Lucas Guardalben

Former IT academic position:	Post. Doc.
Joining/Leaving IT dates:	08-11-2010 / 01-10-2018
Roles held in IT:	Researcher
Former IT thematic line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Network Architectures and Protocols – Av

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 23-04-2014

Expertise Topics

Communication between Nodes and Domains in Self-Management Networks
Future Internet Architectures
Over-the-Top Multimedia Services
Delay Tolerant Network for Military Communication
Sensing and Data gathering (short/long range)
Dissemination and multi-hop Routing (V2V and V2I)

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

Topics in Software and Applications I, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Bs.c Computer Science
Topics in Software and Applications II, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BS.C Computer Science

Co-Supervision of theses

1PhD Student

Entrega de conteúdos multimédia em over-the-top: caso de estudo das gravações automáticas, PhD Student, João Pedro Brites Ferreira Nogueira, Defended 05-2017

9MSc Student

Dissemination of contextual information for assisted driving, MSc Student, João Pedro Ferreira e Pereira, Concluded 12-2017
Distribuição de conteúdos over-the-top multimédia em redes sem fios, MSc Student, Rui Pedro Matias Dias, Concluded 12-2017
Survey of public transport routes using Wi-Fi, MSc Student, Joao Luis Carvalho Ferreira Ribeiro, Concluded 08-2017
Comunicações e Redes entre Drones Aquáticos, MSc Student, Deolinda Rosa Moura, Concluded 05-2017
Distribuição de Conteúdos em Redes OTT sem Fios, MSc Student, José Miguel Costa Silva, Concluded 12-2016
Redes de Sensores com Múltiplas Tecnologias: Curto e Longo Alcance, MSc Student, Ruben Pedrosa Oliveira, Concluded 12-2016
Redes de Conteúdos para Serviços TV com Gravações Automáticas, MSc Student, André Paulo Bastos, Concluded 12-2015
Rede de Comunicações Tolerante a Atraso para a Marinha, MSc Student, Tiago Rafael Correia Almeida, Concluded 12-2015
Demonstrador de Redes Veiculares, MSc Student, Bojan Magušic, Concluded 07-2015

Publications

1Books Chapters

VCK Kalempa, L. Guardalben, JBMS Sobral, Modeling of Ubiquitous Computing Environments Featuring Privacy, Chapter in, Ubiquitous Computing, Intech Open, CA-USA, 2011 | Full text (PDF 622 KBs)

8Papers in Journals

G. Pessoa Pessoa, M. Luís, L. Guardalben, C Senna, S. Sargento, Evaluation of Content Dissemination Strategies in Urban Vehicular Networks, Information, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 163 - 163, March, 2020 | BibTex
Z. Zhao, S. Sargento, L. Guardalben, M. Karimzadeh, J. Silva, T. Braun, Mobility Prediction-Assisted Over-The-Top Edge Prefetching for Hierarchical VANETs, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 1786 - 1801, August, 2018 | BibTex
J. Nogueira, L. Guardalben, B.C. Cardoso, S. Sargento, Catch-up TV forecasting: enabling next-generation over-the-top multimedia TV services, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, July, 2017 | BibTex
L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, Socially-Aware Multimedia Dissemination in Personal Mobile Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 94, No. 0929-6212, pp. 1 - 34, June, 2017,
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C. Ferreira, L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, S. Sargento, P. Salvador, D.R. Robalo, F. J. Velez, Supporting Unified Distributed Management and Autonomic Decisions: Design, Implementation and Deployment, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1 - 41, November, 2016,
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J. Nogueira, L. Guardalben, B.C. Cardoso, S. Sargento, Catch-up TV analytics: statistical characterization and consumption patterns identification on a production service, Multimedia Systems, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1 - 19, May, 2016 | BibTex
L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, Improving MAC layer association through social-based metrics in mobile networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 91 - 98, June, 2012,
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L. Guardalben, G. Villalba, F. Buiati, JBMS Sobral, E. C Camponogara, Self-Configuration and Self-Optimization Process in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Sensors, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 425 - 454, November, 2011,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 5 MBs) | BibTex

