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João P. Vilela is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto. He was previously a professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, after receiving the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011 from the University of Porto, Portugal. He was a visiting researcher at the Coding, Communications and Information Theory group at Georgia Tech, working on physical-layer security, and the Network Coding and Reliable Communications group at MIT, working on security for network coding. In recent years, Dr. Vilela has been coordinator and team member of several national, bilateral, and European-funded projects in security and privacy. His main research interests are in security and privacy of computer and communication systems, with applications such as wireless networks, Internet of Things and mobile devices. Specific topics include wireless physical-layer security, security of next-generation networks, privacy-preserving data mining, location privacy and automated privacy protection.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Vilela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0014-1997-72DF

Email addresses

  • jvilela@fc.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2011/07
Concluded
 PhD in Computer Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Jamming for Wireless Secrecy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved unanimously
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/02/01 - 2008/04/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
2007/10/01 - 2007/12/23 Visiting Researcher (Research) Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
(...)
2011/09/01 - 2020/01/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - 2026 PRIVATEER: Privacy-first Security Enablers for 6G Networks
101096110
Researcher
Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2020/02 - 2023/01 SNOB-5G: Scalable Network Backhauling for 5G
45929
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/05 - 2023 AIDA: Adaptive, Intelligent and Distributed Assurance Platform
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045907
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Ongoing
2019/09 - 2021/07 COP-MODE: Context-aware Privacy Protection for Mobile Devices
NGI_TRUST grant agreement no 825618
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, United Kingdom
Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2017/01/09 - 2020/07/08 MobiWise: from mobile sensing to mobility advising
SAICTPAC/0011/2015
Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018 - 2020 Projecto Mobilizador 5G
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024539
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 P2020
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Agregação de Espetro entre Bandas Licenciadas de Acesso Exclusivo e Partilhado em Redes Heterogéneas com Células Pequenas
CMU/ECE/0030/2017
Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/05/01 - 2019/11/30 Securing Wireless Networks with Coding and Jamming
PTDC/EEI-TEL/3684/2014
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2018 INCISE – Interference and Coding for Wireless Secrecy
297/2015
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Fundação Luso-Americana
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2018 IRES: Practical Physical-Layer Security in Coimbra, Portugal
NSF/1460085/US
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, United States
National Science Foundation
2015 - 2017 RECOUNT: Routine-based Enhanced COnnectivity UNder user mobiliTy
FCT/8128/22/4/2015/S
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Inria, France
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013 - 2015 iCIS — Intelligent Computing in the Internet of Services
CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002003
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 QREN
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2010/12/31 WITS - Wireless Information-Theoretic Security
PTDC/EIA/71362/2006
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008 - 2010 N-CRAVE — Network Coding for Robust Architectures in Volatile Environments
FP7 ICT-2007-215252
Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2006 - 2008 DAIDALOS — Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services
506997
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ricardo Mendes; Mariana Cunha; João P. Vilela; Alastair R. Beresford. "Enhancing User Privacy in Mobile Devices Through Prediction of Privacy Preferences". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-17140-6_8
  2. André Brandão; Ricardo Mendes; João P. Vilela. "Efficient Privacy Preserving Distributed K-Means for Non-IID Data". 439-451. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-74251-5_35
Conference paper
  1. Dimosthenis Masouros; Dimitrios Soudris; Georgios Gardikis; Victoria Katsarou; Maria Christopoulou; George Xilouris; Hugo Ramón; et al. "Towards Privacy-First Security Enablers for 6G Networks: The PRIVATEER Approach". Paper presented in International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-46077-7_25
  2. Martins, Óscar; Vilela, João P.; Gomes, Marco. "Poster: Privacy-Preserving Joint Communication and Sensing". 2023.
    Published • 10.1109/wowmom57956.2023.00053
  3. Ricardo Mendes; Mariana Cunha; João P. Vilela. "Velocity-Aware Geo-Indistinguishability". 2023.
    10.1145/3577923.3583644
  4. André Brandão; Ricardo Mendes; João P. Vilela. "Prediction of Mobile App Privacy Preferences with User Profiles via Federated Learning". 2022.
    10.1145/3508398.3511526
  5. Ricardo Mendes; Andre Brandao; Joao P. Vilela; Alastair R. Beresford. "Effect of User Expectation on Mobile App Privacy: A Field Study". 2022.
