Instituto de Telecomunicações
Annual Report
2003
March 2004
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Table of Contents
1.
2.
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1
1.1
HISTORY ............................................................................................... 1
1.2
MANAGEMENT .......................................................................................... 1
1.3
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2003 ................................................................................ 3
KEY IT INDICATORS .................................................................................. 7
2.1
HUMAN RESOURCES ................................................................................... 7
2.2
PROJECTS .............................................................................................. 7
2.3
PUBLICATIONS ......................................................................................... 8
3.
FINANCIAL OUTLINE ................................................................................. 9
4.
RESEARCH AREAS ................................................................................... 11
4.1
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................... 11
4.1.1
AREA COORDINATORS ........................................................................... 11
4.1.2
HUMAN RESOURCES.............................................................................. 11
4.1.3
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS ...................................................... 15
4.1.4
RUNNING PROJECTS.............................................................................. 22
4.1.5
RUNNING AND CONCLUDED T HESES............................................................ 35
4.1.6
PUBLICATIONS.................................................................................... 42
4.1.7
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS .......................................................................... 54
4.1.8
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ......................................................................... 55
4.2
OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ........................................................................ 59
4.2.1
COORDINATORS .................................................................................. 59
4.2.2
HUMAN RESOURCES.............................................................................. 59
4.2.3
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS ...................................................... 61
4.2.4
RUNNING PROJECTS.............................................................................. 65
4.2.5
RUNNING AND CONCLUDED T HESES FINAL YEAR PROJECTS................................. 68
4.2.6
PUBLICATIONS.................................................................................... 72
4.2.7
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS .......................................................................... 81
4.2.8
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ......................................................................... 81
4.3
NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA ...................................................................... 83
4.3.1
COORDINATORS .................................................................................. 83
4.3.2
HUMAN RESOURCES.............................................................................. 83
4.3.3
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS ...................................................... 87
4.3.4
RUNNING PROJECTS.............................................................................. 94
4.3.5
RUNNING AND CONCLUDED T HESES...........................................................100
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PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................108
4.3.6
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS .........................................................................119
4.3.7
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ........................................................................120
4.4
BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING T ECHNOLOGIES ...............................................127
4.4.1
COORDINATORS .................................................................................127
4.4.2
HUMAN RESOURCES.............................................................................127
4.4.3
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS .....................................................129
4.4.4
RUNNING PROJECTS.............................................................................134
4.4.5
RUNNING AND CONCLUDED T HESES...........................................................138
4.4.6
PUBLICATIONS...................................................................................143
4.4.7
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS .........................................................................154
4.4.8
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ........................................................................155
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List of Tables
T ABLE 1– BACKTRACK OF NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS IN IT, ACCORDING TO TYPE OF FUNDING ......... 5
T ABLE 2- F ORESEEN AND ACHIEVED SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT IN 2002. ........................................... 6
T ABLE 3 – CURRENT IT HUMAN RESOURCES ..................................................................... 7
T ABLE 4 – NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS IN 2003, ACCORDING TO FUNDING SOURCE ..................... 8
T ABLE 5 – NUMBER OF PUBLISHED WORKS IN 2003 ........................................................... 8
T ABLE 6 - TOTAL OPERATIONAL INC OME IN 2003 .............................................................. 9
T ABLE 7 – LIST OF MAJOR INCOME SOURCES DURING 2003. .................................................. 9
T ABLE 8– LIST OF MAJOR COSTS IN 2003. .................................................................... 9
T ABLE 9- MAIN ASSET CHANGES IN 2003. .................................................................... 10
T ABLE 10 –OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA. ............. 11
T ABLE 11 – PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA . ...... 13
T ABLE 12 – NON- PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA . 14
T ABLE 13 – NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA IN 2003 ........ 22
T ABLE 14 – LIST OF FINAL Y EAR PROJECTS RUNNING IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING
2003. ...................................................................................................... 37
T ABLE 15 - LIST OF MSC T HESES RUNNING IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003 39
T ABLE 16 - LIST OF PHD T HESES RUNNING IN THE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003 42
T ABLE 17 – OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA ................ 59
T ABLE 18 – PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA ......... 60
T ABLE 19 – NON- PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA ... 61
T ABLE 20 – NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003. ... 65
T ABLE 21 – LIST OF FINAL YEAR PROJECTS RUNNING IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING
2003. ...................................................................................................... 69
T ABLE 22 - LIST OF MSC. T HESES RUNNING IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003. 70
T ABLE 23 - LIST OF PHD T HESES RUNNING IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003 .. 71
T ABLE 24 – NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS IN THE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AREA DURING 2003. .. 94
T ABLE 25 – LIST OF F INAL Y EAR PROJECTS RUNNING IN THE NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA AREA DURING
2003. .....................................................................................................103
T ABLE 26 - LIST OF MSC T HESES RUNNING IN THE NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA AREA DURING 2003.
.............................................................................................................106
T ABLE 27 - LIST OF PHD T HESES RUNNING IN THE NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA AREA DURING 2003.
.............................................................................................................107
T ABLE 28 – OVERVIEW OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING
T ECHNOLOGIES AREA.....................................................................................127
T ABLE 29 – PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING
T ECHNOLOGIES AREA.....................................................................................128
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T ABLE 30 – NON- PERMANENT COLLABORATORS WORKING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING
T ECHNOLOGIES AREA.....................................................................................129
T ABLE 31 – NUMBER OF ACTIVE PROJECTS RUNNING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING
T ECHNOLOGIES AREA.....................................................................................134
T ABLE 32- LIST OF F INAL Y EAR PROJECTS RUNNING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING
T ECHNOLOGIES AREA DURING 2003 ...................................................................140
T ABLE 33 - LIST OF MSC T HESES RUNNING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING T ECHNOLOGIES
AREA DURING 2003 ......................................................................................142
T ABLE 34 - LIST OF PHD T HESES RUNNING IN THE BASIC SCIENCES AND ENABLING T ECHNOLOGIES AREA
DURING 2003.............................................................................................143
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 History
“Instituto
association
de
of
Telecomunicações”
four
institutions
(it)
is
a
private,
with
experience
not-for-profit
and
traditions
organisation,
in
research
an
and
development in the field of Telecommunications:
• “Instituto Superior Técnico” (IST);
• “Universidade de Aveiro” (UA);
• “Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra” (FCTUC);
• "Portugal Telecom Inovação", (PTIn), ex. "Centro de Estudos de Telecomunicações"
(CET), the research unit of the incumbent telecommunications operator “Portugal
Telecom” (PT).
it is organised around three sites: one in Aveiro, in the University Campus, another in
Coimbra, in Pole II of the University of Coimbra and the third one in Lisbon, in Intituto
Superior Técnico. An external laboratory is functioning in Covilhã, in the University of
Beira Interior.
Setting up of it was the result of a 1.5 billion escudos (about 7.5 million Euros) grant
from Programme CIÊNCIA, through three contracts signed in 1991. This investme nt 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
1995 it activities proceed regularly. Key developments in 2003 are sketched below leaving the details for the report of the scientific areas.
it statutes were first approved in 1992, modified in 1997 and modified again in 2003.
This report reflects the last version of the statutes.
1.2 Management
it is managed by a Board of Directors, elected by the General Assembly, and by site
management boards, which include the site members of the Board of Directors. Site
management boards enjoy ample freedom to deal with current affairs. 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:
Science and Technology Committee and Research Group Coordination Committee.
it Work Plan and the Annual Report are discussed with the Advisory Committee and
together with the Accounts (after legal certification) are subsequently submitted to the
General Assembly for approval.
The General Assembly met once informally and twice formally. Th informal meeting was
held at the Palace of S. Marcos, on February 14, to discuss and finalize the new it
Statutes. The first formal meeting took place on March 27, on the Meeting Room of the
Coimbra site, to discuss and vote (favourably) the new it Statutes, to aprove the Annual
Report and Accounts for 2002, and to elect the Board of Directors. The second formal
meeting was held on December, 19, on the meeting room of the Lisbon site, to discuss
and aprove the Work Plan and Budget for 2004, to aprove the opening of an it delegation
at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão of the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria.
The plenary of the Scientific Committee met for the first time on May 23, in Hotel dos
Templários, Tomar, to discuss the Draft Proposal of the 2002 Annual Report, which
received a favourable opinion, to discuss its Rules of Procedure and to ratify the
Coordinators of the Scientific Areas. The Rules of Procedure were subsequently submitted
to electronic voting and approved unanimously.
On the same meeting the Scientific Board approved the list of senior it researchers.
The Science and Technology Committee met for the first time, on October 17, at Hotel
das Lezírias, Vila Franca de Xira, to discuss the new facilities to be implemented on the IT
web portal, to discuss the Draft Proposal of the Work Plan and Budget for 2003, which
received a favourable opinion, to discuss a proposal to open an it delegation at the
Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão of the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, which also
received a favourable opinion, to look into the request from Siemens SA to become an
associate of it. The committee also discussed at length the current finance situation and
looked for possible funding alternatives.
The Research Group Coordination Committee met for the first time, on December 12, at
Hotel das Lezírias, Vila Franca de Xira, to discuss the Work Plan and Budget for 2004,
which received a favourable opinion, and to discuss ways to improve it intersite and
intergroup cooperation.
The Board of Directors met once a month.
During 2003, due to funding situation, described in more detail below, there were no
meetings with the Advisory Committee.
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1.3 Highlights of 2003
In the R&D scene 2003 may be shortly described as the “annus horribilis”. This
statement stems from the fact that the normal funding from the Fundação para a Ciência
e a Tecnologia (FCT) never came in. This includes both the basic funding and the
Programattic funding under the Associate Laboratory contract
As described in the 2002 Annual Report FCT was in arrears 560 k€ of which 211 k€
correspond to concluded PRAXIS projects, 140 k€ to the basic funding for the second
seme ster of 2002 and 209 k€ to the Associate Laboratory Programattic funding for the
second semester of 2002.
Following a series of meetings of the highest level which included one meeting with His
Excellency the President of the Republic, two meetings with the Minister for Science and
Technology and two meetings with both the President of FCT and the Manager of POSI
(Operational Program for the Information Society), where the funding situation was
thoroughly explained, during the second semester of 2003, and mostly during the last
quarter, FCT managed to pay its 2002 debts, By the year end FCT was in arrears 1.57
M€, of which 786 k€ correspond to basic funding,692 k€ to Programatic funding and 98
k€ to concluded or running projects.
Although FCT R&D funds have been hard to come by, the case of it is worse than most
other research units (which have already received all 2003 FCT funding, with possible
exception of projects) since its funds (together with another 2 Associate Laboratories and
15 research centers) are highly dependent on the POSI management. The behaviour of
the POSI management appears to be in sharp contrast with the continuous government
support of the information society.
As is to be expected such delays in payments, which have not been solved by the time
the report is being written (March 2004), had a devastating influence on it expectations
and plans for 2003. Using other funding sources it managed to keep the two tec hnicians
and two post-doctoral fellows admitted during 2002, but it would have been suicidal to
try to admit the personnel foreseen in the Associate Laboratory contract.
it searched extensively, and in a few cases sucessfully, for new source of funding, mainly
internationally. As a result there were 2 new projects plus a continuing project funded by
ESA and 4 new projects funded by the European Commission under the IST Programme
(of which 2 are been carried out under IST due to contractual uncertainities at the time
of signature). In addition a further 5 projects funded by the European Commission were
sucessfully negotiated and are due to start (or have already started) in 2004.
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As stated in the 2002 Annual Report it submitted 10 proposals to a call issue closed on
the 27th of May 2002 of which 6 were sucessfull and started during the second semeter
of 2003.
There was no FCT Call for Proposals during 2003.
During 2003, 79 projects were active, 58 nationally funded and 21 internationally,
including:
•
30 projects funded by FCT (21 under the POSI program, 8 under the POCTI
program and 1 under the PNAT program);
•
6 projects funded by Agência de Inovação (AdI);
•
6 projects funded by it itself
•
6 projects funded by Portugal Telecom Inovação;
•
4 projects funded by Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
(CRUP);
•
2 projects funded by FEDER-PRAI-Centro
•
2 projects funded by the Portuguese Navy;
•
2 projects funded by ICP/ANACOM;
•
1 project funded by SUDOE-INTEGERREG-III-B;
•
1 project funded by ICEP;
•
1 project funded by ICCTI;
•
1 project funded by VODAFONE;
•
9 projects funded by the Commission of the European Union;
•
3 projects funded by ESA;
•
4 COST actions.
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Nationally
Internationally
funded
funded
1996
39
18
1997
39
18
1998
47
20
1999
37
14
2000
60
17
2001
53
12
2002
49
15
2003
58
21
Year
Table 1– Backtrack of number of active projects in it, according to type of funding.
The simple listing of active projects is somewhat misleading since it does not reveal the
fact that, due to delays in payments, a significant number of projects (funded by FCT
under the POSI program) are only nominally active, waiting for last payments.
During 2003 it hosted the following international conferences and seminars, which
altogether attracted more than 900 participants:
• I Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks, held at the Aveiro site, on June 16th, with
about 60 participants;
• IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, held at the Congress Centre in Aveiro,
in June 15 to 18, with about 400 participants. The fact that organization of the 12th
venue of this prestigious conference was awarded to it demonstrates its recognition in
the field of mobile communications;
• Conftele’2003, held at the Congress Center in Aveiro, in June 18th to 20th, with 160
participants, which presented and discussed 133 papers. The conference programme
included 3 keynote addresses by leading international experts in the field and a short
course (on the afternoon of the first day) on Digital and Interactive Television;
• EMMCVPR’2003
Energy
Minimization
Methods
in
Computer
Vision
and
Pattern
Recognition, an international workshop, held in Lisbon on July 9th, with 70 participants;
• Wireless Internet: Network Architectures, Quality of Service, Services and Applications,
a Summer School held at IST (Lisbon) on July, 21s t to 25th, with 40 participants;
• HSNMC’03 – 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia
Communications, held at Hotel Atlântico, Estoril, on July 23rd to 25th, with over 100
participants;
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• MTPT – Advanced School and Workshop on Mathematical Techniques and Problems in
Telecommunications, held in Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, on September 8th to 12th,
with about 70 participants.
To reflect it 2003 activity some tangible objectives were defined in the Work Programme
and Budget for 2003.
Graduate and post-graduate
Foreseen
Achieved
Final Year Projects Reports
50
91
MSc Thesis
24
35
PhD Thesis
18
11
Foreseen
Achieved
Books and Book Chapters
10
14
Papers in Journals
65
65
180
268
activities:
Publications:
Papers in Conference Proceedings
Table 2- Foreseen and achieved scientific output in 2002.
The increase in the number of Final Year Project Reports is mainly due to the fact that, in
contrast with 2002 that was used for the prediction, almost all reports are now accounted
for. The large number of MSc thesis partly compensates the low number of PhD thesis.
Anyway the number of PhD thesis is roughly double the number of PhD thesis concluded
in the past 8 years. Although the number of concluded theses is below the expected
value, we note that at the time of writing, a significant number of theses has already
been concluded or submitted.
The number of papers published in conferences proceedings increased due, partly, to
Conftele 2003.
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2. KEY IT INDICATORS
2.1 Human Resources
Position
Aveiro Coimbra Lisbon Total
Full Professor
5
3
6
14
Associate Professor
6
6
19
31
Assistant Professor
14
12
30
56
Post. Doc.
2
0
3
5
Coordinator Professor
0
2
2
4
Assistant Lecturer
2
15
0
17
PhD Student
23
7
41
71
MSc Student
23
8
31
62
Licenciado
24
2
6
32
0
0
1
1
99
55
139
293
Other
TOTAL
Table 3 – Current it human resources
2.2 Projects
Funding Agency
Number
AdI
6
CRUP
4
ESA
4
EU
7
EU,IST Programme
6
FCT/PNAT
1
FCT/POCTI
8
FCT/POSI
21
FEDER, PRAI-Centro.
2
ICCTI
1
ICEP
1
ICP/ANACOM
2
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Internal
6
Portuguese Navy
2
PT Inovação
6
SUDOE INTERREG III-B
1
VODAFONE
1
Table 4 – Number of active projects in 2003, according to funding source
2.3 Publications
Books
Journ.
Conferences
14
60
275
MSc
PhD
Thesis
Thesis
35
11
TFC
91
Table 5 – Number of published works in 2003
"Books”- Fully authored books, Editor books, and book chapter contributions.
"Journals”- Papers in International refereed journals.
"Conferences”- Communications in International and National refereed conferences.
"MSc and PhD Thesis” - Concluded dissertations.
"TFC”- Concluded student Final Year Projects.
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3. FINANCIAL OUTLINE
Operational income during 2003 totalled 2.036,7 K€, distributed as indicated in Table 6,
and partially detailed in Table 7. Costs in 2003 totalled 1.865,3 k€, as partially indicated
in Table 8. Main asset changes in 2003 are listed in Table 9.
Sources of Income
Amount [k€]
Services to third parties
718,4
Subsidies
930,4
Other
387,9
TOTAL
2.036,7
Table 6 - Total operational income in 2003
Major clients of services
Amount [k€]
PT Inovação
396,8
VODAFONE
208,7
Main sources of subsidies
Amount [k€]
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
800,5
Comission of the European Communities
57,9
European Space Agency
51,1
Table 7 – List of major income sources during 2003.
Costs
Amount [k€]
Staff
516,7
Management costs
14,4
Scholarships
373,6
Missions
333,6
Books and journals
30,4
Consumables
80,0
Structural costs
421,9
Table 8– List of Major Costs in 2003.
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Assets
Amount [k€]
Increase in tangible assets
310,0
Depreciation
206,6
Technical and Scientific Equipment
279,4
Table 9- Main asset changes in 2003.
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4. RESEARCH AREAS
4.1 Wireless Communications
4.1.1 Area Coordinators
•
Carlos Cardoso Fernandes
•
José Carlos Pedro
4.1.2 Human Resources
4.1.2.1 OVERVIEW
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
1
6
Associate Professor
3
8
Assistant Professor
4
2
Post. Doc.
15
1
Assistant Lecturer
1
PhD Student
9
21
MSc Student
4
11
Licenciado
6
4
TOTAL
28
2
66
Table 10 –Overview of human resources in the Wireless Communications Area.
4.1.2.2 PERMANENT COLLABORATORS
Name
Degree
Position
Group
Afonso Barbosa
Agregação
Full Professor
RMOM - Lx
Augusto Albuquerque
Agregação
Full Professor
RCS
Carlos Salema
Agregação
Full Professor
RMOM - Lx
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José Epifânio Franca
Agregação
Full Professor
ICS - Lx
José Leitão
Agregação
Full Professor
CTPR
José Neves
Agregação
Full Professor
RMOM- Av
Mário Lança
Agregação
Full Professor
RMOM - Lx
Carlos Cardoso Fernandes
Agregação
Associate Professor
RMOM - Lx
João Costa Freire
Agregação
Associate Professor
RMOM - Lx
José Carlos Pedro
Agregação
Associate Professor
RMOM- Av
Luís M. Correia
Agregação
Associate Professor
RMOM - Lx
Américo Correia
PhD
Associate Professor
RCS
António Alves Moreira
PhD
Associate Professor
RMOM - Lx
Carlos Paiva
PhD
Associate Professor
RMOM - Lx
Carlos Sá da Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
RCS
Francisco Cercas
PhD
Associate Professor
RCS
João Nuno Matos
PhD
Associate Professor
RMOM- Av
José Rocha Pereira
PhD
Associate Professor
RMOM- Av
António Navarro
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM- Av
António Rodrigues
PhD
Assistant Professor
RCS
António Topa
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
Armando Rocha
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM- Av
Carlos Leme
PhD
Assistant Professor
ICS - Lx
Custódio Peixeiro
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
Fernando Fortes
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
Fernando J. Velez
PhD
Assistant Professor
RCS
Fernando Nunes
PhD
Assistant Professor
CTPR
Francisco Sena da Silva
PhD
Assistant Professor
CTPR
João Vaz
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
João Vital
PhD
Assistant Professor
ICS - Lx
Jorge Pereira
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
Jorge Rodrigues da Costa
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
José Bioucas Dias
PhD
Assistant Professor
CTPR
José Joaquim Fernandes
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM- Av
Maria João Rosário
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
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Mário Silveirinha
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC - Co
Nuno Carvalho
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM- Av
Pedro Santos
PhD
Assistant Professor
RMOM - Lx
Rafael Caldeirinha
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Co
Fernando Tim Tim Janeiro
PhD
Post. Doc.
RMOM - Lx
Table 11 – Permanent collaborators working in the Wireless Communications Area.
4.1.2.3 Other Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
Adão Silva
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
Alexandre Passos de Almeida
MSc
PhD Student
RCS
Fernando de Sousa
MSc
PhD Student
CTPR
Fernando Santos Azevedo
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
Filipe Cardoso
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
Francisco Monteiro
MSc
PhD Student
RCS
Gabriela Galvano
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
João Gil
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
João Tavares
MSC
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
Joaquim da Silva Bernardino
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
Jorge Paulo Torres
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
José Nascimento
MSc
PhD Student
CTPR
José Sanguino
MSc
PhD Student
CTPR
Luis Moreira Mendes
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
Luís Carlos Gonçalves
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM- Av
Manuel Barros
MSc
PhD Student
ICS - Lx
Manuel Dinis
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM- Av
Paulo Marques
MSc
PhD Student
CTPR
Pedro Amaro Sebastião
MSc
PhD Student
RCS
Pedro Pinho
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
Pedro Vieira
MSc
PhD Student
RCS
Susana Mota
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
Victor Santos
MSc
PhD Student
RMOM- Av
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
RMOM- Av
José Lino Teixeira
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Henrique Quaresma
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RMOM - Lx
João Carlos Silva
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RCS
João Eira
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RCS
Mário Marques Silva
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RCS
Nuno Souto
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RCS
Pedro Cabral
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
Pedro Miguel Lavrador
Licenciatura
PhD Student
RMOM - Av
António Serrador
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Bárbara Coelho Gabriel
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM- Av
Carla Oliveira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Gonçalo Carvalho
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Guilherme St´Aubyn Mascarenhas
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
João Paulo Madaleno
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Av
João Paulo Martins
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Av
João Vinagre
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Joaquim Oliveira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Jorge Sebastião Silva
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
José António Pereira Velez
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RCS
Marco Alexandre Ribeiro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Mário Rui dos Santos
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM- Av
Nuno Cota
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RCS
Pedro Cristiano Brás
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Pedro Marin Fernandes
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM - Lx
Valdemar Monteiro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RMOM- Av
António Rodrigues dos Santos
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM- Av
Cristina Büchel M. dos Reis
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Lx
Gonçalo Carpinteiro
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Lx
João Angeja
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Av
Lúcio Ferreira
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Lx
Luís Carvalho
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Av
Ricardo Matos Abreu
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Av
Rui Rodrigues
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RMOM - Av
Tiago Lages
Licenciatura
Licenciado
RCS
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4.1.3 Summary of Research Achievements
Research work in the Wireless Communications Scientific Area of it covers the main
aspects
related
to
the
air
interface
in
wireless
communications
and
supporting
hardware/software. Activities fall within the following five general topics:
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Antenna Analysis and Design;
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Physical Modelling and Wave Propagation Characterisation;
-
Wireless Circuits and Devices;
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Transmission and Reception Systems;
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System Planning and Resource Management.
4.1.3.1 ANTENNA ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Work on antennas may be grouped under two main topics: personal small-terminal
antennas for frequencies below 6 GHz, and millimetre wave antennas for 4th generation
mobile communications and for space applications. The first topic falls within the
European funded FLOWS project, and the second topic falls within the FCT/POSI funded
ILENA project, and the ESA funded ILASH project.
Work has continued on new antenna proposals for integration into future personal multimode multi-antenna communications terminals that explore MIMO techniques. Two
approaches were used for these antennas: the multi-band antenna approach, and the
ultra-wideband antenna approach. Printed antenna technology was used for both types of
antenna. Koch pre-fractal based antennas were designed fabricated and measured,
covering the GSM1800, UMTS and HiperLAN2 bands. A remarkable miniaturization has
been achieved. Also single patch single feed elements with slots, and integrated three
patches with three feeds have been successfully considered for the triple-band design. On
the ultra-wideband approach, work continued on single-arm spiral antennas with reduced
ground plane, now to study experimentally the effects of proximity to mutually
neighbouring spirals in MIMO configuration, and the influence of the terminal itself.
Activity on millimetre wave dielectric antennas was focused on double material lenses
either with on-axis feeds, or with off-axis feeds for space applications. A comprehensive
literature survey was carried out to identify new approaches for the efficient analysis of
this type of lenses, with a view to the development of a fully featured lens design
software tool. Work started on a spectral domain method to evaluate its appropriateness
for complex lens antenna analysis and its comparison with classical methods based on
Geometrical Optics and Physical Optics. Work also continued on the evaluation of lens
moulding fabrication technique.
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In parallel with these activities, the millimetre wave anechoic chamber is being up-graded
in the framework of the FCT/POCTI funded Project COMPACT to integrate new hardware.
A first version of the new antenna measurement control software was completed and
successfully tested.
4.1.3.2 PHYSICAL MODELLING AND WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION
Work in this sub-area addresses both guided-wave and non-guided wave phenomena
characterization which includes radiowave propagation modeling.
Electromagnetics of Complex Media
One very strong work topic is related to electromagnetics of complex media: artificial
materials obtained by random or periodic inclusion of metallic or dielectric particles into a
host dielectric media to obtain unconventional electromagnetic properties not commonly
found in natural materials. Performed work includes both characterization of the media
itself (including the relation between inclusion shape and periodicity, with material
macroscopic electromagnetic behavior), and wave propagation in guided wave structures
using these type of materials.
Artificial dielectrics with periodic lattice were characterized both in the low frequency limit
and for arbitrary frequency to characterize its band-gap filtering characteristics. New
techniques were developed in both cases for very efficient computation of these materials
characteristics. Attention was dedicated to the characterization of frequency selective
surfaces (FSS), to unbounded full 3D wire media with connected as well as non-connected
wires, and to the characterization of resonant ring inserts positioned inside cut-off
waveguides exhibiting negative permeability properties.
Complex media is also of interest in the design of new waveguide components for
microwave and millimeter-wave devices. Work pursued on characterisation of dispersion,
guidance and leakage properties in open 3-dimensional planar chiral and pseudochiral
(omega) waveguides, and in chiral optical fibres..
Propagation in Optical Fibers
Work was done on soliton dynamics in dispersion-varying compensating fibers. The
objective was the analysis of new transmission schemes where the normal dispersion
compensating fiber (DCF) is replaced by dispersion-varying compensating fibre (DVCF)
with
decreasing
or
increasing
dispersion
profiles.
In
the
framework
of
project
TRANSPARENT, it was shown that the dynamic behavior of soliton pulses in such systems
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may produce a performance improvement for specific profiles. Analytical and simulation
studies will follow, in order to identify the best dispersion profiles for DVCFs and a
generalization of the procedure to be applied in different dispersion maps.
Radiowave Propagation Modelling
Activities span over two main sub-topics:
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Propagation in complex environments (propagation through walls, microwave and
millimetre
wave
propagation
in
indoor
and
urban
mobile
communications
scenarios, and propagation through vegetation);
-
Microwave radio links (land and satellite).
Work continued on quantification models for building wall penetration loss when window
apertures are present in land mobile communication scenarios (GSM and UMTS). This
work was awarded the Luis Vidigal Prize from the Department of Electrical and Computer
Eng from IST.
In the framework of mobile directional channel characterization a few field measurements
were made using a channel sounder. The measured data was explored by the SAGE
algorithm to retrieve ray parameters. Some studies were developed to gain a better
understanding of the method limitations and to get best results for ray parameters
retrieval in real scenarios.
Relationships were established between adaptive antennas beamformimg and wideband
directional channel models for several scenarios in micro- and macro-cells;
With
respect
to
millimetre
wave
mobile
communications,
work
was
focused
on
experimental Channel Impulse Response (CIR) characterisation of indoor scenarios at 40
GHz. Measurements were carried out in a wide indoor sports pavilion, and in a office
meeting room. CIR was calculated from spectral analysis of measured frequency domain
results obtained with the millimetre-wave front-end and other equipment developed for
the ACTS-SAMBA project Trial Platform. These CIRs and power delay profiles were
compared against those obtained from a ray tracing-based prediction tool.
Models were developed for fading characterization in broadband systems, enabling an
accurate estimation of fading margins for several environments;
Propagation through vegetation was also a strong area of research. Work continued on
the characterisation of absorption, scatter and depolarisation of the incident microwave
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and millimetre wave signals by vegetation media. Members of it participated in a UK
Consortium, together with Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), Universities of
Glamorgan and Portsmouth, and QinetiQ, to perform an extensive programme of
measurements aimed at the establishment of a narrow band prediction model for
propagation through vegetation. Work also pursued on the development of a wideband
(1-60 GHz) propagation model more suited for the characterization of high data rate
wireless services influenced by vegetation as in sub-urban or rural areas. Research is
continuing also on the development of a Discrete Radiative Energy Transfer generic model
for non-homogeneous random vegetation media, drawing on the relations between its
parameters and vegetation species.
On Earth-Satellite propagation studies, an analogue beacon receiver was changed to
receive a Hot-Bird6 Ku band. A versatile software using FFT based techniques to estimate
co-polar and weaker cross-polar channels was developed. The study of an alternative
equipment based on digital IF sampling and DSP techniques was initiated and is under
development. Software for the analysis of beacon propagation data on the framework of
the pre-processing stage was developed.
Work continued on the ITEM project sponsored by Vodafone, aiming at contributing for
public awareness of basic concepts related to electromagnetic radiation and population
exposure in mobile communications. The public website has been continuously updated
with on-line
measurements from autonomous remote sensors, and portable unit
measurements by the project team. Individual results are provided for more than 140
sites in Portugal, along with global cumulative results.
4.1.3.3 Wireless Circuits and Devices
Research work performed in this sub-area can be grouped under two general topics, one
related to microwave circuit design, and the other to computer aided design of
microwave/RF circuits and systems including simulation techniques and system/device
modelling. In both cases, the underlying applications fall within the wireless area.
RF and Microwave Circuit Design
One main topic of research is related to active and passive filters, using different
technologies. Active and passive bandpass filters were designed for 30GHz (Galactic
project) with PM-HEMT 0.25um GaAs technology for comparison with coupled lines filters
that were designed for the low cost LTCC (low temperature cofired ceramics). The LTCC
coupled lines filters were fabricated and tested (Galactic project). To reduce the filter size,
LTCC filters with defected ground structures were also designed and their performances
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compared with the coupled lines filters. The design includes analysis and optimization of
the yield for fabrication, in order to prove the possibility of using such substrates in
30GHz for high volume and low cost production.
Other important research area is related to BiCMOS and CMOS RF circuits. Monolithic
integrated LC voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) were fabricated on BiCMOS 0.8um
technology for 2.4GHz and uses monolithic spiral inductors. Also single ended and
differential low noise amplifiers (LNA) were fabricated on CMOS. These LNAs were
integrated on 0.35um CMOS technology and were designed for the 2GHz band.
Beyond that, the front-end of an S-band wireless transceiver was designed and
implemented in a 0.35um CMOS chip. That included a common-source LNA, two CMOS
quadrature mixers, one CMOS RC VCO with quadrature differential outputs, polyphase
filter, and an output driver amplifier. Studies concerning the possibility of using SiGe
monolithic technology for active filters applications were performed. First designs of LNA
amplifiers to be used on those active filters were obtained. A grounded and a floating
active inductor for 2GHz was also fabricated with CMOS 0.35 um process (ACTFIL
project). Based on the obtained results, new active inductors were designed, fabricated
and measured (AME project).
Aspects concerning high frequency on-wafer measurements up to 6GHz with silicon
substrates were also addressed. The measurements included S-parameters, noise figure,
output power, distortion and phase noise.
Computer Aided Design Tools for RF/Microwave Circuits and Systems
Electric models were obtained up to 6GHz for spiral inductors, poly capacitors and
resistors on BiCMOS and CMOS technology.
Due to the inefficient models supplied by the CMOS MMIC foundries, semiconductor and
passive devices models for CAD programs were developed in it. Due to the low resistivity
of Si substrates, techniques for experimental characterization of MMIC components and
sub-circuits were studied to support these modelling activities.
Nonlinear distortion and efficiency modelling of power amplifiers based on GaN HEMT
microwave devices had also increased. Its main objectives were the equivalent circuit
nonlinear model formulation and extraction of a power GaN HEMT device.
In what behavioural modelling activities at the system level are concerned, our efforts
have been devoted to formulate a general nonlinear dynamic model whose extraction is
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feasible with the present RF laboratory instruments or circuit simulation tools. For achieve
that goal, a general non-recursive polynomial filter with enforced orthogonality for a
certain class of multisine signals was studied.
With respect to computer aided design tools of RF/microwave circuits, main research
efforts have been directed to the co-simulation of wireless systems subject to multicarrier
modulated signals. This consists in a very promising complex envelope driven simulation
method, in which both generic behavioural and detailed equivalent circuit level models are
supported.
4.1.3.4 Transmission and Reception Systems
Research work performed within this sub-area includes the following topics: UMTS
capacity enhancement techniques, channel estimation techniques in satellite and land
mobile communications, video bit stream video protection in wireless transmission, and
signal processing in synthetic aperture radar.
