Paul Patras
Hamilton Institute
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Email: my_last_name[at]ieee[dot]org
Tel: +353 1 708 6788
News
- Received an IEEE Communications Society "Exemplary Reviewer" for IEEE Communication Letters 2011 award.
- IFIP Networking 2012.
- The 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012).
About me
I received my MSc and PhD degrees in Telematics Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Between 2007-2011, I was a research assistant at Institute IMDEA Networks (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Networks). In 2010 I was a visting intern at the Rice Networks Group of Rice University, Houston, USA.
Since April 2011, I am a research fellow at the Hamilton Institute of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. I work on problems related to performance optimization in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs and wireless mesh networks, adaptive MAC mechanisms, dynamic spectrum access, prototype implementation and testbeds.
You can find my CV here.
Research
Publications
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- P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Scheme for Efficient Video Transmission over IEEE 802.11e EDCA WLANs", accepted for publication in ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2011. [PDF]
- J. Lessmann, A. de la Oliva, C. Sengul, A. Garcia, M. Kretschmer, S. Murphy, P. Patras, "On the Scalability of Carrier-grade Mesh Network Architectures", accepted at Future Networks & Mobile Summit, Warsaw, Poland, Jun. 2011. [PDF]
- P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, A. Azcorra, "A Control Theoretic Approach to Distributed Optimal Configuration of 802.11 WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 897–910, Jun. 2011. [PDF]
- P. Patras, "Control-Theoretic Adaptive Mechanisms for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Design, Implementation and Experimental Evaluation", Ph.D. Thesis, Leganés, Madrid, Spain, March 2011. [thesis] [slides]
- P. Serrano, A. Banchs, P. Patras, A. Azcorra, "Optimal Configuration of 802.11e EDCA for Real-Time and Data Traffic", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 2511–2528, Jun. 2010. [PDF]
- P. Serrano, P. Patras, X. Prez Costa, B. Gloss, D. Chieng, "A MAC Layer Abstraction for Heterogeneous Carrier Grade Mesh Networks", ICT Mobile Summit 2009, Santander, Spain, Jun. 2009. [PDF]
- P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Framework for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Student Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. [extended abstract] [poster]
- P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Approach for Throughput Optimization in IEEE 802.11e EDCA WLANs", Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 697–708, Dec. 2009. [PDF]
- P. Patras, "A Control Theoretic Approach for Throughput Optimisation in IEEE 802.11e EDCA WLANs", M.Sc. Thesis, Leganés, Madrid, Spain, Jul. 2008. [PDF]
- A. Bikfalvi, P. Patras, C.M. Vancea, V. Dobrota, "The Management Infrastructure of a Network Measurement System for QoS Parameters", 14th International Conference on Software, Telecommunication and Computer Networks, Split-Dubrovnik, Croatia, Oct. 2006. [PDF]
- P. Patras, "Distributed Agents for a Network Measurement System", Dipl. Eng. thesis, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Jul. 2006. [PDF]
Google scholar provides a citation history and several statistics for my publications.
Code
- DAC - a Distributed Adaptive Control algorithm for performance optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs [source code]
- CAC - a Centralized Adaptive Control algorithm for performance optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs [source code]
- MadWifi-BE - a modified version of the popular MadWifi WLAN driver, which permits the configuration of the EDCA parameters for the Best Effort access category [source code]
- MadWifi-Distributed - a modified version of the popular MadWifi WLAN driver, which enables distributed configuration of the EDCA parameters of the nodes [source code]
- MadWifi-PH - a modified version of the MadWifi WLAN driver, which employs power-hopping for packet transmission [source code]
Projects
- FLAVIA - FLexible Architecture for Virtualizable future wireless Internet Access