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Zoran Hadzi-Velkov

Zoran Hadzi-Velkov
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Information Technologies
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
ul. Rugjer Boskovik b.b.
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
fax: +389 2 3064 262
Office Phone: +389 2 3099 118

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Biography:

Dr. Zoran Hadzi-Velkov is born in Skopje. He received the Dipl. Ing. (honors), M.Sc. (honors), and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, in 1996, 2000, and 2003, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He currently holds the position of Professor in telecommunications at this University.

During 2001 and 2002, on leave from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Dr. Hadzi-Velkov was a visiting scientist at the International Business Machines (IBM) T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he was engaged in optical communications. He has also been a visiting researcher at several renowned European universities.

Publications of Dr. Hadzi-Velkov have appeared in the most renowned international journals in telecommunications, such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications.

Dr. Hadzi-Velkov has served on the technical program committees (TPC) of numerous major international conferences in telecommunications, including the flagship conferences IEEE ICC and the IEEE GLOBECOM.

His current research interests include cooperative communications, energy-efficient (green) communications, and radio channel characterization and modeling.

Dr. Hadzi-Velkov is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Since April 2012, he is the Chair of the Republic of Macedonia IEEE ComSoc Chapter.

Dr. Hadzi-Velkov is the recipient of the UKIM Best Scientist Award for the year 2013.

Dr. Hadzi-Velkov is a Humboldt Fellow. He was awarded the Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in 2012.

From October 2012  until January 2014, Dr. Hadzi-Velkov was a visiting professor at the Institute for Digital Communications (Chair: Prof. Robert Schober), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

Since January 2012, Dr. Hadzi-Velkov is an Editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS.

 

Publications

Awards

Professional activities

Ongoing projects

Courses

News

 

Awards and Honors

  • Return Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014)
  • UKIM Best Scientist Award for the Year 2013 (2014). Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje confers this award annually for scientific achievements of its academic staff
  • Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2012). The fellowship is awarded to international researchers from all scientific disciplines in recognition to their scientific achievements
  • Chapter Achievement Award for the Republic of Macedonia ComSoc Chapter (2014). The IEEE Communications Society has conferred the 2014 Chapter Achievement Award for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region to the Macedonia ComSoc Chapter. Prof. Zoran Hadzi-Velkov has been the Chair of Macedonia ComSoc Chapter in the mandate period 2012-2015

 

Professional activities

  • Editorial Board Member (Editor) for the journal IEEE Communications Letters (since January 2012)
  • Technical program committee (TPC) member for the following international conferences: IEEE VTC 2013, IEEE ICC 2013, IEEE ICC 2014, IEEE VTC 2015, IEEE BlackSeaCom 2015, IEEE ICC 2015, IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, IEEE BlackSeaCom 2016, IEEE GLOBECOM WC 2016, IEEE GLOBECOM SPC 2016
  • Chair of the R. Macedonia Chapter of IEEE Communications Society. Promotional article for the Chapter, published in IEEE Communications Magazine, is available at the following link
  • Address delivered as an independent distinguished expert at the 2014 Conference on Western Balkan States in Berlin (upon personal invitation of the German Chancellor)
  • Address delivered at the 1st Joint Science Conference - Intergovernmental Initiative Western Balkans as a distinguished scientist from Macedonia (upon ad personam invitation of the President of the German National Academy of Sciences)
  • Address delivered at the 3rd Joint Science Conference Western Balkans as a distinguished scientist from Macedonia (upon ad personam invitation of the President of the French Academy of Sciences). More information is available at the following link
  • Lecture "Young scholars as the driving force of society (a broader view)" delivered at conference Humboldt Kolleg Ohrid, April 2018
  • Lecture "Role of University for the Western Balkans Smart Growth" delivered at conference Humboldt Kolleg Belgrade, September 2018

 

