Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan. 2014
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 has one more member in its team: Dr. Marko Beko, a Prof. in Univ. Lusófona, Lisbon. He’ll be collaborating part-time in our team, bring complementary expertise In radio aspects.
2. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
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.
Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,B. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, submitted to EUCNC – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.
Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, submitted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.
Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of CSP’2014 – Communication and Signal Processing, at SSD’2014 – 11th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2014 (Keynote)
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.
2014-01-13
Luis M. Correia
LEXNET project review
Brussels, Belgium
2014-01-14/16
Luis M. Correia
Evaluation of IEMN (Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie), Lille, for AERES (Agence d’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur)
Lille, France
2014-01-17
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# project review
Brussels, Belgium
2014-01-21/23
Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak, Lucio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi
NEWCOM# meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-01-28/29
Luís M. Correia
EuCAP Steering and Technical Programme Committees meetings, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
2014-01-30
Michal Machowiak, “Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”
Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”
Lúcio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”
GROWing meeting
2014-02-05/06
Luís M. Correia
Net!Works Expert Advisory Group meeting, Stuttgart, Germany
2014-02-05/07
Lúcio S. Ferreira, An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service
Michal Mackowiak, Statistical Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels
Sina Khatibi, Virtualisation of Radio Resources – Next step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation
COST IC1004, 9th MC & Scientific Meeting, Ferrara, Italy
2014-02-12
Luis M. Correia
Vodafone Technical Watch, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-02-13
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”,
CSP’2014 – Communication and Signal Processing, at SSD’2014 – 11th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Barcelona, Spain
2014-02-13
Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Porto, Portugal
2014-02-18
Daniel Sebastião, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
Seminários Internos da PT Comunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
2014-02-25
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts”
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
Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi are preparing contributions for the next meeting.
LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
A report on SAR simulations for Duke and Eartha voxel models, different body postures in LTE and 3G is being prepared by Michal Mackowiack. Contributions to report with simulations for body influence on the dosimeter performance have been circulated by Michal Mackowiack. Initial simulations are being performed on network topologies by Daniel Sebastião. Filipe Cardoso has circulated a document with the WP7 Implementation Plan for Year2.
MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
A paper, entitled “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, was written, as one of the results of the first year of research. It was presented in the IC1004 COST meeting and submitted to the EUCNC conference. In parallel, the work on the two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, are progressing. In particular, special attention is being paid to the profiling of computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage.
NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Initial results for the JRA on Virtual MIMO in Body Area Networks are being analysed together with PUT. Within WP2.3, a cooperative activity with EURECOM is addressing the use of OpenAirInterface for the profiling of computation resources of software-based LTE base-stations, for various traffic loads and radio resources usage.
FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
FAQtos team was present in two schools, at Porto and Felgueiras, where information actions were done on exposure to EMFs and how mobile communication systems work. More of these actions are scheduled for the coming months. The team is also preparing a series of presentations on “Mobile Phones – Myths and Facts” in collaboration with PT Comunicações, to be held on Lisbon, Porto and Aveiro.