Esteban Egea López

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• Assistant Professor
• Phone: (+34) 968326553
• Fax: (+34) 968325973
• esteban.egea@upct.es

Curriculum Vitae

Research
Vehicular Networks.
MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN).
Network Simulation.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

Education
Telecommunication Engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (2000).
Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering,  University of Gävle, Sweden (2001).
PhD. in Telecommunications,  Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain (2006).

Biography
Esteban Egea Lopez received the Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2000, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain, the Master Degree in Electronics in 2001, from the University of Gavle, Sweden, and Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 2006 from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. Since 2001, he is an assistant professor of the Department of Information Technologies and Communications at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. His research interest is focused on RFID, Vehicular, Ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks.

Publications

In cronological order

Due to publisher copyright, some of these papers are pre-print versions. Please, use preferrably the publisher version

Journals
Books and Book chapters
Conference proceedings

Journal Papers

• :: A Stochastic Model for Chain Collisions of Vehicles Equipped With Vehicular Communications
  Carolina Garcia-Costa, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Juan Bautista Tomas-Gabarron, Joan Garcia-Haro and Zygmunt J. Haas
  Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systemas, available online, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TITS.2011.2171336
• ::Multi-Frame Maximum-Likelihood Tag Estimation for RFID Anti-Collision Protocols
  Vales-Alonso, J.; Bueno-Delgado, M.V.; Egea-Lopez, E.; Gonzalez-Casta�o, F.J.; Alcaraz, J.J.;
  Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 7(3), 2011, pp. 487-496, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TII.2011.2158831
• :: On the Optimal Identification of Tag Sets in Time-Constrained RFID Configurations. ,
  Vales-Alonso, J.; Bueno-Delgado, M.V.; Egea-López, E.; Alcaraz, J.J.; Pérez-Mañogil,
  Sensors 2011, 11, 2946-2960. doi:10.3390/s110302946 ISSN: 1424-8220
• :: Dynamic system model for optimal configuration of mobile RFID systems ,
  Juan Jose Alcaraz Espin, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Javier Vales-Alonso, Joan Garcia Haro,
  Computer Networks, vol. 55, issue 1, January 2011, pp. 74-83, doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.07.013 , ISSN 1389-1286
• :: Analysis of Tag Loss Ratio in dynamic RFID systems ,
  Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Victoria Bueno-Delgado, Juan Jos� Alcaraz-Espin,
  International Journal of RF Technologies, Vol 2, 2010, pp. 135-154, doi:10.3233/RFT-2010-005, ISSN 1754-5730
• :: Angle-of-arrival localization based on antenna arrays for wireless sensor networks ,
  Pawel Kulakowski, Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Wieslaw Ludwin, Joan Garcia Haro,
  Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol 36, November 2010, pp. 1181-1186, doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2010.03.007, ISSN 0045-7906
• :: Tracking of Returnable Packaging and Transport Units with Active RFID in the grocery supply chain ,
  Alejandro Martinez Sala, Esteban Egea Lopez, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Joan Garcia Haro,
  Computers in Industry, 60, 2009, pp. 161-171, ISSN 0166-3615
• :: Performance evaluation of non-persistent CSMA as anti-collision protocol for active RFID tags

  Warning: notice that there is a misprint in the published version of this paper, equation (5) is incomplete. Please check the referenced source [9] before using it.

  Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Alejandro Martínez Sala, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Joan García Haro,
  Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, vol. 4517, 2007, ISSN 0302-9743
• :: A wireless sensor networks MAC protocol for real-time applications
  Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso,Alejandro Martínez Sala,Joan García Haro,Pablo Pavón Mariño, María Victoria Bueno Delgado
  Springer London Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008, 12(2), pp. 111-122 ISSN 1617-4909 (Print) 1617-4917 (Online)
• :: Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
  Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Alejandro Martínez-Sala, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, M. Victoria Bueno-Delgado, Joan García-Haro
  Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 6, 25 April 2007, Pages 1483-1498
• :: Simulation scalability issues in wireless sensor networks.
  Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Pablo Pavón Mariño, Joan García Haro
  IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44-7, pp. 64-73, 2006, ISSN 0163-6804
• :: A real-time MAC protocol for wireles: Virtual TDMA for Sensors (VTS)
  Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Joan García Haro, Pablo Pavón Mariño, Victoria Bueno Delgado
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3984, pp. 382-396, 2006, ISBN 3-540-32765-7
• :: An accurate radio channel for wireless sensor networks simulation.
  Alejandro Martínez Sala, Jose María Molina García Pardo, Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Leandro Juan Llacer, Joan García Haro
  Journal of Communications and Networks (KICKS), vol. 7, pp. 401-407, 2005, ISSN: 1229-2370
• :: Wireless communications in industry: a review of issues, options and technologies.
  Esteban Egea López, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Javier Vales Alonso, Joan García Haro, Josemaría Malgosa Sanahuja
  Elsevier Computers in Industry, vol. 56, pp. 29--53, 2005, ISSN 0166-3615
• :: Comunicaciones inalámbricas en la industria. Problemas, alternativas y tecnologías
  E. Egea Lopez, A. Martinez Sala, J. Garcia Haro
  Mundo Electronico, Cetisa Editores, S.A. Numero 340, Marzo 2003, pp. 30-39. ISSN 0300-3787.
• :: 802.11p, estandar de comunicaciones inalámbricas
  J. B. Tomás Gabaron, E. Egea Lopez, J. Garcia Haro
  Mundo Electronico, Grupo Tecnipublicaciones, Numero 410, Julio 2009, pp. 20-25. ISSN 0300-3787.
• :: Sistemas de telefonia IP corporativa
  Antonio Sierra Rodriguez, E. Egea Lopez
  Mundo Electronico, Grupo Tecnipublicaciones, Numero 418, Mayo 2010, pp. 30-35. ISSN 0300-3787.

Book chapters

• ::"Characterization of the Identification Process in RFID Systems"
  J. Vales-Alonso, M.V., Bueno-Delgado, E. Egea-Lopez, J.J. Alcaraz-Espin and F.J. Gonzalez-Castaño
  Cristina Turcu (Ed):Radio Frequency Identification Fundamentals and Applications: Bringing Research to Practice , Intech, pp. 27-48, 2010, ISBN: 978-953-7619-73-2
• ::"An Analytical Approach to the Optimal Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks "
  Javier Vales Alonso, Sergio Costas Rodriguez, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Esteban Egea López, Felipe Gil Castiñeira, Pedro Rodriguez Hernandez, Joan García Haro, Francisco Javier Gonzalez Castaño
  M. Graña and R.J. Duro (Eds.): Computational Intelligence for Remote Sensing, SCI 133, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 145-161, 2008
• ::"Radio Frequency Identification Technology "
  María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Joan García Haro
  Mostafa Hashem Sherif (Ed): Handbook of Enterprise Integration, CRC Press, pp. 431-468, 2009, ISBN: 9781420078213
• ::"Programming for Symbian OS "
  Almudena Díaz Zayas, Jesús Martínez Cruz, Pedro Merino Gómez, Laura Panizo Jaime, Álvaro M. Recio Pérez, Alberto Salmerón Moreno, Jacek Dańda, Jerzy Domżał, Norbert Rapacz, Marek Sikora, Robert Wójcik, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Aarnoutse, Juan José Alcaraz-Espín, Felipe García-Sánchez, Javier Vales-Alonso, Joan García-Haro
  Andrzej Pach (Ed), 2010, ISBN: 978-83-88309-72-4
• ::"Introducción a la programación en Symbian "
  Esteban Egea-Lopez, Joan García-Haro, Almudena Díaz Zayas, Pedro Merino Gómez (Eds.)
  Arguval, 2010, ISBN: 978-84-96912-86-1

Conference Proceedings

• ::Evaluating communications and Intelligent Driver Models in Context of Chain Collision Avoidance Application for VANETs
  Juan Bautista Tomas Gabarron, Esteban Egea Lopez, Joan Garcia Haro, 3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation (RSS 11),Indianapolis, EEUU ,13-15 Sept, 2011
  
• ::Parallelization of a mathematical model to evaluate a CCA application for VANET
  Rocio Murcia Hernandez, Carolina Garcia Costa, Juan Bautista Tomas Gabarron, Esteban Egea Lopez, Joan Garcia Haro, 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2011),Noordwijkerhout, Holanda ,29-31 Julio, 2011
  
• ::Testing viability of relay policies for reactive CCA applications in VANETs
  Juan Bautista Tomas Gabarron, Esteban Egea Lopez, Joan Garcia Haro, Rocio Murcia Hernandez
  IEEE 1st International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking (VECON 2010) in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010) , Niagara Falls, Canada, October 12, 2010
  
• ::On the optimal configuration of CSMA-MS algorithm
  Alejandro,Palomo-Lopez; Javier, Vales-Alonso; Maria Victoria, Bueno-Delgado; Juan José, Alcaraz; Esteban, Egea-Lopez EURASIP RFID 2010, ISBN: 978-84-96997-47-9, Cartagena,6-7 Septiembre
  
• ::Active RFID Reader clustering and neural networks for indoor positioning
  Alejandro Santos Martinez Sala, Raul Guzman Quiros, Esteban Egea Lopez EURASIP RFID 2010, ISBN: 978-84-96997-47-9, Cartagena,6-7 Septiembre
  
• ::Using neural networks and Active RFID for indoor location services
  Alejandro Santos Martinez Sala, Raul Guzman Quiros, Esteban Egea Lopez RFID Systech 2010, ISBN: 0932-6022, Ciudad Real, 15-16 Junio
  
• ::Performance evaluation of a CCA application for VANETs over IEEE 802.11p
  Juan Bautista Tomas Gabarron, Esteban Egea Lopez, Joan Garcia Haro, Rocio Murcia Hernandez
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010) Workshop W3 on Vehicular Connectivity Cape Town, South Africa, May 23, 2010
  
• ::CSMA Multi-Stage Anti-collision Protocol for Active RFID
  Alejandro,Palomo-Lopez; Maria Victoria, Bueno-Delgado; Esteban, Egea-Lopez, Juan José, Alcaraz;, Javier, Vales-Alonso; 4th International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2010), Madeira, 8-9 Junio
  
• ::A Novel Approach For Optimal Wireless Sensor Network Development
  Abderrahim Tahiri, Esteban Egea Lopez, Javier Vales Alonso, Joan Garcia Haro, Mohamed Essaaidi
  Symposium on Progress in Information & Communication Technology 2009 (SPICT'09)i, 2009, ISBN: 978-983-41743-1-6, pp. 40-45, Kuala Lumpur, 7-8 Diciembre
  
• :: Influencia de la variabilidad del canal en un sistema de localizacion para interiores
  Alejandro MartÃnez Sala, Raul Guzman Quiros, Esteban Egea Lopez
  VII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica,Jitel 2009, ISBN: 978-84-96997-27-1, pp.1--7, Cartagena, 15-17, Septiembre
  
• :: Evaluacion de mecanismos de priorizacion en 802.11p con VHDL
  Juan Bautista Tomas Gabarron, Esteban Egea Lopez, Joan Garcia Haro
  VII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica,Jitel 2009, ISBN: 978-84-96997-27-1, pp.190--196, Cartagena, 15-17, Septiembre
  
• :: Markovian model for Computation of Tags Loss Ratio in Dynamic RFID Systems
  Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Juan José Alcaraz Espín Joan García Haro
  5th European Workshop on RFID Systems and Technologies, RFID SysTech, 2009, Bremen, 16-17, June
  Best paper award RFID Systech 2009
• :: Optimum Frame-length Configuration in Passive RFID Systems Installations
  
  María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro
  3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology, IWRT 2009, pp. 69-77, Milan, 2009, ISBN: 978-989-8111-94-4
  Best paper award IWRT 2009
• :: Análisis de mecanismos anticolisión en sistemas RFID pasivos UHF
  
  María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Javier Vales Alonso, Javier Gonzaléz Castaño, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro
  II Jornadas Científicas sobre RFID, Cuenca, 5-7 noviembre 2008, ISBN: 978-84-612-7224-2
• :: Evaluación de un mecanismo MAC p-persistente para redes inalámbricas de sensores con tráfico por eventos
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Jose Luis Sierio Lomba, Joan García Haro
  VII Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática, pp. 254-260, Alcalá de Henares, 2008
• :: Estudio de la configuración óptima de longitud de ciclo en sistemas RFID
  
  María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro
  VII Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática, pp. 313-320, Alcalá de Henares, 2008
• :: Tag Loss Probability Evaluation for a Continuos Flow of Tags in the EPC-Global Standard
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro
  2nd International Workshop on RFID Technology, IWRT 2008, pp. 115-126, Barcelona, 2008, ISBN: 978-989-8111-46-3
• :: UCare: Context-Aware Services for Disabled Users in Urban Environments
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea, Joan García Haro, Felix Belzunce-Arcos, Marco Antonio Esparza-García, Juan Manuel Pérez-Mañogil, Rafael Martinez-Álvarez, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Francisco J. González-Castaño
  The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems Services and Technologies, UBICOMM 2008, Valencia, 2008
• :: Optimal p-persistent MAC algorithm for event-driven Wireless Sensor Networks
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Jose Luis Sierio Lomba, Joan García Haro
  Next Generation Internet Networks, 2008, NGI 2008, pp. 203-208, Cracovia, 2008
• :: Evaluación de CSMA no persistente como protocolo anticolisión en sistemas RFID activos
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, Francisco Javier González Castaño, Esteban Egea López, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Alejandro Martínez Sala, Joan García Haro
  I Jornadas Científicas sobre RFID, pp. 313-320, Ciudad Real, 2007
• :: Analisis mediante simulacion de esquemas de adapatacion de la longitud de trama en escenarios RFID con tags dinámicos
  
  Javier Vales Alonso, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro
  VI Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL 2007), pp. 313-320, Málaga, 2007
• :: On the Implementation of a Multi-reader Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Architecture
  
  Esteban Egea López, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Javier Vales Alonso, Joan García Haro, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Sergio Costas Rodríguez, Felipe Gil Castiñeira, Cristina López Bravo, Francisco Javier González Castaño
  2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2007), pp. 2562-2566, Vigo, 2007
• :: Base Technologies for Vehicular Networking Applications: Review and Case Studies
  Francisco Javier González Castaño, Felipe Gil Castiñeira, Miguel Rodelgo Lacruz, J.M. Pousada carballo, J. Contreras, A. Gómez, María Victoria Bueno Delgado, Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Joan García Haro
  2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2007), pp. 2567-2572, Vigo, 2007
• :: A review of ubiquitous applications and technologies oriented towards disabled and senior people.
  David Lozano García, Javier Vales Alonso, Esteban Egea López, Joan García Haro, Juan Pedro Muñoz Gea
  I International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: Applications, Technology and Social Issues, Alcalá de Henares, España
• :: OBIWAN: wireless sensor networks with OMNET++.
  Esteban Egea López, Francisco Ponce Marín, Javier Vales Alonso, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Joan García Haro
  13th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Málaga, España
• :: An IEEE 802.11 protocol test-bed in industrial environments using personal computing devices.
  Javier Vales Alonso, Francisco Javier Pérez Mártínez, Alejandro Santos Martínez Sala, Esteban Egea López, Francisco Ponce Marín, Joan García Haro
  13th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Málaga, España
• :: Simulation tools for wireless sensor networks.
  Esteban Egea López, Javier Vales Alonso, Alejandro Martínez Sala, Pablo Pavón Mariño, Joan García Haro
  2005 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS05), Philadelphia, 2005, ISBN:1-56555-300-4
• :: Evaluación de Dispositivos RFID Acoplados a Estanterías Móviles para Automatizar su Gestión y Control
  E. Egea López, A. Martínez Sala, J. García Haro, F. M. Monzó Sánchez
  XVIII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio. URSI 2003, pp. (3 páginas, versión CD, código S4A2.5), A Coruña, 10-12 Sep. 2003. ISBN 84-9749-081-9.
• :: A Test-bed for a Wireless Identification and Location System for Industrial Items
  E. Egea-Lopez, A. Martinez-Sala, F. M. Monzo-Sanchez, J. Garcia-Haro
  In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 2003), pp. 280-283, Victoria, B.C., Canada, August 28-30, 2003. ISBN 0-7803-7978-0.

Projects
International

:: [MoTeCo] European Partnership for Development in Mobile Technology Competence
Researcher in charge: E. EGEA-LÓPEZ, .
Referencia: 08-LdV/TOI/02068/024 Leonardo da Vinci Transfer Innovation Project

National

:: [SAETA] Sistema Autónomo para el Entrenamiento personalizado de atletas basado en Técnicas de Aprendizaje máquina e Inteligencia Ambiental
Researcher in charge: J. VALES-ALONSO, .

:: [CALM-02] ChAracterization, EvaLuation, Planning and IMprovement of Key Technologies for the Future Internet: Knowledge and Transfer (CALM)
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .

:: [DIANA] Detección de caza furtiva con armas de fuego en Parques Nacionales
Researcher in charge: J. VALES-ALONSO, .

:: [FINET] CONSOLIDER FUTURE INTERNET
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .

:: [SEAMAX II] SEAMAX II: Equipos embebidos para comunicaciones IP de voz y datos en entornos marítimos costeros
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .

:: [PIRAMIDE] PIRAMIDE. Personalizable interactions with Resources on AMI-Enabled Mobile Dynamic Enviroments
Researcher in charge: J. VALES-ALONSO, .
Referencia: TSI-020301-2008-2

:: [ELISA] ELISA. Entorno de Localización Inteligente para Servicios Asistidos
Researcher in charge: J. VALES-ALONSO, .
Referencia: TSI-020301-2008-16 .

:: [ATENEA] AsisTEnte contextual de comunicación aumentativa para Niños con dEficiencias Auditivas y derivadas
Researcher in charge: J. VALES-ALONSO, .

:: [SeaMAX] SeaMAX - equipos embebidos para comunicaciones IP de voz y datos en entornos marítimos costeros
Researcher in charge: J. CERDÁN-CARTAGENA, J. GARCÍA-HARO, .
Referencia: FIT-330210-2007-60

:: [con-parte-1] Contribución a los nuevos paradigmas y tecnologías de red para las comunicaciones del mañana
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .
Referencia: TEC2007-67966-C03-01

:: [M:CIUDAD] M:CIUDAD
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .
Referencia: FIT-330503-2006-2

Regional

:: Formación de personal cualificado y herramientas y procesos telemáticos de valor añadido en el ámbitodel Supercomputador Ben Arabí de la Región de Murcia (FORMA)
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .
Referencia: 00002/CS/08 Estado: Concedido/a Fecha solicitud: 13-05-2009 Subvención: 20790€

:: [COPA-Ing] Conceptos y Paradigmas Avanzados para Internet de Nueva Generación
Researcher in charge: J. GARCÍA-HARO, .
Referencia: 04549/GERM/06

:: [SERPA] Contribuciones al estudio del desempeño, coexistencia y mejora de sistemas de identificación por radiofrecuencia pasivos y activos para la trazabilidad de activos reutilizables
Researcher in charge: A. MARTÍNEZ-SALA, .
Referencia: 2I07SE0027

Teaching

Redes de Área Local
Telecommunication Engineering   
4th year

Redes de Ordenadores
Telecommunication Engineering   
4th year

Arquitecturas Distribuidas
Technical Telecommunication Engineering   
3rd year

Links

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