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Dr Emi Garcia
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Journal Paper

  1. Nguyen, M. T., Garcia-Palacios, E., Nguyen, L. D., Do-Duy, T., Mai, S. T. & Duong, T. Q., Spectrum-Sharing UAV-assisted Mission-Critical Communication: Learning-aided Real-time Optimisation (2021), IEEE Access , Vol. 9, 2021, (pp11622-11632)

  2. Zhang, J., Kundu, C., Dobre, O. A., Garcia-Palacios, F. & Vo, N., Secrecy Performance of Small-Cell Networks with Transmitter Selection and Unreliable Backhaul under Spectrum Sharing Environment (2020), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , Vol. 68, 2020, (pp10895)

  3. Masaracchia, A., Nguyen, L. D., Duong, T. Q., Yin, C., Dobre, O. A. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Energy-Efficient and Throughput Fair Resource Allocation for TS-NOMA UAV-Assisted Communications (2020), IEEE Transactions on Communications , 2020

  4. Isnen, M., Kurniawan, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., A-SEM: An adaptive smart energy management testbed for shiftable loads optimisation in the smart home (2019), Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation , Vol. 152, 2019

  5. Yin, C., Garcia-Palacios, E., Vo, N. & Duong, T. Q., Cognitive Heterogeneous Networks with Multiple Primary Users and Unreliable Backhaul Connections (2018), IEEE Access , Vol. 7, 2018, (pp3644 - 3655)

  6. Yin, C., Yang, L. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Outage probability of vehicular networks under unreliable backhaul (2018), EAI Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems , Vol. 5, 2018

  7. Zhang, J., Kundu, C., Nguyen, P. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Cognitive Wireless Powered Communication networks with secondary user selection and primary QoS constraint (2018), IET Communications , Vol. 12, 2018, (pp1873)

  8. Yin, C., Nguyen, H. T. ., Kundu, C., Kaleem , Z. ., Garcia-Palacios, F. & Duong, Q., Secure Energy Harvesting Relay Networks with Unreliable Backhaul Connections (2018), IEEE Access , 2018, (pp1-9)

  9. Yin, C. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Performance Analysis for Secure Cooperative Systems Under Unreliable Backhaul Over Nakagami-m Channels (2018), Mobile Networks and Applications , Vol. 24, 2018, (pp480-490)

  10. Yin, C., Nguyen, P., Garcia-Palacios, F., Tran, X. & Le-Tien, T., Secure Energy Harvesting Communications with Relay Selection over Nakagami-m Fading Channels (2017), Mobile Networks and Applications , 2017, (pp1-8)

  11. Zhang, J., Nguyen, N., Zhang, J., Garcia-Palacios, F. & Ngoc, P. L., Impact of primary networks on the performance of energy harvesting cognitive radio networks (2016), IET Communications , 2016

  12. Zhao, H., Zhang, S. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Cross-layer Framework for Fine-grained Channel Access in Next Generation High-density WiFi Networks (2016), China Communications (IEEE) , Vol. 13, 2016, (pp55-67)

  13. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Multimedia Resource Allocation in mmWave 5G Networks (2015), IEEE Communications Magazine , Vol. 53, 2015, (pp240-247)

  14. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Channel Time Allocation PSO for Gigabit Multimedia Wireless Networks (2014), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia , Vol. 16, 2014, (pp828-836)

  15. shi, C., Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, F., Ma, D. & Wei, J., Distributed Interference-aware Relay Selection (DIRS) for IEEE 802.11 based Cooperative Networks (2012), IET Networks , Vol. 1, 2012, (pp84-90)

  16. Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, F., Wei, J., Wang, S. & Ma, D., Distributed Resource Management and Admission Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Practical Approach (2012), IET Communications , Vol. 6, 2012, (pp883)

  17. Garcia-Palacios, E., Wang, S., Wei, J., Ma, D. & Zhao, H., Evaluating the impact of network density, hidden nodes and capture effect for throughput guarantee in multi-hop wireless networks (2012), Ad Hoc Networks , Vol. 11, 2012, (pp54-69)

  18. Garcia-Palacios, E., Zhao, H., Wei, J. & Xi, Y., Capacity and resource allocation of cooperative MIMO in ad hoc networks (2011), Physical Communication , Vol. 4, 2011, (pp98-110)

  19. Garcia-Palacios, E., Hurley, J. & Sezer, S., Host-based P2P flow identification and use in real-time (2011), ACM Transactions on the Web , Vol. 5, 2011

