Publications
Journal Papers
Sánchez-Aguayo, M.; Urquiza-Aguiar, L.; Estrada-Jiménez, J. Predictive Fraud Analysis Applying the Fraud Triangle Theory through Data Mining Techniques. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 3382. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12073382
Pablo Barbecho, Bautista, Luis Urquiza Aguiar, and Mónica Aguilar Igartua. "How does the traffic behavior change by using SUMO traffic generation tools." Computer Communications 181 (2022): 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.09.023
Sánchez, J.D.V.; Urquiza-Aguiar, L.; Paredes Paredes, M.C. Fading Channel Models for mm-Wave Communications. Electronics 2021, 10, 798. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070798
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis, William Coloma-Gómez, Pablo Barbecho Bautista, and Xavier Calderón-Hinojosa. (2020). “Comparison of SUMO’s Vehicular Demand Generators in Vehicular Communications via Graph-Theory Metrics.” Ad Hoc Networks 106:102217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102217
Vega Sanchez, J., D. P. Moya Osorio, F. J. Lopez-Martinez, M. C. Paredes Paredes, and L. Urquiza-Aguiar. 2020. “On the Secrecy Performance Over N-Wave with Diffuse Power Fading Channel.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2020.3035544
Barbecho Bautista, P., Lemus Cárdenas, L., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2020). “Large-Scale Simulations Manager Tool for OMNeT++: Expediting Simulations and Post-Processing Analysis.” IEEE Access 8:159291–306. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020745 (Open Access)
Vega Sánchez, J.D., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Paredes Paredes, M.C., Moya Osorio, D. P. (2020). Survey on physical layer security for 5G wireless networks. Ann. Telecommun. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-020-00799-8
Flores Cabezas, Xavier Alejandro, Martha Cecilia Paredes Paredes, Luis Felipe Urquiza-Aguiar, and Diego Javier Reinoso-Chisaguano. (2020). “PhySim-11p: Simulation Model for IEEE 802.11p Physical Layer in MATLAB.” SoftwareX 12:100580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100580 (Open Access)
Rodríguez-Hoyos, Ana, David Rebollo-Monedero, José Estrada-Jiménez, Jordi Forné, and Luis Urquiza-Aguiar. 2020. “Preserving Empirical Data Utility in K-Anonymous Microaggregation via Linear Discriminant Analysis.” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 94:103787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2020.103787
Vega Sánchez, J. D., Moya Osorio, D. P., Benitez Olivo, E. E., Alves, H., Paredes Paredes, M. C., & Urquiza Aguiar, L. (2019). On the statistics of the ratio of nonconstrained arbitrary α-μ random variables: A general framework and applications. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, n/a(n/a), e3832. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3832
Barbecho Bautista, P., Lemus Cárdenas, L., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2019). A traffic-aware electric vehicle charging management system for smart cities. Vehicular Communications, 100188. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.VEHCOM.2019.100188
Tripp-Barba, C., Zaldívar-Colado, A., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., & Aguilar-Calderón, A. J. (2019). Survey on Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Based on Multimetrics. Electronics , Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8101177
Zambrano, A., Ortiz, E., Calderón, X., Zambrano, M., & Urquiza-Aguiar, L.. (Apr 2019). Missing person's location system based on IoT and Cloud Computing (case study: Quito) Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação; Lousada Iss. E19, 82-94. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2260411368?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true (Scopus)
Pantoja-Suárez, F., Urquiza Aguiar, L. F., Hernández Chulde, C. E., & Bertran Serra, E. (2019). Modificación de la conductividad eléctrica de tinta comercial para impresión inkjet utilizando nanotubos de carbono multipared. Revista de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información, 7(14), 282-290. https://www.riti.es/ojs2018/inicio/index.php/riti/article/view/221/358
Mena, R., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Calderón-Hinojosa, X., & Zambrano, A. (2018). Simulación y Análisis de Tráfico Vehicular en las Rutas de Acceso para la Ciudad de Quito con Mapas Geográficos en SUMO (Simulación de Movilidad Urbana). Journal of Science and Research: Revista Ciencia e Investigación, 3(JIEE2018), 26–34. (latinindex)
Sánchez, J. D. V, Urquiza-Aguiar, L., & Paredes, M. C. P. (2018). An Accurate, Fast Approximation for the Sum of Fading Random Variables via Expectation Maximization Applications to Diversity Systems. IEEE Access, 6, 42616–42630. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2861219 (Open Access)(Q1)
Tripp-Barba, C., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Zaldívar-Colado, A., Estrada-Jiménez, J., Aguilar-Calderón, J. A., & Igartua, M. A. "Comparison of propagation and packet error models in vehicular networks performance". Vehicular Communications, 12, (February 2018) 1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.vehcom.2018.02.001 (Q1)
Martin-Faus, I. V., Urquiza-Aguiar, L, Aguilar Igartua, M., & Guerin-Lassous, I. (2018). Transient Analysis of Idle Time in VANETs Using Markov-Reward Models. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 67(4), 2833–2847. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2017.2766449 (Q1)
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., Rebollo-Monedero, D., Mezher, A. M., Aguilar, M., Forné, J., & Estrada-Jiménez, J. "Coherent, automatic address resolution for vehicular ad hoc networks". International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(3), (April 2017) 163–179. doi: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2017.083600 (Open Access) (Q4)
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., & Romero Muir, Á. "Mitigation of packet duplication in VANET unicast protocols." Ad Hoc Networks. 52(1), (December 2016) 62-73. doi: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2016.07.012 [.pdf] (Q1)
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., & Aguilar Igartua, M. "A Geographical Heuristic Routing Protocol for VANETs." Sensors, 16(10), (Sept 2016) 1567. doi: 10.3390/s16101567 (Open Access) (Q1)
Urquiza, L., Rodríguez, A., Tripp, C., & Aguilar, M. "Evaluation of VANET Performance for Anonymous Reporting through Coherent , Automatic Address Resolution ( CAAR )". Revista Politécnica, 37(1), (March 2016) 1–8. Retrieved from http://www.revistapolitecnica.epn.edu.ec/ (Open Access)
Mezher, A., Igartua, M., de la Cruz Llopis, L., Segarra, E., Tripp-Barba, C., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Gargallo, E. "A Multi-User Game-Theoretical Multipath Routing Protocol to Send Video-Warning Messages over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". Sensors, 15(4), (April 2015) 9039–9077. doi: 10.3390/s150409039 (Open Access) (Q1)
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis, Carolina Tripp-Barba, Estrada José, and Monica Aguilar. “On the impact of Building Attenuation Models in VANET Simulations of Urban Scenarios.” Electronics 4, no. 1 (Jan 2015): 37–58. doi: 10.3390/electronics4010037 (Open Access) (Q2)
Urquiza, Luis, Carolina Tripp, Isabel Martin, and Monica Aguilar. “Propagation and Packet Error Models in VANET Simulations.” IEEE Latin America Transactions 12, no. 3 (May 2014): 499–507. doi:10.1109/TLA.2014.6827879. [pdf] (Q4)
Tripp-Barba, Carolina, Luis Urquiza-Aguiar, Mónica Aguilar Igartua, David Rebollo-Monedero, Luis J de la Cruz Llopis, Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, and José Alfonso Aguilar-Calderón. “A Multimetric, Map-Aware Routing Protocol for VANETs in Urban Areas.” Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 14, no. 2 (January 28, 2014): 2199–224. doi:10.3390/s140202199. (Open Access) (Q1)
Tripp-Barba, Carolina, Luis Urquiza-Aguiar, Mónica Aguilar-Igartua, Javier Parra-Arnau, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné, and Esteve Pallarès. “A Collaborative Protocol for Anonymous Reporting in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.” Computer Standards & Interfaces no. 0 (2013): -. doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2013.06.001. [pdf] (Q2)
Rebollo-Monedero, David, Jordi Forné, Esteve Pallarès, Javier Parra-Arnau, Carolina Tripp, Luis Urquiza, and Mónica Aguilar. “On Collaborative Anonymous Communications in Lossy Networks.” Security and Communication Networks 7, no. 12 (2014): 2761–2777. doi:10.1002/sec.793. [pdf] (Q2)
Tripp Barba, Carolina, Luis Urquiza Aguiar, and Monica Aguilar Igartua. “Design and Evaluation of GBSR-B, an Improvement of GPSR for VANETs.” IEEE Latin America Transactions 11, no. 4 (June 2013): 1083–1089. doi:10.1109/TLA.2013.6601753. [pdf] (Q4)
Conferences
Barbecho Bautista, P.,Urquiza-Aguiar, L. F., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2020). Evaluation of Dynamic Route Planning Impact on Vehicular Communications with SUMO. Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, 27–35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3416010.3423233
Maygua-Marcillo, L.; Urquiza-Aguiar, L. A Novel Cross-Layering Power Control Mechanism for AODV. Proceedings 2020, 42, 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-6-06561
Sanchez, J. D. V, Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Paredes, M. C. P., & Chisaguano, D. J. R. (2019). A Simple Approximation for the Sum of Fading Random Variables via a Nakagami-m Distribution. 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2019.8891077
Urquiza-Aguiar, L. F., Coloma Gómez, W., Barbecho Bautista, P., & Calderón, X. (2019). Comparison of Traffic Demand Generation Tools in SUMO: Case Study: Access Highways to Quito. Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks, 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3345860.3361521
J. D. Vega Sánchez, L. Urquiza-Aguiar and M. C. Paredes Paredes, "Physical Layer Security for 5G Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey," 2019 3rd Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet), 2019, pp. 122-129, doi: 10.1109/CSNet47905.2019.9108955.
D. J. Reinoso-Chisaguano, L. Urquiza-Aguiar and M. C. Paredes-Paredes, "Effect of Constellation-shaping-based PAPR Reduction Methods Over the Capacity of OFDM Systems," 2019 IEEE Fourth Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (ETCM), 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ETCM48019.2019.9014868.
R. Mena, F. Zumárraga, L. Urquiza and X. Calderón, "Google Maps Route Color Mapping with SUMO Simulator," 2019 International Conference on Information Systems and Software Technologies (ICI2ST), 2019, pp. 92-99, doi: 10.1109/ICI2ST.2019.00020.
Zambrano, A., Ortiz M., E., Zambrano, M., Calderón, X., & Urquiza-Aguiar, L. (2019). Linkage of IoT Technologies with the SWE (SOS) Standard for the Development of a Heterogeneous Intelligent Transport System (Case Study Quito) BT - Communication Technologies for Vehicles. In B. Hilt, M. Berbineau, A. Vinel, M. Jonsson, & A. Pirovano (Eds.) (pp. 60–69). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25529-9_6
Rivera, H., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Calderón, X., & Zambrano, A. (2019). Performance Evaluation of an AANET in Quito’s Control Area BT - Communication Technologies for Vehicles. In B. Hilt, M. Berbineau, A. Vinel, M. Jonsson, & A. Pirovano (Eds.) (pp. 73–85). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25529-9_7
Sánchez, M., & Urquiza, L. (2019). Security Enhancement through Effective Encrypted Communication Using ELK. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Big Data and Education, 88–92. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322134.3322154
Caiza, L. J., Alvarez, R., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Calderón-Hinojosa, X., & Zambrano, A. (2018). VTM: Vehicular Traffic Monitor via Images Processing of GoogleMaps. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks (pp. 40–46). ACM.
Cumbal, R., Calderón, X., Hincapié, R., Urquiza, L., & Arévalo, G. (2018). Performance Analysis of a VANET with optimal infrastructure location in setting urban. In 2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing (COLCOM) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
Rodríguez-Hoyos, A., Estrada-Jiménez, J., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Parra-Arnau, J., & Forné, J. (2018). Digital Hyper-Transparency: Leading e-Government Against Privacy. In eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG), 2018 International Conference on (pp. 263–268). IEEE.
