Francisco A. T. B N. Monteiro

List of publications, and talks

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My Erdős number is 4: via Alexander Vardy (Erdős No. 2), and Frank Kschischang (Erdős No. 3).

Science writing for wider audiences

• F. Monteiro, “Faster and Faster: A look at the remarkable achievements in error-free digital communications”, in BlueSci, Issue 15, pp. 14-15, Cambridge, UK, April 2009. (BlueSci is a science magazine run by Cambridge students and postdocs and distributed in UK universities. The article in issue 15 of BlueSci.
  
• F. Monteiro, “Baffling Points”, March 2009 (submitted to the 2009 math writing competition of Plus Magazine. Copyright belongs to Plus Magazine though.)

Book M. M. da Silva and F. A. Monteiro (eds), MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution, CRC Press / Taylor and Francis Group, June 2014. List of contribuitors to the book. Book chapters F. A. Monteiro, I. J. Wassell, and N. Souto, "MIMO Detection Methods",  in MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution, M. M. da Silva and F. A. Monteiro, Eds., CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, Florida, USA, 2014, ch. 2. N. Souto and F. A. Monteiro; "MIMO optimized for OFDM",  in MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution, M. Marques da Silva and F. A. Monteiro, Eds., CRC / Taylor & Francis Group, Florida, USA, 2014, ch. 4.

Papers

Under peer review:

• Sahar Allahkaram, Francisco A. Monteiro, Carlos Salema, "Simple and Fast Decoding of Short LDPC Codes", submitted to the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024), Athens, Greece, January 2024 [Paper].

• André Roque, Diogo Cruz, Francisco A. Monteiro, Bruno C. Coutinho, "Efficient entanglement purification based on noise guessing decoding", submitted to Quantum journal, November 2023. [ArXiv]
  

• Sahar Allahkaram, Francisco A. Monteiro, Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou, "Symbol-Level Noise-Guessing Decoding with Antenna Sorting for URLLC Massive MIMO", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2023. [ArXiv]
  
  
• B. C. Coutinho, R. Monteiro, L. Bugalho, F. A. Monteiro, "Entanglement Routing Based on Fidelity Curves for Quantum Photonics Channels", submitted to Physical Review A, March 2023. [ArXiv]

Published:

• D. Cruz, F. A. Monteiro, B. C. Coutinho, "Quantum Error Correction via Noise Guessing Decoding", in IEEE Access, October 2023. [IEEE Xplore] [ArXiv] [pdf].
  
  
• I. Chatzigeorgiou and F. A. Monteiro, "Symbol-Level GRAND for High-Order Modulation Over Block Fading Channels", in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 447-451, Feb. 2023. [IEEEXplore] [pdf].

• L. Bugalho, B. C. Coutinho, F. A. Monteiro, Y. Omar, "Distributing Multipartite Entanglement over Noisy Quantum Networks", Quantum, Vol. 7, No. 920, Feb. 2023. [Quantum] [ArXiv] [pdf]

• S. Santos, F. A. Monteiro, B. C. Coutinho and Y. Omar, "Shortest Path Finding in Quantum Networks With Quasi-Linear Complexity", in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 7180-7194, January 2023. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  

• S. Allahkaram, F. A. Monteiro and I. Chatzigeorgiou, "URLLC with Coded Massive MIMO via Random Linear Codes and GRAND", IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall), London, United Kingdom, Sep. 2022. [IEEExplore] [pdf]

• F. Rosário, F. A. Monteiro, "Gibbs Sampling Detection for Large MIMO and MTC Uplinks with Adaptive Modulation",  Sensors, Vol.  22, No. 4, Article No. 1309, pp. 1-21, Feb. 2022. [Sensors] [pdf]
  

• F. A. Monteiro, Onel L. A. López, Hirley Alves, "Massive Wireless Energy Transfer with Statistical CSI Beamforming", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Transmission of Information and Power, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 1169-1184, Aug. 2021. [IEEExplore]  [ArXiv]  [pdf]  [5 min video]  [5 min video on Youtube and with optional captions]
  
  
• O. L. A. López, F. A. Monteiro, H. Alves, R. Zhang, M. Latva-aho, "A Low-Complexity Beamforming Design for Multiuser Wireless Energy Transfer", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 58-62, Jan. 2021. [IEEE Xplore] [ArXiv] [pdf]
  
