João Santos was born in 1990 and he is from Coimbra. In 2014, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro with a dissertation entitled “RFID reader for UHF frequency band based on Software-Defined Radio”.
Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações. His main research interests include radio frequency identification (RFID), FPGA’s microcontroller programming and signal processing.
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.
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.
