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Pedro Sousa graduated in Systems and Informatics Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal, in 1995. He obtained a MSc Degree (1997) and a PhD Degree (2005), both in Computer Science, at the same University. In 1996, he joined the Computer Communications Group of the Department of Informatics at University of Minho, where he is an Assistant Professor and performs his research activities within the Algoritmi R&D Center (within the Computer Communications and Pervasive Media (CCPM) Group). His main research interests include Computer Networking Technologies and Protocols, TCP/IP, Quality of Service, Traffic Engineering, P2P, Mobility in IP networks, Next Generation Networks, Cloud Services and Software, Network and Services Optimization. The researcher is also currently involved in some multidisciplinary projects in the field of Intelligent Systems for Network Optimization. He participate in the TPC of several International Conferences and in Editorial Boards of International Journals, also being involved in reviewing activities in several International Conferences and International Journals in the research field of Computer Communications and Computer Networking. Also, the researcher was involved in the proposal of several R&D projects in the area of Computer Networks. He also has regular participation as jury/examiner in several BSc final graduation projects, MSc Thesis and PhD Thesis. The researcher has also supervising experience of several PhD, MSc, BSc final projects and research grants students. He has around 100 publications in book chapters, journals and proceedings of international and national conferences, mainly of which indexed (ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM, etc.). He also received several awards/grants/distinctions, namely: Best Student Award at High School - Finalist student with the best overall performance (1990); Student Merit Scholarship at High School sponsored by the BPSM portuguese Bank (1991); Student Merit Award at University of Minho, Portugal (1993); Student Merit Award at University of Minho, Portugal (1994); Selected to represent the University of Minho/Department of Informatics at the Nineteenth ACM Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (1995); MSc Scholarship/Grant (2 years scholarship) (1996). In the last six years (2018-2023) the researcher was involved in the supervision of several master's and doctoral studies, as well as having participated in several second and third cycle exam juries. During the same period, the researcher was the author of around 20 publications in conferences and journals indexed in the main databases (ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM, etc.), having also participated in around 55 technical committees for international conference programs, in addition to being involved in the editorial board of 4 international magazines, all in the research area of computer networks and communications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Nuno Miranda de Sousa

Citation names

  • Sousa, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9719-BBA4-A8FE
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5193-0513
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=-GmuH8AAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id
M-6546-2013
Scopus Author Id
55506318900

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2005
Concluded
 PhD in Informatics - Computer Communications Area (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"A Multiconstrained QoS Scheduler for Class-based IP Network" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved by unanimity (Aprovado por unanimidade)
1997
Concluded
 MSc in Informatics/Mestrado em Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Integration of Tolerant Real-Time Applications in the World Wide Web" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good (maximum classification)
1995
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"--" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 val. (85% final average grade)
1990
Concluded
 12º Ano (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária Alberto Sampaio, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19 val. (95% final average grade)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2005/12/17 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/01/01 - Current Researcher at Centro Algoritmi (Investigador do Centro Algoritmi) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2005/12/17 - Current Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2006/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Researcher at CCTC (Investigador do Centro CCTC) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1998/01/01 - 2005/12/15 Lecturer (Assistente) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1995/09/01 - 1997/09/01 Under FCT grant (Bolseiro FCT) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2008/01 - 2010/12 SPAM Telescope Miner: worldwide unsolicited email detection using data mining techniques
64541
Provided by PTCRIS: 64541
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2005 - 2006 Internet Congestion Control Using Neural Networks / Técnicas de Controlo de Congestão na Internet baseadas em Redes Neuronais
Projecto Acção B-53/05, Acções Integradas 2005
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

University College London, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2001 - 2005 QoS II - Quality of Service II
POSI/P/EEI/10168/98 (FCT)
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
1996 - 1998 TRENDS - Training Educators through Networks and Distributed Systems
TRENDS
Researcher
European Commission
1995 - 1995 BBS RIA
BBS RIA
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal
Portugal Telecom Inovacao
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. Automated network resilience optimization using computational intelligence methods. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-25017-5_46
  2. Sousa, P.. An automated framework for the management of P2P traffic in ISP infrastructures. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-25017-5_47
  3. Pereira, V.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Rocha, M.. Comparison of single and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for robust link-state routing. 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-15892-1_39
  4. Sousa, P.. Estimating and controlling the traffic impact of a collaborative P2P system. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-09153-2_5
  5. Cunha, D.; Neves, P.; Sousa, P.. A platform-as-a-service API aggregator. 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_75
  6. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Sousa, P.. A framework for robust traffic engineering using evolutionary computation. 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-38998-6_1
  7. Sousa, P.. Traffic engineering approaches in P2P environments. 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-38227-7_10
  8. Pereira, V.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Rocha, M.. Robust optimization of intradomain routing using Evolutionary Algorithms. 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-319-00551-5_25
  9. Silva, R.; Carvalho, P.; Sousa, P.; Neves, P.. Heterogeneous mobility in next generation devices: An android-based case study. 2012.
