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Vol. 9, No. 6, June 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 is receiving more members. This month, 5 M.Sc. students were selected to start their theses after Summer: Cláudia Castro, Carlos Martins, João Pires, Miguel Sá, and Ricardo Gameiro. We wish them good luck.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Tesanovic,M., Conil,E., Domenico,A., Agüero,R., Freudenstein,F., Correia,L.M., Bories,S., Martens,L., Wiedemann,P.M and Wiart,J., “Wireless networks and EMF—paving the way for low-EMF networks of the future: the LEXNET project”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Vol. 61, No. 3, June 2014, pp. 20-28.

 

Correia,L.M., “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”, Proc. of the 5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 2014

 

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,M. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Almeida,D.X., Correia,L.M. and Serrazina,M., “Antenna Characteristics Impact on LTE Inter-Cell Interference Performance in Urban Scenarios”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Caeiro,L., Cardoso,F.D. and Correia,L.M., “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”, Proc. of EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Dimitrova,D, Ferreira,L.S., Gomes,A., Nikaein,N,, Georgiev,A. and Pizzinat,A. ,”Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization in LTE”, Proc. of Workshop on Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services, at EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

 

Mackowiak,M., Correia,L.M., Kliks,A. and Kryszkiewicz,P., “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, accepted to ISWCS 2014 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.

 

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, accepted to PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

 

Khatibi,S. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management for Cellular Heterogeneous Access Networks”, accepted to PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.

 

 

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.

 

2014-06-05

David Doutor, “Load Balancing Between LTE and WiFi”

Gonçalo Fernandes, “Load balancing via inter-frequency handovers in LTE networks”

Rodrigo Santos, “Impact on Modern FM Broadcast Signals on Aeronautical Radionavigation”

Bruno Pires, “Exclusion regions for LTE base stations in heterogeneous cell structures”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-8/11

Michal Mackowiak

Serbia-Portugal Bilateral Project, Scientific Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

 

2014-06-12/13

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 

2014-06-16/18

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

MCN General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

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

Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

Pedro Ganço, “Load balancing in heterogeneous networks with LTE”

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

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-20

Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”

Lucio Ferreira, “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-22/26

Daniel Sebastiao, Monica Branco, Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro, Diogo Almeida, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

EuCNC 2014 – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy

 

2014-07-01

Luis M. Correia,

Zeinab Mhanna Ph.D. Jury, Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France

 

2014-07-02

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição à Radiação Eletromagnética em Comunicações Móveis”

Introdução às Telecomunicações (INTELE), Ciência Viva – Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-07-04

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

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

GROWing meeting

 

2014-07-05

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastiao, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak, Ema Catarré, Vera Almeida

Prémio FAQtos 2014 – Final Cerimony

 

2014-07-07/11

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

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

Luis M. Correia

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA

 

 

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

INOV contributed to the new survey about the best ways of reducing radiation from wireless telecommunication systems (WP2). Work is progressing on the EMF exposure metrics (WP2) and assessment of the exposure index (WP3), taking into account realistic environments (implementation of GBSCM). Concerning WP5, OPNET simulations on optimisation of locations for network topologies are going on. New working groups on cellular networks optimisation algorithms and heterogeneous networks cells access selection were defined.

 

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

INOV hosted the general project. INOV organised, together with PT-IS and ONESOURCE, the Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking on the 19th June. It had a large attendance, and very good feedbacks were received. A workshop was co-organised by MCN, “Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services” at the EuCNC conference. The work within C-RAN is progressing, linking OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB with VRRM through MaaS and working on a D-ITG traffic generator for OAI.

 

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

The cooperation with EURECOM around OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB is progressing. A resulting joint publication entitled “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualisation” was presented at the EuCNC conference. The joint publication with PUT on “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks” has been accepted to ISWCS’2014.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

The final ceremony for Prémio FAQtos 2014 will be held on July 5th. The 10 finalists will be able to present their work, and a jury will choose the winners. The preparation for the next edition of the contest is already ongoing.

 

 

GROW News May/2014

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Vol. 9, No. 5, May 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.

 

Martijn Kuipers is rejoining GROW, in part time. He’s most welcome back.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”, Actas das Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal, May 2014 (keynote).

 

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”, Proc. of WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal, May 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.

 

2014-05-05

Luis M. Correia, Moderator of Panel “5G: Technologies and applications”

ICT’14 – 21st International Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-05-06

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal

 

2014-05-08

Luis M. Correia,

Fernando Pachón Ph.D. Jury, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

 

2014-05-19/22

Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso, Luís M. Correia

LEXNET General Meeting, Paris, France

 

2014-05-22

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

WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal

 

2014-05-26/28

Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

COST IC1004, 10th Management Committee and Scientific Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

 

2014-05-26/28

Luis M. Correia

5G Awareness/Information Day, Brussels, Belgium

 

2014-06-05

David Doutor, “Load Balancing Between LTE and WiFi”

Gonçalo Fernandes, “Load balancing via inter-frequency handovers in LTE networks”

Rodrigo Santos, “Impact on Modern FM Broadcast Signals on Aeronautical Radionavigation”

Bruno Pires, “Exclusion regions for LTE base stations in heterogeneous cell structures”

GROWing meeting

 

2014-06-8/11

Michal Mackowiak

Serbia-Portugal Bilateral Project, Scientific Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

 

2014-06-12/13

Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”

5th European Summit on the Future Internet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 

2014-06-16/18

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

MCN General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-19

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

Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2014-06-22/26

Daniel Sebastiao, Monica Branco, Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro, Diogo Almeida, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

EuCNC 2014 – European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Michal Mackowiak presented at MCM meeting in Aalborg preliminary measurement results of off-body channels in indoor environments performed during Short Time Scientific Mission in Gdansk, Poland.

 

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu

In WP3, Michal Mackowiak contributed to the 2nd release of D3.2 “Wideband dosimeter design study & performances characterisation”, with new results on the impact of the user’s dynamics on dosimeter measurements. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations. Daniel Sebastião and Michal Mackowiak are also participating in a new ad-hoc group dedicated on scenarios.

 

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

The work within RANaaS is progressing, linking OAI’s emulated LTE eNodeB with VRRM through MaaS and working on a D-ITG traffic generator for OAI. Two publications will be presented at the EuCNC conference.

 

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

The cooperation with EURECOM around OpenAirInterface’s emulated LTE eNodeB is progressing. A resulting joint publication will be presented at the EuCNC conference.

 

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt

Concerning the national contest, Prémio FAQtos, after the delivery of the final report by May 12th, the evaluation process is ongoing. The 10 finalists will be announced by June 12th. The final ceremony is being prepared.

 

 

GROW News Apr/2014

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Vol. 9, No. 4, Apr. 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.

New M.Sc. students will join GROW in the next month, following the proposals for theses.

 

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”, Proc. of EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”, Proc. of EuCAP’2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Conil,E., Corre,Y., Varsier,N., Hadjem,A., Wermeeren,G., Martens,L., Correia,L.M. and Wiart,J., “Exposure index of EU project LEXNET: principles and simulation-based computation”, Proc. of EuCAP’2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Ferreira,L.S., Pichon,D., Hatefi,A., Gomes,A., Dimitrova,D., Braun,T., Karagiannis,G., Karimzadeh,M., Branco,M. and Correia,L.M., “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

Almeida,D.X., Correia,L.M. and Serrazina,M., “Antenna Characteristics Impact on LTE Inter-Cell Interference Performance in Urban Scenarios”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014.

Caeiro,L. Cardoso,F.D. and Correia,L.M. “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Addressing Virtual Resources with different Types of Requirements”, accepted to EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014

Dimitrova, D., Ferreira, L.S., Gomes, A., Nikaein, N, Georgiev, A., Pizzinat, A., “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization”, accepted to Workshop on Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services, EuCNC’2014 – 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications, Bologna, Italy, June 2014

Hadjem,A., Vermeeren,G., Varsier,N., Conil,E., Krayni,A., Mackowiak,M., Robelin,C., Joseph,W., Sibille,A., Martens,L. and Wiart,J., “Characterization of far-field and near-field exposure of the population for RF-EMF in realistic configurations of ICT usages”, accepted to BIOEM 2014 – the annual meeting of BEMS and EBEA, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, accepted to URSI GASS 2014 – 31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

Mackowiak,M., Correia,L.M., Kliks,A. and Kryszkiewicz,P., “MIMO Channel Analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, submitted to ISWCS 2014 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, submitted to PIMRC 2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, D.C., USA, Sep. 2014.

 

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.

2014-04-02
Luis M. Correia, “Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields in Mobile Communications”
Palestras do I.P. Tomar, Tomar, Portugal

2014-04-06/11
Michal Mackowiak “Using Virtual MIMO in Off-Body Channels for Power Efficient Communications”,
Luis M. Correia, “Influence of the Environment on MIMO On-Body Communications”,
Daniel Sebastiao, Filipe Cardoso
EuCAP 2014 – 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Hague, The Netherlands

2014-04-16
Luis M. Correia
COST BM 1309 Kick-off meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2014-04-17
Luis M. Correia “BANs, new usages, and the human exposure challenge”
Joint COST IC1004 / LEXNET Training School, Paris, France.

2014-04-14/18
Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 STSM, Gdansk, Poland

2014-04-22
Luis M. Correia,
5G-PPP workshop, Heidelberg, Germany

2014-04-22
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET Technical Workshop, Paris, France

2014-04-23/24
Luis M. Correia,
NEWCOM# Executive Board meeting, Haifa, Israel

2014-04-29/30
Luis M. Correia,
COST IC0905 meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania

2014-04-16
Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN T3.5 meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-04-22
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET Technical Workshop, Paris, France

2014-05-05
Luis M. Correia, Moderator of Panel “5G: Technologies and applications”
ICT’14 – 21st International Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal

2014-05-06
Luis M. Correia, “The Evolution of Mobile Communications and the Internet of Things”
Jornadas Técnicas de Engenharia Eletrotécnica do I.P. Leira, Leiria, Portugal

2014-05-08
Luis M. Correia,
Fernando Pachón Ph.D. Jury, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

2014-05-19/22
Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak, Filipe Cardoso, Luís M. Correia
LEXNET General Meeting, Paris, France

2014-05-22
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”
WMNC’2014 – 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal

2014-05-26/28
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004, 10th Management Committee and Scientific Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark, May 2014.

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak performed a Short Time Scientific Mission at Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. The objective of this mission was the measurement of off-body channels in indoor environment and assessment of previously developed propagation model. The contribution to the next meeting in Aalborg is being prepared.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
In WP3, future work topics for T3.2 were presented in meeting in Paris. In WP5, the work is progressing with OPNET simulations.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Currently, the OpenAirInterface LTE emulator is being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling the Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. In parallel, the work on two associated research topics, on (a) the management of virtual radio resources and (b) radio and cloud resources management, is progressing.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The work with OpenAirInterface is progressing, the LTE emulator being used to benchmark the virtualisation of base stations, by profiling Virtual Machines’ computation resources dependency on traffic load and radio resources usage. The work on two associated research topics, on the management of virtual radio resources and radio and cloud resources management, is progressing. Contributions to project deliverables were edited, several deliverables having also been reviewed by Sina Khatibi and Lucio Ferreira. Two publications, entitled “An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service” and “Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization” were accepted for the EUCNC conference.

FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
For the national contest, Prémio FAQtos, the next deadline is the delivery of the final report by May 12th. Preparations for the final ceremony are already ongoing.