    10.1109/percom53586.2022.9762379
  6. Mukhandi, Munkenyi; Damiao, Francisco; Granjal, Jorge; Vilela, Joao P.. "Blockchain-based Device Identity Management with Consensus Authentication for IoT Devices". 2022.
    10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700534
  7. Giddens, Spencer; Gomes, Marco A. C.; Vilela, Joao P.; Santos, Jose L.; Harrison, Willie K.. "Enumeration of the Degree Distribution Space for Finite Block Length LDPC Codes". 2021.
    10.1109/icc42927.2021.9500939
  8. Pinto, Thyago M. S.; Vilela, Joao P.; Gomes, Marco A. C.; Harrison, Willie K.. "Keyed Polar Coding for Physical-Layer Security without Channel State Information". 2021.
    10.1109/icc42927.2021.9500357
  9. Mukhandi, Munkenyi; Andrade, Eduardo; Damião, Francisco; Granjal, Jorge; Vilela, João P.. "Blockchain-based scalable authentication for IoT". 2020.
    10.1145/3384419.3430465
  10. Silva, Andre; Gomes, Marco A. C.; Vilela, Joao P.; Harrison, Willie K.. "SDR Testbed of Full-Duplex Jamming for Secrecy". 2020.
    10.1109/csndsp49049.2020.9249552
  11. Searle, Hunter; Gomes, Marco A. C.; Vilela, Joao P.; Harrison, Willie K.. "Irregular Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Adaptive Physical-Layer Security". 2019.
    10.1109/globecom38437.2019.9013808
  12. Carreira, M.; Monteiro, T.; Gomes, M.; Vilela, J.P.; Harrison, W.K.. "Adaptive Physical-Layer Security Through Punctured Coding for Secrecy". 2019.
    10.1109/ICC.2019.8761595
  13. Pinto, T.; Gomes, M.; Vilela, J.P.; Harrison, W.K.. "Polar coding for physical-layer security without knowledge of the eavesdropper's channel". 2019.
    10.1109/VTCSpring.2019.8746472
  14. Queiroz, S.; Vilela, J.; Monteiro, E.. "What is the Cost of the Index Selector Task for OFDM with Index Modulation?". 2019.
    10.1109/WD.2019.8734233
  15. Dryer, Z.; Nickerl, A.; Gomes, M.A.C.; Vilela, J.P.; Harrison, W.K.. "Full-Duplex Jamming for Enhanced Hidden-Key Secrecy". 2019.
    10.1109/ICC.2019.8761586
  16. Cunha, M.; Mendes, R.; Vilela, J.P.. "Clustering Geo-Indistinguishability for Privacy of Continuous Location Traces". 2019.
    10.1109/CCCS.2019.8888111
  17. Rendon, G.T.; Harrison, W.K.; Gomes, M.A.C.; Vilela, J.P.. "Nested QPSK Encoding for Information Theoretic Security". 2018.
    10.1109/ICC.2018.8422678
  18. Mendes, R.; Vilela, J.. "On the effect of update frequency on geo-indistinguishability of mobility traces". 2018.
    10.1145/3212480.3212490
  19. Martins, C.; Fernandes, T.; Gomes, M.; Vilela, J.. "Testbed implementation and evaluation of interleaved and scrambled coding for physical-layer security". 2018.
    10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417699
  20. Queiroz, S.; Vilela, J.; Hexsel, R.. "Breaking through the Full-Duplex Wi-Fi capacity gain". 2017.
    10.1109/NOF.2016.7810119
  21. Pfister, J.; Gomes, M.A.C.; Vilela, J.P.; Harrison, W.K.. "Quantifying equivocation for finite blocklength wiretap codes". 2017.
    10.1109/ICC.2017.7996925
  22. Aygun, B.; Boban, M.; Vilela, J.P.; Wyglinski, A.M.. "Geometry-based propagation modeling and simulation of vehicle-to-infrastructure links". 2016.
    10.1109/VTCSpring.2016.7504262
  23. Festag, A.; Boban, M.; Kenney, J.B.; Vilela, J.P.. "Workshop message: Smart Vehicles 2016". 2016.
    10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523493
  24. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Simoes, P.; Curado, M.. "Expedite feature extraction for enhanced cloud anomaly detection". 2016.
