Francisco António Bucho Cercas

Francisco Cercas

Academic position:	Full Professor
Joining date:	01-01-1999
Roles in IT:	Senior Researcher
Scientific Area:	Wireless Communications
Group:	Radio Systems – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-0374-4078

SCOPUS SCHOLAR

Scientific Achievements

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), 26-08-1999, Member
Direcção-Geral de Energia, 15-07-1999, Electrical Engineer (GP-01)
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-07-1999, Full Professor
Ordem dos Engenheiros, 16-02-1993, Specialist in Telecommunications
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-1990, Senior Member

Academic Activities

Supervision of theses

6PhD Student

Optimization and Planning Algorithms for Mobile Communication Networks, PhD Student, Daniel Filipe Sobral Fernandes, Expected conclusion 07-2021
Approaching Universal Frequency Reuse through Base Station Cooperation, PhD Student, Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro, Defended 10-2017
Design of Adaptive Analog Filters for Magnetic Front-End Read Channels, PhD Student, Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo Garrido, Defended 02-2015
Magnitude Modulation for peak power control in single carrier communication systems (co-supervision), PhD Student, Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes, Defended 04-2011
Turbo Processing Techniques for WCDMA Systems, PhD Student, Nuno Manuel Branco Souto, Defended 09-2006
Design of Enhanced WCDMA Systems, PhD Student, João Carlos Marques Silva, Defended 07-2006

15MSc Student

Smart home energy management system, MSc Student, Eduardo Miguel Alexandre Neto, Expected conclusion 12-2020
Precision Orientation System using Differential GPS, MSc Student, Rui Serras Pereira Baptista Rosa, Expected conclusion 12-2020
Study and implementation of a low complexity receiver based on TCH codes, MSc Student, João André Calado de Oliveira, Expected conclusion 11-2020
SAGA - Smart Gateway for Adaptive Environments, MSc Student, Mariana Catela Jacob Rodrigues, Concluded 10-2019
Intentional control of invasive wireless mobile systems, MSc Student, João Pedro de Castro Ponte, Concluded 09-2019
Assessing spoofing of GPS systems, MSc Student, Rui Filipe Pereira Dias, Concluded 09-2019
Estudo e Implementação de um Emissor Recetor avançado para 5G , MSc Student, Diogo Roque Mendes, Concluded 07-2019
Application and development of the new GPS station at ISCTE for GPS applications., MSc Student, Júlio Rafael Teixeira de Sousa, Concluded 12-2018
Effcicient syncronization using TCH codes, MSc Student, Sílvia Cristina da Silva Catarino, Concluded 12-2018
Channel Estimation with TCH Codes for Machine-Type Communications, MSc Student, Bruno Miguel de Carvalho Lopes, Concluded 12-2017
Estudo e cálculo da órbita lunar aplicado a comunicações EME , MSc Student, Filipe Carreiro Soares, Concluded 12-2017
Massive MIMO , MSc Student, Lorenzo Jose Barbosa Cabral, Concluded 12-2017
The use of Sensor Networks to create smart environments, MSc Student, André Filipe Xavier da Glória, Concluded 07-2017
Performance analysis of Massive MIMO receivers, MSc Student, Daniel Filipe Sobral Fernandes, Concluded 07-2017
Multicell Cooperation for Future Wireless Systems, MSc Student, Filipe Jorge Bolas Casal Ribeiro, Concluded 11-2012

Co-Supervision of theses

3PhD Student

Healthcare Status and Behavior Monitoring based on Smart Tailored Environments, PhD Student, Mariana Catela Jacob Rodrigues, Expected conclusion 12-2023
Healthcare Status and Behavior Monitoring based on Smart Tailored Environments, PhD Student, Mariana Catela Jacob Rodrigues, Expected conclusion 12-2022
Design of Adaptive Analog Filters for Magnetic Front-End Read Channels, PhD Student, Nuno Miguel de Figueiredo Garrido, Defended 02-2015