    10.1007/978-3-642-35155-6_26
  10. Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Rocha, M.. Traffic engineering approaches using multicriteria optimization techniques. 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-21560-5_9
  11. Cortez, P.; Correia, A.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.. Spam email filtering using network-level properties. 2010.
    10.1007/978-3-642-14400-4_37
  12. Sousa, P.. Context aware programmable trackers for the next generation internet. 2009.
    10.1007/978-3-642-03700-9_9
  13. Germoglio, G.; Dias, B.; Sousa, P.. Automated and distributed network service monitoring. 2009.
    10.1007/978-3-642-04492-2_15
  14. Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. Multiconstrained optimization of networks with multicast and unicast traffic. 2008.
    10.1007/978-3-540-87359-4-13
  15. Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. Multiconstrained optimization of networks with multicast and unicast traffic. 2008.
    10.1007/978-3-540-87359-4_13
  16. Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.. Topology aware internet traffic forecasting using neural networks. 2007.
  17. Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.; Cortez, P.. Class-based OSPF traffic engineering inspired on evolutionary computation. 2007.
  18. Lima, S.R.; Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.. Providing consistent service levels in IP networks. 2007.
  19. Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.; Cortez, P.. Efficient OSPF weight allocation for intra-domain QoS optimization. 2006.
  20. Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.; Freitas, V.. Enhancing delay differentiation semantics of class-based IP networks. 2004.
  21. Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.; Freitas, V.. Scheduling time-sensitive IP traffic. 2003.
  22. Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.; Freitas, V.. Tuning delay differentiation in IP networks using priority Queueing models. 2002.
Book chapter
  1. Pereira, Vitor; Rocha, Miguel; Sousa, Pedro. "Optimizing Load Balancing Routing Mechanisms with Evolutionary Computation". 298-307. 2016.
    10.3233/978-1-61499-690-3-298
Conference paper
  1. Dias, S.; Sousa, P.. "Implementation and Performance Analysis of Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems". 2023.
    10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211858
  2. Cadavez, J.; Sousa, P.. "Design and Implementation of IaaS Automation Processes in Cloud Environments,Desenho e Implementação de Processos de Automação de IaaS em Ambientes Cloud". 2023.
    10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211320
  3. Alvarenga, L.D.C.; Sousa, P.; Costa, A.. "Allocation and migration of microservices in SDN-based vehicular fog networks". 2022.
    10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820608
  4. Silva, M.; Sousa, P.. "An ISP Controlled P2P Overlay Network for Content Sharing". 2022.
    10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820381
  5. Pereira, G.; Sousa, P.. "A Routing Approach in SDN Environments,Uma Abordagem de Encaminhamento de Tráfego em Redes SDN". 2022.
    10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820559
  6. Caldas, P.; Sousa, P.. "Traffic Optimization at the Application Layer-A Cooperative Approach: The tussle between applications and the physical network infrastructure, and the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) system as solution". 2021.
    10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476307
  7. Camaz, G.; Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Optimizing NFV deployment in Segment Routing,Otimização de implementações NFV em Segment Routing". 2021.
    10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476304
  8. Valente, D.J.; Sousa, P.. "Microservices mobility in datacenters supported by Software Defined Networking,Mobilidade de microservicos em centros de dados suportada por Software Defined Networking". 2020.
