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Research Interests Publications MSc Thesis Projects Teaching Useful Information	Publications PhD Thesis "Multi-user Multi-flow Packet Scheduling for Wireless Channels", June 2008 (PDF) Book Chapters "Open Architecture to Raise Awareness of Energy Consumption on the Home Environment", A. Rodrigues, C. Resende, F. Sousa and A. Aguiar, in Ambient Media and Systems, S. Gabrielli, D. Elias, K. Kahol, O. Akan, P. Bellavista, J. Cao, F. Dressler, D. Ferrari, M. Gerla, H. Kobayashi, S. Palazzo, S. Sahni, X. Shen, M. Stan, J. Xiaohua, A. Zomaya, J. Coulson (editors), Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, ISBN: 978-3-642-23902-1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23902-1_7) "Channel Modeling", A. Schmitz, M. Schinnenburg, J. Gross, A. Aguiar, in Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation, K. Wehrle, M. Guenes, J. Gross (editors), ISBN 978-3-642-12330-6, 2010 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12331-3) Journals "Leveraging Electronic Ticketing to Provide Personalised Navigation in a Public Transport Network", A. Aguiar, F. Nunes, M. Silva, P. A. Silva, D. Elias, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 12, nr. 4, 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2167612) Peer-Reviewed Conferences "Network-aware Biomedical Signal Processing: Loss Concealment or Loss Awareness", B. Barros, A. Aguiar, D. Lucani, International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), 2012 "Data Gathering for Sensing Applications in Vehicular Networks (Poster)", M. Nozari Zarmehri, A. Aguiar, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC), Nov. 2011 "OLBS: Offline Location Based Services", P. Coelho, A. Aguiar, J. C. Lopes, in Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Sep. 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/NGMAST.2011.22) "A Mobile Sensing Architecture for Massive Urban Scanning", J. Rodrigues, A. Aguiar, F. Vieira, J. Barros, J. P. Cunha, in Proc. of the 14th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct. 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082958) "An Interactive Content Service for Photo Frames in the Home", Carlos Lopes, Rui José, Ana Aguiar, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_20) "Open Architecture to Raise Awareness of Energy Consumption in the Home Environment", António Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Filipe Sousa, Ana Aguiar, in Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, 2011 "Enhanced Urban Mobility in a Public Transport System with RFID Ticketing", A. Aguiar, F. Nunes and D. Elias, in InMotion '09 : Pervasive Technologies for Improved Mobility and Transportation, held in conjunction with Pervasive 2009, Nara, Japan, May 2009 (PDF) "Channel Prediction Heuristics for Adaptive Modulation in WLAN", A. Aguiar and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007 "Comparative Evaluation of Prediction Heuristics for Wireless Channels", A. Aguiar and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2006 "Utility-based Packet Scheduler for Wireless Communications", A. Aguiar, A. Wolisz, and H. Lederer, in Proc. of The 6th IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, Tampa, FL, USA, November 2006 "Robust Real-time Channel Prediction Based on Inaccurate Instantaneous Measurements: an Approach", J. Klaue and A. Aguiar, in Proc. of 6th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York, NY, USA, June 2005 "Channel-Adaptive Schedulers with State-of-the-Art Channel Predictors", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, H. Lederer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of European Wireless 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 2005 "Bi-directional WLAN Channel Measurements in Different Mobility Scenarios", A. Aguiar and J. Klaue, in Proc. of Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Milan, Italy, May 2004 "Channel Adaptive Techniques in the Presence of Channel Prediction Inaccuracy", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of European Wireless 2004, Barcelona, Spain, February 200 "Channel-aware Schedulers for VoIP and MPEG4 based on Channel Prediction", A. Aguiar, C. Hoene, J. Klaue, H. Karl, H. Miesmer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of 8th Intl. Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC 03), October 2003 "A Framework for Evaluating Effects of Channel Prediction Inaccuracy on the Performance of Channel Adaptive Techniques", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, H. Miesmer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Wireless Networks (ICWN), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003 "Effects of Prediction Inaccuracy on the Performance of Channel-State-Aware Link Layer Schedulers", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of 1st Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, pp. 21-33, Oulu, Finnland, December 2002 Patents "Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Versendung von Datenpakete", A. Aguiar and H. Karl and H. Lederer, Patent nr. 10355117 of the German Patent and Trademark Office, filed November 2003, awarded October 2005 Technical Reports "Heuristic for Channel Prediction of WLAN Channels", A. Aguiar, Technical Report TKN-06-007, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, October 2006 "Bi-directional WLAN Channel Measurements in WLAN Environments with Mobility", A. Aguiar and J. Klaue, Technical Report TKN-04-002, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, April 2004 "Wireless Channel Models", A. Aguiar and J. Gross, Technical Report TKN-03-007, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, April 2003
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Publications

