GROW News Aug/2011

Vol. 6, No. 7, Aug. 2011

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.

R. Aguero, L. Caeiro, L.M. Correia, L. Ferreira, M. Garcia-Arranz, L. Suciu and A. Timm-Giel, “OConS: Towards Open Connectivity Services in the Future Internet”, accepted to MONAMI – 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks & Management, Aveiro, Portugal, Sep. 2011.

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.

2011-07-04
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium.

2011-09-11/14
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”, Proc. of PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada,

2011-09-11/14
Lúcio Studer Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “Energy-Efficient Radio Resource Management in Self-Organised Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks”, PIMRC 2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada

2011-09-16
Luis M. Correia
NetWorld, 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

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Monica Branco finished the work on the analytical power model for LTE Base Stations.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Contributions to the review were prepared.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The final ceremony of Prémio monIT was held on July 9th, where all finalists presented their work, and the awards were delivered. The 2012 competition is about to start, themed “Radiofrequencies in the Daylife”, applications will be open from October 3-14. All schools will receive posters and leaflets in the meantime. After the installation of the continuous measurement network in Vila Real, an agreement was signed with the local authorities. 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.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves finalised their work on Deliverable D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”. Work for the next deliverable and for the meeting in Paderborn, Germany, has already started. Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro prepared contributions to the meeting in Paderborn, Germany.

Vol. 6, No. 6, June 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.

Episode XI of STAR WARM (STill AnotheR Wonderful Annual Reunion in Monsaraz) took place on June 25th, gathering around 50 people (including around a dozen of kids). It was fun, again, enabling GROWers, and their families to enjoy themselves in the relaxed environment of Monsaraz.

2. Publications

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

R. Aguero, L. Caeiro, L.M. Correia, L. Ferreira, M. Garcia-Arranz, L. Suciu and A. Timm-Giel, “OConS: Towards Open Connectivity Services in the Future Internet”, submitted to MONAMI – 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks & Management, Aveiro, Portugal, 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”, accepted to PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

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

Luis M. Correia, “An overview of SAIL”, Proc. of SESERV Workshop on Building the Future Internet, Oxford, UK, June 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.

2011-06-15/17
Luis M. Correia
Future Networks and Mobile Summit, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-15
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-16
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Expert Group meeting, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-20/21
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Luis M. Correia
COST Action IC1004 meeting, Lund, Sweden

2011-06-23/24
Luis M. Correia
SmartSantander Review, Santander, Spain

2011-06-28
Luis M. Correia, “An overview of SAIL”
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SESERV Workshop on Building the Future Internet, Oxford, UK

2011-07-04
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Review, Brussels, Belgium.

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso has started the work on writing a Joint Paper on Energy Efficient Multi-Antenna Techniques. António Serrador prepared a set of simulation scenarios and variations by exploring all available RATs (WCDMA, HSPA and LTE) and all EARTH services and traffic loads, including the new M2M service.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
An update of the White Paper on Smart Cities Applications and Requirements has been circulated as a contribution to the SARA (Strategic Applications and Research Agenda).

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The 10 finalists from Prémio monIT 2011 will present their work at the final, which will be held at IST on July 9th. Measurements have been made in some locations in Madeira and Porto Santo Islands, and a new continuous measurements network composed by 5 stations has been installed in Vila Real. As usual, all results can be checked at the Project’s website.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are finalising their work on Deliverable D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”. Luisa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira have been working on the detailed review of Deliverable D.C.1 “Architectural Concepts of Connectivity Services”. They have contributed to a poster at FuNeMS’2011. Lúcio Ferreira has been also reviewing D.A.7 from WP-C viewpoint.

Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2011

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.

Manos Sifalakis, Christian Tschudin, Sylvain Martin, Lúcio S. Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “A Generic Service Interface for Cloud Networks”, Proc. of CLOSER’2011 – 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, Noordwijkerhoud, The Netherlands, May 2011.

Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Carla Oliveira and Luis M. Correia, “Projecto monIT – monitorização de radiação electromagnética em comunicações móveis”/”The MonIT Project- electromagnetic radiation monitoring in mobile Communications” (in Portuguese), Actas do II Congresso de Protecção contra Radiações dos Países de Língua Portuguesa – Radio 2011, Recife, Brazil, May 2011

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco and Luis M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements in Portuguese Schools”, Proc. of ICNIRP International Conference on Non-Ionizing Radiation and Children’s Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2011

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.

