GROW News Aug/2009

 

Vol. 4, No. 05, Aug. 2009

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

3. Projects

 

 

 

1. People

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

 

On July 18^th, one more STAR WARM (Still Another Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz) took place, the 9^th. Most of GROW members got the chance to enjoy themselves, with their families, in the cosy environment of Monsaraz.

 

 

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.

 

2009-06-02/03

Luís M. Correia, “Applications we are likely to see on the Future Internet”

WWRF/eMobility Workshop on Future Networking, Vancouver, Canada

 

2009-06-09

Luís M. Correia

4WARD PMT Meeting, Bilbao, Spain

 

2009-06-10/12

Luís M. Correia

ICT Mobile Summit, Santander, Spain

 

2009-06-15/17

Luís M. Correia, “Towards Applications and Services in 4G” (Panel on “3G to 4G: towards full mobility IP services”)

ICC’2009 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Dresden, Germany

 

2009-06-15/19

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

BioEM 2009 – BioElectromagnetics Society Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland

 

2009-06-17

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

COST Action BM 0704 MC and WG5 meeting, Davos, Switzerland

 

2009-06-21/26

António Serrador

NEWCOM++ Visit, U. Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

2009-06-24

Luís M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2009-06-26/27

Luís M. Correia

SupCom, Tunis, Tunisia

 

2009-07-08

Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD WP 5 Meeting, Madrid, Spain

 

2009-07-09/10

Lúcio Ferreira

OPNET Training Course, Paris, France

 

2009-07-26/08-01

Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves

2nd EURO-NF Summer School on Socio-Economic and Governance Issues, Meissen, Germany

 

2009-09-03/04

Carla Oliveira

4th NEWCOM++ WP.R1 workshop, Ankara, Turkey

 

2009-09-02/04

Luís M. Correia, Diana Ladeira

eMobility Steering Board, General Assembly, and Working Group meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2009-09-14/16

Luís M. Correia

PIMRC, Tokyo, Japan

 

2009-09-21/24

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso, Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD Meeting, Aachen, Germany

 

2009-09-28/29

Luís M. Correia

COST 2100 Meeting, Vienna, Austria

 

2009-09-30

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves

4WARD BIRD Workshop, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião is working on new dissemination ideas and in the development of the use-cases together with João Gonçalves. Luísa Caeiro and António Serrador have further contributed to D3.1.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Concept (Final)”, António Serrador being a reviewer as well.Lúcio Ferreira is coordinating the work within Joint Task ForMux/InNetMgmt TC45; a meeting was held in Madrid, where the status of this joint task was presented and discussed.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions to the next meeting are being prepared.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

The SAA (Strategic Applications Agenda) was reviewed and the 2nd version was circulated. The Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on “Shaping the Future of Mobile and Wireless Communications”, held in Madrid, Spain, were finalised and circulated.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The main highlight was the launch of Prémio monIT, a contest on radiofrequency for the secondary schools pupils at a national level; more information on Prémio monIT can be found at http://monit.it.pt/premio. Also, the Prémio monIT national contest is being promoted on schools, libraries, science centres, and so on. Moreover, part of the team attended a meeting of the COST BM0704 (http://www.cost-bm0704.eu) and a presentation on the “Electromagnetic Field Radiated by Compact Fluorescent Lamps” was made at the BioEM conference in Davos, Switzerland. Also, the public actions in shopping centres are coming back, starting in Amoreiras (Lisbon) from June 26 to 28, and then on Braga Parque (Braga) from July 03 to 05. New actions are scheduled for September and October. Continuous monitoring networks are being installed again, with networks already operational in Gavião (Portalegre), Ourique (Beja) and Bragança. Daily results can be seen in monIT’s website.

 

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

A joint contribution to the WPR.1 Deliverable R1.2 “Intermediate short report on activities and results” was delivered, edited by Carla Oliveira. Additionally, Carla Oliveira is preparing a contribution for the next WP.R1 workshop, to be held in Ankara next September. António Serrador made a Short Term Mission to CNIT-U. Pisa, Pisa, Italy, the focus being on the work on how to collect the statistical characterisation of radio transmitted power by multicarrier base stations, and results are being stated in the STM report. António Serrador had a Skype meeting with CNIT-Bologna University, Italy, where the WPR9 WG1 joint work was discussed; further simulations and results are expected to be issued soon.

 

 

 

 

Vol. 4, No. 05, May 2009

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Training Courses

 

 

 

1. People

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

 

This month, GROW got two new members:

— João Gonçalves started working in 4WARD, being involved in WP 1, i.e., use cases and business models;

— Ema Catarré joins Vera in supporting the group in all secretariat tasks.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Luigi Iannone, Lars Berlemann and Luis M. Correia, “Opportunistic Management of Spontaneous and Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks”, accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, May 2009.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Armando J. Marques, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Ricardo Preguiça, Luís M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Sara Duarte, Luís M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Vikash M. Laxmidas, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Filipe Leonardo and Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical 3D MIMO Radio Channel Model for UMTS”, Proc. of Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 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.

 

2009-05-03/05

Mónica Antunes

ConfTele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

 

2009-05-04/06

António Serrador, Luisa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany

 

2009-05-06

Luis M. Correia, Panel on “Future Networking Applications”

WWRF 22nd Meeting, Paris, France

 

2009-05-07

Luis M. Correia, “As Comunicações do Futuro”

Escola Secundária Prof. Herculano de Carvalho, Lisboa

 

2009-05-18/20

Carla Oliveira, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia

COST2100 MCM Meeting, Valencia, Spain.

