Symposium on Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Doctoral Programme in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PDEEC) is offered at FEUP by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC). The programme has close relations with INESC-Porto, ISR-Porto and INEB. Joint programmes also exist between DEEC and MIT, Carnegie-Mellow University and the University of Texas at Austin.
The Symposium on Electrical and Computer Engineering is included in the programme of the 1st Doctoral Congress in Engineering. This multi-disciplinary event is hosted at FEUP and will gather several areas of engineering to under the general topic of The role of PhDs in society: contributions and integration.
PDEEC will support the costs of any student from FEUP who registers for the Symposia in Electrical and Computer Engineering (authors and participants). Dinner is not included in the costs supported by PDEEC, nor are the workshops. To begin the fee payment process, please contact: Isidro Pereira, isidro@fe.up.pt.
All oral presentations will be given in a single track at FEUP, room B030.
The duration of oral presentations is 20 minutes including 5 minutes for
discussions, comments, questions and answers.
The rooms for the parallel sessions (Symposia) are equipped with a
computer and a projection system. Slides should be prepared in the
aspect ratio of 4:3. Authors have to bring their
presentations in a USB pen. Authors who bring the presentations in their
laptops must go to the reception – at least 30 min before the beginning of
the session - and request support.
Authors of selected papers presented in the oral sessions will be invited to submit an extend version to the U.Porto Journal in Engineering. A selection committee will recommend the papers to be selected.
The poster session will be held in the corridor of B-building, on June 12, from 10.30 to 17:00.
Presenters are expected to be present at their poster during the period 16:30 – 17:00.
Authors should bring their posters printed. We will provide push pins to attach
the poster to the placards. The maximum size a poster panel:
84,1 cm width × 118,9 cm height. Texts and figures should be large enough to be
read clearly at a distance of approximately 2 meters.
A poster presenter must deliver a 1 minute snapshot presentation before the poster session. Prepare a one-page slide in pptx format with 4:3
aspect ratio. Embed all fonts and movies. Each slide will be switched
automatically to the next one when the time passes. The one slide pptx
file should be sent to the poster chair (anibal@fe.up.pt), before June 5th, 2015.
General Information
Find a detailed session schedule here.
The abstract book is now available!
Carlos Azeredo-Leme has been a senior staff engineer for the DesignWare Analog
IP Department at Synopsys since 2009. Prior to joining Synopsys, he was
co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Chipidea Microelectronics,
where, since 1993, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer.
During that time, was responsible for complete mixed-signal solutions, analog
front-ends and RF. He worked in the areas of audio, power management, cellular
and wireless communications and RF transceivers. Since 1994, he has held a
teaching position at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL-IST), in Portugal.
His research interests are in analog, mixed-signal and RF design, focusing on
low-power and low-voltage. Carlos holds a MSEE from the Technical University of
Lisbon (UTL-IST) and a Ph.D. from ETH-Zurich.
Presentation title: The Internet of Things - Latest Trends and Future Perspectives
Abstract: The Internet of Things is an exciting and disrupting new technology
that is creating immense opportunities for innovation and research.
This talk presents the enabling technologies that have made possible the success
of the IoT and describes the technical challenges ahead. Technologies such as
ultra-low-power wireless communications, nanometer CMOS processes, integrated
sensors, energy harvesting and micro-batteries are discussed covering their
perspectives for future development.
Luis M. Correia was born in Portugal, in 1958. He received the Ph.D. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 1991,
where he is currently a Professor in Telecommunications, with his work focused
in Wireless/Mobile Communications in the areas of propagation, channel
characterisation, radio networks, traffic, and applications, with the
research activities developed in the INOV-INESC institute.
He has acted as a consultant for Portuguese mobile communications operators and
the telecommunications regulator, besides other public and private entities,
and he has been in the Board of Directors of a telecommunications company.
Besides being responsible for research projects at the national level, he has
participated in 31 projects within the European frameworks of COST, RACE, ACTS,
IST, ICT and H2020, where he also served as evaluator and auditor, having
coordinated 4 of them and taken leadership responsibilities at various levels
in many others. He has supervised more than 160 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students,
having edited 6 books, contribute to European strategic documents, and authored
more than 400 papers in international and national journals and conferences,
for which he has served also as a reviewer, editor, and board member.
At the international level, he has been part of 27 Ph.D. juries, and evaluated
research projects and institutions for funding agencies in 8 countries and
the European Commission. He has been the Chairman of the Technical
Programme Committee and a member and chair of the Steering Committee of
several major conferences. He was a National Delegate to the COST Domain
Committee on ICT. He was active in the European Net!Works platform, by being
an elected member of its Expert Advisory Group and of its Steering Board, and
the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications, and was also elected to
the European 5G PPP Association.
Presentation Title: A Perspective on Virtual Radio Access Networks
Abstract: The talk addresses the concept of virtualisation of Radio Access
Networks (RANs). One starts by giving the motivation for the virtualisation of
networks. The architecture of virtual RAN enables it to serve multiple Virtual
Network Operators (VNOs) by sharing the resources among them. The models and
algorithms for managing virtual radio resources are presented.
Some reference scenarios are put forward, upon which some results are presented.
According to numeric results, the implementation of Virtual Base Stations
(VBSs) may improve up to 46% the serving data rate. It is also shown that
allocation of resources should be done according to the type services, and
their classes on quality of service. Conclusions are presented at the end.
Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dce15
Papers can be submitted by either Master's or PhD students. The spectrum of topics covered by the PDEEC programme are vast. As such, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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