People

Who makes up the group

Ten active researchers and forty master's and doctoral graduates since 2009, now spread across universities, operators and industry.

Group leader

Kelvin Lopes Dias

Full Professor at Centro de Informática, UFPE. CNPq PQ-2 Research Productivity Fellow.

He holds a PhD and a master's in Computer Science from UFPE, and an undergraduate degree from UFPA. He teaches communication infrastructure at the undergraduate level and advanced networking topics at the graduate level, and served as deputy coordinator of the Computer Engineering program and network director of UFPE's NTI.

He reviews for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Computer Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine and Ad Hoc Networks, among others, and serves as an ad hoc advisor to CNPq and FAPESP.

Active

Current members

Postdoctoral 1

Anderson Apolônio Lira Queiroz 5G Internet of Vehicles and context-aware authentication 2024

Doctorate 4

Maria Katarine de Santana Barbosa Connectivity and processing in UAV networks for 6G systems 2023
Francisco Klebert Ferreira Santos Next-generation mobile networks 2024
Ygor Amaral Barbosa Leite de Sena Named Data Networking for the Internet of Vehicles 2019
Rhodney Arthur Menna Barreto Konig Simões Autonomic architecture for smart cities over cloud and IoT 2016

Master's 3

Rodolfo José de Paula Wanderley Next-generation mobile networks 2025
Jordan Kalliure Souza Carvalho Next-generation mobile networks 2025
Marcelo Victor Batista da Silva 5G-MEC architecture for computer vision applications 2024

Undergraduate research 2

Victor Pessoa Diniz Experimental 5G Open RAN environment for running xApps 2025
Carlos Henrique Vieira Marques Veeck Virtualized infrastructure for telemedicine over private 5G networks 2025

Alumni

Those who came through here

Eight doctoral dissertations and thirty-two master's theses defended under the group's supervision, alongside postdoctoral and undergraduate research.

Doctorate 8

Anderson Apolônio Lira Queiroz SIMA-IoV: intelligent selection of the authentication method in the 5G Internet of Vehicles 2024
Marcos Rocha de Moraes Falcão Resource allocation for URLLC in NFV-MEC 2022
Francisco Ferreira de Mendonça Junior Computing resources in vehicular fog networks and auction-based allocation 2021
Rafael Roque de Souza Intelligent framework for VNF scheduling in the data center 2020
Warley Muricy Valente Junior Context-aware offloading with classification and transparent mobility 2018
Edson Adriano Maravalho Avelar MobCache: provider mobility and caching in content-centric networks 2017
Andson Marreiros Balieiro Secondary virtual networks over a cognitive radio substrate 2015
Eduardo de Melo Vasconcelos Energy-efficient channel selection in cognitive radios 2015

