Vol. 7, No. 02, Feb. 2012
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.
Eduardo Sá left GROW, to embrace a career in a company. We wish him good luck in his professional career.
Mónica Branco had a baby, Beatriz. We wish her all the best in the world.
2. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Statistical Characterisation of Antennas in BANs”, in LTE Advanced and Beyond Wireless Networks: Channel Modelling and Propagation, Guillaume de la Roche, Andres Alayon-Glazunov and Ben Allen (eds.), John Wiley, Chichester, UK, accepted 2012.
Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, contribution to “Body Communications”, in Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications, Roberto Verdone and Alberto Zanella (eds.), Springer, London, UK, 2012
Luis M. Correia, “Wrapping Up and Looking at the Future”, in Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications, Roberto Verdone and Alberto Zanella (eds.), Springer, London, UK, 2012
Luisa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso, and Luis M. Correia, “Adaptive allocation of virtual radio resources over heterogeneous wireless networks”, accepted to EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.
Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”, accepted to EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.
Filipe Cardoso, Sven Petersson, Mauro Boldi, Shinji Mizuta, Guido Dietl, Rodolfo Torrea-Duran, Claude Desset, Jouko Leinonen, Luis M. Correia, “Energy Efficient Transmission Techniques for LTE”, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine, Feb. 2012.
3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.
2012-02-07/10
Lucio Studer Ferreira “Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
Michal Mackowiak “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”
Carla Oliveira “Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas: A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body”
Luís M. Correia
COST IC 1004 Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
2012-02-23
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Stuttgart, Germany
2012-03-06/08
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Sophia-Antipolis, France
2012-03-26/30
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”
Luis M. Correia
EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic
4. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
The book “Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications”, with the main findings from the COST 2100 action has been published by Springer. The book contains contributions from Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, on Chapter 15 (Body Communications) and Chapter 16 (Wrapping Up and Looking at the Future). More information can be found at: http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4471-2314-9.
EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso has edited a document entitled “Beamforming and Energy Efficiency in LTE” to be presented in the next EARTH meeting in Sophia Antipolis. A joint paper in the scope of WP4/T41 was submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. António Serrador performed simulations using the proposed new scenarios (multi-sites and multi-RAT RRM) and parameters for low, medium, high traffic loads.
Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop.
monIT – http://monit.it.pt
During this month, there were still some news in the media about the monIT study on the usage of mobile phones by Portuguese youngsters. Nine actions were held in secondary schools during February, and more are scheduled for the upcoming month. The monIT team is also giving talks to secondary schools students visiting the electrical engineering department. Two continuous measurement networks were installed in Sines (in cooperation with the municipalities) and Castro Verde (in the secondary school). In the meantime, 5 measurement stations were removed from Lisbon and Macedo de Cavaleiros. Regarding Prémio monIT, training actions on the measurement equipment are being carried on with some of the groups. The groups are now preparing their 2nd progress report, to be submitted by March, 16th.
SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
The interim report of taskT.A.4, addressing business models, has been finished and circulated by the project partners. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the redefinition of the OConS architectural framework; they are preparing a paper for “Springer Telecommunication Systems Special Issue: Mobility Management for Flat Networks” journal.