
Funding
IT
Descript.
The main technical objectives are to develop a high-performance heterogeneous access network by considering a flexible C-RAN based architecture, and integrating mmW communications with conventional radio-wave communication systems, joint cognition and cooperative schemes, efficient and joint cross-layer approaches in the management of radio and FH/BH resources. To reach the above main goals, specific research objectives are: • Design and evaluate new interference management (based on pre-coding for the downlink and cooperative equalization for the uplink) and joint scheduling mechanisms to mitigate interference through cooperation. These will be enhanced with the knowledge of the interference obtained through spectrum sensing and cognitive radio techniques. • Development of new methods for reducing the load in the BH/FH. This includes new methods for the acquisition/dissemination of the information required for coordination / cooperation as well as compression algorithms, namely for the case of Remote Radio Heads (RRH) employing both mmW and MMIMO. • PURE-5GNET will propose a functional split between the data and control planes for UDNs and also defines necessary interfaces among these functional blocks such as AP/UE dual-band discovery, mmW beamforming and link establishment, and resource allocation and packet transmission procedures. • PURE-5GNET will propose a converged backhaul and RRM mechanism in particular for the joint management of the resources in the radio and BH/FH domains (optical and wireless). • Development of an experimental
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testbed including FPGAs supporting the selected algorithms and optical links. This testbed will be integrated in the IT infrastructure ORCIP.
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VELOCE-MTC UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Advanced PHY/MAC design for Very Low Latency Network-assisted Machine Type Communications
Funding
IT
Descript.
The support for sub millisecond extreme low latency (ELL) is an open issue for the emerging cellular Machine-Type Communication (MTC) networks, currently not supported by cellular networks. ELL is required for vehicular safety, autonomous driving applications and for other MTC that have arisen with the advent of the Internet of Things, and for new human-initiated (HI) communications, such as tactile Internet applications. This project addresses the design of the last mile of a wireless communication network capable of supporting end-to-end ELL for thousands of MTC and HI devices per access node with improved energy efficiency. A capillary network of small cells will be considered. The project will focus on the design of new physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer protocols, and of network services, to support MTC ELL communications. Several components will be integrated: - Spectral efficient PHY-layer modulation schemes (MS) with reduced out-of-band (OOB) spectral leakage, that do not require synchronous reception and minimize MTC initial transmission delay; - Asynchronous Multiple MultiPacket Reception (MPR) techniques, to maximize the capacity to handle load peaks, reducing the initial contention delay; - Advanced sensing techniques that estimate the number of devices transmitting concurrently; - Interference management (IM) through a radio resource management (RRM) service, which combines base station (BS) and device sensing; - Coarse-synchronized MAC protocols designed to support a fast initial transmission and optimized subsequent ones, using the RRM service’s information; - Power saving (PS) mechanisms compatible with ELL; - Cloud-based radio access network (C-RAN), to support a flexible on-demand implementation of spatial based MPR techniques, capable of satisfying the strict ELL requirements. The research team is organized into a PHY layer group and a MAC (and upper) layers group, which in the past collaborated in the design of cross-layer projects. Luis Bernardo from IT-Lisboa will lead the MAC research group, and Atílio Gameiro from IT-Aveiro will lead the PHY research group. The project activities will encompass three phases: - A preparatory phase where the scenarios, main requirements and overall architecture are defined, which involves both teams. An initial interface will be proposed between PHY/MAC protocols and IM/RRM algorithms; - Proposal and validation of PHY/MAC layering algorithms and IM/RRM services. The PHY layer and MAC layer teams will run on specific tasks, and periodical meetings will refine the
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interface between layers and promote the exchange of simulation/analytical models; - The proof of concept aims at the preparation of an integrated simulator and partial hardware prototypes of the proposed system. It will include a set of modules for existing network simulators covering the entire system. The prototypes will include one modulation scheme implemented using FPGA hardware; the multipoint reception service service will be implemented using a C-RAN running software defined networking (SDN) switching.
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LoCoSDN
Title
Local Control and Central Orchestration in Scalable Software Defined Networks
Funding Descript.
This project aims are to study open issues in SDN related to scalability and complexity of large deployments and to promote knowledge creation increasing the critical mass in this subject. The key challenges are: Scalability: Modern networks are subject to a high amount of data to transport. Having programmable devices such as SDN controllers encourage the gathering and the handling of large amounts of control information. The situation can become unfeasible if every decision is taken centrally. Network data measurement and treatment: SDNs can provide network data that needs to be treated. Just a few attempts have been made to define ways to classify information, infer data correlations and predict future events. To address the scalability issue the approach is to study solutions where some level of local control and decision exists. Realtime decisions can be made locally based on available information without any interaction with a centralised entity while more strategic actuations are done at a more central level of control that deals with orchestration and strategic tasks for the particular problem at stake benefiting from a more global view of the network. In the network and data measurement case we will study the use of big data tools like classification, clustering and association rules algorithms to infer correlations between measured network data. The project methodology will be to apply this vision to three usescases that cover some of the most important problems of the current networks: managing policy based multi-paths between nodes in a network, resource optimisation of the network and Dynamic access control.
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Acron / Ref
Lin5GPA PTDC/EEI-TEL/7049/2014
Title
Power Amplifier Linearization for 5G
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The demanding requirements on bandwidth and power consumption to which modern wireless communication systems are evolving will impede the use of digital predistorters as power amplifier linearizers. The main objective of this project is, thus, to study, evaluate and propose new analog predistortion solutions that can be flexible and suitable to significantly reduce the level of distortion generated by power amplifiers in wireless transmitters.
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SEMI40 692466
Title
SEMI40
Funding
EC
Descript.
Future manufacture mode will deliver greater flexibility and robustness together with the highest quality standards in engineering, planning, manufacturing and operational and logistics process. Smart Factories per definition apply novel information and communication technologies (ICT) to advance manufacturing. SEMI40 is an IA with an intentionally set focus on implementation and test in pilot production environment. Its aim is to bring together the models and frameworks of two domains - the ICT domain and the manufacturing domain.
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WIDEMONITOR CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-003460
Title
WIDEMONITOR
Funding Descript.
The main objective of this project is the development of a signal analyser monitor for spectrum monitoring.
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MIMIC-5G NI Grant
Title
Mixed-Signal Multi-Domain Characterization Setup for Design and Test of 5G Systems
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Funding
National Instruments
Descript.
O projeto MIMIC-5G tem como principal objetivo implementar um sistema de medida mixed-signal para caracterização e modelação de high-speed dataconverters (ADC/DAC) e integrated SoCs, utilizando uma plataforma modular PXI da National Instruments.
Acron / Ref
MOBITRUST 003343
Title
MOBITRUST
Funding
P2020
Descript.
The general objective of the MobiTrust project is to develop a complete embedded framework (HW, SW mechanisms and related management, HW/SW forensics tools) aimed at enhancing the security and privacy protection of future mobile platforms such as smartphones or Tablets running over open platforms such as Android or Win8.
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SWARMS
Title
SWARMS
Funding
EU/H2020
Descript.
SWARMs is an industry-led project, where large technology companies collaborate with SMEs, universities and research institutions, with the general objective to define a shared and common information space to enable interoperability and information exchanges between heterogeneous robots in a cost effective manner, as well as delivering context awareness, service composition and orchestration, and discovery.
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CRRF Tyco Electronics
Title
CARACTERIZAÇÃO DE RELÉS DE RÁDIO FREQUÊNCIA
Funding
Tyco Electronics
Descript.
- Perceber os princípios de funcionamento da série de relés TE de RF com um único enrolamento. - Selecionar, conceber e implementar os procedimentos de
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caracterização linear de parâmetros S apropriados. - Caracterizar por matriz S os relés TE de RF com um único enrolamento e comparar os resultados obtidos com os dados presentes no datasheet desses componentes. - Comparar os resultados de caracterização laboratorial obtidos com simulações eletromagnéticas baseadas na descrição apresentada pelo fabricante. - Investigar possíveis melhoramentos (melhoria do comportamento em frequência ou aumento da gama de frequências de operação) dos relés TE de RF com um único enrolamento.
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APIC
Title
Analog Predistorter in Integrated Circuit
Funding
IT
Descript.
- Analysis of implementation approaches for Analog Pre-Distorters (APDs) for power amplifier linearization, under the foreseen 5G scenario; - Design and implementation of a new proposed APD based on an IC chip to be manufactured within the project, implementing configurable functions through analog basic building blocks.
Acron / Ref
S2S2
Title
S2S2
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This project proposes a disruptive approach to integrate green wireless technologies, Internet of Things and mobility, by researching and developing a smart surface that can allow any smart space to recognise and energize all the electronic devices standing on the smart space. The project will thus enable a concept of smart floor/surface by incorporating electromagnetic showers and wireless communication solutions embedded into the floor, and providing the communications through the floor. The project will specifically address bicycle and bike lanes as a proof of concept. A bicycle will be endowed with sensors that will provide information related to location, theft prevention, safety of cyclists, tracking of paths and distances travelled (bike sharing and individual bikes). Beyond the provisioning of wireless communication and integration with the Internet, the smart floor will provide the energy charging both for the sensors and the bicycles (electrical). The bicycles will also work as relays and mules of information in places where the floors are not enabled with smart capabilities.
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Acron / Ref
ROOSTER
Title
Rooster - Solutions to Optimize Efficiency-Linearity in High Power Multi-Band MISO Power Amplifiers
Funding
Huawei Technologies Sweden
Descript.
The main objectives of this project are to investigate the linearity and efficiency constraints of two-input/single-out RF transmitter structures as the ones derived from the conventional analogue Doherty or Chireix power amplifier architectures, but now where the signal splitting and conditioning is made at the digital base-band.
Acron / Ref
TopMater
Title
Topological Materials
Funding
IT
Descript.
The aspiration of TopMater is to explore the frontiers of topological methods in a continuum, and investigate new designs and applications of photonic and electronic structures with topological properties. Furthermore, by exploiting parallel computing concepts we want to develop novel algorithms that allow us to study the wave propagation in novel topological materials more efficiently, namely by accelerating the processing of extremely compute-intensive simulations with multiple graphics processing units (multi-GPU) systems.
Acron / Ref
MTT-EiC
Title
IEEE MTT Transactions Editor in Chief
Funding
IEEE, TC-25
Descript.
To produce Chief Editorial Services to the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
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HLPA2MIMO A mudar
Title
Highly Linear Power Amplifier for Massive MIMO
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Funding
Ampleon
Descript.
The aim of this project is to study/research the impact of the Massive-MIMO system implementation in the performance of the power amplifiers (efficiency and linearity). It is expected a clarification for at least the following question: What is the best power amplifier, PA, architecture (existing or new one) for this application?
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MM5G UID5008
Title
Multilayer Massive Multiple input Multiple output (MIMO) systems for the fifth generation (5G) wireless communications
Funding
FCT
Descript.
1. Design a m-MIMO system using large and dense constellations, Nyquist filtering close to the minimum band for high spectral efficiency and non linear amplifiers (NLAs) for high power efficiency, while maintaining low complexity. 2. Design a transmitter able to deal with large constellations by splitting them as sum of Offset Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (OQPSK)-type signals with a reduced dynamic range leveraged by MM techniques specially designed to control the outer and inner envelope of each OQPSK bandwidth-limited signal, guaranteeing a ring shape (close to an empty circumference) of the final IQ transition diagram allowing for the use of NLAs. 3. Design of low-complexity m-MIMO architectures for joint amplification, BF and/or SM that are compatible with low-cost, power-efficient NLAs. 4. Design of receivers using FDE that tackle the effects of the transmitter’s impairments (e.g. nonlinear amplification and MM distortion, correlation between antenna elements), the multipath characteristics of the mm-Wave channel and, most important, able to separate SM’s data streams.
Acron / Ref
MUSCLES 17787
Title
Mobile Ubiquitous Small Cells for Low-cost Energy and Spectrum efficient cloud service delivery
Funding
ADI
Descript.
MUSCLES project aims to develop a new low-cost intelligent network structure for next generation mobile networks, by extending the idea of femto cells (with its desirable throughput and energy ratings) to outdoor scenario, through mobile small cells, which can be deployed on the fly to provide a vehicle that can dynamically manage and utilize spectral resources more effectively in an era where spectral
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resources are at a premium. The project will design a cooperative network of mobile small cells to support mobile cloud and caching services for multimedia applications anywhere, at any time, based on exploiting cooperative communications, network coding, proactive network interference management, proactive data caching, content prediction, self-organising networks and context awareness.
Acron / Ref
WST4IIoT wst
Title
WS4IIoT
Funding
P2020
Descript.
Development of Wireless Sensor Networks in Industry environements
Acron / Ref
ShopAnalytics 11426
Title
ShopAnalytics
Funding
Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
Descript.
The ShopAnalytics project envisions the research and development of a low-cost solution to automatically analyse the behavior of the consumers inside big shopping areas, namely hypermarkets, in order to optimize the given area and improve sales while improving the consumers' experience. The main project objectives comprise: 1 - Telecommunications System Architecture: Telecommunications System Architecture for tracking moving consumers in a commercial area. It should be lowcost, easily configurable, and adaptable to different topologies and spacial interferences, using RF technology. 2 - Visualisation and Data Mining Algorithms: Web analytics engine capable of extracting relevant patterns related to the consumers' behavior in-store, which eases the comercial space optimisation for improving sales and the customers' experience, without compromising their privacy. 3- Proximity Sensors: Development of a portable low-cost and lowconsumption proximity sensor, capable of detect and track Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags and report their data to our analytics cloud, acting like a BLE-WiFi Gateway. 4- Internet of Things: Development of a miniature low-cost and lowconsumption BLE tag, that may be embedded to any object related to the consumer.
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Acron / Ref
SPIDER PP-15-INR-02_02_SPIDER
Title
Sensor Platform & network for Indoor Deployment and Exterior-based Radiofrequency awareness
Funding
EU/H2020
Descript.
Inside Building Awareness and Navigation for Urban Warfare
Acron / Ref
uFlexBat UID/50008
Title
Batteryless energy supply system based on flexible organic photovoltaic cells
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The project proposes the development of an ultra-compact (<1cm2) and flexible electrical self-sustainable energy supply system – the μflexBAT – based on an organic photovoltaic cell and a Power Management Unit (PMU) for voltage regulation, to emulate a button-like battery, aimed at ultralow-power healthmonitoring sensor nodes, for wearable and portable applications.
Acron / Ref
ENVISION UID/50008
Title
QoE-Driven Adaptive 3D-Video Streaming for Wireless Networks
Funding
IT
Descript.
1 - 3D video streaming quality of experience modeling in wireless networks 2 Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) of 3D content 3 - Wireless network resource allocation in scenarios with a large number of devices and time variyng channel conditions
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MMSUPER UID/EEA/50008/MMSUPER
Title
Metamaterial superabsorbers for harnessing wireless power
Funding
IT
Descript.
To develop numerical and analytical models of metamaterial superabsorbers. To build and test the first prototype of a metamaterials superabsorber.
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Acron / Ref
ASAPE No Direct Funding
Title
Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Propagation Experimenters
Funding
ESA-ESTEC
Descript.
Project Coordinated by ESA to bring together all the experimenters with the Alphasat beacon for regular meetings: 2 per year: One by video conference and another one simultaneously with a conference. Several work-groups were designated to address experimental issues and data processing. Aveiro has given important contributions diagnosing the Alphasat beacon quality and assisting the evaluation of the redundant beacon switched on 19 December 2016. ESA funds the expenses of the meeting organization only.
4.1.4 Summary of Research Achievements Work topic in this area included antenna design and development, waves and propagation, dedicated circuits and systems, transmission and receiving systems and radio networks.
4.1.4.1
4.1.4.2
Contributing groups Antennas and Propagation, Lx Antennas and Propagation, Co Antennas and Propagation, Lr Mobile Networks, Av Mobile Systems, Av Radio Systems, LxRadio Systems, Av Radio Systems, Av (not received) Wireless Circuits, Av Wireless Circuits, Lx (not received)
Waves and Propagation
Radio wave propagation - On-going development of a generic doubly-selective 3D ray tracing model for vegetation
media to include trunk (e.g. using fractals) and ground layer effects and the interaction between layers, which will allow full characterisation of radiowave (spatio-temporal) propagation phenomena through vegetation media, such as attenuation (absorption), (diffuse) scattering, depolarisation and time-variability. Consideration will be given to its compliancy with commercial planning tools.
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- 3D channel models for broadband mm-Wave. To check the accuracy, we will first develop new mathematical tools for these models which thereafter will be validated using a 5G system level simulator; - Data processing from the AlphaSat project, including the presentation of a MIMO channel simulator, collaboration in the supervision of the campaign execution, data management and data pre-processing and processing for all the beacons and meteorological data. Collaboration in the study and modelling of the XPD taking into consideration the ice contribution evaluation. Optimization and validation of the empirically inter-fade model. Collaboration in the analysis of frequency/frequency+orbital diversity using the data collected at Aveiro and site diversity between Vigo and Aveiro at 20 and 40 GHz. Development of a time series generator for the attenuation at Ka and Q-Band in collaboration with U Vigo. Metamaterial design, characterization and applications - Topological insulators in continuous photonic media. Development of the paradigm of Parity-TimeDuality symmetry protection against back-scattering in photonic platforms. - Electromagnetic interactions in moving media. Wave instabilities, optical isolation, and asymmetric light flows in cavities with rotating walls. Negative spontaneous emission and quantum friction in a system formed by a two-level atom moving close to a metallic surface. - Study of a new type of Casimir interaction – single-interface torque – that occurs at a junction of an anisotropic material and a vacuum or another material system. - Study of optical forces acting on individual polarizable particles that are illuminated by chiral light. - Subwavelength imaging and near-field transport using a bent wire array. - Graphene and semiconductor superlattices. Study of the time evolution of electronic states in graphene superlattices using both microscopic and macroscopic approaches. - Experimental verification of surface plasmon polaritons in microwave waveguide. - Novel solutions for optical isolation. Optical isolators based on a combination of a chiral metamaterial and a nonreciprocal element. Strongly asummetric light flows with topological electronic insulators and media with a spontaneous nonreciprocal response. - Super-Planckian thermal emission in far field: metamaterial superemitter. - Giant radiative heat transfer in metamaterials. - On-going study of new frequency selective surfaces designs bounded to real brick wall and concrete prototypes for an effective RF transparency control of building wall structures, including both passive and active tuning techniques, backed up with appropriate electromagnetic modelling and practical validation on real sized prototypes. Consideration will be given to its application to wireless security in indoor radio hazardous environments. - Development of a highly scalable mm-Wave Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging techniques for remote sensing and moving identification targets. It is envisaged to apply imagery SAR caption in severe weather conditions (fog, snow and fire smoke) in order to enable target identification as an alternative to optical sensors;
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Material EM characterization Development of a new method for fast determination of the complex permittivity of liquid dielectric materials with application for body phantom materials.
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Transmission and Receiving Systems
Radio systems - On-going study on the performance evaluation of 60 GHz (Filtered) OFDM and SC-FDE communications under RF and channel impairments, including the study and implementation of state-of-the-art channel estimation techniques, with practical implementation of general proof-of-concept based on FPGA/SDR software prototyping.; - MIMO techniques with reduced sizes. In the context of future wireless systems the activity has been extended from the sub-6 GHz band towards mmwave - Study of In-building communications - Study of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for cellular systems. A detection algorithm was proposed for massive multiple-input multiple output (massive MIMO) that reduces the complexity of the zero-forcing receiver when only a few users in the cell need to have its channel updated; A feedback filter based on recursive least squares was proposed as a suppression technique for in-band full-duplex radios, and it was compared with linear techniques. - Proposal of power allocation optimization techniques for the two-way relay channel using massive MIMO relays. The optimization concerned the relay power and also the power at the terminals. The combination of massive MIMO and physical-layer network coding was proposed for the two-way relay channel. - Developed MAC schemes using physical-layer network coding for the Y-network configuration. These schemes take advantage of MIMO terminals and also of the existence of full-duplex at the physical layer. A simulator was built to demonstrate the use of random linear network coding in both wired and wireless networks - The performed work, focused on the self-optimization branch of Self-Organizing Networks (SON). It aimed to empower a 3G/4G network with automatic capabilities for detecting and optimizing poor Radio Frequency (RF) performance scenarios, such as coverage holes, overshooting and pilot pollution scenarios. - Theoretical aspects of full-duplex wireless communications In this line I’ve studied the properties of the self-interference residual power in full-duplex radio systems, namely its distribution when a Rayleigh channel is considered. Low and high dynamics of the channel were also analyzed. - Analytical performance evaluation of multiuser detection schemes - Study of MIMO and Massive MIMO systems. Development and performance evaluation of channel estimation and carrier synchronization techniques for SC-FDE and massive MIMO schemes. Study and
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application of convex optimization methods for MIMO transmissions. MIMO Techniques to Boost Cellular Networks Performance - Study of spatial modulation schemes that exploit the use of multiple transmitting antennas and implementation of low complexity demodulation algorithms for green heterogeneous networks - Design of frequency-domain equalizers and detection techniques for offset modulations. Study and application of low complexity equalization and detection methods for multi-user single carrier transmissions - Design of optimized multi-dimension constellations - Multiuser Detection schemes for the uplink of clustered 5G systems using Universal Frequency Reuse - Design of optimized amplification schemes - Study an implementation of Software Defined Acoustic Transceivers - Real-time kinematic positioning - Software defined radios (Acquisition & Tracking of GPS C/A L1 Signals). Research on GPS/INS Positioning, GPS Heading and Pitch Estimation using Single-Frequency, Dual-Frequency or Wide-Lane Measurements. Research on Carrier Phase Based Differential GPS - Highly Linear Power Amplifier for Massive MIMO: This work was frmaed under Project HLPA2MIMO in collaboration with Ampleon Ntherlands BV whose objective is to study the impact of the Massive-MIMO system implementation in the performance of the power amplifiers (efficiency and linearity). After agreeing on some arctitectural issues, the work was devoted to the characterization of the impact on linearity and efficiency that the mutual antenna coupling may have on a MIMO array of transmitters. Then, a 2-input/2-output behavioral model of the PA-antenna structure was conceived so that it could replicate such measured nonlinear effects. Wireless systems employing cooperative diversity / relaying The main addressed topics were: - Interference alignment for distributed antenna systems - Precoding techniques for Coordinated Multipoint based networks - Power allocation strategies for MIMO-OFDM based systems - Analysis of the front-haul requirements - Requirements for ultra dense networks - Hardware implementation in FPGA of selected algorithms The main achievements related to new results on the diversity achievable with interference alignment algorithms and the joint design of user grouping and PHY transmission algorithms in multiuser scenarios.
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In terms of implementation FPGA demonstrator for cognitive radio where the secondary users align their interferences is being built with one BS one primary user and two secondary users (with two antennas each). Global navigation satellite systems The research activity was mainly focused on the development of different aspects of the receiver structure for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related signal performance analysis. Some attention was also dedicated to the problem of quantum communications. The most important activities have been: - Development of robust structures for GNSS vector receivers based on the vector delay frequency lockedloop (VDFLL) and alternative schemes derived from the vector delay phase-locked loop (VDPLL) architecture. The research in this area originated four conference papers. - Development of algorithms to detect the presence of narrowband/wideband interference in GNSS receivers. Two conference papers and a paper published in an IEEE journal resulted from this activity. - Development and performance analysis of a new chirp modulation scheme for future GNSS signals. A conference paper on this topic was produced and a journal paper is in preparation. - Establishment of a Satellite Earth Station including a multi-system GNSS receiver at ISCTE Architectures, algorithms / protocols for wireless systems The specific topics dealt are: - 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 - Linear and non-linear precoding techniques - Receiver optimization - Channel estimation for SISO and MIMO channels The main achievements are related to the development of algorithms than achieve quasi-optimum performance with a single bit signaling from the primary to the secondary network. In terms on bounds optimal codebook schemes that achieve maximum diversity were discovered. Demonstrator for a primary-secondary network using interference alignment ay the secondary side was started.
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Antennas and Applications
Antennas for personal devices - Analysis, design, fabrication and test of small and compact multiband and wideband microstrip patch antenna elements and arrays. The antenna elements are intended for multi-standard applications. The analysis takes into account that the antenna elements will be integrated into slim mobile terminals (handsets, PDAs and laptop PCs) and potentially with MIMO antenna array systems exploring MIMO spatial and polarization diversity. Antennas for body-area and for medical applications - Investigation on wearable single-band and multi-band antennas for on-body and off-body communications, taking into account the antenna-user interaction. The study will include mutual coupling
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and correlation, antenna efficiency, near-body channel time-domain response and the effect of antenna deformation. Antenna performance will be compared when using human body phantoms and simulation body models; - Antennas for RFID and related concepts for body-area networks; - Study and design of antennas for breast cancer related microwave imaging based on UWB techniques. Development of experimental test setups and evaluation of antennas performance using anthropomorphic breast and axilla phantoms, with proper muscle and skin electromagnetic equivalents. Development of efficient image reconstruction algorithms aiming at affordable real-time processing. Satellite and mm-wave antennas - Continuation of the development of low form-factor, low-cost user-terminal antennas for Ka-band satellite systems based on transmit-array concepts with mechanical beam steering. Focus on dual-band configurations (20/30 GHz) using two different technologies: printed circuit cells, either of the phase-delay type or phase-rotation type; - On-going development of 2D/3D transmitarray antennas at mm- and sub mm-wave frequencies with electronic beamsteering capabilities for reflectrometry systems including a proof-of-concept study and implementation of an electronic tunable transmitarray using active metamaterials, that would allow easy 3D beam steering and/or fast lobe switching. Design and implementation of electronic circuitry to control the varactors diodes of each unit cell of the stack layer (i.e. radome) that may be placed in front of an existing directional antenna.; - Design of printed antennas for application in reconfigurable reflect-arrays with spot-beam and beam steering capabilities; - Design of compact dual-band circular polarization feeds in the Ka-band that can be used as virtual focus primary feeds for transmit-arrays. Other antenna topics - Printed antennas for space applications in millimeter waves with emphasis on wireless power transfer for wireless sensor network applications; - MIMO balanced antennas for 4G: designing and implementing several MIMO balanced antennas for use in 4G mobile devices; - DR mmWave antennas for 5G: developing DR (dielectric resonator) mm-wave array antennas for use in 5G. These antennas can cover the mm-wave spectrum of up to 79 GHz. At the beginning, some mm-wave array antennas would be designed and the DR material will be exploited to increase the antenna gain and efficiency; - Design of the RF feeding network for a massive MIMO array at millimeter waves for 5G communication systems.
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4.1.4.5
Circuits and systems for wireless communications
Power Amplifier Design - Analog Pre-Distortion of Broadbandwidth Wireless Transmitters: Preliminary, and mostly theoretical, work was done to (i) understand the power consumption and speed limitations of digital pre-distortion, DPD, and (ii) propose architectures in which DPD could be substituted by analog circuits. The focus was on analog circuits for linearization of small cell transmitters, a work framed by FCT research project (PTDC/EEITEL/7049/2014 – Power Amplifier Linearization for 5G – Lin5GPA). - Efficiency-Linearity Optimization in High Power Multi-Band Power Amplifiers: The work, included in the collaboration project Rooster with Huawei Technologies, Corp., started by evaluating the impact that the drain bias modulation imposed by multi-carrier signals has on the linearity, but nmostly on the efficiency, degradation. It was discovered and proved that the drain bias fluctuation appearing the in PA RF choke or quarter-wave transformer is, indeed, the main cause of the lower efficiency exhibited by a PA when excited with multicarrier signals, than when it is operating with a single carrier. Numerical medeling and simulation - Trap and Thermal Long-Term Dynamics of GaN HEMT Based Amplifiers: Long-term memory in GaN HEMT devices is due to either deep-level traps of the semiconductor and its interfaces, or to the device’s electrothermal dynamics. After the work done initially directed to understand and charactarize trap related phenomena, studies were now focused to bring this knowledge into the GaN HEMT modeling. For that, first an equivalent circuit was created to build an internal trap-state voltage which was then complemented by a dedicated parameter extraction setup. With this a proved iso-dynamic model for both the conduction (Ids) and displacement (charges/capacitances) currents could be extracted and tested in a power amplifier application. - Digital Pre-Distortion of High-Power Wireless Transmitters: Most of the effort devoted to this research topic was directed to build a digital pre.distorter capable of compensating the nonlinear effects present at the fast signal rate, and of its slowest evolutions. That resulted in the first DPD model capable of linearizing GaN HEMT based PAs excited by TDD signals, subjected to trapping and thermal dynamics. This work was the continuation of one done in collaboration with Huawei Technologies Corp. Beyond that, IT was responsible to conduct the IMS-2016 DPD Student Design Competition held during the International Microwave Symposium of San Francisco, CA, USA. - Advanced Numerical Techniques for High-Speed Circuits: Under this topic we will will focus on the improvement of the recently proposed time-domain CAD tools designed for the numerical simulation of nonlinear high-speed circuits whose stimuli evolve according to multiple time rates. - Simplified Volterra Analysis for Dynamical Optical Networks Compensation: The objective of this research was to try a behavioral modeling approach to the extraction of Volterra post-distorters for optical fibers. Developed under the IT internal project VADONetC, this work complemented the physics based Volterra post-distorters already in use and showed that, indeed, behavioral indormationit could provide extra linearization benefits to the already used physics-based models.
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Radio front-end electronics Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are proposed that can be used to perform a network of sensors in different Wearable Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) applications, especially those including tens of sensors, embedded into textile materials and with high data-rate communication demands.
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Radio Networks and radio resource management
Green Wireless Communications The accelarated 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. Contributing to this line of research, the IT-Mobile systems aim to develop ongoing works, that includes: - Cooperative communications for next generation mobile systems. - Transmission Capacity Analysis of Relay-Assisted Device-to-Device Communication - Energy efficient clustering for small cell networks - Energy efficient resource management for 5G system - WiFi operating in LTE Licensed Band (WiFi-Lic) - Massive Internet of Things for Industrial Applications - Integrating energy efficiency analysis of massive MIMO-based C-RAN (Cloud – Radio Access Networks)
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Radio radio resource management
A two part approach to LTE (4G) load management was researched, an autonomous load balancing algorithm in conjunction with a traffic forecasting methodology using ARIMA models. Multidimensional traffic models for UMTS (3G) networks were studied based on admission curves and using real statistics. These curves define the maximum limit of resource utilization for a certain defined Grade of Service (GoS). Experimental characterization of the GSM opportunistic channel Considering the use of a GSM channel in an opportunistic and cognitive way, we have sampled a GSM channel to characterize its stochastic properties. The practical work was done using different software defined radio platforms, and the gathered data was used to validate a theoretical model that describes the distribution of the service time. Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments Supporting Unified Distributed Management and Autonomic Decisions: Design, Implementation and Deployment Energy Efficient Spectrum Resources Usage in WPANS: IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Sub-layer Protocols and their Performance Enhancement Joint Radio Resource Management for the efficient sharing of TV White Spaces with LTE Impact of using CSS PHY and RTS/CTS Combined with Packet Concatenation in the IEEE 802.15.4 performance
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Economic Tradeoff in the Optimization of Enhanced Multi-Band Scheduling for Carrier Aggregation in LTEAdvanced Scenarios for Future Teleinfrastructure Scenarios and Architectures for Radio Resource Optimization of Heterogenous Networks LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization: Basic Coverage and Interference Constraints Basic Limits for LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization in the Outdoor-to-indoor Scenario QoE-driven Resource Allocation for Cellular Networks.
4.1.5 Running and Concluded Theses MSc Theses Supervisor
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Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
Alison Willian Pereira
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
Fully-Automated LoadPull System based on Mechanical Tuners
02/2016
Luis Filipe Lourenço Bernardo
Tiago Miguel Lopes Garrido Dias
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges Montezuma de Carvalho
Analysing Filter Bank MultiCarrier Efficiency with Asynchronous Communications
03/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Pedro Rui Ceia dos Santos
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Assisted Navigation Based On V2V Communications and GPS
04/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
João Miguel Duarte Mouro Alves de Andrade
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Carrier Phase Based DGPS Positioning
04/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Raul André
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Integration of Radio Propagation Models in the DEMETER Air Navigation Planning Tool
04/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Rita Maria dos Santos Pereira
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
GPS Heading and Pitch Estimation using SingleFrequency, Dual-
05/2016
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Frequency or Wide-Lane Measurements Fernando Jose da Silva Velez
Aleksandra Nadziejko
Innovative heterogeneous communication technologies for swarms of aquatic autonomous vessels
05/2016
António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira
Duarte Nuno Rodrigues Varandas Gouveia
Project of Control Software and Antennas for an Indoor UWB Localisation System
06/2016
Fernando Jose da Silva Velez
Aleksandra Nadziejko
Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Network for the Coordination of Aquatic Drones
06/2016
Américo Manuel Carapeto Correia
Gil Dias
Uso de Femtocells na Rede LTE-A
07/2016
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
André Mariano Silva Ferreira
Frequency Characterization of Single Coil RF Relays
07/2016
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq
Neyja Maryem
Performance Analysis of Downlink Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) Transmission
07/2016
Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Daniel Filipe Pinheiro de Azevdo
Performance comparison of Hybrid Architectures for millimeter wave communications
07/2016
Telmo Reis Cunha
Pedro Mirassol Tomé
Analog neural predistortion of power amplifiers
07/2016
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
João Lucas Rodrigues Silva
Amplificador RF de Potência OutphasingChireix
09/2016
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
Daniel Filipe Marques Castanheira
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
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Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
Cristiano Ferreira Gonçalves
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
Bias-Point Pulsing System for RF Power Transistors’ Characterization
09/2016
Sérgio de Almeida Jorge Pedro da Costa Mendes Matos Teixeira
Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa
Desenvolvimento de antenas com lentes planares para comunicação via satélite e plataformas de alta altitude
09/2016
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Ivo Vieira de Oliveira
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Aplicação móvel para a monitorização da sindrome metabólica
09/2016
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira
Daniela Vanessa Joaquim Oliveira
Perfromance Evaluation 09/2016 of RF Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks
Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira
Pedro Miguel Rolo Teixeira
Comunicações Dispositivo-paraDispositivo em Espectro Partilhado
09/2016
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Joaquim Henriques Félix
Intelligent Brand Protection
10/2016
Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira
Marta de Oliveira Veríssimo
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Managing Capacity for a 10/2016 Real Multi-Service UMTS/HSPA Radio Access Network
Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira
Miguel Aires Barros Monteiro
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Forecasting Traffic and Balancing Load for Quality driven LTE Networks
10/2016
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Filipe Manuel Nogueira Afonso
Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastiao
Monitorização e Controlo de Múltiplos Veículos Aéreos não Tripulados utilizando Redes 3G/4G sem Fios
11/2016
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Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
André Filipe Bastos Vieira
António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira
Jaime Vaz de Castro da Silva Carvalho
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
Ricardo José Neves Alberto
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Marco Alexandre dos Santos Ribeiro
Fault Tolerant Unmanned Aerial System Design
11/2016
Wallet Flexible Antenna Project
11/2016
Assessment of nonorthogonal multiple access for 5G systems
11/2016
David Martins Simões
Emissor/Receptor Acústico definido por Software para comunicações subaquáticas
11/2016
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Hugo André Pontes Lopes
Spatial Modulations for Green Heterogeneous Networks
11/2016
Luis Filipe Lourenço Bernardo
Bruno Miguel de Figueiredo Ramos
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Protocols for Extreme Low Latency M2M Communication Networks
11/2016
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
Nuno Manuel Antunes Peixoto
Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro Prior
Localização Indoor em dispositivos Android
11/2016
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
Luís Miguel Baleia Silva
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Gestão de multi-acesso simultâneo em redes heterogéneas
11/2016
Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Filipe Cardiga
Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastiao
Intelligent system for 3D vehicle communications using heterogeneous networks
11/2016
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges
Fábio José Silva Amaral
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
iterative detection and channel estimation for SC-FDE schemes
11/2016
Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro
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Montezuma de Carvalho António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira
Fernando José Martins Garcia
Study and design of antennas for bodycentric communications at 2.45 GHz
11/2016
António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira
João Filipe Martins Ferreira
Study and Design of Antennas for WLAN MIMO Applications
11/2016
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues Prudêncio
Telmo Ricardo Costa Luis
Filipa Isabel Rodrigues Prudêncio
Uma introdução à relatividade restrita centrada na interpretação geométrica de Minkowski para o plano hiperbólico
11/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
José Manuel Mateus de Jesus Moreira
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues Ivo Luís de la Cerda Garcia e Sousa
Geo-Location in Social Networks
12/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Marco Adriano Almeida Durão
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
GPS/INS Positioning
12/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Ana Rita de Araújo Guilherme
Ricardo Jorge Fernandes Chaves
Track Athletics Guidance for the Visual Impaired
12/2016
José Eduardo Charters Ribeiro da Cunha Sanguino
Bruno Fernandes
António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues
GSM/RF Localization Algorithms on a Sensor Nodes Network
12/2016
Alexandre Passos de Almeida
José Alberto Porfírio Pequeno Lourenço
poRsCHE - Remote Control via Head movEs
12/2016
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Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Luis da Graça Magalhães
Custódio José Oliveira Peixeiro
Raúl Ribeiro
Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro
Nuno Bettencourt Coelho
Pedro Miguel da Silva Cabral
Antonio Navarro Rodrigues
HEVC Video Coding and Transmission through Wireless MIMO Networks
12/2016
Printed monopoles
12/2016
Rui Jorge Henriques Calado Lopes
Implementation of Linear Network Coding Over a Flexible Emulator
12/2016
João Paulo Rocha Pinheiro
Jose Carlos Esteves Duarte Pedro
Amplificador de Potência Multibanda para Comunicações Sem Fios
12/2016
Armando Carlos Domingues da Rocha
Joel Rafael Oliveira Flávio
Susana Mota
Data Pre-processing Tool for Satellite Channel Measurements
12/2016
Adão Paulo Soares Silva
Rui Miguel Fernandes Caseiro
Sara Helena Marques Teodoro
Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Techniques with Limited Information for the LTEAdvance/5G system
12/2016
Telmo Reis Cunha
João Paulo Carvalho Lopes
Alexandre Moutela Nunes da Mota
Angular position control system
12/2016
Telmo Reis Cunha
Tânia Patrícia Magina Frutuosa
Temperature control system
12/2016
Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira
Marco Décio Baptista Sousa
André Eduardo Ponciano Martins
Detecção e Optimização Automática de Cenários de Sub-Desempenho em Rede Móveis UMTS/LTE
12/2016
Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges Montezuma de Carvalho
Afonso Ferreira
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Massive MIMO transmission techniques
12/2016
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Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges Montezuma de Carvalho
Guilherme Rodrigues Gaspar
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Channel estimation in massive MIMO systems
12/2016
PhD Theses Supervisor
Student
Co-Supervisors
Title
José Manuel Neto Vieira
Daniel António da Costa Dinis
Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues de Oliveira
All-Digital Antenna Array Transmitter
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
Ricardo Fernandes
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho João Nuno Pimentel da Silva Matos
Passive Wireless Sensor Networks
Antonio Navarro Rodrigues
Purnachand Nalluri
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero Moreira Alves
Motion Estimation and its Hardware Implementation
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
Ricardo Fernandes
João Nuno Pimentel da Silva Matos
Electrical Resonant Coupling
Armando Carlos Domingues da Rocha
José Miguel da Silva Bergano
Domingos da Silva Barbosa Luís Cupido
Wideband Digital Polarimeter for Radioastronomy Applications
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
Alírio de Jesus Soares Boaventura
Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes
Andela Zaric
Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa
Antennas for Localization and Identification Systems
Maria João Ramos Marques Coelho Carrilho do Rosário
Fernando dos Santos Azevedo
Fernando Manuel Ascenso Fortes
Integrated Receiver in CMOS technology
Wireless Power Transmission Solutions for Wireless Communications
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Michel Celestino Paiva Ferreira
Hugo Marcelo Fernandes da Conceição
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Firooz B. Saghezchi
Game Theory for Effective Resource Utilisation in 5G Applications
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Riccardo Bassoli
Network Coding for Efficient Vertical Handovers
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Valdemar Monteiro
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Victor Sucasas Iglésias
João Nuno Pimentel da Silva Matos
Tiago Miguel Valente Varum
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Nonuniform 2D Microstrip Antenna Arrays for Wireless Applications
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho
Ricardo Miguel Romão Gonçalves
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Antennas for Alternative Materials
Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
João Francisco Martinho Lêdo Guerreiro
Paulo Montezuma
Analytical Characterization and Optimum Performance of Nonlinear Multicarrier Schemes
Peter Steenkiste
Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez
Distributed Control of Road Traffic baased on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking
Energy-Efficient Cooperative Resource Allocation for OFDMA Electronic Engineering
4.1.6 Publications Antenna Modelling and Design Book Chapters Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Lima, E.B.; Dielectric Lens Antennas - Chapter in Handbook of Antenna Technologies, Zhi Ning Chen, Springer, Singapore, 2016 Papers in Journals Minervino, R; G, Assunção; Peixeiro, C.; MANDELBROT FRACTAL MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 83 - 86, January, 2016
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Ferreira, D.; Sismeiro, L.; Ferreira, A.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Cuinas, I.; Hybrid FSS and rectenna design for wireless power harvesting, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 2038 - 2042, May, 2016 Bisognin, A.; Cihangir, A. C.; Luxey, C.; Jacquemod, G.; Pilard, R.; Gianesello, F.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Lima, E.B.; Panagamuwa, C. J.; Whittow, W. G.; Ball Grid Array-Module with Integrated Shaped Lens for WiGig Applications in Eyewear Devices, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 872 - 882, March, 2016 Felício, J.; Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Wideband Implantable Antenna for Body-Area High Data Rate Impulse Radio Communication, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 1932 - 1940, May, 2016 Reis, J.; Copner, Nigel Copner; Hammoudeh, Akram Hammoudeh; Al-Daher, Zaid Al-Daher; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Gomes, R.Gomes; FSS-inspired Transmitarray for Two Dimensional Antenna Beamsteering, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 2197 - 2206, June, 2016 Hasani, H.; Tamagnone, M; CapdeVila, S.; Moldovan, C. F.; Maoddi, P.; Ionescu, A. M.; Peixeiro, C.; Mosig , J.; Skrivervik, A. K. ; Perruisseau-Carrier, J.; Tri-Band, Polarization-Independent Reflectarray at Terahertz Frequencies: Design, Fabrication, and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 268 - 277, March, 2016 Varum, T.; Matos, J. N. ; Pinho, P.; Abreu, R.; Nonuniform Broadband Circularly Polarized Antenna Aray for Vehicular Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 9, pp. 7219 - 7227, September, 2016 Loss, C.; Gonçalves, R.; Lopes, C.; Pinho, P.; Salvado, R.; Smart Coat with a Fully-Embedded Textile Antenna for IoT Applications, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 938, pp. 1 - 13, June, 2016 Al-Sadoon, M. ; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; Elfergani, I.; Noras, J. ; Rodriguez, J.; Jones, S. ; Weight Optimization for Adaptive Antenna Arrays Using LMS and SMI Algorithms, WSEAS Trans. on Communications, Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 206 - 214, June, 2016 Rodrigues, E. J. B.; G, Assunção; Lins, H W C; Peixeiro, C.; GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION OF A CPW FED UWB CIRCULAR RING MONOPOLE WITH MODIFIED GROUND PLANE, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1319 - 1323, June, 2016 Oliveira, P. S.; G, Assunção; Souza, E. A. M.; Peixeiro, C.; A FAST AND ACCURATE TECHNIQUE FOR FSS AND ANTENNA DESIGNS BASED ON THE SOCIAL SPIDER OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 58, No. 8, pp. 1912 - 1917, August, 2016 Ferreira, D.; Pires, P. A. S. ; Rodrigues, R. G. ; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; The Effect of Bending on the Performance of a Wearable Textile Antenna, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 99, No. 99, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2016 Ferreira, D.; Cuinas, I.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; 3-D Mechanically Tunable Square Slot FSS, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 242 - 250, November, 2016
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Ferreira, D.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Cuinas, I.; Fernandes, T. ; Tunable Square Slot FSS EC Modelling and Optimisation, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 99, No. 99, pp. 1 - 9, December, 2016 Ferreira, I. S. V.; Tello, C. T.; Bergano , J.; Villela, T. V.; Barbosa , D.; Smoot, G. F. S.; A C-band broadband ortho-mode transducer for radioastronomy polarimetry , Springer Plus, Vol. 5, No. 2069, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2016 Varum, T.; Matos, J. N. ; Pinho, P.; Non-Uniform Microstrip Antenna Array for DSRC in Single-Lane Structures, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 2101 - 2101, December, 2016 Gonçalves, R.; Pinho, P.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Wireless energy transfer: Dielectric lens antennas for beam shaping in wireless power-transfer applications, Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Felício, J.; Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Low-Profile Wideband Stick-on Antenna for Body-Area Communication, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Matos, S.A.; Lima, E.B.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Fonseca, N.; Design of a 40 dBi Planar Bifocal Lens for Mechanical Beam Steering At Ka-Band, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Bisognin, A.; Luxey, C.; Gianesello, F.; Titz, D.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Gloria, D.; Digital Manufacturing & Rapid Prototyping: Enabling Innovative & Cost Effective Antenna Solution from RF up to mmW, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Felício, J.; Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Comparing Liquid Homogeneous and Multilayer Phantoms for Human Body Implantable Antennas, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, June, 2016 Matos, S.A.; Costa, J.R.; Lima, E.B.; Fernandes, C. A.; Fonseca, N.; Prototype of a compact mechanically steered Ka-band antenna for satellite on-the-move, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Fajardo, Puerto Rico, June, 2016 Mendes, C.M.; Peixeiro, C.; On-Body Off-Body Dual Mode Microstrip Antenna for Body Area Network Applications, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Pinto, L.P; Moreira, A.; Almeida, L.; externo, t; Aerial Multi-hop Network Characterisation using COTS Multirotors, Proc IEEE World Conf. on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Aveiro , Portugal, May, 2016 Gianesello, F.; Bisognin, A.; Titz, D.; Luxey, C.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Gloria, D.; 3D Printing Technology: Enabling Innovative & Cost Effective Industrial Antenna Solution, Proc International Workshop on Antenna Technology - IWAT, Cocoa Beach, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, March, 2016
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Loss, C.; Gonçalves, R.; Lopes, C.; Salvado, R.; Pinho, P.; Textile Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting Fully Embedded in Clothing, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, Vol. 10, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2016 Felício, J.; Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Complex Permittivity and Anisotropy Measurement of 3D-Printed PLA at Microwaves and Millimeter-waves, Proc International Conf. on Appl. Electromagnetics and Communications - ICECOM, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Varum, T.; Matos, J. N. ; Pinho, P.; Non-uniform microstrip antenna array for tolling using a single access lane, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, July, 2016 Zaric, A.; Matos, V. S.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Antennas for Indoor Localization Systems, Proc Encuentro Ibérico de Electromagnetismo Computacional - EIEC, Asturias, Spain, November, 2016 Elfergani, I.; Hussaini , A. ; Rodriguez, J.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; Dual-Band Printed Folded Dipole Balanced Antenna for 700/2600MHz LTE Bands, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, April, 2016 Elfergani, I.; Hussaini , A. ; Rodriguez, J.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; Miniaturized dual-band balanced antenna for LTE using meander lines, Proc IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Santos, K. C.; Fernandes, C. A.; Costa, J.R.; Microwave Imaging Using the Kirchhoff Migration Algorithm with Monostatic Configuration, Proc XXXIV SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES – SBrT2016, SANTAREM, Brazil, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 781 - 784, August, 2016 Plaza, G.; León, G.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Loredo, S.; Las-Heras, F.; Contributions on Transmitarrays for Far-field Applications, Proc Encuentro Ibérico de Electromagnetismo Computacional - EIEC, Asturias, Spain, November, 2016 Elfergani, I.; Hussaini , A. ; Rodriguez, J.; Navarro, A.; Pinho, P.; Mahmoud , A.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. AbdAlhameed; A small-size zigzag balanced antenna for LTE systems, Proc IEEE Nanotechnology Council. 11th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2016) NMDC 2016, Toulouse, France, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, October, 2016 Elfergani, I.; Hussaini , A. ; Rodriguez, J.; Navarro, A.; Pinho, P.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; Balanced antenna structure with slotted ground plane for LTE dual-band, Proc Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conf. – LAPC, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, November, 2016 Physical Modelling and Wave Propagation Characterization Papers in Journals Leonor, N.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Sanchez , M.; Fernandes, T. ; A Three-dimensional Directive Antenna Pattern Interpolation Method, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 881 884, March, 2016
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Gómez, P.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Cuinas, I.; Retrieving Vegetation Re-Radiation Patterns by means of Artificial Neural Networks, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 15, No. 99, pp. 1097 - 1100, March, 2016 Maslovski , S.; Tretyakov, A.; Simovsky, C.R.; Overcoming black body radiation limit in free space: metamaterial superemitter, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 18, No. 013034, pp. 1 - 23, January, 2016 Rodrigues, J. D.; Rodrigues, J. A. ; Moreira, O. L. ; Terças, H.; Mendonça, J. T. ; Equation of state of a lasercooled gas, Physical Review A, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp. 023404-1 - 023404-6, February, 2016 Leonor, N.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Gaddam, N. G.; 60 GHz Channel Characterisation and Key Performance Evaluation of HD Video Transmission, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 10, No. 12, pp. 1298 - 1303, September, 2016 Leonor, N.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Sanchez , M.; Fernandes, T. ; An Input Parameter Extraction Method for Point Scatterer Formulation in Vegetation Media at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, July, 2016 Gomes, R.Gomes; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Hammoudeh, Akram Hammoudeh; Performance Evaluation of 60 GHz OFDM Communications under Channel Impairments over Multipath Fading Channels at 60 GHz, Sensors & Transducers Journal and Magazine, Vol. 204, No. 9, pp. 29 - 38, September, 2016 Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; AL-Nuaimi, M.; Cross-Polarisation Discrimination Studies of Single Trees at 20 and 62.4 GHz, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, November, 2016 Gómez, P.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Cuinas, I.; Using Artificial Neural Networks to Scale and Infer Vegetation Media Phase Functions, Neural Computing and Applications, pp. 1 - 12, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Maslovski , S.; Simovsky, C.R.; Tretyakov, A.; Conjugate-impedance matched metamaterials for superPlanckian radiative heat transfer, Proc SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. Metamaterials X, pp. 9883O-1 - 8, April, 2016 Maslovski , S.; Light trapping in metamaterial thermal black holes and wormhoes, Proc International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics METANANO, Anapa, Russia, Vol. 1, pp. 33 - 33, September, 2016 Leonor, N.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Sanchez , M.; Fernandes, T. ; A feasibility study on the extension of the point scatterer formulation to raised canopy forests, Proc Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conf. – LAPC, Loughborough, United Kingdom, pp. 1 - 4, November, 2016 Maslovski , S.; Metamaterial thermal emitters with effective spectral emissivity greater than unity, Proc WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Heat Transfer and Heat Conduction on the Nanoscale, Bad Honnef, Germany, pp. 17 - 17, April, 2016
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Maslovski , S.; Metamaterial superemitters and superabsorbers, Proc Days on Diffraction, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 201 - 201, June, 2016 Maslovski , S.; Light absorption and scattering by metamaterial thermal black hole, Proc Metamorphose International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics METAMATERIALS, Platanias, Greece, pp. 220 - 222, September, 2016 System Planning and Radio Resource Management Books Huq, K.; Rodriguez, J.; Backhauling/Fronthauling for Future Wireless Systems, , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, London, 2016 Book Chapters Huq, K.; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Communication Haul Design for 5G Radio: Challenges and Open Issues - Chapter in Opportunities in 5G Networks: A Research and Development Perspective, Fei Hu, CRCTaylor & Francis Group, New York, 2016 Huq, K.; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; A C-RAN Approach for 5G Applications - Chapter in Backhauling/Fronthauling for Future Wireless Systems, , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, London, 2016 Huq, K.; Rodriguez, J.; Introduction: The Communication Haul CHallenge - Chapter in Backhauling/Fronthauling for Future Wireless Systems, , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, London, 2016 Boqué, S.; Garcia-Lozano, M.; González G, D. ; Lema, M. ; Papaj, J. ; Joseph, W. ; Deruyck, M. ; Cardona, N. ; Garcia-Pardo, C. ; Velez, F. J.; Correia, L. M.; Ferreira, L. S.; Grazioso, P.; Chatzinotas, S. ; Green and Efficient RAN Architectures - Chapter in Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments, Narcis Cardona, River Publishers, Aalborg, Denmark, 2016 Papers in Journals Ali, S. Ali; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Gameiro, A.; Joint IA and SFBC Macrocells and Small-Cells Coexistence under Minor Information Exchange, Mobile Information Systems, pp. 1 - 10, January, 2016 Iglésias, V.; Radwan, A. ; Marques, H. R.; Rodriguez, J.; Vahid, S.; Tafazolli, R. T.; A Survey on Clustering Techniques for Cooperative Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, pp. 1 - 10, May, 2016 Sousa, I.; Queluz, M.P.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Boosting MIMO Systems Performance in Urban Cellular Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, pp. 1 - 19, October, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Gonçalves, L.C.; Sebastião, P.; Correia, A.; Souto, N.S.; 5G Mobile Challenges: A Feasibility Study on Achieving Carbon Neutrality, Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Thessaloniki, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, May, 2016
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Pedro, T. ; Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; An Efficient Approach for Capacity Savings using Load Balancing in Dual Layer 3G Wireless Networks, Proc International Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Winsys, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; Cunha, TC; Introducing Redundancy in the Radio Planning of LPWA Networks for Internet of Things, Proc International Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Winsys, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Huq, K.; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Outage probability analysis for device-to-device system, Proc IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Natarajan, S. ; Barbosa , D.; Barraca, JPB; Bridger, A. ; Choudhuri , S. ; DiCarlo, M. ; Dolci, M. ; Gupta, Y. ; Guzman, J. ; Van den Heever, L. ; Roux, G. ; Nicol, M. ; Patil, M. ; Smareglia, R. ; Swart, P. ; Thompson, R. ; Vrcic, S. ; Williams, S. ; SKA Telescope Manager (TM): status and architecture overview, Proc SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentatio Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV SPIE 9913, Edimburgh, United Kingdom, Vol. 9913, pp. 1 - 11, July, 2016 Duarte, DD; Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; A Hybrid Neighbor Optimization Algorithm for SON based on Network Topology, Handover Counters and RF Measurements, Proc International Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Winsys, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Sousa, M. ; Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; Self-Diagnosing Low Coverage and High Interference in 3G/4G Radio Access Networks based on Automatic RF Measurement Extraction, Proc International Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Winsys, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Monteiro, M. ; Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Balanceamento de Carga em Redes de 4a Geração (LTE) Auto-Otimizadas, Proc 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira URSI 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Veríssimo, M. ; Gonçalves, SG; Vieira, P.; Martins, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Avaliação de Capacidade em Redes Multi-Serviço UMTS/HSPA Baseada em Estatísticas Reais de Desempenho, Proc 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira URSI 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Silva, Pedro Alvito Silva; Velez, F. J.; Communications for Public Protection and Disaster Relief - Overview and Vision Towards the Future, Proc 10.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI Pedro Miguel Alvito Fernandes da Silva and Fernando José da Silva Velez, Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2016 Velez, F. J.; Sousa, S.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; Basic Limits for LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization in the Outdoor-to-indoor Scenario, Proc IEEE 4th IEEE BlackSea Conference on Communications and Networking, Varna, Bulgaria, June, 2016
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Transmission and Reception Systems Book Chapters Marques, P.; High resolution SAR imaging and signal processing - Chapter in NATO Lecture Series on Radar and SAR Systems for Airborne and Space-based Surveillance and Reconnaissance - Educational Notes, Mathias Weiss, NATO Science and Technology Organization, Paris, 2016 Almeida, J.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Development of an ITS-G5 station, from the physical to the MAC layer - Chapter in Intelligent Transportation Systems: From Good Practices to Standards, , CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2016 Monteiro, P.; Gameiro, A.; Convergence of Optical and Wireless Technologies for 5G - Chapter in Opportunities in 5G Networks: A Research and Development Perspective, , CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2016 Carvalho, P.; Dinis, R.; Multi antenna transmission technique with constellation shaping for secrecy at physical layer - Chapter in Security, Privacy and Reliability in Computer Communications and Networks, , River Publishers, Alsbjergvej 10, Gistrup 9260, Denmark , 2016 Papers in Journals Rosário, F.; Monteiro, F. A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Fast Matrix Inversion Updates for Massive MIMO Detection and Precoding, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 75 - 79, January, 2016 Vilela, J. V.; Gomes, M.; Sarmento, D. C.; Harrison, W. K. Harrison; Dias, F.F.D; Interleaved Concatenated Coding for Secrecy in the Finite Blocklength Regime, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 356 - 360, March, 2016 Cordeiro, R.; Oliveira, A.; Vieira, J.; All-Digital Transmitter With a Mixed-Domain Combination Filter, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 4 - 8, January, 2016 Almeida, J.; Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Mitigating adjacent channel interference in vehicular communication systems, Digital Communications and Networks, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 57 - 64, May, 2016 Souto, N.S.; Ribeiro, M. ; Sebastião, P.; Semidefinite Relaxations for MIMO Transmissions With High-Order QAM Constellations, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 984 - 988, July, 2016 Afonso, L. ; Souto, N.S.; Sebastião, P.; Ribeiro, M. ; Tavares, T.T.; Marinheiro, R. ; Cellular for the skies: Exploiting mobile network infrastructure for low altitude air-to-ground communications, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 4 - 11, August, 2016 Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Gameiro, A.; Retrospective Interference Alignment for the K -User M x N MIMO Interference Channel, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 20, pp. 8368 - 8379, December, 2016 Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; On the Detection of CE-OFDM Signals, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 2165 - 2168, November, 2016
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Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Use of 1-bit digital-to-analogue converters in massive MIMO systems, Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 778 - 779, April, 2016 Teodoro, S. ; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R.; Gameiro, A.; Analytical characterization of CSI quantization effects on broadband multipath channels, Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 360 - 369, October, 2016 Prata, A.P.; Ribeiro, D.; Cruz, P.M.; Oliveira, A.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; RF Subsampling Feedback Loop Technique for Concurrent Dual-Band PA Linearization, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech., Vol. 64, No. 12, pp. 1 - 9, December, 2016 Nunes, F.; Sousa, F.; GNSS Blind Interference Detection Based on Fourth-Order Autocumulants, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 2576 - 2588, October, 2016 Souto, N.S.; Dinis, R.; MIMO Detection and Equalization for Single-Carrier Systems Using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1751 - 1755, December, 2016 Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Iterative receiver based on the EGC for massive MIMO schemes using SC-FDE modulations, Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 972 - 974, May, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Ferreira, F. E.; Monteiro, F. A.; Sousa, I.; Full-Duplex MIMO and PLNC for the Y-Network, Proc IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Limassol, Cyprus, April, 2016 Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Bento, P.; Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Linear Amplification with Multiple Amplifiers and Antennas, Proc IASTED International Conf. on Modelling, Identification and Control - MIC, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, February, 2016 Simões, A. S.; Bento, P.; Gomes, M.; Dinis, R.; Silva, V.; Ring-type Magnitude Modulation for OQPSK: Enabling NL-Amplification of Spectral Efficient Signals, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Nanjing, China, May, 2016 Castanheira, M.A.S.C.; Simões, A. S.; Gomes, M.; Dinis, R.; Silva, V.; Iterative Decoding Techniques for Ringtype Magnitude Modulated Signals, Proc IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May, 2016 Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; On the Assessment of Nonlinear Distortion Effects in MIMO-OFDM Systems, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Nanjing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Ribeiro, F.; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.; Silva, A. ; Clustered Multiuser Detection for the Uplink of 5G Systems, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Nanjing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Silva, M.; Dinis, R.; Montezuma, P. M.; A MIMO Optimization for Physical Layer Security, Proc International Conference and Business Expo on Wireless & Telecommunication Mário Pedro Guerreiro Marques da Silva, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, April, 2016
