GROW News Dec/2007

Vol. 2, No. 10, Dec. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Theses

3. Publications

4. Conferences & Seminars

5. Projects

1. People

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

Carla Oliveira has been officially accepted as a Ph.D. student at IST. Congratulations.

2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

Two more GROWers graduated this month:

— Mónica Antunes, “Impact of HSDPA Implementation on UMTS Capacity and Cell Coverage”, M.Sc., Dec. 10.

— Pedro Baptista, “Impact of HSUPA Implementation on UMTS Capacity and Cell Coverage”, M.Sc., Dec. 19.

Congratulations to them. We wish all the best for their professional careers.

In the meantime, this month, 5 GROWers have delivered their M.Sc. theses (the last ones under the old “pre-Bologna” scheme) for evaluation:

— Daniel Sebastião, “Algorithms for QoS in WiFi Networks”

— David Antunes, “Performance Analysis of WiMax 802.16e Networks for Different RRM Algorithms”

— Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “Performance Analysis of Fully Wireless WiFi Networks”

— Luis Gonçalves, “Influence on capacity of interference in UMTS under simultaneous FDD and TDD”

— Luis Pires, “Optimisation of UMTS-TDD Base Stations Location for Non-Uniform Traffic Distributions”.

We are now waiting for the decision of the juries on their acceptance for defence.

3. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes and Luis M. Correia, “The monIT Project: Conclusions from 5 Years Activities” (in Portuguese), Proc. of Congresso das Comunicações 2007, Estoril, Portugal, Dec. 2007

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Manuel Ferreira and Mário Serafim Nunes, “QoS Performance Evaluation of a WLAN Mesh Versus A WIMAX Network for an Isolated Village Scenario”, in Proc. of Euro FGI Workshop on IP QoS and Traffic Control, Lisbon , Portugal, Dec. 2007.

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility and eHealth: Next steps”, Proc. of ISMICT’2007 – 2^nd International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Oulu, Finland, Dec. 2007

António Serrador, Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”, accepted on WCNC’2008 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Apr. 2008.

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Marcelo D. Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann and Luis M. Correia, “Making Wireless Mesh Networking More Flexible toward Self-organizing Community Networks”, submitted to IEEE Internet Computing, Dec. 2007.

4. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-12-03

Luis M. Correia,

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

2007-12-04

Luis M. Correia, “The monIT Project: Conclusions from 5 Years Activities” (in Portuguese),

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes

Congresso das Comunicações 2007, Estoril, Portugal

2007-12-07

Luísa Caeiro, “QoS Performance Evaluation of a WLAN Mesh Versus A WIMAX Network for an Isolated Village Scenario”,

Lúcio S. Ferreira,

Euro FGI Workshop on IP QoS and Traffic Control, Lisbon , Portugal

2007-12-12

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility and eHealth: Next steps”,

ISMICT’2007 – 2^nd International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Oulu, Finland

2007-12-14

Luis M. Correia,

Opponent in Jury of the Ph.D. Thesis by Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn, “Evaluation of MIMO Radio Channel Characteristics from TDM-switched MIMO Channel Sounding”, Univ. Oulu, Oulu, Finland

2007-12-20

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes,

Orange Labs. Seminar on “Interactions of RF with the human being: State of knowledge”, Paris, France

5. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

Although not a formal project, the main work of setting up the GROW website, together with an intranet for GROWers, was concluded, containing valuable information of current and former research projects as well as publications. A special “Thank You” to all of those involved in this task, namely Lúcio Ferreira and Martijn Kuipers.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

This project has been finalised this month. António Serrador has circulated within the project a document with a new version of Deliverable D13, in which the WiMAX simulator developed by David Antunes was included, and the second version (integrated with other contributions) of the document on Simulators Validation and Comparison.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The SIG A – “Reference Scenarios” webpage was built, containing information, documentation, and a first draft set of scenarios. It is accessible via the project website, under the Working Groups menu.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

This Network of Excellence has been finalised this month. GROW has participated on WSN topics, such as: scenarios, mobility models, MIMO, effects of human body shadowing when the sensor is worn on the human body. Last but not least, a joint publication with Orange Labs. is being finalised.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The monIT team is concluding a report on the overall measurements performed within the last 5 years of the Project. The team participated in “Congresso das Comunicações 07”, a congress involving the main players in the Portuguese field of telecommunications. It has also attended a seminar held in Paris by Orange France, on the state of the art on interactions between RF fields and the human being.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

A joint paper with other partners has been prepared, and submitted, by Lúcio Ferreira.

