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Vol. 9, No. 7, July-December 2014

 

In this issue:

1. Under the spotlight

2. People

3. Publications

4. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

5. Projects

 

1. Under the spotlight

Bringing your attention to a matter in this issue of the Newsletter

Michal

The GROW team is truly saddened by the tragic death of one of its members, Michał Maćkowiak (and his wife, Hannia).

Michał Maćkowiak was a Pole that felt in love for Lisbon and Portugal, by chance. In 2006, while taking the M.Sc. on Electronics and Information Technology Engineering, at the Warsaw University of Technology, he ended up being the last one to choose a place for doing the thesis within the ERASMUS exchange programme, and the only place left was IST – Lisbon, so he decided to take the risk and to spend a few months in our research group. This was the beginning of a new stage in his life, spent in Lisbon, which ended tragically on Aug. 8th, 2014, when he and his wife Hanna felt from a cliff nearby Lisbon.

After graduating with the Ph.D., in July 2013, he kept working in our group, in several projects. He had already quite a track record as a researcher, but his life was not only about research and family (he was married and had two children). He was also very keen on photography, which we could consider to be his “professional hobby”, besides having an entrepreneur spirit as well.

More than a brilliant colleague, we lost a cheerful friend. Our thoughts are now with Michał and Hannia’s families, and most especially with their kids, Sozia and Leon. We really miss them.

2. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Luisa Caeiro graduated with the Ph.D. in September. Pedro Venâncio graduated with the M.Sc. in November. Congratulations to them, and wishes of success in the new stage of their professional career.

GROW is receiving one more member. Since mid-September, Alessandro Simonelli, an M.Sc. Student, is working in his thesis. We wish him good luck.

3. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Joana Fernandes, Luis M Correia, Carlos Alves, Luis Píssaro and Márcio Teixeira, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”, Proc. of 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA, July 2014.

Ricardo Santos, Luis M Correia, Carlos Alves, Luis Pissarro and Álvaro Albino, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA, July 2014.

Luis M. Correia, “Modelling Problems in ICT for ITS”, Proc. of Workshop on Transportation Modelling Future, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014 (invited).

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, Proc. of URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia, Adrian Kliks and Paweł Kryszkiewicz, “MIMO channel analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, Proc. of Workshop on Cognitive Radio Advances, Applications and Future Emerging Technologies, at ISWCS’2014 – 11th The Eleventh International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, Proc. of PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

Sina Khatibi and Luis M. Correia, “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management for Cellular Heterogeneous Access Networks”, Proc. of PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of WMCS’2014 – 2nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 2014 (keynote speaker).

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of WiCON’2014 – 8th International Wireless Internet Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2014 (keynote speaker).

Luisa Caeiro, Filipe D. Cardoso and Luis M. Correia, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacities”, Proc. of 5GU’2014 – 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity, Levi, Finland, Nov. 2014.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco and Luis M. Correia, “Fact on Usage and (Lack of) Concern of Portuguese Youngsters with Mobile Phones” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 8th URSI Portuguese Committee Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2014.

Sławomir J. Ambroziak, Luis M. Correia, Ryszard J. Katulski and Michał Maćkowiak, “Impact of radio wave polarisation on off-body communications in indoor environments”, accepted to EuCAP’2015 – 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 2015.

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity for On-Body Communications in Scattered Environments”, Wireless Personal Communications, accepted Dec. 2014.

4. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2014-07-01

Luis M. Correia

Zeinab Mhanna, “Analysis and Modelling of the radio channel in an Ultra Wideband Backscattering based RFID System”

Ph.D. Committee, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France

 

2014-07-04

Ricardo Santos, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-07-05

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Luis M. Correia, Michał Maćkowiak, Ema Catarré, Vera Almeida

Prémio FAQtos 2014 Final Ceremony

 

2014-07-06/09

Ricardo Santos, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”

IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA

 

2014-07-12

All active GROWers

STAR WARM (STill AnotheR Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz )Episode XV, Monsaraz, Portugal

 

2014-07-22

Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources—Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-09-03/05

Luis M. Correia

PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA

 

2014-09-15/16

Daniel Sebastião, Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia

LEXNET WP5 Meeting, Bucharest, Romania

 

2014-09-18

Luisa Caeiro, “Common Radio Resource Management in Virtual Heterogeneous Networks”

Luisa Caeiro, “Virtual wireless access: Addressing multiple virtual resources in the same geographical area”

Sina Khatibi, “Modelling of virtual radio resource management with traffic offloading support”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-09-24/26

Carla Oliveira, Luisa Caeiro, Luis M. Correia, Sina Kathibi

COST IC1004 Meeting, Krakow, Poland

 

2014-09-26

Filipe Cardoso

LEXNET Advisory Board meeting, Paris, France

 

2014-10-02/03

Luis M. Correia

COST BM1309 Meeting, Split, Croatia

 

2014-10-08

Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco

FAQtos’s public presentation, Matosinhos Town Hall, Matosinhos, Portugal

 

2014-10-09/10

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM Executive Board Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

 

2014-10-16

Pedro Venâncio, “Analysis of Network Quality Using Non-Intrusive from an End-User Perspective in LTE”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-10-23

Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia

EuCoNneCts Project Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-10-30

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”

WMCS’2014 – 2nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication Systems, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-10-30

Luis M. Correia, “Michał Maćkowiak: the BAN researcher and the photographer”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-11-06

Luis M. Correia

IoT Lab Project Review, Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-11-07

Sina Khatibi and Luisa Caeiro, “Integration of VRRM in OAI”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-11-10/12

Luisa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Lúcio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia

MCN Project Meeting, Berlin, Germany

 

2014-11-14

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”

WiCON’2014 – 8th International Wireless Internet Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-11-24/25

Luis M. Correia

EAR-IT Project Review, Santander, Spain

 

2014-11-25/28

Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Filipe Cardoso, Luis M. Correia

LEXNET Project Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

 

2014-11-26/27

Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacities”

1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU), Levi, Finland

 

2014-11-28

Mónica Branco, “Fact on Usage and (Lack of) Concern of Portuguese Youngsters with Mobile Phones”

8th URSI Portuguese Committee Congress, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-12-01/02

Carla Oliveira, Luis M. Correia

U. Novi Sad / IST Bilateral Collaboration Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-12-02

Luis M. Correia

Ivo Sousa, “MIMO Techniques in High Capacity Wireless Communication Systems”

Ph.D. Committee, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-12-05

Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia

EuCoNneCts Project Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-12-08/11

Luis M. Correia

GLOBECOM’2014—IEEE Global Communications Conference, Austin, TX, USA

5. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

A special session dedicated to the memory of Michał Maćkowiak was held in the Krakow meeting. Work is progressing on the book, with edition of sections on off-body communications and radio resource management.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

INOV contributed to the new survey about the best ways of reducing radiation from wireless communication systems, and hosted a meeting with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology partners (WP2). Work is progressing on EMF exposure metrics, SAR simulations (WP2) and assessment of the exposure index (WP3), taking realistic environments into account. INOV contributed to Deliverables D2.6, D2.5 and D3.3. OPNET simulations on optimisation of locations for network topologies are going on (WP5), contributing to already finished Deliverable D5.1 and IR5.2. A new version of the document on inter-project collaboration and other contacts was circulated by Filipe Cardoso.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

INOV is working on Cloud-RAN, validating the concept of virtualising the baseband unit of an LTE basestation, aiming at using OpenAirInterface’s (OAI) emulated LTE eNodeB. The management of virtual radio resources of multiple operators is also being studied, the developed models being currently under implementation in OAI.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu

In WP1.1, the document “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management“ has been submitted and discussed with partners. In WP1.3, the work on channel coding and MIMO capacity for body-to-body channel is progressing, and a joint paper with Poznan University of Technology was presented at ISWCS2014. In WP2.3, the cooperation with EURECOM and the development of the LTE eNodeB is progressing well.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

The final ceremony for Prémio FAQtos 2014 was held on July 5th. The 10 finalists presented their work, and a jury chose the winners. The 1st prize went to Arouca, the 2nd one to Oliveira do Bairro and the 3rd to Fátima. A special mention was also delivered to a group from Aveiro. The 2015 edition of Prémio FAQtos has been launched, the dissemination materials were sent to schools, and the 59 groups were accepted. Continuous monitoring of EMFs was launched in Matosinhos, with 6 monitoring stations active in FAQtos’ website from July to October. A public ceremony in the city hall held on October 8th has officialised this collaboration. An information action was held on Felgueiras secondary school.

 

 

GROW News Jun/2014

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Vol. 9, No. 6, June 2014

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

 

GROW is receiving more members. This month, 5 M.Sc. students were selected to start their theses after Summer: Cláudia Castro, Carlos Martins, João Pires, Miguel Sá, and Ricardo Gameiro. We wish them good luck.

 

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

 

Tesanovic,M., Conil,E., Domenico,A., Agüero,R., Freudenstein,F., Correia,L.M., Bories,S., Martens,L., Wiedemann,P.M and Wiart,J., “Wireless networks and EMF—paving the way for low-EMF networks of the future: the LEXNET project”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Vol. 61, No. 3, June 2014, pp. 20-28.

 

Correia,L.M., “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”, Proc. of the 5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 2014

 

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,M. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Almeida,D.X., Correia,L.M. and Serrazina,M., “Antenna Characteristics Impact on LTE Inter-Cell Interference Performance in Urban Scenarios”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Caeiro,L., Cardoso,F.D. and Correia,L.M., “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Dimitrova,D, Ferreira,L.S., Gomes,A., Nikaein,N,, Georgiev,A. and Pizzinat,A. ,”Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization in LTE”, Proc. of Workshop on Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services, at EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Mackowiak,M., Correia,L.M., Kliks,A. and Kryszkiewicz,P., “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, accepted to ISWCS 2014 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.

 

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, accepted to PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

 

Khatibi,S. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management for Cellular Heterogeneous Access Networks”, accepted to PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

 

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

 

2014-06-05

David Doutor, “Load Balancing Between LTE and WiFi”

Gonçalo Fernandes, “Load balancing via inter-frequency handovers in LTE networks”

Rodrigo Santos, “Impact on Modern FM Broadcast Signals on Aeronautical Radionavigation”

Bruno Pires, “Exclusion regions for LTE base stations in heterogeneous cell structures”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-8/11

Michal Mackowiak

Serbia-Portugal Bilateral Project, Scientific Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

 

2014-06-12/13

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 

2014-06-16/18

Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luís M. Correia

MCN General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luís M. Correia

Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

Pedro Ganço, “Load balancing in heterogeneous networks with LTE”

Diogo Almeida, “Antenna Characteristics Impact on LTE Inter-Cell Interference Performance in Urban Scenarios”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-20

Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”

Lucio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-22/26

Daniel Sebastiao, Monica Branco, Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro, Diogo Almeida, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

EuCNC 2014 – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy

 

2014-07-01

Luis M. Correia,

Zeinab Mhanna Ph.D. Jury, Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France

 

2014-07-02

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição à Radiação Eletromagnética em Comunicações Móveis”

Introdução às Telecomunicações (INTELE), Ciência Viva – Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-07-04

Ricardo Santos, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-07-05

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastiao, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak, Ema Catarré, Vera Almeida

Prémio FAQtos 2014 – Final Cerimony

 

2014-07-07/11

Ricardo Santos, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”

Luis M. Correia

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Contributions are being prepared for the next meeting.

