Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr.

Associated Student (2004-2006)
Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking
Virginia Tech

Biographical Sketch

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He expects to complete his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in August 2006. His research focuses on energy-aware routing in heterogeneous ad hoc networks for first responder emergency units. His advisor is Dr. Luiz A. DaSilva.

Waltemar received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, in December 2002 and December 2000, respectively. He was supported by the Brazilian federal agency CAPES. He has also been a student member of the IEEE for the past 4 years.

From July 2000-2003, Waltemar worked in two projects with GTEL-UFC, a research group of the Federal University of Ceará supported by Ericsson of Brazil. He was a member of CAPES's Special Training Program from 1997 to 2000. Additionally, he worked for 3 months as a research intern at the Institut National des Télécommunications, France, in 2000. Waltemar's hobbies include jogging, working on his home music studio, and being creative.

Selected Publications

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr., "Capacity and Quality of Service in GSM/EDGE Networks Using Packet Scheduling and Smart Antennas Techniques," M.Sc. Thesis, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 2002.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al., "System-Level Performance of Space-Time Scheduling for Non Real-Time Traffic in a 3G Network," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'02-Fall), Vacouver, BC, Canada, 2002.

Yuri C. B. Silva, Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al., "Capacity and QoS Enhancement for Data Transmission in EGPRS through Packet Scheduling and Smart Antennas," IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), Natal, RN, Brazil, 2002.

Tarcisio F. Maciel, Raimundo A. O. Neto, Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al., "Estimating the QoS Enhancement Using Power Control in EGPRS," IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), Natal, RN, Brazil, 2002.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al., "On the Performance of EGPRS Using Same Cell Reuse," Annual MPRG/Virginia Tech Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, 2002.

Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti, Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al, "Combined Performance of Packet Scheduling and Smart Antennas for Data Transmission in EGPRS," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'02-Spring), Birmingham, AL, United States of America, 2002.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. et al., "System-Level Performance Evaluation of Different Scheduling Strategies in EGPRS," Fourth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. and Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti, "Characterizing the Subjective Performance of the TIA/EIA-136 Mobile Communications System on the Forward Link," XIX Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 2001.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. and Paulo C. Cortez, "Electric and Magnetic Fields Calculation Using Finite Elements: an Application Software", XXVII Brazilian Conference of Engineering Education (COBENGE 99), Natal, RN, Brazil, 1999.

Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr., Tarcisio F. Maciel and Paulo C. Cortez, "Study of Two Algorithms of Polygonal Modeling of Two-Dimensional Objects," XVI UFC Symposium on Research Initiation - UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 1997.

Tarcisio F. Maciel, Waltemar M. de Sousa Jr. e Paulo C. Cortez, "Polygonal Modeling of Two-Dimensional Objects," XVI UFC Symposium on Research Initiation - UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 1997.

Contact Information

Last updated: August 29, 2006
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