Vol. 2, No. 9, Nov. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Training Courses

1. People

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

GROW has a new member. Vikash Mukesh will work on his M.SC. thesis.

Additionally, Mónica Antunes became part of the monIT team.

A warm welcome to both.

2. Publications

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

Martijn Kuipers, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, Proc. of EuCAP 2007 – 2^nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK, Nov. 2007

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião e Luis M. Correia, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese), Proc. of XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese), Proc. of Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

Jordi Pérez-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Andrea Barbaresi, Rickard Ljung, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Advanced Radio Resource Management Solutions in AROMA”, Proc. of AROMA Workshop on Trends in Radio Resource Management, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2007.

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann and Luis M. Correia, “Making Wireless Mesh Networking More Flexible toward Self-Organizing Community Networks”, submitted to IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Mesh Networks (to be issued in July/August 2008)

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model for Heterogeneous Networks Management and Performance Evaluation “, accepted on NOMS 08 – IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Salvador, Brazil, Apr. 2008.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-11-11/16

Martijn Kuipers, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”

EuCAP 2007 – 2^nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK

2007-11-21

António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro

AROMA Workshop on Trends in Radio Resource Management, Barcelona, Spain

2007-11-22

Carla Oliveira, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese)

Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes

XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Nov. 2007

2007-11-28

Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese),

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes

Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has circulated within the project a document with the second IST-TUL contribution to D18, and another with the first IST-TUL contribution to Simulators Validation and Comparison.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

Martijn Kuipers circulated final contributions to WP240 Deliverable, on channel modelling for Body Area Networks, in a joint collaboration with France Telecom R&D.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The continuous monitoring networks of Almada and Caldas da Rainha were deactivated; the final reports are already available at monIT’s website. The project team also was involved in several public actions, such as “Terceiras Jornadas da Inovação” (Associação Industrial Portuguesa/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), “Jornadas da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção Contra Radiações” and “1.º Seminário do Comité Português da URSI” (União Radiocientífica Internacional). The project just completed five years of activities, having held a press conference where all the Project results were presented. Finally, there is a new member in the project team, Mónica Antunes.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Deliverable D2.2 “Design of the lower layer techniques for WIP Advanced Wireless Infrastructure”, edited by Lúcio S. Ferreira, was delivered to the European Commission.

5. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for industry on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2007-11-30.

Vol. 2, No. 8, Oct. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

Lúcio Ferreira got married to Filipa on 2007-10-05. Congratulations to both.

On 2007-10-18, Carla Oliveira got a Honourable Mention Prize in the 2006 Young Engineer Innovation Contest, promoted by the Portuguese Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros), for the work developed in her M.Sc. Thesis. Congratulations!

2. Publications

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

Martijn Kuipers, Antonio Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”, Proc. of Workshop on Smart Antennas at the 37th European Microwave Conference, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião e Luis M. Correia, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese), accepted to XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese), accepted to Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Manuel Ferreira and Mário Serafim Nunes, “QoS Performance Evaluation of a WLAN Mesh Versus A WIMAX Network for an Isolated Village Scenario”, accepted to Euro FGI Workshop on IP QoS and Traffic Control, Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 2007

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-10-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”,

Luis M. Correia,

VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA

2007-10-08

Martijn Kuipers, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”,

Workshop on Smart Antennas at the European Microwave Conference 2007, Munich, Germany.

2007-10-09

Prof. Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) visit to GROW.

2007-10-28/29

Luis M. Correia,

Workshop on “Technologies, contents and services for social inclusion: Facing the digital divide and the emergence of ambient assisted living”, Lisbon Portugal

2007-10-30

Luis M. Correia,

Demonstration by Alcatel-Lucent and Vodafone Portugal of mobile TV solution based on the DVB-SH standard, Lisbon, Portugal

2007-11-22

Carla Oliveira, “Updated Results from the Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring Programme of the monIT Project” (in Portuguese)

XIII Jornadas de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Nov. 2007

2007-11-28

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems” (in Portuguese),

Seminar of the Portuguese Committee of URSI on “Radiocommunications – New paradigms and health impact”, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia attended the meeting in Aveiro, Portugal, on 2007-10-16/17. Luis M. Correia presented the IST-TUL future contributions to Deliverable 18. António Serrador has circulated within the project a document with first IST-TUL contribution to D18.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

Martijn Kuipers attended the WP240 meeting on transmission issues related to WSN on 2007-10-14/15, in Archamps, France. The report is on channel modelling for Body Area Networks, leaded by Martijn Kuipers, together France Telecom R&D is about to be finalised.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

As a result of the continuous monitoring installed networks, two cooperation protocols were signed between the Project and the municipalities of Almada and Caldas da Rainha. Also, the Project is about to enter a new phase, and some reports are being prepared with the main results for all the measurements performed until now.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Deliverable D2.2 “Design of the lower layer techniques for WIP Advanced Wireless Infrastructure” is being finalised by Lúcio Ferreira (as an editor).

