António Eduardo Carreiro Furtado (4217-5EA8-6AD4)

Curriculum Vitae

António Eduardo Carreiro Furtado

António Furtado received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL), Portugal, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. In the beginning of 2013 he joined the research center Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (UNINOVA), and later the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), where he has been involved in several research projects concerning wireless systems. António Furtado is currently a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações where his main research areas include software defined radio, dynamic spectrum allocation, radio signal detection, medium access control protocols for wireless systems, particularly multi-packet reception communications systems, and cognitive radio networks.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: António Eduardo Carreiro Furtado

Citation names

Furtado, António

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4217-5EA8-6AD4
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4149-9656

Email addresses

antonio.furtado@lx.it.pt (Professional)

Addresses

IT – Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10 Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049 - 001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2014/01/01 - 2018/07/13 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica (Doutoramento) Major in Telecomunicações Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Advanced PHY/MAC Design for Infrastructure-less Wireless Networks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/09/12 - 2012/10/12 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado) Major in Telecomunicações Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Análise de Desempenho de Acesso ao Meio em Redes de Rádio Cognitivo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2007/09/12 - 2010/07/31 Concluded	Ciências de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Major in Electrotécnica e de Computadores Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/12/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/09/01 - 2017/08/31	Advanced PHY/MAC Design for Infrastructure-less Wireless Networks SFRH/BD/88140/2012 PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - Current	RFSense - Context Awareness through RF Sensing of Mobile Human Motion UIDB/50008/2020 Principal investigator Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/12/01 - Current	CoSHARE - Coordinated Spectrum Sharing for Opportunistic Access PTDC/EEI-TEL/30709/2017 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/08/10 - Current	InfoCent-IoT - Efficient information centric networks for IoT infrastructures 02/SAICT/2017 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2017/09 - 2018/06	Advanced PHY/MAC design for Very Low Latency Network-assisted Machine Type Communications VELOCE-MTC – UID/EEA/50008/2013 PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/09 - 2018/06	Advanced PHY/MAC design for Very Low Latency Network-assisted Machine Type Communications VELOCE-MTC UID/EEA/50008/2013	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/11/01 - 2013/08	ADCOD - Advanced Code and Receiver Designs for Transmission over Selective Radio Channels info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/99973/PT Master Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2011/01/01 - 2012/10	OPPORTUNISTIC-CR - Opportunistic Aggregation of Spectrum and Cognitive Radios: Consequences on Public Policies info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/115981/PT Scientific Initiation Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Duarte, Miguel; Furtado, Antonio; Luis, M.; Bernardo, Luis; Dinis, Rui; Oliveira, Rodolfo. "Practical Assessment of Energy-Based Sensing through Software Defined Radio Devices". In Technological Innovation for Collective Awareness Systems, edited by Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.; Barrento, Nuno S.; Mendonça, R., 525-532. Caparica, Portugal: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. 10.1007/978-3-642-54734-8_58 Furtado, António; Miguel Luis; Rodolfo Oliveira; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo. "Channel Availability Assessment for Cognitive Radios". In Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things, edited by Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.; Tomic, Slavisa; Graça, Paula, 495-504. Caparica, Portugal: Springer Berlin Heidelberg., 2013. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-37291-9_53
Conference paper	Diogo Figueiredo; Furtado, António; Rodolfo Oliveira. "Modulation Classification using Joint Time and Frequency-domain Data". Paper presented in IEEE 91st VTC2020-Spring, Antwerp, 2020. Published Joao Pacheco; Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira. "Upper Bound Performance of Uplink Class A LoRa Networks". Paper presented in 15th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, 2019. Published • 10.1109/iwcmc.2019.8766680 Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Decentralized PHY/MAC Design for the Uplink of Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks". Paper presented in 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, 2018. Published • 10.1109/iwcmc.2018.8450412 Furtado, Antonio; Oliveira, Rodolfo; Bernardo, Luis; Dinis, Rui. "Optimal Cross-Layer Design for Decentralized Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks". Paper presented in 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Porto, 2018. Published • 10.1109/vtcspring.2018.8417633 Antonio Furtado; David Vicente; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Performance Analysis of a Distributed MAC Scheme for Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks". Paper presented in 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2017. Published • 10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986541 Antonio Furtado; David Vicente; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Performance Analysis of Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Systems in Far-field Region". Paper presented in 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Valência, 2017. Published • 10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986598 Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo. "A distributed MAC protocol for multi-packet reception wireless networks". Paper presented in 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2016. Published • 10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794791 Luis Irio; Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Path Loss Interference in Mobile Random Waypoint Networks". Paper presented in Proceedings of European Wireless 2015; 21th European Wireless Conference, Budapest, 2015. Published Antonio Furtado; Miguel Luis; Luis Irio; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Detection of licensed users' activity in a random access ultra wideband cognitive system". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand (ICUWB), 2014. Published • 10.1109/ICUWB.2014.6958957 Antonio Furtado; Luis Irio; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Characterization of the Spatial False Alarm effect in Cognitive Radio Networks". Paper presented in 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), Shanghai, 2014. Published • 10.1109/ICCCN.2014.6911742 Miguel Luis; Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo. "Energy sensing parameterization criteria for cognitive radios". Paper presented in 2012 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Paris, 2012. Published • 10.1109/iswcs.2012.6328330 Ganhao, F.; Bernardo, L.; Dinis, R.; Barros, G.; Santos, E.; Furtado, A.; Oliveira, R.; Pinto, P.. "Energy-Efficient QoS Provisioning in Demand Assigned Satellite NDMA Schemes". Paper presented in 2012 21st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Munich, 2012. Published • 10.1109/icccn.2012.6289182 Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Miguel Luis; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo; Paulo Montezuma. "The impact of transmission errors in MAC schemes for distributed wireless networks". Paper presented in 2012 35th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2012. Published • 10.1109/sarnof.2012.6222752
Journal article	Furtado, António; Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira. "Influence of the Spatial Distribution of the Transmitters on the Performance of Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Systems". IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021): 1-1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9352028. Published • 10.1109/LWC.2021.3058580 Antonio Furtado; João Pacheco; Rodolfo Oliveira. "PHY/MAC Uplink Performance of Class A LoRa Networks". IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.2974429. Published • 10.1109/jiot.2020.2974429 Furtado, António; Rodolfo Alexandre Duarte Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Miguel Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis. "Performance Analysis of Interference-Aware Multi-Packet Reception Networks". Electronics (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/4/665. 10.3390/electronics9040665 Luis Irio; Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Interference Characterization in Random Waypoint Mobile Networks". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 17 11 (2018): 7340-7351. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/27937. 10.1109/TWC.2018.2866426 Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo. "Successful Packet Reception Analysis in Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Systems". IEEE Communications Letters 20 12 (2016): 2498-2501. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/19095. Published • 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2606105 Antonio Furtado; Luis Irio; Rodolfo Oliveira; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis. "Spectrum Sensing Performance in Cognitive Radio Networks with Multiple Primary Users". IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65 3 (2016): 1564-1574. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/10147. Published • 10.1109/TVT.2015.2406254 Miguel Luis; Antonio Furtado; Rodolfo Oliveira; Rui Dinis; Luis Bernardo. "Towards a Realistic Primary Users' Behavior in Single Transceiver Cognitive Networks". IEEE Communications Letters 17 2 (2013): 309-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2012.121912.122175. Published • 10.1109/lcomm.2012.121912.122175 Rodolfo Oliveira; Miguel Luis; Antonio Furtado; Luis Bernardo; Rui Dinis; Paulo Pinto. "Improving path duration in high mobility vehicular ad hoc networks". Ad Hoc Networks 11 1 (2013): 89-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.04.009. Published • 10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.04.009

