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Thesis
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Cruise Control and Intelligent Data Acquisition in UAVs-Assisted Sensor Networks CISTER-TR-231101 
Yousef EmamiPhD Thesis. 8, Nov, 2023. Porto.
Shared Resource Contention-Aware Schedulability Analysis of Hard Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-231001 
Jatin AroraPhD Thesis. 8, Sep, 2023. Porto.The PhD examination committee was composed of: President: Prof. José Nuno Moura Marques Fidalgo, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal; Referee: Prof. Renato Mancuso, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, USA; Referee: Prof. Isabelle Puaut, Full Professor at the University of Rennes, France; Referee: Prof. Pedro Alexandre Guimarães Lobo Ferreira Souto, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal; Supervisor: Prof. Eduardo Manuel Medicis Tovar, Director of the CISTER
An Evaluation Framework for Safe Cooperative Vehicle Platooning CISTER-TR-230605 
Enio FilhoPhD Thesis. 29, May, 2023. Porto.
On Preemption in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) CISTER-TR-230202 
Mubarak OjewalePhD Thesis. 28, Feb, 2023. Porto.Committee:
President: Prof. Dr. Manuel Alberto Pereira Ricardo Referee: Prof. Dr. Saad Mubeen Referee: Dr. Ramon Serna Oliver Referee: Prof. Dr. Mário Jorge Rodrigues de Sousa Referee: Prof. Dr. Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras Referee: Prof. Dr. Pedro Alexandre Guimarães Lobo Ferreira Souto Supervisor: Dr. Patrick Meumeu Yomsi

Real-Time Overwater Wireless Network Design CISTER-TR-230201 
Miguel Gutiérrez GaitánPhD Thesis. 6, Feb, 2023.Ph.D. Thesis. February 6, 2023. Porto. President of the Jury, Dr. Jaime dos Santos Cardoso, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Members of the Jury: Dr. Thomas Watteyne, Research Director at the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) in Paris, France; Dr. Svetlana Girs, Senior Lecturer at the Mälardalen University in Västeras, Sweden; Dr. Rui Campos, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto; and Dr. Luís Miguel Pinho de Almeida, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Advisor).
Synchronous Intelligent Intersections for Sustainable Urban Mobility CISTER-TR-231002 
Radha ReddyPhD Thesis. 2023. Porto.
Books & Book Chapters
Research Management and Administration in Portugal CISTER-TR-230106 
Cláudia Barbosa, Filipa Borrego, Teresa Costa, Ana Ferreira, Madalena Martins, Susana Moreira, José M. R. C. A. Santos, José Avelino SilvaChapter in "Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration around the World", Emerald Publishing Limited. 2023.
Journal Papers
Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coding for Double Scattering V2V Links with LOS and Ground Reflections CISTER-TR-231202 
Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Gowhar Javanmardi, Ramiro RoblesSensors, Article No 23, MDPI. 3, Dec, 2023, Volume 23, Issue 9594.
Sheep health behavior analysis in machine learning: A short comprehensive survey CISTER-TR-231102 
Alam Noor, Murray J. Corke, Eduardo TovarSmart Agricultural Technology (SAT), Elsevier. 21, Nov, 2023, Volume 6, pp 100366.
A Drone Secure Handover Architecture validated in a Software in the Loop Environment CISTER-TR-230604 
Enio Filho, Filipe Gomes, Stéphane Monteiro, Sérgio Penna, Anis Koubâa, Eduardo TovarJournal of Physics: Conference Series (Journal of Physics), Article No 1, IOP Publishing. 29, Jun, 2023, Volume 2526, pp 8.
Multi-Gateway Designation for Real-Time TSCH Networks using Spectral Clustering and Centrality CISTER-TR-220904 
Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Diego Dujovne, Julián Zuñiga, Alejandro Figueroa, Luís AlmeidaIEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), IEEE. Jun 2023.
Cooperative Vehicular Platooning: A Multi-Dimensional Survey Towards Enhanced Safety, Security and Validation CISTER-TR-230501 
Enio Filho, Pedro Miguel Santos, Anis Koubâa, Eduardo TovarTCYB-Cyber-Physical Systems (Cyber-Physical Systems), Taylor Francis. 20, May, 2023, Volume 9.
Synchronous Management of Mixed Traffic at Signalized Intersections towards Sustainable Road Transportation CISTER-TR-230502 
Radha Reddy, Luís Almeida, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo TovarACCESS (IEEE ACCESS), IEEE. 2023.
SolarKey: Battery-free Key Generation Using Solar Cells CISTER-TR-230601 
Bo Wei, WEITAO XU, Mingcen Gao, Guohao Lan, Kai Li, CHENGWEN LUO, JIN ZHANGACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) (TOSN), ACM. 2023.
