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Rute C. Sofia (PhD 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed on industrial and on academic context. She was a co-founder of the COPELABS research unit, and the COPELABS scientific director (2013-2017), where she was a Senior Researcher (2010-2019). She has co-founded the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019), a startup focused on personal communication platforms. Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; in-network computing; network mining. Rute holds over 60 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Europe Councilor (2021-2025); an ACM Senior member, an IEEE Senior Member. She was an IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards co-chair (2020-2021). Before fortiss, she was an Associate Professor (COPELABS/ULHT, wireless/user-centric networking; sensing; IoT); she co-lead as senior researcher the "Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, INESC-TEC (07-10), focus on wireless/cellular network architectures and user-centric networking; she was (04-07) a senior research scientist in Siemens AG and Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH, focusing on aspects such as: fixed-mobile convergence; carrier-grade Ethernet; QoS; IPv6 interoperability. Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995); M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania, MNLab.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Helena Rute Esteves Carvalho Sofia

Citation names

  • Sofia, Rute C.
  • Sofia, Rute

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D218-AACC-BC77
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7455-5872
Google Scholar ID
_tCANFgAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
Researcher Id
I-1553-2013
Scopus Author Id
23398615900

Email addresses

  • sofia@fortiss.org (Professional)
  • hrecs@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
  • rs19104@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • Guerickstr. 25, 80805, Munich, Munich, Germany (Professional)
  • ISTAR-IUL, Av. das Forças Armadas, ISCTE-IUL, 1649-026, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2004/03/19
Concluded
Informática (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Sicap: a Shared-segment Inter-domain Control Aggregation Protocol" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1997/09 - 1999/05
Attended
Informática (Mestrado)
Major in Informática
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Muito Bom
1990/09 - 1995/07
Attended
Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Major in Redes e arquitecturas de computadores
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/09/01 - Current Coordinating Researcher (Research) fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems, Germany
2010/09/01 - 2019/07/31 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2010/08/31 Principal Investigator (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2007/04/01 - 2007/10/31 Researcher (Research) Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH und Co KG Muchen, Germany
2004/09/01 - 2007/04/01 Researcher (Research) Siemens AG, Germany
2004/01 - 2004/08 Researcher (Research) Universitat der Bundeswehr München, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/08/01 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2010/10/01 - 2019/07/31 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
1998/07 - 2003/12 Engenharia Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional, Portugal
1995/09 - 1998/07 Engenharia Grupo Forum, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/10 - 2023/05 EU-IoT European Commission
2009/09 - 2013/12 User-centric Routing
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010/04 - 2013/09 User-centric Mobility Management Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2009/01 - 2012/12 Social Mobility Modeling
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/06 - 2021/06 TSNWiFi Huawei
2017/01 - 2019/07 COPELABS - Proxemics Data Lab
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/02 - 2018/02 UMOBILE: UNIVERSAL, MOBILE-CENTRIC AND OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE
Other
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
European Research Council
Concluded
2015/01 - 2017/12 COPELABS - Association for the Research and Development of Cognition and People-centric Computing
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Stichting Weten
Ongoing
2014/01 - 2014/08 InnoWave Lablet@COPELABS
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Concluded
2010/04 - 2013/09 User-centric Mobility Management
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Stichting Weten
Concluded
2010/09 - 2013/08 ULOOP: User-centric Wireless Local Loop
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
