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Dr Veselin Rakocevic

Associate Dean (Portfolio Development and Recruitment)

School of Science & Technology Department of Engineering

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Dr Veselin Rakocevic graduated in Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in October 1998. He then moved to London, where in January 2002 he obtained a PhD in Telecommunications at Queen Mary, University of London, and immediately after that started working at City University London as Lecturer.

During his career at City, he held positions of Assistant Dean (2010-2013), Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2015-2018), and more recently Associate Dean for Portfolio Development and Recruitment (since 2023).

His main research interest is in the operation of multihop wireless networks, especially in the problems of optimal scheduling, dynamic clustering, cooperation and network self-organisation. The application of his research can be in vehicular and ad-hoc networking, heterogeneous cellular networks, or energy network optimisation.

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Research Projects

- REACH - Rural broadband intErnet Access using Cooperative mesh networking in wHite space spectrum, EU-India Research and Innovation Partnership project (2015-2019)

- Visualising the Smart Home: Creative Engagement with Customer Data, E-On Research Initiative (2012-2013);

- Wireless Networks for Moving Objects, EU COST Action IC90169 (2010-2013);
Interference Management for Large-scale Relay Wireless Networks, collaboration with T-Systems (2010-2014);

- Personalised mobile authentication to prevent fraud on mobile commerce applications (2008-2011), UKIERI program, EPSRC;

- Broadband Internet for Public Transportation, collaboration with University of Applied Science Giessen-Friedberg, Germany, and T-Systems, project sponsored by BMBF - German Ministry of Research (2005-2008) ;

- Secure Communication System for Mobile Commerce, Emerald Fund, commercialization grant (2006-2008);

- Traffic Control in Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, EPSRC CASE award for New academics (2003-2006);

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Book

  • Telesca, L., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K. and Rakocevic, V. (Eds.), (2010). Digital Business - First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. ISBN 9783642115318.

Chapters (3)

  • Weerasinghe, D., Rakocevic, V. and Rajarajan, M. (2010). Security framework for mobile banking. In Kotsis, G., Taniar, D., Pardede, E., Awan, I., Saleh, I. and Khalil, I. (Eds.), MoMM'2010 - The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, 8-10 November 2010, Paris, France (pp. 421-424). ACM. ISBN 9781450304405.
  • Rakocevic, V. (2009). Quality of Service Management in UMA. In Zhang, Y., Yang, L.T. and Ma, J. (Eds.), (pp. 35-49). AUERBACH PUBLICATIONS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP. ISBN 9781420055375.
  • Rakocevic, V. and Hamadani, E. Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 144-159). IGI Global. ISBN 9781599046938.

Conference papers and proceedings (72)

