Professor Predrag Rapajic

Biography

2005 to present: Professor of Communications Systems, School of Engineering, University of Greenwich.

2004-2005: Associate Professor, Head of Mobile Communication Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

1999-2003: Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales.

1998-1999: Fellow, Telecommunications Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University.

1996-1998: Research Fellow, (level B), Telecommunications Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University.

1995-1996: Research Fellow, Electrical Eng. Department, University of Sydney.

1996-1996: Head of Communications Research Group, Motorola Australian Research Center, Sydney, Australia.

1990-1995: Prof. Assistant, University of Sydney.

1989-1990: System development engineer, Suburban Taxis, Adelaide, in cooperation with the University of South Australia.

1989: Head/supervisor of Signal Proc. Group, Research Institute, Ei IRI, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

1985-1989: System designer, Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

1984-1985: Programmer/analyst, Aircraft Institute of Technology, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Research/scholarly interests

• Mobile wireless communication systems
• Mobile communication channel information capacity
• Information theory and channel coding
• Spread spectrum CDMA systems
• Adaptive multi-user receivers
• Adaptive array antenna in cellular communication systems
• Adaptive MIMO systems
• Radar signal processing
• Adaptive filtering and signal processing in communications
• Adaptive equalization and modem design
• Mobile communications fading channel modelling

Specialist interests

•  Telecommunications (Digital, Mobile)
• Information Theory
• Adaptive Signal Processing
  

Selected publications

Trajkovic, V.D., Rapajic, P.B., and Kennedy, R.A. (2008) Adaptive ordering for imperfect successive decision feedback multi-user detection. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 56(2), pp. 173–76, February 2008.

Khan, N.M., Simsim, M.T., and Rapajic, P.B. (2008) A generalised model for the spatial characteristics of cellular mobile channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 57(1), pp. 22–37, January 2008.
Krusevac, S., Rapajic, P.B., and Kennedy, R.A. (2007) Basic binary state-space model for time-varying communication channels: uncertainty and information capacity (IEE). IET Proceedings Communications, 1(5), pp. 990–98, October 2007.

Krusevac, S., Rapajic, P.B., and Kennedy, R.A. (2006) Mutual coupling effect of thermal noise in multi-antenna systems. Journal, Progress in Electromagnetic Research, PIER 59, pp. 325–33.

Trajkovic, V.D., Rapajic, P.B., and Kennedy, R.A. (2005) Turbo DFE algorithm with imperfect feedback. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 12(12), pp. 820–23, December 2005.

Patwary, M.N., Rapajic, P.B., and Oppermann, I. (2005) Capacity and coverage increase with repeaters in UMTS urban environment. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 53(10), pp. 1620–24, October 2005.

Sadeghi, P., and Rapajic, P.B. (2005) Capacity measure for finite state Markov mapping of Rayleigh fading channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 53(5), pp. 833–40, May 2005.

Woodward, G., Ratasuk, R., Honig, M.L., and Rapajic, P. (2002) Minimum mean squared error interference cancellation for DS/CDMA using decision feedback – MMSE performance. IEEE Transactions on Communications, pp. 2104–12.

Borah, D.K., and Rapajic, P. (2001) Adaptive maximum likelihood multi-user detection. IEEE Journal Select. Areas Commun, 19(6), pp. 1115–27, June 2001.

Rapajic, P.B., and Popescu, D. (2000) Information capacity of a random signature multiple-Input multiple-output channel. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 48(8), pp. 1245–48, August 2000.

Oppermann, I.J., and Rapajic, P.B. (2000) Capacity of a band-limited CDMA MMSE receiver-based system when combined with trellis or convolutional coding. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 48(8), pp. 1328–37, August 2000.

Rapajic, P.B., and Borah, D.K. (1999) Adaptive MMSE maximum likelihood CDMA multi-user detection. IEEE Journal Select. Areas Communications, 17(12), pp. 2110–22, December 1999.

Rapajic, P.B., and Vucetic, B.S. (1995) Linear adaptive transmitter-receiver structures for asynchronous CDMA systems. European Trans. Telecomm. and Related Technologies: special issue on Spread Spectrum Techniques, 6(1), pp. 21–28, Jan-Feb 1995.

Kohno, R., Rapajic, P.B., and Vucetic, B.S. (1994) An overview of adaptive techniques for interference minimisation in CDMA systems. Wireless Personal Communications, 1(1), pp. 3–23. Kluwer Academic Publishers (invited paper).

Rapajic, P.B., and Vucetic, B.S. (1994) Adaptive receiver structures for asynchronous CDMA systems. IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun, 12(4), pp. 685–97, May 1994.