2011-05-10
Luis M. Correia
SAIL POET meeting, Madrid, Spain

2011-05-11/12
Luis M. Correia, Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador
EARTH meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2011-05-18/20
Daniel Sebastião, “The MonIT Project- electromagnetic radiation monitoring in mobile Communications”
Radio2011, Recife, Brazil

2011-05-18/20
Carla Oliveira, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements in Portuguese Schools”
International Conference on Non-Ionizing Radiation and Children’s Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2011-05-19
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 kick-off meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-05-30/06-01
Luisa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira
SAIL WPC Meeting, Paris, France

2011-06-15/17
Luis M. Correia
Future Networks and Mobile Summit, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-15
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-16
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Expert Group meeting, Warsaw, Poland

2011-06-20/21
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body Radio Channels”
Luis M. Correia
COST Action IC1004 meeting, Lund, Sweden

2011-06-28
Luis M. Correia, “An overview of SAIL”
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SESERV Workshop on Building the Future Internet, Oxford, UK

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso has presented the conclusion of the work on MIMO at the meeting. António Serrador has presented the latest results on energy savings using multi-RAT RRM at the meeting.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
The White Paper on Smart Cities Applications and Requirements has been finalised, and circulated.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The final deadline of Prémio monIT was on May 13th, and 46 groups delivered the final report. The selection jury is evaluate the works, and will choose the 10 finalists that will present their work on the grand final, on July 9th. The monIT team presented its work with 2 posters, on Radio 2011 and Joint ICNIRP Workshop on Non-Ionising Radiation & Children’s Health conferences, held in Brazil and Slovenia, respectively.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are finalizing their work on Deliverable D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”. Luisa Caeiro and Lucio Ferreira are working on the preparation of Deliverable D.C.1 “Architectural Concepts of Connectivity Services”. They have contributed to several sections as well as acted as reviewers of the document. Lucio Ferreira has been also reviewing D.A.7 from WP-C viewpoint.

Vol. 6, No. 4, Apr. 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 lost one member: Diana Ladeira has left the team, and started a career at one of the major telecom manufacturers. We wish her good luck.

2. Publications

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

Bengt Ahlgren, Pedro A. Aranda, Prosper Chemouil, Luis M. Correia, Holger Karl, Sara Oueslati, Michael Söllner and Annikki Welin, “Content, Connectivity, and Cloud: Ingredients for the Network of the Future”, accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

Luis M. Correia, “Addressing Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”, Proc. of EuCAP’2011 – 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy, Apr. 2011

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”, Proc. of EW’2011 – 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 2011

Jorge Venes and Luis M. Correia, “Performance of a Heterogeneous Network with UMTS, Wi-Fi and WiMAX”, Proc. of EUROCON’2001 – International Conference on Computer as Tool Joint with ConfTele’2011 – VII Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 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.

2011-04-07
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”
GROW meeting

2011-04-07
Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunication Networks and their Applications”
Ministry of Defence Workshop on Software Defined Radio, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-04-12
Luis M. Correia, “Addressing Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”
EuCAP’2011 – 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy

2011-04-13
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”
Ph.D. Board Evaluation

2011-04-27/28
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Executive Board meeting, Barcelona, Spain

2011-04-27/29
Carla Oliveira, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”
European Wireless 2011 – 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria

2011-05-10
Luis M. Correia
SAIL POET meeting, Madrid, Spain

2011-05-11/12
Luis M. Correia
EARTH meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2011-05-18/20
Daniel Sebastião, “The MonIT Project- electromagnetic radiation monitoring in mobile Communications”
Radio2011, Recife, Brasil

2011-05-18/20
Carla Oliveira, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements in Portuguese Schools”
International Conference on Non-Ionizing Radiation and Children’s Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2011-05-19
Luis M. Correia
COST IC1004 kick-off meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-05-30/06-01
Luisa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira
SAIL WPC Meeting, Paris, France