Publications

4Books Chapters

P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, A. Cartaxo, 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
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, 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
F. Cercas, Air interface aspects, Chapter in, Sattelite personal communications for future generation systems, E. Re and L. Pierucci, Springer, 2002
F. Cercas, Modulation and Coding, Chapter in, Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems, Ramjee Prasad, Walter Konhauser, Werner Mohr, Artech House, Boston,London, 2000

21Papers in Journals

Ms. Rodrigues, O. Postolache, F. Cercas, Physiological and Behavior Monitoring Systems for Smart Healthcare Environments: A Review, Sensors, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 2186 - 2186, April, 2020 | BibTex
F. Cercas, D. F. Fernandes, R. Dinis, Analytical Performance Evaluation of Massive MIMO Techniques for SC-FDE Modulations, Electronics (Switzerland), Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 533 - 533, March, 2020,
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F. Ribeiro, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, D. Jayakody, Multi-user detection for the downlink of NOMA systems with multi-antenna schemes and power-efficient amplifiers, Physical Communication, Vol. 33, No. April 2019, pp. 199 - 205, April, 2019 | BibTex
B. Lopes, S. Catarino, N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, Robust Joint Synchronization and Channel Estimation Approach for Frequency-Selective Environments, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, No. -, pp. 53180 - 53190, December, 2018,
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F. Ribeiro, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Reduced Complexity Detection in MIMO Systems with SC-FDE Modulations and Iterative DFE Receivers, Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 1 - 13, April, 2018,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Analytical BER Performance Evaluation in SISO and MIMO Environments with SC-FDE Modulations and IB-DFE Receivers, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 96, No. 3, pp. 3831 - 3850, October, 2017 | BibTex
F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Multiuser Detection for the Uplink of Clustered 5G Systems with Universal Frequency Reuse, Physical Communication, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 23 - 36, June, 2017,
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F. Ribeiro, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Robust Receivers for Base Station Cooperation Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 8 - 16, May, 2017,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Receiver Design for the Uplink of Base Station Cooperation Systems employing SC-FDE Modulations, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2015, No. 1, pp. 1 - 17, January, 2015,
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M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Error rate analysis of M-PSK with magnitude modulation envelope control, Electronics Letters, Vol. 49, No. 18, pp. 1184 - 1186, August, 2013,
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F. Cercas, R. Dinis, D. Afonso, R.Rodrigues Rodrigues, A. Luz, Analytical Computation of the Correlation of Spreading Sequences for Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations, European Trans. on Telecommunications, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 678 - 687, November, 2012,
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P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, A. Cartaxo, 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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M. Gomes, F. Cercas, V. Silva, 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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M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, 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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N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, Transmitter/Receiver Method for Supporting Hierarchical Modulations in MBMS Transmissions, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. - - -, April, 2008 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, J. C. Silva, On the BER Performance of Hierarchical M-QAM Constellations with Diversity and Imperfect Channel Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 1852 - 1856, October, 2007,
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J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Equalization Based Receivers for Wideband MIMO/BLAST Systems, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 291 - 304, February, 2007 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, 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 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Iterative MMSE Detection for MIMO/BLAST DS-CDMA Systems in Frequency Selective Fading, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 177 - 186, January, 2006 | BibTex
A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, Frequency Hopping versus Interference Cancellation for TD-CDMA, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 41 - 51, January, 2000 | BibTex
M. Tomlinson, F. Cercas, Aspects of Coding for Power-Efficient Satellite VSAT Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 165 - 185, December, 1991 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex

113Papers in Conferences

O. Postolache, Ms. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, WSN for Cardiac Activity Monitoring, IEEE Conf. on e-Health and Bioengineering - EHB, Iasi, Romania, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2019 | BibTex
Ms. Rodrigues, O. Postolache, F. Cercas, Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System to Prevent the Triggering of Respiratory Distress, International Symposium on Sensors and Instrumentation in Internet of Things Era ISSI, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, August, 2019 | BibTex
J. Ponte, F. Cercas, P. Sebastião, J. Sanguino, R. Dias Dias, GPS Data Alteration for Use in a Position Spoofing, Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2019,
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R. Dias Dias, F. Cercas, J. Sanguino, J. Ponte, Assessing spoofing of GPS systems, Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2019,
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Ms. Rodrigues, O. Postolache, F. Cercas, Wireless Sensor Network for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring, Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2019 | BibTex
F. Ribeiro, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, A. N. Pinto, Nonlinear Effects of Radio over Fiber Transmission in Base Station Cooperation Systems, IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 Workshops: 6th International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G and Beyond Wireless and Mobile Networks, Singapore, Singapore, Vol., pp. -, December, 2017,
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B. Lopes, F. Cercas, N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, Efficient Channel Estimation Using TCH Codes, International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, Munich, Germany, Vol., pp. 1 - 5, November, 2017,
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L. C. Cabral, D. F. Fernandes, F. Cercas, R. Dinis, Efficient Frequency-Domain Detection for Massive MIMO Systems, South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference - SEEDA-CECNSM, Kastoria, Greece, Vol., pp. -, September, 2017,
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A. Glória, F. Cercas, N.S. Souto, Comparison of Communication Protocols for Low Cost Internet of Things Devices, South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference - SEEDA-CECNSM, kastoria, Greece, Vol., pp. -, September, 2017,
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D. F. Fernandes, F. Cercas, R. Dinis, Iterative Receiver Combining IB-DFE with MRC for Massive MIMO Schemes, International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Francisco António Bucho Cercas ANT, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2017,
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F. Cercas, N.S. Souto, Design and implementation of an IoT gateway to create smart environments, International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Francisco António Bucho Cercas ANT, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2017,
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F. Ribeiro, J. Guerreiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, On the Design of Robust Multi-User Receivers for Base Station Cooperation Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Vol., pp. -, September, 2016 | BibTex
F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Efficient Clustered Detection for the Uplink of Cellular Systems with Universal Frequency Reuse, International Conf. for Telecommunication and Multi-Media(TEMU),, Crete, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Clustered Multiuser Detection for the Uplink of 5G Systems, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Nanjing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2016,
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F. J. Velez, T.T. Tavares, P. Sebastião, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, M. Ribeiro, A. Correia, Generalized LUI propagation model for UAVs communications using terrestrial cellular networks, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Boston, MA, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
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T.T. Tavares, P. Sebastião, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, M. Ribeiro, A. Correia, F. J. Velez, Generalized LUI propagation model for UAVs communications using terrestrial cellular networks, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Boston MA, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
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P. Sebastião, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, Development of a new system to control and monitor ground vehicles using heterogeneous wireless networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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P. Sebastião, J. Rebola, F. Cercas, Efficient planning tool for fiber optic communication systems: access and transport network, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, Educational Satellite Tracking Station, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Improved Analytical Gaussian-based BER Performance of Base Station Cooperation Systems with IB-DFE Receivers and SC-FDE Modulations, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, September, 2015,
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M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, L. A. C. Oliveira, Iterative Frequency-Domain Equalization for General QAM Constellations with Reduced Envelope Fluctuations through Magnitude Modulation Techniques, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2015,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, On the Theoretical BER Performance of SC-FDE Schemes with IB-DFE Receivers, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2015,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, IMPROVED BER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF BASE STATION COOPERATION SYSTEMS EMPLOYING SC-FDE MODULATIONS WITH IB-DFE RECEIVERS, IASTED International Conf. on Modelling, Identification and Control - MIC, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 8, February, 2015,
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M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Soft-iterative Magnitude Demodulation, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Austin - Texas, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2014,
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A. J. R. S. SimoÞes, M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, Magnitude Modulation applied to LINC transmitters: Paving the Road for Better Efficiency, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2014,
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J. F. C. Gante, M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, Power Efficient MIMO SC-FDE Transmission Using Magnitude Modulation Techniques, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2014,
