Dear GROWers,
One of the reasons why there is development in society is because people try new things: some are good and succeed, others aren’t and fade away. I decided to launch the idea that GROW should have a monthly Newsletter, aiming at informing everyone in the group, and others, about the life in the group, what is going one, and so on, so that we can collaborate even better, and achieve our goals (at both the personal and the group levels) in a better way, besides enabling that we know each other better.
Below, you can find the first issue. It is expected that really everyone inside GROW contributes to this Newsletter, providing inputs until the 15th of each month, so that we have enough time to publish it by the end of the month. This idea can only be successful if everyone inside GROW collaborates! Filipe Cardoso, fcardoso@est.ips.pt, is the editor of the Newsletter, hence, he will collect your inputs.
One last note. This newsletter is being distribute to both current and former (formal and informal, i.e., former students that were supervised by me) members of GROW. I perfectly understand that the former ones may not be interested in receiving this kind of news. If that is the case, send me an email, and please accept my apologies for contributing to your email spam. On the other hand, if you know anyone that would like to be part of this distribution list, do let me know, and I’ll include the address.
Enjoy it.
Luis M. Correia
Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct. 2006
In this issue:
1. People
2. Prize
3. Publications
4. Theses
5. Conferences & Seminars
6. Projects
7. Website
1. People
You’ll find here all relevant information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.
Since this is the first issue, the current “staff” is listed bellow.
– Luís M. Correia, Group-leader
– Vera de Almeida, Secretary
– Martijn Kuipers, PhD. / Researcher
– Filipe Cardoso, Ph.D. / Researcher
– António Serrador, Researcher / Ph.D. Student
– Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Researcher /Ph.D. Student
– Luísa Caeiro, Researcher /Ph.D. Student
– Carla Oliveira, Researcher / M.Sc. Student
– Daniel Sebastião, Researcher / M.Sc. Student
– Gonçalo Carpinteiro, M.Sc. Student
– Diana Ladeira, Researcher
– Luís Pires, M.Sc. Student
– Luís Gonçalves, M.Sc. Student
– David Antunes, M.Sc. Student
– Mónica Antunes, M.Sc. Student
– Luís Salvado, M.Sc. Student
– Pedro Baptista, M.Sc. Student
– João Lopes, M.Sc. Student
2. Prize
Luis Santo, a former member of GROW, deserves a big hug of congratulations: he won the 3rd prize ex-equo of the 2005 Young Engineer Innovation Contest, issued by Ordem dos Engenheiros (engineers association), for his M.Sc. Thesis “UMTS Performance in Multi-Service Non-Uniform Traffic Networks”. It is the sixth time that a thesis developed within GROW wins a prize.
3. Publications
You’ll find below relevant information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.
Rafal Zubala, Hubert Kokoszkiewicz, Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “A Simple Approach to MIMO Channel Modelling”, Proc. of EUSIPCO’2006 – 14th European Signal Processing Conference, Florence, Italy, Sep. 2006.
Gonçalo Martins, Sofia Correia and Luis M. Correia, “Comparison of Techniques for Capacity Increase in UMTS Data Services”, Proc. of ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2006.
Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luis M. Correia, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”, Proc. of ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2006.
João Cardeiro and Luis M. Correia, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, Proc. of PIMRC’2006 – IEEE 17th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, Sep. 2006
Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia, Carlos C. Fernandes, “Monitorização de Campos Electromagnéticos em Escolas e Hospitais Portugueses pelo Projecto monIT”, XII Jornadas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006
Additionally, a workshop was organised at IST, “European Technical Workshop on Meshed & Deployable IP Networks”, 30th to 31st October 2006, with the presence of over 50 participants.
4. Theses
Here you can find all the information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, not only from Portuguese students but also from those within the scope of International Students Exchange Programs, submitted or published in the period.
Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.
Piotr Furtak, Technical University of Warsaw, Poland, defended his thesis, entitled “Analysis of Channel Models for Wireless Sensor Networks” on Sep. 29th.
Carla Oliveira, IST, delivered her thesis, entitled “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communication Systems” before Summer holidays, and she will defend it by Dec. 5th.
5. Conferences and Seminars
Please find bellow the list of Conferences, Seminars and other events held during this period, and to be held next month.
Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.
2006-09-04
João Cardeiro, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, GROWing meeting
2006-09-06
Martijn Kuipers, “A Simple Approach to MIMO Channel Modelling”, EUSIPCO’2006 – 14th European Signal Processing Conference, Florence, Italy
2006-09-08
Luis M. Correia, “Comparison of Techniques for Capacity Increase in UMTS Data Services”, ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain
2006-09-08
Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”, ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain
2006-09-13
João Cardeiro, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, PIMRC’2006 – IEEE 17th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland
2006-09-26
Piotr Furtak, “Analysis of Channel Models for Wireless Sensor Networks”, GROWing meeting
2006-10-20
Hamid Aghvami (King’s College London, UK), “Heterogeneous Wireless Access Environment (In the context of end-to-end networking)”, Distinguished Lecturer Tour within the scope of the Portuguese IEEE ComSoc Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal
2006-11-28
Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia, Carlos C. Fernandes, “Monitorização de Campos Electromagnéticos em Escolas e Hospitais Portugueses pelo Projecto monIT”, XII Jornadas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal
6. Projects
This section contains relevant news about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
Since this is the first issue, a list of current project is provided.
monIT – Monitoring of Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications. Funded at the national level by Optimus, TMN and Vodafone. May 2004 / Dec. 2007. http://www.lx.it.pt/monit.
AROMA – Advanced Resource management solutions for future all IP heterOgeneous Mobile rAdio environments. Funded by the IST Programme (European Commission). Jan. 2006 / Dec. 2007. http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu.
WIP – An All-Wireless Mobile Network Architecture, IST Programme (European Commission), Jan. 2006 / Dec. 2008. http://www.ist-wip.org.
NEWCOM – Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications, IST Programme (European Commission), Mar. 2004 / Feb. 2007. http://www.ismb.it/newcom.
CRUISE, CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments, IST Programme (European Commission), Mar. 2004 / Feb. 2007. http://www.ist-cruise.eu.
We are also starting to prepare our participation in the IST Programme (European Commission) 7th Framework R&D projects.
7. Website
GROW’s website, http://grow.lx.it.pt, has undergone a big makeover. The entire system was moved from a set of linked webpages to a website based on Plone, an open source content management system. This approach allows us to easily update the site, and keep it up to date. On the site you will find, among others, the contact information for the people in GROW, the projects we are involved in, and a list of our publications. Although it is not completely finished, most of the structure and information is already available.