Escuela Técnica Superior de
Ingeniería y Sistemas de Telecomunicación
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Seminarios de investigación curso 2022/2023

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Semestre de OTOÑO / FALL semester

  • An introduction to blockchain, its fundamentals and usefulness (20, 21, 27 & 28 October 2022)
  • Diseño de una red con equipos del fabricante CISCO SYSTEMS convergente y segura (8, 10, 15 & 17 November 2022)
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): evolution and applications (22 November, 24 November, 29 November and 1 December 2022)
  • Writing in Engineering - Level 1 (13 & 20 December 2022)
  • Computer-assisted proofs in dynamics (14 December 2022)

Semestre de PRIMAVERA / SPRING semester

  • Introduction to Image & Video Processing (8, 9 & 11 May 2023)
  • IoT for Human Applications (22, 23, 29 and 30 de May 2023)

 

Semestre de OTOÑO / FALL semester

 

An introduction to blockchain, its fundamentals and usefulness

Jesús Rodríguez Molina (Dept. de Ingeniería Telemática y Electrónica, UPM).
Arantza Plazaola (Kantfish Productions).
Emanuele Giusto (Asociación Nacional Oficial de Periodistas Italianos).

Table of contents:

  • 1. Introduction to blockchain
  • 2. Main components of blockchain.
  • 3. Validation and transactions.
  • 4. Blockchain Social usefulness

Date and time:

Thursday 20 & 27 October, and Friday 21 & 28 October 2022. 12:30h to 14:30h (8 hours on-site + 4 hours of autonomous work).

Room:

On-site, ETSIST-UPM (Room 3004).

Language:

6 on-site hours in English, 2 hours in Spanish.

Registration:

Send an email from your XXX@alumnos.upm.es address to jesus.rodriguezm@upm.es including your name and the degree that you are enrolled in, not later than 18 October 2022.

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 10 hours' worth of "specific seminars".

  • Undergraduate students: 0.5 ECTS.

Additional information:

Previous knowledge needed to follow this seminar:

  • Java programming.
  • Usage of an IDE such as Eclipse or Netbeans.
  • Basic knowledge on cryptography and distributed systems.

This seminar is aimed at undergraduate students in their third or fourth year, as well as at master's and PhD students.

Attendants will have to answer a questionnaire to show their achievement.

Seats are limited.

 

Diseño de una red con equipos del fabricante CISCO SYSTEMS convergente y segura

Dr. Carlos Moreno (Universidad Central de Venezuela).
Instructor CISCO SYSTEMS. Visitante postdoctoral Fundación Carolina.

El seminario permite emplear una metodología de diseño de redes de datos Top-Down, con equipos del fabricante CISCO SYSTEMS para ofrecer una solución. Inicialmente los asistentes conocerán los modelos de equipos existentes y sus arquitecturas electrónicas. Aprenderán a realizar la configuración, partiendo de las necesidades de conectividad interna y externa. Se crea una topología física y lógica, y se diseña un plan de direccionamiento IPv4 e IPv6. Paralelamente, se seleccionan los equipos de las capas de acceso, distribución y núcleo LAN. Estos equipos consisten en conmutadores capa 2, de capa 3, encaminadores, dispositivos WiFi, servidores entre otros. Se emplea el simulador CISCO Packetracer. Se desea que los asistentes configuren políticas de calidad de servicio y de seguridad en una solución. Finalmente, se muestra la solución SDN (Software Defined Networking) con el protocolo OpenFlow , así como la solución NFV (Network Functions Virtualizations) del fabricante CISCO SYSTEMs. Se analizan igualmente las Redes Basadas en la Intención (IBN).

