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Namusale Chama is with COPELABS, SITI R&D group, since 2010. She holds a BEng (06) in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Zambia. During 2006-2008, she worked for Zain Zambia in the Network Planning and Optimisation section as a Radio Frequency Planning and Optimisation Engineer. Between 2008-2010 she was a researcher at Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) are, Unit of Telecommunications and Multimedia, INESC Porto. She is finishing her PhD in the doctoral programme MAP-TELE, being hosted by COPELABS. Her major research interests are user-provided networks and multihop routing

 

Degrees

 

2000-2005        Bachelors Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering - University of Zambia

 

 

Working Experience

 
   

2013- Junior Researcher (Hosted PhD Student)

2010-2013  SITILABS, Junior Researcher

  

2008-2010 Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN), Unit of Telecommunications and Multimedia, INESC Porto - Researcher

  

2006 CELTEL - MObile Communication Service Provider - Graduate Trainee

  

2004-2005 Telecel Zambia - Mobile Communications Service Provider - Intern

  

2003 Action Computers, Mulungushi conference, Lusaka, Zambia - Intern

1999-2000 Citibank Zambia Limited, Lusaka, Zambia - Intern (Customer Services)

 

  

 

Main Research Interests

 

Wireless networks

Routing

Mobility Aspects
 

 

Current Projects

 

UCR: User-centric Routing. 2010-2013

 

 

Some Previous Projects
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Publications

 

Check  COPELABS's list of publications for the most recent ones!
 

Books/Book Chapters

Namusale Chama, Antonio Oliveira Junior, Waldir Moreira Junior, Paulo Mendes and Rute C. Sofia, User-centric Networking, Routing Aspects, chapter I, to Appear, Springer, Lecture Notes in Social Networking, 2014

Journals

Namusale Chama and Rute C. Sofia, A Discussion on Developing Multihop Routing Metrics Sensitive to Node Mobility (2011), in: Journal of Communications, Vol 6, Vol6:No 1 (2011)(56-57)

Conferences/Workshops

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Impact of Mobility on User-Centric Routing, MAPSHOP2013, Doctoral Programme MAP-TELE Workshop 2013., 2013

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Multihop Mobility Metrics based on Link Stability, Barcelona, Spain, 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA2013), 2013

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Impact of mobility on User-Centric Routing, MAP-TELE Workshop 2012, 2012

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Impact of Mobility on User-centric Routing (2011), in: 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, PhD Forum(286-288)

Namusale Chama and Rute C. Sofia, Characterizing Multihop Routing Requirements for Node Mobility Suport, in: CRC 2010, Braga,Portugal, pages 201-203, 2010

Namusale Chama and Rute C. Sofia, Redifining Link Duration: Making Routing Sensitive to Mobility (2010), in: IEEE GLOBECOM SWN 2010 Workshop

Others

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Impact of Mobility on User-centric Routing Progress Report, SITILabs, Universidade Lusófona and Universidade de Aveiro (MAP-TELE), number SITI-TR-12-10, 2012

 

  

Paulo Mendes, Marilia Curado, Namusale Chama, Waldir Moreira Junior, Antonio Oliveira Junior and Vítor Rola, UCR Interim Technical Report, University Lusofona, number SITI-TR-12-03, 2012

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Impact of Mobility on User-centric Routing, Doctoral Programme MAPTELE Workshop (MAPSHOP) 2011, 2011

Namusale Chama, Rute C. Sofia and Susana Sargento, Mobility Impact on User centric Routing, Progress Report I (2010), in: SITI, University Lusófona:SITI-TR-11-5