GROW News Dec/2010

Vol. 5, No. 11, Dec. 2010

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

GROW has one more member: Tiago Gonçalves will be doing his M.Sc. thesis in the area of energy efficiency in cellular networks.

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

2010-12-14
António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “An Analytical Model to Evaluate JRRM QoS Parameters”, submitted to Wireless Personal Communications.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board, Brussels, Belgium

2010-12-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira
EuroSkills “O Campeonato Europeu das Profissões”, Lisboa, Portugal

2011-01-19/20
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Workshop on Smart Cities, Stuttgart, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Luis M. Correia is editing the Newsletter of the last meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has updated the contribution to Deliverable D3.1 “Most promising tracks of green network technologies”, according to internal reviewers, and the final version was issued. Similarly, concerning Filipe Cardoso and Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies”.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The final Deliverable DR1.3 “Final report on the activities and results of WPR.1” is now available on the N++ server for review.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The new website from the Project is already online. It has a new look and new functionalities. Come explore it! Also, information actions continued to be one of the major action points for the Project. In December two more actions were done in a University (Universidade da Beira Interior) and on a school (Escola Secundária de Sesimbra). A total of 72 teams (from former 98) are still competing for Prémio monIT after evaluation of the first progress report!

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro worked on the definition of a use-case entitled “Creating and Sustaining the Connectivity in Wireless Challenged Networks” within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves have been working on Deliverable D.A.1 “Description of project wide scenarios and use cases” and on a State of the Art document focusing on business modelling.

Vol. 5, No. 10, Nov. 2010

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects
5. Training Courses

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Two more GROWers have graduated this month, by defending his M.Sc. thesis: João Lopes and Carlos Lopes. All the best for them in their professional life.

GROW has one more member on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. thesis: Tiago Gonçalves.

Christmas and New Year are here. Season’s Greetings to all the readers of this Newsletter.

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal.

Giulio Dainelli, Marco Moretti, António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems”, NEWCOM++ Joint Workshop, Bologna, Italy.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-11-08/10
Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia
EARTH Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

2010-11-17/18
Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia
Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-18/19
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL Meeting, Espoo, Finland

2010-11-22/23
Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Bremen, Germany

2010-11-23/24
Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco
COST BM0704 MC Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-23/25
António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Michal Mackowiak
COST 2100 MC Meeting, Bologna, Italy

2010-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board, Brussels, Belgium

2010-12-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Diana Ladeira
EuroSkills “O Campeonato Europeu das Profissões”, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented their works at the Bologna meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has updated the contribution on Deliverable D3.1 “Most promising tracks of green network technologies”, by performing simulations in order to obtain the energy efficiency gains in heterogeneous networks; this is mainly obtained by moving mobile terminals to the most efficient base stations. Filipe Cardoso finalised his work as chapter editor of Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies” on multi-antenna techniques.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has presented a joint paper entitled “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems” at the NEWCOM++ joint WPR8&WPR9 workshop, co-authored with Giulio Dainelli (Pisa Univ.) and Marco Moretti (Pisa Univ.). Contributions to Deliverable DR9.3 were discussed

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Some information actions were done in schools spread all over the country, with several more being already scheduled for the next months. Also, in Prémio monIT, the first deadline is approaching, as the students need to fill in the first progress report by Dec. 17th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro contributed to the definition of scenarios, use-cases and stakeholders within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on Deliverable D.A.1 “Description of project wide scenarios and use cases”.

5. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Luis M. Correia will lectured a course for technicians at ISUTC (Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações), Maputo, Mozambique, on “Mobile Communications”, on 2010-12-07/18.

Vol. 5, No. 9, Oct. 2010

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

3. Projects

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, accepted to Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal.

