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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto de Telecomunicações
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Lisboa   1049-001 , PORTUGAL

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Francisco António Bucho Cercas Academic position: Full Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1993
Role in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Wireless Communications
Group: Radio Systems – Lx
 
Degrees 

- Agregação, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-01-2008
- PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 15-07-1996
- MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 11-05-1989
- Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 03-03-1983
 
Affiliations 

- ANACOM (ICP - Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal), Member, 26-08-1999
- Direcção-Geral de Energia, Member, 15-07-1999
- ISCTE-IUL (link: http://iscte-iul.pt/inicio.jsp), Head of ISTA (ISCTE-IUL School of Technology and Architecture), 01-07-1999
- Ordem dos Engenheiros, Member, 16-02-1993
- IEEE, Member, 01-01-1984
 
Involvement in Projects 

- Currently running projects

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
CelCop Multicell Cooperation for Future Wireless Systems IT 01-06-2011 01-10-2013
NAGCPS Navigation Algorithms for GNSS-based Coordinated Positioning Systems FCT/PTDC 01-01-2012 01-01-2014
SAAS Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks IT 01-03-2012 01-03-2014


   
Academic Activities 

Supervision of theses

PhD

- Approaching Universal Frequency Reuse through Base Station Cooperation, PhD, TD_c [2] Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro, 12-2015, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Design of Adaptive Analog Filters for Magnetic Front-End Read Channels (co-supervision), PhD, Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo Garrido, 12-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Terrestrial Digital Television and new market opportunities, PhD, Roberto Dimas do Amaral, 1-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Magnitude Modulation for peak power control in single carrier communication systems (co-supervision), PhD, Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes , 4-2011, Universidade de Coimbra

- Análise e Simulação Discreta Eficiente de Sistemas Codificados em Comunicações sem fios, PhD, Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastião, 6-2010, Instituto Superior Técnico

- Turbo Processing Techniques for WCDMA Systems, PhD, Nuno Manuel Branco Souto, 9-2006

- CapacityEnhancements for W-CDMA Systems, PhD, João Carlos Marques Silva, 7-2006

MSc

- Control and data access for a satellite earth station, MSc, Tiago Filipe Arsénio de Brito, 12-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Generic Link for Wireless Planning, MSc, Marco Alexandre Nunes Damião, 12-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Management of an earth station for satellite radionavigation, MSc, Jorge Eduardo Gomes Cunha, 12-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- AirQAsthmaNet -Distributed air sensor network for asthma assement, MSc, Ana Filipa Teixeira, 10-2013, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Multicell Cooperation for Future Wireless Systems, MSc, Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro, 11-2012, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Propagation model generalization including tunels (in Portuguese, co-supervision), MSc, Gonçalo Jorge Domingues Bastos, 2-2012, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Pseudorandom sequence performance of a nonlinear CDMA system, MSc, Ângelo Tomé Penha da Luz , 12-2011, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Smart Link Planning Tool, MSc, Miguel Viegas da Costa , 12-2011, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- GPS Signal Acquisition and Traking Optimizations, MSc, Daniel Filipe Gomes Dias Afonso , 9-2010, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Monitorization and Remote Control of a Satellite Earth Station, MSc, Ricardo Miguel Ferreira de Sousa, 10-2009, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Unified Propagation Model for Planning Wi-Fi, UMTS and WiMax Networks (co-supervision), MSc, Frederico Fialho Varela , 10-2009, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Global Navigation Satellite System Software Receiver Optimization, MSc, Rui Manuel Sousa Rodrigues , 7-2009, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

- Wi-Fi analysis and test, MSc, Rui Grencho, Alexandre Farias, 9-2008

Licenciatura

- AKPIS (A presentation Key Performance Indicator), Licenciatura, Rodrigo Manuel Salgado Gonçalves, 7-2007

- Building a VoIP-Based Telco using IPv6, Licenciatura, Ivo Daniel Carreira de Abreu , 7-2007

- Building a VoIP-Based Telco using IPv6, Licenciatura, Sandro Emanuel Landeiro Braz, 7-2007

- Building a VoIP-Based Telco using IPv6, Licenciatura, Maria Inês Ribeiro Mota, 7-2007

- Design and Simulation of a UWB System, Licenciatura, Annibali Giuseppe (Italian Erasmus Student), 7-2007

