Monthly Archives: April 2014

Reconfigurable Hardware: Design flow and Applications

When: Wednesday, 2014-Apr-30, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Ricardo Pinto Abstract: The ability to design and implement digital circuits to perform specific functions with considerable speedups at low costs has driven the development of reconfigurable logic devices. Reconfigurable hardware … Continue reading

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Traffic Monitoring and Fault Injection in Wireless Sensor and Actuator networks

When: Wednesday, 2014-Apr-16, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Rui Caldeira Abstract: Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) have become an interesting technology for supporting networking communications in different mixed-critical environments, from industrial to aerospace. Such communications are more exposed … Continue reading

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Raptor Codes

When: Wednesday, 2014-Apr-09, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: José Lopes Abstract: What if we could make UDP as reliable as TCP, but keep its inherent simplicity? Forward error correction (FEC) is a technique used in telecommunication to recover from … Continue reading

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Real-Time Wireless Communications: An Overview and Future Directions

When: Wednesday, 2014-Apr-02, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Jeferson Souza Abstract: The use of wireless communications in environments with different levels of criticality has been grown within real-world scenarios. Industrial automation, inter-vehicular and intra-vehicular communications, disaster monitoring, and health … Continue reading

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