Juan-Carlos Cano's Blog

Juan-Carlos Cano, The General Chair of Wireless Days 2013, headed the organization of the 6th IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days Conference (WDays 2013) which took place in the beautiful city of Valencia, Spain, November 13th -15th.

Wireless Days Opening Session. With D. Francisco Mora the Rector of the UPV and Carlos Calafate, TPC Chair.

The WD’13 Technical Program Committee received 184 technical paper submissions from 30 different countries: Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, and Venezuela. From these 184 submissions, 63 full papers were selected for presentation at the 2013 edition in Valencia. The overall acceptance ratio was 34.24%.

Juan Carlos Cano, General Chair, and Pietro Manzoni Keynote Session Chair.

The conference featured five distinguished keynote speakers that are international leaders and pioneers in their respective research areas, both from academia and industry. Prof. C-K. Toh, Honor Chair Professor in Tsinghua University, Dr. Lukas Kencl, Director of the CTU-Ericsson-Vodafone Research and Development Centre in Prague; Prof. Laura Marie Feeney, researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Dr. David Gascón, Libelium’s Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, and finally Dr. John Baekelmans, Chief Technology Officer for Cisco.

Professor C.K.Toh Keynote Speech.  Future of Wireless.

With my friend and pioneer professor C-K. Toh. IEEE Fellow.

With my colleagues prof. Carlos Calafate, and Floriano De Rango, and my PhD student Ali.

With Dr. John Baekelmans, Chief Technology Officer from Cisco

My Dear TPC Chairs and TPC Track Chairs. Thank you so much!!!

Last but not least, the conference committee has also prepared an exciting social program with the aim of making your stay in the city of Valencia more enjoyable.

At the Gala dinner with the TPC Chairs and some PhD Students.

Ana and me announcing the the Students Grants.

After the Gala Dinner:-)

WIth Khaled Bouseta. Representative of the Steering Committee.

Traditional valencian dances by «Danses d´Albalat»

Alog the conference, WD’2013 got the attention from the media appearing in TV as well as national newspapers such as El Mundo and El Levante. Here you can see the UPV-TV document ...

Our program would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of the entire WD’13 Technical Program Committee. We are most grateful to the track co-chairs, TPC members, and the reviewers who worked so hard to complete the peer-review process on schedule. We also thank IFIP and IEEE for their technical sponsorship, which, without any doubt, improve the reputation of this conference. We are very grateful to our sponsors and supporting institutions, especially the Universitat Politècnica de València, for all the support provided.

Finally, we are sincerely grateful to all authors who submitted their manuscripts to WD’13. We hope that the whole program will be interesting and stimulating to you all.

The Conference was inaugurated by D. Francisco Mora, The Rector of the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, and at the closing ceremony the Steering Committee announced next edition of Wireless Days Conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro Brasil.

Wireless Days 2013, Closing ceremony.

See you all in Wireless Days 2014!!

Wireless Days 2013. VIP dinner!!

More info …

Some more snaps from the Conference are available here …

November 12th 2013 took place the second year coordination meeting related to the activities involved within the Walkie Talkie project. In the project, sponsored by the «Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad» are involved three different Universities from Spain: Universitat Politècnica de València, Universidad Miguel Hernández and Universidad de Murcia. The project is lead by professors Juan-Carlos Cano, Manuel Pérez and Antonio Skarmeta and it deals with the design, evaluation and implementation of novel solutions and services related with Intelligent Transportation Systems. The project is obtaining quite interesting results in term of scientific objectives as well as technological ones.

Walkie Talkie National project. Coordinated meeting in Valencia.

Walkie Talkie project coordination meeting 2nd year.

November 3st – 8th, 2013, Juan-Carlos Cano attended to the MSWIM 2013 Conference, which was held in the beautiful city of Barcelona. At the Conference Juan Carlos and Francisco Martínez from the GRC group presented 2 papers at the main conference and a paper at the DIVANET workshop. In addition, Juan-Carlos Cano was the General Chair of the 8-th ACM PM2HW2N 2013 Workshop. I really enjoyed the conference as well as sharing time with my good friend Paco. We met there many professors such as prof. Richard Pazzi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, and prof. Teruo Higashino from Japan, my colleague at the ITS IEEE Technical committee. It was also a pleasure to expend some time with my PhD. Student Jose Cano, who graduated in 2010 and is now in Barcelona. Good trip to Barcelona city!!!

With my two PhD Students!

With Teruo Higashino. My colleague at the IEEE ITS Committee.

Presenting one of the papers!!!

