Special Sessions

ICT Solutions for Medical and Healthcare Applications

Huan-Bang Li received the Dr. of Eng. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan in 1994. Since then, He has been working for the Communications Research Laboratory (now, National Institute of Information and communications Technology: NICT), Japan. His research interests include mobile satellite communication, coded modulation, ultra-wideband technology, etc. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, CA, USA. He is now a senior researcher of NICT. He currently serves as the vice chairman of IEEE 802.15.6. He received the Young Engineer Award and the Excellent Paper Award of IEICE Japan in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and the Distinguished Patent Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology Agency of Japan in 2000.

Challenges in Ubiquitous Personal Healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living: from Technology to Successful User-Centric Application

• Ambient Home Care Systems
• Advances in biomedical wearable sensors. Wireless sensor networks
  and technologies for remote monitoring
• Fusion strategies for personal health systems
• Data modeling for context-aware health applications
• Augmented objects for ambient assisted living
• Advanced applications for medical practitioners
• Cloud healthcare services
• Reality mining for healthcare (e.g., the use of mobile technologies to support epidemiological studies)
• Context-aware applications for prevention and wellbeing. Mobile health applications

• Context-aware applications for patients with special needs (e.g. mental disabilities or physical impairments)

• Ubiquitous coaching strategies to promote behavioral modifications in order to get a healthy lifestyle (e.g., in nutrition issues)
• Experimental results and analysis on the user experience on telehealthcare and u-healthcare services

Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing

Organizer/Chairman: Michael Doellinger, Laboratory for Computational Medicine, Department for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.

The research fields in this session are highly interdisciplinary. They combine theoretical as well as applied research approaches in all kinds of medical imaging techniques like x-ray imaging, MRI, fMRI, ultrasound, CT, digital high speed imaging, etc. The imaging techniques in our days produce lots of data. Therefore they necessitate profound analysis procedures to understand the produced data. The analysis methods also have to be reliable in potential future clinical application. The challenge includes the development of stable image detection and reconstruction methods and deliberated data acquisition. Afterwards mathematical analysis, pattern recognition, and statistical processing tools have to be applied to find the information of interest or underlying causalities within the data. The here suggested approaches can be on basic research as well as on direct clinical application.

Michael Doellinger holds a Professorship at the University Hospital Erlangen/Germany in the field of Computational Medicine since June 2008. He studied Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and achieved his M.S. in 2000. In 2002 he achieved his Ph.D. degree in Computational Engineering. From 2003 to 2005 he held a post doc fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2005-2008 he was Assistant Professor at the University Hospital Erlangen. In 2008, he was awarded Adjunct Professor at the Louisiana State University Baton Rouge (USA). Since 2008 he is leader of the research group FOR894 “Fluid mechanical fundamentals in voice production” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). His research interests include high speed digital imaging, biomechanical modelling, applied optimization techniques, and medical pattern recognition as well as the development of objective audiology methods for children.

Models, Techniques, and Systems for Monitoring Wellness in Humans Using Body Sensor Networks

Aravind Kailas is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, USA, and is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Smart Antenna Research Laboratory (SARL). His research work is focused on cooperative communications for wireless networks. His other research areas include development of wireless healthcare and energy harvesting for energy-constrained systems. He received his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA, in 2005, and his B.E. from Mumbai University, India in 2002 with the highest honors. He has held industry positions at QUALCOMM Inc., DOCOMO Research Labs, and General Electric. He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark in the summers of 2007-08.

Biosignals: detection, acquisition and processing

• Wearable Sensors and Systems
• RFID
• Monitoring of vital signs with contactless devices
• Brain Computer Interfaces and other Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
• Mobile technologies for Healthcare applications

Ernestina Cianca received the in Electronic Engineering Laurea degree cum laude at the University  of L’Aquila nel 1997. She got the Ph.D. at the University of Rome  Tor Vergata in 2001. The thesis work was on power management in CDMA-based satellite systems. She concluded her Ph.D. at Aalborg University under the supervision of Prof. Prasad. She has been employed by the University of Aalborg, Denmark, in the Wireless Networking Groups (WING), as Research engineer (2000-2001) and as Assistant Professor (2001-2003). She is currently Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at the URTV (Dpt. of Electronics Engineering), teaching DSP, Information and Coding Theory.  Main research interests: Novel Air Interfaces for future wireless systems, in particular MIMO in Single carrier systems with Frequency Domain Equalization, Multicarrier Systems, satellite communications is EHF bands (in particular, W-band), energy efficient wireless systems, power control and resource management, heterogeneous networks, UWB for biomedical applications. She is author of about 50 papers, on international journals/transactions and proceedings of international conferences.