  • Bandara, T., Rathnayake, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2026). Net Environmental Impact Classification of Copper, Zinc, and Lead in UK Offshore Wind Systems. 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) 19-22 April.doi:10.1109/sustech67720.2026.11536283
  • Maglione, G., Rakocevic, V. and Amend, M. (2025). Intelligent Scheduling with Volatile Wireless Path State Prediction for 5G+ Multi-Access Networks. 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring) 17-20 June.doi:10.1109/vtc2025-spring65109.2025.11174823
  • Bandara, T., Rathnayake, M., Rakocevic, V. and Amirat, Y. Comparative life cycle assessment of copper, zinc, and lead in offshore wind renewable energy systems: Computing the environmental trade-off for UK’s energy transition. .doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202564701004
  • Bandara, T., Wickramanayake, D., Rathnayake, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2024). Identification of Environmental Impacts from Copper Usage in Solar and Offshore Wind Energy Systems. International Conference on Energy and Environment ICEE 2024 6-8 June, Guimaraes, Portugal.
  • Enisoglu, R. and Rakocevic, V. (2023). Low-Latency Internet Traffic Identification using Machine Learning with Trend-based Features. 2023 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) 19-23 June.doi:10.1109/iwcmc58020.2023.10183084
  • Amend, M., Moreno, N.R., Pieska, M., Kassler, A., Brunstrom, A., Rakocevic, V.... Johnson, S. (2022). In-network Support for Packet Reordering for Multiaccess Transport Layer Tunneling. 2022 IEEE 11th IFIP International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wireless and Wired Networks (PEMWN) 8-10 November.doi:10.23919/pemwn56085.2022.9963814
  • Cvjetkovic, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2022). Distributed Network Formation for Moving Wireless Nodes with Limited Location Information. 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring) 19-22 June.doi:10.1109/vtc2022-spring54318.2022.9860837
  • Moreno, N.R., Amend, M., Brunstrom, A., Kassler, A. and Rakocevic, V. CCID5. ANRW '21: Applied Networking Research Workshop.doi:10.1145/3472305.3472322
  • Amend, M., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. (2021). Cost optimized multipath scheduling in 5G for Video-on-Demand traffic. 2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 29 March-1 April.doi:10.1109/wcnc49053.2021.9417415
  • Hamadani, E. and Rakocevic, V. A cross layer analysis of TCP instability in multihop ad hoc networks. .
  • Amend, M., Bogenfeld, E., Cvjetkovic, M., Rakocevic, V., Pieska, M., Kassler, A.... Brunstrom, A. (2019). A Framework for Multiaccess Support for Unreliable Internet Traffic using Multipath DCCP. 2019 IEEE 44th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 14-17 October.doi:10.1109/lcn44214.2019.8990746
  • Ayub, N. and Rakocevic, V. (2019). Credit-Based Relay Selection Algorithm Using Stackelberg Game. 2019 Wireless Days (WD) 24-26 April.doi:10.1109/wd.2019.8734269
  • Amend, M., Rakocevic, V., Matz, A.P. and Bogenfeld, E. RobE. ANRW '18: Applied Networking Research Workshop.doi:10.1145/3232755.3232762
  • Cvjetkovic, M. and Rakocevic, V. Relative Localisation Algorithm for Neighbour Classification in Ad Hoc Networks of Moving Robots. SenSys '17: The 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems.doi:10.1145/3143337.3149820
  • Ayub, N. and Rakocevic, V. (2017). Fair battery power consumption algorithms for relay nodes in rural wireless networks. 2017 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM) 1-4 November.doi:10.1109/wincom.2017.8238176
  • Ayub, N. and Rakocevic, V. Fair Battery Power Consumption Algorithms for Relay Nodes in Rural Wireless Networks. .
  • Arnold, P., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. (2015). Simulation Study on 2 Hop-Proportional Fair Scheduling and eICIC in Relay Type 1 Extended LTE-A Networks. 2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) 6-9 September.doi:10.1109/vtcfall.2015.7391138
  • Belschner, J., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. (2015). The effect of out of cluster interference on coordinated beamforming in LTE-A HetNets. 2015 ICC - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) 8-12 June.doi:10.1109/iccw.2015.7247179
  • Zaidi, K., Milojevic, M., Rakocevic, V. and Rajarajan, M. (2014). Data-centric Rogue Node Detection in VANETs. 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) 24-26 September.doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.51
  • Milojevic, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2014). Distributed road traffic congestion quantification using cooperative VANETs. 2014 13th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET) 2-4 June.doi:10.1109/medhocnet.2014.6849125
  • (2014). Demand Management for Home Energy Networks using Cost-optimal Appliance Scheduling. 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems 3-4 April.doi:10.5220/0004854100210030
  • Milojevic, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2013). Short paper: Distributed vehicular traffic congestion detection algorithm for urban environments. 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 16-18 December.doi:10.1109/vnc.2013.6737608
  • Tung, H.C., Rakocevic, V., Tsang, K.F. and Lai, L.L. (2013). ZigBee mobility management for Multipurpose Patient Monitoring system. IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 10-13 November.doi:10.1109/iecon.2013.6700552