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N. Garrido, F. Cercas, Equalization in hard disk drive read channels, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 390 - 394, May, 2014,
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A. Almeida, F. Cercas, P. Sebastião, Performance of generalized TCH codes for Rayleigh channels, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 384 - 389, May, 2014 | BibTex
F. Cercas, P. Sebastião, E. Bertran, New acelerated simulation method to obtain the performance of concatenated codes, Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2014,
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F. Cercas, M. Natale, M. L. López-Coronado, P. Sebastião, J. Sanguino, Modern and optimized planning tool for microwave link design, Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2014,
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F. Cercas, A. Luz, P. Sebastião, R. Dinis, On the Design of Spreading Sequences for CDMA Systems with Nonlinear OQPSK-type Modulations, Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2014,
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M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Iterative FDE Design for LDPC-coded Magnitude Modulation Schemes, International Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS, Ilmenau, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2013 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
F. Cercas, R. Rodrigues, R. Dinis, Training Sequence Design for Channel Estimation with Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. CS.2, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2013,
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F. Cercas, L.oliveira Oliveira, M. Gomes, V. Silva, R. Dinis, IB-DFE Performance of Block-Based Single Carrier Coded Transmission with Magnitude Modulation, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. CD.4, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2013,
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F. Cercas, F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, A. Silva, Uplink of Base Station Cooperation Systems with SC-FDE Modulations and IB-DFE Receivers, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. WL1.1, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2013,
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JAF Figueira, P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, N. David, Modelling and Simulation for Real Scenarios of 4G Mobile Communications Using Google Maps, IEEE AMSS International Conf. on Computer Modelling and Simulation - UKSIM, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. 385 - 389, April, 2013,
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R. Dinis, F. Ribeiro, F. Cercas, A. Silva, On the Performance of SC-FDE Receivers for Base Station Cooperation Systems with Rate-Limited Backhaul Links, International ITG Conf. on Source and Channel Coding - SCC, Munique, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, January, 2013,
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JAF Figueira, P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, N. David, Simulator for Capacity Analysis of Base Stations for Mobile Networks Using Google Maps, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symp. - RWS, Austin, United States, Vol., pp. 367 - 369, January, 2013,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Analytical Performance Evaluation of Base Station Cooperation Systems Using SC-FDE Modulations with Iterative Receivers, IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops: Emerging Technologies for LTE-Advanced and Beyond-4G, Anaheim, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2012,
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M. Gomes, R. Dinis, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Iterative Frequency Domain Equalization for Single Carrier Signals with Magnitude Modulation Techniques, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Québec, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2012,
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R. Rodrigues, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, Training Sequence Design for Channel Estimation with Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Quebec, Canada, Vol. ?, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2012,
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F. Cercas, A. Silva, R. Dinis, Efficient Detection and Quantization Requirements for the Uplink of Base Station Cooperation Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Quebec, Canada, Vol. ., pp. 1 - 5, September, 2012,
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F. Ribeiro, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, A. Silva, Iterative Frequency-Domain Receivers for the Uplink of Cellular Systems with Base Station Cooperation, IEEE ICCCN Workshop on Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks - (CoHetNet 2012), Munique, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2012,
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K. Zhang, M. Rodrigues, M. Z. Ahmed Ahmed, M. Tomlinson, F. Cercas, Orthogonal Signalling in the Gaussian Wiretap Channel in the Wideband Regime, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Yokohoma, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, March, 2012,
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P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, Generalização do modelo de propagação LUI a cenários com túneis para as tecnologias Wi-Fi, GSM, UMTS, WiMAX e LTE, URSI Seminar of the Portuguese Committee, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2011,
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F. Cercas, R. Dinis, R.Rodrigues Rodrigues, Analytical Correlation of Spreading Sequences for Nonlinear OQPSK-Type Modulations, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. ,, pp. , - ,, May, 2011,
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F. Cercas, R. Dinis, R.Rodrigues Rodrigues, Correlation of Spreading Sequences Combined with Nonlinear OQPSK Signals, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. ., pp. . - ., April, 2011,
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F. Cercas, R.Rodrigues Rodrigues, R. Dinis, ON THE CORRELATION OF SPREADING SEQUENCES COMBINED WITH NONLINEAR OQPSK SIGNALS, IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. *, pp. * - *, February, 2011,
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A. Almeida, R. Dinis, F. Cercas, On the use of TCH Codes in ultraWide band systems, IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. *, pp. * - *, February, 2011,
