GROW News Jul/2013

Vol. 8, No. 07, July 2012

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

1. People

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

Wow! GROW graduated 3 Ph.Ds. this month, just before starting the holidays’ period. Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Lúcio Ferreira successfully defended their Ph.D. Theses on July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively. They will continue to be part of GROW, working in the projects they are already involved. We wish them all the best.

Monsaraz was again the host for another STAR WARM (Still Another Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz), the 13th edition, on July 6th. GROW’s members’, and their families, had the opportunity to spend some hours together, enjoying themselves.

2. Publications

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

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, in Proc. of WAWC’2013 – 4th Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications, Nanjing, China, July 2013

Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”, MCN Workshop at FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”, LEXNET poster at FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-07-01
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-07-03/05
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”
Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-07-18
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO systems in Body Area networks in Outdoors”
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of on-body communications”
Lucio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management of Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are preparing contributions to the next meeting.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Work has been progressing on simulations for exposure reduction (WP5), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). Michal Mackowiak and Carla Oliveira will start initial simulations for the Eartha data posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2), and the model segmentation of the Eartha model with data posture has been performed and send to partners (WP2). Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Daniel Sebastião have contributed to the IR2.1 (WP2). Filipe Cardoso is preparing the first newsletter issue, which will be distributed in September 2013.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Our contributions for Deliverable D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for MobileCloud framework” on RAN as a Service (RANaaS) aspects are progressing. This work is focused on the RANaaS reference architecture model, and also management of virtual radio resources and BBU pool dimensioning.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are interacting with the colleagues of Poznan, concerning the JRA on Virtual MIMO applied to BANs.

FAQTOS
FAQTOs is a new project, just started, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon.

Vol. 8, No. 06, June 2013

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

1. People

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

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Lúcio Ferreira will defend their Ph.D. Theses on July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively.

We’ll be gathering another STAR WARM (Still Another Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz), the 13th edition, on July 6th. It will one more opportunity to enjoy, with our families, a Saturday in the quietness of Monsaraz.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Saruthirathanaworakun,R., Peha,J.M. and Correia,L.M., “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Cardoso,F.D., Correia,L.M., Petersson,S. and Boldi,M., “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”, in Proc. of VTC’2013 Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Wiart,J., Conil,E., Toutain,Y., Bories,S., Tesanovic,M., Lostanlen,Y. and Correia,L.M., “Low Exposure Network”, in Proc. of BioEM’2013 – Bioelectromagnetics Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2013.

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of Smart Cities”, in Proc. of the 4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2013

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, in Proc. of WAWC’2013 – 4th Workshop on Advances in Wireless Communications, Chengdu and Nanjing, China, June 2013

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, accepted to PIMRC’2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

Oliveira,C., Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “Modelling On- and Off-Body Channels in Body Area Networks”, invited to IMOC’2013 – International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-06-3/5
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”
Luis M. Correia
VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany

2013-06-06
Luisa Caeiro, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”
Sina Khatibi, “Radio Resource Management in Virtual RAN”
Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the implementation of LTE-Advanced in a low exposure perspective”
João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-10/12
Luis M. Correia
ICC – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary

2013-06-13
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-06-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of Smart Cities”
4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-06-19
Luis M. Correia
Thomas Casey Ph.D. Jury, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2013-06-20
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-Based RAN Challenges”
Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Paul Ferrand Ph.D. Jury, INSA, Lyon, France

2013-06-24
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN Challenges”
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Workshop on RAN Evolution to the Cloud, Paris, France

2013-06-25/28
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Paris, France

2013-06-27
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-06-27/28
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET WP5 Meeting, London, UK

2013-07-01
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-07-03/05
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN challenges”
Carla Oliveira, “Low Exposure Networks”
Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
FuNeMS’2013, Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-07-18
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO systems in Body Area networks in Outdoors”
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of on-body communications”
Lucio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management of Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Lúcio Ferreira and Luis M. Correia prepared contributions to the White Paper on Mobile Communications Beyond 4G.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Work has been progressing on simulations for exposure reduction (WP5), as well as on numerical simulations with the simplified dosimeter model (WP3). INOV was assigned to perform simulations for the Eartha data posture in 3G/4G scenarios (WP2). Carla presented the project in one of the poster sessions of FUNEMS’2013.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira presented the work from T3.5 “Cloud-based RAN challenges” in the workshop organised by MCN “RAN Evolution to the Cloud Workshop”. This work was also presented at FuNeMS’2013. Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are currently working towards the contribution to Deliverable D3.1 “Infrastructure Management Foundations – Specifications & Design for Mobile Cloud Framework”, addressing the C-RAN architecture.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak send their contribution to Deliverable D13.1 “Fundamental issues on energy- and bandwidth efficient communications and networking”, including current status of their JRA on Virtual MIMO applied in BANs.

FAQTOS
FAQTOs is a new project, just started, which continues the work performed in the monIT project, on risk communication to EMFs from wireless networks. All the project information and its website are being prepared, and will be available soon.

Vol. 8, No. 05, May 2012

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

1. People

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

GROW will soon have new members. The application process for M.Sc. theses is finishing in June, and new members will join GROW for this endeavour.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “A Statistical Model for the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Gain Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”, Wireless Personal Communications, 10.1007/s11277-013-1193-x, May 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-05-02
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Brief Tutorial on LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-09
Lúcio Ferreira, “OConS Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”
Lúcio Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-16
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: ICT Application to Municipalities”,
IX Ciclo de Conferências Ambiente e Qualidade Vida – Sistemas Inteligentes, Torres Vedras, Portugal

2013-05-16
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-21/24
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luis M. Correia
MCN meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-05-22
Luis M. Correia
21as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-29/31
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 meeting, Ilmenau, Germany

2013-06-3/5
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”
Luis M. Correia
VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany

2013-06-06
Luisa Caeiro, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”
Sina Khatibi, “Radio Resource Management in Virtual RAN”
Dinis Rocha, “Analysis of the implementation of LTE-Advanced in a low exposure perspective”
João Martins, “Impact of MIMO and carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-10/12
Luis M. Correia
ICC – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary

2013-06-13
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2013-06-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of Smart Cities”
4th European Summit on the Future Internet, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-06-19
Luis M. Correia
Thomas Casey Ph.D. Jury, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2013-06-20
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-Based RAN Challenges”
Pedro Martins, “Analysis of Wireless Clouds Implementation in LTE-Advanced”
GROWing meeting

2013-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Paul Ferrand Ph.D. Jury, INSA, Lyon, France

2013-06-24
Lúcio Ferreira, “Cloud-based RAN Challenges”
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Workshop on RAN Evolution to the Cloud, Paris, France

2013-06-25/28
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Paris, France

2013-06-27
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communications, Chengdu, China

2013-06-27/28
Daniel Sebastião
LEXNET WP5 Meeting, London, UK

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak prepared a contribution to the TWGB document on channel models for body area networks, to be discussed during the meeting in Ilmenau.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira have been working on a contribution on ICT usage for the future development of scenarios. Moreover, all the team has been involved in the dissemination of the questionnaire on ICT usage. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are working on the benchmark study to assess the simulations results among the different partners. Carla Oliveira and Daniel Sebastião are compiling an internal document on exposure assessment. Daniel Sebastião is working on simulations for the exposure reduction.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on a motivation scenario and an architecture for the Wireless Cloud, integrating Cloud-RAN concepts, as well as on the Virtual RAN. These were presented at the Lisbon meeting. A wikipage on terminology was created, as well as one on state of the art reference papers related to C-RAN. A document answering performance issues on C-RAN was issued.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak had a telco with Poznan University of Technology, on their Joint Research Activities on Virtual MIMO applied in BANs. Preliminary results of simulations of channel path loss have been sent to the colleagues in Poznan.

