Jesus Alonso Zarate

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Contact Info

  • Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
  • Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
  • Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7
  • 08860, Castelldefels (BARCELONA), Spain
  • tel. +34 93 645 29 00
  • fax. +34 93 645 29 01
  • email: jesus.alonso@cttc.es

Bio (English)

Jesús Alonso Zárate (Barcelona, 1980) received his M. Sc. (with Honors) and Ph. D (Cum Laude) degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain) in March 2004 and February 2009, respectively. In 2005, he was awarded by the National Telecommunication Agency (COIT) of Spain with the Best Master Thesis Award in ICT. In 2011, he received the UPC Award for his thesis read during the course 2008/2009 (Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat 2011).

From 2004 to 2005, he worked as an Information Technology consultant at Everis (former DMR Consulting). In 2005, he was granted by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) to obtain the Ph. D. on Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC.

While completing his Ph. D. degree, he was granted in 2006 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya to attend the Space Studies Program (SSP'06) at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France.

He has also been a visiting teacher assistant at the Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels (EPSC) of the UPC during the second semester of 2007.

He is now with the CTTC holding a Research Associate position. He has published several scientific papers in renowned international journals (IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, etc.) and international conferences (IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, etc.) over the last years and he has also participated in both public funded and industrial research projects. He is member of the IEEE ComSoc CSIM Technical Committee (Communication Systems Integration and Modeling) and works as reviewer and chair for numerous international conferences. He is part of the Editorial Board of the IET Wireless Sensor Systems Journal and supervises a number of graduate students and Phd Thesis. In 2011, he has been awarded with the Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) with a technical contribution towards the energy-efficiency of wireless communications.

Bio (Spanish)

Jesús Alonso Zárate (Barcelona, 1980) obtuvo los títulos de Ingeniero Superior (Matrícula de honor) y Doctor en Telecomunicaciones (Cum Laude) por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) en los años 2004 y 2009, respectivamente. En el año 2005, obtuvo el Premio ALCATEL al Mejor Proyecto Final de Carrera en Multimedia de las Telecomunicaciones, otorgado por el Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros. En 2011, recibió de la UPC la distinción al Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 2011 por su tesis doctoral defendida en el curso 2008/2009.

Durante el año 2004 trabajó como consultor tecnológico en Everis (anterior DMR Consulting). En Febrero de 2005, el Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) le otorgó una beca de cuatro años de duración para realizar los estudios de doctorado dentro del programa de doctorado del Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones dela UPC.

En 2006, la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) y la Generalitat de Catalunya le concedieron una beca para realizar el Space Studies Program (SSP) de la International Space University (ISU) en Estrasburgo, Francia.

En 2007, colaboró como profesor visitante en la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (en el campus de Castelldefels) impartiendo la asignatura de Sistemas de Transmisión Digital.

Actualmente, Jesús Alonso Zárate es investigador asociado en el CTTC. En los últimos años ha publicado varios artículos científicos en prestigiosas revistas de impacto (IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions in Wireless Communications, etc.) y ha presentado numerosas ponencias y tutoriales en varias conferencias internacionales como IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, etc. En Junio 2011, recibió el Best Paper Award de la prestigiosa conferencia internacional IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) celebrada den Kyoto, Japón, por su contribución a la evaluación de la eficiencia energética de esquemas de transmisión cooperativos. También participa de manera activa en diversos proyectos de investigación subvencionados con fondos competitivos de la Unión Europea y del Gobierno de España, así como en redes de excelencia para comunicaciones sin cables (NEWCOM y NEWCOM++). Es miembro del Comité Técnico del ComSoc IEEE CSIM (Communication Systems Integration and Modeling) y colabora como revisor y chair en diversas conferencias. Actualmente, forma parte del Editorial Board de la revista IET Wireless Sensor Systems y dirige varios proyectos finales de carrera así como estudiantes de doctorado de la UPC.