European Commission
Concluded
2010/05 - 2013/04 User-centric Routing
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2011/12/01 - 2012/12 MITS: Modular Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Concluded
2010/09 - 2012/12 Hotel 3.0 - Web3.0 platform for the hospitality market
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Concluded
2010/10 - 2012/05 FIC - Future Internet Framework
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Concluded
2009/09 - 2011/12 ReCoop - Cooperative Wireless Networks
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2010/10 - 2011/09 UcMc: User-centric Mobile Core
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Sofia, R.. A tool to estimate roaming behavior in wireless architectures. 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-22572-2_18
  2. Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.; Zhu, H.; Bogliolo, A.; Sivrikaya, F.; Di Francesco, P.. User-centric networking: Cooperation in wireless networks. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-10834-6_3
  3. Barcelo-Arroyo, F.; Gorawski, M.; Grochla, K.; Martín-Escalona, I.; Polys, K.; Ribeiro, A.G.; Sofia, R.; Zola, E.. New trends in mobility modelling and handover prediction. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-10834-6_6
  4. Junior, A.; Sofia, R.; Costa, A.. Energy-efficient heuristics for multihop routing in user-centric environments. 2012.
    10.1007/978-3-642-32686-8_22
  5. Nascimento, A.; Sofia, R.; Condeixa, T.; Sargento, S.. A characterization of mobility management in user-centric networks. 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-22875-9_29
  6. Condeixa, T.; Matos, R.; Matos, A.; Sargento, S.; Sofia, R.. A new perspective on mobility management scenarios and approaches. 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_29
  7. Ray, S.; Guérin, R.; Sofia, R.. Distributed path computation without transient loops: An intermediate variables approach. 2007.
Book chapter
  1. Sofia, Rute C.. "The Role of Smart Data in Inference of Human Behavior and Interaction". In Smart Data: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives in Computing and Applications, edited by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA. United States: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2019.
    Accepted
  2. Sofia, Helena. "User-centric Networking: bringing the Home Network to the Core". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_1
  3. Sofia, Helena. "User-centric Networking Living-Examples and Challenges Ahead". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_2
  4. Sofia, Helena. "User-centric Networking, Routing Aspects". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_3
  5. Sofia, Helena. "Trust as a Fairness Parameter for Quality of Experience in Wireless networks". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_8
  6. Sofia, Helena. "Mobility Estimation in the Context of Distributed Mobility Management". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_14
Conference paper
  1. Silva, Daniel Maniglia A. da; Asaamoning, Godwin; Orrillo, Hector; Sofia, Rute C.; Mendes, Paulo M.. "An analysis of fog computing data placement algorithms". Paper presented in EAI Mobiquitous2019 (EFIOT Workshop), 2019.
    10.1145/3360774.3368201
  2. Aponte, Omar; Sofia, Rute C.. "Mobility Management Optimization via Inference of Roaming Behavior". Paper presented in WiMob2019 (STWiMob'19), 2019.
    10.1109/wimob.2019.8923345
  3. Pascoal, Rui Miguel; de Almeida, Ana; Sofia, Rute C.. "Activity recognition in outdoor sports environments". 2019.
    10.1145/3341162.3349299
  4. Sofia, Rute C.; Rui Pascoal; Ana de Almeida. "A Survey of Augmented Reality: Making Technologies Acceptable in Outdoor Environments". Paper presented in CISTI 2018, 2018.
  5. Sofia, Rute C.. "A Survey of Augmented Reality: Making Technologies Acceptable in Outdoor Environments". 2018.
  6. Sofia, Rute C.. "information-centric routing for opportunistic wireless networks". 2017.
  7. Sofia, Rute C.. "information-centric routing for opportunistic wireless networks". 2017.
  8. Sofia, R.; Firdose, S.; Lopes, L.A.; Moreira, W.; Mendes, P.. "NSense: A people-centric, non-intrusive opportunistic sensing tool for contextualizing nearness". 2016.
    10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749490
  9. Amaral, L.; Firdose, S.; Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.. "USense: A people-centric opportunistic sensing tool". 2016.
    10.1109/INFCOMW.2016.7562119
  10. Amaral, L.; Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.; Moreira, W.. "Oi! - Opportunistic data transmission based on Wi-Fi direct". 2016.
    10.1109/INFCOMW.2016.7562142
  11. Chama, N.; Sofia, R.; Sargento, S.; Namusale Chama; Rute Sofia; Susana Sargento. "Node Spatial correlation aware routing metrics for user-centric environments". 2014.