Vol. 8, No. 04, Apr. 2013

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

1. People

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

Carla Oliveira has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “A Statistical Model for the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Gain Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”, accepted to Wireless Personal Communications, Apr. 2013.

Oliveira,C. and Correia,L.M., “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”, EuCAP’2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden, Apr. 2013.

Ferreira,L.S., Agüero,R., Caeiro,L., Miron,A., Soellner,M., Schoo,P., Suciu,L., Timm-Giel,A. and Udugama,A., “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”, WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2013.

Ferreira,L.S. and Correia,L.M., “Radio Resources Allocation Strategy for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, submitted to PIMRC’2013 – IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-04-01/03
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications Systems”
Training Course, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-04-08/11
Luis M. Correia
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”,
EuCAP 2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden

2013-04-09/12
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN meeting, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-04-08/11
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”,
WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China

2013-04-17
Luis M. Correia
Patrick Kwadwo Agyapong Ph.D. Jury, “Economic Incentives in Content-Centric Networking: Implications for Protocol Design and Public Policy”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2013-04-22/24
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET meeting, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-02
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Brief Tutorial on LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-09
Lúcio Ferreira, “OConS Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”
Lúcio Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-16
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: ICT Application to Municipalities”,
IX Ciclo de Conferências Ambiente e Qualidade Vida – Sistemas Inteligentes, Torres Vedras, Portugal

2013-05-16
Michal Mackowiak, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”
GROWing meeting

2013-05-21/24
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Luis M. Correia
MCN meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-05-22
Luis M. Correia
21as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2013-05-29/31
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 meeting, Ilmenau, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
GROW members are preparing contributions to the next meetings.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira finalised their contribution to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”, and prepared a contribution on life segmentation regarding EMF exposure. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the Wireless Cloud task. They have done a state of the art report, proposed a motivation scenario and an architecture for the Wireless Cloud, integrating Cloud-RAN concepts (composed of remote radio heads and baseband units). INOV’s perspective of the Wireless Cloud Architecture was presented in task T2.3 and WP4 meetings in Aveiro.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
The project has ended.

Vol. 8, No. 03, Mar. 2013

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

1. People

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

Lúcio Ferreira has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Mackowiak,M., Rosini,R., D’Errico,R. and Correia,L.M., “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

Mackowiak,M. and Correia,L.M., “MIMO Capacity Performance of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, submitted to PIMRC’2013 – 24th IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-03-05
Manuel Sete, “HCB Power Supply Failure Alerts using Mobile Communications Systems”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Luis M. Correia, “The Mysteries of Mobile Phones”
E.S. Rio de Mouro, Rio de Mouro, Portugal

2013-03-06/08
Lucio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-06/08
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan

2013-03-12
Carla Oliveira
LEXNET meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-14
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Heidelberg, Germany

2013-03-21
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-04-01/03
Luis M. Correia, “Mobile Communications Systems”
Training Course, Maputo, Mozambique

2013-04-08/11
Luis M. Correia
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”,
EuCAP 2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden

2013-04-09/12
Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN meeting, Aveiro, Portugal

2013-04-08/11
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”,
WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China

2013-04-17
Luis M. Correia
Patrick Kwadwo Agyapong Ph.D. Jury, “Economic Incentives in Content-Centric Networking: Implications for Protocol Design and Public Policy”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2013-04-22/24
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET meeting, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
GROW members are preparing contributions to the next meetings.

LEXNET – http://www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and Carla Oliveira continued to contribute to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”, and prepared a contribution on life segmentation regarding EMF exposure. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Filipe Cardoso has finalised the Press Release.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the definition of the Wireless Cloud Architecture, within T3.5. INOV’s perspective of the Wireless Cloud Architecture was circulated within WP3 and presented in T2.3 and WP4 meeting in Aveiro. The review process to D2.1 “Reference Scenarios and Technical System Requirements Definition” has finished, with INOV’s contribution on requirements for Technical Domain B – Access Network Infrastructure Cloud.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião has finalised the work on D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focuses on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. The contributions to the Final and 3rd Year Reports have also been submitted.

