Begonya Otal

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Contents 1 Contact details 2 Biography 3 Research lines 4 Patents 5 Publications 5.1 :: In Book Chapters 5.2 :: In Journals 5.3 :: As Technical Reports 5.4 :: As Invited Paper 5.5 :: In Conference Proceedings

[edit] Contact details

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Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)

Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), Av. Canal Olìmpic

08860, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

Ph: +34 93.645.29.18

Fax: +34 93 645 29 01

mail: begonya.otal@cttc.es

[edit] Biography

Begonya Otal received her M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2001. She worked prior as undergraduate trainee in BOSCH-BLAUPUNKT (Hildesheim, Germany, 2000) at the department of "Advanced Engineering of Multimedia Systems" on the field of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). From 2001 to 2006, she was full-time employed as Research Scientist by PHILIPS Research Laboratories (Aachen, Germany).

Within PHILIPS Research Labs, she participated in several industrial projects, first as a member of "Connectivity Systems" [i],[ii] and later of "Medical Signal Processing" [iii] groups:

• [i] UMTS Standardisation project (2001-2002) funded by the former PHILIPS Semiconductors. During this period, she attended a number of international UMTS standardisation meetings (3GPP RAN WG2). Four invention disclosures were generated as first author, from which two became patent application.

• [ii] Self-Organizing Networks with Multi-hop Links project (2003-2004) funded by the former PHILIPS Semiconductors and PHILIPS Consumer Electronics. She took part of a standardisation consortium (TGn Sync) chaired by Intel for IEEE 802.11 MAC Task Group N “High Throughput”. She also collaborated in MultiHop and WIGWAM, two German-national projects funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Within the time throughout these projects, eleven invention disclosures were written, from which five were filed as patent applications. Some publications, one as invited paper, were presented in international conferences.

• [iii] Personal Healthcare Applications project (2005-2006) funded by PHILIPS Medical Systems. The aim of the project was to provide new application scenarios in the area of diabetes management. This project was run in close cooperation with colleagues from “Care & Health Applications” group (NatLab, PHILIPS Research Europe, Eindhoven, the Netherlands), with whom a book chapter was written. Part of her work supported MyHeart an Integrated Project, funded by the IST programme of the European Commission's 6th Framework. She was also co-author of four invention disclosures.

In 2003 still within PHILIPS Research Labs., she decided to start pursuing a PhD together with the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. At the end of January 2006, she joined CTTC in order to keep on fully working on her PhD in the area of wireless ambient and body sensor networks for medical applications.

[edit] Research lines

Her current research interest areas include wireless sensor networks, IEEE 802.15.4, MAC protocol solutions, scheduling algorithms based on cross-layer, power management techniques, fuzzy logic and medical applications where to apply these enhanced technologies.

[edit] Patents

• [P7] E. Verbitsky, P. de Bokx, T. Denteneer, G. von Basum, B. Otal, A. Muresan, A. Goris, J. Herk, Method and device for monitoring a physiological parameter, PCT/IB2007/052971, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., 26th July 2007.

• [P6] Georgios Orfanos, Jörg Habetha, Begonya Otal, Peter May and Francesc Dalmases, A method for signalling the status of a subcarrier in a MC network and a method for adaptively allocating the subcarriers in a MC network, PCT/IB2005/051970, 15th June 2005, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [P5] Georgios Orfanos, Jörg Habetha, Francesc Dalmases, Peter May and Begonya Otal, A radio network with parallel transmission and method of forwarding a signal in a radio network, PCT/IB2005/051969, 15th June 2005, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [P4] Guido Hiertz, Begonya Otal, Jörg Habetha, Francesc Dalmases and Peter May, A method of distributive reservation of a medium in a radio communications network, PCT/IB2005/051454, 4th May 2005, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [P3] Begonya Otal, Jan Kneissler, System for selective data transmission, PCT/IB2005/050420, WO-2005079069 A1, 1st February 2005, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [P2] Begonya Otal, Jörg Habetha, Francesc Dalmases, Pen C. Li, Monisha Ghosh, Parag Garg, Multiple receiver aggregation (MRA) with different data rates for IEEE 802.11n, PHUS040250, PCT/60/580158, 16th June 2004, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [P1] Pen C. Li, Parag Garg, Monisha Ghosh, Begonya Otal, Jörg Habetha, Francesc Dalmases, Superframe protocol packet data unit format having multi-rate packet aggregation for wireless systems, PHUS040218, PCT/60/570638, 13th May 2004, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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[edit]  :: In Book Chapters

• [B2] B.Otal, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “A New MAC Approach in Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Health Care” To appear in Chapter XX in Wireless Sensor Network, Editor: Vedran Kordic. Ed. IN-TECH Online © 2008, ISBN 978-3-902613-49-3. Austria.

• [B1] G. von Basum, R. Driessen, F. Morales, B. Otal, K. Schmidt, “Diabetic Care” Chapter 31 in Advances in Healthcare Technology, Shaping the Future of Medical Care, Philips Research Book Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Editors: Gerhard Spekowius, Thomas Wendler. Ed. Springer © 2006, ISBN-10 1-4020-4383-X(HB). The Netherlands.

[edit]  :: In Journals

• [J5] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Optimized Energy-Saving MAC for Body Sensor Networks in Healthcare Systems, Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, E-Healthcare.

• [J4] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Towards Energy Saving Wireless Body Sensor Networks - Efficiency Analysis of DQ MAC, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Body Sensor Networks: From Theory to Emerging Applications

• [J3] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Energy Efficient Distributed Queuing MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks, Pending to resubmit to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Letters).

• [J2] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Highly Reliable Energy-Saving MAC for Wireless Body Sensor Networks in Healhcare Systems, To appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, June 2009.

• [J1] B. Otal, L. Alonso, R. Agustí, Design and Analysis of a cellular mobile communications system based on DQRAP/CDMA MAC protocol, IEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 138-139, January 2002.

[edit]  :: As Technical Reports

• [T4] B. Otal, G. von Basum, R. Driessen, K. Schmidt, Diabetes Needs, Technology and Applications, PR-TN 2005/01118, Personal Disease Management and Life Support (PDLS), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [T3] G. von Basum, R. Driessen, F.J. Morales Serrano, B. Otal, K. Schmidt, Diabetic Care: Technology will improve diabetics’ quality of life, PR-TN 2005/00720, Personal Disease Management and Life Support (PDLS), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [T2] B. Otal, K. Schmidt, American Diabetes Association 65th Scientific Sessions, PR-TN 2005/00532 Personal Disease Management and Life Support (PDLS), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

• [T1] B. Otal, G. Hierztz, H.J. Reumerman, J. Habetha, H. Sirin, Y. Zang Towards the Highly Efficient Wireless Personal Area Network – Efficiency Analysis of MBOA MAC, PR-R 25.178, Local and Personal area network Solutions (LPS), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

[edit]  :: As Invited Paper

• [I1] Yunpeng Zang, Guido Hiertz, Jörg Habetha, Begonya Otal, Hamza Sirin and Hans-Juergen Reumerman. Towards High Speed Wireless Personal Area Network - Efficiency Analysis of MBOA MAC, In Proceedings of International Workshop on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks 2005 (IWWAN 2005), p. 10, London, UK, 05/2005.

[edit]  :: In Conference Proceedings

• [C9] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Towards an Energy Saving MAC for Wireless Body Sensor Networks, In Proceedings IEEE WoWMoM 2009, 1st International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research on E-Health Services and Systems (IREHSS 2009), 15 June 2009, Kos Island, Greece.

• [C8] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis, Fuzzy-logic Scheduling for Highly Reliable and Energy-efficient Medical Body Sensor Networks, In Proceedings IEEE ICC 2009, First International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2009), 14 June 2009, Dresden, Germany.

• [C7] B.Otal, C. Verikoukis, L.Alonso, Optimizing MAC Layer Performance based on a Distributed Queuing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM Workshops), Nov. 30 2008-Dec. 4, 2008, Lousiana, New Orleans (USA), pp. 1–5, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2008.ECP.31

• [C6] Begonya Otal, Christos Verikoukis, Luis Alonso, Novel QoS Scheduling and Energy-saving MAC protocol for Body Sensor Networks Optimization, In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets'08), Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 13-17, 2008.

• [C5] Begonya Otal, Christos Verikoukis, Luis Alonso, Efficient Power Management based on a Distributed Queuing MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the 65th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’07-Spring), Dublin, Ireland, 22-25 April 2007.

• [C4] Begonya Otal, Jörg Habetha, Power Saving Efficiency of a novel Packet Aggregation Scheme for high-throughput WLAN stations at different data rates, In Proceedings of the 61st IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’05-Spring), Stockholm, Sweden, 30 May – 1st June 2005.

• [C3] Begoña Otal Ruiz, Luis Alonso Zarate, Análisis de un mecanismo de ahorro de energía mediante lógica fuzzy para la mejora de sistemas WLAN 802.11, A: Actas del XII Congreso Español sobre Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy. Univ. Jaen, 2004, pp. 1-4.

• [C2] Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, A Cross-layer Energy-saving Mechanism for an Enhancement of 802.11 WLAN Systems, In Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’04-Spring), vol. 3, pp. 1574 – 1578, Milan, Italy, 17-19 May 2004.

• [C1] Luis Alonso, Begoña Otal. A Cellular Mobile Communications System with CDMA Access and a Distributed MAC Protocol. In Proceedings IEEE ISWC'02, pp. 37-40,Victoria, Canada, September 2002.