Towards Ubiquitous Semantic Metaverse: Challenges, Approaches, and Opportunities CISTER-TR-230801 
Kai Li, Billy Pik Lik Lau, Xin Yuan, Wei Ni, Mohsen Guizani, Chau YuenIEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) (IoTJ), IEEE. 2023.
Machine Learning-Aided Operations and Communications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Contemporary Survey CISTER-TR-230901 
Harrison Kurunathan, Kai Li, Wei NiIEEE communication surveys and tutorials (IEEE COMST), IEEE. 2023.
Minimal-Overlap Centrality for Multi-Gateway Designation in Real-Time TSCH Networks CISTER-TR-230702 
Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Luís Almeida, Pedro d'Orey, Pedro Miguel Santos, Thomas WatteyneACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS), ACM. 2023.
Detection and Mitigation of Position Spoofing Attacks on Cooperative UAV Swarm Formations CISTER-TR-231201 
Siguo Bi, Kai Li, Shuyan Hu, Wei Ni, Cong Wang, Xin WangIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) (TIFS), IEEE. 2023.
Conference or Workshop Papers/Talks
On the Path Loss Performance of Underwater Visible Light Communication Schemes Evaluated in Several Water Environments CISTER-TR-231205 
Lucas Almonacid, Pablo Palacios Játiva, Cesar A. Azurdia Meza, Diego Dujovne, Ismael Soto, Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán4th South American Conference On Visible Light Communications (SACVLC 2023). 8 to 10, Dec, 2023. Santiago, Chile.
Towards Multi-channel GTS Allocation in Visible Light Communication CISTER-TR-231206 
Harrison Kurunathan, Ramiro Robles, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Eduardo Tovar4th South American Conference On Visible Light Communications (SACVLC 2023). 8 to 10, Dec, 2023. Santiago, Chile.
Two-Ray Model Analysis for Overwater Communication at 28 GHz with Different Heights CISTER-TR-231203 
Jorge Celades Martínez, Mauricio Rodríguez, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Luís AlmeidaIEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference (LAMC-2023). 6 to 8, Dec, 2023. Chile.
VLC-enabled monitoring in a healthcare setting: Overview and Challenges CISTER-TR-231204 
Harrison Kurunathan, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Eduardo Tovar4th South American Conference On Visible Light Communications (SACVLC 2023). 8 to 10, Nov, 2023. Santiago, Chile.
Cooperative, Connected and Autonomous Mobility: Coordination at Intersections using Reservation-based Mechanisms CISTER-TR-240101 
Francisco Filipe, Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, Pedro d'Orey, Rosaldo J. F. RossettiIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2023). 24 to 28, Sep, 2023. Bilbao, Spain.
Cooperative, Connected and Autonomous Mobility: A Simulation Framework for Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms CISTER-TR-230701 
Francisco Filipe, Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, Pedro d'Orey, Rosaldo J. F. RossettiCooperative Decision-making in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2023). Sep 2023. Bilbao, Spain.
Improved Bus Contention Analysis for 3-Phase Tasks CISTER-TR-230505 
Jatin Arora, Syed Aftab Rashid, Geoffrey Nelissen, Cláudio Maia, Eduardo Tovar29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2023). 30, Aug to 1, Sep, 2023, Technical Session. TOKI MESSE, Niigata, Japan.The paper is accepted as a full paper in RTCSA 2023.
Secure integration of extremely resource-constrained nodes on distributed ROS2 applications CISTER-TR-230703 
Giann Nandi, David Pereira, José Proença, Eduardo Tovar, Aythami Salvador RodriguezOpen Research Europe (ORE). 14, Jul, 2023. Online, Albania.
Edge-Aided V2X Collision Avoidance with Platoons: Towards a Hybrid Evaluation Toolset CISTER-TR-240404 
João Pereira, Harrison Kurunathan, Enio Filho, Pedro Miguel SantosInternational Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W). 27, Jun, 2023. Porto, Portugal.
Exploring Graph Neural Networks for Joint Cruise Control and Task Offloading in UAV-enabled Mobile Edge Computing CISTER-TR-230403 
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Xin Yuan, Alam Noor, Abbas JamalipourIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring (VTC2023-Spring). 20 to 23, Jun, 2023, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications, Vehicular Networks, and Telematics. Florence, Italy.
