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 16th 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 16th 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 (17th) in Setúbal by invitation of the ESTSetubal. Some actions were also performed in the IST campus, namely, in the Civil (22nd), North (15th) and South Tower (24th) buildings and in the Colombo Shopping Centre (25th and 26th). 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 28th.
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.