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P. Sebastião, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, Frederico F. Varela Varela, D. D. Duflot, Unified Propagation Model for Wi-Fi, UMTS and WiMAX Planning in Mixed Scenarios, IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC, Istambul, Turkey, Vol., pp. ?? - ??, September, 2010,
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P. Sebastião, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, F. J. Velez, Frederico F. Varela Varela, Validation of the Unified Propagation Model for Wi-Fi, UMTS and WiMAX Planning, IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC, Istambul, Turkey, Vol., pp. ?? - ??, September, 2010,
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M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Analytical Analysis of Polyphase Magnitude Modulation Method’s Performance, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2010,
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P. Sebastião, R. Tomé, F. J. Velez, A. Grilo, F. Cercas, D.R. Robalo, A. J. Rodrigues, Frederico F. Varela Varela, WLAN Planning Tool: a Techno-Economic Perspective, Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conf. - NAEC, Lake de Garda, Italy, Vol., pp. ?? - ??, September, 2009 | BibTex
M. Gomes, F. Cercas, V. Silva, M. Tomlinson, Polyphase Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. 1151 - 1155, August, 2009,
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M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Real-Time LUT-Less Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of Single Carrier RRC Filtered Signals, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications - SPAWC, Perugia, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2009 | BibTex
M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control of RRC Pulsed-Shaped Signals, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 209 - 212, May, 2009,
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M. Gomes, F. Cercas, V. Silva, M. Tomlinson, Efficient M-QAM Transmission using Compacted Magnitude Modulation Tables, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, United States, Vol. *, pp. * - *, November, 2008,
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M. Gomes, V. Silva, F. Cercas, M. Tomlinson, Low Back-off 16-APSK Transmission Using Magnitude Modulation and Symbol Quantization, International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications - IWSSC, Toulouse, France, Vol. *, pp. * - *, October, 2008,
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N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, Supporting Hierarchical Modulations in HSDPA for MBMS Transmissions, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007 | BibTex
F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, R. Tomé, R. Costa, D.R. Robalo, A. Grilo, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, User capacity based planning tool for Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks, WEIRD Workshop on Wimax, Wireless and Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007 | Full text (PDF 334 KBs) | BibTex
J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, N.S. Souto, A. J. Rodrigues, Employing the Block Fourier Algorithm for solving the LMMSE Receiver Equation Under Variable Channel Conditions, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Dublin, Ireland, Vol. 1, pp. 260 - 260, April, 2007 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Iterative Partial-Cancelling MMSE Algorithms for W-CDMA MIMO-BLAST Systems, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Montreal, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2006 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, An Iterative Receiver for WCDMA Systems with MIMO Transmissions and Hierarchical Constellations, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, S.J. Jesus, Optimized Gauss and Cholesky Algorithms for using the LMMSE Decoder in MIMO/BLAST Systems with Frequency-Selective Channels, International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Setúbal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, MMSE-based Receiver Behaviour in Handover Situations, International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, setúbal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Turbo Coded MMSE Algorithms for W-CDMA MIMO-BLAST Systems, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, S.J. Jesus, Solving the ZF Receiver Equation for MIMO Systems Under Variable Channel Conditions using the Block Fourier Algorithm, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Manaus, Brazil, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2006 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, Iterative Detection and Channel Estimation for WCDMA Systems Employing Non-Uniform QAM Constellations, IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Overloaded SISO & MISO Systems with MMSE-based Equalization Receivers, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Iterative MMSE Detection for MIMO/BLAST DS-CDMA Systems in Frequency Selective Fading, International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Reading, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2005 | BibTex
M. J. Trigueiros, E. Cardoso, F. Cercas, C. Sá da Costa, DCTI a caminho de Bolonha, Conf. da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 100 - 112, October, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, S.J. Jesus, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Partitioned MMSE Receiver for Wideband CDMA Systems, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Equalization Based Receivers for Wideband MIMO/BLAST Systems, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Optimum bit-mapping for short TCH codes, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Usage of Non-Uniform Constellations for a WCDMA MIMO/BLAST MMSE Receiver System, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2005 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Synchronization with TCH Codes, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