Giovanni Saggio received the Dr. Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronic and Telecommunication Engineering, in 1996, from the same University. In 1991, he did his thesis in theNanoelectronics Research Centre, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, and in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, England. From 1991 to 1993, heworked with a grant in C.R.N. (Italian Center for Research Counsel). During the summer of 1994, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Central Microstructure Facility Laboratory, Oxford, England. His initial research activities covered the area of nanodevices, surface acoustic wave devices, noise in electronic devices. He is currently a Researcher at the University "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. He teaches courses about Electronics at the Faculty of Engineering (Departments of Informatics, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Automations, Master on Sound Engineer) and the Faculty of Medicine (Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Neurophisiopatology). His current research interests are related to the fields of biosensors, sensor's characterization, human kinematics' measurements and brain computer interface. He has published tens of papers on international journals and a book about electronics "Basi di Elettronica, II edizione". He is currently: member of Italian Space BioMedical Society; Principal investigator W.P. DCMC Project (from Space Italian Agency); Promoter and coordinator of the HITEG group (Health Involved Technical Engineering  Group),University "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.

Bionic devices for handicapped and novel diagnostics

The special section is focusing on assisting blind, deaf and spinal cord injured people, as well as to new noninvasive diagnostic tools via auditory and tactile diagnostic tools.

Organizer: Tamás Roska, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Pazmany P. Catholic University, Budapest.

Tamás ROSKA received the Diploma in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1964 and the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in Hungary in 1973 and 1982, respectively. He is the Fellow of the IEEE and elected member of four Academies of Sciences in Europe.

Since 1964 he has held various research positions, since 1982 he has been with the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences where he is presently head of the Analogic and Neural Computing Research Laboratory and the Chairman of the Scientific Council. He is also a Professor and had been a founder Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at the Pázmány P. Catholic University, Budapest. Professor Roska has taught several courses, presently, he is teaching graduate courses on "Nonlinear Dynamics and Emergent Computations" and "Cellular Wave Computers and Visual Microprocessors". Since many years he is directing a Multidisciplinary Doctoral School. In 1974 and since 1989 in each year, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. During the autumn semester of 2OO7 he had been a visiting chair professor at the University of Notre Dame.

His research interests: cellular wave computing, info-bionics, cellular neural networks, nonlinear circuit and systems, neural electronic circuits, and analogic spatial-temporal supercomputing and computational complexity. He has published more than hundred research papers and four books (partly as a co-author). His seminal paper on the CNN Universal Machine, co-authored by L. O. Chua,  has received close to 500 citations, and five of his papers published in 1992 and 1993 has been among the most cited papers of the IEEE Transactions I and II in the last 15 years. Alltogether, he has close to 3``more than 2000 citations.

Dr. Roska is a co-inventor of the CNN Universal Machine (with Leon O. Chua) and the analogic CNN Bionic Eye (with Frank S. Werblin and Leon O.Chua), US patents of UC Berkeley.

During the last 15 years he has received two NSF grants, four ONR grants, two EU Grants and several Hungarian Grants. He has been a founding member of two spin/off companies, one in Berkeley and one in Budapest.

In 2002 and 2003 he had been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, the International Journal on Bifurcation and Chaos, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, and the Neural Processing Letters. He has been a founding Chair of the Technical Committee on Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He received the IEEE Third Millenium Medal and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s  Golden Jubilee Award. He has been awarded a “doctor honoris causa” from the University of Veszprém.

For 4 years, in Hungary, he had been the advisory Chair of the National R&D Program on Information and Communication Technology, and since 2005 he is serving in the Advisory Committee of the EU Commissioner (~Minister) in the Commission of Information Society and Media Technologies in Brussels.

