GROW News Sep/2010

Vol. 5, No. 8, Sep. 2010

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.

Dominik Sarapata has graduated this month, by defending his M.Sc. thesis. All the best for him, back in Poland.

GROW has a few more members on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. thesis: Armanda Martins, Carlos Simões, Carlos Teixeira, Diogo Silva, João Pinto, Pedro Carreira, Ricardo Batista.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”, in Proc. of VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, in Proc. of VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, 4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2010

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, submitted to Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

Luis M. Correia, Dietrich Zeller, Oliver Blume, Ylva Jading, Gunther Auer, Liesbet Van der Perre, Dieter Ferling and Istvan Godor, “Challenges and Enabling Technologies for Energy Aware Mobile Radio Networks”, accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-09-06/09
Carla Oliveira, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
Daniel Sebastião, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-09-13/16
Luis M. Correia, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2010-09-16
Luis M. Correia
eMobility General Assembly, Venice, Italy

2010-09-20/21
Carla Oliveira
NEWCOM++ Meeting, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

2010-09-20/22
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Turin, Italy

2010-09-23
Diana Ladeira, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
Mónica Branco
4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-09-27/29
Luis M. Correia
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”
Michal Mackowiak, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”
PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Work toward the presentation of results by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak is progressing.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso is preparing the contribution to Deliverable D4.1 “Most Promising Tracks of Green Radio Technologies”, and the edition of a chapter on Multi-Antenna Techniques. António Serrador has presented energy efficiency metrics for radio resource management and related cost functions on cellular networks.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Diana Ladeira has begun work on the technical requirements of applications in the areas of health, transport and environment (energy).

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Work is progressing on channel models for BANs, by Carla Oliveira, on Joint Radio Resource Management, by António Serrador, and on Wireless Mesh Networks, by Lúcio Ferreira.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The 2011 edition of Prémio monIT is starting with invitation letters were sent to schools, libraries, science and youth associations, etc. Registrations will be available from Oct. 11th to 25th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are starting the work for the first deliverables that are scheduled for the end of October. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro presented a contribution to the “Open Connectivity Services” work package (WP-C), describing the planned contributions.

Vol. 5, No. 7, Aug. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

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

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, submitted to 4th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI, Lisbon, Portugal.

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “An Analytical Model to Evaluate JRRM QoS Parameters”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-08-30
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-09-06/09
Carla Oliveira, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
Daniel Sebastião, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”
VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-09-13/16
Luis M. Correia, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2010-09-16
Luis M. Correia
eMobility General Assembly, Venice, Italy

2010-09-20/21
Carla Oliveira
NEWCOM++ Meeting, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

2010-09-20/22
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Turin, Italy

2010-09-27/29
Luis M. Correia
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”
Michal Mackowiak, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”
PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Work toward the presentation of results by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak is progressing.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has issued a document addressing metrics for energy efficiency, considering users’ and network/systems’ approaches. Filipe Cardoso has started the work on direct contributions to Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies”.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
The Applications chapter of the Strategic Applications Research Agenda has been finalised with contributions from Diana Ladeira, being publicly available at the project’s website.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Work is progressing on channel models for BANs, by Carla Oliveira, on Joint Radio Resource Management, by António Serrador, and on Wireless Mesh Networks, by Lúcio Ferreira.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The continuous monitoring in Lisbon was concluded, and a report on the collaboration with the City Council of Lisbon is available. monIT’s website got a makeover, and will have a new image. The theme of the 2011 edition of Prémio monIT is “Radiofrequencies and Society”, registrations being available in October.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are preparing the contributions for the first project meeting, with some research done on scenarios. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro prepared a contribution to the “Open Connectivity Services” work package (WP-C) they’re involved in, describing the planned contributions, and their contextualisation within the WP.