Vol. 2, No. 7, Sep. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

GROW continues to have more members, to do their Masters Thesis.

Two new students came to GROW within the SOCRATES/ERASMUS Student Exchange Programme, from University of L’Aquila, Italy:

— Emanuele Tido

— Salvatore Messina

Additionally, three former graduates from IST, with the “Licenciado” degree, came back:

— Jorge Venes

— Carlos Pardelinha

— Rui Cabeço

Michal Mackowiak graduated on his Master degree, on Sep. 18, with a thesis entitled “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce MIMO Channel Model”. He went back to Warsaw, Poland. Congratulations to him, and wishes for a successful professional life.

Carla Oliveira enrolled as a Ph.D. student, and started her work in the area of MIMO and channel models for Body Area Networks.

2. Publications

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

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”, Proc. of 16^th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.

Mario Garcia-Lozano, Luis Alonso, Fernando Casadevall, Silvia Ruiz, and Luis M. Correia, “Enhanced Analysis of WCDMA Networks with Repeaters Deployment”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 9, Sep. 2007, pp. 3429-3439.

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, Proc. of PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18^th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.

Antonio Serrador, Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”, submitted to WCNC 2008 – IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Apr. 2008

Antonio Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model for Heterogeneous Networks Management and Performance Evaluation”, submitted to NOMS 2008 – IEEE/IFIP Networks Operations and Management Symposium, Salvador, Brazil, Apr. 2008.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-07-02/04

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”,

Luis M. Correia

16^th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary.

2007-07-04/06

Luis M. Correia

COST ICT Domain Committee meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

2007-09-03/06

António Serrador, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”,

Luis M. Correia,

PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18^th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece.

2007-09-10/12

António Serrador, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation” – TD(07)313,

Lúcio Ferreira, Chairman SIG on Reference Scenarios,

Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia

COST2100 3^rd Meeting, Duisburg, Germany

2007-09-13/14

Martijn Kuipers

1st Workshop on “Commercial MIMO-Components and -Systems Workshop”, Duisburg, Germany.

2007-09-13/14

Luis M. Correia

COST ICT Domain Committee meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

2007-09-17

Michal Mackowiak, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce MIMO Channel Model”

GROWing meeting.

2007-09-20

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

2007-09-25

Luis M. Correia, organiser

eMobility Workshop on Shaping the Future of Mobile and Wireless Communications, Rome Italy

2007-09-26

Luis M. Correia, Chairman

eMobility WG on Leading-Edge Applications meeting, Rome Italy.

2007-09-26

Prof. Homayoun Nikookar (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands) visit to GROW.

2007-09-27

Luis M. Correia, Session Chairman

António Serrador

Workshop on Mobile WiMAX – Towards Ubiquitous Internet, Lisbon, Portugal.

2007-09-28

Advanced training course on “UMTS/HSDPA & Mobile WiMAX”, lectured by Prof. Hamid Aghvami (King’s College London, London, UK), organised by GROW, Lisbon, Portugal.

2007-10-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”,

Luis M. Correia,

VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA

2007-10-08

Martijn Kuipers, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”,

Workshop on Smart Antennas at the European Microwave Conference 2007, Munich, Germany.

2007-10-09

Prof. Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) visit to GROW.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador is finalising his contribution on CRRM combined with MIMO.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

A collaboration under Cluster D is ongoing with France Telecom R&D, on channel modelling for Body Area Networks, leaded by Martijn Kuipers. A report is expected by next month.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project has monitoring networks running in Montijo, Almada, and Caldas da Rainha.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Deliverable D1.3 “Solutions: mesh networking, multi-hop relaying, cross-layer design, communities, operator/cellular assistance” has been delivered. Lúcio Ferreira contributed to this Deliverable.

Deliverable D2.2 “Design of the lower layer techniques for WIP Advanced Wireless Infrastructure” is being edited by Lúcio Ferreira.

GROW has submitted 6 project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7. It is confirmed that half of these proposals will be funded, hence, 3 new projects will start next January 2008. More news will be available after the negotiations phase is finished.

