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Vol. 2, No. 6, June 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

 

 

 

1. People

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

 

As mentioned at the last issue of this NewsLetter, GROW has 6 more members, which will work on their Master theses, to be developed jointly with industry (Vodafone, Optimus and Celfinet):

— Armando Marques

— Filipe Leonardo

— Pedro Rocha

— Ricardo Preguiça

— Sara Duarte

— Telmo Batista

Actually, one of these (Pedro Rocha) is a former member of GROW, coming back to the University to do the Master. It is always good to have some one back.

 

António Serrador’s paper was accepted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. Congratulations.

 

 

2. 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, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, accepted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2007-06-05

Luis M. Correia

eMobility Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

 

2007-06-19

Luis M. Correia

Mobility 2008-2020: Spectrum Growth and Availability. Challenges in the Context of ITU-R WRC 2007. XV Encontro Ericsson/Semanário Económico. Lisbon, Portugal.

 

2007-06-20

Prof. Marcelo Sampaio Alencar (Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil) visit to GROW.

 

2007-06-29

Moe Win, “Recent Advances in Ultrawide Bandwidth Communications and Networks”

IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2007-06-29

Prof. Moe Win (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) visit to GROW.

 

2007-07-02/04

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”,

16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary.

 

2007-07-04/06

Luis M. Correia

COST ICT Domain Committee meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia attended the meeting in Malmo, Sweden, on 2007-06-13/14. António Serrador presented the latest results on CRRM combined with MIMO.

 

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

A collaboration under Cluster D is being started with France Telecom R&D, on channel modelling for Body Area Networks.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project performed measurements in several schools in Santarém and Braga districts. Measurements were also performed in the stadium “Estádio Cidade de Coimbra”, in Coimbra. A continuous monitoring network has also been installed in Almada.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Contributions by Lúcio Ferreira to Deliverable D1.3 “Solutions: mesh networking, multi-hop relaying, cross-layer design, communities, operator/cellular assistance” have been finalised. The Deliverable is expected to be finished by the next month of July.

 

GROW has submitted 6 project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7. It seems that half of these proposals will be funded, but definitive results will be known only by the end of July.

 

 

GROW News May/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 5, May 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

 

 

1. People

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

 

Following the proposal by Luis M. Correia of 7 topics for Master theses, it is expected that GROW will have 7 new members by June. The list will be shown in the next issue of GROWing News. Five of these proposals are to be developed jointly with industry, namely, Vodafone, Optimus and Celfinet.

 

António Serrador’s paper was accepted to 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, and Carla Oliveira’s was accepted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (see below). Congratulations to both.

 

 

2. 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 for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luís M. Correia, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Lúcio Ferreira and Rui Rocha, “Multi-Channel Clustering Algorithm to Improve Performance of WSNs”, Proc. of ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira and Luis M. Correia, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”, Proc. of 2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy, May 2007.

 

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”, Proc. of 1st ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2007

 

Luis M. Correia, “Monitoring of Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications”, Proc. of Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética do ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal, Maio 2007.

 

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”, accepted to 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, accepted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2007.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2007-05-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”

2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy

Attended by Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira

 

2007-05-08

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones near Base Station Antennas”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

GROWing meeting

 

2007-05-09/10

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”

Diana Ladeira, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007

Attended by Luis M. Correia, António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Mário Pereira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Hugo Esteves, Filipe Cardoso, Luisa Caeiro.

 

2007-05-17

Lucio Ferreira, “Network Neutrality”

Seminar on Telecommunication Policies, IST

 

2007-05-21

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”

1st ERCIM Workshop on e-Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal

 

2007-05-22

Michal Mackowiak, “Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce MIMO Channel Model”

GROWing meeting

 

2007-05-23

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição a Radiação Electromagnética: Aplicações aos Telemóveis”

ISEC Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética, Coimbra, Portugal

 

2007-05-31

15ª Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis

IST, Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has circulated within the project a document comparing all the simulators used by the several partners.