- Planning and Optimization of a 3G Network, Licenciatura, João Paulo Tavares Fontes Frade, 7-2007

- Remote Access System for controlling an Satellite Earth Station, Licenciatura, Ricardo Filipe Santos Lopes, 7-2007

- Siebel/CRM for TV Cabo, Licenciatura, Tiago André Jacinto Costa, 7-2007

- Control and Management of a Data Network Using Power Distribution Lines, Licenciatura, Vanessa Mafalda Lopes da Silva Gomes, 7-2006

- Domotic Platform for the Future House Model, Licenciatura, Teresa Sofia Gomes Fernandes Mourão, 7-2006

- PRO UNO Portal Colaborador, Licenciatura, Luís Miguel Rosa Pereira e Cruz , 7-2006

- PRO UNO Portal Colaborator, Licenciatura, António Eduardo Paiva Nobre , 7-2006

Co - Supervision of Theses

MSc

- AirQAsthmaNet -Distributed air sensor network for asthma assement, MSc, Ana Filipa Teixeira, 10-2013

- Application for Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks Using Android Software, MSc, Carlos Lima, 7-2012

- AirQAsthmaNet - Distributed air sensor network for asthma assement, MSc, Ana Filipa Teixeira, 10-2013

PhD

- Design of Adaptive Analog Filters for Magnetic Front-End Read Channels (co-supervision), PhD, Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo Garrido, 12-2013


 
Publications 

    Book Chapters  [4] 

- Sebastião, P.; Cercas, F.C.; Cartaxo, A.; "Chapter 7: Efficient Discrete Simulation of Coded Wireless Communication Systems" - Chapter in Handbook of Research on Discrete Event Simulation Environments: Technologies and Applications, Evon M. O. Abu-Taieh, Idea-Group Inc., Pennsylvania, 2010.

- Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Souto, N.S.; "Iterative MMSE Detection for MIMO Blast DS-CDMA Systems in Frequency Sective Fading" - Chapter in E-business and Telecommunication Networks, Filipe, Joaquim; Coelhas, Helder; Saramago, Monica , Springer, , 2007.

- Cercas, F.C.; "Air interface aspects" - Chapter in Sattelite personal communications for future generation systems, E. Re and L. Pierucci, Springer, , 2002.

- Cercas, F.C.; "Modulation and Coding" - Chapter in Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems, Ramjee Prasad, Walter Konhauser, Werner Mohr, Artech House, Boston,London, 2000.

    Papers in Journals  [11] 

- Cercas, F.C.; Dinis, R.; R.Rodrigues Rodrigues; "Analytical Computation of the Correlation of Spreading Sequences for Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations", European Trans. on Telecommunications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, July, 2012.
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- Sebastião, P.; Cercas, F.C.; Cartaxo, A.; "Performance of channel codes in wireless communication systems using efficient simulation", IET Communications, Vol. 5, No. 13, pp. 1939 - 1946, September, 2011.
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- Gomes, M.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, V.; M. Tomlinson; "Magnitude Modulation for VSAT’s Low Back-Off Transmission", Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 12 - Special Issue on Recent Advances in Satellite and Space Communications, No. 6, pp. 544 - 557, December, 2010.
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- Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Power Efficient Back-Off Reduction through Polyphase Filtering Magnitude Modulation", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 606 - 608, August, 2009.
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- Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, J. C.; Correia, A.; "Transmitter/Receiver Method for Supporting Hierarchical Modulations in MBMS Transmissions", Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. - - -, April, 2008.
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- Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, J. C.; "On the BER Performance of Hierarchical M-QAM Constellations with Diversity and Imperfect Channel Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 1852 - 1856, October, 2007.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; "Equalization Based Receivers for Wideband MIMO/BLAST Systems", Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 291 - 304, February, 2007.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Low rate convolutional and turbo codes based on non-linear cyclic codes", Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing , Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 23 - 34, January, 2007.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Iterative MMSE Detection for MIMO/BLAST DS-CDMA Systems in Frequency Selective Fading", , Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 177 - 186, January, 2006.
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- Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "Frequency Hopping versus Interference Cancellation for TD-CDMA", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 41 - 51, January, 2000.
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- M. Tomlinson; Cercas, F.C.; "Aspects of Coding for Power-Efficient Satellite VSAT Systems", , Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 165 - 185, December, 1991.
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    Papers in Conference Proceedings  [76] 

