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I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computers Engineering at University of Porto and a researcher in the WiN research group at INESC Porto. I received my Diploma degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering in 2003 from University of Porto. From 2004 to 2007 I worked in the IST Ambient Networks, an european research project involving 40+ partners. Currently, I am finishing my PhD (find below a brief abstract of the thesis) and working in the FCT MUMOMGT research project, a national project led by INESC Porto.
My research interests include mobile communications, network autoconfiguration, and spanning tree algorithms.
I am always open to collaborate with other PhD students and/or researchers working in these topics. If you have further interest in my research work, please have a look at my set of publications or contact me.
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PhD Thesis Overview:
Network auto-configuration is a crucial concept for the success of modern networks, such as PANs and 802.11-based WMNs. In PANs, the devices around the user shall self-organize to form the network and enable its connection to the Internet with minimal user configuration efforts. In WMNs, wireless access points shall self-organize to automatically form the network too and enable data exchange between the wired infrastructure and the IEEE 802.11 stations attaching to the WMN. The Internet Protocol (IP) is the base protocol in this context. It acts as the enabler to interconnect these networks to the Internet and/or as the common ground for intra-network connectivity. In this context, network auto-configuration can be defined as the auto-configuration of network routes and the assignment of IP configuration parameters (e.g., IP addresses, default gateways, Domain Name System (DNS) server address) to network devices, so that network connectivity is established to support IP-based services and applications.
In my PhD I am proposing a new simple and efficient auto-configuration framework addressing modern PANs and 802.11-based WMNs. The proposed framework obeys to a fundamental principle: the easy migration from legacy networks.