 

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

INOV contributed to the new survey about the best ways of reducing radiation from wireless telecommunication systems (WP2). Work is progressing on the EMF exposure metrics (WP2) and assessment of the exposure index (WP3), taking into account realistic environments (implementation of GBSCM). Concerning WP5, OPNET simulations on optimisation of locations for network topologies are going on. New working groups on cellular networks optimisation algorithms and heterogeneous networks cells access selection were defined.

 

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

INOV hosted the general project. INOV organised, together with PT-IS and ONESOURCE, the Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking on the 19th June. It had a large attendance, and very good feedbacks were received. A workshop was co-organised by MCN, “Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services” at the EuCNC conference. The work within C-RAN is progressing, linking OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB with VRRM through MaaS and working on a D-ITG traffic generator for OAI.

 

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu

The cooperation with EURECOM around OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB is progressing. A resulting joint publication entitled “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualisation” was presented at the EuCNC conference. The joint publication with PUT on “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks” has been accepted to ISWCS’2014.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

The final ceremony for Prémio FAQtos 2014 will be held on July 5th. The 10 finalists will be able to present their work, and a jury will choose the winners. The preparation for the next edition of the contest is already ongoing.

 

 

GROW News May/2014

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Vol. 9, No. 5, May 2014

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

 

Martijn Kuipers is rejoining GROW, in part time. He’s most welcome back.

 

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

 

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”, Actas das Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal, May 2014 (keynote).

 

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”, Proc. of WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal, May 2014 (keynote)

 

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

 

2014-05-05

Luis M. Correia, Moderator of Panel “5G: Technologies and applications”

ICT’14 – 21st International Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-05-06

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal

 

2014-05-08

Luis M. Correia,

Fernando Pachón Ph.D. Jury, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

 

2014-05-19/22

Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso, Luís M. Correia

LEXNET General Meeting, Paris, France

 

2014-05-22

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”

WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal

 

2014-05-26/28

Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

COST IC1004, 10th Management Committee and Scientific Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

 

2014-05-26/28

Luis M. Correia

5G Awareness/Information Day, Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-06-05

David Doutor, “Load Balancing Between LTE and WiFi”

Gonçalo Fernandes, “Load balancing via inter-frequency handovers in LTE networks”

Rodrigo Santos, “Impact on Modern FM Broadcast Signals on Aeronautical Radionavigation”

Bruno Pires, “Exclusion regions for LTE base stations in heterogeneous cell structures”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-8/11

Michal Mackowiak

Serbia-Portugal Bilateral Project, Scientific Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

 

2014-06-12/13

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 

2014-06-16/18

Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luís M. Correia

MCN General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luís M. Correia

Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-22/26

Daniel Sebastiao, Monica Branco, Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro, Diogo Almeida, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

EuCNC 2014 – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Michal Mackowiak presented at MCM meeting in Aalborg preliminary measurement results of off-body channels in indoor environments performed during Short Time Scientific Mission in Gdansk, Poland.

 

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

In WP3, Michal Mackowiak contributed to the 2nd release of D3.2 “Wideband dosimeter design study & performances characterisation”, with new results on the impact of the user’s dynamics on dosimeter measurements. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations. Daniel Sebastião and Michal Mackowiak are also participating in a new ad-hoc group dedicated on scenarios.

 

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

The work within RANaaS is progressing, linking OAI’s emulated LTE eNodeB with VRRM through MaaS and working on a D-ITG traffic generator for OAI. Two publications will be presented at the EuCNC conference.

 

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu

The cooperation with EURECOM around OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB is progressing. A resulting joint publication will be presented at the EuCNC conference.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

Concerning the national contest, Prémio FAQtos, after the delivery of the final report by May 12th, the evaluation process is ongoing. The 10 finalists will be announced by June 12th. The final ceremony is being prepared.

 

 

GROW News Apr/2014

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Vol. 9, No. 4, Apr. 2014

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

New M.Sc. students will join GROW in the next month, following the proposals for theses.

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”, Proc. of EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”, Proc. of EuCAP’2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Conil,E., Corre,Y., Varsier,N., Hadjem,A., Wermeeren,G., Martens,L., Correia,L.M. and Wiart,J., “Exposure index of EU project LEXNET: principles and simulation-based computation”, Proc. of EuCAP’2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,M. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

Almeida,D.X., Correia,L.M. and Serrazina,M., “Antenna Characteristics Impact on LTE Inter-Cell Interference Performance in Urban Scenarios”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

Caeiro,L. Cardoso,F.D. and Correia,L.M. “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014

Dimitrova, D., Ferreira, L.S., Gomes, A., Nikaein, N, Georgiev, A., Pizzinat, A., “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization”, accepted to Workshop on Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services, EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014

Hadjem,A., Vermeeren,G., Varsier,N., Conil,E., Krayni,A., Mackowiak,M., Robelin,C., Joseph,W., Sibille,A., Martens,L. and Wiart,J., “Characterization of far-field and near-field exposure of the population for RF-EMF in realistic configurations of ICT usages”, accepted to BIOEM 2014 – the annual meeting of BEMS and EBEA, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, accepted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

Mackowiak,M., Correia,L.M., Kliks,A. and Kryszkiewicz,P., “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, submitted to ISWCS 2014 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, submitted to PIMRC 2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, D.C., USA, Sep. 2014.

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2014-04-02
Luis M. Correia, “Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields in Mobile Communications”
Palestras do I.P. Tomar, Tomar, Portugal

2014-04-06/11
Michal Mackowiak “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”,
Luis M. Correia, “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”,
Daniel Sebastiao, Filipe Cardoso
EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands

2014-04-16
Luis M. Correia
COST BM 1309 Kick-off meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2014-04-17
Luis M. Correia “BANs, new usages, and the human exposure challenge”
Joint COST IC1004 / LEXNET Training School, Paris, France.

2014-04-14/18
Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 STSM, Gdansk, Poland

2014-04-22
Luis M. Correia,
5G-PPP workshop, Heidelberg, Germany

2014-04-22
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET Technical Workshop, Paris, France

2014-04-23/24
Luis M. Correia,
NEWCOM# Executive Board meeting, Haifa, Israel

2014-04-29/30
Luis M. Correia,
COST IC0905 meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania

2014-04-16
Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN T3.5 meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-04-22
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET Technical Workshop, Paris, France

2014-05-05
Luis M. Correia, Moderator of Panel “5G: Technologies and applications”
ICT’14 – 21st International Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-05-06
Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”
Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal

2014-05-08
Luis M. Correia,
Fernando Pachón Ph.D. Jury, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

2014-05-19/22
Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso, Luís M. Correia
LEXNET General Meeting, Paris, France

2014-05-22
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”
WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal

2014-05-26/28
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004, 10th Management Committee and Scientific Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark, May 2014.

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak performed a Short Time Scientific Mission at Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. The objective of this mission was the measurement of off-body channels in indoor environment and assessment of previously developed propagation model. The contribution to the next meeting in Aalborg is being prepared.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
In WP3, future work topics for T3.2 were presented in meeting in Paris. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Currently, the OpenAirInterface LTE emulator is being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling the Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. In parallel, the work on two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, is progressing.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The work with OpenAirInterface is progressing, the LTE emulator being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. The work on two associated research topics, on the management of virtual radio resources and radio and cloud resources management, is progressing. Contributions to project deliverables were edited, several deliverables having also been reviewed by Sina Khatibi and Lucio Ferreira. Two publications, entitled “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service” and “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization” were accepted for the EUCNC conference.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
For the national contest, Prémio FAQtos, the next deadline is the delivery of the final report by May 12th. Preparations for the final ceremony are already ongoing.

 

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Vol. 9, No. 3, Mar. 2014

 

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Luísa Caeiro has delivered her Ph.D. thesis. Now, we’ll have to wait, and wish her Good Luck.

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 75, No. 2, Mar. 2014, pp: 1463-1487

Hadjem,A., Vermeeren,G., Varsier,N., Conil,E., Krayni,A., Mackowiak,M., Robelin,C., Joseph,W., Sibille,A., Martens,L. and Wiart,J., “Characterization of far-field and near-field exposure of the population for RF-EMF in realistic configurations of ICT usages”, submitted to BIOEM 2014 – Annual Meeting of BEMS and EBEA, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, submitted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2014-03-04/06
Lucio Ferreira, Monica Branco, Luís M. Correia, Sina Khatibi
MCN GA meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria

2014-03-06
Lucio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”
3rd MCN National Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria

2014-03-07
Marko Beko, “Overview of Research Topics: Physical Layer”
GROWing meeting

2014-03-11
Luis M. Correia,
5G-PPP GA, Brussels, Belgium

2014-03-21/22
Luis M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET WP2 meeting, Paris, France

2014-03-26
Pedro Venâncio, “Analysis of Network Quality Using Non-Intrusive Methods from an End-User Perspective in 3G & LTE”
Marco Castanho, “Analysis and optimisation of video transmission in LTE networks”
GROWing meeting

2014-03-31/04-01
Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET WP3 meeting, Paris, France

2014-04-02
Luis M. Correia, “Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields in Mobile Communications”
Palestras do I.P. Tomar, Tomar, Portugal

2014-04-06/11
Michal Mackowiak “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”,
Luis M. Correia, “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”,
Daniel Sebastiao, Filipe Cardoso
EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands

2014-04-16
Luis M. Correia
COST BM 1309 Kick-off meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2014-04-17
Luis M. Correia “BANs, new usages, and the human exposure challenge”
Joint COST IC1004 / LEXNET Training School, Paris, France.

2014-04-14/18
Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 STSM, Gdansk, Poland

2014-04-22
Luis M. Correia,
5G-PPP workshop, Heidelberg, Germany

2014-04-22
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET Technical Workshop, Paris, France

2014-04-23/24
Luis M. Correia,
NEWCOM# Executive Board meeting, Haifa, Israel

2014-04-29/30
Luis M. Correia,
COST IC0905 meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak is preparing for the STSM in Gdansk, Poland. The goal of this mission is to perform measurements of the path loss in off-body channels in indoor environments and compare obtained results with previously developed channel model.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
In WP2, the simulations of SAR for Duke and Eartha models and UMTS and LTE systems have been completed and reported. Luis M. Correia and Michal Mackowiak participated in the meeting in Paris, and discussed future simulations scenarios and methodology for the statistical analysis. In WP3, Michal Mackowiak participated in the meeting in Paris, where the work plan for the Deliverable D3.3 on the Exposure Index Assessment was discussed. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Currently, the OpenAirInterface LTE emulator is being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling the Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. In parallel, the work on two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, is progressing.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The activity within WP23 on cloudification of LTE’s base stations is progressing. In a meeting in Lisbon with EURECOM, several issues were clarified with respect to the OpenAirInterface software, towards the profiling of computation resources usage. In WP13 Michal Mackowiak and Marco Beko together with partners from PUT are working on integration of BAN channel propagation model with coding algorithms.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
The submission of the progress reports by the pupils competing for the FAQtos Prize has been finalised in February 28th, and after that we have 33 groups still competing. The next deadline is the delivery of the final report by May 12th. FAQtos’ talks at secondary schools continue to occur, with actions in Amadora and Fátima during the past month, and more are scheduled for the coming weeks.

 

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Vol. 9, No. 2, Feb. 2014

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Lúcio Ferreira got a position as Assistant Prof. at Univ. Lusíada in Lisbon. Congratulations.

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 75, No. 2, Mar. 2014, pp. 1463-1487.

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,M. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, submitted to EUCNC – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, submitted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2014-02-05/06
Luís M. Correia
Net!Works Expert Advisory Group meeting, Stuttgart, Germany

2014-02-05/07
Lúcio S. Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”
Michal Mackowiak, “Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”
Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”
COST IC1004, 9th MC & Scientific Meeting, Ferrara, Italy

2014-02-12
Luis M. Correia
Vodafone Technical Watch, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-02-13
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
CSP’2014 – Communication and Signal Processing, at SSD’2014 – 11th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Barcelona, Spain

2014-02-13
Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Porto, Portugal

2014-02-18
Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Aveiro, Portugal

2014-02-25
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-03-04/06
Lucio Ferreira, Monica Branco, Luís M. Correia, Sina Khatibi
MCN GA meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria

2014-03-07
Marko Beko, “Overview of Research Topics: Physical Layer”
GROWing meeting

2014-03-11
Luis M. Correia,
5G-PPP GA, Brussels, Belgium

2014-03-21/22
Luis M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET WP2 meeting, Paris, France

2014-03-26
Pedro Venâncio, “Analysis of Network Quality Using Non-Intrusive Methods from an End-User Perspective in 3G & LTE”
Marco Castanho, “Analysis and optimisation of video transmission in LTE networks”
GROWing meeting

2014-03-31/04-01
Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET WP3 meeting, Paris, France

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi have presented their work at the meeting in Ferrara, Italy.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
A report on SAR simulations for Duke and Eartha voxel models, with different body postures in LTE and 3G, is being prepared within WP2 by Michal Mackowiack. A contribution to deliverable D3.2 “Wideband dosimeter design study & performances characterisation”, with simulations for body influence on dosimeter performance, has been circulated by Michal Mackowiack. Simulator setup and initial simulations are being performed on network topologies within WP5 by Daniel Sebastião.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
The work on the management of virtual radio resources and radio and cloud resources management, is progressing. In particular, special attention is being paid to the profiling of computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Initial results for the JRA on Virtual MIMO in Body Area Networks are being analysed together with PUT. Within WP2.3, a cooperative activity with EURECOM is addressing the use of OpenAirInterface for the profiling of computation resources of software-based LTE base-stations, for various traffic loads and radio resources usage.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
The FAQtos team was present in two schools, at Arouca and Alijó, where information actions were done on exposure to EMFs and how mobile communication systems work. More of these actions are scheduled for the coming months. The team did also a series of presentations on “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts” in a collaboration with PT Comunicações, held on Lisbon, Porto and Aveiro.

 

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Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan. 2014

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

 

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

 

GROW has one more member in its team: Dr. Marko Beko, a Prof. in Univ. Lusófona, Lisbon. He’ll be collaborating part-time in our team, bring complementary expertise In radio aspects.

 

 

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

 

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, accepted for Wireless Personal Communications.

 

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,B. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, submitted to EUCNC – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, submitted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

 

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of CSP’2014 – Communication and Signal Processing, at SSD’2014 – 11th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2014 (Keynote)

 

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

 

2014-01-13

Luis M. Correia

LEXNET project review

Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-01-14/16

Luis M. Correia

Evaluation of IEMN (Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie), Lille, for AERES (Agence d’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur)

Lille, France

 

2014-01-17

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM# project review

Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-01-21/23

Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak, Lucio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi

NEWCOM# meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-01-28/29

Luís M. Correia

EuCAP Steering and Technical Programme Committees meetings, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

 

2014-01-30

Michal Machowiak, “Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”

Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”

Lúcio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-02-05/06

Luís M. Correia

Net!Works Expert Advisory Group meeting, Stuttgart, Germany

 

2014-02-05/07

Lúcio S. Ferreira, An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service

Michal Mackowiak, Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels

Sina Khatibi, Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation

COST IC1004, 9th MC & Scientific Meeting, Ferrara, Italy

 

2014-02-12

Luis M. Correia

Vodafone Technical Watch, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-02-13

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”,

CSP’2014 – Communication and Signal Processing, at SSD’2014 – 11th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Barcelona, Spain

 

2014-02-13

Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”

Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Porto, Portugal

 

2014-02-18

Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”

Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Aveiro, Portugal

 

2014-02-25

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”

Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi are preparing contributions for the next meeting.

