Rui Miguel Soares Silva

I am Associate Professor in the Engineering Department of the Technology and Management School (ESTIG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja), Portugal.

I teach "Computer Networks" and "Security in Communication Networks" courses to "Computer Science Engineering" students.

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Academic Degrees:

2009 - Doctor in "Electrical and Computer Engineering" at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

2002 - Master in "Electrical and Computer Engineering" at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

1996 - Graduation in "Computer Science Engineering" at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Research:

My research areas of interest are:

• Cryptography
• Network Security
• System Intrution

Present focus of research:

• Light cryptography for very low computacional resource technologies (Smart Card, RFID, Wireless Sensor Networks)
• Windows OS Security

International Journal Publications:

• "LoBa128, a Lorenz Based PRNG for Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), pp. 301-318, issue 3, number 4, 2009

• "Probabilistic Key Management Practical Concerns in Wireless Sensor Networks", Journal of Networks (JNW), pp. 29-37, issue 3, number 2, 2008

Conference Proceedings Publications:

• "Enhanced Chaotic Stream Cipher for WSNs", The Fifth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2010), Krakow, Poland, February 15-18, 2010

• "Wireless Sensor Networking Support to Military Operations on Urban Terrain", Command and Control Research Program (CCRP), The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration (OASD-NII), Newport Rhode Island, USA, June 19-21, 2007

• "Applicability Drawbacks of Probabilistic Key Management Schemes for Real World Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks", The Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications [ICWMC 2007], Guadalupe, French Caribbean, March 4-9, 2007

• "Chaos Based Key Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks", Australian Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference [ATNAC 2006], Melbourne, Australia, December 4-6, 2006

• "Vehicles precision localization in restricted areas and integration in security system", 5th Geodesy and Cartography National Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 10-11, 2005

• "Simulation, monitoring and control of vehicles in the Oporto airport", 5th Geodesy and Cartography National Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 10-11, 2005

• "ASN.1 and SDL integration in the formal specification of H.323 protocols", 5th Conference on Computer Networks, University of Algarve, Portugal, September 26 and 27,2002

Seminars and talk events:

• "eLoBa a Modular Chaos Stream Cipher for Wireless Sensor Networks", EuroNF PhD Course on "Modeling and Control of Complex and Self-Organizing Systems", Passau, Germany, March, 30 - April, 3, 2009

• "eLoBa - Cifra sobre Caos Modular", 10th RTCM Seminar, Porto, Portugal, June 23, 2009

• "Security in sensor networks in the context of the UbiSec&Sens project", IV Engineering Week, School of Technology and Management, Beja, Portugal, March 27-29, 2006

• "Security in IEEE 802.11 standard", Seminar at the Basilicata University, Matera, Italy, January 18, 2006

• "Security in IEEE 802.15.4 standard", Seminar at the Basilicata University, Matera, Italy, January 18, 2006

• "Introduction to security in communication networks", Seminar at the Basilicata University, Matera, Italy, January 17, 2006

• "Introduction to wireless LANs and PANs", Seminar at the Basilicata University, Matera, Italy, January 17, 2006

• "Security Issues on ZigBee", 2nd RTCM Seminar, Coimbra, Portugal, July 22, 2005

• "Security in IEEE 802.11", Seminar at the Technical Superior Institute (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon Portugal, April 20, 2005

• "Wireless communication architectures in the Airnet project", II Engineering Week, School of Technology and Management, Beja, Portugal, June 7-9, 2004

• "Architectures and protocols used in the voice and video communications, over IP networks", Review Tecnovisão, February, 2004

• "Protocol specification using formal languages", Year Book of Bourgas Free University, Bourgas, Bulgaria, , 2002, Vol.7

• "Voice over IP - Solutions", Bourgas Free University, Bourgas, Bulgaria, May 8, 2002

• "Voice over IP - Protocols", Bourgas Free University, Bourgas, Bulgaria, May 7, 2002

European Projects:

• UbiSec&Sens - Ubiquitous Sensing and Security in the European Homeland (2006) - [http://www.ist-ubisecsens.org/]

• Airnet - Airport Network for Mobiles Surveillance & Alerting (2004) - [http://www.airnet-project.com/]

Workgroup Memberships:

• Researcher at the Communication Networks and Mobility group of the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering (INESC) in Lisbon, Portugal
• Researcher at the Networks and Ubiquitous Computing group of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja), in Beja, Portugal

Affiliations:

• IACR - International Association for Cryptologic Research
• IEEE Computer Society

Technical Certifications:

• Proxim Cetification for Bradband Networks (PCBA), since June, 2007.

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More about me...

Birth:

• I was born in Beja at south of Portugal in February 4, 1971

Sports:

To Run...

Canoeing and fishing with my MadRiver canoe in Alqueva

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Since November 20, 2009

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