Journals

  1. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, S. Pejoski, N. Zlatanov, and R. Schober, "Proportional fairness in ALOHA networks with RF energy harvesting", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp: 277-280, Feb. 2019, available here
  2. I. Nikoloska, N. Zlatanov, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Capacity of a full-duplex wirelessly powered communication system with self-interference and processing cost", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 11, pp: 6748-7659, Nov. 2018
  3. S. Pejoski, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and R. Schober, "Optimal power and time allocation for WPCNs with piece-wise linear EH model", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 364-367, March 2018
  4. F. Zhao, H. Lin, C. Zhong, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K. Karagiannidis, and Z. Zhang, "On the capacity of wireless powered communication systems over Rician fading channels", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 404-417, Jan. 2018
  5. N. Zlatanov, R. Schober, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Asymptotically Optimal Power Allocation for Energy Harvesting Communication Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 7286-7301, Aug. 2017, available here
  6. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, I. Nikoloska, H. Chingoska, and N. Zlatanov, "Opportunistic scheduling in wireless powered communication networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 4106-4119, June 2017
  7. S. Pejoski, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, T. Q. Duong, and C. Zhong, "Wireless powered communication networks with non-ideal circuit power consumption," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1429-1432, June 2017
  8. I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and H. Chingoska, "Rate maximization in wireless powered communication systems with non-ideal circuit power consumption," Microwave review, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 16-20, Dec. 2016, available here
  9. H. Chingoska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, I. Nikoloska, and N. Zlatanov, "Resource Allocation in Wireless Powered Communication Networks with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 5, no. 6, Dec. 2016, pp: 684-687, Accepted
  10. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, I. Nikoloska, H. Chingoska, and N. Zlatanov, "Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks With RF Energy Harvesting and Processing Cost", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 10, pp: 2107-2110, Oct. 2016
  11. J. Stosic, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Performance Analysis of Decouple-and-Forward MIMO Relay Systems in Rayleigh Fading", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 70, pp: 1259-1267, Sept. 2016
  12. N.-P. Nguyen, T.Q. Duong, H.Q. Ngo, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and L. Shu, "Secure 5G Wireless Communications: A Joint Relay Selection and Wireless Power Transfer Approach", IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp: 3349-3359, 2016
  13. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, I. Nikoloska, G. K. Karagiannidis, and T. Q. Duong, "Wireless Networks with Energy Harvesting and Power Transfer: Joint Power and Time Allocation", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp: 50 - 54, Jan. 2016, available on Arxiv here
  14. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, T. Q. Duong, and R. Schober, "Rate Maximization of Decode-and-Forward Relaying Systems with RF Energy Harvesting", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 12, pp: 2290-2293, Dec. 2015, available on Arxiv here
  15. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, and R. Schober, "Multiple-access fading channel with wireless power transfer and energy harvesting", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 10, pp: 1863-1865, October 2014, available on arXiv here
  16. J. Stosic, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Simple tight approximations of the error performance for dual-hop MIMO relay systems in Rayleigh fading", AEÜE International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 67, vo. 10, pp: 854-860, October 2013
  17. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, D. S. Michalopoulos, G. K. Karagiannidis, and Robert Schober, "On the Effect of Outdated Channel Estimation in Variable Gain Relaying: Error Performance and PAPR", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, No. 3, pp: 1084-1097, March 2013

  18. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K. Karagiannidis, and R. Schober, “Cooperative Diversity With Mobile Nodes: Capacity Outage Rate and Duration”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, No. 10, October 2011, available here

  19. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and N. Zlatanov “Outage Rates and Outage Durations of Opportunistic Relaying Systems”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14 , No. 2, February 2010, pp: 148 – 150, available here

  20. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and G. K. Karagiannidis, "An Efficient Approximation to the Correlated Nakagami-m Sums and its Application in Equal Gain Diversity Receivers," IEEE Transactions On Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, No.1, January 2010, pp: 302-310, available here

  21. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, G. K. Karagiannidis, “On the Second Order Statistics of the Multihop Rayleigh Fading Channel“, IEEE Transactions On Communications, Vol. 57, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 1815-1823, available on arXiv here

  22. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G.K. Karagiannidis, "Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of the Double Nakagami-m Random Process and Application in MIMO Keyhole Fading Channels", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 12, No. 11, Nov. 2008, pp. 822-824, available on arXiv here

  23. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, “Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of EGC Systems With Cochannel Interference in Rayleigh Fading”, IEEE Transactions On Communications, Vol. 55, No. 11, Nov. 2007, pp. 2104 - 2113, available on arXiv here

  24. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, “Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of Dual Selection Combining With Cochannel Interference and Nakagami Fading”, IEEE Transactions On Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 11, Nov. 2007, pp. 3870 – 3876, available on arXiv here

