mail: MariaAlejandra.Pimentel@e-campus.uab.cat
Tel: +34-935868585
Office: QC-1043
Received her Electronics Engineering degree (2005) from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, followed by a MSc. In Communications Engineering (2008) from the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich, Germany. She has gained industrial experience in Colombian and German companies, in the oil business and mobile communications sector, including her Master thesis with Siemens AG on the topic of Networked Control Systems. Within her work for Nomor Research, she was part of a project under the supervision of European Space Agency (ESA), studying the performance of DVB-SH using new video coding techniques. In February 2010 she joined the Wireless and Satellite Communications research group in the UAB.
Participation in projects: the European Comission funded project GEO-PICTURES, “MASERATI: Mejora de la Atención Sanitaria en Entornos Rurales mediante Aplicaciones de Telemedicina sobre tecnologías Inalámbricas”. Current Project: ESA funded BEATLES,
Research topic: Multimedia streaming optimization over SATCOM (adaptation to network dynamics). Other research interests: network coding at packet level
Publications:
- M. A Pimentel-Niño, M. A. Vázquez-Castro, and I. Hernáez-Corres, “Perceptual Semantics for Video in Situation Awareness”, accepted to ICSNC 2014 , Nice France. October 2014.
- M. A. Pimentel-Niño, P. Saxena and M. A. Vázquez-Castro. “Multimedia Delivery for Situation Awareness Provision over Satellite”. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2014.
- M. A. Pimentel-Niño, P. Saxena and M. A. Vázquez-Castro. “QoE driven adaptive video with Overlapping Network Coding for Best Effort Erasure Satellite Links”. Accepted in 31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Florence, Oct. 2013.
- S. Gupta, M. A Pimentel-Niño, M. A. Vázquez-Castro, “Joint network coded-cross layer optimized video streaming over relay satellite channel”, Accepted in 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (MIC-WCMC), Valencia, June 2013.
- M. A Pimentel-Niño, M. A. Vázquez-Castro, and H. Skinnemoen, “Optimized ASMIRA – Advanced QoE Video Streaming for Mobile Satellite Communications Systems”, 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, 2012.
- M. A Pimentel-Niño, M. A. Vázquez-Castro. Cross layer content delivery optimization for holistic network design in disaster preparedness and recovery scenarios. In: International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems/International Conference on Multimedia and Expo.; 2011. p. 1-6.
- Vázquez-Castro, M. A., Pimentel-Niño, M. A. and Alegre-Godoy, R. Las Redes de Comunicación basadas en Satélite. In: Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones para zonas rurales: Aplicación a la atención de salud en países en desarrollo. CYTED; 2011. (MASERATTI)