THE PLENARY MEETING OF CTIF-SEE - 11-12 September 2014
Distinguished Lecturer Tour of Norman C. Beaulieu in Skopje, Florence, Podgorica, and Belgrade in March 2014 - Global Communications Newsletter, Aug. 2014
GWS Best Student Paper Award - 11-14, May, 2014
GWS 2014 joined four global and prominent conferences - Wireless VITAE, PRISMS, WWSMC and IC5, for one mega event. A part of GWS-2014 was Wireless VITAE conference that is the only international conference broadly addressing the wireless developments in the world by merging the communities from four different IEEE societies (Vehicular Technology, Information Theory, Aerospace and Electronics systems, and Communications). The main topics of the conference are trends, challenges and future roadmaps within a conglomerate of existing and novel wireless technologies, including cellular, short-range, sensor and embedded ones. Cognitive and self-organizing networks, Internet of Things, nano sensors, positioning and localization, recent advances in information theory and its applications, space technology for very high data rates, and techno-economic aspects of telecommunications are part of the scope, among others.
IEEE Distinguished Lecture of prof. dr Norman Beaulieu - 10, March 2014
Dr. Norman Beaulieu is a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has received numerous prestigious awards for significant contributions to the development Engineering and Applied Science at the international level. Some of these are the IEEE Communications Society 2007 Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Radio Communications Committee 2011 Technical Recognition Award. Prof. Beaulieu was the chief editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and his name is on the list ISIHighlyCited.com authors who are the most cited. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, and distinguished lecturer IEEE Communications Society. Prof. Beaulieu has over 500 publications in refereed international journals and international conference in digital broadband systems, cooperative wireless networks, cognitive radio, simulation and modeling of different types of channels with fading, MIMO systems, ultra wide band wireless systems, as well as interference modeling and techniques for its mitigation. More details can be found here.
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Renewal of the MOY label - 5, March 2014
Following the evaluation of the college of experts, the General Secretariat of the Mediterranean Office for Youth (MOY) decided on the renewal of the MOY label for the programme: 2010/042 : Wireless Communication Systems. This program of joint PhD research and supervision is organised by the University of Montenegro, Faculty of Electrical Engineering-Center for Telecommunications and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. The MOY label is valid for the period: 2014-2016.
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The EC FP7 eWALL project Kick-off meeting - 4-5, November 2013
The consortium behind eWALL counts 13 partners from 12 countries: Aalborg University, Hewlett Packard, Ericsson Tesla, Cure, San Raffaele, Roessingh Research and Development, Stelar Security Technology Law Research, Athens Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, the University of Montenegro, Technical University of Sofia and the University of Zagreb. Universiy of Montenegro (UoM) is represented with the Centre for Telecommunications- Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Pejanovic and Prof. Radusinovic, on behalf of the UoM project team, participated in the eWALL kick off meeting.
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CTiF SEE annual meeting held in Sofia - 16-18, September, 2013
Annual meeting of the Centre for Teleinfrastruktur South-East Europe (CTiF SEE) was held from Septembar 16th to Septembar 18th at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. First day of the meeting was organized as the thematic workhsop, with the topic "Intelligent infrastructures & beyond", where all the participating partners have presented their research in related areas. The representative of CFTMN was Enis Kocan, Phd, who has given a talk on the topic entitled "Towards Green Heterogeneous Networks" The Rector of the (TUS) and National Contact Person for ICT area of FP7 in Bulgaria were guests of the event.
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WPMC best paper award - 24-27, June, 2013
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Mediterranean Office for Youth
Following the fact that CFTMN is labeled for implementing the PhD program in telecommunications through the initiative of the Mediterranean Office for Youth, two researchers from CFTMN have been awarded MOY grants. Maja Ilic-Delibasic, MSc, stayed a Full semester 2012/2013 at FER (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia) and Ugljesa Urosevic, MSc, is currently at FER from 1st September 2013 to 31st January 2014.
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SCOPES project
In the frame of the SCOPES "Scientific co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland" program funded by the SNFS (Swiss National Foundation for Science)CFTMN, in cooperation with Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, is implementing the project "Fostering development of an ICT centre of excellence in Montenegro 2011-2014".
The CFTMN researchers Enis Kocan, Phd, Maja Ilic-Delibasic, MSc, and Ugljesa Urosevic, MSc, visited Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the period May-June 2013.
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Cooperation with the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services - 07. December 2012
Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro signed a Protocol of Cooperation on Friday, 7th of December in Podgorica. The Protocol was signed by the Agency director Zoran Sekulic and college professor and vice dean for education, dr. Zoran Veljovic.
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Inauguration of CTIF South East Europe - 20. November 2012
The initial partners of CTIF SEE are: Athens Information Technology (Greece), University of Zagreb (Croatia), Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania), University of Montenegro (Montenegro), Ss Cyril and Methodius University (Republic of Macedonia). Read more...
LEXNET meeting in Budva - 07. November 2012
Partners Meeting on occasion of opening of "LEXNET - Low EMF Exposure Future Networks" was held on 7 and 8 November 2012. in Budva. It is a scientific research FP7 project funded by the European Commission (FP7-ICT-2011-8 Objective ICT-01.01.2011: Future Networks), in which the Centre for Telecommunications Montenegro is one of the partners.
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