Dr.-Ing. Oscar Puñal

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Last updated on 2012-11-28

Short Biography

In May 2008 I started working towards my PhD at the Mobile Network Performance (MNP) Group of Prof. James Gross (now with KTH Stockholm). In November 2012 MNP was integrated into the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems of Prof. Klaus Wehrle.

I received the Diploma degree on electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2008. Before that, I spent two years at the Technische Universität Berlin (Telecommunication Networks Group of Prof. Adam Wolisz) working as student assistant and on my Diploma thesis.

My research interests are in cross-layer optimization algorithms and protocols for wireless local area networks and vehicular networks.

Publications

Oscar Puñal. Optimizing 802.11 Wireless Communications with Machine Learning. Ph.D. Thesis. January 2015.

Ismet Aktas, Oscar Puñal, Florian Schmidt, Tobias Drüner, Klaus Wehrle. A Framework for Remote Automation, Configuration, and Monitoring of Real-World Experiments. Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014), Hawaii, USA. September 2014.

Oscar Puñal, Ismet Aktas, Caj-Julian Schnelke, Gloria Abidin, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Machine Learning-based Jamming Detection for IEEE 802.11: Design and Experimental Evaluation. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'14), Sydney, Australia. June 2014.

Torsten Zimmermann, Hanno Wirtz, Oscar Puñal, Klaus Wehrle. Analyzing Metropolitan-area Networking within Public Transportation Systems for Smart City Applications. Proceedings of the 1st International IEEE Workshop on Architectures and Technologies for Smart Cities (SmartCitiy'14), Mar 30 - Apr 2, 2014, Dubai, UAE. March 2014.

Oscar Puñal, Hanzhi Zhang, James Gross. RFRA: Random Forests Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Networks. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'13), Madrid, Spain. June 2013.

Florian Schmidt, Anwar Hithnawi, Oscar Puñal, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. A Receiver-Based 802.11 Rate Adaptation Scheme with On-Demand Feedback. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'12), Sep 9 - Sep 12, 2012, Sydney, Australia. September 2012.

Oscar Puñal, Ana Aguiar, James Gross. In VANETs We Trust?: Characterizing RF Jamming in Vehicular Networks. Proc. of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking, Systems, and Applications (VANET'12). January 2012.

Oscar Puñal, Humberto Escudero, James Gross. Power Loading: Candidate for Future WLANs?. Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'12). January 2012.

Oscar Puñal, James Gross. Combined Subcarrier Switch Off and Power Loading for 80 MHz Bandwidth WLANs. Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN'11). January 2011.

Oscar Puñal, Humberto Escudero, James Gross. Performance Comparison of Loading Algorithms for 80 MHz IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Proc. of the 73rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring'11). January 2011.

Andreas Eisenblätter, Hans-Florian Geerdes, James Gross, Oscar Puñal, Jonas Schweiger. A Two-Stage Approach to WLAN Planning: Detailed Performance Evaluation Along the Pareto Frontier. Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'10). January 2010.

James Gross, Marc Emmelmann, Oscar Puñal, Adam Wolisz. Enhancing IEEE 802.11a/n with Dynamic Single-User OFDM Adaptation. Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal, vol. 66, no. 3-5. January 2009.

James Gross, Oscar Puñal, Marc Emmelmann. Multi-User OFDMA Frame Aggregation for Future Wireless Local Area Networking. Proc. of the 8th International IFIP Networking Conference (NETWORKING'09). January 2009.

James Gross, Marc Emmelmann, Oscar Puñal, Adam Wolisz. Dynamic Single-User OFDM Adaptation for IEEE 802.11 Systems. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM'07). January 2007.