PhD Students

Active

1. Nisrine Bnouhanna, IoT Thing to Service Matching. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Alexander Pretschner (fortiss/Technical University of Munich, TUM). 2020-

2. Rui Pascoal, Augmented Reality in Outdoor Sports. Advisor: Ana de Almeida, ISCTE; Co-Advisor, Rute C. Sofia, ULHT. 2017/2018. Doctoral Programme in Informatics, ISCTE.

3. Francisco Melo Pereira. Inference of Individual Behavior in Urban Activities from Smartphones. NEMPS PhD Programme. Advisor: Rute C. Sofia, ULHT. 2015/2016 Edition.

4. Liliana C. Inocêncio. Leveraging Large-Scale Sensing Platforms via Edge/Cloud Computing. NEMPS PhD Programme. 2016/2017 Edition. Advisor: Rute Sofia, ULHT.

5. Daniel Maniglia Silva, Contextualization Relevancy in Internet of Things. NEMPS PhD Programme. 2017/2018 Edition. Advisor: Rute Sofia, ULHT.

Former

1. Ben Schneider, Deterministic Networking. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, TUM). 2020. Cancelled 2022.

2. António de Oliveira Júnior. User-centric routing. Doctoral programme MAP-i, PhD thesis. Advisors: Rute Sofia, António Costa (Universidade do Minho). 2008-2014. Successfully concluded, 26.09.2014.

3. Namusale Chama, Impact of mobility on user-centric routing. Doctoral programme MAP-TELE PhD thesis. Advisors: Rute Sofia, Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro). 2008-2014. Successfully concluded, 13.04.2015.

4.  Saeik Firdose, Cooperative and Self-Organizating Aspects in Device-to-device Communication. NEMPS PhD Programme. 2014/2015 edition. Advisor: Rute Sofia (ULHT). Cancelled 2016.

5. Andrea Ribeiro. Social Mobility Modeling.Doctoral programme MAP-i, PhD thesis. Advisor: Rute Sofia, André Zúquete (Universidade de Aveiro). 2009-.Cancelled, 2014.

MSc Students

1. Sai Geetha Mada, Dynamic Resource Unit Allocation in Time Sensitive Networking WLANs across a 5G core. M.Sc. Advisors: R. C. Sofia (fortiss); Anna Arestova. and Luigi Martino (Erlangen University).  2024.

2. Sugandh Mohan, Fine Time Measurement based Time Synchronization for Multi-AP OFDMA Wireless Industrial Environments. MSc Forschungspraxis. Technical University of Munich. Advisors: Rute Sofia (fortiss), Georg Carle (TUM). 2022.

3. E. Karabulut, ML-based data classification and data aggregation on the edge. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Jorg Ött (Technical University of Munich, TUM). June 2022. Concluded with 1 out of 5.

4. Omar Aponte, Mobility Management Optimization via Inference of Roaming Behavior. MEISI, University Lusofona. 2019. Advisor: Rute C. Sofia. Concluded with 19 out of 20. 2019.

5. J. Maurício, Aggregation of Wireless Resources. MERC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa. Advisors: Prof. Artur Arsénio (NSN/IST), Rute Sofia (SITI/ULHT). Concluded with 15 out of 20. 2013.

6. J. Mota, Combining Heterogeneous Access Networks with Ad-hoc Networks for Cost-effective Connectivity. MERC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa. Advisors: Prof. Artur Arsénio (NSN/IST), Rute Sofia (SITI/ULHT). 2009-2011. Concluded with 17 out of 20. 2012.

7. L. Carvalho. User-provided Networks: Relaying vs. Routing. MSc thesis, MIEEC 2008/2009, DEEC, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. Supervisors: Rute Sofia, Prof. José Ruela (FEUP). Concluded with 18 out of 20. 2009.D. Jianglin. Adjusting Ethernet Principles to Large Scale Networks. MSc Thesis, Communications Engineering Program, Technische Universität München . Supervisors: R. Sofia (Nokia-Siemens GmbH & Co. KG), Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Eberspächer (TU München), C. Merkle (TU München). 2005.

8. W. Paprowicz. Enhancing the Ethernet Forwarding: an Analysis. MSc thesis, Communications Engineering (MSCE), University of Cracow, Poland, 2005. Supervisors: R. Sofia (Siemens AG), Prof. Andrezj Pach (University of Cracow).

9. M. Rajyalakshmi. A Study on Current Networking Simulation Tools. International Master of Science in Communications Engineering, Technische Universität München. Supervisor: Rute Sofia (Siemens AG). 2005.M. Popa, An Investigation of Real Internet Topologies and AS Relationships, Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Muenchen, Fakultat fuer Informatik. 06.2004, Msc thesis (Diplomarbeit). Supervisors: Dr. Rute Sofia, Prof. Dr-Ing. Burkhard Stiller.

10. F. Brieler. Designing and Securing an Implementation of SHARK, Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Muenchen, Fakultat fuer Informatik. 04.2004, MSc Thesis (Diplomarbeit). Supervisors: Dr. Rute Sofia, Prof. Dr-Ing. Burkhard Stiller.

Others

• H. Zhu. R. C. Sofia, J. Ott, Research internship theme: Wireless AGV Control via CODECO for Flexible Factories. July 2024.

• Parth Anand, NDN-IIoT demonstrator. fortiss IIoT Labs. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student. 2023

• Erkan Karabulut, semantic matchmaking, H2020 EFPF project, 2021-2022. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• Sugandh Huthanally Mohan, deterministic wireless time synchronization. Industrial DetNetWiFi project. 2020-2023. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student. 

• Chitiphat Chongaroonngamsaeng, deterministic wireless scheduling. Industrial DetNetWiFi project. 2020-2022. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. ortiss working student.

• Devika Ajith, multi-AP Mac-driven coordination algorithms. Industrial DetNetWiFi project. 2021. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• Jorge de Lima Tostes. Mandatory M.Sc. internship, semantic matchmaking. 2021. EIGSI - La Rochelle, France M.Sc. student. fortiss internship.

• Ömar Özdag, deterministic networking Industrial DetNetWiFi project. 2021. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• Kamal Arumugan, deterministic wireless synchronization. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• Dushyant Dave, dynamic container orchestration, C4AI Edge project. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• Wen-Yu Chung, NDN-IIoT demonstrator. fortiss IIoT Labs. Technical University of Munich M.Sc. student. fortiss working student.

• M. Meinig, IPv6 Advanced Networking Scenarios I: IPv4-IPv6 Migration Testbed, Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Muenchen, Fakultat fuer Informatik. 03.2004. Studienarbeit nr. 1002627. Supervisors: Dr. Rute Sofia, Prof. Dr-Ing. Burkhard Stiller.

• T. Beyer, IPv6 Advanced Networking Scenarios II: IPv6 Multimedia Services. Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Muenchen, Fakultat fuer Informatik. 03.2004. Studienarbeit nr. 1002610.Supervisors: Dr. Rute Sofia, Prof. Dr-Ing. Burkhard Stiller.

• Patrícia Simões. Hotspot Tracking through Cooperative Networking. University Lusófona, Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication. Inês Oliveira and Rute Sofia. Internship. 2013

• Ana Luz, A Visualization Platform: the Mood of University Lusófona. University Lusófona, Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication. Inês Oliveira and Rute Sofia. Internship. 2013