 

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

GROW hosted a CRUISE Cluster D meeting on 2007-05-29.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

An information action was performed in the Telecommunications Day (17th) in Setúbal by invitation of the ESTSetubal. Some actions were also performed in the IST campus, namely, in the Civil (22nd), North (15th) and South Tower (24th) buildings and in the Colombo Shopping Centre (25th and 26th). Measurements were performed in the Assembleia da República buildings, and a continuous monitoring network has also been installed in Montijo, a protocol having been signed on the 28th.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

GROW (Lúcio Ferreira and Martijn Kuipers) has participated in a plenary meeting held at the premises of IT in Aveiro, Portugal, on 2007-05-24/25.

 

GROW has submitted 6 project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7. Preliminary results of the evaluation procedure are expected to be known by the end of June.

 

 

GROW News Apr/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 4, Apr. 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

 

 

 

1. People

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

 

António Serrador presented his Ph.D. Thesis plan to the Accompanying Commission on 2007-04-10. The evaluation was positive.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, Proc. of EW’2007 – 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007.

 

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, Proc. of EW’2007 – 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007.

 

Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Impact of MIMO Systems on CRRM in Heterogeneous Networks”, invited for Workshop on Smart Antennas / European Microwave Week, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2007

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “Understanding Geometrically Based Multiple Bounce Channel Models”, submitted to EuCAP’2007 – 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, UK, Nov. 2007.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2007-04-01/04

Pedro Costa, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of intra- and inter-cellular interferences in UMTS-FDD capacity”

EW’2007 – 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France

Attended by Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, and Luis M. Correia

 

2007-04-17

Luis M. Correia, “Some Results of the Research Activities of GROW”

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

JEEC, IST, Lisbon, Portugal,

 

2007-04-24

Martijn Kuipers, “MIMO Channel, and its capacity dependence on cell types”

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Diana Ladeira, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

GROWing meeting

 

2007-05-02/04

Carla Oliveira, “The monIT Project: Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Portugal”

2nd JRC/EMF-NET Workshop on EMF Risk Communication, Stresa, Italy

Attended by Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião and Diana Ladeira

 

2007-05-08

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones near Base Station Antennas”

Daniel Sebastião, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

GROWing meeting

 

2007-05-09/10

António Serrador, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”

Martijn Kuipers, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”

Mário Pereira, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”

Diana Ladeira, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Carla Oliveira, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”

ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

2007-05-21

Luis M. Correia, “eMobility: present and future challenges”

1st ERCIM Workshop on e-Mobility, Coimbra, Portugal

 

2007-05-23

Luis M. Correia, “Exposição a Radiação Electromagnética: Aplicações aos Telemóveis”

ISEC Workshop em Radiação Electromagnética, Coimbra, Portugal

 

2007-05-31

15ª Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis

IST, Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

António Serrador has edited Deliverable D13, “Simulation tools: final version capabilities and features”, which has been sent in within the deadline.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project team performed measurements in several schools and hospitals in the regions of Coimbra and Aveiro. An information action was also performed in the Ciência 2007 exhibition held in Pavilhão do Conhecimento, on Apr. 14th. monIT has also contributed to the JEEC 2007 exposition organised by the Electrical Engineering students at IST.

 

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

The project has finished.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

GROW has hosted a meeting of WP2, in 2007-04-23/24.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia are concluding the preparation of project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7.

 

 

GROW News Mar/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 3, Mar. 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

 

 

1. People

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

 

Leonor, David Antunes’s daughter, and Madalena, Luis Santo’s daughter, were born this March. Congratulations to them.

 

 

2. 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, “Policies for a Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, submitted to PIMRC’2007 – IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2007-03-20

Diana Ladeira and Pedro Costa, “Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”

Hugo Esteves and Mário Pereira, “Impact of intra- and inter-cellular interferences in UMTS-FDD capacity”

GROWing meeting

 

2007-03-26

Luis M. Correia attended the COST Domain Committee on Information and Communication Technologies, held in Brugges, Belgium.

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

Luis M. Correia has participated in the project’s audit, held in Brussels, on 2007-03-14. The review was successful. Another project meeting took place, in London, on 2007-03-27/28, being attended by Luis M. Correia, Martijn Kuipers and António Serrdor. Martijn Kuipers and António Serrador have produced contributions to Deliverable D12, “Intermediate report on AROMA algorithms and simulation results”.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org

Luis M. Correia attended the Steering Board Meeting, in Brussels, on 2007-03-23.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The work on the SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, is continuing.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project conducted measurements in several schools and hospitals in the regions of Alentejo and Algarve. A direct action of contact with the population in a shopping centre was also held in the former.

 

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

Lúcio Ferreira contributed to the preparation of the final project review that took place in Brussels, on 2007-03-05. The review was successful.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Lúcio Ferreira contributed to the preparation of the project’s audit, held in Brussels, on 2007-03-13. Still no news about the outcome.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia are participating in several meetings, for the preparation of project proposals in EU’s R&D FP7.

 

 

GROW News Feb/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 2, Feb. 2007

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Website

 

 

 

1. People

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

 

A new student within the SOCRATES exchange, from Warsaw Technical University, Michal Mackowiak, has joined GROW this month, to do his M.Sc. thesis in the area of channel modelling. Michal is expected to stay with us until next September.

 

 

2. Publications

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

 

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile and Wireless Communications: What’s next?”, Proc. of CELTIC Event 2007, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 2007

 

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correiaand Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, accepted to Proc. of EW’2007 – 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007

 

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, accepted to Proc. of EW’2007 – 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007

 

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luís M. Correia, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”, accepted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, submitted to VTC’2007 Fall – IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2007.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2007-02-06

Mónica Antunes, “Impact of HSDPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,

Pedro Baptista, “Impact of HSUPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,

GROWing meeting.

 

2007-02-14/16

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Joint WHO/ICNIRP/EMF-NET Workshop on Current Trends in Health & Safety Risk Assessment of Work-Related Exposure to EMFs, Milan, Italy.

 

2007-02-16

Ian Oppermann (University of Oulu and Nokia Networks, Finland), “Optimisation of 3G Networks”,

Therese Catanzariti (GE Healthcare, Finland), “GPL, MIT, BSD, OSS (and me): Introduction to Open Source”,

IEEE ComSoc Portugal Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

2007-02-21/22

Luis M. Correia, “Mobile and Wireless Communications: What’s next?”, CELTIC Event 2007, Berlin, Germany.

 

2007-02-27

Luis Salvado, “UMTS/HSDPA Comparison with WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios”,

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

GROWing meeting.

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

Contributions to Deliverable D11, “Target scenarios specification: vision at project stage 2”, been have finalised. GROW will participate in the project’s audit next month.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org

The activities of the Working Group on Leading–Edge Applications, leaded by Luis M. Correia, have been launched.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

A SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, has been launched. GROW has hosted a meeting on Feb. 26th-28th, where two papers from GROW were presented (from António Serrador and Martijn Kuipers).

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project had several actions during this month, namely measurements in the Lisbon underground and in a shopping centre, and the corresponding contact with the population, which had some media exposure for the latter, namely by appearing on the news of RTP1.

 

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it

The contributions to Deliverable DR7.4 “Final Report on the activities carried out in Dept. 7” by Lúcio Ferreira have been finalised. The project has ended this month,

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

Lúcio Ferreira has contributed to the preparation of the project’s audit, to be held next month.

 

 

5. Website

 

A new page in the GROW website identifying the academic OPNET research and educational projects within GROW has been created. GROW has acquired several academic licenses of this tool, several researchers being currently working with it. The aim of this page is the creation of an interest group within GROW to share experience on this tool.

 

This is a powerful and complete simulation tool that is being adopted worldwide by R&D labs., manufacturers and operators. It enables realistic simulation of several systems, containing modules for the main telecommunications systems (UMTS, 802.11, WIMAX), and being possible to modify them or to create new ones. It uses a comprehensive language based in C++, and contains graphical interfaces which present all kinds of performance results.