  
• R. Alberto, F. A. Monteiro, "Downlink MIMO-NOMA with and Without CSI: A Short Survey and Comparison", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Porto, Portugal, July 2020. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] [video presentation]
  
  
• N. B. Coelho, F. A. Monteiro, and R. J. Lopes, "Self-adapting Linear Network Coding Emulation", accepted for publication in ISNCC 2019 - International Symposium on Networks, Computers, and Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2019. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• J. S. Lemos, F. A. Monteiro, I. Sousa, F. E. Ennes Ferreira, "Efficient Message Exchange Protocols Exploiting State-of-the-art PHY Layer", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Full-Duplex Radio: Theory, Design, and Applications, Vol. 2017, No 92, pp. 1-14, May 2017. [SpringerOpen] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. Burr, I. Chatzigeorgiou, C. Hollanti, I. Krikidis, H. Seferoglu, V. Skachek, "Editorial: Special Issue on Network Coding", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Network Coding, Vol. 2017, pp. 1-3,  April 2017. [SpringerOpen] [pdf]
  
  
• J. S. Lemos, F. A. Monteiro, "Full-duplex massive MIMO with physical layer network coding for the two-way relay channel", in Proceedings of SAM 2016 - The Ninth IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2016. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]  Invited Paper
  
  
• F. Rosário, F. A. Monteiro, A. Rodrigues, "Fast Matrix Inversion Updates for Massive MIMO Detection and Precoding",  in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 75-79, Jan. 2016.  (also presented at ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China, in March 2016, under the IEEE SPL and ICASSP scheme). [IEEE Xplore]  [pdf]
  
  
• F. E. Ferreira, F. A. Monteiro, I. Sousa, "Full-Duplex MIMO and PLNC for the Y-Network", in Proceedings of the 18^th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON 2016, Limassol, Cyprus, April 2016. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• J. S. Lemos, F. A. Monteiro, I. Sousa, A. Rodrigues, "Full-Duplex Relaying in MIMO-OFDM Frequency-Selective Channels with Optimal Adaptive Filtering", in Proceedigns of GlobalSIP 2015 - 3^rd IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 2015. [IEEE Xplore] [ArXiv] [pdf]
  
  
• J. S. Lemos, F. Rosário, F. A. Monteiro, J. Xavier, A. J. Rodrigues, "Massive MIMO Full-Duplex Relaying with Optimal Power Allocation for Independent Multipairs", in Proceedings of SPAWC 2015 - The 16^th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015. [IEEE Xplore] [ArXiv] [pdf]  Invited Paper
  
  
• F. S. Brás, F. E. Ferreira, F. A. Monteiro and A. Rodrigues, "Interference Suppression with Physical-Layer Network Coding and MIMO for Multi-Way Channels", in Proceedings of SiPS 2014 - The IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Belfast, UK, Oct. 2014. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, "Demixing Radio Waves in MIMO Spatial Multiplexing: Geometry-based Receivers", in Proceedings of the 6^th Conference of the URSI Portuguese Committee, ANACOM, ISBN 978-972-786-091-3, Nov. 2012. [Paper submitted to the URSI Prize as a compilation of the two 2011 papers and later invited for oral presentation at the URSI conference.]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, I. J. Wassell, “Dual-Lattice-Aided MIMO Detection for Slow Fading Channels”, in Proceedings of the 11^th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Bilbao, Spain, Dec. 2011. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, F. R. Kschischang, “Trellis Detection for Random Lattices”, in Proceedings of ISWCS’11 – The 8th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2011, Aachen, Germany, Nov. 2011. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, I. J. Wassell, “Recovery of a Lattice Generator Matrix from its Gram Matrix for Feedback and Precoding in MIMO”, in Proceedings of the 4^th I International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Limassol, Cyprus, March 2010. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A Monteiro and  I. J. Wassell, “Progressive Hypercube Decoding”, in Proceedings of ISWCS’07 – The 4^th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 2007. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, I. J. Wassell, “Euclidean Distances in Quantized Spaces with Pre-stored Components for MIMO Detection”, in Proceedings of ECWT' 07 – 10^th European Conference on Wireless Technology – 10th European Microwave Week, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] Best Paper Award
  