Research interests

His main research interests are focused on Wireless Communications and include the design and modeling of:

  • Wireless Networks.
  • Medium Access Control Protocols.
  • Cross-Layer Design.
  • Scheduling Algorithms.
  • Radio Resource Management.
  • Cooperative Networks
  • Cognitive Radio Networks

Awards

  • 2011: UPC: Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat 2008/2009 FIELD: Information and Communication Technologies. UPC Best Doctoral Thesis in Information and Communications Technologies. Promotion: 2008/2009.
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Photo: 07 October 2011, Vertex Building, UPC BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona. Awards Ceremony.
  • 2011: BEST PAPER AWARD IEEE ICC 2011: J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Stavrou, A. Stamou, P. Angelidis, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Energy-Efficiency Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Cooperative ARQ," in proc. of the IEEE ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
  • 2005: my Master Thesis was awarded with the ALCATEL Prize to the Best Master Thesis Dissertation of 2004 in Mobility and Multimedia in Telecommunications, given by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros and the Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association (COIT/AEIT, Spain).

Grants

  • 2005-2009: I was granted by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) PhD Fellowship Program.
  • 2006: I was granted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya to attend the Summer Session Program 2006 (SPP'06)of the International Space University.
  • 2001-2004: I was granted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya to work as a research assistant within the Radio Communications Research Group of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the UPC, from January 2001 to February 2004.

Publications: Books and Book Chapters

  • Books
  1. M. Dohler, A. Gkelias, J. Alonso-Zárate, "Cooperative Communications: MAC Protocols", in writting.
  2. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, A. Cateura, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Contention-Based Collision-Resolution Medium Access Control Algorithms,", Nova Science Publishers Inc, ISBN-978-1-60692-580-5, April 2009.
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  • Book Chapters
  1. J. Alonso-Zárate, J. Matamoros, D. Gregoratti, and M. Dohler, "Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Smart Grids", Smart Grid Communications and Networking, Cambridge University Press, Editors: Ekram Hossain, Zhu Han, and Vincent Poor, 2012.
  2. J. Alonso-Zárate, C. Crespo, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Hybrid Access Techniques for Densely Populated Wireless Local Area Networks," Vehicular Technologies,, IN-TECH, ISBN: ISBN 978-953-307-241-8, April 2011.
  3. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, A. Antonopoulos, and L. Alonso, "MAC Protocols with Cross-Layer Design," Cross Layer Designs in WLAN Systems, Troubador Publishing Ltd., Publication: September 2010, ISBN:9781848762275.
  4. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso and Ch. Verikoukis, "Cooperative ARQ: A Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer Perspective," Radio Communications, Alessandro Bazzi (Ed.), pp. 227-247, April 2010, ISBN: 978-953-307-091-9, INTECH, Available from: http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/cooperative-arq-a-medium-access-control-mac-layer-perspective.
  5. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Cross-Layer Scheduling with QoS Support over a near-optimum distributed queuing protocol for wireless LAN," Wireless Network Traffic and Quality of Service Support: Trends and Standards, IGI Global Publishing, USA, ISBN-10: 1615207716, ISBN-13: 978-1615207718, March 2010.
  6. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, A. Cateura, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Contention-Based Collision-Resolution Medium Access Control Algorithms," Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks, Nova Science Publishers Inc, NY, USA, pp. 15-95, February 2008. ISBN-1-60021-944-6.
  • Lecture Notes
  1. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, P. Chatzimisios, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, Contribution to the book Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems, (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) published by SpringerLink, ISBN-978-3-642-03818-1 (Print) ISBN-978-3-642-03819-8 (Online), with the chapter entitled "Self-Organizing Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer," vol. 13, pp. 242-253, August 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v5r521/?p=945d2db2043248b0ade78eb427563772&pi=2.

