Vol. 3, No. 9, Nov. 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.
This month has witnessed the end of the discussions of the M.Sc. theses of the previous academic year. Telmo Batista, Armando Marques, Vikash Laxmidas, Ricardo Preguiça, Sara Duarte, and Filipe Leonardo, have all graduated. Congratulations to all of them, and good luck to their professional career, which has already started for all of them.
GROW has two more members on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. theses: Nuno Rapaz e Pedro Tareco.
Christmas and New Year are approaching. Season’s Greetings to all the readers of this Newsletter.
2. Theses
Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.
M.Sc. theses defended in November:
— Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 03
— Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”, M.Sc., Nov. 03
— Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”, M.Sc., Nov. 10
— Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 12
— Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”, M.Sc., Nov. 14
3. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”, Proc. of 2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008
Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Mónica Antunes, Luis M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luis M. Correia, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008
Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008
Carla Oliveira, Luís Pedrosa, Rui Rocha, “Characterizing On-Body Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of NTMS’2008 – Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, Tangier, Morocco, Nov. 2008
Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs now and in the Future?”, ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2008
Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”, 15th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France, Dec. 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.
2008-11-03
Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”,
Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”,
Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”
GROW Meeting
2008-11-06/07
Diana Ladeira
COST BM0704 Meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2008-11-07
Carla Oliveira
NTMS’2008 – Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, Tangier, Morocco
2008-11-11/13
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Carla Oliveira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia
XVIII Congresso das Comunicações 2008, Lisboa, Portugal
2008-11-12/14
Martijn Kuipers, Lúcio Ferreira
NEWCOM++ WP R.11 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
2008-11-20
João Araújo, “Analysis of Radio Repeaters in UMTS”
Nuno Jacinto, “Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS Evolution at the Radio Network Level”
GROW Meeting
2008-11-21
Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP
Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”
2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal
2008-11-22/23
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
Fórum Ciência Viva 2008, Lisboa, Portugal
2008-11-27
Diana Ladeira, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese),
Mónica Antunes, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese),
1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal
2008-11-27
Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese),
Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal
2008-11-28/29
Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira
Semana da Cultura Cientifica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal
2008-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
2008-12-04
Carla Oliveira, “Characterizing On-Body Wireless Sensor Networks”
Carla Oliveira, “Modelling Body Area Networks”
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “Building a Statistical Model for MIMO in Body Area Networks”
Jörgen Nordberg, “Signalling and Detection of UWB Signals based on a Dual-doublet Transmitted Reference Scheme”
GROW Meeting
2008-12-08/09
António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro
4WARD WP3 Meeting, Paris, France
2008-12-10
Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs Now and in the Future?”
ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain
2008-12-18
Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”
15th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France
5. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu
Daniel Sebastião contributed to the Deliverable D1.1 “First project-wide assessment on the nontechnical drivers”. Filipe Cardoso issued a PLA contribution for D2.2 “Draft Architectural Framework”. He also contributed for the definition on what will be the PLA contribution for the 4WARD book. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to D3.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Concept”, and reviewed some of its chapters. Martijn Kuipers worked on refining the Generic Resource Management Framework, which is now starting to play an important role in the isolation of resources between the compartments running on the same nodes. Lúcio Ferreira is continuing the work on Wireless Mesh Networks.
COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
The Newsletter have been circulated.
eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Deliverable D1.1 “Proceedings of Workshop on Applications” was finished by Diana Ladeira. The first version of the SAA is being edited by Diana Ladeira.
monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
A report prepared by the monIT team on interference and compatibility issues between mobile phones and other devices was issued this month, being available at the project website (only Portuguese version). The final reports on Entroncamento and Portalegre continuous monitoring networks are also available at the website. The team was present in several events during November, where it has talked to the visitors, presented the project, measured mobile phones radiation and so on. Also, information activities continued with several actions held in schools and hospitals during the months of November and December.
NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Martijn Kuipers has proposed a Joint Research Activity on the Resource Description Language, which already has some support from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is now working on a proof-of-concept implementation of the use of the RDL. António Serrador has issued the second draft version of WP R.9 Deliverable DR.9.1 “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies”, including all the comments collected in Rennes, France, and new contributions/comments received from partners.
WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org
Contributions have been sent to Deliverable D5.3 “Final report on dissemination and contributions to industry fora and standardization”. The project will finish next month.