  25. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, “Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of Selection Diversity With Rician-Faded Cochannel Interferers”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 10, No. 9, Sept. 2006, pp. 649 - 651

  26. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, B. Spasenovski and Z. Nikolic, "Capture Effect in Wireless LANs with RAKE Reception of DSSS/DPSK Signals", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 60, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 199 - 207

  27. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “On the Capacity of IEEE 802.11 DCF with Capture in Multipath-faded Channels”, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Kluwer Academic, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2002, pp. 191–199

  28. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “On the Influence of Correlated Rayleigh-Fading channel with Capture over IEEE 802.11 WLANs”, Journal Telecommunications, Vol. 49, No. 4. December 2001, pp. 18–22

  29. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and L. Gavrilovska, “Performance of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs and Influence of Hidden Terminals”, Facta Universitatis, Series: Electronics and Energetics, vol. 13, No. 1, April 2000, pp. 39–49




Book chapters

  1. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, S. Pejoski, and N. Zlatanov, "Fairness-aware wireless powered communications with processing cost", Chapter 7, Book: Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Theory and Practice, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-119-47679-5, Jan. 2019
  2. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and D.W.K. Ng, "Asymptotically optimal power allocation for wireless powered communication network with non-orthogonal multiple access", Chapter 10 of Book: Wireless power transfer algorithms, technologies and applications in ad hoc communication networks, Springer, Nov. 2016




Conferences (selected)

