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Juan-Carlos Cano and Pietro Manzoni from the GRC group attended to Wireless Days Coference 2012, which was held in the beautiful city of Dublin, Irland.  They presented four different papers at the Conference dealing with several aspect related to Vehicular Networks under the Walkie-Talkie project. In addition, during the Gala Dinner we presented the next edition of the Wireless Days Conference, which will be held in Valencia under the GRC organization.

Presenting a Poster with my good friend Borja!

It was a pretty productive conference where we met many professors at the Conference including our good friend Floriano, Prof. Antonela, Dr. Misha, and Prof. Yaccine and Thierry. We also had time to visit the CTVR research group at the Trinity Collegue where Johan is doing his PostDoc. There we met Prof. Linda Doyle and Luis Da Silva and first contact was done to establish the lines for future collaboration.

With professor Floriano from Calabria University Tasting Irish Coffee

With my friend and Colleague Pietro... Cheers!

At the Trinity College with Linda Doyle, Luis Da Silva, and Johan!

Of course we also had time to visit Dublin enjoying its magic atmosphere, The Temple Bar neighborhood and tasting the best ever proved Beer, Irish Coffee, and Jameson Whiskey.

Enjoying a Guinness Pint at Temple Bar! Cheers...

Visiting Temple Bar in Dublin!

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 offer seamless connectivity among different available technologies, i.e., UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, Wifi. It was a pleasure to be part of this committee together with professors Antonio Jimeno, Pedro Cuenca, Manuel Pérez and Pedro López! Johan is currently working as a PostDoctoral student at the Trinity College in Dublin. CONGRATULATION JOHAN!

PhD. Johan before the Committee Evaluation...

PhD. Johan after the Committee Evaluation...

Today, November 9th, 2012 I took part of the committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of Rubén Sarabria, which was supervised by best friend professor Antonio Jimeno and Professor Rafael Molina. The thesis entitled  “Modelo Morfológico Determinista. Aplicación para el Diseño y la Fabricación Asistidos por Ordenador” represents a clear advance over the traditional CAD/CAM process. It was a pleasure to be part of this committee together with professors Jose Luis Sánchez from Alicante and Sergio Sáez from Valencia. Congratulations Rubén!

Committee and advisors of Rubén Sarabria PhD

I enjoyed quite a lot meeting my friend again in Alicante where we had time not only looking at the high quality research they are doing in Alicante but also tasting  some delicious gourmet food at “Il Girasolo Toscano” and “Mort de fam” restaurants.

Three chocolate cake with hot chocolate above

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 a paper at the PM2HW2N Workshop

We participated both in the MSWIM Conference program as well as in their related Workshops. Juan-Carlos has been the co-organizer of the ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM²HW²N 2012) during the last 4 years.

ACM Appreciation as Co-Chair of the PM2HW2N Workshop. With Francis González from Malaga University.

MSWIM 2012, Gala dinner show.

We enjoyed the Conference a lot, but we also had the opportunity of visiting the Paphos City and its antiquities and having fun in the nearby beaches! We even had time to go running, pilates, and gym while tasting the traditional food and exotics drinks!.

Paphos beach. Cyprus.

Paphos Archaeological sites.

It was a pleasure to share this trip with my good friend Pablo from Elche and having lot of fun with all his jokes and outstanding humor. I will always remember «Dña Rogelia», «Mr Sympathicous», «Solomía and Kerstye duo» :).

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, as well as hot topic within the scope of ITS cooperative networks. The GRC group presented the paper entitled “D-RSU: A Density-Based Approach for Road Side Unit Deployment in Urban Scenarios,” which was selected as one of the best papers to be published in the IEEE ITS magazine. We enjoyed quite a lot Alcala as well as “The Parador”, where the Workshop took place.

Attending to the First Vehi6 Workshop in Alcala, Spain.

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 GatCom group for the excellent organization.

GRC Attending to the XXIII Jornadas de Paralelismo in Elche de Alicante, Spain

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 student Miguel Báguena as part of his PHD. Congratulations Miguel!

AdHocNow 2012, Best Paper Award.

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 premios extraordinarios de Tesis. Fue un honor acudir junto a Carlos Calafate como Padrinos del profesor Francisco Martínez que recibió uno de los premios extraordinarios de Tesis 2011. También fue un placer coincidir con mi compañero Juan Luis, padrino de José Luis Poza. Enhorabuena a todos.

Paco, Jose Luis, Congratulations!!!

Alcoy. Junio de 2012. Enhorabuena Paco y Jose Luis. Piedad, que guapa y orgullosa de tu maridito Paco se te ve!

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!.

Marina Alonso, PhD. 15th of June, 2012.

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 Science, through the teacher mobility program. It was really a pleasure to meet again some colleagues there as well as enjoying Malaga’s aroma. Eduardo, Alicia, Alfonso and Jose Manuel Thank you so much for your hospitality!

I enjoyed quite a lot watching the UEFA Euro 2012 an Jose Manuel and Alfonse’s Houses. Thanks a lot guys!

Cheers Jose Manuel!

UEFA Euro 2012 at Jose Manuel's house, with Eduardo and Alfonso.