Vol. 8, No. 02, Feb. 2013

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

1. People

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

We had the visit of Prof. Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain) for 1 week. It was a pleasure to have him with us.

Michal Mackowiak has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis for evaluation. Let’s wait for the jury’s assessment.

2. Publications

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

Correia,L.M., “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2013 (Keynote talk)

Mackowiak,M., Rosini,R., D’Errico,R. and Correia,L.M., “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

Cardoso,F.D., Correia,L.M., Debailie,B. and Desset,C., “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”, submitted to FuNeMS’2013 – Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-02-04
Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical radars”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-05/08
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 MCM Meeting, Malaga, Spain.

2013-02-11
Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical navigation systems”
Jaime Pereira, “Analysis of LTE deployment in Small”
Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interference in LTE Radio Networks”
Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-12/15
Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN Meeting, Palermo, Italy

2013-02-13/15
Luisa Caeiro
SAIL meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2013-02-19
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain

2013-02-20
Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain), “An approach to measurements of non-ionising radiation”
GROWing meeting

2013-02-28
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Manuel Sete, “HCB Power Supply Failure Alerts using Mobile Communications Systems”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-05
Luis M. Correia, “The Mysteries of Mobile Phones”
E.S. Rio de Mouro, Rio de Mouro, Portugal

2013-03-06/08
Lucio Ferreira, Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM# meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-06/08
Michal Mackowiak, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”
ISMICT’2013, Tokyo, Japan

2013-03-12
Carla Oliveira
LEXNET WP2 meeting, Paris, France

2013-03-14
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Heidelberg, Germany

2013-03-21
Lucio Ferreira, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”
Carla Oliveira, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”
GROWing meeting

2013-03-28
Filipe D. Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”
GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented updated results of their works in the Malaga meeting. Also, contributions were sent to the TWGB chairman, to be presented at ISMICT’2013.

LEXNET – www.lexnet-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião finalised the Portuguese version of the survey, and is contributing to IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”, and are preparing an internal document on the state of the art on this topic. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Carla Oliveira will attend the WP2 face to face meeting in Paris. Filipe Cardoso has finalised Deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”, and is finalising the Press Release.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco and Sina Khatibi are working on the definition of requirements for Technical Domain B – Access Network Infrastructure Cloud, which will be part of the contribution for D2.1 “Reference Scenarios and Technical System Requirements Definition”. A state of the art on wireless cloud was circulated among all partners.

NEWCOM# – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The consolidation of the Joint Research Activities for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are setting up a JRA on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications, with PUT – Poznan Univ. of Technology. Lúcio Ferreira will present the JRAs proposals and look for the partners during Track 1 meeting in Paris.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião is finalising the work for the final Deliverable of WPA, D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focuses on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on Deliverables D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services” and D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.

Vol. 8, No. 01, Jan. 2013

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

RaM graduated from his Ph.D. last December. Although this was forgotten in the previous edition, it’s acknowledged in this one. We wish him all the best.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, ” Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications “, accepted to VTC Spring 2013 – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Capacity Analysis of Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha and Luis M. Correia, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Filipe D. Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Sven Petersson and Mauro Boldi, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”, accepted to VTC’2013 Spring – IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2013.

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”, invited to SENSORNETS’2013 – 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2013 (keynote speaker).

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2013-01-08/11

Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro

SAIL WPC meeting, Hamburg, Germany

2013-01-16

Luis M. Correia

Workshop on Cloud Computing, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-01-17

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Internet of Things within Mobile Communications in Smart Cities”

Vodafone Technology Watch Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal

2013-02-04

Ricardo Santos, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical radars”

GROWing meeting

2013-02-05/08

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak, Luis M. Correia

COST IC1004 MCM Meeting, Malaga, Spain.