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Pereira, R. ; Sanguino, J.; Performance Evaluation of the Ambiguity Filter as an Alternative of Using DualFrequency Measurements for GPS Heading and Pitch Estimation, Proc 2016 European Navigation Conference Nordic Institute of Navigation and the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute of the National Land Survey of Finland ENC 2016, Helsinki, Finland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 10, May, 2016 Marçal, J. M.; Nunes, F.; Robust Vector Tracking for GNSS carrier phase signals, Proc International Conference on Localization and GNSS ICL-GNSS, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2016 Pereira, R. ; Sanguino, J.; GPS Ambiguity Filter Sensitivity to the Precision of the Prior Knowledge of the Baseline Length, Proc 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society, (MetroAeroSpace 2016), Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Pereira, R. ; Sanguino, J.; Improving Detection of Incorrect GPS Carrier Phase Integer Ambiguity Solutions with the Ambiguity Filter, Proc 6th ICL-GNSS International Conference On Localization and GNSS - ICLGNSS 2016, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Ali, S. Ali; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Gameiro, A.; Joint Signal Alignment and Physical Network Coding for Heterogeneous Network, Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Thessaloniki, Greece, Vol. ICT 2016, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Rosário, F.; Monteiro, F. A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Fast Matrix Inversion Updates for Massive MIMO Detection and Precoding (see Sig. Proc. Letters paper), Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Shanghai, China, Vol. (Poster presentation under the SPL/ICASSP dual scheme), March, 2016 Lemos, J. S.; Monteiro, F. A.; Full-Duplex Massive MIMO with Physical Layer Network Coding for the TwoWay Relay Channel, Proc IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing - SAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July, 2016 Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; On the Optimum Performance of CE-OFDM Schemes in FrequencySelective Channels, Proc International Conf. for Telecommunication and Multi-Media(TEMU), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Ribeiro, F.; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.; Silva, A. ; Efficient Clustered Detection for the Uplink of Cellular Systems with Universal Frequency Reuse, Proc International Conf. for Telecommunication and MultiMedia(TEMU),, Crete, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; On the Evaluation of Clipping Effects in Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Fernandes, P.; Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; On the Capacity of Nonlinear Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Simões, T. G.; Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Dinis, R. ; Time-Interleaved Block-Windowed Burst OFDM, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montréal, Canada, September, 2016
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Bento, P.; Antunes, C. H. Antunes; Gomes, M.; Dinis, R.; Silva, V.; Beamforming Optimization for Multiuser Wireless Systems using Meta-Heuristics, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montreal, Canada, September, 2016 Cavalcante, L. ; Olmos, V. ; Monroy, I. ; Dinis, R.; Silveira, L. ; Wavelet-Coded OFDM for Next Generation Mobile Communications, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Gomes, R.Gomes; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Hammoudeh, Akram Hammoudeh; Uncompressed Full HD Video Transmission using Uncoded OFDM over Multipath Fading Channels at 60 GHz, Proc IARIA The First International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing 2016 Rafael Caldeirinha IARIA SIGNAL 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2016 Nunes, F.; Sousa, F.; Performance Evaluation in AltBOC Receivers Affected by Interference, Proc 6th ICLGNSS International Conference On Localization and GNSS - ICL-GNSS 2016, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Sousa, F.; Nunes, F.; Sensitivity of GNSS Blind Interference Detection Algorithm Based on Fourth-order Autocumulants, Proc 6th ICL-GNSS International Conference On Localization and GNSS - ICL-GNSS 2016, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Magueta, R. L.; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R.; Gameiro, A.; Iterative Space-Frequency Equalizer for CE-OFDM mmW based Systems, Proc IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Messina, Italy, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Guerreiro, J.; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Massive MIMO with Nonlinear Amplification: Signal Characterization and Performance Evaluation, Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Washington, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, December, 2016 Magueta, R. L.; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R.; Gameiro, A.; Two-Stage Space-Time Receiver Structure for Multi-user Hybrid mmW Massive MIMO Systems, Proc IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, Berlin, Germany, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Magueta, R. L.; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R.; Gameiro, A.; Non Linear Space-Time Equalizer for Single-User Hybrid mmWave Massive MIMO Systems, Proc 8th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Borges, D.; LOW COMPLEXITY MRC AND EGC BASED RECEIVERS FOR SC-FDE MODULATIONS WITH MASSIVE MIMO SCHEMES, Proc IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP, Washington, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, December, 2016 Prata, A.P.; Oliveira, A.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; All-digital flexible uplink remote radio head for C-RAN, Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp., San Francisco, United States, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2016
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Marques, P.; Challenges and Practical Applications of Passive Radar - Keynote Speech, Proc NATO Science and Technology Organization NATO Specialist Meeting on Multi-band Multi-mode Rada SET-231, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, October, 2016 Marçal, J. M.; Nunes, F.; Sousa, F.; Performance of a scintillation robust vector tracking for GNSS carrier phase signals, Proc ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), -, Netherlands, December, 2016 Nunes, F.; Leitão, J.; Sousa, F.; Performance Analysis of an Absolute Phase Modulation Scheme for GNSS Signals, Proc ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands, December, 2016 Sousa, F.; Nunes, F.; Performance of a VDFLL GNSS Receiver Architecture in Presence of Interference, Proc ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, December, 2016 Ribeiro, C.; Gameiro, A.; A 50MHz+ bandwidth real-time FPGA implementation of OFDM-based PHY transceiver for 5G, Proc Wireless Innovation Forum SDR WInnComm, Washigton, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, March, 2016 Marques, P.; A Low Cost Phase Correction Technique for Passive Radar, Proc Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisboa, Portugal, December, 2016 Circuits and Devices Book Chapters Gomes, H.L.; Organic Field Effect Transistors - Chapter in Organic and Printed Electronics: Fundamentals and Applications, CRC, CRC Press, New York, 2016 Papers in Journals Gomes, H.L.; Up-scaling of the manufacturing of all-inkjet-printed organic thin-film transistors: Device performance and manufacturing yield of transistor arrays, Organic Electronics, Vol. 30, pp. 237 - 246, January, 2016 Dghais, W. Dghais; Rodriguez, J.; New Multiport I/O Model for Power-Aware Signal Integrity Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, No. 99, pp. 1 - 8, February, 2016 Elfergani, I.; Hussaini , A. ; Rodriguez, J.; See, C; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. Abd-Alhameed; A Compact and Broadband Balun Design for LTE Applications, Progress in Electromagnetics Research B - PIERB, Vol. Vol. 67,No. ISSN: 1937-8718, pp. 85 - 95, September, 2016 Gomes, H.L.; Improving positive and negative bias illumination stress stability in parylene passivated IGZO transistors, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 109, No. 5, pp. 051606 - 051606, August, 2016
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Gomes, H.L.; Electrochemical noise and impedance of Au electrode/electrolyte interfaces enabling extracellular detection of glioma cell populations, Scientific reports, Vol. 6, pp. 34843 - 34843, October, 2016 Gomes, H.L.; All-inkjet-printed thin-film transistors: manufacturing process reliability by root cause analysis, Scientific reports, Vol. 6, pp. 33490 - 33490, September, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Costa, V.C.; Duarte, M.; Rodrigues, T. R.; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; Design and Development of an Inexpensive Aquatic Swarm Robotics System, Proc IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 Fonseca, P.; Costa, R.; Vieira, C. M.; Pereira, ACP; A Validation Framework for Visible Light Positioning in Mobile Robotics, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC) - ICARSC, Bragança, Portugal, May, 2016 Gomes, H.L.; Whole organic electronic synapses for dopamine detection, Proc SPIE - Organic Optoelectronics and Photonics III, San Diego, United States, September, 2016 Gomes, H.L.; Asgarifar, S.; Electrochemically Gated Graphene Field-Effect Transistor for Extracellular Cell Signal Recording, Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems - DOCEIS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 470 , pp. 558 - 564, April, 2016 Wireless Circuits and Devices Book Chapters Carvalho, N.B.C.; Pinho, P.; Boaventura, A.; Gonçalves, R.; Correia, R. ; 6 Far-Field Wireless Power Transmission For Low Power Applications - Chapter in Frontiers of Research and Development of Wireless Power Transfer,Tokyo, 2016 Papers in Journals Mendes, L. ; Santos, P. M.; Vaz, J.; Substrate noise isolation improvement in a single-well standard CMOS process, Integration, The VLSI Journal, Vol. 52, pp. 122 - 128, January, 2016 Pereira, M.; Vaz, J.; Leme, C.A.; Costa Freire, J.; Gain Compression Improvement on Low-Power Cascaded Current Reuse LNAs, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 1767 1779, October, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Huq, K.; Rodriguez, J.; Valerio, Valerio; Energy Efficient Interference Management in LTED2D Communication, IET Signal Processing, Vol. 29, No. 345, pp. 34 - 42, March, 2016 Pinho, P.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Moura, T.M.; High-efficiency D-TV energy harvesting system for low-input power, Wireless Power Transfer, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 34 - 42, March, 2016
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Iglésias, V.; Saghezchi, F.; Radwan, A. ; Marques, H. R.; Rodriguez, J.; Vahid, S.; Tafazolli, R. T.; A Cognitive Self-Organising Clustering Algorithm for Urban Scenarios, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 36, June, 2016 Correia, R. ; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Kawasaki, S. ; Continuously Power Delivering for Passive Backscatter Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech., Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 9, September, 2016 Jang, W.; Cordeiro, R.; Oliveira, A.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; A Broadband Almost-Digital Radio Frequency Transmitter with an Efficient Power Amplifier, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech., Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 1526 - 1534, May, 2016 Carvalho, N.B.C.; Santos, J.; Oliveira, A.; Boaventura, A.; Perfect Isolation: Dealing with Self-Jamming in Passive RFID Systems, IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 20 - 39, November, 2016 Dinis, DACD; Cordeiro, R.; Barradas, F. M. B.; Oliveira, A.; Vieira, J.; Agile Single- and Dual-Band All-Digital Transmitter Based on a Precompensated Tunable Delta–Sigma Modulator, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech., Vol. 64, No. 12, pp. 4720 - 4730, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Momenroodaki, P. ; Fernandes, R. D.; Popović, Z. ; Air-substrate Compact High Gain Rectennas for Low RF Power Harvesting, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Correia, R. ; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Design of High Order Modulation Backscatter Wireless Sensor for Passive IoT Solutions, Proc IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conf. - WPTC, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2016 Jordão, M.J.; Correia, R. ; Ribeiro, D.; Cruz, P.M.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; RF-to-DC and backscatter load modulator characterization, Proc ARFTG Conf., San Francisco, United States, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2016 Cunha, T.R.; Barradas, F. M. B.; Pedro, J. C.; The two-tone model for power amplifier modeling, Proc European Microwave Week/European Microwave Conf., London, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, October, 2016 Nunes, L. N.; Cabral, P. M.; Pedro, J. C.; AM/PM Distortion Physical Origins in Si LDMOS Doherty Power Amplifiers, Proc IEEE International Microwave Theory and Tech. Symp., San Francisco, United States, May, 2016 Cabral, P. M.; Nunes, L. N.; Pedro, J. C.; High Power Wireless Applications of Si and GaN Devices, Proc Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe WOCSDICE 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2016 Dinis, DACD; Cordeiro, R.; Oliveira, A.; Vieira, J.; Tunable Delta-Sigma Modulator for Agile All-Digital Transmitters, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Microwave Theory and Tech., San Francisco, United States, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2016
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Dinis, DACD; Cordeiro, R.; Oliveira, A.; Vieira, J.; Towards an All-Digital Antenna Array Transmitter, Proc International Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications - FPL, Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 1 - 2, August, 2016 Barradas, F. M. B.; Lavrador, P.M.L.; Cunha, T.R.; Pedro, J. C.; Characterizing direct and cross memory in RF nonlinear systems using simple two tone measurements, Proc European Microwave Week/European Microwave Conf., London, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, October, 2016 Waves and Propagation Papers in Journals Ferreira, D.; Cuinas, I.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; Dual-Band Single-Layer Quarter Ring Frequency Selective Surface for Wi-Fi applications, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 435 - 441, March, 2016 Silveirinha, M. G.; Z_2 Topological Index for Continuous Photonic Materials, Physical Review B, Vol. 93, No. 075110, pp. 1 - 16, January, 2016 Morgado, T. A.; Costa, J.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Magnetic uniaxial wire medium, Physical Review B, Vol. 93, No. 075102, February, 2016 Terças, H.; Mendonça, J. T. ; Exciton-polariton wakefields in semiconductor microcavities, Physics Letters A, Vol. 380, No. 7-8, pp. 822 - 827, February, 2016 Prudêncio, F.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Optical Isolation of Circularly Polarized Light with a Spontaneous Magnetoelectric Effect, Physical Review A, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 043846-1 - 043846-11, April, 2016 Rodrigues, J. D.; Rodrigues, J. A. ; Ferreira, A. ; Terças, H.; Kaiser, R. ; Mendonça, J. T. ; Photon Bubble Turbulence in Cold Atomic Gases, arXiv in Mathematics (Metric Geometry), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2016 Torres , J.; Machado, V.; Baptista, António Baptista; Analysis of semiconductor coupled waveguides with interband absorption, Optical and Quantum Electronics, Vol. 48, No. 7, pp. 1 - 12, June, 2016 Latioui, H.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Near-field transport by a bent multi-wire endoscope, Journal of Appl. Physics, Vol. 120, No. 063103, pp. 1 - 13, August, 2016 Malafaia, D.; Vieira, J.; Varum, T.; Tomé, A. ; Cognitive bio-radar: The natural evolution of bio-signals measurement, Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 1 - 2, August, 2016 Morgado, T. A.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Single-interface Casimir torque, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 18, No. 103030, pp. 1 - 15, October, 2016 Jorge, F. S Jorge; Riva, C. R; Rocha, A.; Characterization of interfade duration for satellite communication systems design and optimization in a temperate climate, Radio Science, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 150 - 159, March, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Prudêncio, F.; Novel Designs for Optical Isolation of Circularly Polarized Light, Proc COST ACTION MP1204 SMMO 2016 - International Conf. on Semiconductor Mid-IR Materials and Optics held jointly with the 4th Annual Conference of COST Action MP1204 SMMO 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 0 - 0, March, 2016 Ferreira, D.; Cuinas, I.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Fernandes, T. ; A Dual-Band Sine-Square FSS Design, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, April, 2016 Morgado, T. A.; Costa, J.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Magnetic Uniaxial Wire Medium, Proc International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics META, Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain, July, 2016 Jorge, F. S Jorge; Riva, C. R; Rocha, A.; Interfade and inter-event interval: A time-based classification and modelling, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Rocha, A.; Pereira, T. M. P; Mota, S.; Jorge, F. S Jorge; Alphasat experiment at Aveiro, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Ventouras, S. V; Fontan , F.; Rocha, A.; Jorge, F. S Jorge; Papafragkakis, A. P; Panagopoulos, A. P; Kourogiorgas, C. K; Vanhoenacker, D. V; Graziani, A. G; Martelucci, A. M; Large Scale Assessment of Ka/Q band atmospheric channel across Europe with ALPHASAT TDP5: A new propagation campaign, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016
4.1.7 Other Achievements Prototypes Prudêncio, F.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Costa, J.R.; Fernandes, C. A.; Waveguide Metamaterial, 000, October, 2016 Patents Carvalho, P.; Transmission Method, 15130949, April, 2016 Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Gameiro, A.; DISTRIBUTED INTERFERENCE CANCELATION BASED ON DELAYED CHANNEL GAIN INFORMATION, 20161000044859, July, 2016 Oliveira, A.; Silva, N.V.S.; Jesus, P.J.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Salgado, J. S.; MÉTODO PARA O TRANSPORTE EM LONGA DISTÂNCIA DE SINAL ANALÓGICO CATV E EXTENSOR DE ALCANCE DE SINAL ANALÓGICO CATV VIA TRANSPORTE DIGITAL SOBRE FIBRA ÓTICA, 107651, November, 2016 Correia, R. ; Carvalho, N.B.C.; SISTEMA DE SENSORES PASSIVOS ALIMENTADOS POR TRANSMISSÃO DE ENERGIA SEM FIOS, 109779, December, 2016 Pereira, J.; Bagaric, J.B.; Mendes, S. P. M.; Standing Wave Cancellation – Wireless Transmitter, Receiver, System and Respective Method, 109137, February, 2016
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Pereira, J.; Gasparovic, M.G.; Standing Wave Cancellation and Shadow Zone Reducing Wireless Transmitter, System and Respective Method and Uses, 109332, April, 2016 Awards Monteiro, F. A.; Exemplary Reviewer Award 2015, From the the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, a 1st-quartile journal co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The prize is awarded to the top 3% best reviewers nominated by the associate editors. , 01-01-2016 Lemos, J. S.; Rosário, F.; Monteiro, F. A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Luís Vidigal Prize 2015, Co-supervision of the two winners (ex aequo) of the Luís Vidigal Prize 2015 . This prize awards the Best MSc Thesis of the Year at IST in the fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Compute Science, and related fields, completed in 2015. Mr. Francisco Rosário and Mr. João Sande Lemos were both scholars under the L-DIMM-NetCod project in our group., 01-03-2016 Leonor, N.; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Sanchez , M.; Fernandes, T. ; A feasibility study on the extension of the point scatterer formulation to raised canopy forests, Best Non-Student Paper (1st place) award at 2016 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation , 01-11-2016 Correia, R. ; Carvalho, N.B.C.; 1st place ANACOM-URSI Portugal prize, 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, 01-11-2016 Correia, R. ; Carvalho, N.B.C.; 1st place Student Poster Competition, 6th Workshop WIPE (Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics), 01-05-2016 Sousa, M. ; Vieira, P.; Best Student Paper Award, WINSYS 2016, • Sousa M., Martins A., Vieira P., “SelfDiagnosing Low Coverage and High Interference in 3G/4G Radio Access Networks based on Automatic RF Measurement Extraction”, 13th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WINSYS 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, Julho de 2016(Best Student Paper Award). , 01-07-2016 Monteiro, M. ; Vieira, P.; 1º place, Best Student Paper Award, 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, • Monteiro M., Martins A, Vieira P, Rodrigues R, "Balanceamento de Carga em Redes de 4a Geração (LTE) Auto-Otimizadas", 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Novembro de 2016, (1º lugar, Best Student Paper Award) , 01-11-2016 Veríssimo, M. ; Vieira, P.; 2nd place, Best Student Paper Award, 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Veríssimo M., Gonçalves S., Martins A., Vieira P., Rodrigues A., "Avaliação de Capacidade em Redes Multi-Serviço UMTS/HSPA Baseada em Estatísticas Reais de Desempenho", 10º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Novembro de 2016, (2º lugar, Best Student Paper Award), 01-112016 Almeida, A.; Pedagogical Excellence, First prize attributed by the School of Technology and Architecture for pedagogical work selecting and applying techniques, and teaching the most appropriate methods to the objectives defined for self-assess performance, motivation, and to achieve the desired competence profile., 01-12-2016
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Carvalho, S. R. C.; Almeida, L.; Moreno, U. F.; Distributed Connectivity Management in Networks of Multiple Robots in Area Coverage Tasks, Best poster award at INForum 2016, 8th Simposium de Informática. Lisbon, Portugal., 01-09-2016 Oliveira, R.; Best Symposium Award, In appreciation for organizing the Best Symposium "Communications and Signal Processing" for the IWCMC conference, Paphos, Cyprus., 01-09-2016 Pedro, J. C.; IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award , José Carlos Pedro was awarded with the 2016 IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award, 01-05-2016 Pedro, J. C.; Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, José Carlos Pedro was named as the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, the most reputed journal of RF and microwave technology, for the term 2017-2019., 01-052016 Miscellaneous Anastácio, N.; Velez, F. J.; Merca, F.; Cabral, O.; Cost/Revenue Optimisation of Multi-service Cellular Planning for Business City Centre, COST290 – Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks, Robalo, D.R.; Flores, J.; Velez, F. J.; Cabral, O.; Holland, O.; Aghvami, H.; Meucci, F. Meucci; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, N.; Prasad, R.; Cost/Revenue Performance in an IMT-Advanced Scenario with Spectrum Aggregation Over Non-Contiguous Frequency Bands, COST IC 1004 - Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments Meeting, Ferrara, Italy, Monteiro, F. A.; EURASIPJournal on Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Lead Guest Editor, special issue on Network Coding, 01-05-2016 Monteiro, F. A.; Qualifying Examination Committee, AUB - American University of Beirut, 01-04-2016 Costa, J.R.; Matos, S.A.; Lima, E.B.; Fernandes, C. A.; Fonseca, N.; High Gain Beam Steering Transmit-array for Satcom Terminals at Ka Band, CNES CCT & GDR Ondes "Séminaire Reflect-Array & Transmit-Array", 0109-2016 Uhring, W. ; Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Paleologu, C. ; Proceedings of SIGNAL 2016, The First International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing, ISBN: 978-1-61208-487-9, 01-06-2016 Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Wireless Power Transmission Based on Resonant Electrical Coupling, Ricardo Dias Fernandes (University of Aveiro), 01-02-2016 Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; IET Academic Accreditation Accreditor, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 01-09-2016 Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Chair of the IEEE Portugal MTT-AP-ED Societies Joint Chapter, IEEE Portugal, 01-012016
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Sousa, S.; Velez, F. J.; Radio Resource Management and Optimization for LTE/LTE-A Small Cell Network, O teu futuro numa tese, Ubi, Covilhã, 01-06-2016 Velez, F. J.; Sousa, S.; Flores, J.; Robalo, D.R.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; LTE-Advanced Radio and Network Optimization: Basic Coverage and Interference Constraints, 1st Meeting of the Management Committee of COST CA 15104 - Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond, TD(16) 01029, Lille, France, 01-05-2016 Velez, F. J.; Sousa, S.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; Basic Limits for LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization in the Outdoor-to-indoor Scenario, 1st Meeting of the Management Committee of COST CA 15104 - Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond, TD(16) 01029, Lille, France, 01-052016 Velez, F. J.; Sousa, S.; Flores, J.; Robalo, D.R.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; LTE-Advanced Radio and Network Optimization: Basic Coverage and Interference Constraints, Final Workshop CREaTION – 5th February of 2016, 01-02-2016 Paulo, R. R. P.; Velez, F. J.; Piro, ; Impact of Transmitter Power in Packet Schedulers Performance in LTE HetNets, Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond, 01-05-2016 Teixeira, E.S.B.Teixeira; Mentor in "Estágio de INICIAÇÃO À ELETRÓNICA E TELECOMUNICAÇÕES" CIÊNCIA VIVA NO LABORATÓRIO - Ocupação Científica de Jovens, CIÊNCIA VIVA NO LABORATÓRIO , 0106-2016 Caldeirinha, R. F. S.; Nonuniform 2D Microstrip Antenna Arrays for Wireless Applications, Tiago Miguel Valente Varum (Universidade de Aveiro), 01-12-2016 Costa, J.R.; 2017 IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest, IEEE Antennnas and Propagation Society, 01-12-2016
4.1.8 Other Contributions Conference Committees Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores do ISEL, Sessions Chairman, Paulo Alexandre Carapinha Marques, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications - SPAWC, Special Sessions Chairman, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 05-07-2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC, Technical Programme Committee, Samah A. M. Ghanem, 03-04-2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Technical Programme Committee, Samah A. M. Ghanem, 23-05-2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, 23-05-2016
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Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Organizing Committee, Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira, 06-12-2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC, Technical Programme Committee, Abdelgader Mahmoud Abdalla Mahmoud, 03-04-2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Technical Programme Committee, Samah A. M. Ghanem, 16-02-2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. - IWCMC - IWCMC, Technical Programme Committee, Firooz B. Saghezchi, 04-03-2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Technical Programme Committee, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, 04-12-2016 IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC, Technical Programme Committee, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, 07-09-2016 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conf. - WPTC, Technical Programme Chairman, Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz, 05-05-2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC, Special Sessions Chairman, Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq, 03-04-2016 European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Sessions Chairman, Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa, 12-04-2016 IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Sessions Chairman, Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa, 30-06-2016 COST ACTION MP1204 SMMO 2016 - International Conf. on Semiconductor Mid-IR Materials and Optics held jointly with the 4th Annual Conference of COST Action MP1204 SMMO 2016, Conference Chairman, Filipa Isabel Rodrigues Prudêncio, 16-04-2016 International Symp. on Medical Information and Communication Technology Programme Committee, João Manuel de Almeida Monteiro Felício, 18-10-2016
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IEEE Communications Society IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops: Broadband Wireless Access Workshop GLOBECOM, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca Pinto, 04-12-2016 IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo da Costa Luis da Fonseca Pinto, 23-05-2016 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service Rafael Caldeirinha PlatCon, Technical Programme Committee, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, 15-02-2016 IARIA International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing SIGNAL, Conference co-chair, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, 26-06-2016
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ACM International Workshop on Smart, Autonomous, and Connected Vehicular Systems and Services ACM CarSys, Organizing Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 07-10-2016 International Conf. on Localization and GNSS - ICL, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Duarte Nunes, 28-06-2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Technical Programme Committee, Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira, 18-09-2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Technical Programme Committee, Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira, 15-05-2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. - IWCMC - IWCMC, Special Sessions Chairman, Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira, 04-09-2016 Editorial Committees Metamaterials, Elsevier, Mário Gonçalo Mestre Verissimo Silveirinha, Member of Editorial Board, 01-012008 to Intrnl. Journal of Power Electronics (IJPElec), Inderscience, Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos Santos, Editorial Board member, 01-01-2008 to Journal of Communications and Networks, ETRI, Luis Manuel Jesus Sousa Correia, Associated Editor, 0105-2007 to Wireless Personal Communications, Kluwer, Luis Manuel Jesus Sousa Correia, Editorial Board, 01-01-2002 to Annales des Telecommunications-Annals of Telecommunications, GET, Luis Manuel Jesus Sousa Correia, Editorial Board, 01-01-2002 to Intrnl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, Editorial Board, 01-06-2009 to IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE, Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa, Associate Editor, 01-08-2010 to 31-07-2016 Measurement Science & Technology, IET, Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez, Guest Editor, 01-12-2010 to Intrnl. Journal On Advances in Systems and Measurements, IARIA, Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues de Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, 01-01-2009 to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., IEEE, Antonio Navarro Rodrigues, Associate Editor, 01-09-2008 to Journal of Green Engineering, River Publishers, Fernando Jose da Silva Velez, Editorial Board, 01-03-2010 to
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Intrnl. Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), Information Resources Management Association, Fernando Jose da Silva Velez, Editorial Board, 01-02-2009 to IEEE Wireless Communication Maganize, Shahid Mumtaz, Guest Editor, 01-11-2013 to IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE (Cooperative and Cognitive wireless communication), Shahid Mumtaz, Guest Editor, 01-11-2013 to IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE, Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis, Editor, 01-02-2012 to Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Science Publishing Group, Pedro Miguel Duarte Cruz, Editorial Board Member, 01-10-2013 to EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer, Francisco António Taveira Branco Nunes Monteiro, Lead Guest Editor, EURASIPJournal on Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special issue on Network Coding, 01-12-2014 to 31-05-2016 IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE, José Manuel Bioucas Dias, Associate Editor, 01-012013 to 01-01-2017 IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., IEEE, Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis, Editor, 01-01-2015 to IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE, Shahid Mumtaz, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, 01-01-2016 to IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, Shahid Mumtaz, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, 01-02-2015 to Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Shahid Mumtaz, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, 16-03-2015 to IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, Associate Editor, 01-08-2016 to IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, IET, Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, Associate Editor, 03-082016 to 30-06-2019 Springer Wireless Networks, , Fernando Jose da Silva Velez, , 01-10-2013 to Journal of Ambient Wireless Communications and Smart Environments, , Fernando Jose da Silva Velez, , 15-04-2013 to Journal of Ambient Wireless Communications and Smart Environments, , Fernando Jose da Silva Velez, , 15-04-2013 to Radioengineering, Paulo Miguel de Araújo Borges Montezuma de Carvalho, , 01-12-2016 to
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4.2
Optical Communications
4.2.1 Coordinators Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo José Rodrigues Ferreira da Rocha
4.2.2 Human Resources Overview Position
IT – Aveiro
IT – Coimbra
IT – Lisboa
Technical Officer
0
1
0
MSc
1
0
0
PhD
1
0
0
Researcher
3
0
1
Full Professor
2
0
1
Associate Professor
3
2
3
Assistant Professor
5
1
3
Post. Doc.
13
0
2
PhD Student
22
0
4
MSc Student
2
0
0
Licenciado
1
0
1
External Author
1
0
0
Other
0
0
1
Total
54
4
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Permanent Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group
Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo
Full Professor
Agregação
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Ali Shahpari
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Álvaro José Caseiro de Almeida
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Ana Maria Sousa da Rocha
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Associate Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Armando Humberto Moreira Nolasco Pinto
Associate Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Berta Neto
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes
Associate Professor
Agregação
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Carlos Alberto Ferreira Marques
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Carlos Miguel Santos Vicente
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Gokhan Sahin
PhD
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Henrique José Almeida Silva
Associate Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Co
João José de Oliveira Pires
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
João Manuel Ferreira Pedro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
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Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira
Associate Professor
José António Magalhães
MSc Student
José Rodrigues Ferreira da Rocha
Full Professor
L1DLiliana
Technical Officer
Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro
Researcher
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Manuel Alberto Reis de Oliveira Violas
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Marcelino Pousa
MSc
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Maria de Fátima Fonseca Domingues
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Maria do Carmo Raposo de Medeiros
Associate Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Co
Mário José Neves de Lima
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Miguel Vidal Drummond
Researcher
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Naresh Kumar
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Natasa Pavlovic
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Nelson de Jesus Cordeiro Muga
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Agregação
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av Administrative Coimbra
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Nuno Alexandre Peixoto Silva
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Paulo Miguel Nepomuceno Pereira Monteiro
Associate Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
Associate Professor
Agregação
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Rogério Nunes Nogueira
Researcher
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Rui Manuel Dias Morais
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
Researcher
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Zoran Vujicic
Post. Doc.
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Other Collaborators Name
Position
Ana Cristina Maia Tavares
PhD Student
André Antunes de Carvalho Albuquerque
PhD Student
Andreas Pospori
PhD Student
António Miguel Barata da Eira
PhD Student
Bruno Rafael Pereira Pinheiro
PhD Student
Degree
Group Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
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Cátia Manuela Rodrigues Pinho
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Celestino Sanches Martins
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Daniel André Pires Duarte
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Esequiel Mesquita
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Fabrício Rossy de Lima Lobato
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Filipa da Rosa Carvalhal Sequeira
PhD Student
Francisco Manuel Ruivo Rodrigues
PhD Student
Gil Gonçalo Martins Fernandes
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Hugo Filipe Teixeira Lima
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Isiaka Ajewale Alimi
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Jamshid Heidarialamdarloo
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
João Lemos Pinto
Full Professor
Agregação
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
João Lopes Rebola
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
José Miguel Santos
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences e Costa Cancela
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
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Marco Molon
External Author
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Nuno Ricardo Pereira Bastos
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Paula Raquel Viegas dos Santos Nunes Laurêncio
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Co
Pedro Charrua
Other
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Pedro Emanuel Domingos da Cruz
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Ricardo Jorge Figueiredo Oliveira
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Ricardo Manuel Silva Ferreira
PhD Student
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Rui Fernando Gomes de Sousa Ribeiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Rui Pedro Oliveira Alves
Assistant Professor
PhD
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Sandra Correia
PhD Student
Sofia Batalha de Oliveira Pascoal Amado
PhD Student
Somayeh Ziaie
PhD Student
Telmo David Pelicano Almeida
PhD Student
Tiago de Brito Paixão
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Tiago Maia
MSc Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
MSc
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
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Tiago Miguel Rosa Dias
Licenciado
Optical Communications and Photonics – Lx
Vanessa Cunha Duarte
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
4.2.3 Summary of Research Achievements 4.2.3.1
Optical components and sub-systems
4.2.3.1.1 Quantum communications
Experimental demonstration of the feasibility of a two-state quantum bit commitment protocol, which is both concealing and partially binding, assuming technological limitations. The security of this protocol is based on the lack of long-term stable quantum memories. The measurement probability for the commitment was obtained and the optimal cheating strategy demonstrated.
A nonintrusive technique to continuously control random polarization rotations for quantum communications was proposed. It allows an automatic control of the random polarization rotations that photons suffer during their propagation inside standard fibres, without the use of additional classical signals and hardware.
4.2.3.1.2 Numerical modeling and simulation
Modeling of concentrating photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) regarding geometry and thermal effects was investigated. The design of the solar cell configuration has been emphasized as an important tool to optimize PVT performances in the energy conversion process.
The numerical analysis and modeling of ultrafast, long wavelength semiconductor photodetectors for optical communication systems, focused on pin based devices, namely waveguide photo-detectors, were investigated. Special attention was given to the photodetectors’ frequency response regarding the material and structural parameters.
Electrical models and noise analysis of microelectrodes arrays (MEAS) integrated in a sensor platform that measures bio-electronic signals were developed. This work is integrated in a multidisciplinary project and is an example how the modelling and numerical tools employed in the optical communications area can be applied to other areas.
Investigation of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance of Stokes space based polarization-demultiplexing algorithms, in optical transmission supported by coherent detection and digital signal processing. The PMD tolerance was evaluated as a function of the ratio of differential group delay over symbol period, allowing to identify a regime 108
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where Stokes space based polarization-demultiplexing is performed practically without penalty (smaller than 1 dB).
Impact of optical amplification on the achievable information rate (AIR) considering continuous and discrete modulation formats. The theoretical model for the AIR considers the optical amplification noise, the nonlinear optical noise, and the coherent receiver shot and thermal noise sources. We observe that for a polarization multiplexing (PM) 4-PSK constellation, the plateau of 4 bits/symbol is preserved even if we remove the last two amplifiers from the transmission link
4.2.3.1.3 Components development and production
The required laboratory infrastructures and demonstration capabilities were created for testing Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).
Thermal actuated integrated optic devices (Mach-Zehnder modulators and 90º hybrid couplers), based on sol-gel layers deposited over oxidized silica substrates and recorded using direct UV laser exposition were developed for coherent systems.
Development of a Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator and optical micro-ring resonators structures, based on sol gel materials termed as di-ureasils. The successful evaluation of the MachZehnder modulator confirmed the successful application of di-ureasils as electro-optic substrates for integrated optics devices.
Optimization of thin film filters for inclusion in bulk optics.
The control interface of direct laser UV writing system available at IT was adapted to produce optical micro-ring resonators structures. The control interface allows now the control of geometrical characteristics of these devices. Several geometries for ring resonators were implemented experimentally and characterized in an optical fiber test set-up.
Implementation of photonic integrated circuit interfaces both in optical and in electrical domain, through the development of techniques for alignment and driving of this circuitry for high data rate passive optical networks (PONs).
Development of models for fast thermo-electric cooling of low cost lasers in order to improve its performance and tuning.
Smart labels based on the spectral multiplexing of QR codes doped with optical active centers were studied and developed.
4.2.3.1.4 All optical signal processing
Investigation of all-optical transforms for image signal processing aiming at diversifying from the traditional transmission schemes. This will open new paths where image processing and energy will play relevant roles. The first prototype chips of a compression matrix have arrived and are being characterized.
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4.2.3.1.5 Sensors Sensors based on plastic optical fiber, silica optical fibers and free space optics, were developed for the measurement of physical, chemical and biometric parameters. Some relevant contributions included:
Design and development of new POF (Plastic optical fibre) based sensors: o
Stain, temperature, pressure, relative humidity and refractive index plastic FBG (fibre Bragg grating) based sensors;
o
Multiparameter sensors based on Singlemode-Multimode-Singlemode (SMS) structures;
o
Chemical optical fibre sensors for water quality assessment using molecular imprinted polymer technology.
Development of low cost optical fibre sensors based on Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) microcavities to monitor temperature, pressure, humidity and angular movements.
Research of new optical fibre sensing solutions for incorporation in rehabilitation exoskeletons.
Production of optical fibre sensing instrumented insoles (for shoe adaptation) to monitor the gait plantar pressures.
Improvement of the optical fibre sensors performance by coating the optical fibre with nanocrystalline diamond films, aiming at extending the measurement periods in corrosive environments.
Development of cost effective new optical fibre sensors based on micro-cavities created by the catastrophic fuse effect, for humidity and liquid hydrostatic pressure monitoring.
Study the application of optical fibre sensors in specific fields: o
Thermal and pressure monitoring of the injection moulding process;
o
Internal and external temperature monitoring of Li-ion batteries for detection of battery damage and performance;
o
Monitoring of the bond-ship of old reinforced concrete
4.2.3.1.6 Solar Cells and solar concentrators
Monte Carlo modeling, production and characterization of luminescent layers deposited over optical substrates for utilization as luminescent solar concentrators were investigated, envisaging the increase of photovoltaic cells efficiency.
4.2.3.2
Optical communications systems
4.2.3.2.1
Signal processing for high-bit rate optical communications
Optimization of next generation flexible transceivers for optical networks, based on advanced modulation formats and direct/coherent detection.
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Real time operation of high order modulation formats, solving the problems of clock synchronization.
Development of a space-demultiplexing algorithm based on signal analysis in higher-order Poincaré spheres, for optical transmission systems that use space-division multiplexing. Important features of this algorithm: it is modulation format agnostic and does not require training sequences. Using this approach, we have achieved signal demultiplexing, with negligible signalto-noise ratio (SNR) penalties for quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations, and with a SNR penalty as low as 0.5 dB for 64-QAM.
4.2.3.2.2 Techniques for performance evaluation of optical communication systems and networks
The impact of in-band crosstalk on optical coherent QPSK and M-QAM systems performance was evaluated using an analytical model based on the moment generating function of the receiver decision variable.
4.2.3.2.3 Radio over fiber systems
Radio access architectures supported by radio over fibre (RoF) addressing heterogeneous scenario, where a femtocell used to increase the capacity and coverage of a mobile operator through coexistence with a WiFi network, were studied. Both, mobile femtocell and WiFi networks are connected to the operator’s network through an IP broadband backhaul connection. Such centralized heterogeneous scenario is supported by a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) using Radio over Fiber (RoF) technology. This architecture employs low cost components combined with digital distortion compensation techniques.
4.2.3.2.4 Optical transmission based on space division multiplexing
Study theoretically and experimentally the viability of Long Period Gratings (LPGs) in Multicore Fibres (MCFs) for the development of different components. We proposed the use of identical inscribed gratings in a four-core fiber to promote the power transfer between all the cores evenly, which can be useful for the distribution of a single pump to all the cores.
We also studied the power transfer between identical cores of Heterogeneous MCFs, as a first step towards the realization of an inline core/wavelength selective switch for multicarrier-space division multiplexing (MC-SDM) transmission systems.
The design of photonic devices for mode-division multiplexing (MDM) and orbital angular momentum multiplexing (OAM) was investigated. The main objective was the mitigation of main impairments and limitations of the presently available devices and systems.
A time varying phase shift associated with each phase matching point of MCFs was developed for the first time to describe the stochastic time evolution of the inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) observed experimentally.
An analytical discrete changes model of the ICXT in real homogeneous weakly-coupled MCFs with bending and twisting perturbations, and for operation in the phase-matching region, was developed and validated.
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Adaptive direct-detection (DD) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission was proposed for low-cost deployment of homogenous MCF links where ICXT can cause outage probabilities.
A DD-OFDM system employing adaptive modulation to enable the implementation of weaklycoupled homogeneous MCF links impaired by stochastic ICXT has been experimentally demonstrated and monitored continuously for the first time over 210 hours.
An average throughput of 12 Gb/s in adaptive DD-OFDM MCF links was shown which represents a reduction of only 9% relative to the throughput achieved without ICXT and an improvement of 23% relative to the throughput achieved in a static modulation system.
A simple model to estimate the time evolution of the error vector magnitude (EVM) of DD-OFDM MCF systems due to the random time nature of the ICXT from the normalized power of the detected crosstalk was proposed.
The outage in coherent optical communication systems due to inter-core crosstalk was investigated.
4.2.3.2.5 Digital signal processing for optical communication systems
We assessed experimentally the performance and complexity of multicarrier digital backpropagation (DBP), for dual- and triple-carrier 400G superchannels based on polarizationmultiplexed (PM) with 16QAM and 64QAM modulation. As an alternative to the widely used nonlinear compensation based on total-field DBP, we demonstrate that a coupled-equations DBP (CE-DBP) approach can be computationally more efficient and more robust.
We experimentally assess the performance versus complexity tradeoff of advanced split-step and Volterra-based DBP techniques. We applied this approach to a WDM (75-GHz flexigrid) ultra-longhaul (ULH) transmission system, composed of five dual-carrier PM-16 quadratic-amplitude modulation 400 G superchannels.
Using DBP based on the split step Fourier method (SSFM) aided by a memory polynomial (MP) model, we demonstrate an improved DBP approach for fiber nonlinearity compensation. Considering a single-channel 336 Gbit/s PM-64QAM transmission system, the proposed technique maintains the performance achieved by the benchmark DBP-SSFM technique, while decreasing the required number of iterations, by 60%.
We proposed a novel and efficient multiplierless finite-impulse response (FIR)-based filter architecture for chromatic dispersion equalization (CDE). The proposed equalizers were experimentally compared with benchmark FIR-CDE and frequency-domain (FD)-CDE implementations. Our implementation achieved computational resource savings of over 99% in number of multiplication operations and 40% in number of additions.
Experimental evaluation of an adaptive polarization demultiplexing technique based on the representation of the state of polarization of the signal in the Stokes space. The applicability of the technique was validated in an ultra-dense wavelength-division multiplexing scenario over 80
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km of standard single-mode fiber. Results show a very small power penalty in high capacity optical metro and access networks scenarios. 4.2.3.2.6 Free space and underwater optical communication systems
Exploration of the orbital angular momentum / space / phase degrees of freedom, envisaging the transmission capacity increase of free space optical communication systems.
Investigation a MIMO based mixed RF/FSO (radio frequency/freespace optics) dual-hop relay system, as an efficient backhaul/fronthaul solution for the next generation wireless systems. We have analyzed the outage performance of the system assuming Rayleigh fading for the RF links and generalized atmospheric turbulence channels for the FSO links.
Development of low complexity, adaptive multivariate precomputed B-spline and Barycentric Lagrange interpolation based lookup table (B2LUT) models, for the estimation of channel capacity in MIMO-FSO communication systems over generalized Málaga distributed atmospheric turbulence channels. The models can enhance the speed by up to fifteen orders of magnitude, without loss of fidelity compared to the current analytical models.
Research of OFDM based FSO Communication System using M-ary QAM modulation with enhanced detection.
4.2.3.3
Optical networking
4.2.3.3.1 Optical transport networks
Multi-layer optimization methods based on integer linear programming (ILP) techniques, to be used in the context of multi-period network planning, were developed to study the interaction between transport and client layers.
ILP techniques and heuristics were developed to optimize optical networks using defragmentation techniques in the presence of different planning policies.
The multipath interference in optical networks using coherent detection techniques was studied, and its impact on performance was evaluated.
The effectiveness of grooming and switching policies for multi-period multi-layer planning using sliceable bandwidth-variable transponders was investigated.
Techno-economic assessment of key transmission and amplification technologies for ultra-longhaul transport networks was investigated.
Different architectures for next-generation transponders, namely taking into account flexible vs. fixed rate capabilities on the line side and flexible vs. fixed client-to-line side interconnection, were modeled and their performance was compared.
Novel network design methods to maximize spectral efficiency in next-generation optical transport networks exploiting the concept of super channel / media channel were investigated.
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Modular OTN / DWDM node architectures exploiting different schemes to provide interconnection between separate shelves were investigated. The potential benefits of traffic regrooming were assessed.
CD and CDC ROADMs were compared in terms of in-band crosstalk impact.
The nonlinear crosstalk in ultra-dense direct-detection single-sideband MB-OFDM WDM metropolitan networks was studied.
4.2.3.3.2 Optical access networks
Survey study of network resilience against weather disruptions in converged networks with several access technologies, either wired (DSL, FFTx) and wireless (WiFi, 3G, 4G) while minimizing costs, power consumption and spectrum utilization in the wireless section.
Research on various passive optical network (PON) solutions towards ultimately assuring the following features: (a) adaptability to a range of requirements foreseen by standardized PON technologies, while allowing coexistence with legacy systems; (b) simplification of the physical footprint and relaxation of power consumption requirements; (c) scalability and flexibility in support of dynamic customer requirements
4.2.4 Running and Concluded Projects Overview Funding Agency
Number
ESF/COST
3
FCT
1
FCT/PTDC
1
IT
5
IT/LA
4
QREN/COMPETE
1
P2020
1
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Activity in Projects Acron / Ref
IC1101 IC1101
Title
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.
Acron / Ref
MP1205 MPNS COST Action MP1205
Title
COST Advances in Optofluidics: Integration of Optical Control and Photonics with Microfluidics
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
The aim of this COST Action is to establish active interlinks between laboratories working in the fields of micro and optofluidics, optical tweezers, nanoscience and photonics, bio and soft materials, focusing their work towards lab-on-a-chip systems and at promoting long-term development of these fields in Europe. The goal is to increase the knowledge in basic physics and biology from the micro- down to the nanoscale, 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,
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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; 3Materials (soft, bio and nano) and technologies for optofluidic devices
Acron / Ref
HYDRA-ROF P01230
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 access technologies (RATs) and based on these integration strategies develop efficient strategies for load balancing and traffic offloading.
Acron / Ref
CV-Quantum P01240
Title
Improving Security 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
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Capacity
Using
Continuous
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Quantum
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information contains only few-photons. 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.
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sWAT P01262
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.
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BEACON 607401
Title
ScalaBle & Low-Power Microwave Photonics for FlexiblE, TerAbit Telecom Payloads & High-speed Coherent Inter-satellite LiNks
Funding 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
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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 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.
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INITIATE P01315
Title
INnovatIve graTings In plAstic opTical fibEr
Funding
IT
Descript.
Modelling and improve the theoretical understanding of new geometries of POF. Fabrication of the PFBG with different geometries. Development of innovative devices for low-cost passive all-optical processing using PFBG namely: i) a POF fiber laser; ii) a fiber polarization controller; iii) an high tunable optical filter and wavelength division multiplexer (WDM). Development of new techniques for splicing of POF using the selfwritten waveguides approach. Design and development of new sensors based on PFBG. Two applications are envisaged: i) develop a smart textile with embedded PFBGs; ii) develop novel chemical optical fiber sensors for water quality assessment. Experimental evaluation and assessment of the proposed solutions with the presentation of prototypes.
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COSTMP1401
Title
COST Action MP1401 Advanced fibre laser and coherent source as tools for society, manufacturing and lifescience
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
Among the different types of Lasers, fibre lasers are, both as research and commercially, the youngest, yet the fast growing type of laser due to several factors. This Action will be the first arena where experts in fundamental material science, established laser and component groups, fibre laser manufacturers and end-users will be able to actively interact, share know-how and focus on common goals. We do expect to boost a series of innovations in the field. Among them we aim to cover the 3-6
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micron wavelength interval, and beyond, to support mid-infrared applications and to enhance fibre performance to cover more efficiently visible and ultra-violet wavelength generation for biophotonics and healthcare. The Action will also investigate glass material and fibre design to overcome the actual limitation in output power. The improvements will mainly boost healthcare to benefit wide society and EU manufacturing to retain and increase manufacturing workforce within EU. The Action will mentor a new generation of researchers by providing Early Stage Researchers an opportunity to develop both scientific and management skills. At the same time the Action will actively promote gender balance and women researchers to management positions
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AMEN
Title
Analysis and Mitigation of crosstalk Effects in multicore fibre -based Networks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
This project aims at developing and analysing models for the statistical characterisation of ICXT in MCFs, proposing techniques for mitigating those effects in MCF-based networks, and using those achievements in the development of ICXT-aware algorithms for routing, spectrum and core assignment (RSCA) in MCF-based elastic optical networks (EONs). The project focuses on the theoretical and simulation studies of the statistical characteristics of ICXT in MCF and techniques for mitigating its impact on MCF-based networks. These studies are complemented by the experimental demonstration of the main outcomes of the theoretical and simulation studies. The project takes advantage of the expertise on experimental work and system design on MCF technology of NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, from Japan) combined with the experience of IT (Optical Communications Group at Lisbon site of Instituto de Telecomunicações) on theoretical modelling and analysis of optical fibre telecommunication systems and networks. The project has three particular objectives. The first one is focused on the investigation of the modelling and statistical characterisation of ICXT of MCFs using theoretical, numerical simulation and experimental work. Particularly, the rigorous statistical and spectral characterisation of ICXT is performed, and the impact of fibre nonlinearity on ICXT statistics and spectral features is assessed. Using that characterisation, the impact of ICXT statistical features on MCF system performance is assessed. The second objective is focused on the investigation of modulation techniques for mitigation of ICXT effects in MCF-based networks, using theoretical, numerical simulation and experimental work. In particular, the ICXT mitigation achieved by adaptive techniques in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is assessed. Furthermore, new complex multi-core (spatial) modulation formats, that exploit the time and spectral
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varying characteristics and random nature of ICXT, are proposed and their performance in terms of tolerance to ICXT is compared with other multi-core modulation formats already proposed in the literature. The third objective of the project is focused on the study of the impact of ICXT on some network layer aspects of MCF-based flexgrid EONs, using theoretical and numerical simulation work. In particular, simplified equivalent models for quantification of impact of ICXT (taking into account its random nature) on the performance of MCF-based EONs are proposed, ICXT-aware RSCA algorithms taking into account the ICXT effects are proposed, and their performance is compared with the performance of other RSCA algorithms already proposed in the literature.
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Compress PTDC/EEITEL/ 7163/2014
Title
COMPRESS - All optical data compression
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
COMPRESS is focused on a main objective: to develop optical tools that implement layers of ( pre) optical compression, applicable to any type of signal (image, data, etc.). The solutions discussed in COMPRESS, inspired by the excellent results of the pioneers CITO project, already completed with excellent, where the team explored the concepts and demonstrated that the principle of optical transforms could be applied to the compression and decompression of data and even greater advantages could still arise if the process was implemented in integrated photonics. Given the transparency and passive nature of the proposed process, this methodology may allow a large energy saving and processing capacity relief in the current compression and decompression systems, since this is a key function of traditional related operations, eg Haar transforms, fully in the optical domain. COMPRESS will depart from an implementation of a key element, the magicT a coupler that allows additions and subtractions in the optical domain. This element allows you to implement the Haar transform in the optical domain. This component has been implemented based on couplers, in CITO project and the European project context PARADIGM, where he was awarded a slot for implementation in a multi process wafer run, due to its degree of conceptual innovation. This design and implementation basis, allow the establishment of comparison baselines for the technical proposal right from Day 1 of COMPRESS project, if approved for funding. This chip, together with the team of knowledge in the area, and with existing capabilities in IT av will be possible to develop models, concepts and implementations that are sure to overcome the barriers that the first generation features: size and complexity. In COMPRESS we objectively reduce the size of these components to 1/10 the size just based m change in approach, a linear coupler for an MMI coupler (multimode interferometer), process does not necessarily simple but not with obvious fundamental limitations. This will allow the development of more
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complex transforms and, hence, more useful for real systems, or the increased level of compression, or the signal input number or points simultaneous processed by one optical chip. the COMPRESS, when successfully completed will open a lot of doors for new applications and will certainly have a high impact in the fields of image processing and telecommunications.
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SoftTransceiver
Title
Software Defined Transceiver for Flexible Optical Networks
Funding
IT
Descript.
The primary technical objective of the project is to develop and implement a flexible transceiver prototype with software-driven reconfigurability and arbitrarily low bit-rate granularity. The development of this technology will enable to increase the network capacity and the spectral/energy efficiency, while providing a future-proof flexible solution for an increasingly heterogeneous global network. In order to guarantee a smooth upgrade of currently installed optical transmission systems, the SoftTransceiver project encompasses a dual-generation approach: - 1st generation: fixed symbol-rate transceivers with variable bit-rate, enabled by hybrid QAM techniques, for deployed fiber systems employing a fixed frequency grid (ITU-T: 50 GHz); - 2nd generation: variable symbol-rate transceivers for novel transmission systems based on special fibers, using a flexible frequency grid (ITU-T G.694.1: 12.5 GHz). In the initial stage of the project, we will focus on the maximization of capacity and spectral efficiency of currently deployed fiber systems, taking advantage of our previous experience on key research topics, such as: - Development of advanced DSP subsystems for optical communication systems; - Modelling and equalization of nonlinear fiber impairments; - Laboratorial test and validation of long-haul fiber links; - Hardware implementation and real-time processing. Aiming to prepare the upcoming transmission standards for high-bit rate fiber links, the SoftTransceiver project will investigate optimum super-channel configurations for 400G and 1T transmission. Taking into account the expected evolution on microelectronics, these new 400G and 1T transceivers will demand a strong effort on the synchronization and joint processing of individual subcarriers. Building on our research experience, we will develop advanced DSP subsystems for linear and nonlinear equalization of fiber impairments, namely by expanding our work on Stokes-based demultiplexing and Volterra-based nonlinear mitigation. This background experience will be complemented by the exploitation of novel technologies, with emphasis on the use of hybrid QAM modulation to increase the bit-rate granularity. The study and development of the 2nd generation variable symbol-rate transceiver will greatly benefit from the advances and know-how potentiated by the aforementioned initial
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stage of research. In this second stage of development, the SoftTransceiver project will be mostly focused on the optimization of spectral and energy efficiency, promoting a strong cooperation with the control plane for a smart management of traffic demand and energy/spectral resources. Enabled by the variable symbol-rate paradigm, we will investigate optimized tradeoffs between receiver sensitivity and bandwidth. Using network dimensioning tools we will tackle OpEx and CapEx expenditure costs, aiming at the minimization of the cost per bit in flexible optical networks. To enhance the collaboration with international partners, the SoftTransceiver project includes external consultancy from top-level researchers associated with reference foreign institutions, enabling a two-way transfer of knowledge and broadening the dissemination of obtained results through a yearly organization of project workshops. Benefiting from IT’s state-of-the-art laboratorial facilities, all developed concepts, algorithms and components will be thoroughly experimentally validated, culminating in the development and demonstration of prototypes for variable bit-rate and variable symbol-rate transceivers. A final field trial and a closing workshop are scheduled to take place by the end of the project, making sure that a large dissemination of the project results is achieved among the scientific community, industry and general public.
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OPTICAL 5G
Title
High-Capacity SDM Solutions for Optical Backhaul in 5G Networks and Optical Data Center Connectivity
Funding
IT
Descript.
This project embraces the investigation of enabled optical networks based on spatial division multiplexing (SDM) for optical backhaul in 5G network infrastructure and data center connectivity. The SDM analysis is going to comprise the investigation of very high capacity optical systems supported by multicore (MCF) and few-mode fibers (FMF), complemented by optical free-space connections. By introducing an additional orthogonal multiplexing dimension, the space, along with advanced modulation formats we are proposing optical backhaul solutions with very-high capacity, spectral efficiency, and energy efficiency, and low cost per bit. Such kind of solution will reveals of most importance to face the increasing bandwidth demand and challenging requirements arising from new applications in very high capacity future 5G networks. Due to the short distance involved in such optical backhaul links, the proposed very high capacity optical systems will be extrapolated for application in data center connectivity environments, where a high bandwidth are need to sustain the increase of network traffic due to cloud computing and other emerging web applications. The main scientific objectives of this project are: a. Develop a complete set of numerical tools to fully emulate very high capacity optical backhaul systems, supported by MCF
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and FMF, for 5G networks; b. Propose new low-complexity and modulation format agnostic digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for flexible and customizable optical coherent systems, employing variable bit rate hybrid quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) schemes; c. Design of hybrid SDM networks (MCF/FMF plus freespace optical links) to an increased robustness, flexibility and security of optical backhaul 5G networks; d. Extrapolated the proposed very-high capacity solutions for application in data center connectivity environments.
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ImpAr uid/50008
Title
Physical Impairment Modelling in Flexible Optical Node Architectures
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
One major goal in this project is to develop an analytical formulation,as well as a stochastic Monte-Carlo (MC) simulator, that allow us to study in a rigorous way the impact of in-band crosstalk, both incoherent and coherent, originated in CDC ROADMs in the performance of flexible grid networks, considering 16-QAM and 64-QAM 400 Gbps signals. On a network-side perspective, the emergence of modulation formats with higher-order constellations and, consequently, with stricter performance margins has increased the importance of physical impairment awareness in the network planning process. Thus, it is essential to incorporate the effects of in-band crosstalk, along with other effects, in an impairment-aware routing and spectrum assignment (RSA) framework. This framework should be able to efficiently provision paths and spectrum for superchannels based on M-QAM carriers in a CDC-ROADM network, while using the physical model as a performance validation tool for candidate optical paths.
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WeHope
Title
WeHope - Wearable e-health optical fiber monitoring system
Funding
IT
Descript.
The continuous aging of the population has increased health risks, leading to the need for close monitoring of elder citizens and patients. Fortunately, the field of e-Health has been experiencing great progress, although it still faces challenges, since it needs to be applied without compromising the mobility or lifestyle of monitored patients. The challenges facing the development of mobile health monitoring devices are mainly related to power consumption, size, weight, safety, and privacy. Addressing such challenges, WeHope project aims to design the next generation of mobile health
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monitoring systems, through designing an integrated “in-shoe” optical fiber sensor network, which is able to monitor health conditions by observing physiological parameters in the foot. The WeHope project will design small non-invasive high precision integrated optical fiber sensor network, which is immune to electromagnetic interference and intrinsically electric safe. Such optical fiber sensing network, based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) technology, will be integrated with a mobile interrogation monitor (FBG-IM) interfacing, and software for remote control of the FBG-IM. The aim of the proposed project is to enhance the life quality of patients; hence WeHope system needs to perform continuous health monitoring without compromising patients’ lifestyle by guaranteeing free mobility. The project thus investigates the provision of ubiquitous energy efficient wireless connectivity with a monitoring application in the cloud. Energy efficiency is key to prolong the lifetime of the system; thus providing longer periods of mobility without the need for recharging. Finally, the project will propose an innovative security scheme to protect sensitive transmitted data, while preserving patient’s privacy, such as location, with an efficient revocation scheme when required (i.e. in emergency situations).
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PhoTech-5G/60GHz UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Photonic Technologies to support 5G/60GHz WLANS
Funding
IT
Descript.
The PhoTech-5G/60GHz project targets future 5G broadband in-building wireless access aiming for very high throughput and system capacity with indoor coverage using mmW bands, while keeping the coexistence with legacy radio access technologies. The concept is based on novel fronthaul transceivers that integrates the two essential technologies, namely wireless and optical. It is the vision of the PhoTech-5G/60GHz project that as most of traffic is already indoor originated / terminated, for 5G radio access to be ubiquitous, efficient, and ultra-high-performance, there is a need to put in-building communications at the core of the future 5G networks and integrate efficiently and seamlessly different radio access technologies and architectures. The 60 GHz wireless band presents several advantages for Gbit/s indoor wireless and will be the focus of the project in conjunction with convergence with passive optical networks (PON) for indoor applications. PhoTech-5G/60GHz will investigate, design and validate the Mobile Front Haul transceivers in a PON infrastructure in order to accommodate the requirements emanating from a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture.
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PIfotoSatCom 17306
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Title
Portefólio de PI em tecnologia fotónica aplicada a sistemas de comunicação via satélite
Funding
P2020
Descript.
O presente projeto visa apoiar a construção de um portefólio de Propriedade Intelectual com foco em tecnologias fotónicas aplicadas a satélites de comunicação. A matéria por detrás do portefólio nasce de uma considerável experiência em I&D, que resultou recentemente num projeto Europeu que tem como parceiro a empresa líder mundial na construção de satélites de comunicação. O desenvolvimento de Propriedade Intelectual numa mesma área científica mas com complementaridade entre as várias famílias de patentes resulta num portefólio comercialmente atrativo para os líderes de mercado em satélites de comunicação que procurem soluções inovadoras para aumentar a capacidade dos satélites. O portefólio de Propriedade Intelectual será composto por três famílias de patentes de âmbito internacional com matéria complementar entre si. A primeira aplicação de patente foi submetida originalmente em 9/12/2010 com o número WO2012005618A1, e já se encontra concedida em alguns dos países-alvo. O presente projeto servirá para apoiar as restantes fases de internacionalização. Como resultado do trabalho desenvolvido no projeto europeu prevê-se submeter duas novas famílias de patentes, sendo que o texto de uma das famílias de patentes está já redigido. Nestes casos, o presente projeto servirá para apoiar todas as fases de submissão de ambas as famílias de patentes. O presente projeto é, portanto, importante para apoiar a construção do portefólio de Propriedade Intelectual nas múltiplas fases que decorrem desde a submissão até à concessão de cada aplicação. Note-se que, para um portefólio de Propriedade Industrial ser atrativo para uma empresa é necessário que as patentes submetidas nos vários países-alvo estejam já concedidas ou pelo menos perto de o ser, pelo que os custos associados são geralmente suportados pela entidade à qual pertencem os inventores.