Table of contents:

  • Día 1 (Martes 8 noviembre 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Modelos de equipos del fabricante CISCO SYSTEMS. Conmutadores en capas de acceso, distribución y núcleo de una LAN. Encaminadores. Electrónica de dispositivos CISCO SYSTEMS. Sistema Operativo IOS (Internetwork Operating System). Configuración básica de dispositivos. Uso del simulador CISCO PACKETRACER. Conmutación de almacenamiento y envío versus conmutación de corte. Configuración de puertos de acceso y puertos troncalizados (IEEE 802.1Q). Configuración de redes LAN Virtuales (VLAN).
    Evaluación al final
  • Día 2 (Jueves 10 noviembre 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Protocolo IPv4 versus IPv6. La tabla de enrutamiento. Protocolos de enrutamiento. Rutas estáticas versus Enrutamiento dinámico. Protocolo OSPF. Configuración del enrutamiento en equipos CISCO SYSTEMS. El encaminador WiFi. El controlador WiFi. Diseño de red WiFi con equipos CISCO SYSTEMS. Enrutamiento InterVLAN. Topologías con conmutador capa 3 versus Router-On-A-Stick. Configuración de encaminadores WiFi.
    Evaluación al final
  • Día 3 (Martes 15 noviembre 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Soluciones CISCO SYSTEMS para voz y video sobre IP. Configuración de calidad de servicio Servicios diferenciados (Diffserv). Tipos de encolamiento (FIFO, WFQ, CBWFQ, LLQ). Control de congestion (RED, WRED, CBWRED). Tipos de señalización soportados (H.323, SIP). Interoperabilidad con proyectos de software libre. Seguridad en capa de red (IPsec) y capas superiores (TLS / DTLS).
    Evaluación al final
  • Día 4 (Jueves 17 noviembre 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Seguridad en equipos activos . Listas de acceso (ACLs). Soluciones para seguridad en redes CISCO SYSTEMS. Cortafuegos de próxima generación (NGF). Tipos de VPN. Sistemas IDS versus IPS. Software antimalware. Soluciones AAA. Centro de Operaciones de Seguridad (SoC). Soluciones SDN. SDN-WAN. Planos de Datos, Control y Aplicación en SDN. Protocolo Openflow. Redes basadas en la intención (IBN). NFV. Solución CISCO Network Functions Virtualization NFVI. Efecto de las políticas de seguridad sobre la calidad de servicio.
    Evaluación al final

Date and time:

Tu. 8, Th. 10, Tu. 15 and Th. 17 November 2022, 14:30h to 16:30h (8 hours).

Room:

Room D8309.

Language:

Español.

Registration:

Send an email from your XXX@alumnos.upm.es address to carlosmanuel.moreno.ucv@gmail.com including your name and the degree that you are enrolled in, not later than Monday 7 November 2022.

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 10 hours' worth of "specific seminars".

  • Undergraduate students: 0.5 ECTS.

Additional information:

Previous knowledge needed to follow this seminar: TCP/IP networks.

Seats are limited.

 

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): evolution and applications

Dr. Carlos Moreno (Universidad Central de Venezuela).
Instructor CISCO SYSTEMS. Visitante postdoctoral Fundación Carolina.

The SIP protocol (Session Initiation Protocol – RFC3261) was designed with the aim of simplifying signaling processes in multimedia communications present in packet-switching networks and is the basis of today's converged architectures. It is implemented in various proprietary and open hardware- and software-based solutions. It is openly present in free software or bundled with web browsers containing Google's WebRTC framework or on equipment from hardware manufacturers. There are applications based on WebRTC such as EasyRTC, JITSI and CISCO Webex that are the result of this evolution. The SIP protocol works securely and with a minimum level of quality of service in signaling processes when pre-established policies are applied using other protocols.

This seminar will allow attendees to design and implement a converged network based on SIP signaling that is secure and interoperable with other protocols. It is explained how the confidentiality, integrity and authentication are present.