    10.23919/CISTI49556.2020.9141136
  9. Camaz, G.; Caldas, P.; Sousa, P.. "Traffic Optimization at the Application Level Proof of concept, development and usefulness evaluation of the ALTO solution". 2020.
    10.23919/CISTI49556.2020.9140947
  10. Mendonca, R.; Sousa, P.. "An Efficient and Automated P2P Overlay System for Network Monitoring". 2020.
    10.23919/CISTI49556.2020.9140812
  11. Silva, M.; Mendonca, R.; Sousa, P.. "A P2P overlay system for network anomaly detection in ISP infrastructures". 2019.
    10.23919/CISTI.2019.8760780
  12. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Hybrid IP/SDN Routing for Inter-Data Center Communications". 2019.
    10.1109/CloudNet47604.2019.9064118
  13. Pereira, G.; Silva, J.; Sousa, P.. "Comparative study of software-defined networking (SDN) traffic controllers,Estudo Comparativo de Controladores Software-Defined Networking (SDN)". 2019.
    10.23919/CISTI.2019.8760997
  14. Pereira, M.; Sousa, P.. "An application for traffic analysis and optimization of network infrastructures,Plataforma para Análise de Tráfego e Optimização de Infraestruturas de Comunicação". 2018.
    10.23919/CISTI.2018.8399213
  15. Silva, J.F.; Lopes, C.S.; Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.. "Protocolar extension for reliable communications in IoT environments,Extensão Protocolar para Comunicação Fiável em Ambientes IoT". 2018.
    10.23919/CISTI.2018.8399246
  16. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Segment routing single link failure congestion optimization". 2018.
    10.5220/0006856200760083
  17. Pereira, V.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.. "Evolutionary computation at work for the optimization of link state routing protocols". 2017.
    10.1145/3067695.3076110
  18. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Optimizing Segment Routing using Evolutionary Computation". 2017.
    10.1016/j.procs.2017.06.100
  19. Sousa, P.. "A simulation framework for testing collaborative P2P/ISP traffic engineering mechanisms". 2014.
  20. Cortez, P.; Vaz, R.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.; Sousa, P.. "Evolutionary symbiotic feature selection for email spam detection". 2012.
  21. Cunha, D.; Neves, P.; Sousa, P.. "Interoperability and portability of cloud service enablers in a PaaS environment". 2012.
  22. Rocha, M.; Sa, T.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. "Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for intradomain routing optimization". 2011.
    10.1109/CEC.2011.5949897
  23. Sousa, P.; Machado, A.; Rocha, M.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. "A collaborative approach for spam detection". 2010.
    10.1109/INTERNET.2010.25
  24. Cortez, P.; Lopes, C.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.. "Symbiotic Data Mining for personalized spam filtering". 2009.
    10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.30
  25. Sousa, P.. "Flexible peer selection mechanisms for future internet applications". 2009.
    10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7199
  26. Lima, S.R.; Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.. "Improving QoS guarantees through implicit AC". 2008.
    10.1109/NOMS.2008.4575259
  27. Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. "An evolutionary algorithm for unicast/ multicast traffic engineering". 2008.
  28. Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.. "Forecasting internet traffic by neural networks under univariate and multivariate strategies". 2008.
  29. Lima, S.R.; Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.. "Enhancing QoS metrics estimation in multiclass networks". 2007.
    10.1145/1244002.1244060
  30. Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. "Evolutionary computation for quality of service internet routing optimization". 2007.
    10.1007/978-3-540-71805-5_8
  31. Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Internet traffic forecasting using neural networks". 2006.
  32. Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.; Rio, M.; Cortez, P.. "QoS constrained internet routing with evolutionary algorithms". 2006.
  33. Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.; Freitas, V.. "Improving the quality and reliability of traffic differentiation in IP networks". 2004.
    10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401270
  34. Sousa, P.; Carvalho, P.; Freitas, V.. "End-to-end delay differentiation of IP traffic aggregates using priority queuing models". 2002.