Dr. Roska received in Hungary the Széchenyi Prize, the Szentgyörgyi Prize and the D. Gabor Prize, the Grand Prize of the „Pro Renovanda Cultura Hingariae”, and very recently the 2002 Bolyai Prize, given biannually to one Hungarian Scientist. Dr. Roska is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the St. Steven Academy, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Mathematics Applied to Information and Communication Theory and Technology

Organizer: Nicola Marchetti, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark

Mathematics has played since long time a very important role in the understanding and control of communication systems. As two outstanding examples, one can just think to the Maxwell's equations in classical electromagnetism and to Shannon's information theory. Mathematical models are moreover very useful tools to understand and quantify the performance limits and trade-offs in wired and wireless communication systems networks.

Recently, graph theory has been successfully applied to the modeling of complex networks, especially within the emerging research area of self-organizing networks. Another example of beneficial application of math to ICT is the use of game theory as a theoretical tool to model competitive and cooperative situations in wireless communications.

This special session should serve as a platform covering the most recent and promising applications of Mathematics to ICT, trying to give a hint of what could be next breakthrough in Information and Communication Theory and Technology.

The goal is to build a bridge between ICT engineering and mathematics towards a common understanding of theoretical and practical R&D problems, identifying concrete areas of cooperation, where both groups of professionals can mutually benefit from each other’s knowledge and experience.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Advances in Information Theory
• Number Theory Applied to Wireless Communications
• Game Theory for Wireless Communications
• Optimization Problems for Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management
• Advances in Network Theory
• Graph Theory applied to Network Modeling
• Statistical Modeling of Wireless Channel and Networks
• Wavelets and Multi-Rate Signal Processing
• Quantum Communications
• Mathematics of the Brain

Nicola Marchetti is currently an assistant professor at the Wireless Security and Sensor Networks (WSSN) group, Networking and Security section (NET-SEC), Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University. In 2003 and 2007 he received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Wireless Communications from University of Ferrara, Italy, and Aalborg University, Denmark, respectively. From July 2003 to April 2004 he was a research assistant at the University of Ferrara and he worked as a PhD fellow from May 2004 to May 2007 at Aalborg University, Denmark. From June 2007 he is an assistant professor at Aalborg University.
In 2008, he was the Co-Founder of the International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART) and the Co-Founder of the International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL). He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Applied Mathematics at Aalborg University (AMAAU).

His research interests include: multiple antenna technologies, single- and multi-carrier modulations, radio resource management, advanced spectrum management techniques, cognitive radios and networks, self-organizing networks, telemedicine, mathematics applied to wireless communication.

Self-Organization in Wireless Networks

Organizer: Alexander Tyrrell, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany.

• Distributed signal processing
• Self-organized synchronization, optimization, computation
• Cooperative coding
• Scheduling, routing, networking
• Cooperative multipoint
• Robustness towards failures and malicious nodes
• Simulation methods for self-organized systems
• Practical implementation aspects

Body Area Networks with applications to human performance monitoring

Organizer/Chairman: Leif Hanlen, NICTA, Australia.

Telesurgery and Teleoperation

Organizer/Chairman: Serguei Primak, The University of Western Ontario, Canada.

In recent years, advances in electronics, communications, signal processing and medical robotics made it feasible to conduct a number of surgical procedures remotely. Such operation is still in a infant stage and requires significant intellectual and engineering effort to improve scope, reliability and quality of the procedures. The papers presented in this session will reflect cutting edge technologies and algorithms utilized in telesurgery. These  include, but not limited to

• design of robotic manipulators and tools for telesurgery
• telesurgery robotics control algorithms and their implementation
• computer/human interaction aspects of telesurgery
• signal and image processing algorithms for robot assisted surgical procedure use of telecommunications in telesurgery and remote patient care
• remote training and supervision of telesurgery
• telepresence

Serguei Primak received his Ph.D. from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1997. Since then, he has been working for the Bell Centre for Information Engineering (BCIE), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Ontarion, London, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include modellng and simulation of wireless communication channels, Markov processes, adaptive modulation and estimation, mobile-to-mobile communications and application of information theory and technology in medicine. Dr. Primak is affiliated member of C-STAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics), London Health Sciences Centre, Canada.

Bioelectronics and Signal Processing for Prostheses and Wearable Medical Devices

Organizer/Chairman: Lorenzo Turicchia, Analog VLSI and Biological Systems Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. 