 

2009-05-19/20

Diana Ladeira, Luís M. Correia

eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Madrid, Spain.

 

2009-05-25/29

Carla Oliveira

COST2100 Short Term Scientific Mission, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

 

2009-05-25/27

Luis M. Correia

ICT’2009 – International Conference on Telecommunications, Marrakech, Morocco

 

2009-06-02/03

Luís M. Correia, “Applications we are likely to see on the Future Internet”

WWRF/eMobility Workshop on Future Networking, Vancouver, Canada

 

2009-06-09

Luís M. Correia

4WARD PMT Meeting, Bilbao, Spain

 

2009-06-10/12

Luís M. Correia

ICT Mobile Summit, Santander, Spain

 

2009-06-15/17

Luis M. Correia, “Towards Applications and Services in 4G” (Panel on “3G to 4G: towards full mobility IP services”)

ICC’2009 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Dresden, Germany

 

2009-06-15/19

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

BioEM 2009 – BioElectromagnetics Society Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland

 

2009-06-17

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

COST Action BM 0704 MC and WG5 meeting, Davos, Switzerland

 

2009-06-24

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2009-06-26/27

Luis M. Correia

SupCom, Tunis, Tunisia

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião prepared a list of ideas for disseminate the project results. Luisa Caeiro and António Serrador have issued a contribution to D3.1.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Concept (Final)”; in this contribution, the CRRM and CVRRM role in the network virtualisation process was described.Filipe Cardoso has finished analysing all the deliverables that were already delivered and circulated a draft document within WP5 entitled “A Cross WP View of Physical Layer Awareness in 4WARD”. Within Deliverable D5.2.1 “Updated version of the functional architecture”, Lucio Ferreira was named editor of a section on “Wireless Mesh Access”; concluding remarks were edited for this section, congregating the contributions from the different partners. A new Joint Task ForMux/InNetMgmt TC45 was defined by the project board to address the EC review comments on superposition of WP4 and WP5 work on different areas; Lúcio Ferreira was named co-leader from WP5, together with Slawomir Kulinsky, from WP4 (TPSA); his activity has been already started, the Description of Work having been defined and contributions to partners requested.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

António Serrador presented a Temporary Document, entitled “A Model to Evaluate CRRM QoS Parameters”, at the meeting in Valencia. Lúcio Ferreira, although not attending the meeting, has prepared a presentation on the status of SIG A for the meeting in Valencia, which was delivered by Luis M. Correia. The activity is proceeding as expected; two papers using the reference scenarios were presented.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

The Applications Group Meeting and Workshop was held in Madrid, Spain, and a document is being compiled of the discussions held.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team continues the information activities, with actions being held in schools, health care centres and in collaboration with some of the Centros de Ciência Viva in the country. Contacts were established with Mundicenter Shopping Centres in order to make some public information actions in the next few months. Prémio monIT, a pioneer contest on radiofrequency at national level for the secondary schools students, will be launched in the next weeks.

 

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

A joint contribution to the WPR.1 Deliverable R1.2 “Intermediate short report on activities and results” is being finalised by Carla Oliveira. António Serrador, as WPR9-WG1 responsible, had a meeting with Virginia Corvino from CNIT, Bologna University in Valencia, Spain; in this meeting the next WG1 contribution to DR.9.2 was discussed and defined.Lúcio Ferreira contributed to Deliverable DR 11.2 “State of the art of research on opportunistic networks, and definition of a common framework for reference models and performance metrics”, both on the JRA on “Heterogeneous and opportunistic wireless mesh networks” and on the JRA on “Resource Description Language”.

 

 

5. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

 

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for technicians at INA (Instituto Nacional de Administração) on “Technologies for Wireless Networks”, on 2009-05-13.

 

 

 

Vol. 4, No. 04, Apr. 2009

 

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences & 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.

 

Daniel Sebastião and Luis M. Correia, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”, Proc. of VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.

 

João Lopes, Luis Santo and Luis M. Correia, “Performance Analysis of UMTS/HSPA at the Cellular Level”, Proc. of VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.

 

 

2. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2009-04-02

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM++ review, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-04-09

Luisa Caeiro, “Cooperative Radio Resource Management in Virtual Networks”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-04-20

Daniel Sebastião, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”

Mónica Antunes, “Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps”,

GROWing meeting

 

2009-04-20/24

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

Course on “Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications”, European School of Antennas, London, UK.

 

2009-04-22/24

Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião

4WARD WP1 meeting, Helsinki, Finland

 

2009-04-27

Luis M. Correia

PRESTO meeting, Turin, Italy

 

2009-04-27/29

Daniel Sebastião, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”

João Lopes, “Performance Analysis of UMTS/HSPA at the Cellular Level”,

Luis M. Correia

VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-04-30

Armando J. Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”,

Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”,

Sara Duarte, “Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”,

Vikash M. Laxmidas, “Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges”,

Filipe Leonardo, “A Statistical 3D MIMO Radio Channel Model for UMTS”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-05-03/05

Mónica Antunes

ConfTele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

 

2009-05-04/06

António Serrador, Luisa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany

 

2009-05-06

Luis M. Correia, Panel on “Future Networking Applications”

WWRF 22nd Meeting, Paris, France

 

2009-05-07

Luis M. Correia, “As Comunicações do Futuro”

Escola Secundária Prof. Herculano de Carvalho, Lisboa

 

2009-05-18/20

Carla Oliveira, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia

COST2100 MCM Meeting, Valencia, Spain.

