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THE PLENARY MEETING OF CTIF-SEE - 11-12 September 2014

The Plenary Meeting of CTIF-SEE was held in Bucharest, Romania, 11-12 September 2014, in the campus of the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. This meeting had two scientific sessions: "ICT in Horizon 2020 framework" (Networking and Brainstorming Session) and "ICT - the connecting path of Danube and Balkan regions to the entire Europe". The first session was dedicated to exchanging ideas and views for future projects and collaborations as well as brainstorming discussions. During this session Prof. Radusinovic presented current research topics of CFTMN related to Leveraging Smart Objects with Software Defined Networking. The letter session was dedicated to young researchers of CTIF-SEE members and invited collaborators (PhD students or PostDoc researchers).

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Distinguished Lecturer Tour of Norman C. Beaulieu in Skopje, Florence, Podgorica, and Belgrade in March 2014 - Global Communications Newsletter, Aug. 2014

Prof. Beaulieu gave a lecture in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 10 March, 2014. The lecture in Podgorica was organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and its Centre for Telecommunications. Prof. Beaulieu gave his lecture and explained his main research activities. All members of the Centre for Telecommunications as well as other faculty staff attended the lecture. Also, undergraduate, master's and some Ph.D. students were present. The lecture was very interactive with interesting debate and participants' questions. Some of the Ph.D. students used this opportunity to discuss with Prof. Beaulieu issues related to their particular research topics in the area of wireless communications.

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GWS Best Student Paper Award - 11-14, May, 2014

Paper entitled "Performance Improvement of Two-Hop Cooperative Relay System Under Correlated Ricean Fading", authors Maja Ilic-Delibasic and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, was awarded with "Best Student Paper Award" at the WVITAE conference, held within the Global Wireless Summit 2014 event, in Aalborg, Denmark, May 11-14, 2014 (www.gws2014.org).

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.

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IEEE Distinguished Lecture of prof. dr Norman Beaulieu - 10, March 2014

Prof. dr Norman Beaulieu will hold a lecture on "Generalized models for fading with diffuse scatter plus line-of-sight components" Monday, 10.03.2014, in the "Svecana sala" of technical faculties, at 12:00h.

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 EC FP7 eWALL (eWall for Active Long Living) project Kick-off meeting was held between November 4th and 5th, 2013 in Aalborg, Denmark. eWALL (www.ewallproject.eu) is an EC funded FP7 project which will develop an electronic wall that can help those weakened by age enjoy greater independence and increased quality of life at home. eWALL has officially started on November 01, 2013 and will run for a period of 3 years. With a budget of approximately 8,8 million Euro, the project will be led by researchers at Aalborg University.

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

Paper entitled "BER Performance Improvement for OFDM DF Infrastructure Relay Links", authors Enis Kocan and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, was awarded with "Best Paper Award" at the Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication (WPMC'13) conference, held within Global Wireless Summit 2013 event, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 24-27 June, 2013. GWS joined four global and prominent conferences - Wireless VITAE, WPMC, PRISMS and WWSMC for a mega event, under the theme Green and Secure Information Communication Technology. Following up on the successful first GWS held in Aalborg, Denmark in 2005, GWS-2013 brought together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, standardization forums and standards development organizations (SDOs) to address the latest developments in wireless technologies and related areas.

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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

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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 opening of CTIF South East Europe (CTIF SEE) took place at Athens Information Technology in Athens, Greece 9th of November 2012.Several leading academics and ambassadors attended. Keynote speakers were Petros Kokkalis, AIT President, Finn Kjærsdam, Rector of Aalborg University, Ramjee Prasad, Director of CTIF Global and Mette Knudsen, Ambassador of Denmark.

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...

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LEXNET meeting in Budva - 07. November 2012

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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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