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FutPON 3145
Title
Future Passive Optical Networks
Funding
QREN/COMPETE
Descript.
FutPON project will create a comprehensive network solution, PtP WDM-PON (evolution of GPON technology), 10GEPON / NGEPON (evolution of EPON technology) and GFast (evolution of ADSL technology), that still allow co-existence with legacy technologies (GPON, XGPON, EPON, ADSL). Next generation PONs or PON’s future, lies on these innovative technologies, which are designated as FutPON technologies. Technological developments for next generation PONs, requires the development of advanced and innovative OLT and ONT platforms equipped with features and
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components of great complexity in terms of optoelectronics, electronics and management. An exponential increase in bandwidth, the improvement in services dedicated to mobile communications, the interoperability between different technologies, and through the development of integrated optical circuit and the cost reduction and other essential features such as space or power consumption are the most important changes in the new technologies. The integration of these developments, position these technologies, in addition to the residential component in the business segments, mobile backhaul and connectivity cloud.
4.2.5 Running and Concluded Theses MSc Theses Supervisor
Student
Maria do Carmo Raposo de Medeiros
Ruben Miguel Lages Duarte
Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo
Cátia Rafaela Caetano Pereira
Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes
Rafael Pomorski Linessio
Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo
Gonçalo Azevedo Martinho
Mário José Neves de Lima
Mário José Neves de Lima
Co-Supervisors
Title
End Date
Análise do Desempenho de Sistemas de Transmissão Rádio sobre Fibra
01/2016
Cancellation of the signalsignal beat interference in MB-OFDM metropolitan networks employing an electro-absorption modulator
03/2016
Acelerômetro Óptico para Monitoração de Vibrações em Máquinas Elétricas
04/2016
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
100 Gb/s SSB MB-OFDM metropolitan networks employing memory polynomials for SSBI mitigation
05/2016
André Almeida
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Propagação de sinais modulados em amplitude no contexto de NG-PON2
07/2016
André Barros
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Propagação de sinais de rádio sobre fibra no contexto de NGPON2
07/2016
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
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Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo
Emanuele Virgillito
Limitations of PM QAMbased multi-core fibre transmission systems due to inter-core crosstalk
07/2016
Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes
João Miguel Serras Dias
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
Monitorização remota com sensores de fibra ótica
07/2016
Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes
Tiago de Brito Paixão
Francisco M. Araújo
Desenvolvimento e otimização de sensores de Bragg em fibra ótica
07/2016
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Edgar José Ferreira São Bento Martins
Nélia Jordão Alberto
Application and characterization of graphene oxide coatings for optical fibres and sensor development
07/2016
Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo
Daniel dos Santos Silvestre
Tiago Manuel Ferreira Alves
10 Gb/s per user ultradense MB-OFDM metroaccess networks employing an off-the-shelf SSB generator
09/2016
Luís Gonçalo Lecoq Vences e Costa Cancela
Hélio Simeão
João Lopes Rebola
On the performance of 16QAM optical signals in ROADMs based optical networks
10/2016
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Sérgio Magalhães Dias
Ali Shahpari
Performance Analysis of OFDM-PON in Next Generation Optical Access Networks
11/2016
Mário José Neves de Lima
Carla Rodrigues
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Circuitos óticos integrados para uso em redes ópticas de acesso futuras
12/2016
Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes
Catarina Delgado Barata
Defining the best Geometry for a Concentrating Solar
12/2016
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Photovoltaic-Thermal Collector Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes
Pedro Filipe Loureiro Alves
Stationary Solar Concentrating Photovoltaic-Thermal Collector:Thermal analysis
12/2016
Armando Humberto Moreira Nolasco Pinto
Inês do Vale Marques Oliveira
Equalização Digital em Sistemas de Transmissão Coerentes Sobre Fibras Óticas
12/2016
Armando Humberto Moreira Nolasco Pinto
Rogério Sandro Abreu Afonso
Rui Manuel Dias Morais
Estratégias de Planeamento MultiPeríodo em Redes de Transporte Óticas
12/2016
Armando Humberto Moreira Nolasco Pinto
Vasco Rafael Brites dos Santos Braz
Rui Manuel Dias Morais
Dimensionamento de Optimização da Arquitetura dos Nós em Redes Óticas
12/2016
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
João David Ventura Sabino
Exploring the optical angular momentum for communications
12/2016
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
Robert Serrão
Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes
Desenvolvimento de micro acelerómetros ópticos para monitorização de infraestruturas
12/2016
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
Paulo Jorge Passos Sério Lourenço
Alessandro Fantoni
Análise e simulação de guias de onda dielétricos
12/2016
Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho
David Alexandre Figueira Pernes
Aplicações sobre redes definidas por Software baseadas em OpenFlow
12/2016
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Christophe Daniel Da Silva Fervença
Multiple System Configuration for Next
12/2016
Ali Shahpari
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Generation Optical Access Networks
PhD Theses Supervisor
Student
Co-Supervisors
Title
End Date
Armando Humberto Moreira Nolasco Pinto
Álvaro José Caseiro de Almeida
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
Quantum Communications in Optical Fibers
02/2016
Antonio Luis Jesus Teixeira
Ali Shahpari
Mário José Neves de Lima
Next generation dense optical access networks
03/2016
Paulo Sérgio de Brito André
Sandra Correia
Luis Dias Carlos Maria Rute Ferreira André
Materiais híbridos orgânicos-inorgânicos para fotónica sustentável: concentradores solares luminescentes e dispositivos de óptica integrada
12/2016
4.2.6 Publications Optical Components and Sub-systems Papers in Journals Domingues, M. F. ; Antunes, P.; Alberto, N.; Frias, R; Ferreira, M.R.; André, P.S; Cost effective refractive index sensor based on optical fiber micro cavities produced by the catastrophic fuse effect, Measurement, Vol. 77, pp. 265 - 268, January, 2016 Pereira, J. T.; Torres , J.; Frequency Response Optimization of Dual Depletion InGaAs/InP PIN Photodiodes, Photonic Sensors, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 63 - 70, January, 2016 André, P.S; On the LASERs bibliometric indicators, Optical and Quantum Electronics, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 2 - 5, February, 2016 Lu, G.-W.; Drummond, M. V.; Albuquerque, A.; Puttnam, B. J.; Sakamoto, T.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Kanno, A.; Shinada, S.; Wada, N.; Kawanishi, T.; Pump-phase-noise-free optical wavelength data exchange between
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Martins , C.; Guiomar, F. P.; Amado, S. B.; Ferreira, RMF; Ziaie , S.; Shahpari, A.; Teixeira, A.; Pinto, A. N.; Distributive FIR-Based Chromatic Dispersion Equalization for Coherent Receivers, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 34, No. 21, pp. 5023 - 5032, November, 2016 Duarte , V. C.; Drummond, M. V.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Photonic True-Time-Delay Beamformer for a Phased Array Antenna Receiver based on Self-Heterodyne Detection, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 34, No. 23, pp. 5566 - 5575, October, 2016 Gonçalves, JPFG; Martins, C. M.; Guiomar, F. P.; Cunha, T.R.; Pedro, J. C.; Pinto, A. N.; Lavrador, P.M.L.; Nonlinear compensation with DBP aided by memory polynomial , Optics Express, Vol. 24, No. 26, pp. 30309 - 30316, December, 2016 Vieira, M.; Vieira, M.; Louro, M. ; Mateus, L. ; Vieira, P.; Optical signal processing for indoor positioning using a-SiCH technology, Optical Engineering, Vol. 55(10), No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2016 Vieira, M.; Vieira, M.; Louro, M. ; Vieira, P.; Indoor positioning using a-SiC:H technology”, MRS Advances, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2016 Vieira, M.; Vieira, M.; Louro, M. ; Vieira, P.; Indoor positioning system using a WDM device based on aSiC:H technology, Journal of Luminescence, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Shahpari, A.; Teixeira, A.; Ferreira, RMF; Guiomar, F. P.; Reis, J.D.; Coherent Access [Invited Paper], Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol. Cd, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2016 Pinheiro, B.; Rebola, J. ; Cartaxo, A.; Tolerance to In-Band Crosstalk of Virtual Carrier-Assisted DirectDetection Multi-Band OFDM Systems, Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - PHOTOPTICS, Rome, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 33 - 39, February, 2016 Soeiro, R. O. J.; Alves , T. M. F.; Cartaxo, A.; Impact of optical filter amplitude response on the performance of band-transfer between DD MB-OFDM metro rings, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 23 - 28, June, 2016 Ferreira, RMF; Shahpari, A.; Amado, S. B.; Reis, J.D.; Pinto, A. N.; Teixeira, A.; Real-Time Flexible Heterogeneous UDWDM System for Coherent PON, Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications ECOC, Dusseldorf, Germany, Vol. cd, pp. 1 - 3, September, 2016 Rebola, J. ; Cartaxo, A.; On the use of the Gaussian approach for the performance evaluation of directdetection OFDM receivers impaired by in-band crosstalk, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016 Pinheiro, B.; Rebola, J. ; Cartaxo, A.; Influence of the SSBI Mitigation on the In-Band Crosstalk Tolerance of Virtual Carrier-Assisted DD Multi-Band OFDM Metro Networks, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016
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Kumar, N; Mario Lima, Paulo Monteiro, Antonio Teixeira, 10 Gbit/s OFDM based FSO for Passive Optical Networks, Proc XIII Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and Sensors (SEONS) 2016, University Beira Interior, Portugal, pp. 21 - 22, July, 2016 Almeida, A.; Neto, B.; Vujicic , Z.; Teixeira, A.; Chirp parameter characterization of a laser combined with a MZM using fiber dispersion, Proc XIII Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and Sensors (SEONS) 2016, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 27 - 30, July, 2016 Galvé, J. ; Gasulla, I. ; Sales, S. ; Alves , T. M. F.; Cartaxo, A.; Capmany, J. C.; Experimental evaluation of RF crosstalk in multicore fibers for radio over fiber applications, Proc European Conf. on Optical Communications - ECOC, Dusseldorf, Germany, September, 2016 Gama, E.; Fonseca, I.; Araújo, C.; Almeida Júnior, R. C. A. Júnior; Alves , T. M. F.; Rosário, P. F.; Cartaxo, A.; Uso de aspectos da topologia virtual no problema RWBA em redes ópticas metropolitanas MB-OFDM, Proc Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, Salvador, Brazil, May, 2016 Ziaie , S.; Muga, N. J.; Ferreira, RMF; Guiomar, F. P.; Shahpari, A.; Teixeira, A.; Pinto, A. N.; Flexible and Hybrid bidirectional optical metro networking using adaptive Stokes space polarization demultiplexing, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Kumar, N; Isiaka Alimi, Ali Shahpari, Vitor Ribeiro, Paulo Monteiro, Antonio Teixeira,Optical Wireless Communication for Future Broadband Access Networks, Proc 21st European Conference on Network and Optical Communications (NOC), 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, S5.4, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. S5.4 - S5.4, June, 2016 Cartaxo, A.; Alves , T. M. F.; Analytical Model of Inter-core Crosstalk of Real Homogeneous Multi-core Fibers, Proc IEEE Photonics Conference, Waikoloa, United States, October, 2016 Alves , T. M. F.; Cartaxo, A.; Theoretical modelling of random time nature of inter-core crosstalk in multicore fibers, Proc International Photonics Conference - IPC, Waikoloa, United States, October, 2016 Ferreira, RMF; Shahpari, A.; Guiomar, F. P.; Amado, S. B.; Drummond, M. V.; Reis, J.D.; Pinto, A. N.; Teixeira, A.; Hardware Optimization for Carrier Recovery based on Mth Power Schemes, Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, Vol. Th2A.43, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2016 Pinho, C.; Shahpari, A.; Alimi, I. ; Lima, M. J. N.; Teixeira, A.; Optical Transforms and CGH for SDM Systems, Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Trento, Italy, Vol. Tu.P.31, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Pinho, C.; Lima, M. J. N.; Teixeira, A.; Optical compensation approach for SDM systems, Proc XIII Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and Sensors (SEONS) 2016, Covilhã, Portugal, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Pinho, C.; Lima, M. J. N.; Teixeira, A.; Spatial Light Modulation for SDM systems, Proc MAP-TELE Workshop - MAP-TELE, Porto, Portugal, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2016
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Eira, A.; Quagliotti, M. ; Pedro, J. M.; Impact of Client- and Line-Side Flexibility in the Lifecycle of NextGeneration Transport Networks, OSA/IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), Vol. 8 No. 7, pp. A101 - A115, July, 2016 Pereira, AP; Madureira, M.; André, P.S; Optical fiber infrastructure in-service monitoring by reflectometry mixing, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 2828 - 2830, September, 2016 Pedro, J. M.; Analisi Tecnico Economica di una Rete Fotonica Europea, Rivista AEIT, No. 1/2, pp. 12 - 19, January, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Morais, R.M.; Pedro, J. M.; Modular transport node architectures exploiting limited shelf interconnection and hitell re-grooming (Invited), Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, March, 2016 Eira, A.; Pedro, J. M.; Pires, J. J. O. ; On the Efficiency of Grooming and Switching Policies for Multi-Layer Network Planning with Sliceable Bandwidth-Variable Transponders, Proc OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Anaheim, United States, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2016 Moniz, Ms; Eira, A.; Pires, J. J. O. ; On the Effect of Spectrum Assignment Policies in the Efficiency of NonDisruptive Defragmentation Techniques, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2016 Eira, A.; Pedro, J. M.; Pires, J. J. O. ; Quagliotti, M. ; Hardware Reuse Policies for Fixed and Flexible NextGeneration Optical Transport Network Architectures in Multi-Period Scenarios, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Pedro, J. M.; Costa, N.; On the Trade-Off between Maximizing Spectral Efficiency and Minimizing Capacity Overprovisioning in DWDM Networks, Proc International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Trento, Italy, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Eira, A.; Pedro, J. M.; Quagliotti, M. ; Optimization Models for Total Cost of Ownership Analysis of NextGeneration Transport Networks Based on SBVTs, Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks - ICTON, Trento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, July, 2016 Pedro, J. M.; Challenges of Designing Transparent Flexible-Grid Optical Networks for Maximum Spectral Efficiency, Proc OSA OSA Photonic Networks and Devices, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1 - 3, July, 2016 Cancela, L. ; Sequeira, D. G.; Pinheiro, B.; Rebola, J. ; Pires, J. J. O. ; Analytical Tools for Evaluating the Impact of In-Band Crosstalk in DP-QPSK Signals, Proc European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2016 Medeiros, M. C. R. ; al., et.; A survey on network resiliency methodologies against weather-based disruptions, Proc International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RNDM, Halmstad, Sweden, Vol. 1, pp. 23 - 34, September, 2016
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4.2.7 Other Achievements Patents Pereira, J.; Gasparovic, M.G.; Ferreira, M. P. M. F.; A TUNABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATING DEVICE, A SUPERSTRUCTURED TUNABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATING DEVICE AND RESPECTIVE USES AND OPERATING METHODS, 109554, July, 2016 Awards Marques, C.; Antunes, P.; Alberto, N.; Melo, J.; André, P.S; Varum, H; BEST YOUNG RESEARCH PAPER CINPAR 2016, Bond-slip monitoring of RC through optical fiber sensor, XII. International Conference on Structural Repair and Pathology – CINPAR 2016, 01-10-2016 Miscellaneous Marques, C.; Optical fibre devices for sensing applications, Researchers' Meeting, UK, 01-03-2016 Marques, C.; Polymer optical fiber sensing, UK, 01-07-2016 Marques, C.; Optical fibre sensing, Poland, 01-11-2016 Bilro, L.; Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC Referee Strategic Projects Grants, 01-07-2016
4.2.8 Other Contributions Conference Committees OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Committee, João Manuel Ferreira Pedro, 01-01-2016 European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Technical Programme Committee, Rui Manuel Dias Morais, 01-06-2016 European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Organizing Committee, Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão, 01-06-2016 Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT), Conference Chairman, Paulo Sérgio de Brito André, 04-09-2016 European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Technical Programme Chairman, João Manuel Ferreira Pedro, 01-06-2016 OSA Optical Fiber Communications - OFC, Technical Programme Committee, Rogério Nunes Nogueira, 0103-2016 Internacional Conf. on Plastic Optical Fibers - POF, Sessions Chairman, Carlos Alberto Ferreira Marques, 14-09-2016
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European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Technical Programme Committee, Ali Shahpari, 01-06-2016 Editorial Committees Intrnl. Journal of Optics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo, Editorial Board, 01-12-2008 to
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4.3
Networks and Multimedia
4.3.1 Coordinators Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo Rui Luis Aguiar
4.3.2 Human Resources Overview Position
IT – Aveiro
IT – Coimbra
IT – Lisboa
IT Branch – Covilhã
IT Branch – ISCTEIUL
IT Branch – Leiria
IT Branch – Porto
Administrative Assistant
0
0
0
1
1
0
2
Technical Officer
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
Executive Director
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
MSc
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
PhD
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Researcher
2
1
4
3
0
1
0
Full Professor
1
1
3
1
0
0
0
Associate Professor
2
0
7
2
1
0
2
Coordinator Professor
0
1
1
0
0
2
0
Assistant Professor
16
5
17
14
5
7
9
Post. Doc.
4
0
5
1
0
0
1
PhD Student
17
4
27
24
3
3
25
MSc Student
11
1
5
2
0
0
0
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Licenciado
15
1
0
0
0
0
0
External Author
4
0
1
0
0
0
0
Total
75
15
70
48
10
13
40
Permanent Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group
Abel João Padrão Gomes
Associate Professor
Agregação
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Adriano Nunes Raposo
Researcher
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Alberto de Jesus Nascimento
Post. Doc.
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Alexandra Sofia Martins de Carvalho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Assistant Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Ana Luisa Nobre Fred
Associate Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Anders Lyhne Christensen
Assistant Professor
PhD
Information Technology - Lx
André Amorim de Faria Cardote
Researcher
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
André Nuno Carvalho Souto
Post. Doc.
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
André Ribeiro Lourenço
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Antonio Manuel Duarte Nogueira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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António Manuel Gonçalves Pinheiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Artur Ferreira
Researcher
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Augusto José Venâncio Neto
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Bruno Miguel Correia da Silva
Post. Doc.
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites
Post. Doc.
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Elimary Cibrão Silva
Technical Officer
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
Associate Professor
Agregação
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Fernando Manuel Santos Perdigão
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Frederico Miguel do Céu Marques dos Santos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Helena Isabel Aidos Lopes
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Henrique José Monteiro Oliveira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva
Researcher
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
Administrative Porto
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João da Silva Pereira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
Associate Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
João Luís Costa Campos Gonçalves Sobrinho
Associate Professor
PhD
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
João Manuel Pires Leitão Caldeira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
João Paulo Barraca
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
João Paulo Firmeza
Licenciado
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
João Santos
MSc Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues
Researcher
Agregação
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Jorge Patrão
MSc Student
Licenciatura
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
José Brázio
Associate Professor
PhD
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
José Maio
MSc Student
José Manuel Bioucas Dias
Associate Professor
Telecommunications and Networking – Av Agregação
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
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José Pedro Fernandes
MSc Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Lino Miguel Moreira Ferreira
Researcher
Licenciatura
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Lucas Guardalben
Post. Doc.
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Luís Filipe Barbosa de Almeida Alexandre
Associate Professor
Agregação
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
Luis Filipe Fernandes Silva Marcelino
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Luís Manuel Cerqueira Barreto
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Luís Miguel Dias Henriques da Silva
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida
Associate Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Marco Filipe Oliveira Monteiro
Licenciado
Maria Manuela Areias da Costa Pereira de Sousa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Maria Paula Antunes Abrantes Gouveia
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Maria Paula Prata de Sousa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo
Full Professor
Agregação
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Mario Marques Freire
Full Professor
Agregação
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Marta Susana da Silva Oliveira Meira
Administrative Assistant
Michel Celestino Paiva Ferreira
Assistant Professor
Miguel Filipe C.P. Santos
Licenciado
Miguel Tavares Coimbra
Assistant Professor
PhD
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Muhammad Alam
Post. Doc.
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Nuno Gonçalo Coelho Costa Pombo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Paulo André Pais Fazendeiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Assistant Professor
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Administrative Porto
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra Ferreira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Pedro António Amado Assunção
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Pedro Carvalho
Licenciado
Pedro Daniel Frazão Correia
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Pedro Figueiredo Santana
Assistant Professor
PhD
Information Technology - Lx
Pedro José Guerra de Araújo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey
Post. Doc.
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Ricardo Cadime
MSc Student
Rui Jorge Morais Tomaz Valadas
Full Professor
Agregação
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Full Professor
Agregação
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Rui Manuel Silva Fernandes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
Coordinator Professor
Agregação
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Associate Professor
Agregação
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Telma Mota
MSc Student
Vasco Lagarto
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto Orvalho
Assistant Professor
PhD
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Vitor Manuel Mendes Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Other Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group
Afonso Morato Alface Martins Teodoro
PhD Student
Alexandre Kimiyaki Ligo
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Alireza SepasMoghaddam
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Álvaro Henrique C. Gomes
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Radio Systems – Av
André Braga Reis
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
MSc
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
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André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
André Filipe Torres Martins
Researcher
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
André Manuel Longo Moreira
PhD Student
MSc
Networked Systems – Po
André Zúquete
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
António Amaral
MSc Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
António Damião das Neves Rodrigues
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
António Luís Ferreira Marques
PhD Student
Embedded Systems – Av
António Manuel Rodrigues Santos
Licenciado
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
António Richard Abreu Silva
External Author
Radio Systems – Av
Aqsa Aslam
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Asad Ur Rehman
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Bruno Miguel Ferreira de PhD Student Oliveira
MSc
Interactive Multimedia - Po
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Carla Calado Lopes
Assistant Professor
Carlos David Magalhães Queiroz
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Carlos Eduardo Magalhães Guimarães
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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Carlos Manuel Martins Marques
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Carlos Miguel Silva Couto Pereira
PhD Student
MSc
Networked Systems – Po
Caroline Conti
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Chandrashekhar N. Padole
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
Cristiano Pereira
MSc Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Daniel Cláudio Pereira
PhD Student
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Daniel Filipe Leonardo Figueira
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Daniel Nunes Corujo
Researcher
David Walter Figueira Jardim
PhD Student
Information Technology - Lx
Diogo João de Sousa Ferreira
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Diogo José Domingues Regateiro
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Diogo Resende Rainho
Licenciado
Eduardo Filipe Amaral Soares
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Emanuel Ribeiro Lima
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Falah Jabar Rahim
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
PhD
Licenciatura
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
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Fernando António Carvalho Marcos
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Fernando Goulart da Silva
PhD Student
MSc
Information Technology - Lx
Fernando José Pimentel Lopes
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Filipe Cabral Pinto
Post. Doc.
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Filipe Manuel Rodrigues Casal
PhD Student
MSc
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Filipe Miguel Sá R. Marques
Licenciado
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Filippo Basso
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Flávio Silva Meneses
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Francisco Manuel Marques Fontes
Assistant Professor
Francisco Oliveira
MSc Student
Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Gabriel Martín Hernández
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Gilberto Fernandes Junior
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Gonçalo Nuno Paiva Amador
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Gonçalo Nuno Paula de Campos Vinhas Leitão
PhD Student
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
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Guilherme Henrique Caçador Ramos
PhD Student
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Helder Vidal
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Lx
Henrique Sousa
Licenciado
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Isabel da Piedade Xavier Machado Alexandre
Assistant Professor
PhD
Information Technology - Lx
Ivan Miguel Serrano Pires
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Jaime Arsénio de Brito Ramos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Jan Gunnar Cederquist
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Joanna Bachmatiuk
PhD Student
João Alfredo Fazendeiro Fernandes Dias
PhD Student
João Carlos Paliteiro
Licenciado
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
João Carlos Raposo Neves
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV
João Filipe Monteiro Carreira
PhD Student
João Francisco Cardoso Gante
PhD Student
João Guilherme Pereira Rodrigues
PhD Student
MSc
Networked Systems – Po
João Leonel Almeida Amaro
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
João Manuel Barbosa de Oliveira
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx MSc
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
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João Miguel Pereira da Silva Santos
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
João Pedro Afonso Oliveira da Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
João Pedro Brites Ferreira Nogueira
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Jorge Daniel Leonardo Proença
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Jorge Henrique Santos Oliveira
PhD Student
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Jorge Miguel Carvalho Gomes
PhD Student
Information Technology - Lx
José Alberto Gouveia Fonseca
Associate Professor
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
José Carlos G. P. Miranda
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
José Manuel Peixoto do Nascimento
Assistant Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
José Mário Figueiredo Serra
PhD Student
José Miguel de Carvalho Catela Teixeira
PhD Student
José Rafael Quevedo Rego
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Joshin P. Krishnan
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Kristoffer Andersson
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Av
Lina de Brito
MSc Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Lina Zhuang
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Interactive Multimedia - Po
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
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Luís Alexandre Moreira Matias
PhD Student
Luis António Serralva Vieira de Sá
Full Professor
Agregação
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Luis David Moreira Pedrosa
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Luis Emanuel Moutinho Silva
PhD Student
Luís Filipe Silva Camacho
PhD Student
MSc
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida
Full Professor
Agregação
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Luís Miguel Barbosa da Costa Leite
PhD Student
MSc
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Luís Miguel Lopes de Oliveira
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Information Technology - Lx
Luis Miguel Pina Coelho Teixeira Botelho
Associate Professor
Agregação
Information Technology - Lx
Luis Miguel Ramos Barbara Cunha Pinto
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Malik Saad Sultan
PhD Student
Interactive Multimedia - Po
Manuel José Torres Rodrigues
Researcher
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co
Manuel Mota Ferreira
PhD Student
Mara Elisa de Paiva Fernandes Matias
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Embedded Systems – Av
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
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Marcelo Esteban Coniglio
Associate Professor
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Maria do Céu Beirão
MSc Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Maria Madalena Gonçalves Ribeiro
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Mariana Sá Correia Leite de Almeida
Researcher
Marina Ljubenovic
PhD Student
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Mário Luís Pinto Antunes PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Mário Wedney de Lima Moreira
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Miguel Ângelo Silva Neto
PhD Student
Miguel Antunes Dias Alfaiate Simões
PhD Student
Miguel Figueiredo
MSc Student
Licenciatura
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Miguel Pereira dos Santos Silva
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Miguel Plácido Santos
Licenciado
Miguel Raul Dias Rodrigues
Assistant Professor
Milad Niknejad
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Musa Gwani Samaila
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Nelson Filipe Capela
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Telecommunications and Networking – Av PhD
MSc
Information Theory – Po
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
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Nuno Fábio Ferreira
PhD Student
Embedded Systems – Av
Nuno Guimarães
Licenciado
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Orangel José Azuaje Contreras
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Orlando Ricardo Esteves Pereira
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Patrício Rodrigues Domingues
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Paul Andrew Crocker
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Paulo Alexandre Carapinha Marques
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Neto Alves Afonso
Assistant Professor
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Paulo Bartolomeu
PhD Student
Embedded Systems – Av
Paulo Sérgio S. Gouveia
Assistant Professor
Radio Systems – Av
Pedro Alexandre Sousa Gonçalves
Assistant Professor
Pedro António Figueiredo Fernandes
MSc Student
Pedro Daniel Rosete Bento
PhD Student
Pedro Fonseca
MSc Student
Pedro José Gonçalves Ribeiro
PhD Student
PhD
Telecommunications and Networking – Av Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
MSc
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
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Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Assistant Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves Madeira Adão
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Pedro Miguel Ferreira Claro
Licenciado
Pedro Miguel Marques Pereira
PhD Student
Pedro Miguel Mendes das Neves
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Pedro Miguel Salgueiro dos Santos
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Pedro Mota Mendes
PhD Student
Pedro Tiago Magalhães Gomes
PhD Student
Renam Castro da Silva
PhD Student
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Ricardo da Costa Branco Ribeiro Matias
Post. Doc.
PhD
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
Ricardo João Rodrigues Gonçalves
PhD Student
MSc
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Ricardo Jorge Alves Cordeiro
Licenciado
MSc
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Ricardo Jorge Santos Monteiro
PhD Student
Ricardo Vilaça Moreira
PhD Student
Romeu da Silva
MSc Student
Radio Systems – Av
MSc
MSc
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
Interactive Multimedia - Po Networked Systems – Po
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
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Rui Abreu de Carvalho Ferreira
PhD Student
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Rui Arnaldo Terra P. N. Costa
External Author
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Rui Costa Cardoso
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Rui Jorge Henriques Calado Lopes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha
Associate Professor
PhD
Network Architecture and Protocols – Lx
Rui Marcelino
MSc Student
Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro Prior
Assistant Professor
Rui Pedro Quaresma Braz
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Rui Pereira
MSc Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Sancho Moura Oliveira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Information Technology - Lx
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Sérgio Duarte Correia
PhD Student
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Sidney Roberto Dias de Carvalho
PhD Student
Sílvio Brás Filipe
PhD Student
Susana Pereira Bulas Cruz
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Co PhD
Networked Systems – Po
Networked Systems – Po
MSc
Pattern and Image Analysis – CV Networked Systems – Po
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Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Tiago Miguel Carrola Simões
PhD Student
Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão
Assistant Professor
PhD
Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx
Valter Filipe Miranda Castelão da Silva
Assistant Professor
PhD
Embedded Systems – Av
Vanice Canuto Cunha
PhD Student
Victor Manuel Letra Macedo Marques
Assistant Professor
Vinay Uday Prabhu
PhD Student
Information Theory – Po
Vinícius de Miranda Rios
PhD Student
Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv
Vitor António Neves Pinto
External Author
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Vitor Simões Ribeiro
MSc
Zahid Iqbal
PhD Student
Networked Systems – Po
Zita Alexandra Magalhaes Marinho
PhD Student
Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx
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Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv PhD
MSc
Network Architectures and Protocols – Av
Telecommunications and Networking – Av
Summary of Research Achievements
The Networks and Multimedia research lines covers a large set of groups (14, with a total of more than 74 researchers), with a corresponding large set of subjects. This report follows the lines of basic concepts already presented previous years, but with some natural minor changes. There are obvious areas that have seen a large improvement (IoT and M&M, medical applications, vehicular environments, interactive multimedia, video Quality of experience), while others have seen a reduction (e.g. database access control, video streaming).
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4.3.3.1
Contributing Groups
The groups that contributed to this report are:
4.3.3.2
Communication Theory - Lisboa Embedded Systems - Aveiro Information Technology - Lisboa Interactive Multimedia - Porto Multimedia Signal Processing - Coimbra Multimedia Signal Processing - Covilhã Multimedia Signal Processing - Leiria Multimedia Signal Processing - Lisboa Network Architectures and Protocols - Aveiro Network Architectures and Protocols - Covilhã Network Architectures and Protocols - Lisboa Networked Systems - Porto Pattern and Image Analysis - Covilhã Pattern and Image Analysis - Lisboa Radio Systems - Lisboa Security and Quantum Information - Lisboa Telecommunications and Networking - Aveiro
Information and networking theory
The activities on the field of information and networking theory did cover a large set of aspects, and given their fundamental nature, often in separate disjoint projects.
Information theory Two major strands have be pursued here:
Logics and computability. Advances were achieved in the understanding of fibred logics, with full characterizations of conservativity and decidability preservation results. We have explored suitable generalized notions of compositional meaning in logic and worked in characterizing finitevaluedness. We also have studied continuous-time dynamical systems from a computability perspective, including reachability problems and computability of limit sets.
Network coding. We have explored network coding to simplify the joint use of multiple wireless links.
Complex Networks
Work in this area covered theoretical and experimental study of complex networks’ design, structure, and dynamics, with a focus on resilience and robustness properties. We further continued the study of emergent structures in social conflict scenarios. A peculiar application I
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the study of emergent structures in the development of cancer, where we created a testbed for the assessment of the circulatory network effects on the development of cancer.
Complex Networks Several research activities were performed in this area, with special focus in BGP.
Over the last years, a number of BGP routing incidents with world-wide impact have been reported. Besides attacks, such phenomena can be attributed to configuration mistakes and techniques (e.g., IP squatting and spamming) that impact addressing renown. These aspects have a huge impact on business and overall Internet traffic routing. IT has been developing world-scale distributed monitoring and processing of Internet routing mechanisms, allowing for the detection of BGP routing anomalies. Here we further:
Evaluated strategies to scale the Internet routing system, by filtering the more specific prefixes that are announced in the Internet, while respecting the routing policies set by network administrators; and in generating aggregate prefixes that potentiate more filtering.
Developed an add-on to BGP, called SS-BGP, that detects and eliminates routing loops, thus paving the way to a more stable BGP. We shown that SS-BGP is guaranteed to terminate.
Furthermore, we developed a link-state routing protocol that supports arbitrary multi-area topologies (this improves on current technologies, like OSPF and IS-IS, that restrict multi-area routing to a two-level hierarchy) and proposed and tested an IP multicast protocol that uses the same principles as PIM-DM, but is simpler and more robust.
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Theoretical and Applied Security
The area of security has seen large developments in the last years inside the line of Networks and Multimedia, and this trend will continue in the next years.
Criptography and quantum information Work has been mostly along theoretical aspects. We addressed an epistemic formulation of bisimulation-based information flow properties such as the Non-disclosure and the Distributed Noninterference properties. We have continued the development of a probabilistic symbolic framework for the automated analysis of side-channel attacks. Furthermore, work was performed in quantum security. We have developed quantum protocols for oblivious transfer and contract signing based on continuous variables, and are considering applications in private data mining. Application of LPDC codes to postquantum cryptography has been investigated. More generally, we worked in quantum machines (quantum Turing machine with classical control), and have results on generalized mutual information for n-partite quantum system, and proposed several applications to the discrimination and classification of quantum states.
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Security foundations We analyzed the performance of the Mashic compiler, which automatically generates secure JavaScriptbased mashups from existing mashup code. We proposed a simple data-centric concurrency control model that builds only on the notion of atomic variable. We further proposed an architecture for an e-voting system that is suitable for academic organizations, with the aim of implementing it in IST, in integration with the local Fenix platform.
Internet Security This area will be seen increased work in multiple aspects:
System and network security detection: Several streams were pursued. We developed efficient and non-intrusive algorithms for detecting performance anomalies in multi-tier virtualized services running in datacenters. We further worked in a fully functional prototype of a system that feeds on data provided by Twitter to extract and curate news related with cybersecurity. Finally, a system for near fully automated network security assessments was developed, including automation of several vulnerability assessment tools and their orchestration into a meaningful flow.
IoT security: most efforts were concentrated in identifying resource constrained systems and components used to build devices of the IoT, and in building a catalogue of their limitations.
Wireless Security: finished 1st phase of the prototype for evaluating wireless security configurations of APs. Started work on detection of Rogue/Fake APs. We further worked on the development of practical physical layer schemes for security.
Internet traffic classification: Development of Symbolic Data Analysis methods for classification of Internet traffic. This exploits work on theoretical evaluation of sequential forward feature selection methods based on mutual information.
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Information technologies
Two major areas have been addressed in terms of Information Technologies: Big Data and Knowledge Development and Sharing
Big Data Social Analysis The explosion in data resulting from the increased performance in communications, as well as in resources and digital services to allow such data to be disseminated, have created not only a huge opportunity for leveraging the underlying information for general betterment of their application realms, but has generated an immense need for better and more optimized means to operate over such data. IT has successfully participated in a number of international and national research and development initiatives.
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In this section, we can highlight the following aspects, although some of them will be detailed in later sections:
Mobile and ubiquitous computing– in the field of e-Health technologies, we will be working with mobile health applications with cooperative approaches and ambient assisted living (AAL) solutions with mobility support; network management solutions for eHealth systems; decision support systems on healthcare and for risk assessment in credit operations against collateral; ICTbased solutions for agri-food companies of central region of Portugal; big data social analysis; a mobile system for health care monitoring and pain management; a structural health monitoring (SHM) system; a health parameter monitoring system for use in elderly care institutions.
Network management - Big Data Knowledge Discovery Techniques applied to network selfconfiguring and to TV distribution.
Understanding urban mobility - Around 400 GPS-enabled vehicles in the city of Porto have been used as mobile probes to provide a reliable and real time view of urban mobility. We proposed a novel technique to estimate time-evolving O-D matrices using data streams and to maintain statistics regarding the relationships between Regions of Interest. We also proposed a system that recommends to taxi drivers' the next taxi stand to head to based historical data and the current network status.
User Behaviour Modelling - Social networking has been prompting the Internet utilization paradigm towards new scales, which have a dynamic and direct impact on how information is generated, handled and delivered by a network. IT has developed multiscale analysis mechanisms for modelling user behaviour in different online social networks, allowing for the identification of network anomalies in such environments. This was also pursued by profiling personal exploitation of public transportation means using Wi-Fi and personal communication devices
Knowledge Development and Sharing Three intelligence areas have been explored:
Artificial agents – We defined a set of concepts on how an agent may acquire of the observation of its interaction with the world, and implemented a demonstrator with these concepts and associated algorithms. The implemented demonstrators show that an agent with no prior sense of its goals, its capabilities, and the properties of its task and environment can acquire explicit knowledge about all those concepts
Automatic Story Generation - Definition of an approach for automatic story generation and writing. Implementation of the defined approach. Besides the automatic generation of stories, the main research goal of this preliminary work is to integrate mechanisms for agent understanding into the process of automatic story generation
eHealth – Ehealth has been explored in different aspects. I) We developed a new version of our Health Kiosk prototype (that automates the collection of vital signs and other medical data and is able to interact with the patients' health records), now as a HTLM5 based application and started
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development of UI for configuration by non experts. Initiated the design of a WebRTC based tool for enabling a Back Office system with patient support for the Kiosk. A patient usage test was done in ULS Matosinhos to ascertain the decision to use the Kiosk in a health care facility. The prototype is still being improved based on collected usage data and results of discussions with healthcare professionals. II) We applied mobile computing techniques and apparatus aiming to an increase in quality of life and well-being by collecting data from low-cost sensors in swimming aiming at future machine-learning applications in sports, medicine and physical rehabilitation. III) We developed a diabetes smart self-management project for Android mobile devices, and performed an initial exploration of patients data using data mining approaches. Continued development of the YAP (Prolog engine) based application for the feedback system on the Android application; and started a comparison with other Prolog engines for Android. We further started an analysis of user engagement through a gamification approach.
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Architectures, protocols and services
IT will address multiple areas inside the field of architectures, protocols and services. Mobile network aspects will be discussed in a separate section.
Multimedia and QoS-Aware Networking In terms of QoS-related networking, IT has addressed two basic points: real-time support, and OTT TV distribution. Real time support was based on the FTT-SE protocol (Flexible Time-Triggered Switched Ethernet) as a central piece in a resource management framework. This year, IT has explored network reservations with FTT-SE using hierarchical scheduling approaches, which provides hierarchies of virtual channels with mutual temporal isolation. This was also expanded by connection between standard network control approaches, particularly SDN, and lower layer transmission control methods (FTT). In the real-time framework, an architecture based on HaRTES (FTT-enabled) switches has also been explored, and we performef an assessment of the admission control and comparison among FTT-SE, HaRTES and AVBridges. Finally, we developed ultra-low latency Ethernet communications for power generation systems, with the specification of a new ring-based protocol and its assessment. Furthermore, IT has developed fault tolerance techniques for dependable (wireline and wireless networks. On the former case, time-domain techniques for broadcast protocols supporting dynamic scheduling, namely FTT-CAN and Flexray. On the latter case spacial-domain techniques for vehicular networks, taking advantage of base-station overlaps, in the scope of the ICSI project. In terms of OTT and TV distribution, IT worked on a proposal of an architecture for distribution of OTT contents in wireless networks to predict what kind of content consumers connected (or nearby) may request and put it in memory before being requested, improving consumers’ perception of the service. Similarly, to evaluate the advantages of demand forecasting for efficient Catch-up TV delivery on OTT scenarios, we explored several classes of machine learning models regarding their accuracy, computational requirement trade-offs, and deployability. The training process relies on a dataset
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comprised of Catch-up TV usage logs acquired from an IPTV operator’s live production service containing over 1 million subscribers. Experimental evaluation of a content-aware delivery approach demonstrate that forecasting Catch-up TV demand is practical, suitable for integration in OTT solutions, and useful in improving efficiency, with benefits to operators and consumers.
Software Defined Networking The softwarization of networking mechanisms have become the cornerstone of flexible and dynamic evolution of telecommunication deployments for LAN, MAN and WAN. IT has been contributing to the addition and progression of WLAN and Mobile Networks to the range of applications of software defined networking-based protocols, such as OpenFlow, by defining architectures and frameworks where this protocol is used to optimize flow mobility management procedures in heterogeneous wireless environments. IT has also followed the application of real-time services to WiFi domains, with SDN/Openflow extensions. The application of software defined principles in business cases for enterprises has also started to be pursued, under a joint action with local industry. Furthermore, investigation and development of SDN platforms suitable to support Industrial IoT applications, with focus on the conciliation between dynamic reconfiguration with real-time services, was performed, with some proposed Real-Time extensions for Openflow.
Network and Platform Virtualization IT has increasingly addressed the infrastructure required for computational capabilities in the network:
Network Function Virtualization - Network Function Virtualization has rapidly become one of the precursors for the upcoming generations of telecommunication architectures, by allowing the virtualization, in the datacentre, of otherwise dedicated physically deployed services with their associated CAPEX and OPEX. IT has been leveraging such principles by defining the necessary architectures where points of attachment to the network, and even the mobile devices themselves, can be virtually represented on the cloud, allowing them to be complemented with added features and services.
Cloud Platforms - The growing reliance on cloud-based services for the deployment of different kinds of services has motivated the generation of new requirements towards the underlying supportive infrastructure. IT has developed novel smart cloud of things concepts, including cloud computing interfaces for large databases, which culminated in the design and engineering of the Cloud platform for the Telescope Management components of the Square Kilometre Array telescope. IT has also performed research in robust/reliable storage systems based of the application of network coding techniques.
Furthermore, IT has developed computerized adaptive assessment methodologies and techniques, including data structures and algorithms for noSQL databases.
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Mobile networks
Mobile networks are one of the most active and diverse area in telecommunications. IT naturally is strongly involved in this area.
MAC design Research was performed in cross-layer design including physical layer and higher layers for packet combining and multipacket detection schemes. In particular a TDMA MAC protocol for WBSNs based on circuit switching was proposed. In packet switching, each node stores and forwards the packets whenever the links are free. Employing packet-switching in a wearable system adversely affect power consumption, throughput and end-to-end delay. In contrast to packet switching, circuit switching reduces the total network power consumption and delay under low network workloads, but for high network traffic, routing performance is significantly low. Furthermore, research was performed on new MAC layer solutions to achieve sub-millisecond delays for future 5G networks. A new MAC was proposed that applies new low-synchronization approaches, which enables the use of MPR (multi-packet reception) techniques in scenarios with classical and alternative non-orthogonal PHY layer alternatives. Innovative architectures for many-to-one and many-to-many distributed wireless networks were also considered here. Considering multiple Multipacket Reception techniques adopted at the PHY-layer, multiple medium access control schemes were evaluated in order to better coordinate the multiple nodes that transmit simultaneously to a single destination/receiver. We have proposed a protocol able to operate in a distributed way that is capable of approximating the number of simultaneous transmitters to the MPR-capability of the PHY-layer MPR technique. A different problem addressed at the MAC layer (but not only) are the communication coordination strategies to improve the performance of the wireless medium under heavy load or adverse traffic patterns. We continued addressing the specific case of loaded WiFi areas with multiple contending transmitters in multiple scenarios, using TDMA techniques with different relative synchronization approaches. This was evolved into the convergence of the distributed synchronization approach used in the ad-hoc RA-TDMA (Reconfigurable and Adaptive TDMA) protocol, and considered a new protocol for routing within TDMA multi-hop networks. Finally we are Applying RA-TDMA synchronization to vehicular and body area networks, within the Generation.Mobi N2020 and the nanoStima N2020 project.
Vehicular Networks. The commitment to vehicular networks has been well established for long, and IT has addressed a diverse set of works in this overall thematic.
Explored the ITG-G5 station in different ways. Developed deterministic medium access protocols for wireless vehicular communications, taking advantage of the white box access to an ITG-G5 station (hardware and software). Developed SDN to support the requirements of backhauling networks of roadside units, from the ITS-G5 station to the control centre.
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Analysis of the of traffic safety protocols based on ETSI standards. Proposed a comprehensive ETSI standard baed architecture and implementation that has been developed to validate the potentials of CAM and DENM messaging capabilities. Furhter, we evaluated the performance of CAM and DENM facilities through a custom IEEE 802.11p (ITS-G5) based prototype (IT2S) deployed in a field trial.
Proposal of a software defined peer to peer (P2P) architecture for reliable vehicular communications solution that scales out overall network intelligence into the system components (Road side units, on-board units, Gateways, Control center) and offer an unprecedented reliability, adaptability and scalability. The reliability of the communication is achieved by using redundant system components such as multiple switches and GWs links that are deployed to achieve lower communication latencies and higher packet success rates.
Context Aware Resource Allocation for Energy Saving. Development and simulation of a Context Aware Scheduling (CAS) algorithm which considers the context information of users along with conventional metrics for scheduling. The work done also proposes an information model of context awareness along with a context aware framework for resource management
Continued the integration and real evaluation (in test environments) of the mobility mechanism with multihoming for the connection of vehicles to several networks simultaneously, and transmission of the traffic through the several interfaces. Furthermore multihoming was integrated with network coding to provide high bandwidth and reliability to services in vehicular networks, making use of all available technologies and networks simultaneously and using network coding in the multiple paths. We proposed and studied a systematic network coding approach in multihoming to reduce packet losses due to poor wireless signal quality, improving the final user Quality of Service (QoS).
Developed a concept for self-automated parking lots, with a novel high-density parking system for automatically managing the collaborative mobility of unmanned vehicles enabled by vehicular communication, (semi-) autonomous navigation and, optionally, electric propulsion technologies. The system allows doubling the number vehicles that can be parked in a given area and to considerably reduce the time and distance passengers require for parking.
As a parallel (but distinct) concept, we developed a proposal of a self-organizing network approach to using parked cars in urban areas as RSUs. This self-organizing network approach enables parked cars to create coverage maps based on received signal strength and make important decisions, such as if and when a parked car should serve as an RSU. Our results show the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of the proposed approach, which is able to provide excellent coverage using only a small fraction of the cars parked in a city.
Developed a proposal for a security approach for vehicular networks: TROPHY (Trustworthy VANET ROuting with grouP autHentication keYs), a set of protocols to authenticate routing messages in a VANET, under highly restrictive time conditions, capable of protecting the distributed routing information. This was developed using a self-developed interactive simulator for testing and validating TROPHY along with a prototype of KDC (Key Distribution Center).
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Network performance analysis, including analysis of the practical performance limits of cooperative awareness in Vehicular Communications using data from several large-scale field operational trials, and efforts were performed for data collection on Porto testbed. Different approaches (ranking algorithms, broadcast) have been studied for the data collection, in which different ways to rank the OBUs are explored according to their connectivity with the destinations (RSUs).
Study of non-urgent content dissemination through the use of DTNs, ensuring that this dissemination is done within the shortest time frame and with the minimum congestion possible in the network. To overcome congestion, a dissemination strategy was developed through the use of Bloom Filters, a data structure capable of eliminating most of the unnecessary access to memory, by ensuring a node the existence of a specific packet, with a certain probability, from among all the information its neighbours contain.
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Closely associated with Vehicular Networks, nevertheless there were several works on mobile ad-hoc networks which will have a wider application. As a large targeted area, we studied, implemented and tested multiple remote controlled aquatic, terrestrial and aerial vehicles using terrestrial networks (we also characterized WSNs in the framework of swarms of aquatic sensors). We also developed a mechanism for routing between aquatic drones taking into account the quality of the connections between them, considering that their stability needs to be maximized. The integration of long range technologies for the communication between the drones and the infrastructure was considered. Overall we developed an architecture for communication between aquatic drones: integration of the links quality information to integrate in the drones movement and artificial network agents. This initial architecture was extended for the integration of aerial drones in a heterogeneous network, including self-control and management. In the context of the CORATAM and HANCAD projects, we produced 10 operational aquatic robots, including mechanical, electronic, and software components, which were used to conduct several experiments in a realistic and uncontrolled environment where the swarm accomplished several different tasks relying on evolved and distributed control and on local communication only. Allowing robots to share their local sensor readings with neighboring robots we can overcome the often limited capabilities of the individual robot’s on board sensory hardware. This work has been further exploited for aerial sensor networks with multiple multi-rotors that sense a given are of interest while maintaining a possibly multi-hop online link with a monitoring station. This work involves simultaneously link and area coverage control.
Furthermore, we addressed several specific aspects of MANET:
We developed an autonomic configuration tool for MANET nodes in the context of the Vital Responder project (VR2Market).
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Experiments for using 802.11s in smartphones were undertaken with a CyanoGenMod distribution tuned for 802.11s in Nexus 4s.
General QoS and multicast approaches were also studied for MANET scenarios.
We explored delay and backlog analysis of data gathering in a wireless MANET using network calculus.
In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), we have proposed several services and protocols for Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs).
5G and Future Internet In the area of 5G telecommunication methods, architectures and solutions, IT continued its strong participation in research activities, exploring two key relevant concepts: solutions for Information Centric Networking aiming to achieve a name based Internet; and 5G.
Information Centric Networking - IT has pursued the application and enhancement of Information Centric Networking designs in different kinds of scenarios, exploiting the capabilities of this cleanslate networking approach. Concretely, new concepts were developed in regards to interoperability with existing networks and the Internet of Things. As a result, IT has been able to provide key contributions on the usefulness of name-based mechanisms in future networks deployment, which are reflected in the authorship of RFC 7927 and RFC 7933.
5G networks - IT is at the forefront of the next generation of telecommunications networks, whose impact stretches well beyond performance increments over the mobile access domain, traversing the integration of Telecommunications, Information and Communication technologies in a myriad of societal areas. IT has been progressing the development of novel architectures for 5G and Future Internet, covering aspects as frameworks for converged wireless and fixed communications, to mobility in telecommunication networks. Examples of that are the development of novel solutions and a prototype for Mobile Edge Computing, placing special emphasis on the latest developments from ETSI. IT is also a member of important associations, having a Steering Board member of the 5G PPP inside the European Union, and also the current Networld!2020 ETP Chair. IT has been involved in the organization of multiple 5G-related events, including the IEEE 5G Summit in Lisbon and the organization of IM 2017.
Management in Telecommunication Networks Coupled with some of the Big Data developments, IT has addressed several aspects of management in telecommunication networks.
Initial specification of centralized, hierarchical and distributed approaches for SDN and NFV compliant approaches. SDN autonomic management approaches and dynamic provision of network functions, considering scenarios of network optimization and self-healing.
This was expanded into an initial architecture of SelfNet that provides a scalable extensible and smart network management system. The framework will assist network operators to simplify the key management tasks and save man power, with SDN/NFV sensors that can monitor the network
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and SDN/NFV actuators that can perform corrective and preventive actions to mitigate existing or potential network problems, and can be automatically deployed.
We also worked in a proposal of an Autonomic Decision System with Learning capabilities based on Artificial Intelligence concepts, to be used by network equipments in mesh-network environments without the need of central knowledge. To develop this system in a real network an architecture has been specified and built, denote as DistArch. This architecture provides all the functionalities to perform distributed autonomic decisions in large-scale networks.
Finally, research was started in the use of knowledge discovery techniques in the classification of the users and terminal behaviour in the network, to forecast resource usage and availability in the network and anticipate optimal access mechanisms.
4.3.3.7
CyberPhysical Systems
Most of the Cyber-Physical systems (CPS) have real-time constraints and are safety critical, as delays and failures can put in risk persons and assets. This means that both the embedded nodes and the communications infrastructure must have a predictable behavior and must be fault tolerant. Moreover, there is a growing trend towards the integration of heterogeneous systems (e.g. Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, eAgriculture, Vehicular networks and eHealth systems), which require a tight integration of basic sensors and actuators with complex data processing elements, crossing fieldbus-like and Intra/Internet communication infrastructures, thus pushing the need for the use of standard protocols.
IoT, M2M and Smart Cities The internet is including devices in its fabric, creating an Internet of Things, and then an Internet of Everything. This trend is being specially felt on the concept of Smart Cities. IT has now a wealth of work planned in the area, covering from devices to the overall system aspects:
Transversal infrastructure The connectivity of smart devices, through dynamic and flexible telecommunications platforms and mechanisms, has allowed for new services and applications to flourish and support different societal domains. IT has developed a strong commitment in a series of initiatives that explore, deploy and process such concepts. Concretely, solutions for the integration of multiple protocols in IoT cloud platforms, especially when considering the existence of multipurpose management planes, have been designed, taking into consideration security and privacy. This was followed up in multiple application scenarios (see sub-sections below). IT has worked on improving the real-time characteristics of embedded sensor systems for emergency, critical, and remote scenarios. In this context, several areas were considered, such as Mobile IoT gateway performance; Metrics and tools for IoT platform benchmarking; Calibration models for environmental data collected out of the lab; Sensor placement for urban coverage with experimental validation and lessons learned; operations management and technical supervision (applied to Porto.LivingLab).
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Finally we have worked on the development of a toolkit for flexible and rapid deployment of sensor network applications. The toolkit allows non-experts to create a network of sensors according to their needs.
Urban Mobility and Sensing IT has remained very active in Smart Cities. Some of the works performed were:
Design and assessment of novel transportation systems, including: i) design, development and validation by means of simulation of automated planning and control strategies for high-density parking lots; ii) assessment of the technical and economical feasibility of teleoperated driving a transient technology to enable driverless and door-to-door urban mobility, including demonstration development and use case analysis; iii) evaluation of smart vehicle management strategies (i.e. taxi stand selection) for improving the mobility intelligence of future autonomous vehicle fleets .
Understanding urban mobility, including i) analysis of temporal and spatial characteristics of taxi, mobility, exhaust gas emissions and meteorological conditions, and how these variables correlate, and ii) design of model to estimate exhaust gas emissions solely resorting to urban variables.
- Research, proposal and development of a sense and alert monitoring system prototype for Internet of Things applications. Exploitation of this for urban scale sensor networks for air quality monitoring: Development of a calibration framework for low-cost environmental micro-sensors.
Crowdsensing strategies for the city, including algorithms to improve battery consumption of smartphones for mobility crowdsensing, assessment of effectivity of crowdsensing mobility data collection campaigns in FEUP, and identifying terrain occupation and building height from crowdsourced GPS skyview data; detecting magnetic landmarks using smartphone sensed data Vehicular Networks
Characterising the service provided by vehicular WiFi hotspots to static devices (static sensors and smartphones)
IT has performed some preparatory work on communications for Public Protection and Disaster Relief.
Agriculture, Food, eHealth and well-being A very diverse set of IoT activities was pursued by multiple groups in IT, as a consequence of the unavoidable interrelation of each group with local companies.
We developed a study on the potential for technological modernization and innovation based on ICT in agri-food companies of central region of Portugal.
In sensor networks, we have continued the work on sensors applications for eHealth (for continuous care and for ambient assisted living (AAL)) where an intra-domain mobility approach has been proposed. Other contributions related with energy consumption, real-time data management, tracking and mobile applications, and underwater networks studies were
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proposed. We have developed protocols for communications and networks for AAL, including support for wearable technologies and body WSN.
For more medical applications we developed embedded systems based on wireless body sensor networks to aid people with motor disabilities, such as spinal cord injury and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Finally we developed an application of embedded systems and sensor technologies in the areas of gymnastics. Especial attention was given to trampoline gymnastics, where sensors were used to measure the time-of-flight of an athlete with precision and accuracy.
Location and Other Services for Mobile Teams Services for Mobile Teams is a wide area that has strong links with the Urban aspects above, but covers a diversity of planned work that extends the way beyond the city development aspects. The work performed includes:
An innovative solution was devised to provide universal mobiles access to information about public services and urban spaces. This solution is currently an ongoing project, which considers the use of mobile devices and different network infrastructures to achieve its goals. A practical implementation is underway in collaboration with Leiria Town Hall that includes the development of a mobile application that will feed the system with bus positioning for providing the users with real time information. An open-source solution has been adopted to support the technological infrastructure.
Design and assessment of mobile applications for cooperative intelligent transportation systems, notably an accident detector and enhanced eCall application.
Concept for tele-operation of taxi fleets: We proposed teleoperated driving - where in-car drivers are replaced by tele-drivers located at a control center - as a transient technology towards driverless, door-to-door taxi service. The system is enabled by the transmission via wireless networks of video streams of the vehicle surroundings to the dispatch center where a virtual windshield and cockpit allow a human operator to remotely operate the vehicle through Driveby-wire technology.
Development of a platform that provides the interconnection between the vehicular network and the vehicular applications to implement a local “facebook” in the stations and buses, which includes a management for store and forward data with synchronous databases.
Redesign of a real-time bus management platform, that integrates real-time data of buses, bus lines and passengers to visualize the estimated time of the buses in specific locations, with realtime information.
An essential part of any service in this context is the localization problem. IT has performed a wide and extensive set of activities associated with location, from the physical layers until the service interfaces. These cover:
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Development of different aspects of the receiver structure for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related signal performance analysis, including robust structures for GNSS vector receivers; algorithms to detect the presence of narrowband/wideband interference; and performance analysis of a new chirp modulation scheme for future GNSS signals.
Indoor location and navigation, including analysis of perfect sequences for communication systems with CDMA or OCDMA; techniques relying on both inertial sensors and wireless fingerprinting.; development of an Android application for indoor localization based on data fusion from inertial sensors and wifi fingerprinting
Mobile and ubiquitous computing applications – development of location aware applications based on GPS, mainly for eHealth. Mobile health applications were proposed (and abovepresented), and also mobile multimedia applications were created.
Non-traditional location methods, as visible Light Communications (VLC) for localisation purposes of automated guided vehicle (AGV) and Barometric based altimetry (development of techniques for accurate absolute altitude estimation in “smart devices” having barometric sensors).
4.3.3.8
Interactive multimedia
Given its very nature, Interactive multimedia addresses multiple areas, with direct social impact. The work can be summarized as:
Online Games & Virtual Environments – we have continued research in development of serious games technologies and algorithms., including research on path-finding and motion planning algorithms for 3D virtual environments and online games and on trust computing algorithms for 3D immersive environments. We released an online application that allows the automatic generation of 3D characters that look like a specific person based on a one-photo input, part of our look-a-like avatar concept, which performs facial synthesis for virtual environments.
Molecular Modeling and Geometric Computing – we have developed geometric algorithms to detect cavities or pockets in proteins as well as a benchmark for geometric pocket detection on protein surfaces . We further designed and implemented convex hulls algorithms, k-nearest neighbors algorithms, as well as reconstruction algorithms from 3D point clouds.
Computer Graphics - we have developed algorithms for the simulation and rendering of weather clouds, and novel algorithms for rendering, occlusion culling, and shadows.
21st Century Competences in Formal and Informal education – Continue the research and exploration of 21st century skills through a creative learning environment, in collaboration with a school in Porto. Development of research in the area of early digital literacy.
Health informatics – Alzheimer’s patients.
Developed an interactive application for tracking and stimulating
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4.3.3.9
Multimedia signal processing
Many topics have been addressed by the multiple IT research groups in multimedia signal processing. The research topics are presented with a technical flow order logic, this means starting from analysis and going through coding, rendering and finally quality assessment.
Mono and multi-view video coding IT has performed work in
Scalable distributed and predictive coding - Development of a novel HEVC based framework offering quality scalability on top of a HEVC compliant base layer while appropriately combining the predictive and distributed coding paradigms. Two novel coding tools are proposed, notably a machine learning based side information creation mechanism and an adaptive correlation modeling process.
Feature-based video coding – Development of a feature-based video coding solution adopting a hybrid approach where both pixels and local visual features are exploited for coding. In this novel solution, part of the frames are coded using a set of key point matches, thus allowing not only to decode the usual frames for visualization but also valuable key point information extracted from uncompressed frames which is instrumental for searching.
Light field image coding and processing This is currently a hot-topic inside IT, with strong technical contributions along different lines:
Plenoptic imaging applications and requirements – Identification of relevant applications and definition of associated requirements for plenoptic imaging coding. The JPEG Pleno project has been receiving special attention.
Light field panorama creation - Development of a light field based 360o panorama creation solution that is able to exploit the potential of the emerging light field cameras for 360o panorama production and consumption.
