> Courses (DI/FCT/UNL, 2009-2012):

• BsC program courses
  • Projecto Integrador (Final Project) (2nd sem. 2008/2009, 2009/2010)
  • Redes de Computadores (Computer Networks (2nd sem. 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012)
• MSc program courses
  • Computer Networks Security (1st sem. 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012)
  • Middleware Systems and Technology (2nd sem. 2009/2010, 2011/2012)
• PhD program courses
  • Computer Systems and Communications Security (1st sem. 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012)
    (a PhD research-oriented advanced course on Distributed Systems Security and Dependablity Topics.
• Available Time slots for students:
  • Middleware Systems and Technology: thu, 14h00-15h00
  • Coomputer Systems and Communications Security: thu, 15h00-16h00
  • Computer Networks (Redes de Computadores): thu, 11h00-12h00

> Research Activities (CITI Research Centre)

      Research Interests:

• Distributed Systems Security
• Dependable Distributed Systems
• Mobile Computing / AdHoc Networks / Wireless sensor networks (WSN)
• Pervasive systems
• WSN Security
• Cloud computing security

     Research Profile: ACM Computing Classification Areas (REF)

• Main area: C - Computer Systems Organization
  • C.2 - Computer Communications Networks
  • C.4 - Performance of Systems
  • E.3 - Data Encryption
  • D.2 - Software Engineering
  • D.4 - Operating Systems

     Research References:

• SITAN: FCT-MCTES funded project in a collaboration with LASIGE / FCUL. SITAN will develop security services for wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, simplifying the design of dependable applications for pervasive, secure, intrusion-tolerant and reliable monitoring and actuation settings.

• ESSEN: on going collaboration network with the VTT (Finland), FMTC (Belgium), Univ. Kent (UK), Sensorex Oil (Norway) and ETRI (Korea). This project intends to discuss, in a network of different specialists, the requirements to develop an open simulation and emulation platform (with emulated hardware in the loop) to reduce the time and costs associated with the WSNs applications design in large scale settings, considering: multihop routing strategies, low-latency concerns, energy-aware optimization requirements, reliable and secure data-dissemination and programming abstractions. 

• SensE: on-going industrial collaboration initiative (LNEC). This project aims to simulate a wireless sensor network for healthcare monitoring of critical civil engineering infrastructures (with a case study on a bridge monitoring and instrumentation).
  The project will examine commercially available sensor motes, regarding the requirements inherent in the observation of works and the coupling of WSNs, as well as, simulation, emulation and development platforms, to deal with a mesh/multi-hop ad-hoc network organization, "zero" cost operation, latency and soft-real time constraints, data accuracy and quality, reliability conditions and flexible querying with fast and energy-aware data-recovery

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> Supervised students

PhD Students (DI-FCT-UNL PhD Program)

• Bernardo Silva Ferreira (FCT fellowship and VTT-Fund. Support)

MSc Students (on-going dissertations)

• Vitor Hugo Pedro Pereira (Fund. Support by VTT-FInland, Planned: Mar/2012)
• João António Batista Tavares (Fellowship-SITAN Project, Planned: Sep/2012)
• António Miguel Guiomar (Fellowship-SITAN, Planned: Sep/2012)
• António Coelho (Fellowship-FCT Planned: Sep/2012)
• João Almeida (On-going Topic Preparation, Planned: Mar/2013)

  MSc students
  (concluded dissertations)

Dissertations in 2008-2011:
• André Ivo Guerreiro (Sep/2011)
• Ivo André Lopes Rodrigues (Mar/2011)
• Pedro Miguel dos Reis Nunes (Mar/2011)
• Pedro Miguel Marques da Silva (Mar/2011)
• Tiago Filipe da Silva Araújo (Mar/2011)
• António Pedro Clara Correia (Jul/2010)
  (Fellowship from PT Inovação (Talento Program)
  
• Nuno Alexandre de Freitas Boavida (Jul/2010)
• Amável Martins Santo (Jul/2010)
• Bernardo Luis da Silva Ferreira (Jul/2010)
  (Fellowship from PT Inovação (Talento Program)
  
• Pedro Vicente Bernardo (Mar/2009)
• Luis Henrique Fernandes Moura Miranda (Jul/2009)
• Pedro Leandro da Silva Amaral (Jul/2009)
  
  Dissertations before 2008:
• Miguel Correia Ricardo (2008)
• João Brites Borges (2008)
• João Nascimento Viegas (2006)
• Bruno Miguel de Almeida Bernardes (2004)
• João Ricardo Janeiro Monteiro (2003)
• Kim Hansen (2002, Co-Supervision, Tech. University of Copenhagen)