October 28th – 24th, 2013, Juan-Carlos Cano attended to the LCN 2013 Conference Conference, which was held in the beautiful city of Sydney. At the Conference Juan Carlos presented a Paper and a poster at the main LCN track as well as a Demo related to the DrivingStyle application developed at the GRC group. It was a pleasure to meet some well know researcher there such as Prof. Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA and Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA. I also met some researchers from Spain, Joan Borrell from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and Sebastia Galmes from Universidad Islas Baleares. it was more that a pleasure to share with all the experiences and research. I enjoyed Sydney gastronomy, culture and sightseeing. I visited the famous Opera House, Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, and I had the opportunity to taste Kangaroo meat. To remember my visit it was mandatory to buy the Cocodrilo Dundee” hat! Amazing trip to Antipodes.

Bondi beach, The surfer beach!

Visiting the Sydney’s Opera House!

Juan Carlos presents the paper at LCN!

With Prof. Damla Turgut and Prof. Anura Jayasumana

WIth my friends Joan Borrell and Sebastia Galmes

DrivingStyle in action! The best ever Demo:)

Defending the poster paper!

September 27th, 2013 Manuel Serrat defended his PhD thesis entitled “COOPERATION TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS NETWORKS SECURITY”. The thesis, supervised by professors D. Enrique Hernandez and D. Juan Carlos Cano, proposes a novel analytical model to improve selfishness detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. After the defense we enjoyed a magnificent lunch at the “Alquería del Pi” tasting their rice with shrimp and season mushrooms, and sharing plenty of anecdotes of Manuel’s thesis work. It was a real pleasure meeting again our colleagues Monica Aguilar from the UPC, Manuel Pérez from UMH, and Francisco Martinez from UNIZAR as members of the evaluation committee.

Congratulations Manuel!

The defense is done. Congratulations Manuel!

Enjoying the Lunch!

M.Serrat and his Advisors!

The GRC Group attended to the “Jornadas de Paralelismo 2013”, which took place under the umbrella of «Congreso Español de Informática CEDI«, in Madrid. As every year we enjoyed quite a lot with our young but promising research students, and meeting with colleagues form others Spanish University. Our group presented our last research finding under the Walkie Talkie project related to the area of Intelligent Transport System. We also had time to enjoy Madrid, The Prado Museum and its Gastronomy. We couldn’t miss a “Relaxing Café Con Leche in Plaza Mayor.

Viva The GRC Group!

In «Plaza Mayor» having a relaxing «Cafe con Leche»

Visiting «El Prado» museum.

Enjoying at the Gala Dinner. Palace hotel!

July 24th, 2013 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of D. Francisco Alberto Rodríguez, supervised by professor D. Javier Gozálvez, the thesis entitled “Técnicas de reputación para redes de comunicaciones inalámbricas multi-salto” which deal with improvement of selfishness behavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks when connected to future 4G cellular networks. After the defense we enjoyed a traditional Phd luch at the Huerto del Cura Hotel in Elche. This thesis was the thesis number 1000 presented at the UMH after 15th years of history.

Congratulations Alberto!

Alberto’s PhD committee and advisors. The defense is done!

July 18th, 2013 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of Dña. Mónica Serrano supervised by professors D. Julio Sahuquillo and D. Houcine Hassan. The thesis entitled  “Scheduling Local and Remote Memory in Cluster Computers” proposed several mechanisms to improve memory scheduling in Cluster Computers. Congratulations Mónica!. After the defense we enjoyed a traditional Seafood paella at the Malvarrosa Beach!

Monica’s PhD committee and advisors. The defense is done!

Enjoying a Seafood Paella. Simply awesome!

July 16th, 2013 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of D. Ivan Lequerica, supervised by professors D. Pedro Ruiz and D. Carlos Miguel Nieto. The thesis entitled  “VISIONS “Vehicular communication Improvement: Solution based on IMS Operational Nodes and Services” was masterfully defended by the candidate and the techniques there proposed represent a clear advance over the traditional Vehicular Networks platforms. Congratulations Ivan!.

Ivan’s PhD committee and advisors. The defense is done!

Juan-Carlos Cano attended to the AdhocNow 2013 Conference, which was held in the historical and beautiful city of Wroclaw, in Poland. I presented a paper dealing with traffic density estimation in urban areas under the Walkie-Talkie project. I Enjoyed the Conference, the city, and of course the Poland Ice-cream and the Tyskie Beer!

Having a Beer near Cathedral Island!

Having a Tyskie near the Cathedral.

Juan-Carlos in The Bridge of Love in Wroclaw

Wroclaw in 1945. After the 2nd World Waraaa

Wroclaw in 2013. Cathedral Island.

Beautiful houses in Wroclaw!