News

ICONIC researchers part of H2020 MARVEL

Date: 01st January 2021.

H2020 project MARVEL (Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments) kick-started in January 2021. ICONIC centre researcher Prof. Dragana Bajovic is a Scientist in Charge on behalf of the University of Novi Sad, she is Technical Coordinator of H2020 MARVEL, and the project will involve a number of researchers from ICONIC. For more information about the project, please see the project webpage: https://www.marvel-project.eu/.

ICONIC Team Received 1st Prize on IEEE VTS UAV Challenge

Date: December 2020.

Great news for the end of the year! Our PhD student team lead by Srdjan Sobot that includes Dusan Bortnik and Vladimir Nikic (ICONIC, University of Novi Sad) and Brena Lima (COPELABS, Lusofona University) won the first prize and qualified for Stage 2 of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society UAV Innovation Challenge with their design entry entitled “Two-Tier UAV-based NB-IoT Networks for Coordinated Missions in Deep Rural Environments”. Looking forward to deployment stage!

Link for IEEE VTS Innovation Challenge: https://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/authors/vts-innovation-challenge-for-students/

Paper Published in Proceedings of the IEEE!

Date: November 2020

Research paper entitled “Primal-Dual Methods for Large-Scale and Distributed Convex Optimization and Data Analytics” with ICONIC researcher Dragana Bajovic as a coauthor is published in flagship IEEE journal Proceedings of the IEEE. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9151295

Paper Published in IEEE TVT

Date: October 2020

Research paper entitled “Mixed RF-VLC Relaying Systems for Interference-Sensitive Mobile Applications” with ICONIC researchers Milica Petkovic, Milan Narandzic and Dejan Vukobratovic as coauthors is published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9136906

ICONIC researchers part of H2020 INCISIVE

Date: 01st October 2020.

H2020 project INCISIVE (A multimodal AI-based toolbox and an interoperable health imaging repository for the empowerment of imaging analysis related to the diagnosis, prediction and follow-up of cancer) kick-started in October 2020. ICONIC centre researcher Prof. Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo is a Scientist in Charge on behalf of the University of Novi Sad, and the project will involve a number of researchers from ICONIC. For more information about the project, please see the project webpage: https://incisive-project.eu/.

H2020 INCOMING Newsletter No 1

Date: 30th September 2020.

H2020 INCOMING project is a flagship project of ICONIC centre that aims to upgrade the centre research and innovation activities in the following three years (2020-2022): https://incoming.ftn.uns.ac.rs/.

As part of the project, we are starting with a host of activies during 2020/2021. Read how the project is set up and the results in the first 9 months of the project in H2020 INCOMING Newsletter No 1.

Link on PDF document: Newsletter_NO1_September2020_ICONIC

Innovation Fund Proof of Concept Project

Date: September 2020

The Proof of Concept project on federated learning empowered NB-IoT device for number recognition for legacy smart metering applications is approved for funding by Innovation Fund of Republic of Serbia. Congratulations to Dr Ivan Mezei, project lead, and all ICONIC staff involved in this research and development project.

Link: https://www.inovacionifond.rs/program/dokaz-koncepta

Paper Published in Trans IT

Date: August 2020

Research paper entitled “Second- and Third-Order Asymptotics of the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel” with ICONIC researcher Mladen Kovacevic as a coauthor is published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9067090

Massive NB-IoT testbed at ICONIC Centre

Date: June 2020

NB-IoT testbed with more than 100 custom-designed NB-IoT devices is being set up at ICONIC centre in collaboration with a mobile operator in Serbia. The devices will log large amount of data related to NB-IoT module communication, radio conditions and energy consumption. For preliminary information about our platform, please check our recent IEEE Smart IoT 2020 conference paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13648.

Paper Published in IEEE ACCESS

Research paper entitled “High Bit-Depth Seismic Data Compression: A Novel Codec Under the Framework of HEVC” with ICONIC researcher Milos Radosavljevic and Dejan Vukobratovic as coauthors is published in premier IEEE open access journal IEEE Access. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9121267

Paper Published in IEEE CLET

Date: June 2020

Research paper entitled “Adaptive Multi-Receiver Coded Slotted ALOHA for Indoor Optical Wireless Communications” with ICONIC researcher Dejan Vukobratovic as a coauthor is published in IEEE Communication Letters. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9037296