GROW News Jun/2012

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”.

Vol. 7, No. 03, Mar. 2012

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

1. Publications

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

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

Lúcio 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”, submitted to Springer Tecommunication Systems Special Issue: Mobility Management for Flat Networks.

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Energy Efficiency Gains Using VHOs in Heterogeneous Networks”, accepted to Future Heterogeneous Network Workshop 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”, in Proc. of EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”, in Proc. of EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

2. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2012-03-01
Marco Antunes, “Estimation of exclusion regions in LTE base stations co-located with GSM/UMTS”
André Pires, “Coverage and Efficiency Performance Evaluation of LTE in Urban Scenarios”
GROWing Meeting
2012-03-06/08
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Sophia-Antipolis, France

2012-03-15
Armanda Martins, “Evaluation of data applications quality of service over UMTS”
Michal Mackowiak, “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”
GROWing meeting

2012-03-26/30
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”
Luis M. Correia
EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic

2012-03-29
Filipe D. Cardoso, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”
Luísa Caeiro, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”
GROWing meeting

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, “Aplicação de Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação nos Municípios”
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

3. 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 are preparing contributions to the next Deliverables.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Thirteen actions were held in secondary schools during March, and more are scheduled for the upcoming month. Three continuous measurement networks were installed in Setúbal (in cooperation with the Setúbal Polytechnic Institute), Braga (in the Alberto Sampaio Secondary School), and in São João da Madeira (in the João da Silva Correia Secondary School). In the meantime, 5 measurement stations were removed from Pombal. Regarding Prémio monIT, 37 teams continue still in the competition, after the delivery of the 2nd progress report. Training actions on the measurement equipment are still being carried on with some of the groups.

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 OConS architecture, being responsible for the orchestration, a contribution for deliverable D.C 2 “Architecture and Mechanisms for Connectivity Services”.

Vol. 7, No. 02, Feb. 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.

Eduardo Sá left GROW, to embrace a career in a company. We wish him good luck in his professional career.

Mónica Branco had a baby, Beatriz. We wish her all the best in the world.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Statistical Characterisation of Antennas in BANs”, in LTE Advanced and Beyond Wireless Networks: Channel Modelling and Propagation, Guillaume de la Roche, Andres Alayon-Glazunov and Ben Allen (eds.), John Wiley, Chichester, UK, accepted 2012.

Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, contribution to “Body Communications”, in Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications, Roberto Verdone and Alberto Zanella (eds.), Springer, London, UK, 2012

Luis M. Correia, “Wrapping Up and Looking at the Future”, in Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications, Roberto Verdone and Alberto Zanella (eds.), Springer, London, UK, 2012

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

Filipe Cardoso, Sven Petersson, Mauro Boldi, Shinji Mizuta, Guido Dietl, Rodolfo Torrea-Duran, Claude Desset, Jouko Leinonen, Luis M. Correia, “Energy Efficient Transmission Techniques for LTE”, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine, Feb. 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.

2012-02-07/10
Lucio Studer Ferreira “Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
Michal Mackowiak “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”
Carla Oliveira “Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas: A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body”
Luís M. Correia
COST IC 1004 Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

2012-02-23
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Stuttgart, Germany

2012-03-06/08
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Sophia-Antipolis, France

2012-03-26/30
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”
Luis M. Correia
EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
The book “Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications”, with the main findings from the COST 2100 action has been published by Springer. The book contains contributions from Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, on Chapter 15 (Body Communications) and Chapter 16 (Wrapping Up and Looking at the Future). More information can be found at: http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4471-2314-9.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso has edited a document entitled “Beamforming and Energy Efficiency in LTE” to be presented in the next EARTH meeting in Sophia Antipolis. A joint paper in the scope of WP4/T41 was submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine. António Serrador performed simulations using the proposed new scenarios (multi-sites and multi-RAT RRM) and parameters for low, medium, high traffic loads.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
During this month, there were still some news in the media about the monIT study on the usage of mobile phones by Portuguese youngsters. Nine actions were held in secondary schools during February, and more are scheduled for the upcoming month. The monIT team is also giving talks to secondary schools students visiting the electrical engineering department. Two continuous measurement networks were installed in Sines (in cooperation with the municipalities) and Castro Verde (in the secondary school). In the meantime, 5 measurement stations were removed from Lisbon and Macedo de Cavaleiros. Regarding Prémio monIT, training actions on the measurement equipment are being carried on with some of the groups. The groups are now preparing their 2nd progress report, to be submitted by March, 16th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
The interim report of taskT.A.4, addressing business models, has been finished and circulated by the project partners. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the redefinition of the OConS architectural framework; they are preparing a paper for “Springer Telecommunication Systems Special Issue: Mobility Management for Flat Networks” journal.