  
• F. Monteiro, I. J. Wassell, “Efficient Scalar Quantization for MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Receivers”, in Proceedings of ISCTA' 07 – 9^th International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications, Ambleside, Lake District, UK, July 2007. [Cambridge archive] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues; "Phase error resilience to I/Q mismatch of a simplified CPM receiver", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 549 - 551, Sep. 2005. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
•  F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues; "Limits for CPM signals representation by Walsh functions", Proceedings of the European Microwave Association: the Journal or the EuMA, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 82 - 86, Mar. 2005. [see also ECWT´04 paper bellow] [pdf with journal covers] [pdf] Invited Paper
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, “The M-algorithm on the Detection of CPM Schemes on the Minimum Euclidian Distance Upper Bound”, in Proceedings of ECWT' 04 – 7^th European Conference on Wireless Technology – 7^th European Microwave Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Oct. 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, “Limits for CPM Signals Representation by Walsh Functions”, in Proceedings of ECWT ' 04 – 7^th European Conference on Wireless Technology – 7^th European Microwave Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Oct. 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] Best Student Paper Award
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, “CPM Reception Combining Complexity Reduction Techniques for Schemes on Minimum Euclidian Distance Upper Bound and MSK”, in Proceedings of ISIT 2004 – The 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, USA, Jun. 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, “Assessment of a Quasi-Optimum Very Low Complexity CPM Receiver over Flat Rayleigh Fading Channels”, in Proceedings of VTC 2004 Spring – IEEE Semi-annual Vehicular Technology Conference, Milan, Italy, May 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, "Simple Metrics Derivation for a Discrete Time Continuous Phase Modulation Receiver", in Proceedings of WPMC’ 01- The 4^th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Aalborg, Denmark, Sept. 2001. [ResearchGate] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, A. J. Rodrigues, "Sub-Optimum Detection of Coded Continuous Phase Modulation in Radio Channels", in Proceedings of ConfTele2001- 3^rd (Biennial) Conference on Telecommunications, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, April 2001. [CiteSeerx] [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, L. M. Correia, “Mobility Effects on Telegraphic in GSM”, in Proceedings of URSI 2000 - XV Simposium Nacional de la Union Cientifica Internacional de Radio, Zaragoza , Spain, Sep.2000. [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, F. A. Cercas, “Understanding Digital Communication Physical Layer”, in Proceedings of URSI 2000 - XV Simposium Nacional de la Union Cientifica Internacional de Radio, Zaragoza , Spain, Sep. 2000. [pdf]
  
  
• F. A. Monteiro, F. A. Cercas, "Digital Transmissions Simulation Tool", (in Portuguese), in Proceedings of JETC’ 99 - Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 1999. [pdf]

Relevant poster presentations

• Quantum Error Correction via Noise Guessing Decoding, Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC), Aveiro, Portugal, July 2023  (with student Diogo Cruz, and Dr. Bruno Coutinho).
  
• Finding the Shortest Path in a Quantum Network, Quantum Internet Alliance Consortium Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019 (with student Sara Santos and Dr. Bruno Coutinho).
• Physical Layer Network Coding in a Network with a MIMO relay, IEEE European School on Information Theory, Tallinn, Estonia, April 2014 (with MSc students Filipe E. Ferreira and Flávio Brás).
• Digital communications: fundamentals, limits and present challenges, at Fitzwilliam College Graduate Conference, Cambridge, UK, 25th October 2008 and also at FISTA – Forum of the IUL School of Technology and Architecture, May 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Quantized lattices in MIMO, at ISIT 2007 –The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (recent results poster session), Nice, France, June 2007.
• Contour detection for digital communications, Industrial Showcase, Division of Information Engineering, Engineering Department, Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 29th Nov. 2006.
• Contour modulation, Digital Technology Group, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 10th Jan. 2006.

Theses and projects

• F. Monteiro, Lattices in MIMO Spatial Multiplexing: Detection and Geometry, PhD thesis, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Oct. 2011. [pdf]
• F. Monteiro, Detection Techniques for Multiple-input Multiple-output Spatial Multiplexing, from Complex Contours to Quantized Lattices, Report for admission to candidacy to the PhD degree, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, March 2007.
• F. Monteiro, Complexity Reduction of CPM Receivers on Wireless Communications Systems, M.Sc. Thesis, (in Portuguese), DEEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 2003. [pdf]
• F. Monteiro, Sónia Pinto, Analysis and Efficient Simulation of Digital Modulations: Channel Coding and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum in Radio Communications (in Portuguese), Final Year Degree Project, DEEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 1999.