  20. Hurley, R., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Classifying Network Protocols: A ‘2 Way’ Flow Approach (2011), IET Communications , Vol. 5, 2011, (pp79-89)

  21. Garcia-Palacios, E., Zhao, H., Wei, J. & Xi, Y., Accurate available bandwidth estimation in IEEE 802.11-based ad hoc networks (2009), Computer Communications , Vol. 32, 2009, (pp1050-1057)

  22. Garcia-Palacios, E., Rethinking available bandwidth estimation in IEEE 802.11-based ad hoc networks (2009), IET Electronic Letters , Vol. 45, 2009, (pp211-213)

  23. Aldiab, M., Garcia-Palacios, E., Crookes, D. & Sezer, S., Packet classification by multi-level cutting of the classification space: An algorithmic-architectural solution for IP packet classification in next generation networks (2008), Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications , Vol. 2008, 2008

  24. Mehallegue, N., Bouridane, A. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Efficient Path Key Establishment For Wireless Sensor Networks (2008), EURASIP Journal On Wireless Communications and Networking , Vol. 2008, 2008, (pp9pages)

  25. Hussain, S. A., Mahmood, K. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Factors Affecting Performance of AODV (2007), Information Technology Journal , Vol. 6, 2007, (pp237)

  26. Garcia-Palacios, E., Sezer, S., Toal, C. & Dawson, S., Implementation of a novel credit based SCFQ scheduler for Broadband Wireless Access (2004), Telecommunications and Networking - ICT2004: Lecturer Notes on Computer Science , Vol. 3124 (2004), 2004, (pp876-884)


Book Chapter

  1. Yin, C. & Garcia-Palacios, F., An RF Energy Harvesting Approach for Secure Wireless Communication in IoT (2018),  (eds) Intelligent Computing and Internet of Things. ICSEE 2018, IMIOT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 924. Springer, Singapore, , 2018, (pp400)

  2. Heaney, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Scanlon, W., Context-Aware Body Area Networks (CABAN) for interactive smart environments : Interference characterization (2011), Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2010, , 2011, (pp23-28)


Conference Paper

  1. Yin, C., Breslin, C. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Performance of Relay-Assisted Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks with Unreliable Backhaul over Double-Rayleigh Fading Channels (2019), INISCOM 2019 , 2019

  2. Yin, C., Breslin, C., Garcia-Palacios, F. & Nguyen, H. M. ., Performance of Relay-Assisted Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks with Unreliable Backhaul over Double-Rayleigh Fading Channels. :       Best Student Paper Award (2019), 5th International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2019) , 2019, (pp109)

  3. Stewart, M., Nguyen, L. D., Yin, C., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Nguyen, S. Q., Secure cooperative systems with jamming and unreliable backhaul over nakagami-m fading channels (2018), 14th EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, INISCOM 2018 , Dec 2018, (pp253-263)

  4. Yin, C., Xie, J., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Nguyen, H. M., Outage probability of cognitive heterogeneous networks with multiple primary users and unreliable backhaul connections (2018), 14th EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, INISCOM 2018 , Dec 2018, (pp264-275)

  5. Zhang, J., Kundu, C. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Secrecy outage probability of cognitive small-cell network with unreliable backhaul connections (2018), 13th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2018 , Jun 2018, (pp89-98)

  6. Zhang, J. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Outage Probability in Cognitive Wireless Powered Communication Networks Considering QoS in Primary Networks (2017), 2018 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications and Computing (SigTelCom) , Oct 2017, (pp24-28)

  7. Yin, C., He, X., Nguyen, P. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Secure Energy Harvesting Communications with Partial Relay Selection over Nakagami-m Fading Channels (2017), 3rd International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, INISCOM 2017 , Apr 2017, (pp100-110)

  8. Nizami, Y. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Internet of Things. A proposed secured network topology (2014), IET ISSC'14- 25th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2014 , 2014, (pp274-279)

  9. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Utility-Based Resource Allocation for Real-Time IPTV in Wireless Networks (2014), IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014 , Apr 2014

  10. Al Rawi, A. & Garcia-Palacios, F., Dual-Diversity Combining for Constrained Resource Allocation and Throughput Maximization in OFDMA Networks (2013), IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference: IEEE VTC-Spring , Jun 2013, (pp1-5)

  11. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., A PSO Approach to Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks (2012), IEEE 35th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing , 2012, (pp151)

  12. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Is Rate Distortion Optimization Really Worth It? (2012), Wireless Telecommunications Symposium , 2012

  13. Garcia-Palacios, F., Mehallegue, N. & Safdar, G., Providing Security and Energy efficiency in Wireless Ad-Hoc sensor networks through Secure Cluster-Head Election (SEC-CH-E) (2012), 2012 35th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) , 2012, (pp47-51)

  14. Heaney, S. F., Scanlon, W. G., Garcia-Palacios, E., Cotton, S. L. & McKernan, A., Characterization of Inter-Body Interference in Context Aware Body Area Networking (CABAN) (2011), IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps) , 2011, (pp586-590)

  15. Scott-Hayward, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., High Definition Video in IEEE 802.15.3c mm-Wave Wireless Personal Area Networks (2011), IEEE 36th Conference on Local Computer Networks , 2011, (pp93)

  16. Heaney, S., Scanlon, W., Garcia-Palacios, E., Cotton, S. & McKernan, A., Characterization of inter-body interference in context aware body area networking (CABAN) (2011), Intl. Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks (MCECN’11) , Dec 2011, (pp518-522)

  17. Garcia-Palacios, E., Implementing Distributed Admission Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (2011), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC 2011 , May 2011

  18. Garcia-Palacios, E., Calculating End-to-End Throughput Capacity in Wireless Networks with Consideration of Hidden Nodes and Multi-rate Terminals (2011), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2011 , May 2011

  19. Heaney, S., Scanlon, W., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Cotton, S., Fading Characterization for Context Aware Body Area Networks (CABAN) in Interactive Smart Environments (2010), Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference , Nov 2010

  20. Garcia-Palacios, E. & Walsh, S., Exploiting Multiuser Diversity Using Traffic Knowledge: Next Generation Wireless Schedulers (2010), ISWCS 2010 , Sep 2010, (pp706-710)

  21. Heaney, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Scanlon, W., Context Aware Body Area Networks (CABAN) for interactive smart environments: interference characterization (2010), 5th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2010) , Sep 2010

  22. Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, E., Xi, Y. & Wei, J., Resource Allocation for Multi-hop Cooperative MIMO Systems in Ad Hoc Networks (2010), ISWCS 2010 , Sep 2010, (pp422-426)

  23. Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, E., Xi, Y. & Wei, J., Estimating resources in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: a Kalman Filter approach (2010), IEEE-IET CSNDSP 2010 , Jul 2010, (pp77-81)

  24. Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, E., Song, A., Wang, S. & Wei, J., A Soft Admission Control Methodology for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Evaluating the Impact on Existing Flows before Admission (2010), IEEE-IET CSNDSP 2010 , Jul 2010, (pp51-55)

  25. Hurley, J., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Identification of P2P Flows Through Host Activity (2009), 6th IEEE International Conference BROADNETS 2009 , Sep 2009, (pp1-6)

  26. Hurley, J., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Classification of P2P and HTTP Using Specific Protocol Characteristics (2009), 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6 6 Workshop, EUNICE 2009 , Sep 2009, (pp31-40)

  27. Zhao, H., Garcia-Palacios, E., Xi, Y. & Wei, J., Invited Paper: Preserving QoS in wireless Ad-hoc networks (2009), IEEE 1st International Conference on Wireless Vitae’09 , May 2009, (pp911-915)

  28. Mehallegue, N., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Bouridane, A., A Power Efficient Path Key Establishment Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks (2008), NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems 2008-AHS2008 , May 2008, (pp475-481)

  29. Mehallegue, N., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Bouridane, A., Path Key Establishment for Wireless Sensor Networks (2007), 9th Edition IEEE MWCN'07 International Conference , Sep 2007, (pp146-150)

  30. Mu, J., Sezer, S., Douglas, G., Burns, D. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Accelerating Pattern Matching for DPI (2007), SOC Conference 2007 , Sep 2007, (pp83-86)

  31. Mehallegue, N., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Bouridane, A., Improving Key distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks (2007), 2nd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems , Aug 2007, (pp82-88)

  32. Aldiab, M., Sezer, S., Garcia-Palacios, E., Mu, J. & Toal, C., FPGA based lookup circuit for session-based IP packet classification (2007), 2nd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems , Aug 2007, (pp419-426)

  33. Mu, J., Douglas, G., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., A Survey on Snort's Signature Set and Analysis on Hardware-Based State Machine Implementation (2007), 3rd IET UK Embedded Forum , Apr 2007, (pp120-125)

  34. Hurley, J., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., An investigation into stateful packet classification concepts (2007), 3rd IET UK Embedded Forum , Apr 2007, (pp85-90)