Publications: Journals and Magazines

  1. F. Vázquez-Gallego, J. Alonso-Zarate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "A Survey on Prototyping Platforms for the Development and Experimental Evaluation of Medium Access Control Protocols," accepted for publication at the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, September 2011.
  2. F. Vázquez-Gallego, J. Alonso-Zarate, C. Liss, and Ch. Verikoukis, "OpenMAC: A New Reconfigurable Experimental Platform for Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control Protocols," accepted for publication at the IET Science, Measurement & Technology, September 2011.
  3. J. Alonso-Zarate, C. Crespo, Ch. Skianis, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Distributed Point Coordination Function for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ad hoc Networks," ELSEVIER AD HOC NETWORKS Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 536-551, October 2011, doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.09.004. Available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570870511001958
  4. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, M. Katz, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Multi-Radio Cooperative ARQ in Wireless Cellular Networks: A MAC Layer Perspective," Telecommunication Systems, Springer, Special Issue on "Challenges in Next-Generation and Resource-Constrained Networks", June 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11235-011-9449-9, available online: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11235-011-9449-9.
  5. J. Alonso-Zarate, L. Alonso, G. Kormentzas, R. Tafazolli, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Throughput Analysis of a Cooperative ARQ scheme in the presence of Hidden and Exposed Terminals", Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. July 2011. DOI 10.1007/s11036-011-0338-y. Available on-line at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/mv461711514m6j37/
  6. A. Antonopoulos, J. Alonso-Zarate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, Ch. Verikoukis, "Cross Layer Access Point Selection Mechanisms for a Distributed Queuing MAC Protocol", accepted for publication in the Special Issue on Mobility Management in Future Internet of the Springer Telecommunications Systems Journal, February 2011.
  7. J. Rodriguez, V. Monteiro, A. Gomes, M. Di Renzo, J. Alonso-Zárate, Ch. Verikoukis, A. Gonzalez, O. Lázaro, A. Akan, J. Pérez Vila, G. Kormentzas, D. Boixade and S. de la Maza, "Converged Wireless Networking and Optimization for Next Generation Services," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, June 2010, Volume 2010, Article ID 924720, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2010/924720.
  8. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Performance Analysis of a Cluster-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Theoretical and Algorithmic Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, vol. 2010, Article ID 625619, 16 pages, March 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/625619. Available online at: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/2010/625619.html.
  9. J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Performance Analysis of a Persistent Relay Carrier Sensing Multiple Access Protocol," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 5827-5831, December 2009, IF 2.181, ISSN 1536-1276.
  10. J. Alonso-Zárate, D. Gregoratti, P. Giotis, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Medium Access Control Priority Mechanism for a DQMAN-based Wireless Network," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 495-497, July 2009, IF 1.232, ISSN 1089-7798.
  11. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis, "Cross-Layer Scheduling with QoS Support over a Distributed Queuing MAC for Wireless LANs," ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions", vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 709-724, December 2009. Available online since January 23, 2009. IF. 1.619, ISSN 1383-469X (print version), 1572-8153 (electronic version).
  12. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Skianis, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Saturation Throughput Analysis of a Cluster-based Medium Access Control Protocol for Single-hop Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, vol. 84, no. 12, pp. 619-633, December 2008, IF 0.783, ISSN 0037-5497 (print version), 1741-3133 (electronic version).
  13. E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso-Zárate, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems with Heterogeneous Traffic Based on DQCA," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 60-66, June 2008, IF. 2.799, ISSN 0163-6804.
  14. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Persistent RCSMA: A MAC Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks," EURASIP Journal on Advanced Signal Processing, Special Issue on Wireless Cooperative Networks, vol. 2008, article ID 817401, pp. 13, May 2008. Free access available on line at: http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/2008/817401. IF 1.055, ISSN 1687-6172.
  15. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "A Near-Optimum Cross-Layered Distributed Queuing Protocol for Wireless LAN," IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Special Issue on MAC protocols for WLAN, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 48-55, February 2008, IF. 3.180, ISSN 1536-1284.