Recent Talks

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Wireless Communications Seminars: “Distributed Source Coding based on Integer-Forcing”, 25th Oct 2019. (Host: Prof. Angel Lozano.)
• University of Oulu, Finland, Visiting Lectures Seminars of the Centre for Wireless Communications: “Distributed Source Coding based on Integer-Forcing”, 2nd Sep. 2019. (Host: Prof. Markku Juntti.)
• University of Oulu, Finland, Machine-Type Wireless Communications Seminars: “A Research Outlook on Wireless Communications (and Quantum Communications)”, 6th Aug. 2019. (Host: Dr. Hirley Alves.)
• University of Cyprus, Seminars of the IRIDA Research Centre for Communication Technologies: “Research Outlook on Wireless Communications and Quantum Communications”, 26th July 2019. (Host: Dr. Ioannis Krikidis.)
• ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics, Signal and Image Processing Group, Lisbon: “Increasing the Capacity of Wireless Communications by Exploiting Signal’s Interference”, 1st February 2017. (Host: Prof. João Xavier)
• RTCM, Lisbon: "Boosting Capacity through Interference in 5G", meeting of the National Thematic Network on Mobile Communications, 18^th Jan. 2017. (Chair: Prof. Rodolfo Oliveira)
• Keynote Speaker at the Design and Application of  Random Network Codes Conference (DARNEC): "Signal processing in the upcoming wireless networks: Untangling signals in space, in spectrum, and network coded", Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 4^th Nov. 2015 (Conference Chair: Prof. Güneş K. Kurt.)
• University of Cyprus: "Approaches to the Closest Vector Problem in MIMO Detection", Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 29^th January 2014. (Host: Dr. Ioannis Krikidis)
• University of Cambridge, UK: An Introduction to Physical Layer Network Coding, Digital Technology Group, The Computer Laboratory, 8th July 2013. (Host: Dr. Ian Wassell)
• University of Luxembourg, SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust: Approaches to the Closest Vector Problem in MIMO Detection, 24th May 2013. (Host Dr. Dzevdan Kapetanovic, now with Ericson, Lund, Sweden)
• University of Lund, Sweden,: "Approaches to the Closest Vector Problem in MIMO Detection",  Department of Electrical and Information Technology, 17^th April 2013. (Host: Dr. Fredrik Rusek)
• Clube ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon: "Space-time wireless communications: modern signal processing with MIMO", Science  and Technology Meetings, Clube ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 11^th Dec. 2012
• Dep. of Mathematics of IST -Tech. Univ. of LisbonThe closest vector problem in multi-dimensional wireless channels, Security and Quantum Information Group Meetings, 2^nd March 2012. (Host: Dr. Yasser Omar)

Other Talks (inc. outreach)

• Nice detectors for ugly lattices, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 8th Jun. 2009.
• Orthogonal subsets in random lattices, Communications Team Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 27_th March 2009.
• Ubiquitous digital communications: from wireless networks to probes on Mars, Graduate Talks, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 27th Nov., 2008
• Rethinking the nearest neighbour problem, Communications Team Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 4th April 2008.
• Rethinking the nearest neighbour problem, Communications Group, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, 28th Feb. 2008.
• Distinctive features of MATLAB, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 5th Nov. 2007.
• MIMO in academia and MIMO in industry, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 22nd Oct. 2007.
• Proposals for the detection of MIMO Spatial Multiplexing: Second year PhD, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab.,Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 30th April 2007.
• Detection Techniques for Multiple-input Multiple-output Spatial Multiplexing, Communications Team Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 27th April 2007.
• Non-circular phase modulations: a bad paper, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 5th Feb. 2007.
• PhD Research at the Computer Laboratory, Conference on Computer Science, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 11th March 2006 (invited talk).
• From Computational Biology to Contour Detection: First Year PhD, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, 6th March 2006.
• Capacity Limits of MIMO Channels: a good paper, Digital Technology Group Meetings, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 5th Feb. 2006.
• Overview of the Capacity Limits of MIMO Channels, Communications Team Meetings, Digital Technology Group, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 3rd Feb. 2006.
• Computational Biology links to Information Theory and Communication Engineering, Communications Team Meetings, Digital Technology Group, The Computer Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, 21st Oct. 2005.
• Mobility Effects on Teletraffic in GSM, Group for research on Wireless, Instituto de Telecomunicações, 26 July 2000. (Invited by Prof. Luis Correia, group leader and Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.)

Other

• Some slides and texts for taught courses both at IST and ISCTE-IUL