Wireless techniques such as space-time coding, beamforming (adaptive antennas) and
minimization of multiple-access interference for the downlink of WCDMA were explored at
it in the framework of IST-SEACORN project for enhancing the capacity of the UMTS
system. The WCDMA UMTS system was studied at the Link Layer level to extend its
capabilities, and the work included the development of a complete system simulator.
Spectrally efficient modulation techniques like continuous phase modulation or QAM
modulations were also studied to pursue performance enhancement in the future UMTS
system.
Another topic of research was related to channel estimation techniques in satellite mobile
communications. Solutions were proposed within the stochastic nonlinear filtering
framework to address the problem of detection of multi-level signalling schemes, namely
the 16-DAPSK modulation, in the following environments: channels affected by Doppler
effect, and channels disturbed by fading. An algorithm for Doppler frequency and
Frequency-rate was proposed for non-geostationary satellite communications. Some work
was dedicated to the problem of channel estimation in multi-carrier systems. Attention
was also devoted to the application of nonlinear filtering techniques in CDMA systems. In
particular, the problem of fast acquisition of code and frequency in GPS receivers was
considered.
The performance of TCH codes was evaluated using efficient simulation techniques
considering both simple and mixed channels using Markov models. The taxonomy of those
channels was performed and new upper bounds were analytically obtained for this class of
TCH codes that agree with previous simulation results.
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New convolutional codes and new turbo codes were developed based on TCH codes, and
they were evaluated in terms of their performance and upper-bounds. The codes were
applied in a CS-CDMA system in which the functions of spreading and coding were
realized simultaneously by the same code. Multi User Detectors (MUD) were implemented
for the UMTS system and also for the CS-CDMA systems using turbo-TCHs and turbo
super-orthogonal codes.
Implementation of Power Control schemes in a previously developed simulator for the
UMTS system showed that the performance of this mode of operation strongly depends on
multi-path interference. Different diversity schemes using several transmission antennas
were studied: STD (selective transmit diversity using 2 antennas) , STTD (space time
transmit diversity using 2 antennas), STBC (space time block coding using 4 or 8
antennas) and hybrid schemes with any combination of STD with STTD or STBC.
Implementation of multidimensional rotation of symbols or CRM (Complex Rotation
Matrix) schemes were also studied as a form to combat fading channels.
In respect to video bit stream protection in wireless transmission, the research work
spanned through the following topics: joint source-channel coding and modulation;
network adaptation of video streams; statistical multiplexing of TV and data signals;
MPEG-4/AVC video transportation over TV packet based transmission.
In Synthetic Aperture Radar, the activity continued on the characterization of the ''blind
angle ambiguity problem'', on the absolute phase estimation in interferometric SAR
images, and on speckle noise filtering. Besides these research topics, the problem of
linear unmixing in hyperspectral data was also addressed.
4.1.3.5 System Planning and Radio Resource Management
Research work in this sub-area covered traffic-based UMTS system capacity studies, and
services and applications characterization.
Different types of circuit switched traffic and possible future scenarios of multi-service
traffic were used for evaluation of UMTS FDD system capacity. A software tool was
developed with this objective. In the absence of UMTS traffic data, GSM/GPRS data was
used instead to analyze combined data and voice traffic, as well as to analyze the effect
of the double layer structure of 900/1800 MHz GSM on network management. With the
same objective, the problem of dynamic channel allocation was also addressed, based on
measurements performed on a real GSM network.
Another software tool was developed to simulate the air interface of UMTS-FDD, enabling
the analysis of traffic aspects as well as load and handover ones. Models were established
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for traffic generation for UMTS, including a large variety of services and applications,
enabling a better estimation of traffic, as well as an improved evaluation of load;
Research on Enhanced UMTS services and applications characterisation, classification, and
deployment scenarios has been performed within the IST-SEACORN project. Contributions
have been given on multi-service traffic engineering in Enhanced UMTS. New approaches
were proposed, based on practical results obtained for GPRS and UMTS. These aspects
are being incorporated into the IST-SEACORN system level simulator, and new results are
being produced.
Work on Cost/revenue performance of Mobile Broadband Systems (MBSs) was concluded
and published.
4.1.4 Running Projects
4.1.4.1 Overview
Funding Agency
Number
AdI
3
CRUP
4
ESA
2
EU
3
EU,IST Programme
6
FCT/POCTI
3
FCT/POSI
10
FEDER, PRAI-Centro.
1
ICCTI / GRICES
1
ICEP
1
ICP/ANACOM
1
Internal
1
Portuguese Navy
1
PT Inovação
1
VODAFONE
1
Table 13 – Number of active projects in the Wireless Communications Area in 2003
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4.1.4.2 Activity in Projects
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
CHIRAL/POSI/CPS/39589/2001
2D and 3D Chiral and Omega Structures:Guidance,Leakage and
Radiation Behaviour
Three main objectives can be identified: (i) Electromagnetic
characterization of 3D rectangular open chiral and omega uniform
waveguides:guidance and leakage characteristics,new features due to
chirality; (ii) Analysis of 3D open chiral and omega nonuniform
structures:characteristics(reflection/transmission) of tapers and
branches; (iii) Radiation characteristics of printed sources on planar
layered chiral and omega structures:dependence of radiation
characteristics(surface wave power,radiated power, impedance,
bandwidth) on chiral and omega parameters.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
COMMET
A COmplete analog front-end for 3G MultiMEdia Terminals
Definition and realization of a complete Analog Front-End for 3Gmultimedia terminal, integrating in a single-chip solution all the analog
baseband functions with a RF Front-End. The work to be done will focus
on innovative RF and baseband topologies for component count and
cost reduction.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
ACTFIL
Active filters
Design of active filters on Si MMICs
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
AME
Advanced Microelectronics Engineering
Training on design of CMOS monolithic integrated circuits recently
graded engineers.
CETMC/POSI/CPS/34829/2000
Channel Estimation Techniques in Mobile Communications
In all-digital receiver implementations, an oscillator with good frequency
stability but not synchronized with the carrier, heterodynes the
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incoming signal to baseband (direct conversion) where its quadrature
components are sampled. In this type of receivers carrier
synchnronization is replaced by channel estimation, which consists of
the following tasks: (i) estimation of the phase drift due to Doppler
effect and/or frequency poor alignment between oscillators; (ii)
estimation of the channel time-varying gain provoked by fading and/or
shadowing. The problem of channel estimation presents new challenges
with the emergence of mobile personal communications based on, for
example, non-geostationary satellites, which are affected by significant
Doppler frequency shifts. In these cases, the channel is strongly nonstationary (even with very short time intervals), leading to the need to
update phase and gain estimates within the symbol interval. Channel
estimation in mobile digital communications is a relevant research
subject not only from the applications point of view but also by its
theoretical and conceptual aspects. This project proposes to resume
previous work in this area by focusing namely on the following aspects:
a) synthesis of new algorithms for the simultaneous joint channel and
clock estimation, and symbol detection based on stochastic nonlinear
filtering; b) development of new open-loop frequency and frequencyrate estimators; c) application of the above-mentioned algorithms in
scenarios of practical interest, such as the mobile digital
communications with non-geostationary satellites; d) application to
spread spectrum and
multicarrier systems where significant
improvements are foreseen.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
COMPACT/PRAXIS/2/2.1/TIT/1641/95
Compact Range for millimeter wave antenna measurements using
dielectric lenses
Implementation of an antenna measurement compact range that uses a
dielectric lens as a collimating device,avoiding the positioning limitations
associated with near-field systems.A new design used in the dielectric
lens eliminates the need for a lens with edge serration that is commonly
used to minimize edge diffraction. An overall system performance
evaluation is performed.
COST 284
COST 284 ''Innovative Antennas for Emerging Terrestrial and SpaceBased Applications''
To progress and innovate in the theoretical modelling and in the
multidisciplinary design and development of new architectures,
components, circuits and test techniques for antennas. The focus will be
on antenna arrays, active and adaptive antennas and their beam
forming, in support of broadband applications up to millimetre waves.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
NLRFCMOS/AI-E/03
Desenvolvimento de modelos não lineares de dispositivos para
microondas e integração monolítica de circuitos não lineares em silício
para telecomunicações
High frequency non-linear active devices (MOSFET and HBT) modelling
concerning third order intermodulation distortion and thermal aspects.
Study of measurement techniques for the proposed models.
Circuit design using the obtained non-linear models.
Non-linear measurements.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
DNURS
Development of a Navigation User Receiver Simulator
This project aims at developing and validating a software receiver for
GALILEO and GPS signals. The focus is placed at the signal processing
part of the receiver (i.e., the subsystems that process the incoming IF
or baseband samples and provide bit values, pseudoranges and carrier
phase measurements). A software signal generator is being developed
as it is a necessary element to test the software receiver and to obtain
a complete Navigation User Receiver Simulator. The software receiver
shall serve to rapidly prototype different receiver configurations,
algorithms and techniques, assess the performance achievable with
GALILEO signals, and create initial designs for future hardware
implementations. This activity, proposed by the European Space Agency
(ESA), is being implemented by two partners: Skysoft, which is
responsible for the software signal generator, and Instituto de
Telecomunicacoes (IT-Lisbon), which is responsible for the software
receiver.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
ESPREX/POSI/36555/CHS/2000
Earth Satellite Propagation Experiment at Ka Band
Characterization of the Earth-Satellite Propagation Channel mainly: Scintillation - Attenuation - Ice depolarization The development of the
measuring station and data analysis software is included in the project.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
FindIt
FindIt
Project in consortium with other Portuguese partners, namely IDITEMinho and AMI.The objective is to develop a RTLS (Real Time Location
System) for the Braga city bus yard. This system should be capable of
providing positioning of the buses on the yard, but also be a
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communications system enabling transmission of the buses important
data, namely ticketing data and km readings that permit an efficient
management of the fleet.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
FLOWS/IST-2001-32125
Flexible Convergence of Wireless Standards and Services
The objective is to show how multiple wireless standards (GSM, UMTS,
HIPERLAN/2) and the services that they support can converge in a
flexible manner within a consumer’s terminal. FLOWS will study and
demonstrate the convergence of wireless standards allowing the user to
be simultaneously connected to several of them and enabling
transparent access to various services. The activity will be focused in
the following areas: (i) Development of channel models for converging
systems (GSM, UMTS, HIPERLAN, DVB and DAB), characterisation of
services for the various systems, and analysis of traffic performance
(Luis M. Correia, João Gil, Filipe Cardoso, Jorge Aguiar, Gabriela
Galvano); (ii) Design of triple-band (GSM1800, UMTS, HiperLAN2)
printed antennas, and small antennas to be integrated into a handset
terminal. Analysis and simulation of possible MIMO multi-antenna
configurations (Custódio Peixeiro); (iii) Design of multiband antennas
using the fractal concept (António A. Moreira). (iv) Design and test of
ultra-wideband antennas, including the evaluation of antenna
performance when integrated into a real user terminal (Carlos A.
Fernandes)
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
GMF4ITV
GMF for ITV
The overall objective of this proposal is to enhance the technological
perspectives of the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard by providing
a GMFfor iTV. It accelerates the uptake of DVB-MHP and provides an end
to-end platform for interactive services on heterogeneous multimedia
devices (STB and PC). The platform will enable the content and service
provider to create, manage and, distribute linearily composed, pre
recorded video streams in conjunction with non-linear data and allow
interactivity at the end device on object or key-frame level of the content.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
HeadSAR
Head SAR Measurement System Specification
To analyse the European and International Standards for head Specific
Absortion Rate (SAR) measurement, with respect to mobile phone
radiation. To contrast these standards with commercially available
measurement systems, and specify an adequate measurement solution
for ANACOM.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
In@Bus
In@Bus
In@Bus is a project for PT Inovação, which objective is to develop a
computer and telecommunications platform for buses and trucks. The
buses system is supposed to provide communications via a mobile
communications network (GSM or TETRA), bus radio access network to
the passengers via a wireless portal (IEEE 802.11 and/or Bluetooth),
integration with the ticketing and passenger counting systems,
information displaying through LED information panel, video contents
displaying through LCD monitors and passenger filming (for security
purposes). The truck system should also provide GPS aided navigation
and a computing full operational office including code bar reader
integration for packages registration. The In@Bus project also includes
the development of a RF identification system for bus stops, that shall
help the GPS system to provide correct positioning in the city. The
integration of passenger counting systems and bus billing system with
the bus communications platform is also a goal of this project
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
ITEM
Informação Técnica sobre Exposição à Radiação Electromagnética em
Comunicações Móveis
To provide ''public awareness'' information about exposure to
radiofrequency electromagnetic wave radiation. To perform a systematic
monitoring
of
electromagnetic
radiation
level
near
mobile
communications base station sites all over the country, and to share
these results through a dedicated website.
GALACTIC/IST-2000-30109
Innovative GaAs MMICs and Avanced LTCC packaging technologies for
multicomponents Ka Band subsystems
The objective of the GALACTIC project is to lay the foundations to the
low-cost Ka subsystems. The key innovative technologies are highly
integrated Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated
circuits (MMICs) and low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC),
integration and packaging. Those technologies are required for the
design, fabrication and validation of a low cost, multi-component high
power subsystem adequate for mass production. The integration will be
validated on a Ka-band up-converter transmitter, which is the key
building block of various future products for next generation broadband
communication networks.
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ICNS/TIT/1583/95 fase II
Integrated Communication and Navigation Systems
The project deals with the following communication/navigation
problems: 1- Receiver performance evaluation by applying importance
sampling techniques. This problem was dealt with in Phase I assuming
additive white Gaussian channels and phase drift modeled as Browniam
motion. The purpose in Phase II is to to extend the study to fading
channels and higher order phase drift dynamics. 2-In Phase I we
modeled the relative emitter/receiver dynamics as a third order GaussMarkov process, and designed the receiver accordingly. To perform
optimally, the assumed model has to fit the actual dynamics; otherwise,
robustness criteria and adaptive algorithms have to be applied.
ILASH/ESA-17514
Integrated Lens Antenna Shaping
To develop a software code for the design and optimisation of multipleshell integrated dielectric lens antennas for millimetre-wave space
applications.
ILENA/POSI/34860/CPS/2000
Integration of Lenses and Planar Antennas
To study the integration of lens antennas with printed feed elements. To
extend homogeneous lens concepts to non-uniform printed material
lenses.
ISSMIA/TIT/1580/95 fase II
Integration of Stochastic and Structural Models in Image and Pattern
Analysis-Phase II
The project considers the following remote sensing problems: 1Acquisition and processing in interferometric synthetic aperture radar
(InSAR) imaging. Algorithms developed and evaluated by simulation in
the first part of the project are now tested with real data. Executable
versions of these algorithms will be made available in the Internet for
comparison purposes. 2-Inverse synthetic aperture (ISAR) problem.
The accurate target tracking demands the estimation of the absolute
value of a carrier phase. Previous work on this area, developed by the
team members, will be applied in various ISAR scenarios.
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Mask Configurable Intelligent Power Integrated Circuits – Applications
The main objective is the development of pre-processed Smart Power
IC, configurable by the top metal layer(s), using low-cost standard
CMOS technologies. This goal is to be attained through the development
of a power switching cells library in a matrix arrangement based in a
single NMOS cell. This arrangement should be capable of implementing
power conversion, amplification and regulation functions, permitting
high reliability and efficient compact solutions, in order to improve the
quality of portable equipment. Personal communication systems and
medical equipments, robotics and automotive applications are some of
the types of applications envisaged as target for these Smart Power ICs.
This methodology enables o
l w cost semi custom designs and new ICs
configuration strategies of easy industrial implementation towards
Smart Power using standard CMOS technologies.
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MC-CDMA
Investigate signal processing techniques for 4G MC-CDMA
systems
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MC-CDMA Transmission Techniques for Integrated Broadband Cellular
Systems
The main objective of the project is to define and validate access and
transmission concepts based on MC-CDMA technology for provision of
the broadband component of future mobile cellular systems.
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MBBS
Mobile Broadband System
- Perform radio channel measurements using hardware developed in the
framework of SAMBA project in the 40 GHz band. - Process the acquired
data and calculate several parameters, namely, DS, AD, PDP, CB, etc. Compare the measured results with raytracing simulations. - Derive
analytical models - Publish the results in international conferences.
MOMENTUM/IST-2000-28088
Models and Simulations for Network Planning and Control of UMTS
MOMENTUM aims at a long lasting impact on the development of UMTS
planning tools. Major players of system manufacturers, network
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operators, service providers, and operations research facilities have
joined to meet the challenge of analysing UMTS system-behaviour and
of developing powerful new planning methods for UMTS. MOMENTUM
will: characterise new services UMTS is going to deliver; build usage
profiles and planning scenarios to model the future demands; build the
most advanced UMTS real-time system-level simulator; use the
scenarios and the simulator to better understand the dynamics of UMTS
networks and their sensitivity to system parameter settings; develop
flexible models, algorithms, and new planning methods for the
deployment of the future wireless telecommunication infrastructure;
build and publish a library of UMTS scenarios and test cases to be used
as a benchmark in the development of planning tools.
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SAMURAI
Multimedia Services and Applications in Hospital, University and Urban
Environments
Besides the Wireless LAN deployment in University (Virtual University
Campus) and Hospital (tele-medicine) scenarios, one will contribute
with service classification and characterisation, source traffic validation
via real data and inclusion of human and ergonomic aspects in mobile
and wireless systems planning process.
MULTIPLAN/ POSI/CPS/45726/2002
Multi-service cellular planning for mobile communication
The project focus is cellular planning for multi-service mobile
communications systems (3G, 3.5G and 4G) in the aspects of
characterisation and classification of services and applications, resource
re-use, teletraffic, cost/revenues and signal processing. Research is
focused on i) Classification of new mobile and wireless services and
applications, ii) Characterisation of applications through the
identification of relevant parameters and the evaluation of their range of
variation, iii) Identification of deployment scenarios, and realisation of
forecasting studies for Internet and Multimedia traffic, iv) developing
models for the impact of mobility in multi-service time -based and nontime based (real and non real-time) traffic, in the aspects of blocking
and delay and v) cost/revenue optimisation. Original contributions will
be pursued on developing and characterising these new applications and
on the tele-traffic performance of advanced wireless and mobile
networks (e.g., using models as the Markov- modulated Poisson
Process/Bernoulli-Poisson-Pascal one or the ones for self-similar traffic).
Cellular planning optimisation will be addressed through the inclusion of
traffic aspects in a cost/revenue model and also into a cellular Mobile
Broadband System planning tool develloped within our group.
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Navy Video
The main objective of this project consists of studying and developing
error resilient video coding algorithms and transmission techniques
appropriate for high frequency (HF) carriers allowing attaining high
quality videoconference services in long distance communications. The
short wave channel imposes several hostile propagation conditions that
will affect video signal communications. Furthermore, the very low
throughput bit rate (12800bps) provides a strong limitation on video
communications. This project will attempt to overcome those appointed
drawbacks.
OALMT/E-72/03
Optimização de Amplificadores Linearizados em Presença de Sinais
Reais Multi-Tom
Os sistemas actuais de comunicações via rádio estão limitados em
grande parte pela distorção não linear que os componentes que o
constituem geram. Apesar dos esforços recentes no estudo da distorção
não linear em amplificadores, misturadores etc, sujeito a sinais reais de
telecomunicações, esses são normalmente virados para testes ideias de
laboratório, como sejam os testes a um tom e dois tons sinusoidais.
Como se pretende que os sistema de rádio emitam informação real e
não ideal, o estudo destes sistemas quando em presença de um sinal
real é fundamental para o correcto projecto dos mesmos. Devido à não
existência de sobreposição e proporcionalidade nestes sistemas não
lineares, a extensão dos testes ideais para as situações reais não é
imediata, pelo que o estudo do comportamento dos sistemas não
lineares em presença deste sinais é o principal objectivo deste projecto.
Pretende-se com este trabalho determinar qual a relação entre a
distorção medida num sistema não-linear geral (cuja concretização de
maior interesse é o amplificador isolado ou com linearização externa)
sujeito a dois tons e a realmente observada no mesmo sistema sujeito a
uma excitação real, i.e., a um sinal de informação constituído por uma
portadora de RF modulada por um sinal de banda-base aleatório. Sendo
já conhecida solução para o problema mais simples do regime de sinal
fraco e sem memória, pretende-se estender estes resultados ao caso
dois amplificadores de potência (portanto em regime de sinal forte) e
com memória.
OPAMS/POCTI/ESE/37531/2001
Optimum Power Amplifiers for Modulated Signals
Recent wireless communication systems demand very high signal to
noise ratios (SNR). However, the continuous improvement of power
amplifier (PA) efficiencies has led to an increased nonlinearity behavior,
severely degrading system's fidelity. One former way to minimize this
effect consisted on using constant envelope modulation systems,
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trading higher spectrum bandwidths for lower distortion. Unfortunately,
spectrum bandwidth became a scarce precious good imposing nonconstant envelope modulation schemes. Therefore, the PA nonlinearity
is nowadays of primordial importance to the maximization of the SNR in
this type of telecommunication systems. The main objective of this
project is to propose new design PA procedures intended to improve
linearity in presence of complex communication signals of non-constant
envelope. To fulfill this goal, the time and frequency domain properties
of the complex modulation techniques will first be studied. Special
attention will be given to the peak to average ratio of the excitation's
time description, and to its complex spectral representation, mainly to
the correlation between its different spectral lines. The information
gathered with this analysis, associated to the previous background of
the authors, will inspire improvements to the existing nonlinear RF
circuits' simulation tools, or even to the proposal of novel nonlinear
analysis methods, specially tailored for the type of modulated signals
under study. With the aid of the proposed simulation techniques, and
the knowledge of the driving signal statistics, the nonlinear behavior of
PA will be studied when in the presence of complex communication
signals. The correct understanding of this behavior will end up in the
suggestion of a new procedure for the design PAs optimized for
linearity. Finally, a PA prototype specially designed for handling multitone complex modulated signals will be implemented and tested. That
will serve as the practical validation of the proposed theoretical analysis
methods and circuit design tools.
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Programa IST
To provide logistic support to the national delegates to the Management
Committee of the IST programme
MEIOS ARTIFICIAIS/E-34/02
Propagation and Radiation in Complex Media Using Planar Technology
Analysis of propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves in
multilayered planar structures using complex media including
bianisotropic,biisotropic(quiral/omega),gyrotropic(ferrites/magnetized
plasmas) and left-handed media.Two specific topics are addressed: radiation of elementary sources embedded in multilayer structures; characterization of artificial media in planar technology.
RESOURCE/CPS/36336/1999
Radio resource optimization in third generation mobile systems
Study and develop general
UMTS/IMT 2000 systems.
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PROSAR/POSI/CPS/34071
Signal and Image Processing in Synthetic Aperture Radar
This project addresses the following research topics topics in synthetic
aperture radar (SAR): (1) Moving target detection and estimation; (2)
Interferometry; (3) Image restoration. (1) Moving target detection,
estimation, and imaging is important for wide area surveillance systems
with limited revisit times. (2) The problem of interferometry is
essentially the estimation of absolute phase from a pair (or more) SA
images. Topographic maps are then obtained with basis on the
estimated absolute phase images. (3) The pixel amplitude of SA images
are, under mild conditions, a sample of a Rayleigh random variable.
Therefore, the image amplitudes corresponding to an homogeneous
region exhibit random fluctuations, termed ''speckled noise''. The
following goals have been pursued, concerning each of the three
referred topics: (1) Developing solutions to the so-called ''blind angle
ambiguity'' problem. It means that using just an antenna it is
impossible to infer the direction of the velocity vector. One way to
remove the blind angle ambiguity is to make simultaneous bistatic SA
measurements with two different antennas. Aiming at the resolution of
the blind angle ambiguity problem with only one antenna, it is proposed
the exploitation of recent results, derived by the proponents, on the
relations between the received signal and the moving target velocity.
(2) Developing Bayesian approaches to the absolute phase estimation in
the presence of discontinuities. The inclusion of discontinuities is
relevant to obtain meaningful estimates. On the other hand, most
methods proposed in the open literature do not take discontinuities into
account. (3) Developing Bayesian approaches to the amplitude
restoration that, as in item (2), take the amplitude discontinuity into
account.
SEACORN/IST-2001-34900
Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks
SEACORN provides a fundamental contribution to the evaluation and
development of Enhanced UMTS networks. It covers several aspects
starting from the definition and characterisation of services and user
profiles, including the modelling of the user's behaviour with respect to
mobility and multimedia activity, and finally considering the
optimisation of the networks from both points of views: the operator's
and manufacturer's view of limiting the infrastructure and maintenance
costs and the user's view of being provided with high quality services
COST 273
Towards Mobile Broadband Multimedia Communications
The main objective is to increase the knowledge on the radio aspects of
mobile broadband multimedia networks, by exploring and developing
new methods, models, techniques, strategies and tools towards the
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implementation of 4th generation mobile communication systems. It
considers frequencies ranging from the upper UHF up to millimetre
waves, and data rates higher than 2 Mb/s (probably up to 155 Mb/s).
As a secondary objective, it is intended that it continues to play a
supporting role similar to the one played by the previous Actions in the
mobile communications area. That is, besides giving inputs to the
development of 4th generation systems, it is also expected that it will
contribute to the deployment of systems that are very close to
completion of their standardisation phase, like UMTS and HIPERLAN 2.
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Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks
The main objective of the Action is to increase the knowledge on future
advanced Multiservice Wireless Networks (MWNs) MWNs and specifically
on traffic nature and behaviour and its impact on network architecture,
performance and planning. Special attention will be given to Quality of
Service and related aspects in both access networks and core networks
in the presence of mixed multimedia traffic. To accomplish this, new
analytical tools, software implementations and prototypes will be
developed and validated. Action has been divided into four Working
Groups (WGs). Working Group 1: Traffic Engineering, Congestion
Control and Parameters Estimation in Packet-Switched Mobile and
Wireless Environment for 3G and beyond Working Group 2: Specific
issues and QoS for Future Packet-Switched Mobile and Wireless
Networks Working Group 3: Network Planning and Architectures
Working Group 4: New Services and QoS Mobile Pricing
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Transmissão Rádio Interactiva de Vídeo Local
Project TRIVial intends to develop a wireless residential platform. This
project is included in telecommunications and information area and one
of main goals is to study and consequently choose a local wireless
network preferentially wide band as well as researching new video
coding and transmission techniques appropriate for that network. The
algorithms to be researched and recommended will take into account
that the terminal equipments are the conventional TV sets associated to
remote control units with keyboard and mice making them ideal to
provide multimedia interactive applications. Those algorithms will also
take into account interoperability aspects between the platform to be
developed and the television DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) and radio
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) broadcasting networks.
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4.1.5 Running and Concluded Theses
Final Year Projects
Supervisor
Bárbara Coelho
Gabriel
Luís M. Correia
Luís M. Correia
António Topa
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Fernando J. Velez
João Nuno Matos
Armando Rocha
Student
Vitor Amaro
Title
Aplicações Cliente/Servidor para
telemóveis - Estágio
Francisco Villanueva Capacity design in GSM/GPRS
Filipe Faustino
Helder Dias
Filipe Varanda
Luís Prata
Eduardo Lima
João Henriques
Rui Paulo
Ricardo Pannuzzo
Homero Leal
Rui Gomes
Bruno Malha
Vera Carneiro
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Bruno Cheganças
António Topa
Patrícia Rodrigues
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9/2004
Comparison of Cellular Structures
in UMTS
12/2003
Componentes Fotónicos Passivos
para Óptica Integrada
7/2004
Constant Flux Antennas for UMTS
12/2003
Deployment Scenarios and Teletraffic Engineering in Mobile
Communications Systems Beyond
3G
7/2003
Desenvolvimento de Modelos de
Canal Rádio e outras Feramentas
de Optimização da Ligação e da
Rede em Ambientes WLAN e
Bluetooth
9/2003
Development of a Channel Radio
Sounder
9/2003
Dielectric Lens Antennas for Space
Applications
10/2004
Dispersão em meios quirais com
aplicação aos guias quirais usados
em Microondas
7/2004
Custódio Peixeiro
Tiago Gandara
Dual Band Dual Polarisation
Microstrip Patch Antennas
2/2003
Fernando Nunes
Susana Mendes
Estudo Comparativo dos Sistemas
de Navegação GPS e GALILEO
9/2004
Fernando Nunes
Teresa Sousa
Estudo Comparativo dos Sistemas
de Navegação GPS e GALILEO
9/2004
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Nuno Carvalho
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Mário Rui dos Santos
José Rocha Pereira
João Rebelo
Nuno Matos
Jorge Silva
Rui Alegre
Davide Azevedo
Jorge Amaral
Carlos Borda
João Nuno Matos
Rogério Dias
Custódio Peixeiro
Luís M. Correia
Fernando J. Velez
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
Estudo do Impacto da Distorção
Não Linear em Sistemas de
Comunicação Digital
Estudos de Penetração do Sinal de
GSM e UMTS em Edifícios e
Veículos (won the Luis Vidigal prize
in 2003)
Simão Pedro Torres Integração de um sistema de
comunicações, de localização e de
Romeu Duarte
segurança de veículo
Nuno Carvalho
Custódio Peixeiro
DE
Rui Peneda
Nuno Crispim
Tiago Veiga
Filipe Raposo
Alexandre Félix
João Almeida
João Salgueiro
Nuno Barroso
9/2003
11/2003
7/2003
Local radio positioning and
identification system for indoor
environments
7/2003
Medidor de Campo
Electromagnético para
Comunicações Móveis
9/2003
Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays for
10/2003
Smart Antennas
Microstrip Patch Antennas for 4G
Mobile Communication Systems
10/2003
Models for Traffic Forecast in UMTS 12/2003
Multimedia Services and
Applications in hospital, University
and Urban Environments
7/2003
Custódio Peixeiro
Simone Spallina
Optimisation of Microstrip Patch
Antennas with Genetic Algorithms
2/2003
Custódio Peixeiro
Radoslaw Urban
Packaging Effects on Microstrip
Patch Antennas for Mobile
Communication Systems
9/2003
António Rodrigues
Luciano Manuel
Moleirinho de
Oliveira
Packet Switched Data Tranmission
Performance on an UMTS Network
Mário Rui dos Santos
Luís M. Correia
António Rodrigues
António Paiva
Tiago Duarte
Samuel Ferreira
Paulo Oliveira
Teresa Ramiro
10/2003
Portal WLAN/Bluetooth para
PDAs/Notebooks
7/2003
Propagation models for UMTS
9/2003
Radio Resource Management for
6/2003
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WCDMA Networks
Bárbara Coelho
Gabriel
Nelson Eduardo
Correia Santos
Repetidor RF
9/2004
Bárbara Coelho
Gabriel
José Maria Lajo
Simulação de diferentes modelos
de propagação no sistema GSM
3/2003
Sincronização de frequência e
estimação de canal em OFDM
9/2003
Sistema de Posicionamento Local e
identificação rádio para ambientes
interiores
7/2003
Fernando Nunes
Mário Rui dos Santos
Catarina Brites
Eva Rosa
Ricardo Abreu
Miguel Sousa
Cláudio Carvalho Sistema Modular para Ensaio de
Henrique José A. Silva Torcato Paredes dos Técnicas de Modulação Utilizadas
Santos
em Comunicações Móveis
Bárbara Coelho
Gabriel
Custódio Peixeiro
Armando Rocha
António Alves Moreira
Luís M. Correia
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
10/2003
Nuno Coimbra Silva
Sistemas de comunicações móveis
via RDS
1/2004
Lucia Fregoli
Small Multi- Band Microstrip Patch
Antennas
8/2003
Study and Implementation of a
Beacon Digital Signal Receiver
9/2004
Study of fractal type printed
antennas for mobile terminals
9/2003
Ângela Barreiros
Nuno Ramos
Jerzy Guterman
João Cardeiro
Daniel Sebastião
Gonçalo Perdigão
Hugo Carmo
Traffic modelling at the air interface
9/2004
in UMTS
Ultra-wideband Antennas for
Millimetrewave Space Applications
12/2003
Table 14 – List of Final Year Projects running in the Wireless Communications Area during 2003.