Publications: International Conferences

  1. T. Predojev, J. Alonso-Zarate, M. Dohler, "Energy Efficiency of Cooperative ARQ Strategies in Low Power Networks,", accepted at the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems: Green Networking and Smart Grids (INFOCOM'12 WS - CCSES), January 2012.
  2. M. Di Renzo, J. Alonso-Zarate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "On the Impact of Shadowing on the Performance of Cooperative Medium Access Control Protocols," in proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas, USA, November 2011.
  3. BEST PAPER AWARD IEEE ICC 2011!!! J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Stavrou, A. Stamou, P. Angelidis, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Energy-Efficiency Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Cooperative ARQ," in proc. of the IEEE ICC 2011, June 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
  4. J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Machine-to-Machine Communications with Cooperative ARQ", in proc. of the NEWCOM++ / COST 2100 Joint workshop, 1-2 March 2011, Paris, France.
  5. J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, Ch. Skianis, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Analysis of a Distributed Queuing Medium Access Control Protocol for Cooperative ARQ," in proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, December 2010, Miami, USA.
  6. J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, G. Kormentzas, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Analysis of the Hidden and Exposed Terminal Problem in Wireless Networks with Cooperative ARQ," in proc. of the ICST MOBIMEDIA 2010, Lisbon.
  7. T. Predojev, J. Alonso-Zárate, and M. Dohler, "Energy-Delay Tradeoff Analysis in Embedded M2M Networks with Channel Coding," in proc. of the IEEE PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.
  8. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Coexistence of a Novel Medium Access Control Protocol For Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and the IEEE 802.11," in proc. of the IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010.
  9. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, M. Katz, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Multi-Radio Cooperative ARQ in Wireless Cellular Networks: a MAC Layer Perspective," in proc. of the ICST Mobilight 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 2010.
  10. J. Alonso-Zárate, G. Kormentzas, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Ad hoc Networks with Cooperative ARQ in the Presence of Hidden and Exposed Terminals," in proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November 2009.
  11. Ch. Verikoukis, A. Pérez-Neira, J. Alonso-Zárate, and Ch. Skianis, "Experimental Performance Evaluation of a MAC Protocol for Cooperative ARQ Scenarios," in proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November 2009.
  12. J. Alonso.-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Handoff Functions for a Distributed Queuing Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless LANs," in proc. of the Workshop on Wireless and Optical Neworks (WI-OPT) 2009, collocated with the International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT'09), 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  13. J. Alonso-Zárate, D. Gregoratti, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "Analytical Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Priority Mechanism for Wireless Ad hoc Networks," in proc. of the IEEE PIMRC 2009, Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.
  14. N. Zorba and J. Alonso-Zárate, "Joint Optimization of a Dynamic Queue Scheduling Scheme for the Provision of QoS in WLAN," in Proc. of ICST MOBIMEDIA 2009, London, 7-9 September 2009.
  15. E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and Ch. Verikoukis, "QoS Guarantee over DQCA for Wireless LANs with Heterogeneous Traffic," in Proc. of the ICT Mobile Summit 2009, Santander (Spain), 10-12 June, 2009.
  16. C. Crespo, J. Alonso-Zárate, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Distributed Point Coordination Function for Wireless Ad hoc Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE VTC Spring 2009, Barcelona (Spain), pp. 1-5, 26-29 Abril 2009.