P. Lourenço, A. Grilo, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, A WLAN planning tool with a practical approach, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 2, pp. 1286 - 1290, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A L-MMSE DS-CDMA Detector for MIMO/BLAST Systems with Frequency Selective Fading, IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2005 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Non-Uniform Constellations for Broadcasting and Multicasting Services in WCDMA Systems, IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2005 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Iterative Turbo Multipath Interference Cancellation for WCDMA Systems with Non-Uniform Modulations, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, Enhanced MMSE Detection for MIMO Systems, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, F. Cercas, MMSE with Non-Uniform Modulations for a MIMO/BLAST System, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, Link Level Channel Modeling for High Speed Downlink Packet Access, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, Interference Suppression for High Speed Downlink Packet Access, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, April, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, Finite state channel modeling for UMTS HSDPA link level performance evaluation, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Padua, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 416 - 420, September, 2004 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Multipath Interference Canceller for High Speed Downlink Packet Access in Enhanced UMTS Networks, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 609 - 612, September, 2004 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Usage of Turbo TCH Codes for Spread Spectrum Applications, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 12 - 15, September, 2004 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, Parity Concatenated Turbo codes: Study of their Structure and Performance Bounds, International Symp. on Signal Processing and its Applications - ISSPA, sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 12 - 14, September, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, F. Cercas, M. Silva, A. J. Rodrigues, Multi-User Detector Schemes for the UMTS Uplink Transmission, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 0, pp. 111 - 222, September, 2004,
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N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, N. Cota, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, Performance of Enhanced-UMTS HSDPA using Transmit Diversity and Power Control Schemes, International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Setúbal, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 46 - 51, August, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Transmit Diversity Schemes for High Speed Downlink Packet Access in 3.5G Cellular Systems, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. -, pp. 623 - 627, August, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Partitioned Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes for a UMTS CS-CDMA Scheme, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. -, pp. 285 - 289, August, 2004 | BibTex
P. Sebastião, P. Lourenço, R. Tomé, F. Cercas, A simple wireless LAN planning tool using efficient methods, MultiConf. on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, United States, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, July, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Low Rate Turbo Codes based on Nonlinear Cyclic Codes, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Paris, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, Usage of Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes for an enhanced UMTS CS-CDMA Uplink transmission, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Milan, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Enhanced UMTS CS-CDMA Uplink Transmission Using Turbo Super-Orthogonal Codes, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Milan, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2004 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Turbo TCH Codes for application in CS-CDMA schemes, SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol. x, pp. x - x, March, 2004 | BibTex
M. Silva, A. Correia, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, Interference Suppression consisting of Pre-Distortion Filtering and Beamforming with joint Transmit Diversity, SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol. 9999, pp. 9999 - 9999, March, 2004 | BibTex
P. Sebastião, R. Tomé, P. Lourenço, F. Cercas, A planning and design tool for WLAN: technical and economic aspects, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, San Francisco, United States, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, December, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Conversion of reference tapped delay line channel models to discrete time channel models, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Orlando, United States, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, October, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, Parity Concatenated Turbo TCH codes, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 54 - 57, October, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Characterization of Power Control for UMTS, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 443 - 447, October, 2003 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Low rate Convolutional Coding Schemes based on Nonlinear Cyclic Codes for Efficient Maximum Likelihood Decoding, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Yokosuka, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 117 - 121, October, 2003 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Block turbo schemes using TCH codes, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 429 - 432, June, 2003 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Special bit-mapping of TCH codes for application in turbo schemes, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 445 - 448, June, 2003 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Performance Comparison of Turbo Decoding Algorithms in UMTS FDD Radio Channels, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 541 - 544, June, 2003 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, Quasi-Systematic property of TCH codes, IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 657 - 660, June, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, UMTS AWGN Simulation Results with interference, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 91 - 94, June, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. Correia, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, UMTS AWGN Simulation Results for Uplink, Downlink and HSDPA transmissions, IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 543 - 547, June, 2003 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Efficient simulation of tapped delay channel models using converted discrete time channel models, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 231 - 234, June, 2003 | BibTex
P. Sebastião, F. Cercas, A. Cartaxo, Performance of TCH codes in a land mobile satellite channel, IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 4, pp. 1675 - 1679, September, 2002 | BibTex
F. A. Monteiro, F. Cercas, Understanding digital communication physical layer, URSI General Assembly, Zaragoza, Spain, Vol. I, pp. 307 - 308, September, 2000,
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F. A. Monteiro, F. Cercas, Digital transmissions simulation tool (in portuguese), Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. XI-43 - XI-47, October, 1999,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 295 KBs) | BibTex

