Almir Maric - Department of Telecommunications

ORCID ID:	0000-0001-5912-2967
Scopus ID:	57197729574
Researcher ID:	S-5913-2019
Phone:	+387 33 250 762
E-Mail:	almir.maric@etf.unsa.ba
Office:	2-30
Consultations:	Every working day in the period 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. by appointment via e-mail
Address:	Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Zmaja od Bosne bb, Kampus Univerziteta u Sarajevu, 71000 Sarajevo

Biography

Almir Maric received Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees in telecommunication engineering from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2010, 2013 and 2020, respectively. He is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo. His current research area includes physical channel modeling, communication channel characterization, fading channel and network simulators.

Research Topics

Geometric-based Stochastic Channel Models

Teaching

Mobile Communications
RF Circuits Design
System Aspects in Telecommunications
Teletraffic Theory
Statistical Signal Theory

Publications

Journal papers

A. Maric and P. Njemcevic, "Performance analysis of M-ary RQAM and M-ary DPSK receivers over the channels with TWDP fading," in Wireless Networks 2024, 30(5), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s11276-024-03723-3
A. Maric and P. Njemcevic, "Gamma-shadowed two-ray with diffuse power composite fading model," in Alexandria Engineering Journal 2023, 79(7), 471-479. doi: 10.1016/j.aej.2023.07.083
M. Mehic, L. Michalek, E. Dervisevic, P. Burdiak, M. Plakalovic, J. Rozhon, N. Mahovac, F. Richter, E. Kaljic, F. Lauterbach, P. Njemcevic, A. Maric, M. Hamza, P. Fazio, and M. Voznak, "Quantum Cryptography in 5G Networks: A Comprehensive Overview," in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2024, vol 26, no. 1, pp. 302-346, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2023.3309051
P. Njemcevic, E. Kaljic and A. Maric, "Moment-Based Parameter Estimation for the Γ-Parameterized TWDP Model," in Sensors 2022, 22, 774. doi: 10.3390/s22030774
A. Maric, E. Kaljic and P. Njemcevic, "An Alternative Statistical Characterization of TWDP Fading Model," in Sensors 2021, 21, 7513. doi: 10.3390/s21227513
A. Maric, E. Kaljic, P. Njemcevic and V. Lipovac, "Projective Approach in Determining Homogeneous Hyperspherical Geometrically-based Stochastic Channel Model’s Statistics: Angle of Departure, Angle of Arrival and Time of Arrival," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2020.3017154
A. Maric, E. Kaljic and M. Hadzialic, "A Unified Hollow-Disk Scattering Model: Angle-of-Departure and Time-of-Arrival Statistics," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2019.2904187
E. Kaljic, A. Maric, P. Njemcevic and M. Hadzialic, "A Survey on Data Plane Flexibility and Programmability in Software-Defined Networking," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 47804-47840, 2019. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2910140

Conference papers (indexed in WoS, SCOPUS)

P. Njemcevic, M. Hamza, and A. Maric, "Average SEP of M-ary PSK in Composite IG/TWDP Fading Channels," 2023 XXIX International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ICAT57854.2023.10171253
P. Njemcevic, E. Kaljić, and A. Maric, "Average SEP of M-ary PSK in Composite IG/TWDP Fading Channels," 2023 XXVIII International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ICAT54566.2022.9811189
A. Maric, V. Lipovac, P. Njemcevic, and E. Kaljic, "An Alternative Approach in Derivation of Nakagami-m Distribution," 2019 XXVII International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICAT47117.2019.8938983
E. Kaljic, A. Maric, and P. Njemcevic, "DoS attack mitigation in SDN networks using a deeply programmable packet-switching node based on a hybrid FPGA/CPU data plane architecture," 2019 XXVII International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICAT47117.2019.8938862
A. Maric, E. Kaljic, P. Njemcevic, M. Hamza, and A. Begovic, "Block Code Optimal Parameters Determination: A Numerical Approach," 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies IEEE EUROCON, Novi Sad, 2019, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861949
E. Kaljic, A. Maric, and M. Hadzialic, "A novel qualitative metric based approach to the improvement of data plane flexibility in software-defined networks," 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies IEEE EUROCON, Novi Sad, 2019, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861633
E. Kaljic, A. Maric and P. Njemcevic, "An implementation of a deeply programmable SDN switch based on a hybrid FPGA/CPU architecture," 2019 18th International Symposium INFOTEH-JAHORINA (INFOTEH), East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/INFOTEH.2019.8717768
F. Pasic and A. Maric, "RTL-SDR Based Hardware-In-The-Loop Bit Error Rate Measuring System," 2019 18th International Symposium INFOTEH-JAHORINA (INFOTEH), East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/INFOTEH.2019.8717753
M. Mehic, A. Maric, and M. Voznak "QSIP: A Quantum Key Distribution Signaling Protocol," Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing; 2017:136-147. doi: 101007/978-3-319-69911-0_11, “Best Paper Award” at the Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS’17) conference 2017 in Krakow, Poland

Books

M. Hamza, P. Njemcevic and A. Maric, "Zbirka zadataka iz mikrotalasnih komunikacija" (in Bosnian), Elektrotehnički fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 2020., ISBN:978-9958-629-86-0