    10.1109/NTMS.2014.6814037
  12. Lopes, L.A.; Sofia, R.; Osman, H.; Haci, H.; Luis Amaral Lopes; Rute Sofia; Hassan Osman; Huseyin Haci. "A proposal for elastic spectrum management in wireless local area networks". 2014.
    10.1109/INFCOMW.2014.6849188
  13. Carlos Ballester; Jean-Marc Seigneur; Paolo di Francesco; Valentin Moreno; Rute Sofia; Waldir Moreira; Alessandro Bogliolo; Nuno Martins. "A user-centric approach to trust management in wi-fi networks". 2013.
    10.1109/infcomw.2013.6970754
  14. Tiago Condeixa; Lucas Guardalben; Tome Gomes; Susana Sargento; Rute Sofia; Sofia, Rute C.. "Make-without-break horizontal IP handovers for Distributed Mobility Management schemes". 2013.
    10.1109/glocomw.2013.6825107
  15. Chama, N.; Sofia, R.C.; Sargento, S.. "Multihop mobility metrics based on link stability". 2013.
    10.1109/WAINA.2013.57
  16. Ribeiro, A.; Sofia, R.; Zúquete, A.. "Modeling pause time in social mobility models". 2012.
    10.1109/ISWCS.2012.6328449
  17. Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.; Damásio, M.J.; Henriques, S.; Giglietto, F.; Giambitto, E.; Bogliolo, A.. "Moving towards a socially-driven internet architectural design". 2012.
    10.1145/2317307.2317316
  18. Junior, A.; Sofia, R.; Costa, A.; Oliveira, A.. "Energy-awareness in multihop routing". 2012.
    10.1109/WD.2012.6402881
  19. Condeixa, T.; Sargento, S.; Nascimento, A.; Sofia, R.. "Decoupling and distribution of mobility management". 2012.
    10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477727
  20. Nascimento, A.; Sofia, R.; Condeixa, T.; Sargento, S.. "A decoupling approach for distributed mobility management". 2012.
    10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289280
  21. Chama, N.; Sofia, R.C.; Sargento, S.. "Impact of mobility on user-centric routing". 2011.
    10.1109/ICNP.2011.6089063
  22. Antonio Jr.; Sofia, R.; Costa, A.. "Energy-efficient routing". 2011.
    10.1109/ICNP.2011.6089066
  23. Sofia, Rute C.. "Characterizing Multihop Routing Requirements for Node Mobility Support". 2010.
  24. Chama, N.; Sofia, R.. "Redefining link duration: Making routing sensitive to mobility". 2010.
    10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700336
  25. Júnior, A.; Sofia, R.. "Energy-efficient routing in user-centric environments". 2010.
    10.1109/GreenCom-CPSCom.2010.136
  26. Sofia, Rute C.. "A performance evaluation of multihop relaying vs. multihop routing". 2009.
  27. Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.; Panwar, S.S.; Kennedy, D.; Vallejo, J.; Trossen, D.. "User-provided networking: Challenges and opportunities". 2009.
    10.1145/1659029.1659041
  28. Ling Chen; Xuejun Cai; Rute Sofia; Zhen Huang. "A Cross-Layer Fast Handover Scheme For Mobile WiMAX". 2007.
    10.1109/vetecf.2007.335
  29. Xuejun Cai; Ling Chen; Rute Sofia; Yanqi Wu. "Dynamic and User-Centric Network Selection in Heterogeneous Networks". 2007.
    10.1109/pccc.2007.358937
  30. Ray, S.; Guérin, R.; Sofia, R.. "A distributed hash table based address resolution scheme for large-scale ethernet networks". 2007.
    10.1109/ICC.2007.1066
  31. Cai, X.; Chen, L.; Sofia, R.; Wu, Y.. "Dynamic and user-centric network selection in heterogeneous networks". 2007.
    10.1109/PCCC.2007.358937
  32. Chen, L.; Cai, X.; Sofia, R.; Huang, Z.. "A cross-layer fast handover scheme for mobile WiMAX". 2007.
    10.1109/VETECF.2007.335
  33. Sofia, R.; Guérin, R.; Veiga, P.. "Enabling scalable inter-AS signaling: A load reduction approach". 2005.
    10.1109/ISCC.2005.64
  34. Sofia, R.; Guerin, R.; Veiga, P.. "SICAP, a shared-segment inter-domain control aggregation protocol". 2003.
    10.1109/HPSR.2003.1226683
  35. Sofia, Rute C.. "Study and Presentation of the Security Architecture for IP, IPSec". 1999.
Conference poster
  1. Sofia, Rute C.. "Leveraging Context-awareness to Better Support the IoT Cloud-Edge Continuum". 2020.
  2. Tsilopoulos, Christos; Xylomenos, George. "Information-centric Routing for Opportunistic Networks". Paper presented in ACM ICN, 2018.
    10.1145/2018584.2018588
Journal article
  1. Liliana I. Carvalho; Rute C. Sofia. "A Review on Scaling Mobile Sensing Platforms for Human Activity Recognition: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Research". IoT (2020): https://doi.org/10.3390/iot1020025.
    10.3390/iot1020025
  2. Pascoal, Rui; Almeida, Ana De; Sofia, Rute C.. "Mobile Pervasive Augmented Reality Systems—MPARS". ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 20 1 (2020): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3375458.
    Published • 10.1145/3375458
  3. Daniel Maniglia Amancio Da Silva; Rute C. Sofia. "A Discussion on Context-Awareness to Better Support the IoT Cloud/Edge Continuum". IEEE Access 8 (2020): 193686-193694. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032388.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032388