Light field imaging coding: performance assessment methodology and standards benchmarking – Definition of a compression performance assessment methodology and benchmarking of the compression performance of the direct, fully compatible usage of the main image coding standards available, notably JPEG, JPEG 2000, H.264/AVC Intra and HEVC Intra for a representative set of light field images. New approaches for lossless coding of light field medical imaging were also studied, starting a new research line in this field.
Light field non-scalable coding with intra-frame prediction improvements - Design of a nonscalable coding solution for light-field image content, based on improved intra frame prediction methods that better exploit the inherent structure of this type of content. For this, two predictor blocks are derived from the same search window inside the same reference picture (built from the previously coded and reconstructed area of the current frame itself), with these two blocks being jointly estimated instead of being individually estimated.
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Light field non-scalable coding with geometric transformation- Design of a non-scalable coding solution for light-field image content, based on a two-stage high order intra block prediction method. This method exploits the spatial redundancy in lenslet light field images by predicting each image block, through a geometric transformation applied to a region of the causal encoded area. The two-stage nature of the proposed method allows to choose the order of the prediction model most suitable for each block, ranging from pure translations to projective or bilinear transformations, optimized according to an appropriate rate-distortion criterion.
Light field scalable coding - Design of a scalable coding solution for light-field image content, in which higher scalability layers correspond to richer interactivity possibilities for the consumer of the content (such as refocusing, changing perspective and depth of field). The proposed solution comprises a base layer compliant with the HEVC standard, complemented by one or more enhancement layers, in which the angular information of the captured light field is hierarchically organized.
Holographic and Point cloud coding Holographic and point cloud coding are an increasingly important format for representation of 3D scenes used in real-time video communication services and applications as well as virtual and augmented reality interaction. Areas addressed covered:
Analysis of autofocus measures applied to phase-shifting digital holography of amplitude and phase objects using a transmission configuration - Each metric was tested on computer-generated and on experimental holograms. Differences between two widely used propagation methods, the angular spectrum and the Fresnel transform, were explored on a large group of focusing methods, including spectral-based metrics, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.
Holographic benchmarking - Benchmarking of the most relevant available image coding standard solutions when using the most relevant holographic data representation formats as well the development of an extension of the state-of-the-art HEVC coding standard with adapted transforms, trained with holographic data.
New lossless and lossy techniques are being investigated for compression of static and dynamic Point Cloud, considering requirements such as efficiency, scalability, random access, complexity and interaction.
Visual rendering Many of these activities have been reported in Interactive Multimedia, as they have been focused in gaming and human reaction to images. Nevertheless, on a more processing focus, IT has also developed 2D image rendering and depth extraction solutions for light fields.
Image and video coding/ decoding IT will perform research on image and video compression techniques beyond the current coding standards. Nevertheless, several works were focused on HEVC enconding, in the field of complexity reduction of high efficiency video coding algorithms. This work was continued from the previous year, and
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focused on reducing the encoding time of HEVC based on machine learning approaches and also on methods to achieve balanced load in multi-core decoders (See the section on Parallel computing). In this context, work addressed:
Complexity Scalability of HEVC Video Encoders - This line of research has been 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.
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. In this line of research several possible solutions to achieve a reduction of intra encoding complexity have been explored.
Fast HEVC encoding and H.264/AVC to HEVC transcoding using ML -The research performed in this line of work seeks to speedup the HEVC coding and transcoding processing through the use of decision processes trained using machine learning.
Robust enconding of HEVC - Research and development of robust coding techniques to improve the error robustness of HEVC using a dynamic reference picture selection modes and a motion vector prioritisation approach. It uses specific enhancement techniques to mitigate the effect of partial or total loss of individual descriptions, reducing mismatched MV predictions at the decoder.
With a more general scope, IT has worked in:
Development of coding tools to improve the state-of-the-art image/video compression efficiency, namely using pattern matching and prediction techniques. These new tools rely on generalised predictors based on sparse linear models and geometric transformations adaptively estimated for each block. This predictive solution proved to be better than current standard codec (HEVC) in the presence of images with complex features and textured areas.
Retinal image processing - Work has been done on the processing of retinal images to identify anatomical structures, quantify image quality and extract domain-specific image descriptors amenable to use in large retinal image database searches.
Development of new lossless medical image compression. Exploiting of prediction techniques to improve the volumetric characteristics of medical images, such as Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography and X-ray Angiography images. New pixel-wise prediction techniques were proposed to extend the current HEVC lossless tools, based on Least-Squares Prediction. Its application to volumetric data sets presented high bitrate reduction when compared to DICOM recommended encoders and standard lossless HEVC.
3D Video Besides QoE (discussed in a later section), IT has several research works accomplished and ongoing in 3D video. These cover:
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View rendering – Design of an efficient view rendering framework for 3D video coding architectures considering a plenoptic function based scene representation; this framework exploits all the views available at the decoder, thus offering a scene global approach to synthesis.
Research on new methods for 3D video summarisation and key-frame extraction algorithms using visual attentions models. The attention models were specifically developed for 3D video and used for computing the most important frames in 3D content, based on aggregation of diverse elements, which contribute to increased the perceptual relevance of 3D video summaries.
Error concealment techniques for depth maps in 3D video communications using video-plusdepth format were developed and new results obtained and published. Non-reference methods for quality monitoring of 3D video over hybrid broadcasting networks were also investigated, following the work done in previous years.
Decoder quality boosting - Development of a decoder quality boosting algorithm where any standard compliant bitstreams are decoded with better quality in the lower rate/quality periods that succeed to higher rate/quality periods due to network bandwidth variations.
Video quality of experience (QoE) assessment and control In this new field, IT has addressed both 2D and 3D technologies. In terms of 3D QoE, IT has performed work in:
3D Video summarization and retargeting - 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 pre-processing 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. A related problem concerns the optimal strategy to crop or resize video to make it better fit small screens typical of handheld devices. The special case of 3D video poses additional challenges related to the importance of depth information. New solutions for these problems have been researched.
3D Video Quality of Experience Estimation - 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 carried out under this topic is the modelling 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.
Crowd Evaluation of 3D Video Quality - This line of research deals with the development of procedures and platforms that can be use to collect 3D video quality grades using a distributed crowd paradigm.
Furthermore, IT has also addressed QoE and performance issues and compromises in a diversity of (old and new) 2D technologies. For image we have addressed:
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Influence of JPEG-XT on LDR generation using TMOs’ - It was observed that HDR images encoded with JPEG-XT can be efficiently used for LDR generation using different TMOs. Moreover, was also computed the increase of bit rate that represents the encoding with JPEG-XT over JPEG, to provide reliable TMO generation in the decoder side.
Objective and subjective evaluation of light field image compression algorithms – Analysis of the subjective and objective quality assessment of light field image compression, notably the proposals submitted to the ICME 2016 Grand Challenge on Light Field Compression. The goal was to collect and evaluate new compression algorithms for light field images. For objective evaluations, conventional metrics were used, whereas the double stimulus continuous quality scale method was selected to perform subjective assessments.
While for vídeo, IT worked in:
MPEG DASH - Some QoE-based insights into the tradeoff between audio and video for live music concert streaming under congested network conditions. Was concluded that reducing the audio information bit rate during a small number of 10 seconds chunks does not affect the perceived quality of the audio visual information by the end user. By contrast, when the quality reduction was made to video, subjects perceive a reduction in quality.
Quality comparison of the HEVC and VP9 encoders performance - It was concluded that for the same values of the IP parameter, the HEVC codec result in lower bit-rates than the VP9 codec. As the bit rate value grows, both encoders provide a very similar perceptual quality that is also very similar to the obtained with the original videos.
Influence of chromatic impairments on the perceived image quality- A study on perception of chromatic variations was carried out using color images with chromatic impairments. It was verified that the sensitivity of subjects to chromatic impairments below deltaEab=6 units was well tolerated, independently of the content. The representation of quality obtained by 39 FR metrics and 13 NR metrics were analyzed using the subjective results provided by the MOS.
A scheme for quality estimation using machine-learning methods based on the SSIM computed locally in small cells was considered. It was shown that the developed method outperforms the SSIM, and for that reason provides a very interesting path for research using machine-learning methods.
Static video detection for quality verification – Development of an algorithm for the automatic detection of static video segments allowing to discriminate between video stalls, no motion segments, still images and black frames; stall segments are further classified as resulting from drop frames (due to packet losses) or delayed frames. This method is intended to be used in automatic video quality verification, during video ingest workflows.
4.3.3.10 Signal and image analysis IT performed research on pattern and image analysis in different fields.
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Audio and Speech Processing The work on the field of robust acoustic modelling has been continued with children's speech models for reading assessment, as well as measurement of reading proficiency in children. The acoustic characterization of the cataract with ultrasound techniques has been achieved. A novel approach to automatically predict the overall reading aloud ability of primary school children, was investigated and developed based on automatic speech processing methods. Reading tasks were designed, focused on sentences and pseudowords and a dataset was collected in native European Portuguese with recordings of 284 children aged 6-10 years. The most common disfluencies were identified including intra-word pauses, phonetic extensions, false starts, repetitions, and mispronunciations.
Image Processing and Analysis In the topic of image processing and analysis, a significant amount of contributions has been achieved at IT.
The research work on dermoscopic image processing in melanoma was continued from previous year using texture analysis and machine learning; Texture analysis of dermoscopic images was used to extract a set of discriminant features in order to feed machine learning algorithms (SVM, Adaboost). The establishment of high classification scores in terms of sensitivity and specificity in the identification of Rreticular pattern and melanocytic lesions boost the performance of these machine learning approaches as an aid to clinical diagnosis.
New algorithms for the analysis of road pavement surface images, targeting the automatic detection and characterization of cracks, were developed. As a result, the CrackIT toolbox, available to the research community on demand (at http://www.img.lx.it.pt/CrackIT/), has been improved. This toolbox allows the automatic processing of pavement surface imagery for the detection and characterization of road cracks, including pre-processing techniques and methodologies for performance evaluation. The included pattern recognition techniques allow classification of image regions as containing cracks or not, and crack type characterization according to the Portuguese National Distress Catalog.
New methods for hyperspectral fusion have been developed. The goal is to fuse multi-spectral images of high spatial resolution, but low spectral resolution, with hyperspectral images, with high spectral resolution, but low spatial resolution, to achieve hyperspectral cubes with both high spectral and spatial resolutions. The methods developed at IT hold the current state of the art in this problem, which has important applications in remote sensing.
New so called plug-and-play strategies have been developed and used in image deblurring, both blind and non-blind. In thistype of approach, a sophisticated denoiser is used in the loop of an iterative algorithm.
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We have developed new class-adapted methods, namely by using (minimum mean squared error) denoisers based on learned Gaussian mixture models. These methods have been used in application to several classical problems (namely blind and non-blind deconvolution) and several image classes, namely fingerprints, face, documents, text, medical images.
New algorithms were developed (namely, dictionary-based) to perform denoising and outlier removal from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images.
Pattern recognition and statistical machine learning – including new algorithms for large-scale unsupervised and weakly supervised learning for sequence-type data; Improvements in representationbased learning; new online clustering algorithms to streaming data; Criteria and algorithms for model selection in graphical models; feature selection, namely for scenarios with highly correlated features.
Medical applications Medical applications associated with both pattern analysis and image analysis is an area of increasing work in IT. In these areas, we highlight the following achievements:
New results have been obtained on ultra-sound image analysis for rheumatology, including bone segmentation, extensor tendon segmentation, and mitral valve segmentation.
Several new publications were obtained in cardiac signal processing, mostly focused on heart sounds, namely the usage of Hidden Markov Models for segmenting heart sounds, and the use of entropy measures for identifying cardiac pathologies from heart sounds.
Research on assessment of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Balance. Time frequency analysis methods (Wavelets and Hilbert-Huang Transform) were applied in Heart Rate Variability and Blood Pressure signals to extract Autonomic Balance. This methodology encompasses a new paradigm of Autonomic Balance by using both signals and was applied in animal model in Hypoxia conditions.
The integration of the Bluetooth LE oximeter prototype board, developed in previous year, with a smart phone application was only partially achieved. Several experimental tests were carried out with the bidirectional communication, revealing that it was unstable with the prototype hardware. A hardware revision was started to reach the goals of the project.
Work was started on the use of lenslet light field images, captured by a Lytro camera, for improved face recognition. Initial tests were conducted experimenting the application of a tensor-based approach, Multilinear PCA, to exploit the richer information available from the light field images. During 2016 a novel light field face database was acquired, in cooperation with the Imaging Security Lab at EURECOM, SophiaTech Campus, Nice, France. This database will be publicly presented in 2017 and made available to the research community. In the continuation of the work alternative feature extraction techniques will be developed.
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New ophthalmologic image processing methods were developed for the study and application of sparse representations coupled with machine learning techniques to the problem of image-based automatic diagnostic of some eye diseases.
Development of survival models (Cox regression models) and applications to personalizing cancer therapy through integrated modeling and decision.
Signal processing research on heart sounds has focused on two distinct axes: the integration of current algorithms into our auscultation technology, and the research of hybrid electromechanical models of the heart which combine both PCG and ECG signals into a single model.
New methods for mitral valve segmentation, hand tendon segmentation, and Doppler mitral valve reflux quantification have been developed.
A low-cost autonomous intelligent wheelchair with voice recognition was further developed during 2016, also including technology for eyes movement recognition, autonomous vehicle route control with Wi-Fi positioning technology and 3D object recognition for blind people.
Initial work was carried out on the segmentation and co-registration of SPECT and PECT scan images in view of liver tumor analysis, dosimetry planning and treatment results evaluation.
Biometrics based people analysis and recognition Researchers at IT have continued to work on biometric recognition systems and automated surveillance. In the previous year, the main work directions and achievements can be summarized as follows:
Development of biometric recognition solutions for unconstrained environments, notably focusing on gait recognition and soft biometrics.
Development of novel gait recognition systems based on low-rank representations and the modelling of sparse errors.
Development of biometric recognition solutions exploiting the richer representations available with light-field images.
Development of a light field face recognition database.
Development of algorithms to detect and prevent attacks on facial recognition systems.
Research on bio-signal algorithms, in particular evaluation of new tools for signal classification, signal transmission and its requirements; research on network applications for monitoring and training of life styles, namely by researching on the effects of converged network and communication technologies; research on the application of bio-signal measurements to the assessment of Quality of Experience, in particular, to devising an autonomous and bio-signal based method to assess QoE; research on network traffic classification, in particular by assessing the effects of changes in the lower layers of the communication models.
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Development of recognition methods for the non-cooperative at-a-distance capture environment by modelling iris deformation under different lighting conditions and also through the use of periocular information.
Development of detection/segmentation and tracking strategies, regarding the automated analysis of data acquired from COTS surveillance cameras. - Face Identification (retrieval) in-thewild.
Development of new approaches for object recognition using 3D data with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and study the internal representations that CNNs build.
Experimental studies, including new application development for monitoring of physical activity and medical exercise prescription using mobile technology;
Design of a view-invariant gait recognition system for unconstrained environments. The system automatically identifies the walking direction by computing a perceptual hash (PHash) over the leg region of the gait energy image (GEI) and comparing it against stored PHash values of different walking directions. The influence of appearance changes (due to coats/bags) has started to be exploited by decomposing the GEI into sections and selecting only those which are unaltered by appearance changes for matching purposes. Work on low-rank and sparse error representations for gait recognition has also been initiated.
Development of an integrated environment for forensic analysis of surveillance videos, including the computation of soft-biometrics, in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen; the open platform supports camera calibration, detection of events and allows the computation of soft biometrics such as bodily measurements or joint angles.
Development of a tool for the computation of “Likelihood Ratio” as an alternative to using biometric scores in forensic contexts. A methodology relying on multiple baselines has been proposed and tested on a real forensics speaker recognition database, in cooperation with the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI).
Focused in the ultimate goal of obtaining an automaton to recognize human beings covertly, the main research line was about the development of detection / recognition algorithms based on deep neural architectures.
Analysis and description of images and video In this research front, the main activities in the past year have been the following:
Development of semantic video analysis tools targeting the detection and quantification of violence in audiovisual signals.
Development of an efficient coding technique for local binary features which exploits the correlation at the decoder side between each descriptor and its quantized representation. In addition, descriptor selection is performed to avoid the transmission of redundant descriptors from multiple views.
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Development of a descriptor coding solution based on distributed source coding principles that is able to exploit the correlation among the features corresponding to (partially) overlapped views of the same visual scene.
4.3.3.11 Hardware Realizations The Networks and Multimedia line have developed several activities coupled with physical realizations of some concepts, due to the challenging realization requirements of such concepts. Two major lines are continuing to be tackled: parallel realizations and embedded devices.
Parallel Computing Investigation and development of parallel kernels and data structures for accelerating compute-intensive signal processing algorithms under the context of:
error correcting codes used in data communications, in particular LPDC decoders
Development of parallel kernels based on GPU execution for analyzing electron wave propagation on graphene superlattice structures.
in the area of intensive medical imaging applications, such as radial distortion correction in endoscopy systems, by using efficient strategies that minimize the bottleneck caused by concurrent memory accesses
real-time detection of shape-based objects under medical imaging contexts, namely automatic detection of blood and bleeding zones in the gastrointestinal tract.
3D reconstruction from stereo pairs
In this context we further worked on the:
Development of novel High-level Synthesis (HLS) solutions for implementing accelerated kernels with less programming-effort, fast prototyping and lower levels of non-recurring engineering (NRE).
Development of Stacked Autoencoder Neural Networks, using parallel kernels based on OpenCL for real-time automatic object detection executing in low-power driven devices such as FPGAs and mobile GPUs.
Development of optimization strategies for non-binary LPDC decoders, using: reconfigurable hardware; mitigation techniques and analysis of the BER performance of LDPC decoders running on unreliable (faulty bit cells) memory hardware modules; HLS kernels built on top of the Vivado HLS tool, to generate efficient hardware and software modules to be integrated in either communication systems or serve simulation purposes; non-binary LDPC decoding kernels for programmable multicore architectures such as GPUs using the CUDA and OpenCL programming models, with the objective of reducing computation times in Monte Carlo simulations;
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Development of computationally efficient techniques for image compression in many-core platforms. The performance and energy consumption of several multi-core, multi- CPUs and many-core hardware platforms and software stacks for parallel programming were studied, by using the parallel programming paradigms OpenMP, Pthreads and CUDA. A non-embarrassingly parallel and computationally demanding image encoder application called Multidimensional Multiscale Parser was used as a benchmark.
Investigation and development of 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 generating RTL descriptions of architectures from OpenCL parallel kernels, for execution on FPGAs;
- Development of GPU real-time 3D reconstruction parallel kernels based on 2D stereo inputs, exploiting a new algorithm based on photo-symmetry instead of typical approaches that use photo-similarity.
Embeded Systems IT has developed multiple projects in the scope of embedded systems, both at a unit and system level. At a unit level, one can highlight:
Development, test, and fabrication of a new on-board computer module for the CubeSat space communications initiative. The module deals with the overall supervision of the satellite, handling its positioning in orbit and performing housekeeping procedures.
Continuation of the work on our platform of sensor nodes---called MoteIST++s5---, with the completion of a daughter board for reading RFID tags. The hardware was integrated in a project that controls and manages people access to reserved areas.
Improvement of the robustness of SLAM algorithms for robots, with the evelopment of methods to dynamically adapt obstacle costs during robot navigation using convolutional neural networks. These were implemented and evaluated of deep neural nets in low power architectures (FPGAs and mobile GPUs). This work was extended at system level, with the development of new methods to distribute deep learning through multiple heterogeneous nodes on a network.
At a system level, we had works that cope with:
Networked embedded systems for high-demand applications, including: holistic Analysis for realtime systems integrating multiprocessor nodes; extension of the Fork-Join Distributed Tasks model to the HaRTES Protocol.
Work related with mobility, namely solutions for bike sharing services and for parking.
Development of a monitoring system for domestic photo-voltaic production installations. It was developed the basic sensing hardware and firmware, on top of which were developed a set of services that include remote access to production data and automated reporting of abnormal situations.
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And finally multiple activities associate with IIoT environments: o
Protocols and architectures for wireless real-time communications, namely in what concerns deterministic communication channel capture on contention-based wireless protocols;
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Architectures, protocols and services for agricultural applications, with focus on posture and feeding conditioning.
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Anti-theft wireless system for beehive aggregates. It was developed an innovative architecture with comprises different kinds of modules/functionalities and a dedicated real-time energy-aware communication protocol to allow sharing some of system services and so reduce installation and exploration costs (e.g. equipment, communications and energy).
4.3.4 Running and Concluded Projects Overview Funding Agency
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CAPES/CNPq
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EC
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EC/FP7
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EDP
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ESF/COST
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FCT
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FCT/ CMU
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FCT/CAPES
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FCT/CMU
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FCT/COMPETE/FEDER
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FCT/PTDC
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IT
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IT/LA
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NATO
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PT Inovação
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Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
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P2020
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Activity in Projects Acron / Ref
COST IC 1106 COST IC 1106
Title
Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
“Forensics is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action” [Wikipedia]. Since many such questions boil down to identifying, or verifying the identity, of people allegedly involved in some action, a clear relationship exists between forensics and biometrics. Biometrics developed a number of techniques which can clearly facilitate the identification of people involved in criminal actions or civil incidents. Thus, although the two communities have traditionally often operated in relative isolation, there are many scenarios where the synergic cooperation of multimodal biometrics and forensics can be successfully applied. To address such multifaceted areas it is important to develop an interdisciplinary network with complementary competences, to foster the 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
3D-ConTourNet COST IC1105
Title
3D Content Creation, Coding and Transmission over Future Media Networks
Funding
EC/FP7
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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
AAPELE IC1303
Title
COST IC1303 AAPELE - Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments
Funding
ESF/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
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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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LETSREAD internal project
Title
Automatic assessment of reading ability of children
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This work aims to develop a technological module for Portuguese children, able to detect mispronunciations, hesitations and 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.
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GLANCES P01229
Title
Generalized Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components for Power and Spectral Efficient Broadband Wireless Systems
Funding
IT/LA
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 quasi-linear 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
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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.
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SenseBusNet N/A
Title
Sensing data and Delay-Tolerant Delivery over Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
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 energyaware machine-to-machine protocols and lightweight store-and-forward mechanisms.
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S-DiaSelMan PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
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 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
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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, differences between patients using same approaches, unknown correlations could be analysed from an endocrinologist point of view with more data to support it.
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GEMINI PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
Title
GEMINI - GastroEnterology Made INteractIve
Funding
FCT
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.
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3D-SERVICIS PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 - Internal Project
Title
Scalable Error Resilient 3D Holoscopic Video Coding for Immersive Systems
Funding
FCT
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.
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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 with similar approaches, namely using three- dimensional coding units.
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OPAC P01270
Title
Optimization of pattern-matching compression algorithms for GPU’s
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This project aims to study the usage of parallel high performance platforms and software stacks to speed up the execution of recurrent pattern matching-based compression algorithms. Specifically, the goal is to exploit the parallel computing opportunities that exist with off the shelves desktop machines, namely multi-core CPUs and many-core Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
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QoEViS P01274
Title
Quality of Experience in Video Streaming
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
Two main general objectives will be pursued in this research project: - Studying the perceptual influence of several factors on QoE, - Definition of a QoE evaluation model for video applications. For that we will propose solutions for the following challenges: - To study the influence in the QoE of the different factors related with video and streaming. o Subjective test, and hence MOS values and other statistic properties will
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be used to evaluate the video quality when subjected to different impairments. o Using the detection of points of interest to study the local influence of perturbation on QoE assessment. - With the MOS assessment and the visual attention results, different factors that have influence in the QoE evaluation will be identified. - The influence of the different factors will be quantified using appropriate features in a multidimensional space. Appropriate decision methods, based on representative examples will be used to evaluate QoE. - To study and develop QoE models for QoE evaluation of video applications that can present a better correlation than the existing in the literature (which in the current state do not present acceptable correlation to be used in real scenarios). In this context, this project aims to provide a valuable research for QoE modelling on Video applications.
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SpaRTaN 607290
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 training network to enhance mobility and training of researchers in this area.
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MacSeNet H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014/210157988
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
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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 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 nontraditional signals such as signals on graphs. We will apply these methods to real-world problems, through work with non-Academic 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.
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Hyrax CMUP-ERI/FIA/0048/2013
Title
Crowd-Sourcing de Dispositivos Móveis para o Desenvolvimento de Edge-Clouds
Funding
FCT/CMU
Descript.
We will aim to develop and demonstrate three new compelling applications: crowdsourced image search on a distributed photo gallery, crowd-sourced user-generated replays inside a stadium, and crowd-sourced 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.
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VR2MARKET CMUP-ERI/FIA/0031/2013
Title
Desenvolvimento dum Produto para Monitorização Móvel e Vestível da Saúde de Profissionais de Primeira Resposta e de outras Profissões de Risco
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Funding
FCT/ CMU
Descript.
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 psycho--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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LPNE 000
Title
Lembrar para não Esquecer
Funding
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 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
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tecnológicos, esta aplicação proporcionará a possibilidade de aplicar conceitos inovadores de Inteligência Artificial num ambiente distinto com objetivos terapêuticos.
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CSF 400974/2014-2
Title
Towards Super Multiview Video: Light Fields Coding
Funding
CAPES/CNPq
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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PERSEIDS PTDC/EMS-SIS/0642/2014
Title
Personalizing cancer therapy through integrated modeling and decision
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Personalizing cancer therapy through integrated modeling and decision
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NEUROCLINOMICS2 PTDC/EEI-SII/1937/2014
Title
Unravelling Prognostic Markers in NEUROdegenerative diseases through CLINical and OMICS data integration
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Unravelling Prognostic Markers in NEUROdegenerative diseases through CLINical and OMICS data integration
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Acron / Ref
CRUISE PTDC/EMS-TRA/0383/2014
Title
Plataforma de Comunicação Veículo-Infraestrutura para Integração de Impactes de Tráfego
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Plataforma de Comunicação Veículo-Infraestrutura para Integração de Impactes de Tráfego
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DEVNF 8535/14-0
Title
DEVNF - Um ecossistema para funções virtualizadas de rede
Funding
FCT/CAPES
Descript.
Coordination of activities focused in the development of novel NFV and SDN solutions.
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NATO SET-225 SET-225
Title
NATO SET-225 Spatial and Waveform Diverse Noise Radar
Funding
NATO
Descript.
Share experience of processing noise radar signals to address the limitations of current approaches in order to increase the range of radar applications to which noise waveforms can be applied; maintain an up-to-date assessment of the advantages which could be available to an adversary by being able to deploy noise radars.
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Bridge CMUP-EPB/TIC/0069/2013
Title
BRIDGE - Análise de informação multimedia para descoberta de cancro em ambientes de gastrenterologia
Funding
FCT/ CMU
Descript.
Análise de informação multimedia para descoberta de cancro em ambientes de gastrenterologia
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Acron / Ref
PCR PTDC/EEI-PRO/7237/2014
Title
Progressive Point Cloud Representation
Funding
FCT
Descript.
With the emergence of consumer grade devices providing 3D geometry information, such as Microsoft Kinect sensors, Lytro light field cameras, Leap Motion sensors and new camera phones, the way visual data is captured and transmitted is changing. Most often, these new devices provide additional geometry information about the visual scene besides the usual 2D texture information, by means of the clever use of novel optics, sensors (e.g. infrared), illumination (e.g. reflected light) and signal processing techniques. Thus, efficient techniques to represent this geometry information are urgently needed and 3D geometry coding techniques have received renewed interest. While in the past, 3D geometric data was originated mostly from computer graphics (e.g. mesh based representation), it is now more common to have geometry information acquired in real-time by new 3D geometry enabled devices. Currently, a significant amount of research work on depth map and mesh data coding is undergoing; however, other representations, such as point-sampled geometry, can bring significant advantages to represent the 3D scene geometry and enable a whole new set of applications, such as free-viewpoint video, advanced content manipulation (e.g. refocusing or relighting), natural user interaction (e.g. controlling devices by gestures) and gaming. Although there has been some work in the computer graphics community targeted at efficient point-sampled geometry coding [21]-[28], many of the techniques typically used by the image and video coding community still have the potential to greatly increase its coding efficiency, thus providing better quality of experience in several applications. Nowadays, unified fully 3D geometry representations of visual content can be classified into two main categories: polygon mesh and point-sampled geometry. A 3D polygon mesh represents the surfaces of the real world with a piece-wise linear approximation and contains vertices as well as their connections; typically, triangular static meshes are considered. Several contributions to static 3D mesh coding have been proposed in the past, which is reflected by several publications and an already available MPEG coding standard, notably MPEG-4 FAMC – Frame-based Animated Mesh Compression. However, such representation requires time consuming and complex signal processing algorithms, which must consider the constraints defined by the connectivity information. Recently, point-sampled geometry (or 3D point cloud) has received much attention since it is considered an attractive alternative to polygon mesh based representations with several advantages: i) no connectivity information is required to be coded or processed which allows bitrate savings, especially for complex and highly detailed 3D models; and ii) the computational overhead for surface reconstruction (such as triangulation) is avoided, leading to a simpler and more natural way to render and manipulate objects with complex topologies. A 3D point cloud represents the real world surfaces as a set of 3D point locations and may provide
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interesting additional benefits such as viewpoint independent representation, more compact storage, improved fidelity, progressive transmission, and enhanced image analysis (e.g. object detection and recognition). This project targets the development of a novel simplified point cloud representation model and efficient methods to code this type of promising 3D representation data.
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S2MovingCity CMUP-ERI/TIC/0010/2014
Title
Sensing and Serving a Moving City
Funding
FCT/ CMU
Descript.
This project proposes to deliver new knowledge and a proof of concept for massive urban sensing of people, vehicles, and environment, supporting data-driven city planning and decision making. The challenges to make this vision come true are significant, but we will pursue them in this project, through the following 3 areas: 1) Communication infrastructure for reliable and low-cost information gathering: extend the existing infrastructure with protocols and algorithms for information gathering and dissemination through delay tolerant approaches, with network coding to improve resilience and robustness, and security to assure the integrity of information and secure transport. The use of mobile collectors such as drones will also be considered for the mobile data gathering in crowded events in parks and stadiums. 2) Modelling Data Flows, Behavior and Prediction: mechanisms and algorithms for data analysis and data correlation from different sources and timeframe to define patterns of mobility and trajectories and understand the spatial patterns, events and anomalies; data mining to correlate all the information and extrapolate the impact and expected behavior when information changes. 3) Decision support systems: mobile applications for visualization, online event monitoring, reporting decision and its impact; urban planning required as a part of the decision system; measurements of performance and cumulative effect of the decisions. The resulting knowledge and technologies of the project are expected to have a strong impact on society, by improving the city environment and adapting the city planning and transportation according to its demands.
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NanoSTIMA NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016
Title
Projeto NanoSTIMA – Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics
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Funding
Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
Descript.
RL1 - Human Sensing - Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing Technologies RL2 - Health data collection and visualization RL3 - Health data infrastructure RL5 - CAD - "Advanced Methodologies for Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis
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MEC
Title
Mobile Edge Cloud
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma MEC (Mobile Edge Computing), em linha com as especificações do ETSI ISG MEC, com a realização de um PoC (Proof-of-Concept), em ambiente NFV.
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GoLocal CMUPERI/TIC/0046/2014
Title
GoLocal -- From Monitoring Global Data Streams to Context-Aware Recommendations
Funding
FCT/ CMU
Descript.
This project is a collaboration between INESC-ID, FCT-UNL, Carnegie Mellon University, Priberam and SAPO. The goal of the project is to advance media monitoring technology to track the popularity or reputation of entities on the Web, with application to tourism and context-aware recommendation. The scope of this grant is on statistical natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. The objectives are two-fold: 1. Learning with Big Data: develop scalable, online and distributed learning algorithms, requiring only weak supervision signals, that will be fundamental to discover hidden trends in data and to model large-scale problems. Emphasis will be given to modern deep learning approaches with weak supervision. 2. Robust Natural Language Processing: develop groundbreaking NLP techniques, fast enough for practical use with large volumes of text, robust to domain-shift (e.g., from news domains to tourism and social media), and capable of performing fine-grained linguistic analysis. Emphasis will be given to the multilingual aspect (e.g., processing contents in English, Portuguese, and Spanish) and on the treatment of rare and out--of--vocabulary words.
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Acron / Ref
LearnBIG PTDC/EEI-SII/7092/2014
Title
Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning from Big Data
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The main objectives of this project are: 1. Develop new algorithms for large-scale unsupervised and weakly-supervised learning for sequences; 2. Improve the state of the art in representation-based learning; 3. Adapt and develop new online clustering algorithms to streaming data; 4. Apply the proposed techniques to real-world problems in the domains of bio-signal analysis and text processing.
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DermoPleno PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2016
Title
Dermo-Plenoptic imaging for skin lesion assessment
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This project is focused on research and development of new methods and tools for acquisition, computational analysis and efficient coding of plenoptic medical imaging content, specifically related to melanoma. Melanoma is known as the deadliest form of all types of skin cancer and, given its potential risk, accurate early detection of suspicious lesions is highly critical in what concerns to prevention strategies and treatment efficiency. Therefore, the project aims to advance the state-of-art of technology and computational methods used in first diagnosis, which currently mainly relies on dermoscopy, a non-invase technique based on the inspection of RGB images. Although the efficiency of digital signal processing techniques has been increasing, and so improving the quality of diagnosis, the limited information provided by 2D RGB images is currently regarded as a significant constraint to achieve higher rates of concordance between expert observers, when assessing results of computational methods. The project takes advantage of the most recent advances in imaging technology by relying upon melanoma plenoptic high resolution images, characterized by containing both spatial RGB intensity and directional information of light rays, captured by a light field (or plenoptic, or holoscopic) camera. Since such a rich visual content of melanoma light field does not exist yet, in any publicly available database, its acquisition and online access worldwide represents, on its own, a novel and useful outcome of the project. The increased amount of visual information contained in plenoptic high resolution images provide a unique data source for the project to carry out cutting-edge research on extraction of new features, taking advantage of a whole new range of possibilities, like image refocusing at difference planes, 3D manipulation within few microns of depth range, multiview processing and surface depth analysis. As described, the project also aims to build the world first publicly available database
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of melanoma plenoptic images, for which efficient lossless compression algorithms will be investigated. Such research activity is focused on reducing the huge amount of raw data that is necessary to represent light fields beyond current standard codecs without losing any original information. The specific characteristics of plenoptic images, namely the regular patterns due to microlens array used by the camera and data redundancy will be exploited to devise more efficient compression methods, which will reduce the amount of storage capacity and bandwidth to access the database.
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OT2Delivery UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Over-the-top Multimedia Content Delivery for Next Generation Mobile Networks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The innovative results of this project are the proposals of: · Forecast-based models dealing with OTT content characteristics in order to optimize content cache storage and delivery; · Distribution architectures and caching distribution strategies with service QoE mechanisms to enhance the CDN-based approach to allow the content delivery services to be more scalable, reliable and competitive in terms of QoE (compared to managed network providers solutions). · OTT-Aware support for mobile networks and scenarios.
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SmartCityMules PTDC/EEI-TEL/2008/2014
Title
SmartCityMules - Mobile Data Collection and Dissemination Through Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
SmartCityMules project proposes to use vehicles as mules for data transport. SmartCityMules focuses on delay tolerant scenarios of both data collection and data dissemination. We will address the following strategies: * Resource management in the nodes: data differentiation will be used to decide which data to send first or delete in case of storage shortage; decide which data packets to replicate to other vehicles, and to provide adaptive sampling. * Efficient packet routing: dynamically determine the best vehicles to send information, taking into account the type of application and its requirements, the storage capabilities, density of vehicles, movement patterns and network performance. This is coupled with a dynamic strategy that decides which nodes cache the information, which data ought to be sent, stored or removed. * Improve the network resilience and robustness: use network coding to statistically
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increase the chances of data delivery to the destination, through a dynamic feedback multi-hop approach that selects the information to be coded, the nodes that shall code information, according to the network status and information requirements, and the interfaces to be used for coded information. The mechanisms developed will be validated in two urban scale pilots: 1) Garbage collection and environment sensing; 2) Touristic information dissemination to city buses. Together with our partners, Veniam and Porto Municipality, we will build and test a complete system with real applications for the users and the municipality.
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Hires
Title
Hyperspectral Imagery on Reconfigurable Systems
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
Hyres project aims at the development 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) and Filed Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
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Scoop
Title
Portuguese ITS Corridor
Funding Descript.
Desenvolvimento e implementação de diferentes use cases no âmbito do projeto Europeu SCOOP@F Part 2
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Interference
Title
Interference of C-ITS 5.9GHz in DSRC 5.8GHz Systems
Funding Descript.
Avaliar o impacto da interferência dos sistemas C-ITS 5.9GHz no desempenho dos sistemas de cobrança de portagens baseados em DSRC 5.8GHz
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Acron / Ref
DARTEG PTDC/EEI-TEL/5708/2014
Title
Deteção de Ataques de Redirecionamento de Tráfego a uma Escala Global
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
This project proposes the development of a world-wide distributed probing platform (with centralize control) to detect traffic routing variations based on round-trip times deviations inferred from multiple and disperse geographic locations. The detection platform is aimed to satisfy the needs of corporate users and not ISP. Corporate uses must be able to protect their network assets by detecting any threatening attack without detailed information about BGP routing information, which are usually very restricted to ISP.
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CrakIT-LF IT - Project EEA/50008
Title
CrakIT-LF: Automatic detection and characterization of road distresses in images of flexible road pavements
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
This research position focuses on the research and development of a system able to process images of the surface of flexible road pavements, to allow for the automatic detection and characterization of road surface defects. Although cracks with linear development are considered the most common pavement surface degradation found by road inspectors, other important surface defects like cracks with alligator pattern, potholes, routing, raveling, among others, represent important data about pavement surface condition to allow for an adequate quantitative and qualitative evaluation of road pavement surface degradation. Images of road surface taken using imaging systems composed of one regular camera (considered as been non-expensive imaging systems) have been used by researchers, mainly on the detection of cracks with linear development. However, these images are 2D data structures, been difficult to detect defects like potholes, routing or raveling when processing them, because the depth information along a profile of the road defect is missing. Light-field cameras have recently become available and the processing of images taken using these imaging devices may allow for an adequate estimation of depth information along a profile of the above mentioned road defects. Therefore, the mainly objectives are: (i) exploring the capabilities of light-field cameras to allow for the creation of a 3D data structure of road pavement surface, to be used as an efficient source of information on the computation of transversal profiles of a road lane; (ii) combining 2D detection data (defected and non-defected pavement surface areas obtained by the analysis of variations in pixels intensities along the entire image) with those transversal profiles,
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to characterize surface defects into the following types: cracks with alligator pattern; potholes; routing and raveling (conducting a texture analysis, as raveled locations of road pavement surface frequently exhibit greater roughness in comparison to nonraveled ones, due to the presence of larger aggregates); (iii) to develop a user-friendly computational environment including all the developed tasks.
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Confident PTDC/EEI-CTP/4503/2014
Title
Confident - Communication Contracts for Distributed Systems Development
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The World Wide Web has grown from an infrastructure for document repository and retrieval to a platform for distributed applications. At the same time, modern webbased applications make use of a multitude of different technologies, including, e.g., those for the client side, for the server side, for the transport layer, and those for data management. Furthermore, short, casual scripts have given place to applications built from thousands of lines of code. At the same time, the quest for agile, reactive, webbased interaction, lead to the emergence of the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture, which, for its simplicity, has been gradually replacing the more traditional SOAP and WSDL-based Web Services. As of today, ‘developing for the Web’ largely remains an undertaking supported by guidelines and best practices, lacking in general appropriate methodology and tool support, and where most if not all verification is performed at runtime. When available, tools for Web development are essentially those one finds for more conventional software development. On what concerns programming, scripting languages is the norm for client-side development. Such languages are essentially dynamically typed. The best one can find these days are static analysis tools, often in the form of traditional type systems, that essentially check local computations (e.g., the parameters to operators or the input-output behaviour of functions). RESTful applications require further support at development time, namely on what concerns the continued interaction among principals. Typical problems include the verification of whether a given resource is available at a given point in a complex interaction, or whether the client is authorised to access a given resource. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that server replies may point to further resources that will shape future interactions. At the heart of CONFIDENT lies the notion of Communication Contract, a global description of the interaction behaviour of complex distributed applications that brings together the roles each participant plays in a given computation. The nature of Communication Contracts, encompassing global communication descriptions of all principals involved, are equipped with a number of properties that foster reliable development of web applications. With CONFIDENT, Communication Contracts will guide the software development lifecycle for web-based
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distributed applications, in particular: a) the verification of source code against contracts, making sure that processes behave as the prescribed by the protocol they are supposed to follow, hence will not incur communication-related runtime errors; and b) the static validation of security requirements of applications, including authentication and resource access authorisation. The main objective of CONFIDENT is to develop and evaluate tools and technology for describing, inferring, and statically verifying component communication contracts for effective construction and evolution of complex distributed systems, notably JavaScript applications. To achieve this we will: 1) Integrate the theory of behavioural type systems, session types in particular, into a notion of communication contracts, effective in driving the software development life cycle, in particular that of RESTful JavaScript applications; 2) Develop a language of communication contracts for JavaScript, and use it to statically verify components, infer communication types from code, and to provide for the gradual evolution of existing code bases. 3) To support the development, verification, and refactoring of reliable web-based systems by developing a suite of integrated tools for supporting the software development lifecycle; 4) Evaluate the new software methodologies and associated tools and methodologies for engineering distributed applications using a few case studies.
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SWING2 POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016753 and PTDC/EEI-TEL/3684/2014
Title
Securing Wireless Networks with Coding and Jamming
Funding
FCT/COMPETE/FEDER
Descript.
The main goal of the SWING (Securing Wireless Networks with Jamming) 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. Although current security solutions to provide confidential communication over a shared wireless medium (e.g. Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) appear to remain robust to known attacks, novel attacks are being developed everyday. Moreover, the life-cycle of cryptography-based protocols is bound to the available computational power and, as the computational power increases, so do the resources available to attackers which ultimately leads to the replacement of current standards by new ones. Physical-layer security is gaining interest as a means to provide an extra layer of security that does not depend on computational intractability of operations, but takes advantage of the inherent varying characteristics of wireless channels. This area sparked an interest on the use of interference for secrecy purposes, by using otherwise silent devices (e.g. due to a time-division channel access mechanism) to cause interference/jam possible eavesdroppers. This brings a set of challenges such as how to cause enough interference without compromising legitimate communication, how to properly select
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available jammers/interferers, how to reduce the high energy cost of jamming at all times, how to motivate users to cooperate, and so on. The expected outcomes of this project address some of these challenges, in particular we plan to develop (a) advanced jamming schemes combining interference with coding mechanisms and spread spectrum methods for enhanced wireless secrecy at a lower energy-cost, (b) interference alignment to reduce the impact of interference on legitimate communication, (c) cooperation enforcement mechanisms to motive users' cooperation in jamming eavesdroppers, and (c) a prototype of the developed techniques implemented and evaluated in a software radio test-bed. Our team of computer scientists and electrical engineers aggregates expertise in wireless modeling and protocol implementation, error correcting codes, parallel decoding, and cooperation enforcement, all of which are necessary to pursue the objectives laid out for the project.
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SIRS UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Scaling and Securing the Internet Routing System
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The first goal of the project is to model the various existing and putative routing policies into the unifying framework provided by the algebraic theory of routing and to be able to compute global routing states obtained from these policies. The second goal of the project is to propose and evaluate solutions to two of the most challenging problems facing the Internet routing system: scalability and security.
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S2MUV S01066
Title
S2MUV
Funding
(confidential)
Descript.
The project is addressing the issue of video communication in the uplink for mobile networks. The reference scenario is Facebook Live Video.
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METRICS
Title
Programmable datacenter for IIoT applications
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Funding
IT
Descript.
Integrate HaRTES real-time switching platform with OpenFlow protocol; Integrate HaRTES with WiFi Access Points; Propose enhancements to the OpenFlow specification to include real-time features; Carry out real-time management of network resources with real-time enhanced SDN; Showcase SDN real-time capabilities, disseminating OpenFlow within the industry, particularly with the project partners Altran and Altice; Foster collaborations among four complementary groups in IT, thus creating critical mass to make a leap forward towards the IIoT and contribute to a state of the art Industry.
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LIFESYS UID/EEA/50008
Title
Light Field Processing and Encoding System
Funding
FCT
Descript.
LIFESYS focus on three main scientific and technological developments: (i) novel light field content processing tools; (ii) improved scalable light field image and video coding techniques; and (iii) light field creative content generation. In this context, three main research objectives have been defined: Development of a Light Field Processing Toolbox – The light field representation format should allow a scalable representation of the content, in a manner where the various layers are defined by the author during the creative process, instead of making it a pure coding decision. For this, efficient depth-estimation and LF depth-based rendering tools will be developed, as well as LF processing tools, such as image correction, filtering and editing tools. Development of Efficient Codecs for Light Field Content – In order to enable 3D LF content to be presented on various types of displays, such as legacy displays and also newer 3D LF displays, with different characteristics in terms of spatial and view resolutions, an efficient scalable codec will be developed. New coding approaches, beyond state-ofthe-art and standard-based approaches will be investigated aiming to support new scalability features opened by LF content. Development of a Light Field Authoring Application – In order to demonstrate the capabilities for the end-user and content creators of the LF technology, a showcase application will be developed that includes creative authoring tools to be used with LF content.
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AARCHEVC FCT 2319 - CAPES 9902/13-9
Title
Algorithms and architectures for HEVC/H.265 compatible 3D video coders
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Funding Descript.
Study and implement algorithmic and hardware structures for 3D video compression compatible with the HEVC/H.265 standard.
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SeLF-ICN
Title
Selectively Accessing Light Field Faces over Information Centric Networking
Funding Descript.
The project will enable a network to become a large video database, with Information Centric Networking name-based networking request mechanisms to be used to request specific elements present inside the video images, such as faces from people. The video images will be obtained through the usage of light field images.
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EmergIMG PTDC/EEI-PRO/2849/2014 - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-16693
Title
Emerging Image Modalities Representation and Compression
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
Este projeto visa a concepção de uma estrutura de representação, compressão e avaliação de qualidade das novas modalidades e imagem, (HDR, plenotica e ̃ . holográfica) com impacto internacional em termos de investigação e normalizaçao
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CloudDS P01217
Title
Cloud Data Stores
Funding
PT Inovação
Descript.
CoherentPaaS provides a full ACID coherent environment integrating NoSQL, SQL and CEP (Complex Event Processing) data management technologies, while allowing application developers to program using a simple and powerful programming model and query language. CoheperentPaaS will provide: 1- Coherence (Transactional semantics across data stores): CoherentPaaS will provide holistic coherence across data stores through a common transactional API to orchestrate transactions transparently to the applications. 2- Scalability (Ultra-scalable preserving ACID properties): CoherentPaaS will enable scaling to 100,000 transactions per second with full ACID
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transactional semantics and no sharding across heterogeneous cloud data stores. 3Simplicity (Programming with a single query language): CoherentPaaS will develop a common query language for all cloud services and data stores, allowing access to all data stores in a uniform and integrated manner, hiding the complexity of the underlying technology under a unified query language. 4- Efficiency (Avoiding copying and translating TBs of data from one data store to another): CoherentPaaS will provide a rich PaaS with different “one size” data stores optimized for particular tasks, data, and workloads, eliminating the need for ETL jobs. http://coherentpaas.eu/ IT Role Altice Labs is one of the project’s partners and it is responsible for providing one of the use cases. IT is collaborating with Altice Labs on the implementation of the use case. Internally, the project is known as CloudDS (Cloud Data Store).
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SPARSIS PTDC/EEI-PRO/ 0426/2014
Title
SparseModeling and Estimation of Motion Fields
Funding
FCT
Descript.
In this project we will explore the use of sparse techniques to improve the estimation of multiple motion fields as well as spacevarying switching matrix (stochastic matrix) that describes the switching process associated to the movement of each target. As scientific outcomes of the project, we expect to obtain reliable estimates for the model parameters (many hundreds), to remove the over smoothed character of the field estimates. We also expect to speed up the estimation procedure bringing it closer to real time applications and extend these techniques to multicamera settings. We also expect to develop an adaptive algorithm for the online estimation of multiple motion fields able to update in a recursive way the number of fields and the field estimates whenever new information arrives.
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CooDriver CooDriver
Title
CooDriver
Funding Descript.
1) Support for the Schutzranzen prototype application, including: a. Performance evaluation of the current application in terms of battery and other system resources, as well as movement detection accuracy. b. Support for integration with partners in pilot projects. 2) Support for the backoffice server logic and evolution to comply with new requirements due to integration with partners in pilot projects.
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MAPINVPLANTS ERANETMED/0001/2014
Title
Monitoring the WaterHyacinth Using ASTER Imagery
Funding
FCT
Descript.
This proposal corresponds to the participation of the “Instituto de Telecomunicações” in the project entitled “Monitoring the Water Hyacinth Using ASTER Imagery” (MAPINVPLANTS) approved in the framework of the program ERANETMED, call JCWATER2014. The ensuing text is, in part, adapted from the original proposal. With the objective of taking a step forward in the control and management of aquatic weeds in the Nile River and surrounding coastal lakes, our goal is to develop an efficient method and a software prototype to map and monitor aquatic weeds. This software will allow to identify the location of the aquatic weeds, changes of density, and spreading rates. The availability of such information will have great impact on the identification of efficient methods to control, manage, and eradicate the aquatic weeds, such as the waterhyacinth in the Nile River. Invasions of aquatic weeds have caused significant problems in many lakes and river systems worldwide. Aquatic weeds usually grow naturally and abundantly into fresh waters and flood plain habitats. They seriously decrease biodiversity, threaten natural environment, alter nutrient cycles, and worsen water quality. In Egypt, more than 80% of the canals and the drains are heavily infested with aquatic weeds [2]. Effective management of aquatic weeds requires appropriate control methods that include chemical, mechanical, and biological techniques. Detection and mapping the extent of rapidly spreading invasive populations are critical for identifying the weeds control priorities, including eradication efforts. The main objective of this project is to develop an efficient software prototype, using remote sensing techniques, to map and monitor the change of dense aquatic weeds in rivers and lake systems. More precisely, we will develop efficient analysis methods for low cost multispectral satellite images, such as ASTER images, for the detection of the waterhyacinth in the Nile River in Delta of Egypt, chosen as a case study. The output of this project will revive the previous efforts that have been done by Mariout and Edku [16] to control waterhyacinth growth in Nile River using biological methods. Further biological control research will be enabled for ecologists as time series, hyperspectral images, and updated maps will be available, with reasonable cost. It is worth to mention that, compared with chemicalbased techniques, biological ones are more efficient and less expensive, while being less harmful to the environment [1]. In addition, the detailed maps provided by the project will play a crucial role in the effective eradication of the waterhyacinth in the Nile River.
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Acron / Ref
MAPINVPLANTS ERANETMED/0001/2014
Title
Monitoring the WaterHyacinth Using ASTER Imagery
Funding
FCT
Descript.
This proposal corresponds to the participation of the “Instituto de Telecomunicações” in the project entitled “Monitoring the Water Hyacinth Using ASTER Imagery” (MAPINVPLANTS) approved in the framework of the program ERANETMED, call JCWATER2014. The ensuing text is, in part, adapted from the original proposal. With the objective of taking a step forward in the control and management of aquatic weeds in the Nile River and surrounding coastal lakes, our goal is to develop an efficient method and a software prototype to map and monitor aquatic weeds. This software will allow to identify the location of the aquatic weeds, changes of density, and spreading rates. The availability of such information will have great impact on the identification of efficient methods to control, manage, and eradicate the aquatic weeds, such as the waterhyacinth in the Nile River. Invasions of aquatic weeds have caused significant problems in many lakes and river systems worldwide. Aquatic weeds usually grow naturally and abundantly into fresh waters and flood plain habitats. They seriously decrease biodiversity, threaten natural environment, alter nutrient cycles, and worsen water quality. In Egypt, more than 80% of the canals and the drains are heavily infested with aquatic weeds [2]. Effective management of aquatic weeds requires appropriate control methods that include chemical, mechanical, and biological techniques. Detection and mapping the extent of rapidly spreading invasive populations are critical for identifying the weeds control priorities, including eradication efforts. The main objective of this project is to develop an efficient software prototype, using remote sensing techniques, to map and monitor the change of dense aquatic weeds in rivers and lake systems. More precisely, we will develop efficient analysis methods for low cost multispectral satellite images, such as ASTER images, for the detection of the waterhyacinth in the Nile River in Delta of Egypt, chosen as a case study. The output of this project will revive the previous efforts that have been done by Mariout and Edku [16] to control waterhyacinth growth in Nile River using biological methods. Further biological control research will be enabled for ecologists as time series, hyperspectral images, and updated maps will be available, with reasonable cost. It is worth to mention that, compared with chemicalbased techniques, biological ones are more efficient and less expensive, while being less harmful to the environment [1]. In addition, the detailed maps provided by the project will play a crucial role in the effective eradication of the waterhyacinth in the Nile River.
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Acron / Ref
SheepIT P2020-17640
Title
SheepIT - SISTEMA DE CONTROLO DE PASTAGEM BASEADO EM TECNOLOGIAS IT
Funding
P2020
Descript.
- Development of an animal posture control - Development of a virtual fence mechanism - Development of an animal behavior platform
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UltraTV P2020
Title
UltraTV – Ecossistema de aplicações para TV UltraHD
Funding
P2020
Descript.
A ALB e os seus parceiros de consórcio, Instituto de Telecomunicações de Aveiro (IT) e a Universidade de Aveiro (UA), decidiram iniciar o presente projeto, que pretende: • Desenvolver um ecossistema de aplicações de TV Interativa, que permita suportar um serviço de TV com as funcionalidades mais avançadas do mercado, suscetível de servir de base a uma nova geração do MEO; • Que esse ecossistema seja suportado em normas abertas, como HTML5, MPEG-DASH, HbbTV e RDK, e possa ser alvo de desenvolvimentos por qualquer entidade com competências para tal; • Que sejam suportadas STBs de operador, com o desenvolvimento das respetivas aplicações de suporte, mas também STBs abertas, bem como televisores “inteligentes”, computadores, tablets e telemóveis; • Que o foco das aplicações seja facilitar o consumo de conteúdos a pedido de uma forma integrada, que vá para além da lógica linear dos alinhamentos tradicionais de canais; • Que todo o ecossistema use tecnologias de distribuição adaptativa como base para a transmissão de conteúdos para que seja o mais agnóstica possível às redes onde em concreto vai ser usada, mas mantenha um elevado nível de qualidade de imagem, mesmo nos casos de utilização de conteúdos de UltraHD ou posteriores.
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IS4H Consulting NA
Title
IS4H Consulting
Funding
(confidential)
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Descript.
4.3.5
Technological and scientific consultation for the IS4H company.
