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Prof. Dr. Gorazd KANDUS

Contact Information:

Address: Institut Jožef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia,

Phone: +386 1 4773 608, GSM: +386 41 703 337,

Fax: +386 1 4262 102, Email: gorazd.kandus@ijs.si

Education:

B. Sc. Electrical Engineering, 1971, University of Ljubljana,

M. Sc. Electrical Engineering, 1974, University of Ljubljana,

Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, 1991, University of Ljubljana,

Employment:

1971-1974: Institute of Transportation,

Research work: Development of mathematical model of railway network and programming of software package for empty freight car allocation.

1975-1979: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana,

Teaching assistant for Optimization methods and Operations research,

1979 to date: Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana,
1993 to date: Head of Department of digital communications and computer networks at IJS,
1998 to date: Associated Professor at Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, teaching Mobile Communications

Stays abroad:

1978/79: 9-months, Fulbright Grant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., USA,

1993: 3-months, Commision of the European Communities Fellowship, University of Karlsruhe, Germany,

1995 2-months, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe.

1999 2-months, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, Oberpfaffenhofen

Recent national R&D projects:

Digital Radio-Relay Systems 2/8/34 Mb/s, Ministry of Science and Technology, Iskra Transmission,

Digital telecommunication systems, Ministry of Science and Technology, Telekom Slovenia,

Mobile and personal communications, Ministry of Science and Technology, Iskra Telemobil,

New software architecture design for PABX SI2000/V5, Iskratel,

Automatic test scenario generation for telecommunication services, Iskratel,

Global Modernization Plan of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Services in Slovenia, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Transport and Communications,

Universal Mobile Telecomunications System, Ministry of Science and Technology,

Telecomunication Systems, Ministry of Science and Technology, Telekom Slovenia,

Secure Communications in Slovene Health Insurance Card System, The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia,

Telecommunication network for highways in Slovenia, DARS,

Implementation of SE-CMM model, Iskratel,

Design of TETRA network in Slovenia, Telekom Slovenije,

Compression and transmission of video signals, Iskra Transmission.

International R&D projects:

ERO project “UMTS“, European Radiocommunication Office,

AMS DECT RF-IF part simulation; Austria Mikro Systeme International,

REMUS feasibility study, Austria Mikro Systeme International,

COPERNICUS COP-708 project: "Advanced Transmission and Network Management Techniques in Integrated Satellite/Terrestrial Mobile Systems",

COPERNICUS project: “NETLINK-CEE: Transfer of EU Experience in Healthcards into the CEE Countries under the Auspices of the NETLINK Project”,

HELINET (5FP-IST-1999-11214) “Network of Stratospheric Platforms for Traffic Monitoring, Environmental Surveillance and Broadband Services“

COST 227 Action “Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks”,

COST 231 Action "Evolution of Land Mobile Radio (Including Personal) Communications”,

COST 252 Action: "Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from 2nd to Future Generation Systems",

COST 253 Action: "Service-Efficient Network Interconnection via Satellites",

COST 259 Action: "Wireless Flexible Personalized Communications",

COST 272 Action: "Packet-oriented Service Delivery Via Satellite”,

COST 273 Action: "Towards Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks”,

COST 279 Action: "Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks Supporting Mobility, Multimedia and Internetworking”,

ALIS No. 65 project: “Integrated Dynamic Resource Control for QoS Provisioning in Multimedia Wireless Networks”,

Slovene-Croatian project: “Introduction of New Telematic Services”.

Membership:

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Member,

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society in the Computing Sciences, Member,

Who’s Who Historical Society, Member,

Electrical Society of Slovenia, Member,

Pattern Recognition Society of Slovenia,

Simulation and Modelling Society of Slovenia.

Participation in working and expert groups:

Chairman of the Intersectorial Governmental Working Group, Telecommunications Infrastructure and Services in Slovenia,
Member of the Governmental Commission for the granting of a Concession for using GSM and UMTS Frequency Spectrum and Services in Slovenia,
External Expert on UMTS, satellite componet, European Radiocommunication Office, Copenhagen,
Member of ITU-T WG-13.
Member of ITU-R SG-8,
Member of ETSI RES/TC 2 (DECT),
Member of TETRA WG4, ETSI, Sophia-Antipolis,
Expert for evaluation of 5FP IST Action Line IV.5 propocals, EC, Brussels,

Recent publications:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, Frantisek Vejrazka, "Modulation schemes for wireless access", Radioengineering (Prague), vol. 9, pp. 8-14, 2000.

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, "An adaptive rate communication system based on the N-MSK modulation technique", IEICE trans. commun., vol. E84-B, pp. 2946-2955, 2001.

Mihael Mohorcic, Markus Werner, Ales Svigelj, Gorazd Kandus, "Alternate link routing for traffic engineering in packet-oriented ISL networks", Int. j. satell. commun., vol. 19, pp. 463-480, 2001.

Roman Novak, Joze Rugelj, Gorazd Kandus, "A note on distributed multicast routing in point-to-point networks", Comput. oper. res., vol. 28, pp. 1149-1164, 2001.

