GROW News Nov/2013

Vol. 8, No. 10, Nov. 2013

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.

The M.Sc. students enrolled in the past academic year, Dinis Rocha, Diogo Almeida, Jaime Pereira, Joana Falcão, Joana Fernandes, João Martins, Pedro Martins and Ricardo Santos, have all graduated, with very good marks. We wish them good luck for their professional career.

Ricardo Santos won the prize for Student Best Paper Award at the “7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI”, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013. Congratulations!

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2014.

2. Publications

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

Diogo X. Almeida, Luis M. Correia and Marco Serrazina, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”, Actas do 7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Ricardo M. Santos, Luis M. Correia, Carlos Alves, Luis Pissarro and Álvaro Albino, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators influence in Aeronautical Radars”, Actas do 7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Joana A. Fernandes, Luís M. Correia, Carlos Alves, Luís Pissarro and Márcio Teixeira, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Navigation Systems”, Actas do 7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Dinis Rocha, Luís M. Correia and Carla Oliveira, “Analysis of the Implementation of LTE Advanced in a Low Exposure Perspective”, Actas do 7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “MIMO Models for Smart On- and Off-Body Communications”, Actas do 7º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Luis M. Correia, Dominique Pichon, Anna Pizzinati, André Gomes and Desislava Dimitrova, “RAN on-demand. The MCN approach for a Cloud Computing-Based LTE network”, Proc. of FUSECO’2013 – 4th Forum on Future Seamless Communication, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 2013.

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.

2013-11-01
Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”
GROWing meeting

2013-11-04
Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the Implementation of LTE-Advanced in a Low Exposure Perspective”
GROWing meeting

2013-11-07/08
Luis M. Correia
University of Oulu RAE’2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013-11-12
Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”
Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Navigation Systems”
Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-11-15
João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced”
Jaime Pereira, “Small Cell Deployment evaluation on LTE”
Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interferences in LTE Radio Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-11-18/21
Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso
LEXNET Project General Meeting, Grenoble, France

2013-11-20/21
Luis M. Correia
ITU Telecom World, Bangkok, Thailand

2013-11-22
Michal Mackowiak, Ricardo Santos, Diogo Almeida, Dinis Rocha, Joana Fernandes
7th URSI Portuguese Congress, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-11-25/27
Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Project GA Meeting, Berlin, Germany

2013-12-02
Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation Monitoring” (in Portuguese)
Seminário 20 Anos de Ambiente na Defesa Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-12-04/05
Luis M. Correia
SmartSantander Project review, Santander, Spain

2013-12-09
Luis M. Correia
Dr. Guillaume Villemaud defence of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I – INSA, Lyon, France

2013-12-10
Luís M. Correia, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Mónica Branco
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Contributions are being prepared for the next meeting.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
The definition of an Exposure Index by the project team continues to proceed, and this will be integrated into the simulation tools being developed within INOV (Using OPNET Modeler). The second newsletter issue is being prepared and will be delivered in December.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
A paper entitled “An architecture to offer cloud-based RAN-as-a-Service” is being prepared. INOV defined an experimentation roadmap for benchmarking the performance of cloud-based RAN as well as for traffic generation in OpenEPC emulator. INOV is progressing with research on “radio and cloud resources management for cloud-based RAN” as well as “management of virtual radio resources”. INOV is preparing a National Workshop to be held in Lisbon in June 2014.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Michal Mackowiak had a telco with PUT, and discussed future work plan on the JRA on Virtual MIMO for BANs. Sina Khatibi and Luisa Caeiro discussed the opportunities for collaboration with UPC and Univ. of Oulo on Virtual Radio Resource Management. INOV is preparing the Track 1 and Track 2 meeting, which will take place in January in Lisbon.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
FAQtos is the new project from the GROW team, which will continue the work from the monIT project, on risk communication to EMF’s from wireless networks. The website is already available (although not complete yet). A new contest to the secondary schools pupils was also launched, and registrations were open until November 30th. 51 groups are participating in this contest, which encompasses a total of 149 students, from 28 schools.

Vol. 8, No. 09, Oct. 2013

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.

The M.Sc. students enrolled in the past academic year are about to graduate. We wish them good luck for the theses defences.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”, submitted to EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Hague, The Nederlands, Apr. 2014.