Running and Concluded Theses
MSc Theses Supervisor
Student
Co-Supervisors
Title
End Date
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
André FRG
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues
Codificação de imagens médicas utilizando transformações geométricas
04/2016
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
João Miguel Pereira da Silva Santos
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues
Codificação preditiva de imagens médicas
04/2016
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
José Pedro Quadrilheiro Peixeiro
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites
Codificação de Informação Holográfica
04/2016
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
Alexandre da Silva Pratas Gabriel
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso
HEVC Cross Segment Decoding
04/2016
Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira
Jon Blancou Gaztañaga
José Alberto Gouveia Fonseca
Improved Emergency Call (eCall ++)
04/2016
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso
José Maria Abecasis Teixeira
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
Extracting distinctive features from light-field images
04/2016
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues
Tiago Ribeiro
Patrício Rodrigues Domingues Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
CUDA-MMP - Codificação de imagens com sistemas com múltiplos núcleos
05/2016
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Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha
Rúben Filipe Afonso
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Nuno Filipe Girão Santos Almeida
Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha
Tiago Xavier Furtado
Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha
Moisés Simões Piedade
Módulo de determinação e controlo de atitude do ISTnanosat-1
05/2016
Implementation and Optimization of Photocoagulation Retinal Treatment Detection Algorithms
05/2016
ActiveTSN - Actuation in the Tagus-Sensornet
06/2016
Pedro Miguel Castanheira Natário
Desenvolvimento de Software para o ISTnanosat-1
06/2016
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Cláudia Sambo
Assessment of the conditions to the creation of a Cloud infrastructure in Angola
06/2016
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Nuno Galego
Study of efficiency of IPv4 versus IPv6 communications within the Portuguese Academic Network RCTS
06/2016
Towards an Integrated Solution to Physical Assessment of Students
07/2016
Carlos Almeida
Paulo André Pais Jason Philip Sardo Fazendeiro Costa
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira
Miguel Alexandre do Souto Soares
José Moreira
Framework for Traffic Data Analysis and Drivers’ Behavior
07/2016
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Pedro Miguel de Jesus Gonçalves
Alexandre Moutela Nunes da Mota Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Controlador de TempoReal baseado em MATLAB e Raspberry Pi
07/2016
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Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro Prior
João Paulo Gonçalves da Silva
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Health Kiosk Re-Design Call Support
07/2016
Valter Filipe Miranda Castelão da Silva
Antonio Xavier Fernandes Soares
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Melhoramento de Hw e Sw para logger independente de inversor
07/2016
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
Pedro Miguel Parola Duarte
Pedro Tomás
Application-specific SoftGPGPU on Reconfigurable Substrates
07/2016
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
José Marques
Convolutional Neural Networks on lowpower/mobile GPUs
07/2016
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
João Pedro de Jesus Vieira Pereira
Extracting MobilityRelevant Information from Crowdsourced GPS Data
07/2016
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Leonid Andreevitch Kholkine
Are you in the bus? Detecting Relative position of Devices versus Mobile Hotspots
07/2016
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Ana Isabel Neves Alves de Sousa
Market-based Higher Education Course Recommendation
07/2016
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
João Manuel Mesquita Cardoso
Future Cities Data and Services API
07/2016
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Ivo Silva
IoT Standards for Smart Cities
07/2016
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Joel Pinheiro
João Paulo Barraca
iTrading
07/2016
João Paulo Barraca
Alexandre Lemos Marques
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Device Management in the SCoT Platform
07/2016
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João Paulo Barraca
Helder Moreira
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Rui Miguel Morgado Venâncio
João Paulo Barraca
João Pedro Gomes Rodrigues,
Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva
Nuno Rafael Mendonça Lourenço
Sensor Data Integration and Management of Smart Environments
07/2016
Micrometastasis detection guidance by whole-slide image texture analysis in colorectal lymph nodes correlated with QUS parameters
07/2016
Data Security Mechanisms for IoT Platforms
07/2016
Nuno Filipe Alexandre Carapito
Desenvolvimento de Jogos Multi Jogador: Um Caso de Estudo
07/2016
Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida
José Carlos Menino de Barros e Castro
Sistema Andon
07/2016
Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida
António Miguel Baldaia Moreira de Sousa
Easy Peripherals for the Internet of Things
07/2016
João Pedro Afonso Oliveira da Silva
Júlio Ribeiro
Identificação do condutor a partir do modo de condução
09/2016
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Pedro Miguel Sousa Almeida
Transmissão de Vídeo Escalável em Redes DiffServ
09/2016
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
José Pedro Alves de Ornelas
Plataforma para o tratamento e acompanhamento de depressão (with Artur Rocha (INESCTEC) e João Correia Lopes (FEUP/INESCTEC))
09/2016
André Zúquete
Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes
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Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Fábio Rafael Araújo de Carvalho
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Ad-Hoc Network with Traffic Priorities and Tolerance to disconnection
09/2016
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Ricardo Daniel Carvalho Godinho
Eduardo Correia
Levantamento de problemas Seg. Wireless existentes nas redes do Porto
09/2016
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
Tiago Alexandre Costa Paiva
Inês de Castro Dutra
Mining Diabetes diaries for management improvement
09/2016
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
João Manuel Fernandes Rodrigues
“Quiosque de Saúde”: que fatores influenciam a decisão sobre como e quando o usar? (cosupervision with Paulino Artur Ferreira de Sousa)
09/2016
Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão
João Diogo Gameiro Medeiros
Depth Extraction in Light Field Images
09/2016
Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão
João Bernardo Cardoso de Brito
Extraction and Correction of Hard-coded Subtitles
09/2016
Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença
Rui Silva
Automated Detection of 09/2016 Abandoned Objects in Surveillance Environments
Fernando Manuel Santos Perdigão
Guilherme de Abreu Franco
Fernando Manuel Santos Perdigão
Hugo José de Sousa Ferreira
Pedro Figueiredo Santana
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
Phoneme recognition system for European Portuguese based on neural networks
09/2016
System for Automatic Assessment of Reading Ability of Children
09/2016
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Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Fábio Manuel Taveira da Cunha
Buses as Urban Sensing Data Couriers
09/2016
Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra Ferreira
João Pedro Martins de Carvalho
Identification of Encrypted Traffic in Corporate Networks
09/2016
Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra Ferreira
José Rosa
Customer-Side Detection of BGP Routing Attacks
09/2016
Paulo Jorge Salvador Serra Ferreira
Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pina
Cloud Server Performance Modeling and Failure Prediction
09/2016
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Rute Marto
Reconstrução Automática da Rede Capilar da Retina de um Paciente
09/2016
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Ricardo Miguel Machado Ribeiro Guerra
Volume segmentation algorithms for application to 3D printing of human organ replicas
09/2016
Patrício Rodrigues Domingues
Pedro Miguel Marques Pereira
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
Optimizations of Pattern Matching Algorithms for Multi- and Many-Core Platforms
09/2016
Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves Madeira Adão
Ion Craciun
Luís Manuel Antunes Veiga
Self-Regulation in P2P Systems
10/2016
João da Silva Pereira
Josip Bagaric
Sistema de localização automática de dispositivos móveis com recurso as sequências perfeitas de radiofrequência (MEICM)
10/2016
Antonio Manuel Duarte Nogueira
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Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues
João da Fonseca Ferreira
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso
Quality of Experience in DASH based video streaming services
10/2016
João Bernardo Ferreira Sequeiros
Forensic Box for Quick Network-Based Security Assessments
10/2016
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio
Ivan Sousa Fernandes
Dynamic OSINT System Sourcing from Social Networks
10/2016
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
Ruben Oliveira Vales
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Nomadic Cloud Computing
10/2016
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
Tiago Filipe dos Santos Lourenço
Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar
Calibration framework for low-cost environmental micro-sensors
10/2016
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Andre Filipe Oliveira
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Caraterização de imagens de dermoscopia por HHT
10/2016
Daniel Nunes Corujo
Pedro Bispo
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Mobilidade em 5G
10/2016
António Manuel Gonçalves Pinheiro
Miguel Francisco Fidalgo Fernandes
A bag of words description scheme for image quality assessment
10/2016
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
André Alexandre Rodrigues Oliveira
Light Field based 360º Panoramas
11/2016
Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues
Alexandre Ferreira Fernando Manuel Gomes Bernardo Pereira
Automatic detection of commercials on TV content
11/2016
Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites
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Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão
Luís Jorge Gregório Dias
Fernando Manuel Marques Batista
Automatic Violence Detection in Movies
11/2016
Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro
Ricardo Jorge Paiva Dionísio
José André Rocha Sá e Moura
Enhanced Peer Collaboration in Hybrid Content Distribution Networks
11/2016
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
José Ricardo Alves Fonseca
Determinação de Altitude por Fusão de Informação Sensorial Barométrica e de GPS
11/2016
Valter Filipe Miranda Castelão da Silva
Daniel da Silva David
Sistema de segurança para apiários melhoramentos
11/2016
Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva
José Sousa Ribeiro
Desenvolvimento de Jogos em Realidade Aumentada: Problemas e Soluções
11/2016
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira
Rafael Melo Coimbra
CoherentPaaS European Project – “Real-Time Network Performance Analysis in a Telco Environment Use Case”
12/2016
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira
Hugo dos Santos Frade
Context-driven Framework for Enforcing Accessing Control Policies to Sensitive Data at Runtime
12/2016
Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes
Agostinho Ferreira da Silva
3D Holoscopic DepthImage-Based Rendering
12/2016
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Jorge Miguel Sarrico Madail
Sistema de controlo de rebanhos
12/2016
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras Pedro Alexandre Sousa Gonçalves
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Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes
Andreia Pereira da Vitor Manuel Mendes Silva Rui Silva Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Low Complexity Iterative Frequency Domain Equalisation for MIMOOFDM Type Systems
12/2016
Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira
Hugo Manuel Espinho Lebre Fernandes
Sensores Inteligentes para Domótica
12/2016
Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro Prior
André Alves Fernandes
Javascript Tools for Visual Data Mining
12/2016
Rui Pedro de Magalhães Claro Prior
Luís Miguel Salgueiro Barroso
Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão
802.11s para Android
12/2016
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Manuel Martins Fernandes
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Network as a Service Using OpenStack Neutron
12/2016
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Miguel Reis Vicente
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Caracterização de Utilizadores em Redes Sociais
12/2016
João Paulo Barraca
Fabio André Morais Almeida
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Flexible NFV integration in the OpenStack platform
12/2016
João Paulo Barraca
Pedro Costa
Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar
Plataforma M2M para gestão de Smart Water Grids
12/2016
João Paulo Barraca
Vasco Alexandre Maia dos Santos
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Secure Decentralized IoT Infrastructure
12/2016
Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo
Ana Clara Cruz Azevedo
Plataformas Online para Clientes de Táxis
12/2016
Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo
Telmo José Pessoa Pires
Shape-based Trajectory Clustering
12/2016
José Alberto Gouveia Fonseca
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Fernando José Pimentel Lopes
Rafaela Viegas Correia
Fernando José Pimentel Lopes
Carlos Jorge Simão Martins
Diogo Nuno P. Gomes
Pedro Margarido
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Carlos Manuel Borralho Machado Ferreira Luís Miguel Santos Candeias
Sistemas de Proteção, Comando e Controlo e o Paradigma do IEC 61850 – Os Novos Desafios da Manutenção – Estágio na EDP Distribuição
12/2016
Monitorização da Condição de Variáveis Elétricas: SAVA - Sistema de Aquisição de Variáveis Adicionais
12/2016
João Paulo Barraca
Distribuição de conteúdos multimédia na Web/P2P
12/2016
José Miguel Costa Silva
Lucas Guardalben
Distribuição de Conteúdos em Redes OTT sem Fios
12/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Francisco Manuel Malheiro De Castro
Nuno Alexandre Utilização de Diferentes Tavares Coutinho Tecnologias em Redes de Veículos: Multihoming e Network Coding
12/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Pedro Manuel Reverendo Cirne
André Zúquete Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Gestão segura de rotas numa VANET
12/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Ruben Pedrosa Oliveira
Lucas Guardalben
Redes de Sensores com Múltiplas Tecnologias: Curto e Longo Alcance
12/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Daniel Vicente Inácio
Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de Matos
Extensão do Alcance e Taxa de Transmissão em Redes de Veículos
12/2016
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PhD Theses Supervisor
Student
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria
Luís Filipe Rosário Lucas
Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues Eduardo Antônio da Silva
Predictive Coding Algorithms For Lossy Image And Video Compression
01/2016
Vitor Manuel Mendes Silva
João Maria Duarte Andrade
Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes
Design Space Exploration of LDPC Decoders on Programmable and Reconfigurable Architectures
01/2016
Pedro António Amado Assunção
Sylvain Tony Marcelino
Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria Salviano Soares
Depth error concealment methods for 3D video over error-prone networks
02/2016
Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida
Luís Filipe Nunes Quaresma de Oliveira
Pedro Lima
Communications and Localisation for Cooperating Autonomous Mobile Robots
02/2016
José Manuel Bioucas Dias
Filipe João Cabrita Condessa
Biomedical image classification/segmentation
04/2016
Realistic Simulation and Animation of Clouds using SkewT/LogP Diagrams
05/2016
Human Perception-Oriented Segmentation for Triangle Meshes
05/2016
Abel João Rui Pedro Padrão Gomes Monteiro Amaro Duarte
Co-Supervisors
Abel João Padrão Gomes
Abel João Rui Sérgio Padrão Gomes Viegas Rodrigues
Title
End Date
Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz
Lino Miguel Moreira Ferreira
Pedro António Amado Assunção
Methods for Flexible Representation and Coding of 2D and 3D Visual Information
05/2016
José Manuel Bioucas Dias
Miguel Sousa Borges de Almeida
Ricardo Nuno Vigário
Source Separation of Phase-Locked Signals
06/2016
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Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto Orvalho
Cumhur Ozan Çetinaslan
Simulation of Deformable Solid and Rigid Bodies on Facial Models
07/2016
João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
Diogo João de Sousa Ferreira
Network Coding Protocols for Video Streaming
07/2016
João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
Susana Pereira Bulas Cruz
Network Coding for Sensor Networks
07/2016
João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
Luis Miguel Ramos Barbara Cunha Pinto
Cyber -physical systems for Smart Buildings
07/2016
Paulo Alexandre Carreira Mateus
João Rodrigues
Quantum oblivious transfer
08/2016
Paulo Alexandre Carreira Mateus
David Henriques
Model-checking for security
09/2016
Paulo Alexandre Carreira Mateus
Ricardo Loura
Vítor Rocha Vieira
Quantum Adiabatic Computation
10/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Miguel Almeida
Orlando Remédios
Performance evaluation in next generation networks
12/2016
Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Vitor Mirones
Victor Marques
Self in-network resource management
12/2016
Nikola Paunkovic
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Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento
Frank Kanesel
Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto Orvalho
Converged Mobile Communications in Multiple Integrated Networks
12/2016
Teresa de Jesus Baptista Vieira
Facial Skin Shading Parametrization System for Real Time Rendering of Emotions
12/2016
João Francisco Cordeiro de Oliveira Barros
Alexandre Kimiyaki Ligo
Public Policies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
12/2016
Rui Jorge Henriques Calado Lopes
Carlos M. Lemos
On Agent-Based Modelling of Large Scale Conflict Against a Central Authority: from Mechanisms to Complex Behaviour
12/2016
4.3.6
Pedro Miguel Naia Neves
Helder Manuel Ferreira Coelho
Publications
Architectures and Protocols Book Chapters Silva, L. Silva; Pedreiras, P.P.; Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; STDMA-based Scheduling Algorithm for Infrastructured Vehicular Networks - Chapter in Intelligent Transportation Systems - Dependable Vehicular Communications for Improved Road Safety, , Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016 Almeida, J.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Fault Tolerant Architecture for Infrastructure based Vehicular Networks - Chapter in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Dependable Vehicular Communications for Improved Road Safety, , Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016 Meireles, T.; Ferreira, J.; Fonseca, J.; Deterministic vehicular communications supported by the roadside infrastructure: a case study - Chapter in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Dependable Vehicular Communications for Improved Road Safety, , Springer International Publishing, -, 2016 Fernandes, B. F.; Gomes, V.; Ferreira, J.; Alam , M.; Oliveira, A.; HDy Copilot: A Mobile Application for Automatic Accident Detection and Multimodal Alert Dissemination - Chapter in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Dependable Vehicular Communications for Improved Road Safety, , Springer International Publishing, -, 2016
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Papers in Journals Ashjaei, M.A.; Silva, L.S.; Behnam, MB; Pedreiras, P.P.; Bril, R. J. B. ; Almeida, L.; Nolte, TN; Improved Message Forwarding for Multi-Hop HaRTES Real-Time Ethernet Networks, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 47 - 67, July, 2016 Rego, J.; Antunes, M.; Corujo, D.; Gomes, D.G.; Aguiar, R. ; On the application of contextual IoT service discovery in Information Centric Networks, Computer Communications, Vol. 89-90, No. 1, pp. 117 - 127, March, 2016 Amadeo, MA; Campolo, CC; Rego, J.; Corujo, D.; Molinaro, AM; Lera, AL; Aguiar, R. ; Vasilakos, A. V; Information-centric networking for the internet of things: challenges and opportunities, IEEE Network, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 92 - 100, March, 2016 Sadeghi, Rasool Sadeghi; Barraca, JPB; Aguiar, R. ; A Survey on Cooperative MAC Protocols in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. Online First, No. 0, pp. 1 - 25, October, 2016 Sobrinho, J. L. S.; Vanbever, L. V.; Le, FL; Rexford, J. R.; Scaling the Internet Routing System Through Distributed Route Aggregation, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 3462 - 3476, December, 2016 Sargento, S.; Monteiro, R.; Viriyasitavat, W. V.; A graph structure approach to improving message dissemination in vehicular networks, Springer Wireless Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 19, April, 2016 Vitturi, SV; Pedreiras, P.P.; Proenza, J. Proenza; sauter, T. S.; Guest Editorial Special Section on Communication in Automation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 1817 - 1821, October, 2016 Almeida, C.; System Support and Dependable Adaptation in Small Real-Time Embedded Systems, IEEE Latin America Transactions, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 4402 - 4408, October, 2016 Zhuo, S. ; Wang, Z. ; Song, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Almeida, L.; A Traffic Adaptive Multi-channel MAC Protocol with Dynamic Slot Allocation for WSNs, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 1600 1613, July, 2016 Ashjaei, M.A.; Behnam, MB; Almeida, L.; Nolte, TN; MTU configuration for real-time switched Ethernet networks, Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 70, No. ., pp. 15 - 25, October, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Garcia, N. M. ; Pires, I.; Pombo, N.; Florez-Revulta, FR; Identification of Activities of Daily Living using Sensors Available in Off-the-shelf Mobile Devices: Research and Hypothesis, Proc 7th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence ISAMI, Seville, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Álvarez , I. Álvarez; Almeida, L.; Proenza, J. Proenza; A First Qualitative Comparison of the Admission Control in FTT-SE, HaRTES and AVB, Proc IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Aveiro, Portugal, May, 2016
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Pinto, P.; Amaral , P.; Bernardo, L.; Lightweight admission control and traffic management with SDN, Proc IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 34413, pp. 6 - 16, May, 2016 Macedo Mota João, RJMMJ; Marinheiro, R. ; Assunção, P.A.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; A Flexible Monitor for Assessing 3D Video QoE in Real-time, Proc IEEE IEEE ICC Workshop - Quality of Experience-based Management for Future Internet Applications and Services IEEE ICC QoE-FI, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May, 2016 Aisa, J. Aisa; Fotouhi, H. Fotouhi; Almeida, L.; Villarroel, J. Villarroel; DoTHa - A Double-threshold Hand-off Algorithm for Managing Mobility in Wireless Mesh Networks, Proc IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation IEEE ETFA, Berlim, Germany, September, 2016 Álvarez , I. Álvarez; Knezic, M. ; Almeida, L.; Proenza, J. Proenza; A First Performance Analysis of the Admission Control in the HaRTES Ethernet Switch, Proc IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation IEEE ETFA, Berlim, Germany, September, 2016 Almeida, L.; Oliveira, L.oliveira; Composable Routing in Mobile Mesh Networks, Proc IEEE Real-Time Systems Symp. - RTSS, Porto, Portugal, November, 2016 Ramos, D. Ramos; Moreno, U. F.; Almeida, L.; Method for Design and Performance Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networked Mobile Robotic Systems using OMNET++, Proc IFAC Symp. on Telematics Applications, Porto Alegre, Brazil, November, 2016 Almeida, J.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; An RSU Replication Scheme for Dependable Wireless Vehicular Networks, Proc 12th European Dependable Computing Conference EDCC 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, Vol. 1, pp. 229 - 240, September, 2016 Condeixa, T.; Sargento, S.; Distributed Mobility Management in Future Networks: Tunneling or Host Routing?, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016 Almeida, T. Almeida; Guardalben, L.; Sargento, S.; A Quality-Aware Delay-Tolerant Approach for Navy Communications, Proc IEEE IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. 21, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Cirne, P. ; Zúquete, A.; Sargento, S.; Authentication of routing messages on a VANET, Proc Inforum Simpósio de Informática, Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2016 Rodrigues,, J. ; Zúquete, A.; Barraca, JPB; Mecanismos de Segurança de Dados para Plataformas IoT, Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2016 Almeida, J.; Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Timing Analysis of an Active Replication Scheme for the Road Side Units of Vehicular Networks, Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON, Firenze, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 4719 - 4724, October, 2016
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Almeida, J.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Pedreiras, P.P.; Fonseca, J.; Enforcing Replica Determinism in the Road Side Units of Fault-Tolerant Vehicular Networks, Proc The 1st EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies (Future 5V), Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 3 - 12, September, 2016 Ashjaei, M.A.; Mubeen, S. ; Behnam, MB; Almeida, L.; Nolte, TN; End-to-end Resource Reservations in Distributed Embedded Systems, Proc IEEE IEEE International Conf. on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications - RTCSA, Daegu, Korea, South, August, 2016 Sousa, M.; Almeida, L.; Sousa, A. ; Portugal, P. P.; Designing a Flexible and Inexpensive Laboratory for Teaching Industrial Communication Systems, Proc International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2016 Ashjaei, M.A.; Almeida, L.; Behnam, MB; Nolte, TN; Du, Y. ; Dynamic Reconfiguration in HaRTES Switched Ethernet Networks, Proc IEEE World Conf. on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Aveiro, Portugal, May, 2016 Aisa, J. Aisa; Fotouhi, H. Fotouhi; Villarroel, J. Villarroel; Almeida, L.; Soft Real-Time Traffic Communication in Loaded Wireless Mesh Networks, Proc IEEE World Conf. on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Aveiro, Portugal, May, 2016 Network Applications and Services Books Silva, M.; Cable and Wireless Networks: Theory and Practice, , CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2016 Rodrigues, J. R.; Sendra, S. S. ; de la Torre, I. T.; e-Health Systems – Theory, Advances and Technical Applications, , ISTE Press and Elsevier, London, 2016 Book Chapters Almeida, L.; Santos, A.; Oliveira, L.; Structuring Communications for Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems Chapter in Management of Cyber Physical Objects in the Future Internet of Things: Methods, Architectures and Applications, Springer, 2016 Iglésias, V.; Mantas, G.; Rodriguez, J.; Security Challenges for Cloud Radio Access Network - Chapter in Backhauling/Fronthauling for Future Wireless Systems, , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester. UK, 2016 Papers in Journals Lemos, C.L.; Lopes, R.J.; Coelho, H.; On Legitimacy Feedback Mechanisms in Agent-Based Modeling of Civil Violence, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 107 - 127, February, 2016 Fernandes, B. F.; Alam , M.; Gomes, V.; Ferreira, J.; Oliveira, A.; Automatic accident detection with multimodal alert system implementation for ITS, Vehicular Communications, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, January, 2016
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Moura, J.A.; Hutchison, D.H.; Review and analysis of networking challenges in cloud computing, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 113 - 129, January, 2016 Corujo, D.; Suarez, JS; Rego, J.; Vidal, Iván Vidal; Garcia-Reinoso, Jaime G. Reinoso; Aguiar, R. ; A Secure IoT Management Architecture based on Information-Centric Networking, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2016 Gama, J. Gama; Ferreira, M. ; João Mendes-Moreira, JMM; Damas, L.D.; Matias, L.; Time-evolving O-D matrix estimation using high-speed GPS data streams, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 44, pp. 275 - 288, February, 2016 Pires, I.; Garcia, N. M. ; Pombo, N.; Florez-Revulta, FR; From Data Acquisition to Data Fusion: a Comprehensive Review and a Roadmap for the Identification of Activities of Daily Living using Mobile Devices, Sensors, January, 2016 Esfahani, A.; Mantas, G.; Rodriguez, J.; An Efficient Null Space-based Homomorphic MAC Scheme against Tag Pollution Attacks in RLNC, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2016 Esfahani, A.; Mantas, G.; Silva, H.; Rodriguez, J.; Neves, J.; An Efficient MAC-based Scheme against Pollution Attacks in XOR Network Coding-Enabled WBANs for Remote Patient Monitoring Systems, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2016, No. 1, pp. 1 - 10, April, 2016 Alam , M.; Trapps, P. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Context-aware cooperative testbed for energy analysis in beyond 4G networks, Springer Telecommunication Systems, Vol. May 2016, No. 1, pp. 1 - 20, May, 2016 Iglésias, V.; Mantas, G.; Saghezchi, F.; Radwan, A. ; Rodriguez, J.; An Autonomous Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Intelligent Transportation System, Elsevier Computers & Security, Vol. 60, No. 60C, pp. 193 - 205, April, 2016 Kumar, N. K.; Misra, S. M.; Chilamkurti, N. C.; Lee, J. L. ; Rodrigues, J. R.; Bayesian Coalition Negotiation Game as a Utility for Secure Energy Management in a Vehicles-to-Grid Environment, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 133 - 145, January, 2016 Han, G. H.; Liu, L. L.; Jiang, J. J.; Shu, L. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; A Collaborative Secure Localization Algorithm Based on Trust Model in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 229 - 229, February, 2016 Costa, J. C.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Simões, Simões T.; Lloret, J. L.; Erratum to: Exploring Social Networks and Improving Hypertext Results for Cloud Solutions, Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 222 - 222, February, 2016 Cardoso, R.; Gomes, A.; Freire, M.; A User Trust System for Online Games -- Part II: A Subjective Logic Approach for Trust Inference, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, No. 99, pp. 1 - 16, July, 2016
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Cardoso, R.; Gomes, A.; Freire, M.; A User Trust System for Online Games – Part I: An Activity Theory Approach for Trust Representation, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 99, No. X, pp. 1 - 16, July, 2016 Akay, M. A.; Coatrieux, G. C.; Hao, Y.; Fotiadis, D. F.; Laine, A. L.; Lo, B. L.; Nikita, K. S.; Noury, N. N.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Wang, M. W.; Guest Editorial: MobiHealth 2014, IEEE HealthCom 2014, and IEEE BHI 2014, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 731 - 732, May, 2016 Santos, J. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Silva, B.; Casal, J. C.; Saleem, K. S.; Denisov, V. D.; An IoT-based mobile gateway for intelligent personal assistants on mobile health environments, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 194 - 204, August, 2016 Melo, M.; Sargento, S.; Carapinha, J.; Optimal virtual network migration: A step closer for seamless resource mobility, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 64, pp. 124 - 136, April, 2016 Esfahani, A.; Mantas, G.; Rodriguez, J.; Neves, J.; An efficient homomorphic MAC-based scheme against data and tag pollution attacks in network codingenabled wireless networks, International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 2016, No. 1, pp. 1 - 12, September, 2016 Bartolomeu, P. Bartolomeu; Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; Fonseca, J.; Survey on low power real-time wireless MAC protocols, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 293 - 316, November, 2016 Garibai-Martinez, R. G-M.; Nelissen, G. N.; Ferreira, L. L. F.; Pedreiras, P.P.; Pinho, L. P.; Improved Holistic Analysis for Fork-Join Distributed Real-Time Tasks supported by the FTT-SE Protocol, IEEE Trans. in Industrial Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 1 - 13, October, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Pombo, N.; Braun, T. ; Florez-Revulta, FR; Chorbev, I.C.; Spinsante, S.P.; Lamas, D.; Goleva, R. ; Stepping into the Era of Personal Big Data: a Roadmap to the Design of a Personal Digital Life Coach, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 17, October, 2016 Nogueira, J.; Guardalben, L.; Cardoso, B.C.; Sargento, S.; Catch-up TV analytics: statistical characterization and consumption patterns identification on a production service, Multimedia Systems, pp. 1 - 19, May, 2016 Silva, B.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Kumar, N. K.; Júnior, Mário L. Proença Junior; Han, G. H.; MobiCoop: An IncentiveBased Cooperation Solution for Mobile Applications, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 49:1 - 49:23, August, 2016 Lloret, J. L.; Garcia, M. G.; Catala, A. C.; Rodrigues, J. R.; A group-based wireless body sensors network using energy harvesting for soccer team monitoring, International Journal of Sensor Networks, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 208 - 208, September, 2016 Wang, K. W.; Qi, X. Q.; Shu, L. S.; Deng, D. D.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Toward trustworthy crowdsourcing in the social internet of things, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 30 - 36, October, 2016
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Sousa, P. ; Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; Barraca, JPB; Non-IP Multi-protocol Stack for Vehicular Communications, Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1 - 15, November, 2016 Alam , M.; Bartolomeu, P. Bartolomeu; Ferreira, J.; Fonseca, J.; Implementation and analysis of Wireless Flexible Time-Triggered protocol, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 18, December, 2016 Alam , M.; Schiller, E. ; Shu, L. S.; Wu, X. ; Jayo, U. ; Editorial: Dependable and Real-time Vehicular Communication for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1 - 3, November, 2016 Antunes, M.; Gomes, D.G.; Aguiar, R. ; Scalable Semantic Aware Context Storage, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 675 - 683, March, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Azevedo, J. Azevedo; d´Orey, P. M.; Ferreira, M. ; On the Mobile Intelligence of Autonomous Vehicles, Proc IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Urban Mobility & Intelligent Transportation Systems UMITS, Istanbul, Turkey, Vol. 1, pp. 1169 - 1174, April, 2016 Pereira, C.; Rodrigues, J.; Pinto, A.; Rocha, P. N.; Santiago, F.; Sousa, Jorge Sousa; Aguiar, A.; Smartphones as M2M Gateways in Smart Cities IoT Applications, Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Thessaloniki, Greece, Vol. -, pp. 184 - 190, May, 2016 d´Orey, P. M.; Hosseini, A. ; Azevedo, J. Azevedo; Diermeyer, F. ; Ferreira, M. ; Lienkamp, M. ; Hail-a-Drone: Enabling Teleoperated Taxi Fleets, Proc IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp. - IV, Gothenburg, Sweden, Vol. 1, pp. 774 - 781, June, 2016 Pereira, C.; Pinto, A.; Rocha, P. N.; Santiago, F.; Sousa, Jorge Sousa; Aguiar, A.; IoT Interoperability for Actuating Applications through Standardised M2M Communications, Proc 5th workshop on IoT-SoS: Internet of Things Smart Objects and Services, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016 Crocker, P.; Silveira, JS; Applications of Identity Based Cryptography and Sticky Policies with Electronic Identity Cards, Proc ACPI 15th European Conference on Cyber Warfare & Security ECCWS ECCWS, Munich, Germany, Vol. 15, pp. 1 - 9, July, 2016 Pinto, L.P; Oliveira, L.; Almeida, L.; externo, t; Extendable Matrix Camera using Aerial Networks, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC) - ICARSC, Bragança , Portugal, May, 2016 Iqbal, Z.; Almeida, L.; Towards an analysis for hierarchies of sporadic servers on Ethernet, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES SIES, Krakow, Poland, May, 2016 Soares, E. S.; Oliveira, C.O; Maia, J.M.; Almeida, R.A.; Brandão, P.; Coimbra, M.; Prior, R. ; Modular Health Kiosk for Health Self-Assessment, Proc IEEE workshop on ICT Solutions for eHealth ICTS4sHealth, Messina, Italy, June, 2016
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Moreira, M.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Oliveira, A. O.; Saleem, K. S.; Smart mobile system for pregnancy care using body sensors, Proc International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking MoWNeT, Cairo, Egypt, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2016 Moreira, M.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Oliveira, A. O.; Ramos, R. R.; Saleem, K. S.; A preeclampsia diagnosis approach using Bayesian networks, Proc IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Sousa, S.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; Basic Limits for LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization in the Outdoor-to-indoor Scenario, Proc IEEE 4th IEEE BlackSea Conference on Communications and Networking, Varna, Bulgaria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016 Sousa, S.; Mihovska, A.; Prasad, R.; Basic Limits for LTE-Advanced Radio and HetNet Optimization in the Outdoor-to-indoor Scenario, Proc IEEE 4th IEEE BlackSea Conference on Communications and Networking, Varna, Bulgaria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016 Maciel, H. M.; Cardoso, I. C.; Silva, D. S.; Nascimento, C. N.; Ramos, H. R.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Aquino, A. A.; An embedded access control system for restricted areas in smart buildings, Proc International Multidisciplinary Conference on Computer and Energy Science 2016 SpliTech 2016, Split, Croatia, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 López, M. L.; López, M. L.; de la Torre, I. T.; Jimeno, J. J.; López-Coronado, M. L.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Evaluating the QoE of a Mobile DSS for Diagnosis of Red Eye Diseases by Medical Students, Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom, Munich, Germany, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Moreira, M.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Oliveira, A. O.; Saleem, K. S.; Neto, A.; Performance Evaluation of Predictive Classifiers for Pregnancy Care, Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Washington, DC, United States, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 5, December, 2016 Moreira, M.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Oliveira, A. O.; Saleem, K. S.; Neto, A.; An Inference Mechanism Using Bayesbased Classifiers in Pregnancy Care, Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom, Munich, Germany, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Veloso, M. ; d´Orey, P. M.; Phithakkitnukoon, S. ; Bento, C. ; Ferreira, M. ; Inferring Exhaust Gases Levels using Taxi Service and Meteorological Data: An Experiment in the City of Porto, Portugal, Proc IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 0, pp. 1970 - 1975, November, 2016 d´Orey, P. M.; Azevedo, J. Azevedo; Ferreira, M. ; Exploring the Solution Space of Self-Automated Parking Lots: A Large-scale Empirical Evaluation of Vehicle Control Strategies, Proc IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 1134 - 1140, November, 2016 Pereira, O.; Regateiro, DDR; Aguiar, R. ; Protecting Databases from Schema Disclosure - A CRUD-based Protection Model, Proc International Conf. on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 292 - 301, July, 2016
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Pereira, O.; SIMÕES , D.; Aguiar, R. ; Fault Tolerance Logging-based Model for Deterministic Systems, Proc INTICC International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications DATA, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 119 - 126, July, 2016 Pereira, O.; Capitão, M.; Regateiro, D.; Aguiar, R. ; Mediator Framework for Inserting xDRs Into Hadoop, Proc IEEE IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. I, pp. 578 - 585, June, 2016 Carvalho, S. R. C.; Pinto, L.P; Almeida, L.; Moreno, U. F.; Improving Robustness of Robotic Networksusing Consensus and Wireless Signal Strength, Proc Symposium on Telematics Application, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Nogueira, J.; González, F.; Guardalben, L.; Sargento, S.; Over-The-Top Catch-up TV content-aware caching, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Messina, Italy, pp. 1012 - 1017, June, 2016 Gomes, J.; Marques, F. M.; Lourenço, A. L.; Mendonça, R. M.; Santana, P.; Barata, J. B.; Gaze-Directed Telemetry in High Latency Wireless Communications: The Case of Robot Teleoperation, Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON, Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Veloso, M. ; Phithakkitnukoon, S. ; Bento, C. ; d´Orey, P. M.; Mining Taxi Data for Describing City in the Context of Mobility, Sociality, and Environment: Lessons Learned, Proc IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 217 - 222, November, 2016 Kholkine , L. Kholkine ; Santos, P.; Cardote, A.; Aguiar, A.; Detecting Relative Position of User Devices and Mobile Access Points, Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference VNC, Columbus, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, December, 2016 Iglésias, V.; Mantas, G.; Radwan, A. ; Rodriguez, J.; An OAuth2-based Protocol with Strong User Privacy Preservation for Smart City Mobile e-Health Apps, Proc IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Barbosa , D.; Barraca, JPB; Carvalho, B. ; Maia, D.; Gupta, Y. ; Natarajan, S. ; Roux, G. ; Swart, P. ; A cyber infrastructure for the SKA Telescope Manager, Proc SPIE - Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentatio Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV SPIE 9913, Edimburgh, United Kingdom, Vol. 9913, pp. 1 - 11, July, 2016 Gomes, D.G.; Antunes, M.; Aguiar, R. ; Learning Semantic Features from Web Services, Proc International Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud - FiCloud, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, August, 2016 Francisco, R.; Branco, P.; Ferreira, C.F.; Lopes, F.; Analysis and Mitigation of the Risk Associated with the Portuguese DSO Critical Telecommunications Infrastructure, Proc Protection, Automation and Control World Conf. - PacWorld, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 10, June, 2016
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Correia, R. ; Candeias, L. ; Francisco, R. ; Ferreira, C. ; Lopes, F.; Protection, Automation and Control Systems and the IEC 61850 Paradigm – New Testing and Maintenance Challenges, Proc Universities Power Engineering Conf. - UPEC, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 7, September, 2016 Carraco, F. ; Fonseca, I.; Lopes, F.; An Educational Platform for Residential and Industrial Energy Monitoring, Proc Universities Power Engineering Conf. - UPEC, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Ouyang, Z. O.; Niu, J. N.; Liu, Y. L.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Multiwave: A Novel Vehicle Steering Pattern Detection Method based on Smartphones, Proc IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. USB, pp. 1 - 7, May, 2016 Rodrigues, Rafael; Pocta, P.P.; Melvin, H. M.; Sousa, M.; Pinheiro, A.; MPEG DASH - Some QoE-based insights into the tradeoff between audio and video for live music concert streaming under congested network conditions, Proc IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 8, pp. 0 - 0, June, 2016 Network Operations, Management and Planning Book Chapters Huq, K.; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; An Overview of 4G System-Level Energy-Efficiency Performance Chapter in Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks, , Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016 Papers in Journals Radwan, A. ; Huq, K.; Mumtaz, S.M.; Fung-Tsang, K. ; Rodriguez, J.; Low-Cost On-Demand C-RAN Based Mobile Small-Cells, IEEE Access, Vol. 4, pp. 2331 - 2339, May, 2016 Han, G. H.; Zhou, Z. Z.; Dong, L. D.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Namuduri, K. N.; Mobility Support for Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks, Intrnl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 2016, No. 2462754, pp. 1 2, January, 2016 Rodrigues, J. R.; QoS-Aware Energy Management in Body Sensor Nodes Powered by Human Energy Harvesting, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 542 - 549, January, 2016 Junior, G.; Carvalho, L. C.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Proença, M. P.; Network anomaly detection using IP flows with Principal Component Analysis and Ant Colony Optimization, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, April, 2016 Saleem, K. S.; Derhab, A. A.; Orgun, M. O.; Al-Muhtadi, J. M.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Khalil, M. K.; Ahmed, A. A.; Cost-Effective Encryption-Based Autonomous Routing Protocol for Efficient and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1 - 23, April, 2016
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Lu, K. L.; Kota, S. K.; Rong, B. R.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Mouftah, H. M.; Guest Editorial Special Issue on Internet of Things Over LTE/LTE-A Network: Theory, Methods, and Case Studies, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 314 - 317, June, 2016 Han, G. H.; Shu, L. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Kim, K. K.; Lloret, J. L.; Wu, H. H.; Guest Editorial Special Issue on Advances in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, No. 11, pp. 3994 - 3994, June, 2016 Mastorakis, G. M.; Pallis, E. P.; Mavromoustakis, C. M.; Shu, L. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Guest Editorial: Multimedia Services Provision over Future Mobile Computing Systems, IEEE Systems, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 745 - 748, June, 2016 Marques, H.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Next-generation infrastructure for public protection and disaster relief organizations, SPIE Photonics, Devices, and Systems, Vol. 98490D, No. 98490D, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Cardoso, IG; Barraca, JPB; Gonçalves, CG; Aguiar, R. ; Seamless integration of cloud and fog networks, International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 435 - 460, November, 2016 Proença, M. P.; Junior, G.; Carvalho, L. C.; Assis, M. A.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Digital signature to help network management using flow analysis, International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 76 94, April, 2016 Ferreira, C.; Guardalben, L.; Gomes, G.T; Sargento, S.; Salvador, P.; Robalo, D.R.; Velez, F. J.; Supporting Unified Distributed Management and Autonomic Decisions: Design, Implementation and Deployment, Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management, pp. 1 - 41, November, 2016 Oliveira, L.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Sousa, A. F.; Denisov, V. D.; Network Admission Control Solution for 6LoWPAN Networks Based on Symmetric Key Mechanisms, IEEE Trans. in Industrial Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 2186 - 2195, December, 2016 Zhu, C. Z. ; Zhang, S. Z.; Han, G. H.; Jiang, J. J.; Rodrigues, J. R.; A Greedy Scanning Data Collection Strategy for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 1432 - 1432, September, 2016 Kumar, N. K.; Zeadaly, S. Z.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Vehicular delay-tolerant networks for smart grid data management using mobile edge computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 60 - 66, October, 2016 Rachedi, A. R.; Rehmani, M. R.; Cherkaoui, S. C.; Rodrigues, J. R.; IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT), IEEE Access, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9575 - 9579, September, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Rojo, Y.L.; Santos, P.; Lourenço, TFSL; Pérez-Penichet, C.P.P.; Calçada, T.C.; Aguiar, A.; UrbanSense: an Urban-scale Sensing Platform for the Internet of Things, Proc IEEE International Smart Cities Conference ISC2, Trento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2016 Amaral , P.; Dinis, J. ; Pinto, P.; Bernardo, L.; Tavares, J.; Mamede, H. ; Machine Learning in Software Defined Networks: Data Collection and Traffic Classification, Proc IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Networks ICNP (NetworkML), Singapore, Singapore, November, 2016 Reis, A.B.; Sargento, S.; Statistics of Parked Cars for Urban Vehicular Networks, Proc IEEE International Symp. on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks - WoWMoM, Coimbra, Portugal, June, 2016 Ferreira, C.; Sargento, S.; Oliveira, A.; Learning-based Autonomic Decision System for bandwidth-aware routing, Proc IEEE IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. 2016, pp. 56 - 63, July, 2016 Rashwan, A. ; Taha, M.; Hassanein, H. S.; Radwan, A. ; Toward designing an adaptive communication security for the next-generation mobile computing, Proc IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Processing, Analysis, and Coding of Audio and Visual Information Book Chapters Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Multiple Description Coding for Multipath Video Streaming Chapter in Emerging Research on Networked Multimedia Communication Systems, , IGI Global, Hershey, 2016 Pereira, D.; Castro, A. C.; Gomes, P.; Areias, J. ; Reis, Z. ; Coimbra, M.; Correia, R.; Digital Auscultation: Challenges and Perspectives - Chapter in Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine, , IGI Global, Hershey, 2016 Lucas, L.; Faria, S.M.M.; Debono, J; Depth Map Coding for 3DTV Applications - Chapter in Connected 3D Media in the Internet Era, Ahmet Kondoz and T. Dagiuklas, Springer, New York, 2016 Castro, A. C.; Carvalho, P. ; Jens Muehlsteff , J. ; Mattos, S. S.; Coimbra, M.; A Review on Noninvasive Beatto-Beat Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure Estimation through Surrogate Cardiovascular Signals Chapter in Computational Tools and Techniques for Biomedical Signal Processing, , IGI Global, Punjab, 2016 Papers in Journals Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; Agostini, L.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Complexity scalability for real-time HEVC encoders, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 01, pp. 107 - 122, June, 2016
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Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; Agostini, L.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Pareto-Based Method for High Efficiency Video Coding with Limited Encoding Time, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 1734 - 1745, September, 2016 Dumic, E.; Sonja Grgić, SG; Krešimir Šakić, KS; Regalo Rocha, PR; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; 3D video subjective quality: a new database and grade comparison study, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 23, January, 2016 Veganzones, A.; Simões, M.; Licciardi, G.; Yokoya, N.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Chanussot, J.; Hyperspectral SuperResolution of Locally Low Rank Images From Complementary Multisource Data, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 274 - 288, January, 2016 Conti, C. ; Soares, L. D.; Nunes, P.; HEVC-based 3D holoscopic video coding using self-similarity compensated prediction, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 42, pp. 59 - 78, March, 2016 Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; Agostini, L.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Fast coding tree structure decision for HEVC based on classification trees, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 129 - 139, May, 2016 Lucas, L.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Pagliari, C.L.P.; Silva, E.; Faria, S.M.M.; Recurrent pattern matching based stereo image coding using linear predictors, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 24, May, 2016 Ralha, R. R.; Falcão, G.; Amaro, J.; Mota, V. G. M.; Antunes, M. A.; Barreto, J. P. B.; Nunes, U.; Parallel refinement of slanted 3D reconstruction using dense stereo induced from symmetry, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 19, May, 2016 Martin, G.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Hyperspectral Blind Reconstruction From Random Spectral Projections, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 10, April, 2016 Fu, X.; Ma, W.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Chan, T.; Semiblind hyperspectral unmixing in the presence of spectral library mismatches, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, No. 99, pp. 1 - 14, January, 2016 Nunes, P. Pimentel Nunes; Libânio, D. Libânio; Lage, J. Lage; Abrantes, Diogo Abrantes; Coimbra, M.; Esposito, G. Esposito; Hormozdi, D. Hormozdi; Pepper, M. Pepper; Drasovean, S. Drasovean; White, J. White; Dobru, D. Dobru; Buxbaum, J. Buxbaum; Ragunath, K. Ragunath; Annibale, B. Annibale; Ribeiro, M. Dinis-Ribeiro; A multicenter prospective study of the real-time use of narrow-band imaging in the diagnosis of premalignant gastric conditions and lesions, Endoscopy, Vol. 9, June, 2016 Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Assunção, P.A.; UHD Video Retargeting based on Visual Attention Models and Temporal Consistency, IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 79 - 84, January, 2016
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Faria, S.M.M.; Lucas, L.; Silva, E.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Pagliari, C.L.P.; Image Coding using Generalized Predictors based on Sparsity and Geometric Transformations, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 4046 - 4060, September, 2016 Assunção, P.A.; Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Soares, S.S.; Faria, S.M.M.; Spatial error concealment for intracoded depth maps in multiview video-plus-depth, Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1 - 24, July, 2016 Faria, S.M.M.; Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Soares, S.S.; Assunção, P.A.; Reconstruction of lost depth data in multiview video-plus-depth communications using geometric transforms, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, pp. 1 - 11, July, 2016 Bernardo, M. ; Pinheiro, A.; Fiadeiro, PF; Sousa, M.; Image Quality under Chromatic Impairments, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1 - 20, August, 2016 Soares, I. ; Castelo-Branco, M.; Pinheiro, A.; Optic Disc Localization in Retinal Images Based on Cumulative Sum Fields, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 574 - 585, March, 2016 Fernandes, P.; Bernardo, M. ; Pinheiro, A.; Fiadeiro, PF; Sousa, M.; Quality comparison of the HEVC and VP9 encoders performance, Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1 - 17, July, 2016 Simões, M.; Almeida , L. ; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Chanussot, J.; A Framework for Fast Image Deconvolution with Incomplete Observations, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, No. 99, pp. 1 - 1, August, 2016 Fonseca, E.; Fiadeiro, PF; Sousa, M.; Pinheiro, A.; Comparative analysis of autofocus functions in digital inline phase-shifting holography, Applied Optics, Vol. 55, No. 27, pp. 7663 - 7674, September, 2016 Halimi, A.; Honeine, P. ; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Hyperspectral unmixing in presence of endmember variability, nonlinearity, or mismodeling effects, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 25, No. 10, pp. 4565 - 4579, July, 2016 Li, J.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Plaza, A.; Robust collaborative nonnegative matrix factorization for hyperspectral unmixing, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 6076 - 6090, July, 2016 Wei, Q.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Dobigeon, N.; Tourneret, J.-Y.; Chen, M. ; Godsil, S. ; Multiband image fusion based on spectral unmixing, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, No. 99, pp. 1 - 14, September, 2016 Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Assunção, P.A.; Towards key-frame extraction methods for 3D video: a review, EURASIP Jounal on Image and Video Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 19, September, 2016 Andrade, J.; Falcão, G.; Silva, V.; Sousa, L.; A Survey on Programmable LDPC Decoders, IEEE Access, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 6704 - 6718, July, 2016 Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Cordina, M. ; Debono, J; Assunção, P.A.; Quality Monitor for 3-D Video Over Hybrid Broadcast Networks, IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 15, November, 2016
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Pereira, Pedro M. M.; Domingues, P.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Falcão, G.; Faria, S.M.M.; Assessing the Performance and Energy Usage of Multi-CPUs, Multi-Core and Many-Core Systems : The MMP Image Encoder Case Study , International Journal of Distributed and Parallel systems (IJDPS), Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1 - 20, September, 2016 Ebrahimi, T.E.; Foessel, S. ; Pereira, F.; Schelkens, P. ; JPEG Pleno: toward an efficient representation of visual reality, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 14 - 20, October, 2016 Halimi, A.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Dobigeon, ; Buller, G. ; McLaughlin, S.W.M.; Fast hyperspectral unmixing in presence of nonlinearity or mismodelling effects, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, No. 99, pp. 1 - 14, December, 2016 Camps-Valls, G.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Crawford, M.; A special issue on advances in machine learning for remote sensing and geosciences [From the Guest Editors], IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 5 - 7, June, 2016 Wei, Q.; Dobigeon, ; Tourneret, J.-Y.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Godsill, S. ; R-FUSE: robust fast fusion of multi-band images based on solving a Sylvester equation, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 1632 1636, November, 2016 Monteiro, E. M; Corrêa, G.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Bampi, SB; From HD to UHD video: implications for embedded systems implementations of software-based HEVC video encoders, IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61 - 67, January, 2016 HoangVan , X.; Ascenso, J.; Pereira, F.; Adaptive Scalable Video Coding - an HEVC based Framework Combining the Predictive and Distributed Paradigms, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., Vol. 99, No. 99, pp. 0 - 100, May, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings HoangVan , X.; Ascenso, J.; Pereira, F.; Improving SHVC Performance with a Joint Layer Coding Mode, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Shanghai, China, March, 2016 Guapo, F.; Correia, P.L.; Vloed, D.V.; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF LIKELIHOOD RATIO METHODS – A CASE STUDY IN FORENSIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, Proc International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics IWBF, Limassol, Cyprus, March, 2016 Almeida, M.; Correia, P.L.; BIOFOV – AN OPEN PLATFORM FOR FORENSIC VIDEO ANALYSIS AND BIOMETRIC DATA EXTRACTION, Proc International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF, Limassol, Cyprus, March, 2016 Pereira, F.; Silva, E.; Lafruit, G. ; EFFICIENT PLENOPTIC IMAGING REPRESENTATION: WHY DO WE NEED IT ?, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, July, 2016
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Monteiro, N.; Brites , C.; Pereira, F.; Ascenso, J.; Multi-View Distributed Source Coding of Binary Features for Visual Sensor Networks, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Shanghai, China, March, 2016 Monteiro, N.; Brites , C.; Pereira, F.; Ascenso, J.; Multi-view Distributed Coding and Selection of Local Binary Features, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, July, 2016 Peixeiro, JP; Brites , C.; Ascenso, J.; Pereira, F.; Digital Holography: Benchmarking Coding Standards and Representation Formats, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, July, 2016 Assunção, P.A.; Evolution from 3D Video to Light-Field Coding and Transmission over Future Media Networks, Proc IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Limassol, Cyprus, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, April, 2016 Teodoro, A. M.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Image restoration and reconstruction using variable splitting and class-adapted image priors, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Phoenix, United States, September, 2016 Gomes, P.; Faria, S. Faria; Coimbra, M.; The Effect of Data Exchange Protocols on Decision Support Systems for Heart Sounds, Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Orlando, United States, August, 2016 Abrantes, Diogo Abrantes; Gomes, P.; Pereira, D.; Coimbra, M.; Measuring the intuitive response of users when faced with different interactive paradigms to control a gastroenterology CAD system, Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Orlando, United States, August, 2016 Pereira, D.; Gomes, P.; Faria, S. Faria; Correia, R.; Coimbra, M.; Teaching Cardiopulmonary Auscultation in Workshops using a Virtual Patient Simulation Technology - A Pilot Study, Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Orlando, United States, August, 2016 Castro, A. C.; Gomes, P.; Mattos, S. S.; Coimbra, M.; Comparison Between Users of a New Methodology for Heart Sound Auscultation, Proc International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Orlando, United States, August, 2016 Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Correia, Pedro F.; Faria, S.M.M.; Soares, S.S.; Assunção, P.A.; Robust decoding of MDC depth maps for enhanced 3D video over hybrid broadcasting networks, Proc IEEE 11th International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting BMSB2016, Nara, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 5, June, 2016 Moghaddam, A.; Correia, P.L.; Pereira, F.; LIGHT FIELD DENOISING: EXPLOITING THE REDUNDANCY OF AN EPIPOLAR SEQUENCE REPRESENTATION , Proc 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Hamburg, Germany, Vol. 10, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016
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Almeida, R.A.; Queluz, M.P.; Automatic Detection & Classification of Static Video Segments, Proc International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems ICMCS, Marrakech, Morocco, September, 2016 Halimi, A.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Honeine, P. ; Robust hyperspectral unmixing accounting for residual components, Proc IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing - SSP, Palma de Maiorca, Spain, Vol. I, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2016 Conti, C. ; Nunes, P.; Soares, L. D.; HEVC-Based Light Field Image Coding with Bi-Predicted Self-Similarity Compensation, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Zhuang, L.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Fast Hyperspectral Image Denoising Based on Low Rank and Sparse Representations, Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS, Beijing, China, July, 2016 Monteiro, R.; Lucas, L.; Conti, C. ; Nunes, P.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Faria, S.M.M.; Pagliari, C.L.P.; Silva, E.; Soares, L. D.; Light Field HEVC-Based Image Coding using Locally Linear Embedding and Self-Similarity Compensated Prediction, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, July, 2016 Pinheiro, A.; Fidalgo-Fernandes, M. FF.; Bernardo, M. V. B.; A Bag of Words Description Scheme Based on SSIM for Image Quality Assessment, Proc IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, June, 2016 Bioucas-Dias, J.; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Bayesian image segmentation using hidden fields supervised and semi-supervised formulations, Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Budapeste, Hungary, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Teodoro, A. M.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Image restoration with locally selected class-adapted models, Proc IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Salerno, Italy, September, 2016 Pinheiro, A.; Sousa, M.; LDR images generation with JPEG-XT decoded HDR images, Proc IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Antonio M G Pinheiro ICIP 2016, Phoenix, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1399 - 1403, September, 2016 Wei, Q.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Dobigeon, ; High-resolution hyperspectral image fusion based on spectral unmixing, Proc The International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2016 FUSION, Heidelberg, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, September, 2016 Conti, C. ; Soares, L. D.; Nunes, P.; Improved inter-layer prediction for light field content coding with display scalability, Proc SPIE - Applications of Digital Image Processing, San Diego, United States, Vol. 9971, pp. 99710P - 99710P-15, September, 2016
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Figueiredo, M. A. T.; ADMM in Imaging Inverse Problems: Some History and Recent Advances, Proc CIRM Signal, Image, Geometry, Modelling, and Approximation SIGMA, Marseille, France, November, 2016 Perra, C.; Assunção, P.A.; High efficiency coding of light field images based on tiling and pseudo-temporal data arrangement, Proc IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops ICMEW, Seattle, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Dias, LD; Brandão, T.; Batista, M.; Detecting violence on movie excerpts - A machine-learning approach based on audio and video features, Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2016 Pereira, Pedro M. M.; Domingues, P.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Falcão, G.; Faria, S.M.M.; Optimizing GPU code for CPU execution using OpenCL and vectorization: a case study on image coding, Proc ICA3PP: 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Granada, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, December, 2016 Pereira, Pedro M. M.; Domingues, P.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Falcão, G.; Faria, S.M.M.; Optimized Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform on OpenCL-GPU and OpenCL-CPU, Proc IPTA 2016 - 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications IPTA'2016, Oulu, Finland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 8, December, 2016 Viola, I. ; Rerabek, M. ; Bruylants, T. ; Schelkens, P. ; Pereira, F.; Ebrahimi, T.E.; Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Light Field Image Compression Algorithms, Proc Picture Coding Symp., Nuremberg, Germany, December, 2016 Gabriel, ASPG; Ascenso, J.; Pereira, F.; Boosting decoding quality performance in DASH-based streaming frameworks, Proc International Packet Video Workshop, Seattle, United States, July, 2016 Silva, R.; Pereira, F.; Silva, E.; Feature-based Video Coding: Designing an RD Efficient and Search Friendly Framework, Proc Picture Coding Symp., Nuremberg, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, December, 2016 Ferreira, L.F.; Assunção, P.A.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; 3D Key-frame extraction method based on visual saliency, Proc 3D Stereo Media International conference on 3D Imaging IC3D, Liege, Belgium, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 7, December, 2016 Iordache , M.; Bhatia, N. ; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Plaza, A.; Uncertainty propagation from atmospheric parameters to sparse hyperspectral unmixing, Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS, Beijing, China, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Cedillo, J.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Martin, G.; Nascimento, J. ; Hyperspectral image reconstruction from random projections on GPUs, Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS, Beijing, China, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016 Sigurdsson, J. ; Ulfarsson, M. ; Sveinsson, J. ; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Sparse distributed hyperspectral unmixing, Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS, Beijing, China, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016
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Halimi, A.; Honeine, P. ; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Buller, G. ; McLaughlin, S.W.M.; Nonlinear hyperspectral unmixing accounting for spatial illumination variability, Proc IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing - WHISPERS, Los Angeles, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, August, 2016 Miranda, A. ; Pereira, L. ; Marques, P.; Object Detection System for Blind Users, Proc Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. tbd - tbd, December, 2016 Ferreira, F. ; Lopes, F.; Webcam-Based Tachometer for In-field Induction Motor Load Estimation, Proc The International Conference of Electrical Machines Association Fernando José Pimentel Lopes ICEM, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 9, September, 2016 Alves, GOA; Pereira, F.; Silva, E. ; Light field imaging coding: performance assessment and standards benchmarking, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, July, 2016 Santos, João M.; Guarda, A.; Cruz, L. A. S. C.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Faria, S.M.M.; Compression of medical images using MRP with bi-directional prediction and histogram packing, Proc Picture Coding Symp., Nuremberg, Germany, December, 2016 Speech Analysis and Recognition Papers in Conference Proceedings Proença , J.; Celorico, D.; Candeias, S.; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; The LetsRead Corpus of Portuguese Children Reading Aloud for Performance Evaluation, Proc ELRA International Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, - LREC, Portorož, Slovenia, May, 2016 Proença , J.; Celorico, D.; Lopes, C.; Dias, M. D.; Tjalve, M.Tjalve; Stolcke, A. ; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children's Reading Aloud Performance, Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Tomar, Portugal, pp. 385 - 395, July, 2016 Proença , J.; Perdigão, F.; Segmented Dynamic Time Warping for Spoken Query-by-Example Search, Proc ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, United States, pp. 750 - 754, September, 2016 Proença , J.; Celorico, D.; Lopes, C.; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; Automatic Annotation of Disfluent Speech in Children's Reading Tasks, Proc IX Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and V Iberian SLTech Workshop IberSPEECH 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 172 - 181, November, 2016 Pattern Recognition and Automatic Learning Books Silva, A. Silva; Neves, R.; Horta, N.; Portfolio Optimization Using Fundamental Indicators Based on MultiObjective EA, , Springer, Heidelberg, 2016
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Fred, A. L. N.; Dietz, J. L. G. Dietz; Aveiro, D. Aveiro; Liu, K. Liu; Filipe, JBF; Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: IC3k 2015 Revised Selected Papers, , Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2016 Marsico, M. Marsico; Nappi, M.; Proença, H.; Human recognition in Unconstrained Environments, , Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2016 Book Chapters Carreiras, C. C.; Lourenço, A.; Aidos, H.; Silva, H.; Fred, A. L. N.; Unsupervised Analysis of Morphological ECG Features for Attention Detection - Chapter in Computational Intelligence Volume 613 of the series Studies in Computational Intelligence, Madani, K., Correia, A.D., Rosa, A., Filipe, J., Kacprzyk, J. , Springer International Publishing, Vilamoura, 2016 Carreiras, C. C.; Lourenço, A.; Silva, H.; Fred, A. L. N.; Ferreira, R.; Evaluating Template Uniqueness in ECG Biometrics - Chapter in Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics Volume 370 of the series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , Filipe, J., Gusikhin, O., Madani, K., Sasiadek, J. , Springer International Publishing, Vienna, 2016 Marques, P.; Moving Target Detection and Trajectory Estimation using SAR Data - Chapter in NATO Lecture Series on Radar and SAR Systems for Airborne and Space-based Surveillance and Reconnaissance Educational Notes, Mathias Weiss, NATO Science and Technology Organization, Paris, 2016 Fazendeiro, P.; Sousa, Paula Prata; Performance Assessment of the Canonical Genetic Algorithm: A Study on Parallel Processing Via GPU Architecture - Chapter in Evolutionary Computation: Techniques and Applications, Ashish M. Gujarathi and B. V. Babu, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, Oakville, 2016 Papers in Journals Nascimento, J. ; Véstias, M.; System-on-chip field programmable gate array design for onboard real-time hyperspectral unmixing, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 015004 , January, 2016 Kandaswamy, CK; Silva, L.; Alexandre, L.A.; Santos, J.; High-Content Analysis of Breast Cancer Using SingleCell Deep Transfer Learning, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, pp. 1 - 8, January, 2016 Proença, H.; Neves, João C. Neves; Moreno, JC; Joint Head Pose / Soft Label Estimation for Human Recognition In-The-Wild, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 1 13, January, 2016 Condessa, F.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Kovacevic, J. Kovacevic; Supervised Hyperspectral Image Classification With Rejection, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, No. 99, pp. 1 - 14, May, 2016 Cedillo, J.; Martin, G.; Nascimento, J. ; Parallel Hyperspectral Unmixing Method via Split Augmented Lagrangian on GPU, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, No. 99, pp. 1 - 5, January, 2016
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Neves, N; Horta, N.; Neves, R.; Tomás, P; Roma, N; Multi-Objective Kernel Mapping and Scheduling for Morphable Many-Core Architectures, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 385 - 399, March, 2016 Caixinha, M. C.; Amaro, J.; Santos, M. J. S. F. S.; Perdigão, F.; Gomes, M.; Santos, J. B.; In-vivo Automatic Nuclear Cataract Detection and Classification in an Animal Model by Ultrasounds, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 63, No. 11, pp. 2326 - 2335, November, 2016 Pombo, N.; Garcia, N. M. ; Bousson, K. B.; Spinsante, S.P.; Chorbev, I.C.; Pain Assessment–Can it be Done with a Computerised System? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1 - 27, April, 2016 Yazdani, D. ; Moghaddam, A.; Dehban, A. ; Horta, N.; A Novel Approach for Optimization in Dynamic Environments Based on Modified Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1 - 16, June, 2016 Proença, H.; Neves, João C. Neves; Biometric Recognition in Surveillance Scenarios: A Survey, Artificial Intelligence Review, pp. 1 - 27, March, 2016 Proença, H.; Neves, João C. Neves; Visible-wavelength Iris / Periocular Imaging and Recognition in Surveillance Environments, Image and Vision Computing, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2016 Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; Reticular pattern detection in dermoscopy: an approach using Curvelet Transform, Research in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 1, July, 2016 Denitto, M. ; Farinelli, A. ; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Bicego, M.; A Biclustering Approach Based on Factor Graphs and The Max-Sum Algorithm, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 63, November, 2016 Amaral, V. ; Lourenço, A. L.; Barata, J. B.; Santana, P.; Laser-Based Obstacle Detection at Railway Level Crossings, Journal of Sensors, Vol. 2016, No. 1719230, pp. 1 - 11, January, 2016 Leitão, J.; Neves, R.; Horta, N.; Combining Rules between PIPs and SAX to Identify Patterns in Financial Markets, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 65, No. 0, pp. 242 - 254, December, 2016 Duarte, L. ; Teodoro, A. ; Maia, D.; Barbosa , D.; Radio Astronomy Demonstrator: Assessment of the Appropriate Sites through a GIS Open Source Application, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol. 5, No. 209, pp. 1 - 22, November, 2016 Lopes, M.; Calado, C. ; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Does Nonlinear Modeling Play a Role in Plasmid Bioprocess Monitoring using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectra?, Applied Spectroscopy, November, 2016 Timóteo, A. ; Monteiro, A. ; Portugal, G. ; Teixeira, P. ; Aidos, H.; Ferreira, M. ; Ferreira, R.; Validation of two US risk scores for percutaneous coronary intervention in a single-center Portuguese population of patients with acute coronary syndrome, Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 73 - 78, February, 2016
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Fred, A. L. N.; Marsico, M. Marsico; Advances in Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Neurocomputing, Vol. 173, No. P1, pp. 1 - 80, January, 2016 Marsico, M. Marsico; Nappi, M.; Proença, H.; Results from MICHE II - Mobile Iris CHallenge Evaluation II, Pattern Recognition Letters, pp. 1 - 8, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Silva, D. ; Aidos, H.; Fred, A. L. N.; Efficient Evidence Accumulation Clustering for large datasets, Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Rome, Italy, February, 2016 Sultan, Malik Saad Sultan; Martins, N. ; Coimbra, M.; Automatic Segmentation of Extensor Tendon of the MCP Joint in Ultrasound Images, Proc International Joint Conf. on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC, Rome, Italy, February, 2016 Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Nowak, R.; Ordered Weighted l1 Regularized Regression with Strongly Correlated Covariates: Theoretical Aspects, Proc International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics - AISTATS, Cadiz, Spain, pp. 1 - 9, May, 2016 Duarte, M.; Gomes, J.; Costa, V.C.; Rodrigues, T. R.; Silva, F.; Lobo, VL; Marques, MM; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; Application of Swarm Robotic Systems to Marine Environmental Monitoring, Proc IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 Verlekar, TTV; Correia, P.L.; WALKING DIRECTION IDENTIFICATION USING PERCEPTUAL HASHING, Proc International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF, Limassol, Cyprus, Vol. 4, pp. 1 - 6, March, 2016 Duarte, M.; Gomes, J.; Costa, V.C.; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; Hybrid Control for a Real Swarm Robotic System in an Intruder Detection Task, Proc European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoStar, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 213 - 230, March, 2016 Jardim, D.; Nunes, L.; Dias, M. D.; Impact of Automated Action Labeling in Classification of Human Actions in RGB-D Videos, Proc 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2016, Hague, Netherlands, Vol. Volume 285: ECAI 2016, pp. 1632 - 1633, August, 2016 Nunes, L.; Lourenço, A. L.; Multi-factor Authentication for Improved Efficiency in ECG-Based Login, Proc INSTICC International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems PhyCS, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2016 Verlekar, TTV; Correia, P.L.; Soares, L. D.; View-Invariant Gait Recognition exploiting Spatio-Temporal Information and a Dissimilarity Metric, Proc International Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group BIOSIG, Darmstadt, Germany, Vol. 15, pp. 1 - 12, September, 2016