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020/01/22	SDR-based Portable Communication System for Wireless Networks	28th RTCM (Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis) NOVA University (Almada, Portugal)
2019/07/05	Decentralized Wireless Networks Performance in Shared Channels	27th RTCM (Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis) Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute (Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2016/09	A Distributed MAC Protocol for Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks	IEEE PIMRC (Valência, Spain)
2014/09	Detection of Licensed Users' Activity in a Random Access Ultra Wideband Cognitive System	IEEE ICUWB (Paris, France)
2014/07	Energy-based Spectrum Sensing Considering Multiple Primary Users	19th RTCM (Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis) NOVA University (Caparica, Portugal)
2013/07	Practical Assessment of Energy-Based Sensing through Software Defined Radio Devices	DOCEIS (Caparica, Portugal)
2013/07	Energy-based Spectrum Sensing in Distributed Cognitive Networks	17th RTCM (Rede Temática de Comunicações Móveis) University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2013/04	Channel Availability Assessment for Cognitive Radios	Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS) (Caparica, Portugal)
2013/02	Interference Caused to PUs in a Single-Radio Cognitive Network Scenario	16th RTCM (Rede Temática deComunicações Móveis) University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - Current	Testbed Implementation for Wireless Inter-technology Coexistence Supervisor	Ciências de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/11/01	Modulation Detection for Opportunistic Access Co-supervisor	Ciências de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2019/04 - 2019/04	2019 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)	Barcelona, Spain

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020/01/15 - Current	IEEE Communications Letters (1558-2558)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2019/12/19 - Current	Signal Processing (0165-1684)	Elsevier
2019/12/13 - Current	IEEE Communications Letters (1558-2558)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2019/11 - 2019/11	Computer Networks (1389-1286)	Elsevier
2019/03 - 2019/03	The International Journal for the Computer and Telecommunications Industry (0140-3664)	Elsevier
2017/10 - 2017/10	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1939-9359)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers