Oliver Riera Miquel
Professor
Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicac
University Pompeu Fabra
Spain
Biography
Since 2001, Miquel Oliver is a Associate Professor at our Department and in charge Communication. He has been involved in the government of the UPF as Vice-Rector for Institutional Strategy and Quality (2008-13). He received his Ph.D. from Universitat Politèncica de Catalunya in 1999, a Degree in Business Administration (UOC, 2009) and GloColl Executive Education (Harvard, 2011-12). Before joining UPF, he was associate professor at the UPC, visiting scholar at Rutgers University (US). He is leading the multidisciplinary Networking and Strategies Research Group (NeTS). He has been visiting scientist at the MIT (2013-14) and in Columbia University (2011). His research is on wireless communications, with a multidisciplinar view including regulation, telecom policies and economic impact. Prof. Oliver has authored over 60 technical papers, as well as edited three books, holds three patents, supervised ten PhD thesis, advising an spinoff project. Four of his papers have received the best paper award. Has has two Jaume Vicens Vives awards from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Miquel Oliver is currently the director of the Telefonica's Chair devoted to MOOCs.
Research Interest
His research is on wireless communications, with a multidisciplinar view including regulation, telecom policies and economic impact.
Publications
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Learning-BEB: Avoiding collisions in WLAN J Barcelo, B Bellalta, C Cano, M Oliver Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance, 23
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Low energy operation in WSNs: A survey of preamble sampling MAC protocols C Cano, B Bellalta, A Sfairopoulou, M Oliver Computer Networks 55 (15), 3351-3363
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IEEE 802.11 ah: the WiFi approach for M2M communications T Adame, A Bel, B Bellalta, J Barcelo, M Oliver IEEE Wireless Communications 21 (6), 144-152