Giulio Dainelli, Marco Moretti, António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems”, submitted to NEWCOM++ Joint Workshop, Bologna, Italy, Nov. 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-11-08/10

Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia

EARTH Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

2010-11-17/18

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia

Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-18/19

Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves

SAIL Meeting, Espoo, Finland

2010-11-22/23

Luisa Caeiro

SAIL Meeting, Bremen, Germany

2010-11-23/24

Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco

COST BM0704 MC Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-23/25

António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 MC Meeting, Bologna, Italy

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak prepared papers to be presented at the next meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu

António Serrador as contributed to D3.1 with networks systems energy efficiency metrics and initial results based on radio resource management algorithms. Filipe Cardoso is contributing to the finalisation of D4.1.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on a White paper on “Smart Cities” has begun.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu

António Serrador has contributed to the ViCE-WiCom platform (http://www.vicewicom.eu) with the “Train Station Scenario”, which is an open collaboration space where educational material and research partners in the area of wireless communication can be found. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to DR9.3 (WPR9 final deliverable) on radio resource management and networks virtualisation. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to DR1.3 on statistical models for Body Area Networks.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt

With the beginning of another school year, public actions in schools have returned. In this period, there was a collaboration with the Secondary School of Tramagal, Santarém, including measurements and a presentation; and several actions have already been scheduled for the upcoming months. Also, the 2^nd Edition of Prémio monIT had around 100 applications, from 48 schools of 15 districts and 2 autonomous regions, comprising 380 students and 56 teachers.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu

Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the definition of scenarios and use-cases within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on dissemination efforts and business analysis of the use-cases being developed within the project.

Vol. 5, No. 8, Sep. 2010

In this issue:
1. People
2. Publications
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
4. Projects

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Dominik Sarapata has graduated this month, by defending his M.Sc. thesis. All the best for him, back in Poland.

GROW has a few more members on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. thesis: Armanda Martins, Carlos Simões, Carlos Teixeira, Diogo Silva, João Pinto, Pedro Carreira, Ricardo Batista.

2. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”, in Proc. of VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, in Proc. of VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, 4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2010

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, submitted to Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

Luis M. Correia, Dietrich Zeller, Oliver Blume, Ylva Jading, Gunther Auer, Liesbet Van der Perre, Dieter Ferling and Istvan Godor, “Challenges and Enabling Technologies for Energy Aware Mobile Radio Networks”, accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-09-06/09
Carla Oliveira, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
Daniel Sebastião, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-09-13/16
Luis M. Correia, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2010-09-16
Luis M. Correia
eMobility General Assembly, Venice, Italy

2010-09-20/21
Carla Oliveira
NEWCOM++ Meeting, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

2010-09-20/22
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Turin, Italy

2010-09-23
Diana Ladeira, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
Mónica Branco
4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-09-27/29
Luis M. Correia
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”
Michal Mackowiak, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”
PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Work toward the presentation of results by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak is progressing.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso is preparing the contribution to Deliverable D4.1 “Most Promising Tracks of Green Radio Technologies”, and the edition of a chapter on Multi-Antenna Techniques. António Serrador has presented energy efficiency metrics for radio resource management and related cost functions on cellular networks.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Diana Ladeira has begun work on the technical requirements of applications in the areas of health, transport and environment (energy).

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Work is progressing on channel models for BANs, by Carla Oliveira, on Joint Radio Resource Management, by António Serrador, and on Wireless Mesh Networks, by Lúcio Ferreira.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The 2011 edition of Prémio monIT is starting with invitation letters were sent to schools, libraries, science and youth associations, etc. Registrations will be available from Oct. 11th to 25th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are starting the work for the first deliverables that are scheduled for the end of October. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro presented a contribution to the “Open Connectivity Services” work package (WP-C), describing the planned contributions.

Vol. 5, No. 7, Aug. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, submitted to 4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal.

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “An Analytical Model to Evaluate JRRM QoS Parameters”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-08-30
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-09-06/09
Carla Oliveira, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
Daniel Sebastião, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-09-13/16
Luis M. Correia, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2010-09-16
Luis M. Correia
eMobility General Assembly, Venice, Italy

2010-09-20/21
Carla Oliveira
NEWCOM++ Meeting, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

2010-09-20/22
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Turin, Italy

2010-09-27/29
Luis M. Correia
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”
Michal Mackowiak, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”
PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Work toward the presentation of results by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak is progressing.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has issued a document addressing metrics for energy efficiency, considering users’ and network/systems’ approaches. Filipe Cardoso has started the work on direct contributions to Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies”.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
The Applications chapter of the Strategic Applications Research Agenda has been finalised with contributions from Diana Ladeira, being publicly available at the project’s website.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Work is progressing on channel models for BANs, by Carla Oliveira, on Joint Radio Resource Management, by António Serrador, and on Wireless Mesh Networks, by Lúcio Ferreira.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The continuous monitoring in Lisbon was concluded, and a report on the collaboration with the City Council of Lisbon is available. monIT’s website got a makeover, and will have a new image. The theme of the 2011 edition of Prémio monIT is “Radiofrequencies and Society”, registrations being available in October.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are preparing the contributions for the first project meeting, with some research done on scenarios. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro prepared a contribution to the “Open Connectivity Services” work package (WP-C) they’re involved in, describing the planned contributions, and their contextualisation within the WP.

