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4 May 2009

ROOM

TIME S.1 S.2 S.3 S.4

08:30 Registration

09:30

Opening Session - Prof. Carlos Salema,

President of the Conference

10:00 Welcome Coffee

10:30

Plenary Session: The European Path

Towards the Internet of the Future - Eng. Mário Campolargo

11:15

Plenary Session: Trends and

Challenges in Future Broadband Radio

Access - Prof. Matti Latva-aho

12:00 Signal Processing I Optical

Communication Systems I

Antennas, Microwave and Radio

Propagation Mobile & Wireless I

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Poster Session I

14:45 Invited Talk: A URSI e as Ciências Rádio em

Portugal

15:00

Signal Processing II Optical

Communication Systems II

15:20 Antennas, Microwave

and Radio Propagation II

Mobile & Wireless II

16:40 Coffee Break

17:00 Electronics and Power

Systems for Telecommunications

Optical Communication

Systems III

Antennas, Microwave and Radio

Propagation III Mobile & Wireless III

19:00

Panel: Digital Dividend:

Representatives of ANACOM,

Portuguese URSI Committee, Portugal

Telecom, Apritel. Moderators: Prof.

José Neves (IT), Prof. A. Navarro (UA)

20:30 Banquet

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5 May 2009

ROOM

TIME S.1 S.2 S.3 S.4

09:00 Electronics for

Telecommunications I Instrumentation and

Measurement Networking I

Materials and Devices Quantum

Effects 10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 Electronics for

Telecommunications II

Information Security Signal Processing

Multimedia Networking II

Quantum Effects Services and Applications

12:00

Plenary Session: On the Confluence of Information Theory

and Networking Prof Muriel Médard

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Poster Session II

15:00

Panel: Cooperation

Between Industry, Universities and

Research Institutions: The TICE

Collaboration. Representatives of Portugal Telecom,

etc. Moderator:

Prof Carlos Salema

17:00 Closing Session

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SESSIONS

4 May 2009

Signal Processing I

ROOM: S.1 TIME: 12:00 CHAIR: HENRIQUE SALGADO

12:00

#10 Vessel Detection and velocity estimation using SAR amplitude images

Duarte Carona, Paulo Marques

12:20

#36 Unsupervised Hyperspectral Signal Subspace Identification

José M.P. Nascimento, José Bioucas-Dias

12:40

#63 MMSE Receivers for Non-Linearly Distorted OFDM Signals

João Oliveira, Miguel Rodrigues, Henrique Salgado

Optical Communication Systems I

ROOM: S.2 TIME: 12:00 CHAIR: HENRIQUE SILVA

12:00

#5 Near Threshold Regime Optimization of a Corrugation-Pitch-Modulated DFB Laser Structure

with Inhomogeneous Coupling Coefficient

José Boavida, Carlos Fernandes, José Morgado

12:20

#27 ASE Noise Simulation in Raman Amplification Systems

Nelson Muga, Meire Fugihara, Mário Ferreira, Armando Pinto

12:40

#34 All-Optical Remote Node for Cost-Effective Metro-Access Convergence

Sílvia Pato, João Pedro, João Santos, Henrique Silva, João Pires, Paulo Monteiro

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Antennas, Microwave and Radio Propagation I

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 12:00 CHAIR: CARLOS SALEMA

12:00

#18 Effects of the Indoor Installation Scenario on the Radiation Pattern of Microstrip Patch

Antennas

André Violante, Custódio Peixeiro

12:20

#25 Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M.

Correia, Carlos Fernandes

12:40

#26 Application of Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) Materials in Low Profile Antenna Design

Qi Luo, Jose Rocha Pereira, Henrique Salgado

Mobile & Wireless I

ROOM: S.4 TIME: 12:00 CHAIR: JOSÉ ROCHA PEREIRA

12:00

#20 Impact Analysis of the Shortest Path Movement Model on Routing Strategies for VDTNs in

a Rural Region

Vasco Soares, Joel Rodrigues, Farid Farahmand

12:20

#21 Perfect Periodic Autocorrelation Codes Derived From M-Sequences

João Pereira, Henrique Silva

12:40

#40 A Biosensor and Data Presentation Solution for Body Sensor Networks

Paulo Neves, João Caldeira, Américo Mendes, Orlando Pereira, Joel Rodrigues

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Invited Talk: A URSI e as Ciências Rádio em Portugal

Engª Luisa Mendes (URSI – Sponsored Session)

