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Vol. 7, No. 05, May 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.

António Serrador graduated with the Ph.D. this month. It’s always good to see someone achieving this goal, and we wish him all the best for his “after-Ph.D.” life.

Cesaltina Ricardo left GROW, to embrace a professional career in a company. We also wish her all the best for her professional life.

João Gonçalves finished his work in the SAIL project, and left GROW as well. He’ll continue his professional career in the area of telecommunications, and we wish him all the best as well.

 

2. Publications

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

Antonio Serrador, “Joint Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Networks”, Ph.D. thesis, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, Proc. of HetsNets’2012 – Future Heterogeneous Networks Workshop at Networking’2012 – 11th IFIP International Conference on Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, accepted to PIMRC’2012 – 23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia, Sep. 2012.

Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”, accepted to PIMRC’2012 – 23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia, Sep. 2012.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, submitted to DySPAN’2012 – IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 2012.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Opportunistic Sharing between Rotating Radar and Cellular”, submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Cognitive Radio.

 

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.

2012-05-02/04
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

2012-05-25
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”,
HetsNets’2012 – Future Heterogeneous Networks Workshop at Networking’2012 – 11th IFIP International Conference on Networking, Prague, Czech Republic

2012-05-29/30
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL meeting, Helsinki, Finland

2012-06-04/06
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 Training School on “Wireless Body Area Networks”, Bologna, Italy

2012-06-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
ARC6 – Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication et Usages Informatiques Innovants, Lyon, France

2012-06-11/14
Luis M. Correia
ICC’2012 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada

2012-06-18
Slawomir J. Ambroziak, “Path Loss Modelling in Container Terminal Environment”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”
GROWing Meeting

2012-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-06-25
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”,
CORAL’2012 – 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms, San Francisco, CA, USA

2012-06-25/28
Luisa Caeiro, Sina Khatibi
SAIL Summer School on “Future Internet explained – today!”, Santander, Spain

2012-06-29
Meeting of all GROW members, since the beginning of activity, commemorating the 20th anniversary.
Lisbon, Portugal

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira presented a contribution at the MCM meeting, in Lyon, France.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and António Serrador finalised the contributions to the 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 presented contributions at the FIA workshop, and is preparing the next edition of the Strategic Research Agenda.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Two actions were held in secondary schools during May, with 44 schools visited this year by the monIT team. monIT presented a poster in the 7th ICNIRP NIR Workshop, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Regarding Prémio monIT, the final projects were delivered on May 18th. The selection jury is now evaluating them and the 10 finalists will be chosen until June 15th..

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião prepared contributions to the next Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”, which were discussed at the meeting in Helsinki. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on 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”.