Vol. 7, No. 01, Jan. 2012

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

1. Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

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

2012-01-23/27
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-01-26/28
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak
Winter School on Technology Challenges for the Internet of Things, Aveiro, Portugal

2012-02-07/10
Lucio Studer Ferreira “Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
Michal Mackowiak “Towards a Radio Channel Model for Off-Body Communications in a Multipath Environment”
Carla Oliveira “Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas: A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body”
Luís M. Correia
COST IC 1004 Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

2. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Lúcio Ferreira, Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented their work at the meeting in Barcelona.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso is preparing a contribution, based on the work developed by Tiago Gonçalves. António Serrador is progressing the work on multi-RAT networks.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Six actions were held in secondary schools during January, and more are scheduled for the upcoming months. The monIT team is also giving talks to secondary schools students visiting the electrical engineering department. A cooperation agreement with the municipality of Pombal has been signed. A new continuous measurement network will be installed in Sines, in cooperation with the municipality. Regarding Prémio monIT, 25 teams were excluded from the competition after the 1st report stage. The remaining 58 groups are now working for the chance to be in the final competition. In the meantime, training actions on the measurement equipment are being carried on with some of the groups.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the redefinition of the OConS architectural framework. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the interim report of WP-A in the business modelling of the use cases.

Vol. 6, No. 11, Dec. 2011

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, Tiago Gonçalves. We wish him good luck as well in his professional career.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”, accepted to EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”, accepted to EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

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

Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Characterisation of Antennas in BANs”, submitted to EW’2012 – 18th European Wireless Conference, Poznan, Poland, Apr. 2012.

António Serrador has submitted his Ph.D. thesis for evaluation.

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.

2011-12-01
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Munich, Germany

2011-12-02
Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy efficient solutions based on beamforming for UMTS and LTE”
GROW meeting

2011-12-13
Luis M. Correia, “ICT for ITS”
Seminar on Transports Ecosystems, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-12-14
Luis M. Correia, “A View into the Participation in EC Framework R&D Projects”
EC Digital Agenda going Local, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-12-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Palestras do DEEC/IST, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-01-23/27
Luis M. Correia, Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2012-01-26/28
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak
Winter School on Technology Challenges for the Internet of Things, Aveiro, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Papers are being prepared for the incoming meeting, in Feb. 2012, in Barcelona.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso was followed the Power Model ongoing discussions and phone conferences. António Serrador is progressing the work on multi-RAT networks.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to the FIA workshop.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Three actions were held in secondary schools during December, and more are scheduled for the upcoming months. Regarding Prémio monIT, 58 teams delivered the first progress report. The updated participants list is published Jan. 6th. Also, training actions on the measurement equipment are being carried on with the interested groups.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working for the next milestone report on the redefinition of the OConS architecture. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the interim report of WP-A in the business modelling of the use cases.

Vol. 6, No. 10, Nov. 2011

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 is seeing the departure of some of its members this month, i.e., the M.Sc. students graduating with their theses: Ricardo Batista (in collaboration with Vodafone), João Pinto (in collaboration with NAV), Pedro Tareco, and Pedro Carreira (in collaboration with Optimus). We wish them good luck in their professional career.

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”, submitted to EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira and Luís M. Correia, “Signal Correlation between Wearable Antennas in Body Area Networks in Multipath Environment”, submitted to EuCAP’2012 – 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.

Michal Mackowiak, and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Model of the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Characterisation of Antennas in BANs”, in Guillaume de La Roche, Ben Allen, and Andres Alayon Glasunov (eds.), LTE Advanced and Beyond Wireless Networks: Channel Modelling and Propagation, John Wiley, Chichester, UK (submitted).

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.