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Francisco Cercas
José Bioucas Dias
João Vaz
Student
Title
José António Pereira Design and Application of a New
Velez
Bluetooth Wireless Network
Hélio Fernandes
Algoritmos de Focagem em SAR
João Carlos Pataca Amplificador de potência CMOS
Vinagre
para 5GHz
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Luís M. Correia
Carlos Salema
Luís M. Correia
António Navarro
António Rodrigues
João Costa Freire
João Vaz
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An Analytical Traffic Model for the
UMTS Radio Interface
3/2004
Pedro Manuel Geada Análise de margens de segurança
Borda d'Água
no projecto de feixes hertzianos
1/2003
Cristina Reis
Pedro Fernandes
Capacity Increase through MIMO in
Converging Mobile and Wireless
Systems
12/2004
Bárbara Coelho
Codificação e transmissão de vídeo
por ondas milimétricas
4/2004
Francisco António
Taveira Branco
Nunes Monteiro
CPM Receivers Complexity
Reduction in Wireless
Communication Systems
1/2003
Guilherme de
Oliveira St´Aubyn
Mascarenhas
Desfasadores activos CMOS para
rádio-frequência
José Bioucas Dias
Sandra Coelho
José Bioucas Dias
Tiago Silva
Nuno Carvalho
António Rodrigues
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
João Paulo Martins
Ana Filipa Freitas
12/2004
Determinação da Temperatura de
Superfície com Imagens Sintéticas
do Sensor SEVIRI-MSG
6/2004
Estimação de Fase Absoluta em
Interferometria SAR
6/2003
Estudo de Técnicas de Linearização
11/2004
em Dispositivos de RF
Evaluation of the QoS for
Geographical Information in
Location Based Services
Mário Miguel
High-Speed Downlink Shared
Henrique José A. Silva Carvalho Alves dos
Channel evaluation in WCDMA
Reis
1/2004
3/2004
Afonso Serralha
Influence of buffering in Packet
Switching at the Downlink Channel
in Converging Mobile and Wireless
Systems
12/2004
Luís M. Correia
Teresa Leixo
Influence of buffering in Packet
Switching at the Uplink Channel in
Converging Mobile and Wireless
Systems
12/2004
Luís M. Correia
Gonçalo Carvalho
Influence of Traffic Distributions in
UMTS Performance
4/2004
LNA monolítico CMOS para UMTS
9/2005
Luís M. Correia
João Vaz
Pedro Brás
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António Rodrigues
Pedro de Almeida
Carvalho Vieira
MIMO Systems for 3G Mobile
Capacity Enhancement
12/2003
José Bioucas Dias
Gonçalo Matias
Multifrequency Multibaseline
Interferometric SAR
4/2005
Oscilador monolítico controlado por
tensão para 2.4GHz
3/2004
Propagation Models for Complex
Environments in Mobile
Communications
9/2005
João Vaz
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
Carlos Paiva
José Bioucas Dias
António Rodrigues
Armando Rocha
Joaquim Oliveira
Jorge Silva
Relativistic formulation of classical
Marco Alexandre dos
electrodynamics with geometric
Santos Ribeiro
algebra
Carlos Sousa
Simulação de Dados em Sistemas
Acústicos de Abertura Sintética
Henrique Martins dos Spectrum Management System for
Santos Cunha
Microwave Links
Jorge Tavares
Luís M. Correia
Jorge Aguiar
Luís M. Correia
Conceição Dias
11/2004
5/2004
12/2004
Study and Implementation of
Radiolocation Techniques at HF
9/2004
Traffic Analysis at the Radio
Interface in Converging Mobile and
Wireless Communication Systems
1/2004
Traffic Simulation at the Air
Interface of UMTS
4/2004
Nuno Carvalho
António José Duarte
Figueiredo
Train Localization using RF systems
Guilherme dos
Santos
9/2003
António Rodrigues
Nuno António Fraga UMTS FDD Radio Interface
Juliano Cota
Simulator
6/2004
João Nuno Matos
Nuno Ferreira
Utilização de Algoritmos de
Separação Cega de Fontes (BSS)
na detecção de códigos CDMA
12/2003
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PhD Theses
Supervisor
Rafael Caldeirinha
Luís M. Correia
José Leitão
Maria João Rosário
Maria João Rosário
João Vaz
José Neves
Student
Title
A discrete RET Model for
Millimetre-Wave Propagation
Telmo R. Fernandes
Through Vegetation in Sub-Urban
Macro Cells
João Gil
José Eduardo C.
Sanguino
Henrique José da
Silva
End Date
10/2005
Adaptive antennas and channel
models for mobile communications
5/2004
Ambiguity Resolution in GPS
Positioning
6/2004
Antenas Activas
Luís Miguel Moreira Auto-oscilador em tecnologia
Mendes
CMOS para 5GHz
11/2005
12/2006
Manuel Dinis
Broadband Mobile Communications
7/2004
Luís M. Correia
Filipe Cardoso
Channel characterisation for
broadband mobile communications
5/2004
Atílio Gameiro
Paulo Marques
Channel estimation for broadband
mobile channels
12/2005
Francisco Cercas
Codificação eficiente para sistemas
João Carlos Marques
de comunicações móveis de última
Silva
geração
10/2006
Maria João Rosário
Fernando dos Santos Conversores Monolíticos em CMOS
Azevedo
para Comunicações Móveis
12/2006
Francisco Cercas
Alexandre de Castro Efficient receiver for UWB using
Passos de Almeida TCH codes
10/2004
Carlos Cardoso
Fernandes
João Vaz
Atílio Gameiro
Américo Correia
Mário Silveirinha
Electromagnetic Waves in Artificial
Media with Application to Lens
Antennas
Filtros activos para alta frequência
Joaquim Bernardino em tecnologia integrada monolítica
para 30GHz
Luís Gonçalves
Mário Marques da
Silva
Frequency domain MUD for UMTSTDD
Future Mobile Systems
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1/2006
12/2003
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José Leitão
Alberto Sena da
Silva
Importance Samp ling Evaluation of
Digital Phase Detectors with
Carrier Phase Tracking
Francisco Cercas
Pedro Joaquim
Amaro Sebastião
Improved simulation tecnhiques
for wireless communications
10/2006
José Rocha Pereira
Pedro Tavares de
Pinho
Modelling and optimisation of
antennas for mobile terminals
using FDTD method and
optimisation tools
12/2005
José Bioucas Dias
Paulo Marques
João Costa Freire
Jorge Torres
José Carlos Pedro
José Bioucas Dias
José Carlos Pedro
José Leitão
António Navarro
Francisco Cercas
Armando Rocha
Rafael Caldeirinha
José Neves
Atílio Gameiro
Moving Target Detection and
Estimation in Synthetic Apertura
Radar
Multifunctions MMICs
Pedro Miguel Silva Nonlinear Modeling of Microwave
Cabral
and RF Power Devices
Cristina Ribeiro
Oil Slick Surveillance Using ASAR
and MERIS Data
On the Study of Impairments
Pedro Miguel Ribeiro
Caused By Noninearities on
Lavrador
Wireless Systems
Fernando Sousa
João Tavares
6/2004
12/2004
7/2007
12/2006
7/2006
Open loop structures in digital
receivers. Software Radio
Approach
6/2004
Optimal source-channel coding and
modulation for digital terrestrial
4/2004
Optimização de receptores para
Nuno Manuel Branco
comunicações móveis de última
Souto
geração
Susana de Jesus
Mota
7/2003
Propagation Modelling for MIMO
Channels
Radiative Energy Transfer
Modelling of Vegetation Effects on
Harlem St. Michael
Design and Performance of Fixed
and Mobile Wireless Links
10/2006
3/2005
12/2004
Victor Santos
Resource Management on Mobile
Satellite Systems
7/2004
Adão Silva
Space-time coding and preequalization for MIMO MC-CDMA
sysytems
12/2005
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Atílio Gameiro
António Morgado
Space-time pre-equalization for
WCDMA systems
José Bioucas Dias
José Nascimento
Spectral Unmixing in Hyperspectral
12/2005
Data
João Pedro Barata Wideband Receivers for Mobile
da Eira
Systems
António Rodrigues
9/2003
12/2004
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4.1.6 Publications
4.1.6.1 ANTENNAS
Papers in Journals
- Marques, P.; J. Dias; “Unambiguous Doppler Shift Estimation for Moving Targets with
High Range Velocity Using SAR Data”, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
Vol. (in press), January, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Moreira, A. A.; “Antenna Arrays for Multiple Standard MIMO Systems”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 555 - 558, June, 2003.
- Gandara, T; “Dual Band Dual Polarised Microstrip Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna
Element
for
UMTS
and
Bluetooth/IEEE
802.11b
Applications”,
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 107 - 110, June, 2003.
- Gandara, T; C. Peixeiro; “Dual Band Dual Polarised Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna
Element
for
UMTS
and
Bluetooth/IEEE
802.11b
Applications”,
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 107 - 110, June, 2003.
-
Gil,
J.G.;
L.
M.
Correia;
“Impact
of
UMTS
Macro-Cell
Scenarios
Directional
Characteristics on Adaptive Beamforming Performance”, Proc IST Mobile Communications
Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 22 - 26, June, 2003.
- Salema, C.; “Radiation Pattern of Plane Aperture Antennas with Large Phase Errors”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 157 - 160,
June, 2003.
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- Gil, J.G.; L. M. Correia; “The MMSE vs. Beamforming Gain Optima Discrepancy in
Adaptive Beamforming Applied to Directional Channel Scenarios”,
Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 495 - 498, June, 2003.
- Brissos, J.; C. Peixeiro; “Triple-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna Element for Cellular and
WLAN Systems”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Commun - PIMRC, Beijing, China, Vol. 3, pp. 916 - 920, September, 2003.
- Brissos, J.; C. Peixeiro; “Triple-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna Element for CellularWLAN Integration”, Proc IST Mobile Wireless Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 807 811, June, 2003.
- Peixeiro, C.; “Triple-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna Element for GSM1800. UMTS and
HiperLAN2”, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Columbus, Ohio, United States,
Vol. 3, pp. 123 - 126, June, 2003.
- Brissos, J.; C. Peixeiro; “Triple-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna Element with an
Input/Output for Each Band”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 165 - 168, June, 2003.
Project Reports
- Gandara, T; C. Peixeiro; “Design, Fabrication and Test of an 8 Microstrip Elements
Horizontal Array Antenna for Telenor's Channel Sounder”, Instituto de Telecomunicações,
FLOWS, July, 2003.
- Rosário, M. J.; “Misturadores de RF Monolíticos”, IST, February, 2003.
- Rosário, M. J.; P. C. B. Brás; “Relatório sobre um amplificador de baixo ruído no âmbito
do projecto LDMOSCA”, IT, September, 2003.
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4.1.6.2 CIRCUITS AND DEVIC ES
Books
- Pedro, J. C.; N.B.C. Carvalho; Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits,
Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Pedro, J. C.; J. Madaleno; J. A. Garcia; “Theoretical Basis for the Extraction of Mildly
Nonlinear Behavioral Models”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer
Aided-Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 40 - 53, January, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Azevedo, F.S.; F. Fortes; M. J. Rosário; “A 1.9GHz Monolithic CMOS Up Conversion
Mixer”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 83 86, June, 2003.
- Oliveira, J.O.; J.M.C.V. Vaz; “A 2.4GHz LC-tuned VCO in BiCMOS technology”, Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 531 - 533, June,
2003.
- Pedro, J. C.; “A Novel Simplified Analysis of Intermodulation Distortion in Diode
Mixers”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 523 - 526,
June, 2003.
- Cabral, PC; J. C. Pedro; N.B.C. Carvalho; “An Integrated View of Nonlinear Distortion
Phenomena in Various Power Amplifier Technologies”, Proc European Microwave Conf. EMC, Munique, Germany, pp. 69 - 73, October, 2003.
- Santos, P.M.; H.J. Quaresma; A. Silva; M. Lança; “Breakdown improvement and
reliable driving of high-voltage NMOS fabricated in fully implanted CMOS”, Proc European
Power Electronics Conf. - EPE, Toulouse, France, Vol. CDROM, pp. p1 - p10, September,
2003.
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- Azevedo, F.S.; M. J. Rosário; J. Costa Freire; “CMOS Monolithic Wideband Image
rejection Mixer With Polyphase Filters”, Proc Brazilian Microwave and Optolectonic Symp.,
Iguazu Falls, Brazil, Vol. 2, pp. 815 - 818, September, 2003.
- Carvalho, N.B.C.; “Optimum Load Selection for Maximized Large Signal IMD Sweet
Spots”, IV Conferência de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, pp. 527-530, Abril 2003.”, Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 527 - 530, April,
2003.
- Santos, P.M.; H.J. Quaresma; A. Silva; M. Lança; “Design of High-Voltage devices in a
fully implanted twin-well CMOS process”, Proc European Solid-State Device Research
Conf., Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 343 - 346, September, 2003.
- Santos, P.M.; H.J. Quaresma; A. Silva; M. Lança; “High-Voltage NMOS in 0,5um CMOS
Technology for fast switching applications”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial
Electronics - ISIE, Rio de janeiro, Brazil, Vol. CDROM, June, 2003.
- Fortes, F.; F.S. Azevedo; M. J. Rosário; “I-Q Monolithic Oscillator Design on Standard
CMOS Technology”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol.
1, pp. 13 - 16, June, 2003.
- Rosário, M. J.; F. Le-Strat; P. Alleaume; J.M.C.V. Vaz; J. Schrotg; T. Mueller; J. Costa
Freire; “Low Cost LTCC Filters for a 30GHz Satellite System”, Proc European Microwave
Conf. - EMC, Munique, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 817 - 820, October, 2003.
- Pedro, J. C.; N.B.C. Carvalho; “Mixed Time and Frequency Domain Behavioral Modeling
and Simulation”, Proc Workshop on Fundamentals of Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling,
Philadelphia, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2003.
- Pedro, J. C.; N.B.C. Carvalho; P.M. Lavrador; “Modeling Nonlinear Behavior of BandPass Memoryless and Dynamic Systems”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Microwave
Theory and Tech., Philadelphia, United States, Vol. CD- ROM, June, 2003.
- Pedro, J. C.; “Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling of Microwave Systems – An Overview”,
Proc ARFTG Conf., Boulder, United States, Vol. 62nd ARFTG Conf. Workshop CDROM,
December, 2003.
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- Martins, J. P.; N.B.C. Carvalho; J. C. Pedro; “Post-Distortion Linearising Technique
Applied to Mixers”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol.
1, pp. 111 - 114, June, 2003.
- Pedro, J. C.; N.B.C. Carvalho; “Statistics of Microwave Signals and Their Impact on the
Response of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems”, Proc ARFTG Conf., Boulder, United States, Vol.
62nd ARFTG Conference Dig., pp. 143 - 153, December, 2003.
- Casimiro, A. P.; J. N. Xu; P.M. Santos; “Transistores in Mesh-Array for Power
Management Applications”, Proc European Solid-State Device Research Conf., Estoril,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 199 - 202, September, 2003.
Project Reports
- Vaz, J.M.C.V.; “Aspectos sobre a simulação de circuitos integrados para RF”, Instituto
Superior Técnico, February, 2003.
- Vaz, J.M.C.V.; “Osciladores Sinusoidais Integrados Monolíticos”, Instituto Superior
Tecnico, February, 2003.
- Costa Freire, J.; “RF Systems”, IT, February, 2003.
4.1.6.3 PHYSICAL MODELLING AND WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION
Papers in Journals
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Effective Permittivity of Metallic Crystals: A Periodic
Green's Function Formulation”, Electromagnetics, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 647 - 663,
November, 2003.
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Efficient Calculation of the Band Structure of Artificial
Materials With Cylindrical Metallic Inclusions”, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and
Tech., Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 1460 - 1466, May, 2003.
- Cardoso, F.; L. M. Correia; “Fading Depth Dependence on System Bandwidth in Mobile
Communications - An Analytical Approximation”, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., Vol. 52,
No. 3, pp. 587 - 594, May, 2003.
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- Belov, P. A.; R.M. Marqués; I.S. Nefedov; M. Silveirinha; C.R. Simovsky; A. Tretyakov;
“Strong spatial dispersion in wire media in the very large wavelength limit”, Physical
Review B, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 113103-1 - 113103-4, March, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Topa, A.; “Leaky modes in planar waveguides containing DNG metamaterials”, Proc
International Conf. on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications - ICEAA, Torino, Italy,
Vol. 1, pp. 447 - 450, September, 2003.
- Fernandes, T.R.; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; J. Richter; M. AL-Nuaimi; “Modelling of Radiowave
Propagation through Finite Vegetation Structures Based on RET”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 317 - 320, June, 2003.
- Cardoso, F.; L. M. Correia; “A Comparison between Different Approaches for Fading
Evaluation in Wideband Mobile Communications”, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf.,
Jeju, Korea, South, April, 2003.
- Monteiro, V.M.; M. D. Dinis; J. Garcia; “A Detailed Indoor Millimetre-wave Channel
Impulse Response Analysis Based on Experimental and Simulation Results”, Proc IST
Mobile Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. Volume II, pp. 671 - 675, June,
2003.
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; M. AL-Nuaimi; A. Seville; N. Neil Rogers; N. Savage; “A Generic
Model of 1-60 GHz Narrow Band Radio Propagation through Vegetation”, Proc IST Mobile
Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003.
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “A New Method with Exponential Convergence to
Evaluate the Periodic Green Function”, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp.,
Columbus, Ohio, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 805 - 808, June, 2003.
- Rocha, A.; “A Software Tool for Propagation Data Analysis”, Proc Ka and Broadband
Communications Conf., Nápoles, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 279 - 284, November, 2003.
- Gil, J.G.; L. M. Correia; “Adaptive Beamforming Dependencies on Wideband and
Directional Propagation Characteristics in Micro- and Macro-Cell UMTS Scenarios”, Proc
IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC,
Beijing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 688 - 692, September, 2003.
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- Xavier, D.; J. M. Venes; L. M. Correia; “Characterization of Signal Penetration into
Buildings for GSM”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol.
1, pp. 175 - 178, June, 2003.
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Design of Waveguide Filters Using a PBG Disk-Type
Material”, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Columb us, Ohio, United States, Vol.
4, pp. 875 - 878, June, 2003.
- Fernandes, C. F.; “DFB Laser Diodes for Single Longitudinal Mode Operation”, Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 205 - 208, June,
2003.
- Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; “Discrete Complex Spectrum of 3D Omega
Waveguides”, Proc USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Columbus, United States,
Vol. 1, pp. 221 - 221, June, 2003.
- Silva, J. S. S.; C. A. Fernandes; “Effect of Window Dimensions on Wall Transmission
Loss in Mobile Communications”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 235 - 238, June, 2003.
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Effective Permittivity of 1D- 2D- and 3D-Wire
Structures: An Analytical Approach”, Proc Matemática em Telecomunicações - Que
Problemas? - MTQP, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 241 - 255, September, 2003.
- Topa, A.; C. R. Paiva; A. Barbosa; “Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in 3D Planar
Waveguides
Using
Unconventional
Media”,
Proc
Encuentro
de
Electromagnetismo
Computacional, Burgos, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, December, 2003.
- Venes, J. M.; L. M. Correia; “Evaluation of Parameters for Model Selection Based on
Grids”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 551 554, June, 2003.
- Mota, S.M.; A. Rocha; “Exploring Experimental Results from SAGE Ray Retreival
Algorithm”, Proc IST Mobile Wireless Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 681 - 684, June,
2003.
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Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Homogenization of Metamaterials with Wire
Inclusions”, Proc Encuentro de Electromagnetismo Computacional, Burgos, Spain, Vol. 1,
pp. 1 - 3, December, 2003.
- Silva, J. S. S.; R. Alegre; C. A. Fernandes; “Influência das Janelas no Nível de
Penetração de Sinais de Comunicações Móveis em Edifícios”, Proc Conf. da Engenharia UBIEngenharias, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, October, 2003.
- Fernandes, T.R.; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; J. Richter; M. AL-Nuaimi; “Modelo para Propagação
de Microondas e Ondas Milimétricas em Volumes Finitos de Vegetação Baseado no RET”,
Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1,
pp. 1 - 1, November, 2003.
-
Cardoso,
F.;
L.
M.
Correia;
“On
the
Equivalence
between
Time -domain
and
Environment-geometry Based Approaches for Fading Evaluation in Wideband Mobile
Communications”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, June,
2003.
- Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; “Radiation from a Short Vertical Dipole in a Disk-Type
PBG Material”, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Columbus, Ohio, United States,
Vol. 3, pp. 990 - 993, June, 2003.
- Fernandes, T.R.; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; J. Richter; M. AL-Nuaimi; “Radiowave Propagation
Modelling in Random Vegetation Media Using a Discrete Approach”, Proc EPSRC Prep
Conference, Exeter, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 133 - 134, April, 2003.
-
Topa,
A.;
C.
R.
Paiva;
A.
Barbosa;
“Recent
Results
on
the
Electromagnetic
Characterization of Chiral Planar Waveguides”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 115 - 118, June, 2003.
- Richter, J.; M. AL-Nuaimi; R.F.S. Caldeirinha; N. Savage; A. Seville; N. Neil Rogers;
“RET Input Parameter Estimation for a Generic Model of Propagation Through Vegetation
Using Excess Attenuation and Phase Function Measurements”, Proc International Conf. on
Antennas & Propagation - ICAP, Exeter, United Kingdom, April, 2003.
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; N. Neil Rogers; D. Ndzi; M. AL-Nuaimi; A. Seville; “Wideband
Characterisation
of
Vegetation
Media
at
Microwave
Frequencies”,
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003.
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- Silva, J. S. S.; C. A. Fernandes; “Window Effect on Wall Penetration Loss in Mobile
Communications”, Proc IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Columbus,Ohio, United
States, Vol. 2, pp. 122 - 125, June, 2003.
4.1.6.4 SYSTEM PLANNING AND RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Papers in Journals
- Velez, F. J.; L. M. Correia; “Optimisation of Mobile Broadband Multi-service Systems
Based in Economic Aspects”, Wireless Networks Journal, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 525 - 533,
September, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Vieira, P.; M.P. Queluz; A. J. Rodrigues; “Capacity of MIMO Systems in 3G micro- and
picocells”, Proc International Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications
WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, October, 2003.
- Ferreira, L.; L. M. Correia; “Generation of Traffic Demand Scenarios for UMTS”, Proc
IST Mobile Wireless Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003.
- Reis, M.R.; H. J. A. Silva; “High-Speed Downlink Packet Access: Concepts adn HARQ
Performance”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
17 - 20, July, 2003.
Project Reports
- Velez, F. J.; L. Sousa; C. Santos; “Traffic Estimation and Service Characterisation”,
IT/DEM, SAMURAI, December, 2003.
4.1.6.5 TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEMS
Books
- Salema, C.; Microwave Radio Links: From Theory to Design, John Wiley & Sons, New
Jersey, 2003.
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Papers in Journals
- Carvalho, N.B.C.; “Métodos de Entrada de Texto Especialmente Projectados para
Comunicações Móveis”, Rev. do Dep. de Electrónica e Telecomunicções da Univ. Aveiro,
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2003.
- Dias, J.; P. Marques; “Multiple Moving target detection and trajectory estimation using
a single SAR sensor”, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 39, No. 2,
pp. 604 - 624, April, 2003.
- Correia, A.; A. Correia; “multi-user detection and intersymbol interference cancellation
for WCDMA satellite UMTS”, International Journal of Wireless Inf. Networks, Vol. 21, No.
1, pp. 93 - 117, March, 2003.
- Dias, J.; J. Leitão; “Reconstruction of Backscattering and extinction coefficients in Lidar:
a stochastic filtering approach”, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,(In
Press), December, 2003.
- Cabral, PC; PC Cabral; J. C. Pedro; N.B.C. Carvalho; “Repetidor para o Sub-Sistema
Rádio da Rede UMTS”, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 785 - 789,
January, 2003.
- Assunção, P.A.; “Sistema DVB para Transmissão de Televisão Digital”, Ingenium, Vol.
2, No. 74, pp. 71 - 74, April, 2003.
-
Correia,
A.;
“Transmit
Diversity
Schemes
for
WCDMA”,
Wireless
Personal
Communications Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 65 - 85, April, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Dias, J.; “A Fast GEM Algorithm for Bayesian Wavelet-Based Image Restotation Using a
Class of Heavy-Tailed Priors”, Proc Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 407 - 420, July, 2003.
- Nunes, F.; J. Leitão; “A New Fast Code/Frequency Acquisition Algorithm for GPS C/A
Signals”, Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf., Orlando, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5,
October, 2003.
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- Cabral, PC; PC Cabral; J. C. Pedro; N.B.C. Carvalho; “A Repeater Prototype for the
UMTS Network Radio Sub-System”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 277 - 280, June, 2003.
- Souto, N.S.; J. C. Silva; F.C. Cercas; “Block turbo schemes using TCH codes”, Proc
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 429 - 432, June,
2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; A. Correia; A. J. Rodrigues; “Characterization of
Power Control for UMTS”, Proc International Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia
Communications WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 443 - 447, October, 2003.
- Silva, M.; A. Correia; “Combined Transmit Diversity and Beamforming for WCDMA”,
Proc European Personal Mobile Communications Conf. - EPMC, Glasgow, United Kingdom,
April, 2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; A. Correia; A. J. Rodrigues; “Conversio n of
reference tapped delay line channel models to discrete time channel models”, Proc IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conf., Orlando, United States, Vol. 1, October, 2003.
- Correia, L. M.; “COST 273: Towards mobile broadband multimedia networks”, Proc
International Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - ICAP, Exeter, United Kingdom, April,
2003.
- Silva, J.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; A. Correia; A. J. Rodrigues; “Efficient simulation of
tapped delay channel models using converted discrete time channel models”, Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 231 - 234, June, 2003.
- Dias, J.; “Fast GEM Wavelet-Based Image Deconvolution Algorithm”, Proc IEEE
International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2003.
- Gonçalves, L.G.; A. Gameiro; “Frequency Domain Equalizer for Multirate UMTS-TDD
Systems”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Anchorage, United
States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2003.
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- Navarro, A.; M. Rostami; J. Tavares; J. Angeja; “HF Channel Modelling for Real Time
Packet Transmission”, Proc SPIE - Digital Wireless Communications, Orlando, United
States, April, 2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; “Low Rate Convolutional Coding Schemes based
on Nonlinear Cyclic Codes for Efficient Maximum Likelihood Decoding”, Proc International
Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 1,
pp. 117 - 121, October, 2003.
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Pereira, J.; H. J. A. Silva; “New family of modulation techniques for mobile
communications based on Soft Orthogonal Phase-shift Keying (SOPK)”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 10 - 14, June, 2003.
- Souto, N.S.; J. C. Silva; F.C. Cercas; “Optimum bit-mapping for TCH (16,5) codes”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 425 - 428,
June, 2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; “Parity Concatenated Turbo TCH codes”, Proc
International Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications WPMC, Yokosuka,
Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 54 - 57, October, 2003.
- Souto, N.S.; J. C. Silva; F.C. Cercas; “Performance Comparison of Turbo Decoding
Algorithms in UMTS FDD Radio Channels”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 541 - 544, June, 2003.
- Souto, N.S.; J. C. Silva; F.C. Cercas; “Quasi-Systematic property of TCH codes”, Proc
Mobile Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 657 - 660, June, 2003.
- Faria, S.F.; P.A. Assunção; N. Rodrigues; L.M. Mendes; C. Lopes; C. Ribeiro; C. S.
Silva; J. Pereira; L. Alves; P. C. Ventura; “Sistema de Controlo e Comunicações de uma
Aeronave Não Tripulada - SkyGu@rdian”, Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias,
Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 10 - 14, November, 2003.
- Souto, N.S.; J. C. Silva; F.C. Cercas; “Special bit-mapping of TCH codes for application
in turbo schemes”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol.
1, pp. 445 - 448, June, 2003.
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- Nunes, F.; J. Leitão; “State-space Estimation of Rapidly-varying Carrier Frequency
Offsets in OFDM Systems”, Proc IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing
Advances in Wireless Comm., Roma, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 370 - 374, June, 2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; A. Correia; F.C. Cercas; A. J. Rodrigues; “UMTS AWGN
Simulation
Results
for
Uplink,
Downlink
and
HSDPA
transmissions”,
Proc
Mobile
Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 543 - 547, June, 2003.
- Silva, J. C.; N.S. Souto; F.C. Cercas; A. Correia; A. J. Rodrigues; “UMTS AWGN
Simulation Results with interference”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 91 - 94, June, 2003.
- Navarro, A.; R. Rodrigues; J. Angeja; J. Tavares; L. Carvalho; F. Perdigão; “Video
Conference over HF Packet Radio Channels”, Proc IEEE Military Communications Conf. MILCOM, Boston, United States, October, 2003.
Project Reports
- Correia, A.; “Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks (SEACORN)”,
European Commission, IST-2001-34900, February, 2003.
4.1.7 Other Achievements
4.1.7.1 Awards
- San José, E. R.; F. J. Velez; " Plan de Promoción Tecnológica del UMTS, "Premio al
Mejor Artículo sobre tecnología UMTS" ", Awarded to Eva Reguera by Telefónica Móviles
España S.A.U. for the paper: Eva R. San José and Fernando J. Velez, “Tele-traffic
Engineering for Enhanced UMTS Multi-rate Applications”, in Proc. of EPMCC’ 2003 – 5th
European Personal Mobile Communications Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, Apr. 2003,
26-11-2003.
- Silva, J. S. S.; R. Alegre; " Prémio Luis Vidigal ", Trabalho Final de Curso com o título
''Estudos de Penetração do Sinal de GSM e UMTS em Edifícios e Veículos'', Licenciatura
em EEC, IST , 01-10-2003.
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4.1.7.2 Miscellaneous
- Rocha, A.; " National Delegate ", Propagation Impairment Mitigation for Millimetre
Wave Radio Systems ", COST280 , 01-12-2003.
- Velez, F. J.; R. R. Paulo; R. Rei ; J. Salgueiro; N. Barroso; P. Dinis; T. Lages; "
Seminars ", Serviços e Aplicações, Internet, Móveis e Sem Fios ", 30-10-2003.
- Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; " Invited Talks ", Comunicações Móveis: Mitos e Realidades, Invited
Talk ", CRSC' 2003 - 4ª Conferência de Redes e Serviços de Comunicação , 09-04-2003.
- Peixeiro, C.; " National Delegate ", COST 284 ", , 28-02-2003.
4.1.8 Other Contributions
4.1.8.1 Conference Committees
- 12th IST Summit on Mobile and Wireless communications, Technical Programme
Chairman, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
-
13th
IEEE
International
Symposium
on
Personal,
Indoor
and
Mobile
Radio
Communications, Organizing Committee, Custódio Peixeiro, 21-02-2003.
- 13th IST Summit on Mobile and Wireless Comms, Technical Programme Committee,
Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- 1st Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - IBPRIA2003,
Technical Programme Committee, José Bioucas Dias, 04-06-2003.
- 4th Conference on Telecommunications, Scientific Committee, Rafael Caldeirinha, 1805-2003.
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4th Conference on Telecommunications, Technical Programme Chairman, Rafael
Caldeirinha, 20-06-2003.
- 4th Conference on Telecommunications, Organizing Committee, Custódio Peixeiro, 1806-2003.
- DSP 2001 7th International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space
Communications, Organizing Committee, Carlos Salema, 31-01-2003.
- Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - EMMCVPR
03, Technical Programme Committee, José Bioucas Dias, 07-08-2003.
- Engenharia 2003 - Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Scientific Committee, Fernando J.
Velez, 07-11-2003.
- EPMCC’2003 - 5th European Personal Mobile Communications Conference, Technical
Programme Committee, Luís M. Correia, 14-04-2003.
- ICT’2003 - International Conference on Telecommunications, Technical Programme
Committee, Luís M. Correia, 12-06-2003.
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- ITS2002 - International Symposium on Telecommunications, Technical Programme
Committee, Luís M. Correia, 10-09-2003.
- PIMRC’2003 - 14th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications, Technical Programme Committee, Luís M. Correia, 07-09-2003.
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WPMC’2003
–
Communications,
6th
International
Technical
Symposium
Programme
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Committee,
Wireless
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Correia,
Multimedia
21-10-2003
XIIIèmes Journées Nationales Microondes, Scientific Committee, João Costa Freire, 2105-2003.
- Organization and Chair of the Workshop on Nonlinear Measurement Techniques - 62nd
ARFTG Conference, Fall 2003, Boulder, José Carlos Pedro.
- Sub-Committee 7 - Nonlinear Circuit Analysis and System Simulation - of the Technical
Program Committee of IEEE International Microwave Theory and Technique Symposium,
Philadelphia, June 2003, José Carlos Pedro.
4.1.8.2 Refereeing
- 5th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2004, Paulo Marques,
02-11-2003.
- ACM Wireless Networks, Luís M. Correia, 05-06-2003.
- Conftele 2003, Nuno Carvalho, 13-11-2003.
- ConfTele’2003 - 4th Conference on Telecommunications, Luís M. Correia, 19-06-2003
- ConfTele'03, António Alves Moreira, 18-06-2003.
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Journal, António Topa,
20-07-2003.
- European Microwave Conference, Afonso Barbosa, 11-04-2003.
- ICC 2004, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- IEE Special Issue on Sonar and Navigation, Paulo Marques, 01-02-2003.
- IEE Electronics Letters, José Carlos Pedro.
- IEEE - Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Carlos Paiva, 17-02-2003.
- IEEE Antennas as Wireless Propagation Letters, António Topa, 10-11-2003.
- IEEE Communications Magazine, Luís M. Correia, 01-05-2003.
- IEEE Geoscience an Remote Sensing Letters, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Journal of Electronic Imaging, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters, year: 2002, Fernando Nunes, 06-03-2003.
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- IEEE Trans Veh. Tech, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Carlos Cardoso Fernandes, Reviewer, 01-012003.
- IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, Carlos Cardoso Fernandes, 05-10-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, António Topa, 14-10-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Rafael Caldeirinha, 05-12-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Luís M. Correia, 18-07-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Communications, Nuno Carvalho, 13-11-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Communications, year: 2001, Fernando Nunes, 21-02-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Nuno Carvalho, 01-01-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Fernando J. Velez, 15-07-2003.
- IEEE Transcations on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- IEEE WCNC2004 conference, Fernando Nunes, 21-11-2003.
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Luís M. Correia, 20-10-2003.