- Dinis, R.; F. Ribeiro; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, A. ; "On the Performance of SC-FDE Receivers for Base Station Cooperation Systems with Rate-Limited Backhaul Links", Proc International ITG Conf. on Source and Channel Coding - SCC, Munique, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, January, 2013.
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- F. Ribeiro; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, A. ; "Analytical Performance Evaluation of Base Station Cooperation Systems Using SC-FDE Modulations with Iterative Receivers", Proc IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops: Emerging Technologies for LTE-Advanced and Beyond-4G, Anaheim, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2012.
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- Cercas, F.C.; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R.; "Efficient Detection and Quantization Requirements for the Uplink of Base Station Cooperation Systems", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Quebec, Canada, Vol. ., pp. 1 - 5, September, 2012.
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- Gomes, M.; Dinis, R.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Iterative Frequency Domain Equalization for Single Carrier Signals with Magnitude Modulation Techniques", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Québec, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2012.
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- R. S. R. Rodrigues; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.C.; "Training Sequence Design for Channel Estimation with Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Quebec, Canada, Vol. ?, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2012.
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- F. Ribeiro; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, A. ; "Iterative Frequency-Domain Receivers for the Uplink of Cellular Systems with Base Station Cooperation", Proc IEEE ICCCN Workshop on Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks - (CoHetNet 2012), Munique, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2012.
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- Zhang, K.; Rodrigues , M.; M. Z. Ahmed Ahmed; M. Tomlinson; Cercas, F.C.; "Orthogonal Signalling in the Gaussian Wiretap Channel in the Wideband Regime", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Yokohoma, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, March, 2012.
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- Sebastião, P.; Cercas, F.C.; "Generalização do modelo de propagação LUI a cenários com túneis para as tecnologias Wi-Fi, GSM, UMTS, WiMAX e LTE", Proc URSI Seminar of the Portuguese Committee, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2011.
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- Cercas, F.C.; D_Afonso Afonso; Dinis, R.; R.Rodrigues Rodrigues; "Analytical Correlation of Spreading Sequences for Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations", Proc IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Spring, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. ,, pp. , - ,, May, 2011.
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- Cercas, F.C.; D_Afonso Afonso; Dinis, R.; R.Rodrigues Rodrigues; "Correlation of Spreading Sequences Combined with Nonlinear OQPSK Signals", Proc EUROCON and CONFTELE 2011, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. ., pp. . - ., April, 2011.
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- Cercas, F.C.; R.Rodrigues Rodrigues; D_Afonso Afonso; Dinis, R.; "ON THE CORRELATION OF SPREADING SEQUENCES COMBINED WITH NONLINEAR OQPSK SIGNALS", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. *, pp. * - *, February, 2011.
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- A. Almeida; Dinis, R.; Cercas, F.C.; "ON THE USE OF TCH CODES IN ULTRAWIDE BAND SYSTEMS", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. *, pp. * - *, February, 2011.
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- Sebastião, P.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Frederico F. Varela Varela; D. D. Duflot; "Unified Propagation Model for Wi-Fi, UMTS and WiMAX Planning in Mixed Scenarios", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , Istambul, Turkey, Vol. , pp. ?? - ??, September, 2010.
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- Sebastião, P.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Velez, F. J.; Frederico F. Varela Varela; "Validation of the Unified Propagation Model for Wi-Fi, UMTS and WiMAX Planning", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , Istambul, Turkey, Vol. , pp. ?? - ??, September, 2010.
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- Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Analytical Analysis of Polyphase Magnitude Modulation Method’s Performance", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2010.
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- Sebastião, P.; R. Tomé; Velez, F. J.; A. Grilo; Cercas, F.C.; Robalo, D.R.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Frederico F. Varela Varela; "WLAN Planning Tool: a Techno-Economic Perspective", Proc Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conf. - NAEC, Lake de Garda, Italy, Vol. , pp. ?? - ??, September, 2009.
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- Gomes, M.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, V.; M. Tomlinson; "Polyphase Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control", Proc European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. 1151 - 1155, August, 2009.
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- Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Real-Time LUT-Less Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of Single Carrier RRC Filtered Signals", Proc IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications - SPAWC, Perugia, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2009.
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- Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of RRC Pulsed-Shaped Signals", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 209 - 212, May, 2009.
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- Gomes, M.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, V.; M. Tomlinson; "Efficient M-QAM Transmission using Compacted Magnitude Modulation Tables", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, United States, Vol. *, pp. * - *, November, 2008.