 

2009-05-19/20

Diana Ladeira, Luís M. Correia

eMobility Applications WG Meeting and Workshop, Madrid, Spain.

 

2009-05-25/29

Carla Oliveira

COST2100 Short Term Scientific Mission, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

 

2009-05-25/27

Luis M. Correia

ICT’2009 – International Conference on Telecommunications, Marrakech, Morocco

 

 

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião continued the work on the use-cases and is preparing a list of ideas for disseminate the project results. Luisa Caeiro and António Serrador have send to WP3 colleagues a working document concerning Cooperative Virtual Resource Management concepts and algorithms. Filipe Cardoso has prepared and delivered a document with the Physical Layer Awareness contribution for deliverable D5.2.1. Within deliverable D5.2.1, Lucio Ferreira was named editor of a section on “Wireless Mesh Access”, which congregates contributions from several partners, having been finalised in the meantime. Lucio Ferreira issued an internal report on the work carried out until now within Task T5.4, presenting a channel management strategy for heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), containing a state of the art and a description of the proposed idea. Lucio Ferreira also established a contact with task TC45 in order to identify a collaboration with WP4 – In Network Management.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

António Serrador will be presenting a Temporary Document, entitled “A Model to Evaluate CRRM QoS Parameters”, at the next meeting in Valencia. Lúcio Ferreira, although not attending the meeting, has prepared a presentation on the status of SIG A for the meeting in Valencia.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Organisation of the next Workshop being held in Madrid was finalised. The email lists of the WG and wiki access were updated. The work concerning the SAA is ongoing.

 

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team continued the information activities, with several actions being held in schools, health care centers and in collaboration with some of the Centros de Ciência Viva in the country. The preparation of the next years’ activities is ongoing.

 

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

Contributions to the next WP R.1 Deliverable are being prepared by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak. António Serrador will perform by the 4th week of June a short time mission at Pisa University, Italy together with Prof. Marco Moreti. This mission will be devoted to WLAN interference models, and the train station scenario will be. Lúcio Ferreira prepared a report and a presentation on the JRA on “Heterogeneous and opportunistic wireless mesh networks” for the WP.R11 meeting.

 

 

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

 

Luis M. Correia lectured a course for judges, medical doctors, architects, and environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2009-04-17 and 2009-04-24.

 

Luis M. Correia will be lecturing a course for technicians at INA (Instituto Nacional de Administração) on “Technologies for Wireless Networks”, on 2009-05-13.

 

 

 

Vol. 4, No. 03, Mar. 2009

 

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences & 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.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps”, accepted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Armando J. Marques, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, accepted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Ricardo Preguiça, Luís. M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”, accepted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Sara Duarte, Luís M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, accepted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Vikash M. Laxmidas, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges”, accepted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Field Radiated by Compact Fluorescent Lamps”, accepted to Bioelectromagnetics Society Meeting 2009, Davos, Switzerland, June 2009.

 

 

2. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2009-03-04/05

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting and review, Brussels, Belgium

 

2009-03-09/11

Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 Training School, Paris, France.

 

2009-03-12

Lúcio Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management in Wireless Mesh Networks”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-03-25

Luis M. Correia, “A View of the COST 231-Bertoni-Ikegami Model”

EuCAP’2009 – 3^rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Berlin, Germany

 

2009-03-26

Luis M. Correia

4WARD Steering Board meeting, Paris, France

 

2009-03-30/31

António Serrador

NEWCOM++ Workshop and WP R.09 meeting, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-04-02

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM++ review, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-04-09

Luisa Caeiro, “Cooperative Radio Resource Management in Virtual Networks”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-04-20

Daniel Sebastião, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-04-20/24

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

Course on “Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications”, European School of Antennas, London, UK.

 

2009-04-22/24

Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião

4WARD WP1 meeting, Helsinki, Finland

 

2009-04-27

Luis M. Correia

PRESTO meeting, Turin, Italy

 

2009-04-27/29

Daniel Sebastião, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”

João Lopes, “Performance Analysis of UMTS/HSPA at the Cellular Level”,

Luis M. Correia

VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-04-30

Mónica Antunes, “Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps”,

Armando J. Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”,

Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”,

Sara Duarte, “Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”,

Vikash M. Laxmidas, “Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges”,

GROWing meeting

 

 

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião continued the work on the use-cases and for new ideas of dissemination. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro attended the WP3 T3.3 meeting held at TELECOM-ParisTech in Paris, where handling mobility, dynamic aspects and providing intra- and inter-VNet RRM issues were presented and discussed. Luisa Caeiro and António Serrador have issued an initial document concerning Cooperative Virtual Resource Management concepts and algorithms. Filipe Cardoso is preparing the document on Physical Layer Awareness. Within WP5, Lucio Ferreira is currently working on Wireless Mesh Networks, having contributed to deliverable D5.1.0.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions to the next meeting are being prepared by Carla Oliveira.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the organisation of the next Workshop is ongoing.

 

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team continued the information activities, with several actions being held in schools and universities. The preparation of the next years activities has already started.

 

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

António Serrador had a Skype meeting with Prof. Marco Moreti from Pisa University, Italy, where joint work and a short term mission by António Serrador to Pisa University was discussed. António Serrador and Nuno Cota attended the WP R.9 meeting and the N++ Dissemination Day event, in Barcelona, Spain where António Serrador presented the WG1 activity plan for the second year; they had also a few technical meetings with Bologna and Pisa Universities concerning Joint Radio Resource Management issues.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

The project review was successful, and results were considered very good. All technical activities concerning the project are then closed.

