Talks & Awards

Nuno M.C. Paulino

Oct 18, 2022 Teaching

Heterogeneous System Architectures (M.EEC049) invited class.

Nuno M.C. Paulino

Oct 18, 2022 Machine Learning, RF, 5G

BacalhauNet - A Tiny CNN for Lightning-Fast Modulation Classification

This is the winning submission of the ITU-ML5G-PS-007 “AI for Good Machine Learning in 5G Challenge”, where Neural Networks deployed to FPGAs are used to classify radio signal modulations, using the DeepSig RadioML 2018 dataset. The submission won first place in two evaluation rounds, consisting of over 30 teams from all over the world. The submission presentation is publicly available.

Nuno M.C. Paulino

Jun 5, 2021 Teaching

Evaluating a Novel Bluetooth 5.1 AoA Approach for Low-Cost Indoor Vehicle Tracking via Simulation

The recent Bluetooth 5.1 specification introduced the use of Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) information which enables the design of novel low-cost indoor positioning systems. In this paper, we instead present an approach where mobile receivers are equipped with antenna arrays, and the fixed infrastructure is composed of battery-powered beacons. We evaluated the solution as a function of the number of beacons, their transmission period, and algorithmic parameters of the position estimation. Sub-meter accuracy is achievable using 1.6 beacons per 10 m 2 and a beacon transmission period of 500 ms.

Nuno M.C. Paulino

Jun 5, 2021 Teaching

FPGA 101 for Software Engineers

This presentation was an invited keynote to the national REC2021 conference.

Nuno M.C. Paulino

Jun 5, 2021 Teaching

On the Resilience of Self-Locating BLE 5.1 Receivers with Antenna Arrays

This is a presentation of the scientific outputs of the SLID project, held at the Wireless Meeting 2022, in Aveiro Portugal.