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 16th 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 18th 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
16th 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 18th 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 3rd 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.