 

 

4. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

 

Luis M. Correia will be lecturing a course for judges, medical doctors and environmental technicians on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communications Systems”, on 2009-04-17 and 2009-04-24.

 

 

 

 

Vol. 4, No. 02, Feb. 2009

 

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences & 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 and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function Model for CRRM over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, submitted to Wireless Personal Communications.

 

 

2. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2009-02-04

Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs Now and in the Future?”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-02-05/06

Lucio Ferreira, WIP General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2009-02-11/12

Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes, Diana Ladeira, Luís M. Correia

Workshop on EMF and Health: Science and Policy to address public concerns, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2009-02-16/18

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 7th Management Committee Meeting, Braunschweig, Germany.

 

2009-02-26/27

Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak

NEWCOM++ WPR.1 meeting, Lisboa, Portugal.

 

2009-03-04/05

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting and review, Brussels, Belgium

 

2009-03-09/11

Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 Training School, Paris, France.

 

2009-03-12

Lúcio Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management in Wireless Mesh Networks”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-03-25

Luis M. Correia, “A View of the COST 231-Bertoni-Ikegami Model”

EuCAP’2009 – 3^rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Berlin, Germany

 

2009-03-26

Luis M. Correia

4WARD Steering Board meeting, Paris, France

 

2009-03-30/31

António Serrador

NEWCOM++ Workshop and WP R.09 meeting, Barcelona, Spain.

 

 

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião continued the work on the use-cases and on the project newsletter. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to the WP3 Integrate Scenario, which will be used to check the Future Internet Virtualisation architecture framework. Filipe Cardoso continued the work on the document on Physical Layer Awareness. Within WP5, Lucio Ferreira is currently working on Wireless Mesh Networks.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions to the meeting by Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the organisation of the next Workshop is ongoing. The next issue of the Newsletter is being devoted to the Strategic Applications Agenda, and GROW is actively involved in its preparation.

 

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team continued the information activities, with several actions being held in schools and in a hospital. The team was present at a workshop on EMF held by the European Commission. A new continuous monitoring network will be installed in Lisbon in the next weeks.

 

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

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented contributions to meeting of WP R.01. António Serrador has promote a coordination meeting on 2009-02-12 within WG1 of WP R.09 to prepare activities for the second year.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

The project has finished in December, and the final review is under preparation. Lúcio Ferreira is contributing to the relevant documents.

 

 

 

Vol. 4, No. 01, Jan. 2009

 

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Conferences & 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, Carla Oliveira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia and Carlos Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Radiated by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Armando J. Marques, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Filipe Leonardo and Luís M. Correia, “A Statistical 3D MIMO Radio Channel Model for UMTS”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Ricardo Preguiça, Luís. M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Sara Duarte, Luís M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Analysis of Technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

Vikash M. Laxmidas, Luís M. Correia and Sérgio Pires, “Modelling of Linear Coverage in UMTS Applied to Tunnels and Bridges”, submitted to Conftele’2009 – 7th Conference on Telecommunications, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 2009.

 

 

2. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2009-01-08

Rebecca Mayer, “A Spatial Approach to Costing ICT Infrastructure Investment in Africa”

Patrick Agyapong, “Interference Tolerance Signalling Using TDD Busy Tone Concept”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-01-12

Luis M. Correia, Ph.D. Jury of Mario Garcia Lozano, “Contribution to Wireless Access Optimisation and Dynamic Enhancement of WCDMA Networks”, Polytechnic University of Catalonia,

Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-01-14/17

Carla Oliveira and Ana Fred, “ECG-based authentication: Bayesian vs. Nearest Neighbour Classifiers”

Biosignals 2009, Porto, Portugal

 

2009-01-26/29

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD General Meeting, Lisboa, Portugal.

 

2009-02-04

Luis M. Correia, “”What the Internet Needs Now and in the Future?”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-02-05/06

Lucio Ferreira, WIP General Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2009-02-11/12

Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes, Diana Ladeira, Luís M. Correia

Workshop on EMF and Health: Science and Policy to address public concerns, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2009-02-16/18

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 7th Management Committee Meeting, Braunschweig, Germany.

 

2009-02-26/27

Carla Oliveira, Cesaltina Ricardo, Luís M. Correia, Michal Mackowiak

NEWCOM++ WPR.1 meeting, Lisboa, Portugal.

 

 

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião contributed to the use-cases work. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro continue the work on virtualisation. Filipe Cardoso has circulated a new version of the document on Physical Layer Awareness. Within WP5, Lucio Ferreira is currently working on Wireless Mesh Networks.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The preparation for the next meeting in February is finished.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on the organisation of the next Workshop is ongoing

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team continued with the information activities with several actions being held in schools and in a hospital.

 

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

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing the contribution to the incoming meeting of WP R.01. António Serrador and Nuno Cota have proposed the IST-TUL WP R.09 Activities Plan.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

The project has finished in December, and the final review is under preparation. Lúcio Ferreira is contributing to the relevant documents.

 

 

 

 

Vol. 3, No. 14, Dec. 2008

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

 

 

1. People

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

 

Martijn Kuipers has left us, after a few years with GROW. We wish him good luck to his professional career.

 

GROW has one more members on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. thesis: Gonçalo Carvalho.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs now and in the Future?”, ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2008

 

Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”, 15^th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France, Dec. 2008

 

Daniel Sebastião and Luís M. Correia, “Towards an Optimisation of Parameters Setting in WLANs”, accepted to VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.