 

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

A report on SAR simulations for Duke and Eartha voxel models, different body postures in LTE and 3G is being prepared by Michal Mackowiack. Contributions to report with simulations for body influence on the dosimeter performance have been circulated by Michal Mackowiack. Initial simulations are being performed on network topologies by Daniel Sebastião. Filipe Cardoso has circulated a document with the WP7 Implementation Plan for Year2.

 

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

A paper, entitled “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, was written, as one of the results of the first year of research. It was presented in the IC1004 COST meeting and submitted to the EUCNC conference. In parallel, the work on the two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, are progressing. In particular, special attention is being paid to the profiling of computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage.

 

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu

Initial results for the JRA on Virtual MIMO in Body Area Networks are being analysed together with PUT. Within WP2.3, a cooperative activity with EURECOM is addressing the use of OpenAirInterface for the profiling of computation resources of software-based LTE base-stations, for various traffic loads and radio resources usage.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

FAQtos team was present in two schools, at Porto and Felgueiras, where information actions were done on exposure to EMFs and how mobile communication systems work. More of these actions are scheduled for the coming months. The team is also preparing a series of presentations on “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts” in collaboration with PT Comunicações, to be held on Lisbon, Porto and Aveiro.

 

GROW News Dec/2013

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Vol. 8, No. 11, Dec. 2013

In this issue:

  1. People
  2. Publications
  3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
  4. Projects

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

GROW has hosted Prof. Peter Smith (Univ. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand).  We know that he has enjoyed both the city and the country, besides GROW’s hospitality.  It’s great to know that.

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

 

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”, accepted to EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

 

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”, accepted to EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

 

Conil,E., Corre,Y., Varsier,N., Hadjem,A., Wermeeren,G., Martens,L., Correia,L.M. and Wiart,J., “Exposure index of EU project LEXNET: principles and simulation-based computation”, accepted to EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

 

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

 

2013-12-02

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation Monitoring” (in Portuguese)

Seminário 20 Anos de Ambiente na Defesa Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2013-12-04/05

Luis M. Correia

SmartSantander Project review, Santander, Spain

 

2013-12-09

Luis M. Correia

Dr. Guillaume Villemaud defence of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I – INSA, Lyon, France

 

2013-12-10

Luís M. Correia, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”

Mónica Branco

Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-01-13

Luis M. Correia

LEXNET project review

Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-01-14/16

Luis M. Correia

Evaluation of IEMN (Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie), Lille, for AERES (Agence d’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur)

Lille, France

 

2014-01-17

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM# project review

Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-01-21/23

Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak, Lucio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi

NEWCOM# meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-01-30

Michal Machowiak, “Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”

Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”

Lúcio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”

GROWing meeting

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi are preparing contributions for the next meeting.

 

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

Simulations for SAR evaluation (WP2) and influence of the body on the dosimeter (WP3) are running.  Quite some effort was allocated to the edition of the first annual report and the preparation of the project evaluation meeting to be held on January.

 

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

GROW’s team is progressing with the challenge of developing an architecture to provide RAN as a service (RANaaS), following cloud computing principles of pooled resources, offered on-demand, elastically and paid-per-use.  A paper has been written entitled “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, to be submitted to EUCNC.  In parallel, the work on the two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, is progressing.

 

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu

GROW will host the Track 1 and Track 2 meeting in Lisbon in January.  Contributions to the presentations thst will be given by the task leaders during the meeting are being prepared.  In particular, a work to be developed with EURECOM will be discussed, within Cloud-RAN, on the computation resources needs of software-based baseband units.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

Information actions are being held in secondary schools on exposure to EMFs and how mobile communication systems work.  Two actions are programmed in January. The team also performs measurements in municipalities, with three collaborations being prepared.