Vol. 3, No. 7, July/Sep. 2008
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.
GROW has two more members, to do their M.Sc. thesis:
— João Araújo
— Nuno Jacinto
Additionally, one member has come back: Micha? Ma?kowiak, which has done his M.Sc. Thesis in GROW, came back to do his Ph.D. within GROW, in the area of MIMO channels and Body Area Networks. He’s most welcome back.
2. Theses
Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.
A defence was held in July:
— Telmo Batista, “Capacity Increase in UMTS/HSPA+ Through the Use of MIMO Systems”, M.Sc., July 25
Telmo’s colleagues have delivered their M.Sc. theses by Sep. 30, and their defences have been scheduled to the beginning of November:
— Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, M.Sc.
— Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”, M.Sc.
— Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, M.Sc.
— Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”, M.Sc.
— Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”, M.Sc.
3. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Luis M. Correia, “Road to Unknown – Introducing the SRA and SAA of eMobility”, Proc. of International Conference on the Platforms for Future ICT, Budapest, Hungary, Sep. 2008.
Martijn Kuipers, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, Proc. of WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland, Sep. 2008.
Antonio Serrador, Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity Influence on JRRM Performance”, Proc. of WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland, Sep. 2008.
Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.
Norbert Niebert, Stephan Baucke, Ibtissam El-Khayat, Martin Johnsson, Börje Ohlman, Henrik Abramowicz, Klaus Wuenstel, Hagen Woesner, Jürgen Quittek and Luis M. Correia, “The way 4WARD to the creation of a Future Internet”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.
Luis M. Correia, “The eMobility SAA for Environmental Issues”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.
Gonçalo Carpinteiro and Luis M. Correia, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”, Proc. of VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2008.
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes and Luis M. Correia, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”, Proc. of VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Cargary, Canada, Sep. 2008.
Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Seminário da Ordem dos Engenheiros sobre “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, Lisboa, Sep. 2008.
Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”, Proc. of 4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 2008.
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”, 6th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2008
4. Conferences and Seminars
List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.
2008-07-7/8
António Serrador, Luisa Caeiro
4WARD WP3 Meeting, Bremen, Germany
2008-07-10
Martijn Kuipers, “Beyond 2020 Content Centric Networking”
Luis Correia, “Mobile & Wireless Communications: Trying to see what’s next”
GROWing meeting
2008-07-23/24
Luis M. Correia
eMobility InterPlatform Meeting, Madrid, Spain
2008-07-24
Martijn Kuipers, “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”
Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluating Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”
Telmo Batista, “Capacity Increase in UMTS/HSPA+ Through the Use of MIMO Systems”
GROWing meeting
2008-07-25
Telmo Batista
M.Sc. Thesis’ defence.
2008-09-01
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
2008-09-04
Luis M. Correia, “Road to Unknown – Introducing the SRA and SAA of eMobility”,
International Conference on the Platforms for Future ICT, Budapest, Hungary
2008-09-8/11
Martijn Kuipers, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”
Antonio Serrador, “MIMO Capacity Influence on JRRM Performance”
Luis M. Correia
WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland
2008-09-11/12
Carla Oliveira
NEWCOM++ meeting, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
2008-09-12
Daniel Sebastião, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”
Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”
GROW Meeting
2008-09-15/17
Martijn Kuipers “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”
Luis M. Correia, “The way 4WARD to the creation of a Future Internet”, “The eMobility SAA for Environmental Issues”,
PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France
2008-09-18/19
Luis M. Correia
4WARD PMT Meeting, Paris, France
2008-09-22/24
Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”,
Daniel Sebastião, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”,
VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada
2008-09-23
Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese),
Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
Seminário da Ordem dos Engenheiros sobre “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, Lisboa
2009-10-01
Luis M. Correia
ICT Mobile Summit 2009 TPC Meeting, Brussels, Belgium.
2009-10-02
Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”,
Daniel Sebastião
4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium.