  17. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Throughput Analysis of a Medium Access Control Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans (USA), pp. 1-5, 1-4 Dec. 2008.
  18. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, Ch. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "A Novel Near-Optimum Medium Access Control Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks," in proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes (France), pp. 1-5, 15-18 September 2008.
  19. J. Alonso-Zárate, P. Giotis, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Performance Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Distributed Cooperative ARQ schemes in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of the ICT Mobile Summit, Stockholm (Sweden), June 2008.
  20. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Saturation Throughput Analysis of a Passive Cluster-based Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’08), Beijing (China), pp. 2348-2352, 19-23 May 2008.
  21. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Performance Enhancement of DQMAN-based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks in Multi-Hop Scenarios," in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC’08), Santorini (Greece), pp. 425-429, 7-9 May 2008.
  22. J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Enhanced Operation of DQMAN based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Systems (ISWCS’07), Trondheim (Norway), pp. 632-636, 17-19 October 2007.
  23. J. Gómez, J. Alonso-Zárate, C. Verikoukis, A. Pérez-Neira, and L. Alonso, "Cooperation On Demand Protocols for Wireless Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’07), Athens (Greece), pp. 1-5, 3-7 September 2007.
  24. E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso-Zárate, Ch. V. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems with Heterogeneous Traffic Based on DQCA," in proc. of the IEEE International Communications Conference 2007 (ICC’07), Glasgow (Scotland), pp. 5708-5713, 24-28 June 2007.
  25. E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso-Zárate, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Opportunistic Scheduling using an Enhanced Channel State Information Update Scheme for WLAN Systems with DQCA," in proc. of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC Spring 2007), Dublin (Ireland), pp. 1021-1025, 22-25 April 2007.
  26. J. Alonso-Zárate, J. Gómez, C. Verikoukis, L. Alonso, and A. Pérez-Neira, "Performance Evaluation of a Cooperative Scheme for Wireless Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’06), Helsinki (Finland), pp. 1-5, 11-14, September 2006.
  27. C. Verikoukis, J. Alonso, A. Cateura, E. Kartsakli, and L. Alonso, "Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems based on a Distributed Queuing MAC Protocol," in Proc. of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC Spring 2006), Melbourne (Australia), pp. 1293-1297, 7-10 May 2006.
  28. Jesús Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, and Luis Alonso, "Fairness Enhancement in a Self-Configuring Cluster-Based Wireless Ad Hoc Network," in Proc. of the International Conference on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC’05), Aalborg (Denmark), September 2005.
  29. Jesús Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, and Luis Alonso, "Performance Analysis of a Distributed Queuing MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc networks With Different Mobility Conditions," in Proc. of the International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN’05), Marrakech (Morocco), September 2005.
  30. Jesús Alonso and Luis Alonso, "A Novel MAC Protocol For Dynamic AD HOC Wireless Networks With Dynamic Self-Configurable Master-Slave Architecture," in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’04), Barcelona (Spain), vol. 4, pp. 2392-2396, 5-8 September 2004.
  31. Jesús Alonso and Luis Alonso, "Dynamic Self-Configurable Master-Slave Architecture for AD HOC Wireless Networks With a Distributed MAC Scheme," in Proc. of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 2004), Los Angeles (US), vol. 4, pp. 2907-2911, 26-29 September 2004.