Table of contents:

  • Day 1 (Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    VoIP signalling protocols in TCP/IP networks. H.323 versus SIP. History of SIP. IETF standardization. Advantages of SIP. Evolution of SIP vs. Google WebRTC. SIP entities. User agents and servers. Addressing. Server types (proxy, registrar, location). SIP/H.323/WebRTC gateways.
    Assessment at the end of the session.
  • Day 2 (Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Messages structure. Header fields. Session Description Protocol (SDP). Supported codecs. Methods and responses. Transactions and dialogs. SIP analysis using protocol analyzers (Wireshark). Platforms interoperability with SIP.
    Assessment at the end of the session.
  • Day 3 (Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Quality of Service (QoS) in SIP signalling. Differentiated Services and SIP. Security in architectures with SIP protocol. TLS vs. DTLS. Confidentiality, integrity and authentication in SIP. Multiconference with SIP. SIP and cloud computing.
    Assessment at the end of the session.
  • Day 4 (Thursday 1 December 2022, 14:30 - 16:30)
    Effect of security on quality of service. Quality of Experience (QoE) vs. Quality of Service (QoS). Google’s WebRTC architecture. SIP-WebRTC gateways. SIP over IPv6. SIP behaviour with middleboxes (NAT, firewalls). SIP behaviour over WiFi networks.
    Assessment at the end of the session.

Date and time:

Tu. 22 November, Th. 24 November, Tu. 29 November and Th. 1 December 2022, 14:30h to 16:30h (8 hours).

Room:

Room D8309.

Language:

English.

Registration:

Send an email from your XXX@alumnos.upm.es address to carlosmanuel.moreno.ucv@gmail.com including your name and the degree that you are enrolled in, not later than Friday 18 November 2022.

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 10 hours' worth of "specific seminars".

  • Undergraduate students: 0.5 ECTS.

Additional information:

Previous knowledge needed to follow this seminar: OSI and TCP/IP reference models.

Assessment will include individual questionnaires and groupwork.

Seats are limited.

 

Writing in Engineering - Level 1

Prof. Dr Inmaculada Álvarez de Mon Rego (Departamento de lingüística aplicada a la ciencia y la tecnología, UPM)

Table of contents:

  • 1. Key concepts in writing about research in engineering.
  • 2. The research article. Sections and structure of a research paper.
  • 3. The writing process: the sentence and the paragraph.
  • 4. The abstract.

Date and time:

Tuesday 13 and 20 December 2022, 16:30h to 19:30h (6 hours).

Room:

Room A4301

Language:

English.

Registration:

Send an email from your XXX@alumnos.upm.es address to sid.etsist@upm.es including your name and the degree that you are enrolled in, not later than Friday 9 December 2022.

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society and the PhD Program in Music and its Science and Technology: 10 hours' worth of "transversal seminars".

Additional information:

You are expected to bring your own laptop to class.

Seats are limited.

If you get your admission confirmed, you will be enrolled in a Moodle course named "Writing in Engineering", for which you may have to first login into site https://moodle.upm.es/formacion/login/login.php with your UPM credentials.

 

Computer-assisted proofs in dynamics

Jakub Banaskiewicz (JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY)

Table of contents:

This talk will be an introduction to computer-assisted proofs in dynamics. The speaker will start by describing the interval arithmetic and compare it with the standard float arithmetic. Then he will discuss the rigorous numeric methods and their applications. Mainly, the focus will be on the rigorous methods for solving ODEs. Finally, Mr. Banaskiewicz will tell the audience about his research concerning rigorous numeric for partial differential equations.

Date and time:

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 13:00h to 14:00h (1 hour).

Room:

A3004 of ETSI y Sistemas de Telecomunicación (Campus Sur UPM).

Language:

English.

Registration:

Send an email from your XXX@alumnos.upm.es address to felipe.rivero@upm.es including your name and the degree that you are enrolled in, not later than 13 December 2022.

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 1 hours' worth of "transversal seminars".

Additional information:

This seminar will be also offered via Zoom:

https://short.upm.es/c3rys

To get the access code, you have to register in advance as indicated above.