 

João Lopes, Luís M. Correia and Luis Santo, “Performance Analysis of UMTS/HSPA at the Cellular Level”, accepted to VTC’2009 Spring – IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2008-12-03

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2008-12-04

Carla Oliveira, “Characterizing On-Body Wireless Sensor Networks”

Carla Oliveira, “Modelling Body Area Networks”

Micha? Ma?kowiak, “Building a Statistical Model for MIMO in Body Area Networks”

Jörgen Nordberg, “Signalling and Detection of UWB Signals based on a Dual-doublet Transmitted Reference Scheme”

GROW Meeting

 

2008-12-08/09

António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Paris, France

 

2008-12-10

Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs Now and in the Future?”

ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain

 

2008-12-18

Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”

15^th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France

 

2009-01-08

Rebecca Mayer, “A Spatial Approach to Costing ICT Infrastructure Investment in Africa”

Patrick Agyapong, “Interference Tolerance Signalling Using TDD Busy Tone Concept”

GROWing meeting

 

2009-01-12

Luis M. Correia, Ph.D. Jury of Mario Garcia Lozano, “Contribution to Wireless Access Optimisation and Dynamic Enhancement of WCDMA Networks”, Polytechnic University of Catalonia,

Barcelona, Spain

 

2009-01-14/17

Carla Oliveira and Ana Fred, “ECG-based authentication: Bayesian vs. Nearest Neighbour Classifiers”

Biosignals 2009, Porto, Portugal

 

2009-01-26/29

Luís M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro, Lúcio Ferreira

4WARD General Meeting, Lisboa, Portugal.

 

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião contributed to the use-cases work. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have attended the WP3 meeting in Paris, devoted to the finalisation of Deliverable D3.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Concept”, and to the preparation of a demo. Filipe Cardoso is working on a new version of the document on Physical Layer Awareness, which will be will be presented and discussed during the next Lisbon meeting in January. Within WP5, Lucio Ferreira is currently working on Wireless Mesh Networks.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The preparation for the next meeting in February has started.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Diana Ladeira has circulated the first version of the Deliverable 1.2 “SAA – Strategic Applications Agenda”.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The team was present in the Futurália exhibition, where it had a stand presenting the project, and was available to talk with the visitors and measure their mobile phones radiation. Also, information activities continued with several actions being held in schools.

 

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

António Serrador has issued the WPR9 Deliverable DR.9.1 “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies” final version. The report has been sent to the NEWCOM++ Executive Board for reviewing, and then delivered to the Project Officer.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Lúcio Ferreira issued a final technical report of the work developed in WIP during the three years of duration. The project has finished this month.

 

 

 

Vol. 3, No. 9, Nov. 2008

In this issue:
1. People
2. Theses
3. Publications
4. Conferences & Seminars
5. Projects

 

1. People

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

This month has witnessed the end of the discussions of the M.Sc. theses of the previous academic year. Telmo Batista, Armando Marques, Vikash Laxmidas, Ricardo Preguiça, Sara Duarte, and Filipe Leonardo, have all graduated. Congratulations to all of them, and good luck to their professional career, which has already started for all of them.

GROW has two more members on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. theses: Nuno Rapaz e Pedro Tareco.

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

 

2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

M.Sc. theses defended in November:
— Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 03
— Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”, M.Sc., Nov. 03
— Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”, M.Sc., Nov. 10
— Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 12
— Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”, M.Sc., Nov. 14

 

3. Publications

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

Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”, Proc. of 2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Mónica Antunes, Luis M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luis M. Correia, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

Carla Oliveira, Luís Pedrosa, Rui Rocha, “Characterizing On-Body Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of NTMS’2008 – Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, Tangier, Morocco, Nov. 2008

Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs now and in the Future?”, ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2008

Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”, 15th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France, Dec. 2008

 

4. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

2008-11-03
Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”,
Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”,
Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”
GROW Meeting

2008-11-06/07
Diana Ladeira
COST BM0704 Meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2008-11-07
Carla Oliveira
NTMS’2008 – Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, Tangier, Morocco

2008-11-11/13
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Carla Oliveira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia
XVIII Congresso das Comunicações 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

2008-11-12/14
Martijn Kuipers, Lúcio Ferreira
NEWCOM++ WP R.11 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2008-11-20
João Araújo, “Analysis of Radio Repeaters in UMTS”
Nuno Jacinto, “Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS Evolution at the Radio Network Level”
GROW Meeting

2008-11-21
Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP
Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”
2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal

2008-11-22/23
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes
Fórum Ciência Viva 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

2008-11-27
Diana Ladeira, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese),
Mónica Antunes, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese),
1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal

2008-11-27
Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese),
Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal

2008-11-28/29
Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira
Semana da Cultura Cientifica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal

2008-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2008-12-04
Carla Oliveira, “Characterizing On-Body Wireless Sensor Networks”
Carla Oliveira, “Modelling Body Area Networks”
Micha? Ma?kowiak, “Building a Statistical Model for MIMO in Body Area Networks”
Jörgen Nordberg, “Signalling and Detection of UWB Signals based on a Dual-doublet Transmitted Reference Scheme”
GROW Meeting

2008-12-08/09
António Serrador, Luísa Caeiro
4WARD WP3 Meeting, Paris, France

2008-12-10
Luis M. Correia, “What the Internet Needs Now and in the Future?”
ServiceWave, Madrid, Spain