- Institution of Physics Measurement Science and Technology Magazine, Nuno Carvalho,
13-11-2003.
- IST Summit on Mobile and wireless Comms, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- IST-Mobile Summit 2003, Nuno Carvalho, 13-11-2003.
- Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley., Fernando J. Velez,
16-02-2003.
- Journées Nationales Microondes, João Costa Freire, 03-12-2003.
- Machine Vision and Applications, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- MELECON'04, José Bioucas Dias, 09-12-2003.
- PIMRC 2002 - 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile
Radio Communications, Henrique José A. Silva, 25-02-2003.
- VTC Spring 2003, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- WCNC’2003 – Wireless Communications Networks Conference, Luís M. Correia, 12-032003.
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Luís M. Correia, 26-03-2003.
- Wireless Personal Communications, Luís M. Correia, 09-03-2003.
- WPMC 2003, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- XX Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Luís M. Correia, 10-10-2003.
- Journés Nationales Microondes 2003, Lille, May 2003, José Carlos Pedro.
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, José Carlos Pedro.
- IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, José Carlos Pedro.
- IEEE Transactions on Communications, José Carlos Pedro.
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- International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering, José Carlos
Pedro.
- IEEE International Microwave Theory and Technique Symposium, Philadelphia, June
2003, José Carlos Pedro.
- Report on the Project “Measurement and Modelling of Multiple Port Nonlinear Microwave
Systems” submitted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Belgium to the Fund for Scientific
Research-Flanders, José Carlos Pedro.
- Report for National Institute of Standards Technology, NIST - USA on two of their
papers on microwave device modelling and measurement technology, José Carlos Pedro.
- Review Board of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, José Carlos
Pedro.
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Review Board of International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided
Engineering, José Carlos Pedro.
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4.2 Optical Communications
4.2.1 Coordinators
•
Adolfo Cartaxo
•
José Ferreira da Rocha
4.2.2 Human Resources
4.2.2.1 Overview
Degree
Aveiro Coimbra Lisboa
Full Professor
2
Associate Professor
1
1
3
Assistant Professor
6
1
2
Post. Doc.
1
Assistant Lecturer
1
PhD Student
6
MSc Student
4
1
Licenciado
2
1
TOTAL
23
6
2
5
2
12
Table 17 – Overview of human resources in the Optical Communications Area
4.2.2.2 Permanent Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
João Lemos Pinto
Agregação
Full Professor
OC- Av
José Ferreira da Rocha
Agregação
Full Professor
OC- Av
Artur Lopes Ribeiro
Agregação
Associate Professor
EOC- Lx
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Adolfo Cartaxo
PhD
Associate Professor
OC- Lx
Atílio Gameiro
PhD
Associate Professor
OC- Av
Henrique José A. Silva
PhD
Associate Professor
OC- Co
Jorge Torres Pereira
PhD
Associate Professor
EOC- Lx
António Teixeira
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Av
Armando Pinto
PhD
Assistant Professor
EOC- Av
Carlos Ferreira Fernandes
PhD
Assistant Professor
EOC- Lx
João Pires
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Lx
Manuel Violas
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Av
Mário Lima
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Av
Paulo Monteiro
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Av
Rui Sousa Ribeiro
PhD
Assistant Professor
OC- Av
Paulo André
PhD
Post. Doc.
EOC- Av
Table 18 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area
4.2.2.3 Other Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
João da Silva Pereira
MSc
Assistant Professor
OC- Co
Luís Miguel Mendes
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
OC- Co
Telmo Fernandes
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
OC- Co
José Morgado
MSc
PhD Student
OC - Lx
Luís Cancela
MSc
PhD Student
OC- Lx
Mário Rui Leiria
MSc
PhD Student
OC - Lx
António Tavares
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
OC- Av
António Jorge Morgado
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
João Lopes Rebola
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Lx
Miguel Ângelo Madureira
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
Natasa Pavlovic
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Lx
Paulo Jorge Marques
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
Rogério Nunes Nogueira
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
Rui Pedro Alves
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
Sérgio Junior
Licenciatura
PhD Student
OC - Av
Filipe Alves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Av
João Manuel Pedro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Lx
José António Magalhães
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Av
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Luis Miguel Ribeiro Teixeira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
EOC- Av
Mário Reis
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Co
Pedro Charrua
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Lx
Tiago Maia
Licenciatura
MSc Student
OC - Av
José Miguel Santos
Licenciatura
Licenciado
OC- Av
Teresa Almeida
Licenciatura
Licenciado
EOC- Av
Ricardo Gonçalves Oliveira
Licenciatura
Licenciado
OC- Co
Table 19 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Optical Communications Area
4.2.3 Summary of Research Achievements
In the following, the achievements in the OCarea are grouped, under three sub-areas:
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Optical Components and Subsystems
-
Optical Communication Systems
-
Optical Networking.
4.2.3.1 Optical Components and Subsystems
The work carried out in this sub-area concentrated on the modelling, performance
evaluation, optimisation and implementation of key components and subsystems for alloptical Networks.
In a subject with impact in many sub-areas of optical communications, the activities
concentrated in the study, implementation and test of fibre Bragg gratings (FBG) for
WDM and CWDM system. A specific activity on this subject, consisted on the study of
dynamically adjustable chromatic dispersion compensators, based on chirped FBGs. It is
known that environmental variations, such as changes in temperature can cause
variations in the system overall dispersion. To overcome this problem, tuneable
dispersion compensators are needed especially for high-speed systems. The adjustable
chromatic dispersion compensators are achieved by adjusting the chirp of the FBG with
an externally applied perturbation like temperature (gradient) or strain perturbation.
In the area of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG), characterisation of different
techniques for implementation of these devices with flat frequency response was
performed and the impact of fabrication errors on AWG frequency response was
analysed.
During the year of 2003 we have started work on specially doped fibres for amplifiers
applications. The preliminary tests focus on the mechanical properties of the fibres doped
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with Erbium and Thulium for the L and S bands, respectively. Future tests will concern
the reshaping of the fibre spectral properties.
Work has also been done on the expansion of the amplification band into the L band. One
L band EDFA, with very high gain and flatness in saturated regime, has been developed
and characterized.
Directly modulated lasers for metropolitan area networks utilizing negative dispersion
fibers were optimized and general features of optimal lasers for dispersion supported
transmission systems were assessed.
Analysis have been performed on modified distributed feedback (DFB) laser structures,
namely
multiple-phase
shifted
(MPS),
distributed
coupling
coefficient
(DCC)
and
amplitude modulated grating DFB lasers. In the latter a slow variation, linear or not, of
the grating amplitude was considered. The impact of structural parameters on laser
performance, either in threshold and above-threshold conditions, was carried on using
matricial techniques (Transfer Matrix Method). Special attention was given to the
possibility of achieving the single-longitudinal mode (SLM) operation in the abovethreshold regime.
During the year 2003 the analysis and simulation of PIN and APD devices continued. The
simulation tools previously developed have been updated in order to take into account
some specific situations. One such case is the study of the frequency response of
separate absorption multiplication avalanche photodiodes when the light is incident from
either side of the device. The effect of the wavelength of the light on the device's
bandwidth was also investigated.
Great efforts have been directed towards the development of subsystems for achieving
transparency in all-optical networks in the areas of OADM, wavelength converters and
fibre Bragg gratings. A new technique, based on broadband orthogonal pumps together
with semiconductor optical amplifiers and dispersion shifted fibres, was developed to
improve the range of wavelength converters, based on the four wave mixing process.
In the subsystems area, various optical add/drop multiplexers (OADM) structures based
on AWG were analysed and their performance optimised, when operating in WDM optical
networks. Validation of the probability density function of the output current of optically
pre-amplified receivers with arbitrary optical filtering and transparent optical networks
was also achieved through Monte Carlo simulation.
4.2.3.2 Optical Communication Systems
In the field of optical communication systems, analytical and simulation work was carried
out to characterize analytically the self-phase modulation (SPM) impact on cross-phase
modulation (XPM) -induced degradation in dispersion compensated WDM systems and to
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assess the influence of dispersion slope compensation on the XPM-induced degradation in
dispersion compensated WDM systems.
Advanced modulation formats, namely phase shaped binary transmission, enhanced
phase shaped binary transmission, alternate mark inversion RZ, and duobinary carrier
suppressed RZ with strong optical filtering were investigated for use in dense WDM
(DWDM) systems with optical dispersion compensation. A generalized reduced model for
performance assessment of optical line coding formats in dispersion managed systems
was also developed. This model describes the performance limitations imposed by group
velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation in these systems. A novel, simple and
generalized expression for the performance assessment of optically amplified receivers
valid for arbitrary coding formats was proposed.
Research has been pursued on the topic of soliton dynamics in dispersion-varying
compensating fibres (DVCF). The objective of this work is to analyze new transmission
schemes, where the normal dispersion compensating fibre (DCF) is replaced by a DVCF,
hoping to identify an optimal dispersion profile. A possible analytical approach to the
solution of this problem was presented and discussed in the workshop on Mathematical
Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications, at Tomar.
Communication systems using optical single side band transmission technique (OSSB)
were investigated. This transmission technique has advantages for upgrading the
capacity of the existing fibre networks. Novel Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuits
(MMICs) were studied and implemented to generate OSSB signals. Work in this sub-area
included also the optimization and implementation of electrical equalizers to compensate
the fibre dispersion in 10 and 40 Gbit/s OCsystems.
Orthogonal modulation techniques are being developed for high bit rate optical routing
proposes. This combined modulation formats have been proposed recently to optically
labeling of high-speed IP packets through DWDM networks. In this technique, the packet
reading and routing are carried out directly in the optical domain. The use of optical label
swapping allows the set up of optical paths along which the payload data is routed
transparently, avoiding the electronic payload processing. In the studied orthogonal
modulation technique, while the label is modulated in FSK (frequency shift key) format,
the IP payload is modulated in ASK (amplitude shift keying).
Free space optical transmission has been simulated. We have implemented a numerical
model to simulate the propagation of a laser beam through the atmosphere. The
introduction of this model in a photonic simulator allowed us to estimate the performance
of free space OCdata links. This model allows the study of correlations between BER and
atmospheric
variable,
helping
us
to
understand
the
laser
transmission
through
atmosphere. The atmo spheric variables considered were the air temperature and relative
humidity, the wind speed and direction and the presence of liquid water in the form of
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rain or fog. All these variables are responsible for the degradation of the link quality due
to absorption, scattering, scintillation and beam wander.
4.2.3.3 Optical Networking
In the field of performance monitoring, techniques were developed for modelling the
asynchronous performance monitoring method. This technique has great practical
potential since it can be used in transparent optical performance monitoring, without the
need of opto-electronic conversion.
Investigation of the physical level limitations of transparent optical networks (TON) was
performed. In this field, a Gaussian approach for the performance assessment of optical
multiplexer / demultiplexer concatenation in those networks and a method to obtain the
TON’s Q-factor, which takes into account the effects of inter-symbol interference,
accumulated noise and crosstalk, were developed. Performance of TONs based on optical
add-drop multiplexers using AWGs, in presence of fabrication errors, was also analysed.
The OCDMA technique can provide simple network management and multiple access in
optical networks. Theoretical studies were carried out in order to implement a
demonstrator for high data rates and moderate distances. Also, some of the all-optical
routing techniques were observed and a new technique based on OCDMA headers was
proposed. Other techniques of orthogonal modulation formats were studied for use in
routing nodes.
In the field of radio over fibre, optimized wavelength interleaving techniques were
demonstrated and its benefits studied.
Research was also carried out on nonlinear effects in IP-over-WDM Networks. The
objective of this work was to develop a methodology for evaluation of the influence of
fibre nonlinear effects on the performance of IP-over-WDM networks, through the
estimation of the packet error probability caused by nonlinear effects as a function of IP
traffic characteristics and network critical parameters. A numerical method has been
identified, and this is now being tested with typical parameters for core and metro
networks, taking also into consideration different switching types.
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4.2.4 Running Projects
4.2.4.1 Overview
Funding Agency
Number
AdI
3
FCT/POSI
5
Table 20 – Number of active projects in the Optical Communications Area during 2003.
4.2.4.2 Activity in Projects
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
ConvOCO
Conversão óptica de comprimento de onda
Project in consortium with Siemens SA, which aims to develop
techniques for optical performance monitoring, for each channel of a
multi wavelength OC system, based in measurable physical properties.
We intend also to study, simulate and implement a optical wavelength
conversion module. Both physical functions should be capable to process
and analyse optical intensity modulated signals with a 10 Gbit/s bitrate.
Both functions will be integrated in a late prototype, where the
developed functionalities will be demonstrated. The developed
functionalities are in agreement with the needs of the future photonic
networks, where the processing and analysis of the signals will be
realized completely in the optical domain.
DWDM/ODC/POSI/CPS/35576/1999
Dense Wavelength Division
Dispersion Compensation
Multiplexing
Systems
with
Optical
1) development of analytical formulation for performance evaluation of
arbitrary optical filters; 2) performance evaluation of various coding
formats
for
DWDM
systems
which
allows
to
assess
the
advantages/drawbacks of using those coding formats in DWDM
systems; 3) performance evaluation of several ODC strategies in
directly modulated systems; 4) generalisation of analytical formulation
for the assessment of cross-phase modulation influence on the
DWDM/ODC system performance; 5) assessment of limitations imposed
by fibre transmission and nodes on the size and design of DWDM/ODC
networks.
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Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
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ETOBLU/80/03
Equipamentos Terminais Ópticos para Banda Lateral Única
Chromatic dispersion in nondispersion-shifted fibers, limits significantly
the transmission distance in optical systems operating at data rates in
the range of 10Gbit/s, or higher, per wavelength division multiplexing
(WDM) channel. This limitation is due to intersymbol interference (ISI),
which leads to degradation on system performance. Given the large
quantity
of
nondispersion-shifted
fibre
currently
installed
in
telecommunications network, overcoming this limitation has become a
very important scientific and commercial goal. One of the most
promising techniques to overcome the dispersion limit is the
transmission of optical single sideband (OSSB) signals. This project will
develop OSSB transmission and receiver systems capable to upgrade
the capacity of the installed fibre with transmission rates exciding the
10 Gbit/s.
FS/POSI/33379/CPS/2000
Fiber Solitons: Propagation, Amplification and Switching
To study fiber solitons in the following aspects: (i) the in-line control in
WDM soliton communication systems; (ii) amplification of solitonlike
pulses in erbium- doped fiber amplifiers; (iii) soliton switching in
nonlinear fiber couplers; (iv) chiral solitons, i.e., solitons in chiral optical
fibers.
DOPTNET/POSI/CPS/42073/2001
Highly Dispersive Pulses in Dense WDM Optical Network
Project is aimed to answering some practical questions concerning very
high capacity optical networks, namely what is the maximum capacitylength product attainable in a connection, what are the requirements for
the switching/cross-connecting nodes and the degradations effects
induced by the optical wavelength converters presence.
TOBLU/36567/2000
Single Side Band Optical Transmission
Communication systems using optical single side band transmission
techniques (OSSB) are investigated and studied the viability for the
forthcoming generation networks. It will be developed novel Microwave
Monolithic Integrated Circuits (MMICs) to generate SSB signals, in the
optical domain, at multigigabit regimes and also for electrical
equalisation of the system dispersion.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
Acron/Ref
Title
Descript.
THE MOST
Transimpedance Highly Efficient Micro & millimetrewave Optical Smart
Transceiver
To produce a completed smart transceiver module for OC at 10 Gbit/s
and 40 Gbit/s
WoNet/POSI/2001/CPS/40009
Wavelength Division Multiplexing and OCDMA for broadcast and Select
Networks
This project aims to demonstrate a network based on Optical Code
Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) where the multiple access to the
media is free and based on an Broadcast/Select (B/S) Architecture. This
type of transmission methodology is not new, however, the approach
that is aimed within this project tries to innovate either in the network
architecture or in the code utilization and limitations. With the proposed
architecture, we will try to achieve further distances by concentrating
the spectrally sliced spectrum in a controlled block and using more pure
spectral sources, lasers with narrow spectral linewidth. Only one of
these nodes will be present in the network, simplifying controlling
processes, increasing network stability and decreasing nodes cost. In
the user node, will try to have as much simplic ity as it is possible, by
having the simple and cheaper, and totally optical in order to reduce the
complexity of the optics and electronics. By mixing the concepts of
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and OCDMA, we aim an
optimized code that will result in an optimum number of users per band
and the band optimum parameters, always having in mind the
optimization of the network cost and complexity (number of lasers and
complexity of the coder/decoder parts). Besides the already presented
objectives, we will try to develop an totally optical router for this type of
networks that will migrate codes in between bands and codes available
in the network or neighboring networks. Also, based on the main
components limitations will try to suggest the best utilization and
limitations of this type of network when compared to other equivalent
configurations. In summary, this project will try to improve the concept
aiming to achieve a more efficient and less expensive approximation,
making this type of network more appealing for practical and wide
implementation. Doing this we will also achieve better domain in the
design and implementation of fiber bragg gratings in order to have the
best results for this type of application.
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4.2.5 Running and Concluded Theses
Final Year Projects
Supervisor
Student
Fernando Jesus
António Teixeira
António Topa
Title
Aplicações para amplificadores ópticos
Carlos Alheiro
nas redes integralmente opticas
Ricardo Jorge
Bandas de Energia em Lasers
Rodrigues André
Semicondutores
End Date
7/2003
7/2004
Códigos de linha para sistemas HDWDM
Ricardo Viveiros
Adolfo Cartaxo
Nuno Veloso
(multiplexagem por divisão no
comprimento de onda de elevada
2/2003
densidade)
António Topa
Adolfo Cartaxo
Daniel das Neves
Vieira Lima
Massimo Battestini
Comutação Fotónica da Informação em
Sistemas de Comunicação Óptica com
7/2003
Solitões
Design of dispersion managed optical
fibre links
7/2003
Rui Pereira
António Teixeira
Interface para sensores ópticos
7/2004
José Batista
Sancho Mendes
Laboratório integrado com acesso
Francisco Couto
remoto
António Teixeira
Teresa Vieira
António Teixeira
Laboratório Integrado com Acesso
Remoto e sua plataforma de gestão de
Bruno Ramos
7/2004
acessos
Amadeu Santos
Optical Loop, Development of a
António Oliveira
Reconfigurable Controller Board
Armando Pinto
7/2003
7/2004
Optimização da compensação de
Adolfo Cartaxo
Tiago Miguel
Pereira Valente
dispersão em sistemas DWDM
utilizando modulação de amplitude com
7/2003
banda lateral vestigial
Adolfo Cartaxo
Pedro Miguel de
Optimização da modulação de
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Almeida Charrua amplitude com banda lateral vestigial
em sistemas DWDM
Optimização de um Router
António Teixeira
Filipe Martins
integralmente óptico para uso em redes
7/2004
IP integralmente ópticas
Paulo André
Luís Carlos Tavares Redes de Bragg para CWDM
Adriano Freitas
António Teixeira
Pedro Oliveira
Sistema de informação para gestão
laboratorial
7/2004
7/2003
Alexandra Rezende
Paulo André
Sistemas de comunicações ópticas
7/2004
Sistemas de Informação Aplicados
7/2004
Cândido Dias
António Teixeira
Rui Alheiro
Nuno Alexandre
Adolfo Cartaxo
Gouveia Brazão
Sistemas DWDM utilizando modulação
Cláudia Susana
de amplitude com banda lateral única
9/2003
Duarte Luís
Adolfo Cartaxo
Adolfo Cartaxo
Fánan Madeira
Henriques
Ana Sofia Pires
Wavelength converters based on crossgain modulation for WDM networks
Wavelength converters based on fourwave mixing for WDM networks
9/2004
9/2004
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MSc Theses
Supervisor
Student
Title
End Date
Desempenho de sistemas de
Adolfo Cartaxo
Daniel Diogo
Fonseca
transmissão por fibra óptica com gestão
de dispersão e usando códigos de linha
12/2003
espectralmente eficientes
Design and analyses of metropolitan
João Pires
João Galhordas
optical networks in the presence of
physical layer impairments
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Modelo reduzido para Descript. das
Adolfo Cartaxo
Ruben Soares Luís
limitações da modulação cruzada de
fase em sistemas de transmissão por
12/2003
fibra óptica com gestão de dispersão
Henrique José A.
Silva
Sílvia Medeiros Vaz Nonlinear Effects in IP-over-WDM
Pato
Adolfo Cartaxo
Pedro Miguel de
Almeida Charrua
Networks
12/2004
Optical transmission systems with AMI
or modified duobinary coding and
9/2004
partial side-band suppression
Optimização de multiplexadores de
Adolfo Cartaxo
Mário Rui Guerreiro inserção-extracção baseados em
Leiria
grelhas difractoras de guias de onda
12/2003
para redes ópticas transparentes
Optimização de Nós em sistemas
António Teixeira
José Magalhães
de”radio Over Fiber”para redes de
11/2004
comunicação móveis
Pedro Miguel
Carlos Paiva
Cunha de Serra
Camilo
Paulo André
João Pires
Paulo Monteiro
António Teixeira
Berta Maria
Barbosa Neto
João Pedro
Photonic Switching in WDM Soliton
Communication Systems
Redes de Bragg Dinamicamente
Reconfiguráveis para a Compensação
Paulo Santos
7/2004
de Dispersão Cromática
Routing and wavelength assignment in
WDM networks with optical protection
Tiago Nuno Gaspar Sistemas de Comunicação por Fibra
Maia
3/2003
Óptica em Banda Lateral Única
Técnicas de Suporte para redes OCDMA
12/2003
9/2003
7/2004
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PhD Theses
Supervisor
José Ferreira da
Rocha
Student
Rogério Nogueira
Carlos Paiva
Fernando Janeiro
António Topa
Adolfo Cartaxo
Atílio Gameiro
Paulo Monteiro
Natasa Bratislav
Adolfo Cartaxo
Communications
Chirality and Nonlinearity in Optical
Fibers
Coding formats for dense wavelength
division multiplexing systems
Rui Alves
Coding techniques for IR systems
Miguel Ângelo
Design of wide-band integrated optical
Martins Madureira front-ends
Nunes Vicente
Passos Morgado
João Pires
Bragg Gratings for Optical
Pavlovic
José Augusto
Adolfo Cartaxo
Title
Luís Cancela
Direct modulation optical
communication systems
Multichannel optical networks based on
hierarchical ring topologies
Mário Rui Guerreiro Optical communication systems with
Leiria
optical regenerators
End Date
10/2004
1/2004
2/2007
12/2003
12/2004
12/2004
12/2006
7/2007
Optimization of Optical
Armando Pinto
Meire Fugihara
Telecommunication Systems Using
3/2006
Distributed Raman Amplification
José Ferreira da
Rocha
Adolfo Cartaxo
Adolfo Cartaxo
Mario Lima
Daniel Diogo
Fonseca
João Lopes Rebola
Optimization of WDM Communication
Systems
Single side-band optical communication
systems
Wavelength division multiplexing optical
communication systems
4/2003
9/2007
7/2004
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4.2.6 Publications
4.2.6.1 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Papers in Journals
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Análise do
desempenho em sistemas de comunicações ópticas baseada em histogramas de
amplitude
assincronamente
amostrados”,
Revista
da
Sociedade
Brasileira
de
Telecomunicações, Vol. December, 2003.
- Tavares, A.; R. Valadas; R. L. Aguiar; A. M. O. Duarte; “Angle Diversity and RateAdaptive Transmission for Indoor Wireless OC”, IEEE Comm. Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 3,
pp. 64 - 73, March, 2003.
- Morgado, ; A. Cartaxo; “Assessment of laser noise influence on direct detection
transmission system performance”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Tech., Vol. 21, No. 3,
pp. 759 - 768, March, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; M. J. N. Lima; R. F. Rocha; “Effects of Optical Filter Detunning in WDM
Optical Networks”, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 14, pp. 1073 - 1074, July, 2003.
- Tavares, A.; R. Valadas; R. L. Aguiar; A. M. O. Duarte; “Experimental Characterization
of Rate-Adaptive Transmission and Angle Diversity Reception Techniques”, IEEE Wireless
Communications Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 36 - 44, April, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Optical
performance
monitoring
in
high
speed
transparent
DWDM
networks
through
asynchronous sampling”, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. sc2720, pp. 452 461, September, 2003.
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; “Q-factor estimation and impact of spontaneous-spontaneous
beat noise on the performance of optically preamplified receivers”, IEEE/OSA Journal of
Lightwave Tech., Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 87 - 95, January, 2003.
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- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; H. Kalinowski; J. L. Pinto; “Raman Gain characterization in
Standard Single Mode Optical Fibres for Optical Simulation Purposes”, Optica Aplicatta,
Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 559 - 573, December, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- André, P.S; A. N. Pinto; “Implications of Temperature in the Chromatic Dispersion:
Consequences on High Speed Optical Networks Performance”, Proc IEEE Lasers and
Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS, Tucson, United States, pp. 175 - 176,
October, 2003.
- Maia, T.; R. F. S. Ribeiro; P. Monteiro; M. Violas; “10Gbit/s Optical Single Sideband
Transmission using Zero Forcing Equalization”, Proc International Conf. on Wireless and
OC - WOC, Banff, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 104 - 109, July, 2003.
- Maia, T.; M. Violas; P. Monteiro; R. F. S. Ribeiro; “10Gbit/s Optical Single Sideband
Transmitter”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
241 - 244, June, 2003.
- Fugihara, M.; A. N. Pinto; “A Comparative Study of EDFAs and DRAs in Dis persion
Compensation Modules for Long-Haul Optical Communication Systems”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 355 - 358, June, 2003.
- Luis, R.; A. Cartaxo; “About the estimation of the impact of XPM on the performance of
WDM systems”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 245 248, June, 2003.
- Morgado, ; A. Cartaxo; “Accurate estimation of BER floor due to laser noise on directly
modulated direct detection transmission systems”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 331 - 334, June, 2003.
- Matera, F.; et. al.; “Advanced Infraestructure for Photonics Networks - State of the Art
and Prospects (IST ATLAS)”, Proc Conf. on Optical Networks Design and Modelling ONDM, Budapeste, Hungary, February, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; P.S André; P. Monteiro; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; “Alloptical Routing based on OCDMA Headers”, Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society
Annual Meeting - LEOS, Tucson, United States, October, 2003.
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- Teixeira, A.T.; “Analysis of Antennas with PBG substrate”, Proc International Microwave
and Optics Conf., Iguazu, Brazil, Vol. V1, pp. 207 - 209, September, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto;
“Asynchronous Sampled Amplitude Histogram Model for Optical Performance Monitoring
in High Speed Network”, Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS, Tucson, United States, Vol. ThQ2, pp. 911 - 912, October, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; R.N. Nogueira; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Broadband Optical
Wavelenght Converters”, Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON,
Varsóvia, Poland, July, 2003.
- Romero, R.; O. Frazão; P.S André; H. Salgado; J. L. Santo; “Chirped Fibre Bragg
Gratings for OC and Sensors Applications”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 573 - 576, June, 2003.
- Morgado, ; A. Cartaxo; “Comparison of laser optimisation for dispersion supported
transmission systems at various bit rates”, Proc European Conf. on Networks and OC NOC, Viena, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 28 - 35, July, 2003.
- André, P.S; A. N. Pinto; “Effect of Temperature on the Single Mode Fibers Chromatic
Dispersion”, Proc International Microwave and Optics Conf., IGUAZU, Brazil, September,
2003.
- San José, E. R.; F. J. Velez; “Enhanced UMTS Services and Applications: a perspective
beyond 3G”, Proc European Personal Mobile Communications Conf. - EPMC, Glasgow,
United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 146 - 150, April, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; R.N. Nogueira; G. P. T. Reis; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Filter
Optimization for Wavelength Interleaved Radio-over-Fiber Systems”, Proc International
Microwave and Optics Conf., Iguazu, Brazil, September, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; P. Monteiro; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; J. L.
Pinto; “Formatos de modulação ortogonais para transmissão de tráfego IP sobre redes
ópticas DWDM”, Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã,
Portugal, October, 2003.
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- Leiria, M.; J. L. Rebola; A. Cartaxo; “Gaussian approach for the performance evaluation
of transparent optical networks based on optical add-drop multiplexers”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 323 - 326, June, 2003.
- André, P.S; A. N. Pinto; “Implications of Temperature in the Chromatic Dispersion:
Consequence on High Speed Optical Networks Performance”, Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro
Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS, Tucson, United States, Vol. TuA5, pp. 175 - 176,
October, 2003.
- Fonseca, D.; A. Cartaxo; “Improved reduced model to describe SPM-limited 10 Gbit/s
dispersion managed fibre links”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro,
Portugal, pp. 517 - 520, June, 2003.
- Pavlovic, N.P.; A. Cartaxo; “Influence of Chirp Parameter on Pre-Distorted 10 Gb/s NRZ
Installed Links”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1,
pp. 509 - 512, June, 2003.
- Morgado, ; A. Cartaxo; “Laser optimization for dispersion supported transmission
technique”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
569 - 572, June, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; R.N. Nogueira; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; J. L. Pinto; R. F. Rocha; “Multiwavelength Conversion Based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Self Pumped
converter”, Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications, Papeete, French Polynesia,
Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, February, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; F. Oliveira; F. Jesus; R. F. Rocha; “Multiwavelength conversion based on reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers ”, Proceedings
of SPIE , Prague , Czech Republic , Vol. 5036 , pp. 570 - 576 , July , 2003 .
- Nogueira, R.N. ; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “New Technique for
Implementing Multiwavelength Orthogonal Codes for OCDMA using Fiber Bragg Gratings
written in High Birefringence Fibers”, Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual
Meeting - LEOS, Tucson, United States, October, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; “Numerical Methods for Fiber Bragg Gratings”, Proc International Conf.
on Transparent Optical Networks, Varsóvia, Poland, July, 2003.
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- Fonseca, D.; A. Cartaxo; “Optical duobinary transmitter optimisation”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 249 - 252, June, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; G. P. T. Reis; “Optimization of Fiber Bragg Gratings for Wavelength
interleaved Radio over fiber Networks”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, July, 2003.
- Silva, H. J. A.; “Optimization of the dispersion profile in soliton links with dispersionvarying
compensating
fiber”,
Proc
Mathematical
Techniques
and
Problems
in
Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 24, CIM, pp. 229 - 239, September, 2003.
- Fernandes, S.; A. N. Pinto; P.S André; M. Fugihara; “Pulse Broadening due to Higher
Order Dispersion”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp.
391 - 394, June, 2003.
- Matera, F.; et. al.; “Towards transport networks based on 40 Gbit/s transmission:
results from the IST ATLAS project”, Proc International Conf. on Transparent Networks –
ICTON, Warsaw, Poland, June, 2003.
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; “Validation of the probability density function of the output
current of optically preamplified receivers with arbitrary optical filtering through Monte
Carlo simulation”, Proc European Conf. on Networks and OC - NOC, Vienna, Austria, Vol.
1, pp. 151 - 158, July, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; R.N. Nogueira; P.S André; J. L. Pinto; R. F. Rocha; “Wavelength
Interleaved Radio-over-Fibre Optimized Scheme Based on Highly Birefringent Optical
Filters”, Proc IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting - LEOS, Tucson,
United States,October, 2003.
Project Reports
- Rebola, J. L. ; A. Cartaxo; “Explicit expression for the performance assessment of
optically
preamplified
systems
with
arbitrary
modulation
formats”,
Telecomunicações, POSI/CPS/35576/1999-DWDM/ODC, September, 2003.
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- Pavlovic, N.P.; A. Cartaxo; “Influence of Narrow Optical Filtering on Enhanced-PhaseShaped Binary Transmission Performance in Single Channel Systems”, Instituto de
Telecomunicações, POSI/CPS/35576/1999, September, 2003.
- Pavlovic, N.P.; A. Cartaxo; “Influence of Narrow Optical Filtering on Enhanced-PhaseShaped Binary Transmission Performance in Ultra Dense WDM Systems”, Instituto de
Telecomunicações, POSI/CPS/35576/1999, October, 2003.
- Charrua, P.; A. Cartaxo; “Optimização da modulação de amplitude com banda lateral
vestigial em sistema s DWDM”, Instituto Superior Técnico, September, 2003.
4.2.6.2 OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND SUB- SYSTEMS
Papers in Journals
- Lima, M. J. N.; A.T. Teixeira; R. F. Rocha; O. Frazão; P.S André; “Comparison of the
thermal tuning capability of different types of Bragg grating filters for wavelength division
multiplexing applications”, SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. 2502 2505, September, 2003.
-
Morgado, ; A. Cartaxo; “Directly modulated laser parameters optimisation for
metropolitan area networks utilizing negative dispersion fibers”, IEEE Journal of Selected
Topics in Quantum Electronics, June, 2003.
- Abe, O.; H. Kalinowski; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; O. Frazão; “Production and
Characterisation of Bragg Gratings written in High Birefringence Fibre Optics”, IEE
Proceedings - Circuits Devices Syst., Vol. 150, No. 6, pp. 495 - 500, December, 2003.
- Pereira, D.; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; “Raman Amplifiers for
use in WDM systems”, Rev. do Dep. de Electrónica e Telecomunicções da Univ. Aveiro,
Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 790 - 795, January, 2003.