2011-11-03
Ricardo Batista, “Performance Evaluation of UMTS/HSPA + Data Transmission for Indoor Coverage”
João Pinto, “Assessment of Multilateration Telecommunications Systems installed in NAV”
GROW Meeting

2011-11-08/10
António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Caen, France

2011-11-09/11
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of On-Body Communications at 2.45 GHz”,
BodyNets’2011, Beijing, China

2011-11-16/17
Daniel Sebastião, Eduardo Sá
International EC Scientific Conference on EMF and Health, Brussels, Belgium

2011/11/18
Pedro Tareco, “Study on WiMAX Capacity vs. Channel Bandwidth”
Pedro Carreira, “Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS Evolution to LTE at the Cellular Level”
GROW Meeting

2011-11-25
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective into the Networks of the Future”
Seminars of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2011-11-28/30
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Paderborn, Germany

2011-11-28
Luis M. Correia
Ph.D. Jury at Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

2011-12-01
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board, Munich, Germany

2011-12-02
Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy efficient solutions based on beamforming for UMTS and LTE”
GROW meeting

2011-12-13
Luis M. Correia, “ICT for ITS”
Seminar on Transports Ecosystems, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-12-14
Luis M. Correia, “A View into the Participation in EC Framework R&D Projects”
EC Digital Agenda going Local, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-12-14
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective of the Networks of the Future and Smart Cities”
Palestras do DEEC/IST, Lisbon, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Papers are being prepared for the incoming meeting, in Feb. 2012, in Barcelona.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Monica Branco are developing a new version of analytical power model for LTE Base Stations, to be delivered by the end of the year. Filipe Cardoso is actively involved in Power Model related activities in EARTH. António Serrador has contributed to EARTH Deliverables D3.2, on energy savings gains using vertical handovers in heterogeneous networks, and D6.2b, on how this technique can be integrated with others.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to workshops. A link has been established with the PARADISO project.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Information actions in schools and hospitals have been resumed, with several actions already scheduled for the coming months. New monitoring continuous networks were installed in two schools in Amadora, and Agualva (Sintra), and in cooperation of the municipality of Pombal. Results can be seen in the monIT Project website.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working for the next milestone, due Jan. 2012, on the interfaces of the OConS architecture. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working for the interim report of WP-A.

Vol. 6, No. 9, Oct. 2011

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 be seeing the departure of some of its members around these months, i.e., the M.Sc. students graduating with their theses. This month, Vasco Fradinho has completed his thesis (in collaboration with Ericsson). 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.

Several papers were presented at the COST IC 1004 meeting, in Lisbon.

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.

2011-10-03/04
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board and General Assembly Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-10-03/06
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management for Optimising Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Deployments “,
WPMC’2011 – 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal and Mobile Communications, Brest, France

2011-10-05
Luis M. Correia
EC INFSO Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-10-10
Luis M. Correia
Ph.D. Jury at Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

2011/10/12
Michal Mackowiak, “Statistical Model of the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Luísa Caeiro, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Opportunistic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with a Rotating Radar”
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy efficient solutions based on beamforming for UMTS and LTE”
GROW meeting

2011-10-17
Luis M. Correia
SmartSantander Project Review, Santander, Spain

2011-10-19/21
Michal Mackowiak, “Statistical Model of the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management for Optimising Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Deployments”
Luísa Caeiro, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”
Filipe Cardoso, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Opportunistic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with a Rotating Radar”
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy efficient solutions based on beamforming for UMTS and LTE”
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Cesaltina Ricardo, Eduardo Sá, Antonio Serrador, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-10-21
Vasco Fradinho, “Advanced Performance Analysis of GSM and UMTS Radio Networks”
GROW meeting

2011-10-27/28
Mónica Branco
COST BM0704 Meeting, Vienna, Austria

2011-11-03
Ricardo Batista, “Performance Evaluation of UMTS/HSPA + Data Transmission for Indoor Coverage”
João Pinto, “Assessment of Multilateration Telecommunications Systems installed in NAV”
GROW Meeting

2011-11-09/11
Carla Oliveira, “Characterisation of On-Body Communications at 2.45 GHz”,
BodyNets’2011, Beijing, China

2011-11-16/17
Daniel Sebastião, Eduardo Sá
International EC Scientific Conference on EMF and Health, Brussels, Belgium

2011/11/18
Pedro Tareco, “Study on WiMAX Capacity vs. Channel Bandwidth”
Pedro Carreira, “Data Rate Performance Gains in UMTS Evolution to LTE at the Cellular Level”
GROW Meeting