Sreco Plevel, Tomaz Javornik, Igor Ozimek, Roman Trobec, Gorazd Kandus, "Viterbi algorithm for DSP processor", Inf. MIDEM, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 33-38, 2001.

Denis Trcek, Roman Novak, Gorazd Kandus, Marjan Suselj, "Slovene smart card and IP based health-care information system infrastructure", International journal of medical informatics, vol. 61, pp. 33-43, 2001.

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, "A 2MSK receiver based on the regeneration of the larger MSK signal component", Electrotech. rev., vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 34-39, 2002.

Gorazd Kandus, Mihael Mohorcic, Ales Svigelj, "Discrete link-cost function for best effort adaptive routing in packet-switched intersatellite link network", WSEAS transactions on communications, vol. 1, pp. 122-127, 2002.

Mihael Mohorcic, Ales Svigelj, Gorazd Kandus, Markus Werner, "Performance evaluation of adaptive routing algorithms in packet-switched intersatellite link networks", Int. j. satell. commun., vol. 20, pp. 97-120, 2002.

Ales Svigelj, Mihael Mohorcic, Gorazd Kandus, "Adaptive packet routing based on traffic class differentiation in intersatellite link networks", WSEAS transactions on communications, vol. 1, pp. 138-143, 2002.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Janez Bostic, Gorazd Kandus, Mihael Mohorcic, "Broadband fixed wireless access", Technologies and communication services for the online society: International Symposium on Telecommunications - VITEL 2000, October 16-17, 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. B-21-B-26.

August Jauk, Marko Bonac, Igor Ozimek, Gorazd Kandus, "Academic and research network of Slovenia", SoftCOM 2000, International conference on software, telecommunications and computer networks, Split - Rijeka, Croatia, Trieste - Venice, Italy, October 10-14, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 917-926.

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, "N-MSK adaptive modulation techniques in a slow Rayleigh fading channel", The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio, Communications, PIMRC 2000, London, UK, September 18-21, 2000, pp. 138-142.

Tomaz Kalin, Gorazd Kandus, Denis Trcek, Roman Novak, Marjan Suselj, "Smart-card- and IP-based infrastructure for a health-care information system in Slovenia", INET 2000: Internet Society, 2000,.

Igor Ozimek, Gorazd Kandus, "Experimental digital wireless communication system", The 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, ISITA2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November 5-8, 2000, pp. 947-950.

Uroš Drcic, Gorazd Kandus, Mihael Mohorcic, Tomaz Javornik, "Interplatform link requirements in the network of high altitude platforms", 19e Conférence et Exposition Internationales sur les Systemes de Communications par Satellites, 17-20 avril 2001-Toulouse, France, vol. 3/3, pp. 1-9.

Marjeta Frey Pucko, Roman Novak, Gorazd Kandus, "SEPAM - CMM implementation for developing telecommunications systems", A Net Odyssey, 27th EUROMICRO Conference, September 4-6, 2001, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 272-278.

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, "Multi-amplitude MSK signal performance in non-linear channel", SCVT2001, IEEE 8th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux, October 18, 2001, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 102-107.

Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus, Alister Burr, "The performance of N-GMSK signals in non-linear channels", WPMC'01, the Fourth Interntional Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, September 9-12, 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 391-394.

Mihael Mohorcic, Gorazd Kandus, "Link-cost function analysis for adaptive routing in packet-oriented ISL networks", 19e Conférence et Exposition Internationales sur les Systemes de Communications par Satellites, 17-20 avril 2001-Toulouse, France, vol. 2/3, pp. 1-9.

Roman Trobec, Roman Novak, Igor Ozimek, Gorazd Kandus, "Compressed image transmission on fix-rate digital channels", VIPromCom-2001, 3rd International symposium on Video processing and multimedia communications, 13-15 June 2001, Zadar, Croatia, pp. 203-207.

Gorazd Kandus, Mihael Mohorcic, "High altitude platforms for communication, localisation and surveillance applications", SoftCOM 2001, International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split-Dubrovnik, Croatia, Ancona-Bari, Italy, October 9-12, 2001, Split, 2001, vol. 1, pp. 31-39.

MONOGRAPHS AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS

Mihael Mohorcic, Ales Svigelj, Gorazd Kandus, Markus Werner, "Comparison of adaptive routing algorithms in ISL networks considering various traffic scenarios", Mobile and personal satellite communications 4, EMPS 2000, J. G. Gardiner, Ed., University of Bath, 2000, pp. 72-81.

Gorazd Kandus, "Modulation and coding", Wireless flexible personalised communications : COST 259: European co-operation in mobile radio research, Luis M. Correia, Ed., Wiley, 2001, pp. 51-62.

Roman Novak, Joze Rugelj, Gorazd Kandus, "Steiner tree based distributed multicast routing in networks", Steiner trees in industries, (Combinatorial optimization, Vol. 11), Xiuzhen Cheng, Ed., Boston, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 327-351.

Igor Ozimek, Gorazd Kandus, "SCADA system uisng TETRA communication network", Recent advances in computers, computing and communications, (Electrical and computer engineering series), N. Mastorakis, Ed., WSEAS, 2002, pp. 164-166.