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”.