30Papers in Conferences

G. Pessoa Pessoa, M. Luís, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, On the Analysis of Content Dissemination through Real Vehicular Boards, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Porto, Portugal, June, 2018 | BibTex
J. Pereira, M. Diaz-Cacho, S. Sargento, A. Zúquete, L. Guardalben, M. Luís, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Real-time Video Transmission through IEEE 802.11p for Assisted-Driving, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2018 | BibTex
C. Tranoris, S. Denazis, S. Sargento, J. Pereira, L. Guardalben, Enabling Cyber-Physical Systems for 5G networking: A case study on the Automotive Vertical domain, ACM International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE, Montréal, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2018 | BibTex
B. Areias, N. Humberto, S. Sargento, L. Guardalben, 'Towards an Automated Flying Drones Platform, INSTICC International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems VEHITS, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, March, 2018 | BibTex
R. Dias, A. Fiorese, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, A Distributed Caching Architecture for Over-the-Top Content Distribution, IEEE/IFIP 14th Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference WONS 2018, Isola 2000, France, Vol., pp. 9 - 16, February, 2018 | BibTex
D. Moura, L. Guardalben, M. Luís, S. Sargento, A Drone-Quality Delay Tolerant Routing Approach for Aquatic Drones Scenarios, IEEE IEEE Globecom 2017 - 8th International Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles, Singapore, Singapore, December, 2017,
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R. Dias, A. Fiorese, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Multimedia Content Distribution in Over-The-Top Networks, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2017,
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D. Simões, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, A Drone-Assisted Service for Emergency Scenarios, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2017,
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J. Pereira, A. Zúquete, S. Sargento, M. Diaz-Cacho, L. Guardalben, M. Luís, Message Dissemination Mechanisms for Driving Support Scenarios, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2017,
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R. Oliveira, M. Luís, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Multi-Technology Data Collection: Short and Long Range Communication, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Toronto, Canada, September, 2017 | BibTex
R. Oliveira, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Long range communications in urban and rural environments, IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Heraklion, Greece, Vol. 978-1-5386-1629-1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2017,
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J. Silva, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Content-aware prefetching in Over-The-Top wireless networks, IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Heraklion, Greece, Vol. 978-1-5386-1629-1, pp. 1 - 6, September, 2017,
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B. Areias, N. Humberto, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Automated Flying Drones Platform for Sensing Smart Spaces, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Aveiro, Portugal, September, 2017 | BibTex
G. Pessoa Pessoa, R. Dias, T. Condeixa, J. A. Azevedo, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Content distribution emulation for vehicular networks, Wireless Days Conf., Porto, Portugal, Vol. 978-1-5090-5856-3, pp. 1 - 5, March, 2017,
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J. Nogueira, F. González, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Over-The-Top Catch-up TV content-aware caching, IEEE International Symp. on Computers and Communications - ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. 0, pp. 1012 - 1017, June, 2016 | BibTex
T. Almeida Almeida, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, A Quality-Aware Delay-Tolerant Approach for Navy Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications - ISCC, Messina, Italy, Vol. 21, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2016,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 331 KBs) | BibTex
T. Almeida Almeida, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Delay-Tolerant Networks for Navy Scenarios: Quality-based Approach, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. S/N, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2015,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
L. G. Guedes, T. Condeixa, S. Sargento, R. Monteiro, F. Neves Neves, L. Guardalben, P. Steenkiste, Lessons Learned from a Real Vehicular Network Deployment of Delay-Tolerant Networking, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, London, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, June, 2015 | BibTex
T. Condeixa, L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, S. Sargento, R. Sofia Sofia, Make-Without-Break Horizontal IP Handovers for Distributed Mobility Management Schemes, Globecom - Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks and Services (GC13 WS - MENS), Atlanta, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2013 | BibTex
L. Guardalben, T. Condeixa, G.T Gomes, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, On the Analysis of Dissemination Management Information through an Eyesight Perspective, Globecom - Workshop - Management of Emerging Networks and Services (GC13 WS - MENS), Atlanta, United States, Vol., pp. 0 - 0, December, 2013,
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G.T Gomes, L. Guardalben, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Improve Network Nodes Association, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Atlanta, United States, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2013,
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G.T Gomes, L. Guardalben, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, A Spanning Tree Protocol over Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms - SCPA, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, June, 2013,
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L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, R.S. Sousa, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, Lightweight Discovery and Exchange of Network Information in Distributed Network Management, IFIP/IEEE International Symp. on Integrated Network Management - IFIP/IEEE IM, Ghent, Belgium, Vol., pp. 740 - 743, May, 2013,
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L. Guardalben, G.T Gomes, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, Self-Organizing Decentralized Wireless Management through Social-Based Metrics, IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet - ManFi, Maui, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1199 - 1202, April, 2012,
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L. Guardalben, António. P Pinho, P. Salvador, S. Sargento, Nodes Discovery in the In-Network Management Communication Framework, ICST Conf. on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI), Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 1 - 14, September, 2011,
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L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, P. Salvador, V. Mirones, A Cooperative Hide and Seek Discovery over In Network Management, IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet - ManFi, Osaka, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 217 - 224, April, 2010,
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A. Boukerche, L. Guardalben, JBMS Sobral, M. Notare, A Self-X Approach for OLSR Routing Protocol in Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, New Orleans, United States, Vol. 1930-529X, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2008,
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A. Boukerche, L. Guardalben, JBMS Sobral, M. Notare, A Performance Evaluation of OLSR and AODV Routing Protocols Using a Self-Configuration Mechanism for Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Conf. on Local Computer Networks, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 0742-1303, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2008,
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L. Guardalben, JBMS Sobral, C. Tamashiro, Towards an Architecture for Self-Organization in Wireless Mesh Networks, Conf. Latinoamericana en Informática - CLEI, San Jose, Costa Rica, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 1 - 12, October, 2007,
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S. Rossi, E. Batista, A. Santos, L. Guardalben, C. Kitano, Open and Standardized Tools for Smart Transducer Networking, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I2MTC, Ontario, Canada, Vol. 1091-5281, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2005,
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3Non-refereed Publications

L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Self and Distributed Network Management: Wired and Wireless scenarios, Research Day University of Aveiro, 2012
L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Multimedia Content Delivery for Next Generation Over The Top Networks, Research Day University of Aveiro, 2016
L. Guardalben, V. Mirones, S. Sargento, A Bootstrap and Discover Mechanism over In Network Management Concept, Innovation Forum on Future Internet Technologies and Services (NET-FIT), 2010

Projects

Closed Projects6

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
GAPOTT	GAPOTT	PT Inovação	01-02-2014	01-12-2015
OT2Delivery	Over-the-top Multimedia Content Delivery for Next Generation Mobile Networks	FCT	01-04-2016	01-08-2018
PANORAMA	PANORAMA II - REDES	QREN	01-01-2013	01-12-2014
REMAR	Redes DTN para comunicações de emergência	QREN	01-01-2013	01-12-2014
SELF	Descoberta e decisão automática de recursos	PT Inovação	01-04-2011	01-03-2012
SmartCityMules	SmartCityMules - Mobile Data Collection and Dissemination Through Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks	FCT/PTDC	01-04-2016	01-08-2018

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

J. Pereira, A. Zúquete, S. Sargento, M. Diaz-Cacho, L. Guardalben, M. Luís, Message Dissemination Mechanisms for Driving Support Scenarios, Best poster Award at INForum 2017, 01-10-2017

2Miscellaneous

D. Moura, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Communications and Networks between Aquatic Drones, Invited Talks, 23º Seminário da RTCM, Aveiro, 01-06-2017 | Link
R. Oliveira, L. Guardalben, S. Sargento, Sensing through different networks and technologies, Invited Talks, 22º Seminário da RTCM, Lisboa, 01-01-2017

2Short Courses and Seminars

L. Guardalben, Over-The-Top Multimedia Services: Content-Aware and Prediction, Switzerland, Bern, 08-2016
L. Guardalben, JBMS Sobral, Using Self-Optimization and Self-Configuration Capacities to Improve Performance of AODV and OLSR Routing Protocols in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks, Canada, Ottawa, 10-2008

Other Contributions

2Refereeing Journals

Computer Networks
2016, 1 review(s);
Wireless Networks
2014, 1 review(s);

8Refereeing Conferences

IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC
2013, 1 review(s);
International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium - networks
2016, 1 review(s);
IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC)
2015, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications - ISCC
2014, 1 review(s);
IEEE International conference on Telecommunications ICT
2014, 1 review(s);
Workshop on IoT-SoS: Internet of Things Smart Objects and Services
2014, 1 review(s);
International Conf. on ICT Convergence - ICTC
2012, 1 review(s);
IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC
2013, 1 review(s);

IT Former Collaborator

Lucas Guardalben

Scientific Achievements

Co-Supervision of theses

Closed Projects6