- Melo, M.; A.T. Teixeira; O. Frazão; L. Gomes; M. J. N. Lima; H. Salgado; “Tunable LBand Erbium Doped Fiber Ring Laser by Means of Induced cavity loss using a Fiber
Taper”, Appl. Phys. Letters, No. 77, pp. 139 - 142, August, 2003.
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Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Nogueira, R.N. ; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; O. Abe; H. Kalinowski; R. F. Rocha; J. L.
Pinto; “All-fiber Broad band orthogonal pumps wavelength converter”, Proc International
Conf. on Telecommunications, Papeete, French Polynesia, February, 2003.
- Abe, O.; R.N. Nogueira; P.S André; H. Kalinowski; J. L. Pinto; “Analysis of Bragg grating
writen in high birefringence fibre optics”, Proceedings of SPIE, Prague, Czech Republic,
Vol. 5036, pp. 223 - 228, July, 2003.
- Pereira, D.; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; “Aspectos de
Modelização de Amplificadores Ópticos de Fibra Dopada de Érbio”, Proc Congresso da
Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal, April, 2003.
- Pereira, D.; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; “Black Box Modeling of
Gain in Erbium- Doped Fiber Amplifiers for L-Band”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 287 - 289, June, 2003.
- Abe, O.; O. Frazão; H. Kalinowski; R.N. Nogueira; J. L. Pinto; “Characterization of Bragg
Gratings in Normal and Reduced Diameter HiBi Fibers”, Proc International Microwave and
Optics Conf., Foz Iguaçu, Brazil, September, 2003.
- André, P.S; A. N. Pinto; J. L. Pinto; “Effect of Temperature on the Single Mode Fibers
Chromatic Dispersion”, Proc International Microwave and Optics Conf., Foz do Iguazu,
Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 231 - 234, September, 2003.
- Cartaxo, A.; Morgado; “Efficient and accurate numerical solution of stochastic partial
differential equations: formulating a problem”, Proc Matemática em Telecomunicações Que Problemas? - MTQP, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 205 - 217, September, 2003.
- Monteiro, P.; M. Violas; R. F. S. Ribeiro; R. F. Rocha; “Electronic Post-det ection Filter for
Multigigabit Optical Communication Systems”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Electron
Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronics Applications, Orlando, United States, Vol.
03TH8691, pp. 192 - 197, November, 2003.
- Lima, M. J. N.; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; O. Frazão; “Fiber Bragg gratings
with variable negative mean index change”, Proc International Microwave and Optics
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Conf., Iguazu, Brazil, September, 2003.
- André, P.S; H. Kalinowski; L. Borghesi; J. L. Pinto; “Measurement of RamaN gain
coefficient in standard single mode optical fibres for DWDM photonic communications
systems”, Proceedings of SPIE, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. 5036, pp. 507 - 511, July,
2003.
- Pereira, J. T.; “Modeling the Effect of Temperature on the Frequency Response of
Separate Absorption and Multiplication Avalanche Photodiodes”, Proc Jornadas Luso
Espanholas de Engª Electrotécnica, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 31 - 36, July, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto;
“Modelo atmosférico para simulação de sistemas de comunicação ópticos em espaço
livre”, Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal,
October, 2003.
- Nogueira, R.N.; O. Abe; H. Kalinowski; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Precise characterization
of fiber Bragg gratings for photonic communications systems”, Proceedings of SPIE,
Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. 5036, pp. 176 - 181, July, 2003.
- André, P.S; R.N. Nogueira; M. J. N. Lima; A.T. Teixeira; J. L. Pinto; R. F. Rocha;
“Rational Harmonic Mode Locked Sources for High Speed DWDM Networks”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 283 - 285, June, 2003.
- Kalinowski, H.; P.S André; “Simulation and evaluation of frequency coupling coefficients
in the non linear dispersive regime of single mode fibres”, Proceedings of SPIE, Prague,
Czech Republic, Vol. 5036, pp. 523 - 528, July, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; J. L. Pinto; “Simulation of Laser Beam Propagation Through
the Atmosphere for OC Proposes”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro,
Portugal, pp. 351 - 354, June, 2003.
- Melo, M.; O. Frazão; P.S André; V. Marques; H. Salgado; J. L. Santo; “Spectral
response evaluation of fiber Bragg gratings written in tappered single mode optical
fibers”, Proc International Microwave and Optics Conf., Foz do Iguazu, Brazil, Vol. 2, pp.
643 - 645, September, 2003.
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- Pereira, J. T.; “The Effect of the Absorption and Multiplication Layer Width on the
Frequency Response of InGaAs/InP SAM-APD Devices”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications
- ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 201 - 204, June, 2003.
- Lima, M. J. N.; A.T. Teixeira; O. Frazão; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; “Thermal behavior of
Bragg gratings formed in germanosilicate fiber”, Proceedings of SPIE, Prague, Czech
Republic, Vol. 5036, pp. 187 - 192, July, 2003.
- Abe, O.; O. Frazão; R.N. Nogueira; H. Kalinowski; J. L. Santo; J. L. Pinto; “Threeparameter simultaneous measurement using superimposed Bragg Gratings in highbirefringence optical fibers”, Proc IEEE Sensors, Nara, Japan, October, 2003.
- Teixeira, A.T.; “Ultrafast all-optical switch in the infrared with thiatricabocyanine dye”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, July, 2003.
- Mendes, S.; M. J. N. Lima; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; “Web based FBG Dispersion
measurement”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 189 191, June, 2003.
- Nogueira, R.N. ; A.T. Teixeira; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Wide Tuning Range All-Fiber
Self-Pumped Wavelength Converter”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele,
Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003.
- Nogueira, R.N. ; A.T. Teixeira; P.S André; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Wide Tuning Range
Self-Generated Orthogonal Pumps Source Based on a Reflective Semiconductor Optical
Amplifier”, Proc European Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Munich, Germany, June,
2003.
4.2.6.3 OPTICAL NETWORKING
Book Chapters
- Pires, J. J. O. ; L. G. C. Cancela; “Crosstalk effects in large stricly non-blocking optic al
switches based on directional couplers”- Chapter in High-Speed Networsk and Multimedia
Communications, Mário Narques Freire, Pascoal Lorenz e Mike Myung-OK Lee, SpringerVerlag, 2003.
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Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Pires, J. J. O. ; J. M. Pedro; “Efficient Routing and Wavelenght Assignment in WDM
Shared Protection Rings”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal,
pp. 513 - 516, June, 2003.
- André, P.S; A.T. Teixeira; M. J. N. Lima; R.N. Nogueira; R. F. Rocha; J. L. Pinto; “Optical
Performance
Monitoring
in
High
Speed
Transparent
DWDM
Networks
through
Asynchronous Sampling”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on High-Speed Networks and
Multimedia Communications - HSNMC, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, July, 2003.
- Silva, H.; M. C.G. Go uveia; “Optimization of the dispersion profile in soliton links with
dispersion-varying compensating fiber”, Proc Mathematical Techniques and Problems in
Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 229 - 239, September, 2003.
4.2.7 Other Achievements
4.2.7.1 Miscellaneous
- André, P.S; “Training Course”, Comunicações Ópticas Avançadas, 14-07-2003.
4.2.8 Other Contributions
4.2.8.1 Conference Committees
- Conferência Iberoamericana em Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática CISCI 2003.
- Technical Programme Committee, Rogério Nunes Nogueira, 01-08-2003.
- HSNMC 2003: 6th IEEE International Conference on High-Speed Networks and
Multimedia Communications, Organizing Committee, Henrique José A. Silva, 23-072003.
- I SITE-ON, Conference Chairman, António Teixeira, 17-06-2003.
- ICTON 03, Scientific Committee, António Teixeira, 05-03-2003.
- M2USIC 03, Scientific Committee, António Teixeira, 28-08-2003.
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4.2.8.2 Refereeing
- 4th Conference on Telecommunications, Confetele’2003, Paulo Monteiro, 01-04-2003.
- 36th Annual Simulation Symposium, Paulo André, 10-01-2003.
- 4th Conference on Telecommunications (conftele’2003), Mário Freire, 18-06-2003.
- ASTC - Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, Armando Pinto, 30-03-2003.
- Conftele 2003, Paulo André, 01-03-2003.
- Conftele 2003 - 3rd Conference on Telecommunications, António Topa, 01-03-2003.
- CRC 2003 - 6.ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores, Henrique José A. Silva, 3009-2003.
- Electronics Letters, Adolfo Cartaxo, 08-10-2003.
- Electronics Letters, Paulo Monteiro, 01-04-2003.
- Electronics Letters, Paulo Monteiro, 15-05-2003.
- Expert for the 6th European framework, António Teixeira, 01-10-2003.
- IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics, Henrique José A. Silva, 23-02-2003.
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Adolfo Cartaxo, 22-07-2003.
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Adolfo Cartaxo, 08-08-2003.
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Adolfo Cartaxo, 22-03-2003.
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, João Lopes Rebola, 01-04-2003.
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Adolfo Cartaxo, 22-01-2003.
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Paulo André, 01-08-2003.
- IMOC - International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, Armando Pinto, 0109-2003.
- IMOC 03, António Teixeira, 02-08-2003.
- International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, Paulo André, 01-03-2003.
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, João Lopes Rebola, 19-06-2003.
- Journal of Measurement Science and Technology, Armando Pinto, 14-07-2003.
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Carlos Paiva, 17-02-2003.
- Optical Fiber Technology, Paulo André, 01-04-2003.
- Optics Communications, Adolfo Cartaxo, 10-10-2003.
- Optics Communications, Carlos Paiva, 18-01-2003.
- SCI - Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Armando Pinto, 27-072003.
- SPIE Optical Engineering, Henrique José A. Silva, 23-02-2003.
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4.3 Networks and Multimedia
4.3.1 Coordinators
•
Mário Figueiredo
•
Rui Valadas
4.3.2 Human Resources
4.3.2.1 Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Full Professor
1
1
Associate Professor
2
1
4
Assistant Professor
2
9
6
Post. Doc.
1
Coordinator Professor
1
Assistant Lecturer
12
Lisboa
PhD Student
7
4
6
MSc Student
12
4
10
Licenciado
15
1
Other
TOTAL
40
2
1
35
27
4.3.2.2 Permanent Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
Luís Sá
Agregação
Full Professor
SIP - Co
Manuel de Oliveira Duarte
Agregação
Full Professor
NMMC- Av
Fernando Pereira
Agregação
Associate Professor
Image
Carlos Belo
PhD
Associate Professor
NMMC - Lx
José Brázio
PhD
Associate Professor
NMMC - Lx
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José Luís Oliveira
PhD
Associate Professor
NMMC- Av
Rui Manuel Rocha
PhD
Associate Professor
NMMC - Lx
Rui Valadas
PhD
Associate Professor
NMMC- Av
Sérgio Faria
PhD
Associate Professor
SIP - Co
Abel João Gomes
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Co
Amaro Sousa
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Av
Ana Fred
PhD
Assistant Professor
CTPR
António Carlos Almeida
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC - Lx
Fernando Lopes
PhD
Assistant Professor
SIP - Co
Fernando Perdigão
PhD
Assistant Professor
SIP - Co
João Sobrinho
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC - Lx
Luís Alexandre
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Co
Luís Cruz
PhD
Assistant Professor
SIP - Co
Maria Paula de Sousa
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Co
Maria Paula Queluz
PhD
Assistant Professor
Image
Mário Figueiredo
PhD
Assistant Professor
CTPR
Mário Freire
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Co
Paul Andrew Crocker
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Co
Paulo Correia
PhD
Assistant Professor
Image
Susana Sargento
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC- Av
Vitor Silva
PhD
Assistant Professor
SIP – Co
Francisco Fontes
PhD
Post. Doc.
NMMC- Av
Pedro Amado Assunção
PhD
Coordinator Professor
SIP - Co
Frutuoso da Silva
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Carla Calado Lopes
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
SIP - Co
Pedro Daniel Correia
MSc
Assistant Lecturer
SIP - Co
Carlos Miguel Ribeiro
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
SIP - Co
João Carlos Silvestre
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
SIP - Co
João Paulo Cordeiro
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Paulo Paiva Monteiro
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
SIP - Co
Romeu da Silva
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Rui Cardoso
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
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Rui Fernandes
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Rui Pereira
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Joel Rodrigues
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Co
Hugo Proença
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Co
Vasco Lagarto
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Degree
Position
Group
José Monteiro Morgado
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Rui Manuel Coelho
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
NMMC- Co
Daniel Zaragoza
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC - Lx
Hugo Almeida e Marques
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
Paulo Salvador Ferreira
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
António Nogueira
MSc
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
Carlos Borges Lopes
MSc
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
João Ascenso
MSc
PhD Student
Image
Paulo Nunes
MSc
PhD Student
Image
David Coutinho Antão
Licenciatura
PhD Student
CTPR
Eduardo Marta
Licenciatura
PhD Student
SIP - Co
Emanuel Martins
Licenciatura
PhD Student
SIP - Co
Hugo Gamboa
Licenciatura
PhD Student
CTPR
José Pedro Fernandes
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
Luís Cardoso
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
Luís Ducla Soares
Licenciatura
PhD Student
Image
Nuno Rodrigues
Licenciatura
PhD Student
SIP - Co
Vitor Marques
Licenciatura
PhD Student
NMMC- Av
Jorge Gonçalves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Jorge Patrão
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
José Maio
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Nuno Silva
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Ricardo Cadime
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
4.3.2.3 Other Collaborators
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Arlindo Veiga
Licenciatura
MSc Student
SIP - Co
Artur Ferreira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
CTPR
Diogo Diogo
Licenciatura
MSc Student
Image
Duarte Palma
Licenciatura
MSc Student
Image
Helder Vidal
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RCS
João Santos
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Luís Oliveira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Luisa Caeiro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
RCS
Marco Gomes
Licenciatura
MSc Student
SIP - Co
Maria do Céu Beirão
Licenciatura
MSc Student
CTPR
Pedro Alexandre Gonçalves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Pedro Fonseca
Licenciatura
MSc Student
Image
Pedro Gonçalves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Rui Marcelino
Licenciatura
MSc Student
SIP - Co
Rui Pires Fernandes
Licenciatura
MSc Student
SIP - Co
Sandra V. B. Jardim
Licenciatura
MSc Student
CTPR
Catarina Brites
Licenciatura
MSc Student
Image
André Lourenço
Licenciatura
MSc Student
CTPR
António Amaral
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Cristiano Pereira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Miguel Figueiredo
Licenciatura
MSc Student
NMMC- Av
Fernando Bastos
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Filipe Cabral Pinto
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
João Barraca
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
João Paulo Firmeza
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Luís Miguel Silva
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Miguel Plácido Santos
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Nuno Guimarães
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Pedro Capão
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Pedro Carvalho
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Pedro Naia Neves
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
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Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
Vitor Ribeiro
Licenciatura
Licenciado
NMMC- Av
MSc
Other
NMMC - Lx
Roland de Haan
4.3.3 Summary of Research Achievements
The work in the area of Networks and Multimedia is organized in several topics:
Architectures and protocols;
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Traffic engineering;
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Network operations, Management, and planning;
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Impact of Telecommunications in Society;
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Processing, analysis and coding of audio and visual information;
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Pattern recognition and automatic learning;
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Speech analysis and recognition.
In the following, we briefly summarize the main achievements in each of these topics.
4.3.3.1 Architectures and Protocols
Routing protocols - Research focused on the convergence properties of path- and
distance-vector
protocols
in
a
broad
range
of
operational
environments,
from
performance-oriented intra-domain routing to policy-oriented inter-domain routing in the
Internet. A non-classic algebraic theory of network routing was developed which unifies
these seemingly unrelated routing paradigms and establishes fundamental results. The
theory views routing with path- and distance-vector protocols as a generalization of
shortest-path routing. Instances of the theory have provided guidelines for the complex
problem of inter-domain policy-oriented routing with the Border Gateway Protocol.
IPv4-IPv6 transition scenarios - The evolution of IP networks from IPv4 to IPv6 protocol
is being addressed by investigating architectures and protocols that can provide existing
and new services in an integrated way and that can work over the most promising
evolution scenarios where both protocols must exist. Particular attention is being devoted
to the combination of DNS, multicast and mobility over both a single autonomous system
and multiple autonomous systems. A set of solutions to provide mobile IP over IPv4-IPv6
transition scenarios was already investigated and this work is being subject of
publication.
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Heterogeneous networking issues - The work performed was centered on heterogeneous
networking issues, mainly on QoS aspects, and the integration of QoS with service
concepts. A trial site and a QoS Broker were developed. On-going activities are: overall
architecture of heterogeneous networks, including broadcast technologies; QoS signaling
in these environments; ad-hoc networking, and service provision in ad-hoc networks. The
results achieved during last year showed that integrated approaches to mobility, QoS and
service management can be implemented using IP-based protocols with performance
adequate for 3G interactive services. Some activity has also been done, in cooperation
with the wireless area, in new radio resource allocation mechanisms, targeted to specific
IP traffic.
Signalling protocols for optical burst switching networks - We have analysed the network
performance
of
signaling
protocols,
namely
Just-in-time
(JIT),
Just-enough-time,
Horizon, JumpStart, and JIT+. We are presently comparing the relative performance of
these protocols in ring, chordal ring and mesh networks.
4.3.3.2 Traffic Engineering
Traffic modelling and analysis – An improved traffic model and parameter fitting
procedure, based on Markov modulated Poisson processes, which is able to capture selfsimilarity over a range of time scales, was proposed. This version achieves a much lower
number of states when compared with previous ones. The fitting procedure matches the
complete distribution at each time scale, and not only some of its moments as it is the
case in related proposals. This new version of the traffic model The characterization of
general (non-exponential) ON-OFF sources and their adequacy to model real Internet
traffic data in terms of queuing behavior, was also addressed.
Statistical characterization of Internet traffic – We have analysed Internet traffic using
multivariate statistical analysis techniques. We have identified patterns of similar
behavior by grouping Internet users according to measurements carried out in two
distinct ISPs. The grouping of the users was based on their traffic utilization measured
every half-hour. Cluster analysis was used to identify the relevant Internet usage
profiles. The cluster structure was validated through discriminant analysis.
Congestion control in packet networks – This topic was the subject of a PhD thesis
concluded in 2002 where new algorithms for feedback congestion control were proposed
and analysed; the main achievements during this last year were: (i) the derivation of
stability conditions for the proposed algorithms and, (ii) the proposal and study of
mechanisms for source rate differentiation, supported on the algorithms proposed before,
without increasing complexity in core routers.
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Traffic performance analysis in wavelength routing networks - The work focused on the
role of network topologies in the traffic performance of wavelength routing networks. We
found that the increase of the nodal degree from 2 to 3 leads to large nodal degree
gains, whereas, the increase of the nodal degree from 4 to 5 leads to small nodal degree
gains. Our results show that degree three and degree four topologies of smallest
diameters are the best candidates for use in the optical core of IP-over-WDM networks.
Design of MPLS over WDM networks - Multiple service network design is being addressed
taking particular attention to both single layer design (MPLS networks) and multi-layer
design (MPLS over WDM networks). On the MPLS layer, network design problems and
solving techniques were studied for large-scale MPLS network design under two routing
approaches, destination based ro uting and source-based routing. This work is being
proposed for publication. On the MPLS over WDM network design, problems were
addressed which are a combined WDM lightpath routing, core LSR placement and LSP
routing aiming to determine the least cost network solution. These problems differ
between them on the design requirements spanning between optical transmission
maximum length, LSP maximum number of hops and fault-tolerance requirements. One
of these problems was already published in IEEE INFOCOM 2003 conference and the
others are being subject to publication.
TCP/IP over HF links - Following a performance study of TCP/IP communications over an
HF point-to-point transmission system done in previous year, further developments were
done in order to implement a communication platform that can interconnect two LANs
with an HF point-to-point link following the military standards STANAG 4539 and 5066.
This platform supports the most important IP services (DNS, HTTP, Email, proxy, Web
caching) optimised to take the most out of the link bandwidth and with the capacity of
service differentiation between the services. This work is being supported by Portuguese
Navy and will be terminated in the first months of next year.
TCP/IP over satellite links - Work addressed the development of a transport architecture
for reliable end-to-end transfer in satellite networks, as an alternative for overcoming the
poor utilization of satellite links that TCP affords in such environments. The work in 2003
included, in the context of the second phase of the ESA TPSAT project, the redesign of
the architecture and protocols developed in Phase 1 of that project, as a result of
changed requirements. Activity was started in the study of long range dependence
properties of traffic generated by polynomial and exponential backoff random access
algorithms.
COST 279 - Support continued to be provided to the coordination of COST Action 279, via
a contract established for that purpose with the European Union. Part of the associated
work involved the preparation of the COST 279 Mid-Term Seminar, to be held in Rome at
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the end of January 2004, and the final editing of the COST 279 Mid-Term Report,
prepared for distribution at the Seminar.
4.3.3.3 Network Operations, Management and Planning
Network security using software agents - We are developing an agent-based approach for
detection and notification of security vulnerabilities in TCP/IP hosts. The software agents
under development are to be FIPA-compliant and will allow an intelligent and dynamic
detection of security vulnerabilities.
QoS Management - IT has contributed to the specification and development of an API for
Service Quality Management (SQM), within the OSS/J initiative. We specified and
developed a prototype for the end-to-end QoS management of IP Networks (SQM v1.0, )
and defined a lab setup to carry out the related experimentations. We also carried out
experiments of the IPTEL SER open-source platform, with special focus on trigger
programming for Service Provisoning, using CPL (Call Processing Language).
Techno-Economic Analysis of Networks and Services - This thematic area of research is
devoted to the study of the technological, economic and financial aspects associated with
the
provision
of
telecommunications
networks
and
services.
The
research
has
encompassed a variety of issues that include socio-territorial factors (regional topology,
demography, socio-economic patterns, available networks and other infrastructures),
technological issues (candidate network solutions, candidate service offers), regulatory
framework and business models.
4.3.3.4 Impact of Telecommunications in Society
Telecommunications and Society - This thematic area of research is devoted to the study
of the effects of emergent information and communication technologies and services (in
particular telematic services such as Internet) upon different sectors of human and
organizational activity. In addition, the role of telematic services and networks as basic
preconditions for the efficiency of modern productive systems and catalizers of social and
economic development is also addressed.
4.3.3.5 Processing, Analysis and Coding of Audio and Visual Information
Object-based rate control – The research activity in this area has continued to address
the development of rate control solutions for video scenes represented as a composition
of objects such as adopted by the MPEG-4 standard. During 2003, the major
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achievement has been the study of the best rate and distortion models in the context of
object-based MPEG-4 video encoding by comparing different rate and distortion models
for Intra and Inter coding in the form of rate-quantization, distortion-quantization and
rate-distortion functions.
Object-based error resilience – We have continued to address the problem of maximizing
the video quality when transmitting object-based video data through error prone
channels. During 2003, the major achievements have been: 1) the development of a
technique to conceal shape errors in the binary alpha planes or in the binary supports of
gray scale alpha shapes corresponding to the objects in object-based image or video
coding systems such as MPEG-4; this assumes that most contour segments are rather
smooth and uses Bézier curves to interpolate them; 2) the development of a temporal
technique to conceal shape errors in binary alpha planes or in the binary supports of gray
scale shapes corresponding to the objects; to conceal the corrupted shape, the decoder
starts by assuming that the alpha plane changes in consecutive time instants can be
described by a global motion model; then, since not all alpha plane changes can be
perfectly described by global motion, an additional local motion refinement is applied to
deal with areas of the object that have significant motion.
Video coding with fine granularity scalability – During 2003, the major achievement in
this area has been the development of a H.264/AVC based fine grain scalable video
encoder which also exploits the motion compensation tools of the H.264/AVC standard to
take benefit of the temporal redundancy in the enhancement layer which is predicted
from a high quality reference obtained from past information from the enhancement and
base layers; moreover drift reduction techniques are proposed to limit the negative
impact on the quality when part of the enhancement layer used for prediction is not
received by the decoder.
Face detection and recognition – Research in this area has been developed in
collaboration with the Philips Laboratories in The Netherlands and has targeted the
design of facial detection and tracking algorithms in the DCT compressed domain; a low
complexity algorithm has been developed, able to perform in real-time in resourceconstrained environments such as mobile terminals.
Extraction of text from video – Since the creation of content descriptions with high
semantic value has become an important issue, this activity targeted the development of
an algorithm able to perform the fully automatic extraction of natural and synthetic text
from images and video, in the later case exploiting the temporal redundancy.
Video Segmentation - Algorithmic development has focused on surveillance applications,
using completely automatic segmentation techniques that estimate the camera noise and
then automatically select the most appropriate threshold for separating moving from
static regions. Also an automatically adjustable object memory is included to handle
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situations when (parts of) the objects temporarily stop moving. This segmentation
solution has been developed in the context of the integrated segmentation framework
previously developed, by selecting the most appropriate techniques available that
correspond to the segmentation scenario in which this application fits. The work on
objective video segmentation quality evaluation has also continued and it has been
applied to compare the adequacy of different candidate video segmentation algorithms
for a given application.
Video description - The application of video descriptions, which are extracted once from a
given video and stored in a standard format (MPEG-7), has been considered. In
particular, there has been work related to the usage of these descriptions for video
summarization. Also the application of video description for video genre classification
applications has been started.
Image Restoration – Work on wavelet-based image restoration has been further pursued.
We were able to develop iterative deconvolution algorithms, with provable monotonity
properties, which, unlike previous methods, can be used with shift invariant wavelet
bases. These new algorithms achieve state-of-the-art performance on benchmark
problems. During 2003, we have also worked towards extending this type of approach to
problems of blind deconvolution and of super-resolution.
Still Image Compression – Here, basic research on the use of independent component
analysis (ICA) for image compression has been carried out. Since the
bases obtained
with ICA are non-orthogonal, two methods were considered to obtain the image
representations: matching pursuit type algorithms and orthogonalization of the ICA bases
followed by standard orthogonal projection. Our main conclusions were: bases learned
from natural images generalize well to other classes of images; bases learned from the
other specific classes show good specialization. For example, for fingerprint images, our
coders perform close to the special-purpose WSQ coder developed by the FBI. For some
image classes, the visual quality of the images obtained with our coders is similar to that
obtained by JPEG2000, which is currently the state of the art still image coder.
4.3.3.6 Pattern Recognition and Automatic Learning
Unsupervised Learning - New clustering algorithms and partition combination techniques
were given special attention, leading to original theoretical and algorithmic contributions.
Work was also done on the topic of feature selection for unsupervised learning; in this
topic, two types of methods were developed, one extending the classical “wrapper”
approach, used in supervised learning, to the unsupervised case, the other by defining
the concept of “feature saliency”, a quantity that we have shown that can be estimated
by an expectation-maximization algorithm.
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Supervised Learning – The Bayesian techniques for learning sparse classifier that have
been develop in 2002 were extended
in several directions: inclusion of feature
scaling/selection in kernel-based classifiers; multi-class formulations, by moving from a
“probit” to a “logistic” formulation; development of faster bound-optimization algorithms,
both parallel and sequential.
Tutoring systems - Here, under a Bayesian learning approach, the personal identification
problem was addressed, in the context of the work developed by a PhD student.
Multimedia Databases – In this area, we are developing indexing and retrieval tools
based on information distances (of the Kullback-Leibler type), both in a classical
(Shannon) information theory context and in a computational (Kolmogorov) information
theory framework. These approaches will allow developing “agnostic” measures (for
example, of similarity), in the sense they they do not rely on any explicit probabilistic
modelling and are theoretically universal.
4.3.3.7 Speech analysis and recognition
A main topic of research was the study and the implementation of a method to perform
word confidence measures in an automatic speech recognition system. The confidence
measure is computed during the decoding phase and is based on likelihood ratios
between the top hypotheses that reach a word node. Experiments were carried out on a
digit database with a connected-digit recognizer. This efficient method can be applied
with advantage in small or medium vocabulary recognizers, with low computational
resources. The digit recognizer was also integrated in the Windows Sapi environment.
Another research topic was the study of a speech coder for very low bandwidth
communication channels, with significance analysis of its parameters. A new addressed
topic is the analysis of plosive sounds to enhance the speech perception of cochlear
implanted persons. Also, a study of phoneme recognition with neural networks has been
initiated.
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4.3.4 Running Projects
4.3.4.1 Overview
Funding
Funding Agency
Number
ESA
2
EU
3
FCT/POSI
4
Internal
4
Portuguese Navy
1
FEDER, PRAI - Centro
1
PT Inovação
5
SUDOE INTERREG III-B
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Agency
4.3.4.2 Activity in Projects
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
COST 279
Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks supporting
Mobility, Multimedia and Internetworking
The main objective of the Action is to develop techniques for the
analysis, design and control of advanced multiservice networks
supporting mobility, multimedia and interworking, by means of the
development and application of new and better analytical techniques for
the mathematical understanding and optimisation of the behaviour of
communications equipment, protocols, and network topologies and
architectures, and of economic aspects such as pricing principles and
network cost est imation.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
COST 211
COST 211 quad
Development of video analysis algorithms for segmentation and
indexing.
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Title
Description
CYBERAL
CYBERAL - Broadband in Rural Zones
Decreasing the dificulties that some rural and peripherical regions of the
countries of the european SouthWest handle, related to the access to
the Information Society, particulary the Internet.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
DISMe
Desenvolvimento Integrado de Soluções Multimédia
Desenvolvimento Integrado
Mobilidade IP, VoIP
de
Soluções
Multimédia.
IPv6,
QoS,
Euro-NGI
Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet, Towards
Convergent Multi-Service Networks
Euro-NGI is a Network of Excellence from the Sixth Framework
Programme, Priority 2, Information Society Technologies (IST), of the
European Community. The main objective of the Euro NGI network is to
create and maintain the most prominent European center of excellence
in Next Generation Internet design and engineering, acting as a
“Collective Intelligence Think Tank”, representing a major support for
the European Information Society industry and leading towards a
European leadership in this domain. The recent technological advances
will lead to exploitable innovative services once the integration of these
technologies through innovative architectures is achieved. The Next
Generation Internet (NGI) will offer view multi-service/multimedia,
mobility, convergence (services and fixed- mobile), Quality-of-Service
and variable connectivity as the norm. On one hand, future high-speed
wire-line and wireless access technologies provide instant high
bandwidth connectivity, which makes difficult to forecast traffic and
thus to apply existing traffic engineering methods. On the other hand,
the technology diversity explodes and mastering such a heterogeneous
environment becomes essential to the network designer. This requires
investigation into new multi-technology architectures. It is understood
today that new design, planning, dimensioning and management
principles are needed. In this context, the main topics addressed by the
NoE are: - Mastering the technology diversity (vertical and horizontal
integration) for the design of efficient and flexible NGI architectures. Providing required innovative traffic engineering architectures adapted
to the new requirements and developing the corresponding appropriate
quantitative methods. The network experts bring the required
competences on the various technologies that will be integrated. They
also bring a worldwide recognize expertise on the various topics that
composes the traffic engineering and optimal dimensioning domain.
Due to the wealth of technologies and tools, achieving the above cited
objectives requires the integration of European research capacities to
reach a critical mass.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Description
RADNAV IV
Development of a TCP/IP Service Platform to Run over HF Transmission
Systems
This project is a follow up of RADNAV III and has the following
objectives: (i) implementation of the previously developed system
(based on a single server and a single client connected by an HF
transmission channel) on Portuguese Navy premises and validation of
simulation results previously done, (ii) development of open source
based routers to interconnect LANs (with attached servers and clients)
through the HF channel and (iii) explore different queueing disciplines
on the routers to achieve better utilization of the HF channel low
bandwidth between the different TCP/IP servic es.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
MULTIDIM / POSI/CPS/41459/2001
Dimensioning Multi-Service and Multi-Layer Networks: Optimization
Models
Study optimization algorithms for multi-service and multi-layer network
design and dimensioning. Particular attention is devoted to the network
design of ATM, MPLS and MPLS over WDM networks. Depending on the
particular problems under study, different optimization techniques are
pursuit: (i) model reformulations for efficient use of branch-and-bound
and branch-and-cut algorithms and (ii) utilization of heuristic based
algorithms like Lagrangean Relaxation with Sub-Gradient Optimization.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
GRIP
Gestão Integrada de Redes IP
- To analyse the state of the art and best practices for the end-to-end
QoS management on IP-centric Networks - To develop prototypes for
QoS and Service Quality Management (SQM), using J2EE technology
and OSS/J APIs - To evaluate the IPDR and OSS/J IP Billing APIs.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
MPEG
ISO MPEG standardization
Specification of audiovisual representation standards (MPEG-4, MPEG-7
and MPEG-21).