Exploring Adversarial Graph Autoencoders to Manipulate Federated Learning in The Internet of Things CISTER-TR-230301 
Kai Li, Xin Yuan, Jingjing Zheng, Wei Ni, Mohsen GuizaniInternational Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) (IWCMC). 19 to 23, Jun, 2023, IoT & Wireless Sensors. Marrakesh, Morocco.Kai Li is a chair of AI FOR AUTONMOUS UNMANNED SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM (AAUSS).
MAPPO-Based Cooperative UAV Trajectory Design with Long-Range Emergency Communications in Disaster Areas CISTER-TR-230401 
Yue Guan, Sai Zou, Bochun Wu, Kai Li, Wei NiThe 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) (WoWMoM 2023). 12 to 15, Jun, 2023, The 1st IEEE Workshop on Wireless outdoor, Long-Range and Low-Power Networks (WOLOLO). Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A..Kai Li is also an organizing committee member for The 1st IEEE Workshop on Wireless outdoor, Long-Range and Low-Power Networks (WOLOLO).
Towards Safe Cooperative Autonomous Platoon systems using COTS Equipment CISTER-TR-230402 
Harrison Kurunathan, José Santos, Duarte Moreira, Pedro Miguel SantosEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM). 12 to 15, Jun, 2023, SLICO. Boston, U.S.A..
Memory Contention Analysis for 3-Phase Tasks CISTER-TR-230503 
Jatin Arora, Syed Aftab Rashid, Geoffrey Nelissen, Cláudio Maia, Eduardo TovarJunior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing, co-located with RTNS 2023 (JRWRTC 2023). 7 to 8, Jun, 2023, Workshop session. Dortmund, Germany.
A WSSL Implementation for Critical Cyber-Physical Systems Applications CISTER-TR-230504 
Márcia Rocha, Enio Filho, Fernando Alves, Sérgio Penna, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo TovarCPS-IoT Week '23: Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023 (RAGE 2023). 10 to 13, May, 2023, pp 192-197. San Antonio, TX, U.S.A..
An ETSI ITS-Compliant Formation Protocol to Support Long Heterogeneous Platoons CISTER-TR-230404 
Saeid Sabamoniri, Pedro Miguel Santos, Luís AlmeidaIEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) (IEEE VNC 2023). 26 to 28, Apr, 2023, S3. Istanbul, Türkiye.
Shared Resource Contention Aware Schedulability Analysis for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-221202 
Jatin Arora, Eduardo Tovar, Cláudio Maia
ABSTRACTPDFPDF Additional Files: PDFPoster
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2023). 17 to 19, Apr, 2023, PhD Forum. Antwerp, Belgium.
Outage Probability of V2V Multiple-Antenna Rice Fading Links with Explicit Ground Reflection CISTER-TR-221003 
Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Ramiro Robles, Jonathan RodriguezIEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022). 11 to 15, Jan, 2023. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Waiting Time Analysis for a Network of Signalized Intersections CISTER-TR-230102 
Radha Reddy, Luís Almeida, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo TovarThe 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) 2023 (ANT 2023). 2023. Leuven, Belgium.
A Drone Secure Handover Architecture validated in a Software in the Loop Environment CISTER-TR-230105 
Enio Filho, Filipe Gomes, Stéphane Monteiro, Sérgio Penna, Anis Koubâa, Eduardo Tovar
ABSTRACT Additional Files: PDF
EASN Conference Proceedings issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series (EASN). 2023, ADACORSA. Barcelona, Spain.
Advantages of Synchronizing Vehicles Intersection Access CISTER-TR-230405 
Radha Reddy, Luís Almeida, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo Tovar25th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2023) (EWGT 2023). 2023. Santander, Spain.
Conference or Workshop Posters/Demos
5G network as key-enabler for vehicular platooning CISTER-TR-230903 
Paulo Duarte, Mujdat Soyturk, Ramiro Robles, Marco Araújo, Berkay Yaman, Adriano Goes, Bruno Mendes, Gowhar Javanmardi, Miguel Gutiérrez GaitánDemo in 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON 2023). 2023. Madrid.
Complex Intersections with a Dedicated Road Lane per Crossing Direction CISTER-TR-230602 
Radha Reddy, Luís Almeida, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo TovarPoster presented in Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE 2023). 2023. Porto, Portugal.
Quality of Service of IM Approaches under Saturated Traffic CISTER-TR-230406 
Radha Reddy, Luís Almeida, Pedro Miguel Santos, Eduardo TovarPoster presented in 25th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2023) (EWGT 2023). 2023, Poster. Santander, Spain.
Technical Reports
IPDeN 2.0: Real-time NoC with selective flit deflection and buffering (Appendix) CISTER-TR-230101 
Yilian Ribot, Geoffrey Nelissen, Eduardo Tovar2023.


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