PhD Thesis

"Multi-user Multi-flow Packet Scheduling for Wireless Channels", June 2008 (PDF)

Book Chapters

"Open Architecture to Raise Awareness of Energy Consumption on the Home Environment", A. Rodrigues, C. Resende, F. Sousa and A. Aguiar, in Ambient Media and Systems, S. Gabrielli, D. Elias, K. Kahol, O. Akan, P. Bellavista, J. Cao, F. Dressler, D. Ferrari, M. Gerla, H. Kobayashi, S. Palazzo, S. Sahni, X. Shen, M. Stan, J. Xiaohua, A. Zomaya, J. Coulson (editors), Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, ISBN: 978-3-642-23902-1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23902-1_7)
"Channel Modeling", A. Schmitz, M. Schinnenburg, J. Gross, A. Aguiar, in Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation, K. Wehrle, M. Guenes, J. Gross (editors), ISBN 978-3-642-12330-6, 2010 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12331-3)

Journals

"Leveraging Electronic Ticketing to Provide Personalised Navigation in a Public Transport Network", A. Aguiar, F. Nunes, M. Silva, P. A. Silva, D. Elias, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 12, nr. 4, 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2167612)

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

"Network-aware Biomedical Signal Processing: Loss Concealment or Loss Awareness", B. Barros, A. Aguiar, D. Lucani, International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), 2012
"Data Gathering for Sensing Applications in Vehicular Networks (Poster)", M. Nozari Zarmehri, A. Aguiar, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC), Nov. 2011
"OLBS: Offline Location Based Services", P. Coelho, A. Aguiar, J. C. Lopes, in Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Sep. 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/NGMAST.2011.22)
"A Mobile Sensing Architecture for Massive Urban Scanning", J. Rodrigues, A. Aguiar, F. Vieira, J. Barros, J. P. Cunha, in Proc. of the 14th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct. 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082958)
"An Interactive Content Service for Photo Frames in the Home", Carlos Lopes, Rui José, Ana Aguiar, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_20)
"Open Architecture to Raise Awareness of Energy Consumption in the Home Environment", António Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Filipe Sousa, Ana Aguiar, in Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, 2011
"Enhanced Urban Mobility in a Public Transport System with RFID Ticketing", A. Aguiar, F. Nunes and D. Elias, in InMotion '09 : Pervasive Technologies for Improved Mobility and Transportation, held in conjunction with Pervasive 2009, Nara, Japan, May 2009 (PDF)
"Channel Prediction Heuristics for Adaptive Modulation in WLAN", A. Aguiar and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007
"Comparative Evaluation of Prediction Heuristics for Wireless Channels", A. Aguiar and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2006
"Utility-based Packet Scheduler for Wireless Communications", A. Aguiar, A. Wolisz, and H. Lederer, in Proc. of The 6th IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, Tampa, FL, USA, November 2006
"Robust Real-time Channel Prediction Based on Inaccurate Instantaneous Measurements: an Approach", J. Klaue and A. Aguiar, in Proc. of 6th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York, NY, USA, June 2005
"Channel-Adaptive Schedulers with State-of-the-Art Channel Predictors", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, H. Lederer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of European Wireless 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 2005
"Bi-directional WLAN Channel Measurements in Different Mobility Scenarios", A. Aguiar and J. Klaue, in Proc. of Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Milan, Italy, May 2004
"Channel Adaptive Techniques in the Presence of Channel Prediction Inaccuracy", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of European Wireless 2004, Barcelona, Spain, February 200
"Channel-aware Schedulers for VoIP and MPEG4 based on Channel Prediction", A. Aguiar, C. Hoene, J. Klaue, H. Karl, H. Miesmer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of 8th Intl. Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC 03), October 2003
"A Framework for Evaluating Effects of Channel Prediction Inaccuracy on the Performance of Channel Adaptive Techniques", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, H. Miesmer, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Wireless Networks (ICWN), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003
"Effects of Prediction Inaccuracy on the Performance of Channel-State-Aware Link Layer Schedulers", A. Aguiar, H. Karl, and A. Wolisz, in Proc. of 1st Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, pp. 21-33, Oulu, Finnland, December 2002

Patents

"Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Versendung von Datenpakete", A. Aguiar and H. Karl and H. Lederer, Patent nr. 10355117 of the German Patent and Trademark Office, filed November 2003, awarded October 2005

Technical Reports

"Heuristic for Channel Prediction of WLAN Channels", A. Aguiar, Technical Report TKN-06-007, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, October 2006
"Bi-directional WLAN Channel Measurements in WLAN Environments with Mobility", A. Aguiar and J. Klaue, Technical Report TKN-04-002, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, April 2004
"Wireless Channel Models", A. Aguiar and J. Gross, Technical Report TKN-03-007, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universitaet Berlin, April 2003

Contacts

Email: ana . aguiar at fe . up . pt

LinkedIn: Ana Aguiar