Jesús Alonso Zárate

Contents 1 Bio 2 Research lines 3 Grants and Awards 4 Synergy 5 Links of interest

Bio

Jesús Alonso (1980) was born in Barcelona, Spain. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in March 2004. From January 2001 to February 2004 he worked as a part-time research assistant at the Radio Communications Research Group of the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the UPC. From April 2004 to January 2005 he worked at DMR Consulting (current Everis) as an IT Consultant.

In February 2005, he joined the CTTC PhD fellowship programme. He is now a PhD student at the UPC's Department of Signal Theory and Communications and is also obtaining the European Masterof Research on Information Technology (MERIT). He is also pursuing the BSc. in Aeronautical Engineering at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Castelldefels (EPSC-UPC).

During the summer of 2006 he attended the Summer Session Program of the International Space University in Strasbourg (France).

Research lines

• Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
• Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols and Advanced Radio Resource Management
• Cross-Layer design for Wireless LAN
• Cooperative networks
• Simulation Software

Grants and Awards

• He has been granted by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya PhD Fellowship Program.

• He has been granted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya to attend the Summer Session Program 2006 (SPP'06)of the International Space University.

• In June 2005, his Master Thesis was awarded with the ALCATEL Prize to the Best Master Thesis Dissertation of 2004 in Mobility and Multimedia in Telecommunications, given by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros and the Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association (COIT/AEIT, Spain).

Synergy

• Activities
  • Research on Cross-Layer techniques for Wireless LANs in collaboration with the Radio Communications Research Group of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the Technical Univesity of Catalonia (TSC-UPC).
  • Analysis of Cooperative Nerworks in collaboration with CTTC-Radio Technologies Area.

Links of interest

• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Bibliography [1].
  • Links related to Mobile Ad Hoc Networking [2].

• On properly writing and reading papers
  • Oxford University Press Dictionary [3].
  • WordReference.com [4].