2008-12-18
Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunications Networks and EMF exposure”
15th FTRD Seminar on Interactions of RF with the Human Being, Paris, France

 

5. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu
Daniel Sebastião contributed to the Deliverable D1.1 “First project-wide assessment on the nontechnical drivers”. Filipe Cardoso issued a PLA contribution for D2.2 “Draft Architectural Framework”. He also contributed for the definition on what will be the PLA contribution for the 4WARD book. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to D3.1 “Virtualisation Approach: Concept”, and reviewed some of its chapters. Martijn Kuipers worked on refining the Generic Resource Management Framework, which is now starting to play an important role in the isolation of resources between the compartments running on the same nodes. Lúcio Ferreira is continuing the work on Wireless Mesh Networks.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
The Newsletter have been circulated.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Deliverable D1.1 “Proceedings of Workshop on Applications” was finished by Diana Ladeira. The first version of the SAA is being edited by Diana Ladeira.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
A report prepared by the monIT team on interference and compatibility issues between mobile phones and other devices was issued this month, being available at the project website (only Portuguese version). The final reports on Entroncamento and Portalegre continuous monitoring networks are also available at the website. The team was present in several events during November, where it has talked to the visitors, presented the project, measured mobile phones radiation and so on. Also, information activities continued with several actions held in schools and hospitals during the months of November and December.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Martijn Kuipers has proposed a Joint Research Activity on the Resource Description Language, which already has some support from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is now working on a proof-of-concept implementation of the use of the RDL. António Serrador has issued the second draft version of WP R.9 Deliverable DR.9.1 “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies”, including all the comments collected in Rennes, France, and new contributions/comments received from partners.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org
Contributions have been sent to Deliverable D5.3 “Final report on dissemination and contributions to industry fora and standardization”. The project will finish next month.

 

 

 

Vol. 3, No. 8, Oct. 2008

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Theses

3. Publications

4. Conferences & Seminars

5. Projects

 

 

1. People

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

 

Gonçalo Carpinteiro wan the Best Paper Award for the paper he presented at VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2008, entitled “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”. Congratulations to him.

 

 

2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

 

The rest of defences of the M.Sc. theses developed during the last academic year will be done in November:

— Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 03

— Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”, M.Sc., Nov. 03

— Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”, M.Sc., Nov. 10

— Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, M.Sc., Nov. 12

— Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”, M.Sc., Nov. 14

 

 

3. Publications

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

 

Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”, Proc. of 4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 2008.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”, 6th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2008

 

Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”, Proc. of 2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

 

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Gonçalo Carpinteiro, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, Carlos Fernandes, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

 

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2008

 

Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

 

4. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2009-10-01

Luis M. Correia

ICT Mobile Summit 2009 TPC Meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2009-10-02

Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”,

Daniel Sebastião

4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2008-10-6/8

Lúcio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia

COST 2100 6th MCM, Lille, France

 

2008-10-09/10

António Serrador

NEWCOM++ WP R.9 Meeting, Rennes, France

 

2008-10-14/17

Daniel Sebastião, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”,

Mónica Antunes,

6^th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

2008-10-15/17

Luís M. Correia and Diana Ladeira

eMobility Applications Workshop, WG meeting, and General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden

 

2008-10-20/23

Daniel Sebastião, Filipe Cardoso, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador, Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia

4WARD Meeting, Bilbao, Spain

 

2008-10-27

Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”,

Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”,

GROW Meeting

 

2008-10-29

Daniel Sebastião, “Campos Electromagnéticos”,

Mónica Antunes

Seminário “Olhares Integradores Sobre a Saúde” do Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Beja, Portugal.

 

2008-10-29

Carla Oliveira e Diana Ladeira

Workshop “SRM-3000: Monitor de Radiação Selectivo Narda STS”, Lisboa, Portugal.

 

2008-10-30/31

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM++ Executive Board Meeting, Vienna, Austria

 

2008-11-03

Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”,

Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”,

Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”

GROW Meeting

 

2008-11-06/07

Diana Ladeira

COST BM0704 Meeting, Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

2008-11-07

Carla Oliveira

NTMS’2008 – Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, Tangier, Morocco

 

2008-11-11/13

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Carla Oliveira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia

Congresso das Comunicações 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2008-11-12/14

Martijn Kuipers, Lúcio Ferreira

NEWCOM++ WP R.11 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2008-11-20

João Araújo, “Analysis of Radio Repeaters in UMTS”

Nuno Jacinto, “Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS Evolution at the Radio Network Level”

GROW Meeting

 

2008-11-21

Luis M. Correia, “AROMA – Advanced Resource Management Solutions for Future All IP
Heterogeneous Mobile Radio Environments”

2º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2008-11-22/23

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

Fórum Ciência Viva 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2008-11-27

Diana Ladeira, “Study on Electromagnetic Fields emitted by Fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent Lamps” (in Portuguese),

Mónica Antunes, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements” (in Portuguese),

1º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Protecção contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2008-11-27

Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese),

Seminários do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2008-11-28/29

Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira

Semana da Cultura Cientifica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal

 

 

5. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião contributed to the Deliverable D1.1. Filipe Cardoso issued a new version of the IST document on the Physical Layer Awareness (PLA) Theme; this document was discussed in the Bilbao meeting. He has also contributed to a document issued by Antonio Serrador with the PLA WP3 contribution for D3.1. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have participated in the WP3 meetings in Bilbao, discussing the future Virtual Networks architecture, D3.1 contributions and also on themes meetings; they will also prepare a new contribution update to D3.1. Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira attended the WP5 meetings, where there work on the topics of resource management and Wireless Mesh Networks was discussed.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Contributions to the Newsletter have been provided.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Deliverable D1.1 “Proceedings of Workshop on Applications” is being finalised. Work on the Strategic Applications Agenda is ongoing, and members’ lists are being updated.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

In October the continuous monitoring network in Entroncamento and Portalegre were removed, and the final report on these networks is currently being prepared. The projec’s team also participated in the ICNIRP workshop, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where it presented a poster regarding “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”. Also, the team is preparing the information actions in schools and hospitals, which will start by the end of October.