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Mónica Branco finished a document on MIMO Energy Efficiency to be presented in the next meeting in Stockholm. António Serrador has worked on the multi-RAT simulator by implementing fundamental features for the LTE RF interface; a machine-to-machine traffic model was also defined and circulated in the project. Standardisation inputs related with Energy Efficiency metrics are also being discussed.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is being finalised.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The information actions continued with four more actions, and a couple more scheduled for the upcoming months. Regarding Prémio monIT, the final deadline is approaching (May 13th), students being requested to deliver the complete projects. The activities section of the monIT website is now fully available (http://monit.it.pt/index.php?id=18), with a Google Maps based platform allowing the user to track the different activities held by monIT, like measurements and public actions.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Within the Open Connectivity WP, Luísa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira contributed to Deliverable D.C.1 “Architectural Concepts of Connectivity Services” with sections on radio resource management for virtual connectivity and for wireless mesh connectivity. Also, a section mapping the proposed architecture onto a use case dealing with creating and sustaining the connectivity in wireless challenged networks was edited. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on Deliverable D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”.

Vol. 6, No. 3, Mar. 2011

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.

António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Energy Efficiency Gains Using VHOs in Heterogeneous Networks”, submitted to 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”, submitted to PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

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

Luísa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso and Luís M. Correia, “Adaptive Allocation of Virtual Radio Resources over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, submitted to PIMRC’2011 – 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011.

Lúcio Ferreira and Luis M. Correia, “Radio Resource Management for Optimisation of Wireless Mesh Networks Deployments”, submitted to WPMC’2011 – Wireless Personal Mobile Communications, Brest, France, Oct. 2011.

Luísa Caeiro, Filipe Cardoso and Luís M. Correia, “Adaptive Radio Resource Allocation for Virtual Connectivity”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Filipe Cardoso, Luis M. Correia, Petteri Mannersalo, Tapio Franti, António Serrador, Giorgio Nunzi, Naveena Genay and Esther Le Rouzic, “Physical Layer Aware Network Architecture for the Future Internet”, accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.

Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, ”Modelling the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body radio channels”, in Proc. of 12th URSI Commission F Triennial Open Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”, in Proc. of IWPCM’2010 – International Workshop on Propagation and Channel Modelling, Lyon, France

Luis M. Correia, “Applications in the Future Internet and their Impact on Mobile and Wireless Networks”, in Proc. of Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop, Waterloo, Canada

Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: Applications and Challenges”, in Proc. of CELTIC PLUS Event, Heidelberg, Germany

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.

2011-03-01/02
Luis M. Correia
COST2100/NEWCOM++ Workshop, Paris, France

2011-03-03
Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”,
IWPCM’2010 – International Workshop on Propagation and Channel Modelling, Lyon, France

2011-03-8/11
Michal Mackowiak, ”Modelling the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body radio channels”,
12th URSI Commission F Triennial Open Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

2011-03-09
Luis M. Correia, Diana Ladeira
Net!Works White Paper on Smart Cities Applications meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-10
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-16/17
Luis M. Correia
SAIL review meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-23/24
Luis M. Correia, “Applications in the Future Internet and their Impact on Mobile and Wireless Networks”,
Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop, Waterloo, Canada

2011-03-29/30
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: Applications and Challenges”,
CELTIC PLUS Event, Heidelberg, Germany

2011-04-07
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”
GROW meeting

2011-04-07
Luis M. Correia, “Future Telecommunication Networks and their Applications”
Ministry of Defence Workshop on Software Defined Radio, Lisbon, Portugal

2011-04-12
Luis M. Correia, “Addressing Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”
EuCAP’2011 – 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy

2011-04-13
Michal Mackowiak, “Modelling MIMO Systems in Body Area Networks in Outdoors”
Ph.D. Board Evaluation

2011-04-27/28
Luis M. Correia
NEWCOM++ Executive Board meeting, Barcelona, Spain

2011-04-27/29
Carla Oliveira, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”
European Wireless 2011 – 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and Mónica Branco are preparing a document with additional results on MIMO Energy Efficiency. António Serrador is working on VHOs in a multi-cell and multi-RAT RRM scenario.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The project has finished its technical activities.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The information actions continued with ten more actions held this month, and more scheduled for the upcoming months. Regarding Prémio monIT, training actions on the measurement equipment were given to some groups. After the second progress report deadline, 64 groups are still competing. The final deadline for the complete work is on May 13th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the Deliverable D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”. Within the Open Connectivity WP, Luísa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira are currently working on the preparation of Deliverable DC1 “Architectural Concepts of Connectivity Services”.