2011-11-25
Luis M. Correia, “A Perspective into the Networks of the Future”
Seminars of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2011-11-28/30
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Paderborn, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Many of the GROW members presented their work in the meeting held at IST hosted by GROW.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Monica Branco are developing a new version of analytical power model for LTE Base Stations, to be delivered to the EARTH project by the end of the year.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia is preparing contributions to workshops.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Applications for the 2012 edition of the Prémio monIT competition went on October 3-14, and 84 teams (from 57 schools) are now in the contest. Good luck to them! Information actions in schools and hospitals have been resumed in October, with several actions already scheduled for the coming months. Also, a new monitoring continuous network was installed in Macedo de Cavaleiros Secondary School, and more will be installed in the next few days. Results can be seen in the monIT Project website.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working for the next milestone, due Jan. 2012, on the interfaces of the OConS architecture. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working for the interim report of WP-A.

Vol. 6, No. 8, Sep. 2011

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 3 more people on board. Sina Khatibi started his Ph.D. studies, and André Pires and Marco Antunes started their M.Sc. Theses. A warm welcome, and good luck.

2. Publications

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

Luísa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso and Luís M. Correia, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, submitted to WCNC’2012 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2012.

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

Carla Oliveira, Carlos Lopes, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Characterisation of On-Body Communications at 2.45 GHz”, accepted to BodyNets’2011, Beijing, China, Nov. 2011.

Ramón Aguero, Luisa Caeiro, Luis M. Correia, Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Marta Garcia-Arranz, Lucian Suciu and Andreas Timm-Giel, “OConS: Towards Open Connectivity Services in the Future Internet”, in Proc. of MONAMI – 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks & Management, Aveiro, Portugal, Sep. 2011.

Lúcio Studer Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “Energy-Efficient Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

Michal Mackowiak, Carla Oliveira, Carlos Lopes and Luis M. Correia, “A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas”, in Proc. of PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

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.

2011-09-05/07
Luis M. Correia
VTC Fall’2011 – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA

2011-09-11/14
Michal Mackowiak, “A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Human Body on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas”
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, “Energy-Efficient Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”
Luis M. Correia
PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada

2011-09-16
Luis M. Correia
NetWorld Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-09-19/21
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, Luisa Caeiro, Luis Correia
SAIL Meeting, Paderborn, Germany

2011-09-20/22
Filipe Cardoso, Luis Correia
EARTH Meeting, Dresden, Germany

2011-10-03/04
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board and General Assembly Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-10-03/06
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management for Optimising Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Deployments “,
WPMC’2011 – 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal and Mobile Communications, Brest, France

2011-10-05
Luis M. Correia
EC INFSO Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-10-10
Luis M. Correia
Ph.D. Jury at Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

2011-10-17
Luis M. Correia
SmartSantander Project Review, Santander, Spain

2011-10-19/21
Michal Mackowiak, “Statistical Model of the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Lúcio Studer Ferreira, “Radio Resource Management for Optimising Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Deployments”
Luísa Caeiro, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”
Filipe Cardoso, “MIMO Gain and Energy Efficiency in LTE”
Rathapon Saruthirathanaworakun, “Opportunistic Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing with a Rotating Radar”
Carla Oliveira, “Correlation Analysis in On-Body Communications”
Tiago Gonçalves, “Energy efficient solutions based on beamforming for UMTS and LTE”
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Sina Khatibi, Cesaltina Ricardo, Eduardo Sá, Antonio Serrador, Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-10-27/28
Mónica Branco
COST BM0704 Meeting, Vienna, Austria

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST IC1004 – http://www.ic1004.org
Many of the GROW members are preparing their presentations for the next meeting to be held at IST hosted by GROW.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Monica Branco have finished the work on the analytical power model for LTE Base Stations, and the results were presented in the EARTH meeting in Dresden

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Luis M. Correia contributed to the project review.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The 2012 edition of the Prémio monIT competition is about to start, themed “Radiofrequencies in the Daily Life”, applications will be open from October 3-14. All high schools will receive posters and leaflets in the meantime. An update on the global measurement results was prepared as a press-release, and so, several references to the project have appeared in the media. Information actions in schools and hospitals will be resumed in October. The scheduled actions can be found at the project website, in the calendar section.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro have started the work for the next milestone, due Jan. 2012, and are working on the interfaces of the OConS architecture. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are starting the work for the interim report of WP-A.