Rui Pacheco Meireles

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Vassar College

Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Teaching – Spring 2025

• CMPU 203 – Software Design and Implementation (Vassar only)

Past teaching at Vassar College

• CMPU 102 – Data Structures and Algorithms
• CMPU 203 – Software Design and Implementation
• CMPU 224 – Computer Organization
• CMPU 241 – Analysis of Algorithms
• CMPU 375 – Computer Networks
• CMPU 383 – Applied Research in Computer Networks

Misc teaching materials

• An introduction to Linux and the Unix Shell

Research

My research interests lie in the general areas of networking and distributed systems. My research is applied and experimental in nature. I design protocols, create prototypes and evaluate them in realistic environments. I have largely focused on Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks up to this point. Vehicular networks wirelessly connect vehicles amongst themselves and with roadside infrastructure, with the goals of improving traffic safety and efficiency, as well as providing entertainment to passengers.

Publications

Google Scholar profile

1. WiChoose: Practical Network Selection for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication, Rui Meireles, Vinícius Abrunhosa, Ana Aguiar, in the IEEE/IFIP 2025 Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2025), Hintertux, Austria, January 2025.
2. Wi-Fi Throughput Estimation and Forecasting for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication, Daniel Teixeira, Rui Meireles, Ana Aguiar, in the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 214, ISSN 0140-3664, January 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2023.12.005.
3. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure IEEE 802.11ad Wi-Fi dataset, Mateus Mattos, António Rodrigues, Rui Meireles, Ana Aguiar, in the Elsevier Data in Brief Journal, February 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108964.
4. Wi-Fi Throughput Estimation for Vehicle-to-Network Communication in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments, Daniel Teixeira, Rui Meireles, Ana Aguiar, in the IEEE/IFIP 2023 Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2023), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, January 2023, doi:10.23919/WONS57325.2023.10061940.
5. Geolocation-based Sector Selection for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure 802.11ad Communication, Mateus Mattos, António Rodrigues, Rui Meireles, Ana Aguiar, in the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 193, ISSN 0140-3664, September 2022, doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2022.07.005. Associated dataset available here.
6. A study of HTTP/2's Server Push Performance Potential, Rui Meireles, Junrui Liu , Peter Steenkiste, arXiv, July 2022, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2207.05885.
7. Geolocation-based Sector Selection for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure 802.11ad Communication, Mateus Mattos, António Rodrigues, Rui Meireles, Ana Aguiar, in the 2021 IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2021), Online, June 2021, doi:10.1109/MedComNet52149.2021.9501244. Video presentation available here.
8. Exploring Wi-Fi Network Diversity for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication, Rui Meireles, António Rodrigues, Andrei Stanciu, Ana Aguiar, Peter Steenkiste, in the 2020 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2020), December 2020, doi:10.1109/VNC51378.2020.9318407. Video presentation available here. Associated dataset available here.
9. Exploratory Study with 802.11ad V2V Links, Ana Aguiar, António Rodrigues, Mateus Mattos, Bruno Maurício, Rui Meireles, Peter Steenkiste, in the 2020 IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2020), Arona, Italy, June 2020, doi:10.1109/MedComNet49392.2020.9191643.
10. LASP: Look-Ahead Spatial Protocol for Vehicular Multi-hop Communication, Rui Meireles, Peter Steenkiste, João Barros and Daniel C. Moura, in the 2016 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA, December 2016, doi:10.1109/VNC.2016.7835958 (best paper award).
11. Leveraging Diversity and Spatial Connectivity in Multi-hop Vehicular Networks, Rui Meireles, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, August 2015.
12. HarborNet: A Real-world Testbed for Vehicular Networks, Carlos Ameixieira, André Cardote, Filipe Neves, Rui Meireles, Susana Sargento et. al., in the IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 52, Number 9, 2014, doi:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6894460.
13. TVR — Tall Vehicle Relaying in Vehicular Networks, Mate Boban, Rui Meireles, João Barros, Peter Steenkiste and Ozan Tonguz, in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 13, Number 5, 2013, doi:10.1109/TMC.2013.70.
14. DAZL: Density-Aware Zone-based Packet Forwarding in Vehicular Networks, Rui Meireles, Peter Steenkiste and João Barros, in the 2012 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Seoul, South Korea, November 2012, doi:10.1109/VNC.2012.6407437.
15. Exploiting the Height of Vehicles in Vehicular Communication, Mate Boban, Rui Meireles, João Barros, Peter Steenkiste and Ozan Tonguz, in the 2011 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2011, doi:10.1109/VNC.2011.6117138.
16. Experimental Study on the Impact of Obstructions in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Rui Meireles, Mate Boban, Peter Steenkiste, Ozan Tonguz and João Barros, in The 2010 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, December 2010, doi:10.1109/VNC.2010.5698233.
17. Vehicular Connectivity Models: From Single-Hop Links to Large-Scale Behavior, Rui Meireles, Michel Ferreira and João Barros, in The 70^th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2009-Fall, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 2009, doi:10.1109/VETECF.2009.5378798.

Datasets

1. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure IEEE 802.11ad Wi-Fi dataset, 2022
2. A Dataset for Exploring Wi-Fi Network Diversity in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication, 2020

Contacts

Off topic

• Rui on cars blog