Juan-Carlos Cano's Blog

Thursday 23 February 2012, Andrea, Vanesa and dad enjoyed with Valencia football club in Mestalla.  Valencia completed the task of getting through to the next phase in the UEFA champion League. We enjoyed so much with our team. It was a great day!!!. Now we want Manchester United!

23 February 2012, Valencia 1 – Stoke City 0

Andrea, Vanesa and her daddy participated in the «Vuelta a la Peña San Blas» race. The run consisted of 250 meters run for kids and 14.400 meters around the San Blas mountain for adults. Andrea won the second place in Kids D category and Vanesa won the first place in Kids B category. Her daddy … number 508 in 1h 17min 48 sec (5min26sec pace). It was a great day in Elche de la Sierra, my home town. Mum acted as supporter and reporter.

Andrea and Vanesa receiving their trophy. Congratulations sweets!

January 27th 2012, Jose Cano graduated with honor, Cum laude, after defending his Phd entitled “Integrated Architecture for Configuration and Service Management in MANET Environments”. The evaluation committee remarked the real development done in his work. Some of the results of his Thesis were published in the prestigious IEEE Communications Magazine.

Jose Cano PhD. 27th of January, 2012.

Congratulations Jose!

Andrea has received the first prize for her Nativity scene. The nativity scene received the first prize in the category of third and four grade of primary school at «La Anunciación» in Valencia. The jury rewarded the originality of the design.

Nativity scene contest 2011. Andrea won the first prize.

Congratulations to Andrea and her assistants Vanesa and Mum.

I am proud of all my students, but some of them are really good students, nice persons, and GREAT FARMERS:)! I want to share with you a Christmas present:) one of them offered to me few days ago. Aren’t they SUPERB!!!. In fact, Jesus, my student has recently implemented a web site for selling fresh fruit and vegetables, directly from the field to your kitchen.

You should try it at http://www.estoesdemihuerto.com/

Fresh Oranges and artichokes from www.estoesdemihuerto.com.

Last October 28th I took part of the Committee who evaluated the PhD thesis of Juan Jose Gálvez from Murcia University in Spain. The thesis entitled “Throughput optimization of Multi-hop Wireless Networks through interference-aware load balancing” deals with the optimization of throughput in Multi-hop Wireless Networks (MWNs) which is an important topic currently being studied by the scientific community. These networks represent a promising technology for numerous applications, and several types of MWN are presently being studied and deployed. The thesis addresses the important problem of load balancing to maximize network utilization and improve flow throughput and fairness.

Based on the quality and significant contributions made by the thesis developed by Juan José Gálvez García, the committee graded the Thesis with the maximum grade of “CUM LAUDE”. Congratulations Juan Jose!!

I had the opportunity to meet again my colleagues Pedro Ruiz and Antonio Skarmeta, as well as enjoying the gastronomic delicatessen of the region of Murcia visiting the “Torre de Zoco” restaurant.

In Torre de Zoco Restaurant with my colleague Pedro Ruiz, October 28th 2011.

I attended to the 4^th IFIP Wireless Days which took place at the Embassy Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel, located 100 yards from the brink of beautiful Niagara Falls in Canada.

I arrived Saturday afternoon at Toronto international airport, and I stayed my first night at Radisson Suite Toronto airport Hotel, a very convenient hotel for short stays, near the airport. I took a cab to walk over Toronto Downtown.

Here you can see the Toronto Skyline, which is clearly identified because of the Canadian National Tower. The CN Tower was declared in 1995 one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. At the top of the tower the «360 CN Tower» restaurant is located, which includes the world’s highest wine cellar, “the cellar at the sky”, created to resemble a typical underground wine cellar.

Toronto's skyline.

From Toronto I went to the Niagara Falls by the «Niagara Airbus services«, which offers roundtrip services from/to  Toronto airport area and the Niagara Falls area (including Hotels) at a very convenient prices.

In the Niagara Falls I stayed at The Embassy Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel, a four diamond all suites luxury hotel located 100 yards from the brink of beautiful Niagara Falls in Canada, where the IFIP Conference took place. The Falls are just Greats and Amazing! During my stay I visited both the Canadian side (where the conference took place) and the American side, just 2 km apart. I enjoyed the Conference, the Falls, The Casinos and the food. Here just some pictures of my visit to the wonderfull Falls!

The Falls from my room!

Visiting the Falls! Back is the American Falls.

Niagara’s Falls Rainbow! Effect of the sun shining and wind.

Does Anybody want to fall?

At the Casino drinks, live music, and ... gambling of course!

Overall I enjoyed the IFIP WD Conference presenting two papers and a poster. Meet you again at the Niagara Falls!

IFIP Wireless Days 2011.

The GRC group attended to the XXII edition of the Jornadas de Paralelismo which took place in the Universidad de la Laguna in the beautiful island of Tenerife in Spain. We enjoyed not only the conference but also the food, beaches,  the Teide mountain, and  of course “El Cuadrilátero” . Oh! My God, “Si me queréis IRSEEEE”

GRC Attending to the XXII Jornadas de Paralelismo in Tenerife, Spain

The GRC group received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications 2011, which took place in Boston, USA in August 2011. The work entitled “PAWDS: A Roadmap Profile-driven Adaptive System for Alert Dissemination in VANETs “was done by the student Manuel Fogue as part of his PHD. Congratulations Manuel!

NCA 2011, Best Student Paper

During the last week of July 2011 I was attending MASCOTS conference. Sponsored by IEEE and in technical cooperation with the ACM SIGSIM, it is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer systems and networks. The 19th edition of this conference took place July 25-27, 2011 in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore.

Attending MASCOTs

I had enough time to enjoy not only the conference but also to admire the beauty of Singapore from little India, to the Arab streets and ChinaTown, as well as the financial district and Sentosa Island. It was a great time! Of special importance is to enjoy the different religions (from , Christianity, Islam, Hinduism , and Taoism) visiting their Temples.

BuddhismTemple

Hinduism Temple

I really enjoyed visiting Sentosa Island visiting its beaches, the Imbiah Lookout, and the Universal Studios.

Visiting Sentosa Island

Juan Carlos with Merlion in Singapore