João Carlos Marques Silva

João Silva

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-02-2002
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
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

MSc, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 01-11-2016
PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2006

Expertise Topics

IT Service Management

Academic Activities

2Lecture courses

Redes Digitais 2, , IGE. LEI ETI
Redes Digitais 3, , IGE. LEI ETI

1Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Quality Function Deployment – Ferramenta de apoio à decisão, MSc Student, André dos Santos Domingos, Concluded 12-2016

Publications

1Books

M. Silva, A. Correia, R. Dinis, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Transmission Techniques for Emergent Multicast and Broadcast Systems, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, FL, USA, 2010,
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7Books Chapters

J.A. Moura, R. Marinheiro, J. C. Silva, Game Theory for Cooperation in Multi-Access Edge Computing, Chapter in, Paving the Way for 5G Through the Convergence of Wireless Systems, Ramona Trestian, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, IGI Global, USA, 2018 | Full text (PDF 1 MB)
J.A. Moura, J. C. Silva, R. Marinheiro, Game Theory for Collaboration in Future Networks, Chapter in, Convergence of Broadband, Broadcast, and Cellular Network Technologies, Ramona Trestian, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, IGI global, Medical Information Science Reference, Hershey, 2014
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, MIMO optimized for WCDMA, Chapter in, IMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution, Mario Marques e Francisco Monteiro, CRC Press, Lisboa, 2014
R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, MIMO optimized for Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization, Chapter in, MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond:: Fundamentals and Evolution, M. Silva, F. Monteiro, CRC Press, 2014
A. Correia, R. Dinis, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, LTE E-MBMS capacity and inter-site gains, Chapter in, Evolved Cellular Network planning and Optimization for UMTS and LTE, L. Song and J. Shen, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2010
A. Correia, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Air Interface Enhancements for Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service, Chapter in, Handbook of Mobile Brodcasting, Borko Furt, Syed Ahson, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2008
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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

17Papers in Journals

J.P. Pavia, V. Velez, R. Ferreira, N.S. Souto, M. Ribeiro, J. C. Silva, R. Dinis, Low Complexity Hybrid Precoding Designs for Multiuser mmWave/THz Ultra Massive MIMO Systems, Sensors, Vol. 21, No. 18, pp. 1 - 27, September, 2021,
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N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, J.P. Pavia, M. Ribeiro, An alternating direction algorithm for hybrid precoding and combining in millimeter wave MIMO systems, Physical Communication, Vol. 34, No. -, pp. 165 - 173, June, 2019,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Impact of Channel Estimation Errors on SC-FDE Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 1530 - 1540, May, 2014 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
J. C. Silva, R. Marinheiro, J.A. Moura, Differentiated Classes of Service and Flow Management using An Hybrid Broker, ACEEE International Journal on Communication, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 13 - 22, December, 2013 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Performance bound for generalised multilevelquadrature amplitude modulations constellations in multipath Rayleigh fading channels with imperfect channel estimation, IET Communications, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 1537 - 1543, November, 2012,
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J. C. Silva, R. Dinis, N.S. Souto, Single-carrier frequency domain equalisation with hierarchical constellations: an efficient transmission technique for broadcast and multicast systems, IET Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1 - 8, October, 2012,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Analytical Matched Filter Bound for M-QAM Hierarchical Constellations with Diversity Reception in Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 737 - 741, March, 2010,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, P. C. Carvalho, Iterative Multipacket Detection for High Throughput Transmissions in OFDM Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 429 - 432, February, 2010,
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A. Correia, N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Multiresolution with Hierarchical Modulations for Long Term Evolution of UMTS, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2009, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, February, 2009,
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N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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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A. Correia, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Multi-Resolution Broadcast/Multicast Systems for MBMS, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 224 - 234, March, 2007 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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, Cercas, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, Low rate convolutional and turbo codes based on non-linear cyclic codes, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 23 - 34, January, 2007 | BibTex
A. Correia, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Effective Radio Resource Management for MBMS in UMTS Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 2006, No. 1, pp. 1 - 27, October, 2006 | BibTex
A. Correia, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, MIMO Based Radio Resource Management for UMTS Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Services, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 2006, No. 1, pp. 1 - 22, September, 2006 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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