Vol. 5, No. 6, Jun. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

António Serrador, Andrea Carniani, Virginia Corvino and Luís M. Correia, “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies”, Proceedings of NEWCOM++ Workshop at the Future Network & Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy June 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, Proceedings of Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador, Filipe D. Cardoso Luís M. Correia, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”, Proceedings of Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Klaus Wuenstel, “Socio-Economic Studies Results in 4WARD”, Proceedings of the 3rd 4WARD BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

João Gonçalves, Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia, “Building a Business Model for Hosting Ad-hoc Communities in the Future Internet”, Proceedings of the 3rd 4WARD BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-06-01
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
CST Workshop on Electromagnetic Simulation Software, and COST 2100 Tutorial on “Multi-Link Channel Modelling for Relay and Cooperative Communication Systems”, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-01
Luís M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-06-02/04
Luís M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
COST 2100 11th MC Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-16/18
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador
Future Internet and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy

2010-06-21/24
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira
4WARD General Meeting and 3rd BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves delivered the final contribution to the deliverable D-1.4 “Final Assessment on the Non-technical Drivers” and finalised the work on the book. Filipe Cardoso has finalised the deliverable D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness”. Lúcio Ferreira finalised the contribution to deliverable D-5.3 “Evaluation of Generic Path architecture and mechanisms” with a chapter entitled “Wireless Mesh Networks: A design exercise for the GP Model”, as well as the deliverable D-5.4 “In Network Management for Generic Path”, presenting the achievements of WP4 & WP5 cross task. A paper entitled “Fiat Object: Object Orientation in Future Internet”, in collaboration with University of Basel, has been submitted to the Computer Networks Journal. The project has finished.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira is still working on the “Body Communications” section of the COST book. Carla Oliveira presented a TD, at the Aalborg meeting, entitled “A Statistical Analysis of User’s Influence in Body Area Networks”. António Serrador presented a TD, at the Aalborg meeting, entitled “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRMM”.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador contributed with updates to the report IM3.1. Filipe Cardoso finalised the contribution to report IM4.1.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Diana Ladeira has finalised the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Applications, which are available at eMobility’s website. The chapter to the Strategic Research Agenda based on the Strategic Applications Agenda has been finalised.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has attended the WPR9 meeting by presenting the IST-TUL contributions to the third and last WPR9 deliverable, DR-9.3.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The final ceremony of Prémio monIT was on June 26th, where the 10 finalist teams presented their work to the Final Jury and to an auditorium of more than one hundred people. The prizes were delivered to the teams of pupils as follows: 1st place to ES Raul Proença, Caldas da Rainha; 2nd place to EP D. Mariana Seixas, Viseu; 3rd place to ES do Lumiar, Lisboa. Two honorary awards were also given to Centro de Estudos de Fátima and ES Esmoriz. Congratulations to all the pupils for the valuable projects! The preparations for the next year’s edition of Prémio monIT are now underway.

Vol. 5, No. 5, May 2010

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

3. Projects

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, accepted to VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010.

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”, accepted to VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010.

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, accepted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010.

Michal Mackowiak, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, accepted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010.

M. Sifalakis, L. S. Ferreira, S. Martin, C. Tschudin, L.M. Correia, “Fiat Object: Object Orientation in Future Internet”, submitted to Computer Networks Journal.