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Jardim, D.; Nunes, L.; Dias, M. D.; Human Activity Recognition from Automatically Labeled Data in RGB-D Videos, Proc Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference CEEC, Colchester, United Kingdom, Vol. In Press, pp. In Press - In Press, September, 2016 Martins, A.; Astudillo, R. ; From Softmax to Sparsemax: A Sparse Model of Attention and Multi-Label Classification, Proc International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, New York, United States, Vol. 48, pp. 1614 - 1623, June, 2016 Ferreira, D. ; Martins, A.; Almeida, M. ; Jointly Learning to Embed and Predict with Multiple Languages, Proc Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Berlin, Germany, August, 2016 Martins, A.; Astudillo, R. ; Hokamp, C. ; Kepler, F. ; Unbabel's Participation in the WMT16 Word-Level Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task, Proc Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Berlin, Germany, August, 2016 Cedillo, J.; Nascimento, J. ; Martin, G.; Parallel hyperspectral image reconstruction using random projections, Proc Europe Remote Sensing - SPIE, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September, 2016 Madeira, R.; Nunes, L.; A Machine Learning Approach for Indirect Human Presence Detection Using IOT Devices, Proc International Conference on Digital Information Management ICDIM, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, September, 2016 Jardim, D.; Nunes, L.; Dias, M. D.; Predicting Human Activities in Sequences of Actions in RGB-D Videos, Proc 9th International Conference on Machine Vision ICMV 2016, Nice, France, Vol. In Press, pp. In Press - In Press, November, 2016 Jardim, D.; Nunes, L.; Dias, M. D.; Automatic Human Activity Segmentation and Labeling in RGBD Videos, Proc International KES Conference on INTELLIGENT DECISION TECHNOLOGIES Luís Miguel Martins Nunes KED-IDT, Tenerife, Spain, Vol. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, pp. 383 - 394, June, 2016 Fernandes, MIFF; Alexandre, L.A.; SLAMfusion: Fusing SLAM Methods for Improved Robustness, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC) - ICARSC, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016 Fernandes, MIFF; Alexandre, L.A.; Dynamic Recognition of Obstacles for Optimal Robot Navigation, Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, October, 2016 Guilherme, R. ; Marques, F. M.; Lourenço, A. L.; Mendonça, R. M.; Santana, P.; Barata, J. B.; Context-aware switching between localisation methods for robust robot navigation: a self-supervised learning approach, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Budapeste, Hungary, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Mendonça, R. M.; Marques, M. ; Marques, F. M.; Lourenço, A. L.; Pinto, E. P.; Santana, P.; Coito, F. ; Lobo, V. ; Barata, J. B.; A Cooperative Multi-Robot Team for the Surveillance of Shipwreck Survivors at Sea, Proc IEEE OCEANS, Monterey, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016
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Domingues, P.; Frade, M. F.; Digital Forensic Artifacts of the Cortana Device Search Cache on Windows 10 Desktop, Proc The 9th International Workshop on Digital Forensics / 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security WSDF-ARES, Salzburg, Austria, Vol. 2, pp. 338 - 344, August, 2016 Almeida, P. Almeida; Schafer, T. ; Lourenço, A.; Simão, J. ; Monitorização do processo de condução e alertas baseados no contexto,, Proc Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2016 Silvestre, C.; Cardoso, M.; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Model selection in discrete clustering: The EM-MML algorithm, Proc ERCIM 9th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics CMStatistics, Seville, Spain, pp. 200 - 200, December, 2016 Charisis, V. ; Kyritsis, K. ; Konstantinidis, E. ; Delopoulos, A. ; Bamidis, P. ; Bostanjopoulou, S. ; Rizos, A. ; Trivedi, D. ; Chaudhuri, R. ; Klingelhoefer, L. ; Reichmann, H. ; Wadoux, J. ; Craecker, N. ; Karayannis, F. ; Fagerberg, P. ; Ioakeimidis, I. ; Stadtschnitzer, M. ; Esser, A. ; Grammalidis, N. ; Dimitropoulos, K. ; Dias, S. ; Diniz, J. ; Silva, H.; Lyberopoulos, G. ; Theodoropoulou, E. ; Hadjileontiadis, L. ; Active and Healthy Ageing for Parkinson's Disease Patients' Support: A User's Perspective within the i-PROGNOSIS Framework, Proc Int'l Conf. on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing TISHW, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 1 6, December, 2016 Charisis, V. ; Kyritsis, K. ; Konstantinidis, E. ; Delopoulos, A. ; Bamidis, P. ; Bostanjopoulou, S. ; Rizos, A. ; Trivedi, D. ; Chaudhuri, R. ; Klingelhoefer, L. ; Reichmann, H. ; Wadoux, J. ; Craecker, N. ; Karayannis, F. ; Fagerberg, P. ; Ioakeimidis, I. ; Stadtschnitzer, M. ; Esser, A. ; Grammalidis, N. ; Dimitropoulos, K. ; Dias, S. ; Diniz, J. ; Silva, H.; Lyberopoulos, G. ; Theodoropoulou, E. ; Hadjileontiadis, L. ; Active and Healthy Ageing for Parkinson's Disease Patients' Support: A User's Perspective within the i-PROGNOSIS Framework, Proc Int'l Conf. on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing TISHW, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 1 6, December, 2016 Network Performance Evaluation and Design Books Alam , M.; Ferreira, J.; Fonseca, J.; Intelligent Transportation Systems: Dependable Vehicular Communications for Improved Road Safety, , Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Dai, L. ; mmWave Massive MIMO, A Paradigm for 5G, , Elsevier Science, London, 2016 Book Chapters Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; Silva, J. ; Velez, F. J.; A Reliable Wearable System for BAN Applications with a High Number of Sensors and High Data Rate - Chapter in Wearable Technologies and Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare, IET, Stevenage, 2016 Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; Silva, J. ; Velez, F. J.; 12. A Precise Low Power and HardwareEfficient Time Synchronization Method for Wearable Systems - Chapter in Wearable Technologies and Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare, IET, Stevenage, 2016
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Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; Silva, J. ; Wearable Sensor Networks for Human Gait - Chapter in Wearable Technologies and Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare, IET, Stevenage, 2016 Ali, S. Ali; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A. ; Gameiro, A.; Physical-Layer Transmission Cooperative Strategies for Heterogeneous Networks - Chapter in Towards 5G Wireless Networks - A Physical Layer Perspective, Hossein Khaleghi Bizaki , Intech Open, Croatia, 2016 Pahlevani, P. ; Crisóstomo, S.; Lucani, D. E.; An Analytical Model for Perpetual Network Codes in Packet Erasure Channels - Chapter in Multiple Access Communications, , Springer International Publishing, Aalborg, 2016 Papers in Journals Furtado, A.; Irio, L.; Oliveira, R.; Bernardo, L.; Dinis, R.; Spectrum Sensing Performance in Cognitive Radio Networks with Multiple Primary Users, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 1564 - 1574, March, 2016 Oliveira, R.; Luís, M.; Bernardo, L.; Dinis, R.; MyopicMAC: A Throughput-Optimal Random Access Scheme for Distributed Wireless Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 1693 - 1715, February, 2016 Boban, M.; d´Orey, P. M.; Exploring the Practical Limits of Cooperative Awareness in Vehicular Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 3904 - 3916, March, 2016 Moura, J.A.; Edwards, CE; Efficient Access of Mobile Flows to Heterogeneous Networks under Flash Crowds, Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, Vol. 107, No. 2, pp. 163 - 177, October, 2016 Jiang, J. J.; Han, G. H.; Guo, H. G.; Shu, L. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Geographic multipath routing based on geospatial division in duty-cycled underwater wireless sensor networks, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 59, No. January, pp. 4 - 13, January, 2016 Rhee, S. R.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Cano, J. C.; Foreword by Guest Editors for the Selected Papers from 2014 ICUFN (International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks), Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 1731 - 1734, February, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Al-Dulaimi,, A. ; Huq, K.; Saghezchi, F.; Rodriguez, J.; WiFi in Licensed Band (WiFi-Lic), IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 10, No. 124, pp. 23 - 28, June, 2016 Herzog, U. ; Georgakopoulos, A. ; Belikaidis, I. ; Fitch, M. ; Briggs, K. ; Diaz, S. ; Carrasco, Ó. ; Moessner, K. ; Miscopein, B. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Quality of service provision and capacity expansion through extendedDSA for 5G, European Trans. on Telecommunications, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 230 - 230, June, 2016 Pereira, C.; Aguiar, A.; Lucani, D. E.; When are Network Coding based Dynamic Multi-Homing Techniques beneficial?, Computer Networks, Vol. 108, pp. 55 - 65, October, 2016
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Jain, S. J.; Chawla, M. C.; Soares, V. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Enhanced fuzzy logic-based spray and wait routing protocol for delay tolerant networks, Intrnl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1820 - 1843, August, 2016 Furtado, A.; Oliveira, R.; Dinis, R.; Bernardo, L.; Successful Packet Reception Analysis in Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Systems, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 2498 - 2501, December, 2016 Oliveira, D. ; Oliveira, R.; Characterization of Energy Availability in RF Energy Harvesting Networks, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol. 2016, No. 7849175, pp. 1 - 9, September, 2016 Luís, M.; Oliveira, R.; Dinis, R.; Bernardo, L.; A Novel Reservation-based MAC Scheme for Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2016 Luís, M.; Oliveira, R.; Dinis, R.; Bernardo, L.; Characterization of the Opportunistic Service Time in Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 288 300, September, 2016 Oliveira, R.; Pasquini, R.; Luís, M.; Bernardo, L.; XOR-Based Routing Protocols in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: How Well Do They Perform?, Wireless Personal Communications, October, 2016 Chen, B. C.; Zhu, C. Z.; Shu, L. S.; Su, M. S.; Wei, J. W.; Leung, V. L.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Securing Uplink Transmission for Lightweight Single-Antenna UEs in the Presence of a Massive MIMO Eavesdropper, IEEE Access, Vol. 4, No. September, pp. 5374 - 5384, September, 2016 Sendra, S. S. ; Lloret, J. L.; Jimenez , J. J. ; Rodrigues, J. R.; Underwater Communications for Video Surveillance Systems at 2.4 GHz, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 1769 - 1769, October, 2016 Silva, A. S.; Zhou, F. ; Pontes, E. ; Simplicio, M. ; Aguiar, R. ; Guelfi, A. ; Kofuji, S.; Energy-efficient node position identification through payoff matrix and variability analysis, Telecommunication Systems, pp. 1 19, November, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Irio, L.; Oliveira, R.; Real-Time Estimation of the Interference in Random Waypoint Mobile Networks, Proc Doctoral Conf. on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems - DOCEIS, Lisbon, Portugal, April, 2016 Furtado, A.; Oliveira, R.; Dinis, R.; Bernardo, L.; A Distributed MAC Protocol for Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun PIMRC, Valencia, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Sobral, J. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Saleem, K. S.; Paz, J. P.; Corchado, J. C.; A Composite Routing Metric for Wireless Sensor Networks in AAL-IoT, Proc IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference WMNC 2016, Colmar, France, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016
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Sobral, J. S.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Saleem, K. S.; Al-Muhtadi, J. M.; Performance Evaluation of LOADng Routing Protocol in IoT P2P and MP2P Applications, Proc International Multidisciplinary Conference on Computer and Energy Science 2016 SpliTech 2016, Split, Croatia, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Morais, R.M.; Pedro, J. M.; Minimizing Line Interface Count of Transport Nodes with Limited Shelves Interconnection, Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Washington, United States, December, 2016 Shrivastav, V. S.; Dhurandher, S. D.; Woungang, I. W.; Kumar, V. K.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Game Theory-Based Channel Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks, Proc IEEE Global Communications Conference GLOBECOM, Washington DC, United States, Vol. CD, pp. 1 - 5, December, 2016 Oliveira, D. ; Oliveira, R.; Modeling Energy Availability in RF Energy Harvesting Networks, Proc International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems ISWCS, Poznan, Poland, September, 2016 Ramos, MR; Bernardo, L.; Dinis, R.; Oliveira, R.; Pinto, P.; Amaral , P.; Using Lightly Synchronized MultiPacket Reception in Machine-Type Communication Networks, Proc IEEE IEEE Globecom 2016 Workshop on Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications in Wireless Networks - URLLC URLLC, Washington, United States, December, 2016 Aslam, A. Aslam; Almeida, L.; Ferreira, J. Ferreira; A proposal for an improved distributed MAC protocol for vehicular networks, Proc The 1st EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies The 1st EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies (Future 5V) Future 5V 2016, Porto, Portugal, September, 2016 Iqbal, Z.; Almeida, L.; Behnam, MB; Efficiency study for sporadic servers on Ethernet with FTT-SE, Proc IEEE Real-Time Systems Symp. - RTSS, Porto, Portugal, November, 2016 Rodrigues, F. R.; Brayner, A. B.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Maia, J. M.; Fractal Clustering and Similarity Measure: Two New Approaches for Reducing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc International Conf. on Ubiquitous and Future Networks - ICUFN, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 288 - 293, August, 2016 Zeng, M. Z.; Fang, W. F.; Rodrigues, J. R.; Zhu, Z. Z.; Orchestrating Multicast-Oriented NFV Trees in InterDC Elastic Optical Networks, Proc IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. Digital, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Computer Graphics Papers in Journals Ye, C. ; Bhagavatula, B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar; Coimbra, M.; An Automatic Subject-Adaptable Heartbeat Classifier Based on Multiview Learning, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1485 - 1492, November, 2016 Correia, J. ; Gomes, A.; Balloon extraction from complex comic books using edge detection and histogram scoring, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 75, No. 18, pp. 11367 - 11390, September, 2016
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Raposo, A.; Gomes, A.; Computational 3D Assembling Methods for DNA: a Survey, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1068 - 1085, December, 2016 Tidoni, E. ; Scandola, M. ; Orvalho, V.; Candidi, M. ; Apparent Biological Motion in First and Third Person Perspective, i-Perception, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Horta, R. ; Nascimento, R. ; Vilas-Boas, J. ; Sousa, F. ; Orvalho, V.; Silva, A. ; Amarante, J. ; Thermographic analysis of facially burned patients, Burns, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 236 - 238, February, 2016 Pérez-Sánchez, H.R.S.; Raposo, A.; HYDROWEB, an Online Tool for the Calculation of Hydrodynamic Properties of Macromolecules, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9656, No. -, pp. 82 - 90, April, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Cedillo, J.; Martin, G.; Nascimento, J. ; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM RANDOM PROJECTIONS ON GPU, Proc IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp.- IGARSS, Beijin, China, July, 2016 Çetinaslan, C.; Orvalho, V.; Localized Verlet Integration Framework For Facial Models, Proc Conf. on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects - AMDO, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, Vol. 9756, pp. 01 - 15, July, 2016 Amador, G. ; Gomes, A.; A Video Games Technologies Course: Teaching, Learning, and Research, Proc Education Papers of the 37th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics'2016), Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2016 Leite, L.; Digital Theatrograph: Cinematographic Puppetry, Proc International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities Luis Miguel Barbosa da Costa Leite ALTMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol. 1, pp. 3 - 8, October, 2016 Batista, F. ; Lopes, PFL; Santana, P.; MotionDesigner: Augmented Artistic Performances with Kinect-Based Human Body Motion Tracking, Proc Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica - EPCG, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2016 Carapito, N. C.; Silva, F. ; Arquiteturas de rede em jogos multi jogador no Unity, Proc VideoJogos - VJ, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2016 Serra, J.; Orvalho, V.; Cosker, D. P. Cosker; Behavioural facial animation using motion graphs and mind maps, Proc ACM Motion in Games, San Francisco, United States, Vol. 0, pp. 161 - 166, October, 2016
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Other Achievements
Patents Gonçalves, P.; Pedreiras, P.P.; Bartolomeu, P. Bartolomeu; Gonçalves, G. G.; IoT technologies for animal grazing and posture control, 20161000089058, December, 2016
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Awards Bioucas-Dias, J.; Oliveira, J. ; Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Blind estimation of motion blur parameters for image deconvolution, Best paper award, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis , 01-062007 . , Garcia, N. M. ; Freire, M.; Monteiro, P.; Best paper award, Best paper award for the paper in ICOIN 2008, intitled "The Ethernet frame payload size and its effect on IPv4 and IPv6 traffic", Garcia, N. M. ; Hajduczenia, M.H.; Monteiro, P.; Siemens Innovation and Excelence Award, Siemens Innovation and Excelence R&D Award for their work on self-similiarity of data signals, Proença, H.; Pattern Recognition letters Top Reviewer 2011-2012, Pattern Recognition letters Top Reviewer 2011-2012, Bioucas-Dias, J.; Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2015, Quoting from http://highlycited.com/ webpage: “... About three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers–ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact”., 01-01-2016 Figueiredo, M. A. T.; EURASIP Technical Achievment Award, "The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact in this field." http://www.eurasip.org/newsletter/newsletter_2016-01a.html#SocietyAwards, 0101-2016 Proença , J.; Celorico, D.; Lopes, C.; Dias, M. D.; Tjalve, M.Tjalve; Stolcke, A. ; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; Camões Prize 2016 for the Technologies for the Portuguese Language, Best paper award at PROPOR 2016 – International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese, given by the Camões Institue for the paper "Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance", 0107-2016 Silva, H.; Pereira, RP-edisoft; Pires, P. ; 2nd place at PixelsCamp (former CodeBits), These awards recognised the best projects developed during the 3 days hackathon Pixels Camp (former Codebits), which is one of the biggest national tech-events. The devised project, dubbed Wolverino, is a multimodal plug & play controller for artificial limbs, human augmentation and/or animatronics pieces, which can use muscle signals or remote control over a mobile app to trigger specific actions on the pieces. Wolverino´s target audience are people with prosthetic limbs, cosplayers and bio-hackers. The award has been assigned to a working demo application inspired by the claws of the world famous Marvel Comics character Wolverine., 01-10-2016 Rodrigues, J. R.; Certificate of Appreciation - IEEE Communications Society - Symposium Chair, At the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2016), Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016,
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received a Certificate of Appreciation by the IEEE Communications Society by his contributions to the conference as Symposium Chair. , 01-05-2016 Rodrigues, J. R.; ICTC Service Award , During ICTC 2016 (International Conference on ICT Convergence), Jeju Island, Korea, October 19-21, 2016, received the ICTC Service Award by KIKS – Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences “to recognize exemplary and dedicated service to the International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC)”., 01-10-2016 Ascenso, J.; Outstanding Reviewer Award at IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing 2016 Conference, 01-11-2016 Figueiredo, M. A. T.; IAPR Pierre Devijver Award, This award commemorates Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition, who left us all in 1996. The recipient is be selected from among outstanding scientists who have contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition. , 01-12-2016 Sargento, S.; EU Prize for Women Innovators 2016, Vencedora do EU Women Innovation Prize 2016 que é o maior prémio mundial destinado a celebrar as mulheres inovadoras, 10 de Março 2016. http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=women-innovators, 01-03-2016 Miscellaneous Assunção, P.A.; Vídeovigilância Inteligente em Ambientes Aquáticos: Detecção Precoce de Afogamento em Piscinas Domésticas, Nuno Peixoto, Bioucas-Dias, J.; A Signal Processing Perspective on Hyperspectral Unmixing, IEEE 24th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. Workshop on Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, 01-05-2016 Corujo, D.; Analysis, Design and Experimental Evaluation of Connectivity Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments, PhD Thesis, 01-03-2016 Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; Velez, F. J.; A Time Synchronization MAC Protocol for Low Power Wearable Systems, TechDays, Aveiro, September, 2016, 01-09-2016 Miyandoab, F.; Velez, F. J.; Teixeira, E.S.B.Teixeira; WBANs with RF energy harvesting, TechDays, 01-092016 Miyandoab, F.; Velez, F. J.; Wireless Sensor Networking Applied to Swarms of Aquatic Drones, COMMUNICATIONS IN SWARMS OF AQUATIC DRONES, 01-07-2016 Gomes, M.; Analytical Characterization and Optimum Detection of Nonlinear Multicarrier Schemes, Univ. Nova de Lisboa - Candidato: João Francisco Martinho Lêdo Guerreiro, 01-12-2016 Corujo, D.; Adaptive Video Streaming over Information-Centric Networking (ICN), RFC 7933, 01-08-2016
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Sobrinho, J. L. S.; An Algebraic Framework for a Unified View of Route Vector Protocols, Internet Conference 2016 in Japan, 01-10-2016 Pereira, F.; JPEG Requirements Chair, https://jpeg.org/contact.html, 01-02-2016
4.3.8 Other Contributions Conference Committees International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Scientific Committee, Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Organizing Committee, Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Organizing Committee, Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria, IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop - CSFW, Conference Chairman, Pedro Miguel dos Santos Alves Madeira Adão, 01-01-2016 International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics - IWBF, Technical Programme Chairman, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia, 01-01-2016 IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia, 06-06-2016 IEEE World Conf. on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Conference Chairman, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 02-05-2016 International Special Session on Smart Medical Devices - From Lab to Clinical Practice - SmartMedDev, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão, 21-02-2016 IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop - Med-Hoc-Net, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão, 20-06-2016 IEEE BigDataService BigDataService, Technical Programme Committee, Diogo Nuno P. Gomes, 03-03-2016 International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications IPTA, Organizing Committee, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia, 12-12-2016 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão, 06-06-2016 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Technical Programme Chairman, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 06-06-2016 International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet VisionNet, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 21-09-2016 International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 13-11-2016
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INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 26-07-2016 Symposium on Multimedia, Visualization and Human Computer Interaction, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 16-12-2016 INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 20-07-2016 IEEE Latin-American Conf. on Communications - LATINCOM, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 04-11-2016 IEEE International Conf. on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics - ICACI, Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, 21-09-2016 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites, 06-06-2016 IASTED International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks - PDCN, Technical Programme Committee, Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida, 15-02-2016 IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation - ETFA, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 06-09-2016 IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 23-05-2016 Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 21-02-2016 Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 21-02-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 21-02-2016 IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 18-04-2016 IFIP TC11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference SEC, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 30-05-2016 IEEE Communications and Information Systems Security Symposium CISS, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 23-05-2016 Springer International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence DCAI, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 01-06-2016 INSTICC International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems PhyCS, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 27-07-2016
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INSTICC International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems PhyCS, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 27-07-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Networks - ICN, Technical Programme Committee, André Zúquete, 19-042016 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 06-06-2016 International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet VisionNet, Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 21-09-2016 IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 11-07-2016 Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA, Technical Programme Committee, Rui Costa Cardoso, 04-07-2016 International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 06-05-2016 International Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering - SEKE, Technical Programme Committee, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 03-07-2016 INSTICC Int. Conf. on Internet of Things and Big Data IoTBD, Technical Programme Committee, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 23-04-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA, Technical Programme Committee, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 21-08-2016 ICATSE International Conference on INformation Science and Security ICISS, Technical Programme Committee, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 19-12-2016 International Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering - SEKE, Technical Programme Chairman, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 01-07-2016 IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Sessions Chairman, Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, 27-06-2016 Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miguel Alves Brandão, 0909-2016 International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS, Technical Programme Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites, 28-11-2016 Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites, 24-10-2016
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IX Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and V Iberian SLTech Workshop IberSPEECH 2016, Technical Programme Chairman, Fernando Manuel Santos Perdigão, 23-11-2016 IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Organizing Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 01-11-2016 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference VNC, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 08-12-2016 Workshop on Internet of Vehicles and Vehicles of Internet IoV-VoI, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 05-07-2016 International Workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications SmartVehicles, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 21-06-2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 03-04-2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 15-05-2016 IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Special Sessions Chairman, António Manuel Gonçalves Pinheiro, 06-06-2016 Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Sessions Chairman, Daniel Nunes Corujo, 08-09-2016 International Workshop on Applications of Software-Defined Networking in Cloud-Computing Marc Körner SDNCC, Technical Programme Committee, Daniel Nunes Corujo, 24-07-2016 European Workshop on Software Defined Networking EWSDN, Technical Programme Committee, Daniel Nunes Corujo, 10-10-2016 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, Technical Programme Committee, Daniel Nunes Corujo, 31-10-2016 IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Conference Chairman, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, 30-05-2016 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, 01-06-2016 IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Organizing Committee, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, 01-07-2016 IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Technical Programme Chairman, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, 25-09-2016
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IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, 03-10-2016 IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes, 06-06-2016 ICATSE International Conference on INformation Science and Security ICISS, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 19-12-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 09-10-2016 ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 12-09-2016 International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - Nets4Cars-Fall, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 13-09-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 24-07-2016 Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology GSCIT, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 16-07-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 26-06-2016 International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts), Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 06-06-2016 IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 23-05-2016 International Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Technology - ICMWT, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 23-05-2016 IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 21-02-2016 IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 21-09-2016 Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 25-09-2016 IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP, Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 07-12-2016
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INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP, Technical Programme Committee, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, 26-07-2016 Editorial Committees Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Area Editor, 0104-1994 to 01-12-2016 ACM Press, Mario Marques Freire, Reviewer Advisory Board , 14-09-2001 to IDEA Group Publishers, et. al., Member of Editorial Review Board , 01-02-2004 to Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações (Inatel), Brasil, et. al., Membro do Corpo de Revisores, 01-102004 to Signal Processing, Elsevier, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia, Member of Editorial Board, 09-06-2005 to 31-12-2016 IDEA Group Publishers, Jairo Gutierrez, Editorial Review Board , 01-02-2004 to Connection Science, Taylor & Francis, Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida, Member of Editorial Board, 01-01-2000 to Neural Processing Letters, Springer, Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida, Associate Editor, 01-122008 to Intrnl. Journal of Computing & Information Technology, International Science Press, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board Member, 01-01-2009 to Intrnl. Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), IGI Global, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editor-in-Chief, 01-01-2009 to Intrnl. Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), Information Resources Management Association , Antonio Manuel Duarte Nogueira, Editorial Review Board , 01-01-2009 to Intrnl. Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, Macrothink Institute, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Associate Editor , 01-05-2009 to IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Society, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Technical Editor, 01-01-2009 to Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, Jonathan Rodriguez Gonzalez, Guest Editor, 01-12-2010 to Intrnl. Journal of Biometrics, Inderscience, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Editorial Board, 01-092011 to Recent Advances in Communications and Networking Technology, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editor-in-Chief, 01-06-2011 to
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European Trans. on Telecommunications, Wiley, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Review Board Member, 01-06-2011 to Intrnl. Journal of Satellite Communications Policy and Management, InderScience Publishers, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board Member, 01-04-2011 to Intrnl. Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Hindawi Publications, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board Member, 01-06-2010 to Signal Processing: Image Communication, EURASIP/Elsevier, Sérgio Manuel Maciel Faria, Area Editor, 0112-2012 to Intrnl. Journal on Advances in Internet Technology - IARIA, IARIA, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, Member, Editorial Board, 01-01-2012 to International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems - IARIA, IARIA, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, Member, Editorial Board, 01-01-2012 to IET Biometrics, IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia, Associate Editor, 01-09-2013 to 01-12-2018 IEEE Biometrics Compendium, IEEE, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Associate Editor, 01-11-2012 to Vehicular Communications, Elsevier, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board, 01-07-2013 to International Journal on Advances in Security, IARIA, João Paulo Barraca, Editorial Board, 01-01-2012 to Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, Elsevier, Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Editorial Board Member, 01-12-2013 to EURASIP Jounal on Image and Video Processing, Springer, Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Editorial Board, 01-01-2013 to 01-12-2016 IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, Joao Miguel Duarte Ascenso, Associate Editor, 01-12-2014 to 01-122018 IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE, Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites, Associate Editor, 01-01-2015 to 01-01-2018 European Trans. on Telecommunications, Wiley, Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, Associate Editor, 01-01-2011 to Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, Associate Editor, 01-06-2014 to IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers, IEEE COMSOC, Pedro António Amado Assunção, Guest Editor, 01-01-2016 to 31-07-2016 Journal of Systems Architecture, , Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida, , 01-07-2012 to Real-Time Systems, , Luis Miguel Pinho de Almeida, , 01-07-2010 to
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Image and Vision Computing, , Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, , 01-01-2016 to Pattern Recognition, , Ana Luisa Nobre Fred, , 01-01-2016 to 31-01-2016 Information & Communications Technology Express, , Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, , 01-05-2016 to The Scientific World Journal, , Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, , 01-05-2012 to International Journal in Advances in Networks and Services, , Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, , 01-01-2012 to International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications, , Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, , 01-01-2009 to Multimedia Information Systems (JMIS), , Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, , 01-01-2014 to IEEE Wireless Communications, , Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, , 01-02-2015 to
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Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
4.4.1
Coordinators
Luís Joaquim Alcácer Pedro Girão
4.4.2
Human Resources
Overview IT – Aveiro
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IT – Coimbra
IT Branch – Covilhã
IT Branch – ISCTEIUL
IT Branch – Porto
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Technical Officer
0
0
1
1
0
1
PhD
1
0
1
0
0
0
Researcher
1
0
3
0
0
0
Full Professor
1
2
3
0
0
0
Associate Professor
0
2
12
1
0
0
Coordinator Professor
0
1
2
0
0
0
Assistant Professor
4
4
17
6
0
0
Assistant Lecturer
0
1
0
0
0
0
Post. Doc.
3
0
11
1
0
0
PhD Student
3
4
25
9
1
0
MSc Student
2
0
5
0
0
0
Licenciado
0
0
2
0
0
0
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Under-Grad Student
0
0
1
0
0
0
External Author
1
0
4
0
0
0
Total
16
14
88
18
1
1
Permanent Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Alireza Tavanfar
Researcher
Amaro Fernandes de Sousa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics - Av
Ana Gualdina Almeida Matos
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Ana Maria de Matos Charas
Researcher
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
André Manuel dos Santos Mendes
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Systems – Co
António Eduardo Vitória do Espírito Santo
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Systems - Cv
Artur Fernando Delgado Lopes Ribeiro
Associate Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Basic Sci Coordinator
Associate Professor
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Bruno Gabriel Coelho Coutinho
Post. Doc.
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Carlos Manuel Costa Lourenço Caleiro
Associate Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
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Daniel da Silva Graça
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Researcher
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Dorabella Martins da Silva Santos
Post. Doc.
PhD
Applied Mathematics - Av
Eduardo de Sousa Saraiva
Full Professor
Agregação
Power Systems – Co
Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Fernando Manuel Tim Tim Janeiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente
Post. Doc.
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Francisco Andre Correa Alegria
Assistant Professor
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Francisco Miguel Alves Campos de Sousa Dionísio
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas Ramos
Associate Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Henrique Leonel Gomes
Associate Professor
Agregação
Organic Electronics – Lx
Joana Farinhas
Post. Doc.
MSc
Organic Electronics – Lx
João Filipe Rodrigues Antunes
Post. Doc.
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice
Full Professor
Agregação
Applied Mathematics – Co
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits - Lx
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Jorge Manuel Ferreira Morgado
Associate Professor
Agregação
Organic Electronics – Lx
José António Marinho Brandão Faria
Full Professor
Agregação
Applied Electromagnetics - Lx
José Augusto Alves Gouveia
Licenciado
Licenciatura
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
José Miguel Costa Dias Pereira
Coordinator Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Luis Filipe Morgado
Assistant Professor
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
Luís Joaquim Alcácer
Professor Emeritus
Agregação
Organic Electronics – Lx
Luis Miguel Merca Fernandes
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Co
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Associate Professor
Agregação
Power Electronics - Lx
Maria Cecília dos Santos Rosa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Maria Conceição Monteiro
Assistant Professor
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Maria do Rosário Alves Calado
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Systems - Cv
Maria Teresa Outeiro
Assistant Lecturer
Marina Perdigão
Associate Professor
PhD
Power Systems – Co
Michael Filipe Gonçalves Salvador
Post. Doc.
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
Nuno Calado Correia Lourenço
Post. Doc.
PhD
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Power Systems – Co
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Octavian Adrian Postolache
Assistant Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Paulo Alexandre Carreira Mateus
Associate Professor
Agregação
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão
Full Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos
Associate Professor
Agregação
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Quirina Alexandra Tavares Ferreira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
Raúl Daniel Lavado Carneiro Martins
Assistant Professor
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Ricardo Miguel Ferreira Martins
Post. Doc.
PhD
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da Cruz
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Systems – Co
Sérgio Marcelino
Post. Doc.
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Sílvio José Pinto Simões Mariano
Associate Professor
Agregação
Power Systems - Cv
Sofia Isabel de Carvalho Ribeiro
Post. Doc.
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Vitor Manuel de Oliveira Maló Machado
Associate Professor
Agregação
Applied Electromagnetics - Lx
Yasser Omar
Associate Professor
PhD
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
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Other Collaborators Name
Position
Degree
Group
Andreia Filipa Torcato Mordido
PhD Student
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
António Canelas
PhD Student
Integrated Circuits - Lx
António Manuel Cruz Serra
Full Professor
António Mário Ribeiro Martins
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
António Pedro Silva
Licenciado
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Benedikt Mark Richter
PhD Student
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Bruno Miguel Santos Mera
PhD Student
MSc
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Carlos Alberto Farinha Ferreira
Post. Doc.
PhD
Power Electronics - Lx
Carlos Eduardo Ramos dos Santos Lourenço
Assistant Professor
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Celino José Martins Miguel
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Cristiana Isabel Violante da Costa
PhD Student
Organic Electronics – Lx
Dário Jerónimo Pasadas
PhD Student
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
David Filipe Correia Guilherme
PhD Student
David João Barros Henriques
PhD Student
Agregação
Licenciatura
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
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David Rua Copeto
Under-Grad Student
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Debarati Mukherjee
PhD Student
Integrated Circuits – Av
Dinis Gomes de Magalhães dos Santos
Full Professor
Eliseu Alberto Lobato Macedo
MSc Student
Fábio Daniel Moreira Barbosa
PhD Student
Fábio Mendes Castanheira
PhD Student
Francisco Assunção
MSc Student
Hazem Radwan Hadla
PhD Student
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Electronics - Lx
Joana Catarina Mendes
Post. Doc.
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
João Bernardo Lopes Fermeiro
PhD Student
MSc
Power Systems - Cv
João Costa
External Author
Power Electronics - Lx
João Lima
MSc Student
Integrated Circuits - Lx
João Luís Soares
Assistant Lecturer
Joao Manuel Mourão Patricio
Assistant Professor
João Paulo do Amaral de Jesus Rodrigues
PhD Student
João Paulo Neto Torres
Assistant Professor
João Redol
MSc Student
Agregação
Integrated Circuits – Av
Integrated Circuits – Av
MSc
Applied Mathematics - Av
Power Systems - Cv
Licenciatura
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx Power Systems – Co
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Co
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa PhD
Applied Electromagnetics Lx Integrated Circuits - Lx
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José Álvaro Nunes Pombo
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
José António da Costa Salvado
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
José Carlos Teixeira
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Co
Jose Luis Vieira Cura
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Leonardo Filipe Gonçalves Novo
PhD Student
MSc
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero Moreira Alves
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Luís Gurriana
MSc Student
Licenciatura
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Luís Miguel Antunes Caseiro
PhD Student
Power Systems – Co
Luis Miguel Freire de Menezes Pestana
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
Luis Miguel Mendes
PhD Student
Wireless Circuits – Lx
Manuel Fernando Martins de Barros
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Manuel José de Matos
Coordinator Professor
PhD
Organic Electronics – Lx
Marco Pezzutto
PhD Student
Maria Madalena de Almeida Correia Gomes Martins
Associate Professor
Mário Jorge Alves
MSc Student
Mauro Edgar Pereira Figueiredo Santos
PhD Student
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx PhD
Applied Mathematics – Co
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx MSc
Integrated Circuits - Lx
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Miguel Osório
MSc Student
Integrated Circuits – Av
Mohammad Hamed Mohammady
External Author
Mohsen Bandarabadi
PhD Student
Mónica Jorge Carvalho Figueiredo
Post. Doc.
Muhammad Miskeen Khan
PhD Student
Nikola Paunkovic
Post. Doc.
PhD
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa
Nuno Gonçalo Bandeira Brás
Researcher
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Nuno Miguel da Conceição António
PhD Student
Information Technology - Lx
Nunzio Barbagalho
External Author
Organic Electronics – Lx
Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira
PhD Student
Pedro Filipe da Costa Gonçalves
PhD Student
Power Systems – Co
Pedro Miguel Cavaco Carrilho dos Santos Inácio
PhD Student
Organic Electronics – Lx
Pedro Miguel Domingos Serra
PhD Student
MSc
Power Systems - Cv
Pedro Nicolau Faria da Fonseca
Assistant Professor
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Qian Chen
PhD Student
Rajesh Veeravarapu
PhD Student
PhD
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx Power Systems – Co
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Licenciatura
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Organic Electronics – Lx MSc
Organic Electronics – Lx
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Ricardo Filipe Sereno Póvoa
PhD Student
Integrated Circuits - Lx
Ricardo Manuel da Silva Ferreira
PhD Student
Optical Communications and Photonics – Av
Rita Jorge Cerqueira Pinto
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
Rui Pedro Gouveia Mendes
PhD Student
Power Systems - Cv
Sanaz Asgarifar
PhD Student
Organic Electronics – Lx
Sandy Rodrigues
PhD Student
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Serena Di Giorgio
PhD Student
Shantanav Chakraborty
PhD Student
Shlomo Zalka Rotter
PhD
PhD
Integrated Circuits – Av
Silvério Simões Rosa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Applied Mathematics – Cv
Sima Pouyandeh
PhD Student
Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
Tiago Jorge Rocha
PhD Student
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa
Assistant Professor
PhD
Power Electronics - Lx
Vitor Viegas
PhD
PhD
Instrumentation and Measurements – Lx
MSc
Security and Quantum Information – Lisboa Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx
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4.4.3
Summary of Research Achievements
In 2015, the scientific activities in Organic Electronics focused on the following topics: 1New Materials Development, Organic Electronic Devices, Bioelectronics, Organic Solar cells, Nanotechnology. The detailed activities included:
4.4.3.1 Contributing groups Applied Electromagnetics - Lx Applied Mathematics - Co Applied Mathematics - Cv Security and Quantum Information - Lx Instrumentation and Measurements -Lx Integrated Circuits - Av Integrated Circuits - Lx Organic Electronics - Lx
Physics of Information - Lx Power Electronics - Lx Power Systems - Co Power Systems - Cv
4.4.3.2 Scope and Objectives Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies (BS&ET) is a multidisciplinary research line providing transversal background support to IT activities and mission. Most of the work in this line was related to electronics and optoelectronics. This applies to the activities in Applied Electromagnetics, Integrated Circuits, Organic Electronics, Power Electronics and Systems and Instrumentation and Measurements. The activities in Applied Mathematics supported research performed in other areas, developing tools relevant to telecommunications, and applications to Linear Algebra and Optimization, Graph Theory. Security and Quantum Information included activities in Logic and Computaion, Security and Quantum Information. Physics of Information was focused on Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Effects in Biological Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics.
4.4.3.3
Expertise and Research Topics
4.4.3.3.1 Applied Electromagnetics The activities carried out in Applied Electromagnetics in 2016 were focused in the broad domain of Electromagnetic Field Theory and its applications to electric, magnetic, and optical devices, encompassing three major subareas: Transmission-line structures; Electric and Magnetic field problems; and Computational electromagnetics.
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Transmission-line structures
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An efficient iterative new method for the computation of the eigenvalues (propagation constants) and eigenvectors (modal voltage distributions) of n-coupled multiconductor power lines was successfully developed;
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A new investigation topic was started aimed at the development of a rigorous algorithm able to permit the accurate estimation of transmission-line parameters from phasor meter units synchronized data;
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The topic of skin and proximity effect in three-phase cables kept being analyzed.
Electric and magnetic field problems
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Numerical modelling and simulation of the electric field propagation in optical antennas and in bent waveguides with interband absorption;
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Analysis of the magnetic field of spherical electric machines
Computational electromagnetics
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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 (finite element, and boundary element methods). During 2016, the topic of electromagnetic propagation in bent and ring slab waveguides, and the topic of magnetic field evaluation in spherical electrical machines, received special attention.
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Variable inductance - An electromagnetic analysis of a Variable Inductor (VI) with different core shapes was designed. In all studied VI topologies, a DC current was used to control the inductance value of the VI through a series of electromagnetic phenomena. These research was carried out with a finite element software.
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Magnetic coupling topologies of IPT systems for electric vehicle charging – new magnetic coupler designs for on-board Electric Vehicles (EVs) batteries charging systems were developed and simulated with 3D finite elements software. These new coupler designs allow the interconnection of plug-in isolated topologies with the Inductive Power Transfer technologies.
4.4.3.3.2 Applied Mathematics The research on Applied Mathematics has been focused mainly on Linear Algebra and Optimization and Graph Theory.
Linear Algebra and Optimization
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Complementarity Problems: design, convergence analyses, implementation and testing of interiorpoint algorithms, active-set methods, sequential quadratic algorithms and enumerative methods.
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Global Optimization: complementarity algorithms, positive semi-definite and reformulationlinearization techniques for bilevel programming, quadratic and bilinear programming, eigenvalue complementarity problems and mathematical programs with complementarity constraints.
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Solution of structured optimization models arising in telecommunications, civil engineering, and finance.
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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.
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Lightpath admission control algorithms for optical networks based on integer linear programming methods and performance evaluation based on simulations.
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Hybrid approaches based on column generation and local search heuristics, for energy efficient routing in telecommunications networks.
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Routing algorithms for 6LoWPAN mesh networks.
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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.
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Application to Differential Equations, Numerical Algorithms where we study Metapopulation Dynamics with aplication to demographics.
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Research of compartimental models (autonomous and non-autonomous) that were treated as optimal control problems.
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Application of those models to epidemiology (eco-epidemic model and SEIRS model) and to marketing policy.
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Research focused on numerical resolution of those models with new techniques and new algorithms.
Graph Theory
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On the diameter of the commuting graph of the matrix ring over a centrally finite division ring. In relation to this topic it was also presented the communication: "The commuting graph of a full matrix algebra over the quaternions" at the meetinh "New Trends in Quaternions and Octonions".
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Starting the development, the project "ultimate performance analysis tool" Network analysis applied on team sports analysis: application of graph theory in sports analysis to provide information about collective organization of teams.
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Fernando Martins was advisor of Post. Doc. of the Filipe Clemente in Instituto de Telecomunicações based on Graph Theory and Computational Metrics applied in Networks. Project leader of the project "Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool" Granted by Instituto de Telecomunicações and that started in 1/07/2016.
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Networks and Mathematical Models for the Study of Metapopulation Dynamics.
Other Topics
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Identifying temporal patterns in human movement: application of some collective and individual metrics to characterize the player's actions.
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Analysis of the decision making process in players: use of some technological devices to characterize the decision making of players pre- and during match.
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Using technological devices to optimize the training process: application of tracking systems to identify the performance of players during training.
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Mathematical methods to determine the physical activity patterns: use of some algorithms to determine the physical activity patterns of different participants
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Research focused on Menon-type identity in residually finite Dedekind domains.
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In mathematics education, the conceptualization of statistical knowledge for teaching of the early years' teaching and how to promote statistical literacy with childrens have been studied.
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The participation as member of the COST action IC1401 (MEMOCIS) has enabled a new research line on memristive devices and their application as sensing elements. Under this line of research, fundamental work has concentrated on the application of Hamiltonian mechanics principles to generalized circuit analysis techniques involving these particular devices. A prospective book on theoretical circuit analysis following the principle of least action is currently under preparation.
4.4.3.3.3 Security and Quantum Information
Logic and Computation
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Combination of logics: we have made substantial advances in the understanding of fibred logics, obtaining full characterizations of conservativity and decidability preservation results in the disjoint case, and several partial results in the general case, namely using appropriate notions of translation. We have explored suitable generalized notions of compositional meaning in logic, namely in the context of non-deterministic logical matrices, and obtained several new characterization results
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Characterizing finite-valuedness: we have introduced properties of consequence relations that provide abstract counterparts of different notions of finite-valuedness in logic. We show that for an arbitrary logic being locally tabular is a strictly weaker property than being locally finite.
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Analog computability: we have studied continuous-time dynamical systems from a computability perspective, including reachability problems and computability of limit sets in several settings.
Security
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Internet security: we studied the performance of the Mashic compiler, which automatically generates secure JavaScript-based mashups from existing mashup code. We proposed a simple data-centric concurrency control model that builds only on the notion of atomic variable.
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We proposed an architecture for an e-voting system that is suitable for academic organizations, with the aim of implementing it in IST, in integration with the Fenix platform.
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Information security: we studied an epistemic formulation of bisimulation-based information flow properties such as the Non-disclosure and the Distributed Noninterference properties. We have used suitable reductions to NP-complete problems to implement and experiment with a
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satisfiability tool for generalized probabilistic satisfiability, and consequently also to a probabilistic logic over equations. We have continued the development of a probabilistic symbolic framework for the automated analysis of side-channel attacks. Application of LPDC codes to postquantum cryptography has been investigated. -
Quantum security: we have developed quantum protocols for oblivious transfer and contract signing based on continuous variables. Relativistic extensions are being investigated. Extensions of these protocols to private data mining is being investigated.
Quantum information
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Quantum Interaction information: we have generalized mutual information for n-partite quantum system. We have proposed several applications to the discrimination and classification of quantum states. N-partite discord has been proposed. Classical counterparts should be usable in machine learning algorithms.
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Physics of Information is a very active research area at Instituto de Telecomunicações, developing research and advanced training aiming at understanding and exploiting the role of quantum physics, of thermodynamics, and of relativity in the encoding, transmission and processing of information, as well as at exploring the insights quantum information brings into fundamental physics.
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On the quantum information front, we have found that continuous-time quantum walks on random networks yield optimal quantum speed-up for spatial search, even in the temporal scenario, where the links in the network change in time. Furthermore, we are collaborating with experimentalists towards the implementation of these ideas with integrated photonic circuits. Moreover, we have started research work on quantum networks and possible routing strategies for quantum information in such networks. Finally, we have been also investigating quantum information theory in the relativistic regime, namely ways to properly localize entangled accelerated parties and thus give an operational meaning to the quantum correlations present in the system.
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On the quantum effects in biological systems and energy transport front, the EU FP7 project PAPETS coordinated by IT was concluded successfully. Furthermore, we have found that it is possible to have disorder-assisted quantum transport in sub-optimal decoherence regimes, contributing to further enlighten the understanding of environment-assisted quantum dynamics. And we continued to investigate the role of fluctuations in the couplings of natural chromophoric systems.
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On the quantum thermodynamics front, we have established strategies to minimise the heat dissipation of quantum information erasure. Furthermore, we have continued theoretical work on quantum thermal machines. This includes the proposal of a low-control robust quantum refrigerator, which can also be used for quantum thermometry, as well as to sensing in systems based on Nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond. We have also investigated the role of nonMarkovian quantum dynamics for the Landauer bound.
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4.4.3.3.5 Instrumentation and Measurement The activities in Instrumentation and Measurement fall in the broad domain of Metrology. In 2016, these activites can be included in the following main topics: Biomedical applications Environmental applications Instrumentation and Systems Non-destructive testing Sensors and transducers Signal processing Other topics
Biomedical Applications
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Design and implementation of new smart walkers including sensors for force, and acceleration and ZigBee or Bluetooth communication. Implementation of smart force platform for balance assessment during the Kinect serious game for upper limb rehabilitation. Development of WSN for performance assessment of Mountain Bike users including a mobile application for data visualization. E-textile wearable solutions for cardiac and motor activity assessment: a prototype was developed and tested. Mobile system and mobile application for emotion monitoring system. Tests performed with smart walker and serious games in rehabilitation clinics Contribution to the development of the prototype for comparative evaluation of virtual serious games and real serious game using thermography technology
Environmental Applications
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Dissemination IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer: "Automated Measuring Systems for Environmental Monitoring”. Invited talk as keynote speaker under the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer program presented at the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16), September 21-24, 2016, Jaipur, India. Smartlighting for intelligent environments is a current trend in the group growing from international cooperation with industrial partners such as Zumtobel and Think Control. The current work aims at the deployment of a live demonstrator using IT facilities. This demonstrator will enable to explore M2M concepts for building automation. Synergies with visible light communications concepts are also under investigation. This are seem as an adequate medium for
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data sharing inside buildings and key enabler of applications such as indoor positioning, lighting commissioning, and data sharing at high speeds. Financial support for the research under this line was conducted with internal funds. Future perspectives include the participation on a Marie Curie training action – VISION, currently under assessment.
Instrumentation and Systems
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Implementation and development of I&M industrial transmission systems based on Foundation Fieldbus (FF), HART e CAN protocols. Analysis of uncertainty evaluation of multivariate quantities applied to electrical impedance. Implementation of a comparative analysis between genetic algorithms and complex nonlinear least squares on electrical impedance characterization. Development of advanced signal processing techniques for instrumentation and measurements applications (non-linear A/D converters and smart sensing). Instrumentation of motion-related devices (such as wheelchairs, rollators and walkers), and on the measurement of muscle-related parameters (such as muscle activation, muscle strength and joint range).
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Non-destructive Testing
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Work in the area of non-destructive testing (NDT) using eddy currents went on. With the linear motion system acquired for the Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory, conductive materials were inspected using velocity induced eddy currents. The method proved to be efficient to characterize defect depth in aluminium plates. Its applicability to inspect steel rails also gives some interesting results. The project to detect not only cracks but also initial states of material degradation on the tubes of the reformer furnaces used in the petrochemical industry was being performed in the framework of a cooperation with the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Some samples of deteriorated tubes have been received at the laboratory. This work also inspired an interesting Master Thesis about the Application of Dilation Invariance Principle in Electromagnetic Non-destructive Testing. Work on the 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 was continued. A new probe with two coils able to produce orthogonal uniform magnetic fields in two wide areas in the sample to be inspected was built. Two tiny giant magnetoresistance sensors (GMR) with high sensitivity are used to measure the amplitude and phase of the magnetic field in the sample’s surface originated. A perturbation occurs in the measured magnetic field in the proximity of a crack defect. The current density is then determined around crack defect through an inversion problem algorithm. The method used consists in determining the transformation "kernel". Tikhonov and Total Variation regularization algorithms have been compared regarding their performance and obtained results. With this data it is possible to obtain information about the defect geometrical characteristics. A new non-destructive testing (NDT) method called transient eddy current oscillations (TECO) was developed and implemented to measure the thickness of stainless steel covered with insulation.
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This method uses a probe built at the laboratory which consists of a capacitor and an induction coil (excitation coil) discharging in a free oscillation mode, while the resultant magnetic field is detected by using a Hall-effect sensor. Stainless steel test specimens of different thicknesses were prepared to test the feasibility of the method. Several thicknesses of plastic spacers were used to simulate the insulation on the steel plates. Different features were extracted from the response voltage to detect the thickness of the test specimen and separation of lift-off. A new subproject is was initialized to inspect composite aircraft structures. The method to be used to detect the defects inside the solid structure will use guided ultrasound waves (Lamb waves). The coupling of ultrasound waves into the solid media on the material surface point will be followed by the wave detection on another point. This work is carried out within the framework of a cooperation with the Non-destructive Evaluation Laboratory of Michigan State University. Overview of Scientific Achievements Work in the area of photovoltaic cells is going on.
Sensors and Transducers
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Study and development of innovative solutions to perform accurate measurement of industrial variables (force, distance and flow). Static and dynamic characterization of sensors and measurement system (polarography, heavy metals detectors, turbidity, pH and conductivity sensors). Study and development of energy harvesting solutions based on industrial quantities (flow). Development of a miniaturized electrical conductivity gauge based on eddy currents testing
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Development of Vector Fitting algorithms for Impedance Identification applications. Genetic Algorithms were used in the optimization of bio-reactors for renewable energy generation. Research related to the uncertainty of sine-fitting methods was carried out.
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Development of simulation tools for fieldbuses in process automation. 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. IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer “Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications”. Plenary talk under the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer program presented at the World Congress on Engineering and Applications - 2016 (WCEA - 2016), 16 -17 December 2016, Bangkok, Thailand. "Automated Measuring Systems for Environmental Monitoring”. Invited talk as keynote speaker under the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer program presented at the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16), September 21-24, 2016, Jaipur, India “Tactile Sensors for Industrial, Medical and Robotic Applications”, 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2016). Invited talk as keynote speaker
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under the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer program in Plenary Session, Iasi, Romania, 9th June 2016 “Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart/Precise Agriculture”, 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2016). Invited talk under the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer program in Session ACME-0701 Technologies in Agriculture and Food Processing, Iasi, Romania, 9th June 2016. “Unobtrusive Smart Sensing and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare”, 12 presentations in conferences as plenary speaker (e.g. IEEE SSD 2016, Leipzig, Germany, IEEE ICST Nanjing), in universities of India (Calcutta, Megalaya), Taiwan (Univesrity of Taipei), China (Fudan University, Shanghai) and research institutes (e.g. Tata Research Institute). Creation and organization of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Portugal Chapter.
4.4.3.3.6 Integrated Circuits
CMOS Integrated Circuit Design
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Design of non-linear data converters. Design of bandgap voltage reference with curvature compensation for the Space industry. Dynamic Voltage-Combiners biased OTA for low-power and high-speed SC circuits.
Analog IC Design Automation
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Innovative methodology for IC design reuse, retargeting and technology migration using in-house state-of-the-art Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools - AIDAsoft; Innovative and efficient yield estimation approaches for EDA and yield-aware design methodology. Automatic retrieval of design rules and constraints for AIDA’s setup automation; Efficient parallel analog IC optimization when constrained to a limited number of licenses for the tools required; Layout-aware analog IC sizing and optimization, for a completely automatic design flow from netlist to layout; New techniques for efficient robust design using MonteCarlo simulations in the loop; Exploration the latest many-objectives evolutionary optimization techniques (MOEA-D, MOEA-DD, and NSGA-3). Analog base band and radio-frequency layout-aware analog IC sizing and optimization, for a completely automated design flow from circuit netlist to layout in GSDII format file; Automatic generation of placement templates that run in parallel with the layout-aware sizing loop, with no impact on the overall execution time and achieving smaller placement areas for the same circuit performances; Automatic retrieval of design rules, constraints (matching, symmetry, proximity) and current-flows to speed-up the setup of automatic synthesis tools; Study of the layoutdependent-effects that make MOSFET devices’ performance strongly dependent on the layout implementation details and its layout surrounding neighborhood, e.g., well-proximity effect and length of oxide diffusion. Development of a layout-dependent-effects (LDE)-aware automatic placement algorithm, to provide a first-time right LDE-aware design flow that closes the gap between pre- and post-layout;
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New technologies for sensors, several venues exploiting SAW devices for industrial applications (temperature and torque measurements in an airplane gearbox, on the framework of RTMGear project – FP7/Cleansky). This research line has also explored the usage of SAW/BAW technologies in other applications, such as pathogen detection in food production chain or infectious agent detection in hospitals, or railway system monitoring (integrated in a proposal for a P2020 mobilizing project – RAILCAPACITY – currently under assessment). Research as concentrated on the design and characterization of the SAW devices, as well as, the required signal processing means to process sensed information and the interrogation process.
Electronics and Systems for Dedicated Applications
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Visible light communications system design, departing from the internal project VLCLighting, new perspectives aim at international cooperation. One such case concerns the group participation on the proposal of a Marie Curie training networks (VISION). Another representative case is the new COST action on the topic of optical wireless communications (EUFOCUS - for which the group has contributed with a work package on the exploitation of visible light communication concepts as a key enabler of M2M and IoT strategies). Research on this line has pursed two major targets: highspeed systems – targeting the usage of reconfigurable hardware (FPGA) and the introduction of a modular architecture. In addition, low-speed systems – aiming at low data rate applications such as: i) car-to-car communications (in cooperation with a local industrial partner – EXATRONIC, Lda); ii) indoor positioning systems for mobile agents (in cooperation with IRIS-Lab at University of Aveiro); and iii) inter-device communication in IoT applications.
Radio Astronomy Methods for Deep Space Exploration
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Min activities were developed in cross-cutting themes of the Square Kilometre Array project, the largest XXI1st century radiotelescope, currently in design and preparing for Pre-construction phase. Much of the 2016 year was devoted to activities of building the Industry Consortia in the Pre-Construction Phase of SKA. As such activities have progressed toward passing the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the SKA Telescope manager, the SKA Element operating, controlling and managing the telescope. The SKA1 Phase comprises of two independent telescopes - SKA1 LOW (Sparse Aperture Array) to be installed in Australia and SKA1 MID (DISH Array) to be installed in South Africa. The Telescope Manager (TM) element coordinates and executes astronomical observations, manages the functioning and behaviour of the instrument and its subsystems, monitors the health and status of the system, implements the alarms and automated intervention, and provides communication and engineering information infrastructure for operators, engineers and scientific staff. Each Telescope has its own independent Telescope Manager. The group coordinates the Local Infrastructure, one of the sub-elements of Telescope Manager and in fact the SKA TM computing platform. A new H2020 project was successfully prepared, submitted and approved: AENEAS Advanced European Network of E-Infrastructures for Astronomy. AENEAS shall commence activity in February 20157 and will aim the design and federation of the
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European Regional Data Centres capable of storing and processing about 200 Petabytes of Data after 2020. This cyber platform will be tailored to each of the two SKA Phase 1 telescopes (SKA_MID in South Africa and SKA_LOW in Australia) instances, each presenting different computational and storage infrastructures and conditioned by location. This cyber platform will provide a compute model enabling TM to manage the deployment and execution of its multiple components (observation scheduler, proposal submission tools, M&C components, Forensic tools and several Databases, etc). In this sense, the TM LINFRA is primarily focused towards the provision of isolated instances, mostly resorting to virtualization technologies, while defaulting to bare hardware if specifically required due to performance, security, availability, or other requirement. A new type of Orthomode transducer was design in a joint collaboration with the U. o Berkeley and the INPE in Brazil for very high bandwidth polarimetry application over CBand. The OMT was successfully modeled at IT and machined in INPE for use in deep radio surveys. Miguel Bergano, passed its PhD in 2016, on the X-band cross complex correlator using SDR techniques. This new digital backend comprises a base-band complex crosscorrelator outputting the four Stokes parameters of the incoming polarized radiation to be used in Space Science surveys. The FPGA board has a 1GHz bandwidth, processing 32 Gb/sec of data. The prototype was successfully implemented and Miguel. The SKA prototype antennas composed of 4 pactches of phased arrays were assembled in Moura.
Applied Computing
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High Performance Computing (HPC) using GPUs architectures applied to pattern recognition in the Computational Finance domain. Identify patterns in financial series. Forecasting stock returns based on social media information from Twitter. Using soft computing to detect fraud in health care system.
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Collaboration with TICE.PT (the Portuguese Competitivity Clusters for Information Technologies, Communications and Eletronics) and Produtech (Portuguese Competitivity Cluster for Manufatucturing Technologies) for the development of a joint strategy for Industry 4.0. The Group represents IT with UATEC, University of Aveiro technology transfer unit. Organization of an informative session on national P2020 programs for IT researchers. Global coordinator of PPS1 - “Embedded Software and IoT” proposal in the project “SW 560 – Produtização e Internacionalização do Software Português / Produtization and Internationalization of Portuguese Software”, submitted to the call 10/SI/2016 - “Projetos Mobilizadores” of COMPETE. Number of partners (whole project): 27 (17 companies and 10 universities and research institutes). Number of partners in PPS1: 13 (7 companies and 6 universities and research institutes).
