Daniel Robalo received the Licenciado and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a PhD student at UBI and a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he has been participating in several projects such as MobileMAN and Planopti, on cellular planning and deployment; Ubiquimesh, on wireless ubiquitous networks development; and OPPORTUNISTIC-CR, on cognitive radio and spectrum aggregation. His research interests include cellular planning, dynamic spectrum access and sharing, radio resource management, cost/revenue and energy trade-offs of mobile wireless communication systems.
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Jessica E. Acevedo Flores
Jessica E. Acevedo Flores received her degree in Electronics Engineering from Catholic University Santa Maria of Arequipa in 2004 and her M. Sc. in Networking and Computer Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology of Taipei in 2007. She worked as a Professor in a few universities in Peru from 2009 to 2011, mainly focused in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. She is a fellow researcher in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering in Universidade da Beira Interior, and has made part of “Opportunistic Aggregation of Spectrum and Cognitive Radios for LTE-Advanced” by Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) from Portugal. Her research interests include wireless networks, particularly LTE and WiMAX, cognitive radio, radio resource management, green networks and digital electronics/HDL.
Luís M. Borges
Luís M. Borges received the Licenciatura and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, in 2006 and 2013, respectively. Luís M. Borges is currently a Pos-Doc researcher in CREaTION (Cognitive Radio Transceiver Design for Energy Efficient Data Transmission) project. He is also research assistant at Instituto de Telecomunicacões, Lisbon. He made or makes part of the team of COST 2100 and COST IC1004 European projects, and he participated in SMART-CLOTHING and PROENERGY-WSN Portuguese projects. Luís M. Borges is a member of the IEEE and Ordem dos Engenheiros (EUREL), and a member of IAENG. His main research areas are wireless sensor networks, medium access protocols, cross-layer design, hardware development, network modelling, and application development, cognitive radio and energy harvesting.
Norberto Barroca
Norberto Barroca received his Licenciado degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco in 2007 and his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Beira Interior in 2009. He is a research assistant at Instituto de Telecomunicações, where is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He made part of the project “Smart Clothing for Health Monitoring and Sport Applications”. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, RF energy harvesting and cross-layer design. He is a member of Ordem dos Engenheiros (IAENG).