 

Semestre de PRIMAVERA / SPRING semester

 

Introduction to Image & Video Processing

Gökhan Koray Gültekin, PhD (Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara/Türkiye)

In this seminar, the fundamental concepts of Digital Image and Video Processing will be introduced with hands on programming applications in Matlab. The concepts in processing one dimensional digital signals will be extended for multi-dimensional signals, i.e., images and videos. Participants will learn the basics of digital image processing, including; contrast enhancement, color spaces, noise and noise filtering, image sharpening, frequency domain processing, image degradation and restoration. Additionally, the seminar will cover optical flow estimation from video frames, a critical technique for analyzing and understanding motion in videos. Participants will gain hands-on experience implementing these techniques in Matlab and will be able to apply this knowledge to real-world image and video processing problems. This seminar is suitable for anyone with a basic understanding of Matlab and programming concepts who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Digital Image and Video processing.

Table of contents:

  • First session (8/May):
    • Introduction to Matlab for Digital Image Processing.
    • Image Contrast Enhancement.
    • Color Spaces.
  • Second session (9/May):
    • Noise and Noise Filtering in Images.
    • Image Sharpening.
    • Mini Project-1: Application of the discussed methods in Matlab.
  • Third session (11/May):
    • Frequency Domain Image Processing.
    • Image Degradation and Restoration.
    • Optical flow estimation from video frames.
    • Mini Project-2: Application of the discussed methods in Matlab.

Date and time:

Monday 8 May 2023, 14:30 to 16:30h; Tuesday 9 May 2023, 14:30 to 17:30; Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:30 to 17:30.

(8 on-site hours).

Room:

Module D

Language:

English.

Registration:

Registration link.

(deadline for registering: May 8, 2023, 12:30h Madrid time).

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 10 hours' worth of "specific seminars".
  • Undergraduate students (3rd or 4th course): 0.5 ECTS.

Additional information:

  • Previous required knowledge: basic understanding of Matlab and programming concepts; digital signal processing.
  • Assessment of the achievement will be done through two hands-on mini-projects in Matlab.
  • Seats are limited.

 

IoT for Human Applications

Anzhelika Parkhomenko, PhD (Software Tools Department of National University Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic, Ukraine)

About lecturer:

Anzhelika Parkhomenko, PhD, Associate Professor of Software Tools Department of National University Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic, Ukraine.

She defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Development of complex models of the element base of microelectronic equipment for computer aided design systems". She is a supervisor of graduate students in Computer science. Author of more than 200 scientific publications and educational/methodical works, including 1 monograph, 8 textbooks. Main areas of scientific research: IoT technologies, Embedded systems, Technologies of virtual and remote engineering; Smart House systems design; CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

Course summary:

During the course, you will understand why Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are driving the world and how IoT can be a key success factor for different areas of human activity. You will gain the vocabulary needed to navigate the complex landscape of IoT technologies, as well as how, when and where IoT technologies can create value and improve the performance of business. The basics of creating a design solution for IoT will be considered: the architecture of the IoT network; software and hardware of the IoT system; technologies and data transfer protocols; IoT services and cloud platforms.

Goals:

The student gains a deep understanding of IoT solutions and can discuss IoT ideas in specific areas of expertise.

Lectures:

  • Modern approaches to IoT systems design based on online engineering tools.
  • Embedded systems as the basis of IoT infrastructure.
  • Engineering of software/hardware platforms for human applications.
  • Cloud and wireless technologies for running IoT applications.

Lab works: the course of laboratory works is aimed at creating and studying a prototype of the IoT system using online simulators and IoT services.

Date and time:

Tuesday 16, Monday 22, Tuesday 23 and Monday 29 May 2023, 17:30 to 19:30h.

Monday 22, Tuesday 23, Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 May 2023, 17:30 to 19:30h.

(8 hours on-site + 20 hours student's work)

Room:

D8104.

Language:

English.

Registration:

Registration link.

(deadline for registering: May 15, 2023, 14:00h Madrid time).

Workload for attendants with certificate of achievement (*):

  • Students of the PhD Program in Systems and Services for the Information Society: 10 hours' worth of "specific seminars".

Additional information:

  • Offered to graduate students (Master and PhD).
  • Previous recommended knowledge: C++, Arduino, English language.
  • Assessment method: lab exercises to be done by the students outside the class, using a simulation environment.
  • Seats are limited.