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 – 13th 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 – 13th 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. 26th-28th, 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.