  4. Rute C. Sofia. "Guidelines towards Information-Driven Mobility Management". Future Internet (2019): https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/11/5/111.
    10.3390/fi11050111
  5. Rute C. Sofia; Paulo Milheiro Mendes. "An Overview on Push-Based Communication Models for Information-Centric Networking". Future Internet (2019): https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/11/3/74.
    10.3390/fi11030074
  6. Sofia, Helena. "Connecting the edges: A universal, mobile-centric opportunistic communications architecture". IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Human-Driven Edge Computing and Communications (2018): https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxydXRlY3NvZmlhfGd4OjE0Mjk5YTIwMGExYjY4MDA.
    10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700325
  7. Luis Amaral Lopes; Rute Sofia; Huseyin Haci; Huiling Zhu. "A Proposal for Dynamic Frequency Sharing in Wireless Networks". IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (2015): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tnet.2015.2477560.
    10.1109/tnet.2015.2477560
  8. Lopes, L.A.; Sofia, R.; Haci, H.; Zhu, H.. "A proposal for dynamic frequency sharing in wireless networks". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking PP 99 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942465519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TNET.2015.2477560
  9. Rute Sofia; Alessandro Bogliolo; Fikret Sivrikaya; Huiling Zhu; Olivier Marce; David Valerdi. "User centric networking and services: Part I [Guest Editorial]". IEEE Commun. Mag. 52 9 (2014): 18-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2014.6894447.
    10.1109/mcom.2014.6894447
  10. Rute Sofia; Alessandro Bogliolo; Fikret Sivrikaya; Huiling Zhu; Olivier Marce; David Valerdi. "User-centric networking and services: part 2 [Guest Editorial]". IEEE Commun. Mag. 52 12 (2014): 16-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2014.6979946.
    10.1109/mcom.2014.6979946
  11. Sofia, R.; Bogliolo, A.; Sivrikaya, F.; Zhu, H.; Marce, O.; Valerdi, D.. "User centric networking and services: Part i [Guest Editorial]". IEEE Communications Magazine 52 9 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907226965&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/MCOM.2014.6894447
  12. Sofia, R.; Bogliolo, A.; Zhu B, H.; Sivrikaya, F.; Marce, O.; Valerdi, D.. "User-centric networking and services: Part 2". IEEE Communications Magazine 52 12 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919724743&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/MCOM.2014.6979946
  13. Andrea G. Ribeiro; Rute Sofia; Andre Zuquete. "Improving mobile networks based on social mobility modeling". (2011):
    10.1109/ICNP.2011.6089064
  14. Chama, N.; Sofia, R.. "A discussion on developing multihop routing metrics sensitive to node mobility". Journal of Communications 6 1 (2011): 56-67. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80051980892&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4304/jcm.6.1.56-67
  15. Ray, S.; Guérin, R.; Kwong, K.-W.; Sofia, R.. "Always acyclic distributed path computation". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 18 1 (2010): 307-319. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77249148917&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TNET.2009.2025374
  16. Sofia, R.C.. "A survey of advanced ethernet forwarding approaches". IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 11 1 (2009): 92-115. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449371498&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/SURV.2009.090108
  17. Mendes, P.; Marcé, O.; Sofia, R.. "Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on User-Provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities, U-NET '09, Co-located with the CoNEXT'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'09 - Co-located 1st ACM Workshop on User-Provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities, U-NET '09. Foreword". Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'09 - Co-located 1st ACM Workshop on User-Provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities, U-NET '09 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-76749152987&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  18. Sofia, R.; Mendes, P.. "User-provided networks: Consumer as provider". IEEE Communications Magazine 46 12 (2008): 86-91. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57749120281&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/MCOM.2008.4689212
  19. R. Sofia; R. Guerin; P. Veiga. "An investigation of inter-domain control aggregation procedures". (2002):
    10.1109/ICNP.2002.1181422