Vol. 5, No. 6, Jun. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

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

António Serrador, Andrea Carniani, Virginia Corvino and Luís M. Correia, “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies”, Proceedings of NEWCOM++ Workshop at the Future Network & Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy June 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, Proceedings of Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador, Filipe D. Cardoso Luís M. Correia, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”, Proceedings of Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Klaus Wuenstel, “Socio-Economic Studies Results in 4WARD”, Proceedings of the 3rd 4WARD BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

João Gonçalves, Daniel Sebastião, Luis M. Correia, “Building a Business Model for Hosting Ad-hoc Communities in the Future Internet”, Proceedings of the 3rd 4WARD BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-06-01
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
CST Workshop on Electromagnetic Simulation Software, and COST 2100 Tutorial on “Multi-Link Channel Modelling for Relay and Cooperative Communication Systems”, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-01
Luís M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-06-02/04
Luís M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
COST 2100 11th MC Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-16/18
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador
Future Internet and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy

2010-06-21/24
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira
4WARD General Meeting and 3rd BIRD Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves delivered the final contribution to the deliverable D-1.4 “Final Assessment on the Non-technical Drivers” and finalised the work on the book. Filipe Cardoso has finalised the deliverable D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness”. Lúcio Ferreira finalised the contribution to deliverable D-5.3 “Evaluation of Generic Path architecture and mechanisms” with a chapter entitled “Wireless Mesh Networks: A design exercise for the GP Model”, as well as the deliverable D-5.4 “In Network Management for Generic Path”, presenting the achievements of WP4 & WP5 cross task. A paper entitled “Fiat Object: Object Orientation in Future Internet”, in collaboration with University of Basel, has been submitted to the Computer Networks Journal. The project has finished.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira is still working on the “Body Communications” section of the COST book. Carla Oliveira presented a TD, at the Aalborg meeting, entitled “A Statistical Analysis of User’s Influence in Body Area Networks”. António Serrador presented a TD, at the Aalborg meeting, entitled “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRMM”.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador contributed with updates to the report IM3.1. Filipe Cardoso finalised the contribution to report IM4.1.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Diana Ladeira has finalised the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Applications, which are available at eMobility’s website. The chapter to the Strategic Research Agenda based on the Strategic Applications Agenda has been finalised.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has attended the WPR9 meeting by presenting the IST-TUL contributions to the third and last WPR9 deliverable, DR-9.3.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The final ceremony of Prémio monIT was on June 26th, where the 10 finalist teams presented their work to the Final Jury and to an auditorium of more than one hundred people. The prizes were delivered to the teams of pupils as follows: 1st place to ES Raul Proença, Caldas da Rainha; 2nd place to EP D. Mariana Seixas, Viseu; 3rd place to ES do Lumiar, Lisboa. Two honorary awards were also given to Centro de Estudos de Fátima and ES Esmoriz. Congratulations to all the pupils for the valuable projects! The preparations for the next year’s edition of Prémio monIT are now underway.

Vol. 5, No. 5, May 2010

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

3. Projects

1. Publications

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

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, accepted to VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010.

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”, accepted to VTC’2010 Fall – 72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 2010.

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, accepted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010.

Michal Mackowiak, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, accepted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010.

M. Sifalakis, L. S. Ferreira, S. Martin, C. Tschudin, L.M. Correia, “Fiat Object: Object Orientation in Future Internet”, submitted to Computer Networks Journal.

Filipe Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Petteri Mannersalo, Tapio Franti, António Serrador, Giorgio Nunzi, Naveena Genay, Esther Le Rouzic, “Physical Layer Aware Network Architecture for the Future Internet”, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-05-04/06

Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador

EARTH Meeting, Guildford, UK

2010-05-11

Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”

ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium

2010-05-19/20

Luís M. Correia, Diana Ladeira

eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Athens, Greece

2010-05-25

Luis M. Correia, “A Vision into the Future Internet”

TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal

2010-05-26/28

Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

COST BM0704 Meetings and EBEA Seasonal Seminar, Bordeaux, France

2010-06-01

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

CST Workshop on Electromagnetic Simulation Software, and COST 2100 Tutorial on “Multi-Link Channel Modelling for Relay and Cooperative Communication Systems”, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-01