    10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502990
  25. Sarmento, D.; Vilela, J.; Harrison, W.K.; Gomes, M.. "Interleaved coding for secrecy with a hidden key". 2015.
    10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414188
  26. Vilela, J.P.; Sa Sousa, J.. "Physical-layer security against non-degraded eavesdroppers". 2015.
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7417350
  27. Sousa, J.S.; Vilela, J.P.. "Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping for secrecy with broadband jammers and eavesdroppers". 2015.
    10.1109/ICC.2015.7249484
  28. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Curado, M.. "Online traffic prediction in the cloud: A dynamic window approach". 2014.
    10.1109/FiCloud.2014.12
  29. Sousa, J.S.; Vilela, J.P.. "A characterization of uncoordinated frequency hopping for wireless secrecy". 2014.
    10.1109/WMNC.2014.6878885
  30. Vilela, J.P.; Barros, J.. "Collision-free jamming for enhanced wireless secrecy". 2013.
    10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583466
  31. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Curado, M.. "Predicting traffic in the cloud: A statistical approach". 2013.
    10.1109/CGC.2013.26
  32. Vilela, J.P.; Barros, J.. "A cooperative protocol for jamming eavesdroppers in wireless networks". 2012.
    10.1109/ICC.2012.6364005
  33. Vilela, J.P.; Pinto, P.C.; Barros, J.. "Jammer selection policies for secure wireless networks". 2011.
    10.1109/iccw.2011.5963525
  34. Vilela, J.P.; Bloch, M.; Barros, J.; McLaughlin, S.W.. "Friendly jamming for wireless secrecy". 2010.
    10.1109/ICC.2010.5502606
  35. Lima, L.; Vilela, J.P.; Barros, J.; Médard, M.. "An information-theoretic cryptanalysis of network coding - Is protecting the code enough?". 2008.
    10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895420
  36. Vilela, J.P.; Lima, L.; Barros, J.. "Lightweight security for network coding". 2008.
    10.1109/ICC.2008.336
  37. Sargento, S.; Sarrô, R.; Duarte, R.; Stupar, P.; Gallera, F.; Natkaniec, M.; Vilela, J.P.; Barros, J.. "Ubiquitous access through the integration of mobile ad-hoc networks". 2007.
    10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299244
  38. Vilela, J.P.; Barros, J.. "A feedback reputation mechanism to secure the optimized link state routing protocol". 2007.
    10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550347
Journal article
  1. Queiroz, Saulo; Vilela, Joao P.; Monteiro, Edmundo. "Is FFT Fast Enough for Beyond 5G Communications? A Throughput-Complexity Analysis for OFDM Signals". IEEE Access 10 (2022): 104436-104448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3210519.
    Published • 10.1109/access.2022.3210519
  2. Eduardo Andrade; Jorge Granjal; João P. Vilela; Carlos Arantes. "A Security Gateway for power distribution systems in open networks". Computers & Security 111 (2021): 102492-102492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2021.102492.
    10.1016/j.cose.2021.102492
  3. Jamil Farhat; Glauber Brante; Richard Demo Souza; Joao P. Vilela. "On the Secure Spectral Efficiency of URLLC With Randomly Located Colluding Eavesdroppers". IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8 19 (2021): 14672-14682. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3071591.
    10.1109/JIOT.2021.3071591
  4. Mariana Cunha; Ricardo Mendes; João P. Vilela. "A survey of privacy-preserving mechanisms for heterogeneous data types". Computer Science Review 41 (2021): 100403-100403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2021.100403.
    10.1016/j.cosrev.2021.100403
  5. Cohen, Alejandro; Esfahanizadeh, Homa; Sousa, Bruno; Vilela, Joao P.; Luis, Miguel; Raposo, Duarte; Michel, Francois; Sargento, Susana; Medard, Muriel. "Bringing Network Coding into SDN: Architectural Study for Meshed Heterogeneous Communications". IEEE Communications Magazine 59 4 (2021): 37-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.001.2000875.
    Published • 10.1109/mcom.001.2000875
  6. Silva, André; Gomes, Marco; Vilela, João P.; Harrison, Willie K.. "SDR Proof-of-Concept of Full-Duplex Jamming for Enhanced Physical Layer Security". Sensors 21 3 (2021): 856. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21030856.
    10.3390/s21030856
  7. Queiroz, Saulo; Silva, Wesley; Vilela, Joao P.; Monteiro, Edmundo. "Maximal Spectral Efficiency of OFDM with Index Modulation under Polynomial Space Complexity". IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2020): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2020.2965533.
