GROW News Apr/2013

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.

Vol. 7, No. 06, Jun 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 got 5 new members, which will start their M.Sc. Thesis work next September: Ricardo Santos, Diogo Almeida, Jaime Pereira, Joana Falcão, and Joana Fernandes.

Manuel Sete, an engineer from Hidroeletrica de Cahora Bassa (Mozambique), and a student of MERSC at ISUTC, Maputo, Mozambique, performing the M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Luis M. Correia, visited GROW during the week 25/29 June.

Bhavies Narendra, an engineer from Vodacom (Mozambique), and a student of MERSC at ISUTC, Maputo, Mozambique, performing the M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Luis M. Correia, will visit GROW during the week 9/13 July.

STAR WARM, Episode XII, will take place in Monsaraz on July 14th. As usual, it will be a gathering of the members of GROW and their families.

2. Publications

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

T. Gonçalves, F. Cardoso and L.M. Correia, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”, submitted to SoftCOM’2012 – 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, Sep. 2012.

F. Cardoso, R. Torrea-Duran, C. Desset and L.M. Correia, “MIMO Strategies for Energy Efficient Transmission in LTE Pico-cell Environments”, submitted to SoftCOM’2012 – 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Croatia, Sep. 2012.

M. Mackowiak, C. Oliveira and L.M. Correia, “Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas: A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body”, accepted to International Journal of Wireless Information Networks.

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.

2012-06-04/06
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 Training School on “Wireless Body Area Networks”, Bologna, Italy

2012-06-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
ARC6 – Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication et Usages Informatiques Innovants, Lyon, France

2012-06-11/14
Luis M. Correia
ICC’2012 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada

2012/06/15
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak “CST Simulations for Body Area Networks”
CST System Integrity Workshop Series 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-06-18
Slawomir J. Ambroziak, “Path Loss Modelling in Container Terminal Environment”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”
GROWing Meeting

2012-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-06-25
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”,
CORAL’2012 – 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms, San Francisco, CA, USA

2012-06-25/28
Luisa Caeiro, Sina Khatibi
SAIL Summer School on “Future Internet explained – today!”, Santander, Spain

2012-06-29
Meeting of all GROW members, since the beginning of activity, commemorating the 20th anniversary.
Lisbon, Portugal

2012-07-04/06
Luis M. Correia
Future Network and MobileSummit’2012, Berlin, Germany

2012-07-23
Luis M. Correia
Ph.D. Jury of Hernan Cordova, Brussels, Belgium

2012-07-24
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities” (keynote)
ICETE’2012 – 9th International Joint Conference on E-business and Telecommunications, Rome, Italy

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 to the next MCM meeting, in Bristol, UK.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
The project finished this month. Luis M. Correia finalised the report on dissemination.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is editing the next edition of the Strategic Research Agenda.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Prémio monIT 2012 is reaching its final stage! The students’ projects were delivered on May 18th, the 10 finalists were announced on June 15th, and the final ceremony will be held on June 30th! Three new continuous monitoring networks are being installed in Aljezur, Póvoa de Varzim e Porto de Mós. As usual, these will be active for around 3 months.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião continue to prepare contributions to the next Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the Open Connectivity Services (OConS) Architectural Framework, namely the OConS Orchestration function and its procedures, a contribution to deliverable D.C 2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”. Lúcio Ferreira was invited to chair a workshop on Open Connectivity Services at the MONAMI 2012 conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Sep. 2012

Vol. 7, 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.

António Serrador graduated with the Ph.D. this month. It’s always good to see someone achieving this goal, and we wish him all the best for his “after-Ph.D.” life.

Cesaltina Ricardo left GROW, to embrace a professional career in a company. We also wish her all the best for her professional life.

João Gonçalves finished his work in the SAIL project, and left GROW as well. He’ll continue his professional career in the area of telecommunications, and we wish him all the best as well.

2. Publications

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

Antonio Serrador, “Joint Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Networks”, Ph.D. thesis, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”, Proc. of HetsNets’2012 – Future Heterogeneous Networks Workshop at Networking’2012 – 11th IFIP International Conference on Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012

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

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

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Gray-Space Spectrum Sharing between Multiple Rotating Radars and Cellular Network Hotspots”, submitted to DySPAN’2012 – IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 2012.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Opportunistic Sharing between Rotating Radar and Cellular”, submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Cognitive Radio.

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.

2012-05-02/04
Carla Oliveira, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”
Luis M. Correia
COST IC10014, Lyon, France

2012-05-03
Luis M. Correia
Smart Cities for Sustainable Growth, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-05-08/10
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Leuven, Belgium

2012-05-08/10
Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL meeting, Torino, Italy

2012-05-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, “Usage of Mobile Phones and Concerns on Electromagnetic Radiation of Portuguese Youngsters”,
7th ICNIRP International NIR Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2012-05-10/11
Luis M. Correia
Future Internet Assembly, Aalborg, Denmark

2012-05-14
António Serrador, “Joint Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Networks”
GROWing meeting

2012-05-15
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Seminários de Eng. Eletrotécnica, IPL, Leiria, Portugal

2012-05-24
Luis M. Correia
20as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2012-05-25
António Serrador, “A Model to Evaluate Vertical Handovers on JRRM”,
HetsNets’2012 – Future Heterogeneous Networks Workshop at Networking’2012 – 11th IFIP International Conference on Networking, Prague, Czech Republic