Vol. 2, No. 6, June 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

As mentioned at the last issue of this NewsLetter, GROW has 6 more members, which will work on their Master theses, to be developed jointly with industry (Vodafone, Optimus and Celfinet):

— Armando Marques

— Filipe Leonardo

— Pedro Rocha

— Ricardo Preguiça

— Sara Duarte

— Telmo Batista

Actually, one of these (Pedro Rocha) is a former member of GROW, coming back to the University to do the Master. It is always good to have some one back.

António Serrador’s paper was accepted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18^th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. Congratulations.

2. Publications

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

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, accepted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18^th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-06-05

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2007-06-19

Luis M. Correia

Mobility 2008-2020: Spectrum Growth and Availability. Challenges in the Context of ITU-R WRC 2007. XV Encontro Ericsson/Semanário Económico. Lisbon, Portugal.

2007-06-20

Prof. Marcelo Sampaio Alencar (Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil) visit to GROW.

2007-06-29

Moe Win, “Recent Advances in Ultrawide Bandwidth Communications and Networks”

IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

2007-06-29

Prof. Moe Win (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) visit to GROW.

2007-07-02/04

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”,

16^th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary.

2007-07-04/06

Luis M. Correia

COST ICT Domain Committee meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia attended the meeting in Malmo, Sweden, on 2007-06-13/14. António Serrador presented the latest results on CRRM combined with MIMO.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

A collaboration under Cluster D is being started with France Telecom R&D, on channel modelling for Body Area Networks.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project performed measurements in several schools in Santarém and Braga districts. Measurements were also performed in the stadium “Estádio Cidade de Coimbra”, in Coimbra. A continuous monitoring network has also been installed in Almada.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Contributions by Lúcio Ferreira to Deliverable D1.3 “Solutions: mesh networking, multi-hop relaying, cross-layer design, communities, operator/cellular assistance” have been finalised. The Deliverable is expected to be finished by the next month of July.

GROW has submitted 6 project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7. It seems that half of these proposals will be funded, but definitive results will be known only by the end of July.

Vol. 2, No. 5, May 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

Following the proposal by Luis M. Correia of 7 topics for Master theses, it is expected that GROW will have 7 new members by June. The list will be shown in the next issue of GROWing News. Five of these proposals are to be developed jointly with industry, namely, Vodafone, Optimus and Celfinet.

António Serrador’s paper was accepted to 16^th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, and Carla Oliveira’s was accepted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (see below). Congratulations to both.

2. Publications

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

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luís M. Correia, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Lúcio Ferreira and Rui Rocha, “Multi-Channel Clustering Algorithm to Improve Performance of WSNs”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira and Luis M. Correia, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”, Proc. of 2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy, May 2007.

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”, Proc. of 1st ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2007

Luis M. Correia, “Monitoring of Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications”, Proc. of Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética do ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal, Maio 2007.

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”, accepted to 16^th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, accepted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-05-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”

2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy

Attended by Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira

2007-05-08

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones near Base Station Antennas”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

GROWing meeting

2007-05-09/10

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”

Diana Ladeira, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007

Attended by Luis M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Mário Pereira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Hugo Esteves, Filipe Cardoso, Luisa Caeiro.

2007-05-17

Lucio Ferreira, “Network Neutrality”

Seminar on Telecommunication Policies, IST

2007-05-21

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”

1st ERCIM Workshop on e-Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal

2007-05-22

Michal Mackowiak, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce MIMO Channel Model”

GROWing meeting

2007-05-23

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição a Radiação Electromagnética: Aplicações aos Telemóveis”

ISEC Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética, Coimbra, Portugal

2007-05-31

15ª Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis

IST, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has circulated within the project a document comparing all the simulators used by the several partners.

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

GROW hosted a CRUISE Cluster D meeting on 2007-05-29.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

An information action was performed in the Telecommunications Day (17^th) in Setúbal by invitation of the ESTSetubal. Some actions were also performed in the IST campus, namely, in the Civil (22^nd), North (15^th) and South Tower (24^th) buildings and in the Colombo Shopping Centre (25^th and 26^th). Measurements were performed in the Assembleia da República buildings, and a continuous monitoring network has also been installed in Montijo, a protocol having been signed on the 28^th.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

GROW (Lúcio Ferreira and Martijn Kuipers) has participated in a plenary meeting held at the premises of IT in Aveiro, Portugal, on 2007-05-24/25.