    10.1109/lwc.2020.2965533
  8. Ricardo Mendes; Mariana Cunha; Vilela, João P.. "Impact of Frequency of Location Reports on the Privacy Level of Geo-indistinguishability". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2020): https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue2/popets-2020-0032.pdf.
    Accepted
  9. Queiroz, Saulo; Vilela, Joao P.; Monteiro, Edmundo. "Optimal Mapper for OFDM with Index Modulation: A Spectro-Computational Analysis". IEEE Access (2020): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2986131.
    10.1109/access.2020.2986131
  10. Harrison, W.K.; Fernandes, T.; Gomes, M.A.C.; Vilela, J.P.. "Generating a Binary Symmetric Channel for Wiretap Codes". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 14 8 (2019): 2128-2138. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059931878&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TIFS.2019.2892010
  11. Harrison, W.K.; Beard, E.; Dye, S.; Holmes, E.; Nelson, K.; Gomes, M.A.C.; Vilela, J.P.. "Implications of coding layers on physical-layer security: A secrecy benefit approach". Entropy 21 8 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85070478477&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/e21080755
  12. Harrison, W.K.; Sarmento, D.; Vilela, J.P.; Gomes, M.A.C.. "Analysis of short blocklength codes for secrecy". Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055751521&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s13638-018-1276-1
  13. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Curado, M.. "Triple-Similarity Mechanism for alarm management in the cloud". Computers and Security 78 (2018): 33-42. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049034654&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cose.2018.05.016
  14. Anjos, G.; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A.; Gameiro, A.; Gomes, M.; Vilela, J.P.. "Exploiting the Reciprocal Channel for Discrete Jamming to Secure Wireless Communications Against Multiple-Antenna Eavesdropper". IEEE Access 6 (2018): 33410-33420. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85048507137&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2845839
  15. Sá Sousa, J.; Vilela, J.P.. "Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping for Wireless Secrecy Against Non-Degraded Eavesdroppers". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 13 1 (2018): 143-155. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028988726&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TIFS.2017.2737963
  16. Mendes, R.; Vilela, J.P.. "Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Methods, Metrics, and Applications". IEEE Access 5 (2017): 10562-10582. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85023166408&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2706947
  17. Anjos, G.; Castanheira, D.; Silva, A.; Gameiro, A.; Gomes, M.; Vilela, J.. "Joint design of massive MIMO precoder and security scheme for multiuser scenarios under reciprocal channel conditions". Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2017 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042625974&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1155/2017/5396092
  18. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Curado, M.. "Performance Analysis of Network Traffic Predictors in the Cloud". Journal of Network and Systems Management 25 2 (2017): 290-320. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84987617470&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10922-016-9392-x
  19. Vilela, J.P.; Gomes, M.; Harrison, W.K.; Sarmento, D.; Dias, F.. "Interleaved Concatenated Coding for Secrecy in the Finite Blocklength Regime". IEEE Signal Processing Letters 23 3 (2016): 356-360. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962309089&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/LSP.2015.2511821
  20. Dalmazo, B.L.; Vilela, J.P.; Curado, M.. "Online traffic prediction in the cloud". International Journal of Network Management 26 4 (2016): 269-285. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84971330693&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/nem.1934
  21. Tiago Travassos Vinhoza; Paulo F. Oliveira; Hermann de Meer; Wojciech Mazurczyk; Charlott Lorentzen; Luisa Lima; Alessandro Lentini; et al. "Security and privacy issues for the network of the future". Security and Communication Networks 5 9 (2012): 987-1005. http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/2982.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sec.384
  22. Vilela, J.P.; Bloch, M.; Barros, J.; McLaughlin, S.W.. "Wireless secrecy regions with friendly jamming". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 6 2 (2011): 256-266. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957465600&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TIFS.2011.2111370
  23. Vilela, J.P.; Pinto, P.C.; Barros, J.. "Position-based jamming for enhanced wireless secrecy". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 6 3 PART 1 (2011): 616-627. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80051757223&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TIFS.2011.2142305

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Vilela, João P.. 2018. "Método e sistema de codificação concatenado com entrelaçamento para segurança de comunicações sem fios". Portugal.
    Granted/Issued
  2. Vilela, João P.. 2013. "Secure network coding for multi-resolution wireless video streaming". United States.
    Granted/Issued
Provisional application for patent
  1. 2019. "Physical-layer Security".
Distinctions

Award

2022 Best paper award at ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY)