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... Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva

Researcher

Francisco Sena da Silva

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Wireless Technologies
Group: Communication Theory – Lx

Email: Send Email
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


Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 25-07-2003
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 14-06-1994
  • Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1992, Assistant Professor
  • Fundamentos de Telecomunicações, , Lic. Engenharia Redes de Comunicação e Informação
  • Simulation-Based Analysis and Methods, Instituto Superior Técnico, Doutoramento em Engª Electrotécnica e de Computadores
  • I. Sousa, F. S. Sena da Silva, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, Location Error Spatial Distribution in Urban Wireless Cellular Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 153 - 167, May, 2012 | BibTex
  • F. S. Sena da Silva, J. Leitão, Importance Sampling Evaluation of Digital Phase Detectors with Carrier Phase Tracking. A Large Deviations Approach., IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 12, pp. 5976 - 5986, December, 2008,
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  • I. Sousa, F. S. Sena da Silva, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, Location Error Spatial Distribution in Cellular Mobile Systems, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Recife, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, October, 2010 | BibTex
  • F. S. Sena da Silva, J. Leitão, Importance Sampling Analysis of Digital Phase Detectors with Carrier Phase Tracking, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing - SSP, Singapore, Singapore, Vol. I, pp. 50 - 53, August, 2001 | BibTex
  • F. S. Sena da Silva, J. Leitão, Error Floor Assessment of Digital Phase Detectors with Carrier Phase Tracking. A Large Deviations Approach, IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT, Washington DC, United States, Vol. I, pp. 137 - 137, June, 2001 | BibTex
  • F. S. Sena da Silva, J. Leitão, Importance Sampling Evaluation of Digital Phase Detectors Based on Extended Kalman-Bucy Filters, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Salt Lake City, United States, Vol. IV, pp. 2537 - 2540, May, 2001 | BibTex
  • F. S. Sena da Silva, J. Leitão, Contour Processing for Left Ventricle Function Automatic Classification, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 199 - 204, March, 1998 | BibTex

Closed Projects2

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
ARNAGGS Advanced Receivers and Navigation Algorithms for GPS/Galileo Signals FCT/PTDC 01-09-2007 01-03-2011
HICOPI HiCoPI - High Accuracy GNSS-based Coordinated Positioning IT/LA 01-12-2008 01-01-2011
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Signal, Image and Speech Processing - M-SISP, Technical Programme Committee, 2007