Luís M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-06-02/04

Luís M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 11th MC Meeting, Aalborg, Denmark

2010-06-16/18

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador

Future Internet and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy

2010-06-21/24

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD General Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the final deliverable from WP1 (D-1.4 – “Final Assessment on the Non-technical Drivers”) and on the 4WARD book. António Serrador as WP3 contact person has contributed to D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness” with Virtual Networks issues in the Physical Layer Awareness context; António Serrador has also contributed to D-3.2.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Evaluation and Integration – Update” as a reviewer. Filipe Cardoso has finished editing the additional deliverable D-5.5 “Physical Layer Awareness”. Also, a paper entitled “Physical Layer Aware Network Architecture for the Future Internet” has been submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. Lúcio Ferreira contributed to deliverable D-5.3 “Evaluation of Generic Path architecture and mechanisms” with a chapter entitled “Wireless Mesh Networks: A design exercise for the GP Model”. Lúcio Ferreira was also the editor of deliverable D-5.4 “In Network Management for Generic Path”, presenting the achievements of WP4 & WP5 cross task.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Luís M. Correia and Carla Oliveira are working on the COST book. Carla Oliveira is preparing a paper to be presented at the meeting in the June.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu

António Serrador has presented a contribution to WP3 report IM3.1 with algorithms on joint admission control and multi cell scheduling and management. Filipe Cardoso continues his work on the coordination of task T4.1, being focused on report IM4.1 preparation.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the document on the 5th Workshop on Applications and on the Applications chapter for the SRA is being conducted.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

A massive campaign of public information actions was conducted in schools and health services of Azores and Madeira islands. Further actions were also conducted at Santa Maria da Feira, Santo Tirso and for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications). Regarding measurements, 6 more stations were installed in Lisbon, totalising 14 continuous monitoring locations in collaboration with the Municipality of Lisbon. Daily results from these stations can be seen in monIT’s website. In the course of this collaboration, a presentation/press conference was done on May 18th, announcing the results already obtained, having had quite a bit of media coverage (newspapers, radio and TV). On Prémio monIT, the list of the 10 finalist teams was announced on May 31st.

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

António Serrador is preparing the WPR9 WG1 contributions to D9.3 and the WPR9 meeting that will take place in Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Vol. 5, No. 4, Apr. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

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

Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann, Luís M. Correia, “Opportunistic Management of Spontaneous and Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, April 2010

Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”, invited to EuCAP’2010 – 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2010

Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”, invited to ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium, May 2010

Luis M. Correia “A Vision into the Future Internet”, invited to TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal, May 2010

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-04-13
Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”
EuCAP’2010 – 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Barcelona, Spain

2010-04-26/28
Daniel Sebastião
Celtic MEVICO Project Kick-off Meeting, Helsinki, Finland

2010-05-04/06
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH Meeting, Guildford, UK

2010-05-11
Luis M. Correia, “A view on Health and ICT”
ETP 2010 Conference, Brussels, Belgium

2010-05-19/20
Luís M. Correia, Diana Ladeira
eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Athens, Greece

2010-05-25
Luis M. Correia “A Vision into the Future Internet”
TICE Workshop on Future Internet: Challenges and Opportunities, Aveiro, Portugal

2010-05-26/28
Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
COST BM0704 Meetings and EBEA Seasonal Seminar, Bordeaux, France

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the next deliverable from WP1 (D1.4). Filipe Cardoso is editing deliverable, D5.5, to be delivered by the end of May. Lúcio Ferreira is working with Manolis SIfalakis (UniBasel) in the preparation of a paper and a contribution to the final WP5 deliverable. Lúcio Ferreira is coordinating the edition of the final deliverable of WP4 & WP5 cross task.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira has finished the contribution to the book with the Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has contributed to WP3 IM3.1 with algorithms on joint admission control and multi cell scheduling and management. Filipe Cardoso continues the work on inputs to report IM4.1

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) was finalised.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools and health services continued, having been conducted in Azores and Madeira islands, and also for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications). Regarding measurements, 7 more stations were installed in Lisbon, totalising 15 continuous monitoring locations in collaboration with the City Council of Lisbon. Daily results from these stations can be seen in monIT’s website. Localised measurements were also made in 2 of Lisbon’s basic schools and some schools in the north of the country. Regarding Prémio monIT, the next deadline is the 10th of May, when the final report must be delivered by the groups still competing, to be evaluated by the selection jury.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has presented the WPR9 WG1 contributions to D9.3.