Publications: National Conferences

  1. J. Alonso, I. Ramos, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Evaluación de algoritmos Cross-Layer para la Optimización de Comunicaciones Inalámbricas en modo Ad Hoc," in Proc. Of the Jornadas Telecom I+D 2006, Madrid (Spain) November 2006.
  2. J. Alonso, A. Cateura, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, and L. Alonso, "Estudio del rendimiento de protocolos de acceso para redes inalámbricas con antenas direccionales’‘‘“, in Proc. of the XXI Simpósium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio de 2006, Oviedo (Spain), September 2006.

Tutorials

  1. J. Alonso-Zárate "M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and Applications," ISWCS 2012, Tutorial, August 2012, Paris, France (http://www.iswcs2012.org/tutorials).
  2. Mischa Dohler and J. Alonso-Zárate "M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and Applications," IEEE WCNC 2012, Tutorial, April 2012, Paris, France (http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/).
  3. J. Alonso-Zárate "M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and Applications," COST IC 1004: Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments, Tutorial, 7th February 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
  4. Mischa Dohler and J. Alonso-Zárate "M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and Applications (pdf download 3,5MBytes)" ISABEL 2011, Tutorial, October 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 20 attendees.
  5. Mischa Dohler, T. Watteyne, J. Alonso-Zárate "Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm (pdf download 6MBytes)" IEEE Globecom 2010, Short Tutorial, December 2010, Miami, USA (60 attendees).
  6. Mischa Dohler, T. Watteyne, J. Alonso-Zárate "Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm," IEEE PIMRC2010, Half-Day Tutorial, September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey (30 attendees).
  7. Mischa Dohler, J. Alonso-Zárate "Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm," ICST MONAMI 2010, Half-Day Tutorial, September 2010, Santander, Spain (30 attendees).
  8. J. Alonso-Zárate "Machine-to-Machine: An Emerging Communication Paradigm," ICST Mobilight 2010, Half-Day Tutorial, May 2010, Barcelona, Spain (60 attendees, presented by J. Alonso).

Courses and Invited Talks

  1. Green Communications for Guardian Angels, FET Flagship Project, invited talk, Worskhop on Energy Energy Efficient Technologies and Systems (E3TS) 2011, Barcelona, UAB, 19 July 2011.
  2. Guardian Angels, FET Flagship Project, invited talk, NaNoNetworking Summit 2011, Barcelona, UPC, 22 June 2011.
  3. M2M: An Emerging Communication Paradigm, invited talk, Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), Newark, USA, April 2011.
  4. M2M: An Emerging Communication Paradigm, invited talk, M2M Plenary Session, World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF), 25th meeting, London, November 2010.
  5. Cooperative Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols, 3-hour lecture within the course Cooperative Communications and Distributed Antenna Arrays, organized by the European School of Antennas, http://www.antennasvce.org/Community/Education/Courses?id_folder=235, October 2009.

Research Projects (Ongoing)

  • Project title: Guardian Angels for a Smarter Planet. 
 Type of contract/Program: FET (Future Emerging Technologies) Flagship Pilot Project, European Union.
 Project contract/code: FP7-ICT-2011-FET-F-285406.
 Function: Principal Investigator at CTTC.
 Duration: 1 year (May 2011 - April 2012).
 Main Researcher: Adrian Ionescu (EPFL, Switzerland)
 Number of partners: 28.
 Visit the Web Site of the project: [1].
  • Project title: Extending LTE for Devices(EXALTED). 
 Type of contract/Program: Integrated Project (IP) - EU - FP7 Call 5.
 Project contract/code: ICT-258512.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC 
 Duration: 3 years (September 2010-September 2013).
 Main Researcher: Thierry Lestable (SAGEMCOM) .
 Number of partners: 13.
 Visit the Web Site of the project: [2].
 Act: IR2.1, D2.1, IR3.1, D7.1,
  • Project title: Tecnicas Cooperativas y Cognitivas para Comunicaciones Inalámbricas Energéticamente Eficientes (CO2GREEN). 
 Type of contract/Program: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICYNN) - Plan Avanza I+D
 Project contract/code: TEC2010-20823.
 Function: Principal Investigator. 
 Duration: 3 years (2011-2013).
 Main Researcher: Jesús Alonso-Zárate (CTTC).
 Number of researchers: 6.
 Visit the Web Site of the project: [3].
  • Project title: Road to media-aware user-Dependant self-aDaptive NETWORKS (R2D2). 
 Type of contract/Program: EUREKA - CELTIC. 
 Project contract/code: TSI-020400-2009-72.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC. 
 Duration: 01 January 2008 to 31 December 2010 (36 months).
 Main Researcher: Luis Pérez Roldán.
 Number of partners: 11.