Master's 32

Maria Katarine Santana Barbosa Deep-HO5GAero: intelligent handover in base station networks 2023
Hygor Jardim da Silva Integrated 4G, IMS and 5G platform on open software and hardware 2022
Eduardo Henrique Alves Maia Mattos Oliveira ABE-IoV: authentication with blockchain and edge computing 2022
Francisco Samuel de Sousa Silva Methodology and system for conformance testing of cognitive radios 2021
Henrique Junior Jaques Pereira Software-defined handoff with multihoming in vehicular networks 2021
Roseli da Rocha Barbosa Service-oriented architecture with edge slicing for the IoV 2021
Alexsanderson Vieira Santos SDN framework for video streaming in connected vehicles 2019
Francisco Edigleison da Silva Barbosa Edge-On: content processing and sharing at the edge 2019
Maria Atrícia Sabino Maciel SDVN-vC: scalability in software-defined vehicular networks 2018
Bruno Roberto Silva Network and resource selection for mobile cloud offloading 2018
Igor Meneguitte Ávila SDNCLOUD: elasticity and load balancing in a software-defined cloud 2017
Eric Ribas Moraes Machado Load balancing in software-defined wireless networks 2017
David Pereira Carlos da Cunha DSN-based quality of service support 2017
Tárcio Novais Oliveira Luna Science DMZ and flow optimization in an academic network 2017
Erlan Fonseca de Souza Dynamic transmission rate control in campus networks 2017
Edivaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque Junior Wi-Flow: mobility in Wi-Fi networks with 802.1x authentication over SDN 2016
Cláudio Dantas TCP and UDP performance on low-cost access points 2016
Adriano Henrique de Melo França Computation offloading in a cloudlet-SDN environment with mobility 2016
Ricardo Jorge Luz Rufino OpenDevice: open platform and framework for the Internet of Things 2016
Francisco Klebert Ferreira Santos Evaluation and optimization of the DRX technique in an LTE mobile operator 2016
Marcos Rocha de Moraes Falcão Channel reservation and spectrum adaptation in multilevel cognitive radio 2016
Lucas do Rego Barros Brasilino da Silva HotOM: SDN-based network virtualization for data centers 2015
Leonardo Francisco da Silva Santos SDN-based routing for sensor networks applied to the IoT 2015
Ronald Jared Romero Reyes Sensor networks and cloud computing for smart cities 2015
Carlos Eduardo Buarque Cruz Pimentel Route optimization in multichannel, multi-interface MANETs 2014
Marcos Graciano Santos Energy-efficient D2D communication in LTE-A networks 2014
Ygor Amaral Barbosa Leite de Sena Inter-domain mobility in software-defined networks 2014
Lorena Lima Marques aCMT-UC: user-centric load distribution in heterogeneous networks 2013
Edson Adriano Maravalho Avelar PMIPFlow: mobility management in software-defined networks 2013
Fabrício Rossy de Lima Lobato Mobile gateway selection in multi-hop heterogeneous networks 2009
José Jailton Henrique Ferreira Junior Transparent handover for multimedia traffic in WiMAX/MIP/MPLS 2009
Tássio Carvalho Secure pre-authentication with QoE support for video over mobile WiMAX 2009

Postdoctoral 1

Arthur Emanoel Cássio da Silva e Souza Serverless machine learning functions over 5G 2025

Undergraduate research 21

Ednelson Luan Lourenço Cavalcanti Open source 5G core 2024
Marcelo Victor Batista da Silva 5G-MEC prototype 2023
Matheus Viana Coelho Albuquerque Implementation of 5G systems with OpenAirInterface 2021
Augusto Henriques Terra Configuration of USRP boards with OpenAirInterface 2021
Lucas dos Reis Silva Containers in LTE core configuration 2021
Maria Luisa Leandro de Lima Evaluation of a 5G-SDR environment with OpenAirInterface 2021
Sérgio Victor Testing devices with cognitive radio support 2020
Albertinin Mourato Santos Context-aware offloading in the mobile cloud 2017
Bruno José das Chagas Cavalcanti Context-aware offloading in the mobile cloud 2017
Diogo Rodrigues da Silva Simulator for evaluating cellular network logs 2017
Eduardo Henrique Alves Maia Mattos Oliveira Resource scheduler for QoS guarantees in the mobile cloud 2017
Isabela Goes Rangel Evaluation of cognitive radios 2016
Anderson Augusto Freitas Urbano Configuration of software-defined radios 2016
Leonardo Pires dos Santos Simulation environment for cellular networks 2016
Gabriel Wanderley Albuquerque Silva Test environment for cognitive radios 2016
Luiz Antonio de Oliveira Junior Device mobility in software-defined wireless networks 2014
Felipe Coelho dos Santos Computational intelligence for wireless access selection in 4G 2010
Edson Adriano Maravalho Avelar Integration of heterogeneous IEEE 802.16 and 3G UMTS networks 2009
Madson Bruno Silva Coelho Integration of heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 networks 2009
Paulo Araújo Soares Júnior 4G network technologies in the Amazon region 2007
Valber Michel Silva de Souza Simulator for radio propagation models 2007

Admissions

This list can grow

There are master's and PhD openings in 5G and beyond (NextG): Open RAN, AI-orchestrated 6G core, aerial networks and network observability.

See the open topics