Final Report Summary - OPTIMOBILE (Cross-layer Optimization for the Coexistence of Mobile and Wireless Networks Beyond 3G)
As highlighted by the following descriptions and the associated references to the publications therein, the five main tasks from the Cross-layer Optimization for the Coexistence of Mobile and Wireless Networks Beyond 3G (OPTIMOBILE) fellowship have been fully accomplished:
- Task 1 established the OPTIMOBILE Scenarios and Framework [1, Chap. 10], [14]: Scenarios have been defined for Multi-Operator Resource Sharing in the Context of IMT-Advanced Systems, facilitating dynamic spectrum use and cooperative radio resource management; Business Models and Service operation Scenarios were explored for broadband wireless access.
- Task 2 addressed System Convergence for Next Generation Networks[12], [13], [15], [18], [29], [34]: Optimal load suitability based radio access technology selection for HSDPA and IEEE 802.11e; Looking for an optimal route in IEEE 802.11e ad-hoc networks; Spectrum aggregation with multi-Band user allocation over two frequency bands in an IMT-Advanced scenario.
- Task 3 covered Optimization Strategies for Next Generation Networks [5], [6], [9], [10], [16], [26], [30], [32]: Cross-layer design for the optimization of the performance in IEEE 802.11e including the ad-hoc mode; Optimization of multi-service IEEE802.11e block acknowledgement; Service characterisation for cost benefit optimisation of Enhanced UMTS.
- Task 4 addressed Business Analysis [1, Chaps. 4 & 10], [2], [3], [7], [22], [31], [33], [35]: Fixed WiMAX Radio and Network Planning; Cost/revenue optimization for Fixed WiMAX, where a model was proposed for the supported lower layers throughput, taking the different adaptive Modulation and Coding Schemes into account; WLAN Planning Tool: a techno-economic perspective; Cost/revenue trade-off in the optimization of Fixed WiMAX deployment with relays.
- Task 5 covered OPTIMOBILE Implementation and Validation issues [4], [23], [24], [27]: Hybrid WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks for the support of b-Learning and telemedicine; Planning and deployment of WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks for health sciences education; Characterization of WiMAX propagation in microcellular and picocellular environments.
Tele-traffic issues have also been covered [8], [19], and research on wireless sensor networks in application to the monitoring of pregnant women in the last five weeks of pregnancy has been addressed [11], [17], [20], [21], [25], [28].
In the process of the fellowship, Fernando has visited colleagues in UK and Polish Universities, e.g. Southampton, Cambridge, York and Katowice, and given talks/Seminars on "WiMAX Radio and Network Planning: Limitations and Challenges". He has also actively participated in Meetings of COST 2100 (Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications), and organized a Seminar of the Portuguese thematic network on mobile communications in February 2009. He has been invited to be part of several conference TPCs, and has served as a project evaluator and reviewer for the Portuguese Agency for Innovation (adi).
Fernando has, during the fellowship, been invited by Prof. Ramjee Prasad from the University of Aalborg to be one of the co-editors of the book "WiMAX Networks: Techno-economic Vision and Challenge", and is preparing the structure and contents for another book on Planning and Optimisation for 4G with me. Because he is the Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Portugal Chapter, he has recently been invited by the IEEE VTS to apply for the organization of the IEEE VTC in Portugal (in 2013). He has been involved in the supervision of MSc and PhD students at King's College London, and partly as an ongoing activity, also at IT/Universidade da Beira Interior, and at the CTIF/University of Aalborg in cooperation with that university. He has been the main examiner in several M .Sc. and Ph.D. defences, and he has, throughout the duration of his stay, been acquiring or consolidating skills on intellectual and industrial property, team coordination, and creation of strategic visions towards excellence.
- Task 1 established the OPTIMOBILE Scenarios and Framework [1, Chap. 10], [14]: Scenarios have been defined for Multi-Operator Resource Sharing in the Context of IMT-Advanced Systems, facilitating dynamic spectrum use and cooperative radio resource management; Business Models and Service operation Scenarios were explored for broadband wireless access.
- Task 2 addressed System Convergence for Next Generation Networks[12], [13], [15], [18], [29], [34]: Optimal load suitability based radio access technology selection for HSDPA and IEEE 802.11e; Looking for an optimal route in IEEE 802.11e ad-hoc networks; Spectrum aggregation with multi-Band user allocation over two frequency bands in an IMT-Advanced scenario.
- Task 3 covered Optimization Strategies for Next Generation Networks [5], [6], [9], [10], [16], [26], [30], [32]: Cross-layer design for the optimization of the performance in IEEE 802.11e including the ad-hoc mode; Optimization of multi-service IEEE802.11e block acknowledgement; Service characterisation for cost benefit optimisation of Enhanced UMTS.
- Task 4 addressed Business Analysis [1, Chaps. 4 & 10], [2], [3], [7], [22], [31], [33], [35]: Fixed WiMAX Radio and Network Planning; Cost/revenue optimization for Fixed WiMAX, where a model was proposed for the supported lower layers throughput, taking the different adaptive Modulation and Coding Schemes into account; WLAN Planning Tool: a techno-economic perspective; Cost/revenue trade-off in the optimization of Fixed WiMAX deployment with relays.
- Task 5 covered OPTIMOBILE Implementation and Validation issues [4], [23], [24], [27]: Hybrid WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks for the support of b-Learning and telemedicine; Planning and deployment of WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks for health sciences education; Characterization of WiMAX propagation in microcellular and picocellular environments.
Tele-traffic issues have also been covered [8], [19], and research on wireless sensor networks in application to the monitoring of pregnant women in the last five weeks of pregnancy has been addressed [11], [17], [20], [21], [25], [28].
In the process of the fellowship, Fernando has visited colleagues in UK and Polish Universities, e.g. Southampton, Cambridge, York and Katowice, and given talks/Seminars on "WiMAX Radio and Network Planning: Limitations and Challenges". He has also actively participated in Meetings of COST 2100 (Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications), and organized a Seminar of the Portuguese thematic network on mobile communications in February 2009. He has been invited to be part of several conference TPCs, and has served as a project evaluator and reviewer for the Portuguese Agency for Innovation (adi).
Fernando has, during the fellowship, been invited by Prof. Ramjee Prasad from the University of Aalborg to be one of the co-editors of the book "WiMAX Networks: Techno-economic Vision and Challenge", and is preparing the structure and contents for another book on Planning and Optimisation for 4G with me. Because he is the Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Portugal Chapter, he has recently been invited by the IEEE VTS to apply for the organization of the IEEE VTC in Portugal (in 2013). He has been involved in the supervision of MSc and PhD students at King's College London, and partly as an ongoing activity, also at IT/Universidade da Beira Interior, and at the CTIF/University of Aalborg in cooperation with that university. He has been the main examiner in several M .Sc. and Ph.D. defences, and he has, throughout the duration of his stay, been acquiring or consolidating skills on intellectual and industrial property, team coordination, and creation of strategic visions towards excellence.