Implantable and portable electronic medical devices face similar challenges and constraints: size, power consumption, reliability, and robustness. Under these important constraints, both kinds of devices sense noisy physiological signals, electrically stimulate the body, or actuate the release of drugs, while carrying on sophisticated signal processing operations. Often these devices communicate wirelessly with each other or with medical equipment to send or receive data or commands. This special session will explore novel bioelectronic techniques and advanced signal processing strategies for the next generation of prostheses and wearable medical devices.

Lorenzo Turicchia is a Research Scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy. In 2002 he joined the Analog VLSI and Biological Systems group at MIT, where he completed his doctoral research and is now a Research Scientist. His main research interests are in nonlinear signal processing, especially for audio and biomedical applications, and bioelectronics. His work has included research on cochlear implants for the hearing impaired, visual prostheses for the blind, speech prostheses for individuals with severe communication disabilities, automatic speech recognition in noise, and wearable medical devices. In these areas he has authored seven patent applications and more than thirty publications. He is currently working on robust techniques for the recognition of speech, speaker, and language in noisy environments; bioelectronics for wearable and implantable medical devices; and neural decoding techniques for neural prosthetic devices for the paralyzed.

Communication Networks for Sustainability

Organizer/Chairman: Jens Myrup Pedersen, Networking and Security section NetSec at Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark

The increasing awareness of the climate problems, and a general acceptance of an urgent need for reducing Co2 emissions, has defined a new agenda where many different fields and technologies are expected to contribute in finding solutions to these problems.

Communication Networks, and the applications hereof, can be a significant contributor. In countries with a developed communication network infrastructure, the use and transportation of paper can be limited due to electronic communication, and even the need for commuting can be reduced when people can work from home. Communication infrastructures are also parts of solutions for intelligent traffic control, where traffic flow can be optimized so that waiting time and fuel consumption is minimized. There are, however, in most places still much unrealised potential.

In less developed contries the potentials can be even greater: Building communication networks, and taking full advantage of existing ones, can be used for education in general, and also for providing up-to-date information about weather forecasts, vermins attacks, etc. In this sense, sustainability is more general than just climate problems.

In this session, all papers dealing with how communication networks can be a part of a sustainable development are welcome. The scope is not limited to applications: Papers could also deal with establishment of infrastructure in e.g. developing countries, building and operating networks in a sustainable way, or other similar topics.

Jens Myrup Pedersen is currently Associate Professor and heading the Networking and Security section NetSec at Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, where he is also afiliated with the Center for TeleInfrastruktur (CTIF). He received his Master degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Aalborg University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, in 2002. In 2005 he received the PhD degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University, Dept. of Control Engineering. Since 2005 he has been working in Department of Electronic Systems, first as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor. His research interests include network planning, Fiber To The Home networks, broadband networks, network topologies, graph theory and operational research.

New fronteers in cancer detection

Organizer/Chairman: Guido Pagana

Death rates for many types of cancer continue to decline, as a result of earlier detection through improved terapies following surgery and organized screening programs.The huge incidence of cancer in the population, combined with the risks associated to the limited sensitivity and specificity of the conventional cancer detection techniques, motivates the search for alternative technologies for early cancer detection, such as Microwave Imaging ,  electrical impedance of tissues, Fermiscan, CAD for virtual colonscopy, etc.

The special session is inteded to present some of the newest and most promising techniques for cancer detection.

Guido Pagana received the Telecommunication Engineering degree at Politecnico di Torino in 2001, the diplome in Electronic Engineering at Supélec Paris in 2001, and the Degree in Doctor of Medicine at Università di Torino in 2007. He is currently Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Torino, working on microwave breast cancer detection. He teaches courses in Biomedical Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Analysis, Numerical Signal analysis; he cooperates with hospitals in Torino as a consultant on biomedical signal analysis.

His research interest cover cancer detection (focusing on microwave detection), nanovectors and nanotechnologies, signal processing applied to biomedical signals.

Delivery of integrated ICT services for elderly with mild dementia for independent living and enhanced quality of life

Biomaterials and Biosensors

The special section is focusing particularly on polymeric and bioceramic materials as well as biosensors of biomedical interest. An attention will be focussed on the detection of nucleic acids and proteins as well as routine application of biosensors in biotechnology and clinical labs.