Vol. 5, No. 3, Mar. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects
4. Training Courses

1. Publications

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

António Serrador, Andrea Carniani, Virginia Corvino and Luís M. Correia, “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies”, accepted to NEWCOM++ Workshop at the Future Network & Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy June 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-03-01/03
Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak
iWAT2010 – International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-04/06
Luís M. Correia
4WARD Review, Aachen, Germany

2010-03-05
Michal Mackowiak, A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels,
11th RTCM Workshop, Coimbra, Portugal

2010-03-11/12
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-03-18
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”
GROWing meeting

2010-03-20
Luis M. Correia, “Mathematics in Mobile Communications”
Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-04-26/28
Daniel Sebastião
Celtic MEVICO Project Kick-off Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the next deliverable from WP1 (D1.4) and on some book chapters. Lúcio Ferreira was in the University of Basel (15-18 March) working with Manolis Sifalakis on the implementation of the Wireless Mesh Network research using the GP architecture. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to WP3 on Integration Scenario description and Storyline about Virtual Networks instantiation. António Serrador, as WP3 Physical Layer Awareness contact person, has contributed to the PLA paper final version. Filipe Cardoso has finished editing a paper on Physical Layer Awareness to be submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. Also, a new project deliverable, D5.5, addressing Physical Layer Awareness aspects is being prepared to be delivered by the end of May.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Luis Correia are working on Chapter 16 (Body Communications) of the COST2100 Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has contributed to WP3 reference scenarios inputs to WP2 with a list of topics related with cellular traffic load statistics and users mobility models. Filipe Cardoso has edited a contribution for IM4.1 within the scope of T4.1 leadership.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) is ongoing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools continued, and several actions were also conducted for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications and in the course of the “À Descoberta das Rotas da Matemática da UTL” event) facilities. Regarding Prémio monIT, the next deadline is 29th of March, when the second report progress must be delivered by the groups still competing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The paper submitted to the NEWCOM++ Workshop was accepted.

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Carla OIiveira and Michal Mackowiak attended a Short Course on CST Simulation Software and Near-Field Simulations, at IST facilities, on 2010-03-22.

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2010-03-26.

Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects
4. Training Courses

1. Publications

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

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, accepted to Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Base Stations Exclusion Zones”, submitted to VTC’2010 Fall –72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 2010

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Model to Characterise User Influence in Body Area Networks”, submitted to VTC’2010 Fall –72nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 2010

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, submitted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

Micha? Ma?kowiak, Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical Approach to Model Antenna Radiation Patterns in Off-Body Radio Channels”, submitted to PIMRC’2010 – 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2010

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-02-01/04
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso,
4WARD meeting, Paris, France

2010-02-03/05
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “A statistical approach to model antenna radiation pattern in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Carla Oliveira, “Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
COST2100 meeting, Athens, Greece

2010-02-08
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ EB meeting, Pisa, Italy

2010-02-11
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Dynamic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems”
GROWing meeting

2010-02-18
Luís M. Correia
4WARD PMT meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

2010-02-24
Luís M. Correia
eMobility SB meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-02-25/26
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
COSTBM0704 meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-01/03
Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak
iWAT2010 – International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-03-04/06
Luís M. Correia
4WARD Review, Aachen, Germany

2010-03-11/12
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium

2010-03-18
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management in Multiple Virtual Networks”
GROWing meeting