  1. I. Nikoloska, N. Zlatanov, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "On the capacity of a full-duplex wirelessly powered communication system with self-interference and processing cost", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), CT Symposium, 20 - 24 May 2018, Kansas City, USA
  2. F. Zhao, H. Lin, C. Zhong, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K. Karagiannidis, and Z. Zhang, "Capacity of wireless powered communication systems over Rician fading channels", Proc. The Ninth International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2017), 11 - 13 October 2017, Nanjing, China
  3. A. Ichkov, I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and L. Gavrilovska, "Uplink successful transmission probability in energy-harvesting cellular networks", Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2017 (IEEE CCNC 2017), 8 - 11 Jan. 2017, Las Vegas, USA
  4. N.-P. Nguyen, Y. Huang, T.Q. Duong, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and B. Canberk, "Secure wireless communications with relay selection and wireless powered transfer", Proc. EUSIPCO 2016, 29 Aug - 2 Sept 2016, Budapest, Hungary
  5. H. Chingoska, I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and N. Zlatanov, "Proportional fair scheduling in wireless powered communication networks", Proc. 2016 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2016), Thessaloniki, Greece, 16-18 May 2016
  6. I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and H. Cingoska, "Performance of communication systems with RF energy-harvesting and processing cost", Proc. Telsiks 2015, Nis, Serbia, 14-17 October 2015
  7. J. Stosic, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Outage Probability of Dual-Hop MIMO Relay Systems with Direct Links", Proc. First International Conference Faboulos 2015 (Springer proceedings), Ohrid, Macedonia, 23-25 Sept. 2015
  8. I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and H. Cingoska, "Resource Allocation in Energy Harvesting Communication Systems", Proc. First International Conference Faboulos 2015 (Springer proceedings), Ohrid, Macedonia, 23-25 Sept. 2015
  9. I. Nikoloska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and H. Cingoska, "Throughput maximization in Energy Harvesting Communication Systems", Proc. ETAI 2015, Ohrid, Macedonia, Sept. 2015
  10. H. Cingoska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, I. Nikoloska, "Simultaneous information and power transfer systems in co-channel interference", Proc. ETAI 2015, Ohrid, Macedonia, Sept. 2015
  11. V. Rakovic, D. Denkovski, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, L. Gavrilovska, "Optimal Time Sharing in Underlay Cognitive Radio Systems with RF Energy Harvesting", Proc. IEEE ICC 2015, London, UK, 8-12 June 2015, available on arXiv here
  12. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, and R. Schober, "Optimal Power Control for Analog Bidirectional Relaying with Long-Term Relay Power Constraint", Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA, 9-13 December 2013, available on arXiv here
  13. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and R. Schober, "Asymptotically Optimal Power Allocation for Point-to-Point Energy Harvesting Communication Systems", Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA, 9-13 December 2013, available here
  14. J. Stosic, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Outage Probability Approximations for Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relay Systems in Rayleigh Fading", Proc. 11th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services (TELSIKS 2013), Nis, Serbia, 16-19 October 2013
  15. J. Stosic and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, “Approximate Performance Analysis of Dual-hop Decouple-and-Forward MIMO Relaying”, Proc. XI International Conference ETAI 2013, Ohrid, Macedonia, 26-28 September 2013
  16. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, and R. Schober, "Optimal Power Allocation for Three-phase Bidirectional DF Relaying with Fixed Rates", Proc. The Tenth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2013), invited paper, Ilmenau, Germany, 27-30 August 2013, available on arXiv here
  17. D. Michalopoulos, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K. Karagiannidis, and R. Schober, "PAPR of Variable-Gain and Fixed-Gain Amplify and Forward Relaying", Proc. 9th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Munich, Germany, 21-24 January 2013
  18. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, D. S. Michalopoulos, G. K. Karagiannidis, R. Schober, "Dual-hop Amplify-and-Forward Transmission with Imperfect Channel Estimates at the Relay", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 2012
  19. K. Smiljkovic and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Asymptotic Performance of Dual-hop Non-regenerative Cooperative Systems With or Without Direct Path", Proc. Eighth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2011), Aachen, Germany, Nov. 2011
  20. N. Zlatanov, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K. Karagiannidis, and R. Schober, "Outage Rate and Outage Duration of Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Diversity Systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011
  21. N. Zlatanov, R. Schober, G. K. Karagiannidis, and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Average outage and non-outage duration of selective decode-and-forward relaying", Proc. 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT), Kelowna, Canada, May 2011
  22. T. A. Tsiftsis, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, G. K Karagiannidis and N. Zlatanov, "Relaying utilization metrics of diamond cooperative diversity systems", Proc. IEEE 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena, Italy, May 2010
  23. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, G. K. Karagiannidis, “An Accurate Approximation to the Distribution of the Sum of Equally Correlated Nakagami-m Envelopes and its Application in Equal Gain Diversity Receivers”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, 14-18 June, 2009, available on arXiv here
  24. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, N. Zlatanov, G. K. Karagiannidis, “Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of the Multihop Fading Channels”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2008 (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, 19-23 May, 2008, available on arXiv here
  25. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, “Second-Order Statistics of Selection Combining Systems with Cochannel Interference in Various Fading Channels”, Proc. IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 2007 (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, 3-7 Sept. 2007
  26. P. Latkoski, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, B. Popovski, “Extended Model for Performance Analysis of Non-Saturated IEEE 802.11 DCF in Erroneous Channel”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems 2006 (MASS 2006), Vancouver, Canada, 9-12 Oct. 2006
  27. Z. B. Nikolic, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, B. Dimitrijevic, N.D. Milosevic, “Interference Rejection in UWB Radio System Using Adaptive Transversal Filter”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer as a Tool 2005 (EUROCON 2005), Vol. 1, Belgrade, Serbia, 22-24 Nov. 2005
  28. P. Latkoski, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, B. Popovski, “Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11a WLAN in Block Fading Channel using SDL Simulation”, Proc. 7th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services 2005 (TELSIKS 2005), Nis, Serbia, 28-30 Sept. 2005
  29. Z. Hadzi-Velkov, Z. Nikolic, N. Milosevic, B. Dimitrijevic, “Capture Models for Generalized Fading Channels”, Proc. 7th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services 2005 (TELSIKS 2005), Nis, Serbia, 28-30 Sept. 2005
  30. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Capture Effect with Diversity in IEEE 802.11b DCF”, Proc. Eight IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2003 (ISCC 2003), June 30 – July 3, 2003, Antalya, Turkey
  31. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Saturation Throughput – Delay Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF in Fading Channel”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2003 (ICC 2003), 11–15 May, 2003, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, available on arXiv here
  32. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “An Analysis of CSMA/CA Protocol with Capture in Wireless LANs”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference 2003 (WCNC 2003), 16–29 March, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  33. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Analysis of Throughput and Spatial Fairness of IEEE 802.11b DCF with Capture”, Proc. IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks 2002 (CCN 2002), 4–6 November, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, USA
  34. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Capture Effect in IEEE 802.11 Basic Service Area under Influence of Rayleigh Fading and Near/Far Effect”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2002), 15–18 September, 2002, Lisboa, Portugal
  35. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Influence of Hidden Stations and Capture Effect over IEEE 802.11b Distributed Coordination Function”, Proc. IEEE Networks 2002 (Joint IEEE International Conference on Wireless LANs, PANs and Home Networks ICWLHN 2002 & ICN 2002), 26–29 August, 2002, Atlanta, GA, USA
  36. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Capture Effect in IEEE 802.11 WLANs”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Wireless LANs, PANs and Home Networks (ICWLHN 2001), 5–7 December, 2001, Singapore
  37. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “On the Influence of Correlated Rayleigh-Fading channel with Capture over IEEE 802.11 WLANs”, Proc. IEEE 5th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services (TELSIKS 2001), 19–21 September, 2001, Nis, Yugoslavia
  38. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “IEEE 802.11 DCF with Capture over Rician-Fading Channel”, Proc. The Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks, 27–28 September 2001, Boston, USA
  39. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “The Influence of Flat Rayleigh-Fading Channel with Hidden Terminals and Capture over the IEEE 802.11 WLANs”, Proc. IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001 Fall), 7–11 October, 2001, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
  40. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function over Flat-Fading Radio Channel”, Proc. 10th Aachen Symposium Signal Theory (ASST), 20–21 September, 2001, Aachen, Germany
  41. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “Performance Comparison of IEEE 802.11 and ETHI Hiperlan type 1 under Influence of Burst-Noise Channel”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2000), Chicago, IL, USA, September 23-28, 2000
  42. Z. Hadzi-Velkov and B. Spasenovski, “IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HIPERLAN type 1 under Influence of Burst-Noise Channel”, Proc. IEEE IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2000 Fall), Boston, MA, USA September 24-28, 2000