Organizer/chairman: Jan Labuda, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Jan Labuda received the Diploma in Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in 1973 and the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees 1978 and 2001, respectively. Since 1978 he has held the position of assistent professor, since 1984 associate professor and since 2003 he is full professor of Analytical Chemistry at the same University. His teaching activity is focused on Analytical Chemistry and Bioanalytical Chemistry. His special training were in 1979 and 1983 on Chemistry of Macrocyclic Compounds and Bioinorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1980 on Redox Chemistry and Determination of Biological Active Compounds at the Zentralinstitut für Ernährung, Potsdam, Germany, in 1992 on Voltammetric Trace Metal Analysis at the University of Mainz, Germany, in 1993 on Clinical Trace Analysis at the Ionetics Analyzers, Inc., California, USA, in 1996 on Chemically Modified Electrodes for Capillary Electrophoresis at the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1997 on DNA Based Biosensors at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle, Germany, and in 2000on DNA Based Biosensors at the University of Rostock, and UFZ Leipzig, Germany.

Professor Jan Labuda is Director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, the Delegate of the Slovak Chemical Society at the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, EuCheMS (since 1999), titular member of the Analytical Chemistry Division of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC (since 2006), chairman of the Analytical Chemistry group of the Slovak Chemical Society (since 2005), member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Sensors (2001 to 2005), invited editor of the Special Issue of Sensors, Vol. 5, “DNA Biosensors” (2005), member of the Editorial Board of the journal Chemical Papers (since 2006), assessor (1997 to 2001) and head assessor (since 2001) for testing laboratories of the Slovak National Accreditation Service.

His research interests: electroanalytical chemistry, sensors and biosensors, particularly those based on nucleic acids. Total number of journal publications: 115. Science Citation Index: 600. He was/is coordinator of various research projects.

Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Organizer/Chairman: Liljana Gavrilovska, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Skopje, R.Macedonia

Heterogeneous wireless networks pose many interesting research challenges. They aim to support horizontal (HHO) and vertical (VHO) handovers in order to provide seamless communications in a 4G manner. The IEEE 802.21 standard focuses on the VHO performance enhancement providing seamless communication and sustaining the needed QoS level.The Radio Resource Management arises as a vital part in such hybrid environment. Its goal is to efficiently allocate scarcely available radio resources, exploiting the diversity gain of multiple access technologies and supporting variety of applications with different QoS requirements. The challenge for wireless operator is to increase their service portfolio and to maximize the revenue providing to the users the context-rich and personalized services. The special session is intended to present some novel ideas and implementations related to heterogeneous wireless environment and VHOs, radio resource management and emerging IEEE802.21 standard.

Liljana Gavrilovska currently holds the position of full professor at the Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje, working in the area of telecommunication networks and wireless and mobile communications. She has received her B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D. from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, University of Belgrade and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, respectively. During 1982 she was involved in research with University of Erlangen, Germany (Carl-Duisburg grant); 1992/1993 as a recipient of bilateral Yugoslavian-Canadian government grant, she was involved with University of Toronto, Canada. She joined the Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK), Aalborg University, Denmark, in January 2000, where she was holding the position of invited professor and later as Associate Research Professor (2001-2002). From 2003-2005 she was involved with CTiF (Center for TeleInfrastructure) with the same position on a partly basis and participated in several EU and national /international projects (EU IST PACWOMAN, MAGNET, joint Siemens/AAU project, FACE, etc.). In the period 2007-2008, prof. Gavrilovska was Deputy Coordinator and Technical Project Manager for the FP6 MAGNET Beyond project. She also participates in FP7 ARAGORN, FP7 ProSense projects and NATO funded SfP RIWCoS project.
Dr. Gavrilovska is author / co-author of more than 100 research journal and conference publications and technical papers. She worked on the books Towards a Global 3G System: Advanced Mobile Communications in Europe, Vol. I and II (ed. R. Prasad, Artech House, 2001, Boston) within her engagement in the ACTS project ASAP (FP4). Dr. Gavrilovska is a co-author of the book Ad Hoc Networking towards Seamless Communications (L. Gavrilovska, R. Prasad, Springer, 2006).

Her major research interest at the moment is concentrated on cognitive networking, ad hoc networking, future mobile systems, reconfigurable interoperability of wireless communications systems, wireless and personal area networks, cross-layer optimizations, broadband wireless access technologies and traffic analysis. She is a senior member of IEEE and serves as a Chair of the Macedonian ComSoc Chapter.