Vol. 6, No. 2, Feb. 2011

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, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, and Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements in Portuguese Schools”, accepted to the International Joint ICNIRP Workshop on Non-Ionising Radiation & Children’s Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2011.

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, and Luís M. Correia, “Projecto monIT – monitorização de radiação electromagnética em comunicações móveis”, accepted to Radio2011, Recife, Brazil.

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”, accepted to European Wireless 2011 – 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 2011.

Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”, submitted to IEEE VTC Fall 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, Sep. 2011.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

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

2011-02-01/02
Luis M. Correia
ActionT Workshop, Dresden, Germany

2011-02-03
Lúcio Ferreira and Luísa Caeiro, “The SAIL Project”
António Serrador and Filipe Cardoso, “The EARTH Project”
GROWing Meeting

2011-02-10
Luis M. Correia
EC Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-02-11
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management Strategies in Virtual Networks”
13th RTCM Meeting, IST

2011-02-15/17
Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia
EARTH Meeting, Santander, Spain

2011-02-21/24
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Luis M. Correia
SAIL Meeting, Santander, Spain

2011-03-01/02
Luis M. Correia
COST2100/NEWCOM++ Workshop, Paris, France

2011-03-03
Luis M. Correia, “Challenges in Propagation and Channels in the Networks of the Future”,
IWPCM’2010 – International Workshop on Propagation and Channel Modelling, Lyon, France

2011-03-09
Luis M. Correia, Diana Ladeira
Net!Works White Paper on Smart Cities Applications meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-10
Luis M. Correia
Net!Works Steering Board meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-16/17
Luis M. Correia
SAIL review meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-03-23/24
Luis M. Correia, “Applications in the Future Internet and their Impact on Mobile and Wireless Networks”,
Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop, Waterloo, Canada

2011-03-29/30
Luis M. Correia, “Smart Cities: Applications and Challenges”,
CELTIC PLUS Event, Heidelberg, Germany

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Filipe Cardoso and António Serrador have contributed to the final inputs for the project review. António Serrador is developing a model where handovers in heterogeneous networks are used to save energy.

Net!Works – http://www.networks-etp.eu
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed for the WPR1 presentation at the last project Dissemination Day, jointly organised with the COST 2100 meeting, on March 2-3 in Paris, France.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The team is working on the measurement section of the new website, which should be available soon. Eleven more information actions were held in February and more are scheduled for the coming months. Regarding Prémio monIT, training actions on the measurement equipment were given to s-ome groups. In the meanwhile, the deadline for the delivery of the second progress report is approaching (March 14th).

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on the next deliverable (D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”). Within the Open Connectivity Work Package, Luísa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira are currently working on the definition of the architecture and network management theme.

Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 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 one more member: Eduardo Sá is starting the work towards the Ph.D. thesis in the area of energy efficient self-organising network mechanisms for next generation mobile networks.

2. Publications

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

2011-01-14
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Challenges for Body Area Networks Concerning Radio Aspects”, submitted to European Wireless 2011 – 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 2011.

2011-01-24
Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, and Luís M. Correia, “Electromagnetic Fields Measurements in Portuguese Schools”, submitted to the International Joint ICNIRP Workshop on Non-Ionising Radiation & Children’s Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2011.

2011-01-24
Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, and Luís M. Correia, “Projecto monIT – monitorização de radiação electromagnética em comunicações móveis”, submitted to Radio2011, Recife, Brazil.

2011-01-25
Carla Oliveira, Michal Mackowiak and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Modelling of Antennas and Body Interactions in Body Area Networks”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

2011-01-25
Michal Mackowiak and Luis M. Correia, “Modelling the Influence of Body Dynamics on the Radiation Pattern of Wearable Antennas in Off-Body radio channels”, submitted to 12th URSI Commission F Triennial Open Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Mar. 2011.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

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

2011-01-10
RaM, “Primary-Secondary Spectrum Sharing in the Presence of Primary Transmissions: Feasibility Study in Cellular Bands and Radar Bands, and Policy Implications”
GROWing Meeting

2011-01-19/20
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Workshop on Smart Cities, Stuttgart, Germany

2011-02-01/02
Luis M. Correia, ActionT Workshop, Dresden, Germany

2011-02-03
Lúcio Ferreira and Luísa Caeiro, “The SAIL Project”
António Serrador and Filipe Cardoso, “The EARTH Project”
GROWing Meeting