77Papers in Conferences

J.P. Pavia, N.S. Souto, M. Ribeiro, J. C. Silva, R. Dinis, Hybrid Precoding and Combining Algorithm for Reduced Complexity and Power Consumption Architectures in mmWave Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, May, 2020 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, A. Domingos, J. Pereira, On the use of the Quality Function Deployment Matrix for Flexible and Quantitative Prioritization, ICAMS International Conference on Advances and Management Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 20 - 25, February, 2017 | BibTex
R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Efficient Inversion of Large Overlapped Block Diagonal Matrices, ITC-CSCC, Seoul, Korea, South, Vol. 1, pp. 5 - 8, June, 2015,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Impact of Imperfect Channel Estimation on SC-FDE, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2013,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Reliability of an IB-DFE in the Presence of Channel Estimation Errors, Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2013,
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JMDA Almeida, R. Marinheiro, J. C. Silva, J.A. Moura, A Framework for QoE Measurements of Realtime Scalable Video Coding Streaming Using Conventional Servers and Clients, Springer International Conf. on Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication - AIM, Bangalore, India, Vol. 1, pp. 85 - 90, April, 2013 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, J.A. Moura, R. Marinheiro, JMDA Almeida, Optimizing 4G Networks with Flow Management using An Hybrid Broker, Springer International Conf. on Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication - AIM, Bangalore, India, Vol. 1, pp. 290 - 298, April, 2013 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, Strategic Methods for Automated Trading in Forex, International Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA, Koci, India, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2012 | BibTex
J.A. Moura, J. C. Silva, R. Marinheiro, A Brokerage System for Enhancing Wireless Access, International Conf. on Communications and Signal Processing - MIC-CSP, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 45 - 50, April, 2012,
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J.C. Coucelo, R. Marinheiro, J. C. Silva, J.A. Moura, WLAN-UMTS Integration to Optimize MBMS Provision, International Conf. on Communications and Signal Processing - MIC-CSP, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 34 - 38, April, 2012,
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J.R. Rendeiro, R. Marinheiro, J.A. Moura, J. C. Silva, An Adaptive Management Proposal for Optimizing the Performance of a Virtualized Computing Environment, International Conf. on Communications and Signal Processing - MIC-CSP, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 24 - 28, April, 2012,
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J. C. Silva, R. Dinis, N.S. Souto, Joint Detection & Enhanced Channel Estimation for MIMO SC-FDE, Mosharaka International Conf. on Communications, Networking and Information Technology - Mosharaka, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Vol. 1, pp. 105 - 110, December, 2011,
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J. C. Silva, HRMS Silva, R. Dinis, ELGMS Silva, N.S. Souto, On the Use of TCH Sequences for Synchronization and Channel Estimation in MIMO Systems, International Conf. on Signal Processing - ICSP, Gold Coast, Australia, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2010 | BibTex
R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, PMC Carvalho, N.S. Souto, On the Design of Turbo Equalizers for SC-FDE Schemes with Different Error Protections, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Ottawa, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2010,
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R. Dinis, PMC Carvalho, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Iterative Frequency-Domain Equalization for General Constellations, IEEE Sarnoff Symp., Princeton, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 2010,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Matched Filter Bound for M-QAM Hierarchical Constellations with Diversity Reception in Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Anchorage, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2009,
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N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, J. C. Silva, Efficient Detection Technique for Multiple Packet Collisions in OFDM Systems, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Anchorage, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2009,
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J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, R. Dinis, P. C. Carvalho, On the use of TCH Sequences for Synchronization, Channel and Noise Estimation, IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication - ICSPC, omaha, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2009 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, R. Dinis, N.S. Souto, Joint Detection and Channel Estimation Systems with SC-FDE Modulations, IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, innsbruck, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, February, 2009 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Efficient Channel Estimation for Iterative MIMO SC-FDE Systems, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Calgary, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 100 - 105, September, 2008 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, P. C. Carvalho, A High Throughput Technique for OFDM Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. - WCNC, Las Vegas, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, March, 2008,
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N.S. Souto, A. Correia, J. C. Silva, L. A. Abreu, Multiresolution MBMS transmissions for MIMO UTRA LTE systems, IEEE International Symp. on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting - BTS, Las Vegas, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, March, 2008,
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N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Iterative Decoding and Channel Estimation of MIMO-OFDM Transmissions with Hierarchical Constellations and Implicit Pilots, IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication - ICSPC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2007 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Efficient Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems with Hierarchical Constellations, IEEE International Symp. on Communications and Information Technologies - ISCIT, Sydney, Australia, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2007 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Kumar, A. Correia, On the Use of Implicit Pilots for Channel Estimation with OFDM Modulations, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conf. (VNC), Baltimore, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2007 | BibTex
Kumar, N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Efficient Channel Estimation for OFDM Modulations with Transmit Diversity, IASTED International Conf. on Communications, Internet and Information Technology - CIIT, Bannf, Canada, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2007 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Cercas, F. Cercas, A. Correia, Supporting Hierarchical Modulations in HSDPA for MBMS Transmissions, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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
J. C. Silva, S.J. Jesus, N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, F. Cercas, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Synchronization with TCH Codes, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Correia, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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
A. Correia, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Interferece Reduction consisting of Pre-Distortion Filtering with Selective Transmit Diversity, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. x, pp. x - x, September, 2004 | BibTex
M. Silva, A. Correia, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Interference Reduction Consisting of Pre-Distortion Filtering with Selective Transmit Diversity, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 9999, pp. 9999 - 9999, September, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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
M. Silva, A. Correia, J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Joint MIMO and Parallel Interference Cancellation for the HSDPA, IEEE International Symp. on Spread Spectrum and Techniques Applications - ISSSTA, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 9999, pp. 9999 - 9999, August, 2004 | BibTex
N.S. Souto, J. C. Silva, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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
N. Roldão, J. C. Silva, A. Correia, A. J. Rodrigues, M. Silva, HSDPA Performance Results with Enhanced TX/RX Schemes, SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vol. 0, pp. 11111 - 22222, March, 2004,
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J. C. Silva, N.S. Souto, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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, Cercas, 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