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Igartua, M. A., Tripp-Barba, C., & Calderón-Hinojosa, X. (2017). 2hGAR: 2-hops geographical anycast routing protocol for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. In MobiWac 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Co-located with MSWiM 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3132062.3132076
David Vega Sanchez, J., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., & Paredes Paredes, M. C. (2017). Performance metrics for diversity-combining techniques over Nakagami-m fading. In 2017 IEEE Second Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (ETCM) (Vol. 2017–Janua, pp. 1–6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCM.2017.8247550
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2016). A Stochastic Optimization Model for the Placement of Road Site Units. In B. Mandler, J. Marquez-Barja, M. E. Mitre Campista, D. Cagáňová, H. Chaouchi, S. Zeadally, … R.-L. Vieriu (Eds.) (pp. 263–269). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_26
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Almeida, D., Tripp-Barba, C., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2015). "Heuristic Methods in Geographical Routing Protocols for VANETs". In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks - PE-WASUN ’15 (pp. 41–48). Cancun, Mexico: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2810379.2810394
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., & Romero, A. (2015). "Reducing Duplicate Packets in Unicast VANET Communications." In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks - PE-WASUN ’15 (pp. 1–8). Cancun, Mexico: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2810379.2810387
Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Tripp-Barba, C., Estrada-Jiménez, J., & Aguilar Igartua, M. (2015). Empirical Analysis of the Minkowski Distance Order in Geographical Routing Protocols for VANETs. In M. C. Aguayo-Torres, G. Gómez, & J. Poncela (Eds.), Wired/Wireless Internet Communications SE - 24 (Vol. 9071, pp. 327–340). Malaga, Spain: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22572-2_24
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis, Andrés Vázquez-Rodas, Carolina Tripp-Barba, Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, Mónica Aguilar Igartua, and Luis J de la Cruz Llopis. “Efficient Deployment of Gateways in Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks.” In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Networks, 93–100. PE-WASUN ’14. Montreal, QC, Canada: ACM, 2014. doi:10.1145/2653481.2653487. [pdf]
Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad, Juan Jurado Oltra, Luis Urquiza Aguiar, Cristhian Iza Paredes, Carolina Tripp Barba, and Mónica Aguilar Igartua. “Realistic Environment for VANET Simulations to Detect the Presence of Obstacles in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.” In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Networks, 77–84. PE-WASUN ’14. Montreal, QC, Canada: ACM, 2014. doi:10.1145/2653481.2653488. [pdf]
Tripp-Barba, C., Urquiza-Aguiar, L., Estrada, J., Aguilar-Calderon, J. A., Zaldivar-Colado, A., & Igartua, M. A. (2014). Impact of packet error modeling in VANET simulations. In 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST) (pp. 1–7). Ota: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2014.7068133
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis, Andres Vazquez-Rodas, Carolina Tripp-Barba, Monica Aguilar Igartua, Luis J de la Cruz Llopis, and Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo. “MAX-MIN Based Buffer Allocation for VANETs.” In Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC), 2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on, 1–5, 2014. doi:10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953231. [pdf]
Tripp-Barba, Carolina, Mónica Aguilar Igartua, Luis Urquiza Aguiar, Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, Aníbal Zaldívar-Colado, and Isabelle Guérin-Lassous. “Available Bandwidth Estimation in GPSR for VANETs.” In Proceedings of the Third ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, 1–8. DIVANet ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2013. doi:10.1145/2512921.2516961. [pdf]
Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad, Carolina Tripp-barba, Luis Urquiza-Aguiar, Isabel Martín, Luis J De Cruz, and Emilio Sanvicente. “Optimized Path Selection in a Game-Theoretic Routing Protocol for Video-Streaming Services over MANETs.” In JITEL. Granada, 2013. [pdf]
Guest Editorials
Urquiza Aguiar, Luis; Sinche, Soraya; Carrera, Fernando. Editorial para el Número Especial del Taller Andino de Comunicaciones Inalámbricas y sus Aplicaciones. Revista de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 17, p. 1-3, ene. 2021. ISSN 2387-0893. https://www.riti.es/ojs2018/inicio/index.php/riti/article/view/303
Mónica Aguilar Igartua, Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, Luis Urquiza-Aguiar. Special Issue on "Performance evaluation, Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, ISSN: 1570-8705, Volume 111, pp. 1-2, February 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102322.
MSc Thesis
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis Felipe. “Video-on-demand optimization using an interior-point algorithm.” Master Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2117/118891
PhD Thesis
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis Felipe. “Contribution to the design of VANET routing protocols for realistic urban environments.” Ph.D. dissertation Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, April 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398237
MSc Thesis
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis Felipe. “Design and Implementation of Routing Protocols with Anonymity for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks in Urban Environments.” Master Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012. http://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2099.1/15903
BSc Thesis
Urquiza-Aguiar, Luis Felipe, and Padilla Benitez, René Damián. “Rediseño de La Red WAN de Petrocomercial Con Calidad de Servicio.” Escuela Politécnica Nacional, 2007. http://bibdigital.epn.edu.ec/handle/15000/4257