2008-10-6/8
Lúcio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
COST 2100 6th MCM, Lille, France
2008-10-14/17
Daniel Sebastião, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”,
Mónica Antunes,
6th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008-10-15/17
Luís M. Correia and Diana Ladeira
eMobility Applications Workshop, WG meeting, and General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden
2008-10-20/23
Daniel Sebastião, Filipe Cardoso, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador, Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia
4WARD Meeting, Bilbao, Spain
2008-10-27
Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”,
Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”,
GROW Meeting
2008-10-30/31
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Executive Board Meeting, Vienna, Austria
5. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu
Daniel Sebastião contributed to the business use cases being developed, and to the first issue of the newsletter. Filipe Cardoso has finished the contribution on Physical Layer Awareness (PLA) and Terminology for Deliverable D2.1. He also updated the document on PLA by including all contributions from different WPs, as well as new contents on the relation between channel impairments and system/network parameters, and looking for future project contributions. This document will be discussed during Bilbao meeting in Oct.. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro participated in the WP3 meeting in Bremen on July 7th and 8th; a new version of the work on Cooperative Radio Resource Management in future virtual networks framework has been presented. A contribution to VNet architecture workshop held in August, in Berlin, has been distributed. A contribution to “An Architecture for Network Virtualisation” paper initiated by Mehrdad Dianati, and Rahim Tafazolli from University of Surrey, has been sent. A contribution to R-3.1 concerning Radio Resource Management in a Virtual Network Environment has been included in this report. Furthermore, contributions to D-3.1, related of Wireless Scenarios and Inter-Vnet (Virtual Networks) RRM have been sent. António Serrador has prepared a contribution to WP3 concerning the Physical Layer Awareness in the WP3 context. Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira reviewed the first WP5 deliverable, which describes the Generic Path architecture. They are also involved in Task 5.4 on resource sharing, where a Generic Resource Management Framework (GRMF) has been proposed, and have circulated a document on that.
COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Lúcio Ferreira will attend the COST 2100 meeting in Lille in Oct., to continue with the work of SIG A on reference scenarios.
eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on service description is progressing. A first version of the Strategic Applications Agenda has been finalised. The preparation of the workshop in Oct. is finished.
monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
The monIT Project, in cooperation with the “Ciência Viva” scientific program, has been participating in several actions in the “Engenharia no Verão” theme. These public actions are held in the local “Ciência Viva” science centres, and the team is available to talk to the population and to clear any doubts regarding exposure to EMFs. Also, the equipment used in the measurements is available there, and people can measure the radiation emitted by their own mobile phones. These actions continued in September in several locations across the country. The project team was also present at the “Noite dos Investigadores”, an action held in Centro Cultural de Belém, organised by Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência. There was also a presentation by the monIT Project in the seminar entitled: “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, organised by the Portuguese engineers association.
NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira has contributed to the WPI.6 Innovative ICT Concepts Survey and has made a presentation on the topic of Body Area Networks to the IST WPR.1 working group. Concerning WPR1, the Sophia-Antipolis meeting has reinforced the need for joint collaboration among different partners. For the IST team, collaborations with Université de Louvain (Belgium) and Bilkent University (Turkey) are foreseen. António Serrador has collect WPR9 partner’s contributions and edited the Deliverable DR.9.1 first version, entitled “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies”; he has circulated within the NEWCOM++ WPR9, the DR.9.1 draft version. GROW is preparing a document on the Resource Description Language (RDL), which is to be circulated among partners in WPR.11 in Oct. 2008.
WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org
Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira are editors of Chapter 2 of the upcoming Deliverable D2.3, entitled “Performance evaluation of the low layer techniques and itegration in the WIP global architecture”. Contributions were delivered on “WIP architecture and the lower layers”, “Relative MIMO Gain” and “Reference performance evaluation in WMNs”. Martijn Kuipers was supposed to attend the one-day meeting of WIP to be held in Cannes on Sep. 15, 2008.