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 14:45

Signal Processing II

ROOM: S.1 TIME: 15:00 CHAIR: ANTÓNIO NAVARRO

15:00

#80 Phonetic Recognition Improvements through Input Feature Set Combination and Acoustic

Context Window Widening

Carla Lopes, Fernando Perdigão

15:20

#99 Out-Of-Vocabulary Detection and Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Using

Phone Models

Arlindo Veiga, Cláudio Neves, Fernando Perdigão, Luís Sá

15:40

#115 Image Restoration with Compound Regularization Using a Bregman Iterative Algorithm

Manya Afonso, José Bioucas-Dias, Mário Figueiredo

16:00

#119 Theoretical Performance of the MEDLL Algorithm for the New Navigation Signals

Nuria Blanco-Delgado, Fernando D. Nunes

16:20

#120 From diversity and denoising to phase imaging

Gonçalo Valadão, José Bioucas-Dias

Optical Communication Systems II

ROOM: S.2 TIME: 15:00 CHAIR: MÁRIO LIMA

15:00

#37 Analysis of a Pump Reflecting Raman Fiber Amplifier

João Ferreira, Meire Fugihara, Armando Pinto

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15:20

#38 Visible Light Communication for Advanced Driver Assistant Systems

Navin Kumar, Luis Alves Nero, Rui L Aguiar

15:40

#45 Chromatic dispersion monitoring scheme with very high dispersion monitoring window at

40 Gbit/s

Vitor Ribeiro, Mário Lima, António Teixeira, Rogério Nogueira

16:00

#46 Impact of Transient Response of Optical Amplifiers Operating with Burst Traffic

Berta Neto, Cláudia Reis, Ana Maria Rocha, Gabriele Incerti, Nayoa Wada, Giorgio Tosi-Beleffi,

Davide Forin, António Teixeira, Paulo André

16:20

#51 Improving the Upstream Channel Efficiency of Passive Optical Networks via Frame

Aggregation and Compression

João Santos, Pedro Inácio, João Gomes, Artur Arsénio, João Pires, Mário Freire, Paulo Monteiro

Antennas, Microwave and Radio Propagation II

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 15:20 CHAIR: JOSÉ NEVES

15:20

#48 Guided Modes in a Metamaterial Slab Formed by Crossed Metallic Wires

Tiago Morgado, Mário Silveirinha

15:40

#49 Computation of the Effective Parameters of Metamaterials Using a Finite-Difference

Frequency-Domain Method

João Costa, Mário Silveirinha

16:00

#55 Study of Material Interference in a RFID Tag Reading

Maria Fernandes, Jorge Rodrigues, Nuno Bonifácio, Paulo Saraiva, Pedro Brochado, Nuno

Borges de Carvalho

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16:20

#74 Leaky Mode Dispersion in Omega NRD Waveguides

António Topa, Carlos Paiva, Afonso Barbosa

Mobile & Wireless II

ROOM: S.4 TIME: 15:00 CHAIR: JOÃO PAULO CARMO

15:20

#98 A Statistical 3D MIMO Radio Channel Model for UMTS

Filipe Leonardo, Luís Correia

15:40

#54 Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS

Sara Duarte, Luís Correia, Luís Santo

16:00

#61 Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS

Armando Marques, Luis Correia, Sérgio Pires

16:20

#71 Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges

Vikash Laxmidas, Luís Correia, Sérgio Pires

Electronics and Power Systems for Telecommunications

ROOM: S.1 TIME: 17:00 CHAIR: PEDRO GUEDES DE OLIVEIRA

17:00

#16 A Bandgap Voltage Reference With Only CMOS Transistors

António Ribeiro, Ricardo Gama, Tiago Costa, Rui Neves, Nuno Horta

17:20

#22 Analog Circuits Optimization based on Evolutionary Computation Techniques

Manuel Barros, Jorge Guilherme, Nuno Horta

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17:40

#91 A 1.8V/5GHz CMOS WLAN Low Noise Amplifier Integrated with Active BALUN

Fernando Azevedo, Luis Mendes, Vítor Fialho, João Vaz, Fernando Fortes, Maria J.Rosário

18:00

#47 One Cycle Control Design for High Performance Two-Level Power Inverters

Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Borges, Luís Sá

18:20

#75 Single Stage Techniques for Power Factor Correction

Hugo Ribeiro, Beatriz Borges, Carlos Ferreira

Optical Communication Systems III

ROOM: S.2 TIME: 17:00 CHAIR: ARMANDO NOLASCO PINTO

17:00

#53 On Building a Distributed Antenna System with Joint Signal Processing for Next Generation

