Vol. 9, No. 7, July-December 2014
In this issue:
1. Under the spotlight
2. People
3. Publications
4. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
5. Projects
Bringing your attention to a matter in this issue of the Newsletter
The GROW team is truly saddened by the tragic death of one of its members, Michał Maćkowiak (and his wife, Hannia).
Michał Maćkowiak was a Pole that felt in love for Lisbon and Portugal, by chance. In 2006, while taking the M.Sc. on Electronics and Information Technology Engineering, at the Warsaw University of Technology, he ended up being the last one to choose a place for doing the thesis within the ERASMUS exchange programme, and the only place left was IST – Lisbon, so he decided to take the risk and to spend a few months in our research group. This was the beginning of a new stage in his life, spent in Lisbon, which ended tragically on Aug. 8th, 2014, when he and his wife Hanna felt from a cliff nearby Lisbon.
After graduating with the Ph.D., in July 2013, he kept working in our group, in several projects. He had already quite a track record as a researcher, but his life was not only about research and family (he was married and had two children). He was also very keen on photography, which we could consider to be his “professional hobby”, besides having an entrepreneur spirit as well.
More than a brilliant colleague, we lost a cheerful friend. Our thoughts are now with Michał and Hannia’s families, and most especially with their kids, Sozia and Leon. We really miss them.
Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.
Luisa Caeiro graduated with the Ph.D. in September. Pedro Venâncio graduated with the M.Sc. in November. Congratulations to them, and wishes of success in the new stage of their professional career.
GROW is receiving one more member. Since mid-September, Alessandro Simonelli, an M.Sc. Student, is working in his thesis. We wish him good luck.
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Joana Fernandes, Luis M Correia, Carlos Alves, Luis Píssaro and Márcio Teixeira, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”, Proc. of 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA, July 2014.
Ricardo Santos, Luis M Correia, Carlos Alves, Luis Pissarro and Álvaro Albino, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA, July 2014.
Luis M. Correia, “Modelling Problems in ICT for ITS”, Proc. of Workshop on Transportation Modelling Future, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014 (invited).
Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Modelling Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Outdoor Environments”, Proc. of URSI GASS 2014 – 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia, Adrian Kliks and Paweł Kryszkiewicz, “MIMO channel analysis in the context of Body Area Networks”, Proc. of Workshop on Cognitive Radio Advances, Applications and Future Emerging Technologies, at ISWCS’2014 – 11th The Eleventh International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014.
Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Statistical Path Loss Model for Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, Proc. of PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.
Sina Khatibi and Luis M. Correia, “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management for Cellular Heterogeneous Access Networks”, Proc. of PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014.
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of WMCS’2014 – 2nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 2014 (keynote speaker).
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, Proc. of WiCON’2014 – 8th International Wireless Internet Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2014 (keynote speaker).
Luisa Caeiro, Filipe D. Cardoso and Luis M. Correia, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacities”, Proc. of 5GU’2014 – 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity, Levi, Finland, Nov. 2014.
Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco and Luis M. Correia, “Fact on Usage and (Lack of) Concern of Portuguese Youngsters with Mobile Phones” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 8th URSI Portuguese Committee Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2014.
Sławomir J. Ambroziak, Luis M. Correia, Ryszard J. Katulski and Michał Maćkowiak, “Impact of radio wave polarisation on off-body communications in indoor environments”, accepted to EuCAP’2015 – 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 2015.
Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity for On-Body Communications in Scattered Environments”, Wireless Personal Communications, accepted Dec. 2014.
List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.
2014-07-01
Luis M. Correia
Zeinab Mhanna, “Analysis and Modelling of the radio channel in an Ultra Wideband Backscattering based RFID System”
Ph.D. Committee, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
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 Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Luis M. Correia, Michał Maćkowiak, Ema Catarré, Vera Almeida
Prémio FAQtos 2014 Final Ceremony
2014-07-06/09
Ricardo Santos, “Analysis of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in Aeronautical Radars”
Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of Wind Turbines Generators Influence in VOR Aeronautical Navigation Systems”
IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA
2014-07-12
All active GROWers
STAR WARM (STill AnotheR Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz )Episode XV, Monsaraz, Portugal
2014-07-22
Sina Khatibi, “Virtualisation of Radio Resources—Next Step in Radio Access Network Virtualisation”
GROWing meeting
2014-09-03/05
Luis M. Correia
PIMRC’2014 – 25th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Washington, DC, USA
2014-09-15/16
Daniel Sebastião, Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia
LEXNET WP5 Meeting, Bucharest, Romania
2014-09-18
Luisa Caeiro, “Common Radio Resource Management in Virtual Heterogeneous Networks”
Luisa Caeiro, “Virtual wireless access: Addressing multiple virtual resources in the same geographical area”
Sina Khatibi, “Modelling of virtual radio resource management with traffic offloading support”
GROWing meeting
2014-09-24/26
Carla Oliveira, Luisa Caeiro, Luis M. Correia, Sina Kathibi
COST IC1004 Meeting, Krakow, Poland
2014-09-26
Filipe Cardoso
LEXNET Advisory Board meeting, Paris, France
2014-10-02/03
Luis M. Correia
COST BM1309 Meeting, Split, Croatia
2014-10-08
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco
FAQtos’s public presentation, Matosinhos Town Hall, Matosinhos, Portugal
2014-10-09/10
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM Executive Board Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
2014-10-16
Pedro Venâncio, “Analysis of Network Quality Using Non-Intrusive from an End-User Perspective in LTE”
GROWing meeting
2014-10-23
Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia
EuCoNneCts Project Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
2014-10-30
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
WMCS’2014 – 2nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication Systems, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-10-30
Luis M. Correia, “Michał Maćkowiak: the BAN researcher and the photographer”
GROWing meeting
2014-11-06
Luis M. Correia
IoT Lab Project Review, Brussels, Belgium
2014-11-07
Sina Khatibi and Luisa Caeiro, “Integration of VRRM in OAI”
GROWing meeting
2014-11-10/12
Luisa Caeiro, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Lúcio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
MCN Project Meeting, Berlin, Germany
2014-11-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
WiCON’2014 – 8th International Wireless Internet Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-11-24/25
Luis M. Correia
EAR-IT Project Review, Santander, Spain
2014-11-25/28
Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Filipe Cardoso, Luis M. Correia
LEXNET Project Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia
2014-11-26/27
Luisa Caeiro, “Wireless Access Virtualisation: Physical versus Virtual Capacities”
1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU), Levi, Finland
2014-11-28
Mónica Branco, “Fact on Usage and (Lack of) Concern of Portuguese Youngsters with Mobile Phones”
8th URSI Portuguese Committee Congress, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-12-01/02
Carla Oliveira, Luis M. Correia
U. Novi Sad / IST Bilateral Collaboration Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-12-02
Luis M. Correia
Ivo Sousa, “MIMO Techniques in High Capacity Wireless Communication Systems”
Ph.D. Committee, IST, Lisbon, Portugal
2014-12-05
Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia
EuCoNneCts Project Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
2014-12-08/11
Luis M. Correia
GLOBECOM’2014—IEEE Global Communications Conference, Austin, TX, USA
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
A special session dedicated to the memory of Michał Maćkowiak was held in the Krakow meeting. Work is progressing on the book, with edition of sections on off-body communications and radio resource management.
LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
INOV contributed to the new survey about the best ways of reducing radiation from wireless communication systems, and hosted a meeting with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology partners (WP2). Work is progressing on EMF exposure metrics, SAR simulations (WP2) and assessment of the exposure index (WP3), taking realistic environments into account. INOV contributed to Deliverables D2.6, D2.5 and D3.3. OPNET simulations on optimisation of locations for network topologies are going on (WP5), contributing to already finished Deliverable D5.1 and IR5.2. A new version of the document on inter-project collaboration and other contacts was circulated by Filipe Cardoso.
MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
INOV is working on Cloud-RAN, validating the concept of virtualising the baseband unit of an LTE basestation, aiming at using OpenAirInterface’s (OAI) emulated LTE eNodeB. The management of virtual radio resources of multiple operators is also being studied, the developed models being currently under implementation in OAI.
NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
In WP1.1, the document “Modelling of Virtual Radio Resource Management“ has been submitted and discussed with partners. In WP1.3, the work on channel coding and MIMO capacity for body-to-body channel is progressing, and a joint paper with Poznan University of Technology was presented at ISWCS2014. In WP2.3, the cooperation with EURECOM and the development of the LTE eNodeB is progressing well.
FAQTOS – http://www.faqtos.pt
The final ceremony for Prémio FAQtos 2014 was held on July 5th. The 10 finalists presented their work, and a jury chose the winners. The 1st prize went to Arouca, the 2nd one to Oliveira do Bairro and the 3rd to Fátima. A special mention was also delivered to a group from Aveiro. The 2015 edition of Prémio FAQtos has been launched, the dissemination materials were sent to schools, and the 59 groups were accepted. Continuous monitoring of EMFs was launched in Matosinhos, with 6 monitoring stations active in FAQtos’ website from July to October. A public ceremony in the city hall held on October 8th has officialised this collaboration. An information action was held on Felgueiras secondary school.
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