 

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

António Serrador attended the WPR9 meeting, where different partners’ activities and Deliverable D R.9.1, entitled “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies”, for which he is the editor, were discussed. António Serrador has circulated within the NEWCOM++ WPR9, the draft version of this deliverable, and updated IST-TUL’s contribution. Martijn Kuipers, together with Luis Pedrosa, have edited a document describing the Resource Description Language, which is a specification to uniformly describe resources, such as networking resources, services and communities.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Martijn Kuipers, Lúcio Ferreira and Gonçalo Carpinteiro have contributed to Deliverable D2.3 “Integration of lower layer techniques into the WIP global architecture”, namely with the “Relative MIMO Gain” and “Link Limitations using IEEE 802.11 Technology for MESH”. Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira also made a contribution to D1.3 “Solutions: mesh networking, multi-hop relaying, cross-layer design, communities, operator/cellular assistance”, describing the “Impact of the community on the Relative MIMO Gain and cooperative MIMO concepts” from D2.3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vol. 3, No. 7, July/Sep. 2008

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Theses

3. Publications

4. Conferences & Seminars

5. Projects

 

 

1. People

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

 

GROW has two more members, to do their M.Sc. thesis:

— João Araújo

— Nuno Jacinto

 

Additionally, one member has come back: Micha? Ma?kowiak, which has done his M.Sc. Thesis in GROW, came back to do his Ph.D. within GROW, in the area of MIMO channels and Body Area Networks. He’s most welcome back.

 

 

 

2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

 

A defence was held in July:

— Telmo Batista, “Capacity Increase in UMTS/HSPA+ Through the Use of MIMO Systems”, M.Sc., July 25

 

Telmo’s colleagues have delivered their M.Sc. theses by Sep. 30, and their defences have been scheduled to the beginning of November:

— Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”, M.Sc.

— Ricardo Preguiça, “Comparison between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMax/IEEE 802.16e in mobility scenarios”, M.Sc.

— Sara Duarte, “Analysis of technologies for Long Term Evolution in UMTS”, M.Sc.

— Filipe Leonardo, “Statistical radio channel model for MIMO systems”, M.Sc.

— Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”, M.Sc.

 

 

3. Publications

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

 

Luis M. Correia, “Road to Unknown – Introducing the SRA and SAA of eMobility”, Proc. of International Conference on the Platforms for Future ICT, Budapest, Hungary, Sep. 2008.

 

Martijn Kuipers, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, Proc. of WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland, Sep. 2008.

 

Antonio Serrador, Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity Influence on JRRM Performance”, Proc. of WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland, Sep. 2008.

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.

 

Norbert Niebert, Stephan Baucke, Ibtissam El-Khayat, Martin Johnsson, Börje Ohlman, Henrik Abramowicz, Klaus Wuenstel, Hagen Woesner, Jürgen Quittek and Luis M. Correia, “The way 4WARD to the creation of a Future Internet”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.

 

Luis M. Correia, “The eMobility SAA for Environmental Issues”, Proc. of PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, Sep. 2008.

 

Gonçalo Carpinteiro and Luis M. Correia, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”, Proc. of VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2008.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes and Luis M. Correia, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”, Proc. of VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Cargary, Canada, Sep. 2008.

 

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Seminário da Ordem dos Engenheiros sobre “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, Lisboa, Sep. 2008.

 

Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”, Proc. of 4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 2008.

 

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes, Luís M. Correia, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”, 6th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2008

 

 

4. Conferences and Seminars

List of Conferences, Seminars, meetings, and other events held and attended during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2008-07-7/8

António Serrador, Luisa Caeiro

4WARD WP3 Meeting, Bremen, Germany

 

2008-07-10

Martijn Kuipers, “Beyond 2020 Content Centric Networking”

Luis Correia, “Mobile & Wireless Communications: Trying to see what’s next”

GROWing meeting

 

2008-07-23/24

Luis M. Correia

eMobility InterPlatform Meeting, Madrid, Spain

 

2008-07-24

Martijn Kuipers, “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”

Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluating Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”

Telmo Batista, “Capacity Increase in UMTS/HSPA+ Through the Use of MIMO Systems”

GROWing meeting

 

2008-07-25

Telmo Batista

M.Sc. Thesis’ defence.