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- Gomes, M.; Silva, V.; Cercas, F.C.; M. Tomlinson; "Low Back-off 16-APSK Transmission Using Magnitude Modulation and Symbol Quantization", Proc International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications - IWSSC, Toulouse, France, Vol. *, pp. * - *, October, 2008.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; "Supporting Hierarchical Modulations in HSDPA for MBMS Transmissions", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007.
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- Velez, F. J.; Sebastião, P.; R. Tomé; R. Costa; Robalo, D.R.; A. Grilo; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "User capacity based planning tool for Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks", Proc WEIRD Workshop on Wimax, Wireless and Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007.
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- Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Souto, N.S.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Employing the Block Fourier Algorithm for solving the LMMSE Receiver Equation Under Variable Channel Conditions", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Dublin, Ireland, Vol. 1, pp. 260 - 260, April, 2007.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Iterative Partial-Cancelling MMSE Algorithms for W-CDMA MIMO-BLAST Systems", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Montreal, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2006.
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- Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, J. C.; Correia, A.; "An Iterative Receiver for WCDMA Systems with MIMO Transmissions and Hierarchical Constellations", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "MMSE-based Receiver Behaviour in Handover Situations", Proc International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, setúbal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Jesus, S.J.; "Optimized Gauss and Cholesky Algorithms for using the LMMSE Decoder in MIMO/BLAST Systems with Frequency-Selective Channels", Proc International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Setúbal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Jesus, S.J.; "Solving the ZF Receiver Equation for MIMO Systems Under Variable Channel Conditions using the Block Fourier Algorithm", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Turbo Coded MMSE Algorithms for W-CDMA MIMO-BLAST Systems", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006.
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- Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, J. C.; Correia, A.; "Iterative Detection and Channel Estimation for WCDMA Systems Employing Non-Uniform QAM Constellations", Proc IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2006.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Overloaded SISO & MISO Systems with MMSE-based Equalization Receivers", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2006.
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- M. J. Trigueiros; E. Cardoso; Cercas, F.C.; Sá da Costa, csacosta; "DCTI a caminho de Bolonha", Proc Conf. da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 100 - 112, October, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Iterative MMSE Detection for MIMO/BLAST DS-CDMA Systems in Frequency Selective Fading", Proc International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Reading, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2005.
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- P. Lourenço; A. Grilo; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Velez, F. J.; Sebastião, P.; "A WLAN planning tool with a practical approach", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 2, pp. 1286 - 1290, September, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Equalization Based Receivers for Wideband MIMO/BLAST Systems", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Optimum bit-mapping for short TCH codes", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Jesus, S.J.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Partitioned MMSE Receiver for Wideband CDMA Systems", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; "Synchronization with TCH Codes", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; "Usage of Non-Uniform Constellations for a WCDMA MIMO/BLAST MMSE Receiver System", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; "A L-MMSE DS-CDMA Detector for MIMO/BLAST Systems with Frequency Selective Fading", Proc IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2005.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; "Non-Uniform Constellations for Broadcasting and Multicasting Services in WCDMA Systems", Proc IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2005.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Iterative Turbo Multipath Interference Cancellation for WCDMA Systems with Non-Uniform Modulations", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "Enhanced MMSE Detection for MIMO Systems", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "Interference Suppression for High Speed Downlink Packet Access", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "Link Level Channel Modeling for High Speed Downlink Packet Access", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; "MMSE with Non-Uniform Modulations for a MIMO/BLAST System", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Cercas, F.C.; "Finite state channel modeling for UMTS HSDPA link level performance evaluation", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Padua, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 416 - 420, September, 2004.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; Correia, A.; "Multipath Interference Canceller for High Speed Downlink Packet Access in Enhanced UMTS Networks", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 609 - 612, September, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Silva, M.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Multi-User Detector Schemes for the UMTS Uplink Transmission", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 0, pp. 111 - 222, September, 2004.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; "Parity Concatenated Turbo codes: Study of their Structure and Performance Bounds", Proc International Symp. on Signal Processing and its Applications - ISSPA, sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 12 - 14, September, 2004.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Usage of Turbo TCH Codes for Spread Spectrum Applications", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 12 - 15, September, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Partitioned Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes for a UMTS CS-CDMA Scheme", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. -, pp. 285 - 289, August, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cota, N.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Performance of Enhanced-UMTS HSDPA using Transmit Diversity and Power Control Schemes", Proc International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Setúbal, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 46 - 51, August, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Transmit Diversity Schemes for High Speed Downlink Packet Access in 3.5G Cellular Systems", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. -, pp. 623 - 627, August, 2004.
