Vol. 7, No. 04, Apr. 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.
One more GROW member finalised his M.Sc. thesis, Diogo Silva. We wish him good luck in his professional career.
2. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Filipe Cardoso and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”, Proc. of WCNC’2012 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2012.
Luis M. Correia, “Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Municipalities” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 8ª Urbaverde – Cidades do Futuro, Porto, Portugal, Apr. 2012.
Luisa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso, and Luis M. Correia, “Adaptive allocation of virtual radio resources over heterogeneous wireless networks”, Proc. of 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”, Proc. of EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.
Tiago Gonçalves, Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”, submitted to ISWCS’2012 – 9th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Paris, France, Aug. 2012.
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”, accepted to CORAL’2012 – 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 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.
2012-04-02/04
Filipe Cardoso, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”,
WCNC’2012 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France
2012-04-12
Diogo Silva, “Energy efficient solutions in GSM/UMTS based on traffic profiling models”
GROWing meeting
2012-04-13
Luis M. Correia, “Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Municipalities” (in Portuguese)
8ª Urbaverde – Cidades do Futuro, Porto, Portugal
2012-04-18/20
Michal Mackowiak, “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”,
Luisa Caeiro, “Adaptive allocation of virtual radio resources over heterogeneous wireless networks”, Luís M. Correia
EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland
2012-04-19/20
Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia
COST BM0704 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
2012-05-02/04
Carla Oliveira, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”
Luis M. Correia
COST IC10014, Lyon, France
2012-05-03
Luis M. Correia
Smart Cities for Sustainable Growth, Lisbon, Portugal
2012-05-08/10
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Leuven, Belgium
2012-05-08/10
Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL meeting, Torino, Italy
2012-05-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, “Usage of Mobile Phones and Concerns on Electromagnetic Radiation of Portuguese Youngsters”,
7th ICNIRP International NIR Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2012-05-10/11
Luis M. Correia
Future Internet Assembly, Aalborg, Denmark
2012-05-14
António Serrador, “Joint Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Networks”
GROWing meeting
2012-05-15
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Seminários de Eng. Eletrotécnica, IPL, Leiria, Portugal
2012-05-24
Luis M. Correia
20as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal
2012-05-29/30
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL meeting, Helsinki, Finland
4. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira is preparing a contribution to the next MCM meeting, to be held in Lyon, France, in May.
EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and António Serrador delivered the contributions to the next Deliverables, D3.3 “Final report on green network technologies”, D4.3 “Final report on green radio technologies”, and D6.4 “Final integrated concept”.
Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop, as well as to the next edition of the Strategic Research Agenda.
monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Four actions were held in secondary schools during April, and more are scheduled for the upcoming month. A continuous measurement equipment was installed in Reguengos de Monsaraz (in cooperation with the local Centro de Novas Oportunidades). Regarding Prémio monIT, the training actions on the measurement equipment were finalised. The next deadline is the delivery of the final report, by May 18th.
SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião are preparing contributions to the next Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the refinement of the Open Connectivity Services (OConS) Architectural Framework, namely the OConS Orchestration function and its procedures, a contribution to deliverable D.C 2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”.