 

 

Former Master and PhD students

  • Dr. Katina Kralevska, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway
  • Dr. Jovan Stosic, Assistant Professor at the University "Goce Delcev" in Stip, Macedonia
  • Ivana Nikoloska, MSc, doctoral candidate at the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia

 

 

Ongoing projects

  • Bilateral research project "Wireless Powered Communication Networks" (begin date: 1 January 2017, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (Linkage Group Program), Project co-leader: Zoran Hadzi-Velkov)
  • International (Macedonian-Chinese) research project: "Energy efficiency in wireless powered communication networks" (begin date: 1 January 2016, Project leader: Zoran Hadzi-Velkov)
  • Research project “Cooperative Diversity in Future Mobile Networks”, Project No: 13-4433 (Begin date: October 2010, Project leader: Dr. Zoran Hadzi-Velkov, Funded by Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Macedonia)

 

Courses

  1. Fundamentals of communications (4th semester, B.Sc. curriculum Telecommunications)

  2. Simulation methods (5th semester, B.Sc. curriculum Telecommunications)

  3. Radio channels and propagation (6th semester, B.Sc. curriculum Telecommunications)

  4. Digital communications (7th semester, B.Sc. curriculum System control engineering)

  5. Radio mobile communications (9th semester, M.Sc. curriculum Wireless Communications)

  6. Communication system simulation (9th semester, M.Sc. curriculum Wireless Communications)

  7. Cooperative communications (10th semester, M.Sc. curriculum Wireless Communications and PhD curriculum Electrical Engineering)

 

News

  • March 14, 2011: Nikola Zlatanov is the laureate of the Young Scientist Award for the Year 2010, which is awarded by the President of the Republic of Macedonia. He obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees in wireless communications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, both under supervision of prof. dr. Zoran Hadzi-Velkov.

  • August 1, 2012: Dr. Hadzi-Velkov receives the Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers. The fellowship is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for previous scientific achievements in all scientific disciplines, and is aimed at sponsoring research stays at German universities.
  • February 6, 2014: Dr. Hadzi-Velkov receives the UKIM Best Scientist Award for the Year 2013. This award is conferred annually to the top ten scientists affiliated with the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
  • 11 June 2015: Dr. Nikola Zlatanov has accepted a Lecturer position at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Nikola Zlatanov has obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees at FEIT/UKIM under supervision of Prof. Hadzi-Velkov (currently close collaborators)

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