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- Sebastião, P.; P. Lourenço; R. Tomé; Cercas, F.C.; "A simple wireless LAN planning tool using efficient methods", Proc MultiConf. on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, United States, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, July, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Low Rate Turbo Codes based on Nonlinear Cyclic Codes", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Paris, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Enhanced UMTS CS-CDMA Uplink Transmission Using Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Milan, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2004.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Usage of Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes for an enhanced UMTS CS-CDMA Uplink transmission", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Milan, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2004.
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- Silva, M.; Correia, A.; Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Interference Suppression consisting of Pre-Distortion Filtering and Beamforming with joint Transmit Diversity", Proc SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol. 9999, pp. 9999 - 9999, March, 2004.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Turbo TCH Codes for application in CS-CDMA schemes", Proc SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol. x, pp. x - x, March, 2004.
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- Sebastião, P.; R. Tomé; P. Lourenço; Cercas, F.C.; "A planning and design tool for WLAN: technical and economic aspects ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM, San Francisco, United States, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, December, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Characterization of Power Control for UMTS", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 443 - 447, October, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Conversion of reference tapped delay line channel models to discrete time channel models", Proc IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Orlando, United States, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, October, 2003.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Low rate Convolutional Coding Schemes based on Nonlinear Cyclic Codes for Efficient Maximum Likelihood Decoding", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 117 - 121, October, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; "Parity Concatenated Turbo TCH codes", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 54 - 57, October, 2003.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Block turbo schemes using TCH codes", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 429 - 432, June, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Efficient simulation of tapped delay channel models using converted discrete time channel models", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 231 - 234, June, 2003.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Performance Comparison of Turbo Decoding Algorithms in UMTS FDD Radio Channels", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 541 - 544, June, 2003.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Quasi-Systematic property of TCH codes", Proc IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 657 - 660, June, 2003.
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- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; "Special bit-mapping of TCH codes for application in turbo schemes", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 445 - 448, June, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Correia, A.; Cercas, F.C.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "UMTS AWGN Simulation Results for Uplink, Downlink and HSDPA transmissions", Proc IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 543 - 547, June, 2003.
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- Silva, J. C.; Souto, N.S.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "UMTS AWGN Simulation Results with interference", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 91 - 94, June, 2003.
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- Sebastião, P.; Cercas, F.C.; Cartaxo, A.; "Performance of TCH codes in a land mobile satellite channel", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC , Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 4, pp. 1675 - 1679, September, 2002.
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- Monteiro, F. A.; Cercas, F.C.; "Understanding digital communication physical layer", Proc URSI General Assembly, Zaragoza , Spain, Vol. I, pp. 307 - 308, September, 2000.
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- Monteiro, F. A.; Cercas, F.C.; "Digital transmissions simulation tool (in portuguese)", Proc Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. XI-43 - XI-47, October, 1999.
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Other Scientific Achievements

    Patents
- Souto, N.S.; Silva, J. C.; Cercas, F.C.; Correia, A.; Rodrigues, A. J.; "Detecção Iterativa e Estimação de Canal para Sistemas WCDMA que utilizam constelações QAM hierárquicas", PT103527, July, 2006.

    Miscellaneous

- Sebastião, P.; Frederico F. Varela Varela; Cercas, F.C.; "", Modelo unificado para planeamento de sistemas de comunicações sem fios", , 01-10-2010.

 
Other Contributions

    Conference Committees

- Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2005, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Bucho Cercas , 2005.

- Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Conference (WPMC) 2003, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Bucho Cercas , 2004.

- ICC 2002 Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Bucho Cercas , 2004.

- ICC 2004 EDAS Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Programme Committee, Francisco António Bucho Cercas , 2004.




 
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