2013-02-11

Joana Fernandes, “Assessment of wind turbines generators influence in aeronautical navigation systems”

Jaime Pereira, “Analysis of LTE deployment in Small”

Joana Falcão, “Inter-Cell Interference in LTE Radio Networks”

Diogo Almeida, “Inter-Cell Interference Impact on LTE Performance in Urban Scenarios”

2013-02-12/15

Lúcio Ferreira, Luís M. Correia, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi

MCN Meeting, Palermo, Italy.

2013-02-19

Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”

SENSORNETS’2013, Barcelona, Spain

2013-02-20

Fernando Pachón (Univ. Extremadura, Spain), “An approach to measurements of non-ionising radiation”

GROWing meeting

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing contributions for the next meeting in Malaga.

LEXNET –

An inquiry is being prepared, to try to understand the concerns of people regarding the exposure to electromagnetic fields. Daniel Sebastião is starting to prepare the contribution on IR5.1 “Smart low-EMF architectures: state of the art and way forward”. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing the contribution to D2.1 “Current metrics for EMF exposure evaluation”. Work is also progressing on the topic of the numerical tools. Filipe Cardoso has finalised deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu

Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are working on the definition of scenarios. Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are preparing a state of the art on wireless cloud.

NEWCOM# –

The consolidation of the Joint Research Activity for all tasks is being prepared. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are seeking out a partner on the topic of MIMO channel modelling for on-body communications.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu

Daniel Sebastião is preparing the final Deliverable of WPA, D.A.6 “Final report on exploitation and dissemination”, which focus on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project. The final issue of the Newsletter is also being prepared. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the deliverables D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services” and on D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.

Vol. 7, No. 09, Dec. 2012

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

1. People

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

GROW has 2 more members on board, João Martins and Pedro Martins, which will work on their M.Sc. theses for the remaining of this academic year. They are very much welcome.

2. Publications

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

Lucio S. Ferreira, Ramón Agüero, Luisa Caeiro, Avi Miron, Michael Soellner, Peter Schoo, Lucian Suciu, Andreas Timm-Giel, Asanga Udugama, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”, accepted to WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2013.

Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Perspectives for the Use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”, accepted to EUCAP’2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden, Apr. 2013.

Michal Mackowiak, Ramona Rosini, Raffaele D’Errico and Luis M. Correia, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, accepted to ISMICT’2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2012-12-04
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting (Barcelona, Spain)

2012/12/05
RaM, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems and Radars, and Policy Implications”
GROWing meeting

2012-12-10
Luis M. Correia, jury for Olivier Barder’s HDR
University of Rennes I, Lannion, France,

2012-12-12
Luis M. Correia
SAIL project meeting, Paris, France,

2012-12-18/19
Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi
Mobile Cloud Networking, workshop on the OpenEPC prototype implementation, Berlin, Germany

2013-01-08/11
Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL WPC meeting, Hamburg, Germany

2013-01-17
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Internet of Things within Mobile Communications in Smart Cities”
Vodafone Technology Watch Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing contributions for the next meeting in Malaga.

LEXNET –
Work has begun. Filipe Cardoso is preparing Deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”. The final version will be issued until the end of January.

MCN – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are working on the definition of scenarios. Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco are preparing a state of the art on Wireless Cloud.

NEWCOM# –
The proposals of the Joint Research Activity are being prepared.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on their contribution for the final deliverable D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”. They will attend a meeting in Hamburg for the final edition of Deliverable D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”. Daniel Sebastião is preparing the final Deliverable of WPA (D.A.6), which focus on the final results for the dissemination actions held within the project.

Vol. 7, No. 08, Nov. 2012

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

1. People

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

Armanda Martins, André Pires and Marco Antunes graduated with the M.Sc. this month. Congratulations to all of them, and all the best for the future. Armanda had already a career at ANACOM, so it’s a special achievement. André and Marco are starting a career now, so, good luck.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados atualizados das medidas de campo eletromagnético realizadas pelo Projeto monIT”/“Updated results from EMF measurements performed by Project monIT” (in Portuguese), Actas do 6º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2012.

Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Antunes, Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Caracterização da utilização de telemóveis por jovens em Portugal”/”Characterisation of the use of mobile phones by youngsters in Portugal” (in Portuguese), Actas do Terceiro Congresso de Protecção Contra Radiações de Países e Comunidades de Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2012

Michal Mackowiak, R. Rosini, R. D’Errico and Luís M. Correia, “Comparing Off-Body Dynamic Channel Model with Real-Time Measurements”, submitted to ISMICT 2013 – 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2012-11-07/08
Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak
LEXNET project meeting, Becici, Montenegro

2012-11-13
Luis M. Correia, moderator of panel “Requirements from Networking to Horizon 2020”
Net!Works Event 2012, Brussels, Belgium

2012-11-14
Armanda Martins, “Evaluation of data applications quality of service over UMTS”
GROWing meeting

2012-11-15/16
Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi
MCN – Mobile Cloud Networking project meeting, Zurich, Switzerland

2012-11-16
Daniel Sebastião, “Resultados atualizados das medidas de campo eletromagnético realizadas pelo Projeto monIT”/“Updated results from EMF measurements performed by Project monIT
6º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal

2012/11/16
André Pires, “Coverage and Efficiency Performance Evaluation of LTE in Urban Scenarios”
Marco Antunes, “Estimation of exclusion regions in LTE base stations co-located with GSM/UMTS”
GROWing meeting

2012-11-21
Daniel Sebastião, “Caracterização da utilização de telemóveis por jovens em Portugal”/”Characterisation of the use of mobile phones by youngsters in Portugal”
Proteção 2012 – Segundo Congresso Português de Proteção Contra Radiações, Lisboa, Portugal

2012-11-21/22
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
Newcom# project meeting, Pisa, Italy

2012-12-04
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting (Barcelona, Spain)

2012/12/05
RaM, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems and Radars, and Policy Implications”
GROWing meeting

2012-12-10
Luis M. Correia, jury for Olivier Barder’s HDR
University of Rennes I, Lannion, France,

2012-12-12
Luis M. Correia
SAIL project meeting, Paris, France,

2012-12-18/19
Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi
Mobile Cloud Networking, workshop on the OpenEPC prototype implementation, Berlin, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak are preparing contributions for the next meeting in Malaga.

LEXNET –
Work has begun. Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Luís M. Correia and Michal Mackowiak attended the kick-off meeting. Filipe Cardoso is preparing Deliverable D7.1 – “Dissemination Plan”; the draft version will be circulated before Christmas.

Mobile Cloud Networking – http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu
Lúcio Ferreira, Sina Khatibi and Mónica Branco participated in the kick-off meeting. Lúcio Ferreira and Sina Khatibi will participate in a workshop on the OpenEPC in Berlin.

NEWCOM# –
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak participated at the kick-off meeting. The proposals of the Joint Research Activity are being prepared.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the definition of the architecture for deliverable D.C.2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”, and on their contribution for the final Deliverable D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.

Vol. 7, No. 07, Oct. 2012

In this issue:

1. People

2. Publications

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

4. Projects

1. People

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

We moved.

Since Oct. 1^st, GROW is not part of INOV-INESC, as you can see from the website address above.

2. Publications

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

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas: A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body”, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol. 19, No. 3, Sep. 2012, pp. 209-218.

Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”, Proc. of PIMRC’2012 – 23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia, Sep. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”, Proc. of PIMRC’2012 – 23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia, Sep. 2012.

Tiago Gonçalves, Filipe D. Cardoso and Luis M. Correia, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”, Proc. of SoftCOM’2012 – 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, Sep. 2012.

Filipe D. Cardoso, Rodolfo Torrea-Duran, Claude Desset and Luis M. Correia, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”, Proc. of SoftCOM’2012 – 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, Sep. 2012.

Lucio S. Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proc. of MONAMI’2012 – 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2012.

