Juan-Carlos Cano's Blog

Juan Carlos Cano has been appointed Social Council Member of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) on behalf of the Governing Council of  the UPV.

November 29th, 2012 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of D. Manuel Fogué, supervised by professors Francisco Martínez and Piedad Garrido. The Thesis entitled “Design and Evaluation of a Traffic Safety System base don Vehicular Networks for the Next Generation of Intelligent Vehicles” combined the concept of Intelligent Transport Systems […]

November 15th, 2012 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of Johan Marquez, supervised by professors Pietro Manzoni and Carlos T. Calafate. The Thesis entitled “SCALABLE AND EFFICIENT VERTICAL HANDOVER DECISION ALGORITHMS IN VEHICULAR NETWORK CONTEXTS” proposed novel techniques to improve the vertical handover process used by mobile wireless devices to […]

Juan-Carlos Cano from the GRC group and Pablo Piñol from the GatCom group attended to The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWIM 2012, which was held in the city of Paphos in Cyprus.  They presented their papers related to Vehicular Networks under the Walkie-Talkie project. Presenting […]

Last June, the GRC group attended to the First International Workshop on IPv6-based Vehicular Networks (Vehi6), co-organized by José Santa (University of Murcia) and Jong-Hyouk Lee (INRIA), which will be held on June 3rd in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain). The workshop searches for papers related with the topics related to network mobility, routing optimization, […]

The GRC group attended to the XXIII edition of the Jornadas de Paralelismo which took place in the Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Alicante in Spain. We enjoyed the conference, the city, having fun with our colleagues from Elche as well as the “De 10 discotheque” and the “Huerto del Cura” Impressive Gala Dinner! Congratulations to the […]

The GRC group received the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless 2012, which took place in Belgrade, Serbia, from the 9th to the 11th of July, 2012. The work entitled “RCDP: a novel content delivery solution for wireless networks based on Raptor codes “ was done by the […]

El pasado 22 de Junio se celebro en Alcoy la Clausura del curso académico de la Universitat Politècnica de Vàlencia. En dicho Acto fueron investidos Doctor Honoris Causa los profesores D. José Barea Tejeiro y D. Enrique Ballestero Pareja. Además en dicho acto fueron investidos  los nuevos Doctores por la UPV y se entregaron los […]

Last June 15th I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of Marina Alonso, which was supervised by professor Pedro López and Professor Vicente Santonja. The thesis entitled  «Una estrategia para la reducción del consumo en redes de interconexión» was graded with the máximum grade of Cum Laude. Congratulations Marina!.

During the week from 18 to June 22, 2012, I gave the fifth edition of a ten-hour workshop on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks in the Official Master in Telecommunications Technology at the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Malaga, Teatinos Campus. The workshop was funded by the Ministry of Education and […]