Cardoso,F.D., Petersson,S., Boldi,M., Mizuta,S., Dietl,G., Torrea-Duran,R., Desset,C., Leinonen,J. e Correia,L.M., “Energy Efficient Transmission Techniques for LTE”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 10, Oct. 2013, pp. 182-190.

Correia,L.M., “Smart Cities: from Telecommunications to Applications”, Actas do Worshop NOVABASE TechWeek, Lisboa, Portugal, Oct. 2013.

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.

2013-10-02

Luis M. Correia

Pedro Pinheiro Ph.D. thesis defence, U. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

2013-10-03/04

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM# Steering Board Meeting, Poznan, Poland

2013-10-07/18

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications”

ISUTC, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-10-10

Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacity”

Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”

GROWing meeting

2013-10-21

Luis M. Correia

EuCNC’2014 Steering Committee Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-10-22/23

Luis M. Correia

EC Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-10-24

Luis M. Correia

Thomas M. Bonhert Ph.D. thesis defence, U. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

2013-10-29

Luis M. Correia

Net!Works General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium

2013-10-30

Luis Correia

Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”

Bilateral Meeting with University of Novi Sad, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-10-31

Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: from Telecommunications to Applications”

Worshop NOVABASE TechWeek, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-11-01

Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”

GROWing meeting

2013-11-04

Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the Implementation of LTE-Advanced in a Low Exposure Perspective”

GROWing meeting

2013-11-07/08

Luis M. Correia

University of Oulu RAE’2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013-11-12

Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Navigation Systems”

Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”

GROWing meeting

2013-11-15

João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced”

Jaime Pereira, “Small Cell Deployment evaluation on LTE”

Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interferences in LTE Radio Networks”

GROWing meeting

2013-11-18/21

Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso

LEXNET Project General Meeting, Grenoble, France

2013-11-20/21

Luis M. Correia

ITU Telecom World, Bangkok, Thailand

2013-11-22

Michal Mackowiak

7th URSI Portuguese Congress, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-11-25/27

Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi

MCN Project GA Meeting, Berlin, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Contributions are being prepared for the next meeting.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião is leading the work on cluster #4 for WP5, and is progressing the work on simulations using OPNET. Michal Mackowiak has performed the initial simulations for the Eartha DATA posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). Contribution to various deliverables has been done, namely D2.3 (“Scenarios”), D2.4 (“Global Wireless Exposure Metric Definition”) and D3.1 (“Exposure Index Assessment v1”). The first newsletter issue is now available in the LEXNET website, prepared by Filipe Cardoso. The preparation of LEXNET convened session at EuCAP’2014 by Filipe Cardoso is ongoing.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco contributed and reviewed deliverables D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for MobileCloud framework” of WP3, and D2.2 “Overall Architecture Definition, Release 1” of WP2. There was also a contribution to D4.1 “Mobile Network Cloud Component Design” of WP4, addressing the RAN as a Service (RANaaS). The work on the development of the model on management of virtual radio resources and model for load balancing between RRHs and BBUs is progressing.

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

Contribution to various deliverables has been done, namely D11.1 (“Fundamental issues on energy- and bandwidth-efficient communications and networking”), D13.1 (“Fundamental issues on the performance of wireless networks and related results”) and D23.2 (“First report on tools and their integration on the experimental setups”), by Michal Mackowiack, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro and Sina Khatibi. Moreover, the review of several deliverables from Track 3 has been performed by Luis M. Correia.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

FAQtos is a new project, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon. A new contest to the secondary schools pupils is also being prepared, to be launched in November.

Vol. 8, No. 08, Sep. 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.

GROW continues to renew. At the start of the academic year, we have 8 more M.Sc. students on board: Bruno Pires, David Doutor, Gonçalo Fernandes, Marco Castanho, Pedro Ferreira, Pedro Ganço, Pedro Venâncio, and Tadeusz Dec. We welcome them, especially Tadeusz that is coming from Poland within the ERASMUS exchange programme.

2. Publications

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

Oliveira,C., “Characterisation of On-Body Communications”, Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

Ferreira,L.S., “Radio Resource Management of Wireless Mesh Networks”, Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

Mackowiak,M., “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”, Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

Oliveira,C., Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling On- and Off-Body Channels in Body Area Networks”, in Proc. of IMOC’2013 – SBMO/IEEE-MTT-S Int. Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 2013 (invited paper).

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, in Proc. of PIMRC 2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

Oliveira,C., Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., ” MIMO Models for Smart On- and Off-Body Communications”, submitted to 7.º Congresso Comité Português da URSI, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2013.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “Radio Resources Allocation Strategy for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, submitted to VTC’2014-Spring – IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference, Seoul, Korea, May 2014.

Caeiro,L., Cardoso,F. and Correia,L.M., “Addressing Virtual Resources with different Type of Requirements”, submitted to VTC’2014-Spring – IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference, Seoul, Korea, May 2014.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, accepted for Wireless Personal Communications journal.

Correia,L.M., “Cybersecurity: from technology to economy” (in Portuguese), ANACOM Workshop on Cybersecurity: Economic Aspects, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2013 (invited).

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.

2013-09-8/11
Luis M. Correia
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
PIMRC 2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK

2013-09-09/12
Lucio S. Ferreira, Monica Branco
MCN WP3 meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria

2013-09-18
Filipe Cardoso
First LEXNET Workshop, Berlin, Germany

2013-09-18
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-09-19
Luis M. Correia “Green Cellular Networks”
NEWCOM# Summer School, Poznan, Poland

2013-09-24
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
LEXNET WP2 meeting, Ghent, Belgium

2013-09-25/27
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Lúcio S. Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
Luísa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacity”
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 Meeting, Ghent, Belgium

2013-09-30
Luis M. Correia, “Cybersecurity: from technology to economy”
ANACOM Workshop on Cybersecurity: Economic Aspects, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-09-30
Bhavies Narendra, “Study of the Implementation of LTE in Vodacom Mozambique’s Network”.
GROWing meeting

2013-10-02
Luis M. Correia
Pedro Pinheiro Ph.D. thesis defence, U. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

2013-10-03/04
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# Steering Board Meeting, Poznan, Poland

2013-10-07/18
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications”
ISUTC, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-10-10
Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacity”
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
GROWing meeting

2013-10-21
Luis M. Correia
EuCNC’2014 Steering Committee Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-10-22/23
Luis M. Correia
EC Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-10-24
Luis M. Correia
Thomas M. Bonhert Ph.D. thesis defence, U. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

2013-10-29
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro have presented contributions at the meeting.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Work has been progressing on simulations for exposure reduction (WP5), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). Michal Mackowiak and Carla Oliveira started the initial simulations for the Eartha data posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2), and the model segmentation of the Eartha model with data posture has been performed and sent to partners (WP2). Filipe Cardoso has finalised the first newsletter issue, and distributed it.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
We have contributed to Deliverables D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for MobileCloud framework” of WP3, D2.2 “Overall Architecture Definition, Release 1” of WP2 and D4.1 “Mobile Network Cloud Component Design” of WP4, addressing the RAN as a Service (RANaaS).

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The 3rd QMR is being prepared, as well as contributions to the first year deliverables including description of JRAs.

FAQTOS
FAQTOs is a new project, just started, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon. A new contest to the secondary schools pupils is also being prepared, to be launched in November.

Vol. 8, No. 07, July 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.

Wow! GROW graduated 3 Ph.Ds. this month, just before starting the holidays’ period. Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Lúcio Ferreira successfully defended their Ph.D. Theses on July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively. They will continue to be part of GROW, working in the projects they are already involved. We wish them all the best.

Monsaraz was again the host for another STAR WARM (Still Another Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz), the 13th edition, on July 6th. GROW’s members’, and their families, had the opportunity to spend some hours together, enjoying themselves.

2. Publications

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

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, in Proc. of WAWC’2013 – 4th Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications, Nanjing, China, July 2013

Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”, MCN Workshop at FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”, LEXNET poster at FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

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.

2013-07-01
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-07-03/05
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”
Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-07-18
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO systems in Body Area networks in Outdoors”
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of on-body communications”
Lucio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management of Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are preparing contributions to the next meeting.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Work has been progressing on simulations for exposure reduction (WP5), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). Michal Mackowiak and Carla Oliveira will start initial simulations for the Eartha data posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2), and the model segmentation of the Eartha model with data posture has been performed and send to partners (WP2). Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Daniel Sebastião have contributed to the IR2.1 (WP2). Filipe Cardoso is preparing the first newsletter issue, which will be distributed in September 2013.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Our contributions for Deliverable D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for MobileCloud framework” on RAN as a Service (RANaaS) aspects are progressing. This work is focused on the RANaaS reference architecture model, and also management of virtual radio resources and BBU pool dimensioning.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are interacting with the colleagues of Poznan, concerning the JRA on Virtual MIMO applied to BANs.

FAQTOS
FAQTOs is a new project, just started, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon.

Vol. 8, No. 06, June 2013

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.

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Lúcio Ferreira will defend their Ph.D. Theses on July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively.

We’ll be gathering another STAR WARM (Still Another Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz), the 13th edition, on July 6th. It will one more opportunity to enjoy, with our families, a Saturday in the quietness of Monsaraz.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Saruthirathanaworakun,R., Peha,J.M. and Correia,L.M., “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Cardoso,F.D., Correia,L.M., Petersson,S. and Boldi,M., “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Wiart,J., Conil,E., Toutain,Y., Bories,S., Tesanovic,M., Lostanlen,Y. and Correia,L.M., “Low Exposure Network”, in Proc. of BioEM’2013 – Bioelectromagnetics Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2013.

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of Smart Cities”, in Proc. of the 4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2013

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, in Proc. of WAWC’2013 – 4th Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications, Chengdu and Nanjing, China, June 2013

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, accepted to PIMRC’2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

Oliveira,C., Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling On- and Off-Body Channels in Body Area Networks”, invited to IMOC’2013 – International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 2013.

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.

2013-06-3/5
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”
Luis M. Correia
VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany

2013-06-06
Luisa Caeiro, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”
Sina Khatibi, “Radio Resource Management in Virtual RAN”
Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the implementation of LTE-Advanced in a low exposure perspective”
João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-10/12
Luis M. Correia
ICC – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary

2013-06-13
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-06-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of Smart Cities”
4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-06-19
Luis M. Correia
Thomas Casey Ph.D. Jury, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2013-06-20
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-Based RAN Challenges”
Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Paul Ferrand Ph.D. Jury, INSA, Lyon, France

2013-06-24
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN Challenges”
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Workshop on RAN Evolution to the Cloud, Paris, France

2013-06-25/28
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Paris, France

2013-06-27
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-06-27/28
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET WP5 Meeting, London, UK

2013-07-01
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-07-03/05
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”
Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-07-18
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO systems in Body Area networks in Outdoors”
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of on-body communications”
Lucio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management of Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Luis M. Correia prepared contributions to the White Paper on Mobile Communications Beyond 4G.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Work has been progressing on simulations for exposure reduction (WP5), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). INOV was assigned to perform simulations for the Eartha data posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2). Carla presented the project in one of the poster sessions of FUNEMS’2013.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira presented the work from T3.5 “Cloud-based RAN challenges” in the workshop organised by MCN “RAN Evolution to the Cloud Workshop”. This work was also presented at FuNeMS’2013. Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are currently working towards the contribution to Deliverable D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for Mobile Cloud Framework”, addressing the C-RAN architecture.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak send their contribution to Deliverable D13.1 “Fundamental issues on energy- and bandwidth efficient communications and networking”, including current status of their JRA on Virtual MIMO applied in BANs.

FAQTOS
FAQTOs is a new project, just started, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon.

Vol. 8, 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.

GROW will soon have new members. The application process for M.Sc. theses is finishing in June, and new members will join GROW for this endeavour.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “A Statistical Model for the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Gain Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”, Wireless Personal Communications, 10.1007/s11277-013-1193-x, May 2013.

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.

2013-05-02
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Brief Tutorial on LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-09
Lúcio Ferreira, “OConS Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”
Lúcio Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-16
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: ICT Application to Municipalities”,
IX Ciclo de Conferências Ambiente e Qualidade Vida – Sistemas Inteligentes, Torres Vedras, Portugal

2013-05-16
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-21/24
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luis M. Correia
MCN meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-05-22
Luis M. Correia
21as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-29/31
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 meeting, Ilmenau, Germany

2013-06-3/5
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”
Luis M. Correia
VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany

2013-06-06
Luisa Caeiro, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”
Sina Khatibi, “Radio Resource Management in Virtual RAN”
Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the implementation of LTE-Advanced in a low exposure perspective”
João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-10/12
Luis M. Correia
ICC – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary

2013-06-13
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-06-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of Smart Cities”
4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-06-19
Luis M. Correia
Thomas Casey Ph.D. Jury, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2013-06-20
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-Based RAN Challenges”
Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Paul Ferrand Ph.D. Jury, INSA, Lyon, France

2013-06-24
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN Challenges”
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Workshop on RAN Evolution to the Cloud, Paris, France

2013-06-25/28
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Paris, France

2013-06-27
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-06-27/28
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET WP5 Meeting, London, UK

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak prepared a contribution to the TWGB document on channel models for body area networks, to be discussed during the meeting in Ilmenau.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira have been working on a contribution on ICT usage for the future development of scenarios. Moreover, all the team has been involved in the dissemination of the questionnaire on ICT usage. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are working on the benchmark study to assess the simulations results among the different partners. Carla Oliveira and Daniel Sebastião are compiling an internal document on exposure assessment. Daniel Sebastião is working on simulations for the exposure reduction.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on a motivation scenario and an architecture for the Wireless Cloud, integrating Cloud-RAN concepts, as well as on the Virtual RAN. These were presented at the Lisbon meeting. A wikipage on terminology was created, as well as one on state of the art reference papers related to C-RAN. A document answering performance issues on C-RAN was issued.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak had a telco with Poznan University of Technology, on their Joint Research Activities on Virtual MIMO applied in BANs. Preliminary results of simulations of channel path loss have been sent to the colleagues in Poznan.

Vol. 8, No. 04, Apr. 2013

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.

Carla Oliveira has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “A Statistical Model for the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Gain Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”, accepted to Wireless Personal Communications, Apr. 2013.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”, EuCAP’2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden, Apr. 2013.

Ferreira,L.S., Agüero,R., Caeiro,L., Miron,A., Soellner,M., Schoo,P., Suciu,L., Timm-Giel,A. and Udugama,A., “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”, WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2013.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “Radio Resources Allocation Strategy for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, submitted to PIMRC’2013 – IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

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.

2013-04-01/03
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications Systems”
Training Course, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-04-08/11
Luis M. Correia
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”,
EuCAP 2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden

2013-04-09/12
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN meeting, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-04-08/11
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”,
WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China

2013-04-17
Luis M. Correia
Patrick Kwadwo Agyapong Ph.D. Jury, “Economic Incentives in Content-Centric Networking: Implications for Protocol Design and Public Policy”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2013-04-22/24
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET meeting, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-02
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Brief Tutorial on LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-09
Lúcio Ferreira, “OConS Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”
Lúcio Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-16
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: ICT Application to Municipalities”,
IX Ciclo de Conferências Ambiente e Qualidade Vida – Sistemas Inteligentes, Torres Vedras, Portugal

2013-05-16
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-21/24
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luis M. Correia
MCN meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-05-22
Luis M. Correia
21as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-29/31
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 meeting, Ilmenau, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
GROW members are preparing contributions to the next meetings.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira finalised their contribution to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”, and prepared a contribution on life segmentation regarding EMF exposure. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the Wireless Cloud task. They have done a state of the art report, proposed a motivation scenario and an architecture for the Wireless Cloud, integrating Cloud-RAN concepts (composed of remote radio heads and baseband units). INOV’s perspective of the Wireless Cloud Architecture was presented in task T2.3 and WP4 meetings in Aveiro.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
The project has ended.

Vol. 8, No. 03, Mar. 2013

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.

Lúcio Ferreira has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M., Rosini,R., D’Errico,R. and Correia,L.M., “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, submitted to PIMRC’2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

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.

2013-03-05
Manuel Sete, “HCB Power Supply Failure Alerts using Mobile Communications Systems”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Luis M. Correia, “The Mysteries of Mobile Phones”
E.S. Rio de Mouro, Rio de Mouro, Portugal

2013-03-06/08
Lucio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-06/08
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan

2013-03-12
Carla Oliveira
LEXNET meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-14
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Heidelberg, Germany

2013-03-21
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-04-01/03
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications Systems”
Training Course, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-04-08/11
Luis M. Correia
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”,
EuCAP 2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden

2013-04-09/12
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN meeting, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-04-08/11
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”,
WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China

2013-04-17
Luis M. Correia
Patrick Kwadwo Agyapong Ph.D. Jury, “Economic Incentives in Content-Centric Networking: Implications for Protocol Design and Public Policy”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2013-04-22/24
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET meeting, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
GROW members are preparing contributions to the next meetings.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira continued to contribute to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”, and prepared a contribution on life segmentation regarding EMF exposure. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Filipe Cardoso has finalised the Press Release.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the definition of the Wireless Cloud Architecture, within T3.5. INOV’s perspective of the Wireless Cloud Architecture was circulated within WP3 and presented in T2.3 and WP4 meeting in Aveiro. The review process to D2.1 “Reference Scenarios and Technical System Requirements Definition” has finished, with INOV’s contribution on requirements for Technical Domain B – Access Network Infrastructure Cloud.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião has finalised the work on D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focuses on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. The contributions to the Final and 3rd Year Reports have also been submitted.

Vol. 8, No. 02, Feb. 2013

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.

We had the visit of Prof. Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain) for 1 week. It was a pleasure to have him with us.

Michal Mackowiak has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2013 (Keynote talk)

Mackowiak,M., Rosini,R., D’Errico,R. and Correia,L.M., “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

Cardoso,F.D., Correia,L.M., Debailie,B. and Desset,C., “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”, submitted to FuNeMS’2013 – Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

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.

2013-02-04
Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical radars”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-05/08
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 MCM Meeting, Malaga, Spain.

2013-02-11
Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical navigation systems”
Jaime Pereira, “Analysis of LTE deployment in Small”
Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interference in LTE Radio Networks”
Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-12/15
Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Palermo, Italy

2013-02-13/15
Luisa Caeiro
SAIL meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2013-02-19
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain

2013-02-20
Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain), “An approach to measurements of non-ionising radiation”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-28
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Manuel Sete, “HCB Power Supply Failure Alerts using Mobile Communications Systems”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Luis M. Correia, “The Mysteries of Mobile Phones”
E.S. Rio de Mouro, Rio de Mouro, Portugal

2013-03-06/08
Lucio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-06/08
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
ISMICT’2013, Tokyo, Japan

2013-03-12
Carla Oliveira
LEXNET WP2 meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-14
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Heidelberg, Germany

2013-03-21
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-28
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented updated results of their works in the Malaga meeting. Also, contributions were sent to the TWGB chairman, to be presented at ISMICT’2013.

LEXNET – www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião finalised the Portuguese version of the survey, and is contributing to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Carla Oliveira will attend the WP2 face to face meeting in Paris. Filipe Cardoso has finalised Deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”, and is finalising the Press Release.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the definition of requirements for Technical Domain B – Access Network Infrastructure Cloud, which will be part of the contribution for D2.1 “Reference Scenarios and Technical System Requirements Definition”. A state of the art on wireless cloud was circulated among all partners.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology. Lúcio Ferreira will present the JRAs proposals and look for the partners during Track 1 meeting in Paris.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião is finalising the work for the final Deliverable of WPA, D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focuses on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on Deliverables D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services” and D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.

Vol. 8, No. 01, Jan. 2013

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.

RaM graduated from his Ph.D. last December. Although this was forgotten in the previous edition, it’s acknowledged in this one. We wish him all the best.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, ” Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications “, accepted to VTC Spring 2013 – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha and Luis M. Correia, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Filipe D. Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Sven Petersson and Mauro Boldi, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, invited to SENSORNETS’2013 – 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2013 (keynote speaker).

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.

2013-01-08/11

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro

SAIL WPC meeting, Hamburg, Germany

2013-01-16

Luis M. Correia

Workshop on Cloud Computing, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-01-17

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Internet of Things within Mobile Communications in Smart Cities”

Vodafone Technology Watch Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-02-04

Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical radars”

GROWing meeting

2013-02-05/08

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

COST IC1004 MCM Meeting, Malaga, Spain.

2013-02-11

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical navigation systems”

Jaime Pereira, “Analysis of LTE deployment in Small”

Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interference in LTE Radio Networks”

Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”

2013-02-12/15

Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi

MCN Meeting, Palermo, Italy.

2013-02-19

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”

SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain

2013-02-20

Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain), “An approach to measurements of non-ionising radiation”

GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing contributions for the next meeting in Malaga.

LEXNET –

An inquiry is being prepared, to try to understand the concerns of people regarding the exposure to electromagnetic fields. Daniel Sebastião is starting to prepare the contribution on IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing the contribution to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Filipe Cardoso has finalised deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are working on the definition of scenarios. Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are preparing a state of the art on wireless cloud.

NEWCOM# –

The consolidation of the Joint Research Activity for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are seeking out a partner on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião is preparing the final Deliverable of WPA, D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focus on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. The final issue of the Newsletter is also being prepared. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the deliverables D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services” and on D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.