Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva

Francisco Sena da Silva

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-01-1999
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Scientific Area:	Wireless Communications
Group:	Communication Theory – 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

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 25-07-2003
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 14-06-1994

Affiliations

Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1992, Assistant Professor

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

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

Publications

2Papers in Journals

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,
| Abstract | BibTex

5Papers in Conferences

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

Projects

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

Other Contributions

1Conference Committees

Mosharaka International Conf. on Signal, Image and Speech Processing - M-SISP, Technical Programme Committee, 2007

IT Member Profile

Francisco Sena da Silva

Scientific Achievements

Closed Projects2