 

 

GROW News Jan/2007

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Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 2007

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

1. People

You’ll find here all relevant information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

A new student within the SOCRATES exchange, from Warsaw Technical University, Michal Mackowiak, will join us next month, to do his M.Sc. thesis in the area of channel modelling.

 

2. 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 for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation Based on Different Perspectives”, submitted to IST Mobile Summit 2007, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

2007-01-09
António Serrador, “A Cost Function Model to Evaluate Heterogeneous Networks Performance”, GROWing meeting.

2007-02-06
Mónica Antunes, “Impact of HSDPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,
Pedro Baptista, “Impact of HSUPA implementation on UMTS Interference and cell coverage”,
GROWing meeting.

2007-02-16
Ian Oppermann (University of Oulu and Nokia Networks, Finland), “Optimisation of 3G Networks”,
Therese Catanzariti (GE Healthcare, Finland), “GPL, MIT, BSD, OSS (and me): Introduction to Open Source”, IEEE ComSoc Portugal Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu
GROW hosted a meeting on Jan. 16th-17th. António Serrador and Martijn Kuipers presented the progress of their contributions in AROMA, concerning CRRM concepts and Relative MIMO Gain, respectively.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org
The activities of the Working Group on Leading–Edge Applications, leaded by Luis M. Correia, are being launched.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
A SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, has been launched. GROW will host a meeting on Feb. 26th-28th.

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit
The project had several actions during January, namely measurements in various hospitals and public ceremonies on the signature of protocols with municipalities.

NEWCOM – http://newcom.ismb.it
Several contributions to the project were made, namely:
(i) Contribution to Deliverable DR7.4 “Final Report on the activities carried out in Dept. 7”, with results produced by the CRRM Simulator, using the NEWCOM single cell scenario (UMTS R99, UMTS R5 and 802.11 family), from António Serrador and Luis M. Correia.
(ii) Contribution to Deliverable DR2.12 “Final report on channel characterization and modelling”, with results on the relative MIMO gain, from Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia.
(iii) Contribution to Deliverable DI7.1.4 “Final Report on E-MORANS: scenarios, users and results”, where results obtained by the E-MORANS initiative, which deals with the definition of reference scenarios for performance assessment of heterogeneous radio access networks, were discussed by Lúcio Ferreira.

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org
Lúcio Ferreira attended the meeting in Grenoble, France, on Jan. 18th-19th, where he gave an overview of the activities of IT during 2006, among other contributions.

 

5. Website

Information GROW’s website.

Still new data is being added to GROW’s website, which has already become an interesting overview of the work carried out in the Group for Research on Wireless.

 

GROW News Dec/2006

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Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec. 2006

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Theses

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Training Courses

 

 

1. People

You’ll find here all relevant information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

 

Aurora, Lúcio and Filipa’s daughter, was born on Dec. 12th. Congratulations to them.

 

 

2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, not only from Portuguese students but also from those within the scope of International Students Exchange Programs, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

 

Congratulations to Carla Oliveira, who completed the M.Sc. studies, on Dec. 5th, by successfully defending her thesis, entitled “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communication Systems”. We wish all the best for her professional career.

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

Please find bellow the list of Conferences, Seminars and other events held during this period, and to be held next month.

 

2007-01-09

António Serrador, “A Cost Function Model to Evaluate Heterogeneous Networks Performance”, GROWing meeting

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

AROMA – http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu

The next project meeting will be on 2007-01-16/17, organised by GROW, at IST, Lisbon.

 

eMobility – http://www.emobility.eu.org

Luis M. Correia attended the Steering Board on Dec. 14th.

A White Paper on “Future Internet: From Mobile and Wireless Perspective”, addressing the challenges for the Post-IP era is under preparation, being expected to be available by the beginning of February.

 

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

The kick-off meeting of this new project took place in Brussels, on Dec. 12th / 13th, being attended by Luis M. Correia. A proposal for a SIG (Special Interest Group) on References Scenarios, to be leaded by Lúcio Ferreira, was accepted.