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Moby Dick / 2000-25394
Moby Dick
The project will define, implement, and evaluate an IPv6-based
mobility-enabled end-to-end QoS architecture starting from the current
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IETF's QoS models, Mobile-IPv6, and AAA framework. A representative
set of interactive and distributed multimedia applications will serve to
derive system requirements for the verification, validation, and
demonstration of the Moby Dick architecture in a testbed comprising
UMTS, 802.11 Wireless LANs and Ethernet. In the event of these
existing applications or the underlying architectures not providing what
is required, the necessary modification will be undertaken. The
implementations will be tested in a Trans-European trial between
Madrid/Spain and Stuttgart/Germany with exchange students from the
SOKRATES-ERASMUS exchange program.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
VISNET / Proposal/Contract No: 506946
Networked audiovisual media technologies
VISNET aims to create a sustainable world force of leading research
groups in the field of networked audiovisual (AV) media technologies
applied to home platforms. The member institutions have grouped
together to set up a network of excellence with a clear vision for
integration, research and dissemination plans. The research activities
within VISNET will cover several disciplines related to networked AV
systems and home platforms.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
PIONEER
PIONEER - Performance Issues in Optical NEtworks with intErnet tRaffic
The project has three main objectives: i) to analyse performance issues
in IP-over-WDM networks with static and dynamic wavelength routing;
ii) to evaluate the performance of GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol
Label Switching) architectures and iii) to study the impact of nonlinear
effects in IP-over-WDM networks.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Powerline
Powerline
To assess powerline communications capacity to compete
technologically and costly with other access network solutions.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Sureté
Security in TCP/IP Networks
Investigation of several issues related with the security of TCP/IP,
namely: (i) Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Honey Pots, (ii)
security in routing protocols, (iii) security in wireless LANs (IEEE
802.11), (iv) firewalls and traffic analysis systems, (v) IPSec and VPNs,
(vi) public key criptography, digital certification and PKIs, (vi) tools for
auditing, vulnerability analysis, and log analysing, (vii) authentication
and confidentiality at the application level, (viii) anti-virus systems.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Description
SITE
SITE - Interactive System for the Inovation and Technological Transfer
Increase the transfer of knowledge and cooperation between the
cientific system (University, Institutes, Technological Centers, etc) and
the economical tissue.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
SAPA
Software Agents for Prevention and Auditing of Security Faults in
Netwoked Systems
The main objective of this project is to improve the capabilities of
networked systems to detect possible security flaws by using Agentbased applications. The main aim is to enable the dynamic, intelligent
and autonomous detection of vulnerabilities and exposures in systems
and to make them available to network administrators. We will use
FIPA-compliant Agents to monitor the network and interact using ACL
(Agent communication language). There are two main advantages of
this approach: we will reduce the amount of data send to network
administrators (currently used tools send huge amounts of data), and
present only relevant information preprocessed by our agent. The other
advantage is the ability of knowledge interchange between Network
Agents and User Agents, which by it self can bring a natural
enhancement to the overall performance of the system.
SSL-AMDMR / POSI/33143/SRI/2000
Statistical and Structural Learning: Applications in Multimedia Data
Mining and Retrieval
The focus are statistical and structural learning techniques. Exploratory
analysis (mining) and content-based retrieval of multimedia data serve
both as a practically relevant application domain, and as a source of
challenging problems. The Goals to be pursued: - new unsupervised
learning criteria (i.e., simultaneous feature and model selection); unsupervised learning methods under a model-based framework and/or
new clustering criteria; - new dissimilarity measures, adequate for
various types of representation (strings, quantitative, and hybrid),
typically found in multimedia; - combination of different types of
representation in a coherent framework for similarity computation;
comparison and blending of different clustering techniques / criteria into
a workable methodology; - efficiency and scalability of learning
algorithms.
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Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
SuperNet / POSI/35560/CPS/99
Support of Service Level Agreements in IP Networks
The main objective of the project is to define, implement, and validate
a QoS management architecture able to support Service Level
Agreements on a Differentiated Services IP network.
SCALE II / POSI/42069/CPS/2001
Trafic Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Multiservice Networks
This project aims at proposing the adoption of traffic models based on
real traffic traces to support the design and management of the future
Internet. The project will initially extend the work initiated in the SCALE
project to develop fitting procedures for MMPPs, through the proposal
and implementation of procedures to fit Batch Markovian Arrival
Processes and Markov Modulated Compound Poisson Processes. These
processes are able to reproduce accurately the first-order statistics and
the autocovariance structure for the time scales of interest, so as to
describe appropriately the long-range dependence characteristics that
are common in observed traffic. Other processes exhibiting these
properties will also be explored, e.g., the autoregressive process with
Markov regime. Overall, the model fitting activities will be constrained
by the need to match the traffic characteristics that have more impact
in network performance, within the time scales of interest. The impact
of splitting the traffic in classes according to its statistical properties is
also investigated by extracting models for each individual class from the
aggragate traffic data and studying their interdependencies.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
TPSAT
Transport Protocol and Resource Management for Mobile Satellite
Networks
In this project is developed a transport architecture for reliable end-toend transfer in satellite networks, as an alternative for overcoming the
poor utilisation of satellite links that TCP affords in such environments.
The approach followed exploits the ideas of supporting the end-to-end
concatenation of arbitrary transport protocols, and of providing and
exploiting mechanisms for applications exchange information with a
satellite resource manager about their resource requirements. The
scope of the project comprises the development and validation of a
transport and resource management architecture and of a transport
protocol adapted to the satellite link environment, and the
implementation and test of a prototype.
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Title
TPSAT2
Transport Protocol and Resource Management for Mobile Satellite Networks
- Phase 2
Description
In this project is developed a transport architecture for reliable end-to-end
transfer in satellite networks, as an alternative for overcoming the poor
utilisation of satellite links that TCP affords in such environments. The
approach followed exploits the ideas of supporting the end-to-end
concatenation of arbitrary transport protocols, and of providing and
exploiting mechanisms for applications exchange information with a
satellite resource manager about their resource requirements. The scope of
the current 2nd phase of project TPSAT is the redefinition of the
architecture developed in Phase 1 to a scenario of interconnection of LANs
in a fashion transparent to end user applications and implementation and
test of a prototype.
4.3.5 Running and Concluded Theses
Final Year Projects
Supervisor
Student
Luis Domingues
António Nogueira
Paul Andrew Crocker
Title
Aplicação Distribuida para
Rui Almeida
Engenharia de Tráfego
Sónia Venda
Avaliação da Qualidade dos Sites
Luís Silva
Rui Manuel Rocha
Configuration and Performance
Rui Engana
Management of 802. 11b WLANs
Luís C. e Sousa
Rui L. Aguiar
9/2003
9/2003
Controlo de elementos de rede
para suporte de Serviços
Nelson M. Santiago
3/2004
portuguese)
Jorge Sousa
Rui Manuel Rocha
9/2003
Bluetooth and IEEE802.11:
internetworking scenarios (in
Miguel Melo
End Date
7/2003
Diferenciados
Nuno Sénica
Rui L. Aguiar
Nuno Duarte
Demonstrador de mobilidade
heterogénea
Diogo Gomes
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Bárbara Coelho
Gabriel
João Pires
Desenvolvimento de uma
Pedro Salgueiro
aplicação de Gestão Documental
Gerador e analisador de Ethernet
Ana Lopes
para optimização de simulações
Carlos Sá da Costa
Verónica Gonçalves
Gestão de espectro rádio com
Maria Paula Queluz
recurso a um sistema de
Ricardo Carrapiço
Duarte
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
12/2003
e testes
Luis Natário
Manuel de Oliveira
1/2003
9/2003
informação geográfica
Integrated Networks with QoS:
Marta Maria Costa
Dimensioning and Techno-
7/2003
Economic Analysis
Integrated Networks with QoS:
Elisabete Durão
Dimensioning and Techno-
Figueiredo
7/2003
Economic Analysis
Pedro Claro
Rui L. Aguiar
Interface rede IP-rádio 4G
9/2003
André de Oliveira
Hugo Policarpo
Interpretação Automática de
João Deusdado
Esboços
Tomaz Crespo
IST - WLAN: Site Survey and
Mário Figueiredo
Rui Manuel Rocha
Francisco Contreiras Project
11/2003
9/2003
Memória longa em tráfego de
José Brázio
João Manuel Carolino
de Almeida
dados como resultado da
dinâmica dos mecanismos de
9/2004
controlo das redes de
computadores
Carlos Sá da Costa
Joana da Costa Lopes
Lança
Carlos Martins
Fernando J. Velez
Flávio Abreu
Monitorização de elementos
através da plataforma HP
6/2003
OpenView
Parallel Processing using a Linux
Cluster
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Jorge Faria
Phonemic Recognition for
José Rebola
Cochlear Implants
Fernando Perdigão
9/2004
Nuno Inácio
Francisco Fontes
Projecto Probes
6/2004
Ricardo Pereira
Francisco Fontes
Paulo Ferrer Loureiro Projecto SIP
André Marquet
Carlos Sá da Costa
Rede Piloto de Distribuição de
Audio/Vídeo MPEG-4 sobre a
Nuno Martins
André Marquet
Carlos Sá da Costa
7/2003
Internet
Rede Piloto de Distribuição de
Audio/Vídeo MPEG-4 sobre a
Nuno Martins
6/2004
7/2003
Internet
João Girão
Rui L. Aguiar
Redes Móveis Autónomas
9/2003
João Paulo Barraca
Fernando Pereira
Filipe Fonseca Lopes Segurança baseada no
João Araújo Fonseca reconhecimento de faces
Jorge Costa
Maria Paula Queluz
Emanuel Guerreiro
Rui Manuel Rocha
Luís Gueifão
Diogo Romão
Maria Paula Queluz
João Barata
Pedro da Fonseca
Fernando Pereira
Tiago de Carvalho
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Serviços de localização em
sistemas de telecomunicações
José Remédios
Eduardo Jorge Pato
Rodrigues
11/2003
7/2004
móveis
Simulation Models for UMTS
Networks (in portuguese)
Sistema para assinatura de
imagens fixas
Sumarização automática de
vídeo
9/2003
9/2003
9/2003
Techno-Economic Analysis of
Multioperator Heterogeneous
9/2003
Networks
Techno-Economic Analysis of
José Pereira Marques Multioperator Heterogeneous
Networks
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Teste e validação de tecnologias
Robson Lozano
RPR
João Pires
12/2003
Video and Audio Wireless
Fernando Ventura
Armando Pinto
Intercommunicator Based on a
Sergio Lopes
7/2004
GameBoy Console
Hugo Elói Alves
Fernando Perdigão
Word Recognition using Phoneme
Marcio Alexandre
Models
9/2004
Matos
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MSc Theses
Supervisor
Rui Valadas
Student
Title
Filipe Simões
All-IP UMTS Networks
End Date
12/2004
Avaliação da qualidade de
Maria Paula Queluz
serviço da informação
Ana Filipa Freitas
geográfica nos serviços de
1/2004
localização
Fernando Pereira
João Miguel Duarte
Ascenso
Codificação escalável de vídeo
com elevada granularidade
12/2003
Confidence Measures for
Fernando Perdigão
Arlindo Oliveira Veiga
Speech Recognition and OOV
4/2004
Detection
Detecção Automática de
Mário Figueiredo
Maria do Céu Beirão
Defeitos em Imagens de
9/2003
Têxteis
Dimensioning of MPLS
Rui Valadas
Jorge Patrão
Networks: Node and Link
Amaro Sousa
Sérgio Faria
12/2003
Optimization
Rui V. P. Fernandes
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Applications
12/2004
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Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira
Sérgio Faria
Rui L. Aguiar
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Duarte Manuel da
Extracção automática de texto
Conceição Palma
a partir de vídeo
Pedro Miguel Ferreira
Face detection and tracking in
dos Santos da Fonseca the compressed domain
Rui Fernando da Luz
Marcelino
Feature Extraction in
Compressed Video Domain
Pedro Alexandre Sousa
Gonçalves
4/2004
3/2004
12/2003
Implementação de um
Sistema de Gestão de QoS
12/2003
para redes IP
Independent Component
Mário Figueiredo
Artur Ferreira
Analysis in Lossy Image
2/2003
Compression
Integração de dados
Maria Paula Queluz
Jorge Rocha
estatísticos na classificação de
4/2003
imagens de satélites
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Vitor Silva
Amaro Sousa
João Miguel de
Integrated Networks with
Arrochela Camizão Pais QoS: Broadband in Rural and
da Rocha
9/2004
Peripheral Areas
José Pedro Mateiro
Matias Borrego
Integrated Networks with
QoS: Dimensioning and
9/2004
Techno-Economic Analysis
Marco Alexandre Cravo Low density parity check
Gomes
codes: Applications
Mobile IP on IPv4-IPv6
Luís Oliveira
Transition Scenarios
4/2004
1/2004
Multi-access wireless
Rui Manuel Rocha
Helder António Vidal
networks: roaming between
mobility-aware IP and cellular
6/2004
networks
Amaro Sousa
Multicast Routing on IP
António Amaral
Networks
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Assunção
Rui Valadas
Amaro Sousa
Rui Manuel Rocha
Rui L. Aguiar
Rui L. Aguiar
Rui L. Aguiar
Rui Valadas
Fernando Pereira
Rui Valadas
Processamento de Informação
Nuno Picado Santos
Visual para Aplicações
2/2004
Multimédia
Carla Ribeiro
QoS in IP Access Networks
QoS Network Design: a
Daniel Martins
Decision Supporting System
QoS support for 802.11b
Maria Luísa Caeiro
wireless LANs
Lina Maria Pestana Leão Qualidade de serviço (IP) em
de Brito
redes móveis
Carla Maria Pinto de
Paiva
Qualidade de serviço em redes
IP com Multicast
João Plácido Santos
Qualidade de Serviço sobre
Redes Móveis Heterogéneas
Secure Communications in
Cristiano Pereira
TCP/IP Networks
Diogo Bento Rochinha Semantic Indexing of Soccer
Diogo
Video
Simulation of Communication
Filipe Cunha
Networks using NS-2
12/2004
10/2004
10/2003
10/2003
10/2003
3/2004
12/2004
9/2004
12/2004
Sistema para gestão do
Maria Paula Queluz
Henrique Cunha
espectro radio-eléctrico em
12/2004
ligações de microondas
Amaro Sousa
Survivable Routing on GMPLS
Emanuel Moreira
over SDH Networks
10/2004
Techno-Economic Analysis and
Methodological Framework for
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Fernando Valente
Broadband Provision in Rural
Ramos
and Peripheral Areas:
Application to the Portuguese
Landscape
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Pedro Daniel Frazão
Correia
Transcodificação de Vídeo
para Redes de Baixo Débito
5/2003
Unsupervised Learning
Ana Fred
André Lourenço
Methods and Combination
10/2004
Strategies
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PhD Theses
Supervisor
Mário Figueiredo
Student
Title
Analysis of microrray gene
Sandra Jardim
expression data
End Date
12/2005
Analysis of Optical Network
Mário Freire
Rui Manuel Ferreira
Coelho
Architectures with Support for
Internet Protocol, Involving
12/2006
Extraction of Topologies from
Databases
Manuel de Oliveira
Duarte
Carlos Belo
Fernando Miguel Rocha Bibliographic Archive for the
Oliveira
Científic Production
António Cristóvão
Congestion Control in Packet
Matias de Almeida
Switching Networks
9/2004
4/2003
Controlo de débito em
Fernando Pereira
Paulo Jorge Lourenço
Nunes
arquitecturas de
representação de vídeo
12/2004
baseadas em objectos
Data retrieval and
Mário Figueiredo
David Pereira Coutinho classification using
12/2005
information distances
Dimensioning and Resource
Amaro Sousa
Carlos Borges Lopes
Management of Multi-Service
7/2005
Networks
Fernando Pereira
Luís Eduardo de Pinho Error resilience for advanced
Ducla Soares
video coding systems
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Mário Figueiredo
Artur Ferreira
generative/discriminative
12/2005
supervised learning
Information Extraction in
Mário Freire
Rui Costa Cardoso
Distributed Environments
7/2006
Using Agents Technology
Ana Fred
Mário Freire
Carlos Belo
Models in Learning Systems: a
Hugo Gamboa
Bayesian Approach
Joel José Puga Coelho
Rodrigues
12/2006
Multicasting Protocols in IPover-WDM Networks with
7/2006
Optical Burst Switching
ON-OFF Traffic in Packet
Daniel Zaragoza
Networks
10/2005
Resource Management in
Rui Valadas
Susana Sargento
Networks with Quality-of-
2/2003
Service Support
Rui L. Aguiar
Rui Valadas
Victor Manuel Letra
Marques
Serviços Multimédia para
Redes Heterogéneas
Statistical Characterization of
António Nogueira
ATM Traffic
12/2004
12/2004
Traffic Engineering for
Rui Valadas
Paulo Salvador
Multiservice Broadband
12/2004
Networks
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Publications
4.3.5.1 ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS
Books
- Freire, M.M.; P. Lorenz; M. Myung-Ok Lee; High-Speed Networks and Multimedia
Communications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Sargento, S.; R. Valadas; J. Gonçalves; H. T. Sousa; “IP-based Access Networks for
Broadband Multimedia Services”, IEEE Comm. Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 109 - 119,
February, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Oliveira, L.oliveira; A. Amaral; A. F. Sousa; “Mobility in IPv4-IPv6 Transition Scenarios”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 31 - 34, June,
2003.
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Sobrinho, J. L. S.; “Network Routing With Path Vector Protocols: Theory and
Applications”, Proc ACM SIGCOMM, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 49 - 60, August, 2003.
4.3.5.2 NETWORK APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; “Aplicação de Métricas de Segurança em Redes Locais”, Proc
Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilha, Portugal, Vol. CD- ROM, pp. 1 - 6,
November, 2003.
- Ferreira, J.; F. J. Velez; “Enhanced UMTS Deployment and Mobility Scenarios”, Proc IST
Mobile Communications Summit, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. II, pp. 558 - 562, June, 2003.
- Clemente, M. A.; F. J. Velez; “Parameters for Tele-traffic Characterisation in Enhanced
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UMTS”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 375 378, June, 2003.
- Ribeiro, C.; V. Silva; “Partial Shortening for xDSL DMT Transceivers with Symmetric
Filters”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4,
June, 2003.
- Ribeiro, C.; V. Silva; “Symmetric Eigenfilters for Partial Shortening in xDSL DMT
Transceivers”, Proc International Symp. on Signal Processing and its Applications - ISSPA,
Paris, France, Vol. 1, pp. 399 - 402, July, 2003.
- Rodrigues, J.; M. J. Barrulas ; “Towards Web-based Information and Knowledge
Management in Higher Education Institutions”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on HighSpeed Networks and Multimedia Communications - HSNMC, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
188 - 197, July, 2003.
- Bader, F.; C. Pinart; C. Christophi; E. Tsiakkouri; I. Ganchev; V. Friderikos; C. Bohoris;
L.
M.
Correia;
L.
Ferreira;
“User-Centric
Analysis
of
Perceived
QoS
in
4G
IP
Mobile/Wireless Networks”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile
Radio Commun - PIMRC, Beijing, China, September, 2003.
4.3.5.3 NETWORK OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Sebastião, P.; R. Tomé; P. Lourenço; F.C. Cercas; “A planning and design tool for
WLAN: technical and economic aspects”, Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. GLOBECOM, San Francisco, United States, December, 2003.
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; “An Agent-based Approach for Detection of Security
Vulnerabilities in Networked Systems”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Software,
Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM, Split, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 49 53, November, 2003.
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; “DENOFAS: A Vulnerability Assessment Tool”, Proc IADIS
International Conference on WWW/Internet, Algarve, Portugal, Vol. IADIS Press, Vol. II,
pp. 1105 - 1108, November, 2003.
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- Freire, M.M.; R.M.C. Coelho; J. Rodrigues; “High Performance Optical Backbones for
Next Generation Internet”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Information Technology:
Coding and Computing - ITCC, Las Vegas, United States, pp. 170 - 174, April, 2003.
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; “Management of Security in TCP/IP Hosts Using Dedicated
Monitoring Applications”, Proc IFIP/IEEE International Conf. on Network Control and
Engineering for Quality of Service, Security and Mobility - NetCon, Muscat, Oman, pp. 263
- 273, October, 2003.
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; “Melhoria da Segurança de Sistemas em Rede Utilizando
Agentes de Monitorização”, Proc Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Bragança,
Portugal, Vol. CD Actas, pp. 1 - 9, September, 2003.
- Duarte, A. M. O.; R. L. Aguiar; F. M. Ramos ; J. P. Borrego; J. Rocha; D. C. Martins;
“Metodologia e análise Tecno-Económica para oferta de Banda Larga em Zonas Rurais e
Periféricas”, Proc Encontro Nacional do Colégio de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Lisbon,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 25 - 30, May, 2003.
- Gouveia, L.; P. Patrício; A. F. Sousa; R. Valadas; “MPLS over WDM Network Design with
Packet Level QoS Constraints based on ILP Models”, Proc IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco,
United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2003.
- Serrador, A. Serrador; L. M. Correia; “Optimisation of Cell Radius in UMTS-FDD
Networks”, Proc IST Mobile Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. v2, pp. 553 557, June, 2003.
- Rocha, J.; F. M. Ramos ; R. L. Aguiar; A. M. O. Duarte; “Providing Advanced
Telecommunications Services in Rural and Peripheral Areas : Methodological Framework
ans Case Studies for Portugal”, Proc IADIS International e-Society Conf., Lisbon, Portugal,
Vol. 1, pp. 435 - 443, September, 2003.
- Lages, T.; H. Santos ; F. J. Velez; “Redes sem Fios IEEE 802.11: Instalação,
Configuração e Segurança”, Proc Engenharia - Jornadas da Universidade da Beira Interior,
Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. 1, November, 2003.
- Cardoso, R.; M.M. Freire; N. M. Sampaio; “Towards an Agent-based Approach for
Detection and Notification of Security Faults in TCP/IP Networks”, Proc Conf. on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 972-98368-2-5, pp. 263 - 266,
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June, 2003.
- Borrego, J. P.; D. C. Martins; A. F. Sousa; A. M. O. Duarte; “UMTS Multi-Service
Networks: Dimensioning and Techno-Economic Analysis”, Proc IST Mobile Wireless
Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 858 - 862, June, 2003.
- Rocha, J.; F. M. Ramos ; A. M. O. Duarte; R. L. Aguiar; “WiFi + Satellite : An Internet
Access Network Solution for Remote Areas”, Proc IST Mobile Wireless Summit, Aveiro,
Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 868 - 872, June, 2003.
Project Reports
- Lages, T.; F. J. Velez; “Redes Sem Fios IEEE 802.11: Instalação, Configuração e
Segurança”, University of Beira Interior, October, 2003.
4.3.5.4 PATTERN RECOGNITION AND AUTOMATIC LEARNING
Books
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, A. Rangarajan, M. Figueiredo, and J. Zerubia, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
Book Chapters
- Law, M. ; A. K. Jain; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Feature selection in mixture-based
clustering”- Chapter in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, S. Becker, S. Thrun,
and K. Obermayer, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Fred, A. L. N.; J. Leitão; “A New Cluster Isolation Criterion Based”, IEEE Trans. on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 8, August, 2003.
- Bicego, M.; V. Murino; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “A sequential pruning strategy for the
selection of the number of states in hidden Markov models”, Pattern Recognition Letters,
Vol. 24, No. 9-10, pp. 1405 - 1417, June, 2003.
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- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; “Adaptive Spareseness for Supervised Learning”, IEEE Trans. on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, pp. 1150 - 1159, September, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; A. K. Jain; M. Law; “A Feature selection wrapper for mixtures”,
Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Puerto de Andratx, Spain,
June, 2003.
- Simões, D.; J. Redol ; N.H. Horta; “A New Approach Towards E-Learning Contents
Standardization And Enhanced Usability”, Proc IADIS International Conference on
WWW/Internet, Carvoeiro, Portugal, November, 2003.
- Alexandre, L.; A. Campilho; M. Kamel; “A Probabilistic Model for the Cooperative
Modular Neural Network”, Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis,
Maiorc a, Spain, Vol. LNCS vol. 2652, pp. 11 - 18, June, 2003.
- Horta, N.H.; R. Luis; J. Redol ; D. Simões ; “Data Warehousing and Data Mining Applied
to an E-Learning Platform”, Proc International Conf. on Multimedia and ICTs in Education,
Badajoz, Spain, December, 2003.
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; “Does Independent Component Analysis Play a Role in
Unmixing Hyperspectral Data?”, Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image
Analysis, Puerto de Andratx, Spain, Vol. 2652, pp. 616 - 625, June, 2003.
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; “Fast Unsupervised Extraction of Endmembers spectra
from Hyperspectral Data”, Proc Proceedings of SPIE, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 5239,
September, 2003.
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; “Fast Unsupervised Technique for Extraction of
Endmembers Spectra from Hyperspectral Data”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 537 - 540, June, 2003.
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; “Independent Component Analysis Applied to Unmixing
Hyperspectral Data”, Proc Proceedings of SPIE, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 5238, September,
2003.
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- Bicego, M.; V. Murino; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Similarity-based clustering of sequences
using hidden Markov models”, Proc Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern
Recognition, Leipzig, Germany, July, 2003.
- Nascimento, J. M. P.; J. Dias; “Vertex Component Analysis: A fast algorithm to extract
endmembers spectra from Hyperspectral data”, Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition
and Image Analysis, Puerto de Andratx, Spain, Vol. 2652, pp. 626 - 635, June, 2003.
- Horta, N.H.; J. Redol ; D. Simões ; “VIANET-A New Web Framework for Distance
Learning”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Learning Technologies, Athens,
Greece, July, 2003.
4.3.5.5 PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND CODING OF AUDIO AND VISUAL
INFORMATION
Book Chapters
- Pereira, F.; “Content adaptation: the panacea for usage diversity ?”- Chapter in Visual
Content Processing and Representation, José Maria Martinez, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; R. Nowak; “An EM algorithm for wavelet-based image restoration”,
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 906 - 916, August, 2003.
- Burnett, I.; F. Pereira; “MPEG-21: goals and achievements”, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 10,
No. 4, pp. 60 - 70, October, 2003.
- Correia, P.L.; F. Pereira; “Objective Evaluation of Video Segmentation Quality”, IEEE
Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 186 - 200, February, 2003.
- Soares, L. D.; F. Pereira; “Refreshment Need Metrics for Improved Shape and Texture
Object-Based Resilient Video Coding”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 3,
pp. 328 - 340, March, 2003.
- Pereira, F.; I. Burnett; “Universal multimedia experiences for tomorrow”, IEEE Signal
Processing Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 63 - 73, March, 2003.
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Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Navarro, A.; J. Tavares; “A Common Channel Adaptation Approach for Video Coding”,
Proc SPIE - Image and Video Communications and Processing, Santa Clara, United States,
Vol. 1, pp. 440 - 449, January, 2003.
- Correia, P.D.F.; V. Silva; P.A. Assunção; “A Method for Improving the Quality of Mobile
Video
under
Hard
Transcoding
Conditions”,
Proc
IEEE
International
Conf.
on
Communications - ICC, Anchorage, Alaska, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 928 - 932, May,
2003.
- Correia, P.L.; F. Pereira; “A Proposal for the Classification of Video Segmentation
Application Scenarios”, Proc Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services WIAMIS, London, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. 188 - 195, April, 2003.
- Magalhães, J.; F. Pereira; “A system for universal access to multimedia content based
on the MPEG-7 standard”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal,
June, 2003.
- Correia, P.D.F.; V. Silva; P.A. Assunção; “Adaptação de Video Comprimido para
Comunicações
Multimédia
em
Redes
Heterogéneas”,
Proc
Conf.
sobre
Redes
de
Computadores - CRC, Bragança, Portugal,September, 2003.
- Jardim, S. V. B.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Automatic Contour Estimation in Fetal Ultrasound
Images”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Barcelona, Spain,
September, 2003.
-
Fonseca,
P.;
F.
Pereira;
“Automatic
Video
Summarization
Based
on
MPEG-7
Descriptions”, Proc Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
WIAMIS, London, United Kingdom, April, 2003.
- Ferreira, A.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Class-adapted image compression using independent
component analysis”,
Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP,
Barcelona, Spain, September, 2003.
- Ferreira, A.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Coding images of specific classes using independent
component analysis”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal,
June, 2003.
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- Pereira, F.; “Content adaptation: the panacea for usage diversity ?”, Proc Workshop on
Coding Techniques for Very Low Bitrate Video - VLVB, Madrid, Spain, September, 2003.
- Faria, S.F.; V. Silva; N. Rodrigues; L. Louro; P. J. Santos; “DSP Performance Evaluation
for Motion Estimation”, Proc International Symp. on Signal Processing and its Applications
- ISSPA, paris, France, Vol. II, pp. 137 - 140, July, 2003.
- Correia, P.D.F.; V. Silva; P.A. Assunção; “Frame Rate Control in Wireless Video
Transcoding”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
219 - 222, June, 2003.
- Ferreira, A.; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Image compression using orthogonalised independent
components bases”, Proc IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing,
Toulouse, France, September, 2003.
- Lopes, F.; “Mesh-based motion compensation using three-dimensional overlapped
warping prediction”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Barcelona,
Spain, Vol. II, pp. 395 - 398, September, 2003.
- Correia, P.L.; F. Pereira; “Methodologies for Objective Evaluation of Video Segmentation
Quality”, Proc Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Lugano, Switzerland,
Vol. 5150, pp. 1594 - 1600, July, 2003.
- Magalhães, J.; F. Pereira; “MPEG-7 based color temperature customization”, Proc Conf.
on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003.
- Martins, A.; P. Aguiar; M. A. T. Figueiredo; “Navigating in Manhattan: 3D orientation
from video without correspondences”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing
- ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2003.
- Correia, P.D.F.; V. Silva; P.A. Assunção; “Rate Control in Highly Constrained Wireless
Video Transcoding”, Proc IASTED International Conf. on Communications, Internet and
Information Technology - CIIT, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 791 - 796,
November, 2003.
- Navarro, A.; R. Rodrigues; F. Perdigão; “Significant Analysis of HVXC Speech Coding
parameters at High Frequency”, Proc International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media
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Content Production - RICHMEDIA, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. 1, pp. 69 - 77, October,
2003.
- Fonseca, P.; F. Pereira; “Skin Colour Detection Based on the MPEG-7 Dominant Colour
Descriptor”, Proc Picture Coding Symp., Saint-Malo, France, April, 2003.
- Fonseca, P.; F. Pereira; P.L. Correia; “Using MPEG-7 Descriptions to Create Video
Summaries”, Proc Transmitting Processing and Watermarking Multimedia Contents,
Bordeaux, France, pp. 71 - 76, April, 2003.
4.3.5.6 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Book Chapters
- Coelho, R.M.C.; J. Rodrigues; M.M. Freire; “Performance Analysis of Degree Four
Topologies for the Optical Core of IP-over-WDM Networks”- Chapter in Information
Networking: Networking Technologies for Enhanced Internet Services, Hyun- Kook Kahng,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Nogueira, A.N.; P. S. Ferreira; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; “Modeling Network Traffic with
Multifractal Behavior”, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 339 - 362,
October, 2003.
- Ferreira, P. S.; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; “Multiscale Fitting Procedure using Markov
Modulated Poisson Processes”, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, pp. 123 148, June, 2003.
- Freire, M.M.; J. Rodrigues; R.M.C. Coelho; “The Role of Network Topologies in the
Optical
Core
of
IP-over-WDM
Networks
with
Static
Wavelength
Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2/4, pp. 111 - 122, October, 2003.
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Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Nogueira, A.N.; P. S. Ferreira; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; “A Hierarchical Approach Based
on MMPPs for Modeling Self-Similar Traffic over Multiple Time Scales”, Proc International
Working Conf. on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Heterogeneuous Networks HET-NETs, Ilkley, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 37/1 - 37/13, July, 2003.
- Vasconcelos, A.; L. M. Correia; “A UMTS Non-Uniform Traffic Distribution Model”, Proc
International Symp. on Communications Theory & Applications, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1,
pp. 1 - 4, June, 2003.
- Oliveira, R.; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; P. S. Ferreira; “Cluster Analysis of Internet Users
Based on Hourly Traffic Utilization”, Proc International Working Conf. on Performance
Modeling and Evaluation of Heterogeneuous Networks - HET-NETs, Ilkley, West Yorkshire,
United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 37/1 - 37/13, July, 2003.
-
Coelho, R.M.C.; J. Rodrigues; M.M. Freire; “High Performance Optical Internet
Backbones with Mesh Topologies”, Proc IEEE International Conf. on Networks, Sydney,
Australia, Vol. Harvesting the Power of Networked Systems, pp. 355 - 359, September,
2003.
- Ferreira, P. S.; A.N. Nogueira; R. Valadas; “Joint Characterization of the Packet Arrival
and Packet Size Processes of Multifractal Traffic based on Stochastic L-Systems”, Proc
International Teletraffic Congress, Berlin, Germany, cdrom, August, 2003.
- Nogueira, A.N.; P. S. Ferreira; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; “Markovian approach for
modeling IP traffic behavior on different time scales”, Proc SPIE Conf. on Performance
and Control of Next Generation Communication Networks, Orlando, United States, Vol.
5244, pp. 29 - 40, September, 2003.
- Nogueira, A.N.; P. S. Ferreira; R. Valadas; “Modeling Network Traffic with Multifractal
Behavior”, Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications, Papeete, French Polynesia,
Vol. II, pp. 1071 - 1077, February, 2003.
- Nogueira, A.N.; P. S. Ferreira; R. Valadas; A. Pacheco; “Modeling Self-Similar Traffic
through Markov Modulated Poisson Processes over Multiple Time Scales”, Proc IEEE
International Conf. on High-Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications - HSNMC,
Estoril, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 550 - 560, July, 2003.
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- Serrador, A. Serrador; L. M. Correia; “Multi-Service Cell Load Estimation on UMTS-FDD”,
Proc International Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications WPMC,
Yokuska, Japan, Vol. v2, pp. 554 - 558, October, 2003.