Patents

2Patents

Método de separação de pacotes de informação envolvidos em colisões ocorridas quando dois ou mais emissores transmitem para uma estação base no mesmo intervalo de tempo em sistemas de telecomunicações de acesso aleatório baseados em OFDM, PT104830, National, Granted, 20-11-2009, Portugal
Método de emissão e receção para suporte de serviços de difusão em sistemas WCDMA que utilizam constelações QAM hierárquicas e detecção iterativa, PT103527, National, Granted, 14-07-2006, Portugal

Projects

Closed Projects9

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
C-MOBILE	Advanced MBMS for the Future Mobile World	EU	01-03-2006	01-04-2008
COILS	Comparison of WiMAX and LTE on a Personal Cell Scenario for the Provision of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services	IT/LA	01-12-2008	01-11-2010
EnAcoMIMOC o	Enhanced Underwater Acoustic Receiver Design for MIMO Communications	FCT	01-03-2014	01-02-2015
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
NEUF	LTE-Advanced Enhancements using Femtocells	FCT/PTDC	01-03-2012	01-03-2014
SAAS	Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks	IT/LA	01-03-2012	01-04-2014
SEACORN	Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks	EU	01-03-2002	28-02-2004

Other Contributions

1Refereeing Conferences

International Joint Conf. on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE)
2006, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s);

IT Member Profile

João Silva

Scientific Achievements

As Supervisor

Closed Projects9