 

CRUISE – http://www.ist-cruise.eu

Rui Neves attended the project meeting, in Madrid, Spain, on Dec. 14th.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project had several actions during December, namely the installation of the continuous probes in several municipalities.

 

WIP – http://www.ist-wip.org

The next project meeting will be on 2007-01-18/19, in Grenoble, France.

 

The Call for proposals for IST Programme (European Commission) 7th Framework R&D projects was launched on Dec. 22nd, with the deadline on 2007-05-08.

 

 

5. Training Courses

Information on training courses lectured or attended by members of GROW.

 

One more edition of the one-day course on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications”, organised by Luis M. Correia, and lectured by Carlos C. Fernandes and Luis M. Correia, was held on Dec. 15th, for technicians from the Ministry of Health.

 

 

 

GROW News Nov/2006

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Vol. 1, No. 2, Nov. 2006

 

In this issue:

1. Publications

2. Theses

3. Conferences & Seminars

4. Projects

5. Training Courses
 

1. Publications

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

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “Observed Relation between the Relative MIMO Gain and the Cell Type”, Proc. of EuCAP’2006 – 1st European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Nice, France, Nov. 2006.

 

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Mobile communications” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 16º Congresso APDC das Comunicações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006.

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia, Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Schools and Hospitals by the monIT Projec” (in Portuguese), Proc. of XII Jornadas SPPCR de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006.

 

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “A Cost Function for Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Carlos C. Fernandes and Luís M. Correia, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communications Systems”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luís M. Correia, “Characterisation of Signal Penetration into Buildings for GSM and UMTS”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Martijn Kuipers and Luís M. Correia, “Evaluation of the Relative MIMO Gain”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Hugo Esteves, Mário Pereira, Luis M. Correia and Carlos Caseiro, “Impact of Intra- and Inter-Cell Interferences on UMTS-FDD”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Diana Ladeira, Pedro Costa, Luis M. Correia and Luís Santo, “Optimum Planning of UMTS Cellular Networks for Data Services Based on HSDPA”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Carlos C. Fernandes, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring by the monIT Project”, submitted to ConfTele’2007 – VI Conference on Telecommunications, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.

 


2. Theses

Information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, not only from Portuguese students but also from those within the scope of International Students Exchange Programs, submitted or published in the period, or to be defended in the next month.

 

Carla Oliveira, IST, will defend her thesis, entitled “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communication Systems”, on Dec. 5th, at 11h00, in Anfiteatro do Complexo Interdisciplinar. Everyone is invited to attend!

 

 

3. Conferences and Seminars

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

 

2006-11-06

Luis M. Correia, “Observed Relation between the Relative MIMO Gain and the Cell Type”, EuCAP’2006 – 1st European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Nice, France.

 

2006-11-14

Luis M. Correia, “Working Group on Leading-edge Applications”, 2nd General Assembly of eMobility, Heidelberg, Germany

 

2006-11-16

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Mobile communications” (in Portuguese), 16º Congresso APDC das Comunicações, Lisboa, Portugal. Also attended by Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião.

 

2006-11-17

Carla Oliveira, Final Workshop COST281 – Potential Health Implications from Mobile Communication Systems, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2006-11-22

Luis M. Correia, “Capabilities of Wireless and Broadband Communications”, IST Event, Helsinki, Finland.

 

2006-11-28

Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Monitoring in Schools and Hospitals by the monIT Project” (in Portuguese), XII Jornadas SPPCR de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal. Also attended by Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião.

 

2006-11-28

Carla Oliveira, “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communication Systems” (in Portuguese), GROWing meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

2006-12-19

Gonçalo Carpinteiro, “OPNET Modeller: network modelling and simulation platform”, GROWing meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

 

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

 

monIT – http://www.lx.it.pt/monit

The project had several actions during November, besides listed above, namely the presence with the information booth at Congresso APDC das Comunicações (Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006), and at Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama (Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006).

 

eMobility – http:///www.emobility.eu.org

Luis M. Correia started leading a Working Group on “Leading-edge Applications”, besides its participation at the Experts Advisory Group and at the Steering Board.

