Issue 18 - April 2012

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1. Highlight: UMM and UCR Conclude Their Second Year

The User-centric Mobility Management project, a joint effort of SITILabs, University Lusófona, and IT, Universidade de Aveiro, has concluded in April 2012 its second year. The project is dedicated to the research of mobility management solutions that are more adequate to e.g. user-centric environments or flat networks, and addresses mobility management from a functional perspective, attempting to provide a mobility management architecture that can be distributed across different elements on a network, from an end-to-end perspective, but placing as far as possible elements closer to the end-user. As outcome of the second year, the project resulted into a study concerning mobility management decoupling techniques (control and data plane), as well as an analysis of what QoE may mean in user-centric environments.

UMM is a project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (grant number PTDC/EEA-TEL/105709/2008, and has a lifespan of 3 years (2009-2013).

The User-centric Routing project, a joint effort of SITILabs, University Lusófona, and Universidade de Coimbra, has concluded in April 2012 its second year. The project is dedicated to the research of routing algorithms and protocols aable to support user-provided networks and information-centic applications. As outcome of the second year, the project resulted into a investigation of four major algorithms related to: energy-efficiency; mobility-awareness; social-awareness; delay tolerance.

UCR is a project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (grant number PTDC/EEA-TEL/103637/2008, and has a lifespan of 3 years (2009-2013).

In this Number:

1. Highlight: UMM and UCR Projects conclude their second year

2. SITILabs researcher with invited paper in IARIA journal

3. SITILabs PhD students attend MAP-TELE workshop 2012

2. SITILabs Researcher with Invited Paper in IARIA Journal

Tausee Jamal has had its paper entitled "Wireless Cooperative Relaying Based on Opportunistic Relay Selection" invited to  be submitted to the IARIA international journal on Advances in Networks and Services. The paper has as co-authors Paulo Mendes (SITILabs, University Lusófona) and André Zúquete (IT/University of Aveiro).

Tauseef Jamal was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1976. He graduated (96) in Electronics from the islamia College University Peshawar; MSc (98) in Electronics from the University of Peshawar; PGD (00) in Computer Science from the Pakistan Institute of engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS); MSc (06) in Computer Engineering from Halmstad University Sweden. His previous affiliations include: LMN Lab, Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania, where he was a researcher (08), and the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) area of UTM, INESC Porto (08-10). Currently, Jamal is a researcher in SITILabs (Internet Architectures and Networking) and a PhD Student at MAP-TELE. His major research interests are: cooperative relaying strategies, and user-provided networks.

3. SITILabs PhD Students Attend the MAP-TELE Workshop 2012

Four SITILabs PhD students enrolled in the MAP-TELE doctoral programme presented their work during the annual MAP-TELE student's workshop.  MAPSHOP 2012  took place in Universidade do Minho on May 2nd 2012.

Namusale Chama (mobility metrics for shortest-path routing), Andrea Ribeiro (social mobility modelling), Waldir Moreira Junior (social-aware opportunistic routing), and Tauseef Jamal (cooperative relaying) have been developing their research within the context of IAN since 2008 and are PhD students from the 2008 and the 2009 MAP-TELE editions.

MAP-TELE is a joint venture of Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Aveiro and Universidade do Porto and focused on Telecommunications.