Vol. 10, No. 2, Feb 2015
In this issue:
1. Under the spotlight
2. People
3. Publications
4. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
5. Projects
1. Under the spotlight
Bringing your attention to a matter in this issue of the Newsletter
I was invited to be part of the team evaluating a Collaborative Research Centre at the Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany, working on a project, Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing (HAEC). Given its very interesting goals, I dare to copy some information from their website (tu-dresden.de/forschung/forschungskompetenz/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb912).
“The way we use the Internet today has an enormous ecological impact on the increasing energy demand of modern society. For example, the electricity required by the servers that make up the Internet relates to about 2% of the overall electricity consumption in the US and to about 26% of the overall energy consumption in Germany. Certainly a straightforward way for improving energy efficiency would be to reduce the energy consumption of every individual hardware component involved. However, for many components the optimal energy performance point has already been reached. More important is an understanding of how software can adapt to hardware components and vice versa to address the computational problems of modern society in an energy efficient way. This requires new methods and tools to write energy-aware programs, new ways of interaction between the individual pieces that collaborate to solve a problem, new communication technologies to enable this interaction between pieces that are spread across highly scalable parallel systems, and a new multi-layer coordination infrastructure to bring together these technologies. In other words, we need an integrated approach for highly adaptive energy-efficient computing to approach energy-efficient computing at all involved technology levels. the circuit level, we focus on innovative ideas for optical and wireless chip-to-chip communication. At the network level, we research secure, high performance network coding schemes for wired and wireless board-to-board communication. Innovative results at the hardware/software interface level will include energy control loops, which allow hardware to adapt to varying software requirements and vice versa. Software development in general is supported by energy-aware runtimes, energy-aware resource, stream and configuration management schemes and by an analysis framework for high performance/low energy applications. New internet applications are supported by innovations in energy-aware service execution. And, last but not least, formal methods are developed to offer a new quality of assurance in our systems of tomorrow. Demonstrating our results in a joint prototype – the HAEC Box – our goal is to become a pace setter for industry and academia on the design of future energy efficient-computing systems.”
Luis M. Correia
2. People
Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.
This month witnessed the graduation of 7 M.Sc. students, i.e., Bruno Pires, David Doutor, Gonçalo Fernandes, Marco Castanho, Pedro Ganço, Rodrigo Santos, and Vasco Oliveira. We congratulate them, and wish them luck in their professional career.
3. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Uplink Exposure Assessment of 3G/4G Wireless Devices”, submitted to EuCNC2015 — European Conference on Networks and Communications, Paris, France, June 2015.
Sina Khatibi and Luís M. Correia, “A Model for Virtual Radio Resource Management in Virtual RAN”, accepted for publication at EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
Sławomir J. Ambroziak, Luis M. Correia, Ryszard J. Katulski and Michał Maćkowiak, “Measurements of Path Loss in Off-Body Channels in Indoor Environments”, accepted to AT-RASC’2015 – 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference, Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2015.
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”, Proc. of IMTIC’2015 – International Multi Topic Conference, Jamshoro, Pakistan, Feb. 2015 (keynote speaker).
4. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.
2015-02-03/04
Luis M. Correia
DFG HEAC @ T.U. Dresden review, Dresden, Germany
2015-02-05
Carla Oliveira
FAQtos Seminar, DEEC, IST—University of Lisbon
2015-02-06
Rodrigo Santos, “Impact of FM Broadcasting Signals on Aeronautical Radionavigation”
Marco Castanho, “Analysis and optimisation of video transmission in LTE networks”
Pedro Ganço, “Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with LTE”
Duarte Doutor, “Load Balancing between LTE and WiFi”
Gonçalo Fernandes, “Load Balancing via inter-frequency handovers in LTE networks”
GROWing meeting
2015-02-09
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco
FAQtos Seminar at Escola Profissional de Pombal, Pombal, Portugal
2015-02-09
Luis M. Correia
LEXNET project review, Brussels, Belgium
2015-02-12
Carla Oliveira
FAQtos Seminar, DEEC, IST—University of Lisbon
2015-02-13
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and their Application to Smart Cities”
IMTIC’2015 – International Multi Topic Conference, Jamshoro, Pakistan
2015-02-13
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# project review, Brussels, Belgium
2015-02-17
Bruno Pires, “Exclusion Regions for LTE base stations in heterogeneous cell structures”
Vasco Simões, “Assessment of exposure for LTE mobile terminals in a heterogeneous usage”
GROWing meeting
2015-02-20
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco
FAQtos Seminar at Colégio de São Miguel, Fátima, Portugal
2015-02-23
Carla Oliveira
FAQtos Seminar, DEEC, IST—University of Lisbon
2015-02-26
Carla Oliveira
FAQtos Seminar, DEEC, IST—University of Lisbon
2015-02-23/27
Sina Khatibi, Luisa Caeiro
Working visit within NEWCOM# and MCN at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
2015-03-10/11
Luis M. Correia, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira
MCN Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland
2015-03-24
Luis M. Correia
EuCNC Steering Committee meeting, Brussels, Belgium
2015-03-25
Luis M. Correia
NETFUTURES, Brussels, Belgium
5. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
The contribution to the COST book has been updated by Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi.
LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
A report is being finalised within WP2 on the SAR simulations for a tablet usage. Work is starting concerning SAR simulations with smart glasses. Work is progressing in WP5 on the definition of a cost function taking into account EMF as a KPI for network management/performance analysis. In WP7, a document that will be translated in different languages and will be made available at the website was consolidated with contributions for all technical WPs.
MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
INOV team is working on the implementation of VRRM in OAI LTE base station emulator, as well as integrating traffic scenarios. Sina Khatibi and Luisa Caeiro visited Eurecom, France, to progress with the afore mentioned work.
NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Sina Khatibi and Luisa Caeiro with collaboration of Eurecom are working on the modification of the MAC scheduler of OAI to support grouping and virtualisation.
FAQtos – http://faqtos.pt
The 2015 edition of Prémio FAQtos has been ongoing, with the 48 groups still on contest after the delivery of their intermediate report by February 6th. Some of the groups are having training in EMF measurement equipment. Continuous monitoring of EMFs was launched in Valongo, with 5 monitoring stations, with 1 further station installed in Felgueiras. Some seminars were held on various schools during February.