Luisa Caeiro, Filipe D. Cardoso and Luis M. Correia, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”, Proc. of MONAMI’2012 – 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2012.

Lucio S. Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proc. of ISSSE 2012 – International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, Potsdam, Germany, Oct. 2012.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados atualizados das medidas de campo eletromagnético realizadas pelo Projeto monIT”/“Updated results from EMF measurements performed by Project monIT”, accepted to 6º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 2012.

Lucio S. Ferreira, Ramón Agüero, Luisa Caeiro, Avi Miron, Michael Soellner, Peter Schoo, Lucian Suciu, Andreas Timm-Giel and Asanga Udugama, “Open Connectivity Services for the Future Internet”, submitted to WCNC’2013 – Wireless Communications Networking Conference, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2013.

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Perspectives for the use of MIMO in Dynamic Body Area Networks”, submitted to EuCAP’2013 – 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden, Apr. 2013.

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”, submitted to VTC’2013-Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Filipe D. Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Sven Petersson and Mauro Boldi, “Beamforming Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE”, submitted to VTC’2013-Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

Filipe D. Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Claude Desset and Bjorn Debaillie, “A Linearised Power Model for LTE Base Stations”, submitted to VTC’2013-Spring – 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

3. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2012-09-09/12

Luis M. Correia

Carla Oliveira, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”

Michal Mackowiak, “Correlation Analysis in Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”

PIMRC’2012 – 23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia

2012-09-11/13

Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”

Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”

SoftCOM’2012 – 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia

2012-09-13

Luis M. Correia, “Energy Efficiency in Mobile Cellular Networks”,

CSIRO International Workshop on Hot Topics in Mobile and Personal Communications, Sydney, Australia

2012-09-17/20

Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio S. Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro

SAIL project meeting, Bristol, UK.

2012-09-24/26

Carla Oliveira, “Signal Correlation and Power Imbalance in Dynamic On-Body Communications”

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in Off-Body Radio Channels in a Street Environment”.

COST IC10014 Action meeting, Bristol, UK

2012-09-25

Luis M. Correia

Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Oslo, Norway

2012-09-26

Lúcio S. Ferreira, “Service for Management of Connectivity in Spontaneous Community-Based Wireless Mesh Networks”

Luisa Caeiro, “OConS Supported On Demand Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”

MONAMI’2012 – 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Hamburg, Germany

2012-10-03/05

Lúcio S. Ferreira, “Efficient and Fair Radio Resources Allocation for Spontaneous Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”,

ISSSE 2012 – International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, Potsdam, Germany

2012-10-10

Luis M. Correia, “Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação em Sistemas Inteligentes de Transportes” / “Information and Communication Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems”

Seminário da Ordem dos Engenheiros sobre Sistemas e Tecnologias Inteligentes de Transportes, Lisboa, Portugal

2012-10-17

Luis M. Correia, moderator of panel “Networks with a Human Face”

ITU Telecom World Forum 2012, Dubai, UAE,

2012-10-25

Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: Applications and Challenges”

WWRF Workshop on the Wireless World 2020, Berlin, Germany

2012-11-07/08

Luís M. Correia, Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Michal Mackowiak

LEXNET project meeting, Becici, Montenegro

2012-11-13

Luis M. Correia, moderator of panel “Requirements from Networking to Horizon 2020”

Net!Works Event 2012, Brussels, Belgium

2012-11-15/16

Lúcio Ferreira, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi

MobileCloud Networking project meeting, Zurich, Switzerland

2012-11-21/22

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak

Newcom# project meeting, Pisa, Italy

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented their works at the MCM meeting held in Bristol, UK. New contributions are being prepared for the next meeting in Malaga.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt

monIT ended this month of October.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu

João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião finalised their contributions to Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on their contribution for the final Deliverable D.C.4 “Applications for OConS and Evaluation”.

LEXNET –

The project starts on Nov. 1^st.

Mobile Cloud Networking –

The project starts on Nov. 1^st.

NEWCOM# –

The project starts on Nov. 1^st.