Dr.-Ing. Nikola Vucic

Contact:

Fax: +49(0)30-31002-863

Dauer der Mitarbeit:

bis 2010

Thema der Arbeit:

Robust Optimization of Multiple Antenna Systems With Channel Uncertainty

Research interests:

• Robust optimization of multiple-antenna systems
• Resource allocation in wireless networks
• Detection strategies for single-user and multi-user MIMO systems
• Equalization of frequency selective MIMO channels
• Optimization theory
• Distributed computation
• Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems

Projects:

3GET/MOSKOVA (Multicarrier mobile systems with cooperative, distributed antennas)

MASCOT (Multiple Access Space-Time Coding Testbed)

OPTIFEMTO (Optimized resource allocation and interference avoidance in LTE-Femtocells)

Theses:

Ph.D. thesis: Robust Optimization of Multiple Antenna Systems With Channel Uncertainty TU Berlin 2009.

Publications:

Journal Papers

• Robust QoS-Constrained Optimization of Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 714-725, Feb. 2009.
• Robust Transceiver Optimization in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems
  N. Vucic, H. Boche, and S. Shi, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 3576-3587, Sept. 2009.
• A Tractable Method for Chance-Constrained Power Control in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems with Channel Uncertainty
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 346-349, May 2009.

Conference, Symposium, and Workshop Papers

• Fixed Point Iteration for Max-Min SIR Balancing with General Interference Functions
  N. Vucic and M. Schubert, to appear at ICASSP, 2011.
• Globally Optimal Resource Allocation for Achieving Maximum Weighted Sum Rate
  K. Eriksson, S. Shi, N. Vucic, M. Schubert, and E. G. Larsson, to appear at GLOBECOM, 2010.
• SIR Balancing for Strongly Connected Interference Networks - Existence and Uniqueness of a Solution
  M. Schubert, N. Vucic, and H. Boche, Proc. 7th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2010), York, UK, Sept. 2010.
• DC Programming Approach for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
  N. Vucic, S. Shi, and M. Schubert, Proc. 6th Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET 2010), Avignon, France, June 2010, pp. 360-366.
• Robust Transceiver Optimization for Frequency Selective MIMO Channels
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, Proc. 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2008), Recife, Brazil, July 2008.
• Downlink Precoding for Multiuser MISO Systems with Imperfect Channel Knowledge
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, USA, Apr. 2008.
• Robust Transceiver Optimization in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems with Channel Uncertainty
  N. Vucic, H. Boche, and S. Shi, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.
• MMSE Optimization with Per-Base-Station Power Constraints for Network MIMO Systems
  S. Shi, M. Schubert, N. Vucic, and H. Boche, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.
• Probabilistically Constrained Robust Power Allocation in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Oct. 2008, pp. 1115-1119.
• Robust MSE-Constrained Downlink Precoding in Multiuser MIMO Systems with Channel Uncertainty
  N. Vucic, H. Boche, and S. Shi, Proc. 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, Sept. 2007.
• Non-Symmetric Nash Bargaining Solution for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks and Connection to Interference Calculus
  H. Boche, M. Schubert, N. Vucic, and S. Naik, Proc. 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2007), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2007.
• Robust Minimax Equalization of Imperfectly Known Frequency Selective MIMO Channels
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2007.
• Robust Transceiver Optimization for Multiuser MISO Broadcast Systems with MSE Targets
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, 2nd International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dec. 2007.
• Causal Channel Inversion for MIMO ISI Systems: Equalization Error Modeling and Robustness
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, 5th International IMCAS Symposium on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2006), Vienna, Austria, Feb. 2006.
• Equalization for MIMO ISI Systems using Channel Inversion under Causality, Stability and Robustness Constraints
  N. Vucic and H. Boche, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006.
• Antenna Selection for BER Performance Improvement in Multi-Antenna Systems with MMSE-SIC Detection
  N. Vucic and M. Schubert, Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005 - Spring), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.