Research Projects (Past)

  • Project title: Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications++ (NEWCOM++). 
 Type of contract/Program: Network of Excellence, UE. 
 Project contract/code: ICT-FP7-216715.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC. 
 Duration: 01 January 2008 to 31 December 2010 (36 months).
 Main Researcher: Sergio Benedetto.
 Number of partners: 17.
  • Project title: Coexistence and optimization for LTE-RAN and WAN (LOOP). 
 Type of contract/Program: EUREKA-CELTIC.
 Project contract/code: FIT-330215-2007-8.
 Function: Main Researcher at CTTC. Work Package Leader (WP3).
 Duration: 01 June 2007 to 31 December 2009 (30 months)
 Main Researcher: Jonathan Rodríguez and Christos Verikoukis.
 Number of partners: 9.
  • Project title: Cooperative and cross layer techniques for wireless sensor networks (PERSEO). 
 Type of contract/Program: CICYT, MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIA.
 Project contract/code: TEC2006-1 0459/TCM.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC. 
 Duration: 01 October 2006 to 01 October 2009 (36 months).
 Main Researcher: Christos Verikoukis.
 Number of partners: 10.
  • Project title: Wireless systems providing high quality services (WISQUAS). 
 Type of contract/Program: EUREKA-CELTIC.
 Project contract/code: FIT-330210-2006-75.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC. 
 Duration: 01 May 2005 to 31 May 2007 (24 months).
 Main Researcher: Sylvie Mayrargue.
 Number of partners: 11.
  • Project title: Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications (NEWCOM). 
 Type of contract/Program: Network of Excellence, UE. 
 Project contract/code: IST-2002-507525.
 Function: Researcher at CTTC. 
 Duration: 01 March 2004 to 31 February 2007 (36 months).
 Main Researcher: Sergio Benedetto.
 Number of partners: 61.

Students

  • PhD
  1. Kun Wang, CTTC. Start: September 2011. Topic: Energy Efficient Machine-to-Machine Communications within LTE cellular networks.
  2. Francisco Vázquez, CTTC. Start: March 2010. Topic: Towards a practical implementation of MAC Protocols. Web: http://engineering.cttc.es/fvazquez/
  3. Andrés Laya, UPC. Start: September 2010. Topic: Design of Energy-efficient protocols for hybrid Cellular and Short-range Wireless Networks. Thesis Proposal defended June 2011: "LTE-Advanced Enhancement and Multi-Radio Cooperation for Machine-to-Machine Communications".
  4. Tatjana Predojev, CTTC. Start: November 2009. Topic: Energy-delay-cost Trade-off Analysis of Wireless Networks. Thesis Proposal defended June 2011: "Machine-to-Machine Communication Framework over Cellular, Embedded, and Hybrid Architectures".
  • MSc and BSc
  1. Andrés Felipe de la Roche, BSc. Thesis, UPC, 2012, "Design and implementation of an interface board between OpenMAC and WARP", expected: December 2012.
  2. María José Quero (Spain), MSc. Thesis, UPC, 2011, "Energy-efficiency evaluation of the Distributed Point Coordination Function MAC protocol", expected: June 2012.
  3. Iván Balboteo (Spain), BSc. Thesis, UPC, 2010, "Experimental evaluation of cooperative MAC protocols for wireless networks", expected: February 2012.
  4. Carlos Domínguez (Spain), BSc. Thesis, UPC, 2010, "Migrating the Base Band Processing of WARP into the OpenMAC Platform", expected: March 2011.
  5. Giuseppe Botter (Italy), MSc. Thesis, UPC, 2009, "Analysis of the Energy Consumption of Cooperative ARQ Schemes", September 2011.
  6. Rubén Saez (Spain), BSc. Thesis, UPC, 2009, "Design of Advanced Scheduling Techniques for the provision of Quality of Service over Wireless Local Area Networks", expected: December 2012.
  • Internships Supervised at CTTC
  1. Dereje Kifle, University of Trento, (tutor: Fabrizzio Granelli), "Implementing the RLC layer of LTE in ns-3", June-September 2010.
  • Alumni
  1. Eirini Stavrou and Adamantia Stamou (Greece), MSc. Thesis, UPC, September 2009, "Energy Consumption Evaluation on the MAC layer of PRCSMA".
  2. Cristian Crespo (Spain), BSc. Thesis, UPC, July 2008, "Analysis of advanced MAC protocols for Standard IEEE 802.11 networks".
  3. Daniel Royo (Spain), BSc. Thesis, UPC, October 2006, "Performance of the DQMAN under different mobility conditions".