    10.1109/HPSR.2002.1024231
Journal article
  1. Pereira, V.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.. "A comparison of multi-objective optimization algorithms for weight setting problems in traffic engineering". Natural Computing 21 3 (2022): 507-522. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093921736&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11047-020-09807-1
  2. Pereira, V.; Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.. "Traffic Engineering with Three-Segments Routing". IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 17 3 (2020): 1896-1909. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085154156&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TNSM.2020.2993207
  3. Sampaio, A.; Sousa, P.. "An adaptable and ISP-friendly multicast overlay network". Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054191414&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12083-018-0680-y
  4. Sousa, P.; Pereira, V.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.; Rocha, M.. "A framework for improving routing configurations using multi-objective optimization mechanisms". Journal of Communications Software and Systems 12 3 (2016): 145-156. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016010009&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  5. Gonçalves, D.; Amaral, A.; Costa, A.; Sousa, P.. "Towards automated test and validation of SIP solutions". Telecommunication Systems 61 3 (2016): 579-590. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84957948673&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11235-015-0015-8
  6. Sousa, P.. "Towards effective control of P2P traffic aggregates in network infrastructures". Journal of Communications Software and Systems 11 1 (2015): 37-47. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84938938592&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  7. Cunha, D.; Neves, P.; Sousa, P.. "PaaS manager: A platform-as-a-service aggregation framework". Computer Science and Information Systems 11 4 (2014): 1209-1228. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84923919601&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2298/CSIS130828028C
  8. Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Vaz, R.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.. "Email spam detection: A symbiotic feature selection approach fostered by evolutionary computation". International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making 12 4 (2013): 863-884. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882738506&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1142/S0219622013500326
  9. Sousa, P.. "A framework for highly reconfigurable P2P trackers". Journal of Communications Software and Systems 9 4 (2013): 236-246. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84894480002&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  10. Fernandes, J.M.; van Hattum-Janssen, N.; Ribeiro, A.N.; Fonte, V.; Santos, L.P.; Sousa, P.. "An integrated approach to develop professional and technical skills for informatics engineering students". European Journal of Engineering Education 37 2 (2012): 167-177. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862114519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/03043797.2012.666517
  11. Cortez, Paulo; Rio, Miguel; Rocha, Miguel; Sousa, Pedro. "Multi-scale Internet traffic forecasting using neural networks and time series methods". Expert Systems 29 2 (2012): 143-155.
    10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00568.x
  12. Lopes, C.; Cortez, P.; Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.. "Symbiotic filtering for spam email detection". Expert Systems with Applications 38 8 (2011): 9365-9372. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79953711706&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.174
  13. Rocha, M.; Sousa, P.; Cortez, P.; Rio, M.. "Quality of Service constrained routing optimization using Evolutionary Computation". Applied Soft Computing Journal 11 1 (2011): 356-364. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77957906521&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.asoc.2009.11.026
  14. Silva, R.; Carvalho, P.; Sousa, P.; Neves, P.. "Enabling heterogeneous mobility in Android Devices". Mobile Networks and Applications 16 4 (2011): 518-528. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052626260&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11036-011-0322-6
  15. Sousa, P.; Rocha, M.; Rio, M.; Cortez, P.. "Automatic provisioning of QoS aware OSPF configurations". Journal of Networks 2 2 (2007): 1-10. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866842607&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. Sousa, P.. "A framework for the development of tolerant real-time applications". Computer Networks 30 16-18 (1998): 1531-1541. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-20444406142&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Distinctions

Other distinction

1996 MSc Scholarship/Grant (2 years scholarship)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1995 Selected to represent the University of Minho/Department of Informatics at the Nineteenth ACM Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (1994/1995 edition at ETH- Instituitute of Techonology of Zurich)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1994 Student Merit Award at University of Minho, Portugal / Prémio de Merito Escolar, Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1993 Student Merit Award at University of Minho, Portugal / Prémio de Merito Escolar, Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1991 Student Merit Scholarship at High School sponsored by the BPSM portuguese Bank/ Bolsa de Incentivo escolar patrocinada pelo banco BPSM
Banco Pinto e Sotto Mayor, Portugal
1990 Best Student Award at High School - Finalist student with the best overall performance (Alberto Sampaio School, Braga, Portugal) / Prémio para o aluno finalista com melhor classificaçao
Escola Secundária Alberto Sampaio, Portugal