  35. Douglas, G., Mu, J., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Custom-Purpose Compiler Design for an Application Specific Deep Packet Inspection Engine (2007), 3rd IET UK Embedded Forum , Apr 2007, (pp75-80)

  36. Aldiab, M., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Hardware accelerated session-based IP packet classification (2007), 3rd IET UK Embedded Forum , Apr 2007, (pp91-96)

  37. Walsh, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Delay-bound Preservation through Packet Scheduling at Wireless Access Point Nodes (2006), Proceedings of 3rd IEE Mobility Conference , Oct 2006, (pp1-7)

  38. Hussain, A., Mahmood, K. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Effect of Node Mobility on AODV Peformance (2006), CIIT Workshop on Research in Computing, CWRC 2006 , Apr 2006

  39. Hussain, A., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Idrees, M., Throughput Enhancement in AODV Routing Using Mobility Awareness (2005), IEEE International Multi-topic Conference, INMIC 2005 , Dec 2005

  40. Aldiab, M., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Simulation and Assessment of ARC Packet classificagtion algorithm (2005), IEEE 6th Jordanian International Electrical and Electronics Engineering Conference , Nov 2005, (pp257-261)

  41. Hussain, A., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Idrees, M., Throughput Enhancement in AODV Routing (2005), 2nd CIIT Workshop on Research in Computing, CWRC 2005 , Nov 2005

  42. Garcia-Palacios, E., Aldiab, M. & Hussain, A., Assessing Capacity in WLAN-UMTS integrated networks (2005), Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, A-ICT'05 , Jul 2005, (pp189-194)

  43. Aldiab, M., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Packet classification using Adaptive Rules Cutting (ARC) (2005), Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, A-ICT'05 , Jul 2005, (pp28-33)

  44. Walsh, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Assessing the impact of rainfall on system bandwidth for Broadband Fixed Wireless applications (2005), Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, A-ICT'05 , Jul 2005, (pp279-283)

  45. Walsh, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., Knowledge-based wireless fair queuing using a traffic-profile compensation technique for Broadband Fixed Wireless Applications (2005), 63th Edition IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC?05 , May 2005, (pp1913-1917)

  46. Hussain, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Dynamic Contention Window for Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11 Networks (2004), IEEE/ACM National Conference on Emerging Technologies, NCET 2004 , Dec 2004

  47. Walsh, S., Garcia-Palacios, E. & Sezer, S., A framework for traffic-profile based Wireless Fair Queuing for next generation wireless networks (2004), Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04 , Jun 2004, (pp369-374)

  48. Sezer, S., Garcia-Palacios, E., Toal, C. & Dawson, S., Architecture and Implementation of a novel Tag computation Circuit for Broadband Wireless Access Packet Scheduling (2004), IEEE ICC 2004 (IEEE International Conference on Communications , Jun 2004, (pp3979-3983)

  49. McKillen, C., Sezer, S. & Garcia-Palacios, E., Decomposition of a WFQ tag computation architecture (2004), Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04 , Jun 2004, (pp423-427)

  50. Sezer, S., Toal, C. & Garcia-Palacios, E., A Reconfigurable Tag Computation Architecture for Terabit Packet Scheduling (2004), International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 , Apr 2004

  51. Garcia-Palacios, E. & Marshall, A., Assessing the impactof a static selective partitioning bandwidth reservation policy in wireless multimedia networks (2002), Iasted Communications Systems and Networks 2002, CSN'02 , Sep 2002, (pp58-63)

  52. Garcia-Palacios, E., Design issues for QoS provision in Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Networks (2001), FBWA Design Workshop , May 2001

  53. Garcia-Palacios, F., QoS Analysis of a Wireless ATM Network Access Point : ICC'99 IEEE Best Student Paper Award (1999), IEEE ICC 1999, Vancouver, Canada , 1999, (pp226-230)

  54. Sezer, S., Garcia-Palacios, E., Marshall, A. & Woods, R., Buffer architectures for predictable Quality of Service at the ATM layer (1998), IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 98) , Nov 1998, (pp1242-1248)

  55. Sezer, S., Garcia-Palacios, E., Marshall, A. & Woods, R., Analysis of ATM switch design for achieving predictable quality of service (1998), 6th IEE Conference on Telecommunications , Mar 1998, (pp16-21)

  56. Sezer, S., Garcia-Palacios, F. E., Marshall, A. & Woods, R., Preserving quality of service in wireless ATM networks (1998), 1998 28th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 1998 , Jan 1998, (pp487-495)


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