 

We are also preparing our participation in the IST Programme (European Commission) 7th Framework R&D projects. The deadline for submitting proposals is 2007-04-24.

 

 

5. Training Courses

Information on training course lectured or attended by members of GROW.

 

Two editions of a one-day course on “Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications”, organised by Luis M. Correia, and lectured by Carlos C. Fernandes and Luis M. Correia, were held on Nov. 3rd and Nov. 24th, for technicians from the Ministries of Health and Education, and also from some municipalities.

 

 

GROW News Oct/2006

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Dear GROWers,

 

One of the reasons why there is development in society is because people try new things: some are good and succeed, others aren’t and fade away. I decided to launch the idea that GROW should have a monthly Newsletter, aiming at informing everyone in the group, and others, about the life in the group, what is going one, and so on, so that we can collaborate even better, and achieve our goals (at both the personal and the group levels) in a better way, besides enabling that we know each other better.

 

Below, you can find the first issue. It is expected that really everyone inside GROW contributes to this Newsletter, providing inputs until the 15th of each month, so that we have enough time to publish it by the end of the month. This idea can only be successful if everyone inside GROW collaborates! Filipe Cardoso, fcardoso@est.ips.pt, is the editor of the Newsletter, hence, he will collect your inputs.

 

One last note. This newsletter is being distribute to both current and former (formal and informal, i.e., former students that were supervised by me) members of GROW. I perfectly understand that the former ones may not be interested in receiving this kind of news. If that is the case, send me an email, and please accept my apologies for contributing to your email spam. On the other hand, if you know anyone that would like to be part of this distribution list, do let me know, and I’ll include the address.

 

Enjoy it.

 

Luis M. Correia

 

 

 

Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct. 2006

 

In this issue:

1. People

2. Prize

3. Publications

4. Theses

5. Conferences & Seminars

6. Projects

7. Website

 

 

1. People

You’ll find here all relevant information about incoming and outgoing people, besides other related news.

Since this is the first issue, the current “staff” is listed bellow.

 

– Luís M. Correia, Group-leader

– Vera de Almeida, Secretary

– Martijn Kuipers, PhD. / Researcher

– Filipe Cardoso, Ph.D. / Researcher

– António Serrador, Researcher / Ph.D. Student

– Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Researcher /Ph.D. Student

– Luísa Caeiro, Researcher /Ph.D. Student

– Carla Oliveira, Researcher / M.Sc. Student

– Daniel Sebastião, Researcher / M.Sc. Student

– Gonçalo Carpinteiro, M.Sc. Student

– Diana Ladeira, Researcher

– Luís Pires, M.Sc. Student

– Luís Gonçalves, M.Sc. Student

– David Antunes, M.Sc. Student

– Mónica Antunes, M.Sc. Student

– Luís Salvado, M.Sc. Student

– Pedro Baptista, M.Sc. Student

– João Lopes, M.Sc. Student

 

 

2. Prize

Luis Santo, a former member of GROW, deserves a big hug of congratulations: he won the 3rd prize ex-equo of the 2005 Young Engineer Innovation Contest, issued by Ordem dos Engenheiros (engineers association), for his M.Sc. Thesis “UMTS Performance in Multi-Service Non-Uniform Traffic Networks”. It is the sixth time that a thesis developed within GROW wins a prize.

 

 

3. Publications

You’ll find below relevant information about publications, at both national and international levels, concerning papers submitted, accepted, or published in the period.

Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.

 

Rafal Zubala, Hubert Kokoszkiewicz, Martijn Kuipers and Luis M. Correia, “A Simple Approach to MIMO Channel Modelling”, Proc. of EUSIPCO’2006 – 14th European Signal Processing Conference, Florence, Italy, Sep. 2006.

 

Gonçalo Martins, Sofia Correia and Luis M. Correia, “Comparison of Techniques for Capacity Increase in UMTS Data Services”, Proc. of ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2006.

 

Lúcio Ferreira, Martijn Kuipers, Carlos Rodrigues and Luis M. Correia, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”, Proc. of ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2006.

