Professor Branka Vucetic
MSc PhD Belgrade, MIEEE FIEAust MAAEE
Director of the Telecommunications Laboratory
J03 - Electrical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney
Biographical details
Professor Branka Vucetic's work aims to design wireless communication devices with high coverage and data rates. She is an internationally recognized expert in coding theory and its applications in wireless engineering. Professor Vucetic has held various research and academic positions in the UK, Yugoslavia and Australia, and since 1986 she has been with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Sydney University, where she is is currently a Professor in Telecommunications and the Director of the Telecommunications Laboratory.
Her research interests include wireless communications, digital communication theory, error control coding and multi-user detection. Prof Vucetic published four books and more than two hundred papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings. She is an IEEE Fellow and a former Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. In the last several years she has managed several projects related to wireless communications networks development, addressing the issues like interference cancellation, multiple antenna signal processing and coding as well as multiple access technologies. The main currently active projects are Interference Cancellation in Co-Working Wireless Local Area Networks, Network Coding and Wireless Sensor Networks for Environment and Energy Monitoring.
Selected grants
2013
- ATVRE - Assistive Technologies for Virtual Rehabilitation Engineering; Feng D, Dehghani F, Dunstan C, Jin C, Kim J, Li Q, McEwan A, Ruys A, Brooker G, Buckley T, Cai W, Davis G, Fornusek C, Fulham M, Khadra M, Mohamed A, Murray G, Peck C, Vucetic B, Weiss A; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
- Inter-Cell Interference Modelling and Control in Future Cellular Systems; Vucetic B, Hardjawana W; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2011
- LNK: 2011/Round2/ARC LP110200744, Radio resources and inter-cell interference management in smart gr; Hardjawana W, Vucetic B; Ausgrid/Project Support.
- Radio resources and inter-cell interference management in smart grid wireless access networks; Vucetic B, Hardjawana W; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- LNK: 2011/Round1/ARC Linkage Project LP110100110 Design of Network Coding Schemes for Next Generatio; Hofman S, Lin Z, Chau L, Vucetic B; Zhongxing Technology Equipment/Project Support.
- Design of Network Coding Schemes for Next Generation of Wireless Cellular Systems; Vucetic B, Lin Z, Xiao P, Wu Y; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
2010
- Performance Analysis of DNA-Based Sleep/Active Scheduler in a Real Wireless Sensor Network; Vucetic B, Suthaharan S; DVC Research/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
- Network code division multiplexing in multi-system wireless networks; Vucetic B, Zhou Z; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2009
- Towards real-time diagnostic system enhancement for distribution transformers; Vucetic B, Clark A, Cheema J; Energy Australia/Research Support.
- An intelligent integrated energy communication system; Agelidis V, Vucetic B, Li Y; Australian Research Council/Linkage Projects (LP).
- An intelligent integrated energy communication system; Birk P, Agelidis V, Vucetic B, Agelidis V, Li Y; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
2008
- Dynamic Spectrum Access in Multi-Hop Wireless Broadband Networks; Vucetic B, Li Y, Dohler M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2007
- Design and Implementation of Ultra-Low Power Cooperative Communication Terminals; Oklobdzija V, Tao X, Xiaofeng T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery.
- Development of 4G wireless communication systems and wireless sensor networks; Ambikairajah E, Reisenfeld S, Agbinya J, Lal S, Oklobdzija V, Li Y, Jamalipour A, Mao G, Yuan J, Nooshabadi S, Ning J, Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/LIEF.
2006
- University of Sydney - Bridging Support Grant; Vucetic B; University of Sydney/Bridging Support.
2005
- Adaptive MIMO Signalling Techniques and Their Applications in Wireless Communications and Radar Systems; Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
- Distributed Location Estimation Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks; Vucetic B; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
2004
- Linkage 2004 Round Two - Integration of wireless LAN and GPRS/UMTS cellular systems LP0455209; Jamalipour A, Vucetic B, Santoso A, Tang Y; Optus Networks Pty Ltd/Project Support.
- Transparent network architecture and access technologies for high speed wireless communications.; Jamalipour A, Vucetic B; DEST/Innovation Access Program.
- Investigate cross polarization problem for proposed 2 point constellation and develop a pseudo-random polarization shift keying (PRPSK) system; Narayanan M, Yunus N, Vucetic B; Polarizone Technologies Sdn.,Bhd., Malaysia/BLO Project.
- Integration of Wireless LAN and GPRS/UMTS Cellular Systems; Jones B, Jamalipour A, Vucetic B, Jones B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
2003
- Space-Time Coding and Receiver Structures for High Speed Wireless Communications; Vucetic B, Yuan J; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2002
- Novel Multistage and Iterative Receivers for Wireless Communication Systems; Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2001
- Capacity Enhancement of the GSM Cellular Network; Jamalipour A, Duncan A, Babai P, Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
2000
- Coding for multiuser CDMA systems; Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Earlier schemes: Small Grants.
- Joint source and channel coding; Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
- Soft decision decoding of block codes; Vucetic B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
1999
- Research entitled Wireless Data Communications between the University of Sydney and Nortel Networks Australia Pty Ltd; Clarke J, Hauw D, Vucetic B; Nortel Network Australia Pty Ltd/BLO Project.
Selected publications
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Space-Time Coding (Wiley, 2003)
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Dynamic spectrum access for wireless multi-hop cognitive radio networks
- Cooperative communications for future wireless networks
- Distributed network channel coding for wireless sensor networks
- Game theory based transmission strategies for cognitive radio
- Interference Cancellation in Co-working WLANs
- Precoded multiuser MIMO and packet scheduling
- Cooperative transmission in MIMO relay broadcast channels
- Iterative channel estimation for high mobility MIMO-OFDM systems