GROW has submitted 6 project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7. Preliminary results of the evaluation procedure are expected to be known by the end of June.

Vol. 2, No. 4, Apr. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

António Serrador presented his Ph.D. Thesis plan to the Accompanying Commission on 2007-04-10. The evaluation was positive.

2. Publications

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

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, Proc. of EW’2007 – 13^th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007.

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, Proc. of EW’2007 – 13^th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007.

Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”, invited for Workshop on Smart Antennas / European Microwave Week, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007

Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, submitted to EuCAP’2007 – 2^nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK, Nov. 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-04-01/04

Pedro Costa, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of intra- and inter-cellular interferences in UMTS-FDD capacity”

EW’2007 – 13^th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France

Attended by Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, and Luis M. Correia

2007-04-17

Luis M. Correia, “Some Results of the Research Activities of GROW”

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

JEEC, IST, Lisbon, Portugal,

2007-04-24

Martijn Kuipers, “MIMO Channel, and its capacity dependence on cell types”

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Diana Ladeira, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

GROWing meeting

2007-05-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”

2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy

Attended by Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira

2007-05-08

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones near Base Station Antennas”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

GROWing meeting

2007-05-09/10

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”

Diana Ladeira, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Carla Oliveira, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

2007-05-21

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”

1st ERCIM Workshop on e-Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal

2007-05-23

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição a Radiação Electromagnética: Aplicações aos Telemóveis”

ISEC Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética, Coimbra, Portugal

2007-05-31

15ª Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis

IST, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has edited Deliverable D13, “Simulation tools: final version capabilities and features”, which has been sent in within the deadline.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project team performed measurements in several schools and hospitals in the regions of Coimbra and Aveiro. An information action was also performed in the Ciência 2007 exhibition held in Pavilhão do Conhecimento, on Apr. 14^th. monIT has also contributed to the JEEC 2007 exposition organised by the Electrical Engineering students at IST.

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

The project has finished.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

GROW has hosted a meeting of WP2, in 2007-04-23/24.

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia are concluding the preparation of project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7.

Vol. 2, No. 3, Mar. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

Leonor, David Antunes’s daughter, and Madalena, Luis Santo’s daughter, were born this March. Congratulations to them.

2. Publications

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

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, submitted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18^th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-03-20

Diana Ladeira and Pedro Costa, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Hugo Esteves and Mário Pereira, “Impact of intra- and inter-cellular interferences in UMTS-FDD capacity”

GROWing meeting

2007-03-26

Luis M. Correia attended the COST Domain Committee on Information and Communication Technologies, held in Brugges, Belgium.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

Luis M. Correia has participated in the project’s audit, held in Brussels, on 2007-03-14. The review was successful. Another project meeting took place, in London, on 2007-03-27/28, being attended by Luis M. Correia, Martijn Kuipers and António Serrdor. Martijn Kuipers and António Serrador have produced contributions to Deliverable D12, “Intermediate report on AROMA algorithms and simulation results”.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org

Luis M. Correia attended the Steering Board Meeting, in Brussels, on 2007-03-23.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The work on the SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, is continuing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project conducted measurements in several schools and hospitals in the regions of Alentejo and Algarve. A direct action of contact with the population in a shopping centre was also held in the former.

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

Lúcio Ferreira contributed to the preparation of the final project review that took place in Brussels, on 2007-03-05. The review was successful.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Lúcio Ferreira contributed to the preparation of the project’s audit, held in Brussels, on 2007-03-13. Still no news about the outcome.

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia are participating in several meetings, for the preparation of project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7.

Vol. 2, No. 2, Feb. 2007

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Website

1. People

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

A new student within the SOCRATES exchange, from Warsaw Technical University, Michal Mackowiak, has joined GROW this month, to do his M.Sc. thesis in the area of channel modelling. Michal is expected to stay with us until next September.

2. Publications

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

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile and Wireless Communications: What’s next?”, Proc. of CELTIC Event 2007, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 2007

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correiaand Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, accepted to Proc. of EW’2007 – 13^th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, accepted to Proc. of EW’2007 – 13^th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luís M. Correia, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, submitted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-02-06

Mónica Antunes, “Impact of HSDPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,

Pedro Baptista, “Impact of HSUPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,

GROWing meeting.

2007-02-14/16

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Joint WHO/ICNIRP/EMF-NET Workshop on Current Trends in Health & Safety Risk Assessment of Work-Related Exposure to EMFs, Milan, Italy.