2010-03-20
Luis M. Correia, “Mathematics in Mobile Communications”
Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on some of the book chapters, looking at traffic and business aspects. Lúcio Ferreira presented, in the Paris meeting, his current work on WMN and its implementation using the GP architecture; he also coordinated the WP4&5 cross-meeting, where several cooperative activities where established.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia will start working on Chapter 16 (Body Communications) of the COST2100 Final Report.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador as contributed to WP3 with a list of 3GPP network metrics and concepts.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on the next applications workshop (to be held on the 19th May in Athens, Greece) is ongoing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools continued, and several actions were also conducted for schools visiting IST (DEEC-Telecommunications) facilities. Regarding Prémio monIT, 37 groups are still competing in this challenge, and training courses on measurements are being provided to some groups. More actions are scheduled to the next month. The team participated in the COST BM0704 WG5 meeting.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador and Virginia Corvino (from Bologna University) have submitted a paper entitled “Radio Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks through JRRM Strategies” to the NEWCOM++ Workshop, co-located with Future Network & Mobile Summit,Florence, Italy June 2010.

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Luis M. Correia will lecture a course for environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2010-03-26.

Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 2010

In this issue:
1. Publications
2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars
3. Projects

1. Publications

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

António Serrador, Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function Model for CRRM over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, accepted to Wireless Personal Communications, Jan. 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, submitted to Future Internet Assembly Conference, Valencia, Spain, Apr. 2010.

Luis M. Correia, Thomas R. Banniza, Anna M. Biraghi, João Gonçalves, Mario Kind, Thomas Monath, Daniel Sebastião, Klaus Wuenstel, Jukka Salo, “Evaluation of Business Use Cases in the Future Internet”, submitted to Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2010-01-07/08
Luís M. Correia
4WARD PMT meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-01-12/14
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH kick-off meeting, Stuttgart, Germany

2010-01-28
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “A statistical approach to model antenna radiation pattern in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Carla Oliveira, “Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on Joint Radio Resource Management”
GROWing meeting

2010-02-01/04
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso,
4WARD meeting, Paris, France

2010-02-03/05
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “A statistical approach to model antenna radiation pattern in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Carla Oliveira, “Statistical Model to Characterize User Influence in Body Area Networks”
COST2100 meeting, Athens, Greece

2010-02-08
Luís M. Correia
NEWCOM++ EB meeting, Pisa, Italy

2010-02-11
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Dynamic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems”
GROWing meeting

2010-02-18
Luís M. Correia
4WARD PMT meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

2010-02-24
Luís M. Correia
eMobility SB meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-02-25/26
Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
COSTBM0704 meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on some of the book chapters, looking at traffic and business aspects. Within WP4 & WP5 joint task, Lúcio Ferreira has been driving cross-WP cooperation among partners, identifying working groups that will present a unified vision of the key achievements of both work packages.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Contributions from Carla Oliveira, Micha? Ma?kowiak, and António Serrador were submitted to the next meeting, to be held on Athens, Greece, on Feb. 2010.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
This is a new project that just started, addressing aspects of energy efficiency in mobile and wireless radio networks. The kick-off meeting took place at Alcatel-Lucent, and the detailed planning of the work has been done.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Revision of the 3rd version of the SAA is being conducted. Preparations for the next workshop have been initialised.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
Public information actions in schools and municipalities continued, and several actions were also conducted for schools visiting IST (Telecommunications) facilities. As far as measurements are concerned, 10 locations have continuous measurements stations installed. Regarding Prémio monIT, after the first progress report, 3 groups were disqualified, 38 being the current number of groups competing in this challenge.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia contributed to the 2nd Annual WP R.1 report. António Serrador and colleagues from Bologna University are preparing a joint paper about JRRM simulation framework, to be submitted to the NEWCOM++ Workshop, co-located with the Future Network & Mobile Summit 2010 conference in Florence, Italy.