2011-02-10
Luis M. Correia
EC Concertation Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

2011-02-11
Luisa Caeiro, “Radio Resource Management Strategies in Virtual Networks”
13th RTCM Meeting, IST

2011-02-15/17
Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia
EARTH Meeting, Santander, Spain

2011-02-21/124
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves, Lúcio Ferreira, Luísa Caeiro, Luis M. Correia
SAIL Meeting, Santander, Spain

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
The project has finished.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
Within the context of Task 4.1 leadership by Filipe Cardoso, the most promising tracks issue is being discussed and will be finalised in the Santander general meeting that will be held on February. A document with an initial definition of the common track on MIMO EE Transmission, which integrates three different concepts (Relative MIMO gain, Precoding and Scheduling Techniques, and MIMO Modelling and Power-Performance Optimisation in Pico cells), was delivered. António Serrador issued a set of documents about the most promising tracks related with Task 3.3, additionally work is being prepared related to further simulations and track publications

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The project has finished its technical activity, and only a dissemination workshop is to be held.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Information actions continue to be one of the major action points for the Project. Seven more actions were held in January and more are scheduled for the coming months. The agenda is available on the calendar section of the new website. Also, monIT Project is already in Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Projecto-monIT/115728948482056) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/pmonIT), where all these events are presented.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves finalised their work on Deliverable D.A.1 “Description of project wide scenarios and use cases”, and are now starting the work on the next deliverable (D.A.7 “New business models and business dynamics of the future networks”). Also, work on dissemination aspects is on-going with an updated list of conferences in the SAIL’s calendar. Luísa Caeiro and Lúcio Ferreira are preparing the inputs for the next meeting.

Vol. 5, No. 11, Dec. 2010

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 one more member: Tiago Gonçalves will be doing his M.Sc. thesis in the area of energy efficiency in cellular networks.

2. Publications

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

2010-12-14
António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “An Analytical Model to Evaluate JRRM QoS Parameters”, submitted to Wireless Personal Communications.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

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

2010-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board, Brussels, Belgium

2010-12-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira
EuroSkills “O Campeonato Europeu das Profissões”, Lisboa, Portugal

2011-01-19/20
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Workshop on Smart Cities, Stuttgart, Germany

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Luis M. Correia is editing the Newsletter of the last meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has updated the contribution to Deliverable D3.1 “Most promising tracks of green network technologies”, according to internal reviewers, and the final version was issued. Similarly, concerning Filipe Cardoso and Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies”.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on a Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
The final Deliverable DR1.3 “Final report on the activities and results of WPR.1” is now available on the N++ server for review.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
The new website from the Project is already online. It has a new look and new functionalities. Come explore it! Also, information actions continued to be one of the major action points for the Project. In December two more actions were done in a University (Universidade da Beira Interior) and on a school (Escola Secundária de Sesimbra). A total of 72 teams (from former 98) are still competing for Prémio monIT after evaluation of the first progress report!

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro worked on the definition of a use-case entitled “Creating and Sustaining the Connectivity in Wireless Challenged Networks” within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves have been working on Deliverable D.A.1 “Description of project wide scenarios and use cases” and on a State of the Art document focusing on business modelling.

Vol. 5, No. 10, Nov. 2010

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

1. People

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

Two more GROWers have graduated this month, by defending his M.Sc. thesis: João Lopes and Carlos Lopes. All the best for them in their professional life.

GROW has one more member on board, in the pursuit of the M.Sc. thesis: Tiago Gonçalves.

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

2. Publications

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

Carla Oliveira, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal.

Giulio Dainelli, Marco Moretti, António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems”, NEWCOM++ Joint Workshop, Bologna, Italy.

3. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

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

2010-11-08/10
Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia
EARTH Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

2010-11-17/18
Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia
Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-18/19
Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves
SAIL Meeting, Espoo, Finland

2010-11-22/23
Luisa Caeiro
SAIL Meeting, Bremen, Germany

2010-11-23/24
Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco
COST BM0704 MC Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-23/25
António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Michal Mackowiak
COST 2100 MC Meeting, Bologna, Italy

2010-12-03
Luis M. Correia
eMobility Steering Board, Brussels, Belgium

2010-12-09/11
Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco, Diana Ladeira
EuroSkills “O Campeonato Europeu das Profissões”, Lisboa, Portugal

4. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org
Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak presented their works at the Bologna meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu
António Serrador has updated the contribution on Deliverable D3.1 “Most promising tracks of green network technologies”, by performing simulations in order to obtain the energy efficiency gains in heterogeneous networks; this is mainly obtained by moving mobile terminals to the most efficient base stations. Filipe Cardoso finalised his work as chapter editor of Deliverable D4.1 “Most promising tracks of green radio technologies” on multi-antenna techniques.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org
Work on Smart Cities white paper is ongoing.