 

João Cardeiro and Luis M. Correia, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, Proc. of PIMRC’2006 – IEEE 17th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, Sep. 2006

 

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia, Carlos C. Fernandes, “Monitorização de Campos Electromagnéticos em Escolas e Hospitais Portugueses pelo Projecto monIT”, XII Jornadas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2006

 

Additionally, a workshop was organised at IST, “European Technical Workshop on Meshed & Deployable IP Networks”, 30th to 31st October 2006, with the presence of over 50 participants.

 

 

4. Theses

Here you can find all the information about M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, not only from Portuguese students but also from those within the scope of International Students Exchange Programs, submitted or published in the period.

Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.

 

Piotr Furtak, Technical University of Warsaw, Poland, defended his thesis, entitled “Analysis of Channel Models for Wireless Sensor Networks” on Sep. 29th.

 

Carla Oliveira, IST, delivered her thesis, entitled “Estimation of Exclusion Zones for Base Station Antennas in Wireless Communication Systems” before Summer holidays, and she will defend it by Dec. 5th.

 

 

5. Conferences and Seminars

Please find bellow the list of Conferences, Seminars and other events held during this period, and to be held next month.

Since this is the first issue, the previous month is covered as well.

 

2006-09-04

João Cardeiro, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, GROWing meeting

 

2006-09-06

Martijn Kuipers, “A Simple Approach to MIMO Channel Modelling”, EUSIPCO’2006 – 14th European Signal Processing Conference, Florence, Italy

 

2006-09-08

Luis M. Correia, “Comparison of Techniques for Capacity Increase in UMTS Data Services”, ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain

 

2006-09-08

Lúcio Ferreira, “Characterisation of signal penetration into buildings for GSM and UMTS”, ISWCS’2006 – 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain

 

2006-09-13

João Cardeiro, “Optimisation of Base Station Location in UMTS-FDD for Realistic Traffic Distributions”, PIMRC’2006 – IEEE 17th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland

 

2006-09-26

Piotr Furtak, “Analysis of Channel Models for Wireless Sensor Networks”, GROWing meeting

 

2006-10-20

Hamid Aghvami (King’s College London, UK), “Heterogeneous Wireless Access Environment (In the context of end-to-end networking)”, Distinguished Lecturer Tour within the scope of the Portuguese IEEE ComSoc Chapter, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2006-11-28

Carla Oliveira, Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia, Carlos C. Fernandes, “Monitorização de Campos Electromagnéticos em Escolas e Hospitais Portugueses pelo Projecto monIT”, XII Jornadas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

6. Projects

This section contains relevant news about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

Since this is the first issue, a list of current project is provided.

 

monIT – Monitoring of Electromagnetic Radiation in Mobile Communications. Funded at the national level by Optimus, TMN and Vodafone. May 2004 / Dec. 2007. http://www.lx.it.pt/monit.

 

AROMA – Advanced Resource management solutions for future all IP heterOgeneous Mobile rAdio environments. Funded by the IST Programme (European Commission). Jan. 2006 / Dec. 2007. http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu.

 

WIP – An All-Wireless Mobile Network Architecture, IST Programme (European Commission), Jan. 2006 / Dec. 2008. http://www.ist-wip.org.

 

NEWCOM – Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications, IST Programme (European Commission), Mar. 2004 / Feb. 2007. http://www.ismb.it/newcom.

 

CRUISE, CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments, IST Programme (European Commission), Mar. 2004 / Feb. 2007. http://www.ist-cruise.eu.

 

We are also starting to prepare our participation in the IST Programme (European Commission) 7th Framework R&D projects.

 

 

7. Website

 

GROW’s website, http://grow.lx.it.pt, has undergone a big makeover. The entire system was moved from a set of linked webpages to a website based on Plone, an open source content management system. This approach allows us to easily update the site, and keep it up to date. On the site you will find, among others, the contact information for the people in GROW, the projects we are involved in, and a list of our publications. Although it is not completely finished, most of the structure and information is already available.