Vol. 4, No. 10, Dec. 2009

In this issue:

1. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

2. Projects

1. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2009-12-02

Luís M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2009-12-03/04

António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany

2009-12-16

Luis M. Correia

Jury in Yves Lostanlen’s “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”

University of Rennes, Rennes, France

2010-01-07/08

Luís M. Correia

4WARD PMT meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2010-01-12/14

Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador

EARTH kick-off meeting, Stuttgart, Germany

2010-01-28

GROWing meeting

2. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the WP1 uses-cases, looking at traffic and business aspects. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro concluded the contributions to WP3 Deliverable D3.2.0 “Virtualisation Approach: Evaluation and Integration”. Within WP5’s Deliverable D5.2“Mechanisms for Generic Paths”, Lucio Ferreira has finalised the edition of a chapter on the use of the Generic Path architecture in Wireless Mesh Networks, as well as a section on Task TC45 describing the cooperative work that has been established between WP4 and WP5. Within task TC45, he has been editing an internal report detailing TC45 activity until now.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions are being prepared for the next meeting.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the third version of the SAA was concluded.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

Public information actions in schools continued, and several actions were conducted for schools visiting IST (Telecommunications) facilities. Information actions were scheduled for the next two months. Regarding measurements, 2 new stations were installed in Lisbon, totalising now 8 continuous monitored locations. monIT’s annual report of activities was concluded, being available in the website. Regarding Prémio monIT, students were asked to submit the first evaluation report until Dec. 21st. Those reports are evaluated by the monIT team and an updated list of participants will be published on Jan. 11th.

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

Luis M. Correia has contributed to the Vision Book, and concluded the review of all Deliverables of Integration WPs.

Vol. 4, No. 09, Nov. 2009

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

3. Projects

1. People

Information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

As usual, this month has witnessed the discussions of the M.Sc. theses of the previous academic year. Jorge Venes, João Araújo, Nuno Jacinto and Gonçalo Carvalho have all graduated. Congratulations to all of them, and good luck to their professional career, which has already started for all of them.

Christmas and New Year are here. Season’s Greetings to all the readers of this Newsletter.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, “Sources of Electromagnetic Fields in Radiofrequencies” (in Portuguese), Primeiro Congresso de Protecção Contra Radiações de Países e Comunidades de Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2009

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

List of Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held the following month.

2009-11-03

Luis M. Correia

3.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal

2009-11-25/27

Carla Oliveira

“Sources of Electromagnetic Fields in Radiofrequencies” (in Portuguese),

Primeiro Congresso de Protecção Contra Radiações de Países e Comunidades de Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal

2009-11-27

Luis M. Correia

Jury in Laurent Clavier’s “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”

University of Lillle, Lille, France

2009-12-02

Luís M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2009-12-03/04

António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany

2009-12-16

Luis M. Correia

Jury in Yves Lostanlen’s “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”

University of Rennes, Rennes, France

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the WP1 uses-cases, looking at traffic and business aspects. António Serrador edited the Conclusions section of WP3 Deliverable D3.2.0 “Virtualisation Approach: Evaluation and Integration”, and contributed, as WP3 contact person, to the new version of the Physical Layer Awareness paper. Within WP5, Lucio Ferreira has contributed to the edition of Deliverable D5.2 “Mechanisms for Generic Paths”, with a chapter on the use of the Generic Path architecture in Wireless Mesh Networks. Regarding the common task TC45 (synergies between the In-network Management and the Formux WPs) which he is co-leader, he has edited a section for D5.2 describing the cooperative work that has been established coming from this task, an internal report detailing this activity being also under finalisation.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions are being prepared for the next meeting.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the next version of the SAA is ongoing.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

All students (more than 150) that have applied to Prémio monIT, the national contest for secondary schools, were accepted. A cooperation agreement was signed in a public ceremony with the municipality of Lisbon, in order to make continuous and localised measurements in several places of the city (mainly primary schools). It had a good coverage by the media, with several news stories appearing in newspapers and national TV. Following this agreement, Lisbon has now 6 active probe stations, summing to the ones installed in secondary schools of Moita and Évora. Daily results from these networks can be seen in monIT’s website. Public information actions in schools have been resumed, with several actions in schools being held during the month.

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

António Serrador has issued the WG1 reviewed contribution to WP-R.9 Deliverable D-R.9.2 “Definition and evaluation of JRRM and ASM algorithms”.