NEWCOM++ – http://www.newcom-project.eu
António Serrador has presented a joint paper entitled “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems” at the NEWCOM++ joint WPR8&WPR9 workshop, co-authored with Giulio Dainelli (Pisa Univ.) and Marco Moretti (Pisa Univ.). Contributions to Deliverable DR9.3 were discussed

monIT – http://monit.it.pt
Some information actions were done in schools spread all over the country, with several more being already scheduled for the next months. Also, in Prémio monIT, the first deadline is approaching, as the students need to fill in the first progress report by Dec. 17th.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu
Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro contributed to the definition of scenarios, use-cases and stakeholders within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on Deliverable D.A.1 “Description of project wide scenarios and use cases”.

5. Training Courses

News about training courses organised and attended by people from GROW

Luis M. Correia will lectured a course for technicians at ISUTC (Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações), Maputo, Mozambique, on “Mobile Communications”, on 2010-12-07/18.

Vol. 5, No. 9, Oct. 2010

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, Daniel Sebastião, Diana Ladeira, Mónica Branco, Luís M. Correia, “Resultados Globais das Medidas de Radiação Electromagnética Realizadas em Estabelecimentos de Ensino”, accepted to Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal.

Giulio Dainelli, Marco Moretti, António Serrador and Luís M. Correia, “Statistical Analysis of Power Distribution for Radio Resource Management in OFDMA Cellular Systems”, submitted to NEWCOM++ Joint Workshop, Bologna, Italy, Nov. 2010.

2. Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

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

2010-11-08/10

Filipe Cardoso, António Serrador, Luis M. Correia

EARTH Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

2010-11-17/18

Carla Oliveira, Luís M. Correia

Décimas Quartas Jornadas Portuguesas de Protecção Contra Radiações, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-18/19

Daniel Sebastião, João Gonçalves

SAIL Meeting, Espoo, Finland

2010-11-22/23

Luisa Caeiro

SAIL Meeting, Bremen, Germany

2010-11-23/24

Diana Ladeira, Daniel Sebastião, Mónica Branco

COST BM0704 MC Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal

2010-11-23/25

António Serrador, Carla Oliveira, Lúcio Ferreira, Michal Mackowiak

COST 2100 MC Meeting, Bologna, Italy

3. Projects

News about the several projects in which GROW is involved.

COST2100 – http://www.cost2100.org

Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak prepared papers to be presented at the next meeting.

EARTH – http://www.ict-earth.eu

António Serrador as contributed to D3.1 with networks systems energy efficiency metrics and initial results based on radio resource management algorithms. Filipe Cardoso is contributing to the finalisation of D4.1.

eMobility – http://www.emobility.org

Work on a White paper on “Smart Cities” has begun.

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

António Serrador has contributed to the ViCE-WiCom platform (http://www.vicewicom.eu) with the “Train Station Scenario”, which is an open collaboration space where educational material and research partners in the area of wireless communication can be found. António Serrador and Luisa Caeiro have contributed to DR9.3 (WPR9 final deliverable) on radio resource management and networks virtualisation. Carla Oliveira and Michal Mackowiak contributed to DR1.3 on statistical models for Body Area Networks.

monIT – http://monit.it.pt

With the beginning of another school year, public actions in schools have returned. In this period, there was a collaboration with the Secondary School of Tramagal, Santarém, including measurements and a presentation; and several actions have already been scheduled for the upcoming months. Also, the 2^nd Edition of Prémio monIT had around 100 applications, from 48 schools of 15 districts and 2 autonomous regions, comprising 380 students and 56 teachers.

SAIL – http://www.sail-project.eu

Lúcio Ferreira and Luisa Caeiro are working on the definition of scenarios and use-cases within WP-C “Open Connectivity”. Daniel Sebastião and João Gonçalves are working on dissemination efforts and business analysis of the use-cases being developed within the project.