2012-05-29/30
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL meeting, Helsinki, Finland

2012-06-04/06
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak
COST IC1004 Training School on “Wireless Body Area Networks”, Bologna, Italy

2012-06-07
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
ARC6 – Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication et Usages Informatiques Innovants, Lyon, France

2012-06-11/14
Luis M. Correia
ICC’2012 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada

2012-06-18
Slawomir J. Ambroziak, “Path Loss Modelling in Container Terminal Environment”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”
GROWing Meeting

2012-06-21
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-06-25
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”,
CORAL’2012 – 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms, San Francisco, CA, USA

2012-06-25/28
Luisa Caeiro, Sina Khatibi
SAIL Summer School on “Future Internet explained – today!”, Santander, Spain

2012-06-29
Meeting of all GROW members, since the beginning of activity, commemorating the 20th anniversary.
Lisbon, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira presented a contribution at the MCM meeting, in Lyon, France.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and António Serrador finalised the contributions to the Deliverables, D3.3 “Final report on green network technologies”, D4.3 “Final report on green radio technologies”, and D6.4 “Final integrated concept”.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia presented contributions at the FIA workshop, and is preparing the next edition of the Strategic Research Agenda.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Two actions were held in secondary schools during May, with 44 schools visited this year by the monIT team. monIT presented a poster in the 7th ICNIRP NIR Workshop, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Regarding Prémio monIT, the final projects were delivered on May 18th. The selection jury is now evaluating them and the 10 finalists will be chosen until June 15th..

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião prepared contributions to the next Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”, which were discussed at the meeting in Helsinki. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the Open Connectivity Services (OConS) Architectural Framework, namely the OConS Orchestration function and its procedures, a contribution to deliverable D.C 2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”.

Vol. 7, No. 04, Apr. 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.

One more GROW member finalised his M.Sc. thesis, Diogo Silva. We wish him good luck in his professional career.

2. Publications

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

Filipe Cardoso and Luís M. Correia, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”, Proc. of WCNC’2012 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2012.

Luis M. Correia, “Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Municipalities” (in Portuguese), Proc. of 8ª Urbaverde – Cidades do Futuro, Porto, Portugal, Apr. 2012.

Luisa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso, and Luis M. Correia, “Adaptive allocation of virtual radio resources over heterogeneous wireless networks”, Proc. of EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”, Proc. of EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.

Tiago Gonçalves, Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, “Energy Efficiency using Beamforming at the Base Station in UMTS and LTE”, submitted to ISWCS’2012 – 9th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Paris, France, Aug. 2012.

Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, Jon M. Peha, and Luis M. Correia, “Performance of Data Services in Cellular Networks Sharing Spectrum with a Single Rotating Radar”, accepted to CORAL’2012 – 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2012.

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.

2012-04-02/04
Filipe Cardoso, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”,
WCNC’2012 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France

2012-04-12
Diogo Silva, “Energy efficient solutions in GSM/UMTS based on traffic profiling models”
GROWing meeting

2012-04-13
Luis M. Correia, “Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Municipalities” (in Portuguese)
8ª Urbaverde – Cidades do Futuro, Porto, Portugal

2012-04-18/20
Michal Mackowiak, “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”,
Luisa Caeiro, “Adaptive allocation of virtual radio resources over heterogeneous wireless networks”, Luís M. Correia
EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland

2012-04-19/20
Daniel Sebastião, Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia
COST BM0704 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-05-02/04
Carla Oliveira, “A Comparison of Phantom Models for On-Body Communications”
Luis M. Correia
COST IC10014, Lyon, France

2012-05-03
Luis M. Correia
Smart Cities for Sustainable Growth, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-05-08/10
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Leuven, Belgium

2012-05-08/10
Lúcio Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL meeting, Torino, Italy

2012-05-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, “Usage of Mobile Phones and Concerns on Electromagnetic Radiation of Portuguese Youngsters”,
7th ICNIRP International NIR Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2012-05-10/11
Luis M. Correia
Future Internet Assembly, Aalborg, Denmark

2012-05-14
António Serrador, “Joint Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Networks”
GROWing meeting

2012-05-15
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Seminários de Eng. Eletrotécnica, IPL, Leiria, Portugal

2012-05-24
Luis M. Correia
20as. Palestras sobre Comunicações Móveis, Lisboa, Portugal

2012-05-29/30
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL meeting, Helsinki, Finland

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Carla Oliveira is preparing a contribution to the next MCM meeting, to be held in Lyon, France, in May.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and António Serrador delivered the contributions to the next Deliverables, D3.3 “Final report on green network technologies”, D4.3 “Final report on green radio technologies”, and D6.4 “Final integrated concept”.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop, as well as to the next edition of the Strategic Research Agenda.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Four actions were held in secondary schools during April, and more are scheduled for the upcoming month. A continuous measurement equipment was installed in Reguengos de Monsaraz (in cooperation with the local Centro de Novas Oportunidades). Regarding Prémio monIT, the training actions on the measurement equipment were finalised. The next deadline is the delivery of the final report, by May 18th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
João Gonçalves and Daniel Sebastião are preparing contributions to the next Deliverable, D.A.8 “Evaluation of business models”. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the refinement of the Open Connectivity Services (OConS) Architectural Framework, namely the OConS Orchestration function and its procedures, a contribution to deliverable D.C 2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”.