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4.4.3.3.7 Organic electronics
Ink-jet printed electronics
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Methods to manufacture all-inkjet-printed TFT arrays using industrial inkjet equipment, on flexible substrates, were developed. The manufacturing was carried out in ambient condition and temperatures below 150 °C. Arrays of 924 TFTs were manufactured on an area of about DIN A4 (297x420 mm²). This allows the consideration of statistics, e.g. to determine the process yield as a function of device design and layout. Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs) were fabricated with highly conducting polymer electrolytes. These OECTs aim at potential applications as biosensors, transducers and integration in complex devices
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An ultra-sensitive bio-electronic transducer to measure in vitro populations of biological cells was developed. The electronic sensing device was demonstrated using neural cell cultures and autonomous cardiac contractile cells. In collaboration with a group from iBB at Taguspark, we have been testing the electrical properties of various polymer substrates, prepared by electrospinning, aimed to be used as substrates to culture neural stem cells.
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Photovoltaic cells (OPVs). Fabrication, characterization and studies of the active layers morphology, on polymer-fullerene devices, using one and two polymer combinations. Synthesis of semiconducting non-fullerene electron-acceptors, for OPVs fabricated by "green processes". New materials with electron affinity as high as 3.8 eV were prepared (this is similar to that of fullerenes state of the art OPVs). Organic photovoltaic cells with optimized cathode interlayers. Efficiencies as high as 8.4 % were achieved. Fabrication of OPVs with enhanced performance stability, achieved upon chemical cross-linking of the photo-active layer, combining a cross-linkable polymer and a carbon nanoparticle fullerene, PC61BM.
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Work in nanomedicine to develop smart drug delivery systems with applications in Glaucoma treatment. Preparation and characterization using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) of self-assembled monolayers: i) Study of a reversible conformational switching induced by STM on a porphyrin monolayer; ii) Manufacture of a bioactive nanostructured monolayer with glucuronic acid assembled on graphite. Development of software to improve STM images for better quality and interpretation, based on a denoising algorithm, adapted from state of the art image processing and analysis methods. Simulation of self-assembled monolayers by quantum chemical modelling to assist the interpretation of STM images.
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Organic Electronic Devices
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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Testing of new boron-based complexes as active layers in LEDs. Continued also the use of a co-solvent additive (DIO) to control the phase separation in polymer blends and, therefore, the emission colour of LEDs based on such blends. Lately, we investigated ternary polymer blends to obtain white emitting diodes. Organic field effect transistors. The preparation of conjugated polymers to purify carbon nanotubes (CNTs) bundles from metallic CNTs. Purified bundles, containing semiconducting CNTspolymer hybrids were applied in organic field effect transistors as the channel.
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Swithching Converters
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Audio Power Amplifiers Development of integrated audio reproduction chain with compensation methods for dead-band in application on resonant topologies. Use of new Gan semiconductor switching devices and study of impact on performance and efficiency of amplifiers. Development of systems with high “bl” loudspeakers and study of the respective feed-forward and control methods. Study of converter’s topologies and control solutions for use in space applications (e.g. ESA). Development of single stage for application in Renewable Energy Sources, namely PV panels.
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Development of new models for middle power high frequency resonant converters, namely, LLC DC-DC resonant converter. Comparison of the different models. New topologies for very high frequency quasi square wave converters for “SoC”. Integration in CMOS technology – SoC Colaboration with the Wireless circuits Group of IT Lsbon Pole. Continuation of research, development and practical implementation of very high frequency and high performance DC-DC converters in CMOS technology for power management RF-CMOS, System On a Chip - SoC. - Study of new MOS switching methods (including multi-threshold switching) to reduce the impact of the introduction of switching DC-DC converters in System On a Chip - SoC. IPT systems for electric vehicle charging – Several control strategies were used for unidirectional IPT systems and resonant topologies based on series/parallel compensation circuits. Several simulation and experimental tests were carried out. The efficiency and the power transference capability of the system were evaluated for all control strategies. All the control strategies were implemented in a F28335 DSP from Texas Instruments.
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Topologies and control for very high frequency converters for “SoC”. Developing of energy harvesting solutions for Internet of things.
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Predictive control – Predictive control algorithms for synchronous reluctance motors drives were developed and tested in order to apply in an electric vehicle. The operation of the motor in the high-speed region with and without mechanical sensors was evaluated by simulation tests. Electric Vehicle – A vehicle of combustion motor was prepared to be transformed in an electric vehicle. It has already received a support base for the synchronous reluctance motor. This car was also prepared to receive the inductive power transfer system. Fault diagnosis in wind generators – Diagnostic techniques able to detect stator and rotor faults in doubly-fed induction machines used in wind generators were developed. The detection of faults in the power converters associated to this system was also evaluated. Control and diagnosis of offshore wind generators – Control strategies and fault diagnosis techniques for offshore wind generators based on high-power PMSMs were established and evaluated by simulation tests in Matlab/Simulink.
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Battery Energy Storage systems for Renewable Energy Sources – It was simulated and validated experimentally a hybrid system that comprised a photovoltaic generation subsystem, a set of batteries, and an AC residential load. This hybrid system was developed to meet the priority needs of the residential loads and then store the extra energy on batteries or send to the utility grid. A test bench with photovoltaic panels, batteries, power electronic converters and the instrumentation system was prepared. The control algorithms were implemented in a DS1103 digital platform from dSpace. DC-DC converters topologies for EV applications - A variable inductor was implemented, which reduces the magnetic core size and improves the ripple content of the inductor current by controlling the core saturation in a reduced-scale 1 kW bidirectional converter prototype. Other developed research was the control and magnetic core optimization of an isolated DC-DC converter. From this work a prototype was built. 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. Uninterruptible power supply of double conversion – The developed diagnostic and control strategies were implemented in an FPGA. However, due to some programming limitations of the FPGA directly from the Matlab/Simulink, a Microlabox platform from dSpace was used. This new platform receives the code compilation directly from the Matlab/Simulink and presents a good performance and a faster failure detection in the UPS.
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Research related with high power electronics followed two lines: 1. Development of hybrid diamond / wide band gap semiconductor (GaN, SiC) components for high power / high temperature environments. The ultimate goal is deposition of diamond films on the surface of final devices (diodes, transistors) for passivation and thermal management purposes. Intermediate goals (already achieved) include: - Optimization of seeding procedure necessary to obtain closed and conformal diamond films; - Deposition of diamond films on GaN substrates at 400ºC; - Deposition of diamond films on SiC substrates. 2. Fabrication of diamond / SiC
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heterojunctions. The ultimate goal is to fabricate high power rectifying devices. Intermediate steps (already achieved include): - Deposition of boron-doped diamond films (p-type) on n-type SiC; - Fabrication and characterization of rectifying heterostructures. This work was developed in collaboration with the Materials and Ceramics Engineering Department and the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro. Several project proposals have been prepared and submitted during 2016 aiming at financial support for fundamental research along this line. A representative sample incudes projects: DiaPower (internal project), HeatIT (P2020). The group has also participated on the organization of the joint conference WOCSDICE/EXMATE 2016 in Aveiro.
4.4.4 Running and Concluded Projects Overview Funding Agency
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LUSO E-53/07
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Acção Luso Espanhola - Sismógrafos do Fundo Marinho. Optimização das Técnicas de Desenho dos Instrumentos de Medida: Aquisição, Registo e Tratamento de Dados
Funding
CRUP
Descript.
No projecto dos novos sensores submarinos profundos (OBS) é necessário ter em conta os resultados das experiências realizadas com os dispositivos actualmente existentes as quais demonstram que, de forma a conseguir-se uma maior versatilidade é imprescindível dedicar mais atenção a uma série de aspectos que afectam a electrónica e projecto de componentes, nomeadamente, a optimização da relação sinal/ruído. É necessário identificar as diferentes fontes de ruído e caracterizá-las distinguindo os sons hidrodinâmicos dos biológicos, industriais, sísmicos e térmicos. É necessário caracterizar e minimizar o ruído eléctrico gerado pelo sistema de aquisição e pelo condicionamento de sinal através de um processamento adequado. A interpretação dos perfis sísmicos envolve o reconhecimento de certos padrões geológicos como falhas, zonas altamente reflectivas, etc. que permitem identificar grandes zonas de textura comum, frequentemente associadas com processos geológicos relacionados. Os algoritmos de processamento, que utilizam técnicas tradicionais como a FFT, STFT, ondulas e filtragem digital, requerem a experiência de um geólogo para a interpretação correcta dos dados e para a extracção da informação desejada. Este processamento pode ser simplificado e automatizado no caso de uma boa relação sinal/ruído, especialmente importante no caso das ondas refractadas que apresentam um baixo nível de sinal em relação à onda directa incidente. Do ponto de vista do processamento de sinal, os sinais de tipo geofísico colocam problemas interessantes e têm sido bastante estudados, em particular aqueles que aparecem na sismografia tanto activa como passiva. A razão fundamental é que se tratam de sinais que não representam directamente as fontes que os geram (ruído, interferência, dispersão de propagação) que não são unidimensionais e para os quais o estímulo apresenta grandes limitações quanto ao tipo de sinais que se podem utilizar com esse fim. Não é de estranhar portanto que a maioria das técnicas de processamento tenha sido aplicada num sentido ou noutro sobre os sinais de origem geofísica: deconvolução cega, separação cega, reconhecimento com redes neuronais, ondulas para eliminação de ruído, etc. O principal objectivo do projecto centrar-se-à na validação dos resultados obtidos empregando sismómetros profundos, focando a actividade na caracterização e optimização do sistema de aquisição de dados. Estudando e propondo novos sistemas de integração da informação em redes de sensores distribuídos. Serão analisados e
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implementados os sistemas de interconexão baseados em Ethernet e em barramentos Can com aplicação das normas IEEE1451.
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PAPETS 323901
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PAPETS - Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer and Sensing
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EC/FP7
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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 important challenges as the development of more efficient light harvesting technologies or artificial odour sensors.
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OPERA PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
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OPERA - Layout-Aware Analog IC Design Automation
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IT/LA
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The OPERA project addresses the problem of analog and mixed-signal (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 circuitlevel 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.
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AIDA-C S01001
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AIDA-C: Analog IC Optimizer
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Thales Alenia Space
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Analog EDA Software Development
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DISRUPTIVE EXCL/EEI-ELC/0261/2012
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DISRUPTIVE - A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems
Funding
FCT
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A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems
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STM Image UID/EEA/50008/2013
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.
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INTMARSIS CGL2013-42557-R
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Interoperability and implementation of autonomous marine platforms for seismic monitoring
Funding
Ministério da Ciência e Inovação Espanhol
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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
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studies). However, it is important to note that 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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EvalTubes PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
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
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between 800 and 900 deg C and the working pressure in a reformer 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. 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.
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VLCLighting P01282
Title
Visible Light Communications for LED based Public Lighting Systems
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Funding
IT/LA
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.
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WHALE WHALE
Title
WHALE - Design, construction and certification of the first portuguese manned submarine
Funding
Friday, Ciência e Engenharia do Lazer, S.A.
Descript.
Design, construction and DNV-GL certification of the first portuguese manned submarine (two and three seats) for scientific and touristic purposes. The submarine will dive up to 300 m deep.
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DP-PMI PD/00204/2012
Title
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 (DP-PMI) aims at providing advanced curricular and research training in the recent developments and fundamental challenges in information sciences and technologies.
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QuSim PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013
Title
QuSim – Integrated Photonics Quantum Simulations
Funding
IT/LA
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Descript.
QuSim is an original and innovative project whose main scientific goal is to physically simulate for the first time environment•]assisted quantum dynamics, namely using integrated photonics circuits.
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RADESOL M-ERA.NET/0001/2012
Title
RADESOL-Design racional de misturas para células solares poliméricas
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 electrooptical characterization of devices prepared from these blends
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GeTFun PIRSES-GA-2012-318986
Title
GeTFun - Generalizing Truth-Functionality
Funding
EC/FP7
Descript.
The scientific guideline of the GeTFun project is to study and relate various wellmotivated ways in which the attractive properties and meta-properties of truthfunctionality 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 areas where the complexity of the phenomena involved goes beyond the scope of standard 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.
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QuantumLandauer 628912
Title
QuantumLandauer – Beating Landauer’s Limit in the Quantum Regime
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Funding
EC/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.
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RTMGear CS-GA-2013-03-RTMGear-641593
Title
RealTime Monitoring Power Reduction Gearbox
Funding Descript.
Towards the Advisory Council for Aeronautical Research in Europe (ACARE) goals, which intends to reduce aircraft CO2 emissions and fuel consumption by 50 % within the next decade, the Clean Sky program has focused its intervention in several concurrent developments, such as aircraft aerodynamics and weight, and highly efficient engine concepts. In this framework, Snecma is leading the Clean Sky SAGE2 activities, to study the development of an innovative concept based in a geared open rotor engine that will end up as a breakthrough for the next 15 years, thanks to the improvements in the propulsive efficiency, without the penalties of any duct drag. Along with several engine subsystems and technologies that are being developed in the scope of SAGE2, conducted by several Clean Sky ITD leaders, Avio Propulsione Aerospaziale is responsible for the power gearbox, which is the focus of this bidding activity. As an innovative high efficiency power gearbox is being developed, it is very important to keep the tracking of as many early physical parameters as possible, in order to provide useful feedback data for design processes optimization; during operation, similar parameters will allow the aircraft to identify potential structural health problems, such as unexpected vibration, temperature and pressure variations, and metal debris in the oil. In this RTMGear activity, Active Space Technologies (AST) intends to develop a telemetric system based, as much as possible, in proved technologies, while Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) will focus their research in innovative Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technologies for measuring temperature and strain in rotating parts.
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QUTE-EUROPE 600788
Title
QUTE-EUROPE – Quantum Technologies for Europe
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Funding
EC/FP7
Descript.
Research in Quantum Information and Communication Technologies (QICT) has since many years gained an important European dimension. The number of research groups active in the field as well as the number of publications testify to the vigorous and scientifically proliferate state of the community and show that QIPC research in Europe is well on par and highly competitive with comparable activities elsewhere in the world. The Coordination Action (CA) QUTE-EUROPE will continue to advance this European excellence via a structured approach towards the implementation of key topics such as a strategic vision, collaboration and dissemination. It will carry out a set of actions that are specifically targeted at coordination and cooperation within the QICT research community in Europe and beyond, as well as increasing the visibility of the field to the scientific global community, industries and the public at large. The CA will set up a work structure with the ultimate goal of making the research community and its scientific achievements internationally recognised and sustainable. This will guarantee that the expertise and the knowledge gained through the CA activities will be of benefit to the European QIPC research community, the global QIPC community and all involved stake holders in the field.
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MemoCIS IC1401
Title
COST IC1401 Memristors - Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and Applications (MemoCiS)
Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
The invention of the “transfer resistor”, or “transistor” as it is know today, is considered to be the greatest invention of the 20th century, as it forms the basis of all electronic systems. The next technological revolution will come through self-organizing and selfprogramming circuits and systems, which are similar to biological brains in that they can learn to perform tasks. The recently rediscovered Memristor offers a computational substrate with plasticity, in which adaptive circuits can be efficiently implemented. This Action is aimed at bringing together researchers of different backgrounds to work in unison so as to overcome multidisciplinary barriers in the area of memristors. Bringing together device designers, device modelers, circuit theorists, analogue and digital designers, neuromorphic engineers and computation scientists will enable the defragmentation of current research efforts and is likely the to bring then next technological revolution. The creation of the hardware basis for future selforganizing/self-programming systems will really open up a wide range of application areas and new industries, e.g. humanoid robots to look after the elderly, self-driven vehicles etc.
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TailorPhy PTDC/DTP-DES/6776/2014
Title
Smart Sensors and Tailored Environments for Physiotherap
Funding
FCT
Descript.
Information System (IS) offers much promise to improve information management for physiotherapists. IS may improve clinical and administrative reporting capabilities, operational efficiency, communication among health professionals, communication with patients, data accuracy and the capacity to support clinical research. However, the key factor for success of healthcare information system implementation and adoption is engagement of end-user. Tailored information system is proposed in this project, enable to non-invasively/unobtrusively measure balance and movements as well as to improve the effectiveness of physiotherapy based on serious game and augmented reality. Wireless body sensors network (WSN) will be developed for better balance and movements’ characterization. Usability tests of tailored virtual environment for physiotherapy will be carried out as well usability tests of information system developed for physiotherapy practice based on implemented WSN, serious game and augmented reality. The system may improve the effectiveness of physiotherapy and enable measuring additional constructs to enhance more comprehensive clinical reasoning processes (i.e., motor control, determinants for behavioural change and patient engagement).
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ProQuNet Procº441.00 FCT - Eslováquia
Title
ProQuNet - Probing Quantum Networks with Quantum Walks
Funding
FCT
Descript.
This project aims at studying the properties of quantum networks using quantum walks.
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StableNextSol MNPS COST ACTION MP1307
Title
COST - Stable Next-generation Photovoltaics: Unraveling degradation mechanisms of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells by complementary characterization techniques
Funding
EU/H2020
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Descript.
The Action StableNextSol aims to create a highly interdisciplinary network of academic and industry researchers to study the degradation mechanisms occurring in state-ofthe-art OPVs and PSCs, based on the use of complementary analytical techniques. The Action seeks to integrate and generate fundamental knowledge and expertise to foster disruptive innovations targeted to mitigate device failure, and aims to develop new concepts for OPVs and PSCs that are more stable and reach lifetimes longer than 20 years.
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ChemMat PD/00045/2013
Title
Programa Doutoral da FCT ChemMat: Materials Chemistry - Chemistry of nanostructured materials with optic, electric and magnetic functionalities
Funding
FCT
Descript.
ChemMat is a PhD programme in Materials Chemistry with emphasis on optic electric and magnetic functionalities. It aims at providing advanced education and training in Chemistry including on advanced preparative tools, with a deep knowledge of electrical optical and magnetic properties of materials in order to address the most recent challenges in the development of advanced materials with emphasis on nanostructured and multifunctional materials.
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POCAONTAS FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement n° 316633
Title
ITN - Innovative Training Network: Polymer-Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics
Funding
EC/FP7
Descript.
olymer-Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics (POCAONTAS) (OSC) is a training network coordinated by IMDEA Nanoscience that brings together top European players in the field of Organic Solar Cells (OSC) offering a unique opportunity for research career development. POCAONTAS will train a total of 14 researchers in the development of highly efficient and stable OSC based on tailored blends of polymers with single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) that are well suited for OSC due to their inherent extremely high stability, high carrier mobility and tenability of optical gaps.
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IPTMobil
Title
Automatic tuning for inductive charging systems under misalignment conditions for urban electric transportation
Funding Descript.
The aim of this project is to present a new controller to optimize the efficiency of an IPT system under misalignment conditions applied to fully electric cars used in urban public transport.
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GreenSOL
Title
Materials for green processing and their integration in low cost organic photovoltaic cells
Funding Descript.
The main objective consist of replacing the organic semiconductors utilized in state-ofthe-art OPV cells, by new materials, with advantageous properties, namely, higher efficiency, lower cost, morphologic stability, and solubility in water or environmentally friendly solvents (ex. water or ethanol). The solubility in environmental friendly solvents will decrease the toxicity of the cells fabrication process. In a large scale cells fabrication, the solvents used for the present devices, being aromatic solvents, are not viable. The new ink formulations developed under this project will then be adequate for large-scale coating green processes. Thus, ultimately we aim at demonstrating OPV cells exhibiting efficiency levels sufficient for commercial applications (10 % or higher) while involving reduced fabrication costs, and eliminating toxic organic solvents from the cells fabrication process. The proposed new organic materials will be n-type organic semiconductors, with electron-acceptor character, capable of being processed in water or environment-friendly solvents (ex. ethanol), as alternative to fullerenes (PC60BM or PC70BM) – the electron-acceptor utilized in most efficient OPVs at present. Fullerenes present serious drawbacks to OPV technology progress: high cost, low contribution to photo-absorption and charge generation, aggregates formation leading to morphological instabilities, low photostability, poor solubility. We also aim at preparing the electron-donor as analogous to known materials of good performance in cells, but with modified solubility. We will use molecular design-assisted synthesis to preview their relevant optical properties (absorption spectrum) and frontier energy levels. The molecular structures design also envisages to enhance the devices operation lifetime, since due to being crosslinkable, the new materials may form morphologically stable networks which will be positively reflected on cells lifetimes. The development of optimal «ink» formulation will comprise the study of the assembly at a nanoscale
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level of the new materials into favorable (highly absorbing/highly charge generating and transport) film morphologies. We will investigate their photophysical and electric properties relevant for device operation and ultimately, cells laboratory prototypes integrating the new materials will be fabricated and characterized.
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QbigD
Title
Quantum Big Data
Funding Descript.
Dealing with high dimensional and big data is one of the most important problems in many fields of science and engineering. Addressing this problem has an overwhelming social-economical impact, as the mining procedures are used in a large spectrum of applications including, clinical diagnosis, network traffic analysis, surveillance and monitoring logs, financial market analysis, web indexing, among many others. Following the steps of top research groups and dominant companies in the area, such as Google, the chief objective of this project is to bring together experts on data mining and quantum information theory to develop new methods for classification and clustering that can handle big data. The underlying idea behind using quantum information in data mining is to replace classical probability distributions, thoroughly used in mining methods, by density operators. To recover a classical probability distribution we need to consider a quantum observable and apply Born’s rule. At first sight this might seem a naïve approach, however, it was able to justify the performance of many popular data mining methods whose merits were only granted by empirical evidence. The advantage of using density operators is twofold: they generalize classical distributions; and they can encode much more complex interference patterns (like entanglement) that are disregarded classically. Taking into account the research background and the interests of the interdisciplinary team that composes the project, the key innovations in the area of data mining proposed in this exploratory project are the following: 1) Learning graphical models endowed with density operators; 2) Classifying with quantum Kolmogorov complexity; 3) Clustering using quantum walk dynamics.
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RECODIS COST Action CA15127
Title
Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disasterbased failures
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Funding
ESF/COST
Descript.
Disaster-based disruptions seriously degrading the performance of any communication network (following from natural disasters, technology-related disasters, or malicious attacks) are now gaining importance due to observed increase of their intensity and scale. The problem is of the utmost importance due to lack of appropriate mechanisms deployed in practice in Europe. Each time, unavailability of communication networks services, considered as an important part of critical infrastructure, in the presence of disasters implies evident societal problems for people desperately seeking for information, or trying to communicate with each other. The Action will fill this gap by offering the respective solutions to provide resilient communications in the presence of disaster-based disruptions of all types for existing communication networks (e.g., IPv4-based, current Internet), as well as emerging architectures of the global communications infrastructure (i.e., the Future Internet). Geographical diversity characteristics of disaster-based disruptions across Europe requires creation of an international and geographically diverse group of researchers to provide the proper solutions. Therefore, COST Action is viewed as the best way to address this issue. This output-oriented Action will be driven by researchers from academia and industry in strong cooperation with governmental bodies. The aim is to introduce the set of techniques of resilient communications, as well as recommendations on how to deploy/update topologies of communication networks to make them resistant to disruptions that can be applied in practice by network equipment operators and national/international network providers at the European level.
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Programa Pessoa
Title
Design and advanced control for power converters usage on a standalone PV-wind power system with hybrid storage batteries and super capacitors.
Funding
FCT/PESSOA
Descript.
Common Research Project under the framework Programa Pessoa, Bilateral Agreements, between Portugal and France. The partners in this project are the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Pólo de Coimbra, and the Laboratoire d’électrotechnique et d’électronique de puissance de Lille (L2EP), the Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRISTAL), under the Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur (HEI), Lille. This project is focused on the design and advanced control for power converters usage on a standalone PV-wind power system with hybrid storage batteries and super capacitors.
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CHARF PTDC/EEI-ELC/5811/2014
Title
Non-invasive RF 4D Thorax Hemodynamic Characterization
Funding
FCT/PTDC
Descript.
The project hereby presented aims the development of a non-invasive, portable, operator independent electromagnetic centimeter-wave 4D high-resolution hemodynamic characterization system for the thorax. There are four vectors that define the inception of this project: scientific, entrepreneurial, academic, social. Scientifically it is a new challenge to spatially and temporally map the hemodynamics within the thorax accurately in an supervised environment. Our approach to this challenge is also scientifically new: the use of centimeter-wave RF pulses combined with traditional electric impedance tomography. The use of pulsed RF waves with frequencies in the range between 500 MHz and 1.5 GHz will allow the assessment of the velocity of blood cells by reverse reconstitution of the Doppler distortion of the pulses as well as the scatter observed by the pulses on the blood cells in a dispersive medium. This velocity assessment can take place simultaneously at several points within the thorax. The electrical impedance tomography, a technique typically used for the spatial mapping of passive electric properties (PEP) of materials through near-field paradigm, will be used here essentially to measure instantaneous blood volume changes. Simultaneous assessment of blood volumes and velocities allows for the inference of blood pressures using the Bernoulli equation. These provide for a full hemodynamic characterization with both spatial and temporal assessment allowing the determination and temporal evolution of some cardio-physiologic variables like the right atrial pressure (RAP), the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), pulse pressure variation (PPV), stroke volume variation (SVV), cardiac output (CO) and the pre-ejection period (PEP). Moreover, some of these variables, specially when associated with autonomic maneuvers, should be carried out for a period of between 30 and 60 minutes which existing solutions fail to achieve. This project will allow us to accomplish several scientific goals: design the experimental prototype (antennas, switching elements, filter tuning, instrumentation); create the finite element model that aggregates both the far-field pulsed and the near-field harmonic paradigms and solve the inverse problem associated with the velocity and volume estimation within a dispersive medium. From an entrepreneurial perspective, the use of very low power electromagnetic radiation for automatic wide body area scanning of fluxes, pressures and volumes is innovative and should give rise to a high-valued product. The prototype to be built, together with the simulation models, will provide a proof-of-concept that can pave the way for further private equity funding directed towards the technological development to market. The academic goals are quite different. This project should help fund the addition of more elements to the team and bring awareness of its importance to students while instilling in them a liking for electromagnetism with an open desire to promote PhD enrollments in these subjects. Socially, the importance of
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this project is directly linked with the clinical relevance and impact in the welfare of the population the outcome of this project can bring in the long haul. Cardiovascular and respiratory diseases clearly standout as some of the most relevant health issues to be addressed by modern societies. This technology has potentially several advantages over traditional methods that rely on MRI, ultrasound or thoracic electrical impedance measurement: lower cost, higher portability, longer period assessment, higher reliability, better coverage. The main expected disadvantage would be lower spatial resolution when compared with MRI which should be more than compensated by an increase in temporal resolution.
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uPATO UID/EEA/50008/2013
Title
Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool
Funding
IT/LA
Descript.
The general idea of the project is to innovate in the way how match analysis is performed and used in team sports, for example in football. The main idea of the project is extend the PATO tool, which allows the introduction of data to create the adjacency matrix, by develop and integrate the several metrics used for team sports analysis and present the results in a graphical way (i.e., create a new framework with all metrics of performance analysis available in an integrated way). Usually, each author presents a tool with their metrics but a tool that integrates all metrics available does not exist. Second, we want to develop a cloud solution to store the data generated by the software, to allow the data access by a user (e.g., by a coach of football during the game). This way it is possible to have a person codifying a football match in real time using the PATO tool, and other persons can access to the performance analysis simultaneously. For example, a coach can access to the performance analysis, using a mobile device, at the same time that the match is codified.
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INNOVATE PTDC/EEI-AUT/5442/2014
Title
IMPLANTABLE ORGANIC DEVICES FOR ADVANCED THERAPIES
Funding
FCT
Descript.
The INNOVATE objective is to develop an multifunctional implantable organic electronic transducer to record and stimulate signals from neuronal cells. These devices should work as a tool to decode communication signals used by cells to regulate biological functions. These devices are also aimed to repair faulty signal pathways
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acting as therapetical biomedical devices. The transducer uses the basic principles of capacitive coupling of a field effect transistor device, but it is fabricated with innovative biocompatible and flexible electronic materials, providing low impedance, very low noise and a high charge collection efficiency. This allows recording of ultra-weak signals representing a significant advance with respect to currently available technology. The transducer will be optimized and tested with an important class of neuronal cells known as Glia cells. These cells establish the communication protocol between neurons. Improper signalling by these cells is responsible for a number of neuronal diseases such as Parkinson and Alzimer. Glia cells regulate the neuronal communication by synchronizing their activity and generating calcium waves. These waves are cooperative phenomena and can be measured electrically. Therefore, the devices will be designed to monitor a population of cells. However the knowledge acquired can easily be transposed for single cell analysis by scaling down the transducer dimensions.
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RELIM
Title
Reliable Methods to Inspect CFP Composites
Funding Descript.
Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) is an important research area that comprises development of technologies and methodologies for assessing the structural integrity of critical materials, components and structures. Aging aircrafts, transmission pipelines, bridges, railways, power plants and other large sections of our civilian and defence infrastructure are known to have far exceed their design lifetime. This has driven to an increasing demand of systems that provide a reliable and accurate assessment of the structural integrity of these structures in terms of their ability to operate safely. A second problem of significance is that in the last decade, the use of composite materials in aircraft structures has increased due to their light weight and associated fuel savings, improved fatigue performance and lack of corrosion susceptibility. But by the very nature of their fabrication, composites pose new and unique challenges to aviation inspectors. Although NDE methods have been in existence for close to a century, from the late 1980s to present, NDE has seen unprecedented development and significant growth through advanced instrumentation and methodologies. With aging structures, with the evolvement of new structural designs and materials, the inspection methods increasingly fall short of needs. NDE became, in fact, the fastest growing technology from the standpoint of uniqueness and innovation. Objectives proposed within this project are novel methods that push the state of art in NDE with a goal to monitor, detect and characterize hidden damage in carbon fiber polymer reinforced (CFP) composites. Typical defects in carbon fiber composite materials include fiber breaks, fiber/matrix distribution, fiber waviness,
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micro-cracks, delaminations, contaminants, impact damage and porosity or voids. The characterization of defects represents one of the most difficult and yet unsolved problems in NDE. We intend to achieve this goal by joining two NDE techniques which are complementary: eddy current testing (ECT) and guided wave ultrasonic testing (GWUT). Although the proposed research can find applications in transport, nuclear, oil and gas industries, the work shall be focused on developing new field usable technologies for aerospace structures. The aerospace industry has, in our lives and in the world economy, an impact enough to justify the choice. Moreover, Portugal established the development of the aerospace industry as strategic relevant within the Horizon 2020 agenda and we firmly believe that this proposal brings knowledge and technological progress into this area. In addition, NDE is inherently a multidisciplinary area requiring researchers to have expertise in physics, instrumentation, mathematical modeling, signal processing, and pattern recognition. This project can provide opportunities in theoretical as well as experimental aspects of NDE for students with varied research interests.
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DetoxSTM
Title
Denoise Toolbox for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images
Funding Descript.
The DeToxSTM aims to develop imaging processing tools able to denoise scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. The STM has been considered the most important technique to image, control and monitorize molecular systems with atomic resolution under a wide range of experimental conditions that enable molecule visualization. Usually, it is a hard task to find the best conditions to obtain high resolution images with low noise. An adequate STM image interpretation can be affected by noise signals and therefore it is necessary to correct and eliminate them. The technique needs a long-term temporal analysis (i.e. many hours) and the drift can be severe enough to displace the scan window beyond the original regions of interest. This project intends to develop new algorithms to denoise the images acquired with STM. The innovation goal is to formulate the sparse denoise problem as a morphological component analysis problem, where the components are related to the periodicity of use of the elements present in the learned dictionary (periodic v.s. aperiodic). This can be solved recurring to recently proposed work on efficient computation of convolutional sparse representations.
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QuNet UID/50008
Title
QuNet - Quantum Telecommunication Networks
Fundi ng
IT
Descri pt.
Project QuNet aims at launching, for the first time, a comprehensive study on quantum telecommunication networks, covering its different crucial aspects.
Acron / Ref RAPID Title
RF IC Design Automation
Funding Descript.
The RAPID project addresses Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuit (IC) design automation. The RAPID project aims at developing, implementing and testing an innovative RF IC design automation solution, AIDA-RF, which will support designers on reducing the RF ICs design’s time-to-market and, simultaneously, make possible the efficient exploration of larger design spaces using machine learning techniques. In order to achieve this goal, within the time period of the project, AIDA-RF will be built on top of AIDAsoft environment (www.aidasoft.com), fully developed by ICG-Lx team at IT and which has one module, AIDA-C, already in use by the international microelectronic industry. The proof of concept will be made by producing 2 RF ICs prototypes during the time frame of the project and by producing additional design examples of RF building blocks. Additionally, the RAPID proposal intends to explore the automatic generation of soft and hard intellectual properties (IP), which will correspond to a ready to use fully characterized RF building block with or without layout description, respectively. Finally, the proposed approach will be implemented as a standalone application with interfaces with major CAD tools, such as, CADENCE IC Design Framework, so that, in can be easily embedded in the traditional RF IC design flow, and, so, be massively used by IC designers.
Acron / Ref SMART-MONITOR (P01395) UID/EEA/50008/2013 Title
Development, implementation, characterization and deployment of an efficient power quality and quality of service measurement network in a smart city environment
Funding
IT
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Descript.
1. To develop and test new signal processing algorithms for efficient detection of power quality disturbances and quality of service monitoring. 2. To implement an embedded system real time power quality analyser and standalone quality of service monitoring device. 3. To deploy a network of embedded systems power quality analysers in a smart city environment.
Acron / Ref Elven 04/SAICT/2015 Title
Elven - Expressive Logics for VErifying the Net
Funding
EU/H2020
Descript.
The goal of the project is to verify web processing systens through the use of an intermediate language sufficiently expressive to uniformly encompass the semantics of most (if not all) of the key aspects of such components.
4.4.5 Running and Concluded Theses MSc Theses Supervisor
Student
Co-Supervisors
Title
End Date
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Filipe Carlos de Oliveira Simões
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Inversor Monofásico para painéis fotovoltaicos com controlo de tensão e de corrente.
01/2016
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Daniel Calheiros de Lemos
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Algorítmo MPPT para conversor DC-DC para aplicação em painéis fotovoltaicos.
01/2016
Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Patricia Martins
Alexandre Carlos Morgado Correia Domingos da Silva Barbosa
Análise de Dados da experiência radioastronómicas
01/2016
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da Cruz
Tiago Miguel Medeiros Róia
Acoustic noise in electric drives
02/2016
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André Manuel dos Santos Mendes
Pedro Miguel Faria Rosa Santos
Contactless battery charging system controlled by a variable inductor
02/2016
Vitor Manuel da Miguel Andrade Silva Costa
Projecto de um Conversor Redutor CC-CC Comutado para SoC de impacto reduzido
03/2016
Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto
Andreia Filipa Dias Espirito Santo
Caraterização Funcional Cardíaca por Fonocardiografia (PCG)
03/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
André Nicolau Fernandes
An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Financial Portfolio Management Based on Growth Stocks & Sector/Industry Distribution
05/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
João Maria Rodrigues Leitão
Combining Rules between PIPs and SAX to Identify Patterns in Financial Markets
05/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Jeffrey Christian Alexander Goedhuys
Growth Stock Portfolio Optimization Using a Multi-Objective EA
05/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Mariana Gonçalves Alves Daniel
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Forecasting Stock Returns Based on Event Detection from Twitter
05/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
André Ferreira
Nuno Calado Correia Lourenço
AIDA-C: Evolutionary Optimization Techniques applied to Analog IC Design
06/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Telmo Oliveira
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Design of behavioral models, transistor level schematic and simulation benches for innovative
06/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
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analog design flow based on IT / AIDA-C Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
António Fitas
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Design of a radiation hardened curvature compensated bandgap adjustable through OTP
06/2016
Hugo Rodrigues
Validation of the TICE.Healthy diabetic foot image device
06/2016
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Celina Micaela Afonso Alexandre
Collection and analysis of biosignals in open environments
06/2016
Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos
Sérgio Nunes
Detection of biosignals using Radar-on-a-Chip
06/2016
Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos
Pedro Santos Rocha Madeira Marques
Viscosity Electronic Measurement Estimation System based on the Impedance Frequency response of a Vibrating Wire Sensor
06/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Andre Martins Ribeiro
SPACE-DC/DC - II: Conversor DC-DC para a Industria Aeroespacial
07/2016
Maria do Rosário Alves Calado
Nuno Gabriel Simões Martins
Gestão e Monitorização da rega em produção agrícola
07/2016
Pedro Nicolau Faria da Fonseca
Miguel Castro Miguéis Vieira
Robotic Platform using VLC based Position Estimation for Navigation
07/2016
Maria do Rosário Alves Calado
Miguel Duarte Beirão
Carregamento inteligente de veículos eléctricos
07/2016
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Jose Luis Azevedo
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Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira
Dora Bernardes
Flattening filter free (FFF) photon beams in Radiotherapy: dosimetric characteristics
08/2016
Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira
Laura Demino
Attenuation and scatter corrections for SPECT Image Reconstruction
08/2016
João Paulo Neto Torres
Carlos Eduardo Henriques Rodrigues Fatela
Sistemas de comunicação ótica inter-satélites para aplicações em Defesa - II
09/2016
André Manuel dos Santos Mendes
Abdallah Toni Satel
Wireless charger for multiple low-power devices
09/2016
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Ines Morais
iEmotion - Integrated System for Emotion Monitoring
09/2016
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da Cruz
Anantaram Varatharajan
Predictive control of synchronous reluctance machines for traction applications
09/2016
Maria Cecília Helga Cristina dos Santos Rosa Oliveira Coelho
Sistema de Gestão de Qualidade: Proposta para a Fundação Aurora Borges
10/2016
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes
Rui Madeira
Anybody home? Learning to detect user presence through appliance usage patterns
10/2016
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio
Manuel Luís Gama Meruje
Monitoring of Medication Boxes Using Wireless Sensors
10/2016
Luís Miguel Martins Nunes
Pedro Ruben Januário Pêgo
Integração Automatizada de Dispositivos Conectados
10/2016
António Carlos de Campos Simões Baptista
Fernando Briz
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Sílvio José Pinto João André Ribeiro Simões Mariano Lourenço
Algoritmos de Sincronização com a Rede — Estudo, Simulação e Implementação Prática
10/2016
Sílvio José Pinto André Pinto Simões Mariano Domingos Martins
Mercado de Ibérico de Energia Eléctrica Evolução e Desafios.
10/2016
Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira
Zaneera Asim
Definition of a prediction method for the proton plan quality based on the inter-fractional changes of pancreatic patients
10/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Bernardo Martins Paiva Jubert de Almeida
Combining Support Vector Machine with Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Investments in Forex Markets with High Leverage
10/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Bruno Miguel Filipe Guilherme
Investimento em OPVs utilizando Análise de Sentimento do Twitter otimizado por Algoritmos Genéticos
10/2016
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Gonçalo Luís Coimbra Lobato
Accionador de Velocidade variável para Motor de Indução Trifásico
11/2016
João Paulo Neto Torres
Rui David Furtado Ribeiro Gome
Estudo de uma antena ótica para comunicação inter-satélites
11/2016
Mónica Jorge Carvalho Figueiredo
Pedro Camacho
Drivers para VLC
11/2016
Paul Andrew Crocker
André Lousa Marques
Monitoring Architecture for Real Time Systems
11/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Jose Luis Vieira Cura
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Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
José Manuel Moutinho Cachaço
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Automatic sizing of continuous-time comparators using a generic cell library
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Jonathan Felipe Perez Calvillo
Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme
Design of Bandgap Voltage 11/2016 Reference with Curvature Compensation for the Space Industry
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
David Manuel Rodrigues Miguel Gonçalves Limpo
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
André Filipe Ferreira Duarte
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
Francisco Guerreiro Gomes Pedreira
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
David Bugalho de Moura
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
João Manuel Fitas Baúto
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Octavian Adrian Postolache
11/2016
Finding Influential Twitter 11/2016 Users for the Stock Market Optimized by Genetic Algorithms Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Using a Genetic Algorithm with Options Data to Forecast Stocks
11/2016
Detection of Fraud, Abuse and Cost Inefficiencies in the National Healthcare System
11/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Classification and Clustering of Stocks, using Genetic Algorithms and Fundamental Analysis
11/2016
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Financial Pattern Discovery using GPUs
11/2016
João Matos
IoT Enabled Aquatic Drone for Environment Monitoring
11/2016
Tiago Ribeiro
Performance Assesment for Mountain Bike based on WSN and Cloud Technologies
11/2016
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Pedro Nicolau Faria da Fonseca
António Pedro Gonçalves VilasBoas
Carlos Alberto Farinha Ferreira
João Silva
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Luis Filipe Esteves Machado Fontela
Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero Moreira Alves
Lighting System for Indor Robot Positioning
12/2016
Módulo Conversor para Energias Renováveis
12/2016
Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos Santos
Conversor DC-DC “boost” para aplicações “energy harvesting”
12/2016
Paulo César Paixão Pereira
Pedro Nuno Mendonça dos Santos
Conversor DC-DC redutor quasi-square wave em tecnologia CMOS
12/2016
Nuno Miguel Soares de Oliveira
Hugo dos Santos Marques
Projecto de um Conversor Ressonante LLC
12/2016
Design and development of a hybrid-based mobile app for ISCTE-IUL
12/2016
António Luís Fábio José Leitão Morais Costa da Paulino Silva Lopes Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos
Nuno Francisco Medeiros Rodrigues
Luís Filipe Soldado Granadeiro Rosado
Development of an miniaturized electrical conductivity gauge based on eddy currents testing
12/2016
Joana Catarina Mendes
Diogo Fonte da Silva
Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero Moreira Alves
SAW Sensor Validation and Instrumentation for Torque and Temperature Measurement
12/2016
João Carlos Marques Silva
André dos Santos Domingos
Quality Function Deployment – Ferramenta de apoio à decisão
12/2016
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PhD Theses Supervisor
Student
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Anders Lyhne Christensen
Miguel António Frade Duarte
Sancho Moura Oliveira
Engineering Evolutionary Control for Real-world Robotic Systems
Jorge Manuel Ferreira Morgado
Joana Farinhas
Ana Maria de Matos Charas
High efficiency polymer05/2016 based photovoltaics through morphology control
Manuel José de Matos
Nelson Alberto Frade da Silva
Maria Manuela Gomes da Silva Rocha
Desenvolvimento de diversos biosensores para determinação de acrilamida baseados em células inteiras de Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Um estudo comparativo.