Editing

  • Editoral Board of IET Wireless Sensor Systems.

Chairing

  • IEEE DCOSS 2011, Local Arrangements Chair, June 2011, Barcelona (Spain).
  • ICST MOBIMEDIA 2010, Publicity Chair, September 2010, Lisbon (Portugal).
  • ICST MOBILIGHT 2010, Publications Chair, May 2010, Barcelona (Spain).

TPC Membership

  • IEEE WIMOB 2012, International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking, and Communications, Barcelona (Spain).
  • IEEE ICC 2012, International Conference on Communications, Ottawa (Canada).
  • IEEE ICC 2011, International Conference on Communications, Kyoto (Japan).
  • ICST MOBIMEDIA 2010, Lisbon (Portugal)
  • IEEE ICC 2010, International Conference on Communications, Cape Town (South Africa).
  • WiOPT 2009, Workshop on Wireless and Optical Networks, collocated with the ICUMT 2009, International Conference on Ultra Moden Telecommunications, 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg (Russia).

Reviewing

I actively participate in the revision of papers for international journals and conferences such as:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Communications
  2. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  3. IEEE Communications Letters
  4. IEEE Communications Magazine
  5. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  6. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  7. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking
  8. Journal of Networks
  9. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
  10. Performance Evaluation Journal
  11. IEEE conferences: GLOBECOM, ICC, PIMRC, VTC.

Evaluation

  • PhD Thesis Committee
  1. Borja de la Cuesta, PhD Thesis, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), "Arquitectura para la provisión de calidad de servicio extremo a extremo con sistemas satélite basados en DVB-RCS," October 2009.
  • PhD Thesis Proposals
  1. Angelos Antonopoulos, PhD Thesis Proposal, UPC (Spain), "Network Coding in Cooperative Wireless Systems", May 2010.
  2. Gaurav Upadhyay, PhD Thesis Proposal, UPC (Spain), "Design of Secure Medium Access Control Protocol for Cognitive Wireless Networks," May 2009.
  • MSc and BSc Thesis Committee
  1. "Monitorización remota de una red 1-Wire," UPC, EPSC, Castelldefels, February 2008.
  2. "Diseño, desarrollo e implantación de la gestión y administración de una intranet empresarial basada en Dotnetnuke," UPC, EPC, Castelldefels, February 2008.

Links of interest

  • MAC prototyping platforms
    • OpenMAC platform [4]
  • Simulation of Wireless Networks
    • The Network Simulator 3 (ns-3) [5].
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    • Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Bibliography [6].
    • Links related to Mobile Ad Hoc Networking [7].
  • On properly writing and reading papers
    • Oxford University Press Dictionary [8].
    • WordReference.com [9].
  • On properly presenting
    • El arte de presentar (SPANISH) [10].
  • Philosophy
    • Carbonilla.net: Sobre filosofía y aprendizajes en secundaria (SPANISH) [11].

Quotations

  1. From NEWCOM++ Vision Book, 2010: "The great jumps ahead in human history are the result of revolutionary theories/technologies, rather than the evolutionary stretching (and as such, foreseeable) of the existing."
  2. About innovation, Henry Ford said “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse".

MACSWIN: The MAC Simulator for Wireless Networks

Since the year 2004, we have been working in the development of a C++ based simulator for the evaluation of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols.

It is the MACSWIN, and it can be downloaded at the MAC Simulator for Wireless Networks Site.

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