Patents

1Patents

N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Detecção Iterativa e Estimação de Canal para Sistemas WCDMA que utilizam constelações QAM hierárquicas, PT103527, -1, (status pending)

Projects

Closed Projects13

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
B-BONE	Broadcasting and Multicasting Over Enhanced UMTS Mobile Broadband Networks	EU	01-02-2004	30-06-2006
CelCop	Multicell Cooperation for Future Wireless Systems	IT/LA	01-06-2011	01-10-2013
FIVER	Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play Integrated Optical-Wireless Access Architectures	EU/FP7	01-01-2010	01-12-2012
GLANCES	Generalized Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components for Power and Spectral Efficient Broadband Wireless Systems	IT/LA	01-04-2014	01-04-2016
HICOPI	HiCoPI - High Accuracy GNSS-based Coordinated Positioning	IT/LA	01-12-2008	01-01-2011
MM5G	Multilayer Massive Multiple input Multiple output (MIMO) systems for the fifth generation (5G) wireless communications	FCT	01-10-2016	01-11-2018
MPSat	Multi-Packet Detection Techniques for Satellite Networks	FCT/PTDC	01-03-2010	01-02-2013
MPSat	Multi-Packet detection techniques for Satellite networks	FCT	01-02-2010	01-08-2013
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/LA	01-03-2012	01-04-2014
SATSTATION	Satellite Ground Station for Study and Development of Radio Communications	FCT/REEQ	01-01-2006	31-12-2006
SEACORN	Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks	EU	01-03-2002	28-02-2004
U-BOAT	Ultra-Wide Band Transmission for Ad Hoc Networks	FCT/PTDC	01-10-2007	01-09-2010

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

F. Cercas, E. Cercas Cercas, P. Sebastião, New acelerated simulation method to obtain the performance of concatenated codes, Best Student Paper Award for this paper presented at Global Wireless Summit, Aalborg, Denmark., 01-05-2014

1Miscellaneous

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

Other Contributions

11Conference Committees

International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Conference Chairman, 2014
IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conf. - ATNAC, 2012
Broadband Wireless Access Workshop - BWA, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
International Symp. on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conf. - ATNAC, 2011
International Conf. on Advances in Computing and Communications - ACC2011, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2005, Technical Programme Committee, 2005
ICC 2002 Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Programme Committee, 2004
ICC 2004 EDAS Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Programme Committee, 2004
Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Conference (WPMC) 2003, Technical Programme Committee, 2004

IT Member Profile

Francisco Cercas

Scientific Achievements

Supervision of theses

Co-Supervision of theses

Closed Projects13