 

2008-09-01

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2008-09-04

Luis M. Correia, “Road to Unknown – Introducing the SRA and SAA of eMobility”,

International Conference on the Platforms for Future ICT, Budapest, Hungary

 

2008-09-8/11

Martijn Kuipers, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”

Antonio Serrador, “MIMO Capacity Influence on JRRM Performance”

Luis M. Correia

WPMC’08 – 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Ivalo, Finland

 

2008-09-11/12

Carla Oliveira

NEWCOM++ meeting, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

 

2008-09-12

Daniel Sebastião, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”

Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”

GROW Meeting

 

2008-09-15/17

Martijn Kuipers “Modelling the Relative MIMO Gain”

Luis M. Correia, “The way 4WARD to the creation of a Future Internet”, “The eMobility SAA for Environmental Issues”,

PIMRC’2008 – IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France

 

2008-09-18/19

Luis M. Correia

4WARD PMT Meeting, Paris, France

 

2008-09-22/24

Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “Performance Evaluation in All-Wireless Wi-Fi Networks”,

Daniel Sebastião, “Influence of Temporal and Spatial Sampling Parameters on Electromagnetic Field Measurements”,

VTC’2008 Fall – IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, Calgary, Canada

 

2008-09-23

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications” (in Portuguese),

Diana Ladeira, Mónica Antunes

Seminário da Ordem dos Engenheiros sobre “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, Lisboa

 

2009-10-01

Luis M. Correia

ICT Mobile Summit 2009 TPC Meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2009-10-02

Luis M. Correia, “An Academic View on Business and Regulatory Issues on the Future Internet”,

Daniel Sebastião

4WARD Workshop on Business Innovation and Regulation Challenges 2008, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2008-10-6/8

Lúcio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia

COST 2100 6th MCM, Lille, France

 

2008-10-14/17

Daniel Sebastião, “Results from Electromagnetic Fields Continuous Measurements by the monIT Project”,

Mónica Antunes,

6^th ICNIRP International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

2008-10-15/17

Luís M. Correia and Diana Ladeira

eMobility Applications Workshop, WG meeting, and General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden

 

2008-10-20/23

Daniel Sebastião, Filipe Cardoso, Luísa Caeiro, António Serrador, Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Luis M. Correia

4WARD Meeting, Bilbao, Spain

 

2008-10-27

Armando Marques, “Modelling of Building Height Interference Dependence in UMTS”,

Vikash Laxmidas, “Modelling of linear coverage in UMTS, applied to tunnels and bridges”,

GROW Meeting

 

2008-10-30/31

Luis M. Correia

NEWCOM++ Executive Board Meeting, Vienna, Austria

 

 

5. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

4WARD – http://www.4ward.nu

Daniel Sebastião contributed to the business use cases being developed, and to the first issue of the newsletter. Filipe Cardoso has finished the contribution on Physical Layer Awareness (PLA) and Terminology for Deliverable D2.1. He also updated the document on PLA by including all contributions from different WPs, as well as new contents on the relation between channel impairments and system/network parameters, and looking for future project contributions. This document will be discussed during Bilbao meeting in Oct.. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro participated in the WP3 meeting in Bremen on July 7th and 8th; a new version of the work on Cooperative Radio Resource Management in future virtual networks framework has been presented. A contribution to VNet architecture workshop held in August, in Berlin, has been distributed. A contribution to “An Architecture for Network Virtualisation” paper initiated by Mehrdad Dianati, and Rahim Tafazolli from University of Surrey, has been sent. A contribution to R-3.1 concerning Radio Resource Management in a Virtual Network Environment has been included in this report. Furthermore, contributions to D-3.1, related of Wireless Scenarios and Inter-Vnet (Virtual Networks) RRM have been sent. António Serrador has prepared a contribution to WP3 concerning the Physical Layer Awareness in the WP3 context. Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira reviewed the first WP5 deliverable, which describes the Generic Path architecture. They are also involved in Task 5.4 on resource sharing, where a Generic Resource Management Framework (GRMF) has been proposed, and have circulated a document on that.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Lúcio Ferreira will attend the COST 2100 meeting in Lille in Oct., to continue with the work of SIG A on reference scenarios.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on service description is progressing. A first version of the Strategic Applications Agenda has been finalised. The preparation of the workshop in Oct. is finished.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The monIT Project, in cooperation with the “Ciência Viva” scientific program, has been participating in several actions in the “Engenharia no Verão” theme. These public actions are held in the local “Ciência Viva” science centres, and the team is available to talk to the population and to clear any doubts regarding exposure to EMFs. Also, the equipment used in the measurements is available there, and people can measure the radiation emitted by their own mobile phones. These actions continued in September in several locations across the country. The project team was also present at the “Noite dos Investigadores”, an action held in Centro Cultural de Belém, organised by Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência. There was also a presentation by the monIT Project in the seminar entitled: “Perspectivas sobre as Radiações Electromagnéticas”, organised by the Portuguese engineers association.

 

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

Carla Oliveira has contributed to the WPI.6 Innovative ICT Concepts Survey and has made a presentation on the topic of Body Area Networks to the IST WPR.1 working group. Concerning WPR1, the Sophia-Antipolis meeting has reinforced the need for joint collaboration among different partners. For the IST team, collaborations with Université de Louvain (Belgium) and Bilkent University (Turkey) are foreseen. António Serrador has collect WPR9 partner’s contributions and edited the Deliverable DR.9.1 first version, entitled “Identification of relevant scenarios, use cases and initial studies on JRRM and ASM strategies”; he has circulated within the NEWCOM++ WPR9, the DR.9.1 draft version. GROW is preparing a document on the Resource Description Language (RDL), which is to be circulated among partners in WPR.11 in Oct. 2008.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Martijn Kuipers and Lúcio Ferreira are editors of Chapter 2 of the upcoming Deliverable D2.3, entitled “Performance evaluation of the low layer techniques and itegration in the WIP global architecture”. Contributions were delivered on “WIP architecture and the lower layers”, “Relative MIMO Gain” and “Reference performance evaluation in WMNs”. Martijn Kuipers was supposed to attend the one-day meeting of WIP to be held in Cannes on Sep. 15, 2008.