Wireless Access Networks: The FUTON Approach

Sílvia Pato, João Pedro, João Santos, Artur Arsénio, Pedro Inácio, Paulo Monteiro

17:20

#56 High Power Effect In Bend SMF Fiber

Ana Maria Rocha, Gabriele Incerti, Davide Forin, Giorgio Bellefi, Margarida Facão

17:40

#90 Intensity Modulated Remodulation Scheme Based on Single-Sideband Manchester

Downstream Signal for Usage in Ring Tree Networks

Nataša Pavlović, Liliana Costa, António Teixeira

18:00

#110 Remotely Reconfigurable Remote Node for Hybrid Ring-Tree Passive Optical Networks

Albano Baptista, Marco Ferreira, André Quinta, Mário Lima, António Teixeira

18:20

#124 Implementation of an Automated Fiber Bragg Grating Writing System

Carlos Marques, Miguel Drummond, Francelli Corandi, Rogério Nogueira

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Antennas, Microwave and Radio Propagation III

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 17:00 CHAIR: CUSTÓDIO PEIXEIRO

17:00

#85 Optic axes of general anisotropic media: a geometric algebra perspective

Sérgio Matos, Carlos Paiva, Afonso Barbosa

17:20

#87 A novel approach to the reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves at

interfaces between isotropic and general anisotropic media

João Canto, Carlos Paiva, Afonso Barbosa

17:40

#100 Invisibility Cloaks in Electromagnetic Theory

Marco Ribeiro, Carlos Paiva

18:00

#106 An Extension of the dRET Model to include Time-Variant Channel Effects in Vegetation

Media

Sérgio Morgadinho, Rafael Caldeirinha, Telmo Fernandes, Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, Juergen Richter

18:20

#32 Macro-Cellular Capacity Enhancement using Spatial Multiplexing MIMO with Linear

Antenna Arrays

Pedro Vieira, Paula Queluz, António Rodrigues

Mobile & Wireless III

ROOM: S.4 TIME: 17:00 CHAIR: FERNANDO NUNES

17:00

#117 Performance Analysis of Altimeter-Aided GNSS Receiver for Indoor Scenarios

Fernando Nunes, Fernando Sousa, José Leitão

17:20

#78 Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios

Ricardo Preguiça, Luís Correia, Carlos Caseiro

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17:40

#107 HCS in UMTS/HSPA Systems

Tiago Rebelo, António Rodrigues

18:00

#41 Relay-Assisted Cooperative Schemes for the UL OFDMA Based Systems

Andreia Moço, Adão Silva, Atílio Gameiro

18:20

#70 Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of RRC Pulse-Shaped Signals

Marco Gomes, Vitor Silva, Francisco Cercas, Martin Tomlinson

5 May 2009

Electronics for Telecommunications I

ROOM: S.1 TIME: 9:00 CHAIR: JOSÉ CARLOS PEDRO

9:00

#24 A 2.4GHz CMOS Integer-N Phase-Locked Loop

Vítor Fialho, João Vaz,

9:20

#42 Low-Cost, Compatible Dedicated Short Range Communications Chain for Road Transport

and Traffic Telematics

Ricardo Abreu, João Matos, Jorge Gomes

9:40

#65 Polar Transmitter Pre-Distortion Technique Validated with 2.5G Mobile Communication

Signals

Pedro Miguel Cabral, Lorena Cabria, José Angel Garcia, José Carlos Pedro

10:00

#81 Validation of a Behavioral Model based on Volterra Series with coefficients determined

orthogonally

Pedro Miguel Lavrador, José Carlos Pedro

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10:20

#95 Bandwidth Requirements of Envelope Amplifiers for Polar Transmitters

Filipe Rodrigues, Pedro Miguel Cabral, José Carlos Pedro

Instrumentation and Measurements

ROOM: S.2 TIME: 9:00 CHAIR: LUÍS NERO ALVES

9:00

#76 A Survey on the Implementation of a Magnetic Induction Tomography Prototype:

Theoretical Description and Experimental Issues

Nuno Brás, Raúl Marins, António Serra

9:20

#94 Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variabilities Estimation Using Ballistocardiography