- Coelho, R.M.C.; J. Rodrigues; M.M. Freire; “Performance Analysis of Degree Four
Topologies for the Optical Core of IP-over-WDM Networks”, Proc International Conf. on
Information Networking - ICOIN, Jeju Island, Korea, South, Vol. I, pp. 75 - 84, February,
2003.
- Freire, M.M.; R.M.C. Coelho; J. Rodrigues; “Performance Implications of Meshing Degree
for WDM-based Networks”, Proc IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and
Routing, Torino, Italy, pp. 37 - 41, June, 2003.
- San José, E. R.; F. J. Velez; “Tele-traffic Engineering for Enhanced UMTS Multi-rate
Applications”, Proc European Personal Mobile Communications Conf. - EPMC, Glasgow,
United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 375 - 379, April, 2003.
- Freire, M.M.; J. Rodrigues; R.M.C. Coelho; “The Role of Network Topologies in the
Optical
Core
of
IP-over-WDM
Networks
with
Static
Wavelength
Routing”,
Proc
International Conf. on Telecommunications, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5,
February, 2003.
- Freire, M.M.; R.M.C. Coelho; J. Rodrigues; “The Role of Nodal Degree in the Optical Core
of
IP-over-WDM
Networks”,
Proc
IEEE
International
Symp.
on
Computers
and
Communications - ISCC, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, Vol. I, pp. 661 - 665, July, 2003.
- Rodrigues, J.; R.M.C. Coelho; P. Crocker; H. J. A. Silva; M.M. Freire; “Topologies of
Minimum Diameter for Interconnection of Optical Routers in IP-over-WDM Networks”,
Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 95 - 98, June,
2003.
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4.3.6 Other Achievements
4.3.6.1 Miscellaneous
- Pereira, F.; “Member of Editorial Board”, IEEE Press”, 19-12-2003.
- Guimarães, N.; “Training Course”, Curso de Formação Especializada - Sistemas de
Informação”, Universidade de Aveiro, 09-09-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, Audiovisual content adaptation”, Plenary speech no
Sixth Baiona Workshop on Signal Processing in Communications, Baiona- Espanha,
08-09-2003.
- Pereira, F.; I. Burnett; “Guest Editor”, Multimedia adaptation”, Special Issue from
Signal Processing: Image Communication, 01-09-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, MPEG-4/7/21: a family of standards”, Tutorial na
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2003),
Klagenfurt – Áustria, 27-08-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, Trends on visual representation for multimedia
communications”, Plenary Speech na 6th IEEE International Conference on High
Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, 26-07-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, Integration of multimedia technologies and MPEG-21”,
Tutorial na IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2003),
Baltimore, MD - EUA, 25-07-2003.
- Queluz, M.P.; “Technical Audit”, Technical audit of IST projects”, 27-06-2003.
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; “Invited Talks”, Model and Feature Selection for Finite
Mixtures”, Red Temática de Reconocimiento de Formas y sus Aplicaciones, Espanha,
16-06-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, MPEG standards: media technology for advanced
applications”, Tutorial na IV Conferência de Telecomunicações, Aveiro - Portugal, 1306-2003.
- Pereira, F.; “Invited Talks”, MPEG-based audiovisual content adaptation”, Tutorial
no Workshop Moumir, 09-06-2003.
-
Pereira,
F.;
“Seminars”,
Representação
audiovisual:
novas
tecnologias
e
aplicações”, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria - Portugal, 04-06-2003.
- Queluz, M.P.; “Technical Audit”, Technical evaluations of FP6 projects”, 11-052003.
- Velez, F. J.; “Technical Audit”, Evaluator of ist european projects: FP6-2002-IST-1,
Strategic Objective 2.3.1.8 Networked Audiovisual Systems and home Platforms”,
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FP6-2002-IST-1, 10-05-2003.
- Guimarães, N.; “Training Course”, Microsoft Certified Application Developer”,
Microsoft Scholar Program, 13-03-2003.
- Figueiredo, M. A. T.; “Invited Talks”, Pattern Analysis of Microarray Data:
Clustering, Selection, Classification.”, INESC-ID, 20-02-2003.
- Fred, A. L. N.; “Guest Editor”, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems”, Special
Issue: Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, Guest Editors: Ana Fred and Anil
K. Jain, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, Number 12, 2002, 20-02-2003.
- Queluz, M.P.; “Technical Audit”, Technical audit of IST projects”, 12-01-2003.
4.3.7 Other Contributions
4.3.7.1 Conference Committees
- 12º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica, Technical Programme Committee,
Fernando Pereira, 01-10-2003.
- 12º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica, Technical Programme Committee,
Fernando Pereira, 01-10-2003.
- 13th International Packet Video Workshop, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando
Pereira, 01-04-2003.
- 3rd IASTED International Conference on Wireless and OC (WOC’2003), Technical
Programme Committee, Mário Freire, 14-07-2003.
- 4º Conferência de Redes e Serviços de Comunicação - CRSC´2003, Organizing
Committee, João da Silva Pereira, 09-04-2003.
-
4th
EURASIP
Conference
focused
on
Video/Image
Processing
and
Multimedia
Communications (EC-VIP-MC 2003), Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira,
01-07-2003.
- 5th Symposium on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-09-2003.
- 6ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC’2003) - Protocolos, Tecnologias e
Aplicações para a Ambientes Móveis, Technical Programme Committee, Mário Freire, 2909-2003.
-
6th
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High
Speed
Networks
and
Multimedia
Communications, Technical Programme Committee, Rui Manuel Rocha, 23-07-2003.
-
6th
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High
Speed
Networks
and
Multimedia
and
Multimedia
Communications, Organizing Committee, Rui Manuel Rocha, 23-07-2003.
-
6th
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High
Speed
Networks
Communications, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-07-2003.
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6th
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High
Speed
Networks
and
Multimedia
Communications (HSNMC´03), Technical Programme Committee, Maria Paula Queluz,
23-07-2003.
-
6th
IEEE
International
Communications
Conference
(HSNMC’03),
on
High
Conference
Speed
Chairman,
Networks
Mário
and
Freire,
Multimedia
23-07-2003
Architectures for QoS Workshop, Scientific Committee, José Brázio, 28-03-2003.
- ConfTele 2003 - 4th Conference on Telecommunications, Organizing Committee,
Fernando Perdigão, 18-06-2003.
-
Distributed
Systems
and
Distributed
Multimedia
da
conferência
International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2003), Technical Programme
Chairman, Fernando Pereira, 01-08-2003.
- Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Conference
Chairman, Mário Figueiredo, 07-07-2003.
-
4th
Portuguese
Conference
on
Telecommunications
-
ConfTele'2003,
Technical
Programme Committee, Mário Figueiredo, 18-06-2003.
- HSNMC 2003 - 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and
Multimedia, Organizing Committee, Fernando Perdigão, 23-07-2003.
- IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (CSN’03),
Technical Programme Committee, Mário Freire, 08-09-2003.
- Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - IbPRIA'2003, Scientific
Committee, Mário Figueiredo, 21-02-2003.
-
IEEE
2003
Global
Telecommunications
Conference
(GLOBECOM’03),
Technical
Programme Committee, Mário Freire, 01-12-2003.
-
IEEE
International
Conference
on
Acoustics,
Speech,
and
Signal
Processing
-
ICASSP'2003, Scientific Committee, Mário Figueiredo, 06-04-2003.
-
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High-Speed
Networks
and
Multimedia
Communications - HSNM C'2003, Technical Programme Committee, Mário Figueiredo, 2307-2003.
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2003, Technical Programme
Committee, Paulo Correia, 14-09-2003.
-
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2003), Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-07-2003.
-
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2003), Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-07-2003.
- International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2003), Organizing Committee,
Fernando Pereira, 01-09-2003.
- International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing
(ICICS’2003), Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-12-2003.
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- International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2003),
Technical Programme Chairman, Fernando Pereira, 01-08-2003.
-
International
Conference
on
Visual
Information
Systems
(VIS’2003),
Technical
Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-09-2003.
- International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (MIPS’2003),
Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-11-2003.
- International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLVB’2003), Scientific
Committee, Fernando Pereira, 18-09-2003.
- IST Mobile Communic ations Summit 2003, Organizing Committee, Rui L. Aguiar, 15-062003.
- IST Mobile communications summit 2003 (TC), Technical Programme Committee, Rui L.
Aguiar, 15-06-2003.
- Picture Coding Symposium (PCS’2003), Technical Programme Committee, Fernando
Pereira, 01-04-2003.
- PROPOR 2003 - 6th Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese
Language - Written and Spoken, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Perdigão,
26-06-2003.
- Redes de Computadores (CRC’2003), Technical Programme Committee, Fernando
Pereira, 01-09-2003.
- 7th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA’2003),
Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-05-2003
-
3rd
International
Workshop
on
Pattern
Recognition
in
Information
Systems
-
PRIS'2003, Technical Programme Committee, Mário Figueiredo, 20-06-2003.
- UBI Engenharia’2003 - Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Organizing Committee, Mário
Freire, 05-11-2003.
- Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS’2003),
Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Pereira, 01-04-2003.
4.3.7.2 Editorial Committees
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE, Mário Figueiredo, Guest co-editor of a
Special Issue on Machine Learning Methods in Signal Processing, 01-01-2003 to 31-122004.
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4.3.7.3 Refereeing
- 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Systems (PDCS’ 2003), Mário Freire, 05-11-2003
- 2004 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC’2004), Mário
Freire, 01-12-2003
-
22nd IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control
(MIC’2003), Mário Freire, 10-02-2003
- 3rd IASTED International Conference on Wireless and OC (WOC’2003), Mário Freire,
14-07-2003
- 3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN’2004), Mário Freire, 01-12-2003
- 4th Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele´03), Maria Paula Queluz, 18-06-2003
- 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
(WIAMIS´04), Maria Paula Queluz, 01-12-2003
- 6ª Conferência sobre Re des de Computadores - Protocolos, Tecnologias e Aplicações
para Ambientes Móveis, Mário Freire, 29-09-2003
-
6th
IEEE
International
Conference
on
High
Speed
Networks
and
Multimedia
Communications (HSNMC´03), Maria Paula Queluz, 23-07-2003
- 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia
Communications (HSNMC’03), Mário Freire, 23-07-2003
- ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Paulo Nunes, 03-01-2003
- Computer Communications, Paulo Nunes, 21-02-2003
- Conference on Telecommunications 2003 - ConfTele'2003, Paulo Correia, 13-03-2003
Electronic Letters, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-06-2003
- Elsevier Telematics and Informatics, Mário Freire, 24-02-2003
- ETRI Journal, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Pedro Amado Assunção, 28-11-2003
- Globecom 2003, João Pires, 01-12-2003
- IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (CSN’
2003), Mário Freire, 08-09-2003
- IASTED International Conference on Computer Science and Technology (CST’2003),
Mário Freire, 19-05-2003
- IEE Electronics Letters, Mário Figueiredo, 20-11-2003
- IEEE 2003 Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’03), Mário Freire, 0112-2003
- IEEE Communications Letters, Mário Freire, 01-09-2003
- IEEE INFOCOM 2004, The Conference on Computer Communications, Mário Freire, 0112-2003
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- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2003, Paulo Correia, 06-032003
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP´03), Maria Paula Queluz,1409-2003
- IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS´04), Maria Paula
Queluz, 01-11-2003
- IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), OC and Networking Series,
Mário Freire, 01-12-2003
- IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Metro
Optical
- Networks, Mário Freire, 01-10-2003
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Pedro Amado Assunção, 28-11-2003
- IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems for Video Technology, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-11-2003
- IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems for Video Technology, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-06-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-01-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-02-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-03-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-11-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-06-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-08-2003
- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-01-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 23-07-2003
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 06-03-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Fernando Pereira, 0404-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 22-042003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Pedro Amado
Assunção,14-02-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 12-052003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 22-122003
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Paulo Correia, 17-01-2003
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- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, PART I, Sérgio Faria, 16-01-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Mário Figueiredo, 20-11-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Paulo Nunes, 23-01-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Luís Ducla Soares, 19-02-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Paulo Correia, 08-07-2003- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Pedro Amado Assunção, 14-02-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Mário Figueiredo, 20-11-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, Fernando Pereira, 04-042003
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine INtelligence, Mário Figueiredo, 2011-2003
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA., Fernando J. Velez, 30-03-2003
- Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications - ISSPA 2003, Paulo Correia,
14-03-2003
- Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Journal of Real-Time Imaging, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Korean Telecom Journal, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Optical Engineering, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-06-2003
- Optical Engineering, Maria Paula Queluz, 01-05-2003
- Proceedings of IEEE, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Project Auditor for the IST European Programme, Maria Paula Queluz, 27-06-2003
- Project Auditor for the IST European Programme, Maria Paula Queluz, 12-01-2003
- Signal Processing, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Signal processing: Image Communicatio, Fernando Pereira, 04-04-2003
- Signal Processing: Image Communication - Special Issue on Multimedia Adaptation,
Paulo Correia, 03-01-2003
- Telecommunication Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Mário Freire, 01-04-2003
- The Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’03), Mário
Freire, 30-06-2003
- The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN’2003), Mário Freire,
14-02-2003
-
UBI Engenharia’2003 -
Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Mário Freire, 05-11-2003
- Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services - WIAMIS 2003, Paulo
Correia, 06-01-2003
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4.4 Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
4.4.1 Coordinators
•
Dinis Magalhães Santos
•
Luís Alcácer
4.4.2 Human Resources
4.4.2.1 Overview
Degree
Aveiro
Coimbra
Lisboa
Full Professor
1
2
1
4
4
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
2
8
Post. Doc.
2
Coordinator Professor
1
Assistant Lecturer
2
2
PhD Student
1
3
7
MSc Student
3
3
10
Lincenciado
2
Other
TOTAL
7
1
1
16
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4.4.2.2 Permanent Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
Dinis Magalhães Santos
Agregação
Full Professor
ICS - Av
Eduardo de Sousa Saraiva
Agregação
Full Professor
PSys
Joaquim Júdice
Agregação
Full Professor
AMath
Luís Alcácer
Agregação
Full Professor
TM
António Cruz Serra
Agregação
Associate Professor
IM
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Pedro Silva Girão
Agregação
Associate Professor
IM
António Cardoso
PhD
Associate Professor
PSys
Jorge Morgado
PhD
Associate Professor
TM
José Carlos Teixeira
PhD
Associate Professor
AMath
Maria Celeste Gouveia
PhD
Associate Professor
AMath
Maria Madalena Martins
PhD
Associate Professor
AMath
Rui Teives Henriques
PhD
Associate Professor
TM
António Victor Anunciada
PhD
Assistant Professor
PE
Beatriz Borges
PhD
Assistant Professor
PE
Francisco Alegria
PhD
Assistant Professor
IM
Helena Ramos
PhD
Assistant Professor
IM
José Cura
PhD
Assistant Professor
ICS - Av
Manuel Fonseca da Silva
PhD
Assistant Professor
IM
Maria Conceição Monteiro
PhD
Assistant Professor
IM
Nuno Horta
PhD
Assistant Professor
ICS - Lx
Pedro Ramos
PhD
Assistant Professor
IM
Rui L. Aguiar
PhD
Assistant Professor
NMMC - Av
Ana Charas
PhD
Post. Doc.
TM
Octavian Postolache
PhD
Post. Doc.
IM
José Dias Pereira
PhD
Coordinator Professor
IM
Luís Merca Fernandes
PhD
Coordinator Professor
AMath
Manuel Matos
PhD
Coordinator Professor
TM
João Luís Soares
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
AMath
Manuel António Esteves
Licenciatura
Assistant Lecturer
PSys
Table 29 – Permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Area
4.4.2.3 Other Collaborators
Name
Degree
Position
Group
Luis Nero Alves
MSc
PhD Student
ICS - Av
Raúl Martins
MSc
PhD Student
IM
Ricardo Queirós
MSc
PhD Student
IM
Sérgio Cruz
MSc
PhD Student
PSys
André Mendes
Licenciatura
PhD Student
PSys
João Manuel Patrício
Licenciatura
PhD Student
AMath
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Manuel Fernando Barros
Licenciatura
PhD Student
ICS - Lx
Nunzio Barbagalho
Licenciatura
PhD Student
TM
Raúl Domingos Monteiro
Licenciatura
PhD Student
PE
Stanimir Valtchev
Licenciatura
PhD Student
PE
Vitor Viegas
Licenciatura
PhD Student
IM
Acácio Manuel Amaral
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PSys
Américo C. Mendes
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Av
Ana Carla Vicente Vieira
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PE
David Simões
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Lx
Francisco Assunção
Licenciatura
MSc Student
IM
Francisco Nunes
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PE
Gonçalo Neves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Lx
Hugo Ribeiro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PE
João Redol
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Lx
Luís Gurriana
Licenciatura
MSc Student
IM
Marina Perdigão
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PSys
Mário Jorge Alves
Licenciatura
MSc Student
IM
Miguel Osório
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS- Av
Mónica Figueiredo
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Av
Natália Gameiro
Licenciatura
MSc Student
PSys
Rui Vaz Luis
Licenciatura
MSc Student
ICS - Lx
MSc
Other
PSys
António Pedro Silva
Licenciatura
Licenciado
IM
Hugo Marques
Licenciatura
Licenciado
PE
Luís M. Oliveira
Table 30 – Non-permanent Collaborators working in the Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Area
4.4.3 Summary of Research Achievements
The multidisciplinary area falling under the general heading of Basic Sciences and
Enabling Technologies comprises five main lines of research:
-
Technology and Materials
-
Integrated Circuits and Systems
-
Instrumentation and Measurement
-
Power Electronics
-
Applied Mathematics
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4.4.3.1 Technology and Materials
Some new developments in the preparation of electroluminescent polymers with
regulated solubility for the fabrication of patterned structures of the micron to nanoscale, with potential applications in multi-color displays, integrated electronics and smart
photonic structures, have been achieved.
A contribution has been made, by providing the suitable polymer, to the development of
nanostructures of an electroluminescent organic polymer with a lattice constant of 333
nm via direct scanning near-field lithography.
A new soluble electroluminescent polymer was synthesized which, in solid film obtained
from a solution, becomes completely insoluble upon brief (10 seconds) UV irradiation,
while the luminescence properties are maintained. Compared to the polymer firstly
applied in the fabrication of nanostrutures, this new material carries on remarkable
advantages related to higher chemical stability and easier processing.
Strategies for improvement of light-emitting diodes have been developed, either by
optimization of self-aligned processes or by preparation of adequate polymers for
patterned structures.
Collaboration with the University College London has been established in order to
fabricate nanometer-size structures by near-field optical microscope assisted lithography
using a precursor-form of a luminescent polymer and to prepare a new polymer able to
undergo a similar processing.
Studies of perylene-based molecular conductors under high magnetic fields have been
initiated. The involvement of this group at IT was focused mainly on EPR studies of new
synthesized compounds, either as final materials or precursor entities for the building up
of molecular conducting materials.
4.4.3.2 Integrated Circuits and Systems
There are two distinct lines of work in this sub-area:
•
Design Automation
•
Electronic Systems Design
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The former of these two can be further subdivided into the following lines of research:
o
development of design automation tools for “System-on-Chip” applications
o
development of E-Design/E-Learning environments to support collaborative
design activities
For the first of these, the tools are: i) circuit and system optimization techniques,
particularly the use of modified genetic algorithms applied to a broad range of circuits
and systems; ii) automatic circuit and systems topology search based on evolutionary
computation methodologies; and, iii) symbolic analysis and synthesis for analog and
mixed signal systems. For the latter line, i) web/data mining techniques, and, ii)
partnerships with distance learning research teams.
Electronic Systems Design can be split into the following tasks: i) timing issues, namely
clock generation and distribution; ii) high-performance systems, namely front-ends for
optical communications, both in CMOS and low-cost GaAs; and, iii) architectures for
network systems, namely for QoS.
4.4.3.3 Instrumentation and Measurement
Work in the wide field of Instrumentation and Measurement can be further subdivided in
the following topics:
•
ADC characterization and testing;
•
Smart sensors;
•
Telemetry and control;
•
Signal processing applied to sensors and instrumentation.
In what concerns the first of these topics, new models were developed for ADC
characterization and on their basis a new method for the analysis of dual-tone signal
behavior in the phase plane was derived. The standard histogram method was also
studied in terms of error and precision, and a novel quasi-static test method was
proposed.
A large amount of work in the field of use and integration of sensors in multi-sensor
systems was performed, with an application to water quality measurements in mind. In
this
line
of
work,
characterization
of
static
and
dynamic
behavior
of
several
electrochemical sensors was performed. A virtual Network Capable Application Processor
(NCAP) was developed on a PC platform, in order to characterize the analog and digital
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channels of a Smart Transducer Interface Module (STIM) prototype. This work also
included the interface that enables communication between the two units.
Environmental studies also included the design and implementation of self-organizing
maps for the analysis and classification of data in river water quality on-line monitoring
system, and the design and implementation of an absorbance meter based on colored
light-to-voltage converters.
A distributed measurement system was developed to enable the monitoring of the RF
spectrum for ANACOM-Azores. This involves several types of automatic measurements in
the HF, VHF and UHF bands, as well as remote control of antennas in the relevant
frequency ranges.
Signal processing provided the background for these activities. Sine-fitting techniques
have been developed for application in multiple channel acquisition systems where
physical constrains exist. These numerical techniques have been applied to impedance
measurement where they can reduce the final uncertainty of the impedance estimated
parameters.
Wavelet-based
processing
algorithms
were
developed
for
transient
modulation of the cardiac autonomic system.
4.4.3.4 Power Electronics
In the sub-area that comes under this general heading (but also including some work in
electrical machines and power transformers) the following lines of work may be
identified:
•
High frequency soft switching converters: study, development, theoretical analysis
and simulation of zero voltage switching DC-DC converters. Simulation of
alternative energy storage topologies. Study of alternative converter topologies.
Additional studies on applications on those topology developments, namely
application in switching audio amplifiers and power active filters.
•
Active power filters: Optimization of standard topologies and control processes for
power active filters.
•
Power audio amplifiers: Development of new circuit topologies and control
processes for switch mode audio power amplifiers.
•
Contactless energy transmission Theoretical analysis, simulation and design
optimization of resonant converters working as interfaces for inductive coupling in
order to be used as a contactless power interface. The main objective of this work
is to show the performance of the power stages when operating with a non-ideal
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transformer, identifying the most important changes in converter characteristics
due to the nonidealities.
•
Electromechatronics: studies in fault analysis, diagnostics and fault tolerance of
electrical machines, transformers, power electronics and other special application
machines. Attention has been also drawn to the maintenance aspects, specifically
related to the telecommunications power supply systems, namely for switchedmode
power
supplies.
Concurrently,
topics
related
to
the
maintenance
management and organization activities, in general, have been considered.
•
Power Quality, electronic ballasts, simulation of transformers.
4.4.3.5 Applied Mathematics
In the sub-area of Applied Mathematics, aside from theoretical studies and collaboration
with fields of research other than Telecommunications, the following general subjects can
be identified:
•
Optimization
•
Numerical Linear Algebra
•
Partial Differential Equations
Specific topics include, not exclusively, the following:
1. Numerical Linear Algebra: Preconditioning and convergence of iterative methods
for the solution of linear systems of equations.
2. Complementarity problems: design, implementation, convergence analyses and
testing of interior-point algorithms, active-set methods, sequential quadratic
algorithms and enumerative methods.
3. Global Optimization: complementarity algorithms, positive semi-definite and
reformulation-linearization techniques for bilevel programming, quadratic and
bilinear
programming
and
mathematical
programs
with
complementarity
constraints.
4. Discrete Optimization: global optimization algorithms for linear, nonlinear and
complementarity problems with integer variables.
5. Solution of Structured Optimization Models, namely finance portfolio selection
models, network models, eigencomplementarity problems and other engineering
models.
6. Solution of Partial Differential Equations associated with contact problems and
other variational models in engineering.
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7. Design and solution of models of filtering and other areas in telecommunications.
8. Numerical Linear Algebra: preconditioning techniques for the solution of linear
systems of equations.
9. Work has been completed on Computation of the Drazin inverse of a matrix over
an arbitrary ring.
10. Studies of Von Neumann regularity of Bezoutian and Sylvester matrices with
elements in a ring and its application to polynomial theory have been initiated.
11. Work on the characterization of the dispersion profile in soliton links with
dispersion-varying compensating fiber was continued.
12. Iterative methods for large linear systems. A comparison between the explicit
Group AOR method and the point AOR method was done for the model problem,
which shows the computational advantages of this new technique. The interval
version of a new iterative method was presented and some convergence
conditions obtained.
4.4.4 Running Projects
4.4.4.1 Overview
Funding Agency
Number
FCT/PNAT
1
FCT/POCTI
5
FCT/POSI
2
ICP/ANACOM
1
Internal
2
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4.4.4.2 Activity in Projects
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Fault Diagnosis/POSI/EEI/14151/98/2001
DSP- Based Winding Fault Diagnosis in Operating Three-Phase Power
Transformers
The major aim of the project basically comprises the development of a
prototype, able to provide a complete and reliable diagnosis of the
operating condition of three-phase power transformers, particularly
regarding the occurrence of winding faults.
PLEDs/POCTI/CTM/40063/2001
Energy transfer from electroluminescent polymers to phosphorescent
dopants
1. Obtaining saturated green and red emission from light-emitting
devices (LEDs) prepared from electroluminescent polymers doped with
phosphorescent lanthanide complexes, and harvesting of the energy of
the triplet excitations generated by charge injection. 2. Evaluate the
feasibility of an ideal spin-polarised charge injection device, allowing for
the selective generation of only singlets or triplets, via the use of the
spintronics concept.
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
EUPAS
EUropean Project for ADC-based devices Standardization
European Network including 10 Universities and Research centres and 5
Industrial partners. Description: The aim of this project is to contribute
to the improvement of the European rules concerning the test methods
for analog-to-digital converters and sample-and-hold circuits, with
emphasis on their dynamic behavior. During 2003, new test methods to
circumvent the limits of the measurement instrumentation, to measure
particular parameters required for specific applications and to diagnose
problems in new converter designs will be investigated and proposed.
BIOFET/POCTI/FIS/34668/99
Field Effect Transistor Array for Monitoring Electrical Activity From
Single Cells in Culture
The core of this project is to bring together the necessary skills to
perform assays on single cells in vivo. Key issues to be adressed are:
(i) electrical coupling between the cell and the FET-probe (ii) the FET
noise level, (iii) micromanipulators to get the cells into the correct
position on the substrate (iii) how drugs or other chemical agents
modify the general pattern of signalling.
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Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
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Gels/POCTI/CTM/33653/99
Gels with innovative optical, magnetic and electrochemical properties
The ma in goal of the project is the study of relevant physical properties
of new hybrid xerogels (doped with lanthanide or ferromagnetic ions).
Those sol-gel derived materials, based on oxyethylene units grafted
onto silica networks by urea and urethane cross-links, are efficient
white light emitters due to the convolution of a long-lived emission
originated in the NH groups of the urea or urethane bridges with
shorter-lived electron-hole recombinations occurring in the nanometersized siliceous clusters. This feature will be exploited to obtain efficient
white-light hybrids.
AQA/PNAT/1999/EEI/15 052/C
Global Monitoring Based on Smart Sensors for Environment Quality
The main objective and original contribution of this project is the study,
design and implementation of intelligent automated measurement
systems for the continuous monitoring of parameters considered
important for the environment quality. These systems include smart
cells (i.e. smart sensors or smart actuators) for some physical
quantities with digital processing structures with prediction capabilities.
As new intelligent techniques that will be developed within the project it
should be underlined: ·The sensor fusion and integration that combine
the information in a way that removes inconsistencies and presents
clearly the best interpretation of readings input from many individual
sources. ·Neural and neuro-fuzzy information processing that includes
linearisation, prediction and the correction of sensor characteristics.
Another direction of work will be the establishment of a client-server
architecture linked through a computer network for distributed
measurement systems. The client performs the continuous monitoring
of the electrical signals related to the quantities to be measured and
their transmission to the server database. For the water quantities the
transmission is via the Global Standard for Mobile telecommunication
(GSM) and a Global Position Sensor (GPS) is used for sensors position
detection.
OFETs/POCTI/CTM/41117/2001
Materials For Organic Electronics
This project foccus on the investigation of promising organic materials,
in particular, perylene, its derivatives, and phthalocyanines, using both
high purity single crystals and high quality thin films, in field effect
transistor structures.
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Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
Acron/Ref
Title
Description
ESPECTRO
Monitorização e Controlo do Espectro. Integração de Infraestruturas
The purpose of this project is to automate the measuring procedures
used in the different Monitoring Centers of ANACOM (Portuguese
Telecommunications Regulator) to monitor and control the
radiofrequency spectrum in Portuguese territory. The automation must
allow remote operation, that is to say, to perform tests for instance in
Azores from another Center, namely the main one sited in Barcarena.
NMMADC/POCTI/ESE/32698/99
New measurements methods in Analog to Digital Converters testing
Phase plane domain model of the ADC behavior will be explored and
presented. This model will include frequency dependent phenomena as
dynamic hysteresis. A procedure aiming at characterizing the ADC
behavior on the phase plane domain will also be developed. The
characterization method will resort to dual tone input signal and Fourier
Transform based analyses of the output.
OCAP/POCTI/ESE/41554/2001
Optimization of Circuit topologies for Active Power filters
Active Power Filters is an important research domain of power
electronics, related with power quality. The main drawbacks of power
filters are: - high acquisition cost for the user, with moderate benefits
to the user plant; the main benefits come to the mains network and
power distribution company - electromagnetic compatibility problems,
name ly those related with radio frequency conducted noise The project
objective is the reduction of the systems cost and the increase of
valuable functions to the user plant, namely including in the power filter
some of the functions usually associated to the power conditioners. The
use of soft switching power converters associated with adequate
modulation techniques would reduce de EMC problems.
SWITCH
Power Electronics Circuits for Complex Power Systems
Development of new power circuits topologies for difficult applications
like contactless power transmission, precision and audio amplifiers,
multi-loop controlled drives, single-stage medium and high power ACDC converters with sinusoidal input current.
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4.4.5 Running and Concluded Theses
Final Year Projects
Supervisor
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Pedro Ramos
Student
João Lima
Nelson Silva
Gustavo Amaro
Luís Alves
José Cohen Abolnik
Title
End Date
Análise e Síntese Simbólica de
Circuitos e Sistemas Electrónicos
7/2004
Arquitectura de Segurança em
Ambientes de E-Learning
7/2004
Automatic measurement system
12/2003
based on data acquisition board for PC
Francisco Alegria
João Paulo Torres
Caracterização de Jitter em
conversores analógico/digitais
7/2003
Francisco Alegria
Rui Cabeço
Caracterização de Jitter em
conversores analógico/digitais
7/2003
Paul Andrew
Crocker
P.Margarido
Colocação Circular de Polioninos
usando Algoritmo Geneticos
2/2003
Computer Graphical Aide to
Electro magnetism Learning
7/2004
Armando Pinto
E.Faria
André Oliveira
Ivan Coutinho
Pedro Ramos
Andrea Fernandes
Control Software for Anechoic
Chamber Antenna Measurements
12/2003
Pedro Ramos
João Cunha
Control Software for Anechoic
Chamber Antenna Measurements
12/2003
Conversor CC-CC com ZVS,
Modulação de Fase e Controlo da
Malha Reactiva
10/2003
Beatriz Borges
Beatriz Borges
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Jorge Neves
Bruno Gameiro
Pedro Carola
Nuno Eusébio
Gonçalo Neves
João Brites
Nuno Figueiredo
Nuno Sarmento
Pedro Prates
Pedro Silva
Duarte Abrantes
Tiago Duarte
Conversor CC-CC isolado de 2kW com
comutação suave
E-Design/ E-Trainig - Ambiente para
Suporte a Serviços de Apoio ao
Projecto na WWW
7/2003
10/2003
Editor HTML/Javascript Integrado num
Ambiente de E-Learning para a WWW
7/2004
Ferramentas de Comunicação num
Ambiente de E-Learning para a WWW
7/2004
GENCHESS: Xadrez Inteligente
7/2004
Gestão Automática de Publicidade
Orientada ao Cliente em Lojas Virtuais
na WWW
7/2003
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Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Beatriz Borges
António Tavares
António Tavares
Rui L. Aguiar
Gestão Automática de Recursos
Partilhados num Ambiente de ELearning
7/2004
Modelação Automática de Circuitos e
Sistemas Electrónicos
7/2004
Optimização do Conversor Ressonante
Série para Aplicação em Sistemas de
Alimentação de Energia sem Contacto
1/2004
Ilídio Lopes
Placa de Acesso para uma rede de
comunicações sem fios por raios
infravermelhos compatível com a
camada MAC da norma 802.11b
7/2003
Décio Brito
Placa de Acesso para uma rede de
comunicações sem fios por raios
infravermelhos compatível com a
camada MAC da norma 802.11b
7/2003
Placa de acesso para uma rede de
Decio Hermes Brito comunicações sem fios por raios
Ilídio De Pina Lopes infravermelhos compatível com a
camada MAC da norma 802.11b
9/2003
Paulo Almeida
João Monteiro
Sérgio Kong
Paulo Castro
Carlos Selidónio
António Tavares
Pedro Palmela
Rede de Infravermelhos a Alta
Velocidade
7/2003
António Tavares
António Rodrigues
Rede de Infravermelhos a Alta
Velocidade
7/2003
Rede de Infravermelhos a Alta
Velocidade
9/2003
Sistema de Aula Virtual numa
Plataforma de E-Learning
7/2004
Rui L. Aguiar
Hugo Ferreira
Marques
Rui Filipe Teixeira
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Nuno Horta
Pedro Ramos
Pedro Ramos
Nuno Horta
Alberto Carvalho
José Coelho
Nuno Fernandes
Sérgio Velho
Hugo Páscoa
Paulo Grave
David Simões
Sérgio Carreira
Francisco Freitas
Luis Branco
André Figueira
Daniel Gomes
Ruben Marinho
Sistema de Gestão e Organização de
Conferências na WWW
10/2003
Sistema para Gestão Cursos, Alunos e
Tutores numa Plataforma de ELearning
10/2003
Sistema para Gestão Inteligente de
Conteúdos numa Plataforma de ELearning
7/2003
Test software for the driver display of
the ''Metropolitano de Lisboa'' subway
and its subsystems
10/2003
Testing the control unit for the door in
the subway trains of "Metropolitano
de Lisboa"
9/2004
VIDEO Chat para Aula Virtual num
Ambiente de E-Learning
7/2004
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Rui Dinis
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WEB-ICDESIGNER: Ambiente de
Suporte a Actividades de E-DESIGN
na WWW
7/2004
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during 2003
MSc Theses
Supervisor
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Student
José Fernando
Mariano
Helena Ramos
Mário Jorge Alves
António Victor
Anunciada
Natália dos Santos
Gameiro
Carlos Ferreira
ADC Modelling
12/2003
An Open Platform for smart sensors
12/2004
Análise do Comportamento Dinâmico
do Motor de Relutância Variável
Comutado, em Situações de
Funcionamento Normal e de Avarias
no Conversor de Potência
Audio Switch Mode Amplifier
Marina Mendes
Eduardo de Sousa
Sargento Domingues Balastro Electrónico
Saraiva
Perdigão
António Cardoso
Manuel António
Marques Esteves
António Cardoso
Acácio Manuel
Raposo Amaral
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Nuno Horta
Eduardo de Sousa
Saraiva
End Date
A volume associated to mxn matrices.
