Pedro Miguel Figueiredo Amaral

Pedro Amaral

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	11-10-2013
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
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

http://www.cienciavitae.pt/3012-50CD-5762

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-8524-0294

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 01-01-2013

Affiliations

IEEE, 01-01-2012, Member

Expertise Topics

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

Configuração e Gestão de Redes , FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Serviços e Aplicações em Redes, FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

7Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

SCALABLE DRL BASED ROUTING WITH TOPOLOGY CHANGES, MSc Student, Catarina Amaro Guilherme dos Santos Crispim, Concluded 07-2024
Private Cloud Deployment with SDN-NFV network Prototype , MSc Student, João Daniel Barbosa Sequeira, Concluded 02-2021
Predicting Flow Size and duration, MSc Student, Ricardo Alexandre Sacoto Martins, Concluded 03-2018
Machine Learning aided network management, MSc Student, André Pires Valente Lourenço, Concluded 09-2017
Um estudo de algoritmos de gestão de tráfego de baixa complexidade em SDNs, MSc Student, Fábio André Cardoso da Silva, Concluded 09-2016
Network Traffic Classification using SDNs, MSc Student, João Tavares, Concluded 09-2015
Dynamic Flow Management, MSc Student, Paulo Martins, Concluded 07-2015

Publications

4Papers in Journals

C. Feio, D. Pereira Pereira, R. Oliveira, P. Amaral, Correlation-Based Abnormal SIP Dialog Identification: A Performance Comparison With Bayesian and Deep Learning Approaches, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, No., pp. 134484 - 134496, 2025 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
P. Amaral, D. Simões, Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Routing in IP Media Broadcast Networks: Feasibility and Performance, IEEE Access, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 62459 - 62470, June, 2022 | Full text (PDF 617 KBs) | BibTex
D. Pedro, S. Tomic, L. Bernardo, M.B. Beko, R. Oliveira, R. Dinis, P. Pinto, P. Amaral, Algorithms for estimating the location of remote nodes using smartphones, IEEE Access, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33713 - 33727, December, 2019,
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P. Amaral, P. Pinto, L. Bernardo, Achieving Correct Hop-by-Hop Forwarding on Multiple Policy-based Routing Paths, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. Early Access, No. none, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2019 | Full text (PDF 758 KBs) | BibTex

17Papers in Conferences

A. Mazandarani, P. Amaral, P. Pinto, S. Shamoushaki, Deep Learning-Based Automated Detection of Inappropriate Face Image Attributes for ID Documents, Technological Innovation for Applied AI Systems. DoCEIS. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology DoCEIS, Caparica, Portugal, June, 2021 | BibTex
P. Pinto, A. Mazandarani, P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, Towards a Low Latency Network-Slice Resistant to Unresponsive Traffic, IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications - NCA, Boston, United States, November, 2018,
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T. Jamal, P. Amaral, K. Abbas, Flow Table Congestion in Software Defined Networks, International Conference on Digital Society, Rome, Italy, March, 2018 | BibTex
T. Jamal, P. Amaral, A. Khan, A. Zameer, K. Ulla, S. Butt, Denial of Service Attack in Wireless LAN, International Conference on Digital Society, Rome, Italy, March, 2018 | BibTex
J. Henriques, L. Bernardo, R. Oliveira, P. Amaral, F. Ganhão, P. Pinto, R. Dinis, Outliers detection in network services with self-learned profiles, International Conf. on Ultra Modern Telecommunications - ICUMT, Munich, Germany, November, 2017,
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J. Tavares, H. Mamede, P. Amaral, P. Pinto, Software-defined controllers: Where are we?, Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2017 12th Iberian Conference on, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2017,
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P. Amaral, P. Pinto, L. Bernardo, F. Silva, SDN based Traffic Engineering without Optimization: a Centrality based Approach, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Paris, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2017,
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MR Ramos, L. Bernardo, R. Dinis, R. Oliveira, P. Pinto, P. Amaral, Using Lightly Synchronized MultiPacket Reception in Machine-Type Communication Networks, IEEE Globecom 2016 Workshop on Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications in Wireless Networks - URLLC URLLC, Washington, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2016,
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P. Amaral, J. Dinis, P. Pinto, L. Bernardo, J. Tavares, H. Mamede, Machine Learning in Software Defined Networks: Data Collection and Traffic Classification, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Networks ICNP (NetworkML), Singapore, Singapore, Vol. ., pp. - - -, November, 2016,
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P. Pinto, P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, Lightweight admission control and traffic management with SDN, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol. 34413, pp. 6 - 16, May, 2016,
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TB Bento, L. Bernardo, R. Dinis, R. Oliveira, P. Pinto, P. Amaral, FM-MAC: A novel MAC protocol for in-band full-duplex systems that use multipacket reception, IEEE International Workshop on 5G & Beyond - Enabling Technologies, San Diego, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2015,
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P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, P. Pinto, Multipath policy routing for the inter-domain scenario, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 2014, pp. 3215 - 3221, June, 2014 | BibTex
P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, P. Pinto, An L2 policy based multipath fabric, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 2014, pp. 3607 - 3613, June, 2014,
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Maffei, F. Ganhão, L.I. Irio, L. Bernardo, R. Dinis, R. Oliveira, P. Amaral, P. Pinto, SC-FDE Femtocell Energy Saving using IB-DFE Interference Cancellation Techniques, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2014,
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B. Branco, F. Ganhão, L. Irio, L. Bernardo, R. Dinis, R. Oliveira, P. Amaral, P. Pinto, SC-FDE femtocell energy saving using IB-DFE Interference Cancellation techniques, IEEE International conference on Telecommunications ICT, Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2014 | BibTex
P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, P. Pinto, Multipath policy routing using destination based hop-by-hop forwarding, IEEE Pedro Amaral ICNP, Gottingen, Germany, Vol. 21, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2013,
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P. Amaral, L. Bernardo, P. Pinto, Inter-Domain Traffic Engineering Using an AS-Level Multipath Routing Architecture, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Kyoto, Japan, Vol. 2011, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2011,
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Projects

Closed Projects3

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
CELL-LESS6G	Distributed Access Design for Cell-less Smart 6G Networks	FCT	01-01-2023	31-12-2025
InfoCent-IoT	Efficient information centric networks for IoT infrastructures	FCT/POCI, POR Lisboa, P2020	10-08-2018	09-03-2022
MANY2COMWIN	Many-to-Many COMmunication Architectures for WIreless Networks	FCT	01-04-2014	01-08-2015

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

L. Bernardo, B. B. Branco, F. Ganhão, L.I. Irio, R. Dinis, R. Oliveira, P. Amaral, P. Pinto, SC-FDE Femtocell Energy Saving using IB-DFE Interference Cancellation Techniques, Second Best Paper Award at International Conf. on Telecomunications (ICT’14), Lisboa, Portugal, May 4-7, 2014., 01-05-2014

Other Contributions

2Refereeing Journals

Computer Standards and Interfaces
2017, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
2017, 1 review(s);

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IT Member Profile

Pedro Amaral

Scientific Achievements

As Supervisor

Closed Projects3