2007-02-16

Ian Oppermann (University of Oulu and Nokia Networks, Finland), “Optimisation of 3G Networks”,

Therese Catanzariti (GE Healthcare, Finland), “GPL, MIT, BSD, OSS (and me): Introduction to Open Source”,

IEEE ComSoc Portugal Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

2007-02-21/22

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile and Wireless Communications: What’s next?”, CELTIC Event 2007, Berlin, Germany.

2007-02-27

Luis Salvado, “UMTS/HSDPA Comparison with WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”,

João Lopes, “Performance Analysis of UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at the Cellular Level”,

GROWing meeting.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

Contributions to Deliverable D11, “Target scenarios specification: vision at project stage 2”, been have finalised. GROW will participate in the project’s audit next month.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org

The activities of the Working Group on Leading–Edge Applications, leaded by Luis M. Correia, have been launched.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

A SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, has been launched. GROW has hosted a meeting on Feb. 26^th-28^th, where two papers from GROW were presented (from António Serrador and Martijn Kuipers).

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project had several actions during this month, namely measurements in the Lisbon underground and in a shopping centre, and the corresponding contact with the population, which had some media exposure for the latter, namely by appearing on the news of RTP1.

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

The contributions to Deliverable DR7.4 “Final Report on the activities carried out in Dept. 7” by Lúcio Ferreira have been finalised. The project has ended this month,

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Lúcio Ferreira has contributed to the preparation of the project’s audit, to be held next month.

5. Website

A new page in the GROW website identifying the academic OPNET research and educational projects within GROW has been created. GROW has acquired several academic licenses of this tool, several researchers being currently working with it. The aim of this page is the creation of an interest group within GROW to share experience on this tool.

This is a powerful and complete simulation tool that is being adopted worldwide by R&D labs., manufacturers and operators. It enables realistic simulation of several systems, containing modules for the main telecommunications systems (UMTS, 802.11, WIMAX), and being possible to modify them or to create new ones. It uses a comprehensive language based in C++, and contains graphical interfaces which present all kinds of performance results.

Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 2007

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences & Seminars
4. Projects
5. Website

1. People

You’ll find here all relevant information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

A new student within the SOCRATES exchange, from Warsaw Technical University, Michal Mackowiak, will join us next month, to do his M.Sc. thesis in the area of channel modelling.

2. Publications

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

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”, submitted to IST Mobile Summit 2007, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.

3. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars and other events held during this period, and to be held next month.

2007-01-09
António Serrador, “A Cost Function Model to Evaluate Heterogeneous Networks Performance”, GROWing meeting.

2007-02-06
Mónica Antunes, “Impact of HSDPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,
Pedro Baptista, “Impact of HSUPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,
GROWing meeting.

2007-02-16
Ian Oppermann (University of Oulu and Nokia Networks, Finland), “Optimisation of 3G Networks”,
Therese Catanzariti (GE Healthcare, Finland), “GPL, MIT, BSD, OSS (and me): Introduction to Open Source”, IEEE ComSoc Portugal Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu
GROW hosted a meeting on Jan. 16th-17th. António Serrador and Martijn Kuipers presented the progress of their contributions in AROMA, concerning CRRM concepts and Relative MIMO Gain, respectively.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org
The activities of the Working Group on Leading–Edge Applications, leaded by Luis M. Correia, are being launched.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
A SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, has been launched. GROW will host a meeting on Feb. 26th-28th.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
The project had several actions during January, namely measurements in various hospitals and public ceremonies on the signature of protocols with municipalities.

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it
Several contributions to the project were made, namely:
(i) Contribution to Deliverable DR7.4 “Final Report on the activities carried out in Dept. 7”, with results produced by the CRRM Simulator, using the NEWCOM single cell scenario (UMTS R99, UMTS R5 and 802.11 family), from António Serrador and Luis M. Correia.
(ii) Contribution to Deliverable DR2.12 “Final report on channel characterization and modelling”, with results on the relative MIMO gain, from Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia.
(iii) Contribution to Deliverable DI7.1.4 “Final Report on E-MORANS: scenarios, users and results”, where results obtained by the E-MORANS initiative, which deals with the definition of reference scenarios for performance assessment of heterogeneous radio access networks, were discussed by Lúcio Ferreira.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org
Lúcio Ferreira attended the meeting in Grenoble, France, on Jan. 18th-19th, where he gave an overview of the activities of IT during 2006, among other contributions.

5. Website

Information GROW’s website.

Still new data is being added to GROW’s website, which has already become an interesting overview of the work carried out in the Group for Research on Wireless.