Isabel Maria Coelho
Applications in the computation of the 12/2004
Marinho
Moore-Penrose inverse.
Helena Ramos
António Cardoso
Title
Eduardo Manuel
Godinho Rodrigues
Rui L. Aguiar
Miguel Osório
Rui L. Aguiar
Américo Carvalho
Mendes
12/2004
3/2004
Desenvolvimento de um Protótipo
para o Diagnóstico de Avarias nos
Enrolamentos de Transformadores
Trifásicos
5/2004
Diagnóstico e Análise de Avarias em
Fontes Comutadas
7/2004
Diagonalization of matrices over
Artur Jorge Teixeira
arbitrary rings. Applications in the
P. Vaz
computation of spectral inverses.
Gonçalo Neves
2/2004
10/2005
E-Design/ E-Trainig - Ambiente para
Suporte a Serviços de Apoio ao
Projecto na WWW
12/2004
Elevadores
12/2004
Implementação de IP sobre novas
camadas físicas
12/2003
Implementações dedicadas do
algoritmo de Viterbi
12/2003
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José Dias Pereira
Vítor Viegas
Implementation of a smart sensors
system based on IEEE 1451
7/2003
Helena Ramos
Vítor Viegas
Imp lementation of a smart sensors
system based on IEEE 1451
12/2003
Maria Celeste
Gouveia
Marisa Lapa Toste
Mathematics in social sciences
10/2004
Pedro Ramos
Measuring system with temperature
Francisco Assunção control for characterization of
electrochemical sensors
12/2004
Helena Ramos
Measuring system with temperature
Francisco Assunção control for characterization of
electrochemical senssors
12/2004
António Cardoso
Metodologias de Elaboração de Planos
Pedro Miguel Martins
de Manutenção na Central
de Pina Ribeiro
Termoeléctrica do Pego
Helena Ramos
Metrological characterization of an
Luis Miguel Gurriana integrated sensors system for
estuarine water assessement
António Cardoso
Nuno Horta
António Victor
Anunciada
Rui L. Aguiar
António Victor
Anunciada
Nuno Horta
Ana Carla Vicente
Vieira
João Redol
Manuel Ferreira
Rui Alcobia
Mónica Jorge
Carvalho de
Figueiredo
Francisco Nunes
José Iria
Organização e Gestão da Manutenção
das Instalações e dos Equipamentos
Fixos do DEEC/FCTUC
3/2004
12/2004
1/2004
Plataforma Inteligente de E-Learning
para Suporte de Actividades de Ensino 12/2004
à Distância
Power Quality
9/2005
Recuperação de Relógio em Sistemas
de Lógica Reconfigurável
4/2003
Resonant Converters
9/2005
Semantic Service Discovery on Smart
Home Environments
2/2004
António Victor
Anunciada
Hugo Ribeiro
Single-stage AC-DC converters
12/2004
Nuno Horta
David Simões
Sistema para Gestão Inteligente de
Conteúdos numa Plataforma de ELearning
12/2004
Rui Luís
Sistema para Gestão Inteligente de
Informação numa Plataforma de ELearning com Recurso a Técnicas de
Data Mining
12/2004
Nuno Horta
Joaquim Júdice
C. Baptista
Solution of three global optimization
problems arising in finance, hydraulics
and telecommunications
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Postolache
Mihai Bruma
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TELECOMUNICAÇÕES
Viscosity Measurement System based
on PIC16F877 microcontroller
7/2003
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2003
PhD Theses
Supervisor
António Cruz
Serra
Pedro Silva Girão
António Victor
Anunciada
Student
Ricardo Filipe de
Queirós
Raúl Monteiro
Title
High resolution ultrasound
measurements
12/2006
Active Power Filters
12/2006
António Cruz
Serra
Aproximação estocástica à medida e
Raul Daniel Lavado
compensação de não linearidades sem
Carneiro Martins
memória
Rui L. Aguiar
Circuitos Analógicos em Modo de
Luís Filipe Mesquita
Corrente com Grande Largura de
Nero Moreira Alves
Banda
António Cardoso
End Date
Diagnóstico e Análise de Avarias no
Sérgio Manuel Ângelo Estator de Motores de Indução
da Cruz
Trifásicos Alimentados por Variadores
Electrónicos de Velocidade
3/2004
12/2005
2/2004
António Cruz
Serra
Maria da Conceição
Dynamic characterization of analogue
Falcão Líbano
to digital converters exhibiting slope
Monteiro da Costa
dependent nonlinearities
Macedo
12/2003
António Cardoso
Adérito Neto Alcaso Fault Tolerance in LCI Drive Systems
5/2004
Global optimization and applications
to structural engineering models
Joaquim Júdice
I. Ribeiro
Joaquim Júdice
J. M. Patrício
Joaquim Júdice
P. Tavares
Localization models in civil
engineering
M. C. Brás
Mathematical programming problems
with equilibrium constraints and
applications to combinatorial
optimization
Joaquim Júdice
Pedro Silva Girão
António Cruz
Serra
Interior-point algorithms and
applications to structured
complementarity problems
José Luis Correia da Medida Simultânea de Densidade e
Mata
Viscosidade de Líquidos
Henrique Jorge
Oliveira Fontes
Quaresma
Modelling and measurement
electromagnetic interference in
electronic devices
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10/2004
7/2004
12/2004
12/2003
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Optimization models for filtering in
telecommunications
Joaquim Júdice
P. Monteiro
António Cardoso
André Manuel dos
Santos Mendes
Performance Analysis of Three-Phase
Induction Motor Drives Under Inverter
Fault Conditions
7/2004
Luís Alcácer
Nunzio Barbagallo
Polymer LED active matrices
9/2004
Rui L. Aguiar
Miguel Ângelo
Martins Madureira
Projecto de Receptores Integrados de
Banda Larga
12/2005
Manuel Barros
Síntese e Optimização Automática de
Circuitos e Sistemas Baseada em
Técnicas de Programação Evolutiva
12/2005
Nuno Horta
António Cruz
Serra
Manuel José Freire
Fonseca da Silva
Sistema automático de medida de
impedâncias
Beatriz Borges
Stanimir Stoyanov
Valtchev
Study of the Energy Balance in
Resonant Converters Applied to
Contactless Energy Transfer
10/2004
1/2003
12/2005
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2003
4.4.6 Publications
4.4.6.1 Applied Mathematics
Papers in Journals
- Júdice, J. J.; J. Patrício; L. Portugal; M. Resende; G. Veiga; “A study of preconditioners
for network interior point methods”, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol.
24, No. 1, pp. 5 - 35, January, 2003.
- Patrício, J.; J. J. Júdice; M. Resende; L. Portugal; G. Veiga; “A study of preconditioners
for network interior point methods”, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol.
24, No. 1, pp. 5 - 35, January, 2003.
- Júdice, J. J.; C. Oliveira; J. Santos; “Análise comparativa dos modelos de selecção de
carteiras de acções de Markowitz e Konno”, Investigação Operacional, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.
211 - 244, January, 2003.
- Figueiredo, I.; J. J. Júdice; P. Oliveira; “Complementarity and genetic algorithms for an
optimization shell problem”, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 11,
No. 1, pp. 143 - 161, January, 2003.
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- Martins, M.; D. J. Evans; “Convergence of the interval and point TOR method”,
International Journal of Comp. Math., Vol. 80, No. 10, pp. 1227 - 1241, October, 2003.
- Gouveia, M. C.G.; “Generalized Inverses of Bezoutian and Resultant Matrices over
Integral Domains”, WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 26 - 30,
January, 2003.
- Gouveia, M. C.G.; “Sylvester, Stein and Lyapunov equations over rings”, International
Journal of Computer Research - IJCR, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1 - 6, February, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Ribeiro, I.; J. J. Júdice; H. Sherali; “An active set algorithm for mathematical programs
with equilibrium constraints and for bilevel problems”, Proc EURO/INFORMS Joint
International Meeting, Istambul, Turkey, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, July, 2003.
- Patrício, J.; J. J. Júdice; L. M. Fernandes; I. Figueiredo; “An Investigatio n of a Nonlinear
Obstacle Plate Optimization Problem”,
Proc International Symp. on Mathematical
Programming, Copenhague, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, August, 2003.
- Júdice, J. J.; J. Patrício; L. M. Fernandes; I. Figueiredo; “An investigation of a nonlinear
obstacle
plate
optimization
problem”,
Proc
International
Symp.
on
Mathematical
Programming, Copenhague, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, August, 2003.
- Silva, V.; F. Perdigão; “Computational Complexity of Discrete Fourier Transform”, Proc
Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1,
pp. 225 - 228, September, 2003.
- Gouveia, M. C.G.; “Generalized inverses of Bezoutian and Sylvester matrices over
integral domains”, Proc WSEAS Multiconf. in Applied Mathematics, St. Paul´s Bay, Malta,
Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2003.
-
Júdice,
J.
J.;
I.
eigencomplementarity
Ribeiro;
H.
problem”,
Sherali;
Proc
“Global
International
optimization
Conf.
Optimization, Santorini, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2003.
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- Navarro, A.; B.F.C Gabriel; “Optimal M-QAM/DAPSK Allocation in Narrowband OFDM
Radio Channels”, Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications”, Proc
Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1,
pp. 219 - 224, September, 2003.
- Júdice, J. J.; M. Queiroz; C. Humes; “The hinge fitting problem”, Proc International
Conf. on Frontiers in Global Optimization, Santorini, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June,
2003.
4.4.6.2 IMPACT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ON SOCIETY
Book Chapters
- Salema, C.; “Infra-estruturas de Telecomunicações” - Chapter in A Casa do Futuro
Interactiva, Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Lisboa, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Oliveira, C.O.; G.C. Carpinteiro; L. M. Correia; “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation
from GSM and UMTS Base Station Antennas”, RadioProtecção, Vol. II, No. 2/3, pp. 121 138, May, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Horta, N.H.; D. Simões ; R. Luis; J. Redol ; “A New Approach Towards E-Learning
Contents Standardization And Enhanced Usability”, Proc IADIS International Conference
on WWW/Internet, Albufeira, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1199 - 1103, November, 2003.
- Oliveira, C.O.; G.C. Carpinteiro; L. M. Correia; “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation
from GSM and UMTS Base Station Antennas”, Proc COST 281 - Potential Health
Implications from Mobile Communication Systems, Dublin, Ireland, May, 2003.
- Oliveira, C.O.; G.C. Carpinteiro; L. M. Correia; “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation
from GSM and UMTS Base Station Antennas”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 4th, June, 2003.
- Oliveira, C.O.; G.C. Carpinteiro; L. M. Correia; C. A. Fernandes; “Projecto ITEM Informação Técnica Sobre Exposição à Radiação Electromagnétic a em Comunicações
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Móveis”, Proc Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. X,
November, 2003.
4.4.6.3 INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Book Chapters
- Girão, P.M.; B. G. Lipták; P. M. Glattstein; “Electrical Meters and Sensors” - Chapter in
Process Measurement and Analysis, Instrument Engineers’ Handbook, Béla G. Lipták,
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2003.
- Girão, P.M.; B. G. Lipták; R. W. Worrall; T. J. Clagett; “Thermistors” - Chapter in
Process Measurement and Analysis, Instrument Engineers’ Handbook, Béla G. Lipták,
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2003.
- Girão, P.M.; B. G. Lipták; A. Brodgesell; “Torque and Force Transducers” - Chapter in
Process Measurement and Analysis, Instrument Engineers’ Handbook, Béla G. Lipták,
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2003.
Papers in Journals
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; “Colored Light-to-Voltage Converters
Based Absorbance Meter (invited paper)”, International Scientific Journal of Computing,
Vol.2, No. 1, pp. 58 - 64, October, 2003.
- Girão, P.M.; O. Postolache; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “Distributed Measurement
Systems
and
Intelligent
Processing
for
Water
Quality
Assessment”,
Sensors
&
Transducers Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 74 - 85, December, 2003.
- Postolache, O.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; H. G. Ramos; “Increasing Ion Selective
Electrode Performance Using Neural Networks”,
International Scientific Journal of
Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 17 - 24, July, 2003.
-
Borda,
C.;
R.
Dias;
N.B.C.
Carvalho;
J.
N.
Matos;
“Medidor
de
Campo
electromagnético”, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 15 September, 2003.
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- Silva, M. F.; A.C. Serra; “New methods to improve convergence of sine fitting
algorithms”, Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 23 - 31,
March, 2003.
- Martins, R.C.M.; A.C. Serra; “Representation and Measurement of Nonlinearities in
Stimulus Signals”, IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1160 1165, August, 2003.
- Alegria, ; A.C. Serra; “Variance of the Cumulative Histogram of ADCs due to Frequency
Errors”, IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 69 - 74, February,
2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Monteiro, M.C.; P Arpaia; A.C. Serra; “A Frequency Domain Approach to ADC PhasePlane Modelling and Testing”, Proc International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing
- IWADC, Perugia, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 587 - 590, September, 2003.
- Rocha, A.; L. Cupido; M. Sousa; “A Ka- Band Propagation Beacon Receiver”, Proc ESA
Worshop on Millimetre Wave Technology and Application, EsPOO, Finland, Vol. 1, pp. 177
- 182, May, 2003.
- Postolache, G.; M. I. Rocha; L. Silva-Carvalho; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; “A Practical
Approach of Wavelets Analysis to Follow Transitory Modulation of the Cardiac Autonomic
System after Ethanol Administration”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Technology Conf., Vail, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 218 - 222, May, 2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “A Practical Approach to
Ion Selective Electrodes Performance in Static and Dynamic Conditions”, Proc IMEKO
World Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 183 - 186, June, 2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; H. G. Ramos; J. M. Dias Pereira; “A Practical Approach to
Ion Selective Electrodes Performance in Static and Dynamic Conditions”, Proc IMEKO
World Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 156 - 160, June, 2003.
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; H. G. Ramos; “A Remote Measurement
and
Control
Solution
for
Distributed
Hart
147
Systems”,
Proc
Conf.
on
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Measurement & Instruments - ICEMI, Tayuan, China, Vol. Vol.1, pp. 799 - 802, August,
2003.
- Ramos, H. G.; J. M. Dias Pereira; V. Viegas; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; “A Virtual
Instrument
to
Test
Smart
Transducer
Interface
Modules
(STIMs)”,
Proc
IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conf., Vail, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 529
- 533, May, 2003.
- Postolache, G.; L. Silva-Carvalho; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; “A Wavelet-Based Method
for Estimation of the Autonomic Balance after Experimentally Drug Administration”, Proc
IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical & Computer, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 3, pp. 2083 2086, May, 2003.
- Arpaia, P; P. Daponte; A.C. Serra; M. C. Monteiro; “ADC Testing Based on IEEE 105794 Standard - Some Critical Notes”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Technology Conf., Baltimore, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 119 - 124, May, 2003.
- Ramos, H. G.; O. Postolache; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; “An Application of the IEEE
1451.2 Correction Engine in an Integrated Sensing Structure”, Proc IMEKO World
Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 609 - 613, June, 2003.
-
Alegria,
;
A.C.
Serra;
“Coherent
Sampling
of
Sinewaves”,
Proc
Conf.
on
Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 131 - 134, June, 2003.
- Monteiro, M.C.; P Arpaia; A.C. Serra; “Dual Tone Analysis for Phase-Plane Coverage in
ADC
Metrological
Characterization”,
Proc
IEEE
Instrumentation
and
Measurement
Technology Conf., Vail, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 1334 - 1339, May, 2003.
- Quaresma, H.J.; A. Silva; A.C. Serra; “Error correction technique for dynamic
impedance measurement”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conf., Vail, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 1009 - 1012, May, 2003.
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; “HART Protocol Analyzer Based in
LabVIEW”, Proc Conf. on Electronic Measurement & Instruments - ICEMI, Lviv, Ukraine,
Vol.1, pp. 174 - 176, September, 2003.
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- Silva, M. F.; A.C. Serra; P.M. Ramos; “Improving Convergence of Sine Fitting
Algorithms”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp.
119 - 122, June, 2003.
- Quaresma, H.J.; A. Silva; A.C. Serra; “Improving dynamic resistance and differential
capacitance measurement of active devices”, Proc IMEKO World Congress, Dubrovnik,
Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 959 - 962, June, 2003.
- Ramos, P.M.; M. F. Silva; A.C. Serra; “Improving sine-fitting algorithms for amplitude
and phase measurements”, Proc IMEKO World Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. TC4,
pp. 614 - 619, June, 2003.
- Alegria, ; P.M. Ramos; A.C. Serra; “Measuring Channel Switching Error in Data
Acquisition Systems”, Proc Euro Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, Perugia, Italy,
Vol., pp. 175 - 177, September, 2003.
- Alegria, ; P.M. Girão; V. Haasz; A.C. Serra; “Performance of Data Acquisition Systems
from User’s Point of View”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology
Conf., Vail, United States, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2003.
- Monteiro, M.C.; P Arpaia; A.C. Serra; “Phase-spectrum Based Compensation of ADC
Dynamic Hysteresis”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal,
Vol. 1, pp. 587 - 290, June, 2003.
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; O. Postolache; P.M. Girão; H. G. Ramos; “Replacing Hart Hand-Held
Terminals by PC Based Virtual Instruments”, Proc IMEKO World Congress, Dubrovnik,
Croatia, Vol. Vol.1, pp. 100 - 1004, June, 2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “Self Organizing Maps
Aplication in Remote Water Quality Monitoring System”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and
Measurement Technology Conf., Vail-Colorado, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 529 - 533, May,
2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “Self Organizing Maps in a
Remote Water Quality Monitoring System”, Proc IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Technology Conf., Vail, Colorado, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 529 - 533, May, 2003.
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- Postolache, O.; J. M. Dias Pereira; P.M. Girão; H. G. Ramos; “Smart Wireless System
for Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries”,
Proc Conf. on Electronic Measurement &
Instruments - ICEMI, Taiyuan, China, Vol. 2, pp. 1139 - 1143, August, 2003.
-
Martins, R.C.M.; A.C. Serra; “Stochastic Approach for Memoryless Nonlinearity
Measurement”, Proc International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing - IWADC,
Perugia, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 209 - 212, September, 2003.
- Martins, R.C.M.; A.C. Serra; “Stochastic Approach for Nonlinearity Measurement Using
Power Series Representation”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 143 - 146, June, 2003.
- Quaresma, H.J.; A. Silva; A.C. Serra; “Técnica de correcção de erros para medida de
resistência dinâmica”, Proc Congresso de Mecânica Computacional, Évora, Portugal, Vol.
3, pp. 1679 - 1686, April, 2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “Wireless Water Quality
Monitoring System Based on Field Point Technology and Kohonen Maps”, Proc IEEE
Canadian Conf. on Electrical & Computer, Montreal, Canada, Vol. I, pp. 211 - 216, May,
2003.
- Postolache, O.; P.M. Girão; J. M. Dias Pereira; H. G. Ramos; “Wireless Water Quality
Monitoring System Based on Field Point Technology and Kohonen Maps”, Proc IEEE
Canadian Conf. on Electrical & Computer, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 3, pp. 1873 - 1876,
May, 2003.
Project Reports
- Girão, P.M.; O. Postolache; “Monitorização e Controlo do Espectro. Integração de
Infraestruturas. Etapa I - Açores. Anexo”, Instituto de Telecomunicações, January, 2003.
4.4.6.4 INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Madureira, M.; P. Montero; R. L. Aguiar; “BROAD-BAND TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER
FOR MULTIGIGABIT-PER-SECOND (40Gbps) OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS IN
0.135um PHEMT TECHNOLOGY ”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and System,
Bangkok, Thailand, May, 2003.
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- Horta, N.H.; M. Barros ; J. Silva; G. Neves ; “Enhanced Genetic Algorithm Kernel
Applied to a Circuit-Level Optimization E-Design Environment”, Proc IEEE Conf. on
Electronics, Circuits and System, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, December, 2003.
- Madureira, M.; P. Montero; R. L. Aguiar; “HIGH GAIN GaAs 10Gbps TRANSIMPEDANCE
AMPLIFIER WITH INTEGRATED BONDWIRE EFFECTS”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Circuits and System, Bangkok, Thailand, May, 2003.
4.4.6.5 POWER ELECTRONICS AND POWER SYSTEMS
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Anunciada, A.; R. Monteiro; “A New Soft-Switching Cell Usable in Bridge Converters”,
Proc IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf. - PESC, Acapulco, Mexico, Vol. 1, pp. 1851
- 1856, June, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; B. Borges; R. Monteiro; “Active Power Filters”, Proc International Conf.
on Renewable Energies and Power Quality - ICREPQ, Vigo, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 235 - 240,
April, 2003.
- Gameiro, Natália S. Gameiro; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Analysis of SRM Drives Behaviour
Under the Occurrence of Power Converter Faults”, Proc IEEE International Symp. on
Industrial Electronics - ISIE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. CD- ROM, pp. 1 - 5, June, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; “Cost Minimization of a Multiple Section Energy Cable Supplying Remote
Telecom
Equipment”,
Proc
Mathematical
Techniques
and
Problems
in
Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, September, 2003.
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Diagnosis of stator inter-turn short circuits in DTC
induction motor drives”, Proc IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake
City, UT, United States, Vol. CD- Rom, pp. 1 - 8, October, 2003.
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Diagnosis of stator, rotor and airgap eccentricity in
three-phase induction motors based on the Multiple Reference Frames Theory”, Proc IEEE
Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Vol. CDRom, pp. 1 - 7, October, 2003.
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- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “DSP implementation of the Multiple Reference
Frames Theory for the diagnosis of stator faults in a DTC induction motor drive”, Proc
IEEE International Symp. on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and
Drives, Atlanta, GA, United States, Vol. CD- Rom, pp. 223 - 228, August, 2003.
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Modelling and simulation of DTC induction motor
drives for stator winding faults diagnosis”, Proc European Conf. on Power Electronics and
Applications, Toulouse, France, Vol. CD-Rom, pp. p1 - p10, September, 2003.
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “New developments in the diagnosis of faults in lineconnected and direct torque controlled induction motors”, Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics
Conf. - IECON, Roanoke, VG, United States, Vol. CD- Rom, pp. 1361 - 1368, November,
2003.
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Referenciais Múltiplos: um novo método de
diagnóstico de avarias no estator de motores de indução trifásicos”, Proc Jornadas Luso
Espanholas de Engª Electrotécnica, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. III, pp. 6.239 - 6.246, July,
2003.
- Gameiro, Natália S. Gameiro; A. J. M. Cardoso; “Simulação do Comportamento
Dinâmico do Motor de Relutância Variável Comutado”, Proc Jornadas Luso Espanholas de
Engª Electrotécnica, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. III, pp. 6.175 - 6.180, July, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; H. Ribeiro; “Single Stage AC-DC Converter with Input Power Factor
Correction”, Proc International Conf. on Power Electronics and Drive Systems - PEDS,
Singapore, Vol. 1, pp. 1480 - 1485, November, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; H. Ribeiro; “Single Stage AC-DC Converter with Input Power Factor
Correction”, Proc IEEE Industrial Electronics Conf. - IECON, Roanoke, United States, Vol.
1, pp. 2933 - 2938, November, 2003.
4.4.6.6 TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS
Book Chapters
- Morgado, J.; L. Alcácer; “Polímeros Condutores” - Chapter in Materiais Dois Mil, M.
Amaral Fortes & P.J. Ferreira, IST Press, Lisbon, 2003.
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Papers in Journals
- Alves, H.; D. Simão; H. Novais; I. C. Santos; E. B. Lopes; R. T. Henriques; M. Almeida;
“Charge transfer salts based on M(dcbdt)2 complexes (M=Au and Ni)”, Synthetic Metals,
Vol. 135-136, No. 1, pp. 135 - 136, April, 2003.
- Alves, H.; I. C. Santos; E. B. Lopes; D. Belo; V. Gama; D. Simão; H. Novais; M. T.
Duarte;
R.
T.
Henriques;
M.
Almeida;
“Conductors
based
on
metal-
bisdicyanobenzodithiolate complexes”, Synthetic Metals, Vol. 133-134, No. 1, pp. 397 399, January, 2003.
- Charas, A.; J. Morgado; L. Alcácer; J. Martinho; F. Cacialli; “Luminescence properties of
polyfluorenes blends”, Synthetic Metals, Vol. 137, No. 1-3, pp. 1039 - 1040, April, 2003.
- Riehn, R.; A. Charas; J. Morgado; F. Cacialli; “Near-field optical lithography of a
conjugated polymer”, Appl. Phys. Letters, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 526 - 528, January, 2003.
- Morgado, J.; N. Barbagalho; A. Charas; M. Matos; L. Alcácer; F. Cacialli; “Self-assembly
surface modified indium-tin oxide anodes for single-layer light-emitting diodes”, Journal
of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 36, pp. 434 - 438, February, 2003.
- Charas, A.; J. Morgado; L. Alcácer; J. Martinho; F. Cacialli; “Steady state and time resolved photoluminescence properties of alternating polyfluorene copolymers”, Synthetic
Metals, Vol. 135, No. 1-3, pp. 387 - 388, April, 2003.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Morgado, J.; A. Charas; N. Barbagalho; L. Alcácer; “Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes
Based on a Soluble Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) with Interfaces Modified by SelfAssembly”, Proc European Solid-State Device Research Conf., Lisbon (Estoril), Portugal,
Vol. 33, pp. 175 - 178, September, 2003.
- Velez, F. J.; H. Santos ; T. Lages; “Redes sem Fios IEEE 802.11: Instalação,
Configuração e Segurança”, Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilhã,
Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 433 - 438, November, 2003.
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- Morgado, J.; A. Charas; N. Barbagalho; L. Alcácer; “Towards”plastic” electronics and
optoelectronics”, Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. IV,
pp. 39 - 41, June, 2003.
4.4.7 Other Achievements
4.4.7.1 Prototypes
- Ferreira, C.; A. Anunciada; “100W Switch Mode Audio Power Amplifier”, October, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; H. Ribeiro; “600W DC 48V Telecom Single Stage Power Supply with
Power Factor Correction”, 0, June, 2003.
- Anunciada, A.; H. Marques; “Pulse Generator for Mains Network Analysis”, December,
2003.
4.4.7.2 Awards
- Cruz, S. M. A. ; “New developments in the diagnosis of faults in line-connected and
direct torque controlled induction motors”, Best Presentation at IECON 2003, 06-112003.
4.4.7.3 Miscellaneous
- Júdice, J. J.; C. Salema; C. A. Fernandes; “Editor of Conference Proceedings”,
Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications”, 08-09-2003.
- Dias Pereira, J. M.; “Guest Editor”, Manual de Problemas de Circuitos Eléctricos”,
Escolar Editora - 1998 - 2000 exemplares, 30-05-2003.
- Girão, P.M.; et. al.; “Technical Audit”, LABELEC Test of Equipment for Low Voltage
Operation”, 15-04-2003.
- Serra, A.C.; “Member of Technical Committee”, Deputy Chairman of the Technical
Committee on Measurement of Electrical Quantities (TC-4) of the Instrumentation and
Measurement Confederation (IMEKO)”, 26-03-2003.
- Serra, A.C.; “Member of Advisory Committee”, Member of the Scientific Council of the
PhD programme on Electrical Engineering – Instrumentation and Measurement, from
Naples University Frederico II, Italy”, 26-03-2003.
-
Serra,
A.C.;
“Member
of
Technical
Committee”,
Member
of
the
TC-10, IEEE
Instrumentation and Measurement Society, for updating IEEE 1057 - standard for
digitizing waveform records”, 26-03-2003.
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Serra,
A.C.;
“National
Delegate”,
Portuguese
delegate
on
IEC
TC85-WG
16,
''Performance characteristics and calibration methods for digital data acquisition systems
and relevant software”", International Electrotechnical Commission, 26-03-2003.
- Serra, A.C.; “National Delegate”, Portuguese delegate to the General Council of the
Instrumentation and Measurement Confederation (IMEKO)”, 26-03-2003.
- Serra, A.C.; “National Delegate”, Portuguese representative on the working group for
the contract model of research projects for the 6th Framework Programme of the
European Union”, 26-03-2003.
4.4.8 Other Contributions
4.4.8.1 Conference Committees
- 7th FIGIPS - Meeting in Inorganic Chemistry, Organizing Committee, Rui Teives
Henriques, 11-06-2003.
- 8th Workshop on ADC modelling and testing, Technical Programme Committee, António
Cruz Serra, 08-09-2003.
-
Advanced School and Workshop on Mathematical Techniques and Problems in
Telecommunications, Organizing Committee, Luís Merca Fernandes, 08-09-2003.
-
Advanced School and Workshop on Mathematical Techniques and Problems in
Telecommunications, Organizing Committee, Joaquim Júdice, 08-09-2003.
- Design Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2003, Scientific Committee, Nuno Horta,
30-03-2003.
- ICC 2004, Technical Programme Committee, Atílio Gameiro, 05-12-2003.
- The Eurosensors XVII Conference, Technical Programme Committee, Pedro Silva Girão,
21-09-2003.
-
VII
Congresso
de
Mecânica
Aplicada
e
Computacional,
Technical
Programme
Committee, António Cruz Serra, 14-04-2003.
-
WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Technical Programme
Committee, Maria Celeste Gouveia, 01-09-2003.
4.4.8.2 Refereeing
- 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2003,
Nuno Horta, 30-05-2003.
- Annals of Operations Research, Joaquim Júdice, 21-02-2003.
- Computers and Operations Research, Joaquim Júdice, 21-02-2003.
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- Conferência Brasileira de Electrónica de Potência, Beatriz Borges, 22-04-2003.
- Conftele, Beatriz Borges, 06-03-2003.
- CONFTELE 2003, Pedro Silva Girão, 10-06-2003.
- Design Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2003, Nuno Horta, 30-03-2003.
- IEEE Sensors 2003, Pedro Silva Girão, 22-10-2003.
- IEEE Trans. on Instr. & Meas., Raúl Martins, 15-08-2003.
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, António Cruz Serra, 20-022003.
- International Journal of Electronics, Francisco Alegria, 09-02-2003.
- Journal of Computer Science and Interfaces, Elsevier., António Cruz Serra, 20-02-2003.
- Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University, Maria Celeste Gouveia, 24-11-2003.
- Mathematical Reviews, Joaquim Júdice, 21-02-2003.
- Measurement, Elsevier, António Cruz Serra, 20-02-2003
- Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Beatriz Borges, 15-01-2003.
- Referee of the Governmental Czech republic Research Agency,”Grantová agentura
Ceské republiky”. Member of the evaluation panel for research projects proposals on
Instrumentation and Measurement., António Cruz Serra, 20-02-2003.
- Referee of the Italian”Ministero dell’Università e della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica". Member of the evaluation panel for research projects proposals on Instrumentation and
Measurement., António Cruz Serra, 26-03-2003.
- SIAM Journal on Optimization, Joaquim Júdice, 21-02-2003.
- XVII IMEKO World Congress, Pedro Silva Girão, 22-06-2003.
4.4.8.3 Miscellaneous
- Special Issue on ADC testing standardization, Journal of Computer Standards &
Interfaces, vol. 25, n. 1, 01-03-2003.
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