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Method of communication of terminal devices via packet-switched mobile radio networks".
  2. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Method for packet-based data transmission in a network having mobility functionality".
  3. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Method for forwarding address prefix data in a network and device".
  4. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Method for enabling network node redundancy in an access network, messages and nodes".
  5. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Method for forwarding data packets and access node device".
  6. Sofia, Rute C.. 2008. "Scalable packet based network".

Other

Other output
  1. Energy-Awareness in Multihop Routing. 2014. Antonio Oliveira-Jr; Rute Sofia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14116-9_8.
    10.1007/978-3-319-14116-9_8
  2. Trust Management in ULOOP. 2014. Carlos Ballester Lafuente; Jean-Marc Seigneur; Rute Sofia; Christian Silva; Waldir Moreira. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_5.
    10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_5
Standard or policy
  1. Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Application Area Standards (version 2). 2004. Sofia, Rute C..
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Feedback modelling in outdoor environments involving augmented reality
Co-supervisor of Rui Miguel Simão Pascoal
Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - Current Inferring Individual behaviour in urban daily activities, from mobile phone traces.
Supervisor of FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE MELO PEREIRA
Informática - Novos Media e Sistemas Ubíquos (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2017 - Current Decentralised Edge Computing support for Large Scale Sensing
Supervisor of Liliana Inocêncio Carvalho
Informática - Novos Media e Sistemas Ubíquos (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2017 - Current INTERNET OF THINGS UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS FOR SMART CITIES
Supervisor of Helder António Barradas Valente
Informática - Novos Media e Sistemas Ubíquos (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2017 - Current Unified Communications and Contextualization in IoT
Supervisor of Daniel Maniglia Silva
computer science (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2012 - 2015 Energy efficiency for user centric routing
Supervisor of António Carlos de Oliveira Júnior
Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal
2009 - 2014 Impacto de mobilidade em encaminhamento centrado no utilizador
Supervisor of Namusale Chibwe Maggie Chama
Telecomunicações (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2012 - Current ACM Member
2000 - Current IEEE Senior Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2023 ACM Europe Councilor
Other
Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2022/01/01 - 2022/12/31 IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Board Member - Industry deputy liaison
Member
IEEE, United States
2020/02/01 - 2022 N2Women Board Awards Co-Chair
Other
N2Women, United States

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/06 - Current IEEE SmartComp
2020 - Current IEEE ICNP 2020
2020 - Current IEEE WiSEE 2020

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - Current IEEE Access IEEE
Distinctions

Award

2020 ACM Senior Member
2020 fortiss Best Mentor
2019 IEEE Senior Member
2017 European Business Awards - National Winner 2017/2018, Category "Digital Technology Award"
European Business Awards, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2000 Visiting Scholar Grant
ICAIR, Northwestern University, United States
1999 Bolsa de doutoramento
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal