Vol. 10, No. 7, Oct-Dec 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
GROW (A Group for Research on Wireless) has been established more than 20 years ago, with the purpose of giving a framework to people to work on R&D in the area of mobile and wireless communications, not only for developing their theses (either M.Sc. or Ph.D.) as students, but also to pursue a career as researchers working in projects. During this period, more than 160 students developed their theses within GROW, and more than 40 projects (funded by either the European Commission or Portuguese companies) were executed, providing an average funding of nearly 400 k€/year, and enabling to have for more than a decade a permanent team of at least 7 people fully supported by these projects (besides other collaborators), resulting in more than 400 publications. These have been great times, but times change.
“Time changes, and our desires change. What we
believe — even what we are — is ever
changing. The world is change, which forever
takes on new qualities. And constantly,
we see the new and the novel overturning
the past, unexpectedly, while we retain
from evil, nothing but its terrible pain,
from good (if there’s been any), only the yearning.
Time covers the ground with her cloak of green
where, once, there was freezing snow—and rearranges
my sweetest songs to sad laments. Yet even more
astonishing is yet another unseen
change within all these endless changes:
that for me, nothing ever changes anymore.”
Luis de Camões (Portuguese poet, 1524/1580).
In the last couple of years, it was not possible to succeed in getting projects to sustain the activity of the permanent R&D team. The projects running in the past years have finished in October and November, hence, this team has also finished its activity by the end of this December, and they will be progressing their professional careers elsewhere. I’m talking about Lúcio Ferreira, Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, and Mónica Antunes. Life as we knew it in GROW will never be the same, but life goes one.
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion,
or it will be eaten.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle,
or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle;
when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
African tale.
GROW keeps its activity with the colleagues and the supporting staff, as well as the Ph.D. and M.Sc. Students, that are still developing their work in it.
Let’s keep in touch.
Luis M. Correia
(Monsaraz, July 2009)
2. People
Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.
All the best to Lúcio Ferreira, Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, and Mónica Antunes. That the years ahead bring them and their families many good opportunities in life.
João Pires, Ricardo Gameiro and Carlos Martins graduated with the M.Sc. in November. Congratulations to them, and wishes of success in their professional career.
3. Publications
Information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.
Frederik Freudenstein, Luis, M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, and Peter M. Wiedemann, “Exposure knowledge and perception of wireless communications technologies”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 12, No. 11, Nov. 2015, pp. 14177-14191.
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective on Virtual Radio Access Networks”, Proc. of Internal Seminars of the Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Oct. 2015.
Slawomir Ambroziak , Kenan Turbic, Carla Oliveira, Luis M. Correia and Ryszard Katulski, “Fading Modelling in Dynamic Off-Body Channels”, accepted to EuCAP’2016 — 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Davos, Switzerland, Apr. 2016.
Manuel Ferreira, Carla Oliveira, Filipe Cardoso, Luís M. Correia, “SAR Assessment of Google Glasses at Cellular and Wi-Fi Frequency Bands”, accepted to EuCAP’2016 — 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Davos, Switzerland, Apr. 2016.
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.
2015-10-06
Luis M. Correia
LEXNET Workshop, Brussels, Belgium
2015-10-09
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective on Virtual Radio Access Networks”,
Internal Seminars of the Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
2015-10-15
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
2015-10-20
Luis M. Correia
ICT’2015, Lisbon, Portugal
2015-10-28/29
Luis M. Correia
IEEE CSCN, Tokyo, Japan
2015-11-10
Luis M. Correia
FESTIVAL project review, Tokyo, Japan
2015-11-19
Luis M. Correia
IoT Lab project review, Brussels, Belgium
2015-11-23
Carlos Martins, “Analysis of data services performance in UMTS networks using data analytics”
João Pires, “LTE Fixed to Mobile Subscribers QoE evaluation”
Ricardo Gameiro, Performance comparison of voice communications between VoLTE and UMTS/GSM”
GROWing Meeting
2015-12-03
Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia
EuConNeCts projet review, Brussels, Belgium
2015-12-06/09
Luis M. Correia
IEEE Globecom, San Diego, CA, USA
5. Projects
News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.
All R&D projects are finished.