Eduardo Pinheiro, Octavian Postolache, Pedro Girão

9:40

#101 Global Instrumentation Network for Broadband RF Spectrum Monitoring

Octavian Postolache, Pedro Girão, Fernando Tavares, Sérgio Antunes

10:00

#113 Novel Photonic RF Instantaneous Frequency Measurement System Using an HiBi Fiber-

based Interefometer

Miguel Drummond, Rogério Nogueira, Paulo Monteiro

10:20

#125 Virtual Instrument to Detect Defects in Conductive Materials

Helena Maria Ramos, Artur Ribeiro, Francisco Alegria, Octavian Postolache

Networking I

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 9:00 CHAIR: RUI VALADAS

9:00

#2 Sensor Network deployment based on data variability

Roberto Henriques, Rui Rocha

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9:20

#3 Integrated System for Collecting, Processing and Storing Network Information

Catarina Monteiro, Paulo Salvador, António Nogueira, Eduardo Rocha, Rui Valadas

9:40

#7 Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Flooding-Probabilistic DTN Protocol using Logged Contact

Data

Constantino Antunes, Ricardo Morla

10:00

#14 Network Coding Multicast Framework for Broadband Satellite Systems

Fausto Vieira, João Barros

10:20

#29 Design of Survivable Optical Networks with Minimum CAPEX

Rui Morais, Claunir Pavan, Cristina Requejo, Armando Pinto

Materials and Devices Quantum Effects

ROOM: S.4 TIME: 9:00 CHAIR: LUÍS ALCÁCER

9:00

#11 The Effect of Temperature on the Frequency Response of p-i-n Photodiodes for Optical

Communications

Jorge Pereira

9:20

#31 Plastic Optical Fibers with Gain and Switching

Ana Charas, Ana Luísa Mendonça, Jenny Clark, Guglielmo Lanzani, Luca Bazzana, Alessandro

Nocivelli, Jorge Morgado

9:40

#86 Characterization of self-assembled monolayers of thiols on gold using scanning tunneling

microscopy

Quirina Ferreira, Graça Brotas, Luis Alcácer, Jorge Morgado

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10:00

#92 Environmental ageing of polymer-based thin film transistors: influence of the

semiconducting polymer chemical structure

Jorge Morgado, Ana Charas, Luis Alcácer

10:20

#35 Single-Photon Generation

Nuno Silva, Nelson Muga, Armando Pinto

Electronics for Telecommunications II

ROOM: S.1 TIME: 11:00 CHAIR: BEATRIZ BORGES

11:00

#102 Characterization of a SDR Front-End Receiver with Multisine Excitations

Pedro Cruz, Nuno Borges Carvalho

11:20

#4 A 5.7 GHz RF transceiver for wireless sensors applications

João Carmo, Paulo Mendes, Higino Correia

11:40

#15 Low-Area 4th-Order Shared-Amplifier Sigma-Delta Modulator

Tiago Costa, Rui Neves, Paulo Pereira, Nuno Horta

Information Security Signal Processing Multimedia

ROOM: S.2 TIME: 11:00 CHAIR: LUÍS MERCA FERNANDES

11:00

#28 Developing an Information System for Classified Electronic Documents

Ivan Matic, Zoran Skocir

11:20

#127 A fast FPGA implementation of the inter-layer deblocking filter for H.264/SVC

Guilherme Corrêa, Luciano Agostini, Luis Cruz

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11:40

#12 Fast Implementation for Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Image Coding

Danillo Graziosi, Nuno Rodrigues, Eduardo da Silva, Vitor Silva, Sérgio Faria

Networking II

ROOM: S.3 TIME: 11:00 CHAIR: AMARO SOUSA

11:00

#68 Evaluating WiMAX QoS performance in a real testbed

Ricardo Matos, Pedro Neves, Susana Sargento

11:20

#73 Studies for Modeling Basic Aspects of Source Traffic

João Gomes, Pedro Inácio, Branka Lakic, Mário Freire, Henrique Silva, Paulo Monteiro

11:40

#97 Preserving network QoS during remote images-management

Hélder Mendes, Jorge Mamede

Quantum Effects Services and Applications

ROOM: S.4 TIME: 11:00 CHAIR: FERNANDO VELEZ

11:00

#62 Quantum identification system over private quantum channel

José Cláudio Nascimento, Paulo Mateus Carreira, Rubens Viana Ramos

11:20

#30 Activeness and Responsiveness in Mobile Processes

Maxime Gamboni, António Ravara

11:40

#52 Taxonomy for Wireless Sensor Networks Services Characterisation and Classification

Luís Borges, Fernando Velez, António Lebres

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