06/2016
Paulo Alexandre Carreira Mateus
Manuel Biscaia
Interplay between Probabilistic and Temporal Reasoning
06/2016
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Alberto Lopes Martines
Portable Wireless Electrooculography-Based 3 System to Assist People with Severe Motor Disorders
08/2016
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo da Cruz
Fernando Mamede Santos
Humberto Matos Jorge
Energy management associated to the production and storage based on renewable energy sources
09/2016
Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves
José Manuel Matias Pinto
Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Optimal Stock Market Investments Based on Evolutionary Computation Techniques and Technical Analysis
11/2016
António Eduardo Vitória do Espírito Santo
Pedro Miguel Domingos Serra
António João Carvalho de Albuquerque
Microbial Fuel Cells Optimization for use in water monitoring systems
11/2016
04/2016
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Carlos Manuel Costa Lourenço Caleiro
Andreia Filipa Torcato Mordido
A probabilistic logic over equations and domain restrictions
12/2016
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Válber César Cavalcanti Roza
Interface for Auxiliary Command of the Military Aircraft based on Psychophysiologic Signs and Human-Machine Interaction
12/2016
Octavian Adrian Postolache
Bruno Silva
Exploratory Cluster Analysis from Ubiquitous Data Streams using SelfOrganizing Maps"
12/2016
Octavian Adrian Postolache
4.4.6 Publications Applied Mathematics Books Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis, , Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Small-Sided and Conditioned Games in Soccer Training: The Science and Practical Applications, Springer, Singapore, 2016 Book Chapters António, M. C.; Nunes, L.; Almeida, A.; Using Data Science to Predict Hotel Booking Cancellations - Chapter in Holistic Optimization Techniques in the Hospitality, Tourism and Travel Industry, Pandian Vasant and Kalaivanthan M., IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA), 2016 Oliveira, J. F.; Hybrid Time-Frequency Numerical Simulation of Electronic Radio Frequency Systems Chapter in Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, , Intech Open, http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/hybrid-time-frequency-numerical-simulation-ofelectronic-radio-frequency-systems., 2016 Santos, A. ; Fernandes, J.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Psicomotricidade - método dirigido e método espontâneo no ensino Pré-escolar - Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança IX, J. Serrano e J. Petrica, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, 2016
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Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; González-Víllora, S. G. V.; Mendes, R.; Jogos condicionados com conteúdos táticos no futebol: efeitos na frequência cardíaca de praticantes sub-10 e sub-12 - Chapter in Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança IX, Serrano, J., & Petrica, J. , Instituto Politácnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B.; Dinis, R.; Tuba, M.T.; Target Localization in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks Using Measurement Fusion - Chapter in Sensors, Transducers, Signal Conditioning and Wireless Sensors Networks, Sergey Y. Yurish, IFSA Publishing, Barcelona, 2016 Papers in Journals Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Couceiro, M. Couceiro; Mendes, R.; Inspecting the Collective Behaviours: A Survey for Football Teams, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 764 - 771, December, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Oliveira, P.; The effects of small-sided and conditioned games on the heart rate responses, technical and tactical performances measured by mathematical methods, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 7 - 13, January, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Couceiro, M. Couceiro; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Figueiredo, A.; Developing a tactical metric to estimate the defensive area of soccer teams: the defensive play area, Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, Vol. 230, No. 2, pp. 124 - 132, June, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Analysis of Scored and Conceded Goals by a Football Team throughout a Season: A Network Analysis, Kinesiology, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 103 - 114, June, 2016 Fernandes, L. M.; Fukushima, M.; Júdice, J. J.; Sherali, H.; The second-order cone eigenvalue complementarity problem, Optimization Methods and Software, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 24 - 52, June, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Network of football players: Comparison between different competitive levels and tactical positions, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 1 - 14, May, 2016 Brás, M.; Eichfelder, G. E.; Júdice, J. J.; Copositivity tests based on the linear complementarity problem, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 461 - 493, July, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Silva, F. ; Martins, F.; Kalamaras, D.; Mendes, R.; Performance analysis tool (PATO) for network analysis on team sports: a case study of FIFA Soccer World Cup 2014, Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, Vol. 230, No. 3, pp. 158 - 170, September, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Dellal, A.; Wong, D. P.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Heart rate responses and distance coverage during 1vs.1 duel in soccer: effects of neutral player and different scoring methods, Science and Sports, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 1 - 20, December, 2016 Gomes, A.; A Total Order Heuristic-Based Convex Hull Algorithm for Points in the Plane, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 153 - 160, January, 2016
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Andreani, R. A.; Júdice, J. J.; Martinez, M.; Martini, T. M.; Feasibility problems with complementarity constraints, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 249, No. 1, pp. 41 - 54, February, 2016 Iusem, A.I.; Júdice, J. J.; Sessa, V S; Sherali, H.; On the numerical solution of the quadratic eigenvalue complementarity problem, Numerical Algorithms, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 721 - 747, July, 2016 Oliveira, P.; Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Association between technical variables and tactical prominence in rink-hockey, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 1 - 7, September, 2016 Oliveira, P.; Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Identifying the centrality levels of futsal players: A network approach, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 8 - 12, March, 2016 Silva, CMS; Rosa, S.; Alves, H.A.; Carvalho, P.G.C.; A mathematical model for the customer dynamics based on marketing policy, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 273, No. 1, pp. 42 - 53, January, 2016 Rodrigues, J. D.; Terças, H.; Mendonça, J. T. ; Bump-on-tail instability of twisted excitations in rotating cold atomic clouds, Europhysics Letters, Vol. 113, No. 1, pp. 13001 - 13001, January, 2016 Abid, A. A.; Khan, M. Z.; Yap, S. L. ; Terças, H.; Mahmood, S. ; Dust charging processes with a Cairns-Tsallis distribution function with negative ions, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 013706 - 013706, January, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Figueiredo, A.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Wong, D. P.; Physical and technical performances are not associated with tactical prominence in U14 soccer matches, Research in Sports Medicine, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 1 - 18, June, 2016 Miguel, C.; A Menon-type identity in residually finite Dedekind domains, Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 164, No. 164, pp. 43 - 51, July, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Nikolaidis, PTN; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Physical activity patterns in university students: Do they follow the public health guidelines?, PLOS One, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1 - 11, March, 2016 Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; On the geometric modulation of skin lesion growth: a mathematical model for melanoma, Research in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. -, No. ahead, pp. 0 - 0, January, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Estudo da sequência de passes entre jogadores profissionais de futebol durante os jogos em casa ao longo de uma época desportiva: Aplicabilidade das medidas de social network analysis, Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología del Ejercicio y el Deporte, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1 - 30, December, 2016 Gouveia, L.; Patrício, P.; Sousa, A. F.; Lexicographical minimization of routing hops in hop-constrained node survivable networks, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 417 - 434, June, 2016 Sousa, A. F.; Lopes, C. B.; Monteiro, P.; Compact ILP formulations for the routing and wavelength assignment problem in the design of optical transport networks with regenerators, EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189 - 213, May, 2016
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Oliveira, P.; Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Network measures and digraph theory applied to soccer analysis: Midfielder is the key player in youth teams, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1023 - 1028, September, 2016 Oliveira, P.; Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Graph theory and social network analysis applied to the study of young basketball players: Variance of centrality levels, Sport Science, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1 - 10, September, 2016 Oliveira, P.; Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Assessment of interactions in children's playground by using network measures: An exploratory study based on graph theory, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1 - 5, December, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B,; Dinis, R.; 3-D Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Network Using RSS and AoA Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, No. 99, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B,; Dinis, R.; Distributed RSS-AoA Based Localization with Unknown Transmit Powers, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 392 - 395, August, 2016 Ribeiro, S.; Terças, H.; Sympathetic laser-cooling of graphene with Casimir-Polder forces, Physics Review A, Vol. 94, No. 043420, pp. 043420-1 - 043420-9, October, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Silva, F. ; The development of sports network analysis: Methodological considerations, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 940 - 944, September, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Silva, F. ; Social network measures to match analysis in soccer: A survey, Journal of Physical Education and Sport, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 823 - 830, September, 2016 Brás, M.; Fischer, A. ; Júdice, J. J.; Schönefeld, K. ; Seifert, S.; A block active set algorithm with spectral choice line search for the symmetric eigenvalue complementarity problem, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 294, No. 1, pp. 36 - 48, September, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B,; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; Distributed Algorithm for Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using RSS and AoA Measurements, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B,; Dinis, R.; Carvalho, P.; A Closed-form Solution for RSS/AoA Target Localization by Spherical Coordinates Conversion, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 680 - 683, December, 2016 Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; PHYSIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY: A STATISTICAL MODELING APPROACH IN VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE, Millenium, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 47 - 55, September, 2016 Miguel, C.; On the diameter of the commuting graph of the matrix ring over a centrally finite division ring, Linear Algebra and its Aplications, Vol. 509, No. 509, pp. 276 - 285, November, 2016
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Clemente, F.M.C.; Nikolaidis, PTN; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; Weekly physical activity patterns of university students: Are athletes more active than non-athletes?, Springer Plus, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1808 - 1808, October, 2016 Sacramento, J. ; Ribeiro, M. ; Pinto, Fonseca-Pinto; Guarino, M. ; Conde, S. ; Functional abolition of carotid body activity restores insulin action and glucose homeostasis in rats: key roles for visceral adipose tissue and the liver, Diabetologia, Vol. 576, No. 11, pp. 1 - 11, October, 2016 Cerveira, A. ; Sousa, A. F.; Solteiro Pires, E. ; Baptista, JM; Optimal Cable Design of Wind Farms: The Infrastructure and Losses Cost Minimization Case, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 4319 - 4329, November, 2016 Agra, A. ; Sousa, A. F.; Doostmohammadi, M. ; The Minimum Cost Design of Transparent Optical Networks Combining Grooming, Routing, and Wavelength Assignment, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 3702 - 3713, December, 2016 Antunes, L.; Bauwens, B.; Souto, A.; Teixeira, A.T.; Sophistication vs Logical Depth, Theory of Computing Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, March, 2016 Brás, M.; Iusem, A.I.; Júdice, J. J.; On the Quadratic Eigenvalue Complementarity Problem, Journal of Global Optimization, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 153 - 171, October, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Souto, A.; Azevedo, JNA; Teixeira, A.T.; Alves, JA; O IMPACTO DAS MEDIDAS GOVERNAMENTAIS DE COMBATE À FRAUDE E EVASÃO FISCAL NA PRESTAÇÃO DE CONTAS DAS EMPRESAS: O CASO DO DL N.º 198/2012 NOS INVENTÁRIOS DECLARADOS, Proc XXVI Jornadas Luso-Espanholas, Idanha a nova, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 18, February, 2016 Oliveira, J.; Mantadelis, T.M; Coimbra, M.; Why should you model time when you use Markov Models for heart sound analysis, Proc International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016), Florida, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, August, 2016 Oliveira, J.; Cardoso, B.C; Coimbra, M.; Exploratory study of the cardiac dynamic trajectory in the embedding space, Proc Computers in Cardiology (2016), Vancouver, Canada, September, 2016 António, M. C.; Nunes, L.; Almeida, A.; Predicting hotel booking cancellations to decrease uncertainty and increase revenue, Proc TMS Algarve 2016, Faro, Portugal, December, 2016 Souto, A.; Teixeira, A.T.; Azevedo, JNA; Alves, JA; O caso do DL N.º 198/2012 nos inventários declarados nas empresas da região centro de Portugal, Proc Elvira Vieira International Conference of Applied Business and Management ICABM, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Sousa, A. F.; Tomaszewski, A; Pióro, M.; Bin-packing based optimisation of EON Networks with S-BVTs, Proc Conf. on Optical Networks Design and Modelling - ONDM, Cartagena, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 170 - 175, May, 2016
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Duque, I.; Martins, F.; Literacia estatística num curso de Educação Básica: necessidade de um conhecimento especializado, Proc 1.º Encontro Internacional de Formação na Docência, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 162 - 170, March, 2016 Mendes, P.; Martins, F.; Cantante, E. ; Catarino, M.; Casqueiro, A.; A matemática e a Educação Física em Cooperação: Uma Prática Interdisciplinar no Ensino Básico, Proc VII Congresso Mundial de Estilos de Aprendizagem, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 2417 - 2428, June, 2016 Sousa, A. F.; Gouveia, L.; Patrício, P.; Maximization of Protected Demand in Telecommunication Networks using Partial Disjoint Paths, Proc International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RNDM, Halmstad, Sweden, Vol. 1, pp. 72 - 78, September, 2016 Sousa, A. F.; Lopes, C. B.; Monteiro, P.; Medeiros, M. C. R. ; Throughput assessment of TCP over distributed WiFi access networks supported by RoF, Proc International Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON, Trento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. We.D2.1 - We.D2.1, July, 2016 Gomes, T. ; Tapolcai, J. ; Esposito, C. ; Hutchison, D.H.; Kuipers, F. ; Rak, J. ; Sousa, A. F.; Iossifides, A. ; Travanca, R; André, J. ; Jorge, L. ; Martins, L. ; Ortiz Ugalde, P. ; Pašić , A. ; Pezaros, D. ; Jouet, S. ; Secci, S. ; Tornatore, M. ; A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters , Proc International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RNDM, Halmstad, Sweden, Vol. 1, pp. 11 - 22, September, 2016 Tomic, S.; Beko, M.B,; Dinis, R.; Tuba, M.T.; Bacanin, N. B.; An Efficient WLS Estimator for Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc Telecomunications Forum - TELFOR, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, Vol. x, pp. x - x, November, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Martins, F.; González-Víllora, S. G. V.; Mendes, R.; A influência de jogos reduzidos e condicionados com conteúdos táticos em jovens futebolistas: análise do rendimento técnico e organização coletiva, Proc 6th Conference of “Sociedade Científica de Pedagogia do Desporto”, Viseu, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 13 - 13, October, 2016 Clemente, F.M.C.; Faria, P. ; Peixoto, D. ; Veloso, G. ; Pereira, R. ; Martins, F.; Soccer formations may influence the network centralities and properties of elite teams?, Proc International Congress of Exercise and Health, Sports and Human Development CIDESD2016, Évora, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Pratas, R. J.; Martins, F.; Rato, V.; Modelação Matemática como Prática de Sala de Aula: o uso de manipulativos virtuais no desenvolvimento dos sentidos da adição, Proc Encontro em Investigação em Educação Matemática EIEM 2016, Évora, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 35 - 48, November, 2016 Oliveira, S. ; Martins, F.; Mendes, R.; EXPOSIÇÃO EXPLORÍSTICA – AVENTURAS NA ESTATÍSTICA: UMA PRIMEIRA EXPERIÊNCIA COM UMA TURMA DO 3.º ANO DE ESCOLARIDADE, Proc Encontro Internacional: A Voz dos Professores de Ciências e Tecnologia VPCT 2016, Vila Real, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 12, November, 2016
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Instrumentation and Measurement Books Postolache, O.; Mukhopadhyay, S M; Jayasundera, K.; Swain, A.; Sensors for Everyday Life: Healthcare setings, , Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2016 Mukhopadhyay, S M; Postolache, O.; Jayasundera, K.; Swain, A.; Sensors for Everyday Life: Environmental and Food Engineering, , Springer International Publishing, Berlin, 2016 Book Chapters Santo, A. Espírito; Serra, P.D.S; Harvesting Energy from Microbial Fuel Cells: Powering Wireless Sensor Networks Operating in Wastewater Treatment Plants - Chapter in Biologically-Inspired Energy Harvesting through Wireless Sensor Technologies, , IGI Global, Hershey, 2016 Silva, H.; The Biosignal C.A.O.S.: Reflections on the usability of physiological sensing for human-computer interaction practitioners and researchers - Chapter in Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II, Jaime Ibáñez, José González-Vargas, José María Azorín, Metin Akay, José Luis Pons, Springer International Publishing, , 2016 Postolache, O.; Smart Clothes for Rehabilitation Context: Technical and Technological Issues - Chapter in Sensors for Everyday Life Healthcare Settings, Octavian Postolache, O.A., Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Jayasundera, K.P., Swain, A.K. , Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2016 Papers in Journals Ramos, P.M.; Janeiro, F. M.; Girão, P.M.; Uncertainty evaluation of multivariate quantities: A case study on electrical impedance, Measurement, Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 397 - 411, January, 2016 Abrantes, R. A,; Rosado, L. S.; Piedade, M. S.; Ramos, P.M.; Pulsed eddy currents testing using a planar matrix probe, Measurement, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 351 - 361, January, 2016 Nogueira, R.N. ; Oliveira, R.; Bilro, L.; Heidarialamdarloo, J.; New advances in polymer fiber Bragg gratings, Journal of Optics and Laser Technology, Vol. 78, No. Part A, pp. 104 - 109, April, 2016 Girão, P.M.; Postolache, O.; Postolache, G.; Dias Pereira, J. M.; Unobtrusive Solutions for Health Monitoring and Physiotherapy, Medições e Ensaios, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 4 - 14, January, 2016 Alegria, F.; Precision of Sinefitting-Based Total Harmonic Distortion Estimator, Metrology and Measurement Systems, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, pp. 37 - 46, March, 2016 Angani, C. S; Ramos, H. ; Ribeiro, A. L.; Rocha, T.; Lift-off Point of Intersection Feature in Transient Eddy Current Oscillations Method to Detect Thickness Variation in Stainless Steel, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 1, No. 99 , pp. 1 - 8, February, 2016
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Pasadas, D.; Ribeiro, A. L.; Rocha, T.; Ramos, H. ; 2D surface defect images applying Tikhonov regularized inversion and ECT, NDT & E International, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 48 - 57, June, 2016 Vinagre, A.; Ramos, J.; Alves, S. ; Messias, A. ; Alberto, N.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Cuspal displacement induced by bulk fill resin composite polymerization: biomechanical evaluation using fiber Bragg grating sensors, International Journal of Biomaterials, Vol. 2016, No. 7134283, pp. 1 - 9, April, 2016 Lopes, J.; Rocha, J. R.; Redondo, ; Alegria, F.; Improvement of the Mass Spectrometry Process on an Ion Implantation, Open Journal of Optimization, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 31 - 34, March, 2016 Angani, C. S; Ramos, H. ; Ribeiro, A. L.; Rocha, T.; Evaluation of transient eddy current oscillations response for thickness measurement of stainless steel plate, Measurement, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 59 - 63, August, 2016 Oliveira, R.; Osório, J. H.; Aristilde, S.; Bilro, L.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Cordeiro, C. M. B.; Simultaneous measurement of strain, temperature and refractive index based on multimode interference, fiber tapering and fiber Bragg gratings, Measurement Science & Technology, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 075107-1 - 075107-6, June, 2016 Pasadas, D.; Ribeiro, A. L.; Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; Automatic parameter selection for Tikhonov regularization in ECT Inverse problem, Sensors and Actuators A-Physical, Vol. 246, No. 1, pp. 73 - 80, August, 2016 Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; Rebelo, P. Rebelo; Viana, J.C.; Design and Evaluation of a Decision Support System for Pain Management Based on Data Imputation and Statistical Models , Measurement, Vol. 93, No. 0, pp. 480 - 489, July, 2016 Viegas, V.V.; Postolache, O.; Girão, P.M.; Dias Pereira, J. M.; Quimera: The easy way to simulate Foundation Fieldbus applications, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 1 12, August, 2016 Alves, D.; Lourenço, A.; Antunes, I. ; Leitão, J.; How trustworthy are ECG monitors? The filter selection dilemma, Revista Portuguesa de Anestesiologia, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 84 - 90, September, 2016 Sequeira, F.; Duarte, D.; Bilro, L.; Rudnitskaya, Rudnitskaya, A.; Pesavento, M. ; Zeni, L. ; Cennamo, N. ; Refractive Index Sensing with D-Shaped Plastic Optical Fibers for Chemical and Biochemical Applications, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 2119 - 2119, December, 2016 Mendes, LM; Antico, F. ; Sanches, P. ; Alegria, F.; Aleixo, R. ; Lage Ferreira, R. Ferreira; A particle counting system for calculation of bedload fluxes, Measurement Science & Technology, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 125305 - 125305, October, 2016 Oliveira, R.; Marques, T. H. R.; Bilro, L.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Cordeiro, C. M. B.; Multiparameter POF Sensing based on Multimode Interference and Fiber Bragg Grating, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Ramos, P.M.; Janeiro, F. M.; Vector Fitting based Automatic Circuit Identification, Proc IEEE IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 1279 - 1284, May, 2016 Janeiro, F. M.; Ramos, P.M.; A Comparative Analysis between Genetic Algorithms and Complex Nonlinear Least Squares on Electrical Impedance Characterization, Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 1273 - 1277, May, 2016 Janeiro, F. M.; Carretas, L.; Ramos, P.M.; Wagner, F.; Cloud Base Height Measurement System Based on Stereo Vision with Automatic Calibration, Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 725 - 729, May, 2016 Azevedo, J. A. ; Crisóstomo, S.; Weather Stations-Assisted Barometric Altimeter for Android: Interpolation Techniques for Improved Accuracy, Proc 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) (SAS 2016), Catania, Italy, April, 2016 Postolache, O.; Viegas, V.V.; Dias Pereira, J. M.; Girão, P.M.; NUI Therapeutic Serious Games with Metric Validation based on Wearable Devices, Proc IEEE IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Postolache, G.; Oliveira, RO; Morreira, I.M.; Pedro, LP; Barcia, S.B.; Domingos, S.D.; Postolache, O.; Physiotherapists’ Perceived Knowledge on Technologies for Electronic Health Records for Physiotherapy, Proc IP Leiria IPLeiria International Health Congress IPL Health Cong, Leiria, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2016 Postolache, G.; Oliveira, RO; Postolache, O.; Designing Digital Tools for Physiotherapy, Proc EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation DLI 2016, ESBJERG,, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 14, May, 2016 Postolache, O.; Girão, P.M.; Dias Pereira, J. M.; Postolache, G.; Postural Balance Analysis using Force Platform for K-Theragame users, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA, Benevento, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Ramos, H. ; Ribeiro, A. L.; Image Pos-Processing and Inversion for Eddy Current Crack Detection Problems , Proc 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society, (MetroAeroSpace 2016), Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, June, 2016 Angani, C. S; Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; Ribeiro, A. L.; SVM Classification of Thickness and Lift-off Using Transient Eddy Current Oscillation Method, Proc IEEE IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2016 Pasadas, D.; Ribeiro, A. L.; Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; 2D Geometry Characterization of Cracks From ECT Image Analysis using Planar Coils and GMR-Sensors, Proc IEEE International Instrumentation and Technology Conf. - I2MTC, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2016
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Bacher , C. ; Oliveira, R.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Romano, V. ; Ryser, M. ; Yellow light generation by frequency doubling of a fiber oscillator, Proc SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. 989303, pp. 989303-1 989303-7, April, 2016 Janeiro, F. M.; Phuoc, V. ; Long, T. ; Nguyen, T. ; Genetic Algorithms for Parameter Estimation in Circadian Model, Proc The 6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Vol. 1, pp. TBD - TBD, June, 2016 Janeiro, F. M.; Malico, I. ; Costa, S. ; On The Use of Genetic Algorithms for Parameter Identification in Anaerobic Digestion Modelling, Proc 12th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, Split, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. TBD - TBD, June, 2016 Sequeira, F.; Rudnitskaya, Rudnitskaya, A.; S. R. Gomes, Gomes, M. T. S. R.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Bilro, L.; Ammonium sensing with plastic optical fiber modified by molecular imprinting, Proc Conference on Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors EUROPT(R)ODE XIII, Graz, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 184 - 184, March, 2016 Sequeira, F.; Duarte, D.; Rudnitskaya, Rudnitskaya, A.; S. R. Gomes, Gomes, M. T. S. R.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Bilro, L.; Ammonium sensing in aqueous solutions with plastic optical fiber modified by molecular imprinting, Proc Sixth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors EWOFS 2016, Limerick, Ireland, Vol. 9916, pp. 99161I-1 - 99161I-4, May, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Felizardo, V. F.; Metabolic.Care: a novel solution based on a thermography for detection of diabetic foot, Proc 7th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence ISAMI, Seville, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, June, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Felizardo, V. F.; Metabolic.Care: a novel solution based on a thermography for detection of diabetic foot, Proc 7th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence ISAMI, Seville, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, June, 2016 Pombo, N.; Garcia, N. M. ; Silva, H.; Fazendeiro, P.; Pinto, A. Pinto; Dias, G. ; Felizardo, V. F.; Electrocardiography, Electromyography, and Accelerometry Signals Collected with BITalino While Swimming: Device Assembly and Preliminary Results , Proc IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September, 2016 Pombo, N.; Garcia, N. M. ; A Data Fusion Model to Evaluate Computerized Pain Diaries on Anxiety and Depression Assessment , Proc IEEE 4th IEEE BlackSea Conference on Communications and Networking, Varna, Bulgaria, June, 2016 Rodrigues, N. ; Rosado, L. S.; Ramos, P.M.; Portable Embedded System for Contactless Measurement of Material Conductivity, Proc IMEKO TC4 Symp., Budapest, Hungary, Vol. TBD, pp. TBD - TBD, September, 2016 Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; Ribeiro, A. L.; Pasadas, D.; High-Current Double Pulse ECT Technique for Inspection of Ferromagnetic Material, Proc Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - QNDE, Atlanta, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016
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Martins, GS; Calado, M.R.A.; Pombo, J.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Blueberries field irrigation management and monitoring system using PLC based control and wireless sensor network, Proc IEEE International Conference on Environment & Electrical Engineering EEEIC 2016, Florence, Italy, June, 2016 Ribeiro, A. L.; Pasadas, D.; Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; Measurement of One Field Component to Assess the Eddy Current Surface Current Density, Proc 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society, (MetroAeroSpace 2016), Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Ribeiro, A. L.; Pasadas, D.; Ramos, H. ; Rocha, T.; Characterization of Complex Defects Using Eddy Currents with Uniform Field Probes and GMR Detectors, Proc Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - QNDE, Atlanta, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Postolache, O.; Girão, P.M.; Connected Devices in Physiotherapy for Smart-Health , Proc International Conf. on Information, Intelligence Systems and Applications - IISA, Porto Carras, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Roza, V. ; Postolache, O.; Citizen Emotion Analysis in Smart City, Proc International Conf. on Information, Intelligence Systems and Applications - IISA, Porto Carras, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Angani, C. S; Ramos, H. ; Pasadas, D.; Ribeiro, A. L.; Eddy current testing system for the detection of impact defect in carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), Proc , Kolkata, India, Vol. 1, pp. 429 - 431, July, 2016 Costa, S. ; Malico, I. ; Janeiro, F. M.; Batista, A. ; Coelho, A. ; Silva, T.; Marques, I. ; Dynamical modelling of biogas production supported by an experimental anaerobic digestion process, Proc 11th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems – SDEWES2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 12, September, 2016 Phuoc, V. ; Long, T. ; Janeiro, F. M.; Circadian Phase Control - Genetic Algorithm and Non-linear Control Approach, Proc The 2016 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications, hanoi, Vietnam, Vol. 1, pp. TBD - TBD, October, 2016 Matos, J. ; Postolache, O.; IoT Enabled Aquatic Drone for Environmental Monitoring, Proc International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering EPE, Iasi, Romania, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, October, 2016 Ribeiro, T. ; Postolache, O.; Passos , P.P.; Performance Assessment for Mountain bike based on WSN and Cloud Technologies, Proc International Conf. and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering - EPE, Iasi, Romania, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Oliveira, R.; Osório, J. H.; Aristilde, S.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Cordeiro, C. M. B.; In-series fiber Bragg gratings and multimode interferometers for sensing applications, Proc OSA Latin America Optics and Photonics Conf. LAOP, Medellin, Colombia, Vol. LW2C.2, pp. 1 - 3, August, 2016
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Oliveira, R.; Marques, T. H. R.; Bilro, L.; Cordeiro, C. M. B.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Strain, Temperature and Humidity Sensing with Multimode Interference in POF, Proc Internacional Conf. on Plastic Optical Fibers POF, Birmingam, United Kingdom, Vol. OP35, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2016 Pinheiro, E.C.; Postolache, O.; Girão, P.M.; Ballistocardiogram: Model and Sensing Systems, Proc International Conf. on Sensing Technology - ICST, Nanjing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, November, 2016 Barbosa , D.; Barraca, JPB; Maia, D.; Carvalho, B. ; Vieira, J. ; Swart, P. ; Roux, G. ; Natarajan, S. ; van Ardenne, A. A.; Seca, L. ; Power monitoring and control for large scale projects: SKA, a case study, Proc SPIE - Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentatio Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV SPIE 9913, Edimburgh, United Kingdom, Vol. 9910, pp. 1 - 11, July, 2016 Madeira, R.; Postolache, O.; just Physio kidding - NUI and Gamification based Therapeutic Intervention for Children with Special Needs, Proc International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health MINDCARE, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, November, 2016 Dias Pereira, J. M.; Alves, M. Alves; Viegas, V.V.; Postolache, O.; Girão, P.M.; An Automated Test and Measurement System for Calibration of Industrial Flowmeters, Proc IMEKO, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 1, pp. 89 - 92, September, 2016 Mahmoud , A.; A new Table Based Modelling of 28nm Fully Depleted Silicon-On Insulator (FDSOI), Proc IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Mahmoud , A.; Elfergani, I.; Rodriguez, J.; Modelling the temperature dependence of 28nm fully depleted silicon-on insulator (FDSOI) static characteristics based on parallel computing approach, Proc IEEE Nanotechnology Council. 11th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2016) NMDC 2016, Toulouse, France, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, October, 2016 Mahmoud , A.; Elfergani, I.; Rodriguez, J.; Modelling of Body-Biasing on Zero-Temperature-Coefficient of 28nm Fully Depleted Silicon-On Insulator (FDSOI) Based on Spatial Interpolated Lookup Tables, Proc IPSoc IoT Conference & Exhibition 2016 IP-Soc IoT Conference & Exhibition 2016 IP-Soc IoT Conference & Exhibition 2016, Grenoble, France, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 17, December, 2016 Sequeira, F.; Bilro, L.; Rudnitskaya, Rudnitskaya, A.; Pesavento, M. ; Zeni, L. ; Cennamo, N. ; Optimization of an Evanescent Field Sensor based on D-Shaped Plastic Optical Fiber for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing, Proc Proceedings of the 30th Eurosensors Conference EUROSENSORS 2016, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 168, pp. 810 - 813, September, 2016 Sequeira, F.; Duarte, D.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Rudnitskaya, Rudnitskaya, A.; Cennamo, N. ; Zeni, L. ; Bilro, L.; Analysis of the roughness in a sensing region on D-shaped POFs, Proc Internacional Conf. on Plastic Optical Fibers - POF, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Vol. 1 September, 2016 Antico, F. ; Sanches, P. ; Mendes, LM; Alegria, F.; Aleixo, R. ; Lage Ferreira, R. Ferreira; A particle counter prototype and video imaging techniques for calculation of bedload fluxes, Proc International Symposium on River Sedimentation, Stuttgart, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 19 - 22, September, 2016
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Barata, AB; Mendes, J. ; Alves, L. ; Pereira, A. B.; Torque measurement systems employing surface acoustic wave devices: conception and calibration procedures, Proc First International Conference and Workshop on Mechanical Engineering Research RTME 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 53 - 53, July, 2016 Oliveira, N. D. Oliveira; Duarte, D.; Ferreira, C. Ferreira; Silva, P.; Nogueira, R.N. ; Bilro, L.; Development and characterization of a sediment concentration low cost optical sensor, Proc 25th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers POF 2016, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September, 2016 Integrated Circuits and Systems Papers in Journals Torres, J.; Costa Freire, J.; K band SiGe HBT single ended active inductors, Integration, The VLSI Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1-380, pp. 272 - 281, January, 2016 Pereira, M.; Vaz, J.; Leme, C.A.; Sousa, J. T.; Costa Freire, J.; A 170-μA All-Digital GFSK Demodulator with Rejection of Low SNR Packets for Bluetooth-LE, IEEE Microwave Wireless and Components Letters, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 452 - 454, June, 2016 Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; A Small Fully Digital Openloop Clock and Data Recovery Circuit for Wired BANs, Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (IJCTA), Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 530 - 548, March, 2016 Miyandoab, F.; Ferreira, J. ; Tavares, V. ; A Precise and HardwareEfficient Time Synchronization Method for Wearable Wired Networks, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 1460 - 1470, January, 2016 Lourenço, N.; Martins, R. M.; Canelas, A.; Póvoa , R.; Horta, N.; AIDA: Layout-aware analog circuit-level sizing with in-loop layout generation, Integration, The VLSI Journal, May, 2016 Bergano , J.; Rocha, A.; Cupido, L.; Barbosa , D.; Villela, T. V.; Boas, J.; Rocha, G.; Smoot, G. F. S.; A high performance cost‑ effective digital complex correlator for an X‑ band polarimetry survey, Springer Plus, Vol. 5, No. 487, pp. 1 - 14, April, 2016 Martins, R. M.; Póvoa , R.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; Current-flow & Current-Density-aware Multi-Objective Optimization of Analog IC Placement, Integration, The VLSI Journal, June, 2016 Pandey, M.; Canelas, A.; Póvoa , R.; Torres, J.; Costa Freire, J.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; Design and application of a CMOS active inductor at Ku band based on a multi-objective optimizer, Integration, The VLSI Journal, September, 2016 Dghais, W. Dghais; Alam , M.; Wireless Power Transfer and In-Vehicle Networking Integration for EnergyEfficient Electric Vehicles, Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1 - 14, November, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Neves, D.; Martins, R. M.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; Design Automation Tasks Scheduling for Enhanced Parallel Execution of a State-of-the-Art Layout-Aware Sizing Approach , Proc Design, Automation, and Test in Europe - DATE, Dresden, Germany, pp. 1 - 4, March, 2016 Ferreira, A.; Lourenço, N.; Martins, R. M.; Horta, N.; Automated analog IC design constraints generation for a layout-aware sizing approach, Proc IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Guilherme, J.G.; Horta, N.; Design of a radiation-hardened curvature compensated bandgap reference circuit, Proc IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Guilherme, J.G.; Mauro, M.; Horta, N.; An 8bit Logarithmic AD Converter Using Cross- Coupled Inverters and a Time-to-Digital Converter, Proc IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Guilherme, J.G.; Silva, C. Silva; Horta, N.; SCALES: A high speed simulator tool for pipeline A/D converters, Proc International Conf. on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design - SMACD, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Canelas, A.; Martins, R. M.; Póvoa , R.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; Yield Optimization using K-Means Clustering Algorithm to reduce Monte Carlo Simulations , Proc IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Martins, R. M.; Canelas, A.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; On-the-fly Exploration of Placement Templates for Analog IC Layout-aware Sizing Methodologies, Proc IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Duarte, L. ; Rodrigues, L. ; Alves, L. ; DLL architecture for OFDM based VLC transceivers in FPGA, Proc IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016 Dobesch, A. ; Alves, L. ; Wilfert, OW; Ribeiro, C.; ODAC-based traffic lights for intelligent transport systems, Proc International Conference Radioelektronika Luis Filipe Mesquita Nero Moreira Alves RADIOELEKTRONIKA, Kosice, Slovakia, Vol. 1, pp. 345 - 349, April, 2016
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Impact of Telecommunications on Society Book Chapters Caixinha, A.; Alexandre, I.; What’s Memory All About? - Chapter in Handbook of Research on Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Conditions, IGI Global, , 2016 Salema, C.; Instituto de Teleocmunicações — Unidade na Diversidade - Chapter in 35 Anos do INESC, , INESC, Lisboa, 2016 Loss, C.; Salvado, R.; Pinho, P.; Poluição Eletromagnética e os Novos Desafios em Moda: Antenas no Vestuário - Chapter in Espaços de moda geográficos, físicos e virtuais, Isabel Cantista, Actual, Lisboa, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Channel Estimation for MmWave Massive MIMO - Chapter in mmWave Massive MIMO, 1st Edition A Paradigm for 5G, Shahid Mumtaz and Jonathan Rodriguez , Elsevier Science, London, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Precoding for MmWave Massive MIMO - Chapter in mmWave Massive MIMO, 1st Edition A Paradigm for 5G, Shahid Mumtaz and Jonathan Rodriguez, Elsevier Science, London, 2016 Araújo, D.; Tamos, J.P.R.; Lopes, R.J.; Shared affordances guide interpersonal synergies in sport teams Chapter in Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems, Pedro Passos, Keith Davids, Jia Yi Chow, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, 2016 Papers in Journals Zhang , D.; zhou, Z. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Sato, T.; One Integrated Energy Efficiency Proposal for 5G IoT Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 - 1, pp. 65 - 72, September, 2016 Yang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Dai, L. ; Li, J. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Transmission Capacity Analysis of RelayAssisted Device-to-Device Overlay/Underlay Communication, IEEE Trans. in Industrial Informatics, Vol. 66, No. 45, pp. 23 - 35, October, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; The Spectrum: Scary Resource for 5G, IEEE Access, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 2 - 4, October, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; How Cognitive Radio Can Help LTE-U and Wi-Fi Users Get Along, IEEE Specturm, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 45 - 57, July, 2016 Ali, M. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in D2D-Assisted Heterogeneous Networks with Relays, IEEE Access, Vol. 4, No. 34, pp. 4902 - 4911, August, 2016 Mumtaz, S.M.; Qaisar, S. ; Naeem, M. ; Smart Heterogeneous Networks : A 5G paradigm, Springer Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 23, No. 56, pp. 67 - 75, September, 2016 Zhang, D. ; Muhammad, T. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Rodriguez, J.; Sato, T. ; Integrating Energy Efficiency Analysis of Massive MIMO Based C-RAN, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 23, No. 56, pp. 78 - 89, December, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Oliveira, RO; Postolache, G.; Postolache, O.; Morreira, I.M.; Domingos, S.D.; Barcia, S.B.; Pedro, LP; Technology use and Preference Among Physiotherapy, Proc ESPRM European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine ESPRM, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, April, 2016 Costa, J. P. S. C.; Fazendeiro, P.; A mobile application to improve the quality of life via exercise, Proc IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Vol. 1, pp. 55 - 62, September, 2016 Ashraf, . ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Device-to-Device Assisted Mobile Cloud Framework for 5G Networks, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Industrial Informatics - INDIN, Poitiers, France, Vol. 23, pp. 23 - 28, September, 2016 Ashraf; Mumtaz, S.M.; mplementation of D2D enabled Mobile Cloud based Content Distribution Architecture in 5G Networks, Proc 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2016, Oulu, Finland, Vol. 34, pp. 56 - 62, June, 2016 Zhang, D. ; Mumtaz, S.M.; Integrating Energy Efficiency Mechanism with Components Selection for Massive MIMO Based C-RAN, Proc IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 34, pp. 45 - 50, June, 2016 Soares, E. ; Pereira, I. ; Oliveira, C.O; Ramos, F. ; Brandão, P.; Prior, R. ; Queirós, C. Q.; O projeto HealthKiosk: um estudo exploratório sobre stress, burnout e tensão arterial, Proc Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. NA, pp. NA - NA, January, 2016 Technology and Materials Books Marques, C.; Webb, D. J. ; Polymer optical fiber technology in sensing fuel level aviation, , Scholars Press, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Dobre, C. D.; Mavromoustakis, C. M.; Goleva, R. ; Mastorakis, G. M.; Ambient Assisted Living and Enhanced Living Environments, , Elsevier Science, n/a, 2016 Book Chapters Ali, N.A.; Kousa, Y.; Gracio, J.G.; Cabral, G.C.; Sousa, A.C.M.S.; Shokufar, T.S.; Titus, E.T.; Mendes, J. ; Ahmed, W.A.; Jackson, M.J. ; Surface Engineering of Artificial Heart Valves to Using Modified DiamondLike Coatings - Chapter in Surgical Tools and Medical Devices, , Springer US, US, 2016 Ali, N.A.; Kousa, Y.; Gracio, J.G.; Cabral, G.C.; Sousa, A.C.M.S.; Shokufar, T.S.; Titus, E.T.; Mendes, J. ; Ahmed, W.A.; Jackson, M.J. ; Biomaterial–Cell Tissue Interactions in Surface Engineered Carbon-Based Biomedical Implants and Devices - Chapter in Surgical Tools and Medical Devices, , Springer US, US, 2016
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Papers in Journals Mukherjee, D.M.; Oliveira, F.; Silva, R.; Rino, L.; Correia, R.; Rotter, S.; Alves, L. ; Mendes, J. ; DiamondSAW devices: a reverse fabrication method, Physica Status Solidi, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 53 - 58, January, 2016 Deusdado, P. D.; Guedes, M. G.; Silva, A. S.; Marques, F. M.; Pinto, E. P.; Rodrigues, P.; Lourenço, A. L.; Mendonça, R. M.; Santana, P.; Corisco, J. C.; Almeida, M. A.; Portugal, L.; Caldeira, R. C.; Barata, J. B.; Flores, L. F.; Sediment Sampling in Estuarine Mudflats with an Aerial-Ground Robotic Team, Sensors, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 1 - 31, September, 2016 Mukherjee, D.M.; Mendes, J. ; Deposition of Carbon Nanotube Films on Polyamide and Polypropylene Substrates: A Computer Simulation Approach, Materials Research, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 895 - 900, July, 2016 Mukherjee, D.M.; Rotter, S.; Mendes, J. ; HFCVD nanostructured diamond films deposited by a combination of seeding suspensions and novel nucleation process (NNP), International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering, December, 2016 Ferreira, P.; Parafita, R. ; Canudo, A. ; Oliveira, Oliveira C. ; Rosa, Rosa L. ; Girão, P.M.; Costa, Costa D. C. ; Multiple Liver Metastases from Carcinoma of the Thymus Treated with Yttrium-90 Radioembolization (Glass Microspheres): Clinical Dosimetry, Clinics in Oncology, Vol. 1, No. 1024, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2016 Ferreira, P.; Parafita, R. ; Canudo, A. ; Oliveira, Oliveira C. ; Rosa, Rosa L. ; Girão, P.M.; Costa, Costa D. C. ; Optimization of Activity and Absorbed Doses Calculation to Tumor and Normal Liver Volumes in Patients Submitted to Yttrium-90 Radioembolization with Glass Microspheres, Physica Medica – European Journal of Medical Physics, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 200 - 200, September, 2016 Gorski, Marcin Gorski; Krzywon, R; Dawczynski, S. ; Szojda , L; Salvado, R.; Velez, F. J.; Lopes, C.; Araújo, P.A.; Castro-Gomes, J; Smart Textiles for Strengthening of Structures, Central European Journal of Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 548 - 553, December, 2016 Carvalho, R. ; Lopes, PFL; Alexandre, I.; Alturas, B. ; Qualidade dos sítios Web da Administração Pública Portuguesa, Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação, Vol. 12, No. 20, pp. 78 - 98, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Ferreira, Q. ; Araújo, M.A.; Pires, F.; Mendonça, A.; Morgado, J.; NANOSTRUCTURED DRUG DELIVERY FILMS FOR BRIMONIDINE CONTROLLED RELEASE, Proc University of Stirling, UK 13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB2016, Stirling, United Kingdom, Vol. na, pp. 196 - 203, September, 2016 Morgado, J.; Pereira, J. ; Farinhas, J.; Tuning the emission colour of polymer blends-based light emitting diodes upon addition of a high boiling point co-solvent, Proc EMN_Organic-Electronics and Photonics Meeting, San Sebatian, Spain, September, 2016
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Loss, C.; Agneessens, S A; Rogier, H R; Pinho, P.; Salvado, R.; Electromagnetic Characterization of Textile Materials for the Design of Wearable Antennas, Proc The Fiber Society Conference, Mulhouse, France, Vol. 1, pp. 108 - 109, May, 2016 Mukherjee, D.M.; Alves, L. ; Neto, M; Oliveira, F.; Silva, R.; Mendes, J. ; Fabrication and characterization of n-SiC / p-diamond heterojunctions, Proc Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe WOCSDICE 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 40, pp. W39 - W40, June, 2016 Mukherjee, D.M.; Mendes, J. ; Alves, L. ; Neto, M; Oliveira, F.; Diamond / SiC heterojunctions, Proc IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 12, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Power Electronics and Power Systems Book Chapters Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Pombo, J.; Calado, M.R.A.; Felippe de Souza, J.A.M.; Damping of Power System Oscillations with Optimal Regulator - Chapter in Electricity Distribution, , Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2016 Papers in Journals Mendes, R.; Calado, M.R.A.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Particle swarm and Box’s complex optimization methods to design linear tubular switched reluctance generators for wave energy conversion, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, January, 2016 Martins, A.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Calado, M.R.A.; Felippe de Souza, J.A.M.; The Sinusoidal Ground Electrode: Theory and case study results, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, February, 2016 A. Pinto, R. A. Pinto; Álvarez, J.; Perdigão, M.; da Silva, M. F.; do Prado, R. N. do Prado; A New Technique to Equalize Branch Currents in Multiarray LED Lamps Based on Variable Inductors, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 521 - 530, January, 2016 Perdigão, M.; Menke, M. F.; Seidel, A. R. Seidel; A. Pinto, R. A. Pinto; Álvarez, J.; A Review on Variable Inductors and Variable Transformers: Applications to Lighting Drivers, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 531 - 547, January, 2016 Faiz, J. F.; Keravand, M. ; Ghasemi-Bijan, M. ; Cruz, S. M. A. ; Bandarabadi, M.; Impacts of rotor inter-turn short circuit fault upon performance of wound rotor induction machines, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 135, No. 1, pp. 48 - 58, June, 2016 Bandarabadi, M.; Mendes, A. M. S.; Cruz, S. M. A. ; A Method to Diagnose Open-Circuit Faults in IGBTs and Clamp-Diodes of Three-Level NPC Inverters, IET Electric Power Applications, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. 623 - 632, August, 2016 Fernandes, C. F.; Torres , J.; Validation of a Simulation Model for Analysis of Shading Effects on Photovoltaic Panels, Journal of Solar Engineering, Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 044503 - 044503, June, 2016
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Álvarez, J.; Martínez, G. ; Perdigão, M.; Cosetin, M. R.; do Prado, R. N. do Prado; A Systematic Approach to Modeling Complex Magnetic Devices Using SPICE: Application to Variable Inductors , IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 31, No. 11, pp. 7735 - 7746, November, 2016 Bandarabadi, M.; Mendes, A. M. S.; Cruz, S. M. A. ; A Real-Time Method for the Diagnosis of Multiple Switch Faults in NPC Inverters Based on Output Currents Analysis , Journal of Power Electronics, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1415 - 1425, July, 2016 Faiz, J. F.; Moosavi , S. ; Bandarabadi, M.; Cruz, S. M. A. ; Magnetic equivalent circuit modelling of doublyfed induction generator with assessment of rotor inter-turn short-circuit fault indices, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 1431 - 1440, October, 2016 Pinto, R.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Calado, M.R.A.; Felippe de Souza, J.A.M.; Impact of Rural Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Generation Systems on Power Quality, Energies, Vol. 9, No. 9, September, 2016 Torres , J.; Nashih, S K N; Fernandes, C. F.; The effect of shading on photovoltaic solar panels, Energy Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 14, November, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Ferreira, D. F.; Cruz, S. M. A. ; Mendes, A. M. S.; Design and simulation of a finite control set model predictive control system for a regenerative grid simulator, Proc IEE International Conf. on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives - PEMD, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. 1 - 6, April, 2016 Fernandes, C. F.; Torres , J.; Cell String Layout in Stationary Solar Concentrating Solar PV Collectors, Proc 2nd SEE SDEWES 2016 Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes, Piran, Slovenia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2016 Beirão, M. ; Calado, M.R.A.; Pombo, J.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Balancing management system for improving Liion batteries capacity usage and lifespan, Proc IEEE International Conference on Environment & Electrical Engineering EEEIC 2016, Florence, Italy, June, 2016 Calado, M.R.A.; Mariano, S.J.P.S.; Pombo, J.; PV charging station for electric vehicles. Management and interface system, Proc IEEE International Conference on Environment & Electrical Engineering EEEIC 2016, Florence, Italy, June, 2016 Hadla, H.; Cruz, S. M. A. ; Active Flux Based Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives, Proc EPE’16 ECCE EUROPE, Karlsruhe , Germany, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. 1 - 10 , September, 2016 Fernandes, C. F.; Torres , J.; Stationary Solar Concentrating Photovoltaic-Thermal Collector –Cell String Layout, Proc IEEE 17th International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control (IEEE-PEMC) IEEE-PEMC, varna, Bulgaria, September, 2016 Fernandes, C. F.; Torres , J.; Analysis of different C-PVT reflector geometries , Proc IEEE 17th International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control (IEEE-PEMC) IEEE-PEMC, varna, Bulgaria, September, 2016
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Fernandes, C. F.; Torres , J.; Aging of Solar PV plants and mitigation of their consequences, Proc IEEE 17th International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control (IEEE-PEMC) IEEE-PEMC, varna, Bulgaria, September, 2016 Borges, B.; Voltage droop compensation based on resonant circuit for generalized high voltage solid-state Marx modulator, Proc IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. - APEC, Long Beach, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 2 - 2, February, 2016 Logics and Computation Book Chapters Andrade, J.; Falcão, G.; Silva, V.; Yamagiwa, S.; Sousa, L.; Accelerating Conventional Processing Using GPU Clusters: LDPC Decoders - Chapter in Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Phillip A. Laplante, Editor-in-Chief, Engineering Division, Taylor & Francis, Pennsylvania State University, Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2016 Papers in Journals Maria, JBM; Amaro, J.; Falcão, G.; Alexandre, L.A.; Stacked Autoencoders using Low-power Accelerated Architectures for Object Recognition in Autonomous Systems, Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 445 - 458, April, 2016 Duarte, M.; Costa, V.C.; Gomes, J.; Rodrigues, T. R.; Silva, F.; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots, PLOS One, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. e0151834 - e0151834, March, 2016 Silva, F.; Duarte, M.; Correia, L. C.; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; OPEN ISSUES IN EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS, Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205 - 236, June, 2016 Marcelino, S.; Caleiro, C.; On the characterization of fibred logics, with applications to conservativity and finite-valuedness, Journal of Logic and Computation, August, 2016 Marcelino, S.; Caleiro, C.; Decidability and complexity of fibred logics without shared connectives, Logic Journal of the IGPL, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 673 - 707, June, 2016 Luo, Z. L.; Santos, J. F.; Matos, A.; Rezk, T.; Mashic compiler: Mashup sandboxing based on inter-frame communication, Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 91 - 136, March, 2016 Pires, I.; Garcia, N. M. ; Pombo, N.; Florez-Revulta, FR; Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, N.R.; Validation Techniques for Sensor Data in Mobile Health Applications, Journal of Sensors, Vol. 2016, No. 2016, pp. 1 - 9, October, 2016 Zarrin, J. ; Aguiar, R. ; Barraca, JPB; ElCore: Dynamic elastic resource management and discovery for future large-scale manycore enabled distributed systems, Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 23, June, 2016
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Pouly, A. P.; Graça, D.; Computational complexity of solving polynomial differential equations over unbounded domains, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 626, No. 2, pp. 67 - 82, May, 2016 Bournez, O.; Graça, D.; Pouly, A. P.; Computing with polynomial ordinary differential equations, Journal of Complexity, Vol. 36, pp. 106 - 140, October, 2016 Vicente , N.; Falcão, G.; Silva, V.; Andrade, J.; Mobile 4K / 2K / HD video streaming supported by real-time FEC RaptorQ codes, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 405 - 411, November, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Duarte, M.; Gomes, J.; Oliveira, S.; Christensen, A.; EvoRBC: Evolutionary Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Arbitrary Locomotion Complexity, Proc Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. - GECCO, Denver, United States, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2016 Ramos, G.; Caleiro, C.; Symbolic Probabilistic Analysis of Side-Channel Information, Proc Sessão Especial/Temática “Criptografia e Tópicos Relacionados” no “Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática 2016” Guilherme Henrique Caçador Ramos, Barreiro, Portugal, July, 2016 Marcelino, S.; Caleiro, C.; Marcos, J.; Rivieccio, U. ; On the abstract characterization of broadly truthfunctional logics, Proc International Joint Conf. on Automated Reasoning - IJCAR, Coimbra, Portugal, July, 2016 Marcelino, S.; Caleiro, C.; Marcos, J.; Can classical reasoning be recovered through the combination of logics?, Proc International Joint Conf. on Automated Reasoning - IJCAR, Coimbra, Portugal, July, 2016 Paulino, H. P.; Parreira, D. P.; Delgado, N.; Ravara, A.R.; Matos, A.; From atomic variables to data-centric concurrency control, Proc ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing SAC, Pisa, Italy, Vol. Proceedings of the 31st Annual {ACM} Symposium on Applied Computing, Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016, pp. 1806 - 1811, April, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Pombo, N.; Pinho, A. ; Sleep Apnea Detection Using a Feed-Forward Neural Network on ECG Signal, Proc International Conf. on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services - HealthCom, Munich, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Alexandre, I. ; Felizardo, V. F.; Pombo, N.; Contribution of Biosignals for Emotional Analysis on Image Perception, Proc IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living, London, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 7, October, 2016 Garcia, N. M. ; Reis, S. ; Felizardo, V. F.; Pombo, N.; Elderly mobility analysis during Timed Up and Go test using biosignals, Proc International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, Vila Real, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, December, 2016 Bournez, O.; Graça, D.; Pouly, A. P.; Rigorous numerical computation of polynomial differential equations over unbounded domains, Proc 6th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and
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Information Sciences MACIS 2015, Berlin, Germany, Vol. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9582, pp. 469 - 473, January, 2016 Bournez, O.; Graça, D.; Pouly, A. P.; Polynomial Time Corresponds to Solutions of Polynomial Ordinary Differential Equations of Polynomial Length - The General Purpose Analog Computer and Computable Analysis are two efficiently equivalent models of computations, Proc International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming - ICALP, Rome, Italy, Vol. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 55, pp. 109:1 - 109:15, July, 2016 Adão, P.; Focardi, RF; Guttman, JDG; Luccio, FLL; Localizing Firewall Security Policies, Proc IEEE 29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium CSF, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 194 - 209, June, 2016 Organic Electronics Papers in Journals Salvador , M.; Combined Computational Approach Based on Density Functional Theory and Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting The Solubility Parameters of Fullerenes, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 120, No. 19, pp. 4431 - 4438, May, 2016 Medeiros, M. C. R. ; Gomes, H.L.; An electrical method to measure low-frequency collective and synchronized cell activity using extracellular electrodes, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1 - 8, September, 2016 Costa, P. Costa; Meira, R.; Charas, A.; Paolo, R.; Photophysical Study of Two p-Phenylenevinylene Oligomers End-Capped with Triphenylamine or Cyanoacetate Groups, ChemistrySelect, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 3163 - 3170, August, 2016 Suresh, D.; Ferreira, B. F.; Lopes, P. S.; Gomes, C. S. B.; Krishnamoorthy, P. K.; Charas, A.; Vila-Viçosa, D. ; Morgado, J.; Calhorda, M.; Maçanita, A.; Gomes, P.; Boron complexes of aromatic ring fused iminopyrrolyl ligands: synthesis, structure, and luminescence properties, DALTON Trans., Vol. 45, No. -, pp. 15603 15620, October, 2016 Farinhas, J.; Ferraria, A. M. Ferraria; Rego, A.; Morgado, J.; Charas, A.; Understanding the Role of Phenanthroline as Interlayer in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Cells, ChemistrySelect, Vol. 1, No. na, pp. 5638 - 5646, November, 2016 Afonso, M.; Morgado, J.; Alcácer, L.; Inkjet printed organic electrochemical transistors with highly conducting polymer electrolytes, Journal Applied Physics, Vol. 120, No. 165502, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2016 Medeiros, M. C. R. ; al., et.; Gomes, H.L.; Extracellular electrical recording of pH-triggered bursts in C6 glioma cell populations, Science advances, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. e1600516 - e1600516, December, 2016 Pereira, J. ; Farinhas, J.; Morgado, J.; Suppresing the energy transfer in polymers blends films upon addition of a co-solvent, Materials Letters, Vol. 175, pp. 248 - 251, July, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Farinhas, J.; Ferraria, A. M. Ferraria; Rego, A.; Charas, A.; Morgado, J.; Nanostructuring of phenantroline electron-extraction interlayers and its role on organic solar cells performance upon combination with LiF, Proc International Conf. on Science and Technology of Syntethic Metals - ICSM, Guangzhou, China, June, 2016 Farinhas, J.; Oliveira, R.; Morgado, J.; Charas, A.; Improved stability of organic solar cells by cross-linking of the electron-donor polymer, Proc IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Lisboa, Portugal, June, 2016 Farinhas, J.; Oliveira, R.; Ferreira, Q. ; Kesters, J. Kesters; Vanderzande, D. ; Maes, W. ; Charas, A.; Morgado, J.; On the use of phenantroline electron-extraction interlayers in organic photovoltaics cells: films morphology and devices performance, Proc European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) - Spring Meeting - E-MRS, Warsaw , Poland, September, 2016 Farinhas, J.; Oliveira, R.; Charas, A.; Morgado, J.; Efficient ternary polymer solar cells, Proc EMN_OrganicElectronics and Photonics Meeting, San Sebastian, Spain, pp. 25 - 25, September, 2016 Costa, C.; Organic materials for environmentally friendly organic photovoltaics, Proc Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) of Lazio Region - University of Rome Tor Vergata, ENEA and Cicci Research International School on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics ISOPHOS16, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, Vol. Proceedings Book, September, 2016 Charas, A.; Costa, C.; Farinhas, J.; Galvão, A.; New Conjugated Polymers fr Green-Solvent-Processable Organic Photovoltaic Cells, Proc TEI of Crete, Greece ORGANIC & PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS CONFERENCE SOLAR, Heraclion, Greece, Vol. Abstract book, October, 2016 Medeiros, M. C. R. ; Gomes, H.L.; al., et.; Performance assessment of polymer based electrodes for in vitro electrophysiological sensing: the role of the electrode impedance, Proc SPIE, San Diego, United States, Vol. 9944, pp. 1 - 8, September, 2016 Electromagnetics Books Faria, J.; Análise de Circuitos - 3ª Edição Revista e Aumentada, , IST Press, Lisbon, 2016 Papers in Journals Acebron, J. A. A; Ribeiro, M. ; A Monte Carlo method for solving the one-dimensional telegraph equations with boundary conditions, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 305, No. 1, pp. 29 - 43, January, 2016 Gonçalves, R.; Magueta, R. L.; Pinho, P.; Carvalho, N.B.C.; Dissipation Factor and Permittivity Estimation of Dielectric Substrates Using a Single Microstrip Line Measurement, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 118 - 125, February, 2016
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Machado, V.; Fluxball Magnetic Field Analysis using a Hybrid Analytical/FEM/BEM with Equivalent Currents, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 401, pp. 1173 - 1180, March, 2016 Machado, V.; Pedro, M. E. Pedro; Neves, M.; Skin and Proximity Effects in the Series-Impedance of ThreePhase Underground Cables, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 130, pp. 132 - 138, January, 2016 Fernandes, D. E.; Rodrigues , M.; Falcão, G.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Time evolution of electron waves in graphene superlattices, AIP ADVANCES, Vol. 6, No. 075109, pp. 1 - 20, July, 2016 Fernandes, D. E.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Single-Beam Optical Conveyor Belt for Chiral Particles, Physical Review Applied, Vol. 6, No. 014016, pp. 1 - 9, July, 2016 Yaghjian, A. D.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Additional boundary condition for electric quadrupolar continua derived from Maxwell’s differential equations, Radio Science, Vol. 51, No. 10.1002/2016RS006066, pp. 1 - 10, August, 2016 Lannebère, S.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Wave Instabilities and Unidirectional Light Flow in a Cavity with Rotating Walls, Physical Review A, Vol. 94, No. 033810, pp. 1 - 11, September, 2016 Yakovlev, A.; Hedayati, MH; Silveirinha, M. G.; Hanson, G. H.; Local thickness-dependent permittivity model for nonlocal bounded wire-medium structures, Physical Review B, Vol. 94, No. 155442, pp. 1 - 9, October, 2016 Faria, J.; Alternative Modal Analysis of N-coupled Multi-conductor Power Lines, Electric Power Components and Systems, Vol. 44, No. 19, pp. 2237 - 2242, October, 2016 Silveirinha, M. G.; Bulk-edge correspondence for topological photonic continua, Physical Review B, Vol. 94, No. 205105, pp. 1 - 11, October, 2016 Lannebère, S.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Negative spontaneous emission by a moving two-level atom, Journal of Optics, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 014004 - 014004, December, 2016 Papers in Conference Proceedings Pavia, J.; Prudêncio, F.; Ribeiro, M. ; Design of Low Cost Frequency Selective Structures with Extremely Small Bandwidth, Proc COST ACTION MP1204 SMMO 2016 - International Conf. on Semiconductor MidIR Materials and Optics held jointly with the 4th Annual Conference of COST Action MP1204 SMMO 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2016 Topa, A.; Mode Orthogonality in Metamaterial waveguides, Proc Encuentro Ibérico de Electromagnetismo Computacional - EIEC, Oviedo, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Fernandes, D. E.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Optical pulling forces on chiral nanoparticles, Proc 4th Annual Conference of COST Action MP1204 & SMMO2016 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, March, 2016
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Fernandes, D. E.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Bistability in wire metamaterials, Proc XI Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics, Las Caldas, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Fernandes, D. E.; Silveirinha, M. G.; Tractor beam for chiral nanoparticles, Proc XI Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics, Las Caldas, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2016 Araneo, R. ; Cellozi, S. ; Faria, J.; Direct TD Analysis of PLC Channels in HV Transmission Lines with Sectionalized Shield Wires, Proc IEEE 2016 Int. Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering IEEE EEEIC16, Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, June, 2016 Hasani, H.; Silva, J. S.; Mosig, JM; Garcia-Vigueras, M. G.-V.; Dual-band 20/30 GHz circularly polarized transmitarray for SOTM applications, Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Davos, Switzerland, April, 2016 Quantum Information and Communications Papers in Journals Almeida, A.; Stojanovic, A.; Paunkovic, N.; Loura, R. Loura ; Muga, N. J.; Silva, N. A.; Mateus, P.; André, P.S; Pinto, A. N.; Implementation of a two-state quantum bit commitment protocol in optical fibers, Journal of Optics, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 015202 - 015202, January, 2016 Novo, L.N.; Mohseni, M.; Omar, Y.; Disorder-assisted quantum transport in suboptimal decoherence regimes, Scientific reports, Vol. 6, No. 18142, January, 2016 Mohammady, M.; Mohseni, M.; Omar, Y.; Minimising the heat dissipation of quantum information erasure, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 015011 - 015011, January, 2016 Huang, Z. H.; Qiu, D. Qiu; Mateus, P.; Geometry and dynamics of one-norm geometric quantum discord, Quantum Information Processing, Vol. 15, pp. 301 - 326, January, 2016 Chakraborty, S.; Novo, L.N.; Ambainis, AA; Omar, Y.; Spatial search by quantum walk is optimal for almost all graphs, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, pp. 100501 - NA, March, 2016 Berry, D. B.; Novo, L.N.; Corrected quantum walk for optimal Hamiltonian simulation, Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 16, No. 15&16, pp. 1295 - 1317, November, 2016 Pezzutto, M.; Paternostro, M.; Omar, Y.; Implications of non-Markovian quantum dynamics for the Landauer bound, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 18, No. 123018, pp. 1 - 9, December, 2016 Loura, R. Loura ; Arsenović, D. ; Paunkovic, N.; Popovic, D.; Prvanović, S. ; Security of two-state and fourstate practical quantum bit-commitment protocols, Physical Review A, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 062335 062335, December, 2016
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Papers in Conference Proceedings Paunkovic, N.; Vojinovic, MV; Gravity-matter entanglement in Regge quantum gravity, Proc Paunkovic EmQM15 conference, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 701, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2016 Chakraborty, S.; Novo, L.N.; Ambainis, AA; Omar, Y.; Spatial Search by Quantum Walk is Optimal for Almost all Graphs, Proc 13th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop, Valtice, Czech Republic, June, 2016 Almeida, A.; Invited: Quantum Communications in Optical Fibers, Proc XIII Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and Sensors (SEONS) 2016, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2016 Chakraborty, S.; Novo, L.N.; Ambainis, AA; Omar, Y.; Spatial Search by Quantum Walk is Optimal for Almost All Graphs, Proc Theory of Quantum Computation Communication and Cryptography TQC 2016, Berlin, Germany, September, 2016 Kerans, O.; Novo, L.N.; Sciarrino, F.; Omar, Y.; Quantum walks in synthetic gauge fields with 3D integrated photonics, Proc Workshop of Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, November, 2016 Omar, Y.; Quantum Information meets Condensed Matter: some new directions, Proc Workshop on Quantum Materials and Quantum Technologies, Braga, Portugal, September, 2016.
4.4.7 Other Achievements Patents Guilherme, J.G.; Mauro, M.; CONVERSOR ANALÓGICO-DIGITAL COM CARACTERÍSTICA DE TRANSFERÊNCIA LOGARÍTMICA, 107228, April, 2016 Pereira, J.; Almeida, N. M. L. A.; MÉTODO E APARELHO DE CRIAÇÃO DE UM CENÁRIO TRIDIMENSIONAL, 109485, July, 2016 Awards Medeiros, M. C. R. ; Gomes, H.L.; Alcácer, L.; Elsevier/Sensing & Bio-Sensing Research Award 2015, For research entitled ‘Ink-jet printed polymer electrodes to record extracellular calcium waves produced by neural cell populations in vitro’ presented on 13th May at the E-MRS symposium Materials and Biosensor Systems for in-vitro diagnostic applications, 01-05-2016 Postolache, O.; IEEE ICST Award for invited speech, The award was granted during the IEEE International Conference on Sensing Technology for invited speeche "Unobtrusive Smart Sensing and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare, 01-11-2016 Cruz, S. M. A. ; IEEE Senior Member, Elevation to IEEE Senior Member, 01-02-2016
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Azevedo, J. Azevedo; d´Orey, P. M.; Ferreira, M. ; Best Paper Award "On the Mobile Intelligence of Autonomous Vehicles", IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Urban Mobility & Intelligent Transportation Systems UMITS, Istanbul, 01-04-2016 Faria, J.; Prémio Científico 2016 Universidade de Lisboa/Santander Universidades, First Prize Electrical and Aerospace Engineering , 01-10-2016 Guilherme, J.G.; Silva, C. Silva; Winner of EDA Competition Award, Winner of EDA Competition Award. The 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD 2016), 01-06-2016 Bournez, O.; Graça, D.; Pouly, A. P.; Best ICALP Paper (2016), Best ICALP Paper award (track B) for the 2016 edition of the ICALP conference. The awarded paper was: * Olivier Bournez, Daniel Graça and Amaury Pouly: "Polynomial Time corresponds to Solutions of Polynomial Ordinary Differential Equations of Polynomial Length". More information can be found on the following link: https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/best-icalp-paper, 01-07-2016 Martins, R. M.; Canelas, A.; Lourenço, N.; Horta, N.; Best Paper Award at International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), "Onthe-fly exploration of placement templates for analog IC layout-aware sizing methodologies," , in International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), Lisboa, Portugal, June 2016., 01-06-2016 Christensen, A.; Duarte, M.; Costa, V.C.; Rodrigues, T. R.; Gomes, J.; Silva, F.; Oliveira, S.; AAAI Best Robot Video Award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrkszUnms8, 01-02-2016 Silva, F.; Correia, L. C.; Christensen, A.; Best Student Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award at 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, paper entitled “Online HyperEvolution of Controllers in Multirobot Systems”, 01-09-2016 Silva, F.; Correia, L. C.; Christensen, A.; Best Paper Award, Best Paper Award (Evolutionary robotics track) at EvoStar 2016, paper entitled “Leveraging Online Racing and Population Cloning in Evolutionary Multirobot Systems”, 01-04-2016 Postolache, O.; Award for IEEE DL Seminar at University of Calcutta, Awarded by Joint CSS-IMS Kolkata Chapter, 01-08-2016 Miscellaneous Araújo, P.A.; Metodologia de Sistemas de Data Warehouse, , Borges, B.; Member at Large IEEE Power Electronics Society 2010-2012, , Ferreira, C. ; Member of IEEE and is treasurer of the Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society and Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter of the IEEE., ,
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Rosa, Cecília; Um estudo sobre Polinómios Matriciais, Universidade Federal do rio Grande do Norte, 0110-2016 Paunkovic, N.; Vojinovic, MV; Gravity-Matter Entanglement in Regge Quantum Gravity. Quantum Networks conference, Barcelona, Spain, March 30 – April 1, 2016., Poster session, 01-03-2016 Charas, A.; Farinhas, J.; Oliveira, R.; Morgado, J.; IMPROVING ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS THROUGH USING TERNARY SYSTEMS, Conference on New Trends in Solar cells, April 19-22, 2016, Bratislava, Slovakia, 0104-2016 Charas, A.; Principal Jury in MsC thesis on Bioengineering and Nanosystems Engineering of licenciado Ricardo Jorge Carvalho, Title: Photovoltaic Cells based on lead- and tin-perovskites, 01-06-2016 Mendes, J. ; WOCSDICE, Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe, 01-06-2016 Charas, A.; External evaluator for European Commission Research Executive Agency ((Mar-2015)), , 0106-2016 Charas, A.; PhD Thesis Jury Desenvolvimento de diversos biosensores para determinaçao de acrilamida baseados em células inteiras e Pseudomonas aeruginosa: um estudo comparativo, Nelson Silva, FCUL, , 01-06-2016 Zhuang, L.; Bioucas-Dias, J.; Presentation Slides for "Fast Hyperspectral Image DenoisingBased on Low Rank and Sparse Representation" in IGARSS 2016, , 01-07-2016 Girão, P.M.; Automated Measuring Systems for Environmental Monitoring, IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecture Program, Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16)Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16), 01-09-2016 Girão, P.M.; Tactile Sensors for Industrial, Medical and Robotic Applicationss, IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer Program, 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2016), 01-06-2016 Girão, P.M.; Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart/Precise Agriculture, IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer Program: 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2016), 01-06-2016 Charas, A.; MSc Thesis Jury - Desenvolvimento de heterojunções híbridas nanoestruturadas para aplicação em células solares. FCT, Universiadde Nova de Lisboa, , 01-11-2016 Charas, A.; MsC Thesis Jury, Thesis: Green Emitting Diodes for Solid State Lighting, Ricardo Fernandes, Univ de Aveiro, Univ. de Aveiro, Dep. Física, 01-11-2016 Charas, A.; MsC Thesis Juri, Thesis - Síntese e caracterização de Novos Compostos Moleculares com Unidades Tiofénicas, IST, mestrado em Eng. Química, 01-12-2016
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Barbosa , D.; SKA, desafios e oportunidades para o Alentejo e para Portugal - da Ciência Fundamental aos desafios Societais, uma agenda para o desenvolvimento sustentável", Lição de Sapiência na Abertura do Anoa Académico do IPB, 01-11-2016
4.4.8 Other Contributions Conference Committees E-Activity and Leading Technologies - E-ALT, Scientific Committee, Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho, Conf. Ibero-Americana InterTIC, Scientific Committee, Pedro Renato Tavares Pinho, Radionet Engineering Forum Workshop on Photonics in Radio Astronomy - radionet 4EF 2010, Organizing Committee, Domingos da Silva Barbosa, DMUC Encontro de Algebristas Portugueses, Organizing Committee, Celino José Martins Miguel, International Workshop on Information Security, Assurance and Reliability in the Cloud (WISARC) Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio WISARC, Technical Programme Chairman, Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio, 06-12-2016 Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe WOCSDICE 2016, Conference Chairman, Joana Catarina Mendes, 05-06-2016 International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications I-ESA, Technical Programme Committee, Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, 29-03-2016 IEEE World Conf. on Factory Communication Systems - WFCS, Organizing Committee, Pedro Nicolau Faria da Fonseca, 03-05-2016 International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva, 07-01-2016 International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva, 27-07-2016 International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium - networks, Technical Programme Committee, Amaro Fernandes de Sousa, 26-09-2016 IEEE 17th International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control (IEEE-PEMC) IEEE-PEMC, Special Sessions Chairman, João Paulo Neto Torres, 25-09-2016 International Conf. on Electromagnetic Fields, Health and Environment - EHE'06, Scientific Committee, Vitor Manuel de Oliveira Maló Machado, 01-09-2016 IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Miranda de Andrade de Albuquerque d´Orey, 01-11-2016
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University of Stirling, UK 13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB2016, Special Sessions Chairman, Quirina Alexandra Tavares Ferreira, 01-09-2016 Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio, 0809-2016 Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Organizing Committee, Vitor Manuel da Silva Costa, 06-12-2016 Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica - ENAA, Organizing Committee, Domingos da Silva Barbosa, 08-09-2016 Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica - ENAA, Scientific Committee, Domingos da Silva Barbosa, 08-09-2016 University of Stirling, UK 13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB2016, Scientific Committee, Ana Maria de Matos Charas, 01-09-2016 Computability and Complexity in Analysis - CCA, Organizing Committee, Daniel da Silva Graça, 15-06-2016 Computability in Europe - CIE, Special Sessions Chairman, Daniel da Silva Graça, 27-06-2016 International Conf. on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design - SMACD, Conference co-chair, Nuno Calado Correia Lourenço, 27-06-2016 IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Conference co-chair, Nuno Calado Correia Lourenço, 28-07-2016 IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Organizing Committee, Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme, 27-06-2016 IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Organizing Committee, Jorge Manuel Correia Guilherme, 27-06-2016 IEEE 2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) SMACD, Conference co-chair, Ricardo Miguel Ferreira Martins, 2706-2016 IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Conference co-chair, Ricardo Miguel Ferreira Martins, 27-06-2016 International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering ICFAE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 11-05-2016
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IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 20-03-2016 International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares, 15-02-2016 International Workshop on Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation ENDE, Conference co-chair, Fernando Manuel Tim Tim Janeiro, 25-09-2016 TUIASI 2016 The 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering ACME 2016, Scientific Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, 09-06-2016 Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, 02-08-2016 Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, 21-09-2016 ASRES World Congress on Engineering and Applications - 2016 WCEA - 2016, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, 16-12-2016 Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica - EPCG, Organizing Committee, Adriano Nunes Raposo, 2411-2016 VideoJogos - VJ, Organizing Committee, Adriano Nunes Raposo, 24-11-2016 Editorial Committees Centro de Estudos de Física, Acústica e Telecomunicações da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Member of the Scientific Committee, 01-11-1996 to Kluwer, Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice, Editorial Manager, 01-01-1999 to Kluwer, Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice, Editorial Manager, 01-01-1992 to COMADEM International, Birmingham, UK, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Member of the International Editorial Board, 01-01-1998 to International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Honorary Member of the Advisory Council, 15-08-1997 to Publindústria, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Membro da Comissão Científica, 01-07-2004 to COMADEM International UK, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Honorary Member of the Editorial Committee, 21-10-2003 to Spanish Statistical and Operations Research Society, Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice, Editor, 01-01-1999 to Advanced Modelling and Optimization, Joaquim João de Alarcão Judice, Editor, 01-01-1999 to
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Measurement, Elsevier, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, , 01-11-2006 to Intrnl. Journal of Power Electronics (IJPElec), Inderscience, Maria Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges, Editorial Board, 01-02-2008 to Formal Aspects of Computing, (indexada no ISI Sciences Citation Index Expanded R°), publicada pela Springer Verlag, Amílcar dos Santos Costa Sernadas, Membro da comissão cientifica, 01-01-1988 to Revista Portuguesa de Informática, API, Amílcar dos Santos Costa Sernadas, Membro da Comissão técnica, 01-04-1985 to IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE, Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas Ramos, Reviewer, 01-01-2005 to Intrnl. Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Associate Editor, 01-01-2009 to Electrónica de Potência, Sociedade Brasileira de Electrónica de Potência, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Editor of the Special Issue on "Diagnóstico e Operação Tolerante a Falhas em Electrónica de Potência e Accionamentos Eléctricos", 01-01-2010 to IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE-Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, José Miguel Costa Dias Pereira, Associated Editor, 01-01-2006 to Intrnl. Journal of Computing & Information Technology, Serials Publications, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Editorial Board member, 01-01-2009 to Intrnl. Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), ACCENT, Paulo André Pais Fazendeiro, Editorial board, 01-09-2012 to IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, IEEE Industry Applications Society, Antonio Joao Marques Cardoso, Associate Editor, 01-01-2012 to Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, http://www.aspbs.com/jnn/, Joana Catarina Mendes, Guest Editor, 01-09-2008 to Journal of Mathematics Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education , Maria Cecília dos Santos Rosa, Refereeing, 01-03-2013 to Swarm Intelligence, Springer, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Editorial board member, 01-03-2013 to Applied Intelligence, Springer, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Review Board Member, 01-11-2013 to Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iasi, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Member Editorial Advisory Board, 01-01-2010 to International Journal on Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering, IRMA International, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Associate Editor, 01-01-2011 to
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Sensors & Transducers Journal and Magazine, IFSA, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Member Editorial Board, 01-07-2007 to Trans. on Systems, Signals and Devices, Shaker Verlag, Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão, Member Editorial Board, 01-11-2005 to Journal of Constructional Steel Research, IEEE, Octavian Adrian Postolache, associate editor, 01-08-2012 to Applied Science – segment journals, segment journals, Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto, 01-01-2010 to Advances in Biomedical Science and Engineering, SOP, Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto, to ACTA IMEKO, IMEKO, Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos, Editorial Board, 01-06-2014 to ACTA IMEKO, IMEKO, Fernando Manuel Tim Tim Janeiro, Layout editor, 01-05-2014 to ACTA IMEKO, IMEKO, Francisco Andre Correa Alegria, Layout Editor, 01-01-2012 to Logica Universalis, Springer, Carlos Manuel Costa Lourenço Caleiro, Member of Editorial Board, 01-012007 to ACTA IMEKO, Open Journal Systems 2.2.3.0, Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas Ramos, editor, 01-052014 to 01-05-2020 Integration, The VLSI Journal, Elsevier, Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta, Associate Editor, 08-10-2015 to IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE, Octavian Adrian Postolache, Associate Editor, 0101-2016 to International Journal of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Public Science Framework, Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto, editorial board member, 01-07-2015 to International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, , José António Marinho Brandão Faria, 01-012016 to International Journal of Digital Signals and Smart Systems, , Octavian Adrian Postolache, 23-08-2016 to Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, , Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva, 27-07-2016 to 31-03-2017 ACTA IMEKO, , Fernando Manuel Tim Tim Janeiro, 01-01-2014 to
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