Signal Processing and Communications Group

Silvana Silva Pereira

Position: Former Member
Email:    silvana.silvaupc.edu
Office:    D5-119
Telephone: + 34 93 401 10 66

Journal publications

[1] S. Silva Pereira, R. López-Valcarce and A. Pagès Zamora, "Parameter estimation in wireless sensor networks with faulty transducers: a distributed EM approach", EURASIP Signal Processing, Elsevier, Signal Processing https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1W90XbZX4rsob, Vol. 144C, March 2018, pp. 226 - 237.

[2] S. Silva Pereira, R. López-Valcarce and A. Pagès Zamora, "A Diffusion-Based EM Algorithm for Distributed Estimation in Unreliable Sensor Networks (DOI 10.1109/LSP.2013.2260329)", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2013, pp. 595 - 598.

[3] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Consensus in Correlated Random Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, No. 12, December 2011, pp. 6279 - 6284.

[4] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Mean Square Convergence of Consensus Algorithms in Random WSNs", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 2866 - 2874.

[5] T. Dahl, S. Silva Pereira, N. Christophersen and D. Gesbert, "Intrinsic subspace convergence in TDD MIMO communication", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 2007, pp. 2676 - 2687.

Conference publications

[1] Pere Giménez-Febrer, A. Pagès Zamora, S. Silva Pereira and R. López-Valcarce, "Distributed AOA-based source positioning in NLOS with sensor networks", Spanish Workshop on Information and Communication Theory, Donostia, Spain July 2015.

[2] Pere Giménez-Febrer, A. Pagès Zamora, S. Silva Pereira and R. López-Valcarce, "Distributed AOA-based source positioning in NLOS with sensor networks", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brisbane, Australia April 2015.

[3] S. Silva Pereira, A. Pagès Zamora and R. López-Valcarce, "Distributed TLS Estimation under Random Data Faults", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brisbane, Australia April 2015.

[4] S. Valcarcel Macua, C. Moreno Leon, J. S. Romero, S. Silva Pereira, J. Zazo, A. Pagès Zamora, R. López-Valcarce and S. Zazo, "How to implement doubly-stochastic matrices for consensus-based distributed algorithms", IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Proc. of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, A Coruña, Spain June 2014.

[5] R. López-Valcarce, S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Distributed Total Least Squares Estimation over Networks", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Florence, Italy May 2014.

[6] S. Silva Pereira, A. Pagès Zamora and R. López-Valcarce, "A Diffusion-based distributed EM Algorithm for Density Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada May 2013, pp. 4449 - 4453.

[7] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "When Gossip Meets Consensus: Convergence in Correlated Random WSNs", International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief, Kochi, India December 2011.

[8] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Consensus in random WSNs with correlated symmetric links", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications, San Francisco, USA June 2011, pp. 126 - 130.

[9] S. Silva Pereira, S. Barbarossa and A. Pagès Zamora, "Consensus for distributed EM-based clustering in WSNs", IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Israel, Israel October 2010, pp. 45 - 48.

[10] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Randomized transmission power for accelerated consensus in asymmetric WSNs", International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Aruba, Aruba December 2009.

[11] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Fast Mean Square Convergence of Consensus Algorithms in WSNs with Random Topologies", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan April 2009.

[12] S. Silva Pereira and A. Pagès Zamora, "Distributed Consensus in Wireless Sensor Networks with Quantized Information Exchange", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications, Recife, Brasil July 2008.

Patents

[1] A. Pagès Zamora, J. Vidal, Pere Giménez-Febrer and S. Silva Pereira, "Procedimiento y sistema de localización de terminales móviles" February 2015.

Thesis

[1] S. Silva Pereira, "Distributed Consensus Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks: Convergence Analysis and Optimization", Dpt. of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, January 2012. Advisor: A. Pagès Zamora.