Filipe Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Petteri Mannersalo, Tapio Franti, António Serrador, Giorgio Nunzi, Naveena Genay, Esther Le Rouzic, “Physical Layer Aware Network Architecture for the Future Internet”, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-05-04/06

Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador

EARTH Meeting, Guildford, UK

2010-05-11

Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”

ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium

2010-05-19/20

Luís M. Correia, Diana Ladeira

eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Athens, Greece

2010-05-25

Luis M. Correia, “A Vision into the Future Internet”

TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal

2010-05-26/28

Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

COST BM0704 Meetings and EBEA Seasonal Seminar, Bordeaux, France

2010-06-01

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

CST Workshop on Electromagnetic Simulation Software, and COST 2100 Tutorial on “Multi-Link Channel Modelling for Relay and Cooperative Communication Systems”, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-01

Luís M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-06-02/04

Luís M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 11th MC Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-16/18

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador

Future Internet and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy

2010-06-21/24

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD General Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the final deliverable from WP1 (D-1.4 – “Final Assessment on the Non-technical Drivers”) and on the 4WARD book. António Serrador as WP3 contact person has contributed to D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness” with Virtual Networks issues in the Physical Layer Awareness context; António Serrador has also contributed to D-3.2.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Evaluation and Integration – Update” as a reviewer. Filipe Cardoso has finished editing the additional deliverable D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness”. Also, a paper entitled “Physical Layer Aware Network Architecture for the Future Internet” has been submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. Lúcio Ferreira contributed to deliverable D-5.3 “Evaluation of Generic Path architecture and mechanisms” with a chapter entitled “Wireless Mesh Networks: A design exercise for the GP Model”. Lúcio Ferreira was also the editor of deliverable D-5.4 “In Network Management for Generic Path”, presenting the achievements of WP4 & WP5 cross task.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Luís M. Correia and Carla Oliveira are working on the COST book. Carla Oliveira is preparing a paper to be presented at the meeting in the June.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu

António Serrador has presented a contribution to WP3 report IM3.1 with algorithms on joint admission control and multi cell scheduling and management. Filipe Cardoso continues his work on the coordination of task T4.1, being focused on report IM4.1 preparation.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the document on the 5th Workshop on Applications and on the Applications chapter for the SRA is being conducted.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

A massive campaign of public information actions was conducted in schools and health services of Azores and Madeira islands. Further actions were also conducted at Santa Maria da Feira, Santo Tirso and for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications). Regarding measurements, 6 more stations were installed in Lisbon, totalising 14 continuous monitoring locations in collaboration with the Municipality of Lisbon. Daily results from these stations can be seen in monIT’s website. In the course of this collaboration, a presentation/press conference was done on May 18th, announcing the results already obtained, having had quite a bit of media coverage (newspapers, radio and TV). On Prémio monIT, the list of the 10 finalist teams was announced on May 31st.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu

António Serrador is preparing the WPR9 WG1 contributions to D9.3 and the WPR9 meeting that will take place in Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Vol. 5, No. 4, Apr. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann, Luís M. Correia, “Opportunistic Management of Spontaneous and Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, April 2010

Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”, invited to EuCAP’2010 – 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2010

Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”, invited to ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium, May 2010

Luis M. Correia “A Vision into the Future Internet”, invited to TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal, May 2010

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-04-13
Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”
EuCAP’2010 – 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Barcelona, Spain

2010-04-26/28
Daniel Sebastião
Celtic MEVICO Project Kick-off Meeting, Helsinki, Finland

2010-05-04/06
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Guildford, UK

2010-05-11
Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”
ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium

2010-05-19/20
Luís M. Correia, Diana Ladeira
eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Athens, Greece

2010-05-25
Luis M. Correia “A Vision into the Future Internet”
TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal

2010-05-26/28
Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
COST BM0704 Meetings and EBEA Seasonal Seminar, Bordeaux, France

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the next deliverable from WP1 (D1.4). Filipe Cardoso is editing deliverable, D5.5, to be delivered by the end of May. Lúcio Ferreira is working with Manolis SIfalakis (UniBasel) in the preparation of a paper and a contribution to the final WP5 deliverable. Lúcio Ferreira is coordinating the edition of the final deliverable of WP4 & WP5 cross task.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira has finished the contribution to the book with the Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has contributed to WP3 IM3.1 with algorithms on joint admission control and multi cell scheduling and management. Filipe Cardoso continues the work on inputs to report IM4.1

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) was finalised.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools and health services continued, having been conducted in Azores and Madeira islands, and also for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications). Regarding measurements, 7 more stations were installed in Lisbon, totalising 15 continuous monitoring locations in collaboration with the City Council of Lisbon. Daily results from these stations can be seen in monIT’s website. Localised measurements were also made in 2 of Lisbon’s basic schools and some schools in the north of the country. Regarding Prémio monIT, the next deadline is the 10th of May, when the final report must be delivered by the groups still competing, to be evaluated by the selection jury.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has presented the WPR9 WG1 contributions to D9.3.

Vol. 5, No. 3, Mar. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects
4. Training Courses

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

António Serrador, Andrea Carniani, Virginia Corvino and Luís M. Correia, “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies”, accepted to NEWCOM++ Workshop at the Future Network & Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy June 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-03-01/03
Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak
iWAT2010 – International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-04/06
Luís M. Correia
4WARD Review, Aachen, Germany

2010-03-05
Michal Mackowiak, A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels,
11th RTCM Workshop, Coimbra, Portugal

2010-03-11/12
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-03-18
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”
GROWing meeting

2010-03-20
Luis M. Correia, “Mathematics in Mobile Communications”
Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-04-26/28
Daniel Sebastião
Celtic MEVICO Project Kick-off Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the next deliverable from WP1 (D1.4) and on some book chapters. Lúcio Ferreira was in the University of Basel (15-18 March) working with Manolis Sifalakis on the implementation of the Wireless Mesh Network research using the GP architecture. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to WP3 on Integration Scenario description and Storyline about Virtual Networks instantiation. António Serrador, as WP3 Physical Layer Awareness contact person, has contributed to the PLA paper final version. Filipe Cardoso has finished editing a paper on Physical Layer Awareness to be submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. Also, a new project deliverable, D5.5, addressing Physical Layer Awareness aspects is being prepared to be delivered by the end of May.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Luis Correia are working on Chapter 16 (Body Communications) of the COST2100 Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has contributed to WP3 reference scenarios inputs to WP2 with a list of topics related with cellular traffic load statistics and users mobility models. Filipe Cardoso has edited a contribution for IM4.1 within the scope of T4.1 leadership.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) is ongoing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools continued, and several actions were also conducted for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications and in the course of the “À Descoberta das Rotas da Matemática da UTL” event) facilities. Regarding Prémio monIT, the next deadline is 29th of March, when the second report progress must be delivered by the groups still competing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The paper submitted to the NEWCOM++ Workshop was accepted.

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Carla OIiveira and Michal Mackowiak attended a Short Course on CST Simulation Software and Near-Field Simulations, at IST facilities, on 2010-03-22.

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2010-03-26.

Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects
4. Training Courses

1. Publications

Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, accepted to Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, submitted to VTC’2010 Fall –72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 2010

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterise User Influence in Body Area Networks”, submitted to VTC’2010 Fall –72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 2010

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, submitted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Micha? Ma?kowiak, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, submitted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-02-01/04
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso,
4WARD meeting, Paris, France

2010-02-03/05
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “A statistical approach to model antenna radiation pattern in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Carla Oliveira, “Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
COST2100 meeting, Athens, Greece

2010-02-08
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ EB meeting, Pisa, Italy

2010-02-11
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Dynamic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems”
GROWing meeting

2010-02-18
Luís M. Correia
4WARD PMT meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

2010-02-24
Luís M. Correia
eMobility SB meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-02-25/26
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
COSTBM0704 meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-01/03
Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak
iWAT2010 – International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-04/06
Luís M. Correia
4WARD Review, Aachen, Germany

2010-03-11/12
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-03-18
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”
GROWing meeting

2010-03-20
Luis M. Correia, “Mathematics in Mobile Communications”
Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on some of the book chapters, looking at traffic and business aspects. Lúcio Ferreira presented, in the Paris meeting, his current work on WMN and its implementation using the GP architecture; he also coordinated the WP4&5 cross-meeting, where several cooperative activities where established.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia will start working on Chapter 16 (Body Communications) of the COST2100 Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador as contributed to WP3 with a list of 3GPP network metrics and concepts.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) is ongoing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools continued, and several actions were also conducted for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications) facilities. Regarding Prémio monIT, 37 groups are still competing in this challenge, and training courses on measurements are being provided to some groups. More actions are scheduled to the next month. The team participated in the COST BM0704 WG5 meeting.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador and Virginia Corvino (from Bologna University) have submitted a paper entitled “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies” to the NEWCOM++ Workshop, co-located with Future Network & Mobile Summit,Florence, Italy June 2010.

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Luis M. Correia will lecture a course for environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2010-03-26.