  • Arnold, P., Rakocevic, V., Ramos, O. and Habermann, J. (2013). Algorithms for Adaptive Radio Resource Management in Relay-Assisted LTE-A Networks. 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring) 2-5 June.doi:10.1109/vtcspring.2013.6691864
  • Jones, S., Rakocevic, V., Williams, M. and Atanasova, E. Use of a multi-touch surface to support distributed design meetings as part of a problem-based learning approach to teaching design. .
  • Jahromizadeh, S. and Rakocevic, V. Joint Rate Control and Scheduling for Delay-Sensitive Traffic in Multihop Wireless Networks. .
  • Qureshi, H.K., Rizvi, S., Saleem, M., Khayam, S.A., Rakocevic, V. and Rajarajan, M. Poly: A reliable and energy efficient topology control protocol for wireless sensor networks. .
  • Köhnen, C., Überall, C., Adamsky, F., Rakočević, V., Rajarajan, M. and Jäger, R. Enhancements to Statistical Protocol IDentification (SPID) for self-organised QoS in LANs. .doi:10.1109/ICCCN.2010.5560139
  • Köhnen, C., Überall, C., Rakočević, V., Rajarajan, M. and Jäger, R. QoSiLAN - A heterogeneous approach to quality of service in local area networks. .doi:10.1109/MMEDIA.2010.21
  • Qureshi, H.K., Rizvi, S., Saleem, M., Khayam, S.A., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. An energy efficient Clique-based CDS discovery protocol for wireless sensor networks. .
  • Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. Security Protection on Trust Delegated Data in Public Mobile Networks. .
  • Jahromizadeh, S. and Rakocevic, V. Rate control for delay-sensitive traffic in multihop wireless networks. .doi:10.1145/1641913.1641928
  • Qureshi, H.K., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V., Iqbal, A., Saleem, M. and Khayam, S.A. A cycle-based clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks. .doi:10.1109/NGMAST.2009.17
  • Hamadani, E., Mostafavi, M., Tafazolli, R. and Rakocevic, V. Analysis of IEEE802.11 DCF parameters on achievable throughput in ad hoc networks. .doi:10.1109/VETECF.2009.5379100
  • Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. Trust delegation for medical records access using public mobile networks. .doi:10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6057
  • Uberall, C., Muttukrishnan, R., Rakocevic, V., Jager, R. and Kohnen, C. (2009). RECOMMENDATION INDEX FOR DVB CONTENT USING SERVICE INFORMATION. July-, New York City.
  • Rajarajan, M., Weerasinghe, D. and Rakocevic, V. (2009). Federated Trust Negotiation for Mobile Services. International Conference On Security and Identity Management (SIM) 10-11 May, Ahmedabad, India.
  • Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Weerasinghe, D. Parameter Based Access Control Model for Mobile Handsets. .
  • Hamadani, E., Mostafavi, S.M., Rakocevic, V. and Tafazolli, R. Analysis of IEEE802.11 DCF Parameters on Achievable Throughput in Ad hoc Networks. .
  • Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. Trust delegation for medical records access using public mobile networks. .
  • Hock, D., Bayer, N., Pries, R., Siebert, M., Staehle, D., Rakocevic, V.... Xu, B. QoS provisioning in WLAN mesh networks using dynamic bandwidth control. .doi:10.1109/EW.2008.4623896
  • Sivchenko, D., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Integrated mobility and resource management mechanism for FMC networks. .doi:10.1109/ICTEL.2008.4652668
  • Qureshi, H.K., Shahzad, K., Khayam, S.A., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. Complexity reduction of Markov channel models for wireless networks using graph theory. .doi:10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753575
  • Behbahani, P., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Throughput enhancement in heterogeneous mobile networks using nSCTP. .doi:10.1109/VETECF.2008.274
  • Weerasinghe, D., Elmufti, K., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. Patient's privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services. .doi:10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571049
  • Elmufti, K., Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Khan, S. Timestamp authentication protocol for remote monitoring in eHealth. .doi:10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571031
  • Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Weerasinghe, D. (2008). Device Data Protection in Mobile Healthcare Applications. The First International Conference on Electronic Healthcare in the 21st century 8 September-, London, England.
  • Elmufti, K., Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Khan, S. (2008). Timestamp Authentication Protocol for Remote Monitoring in eHealth. Workshop on Connectivity, Mobility and Patients’ Comfort (CMPC) in Pervasive Healthcare Conference 29-31 January, Tampere Finand.
  • Weerasinghe, D., Elmufti, K., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2008). Patient's privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services. 29-31 January, Tampere, Finland.
  • Bayer, N., Hock, D., Roos, A., Siebert, M., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V.... Habermann, J. VoIP Performance in "MeshBed" - a Wireless Mesh Networks Testbed. .
  • Behbahani, P., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Throughput Enhancement in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks Using nSCTP. .
  • Sivchenko, D., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Integrated mobility and resource management mechanism for FMC networks. .
  • Dominiak, S., Bayer, N., Habermann, J., Rakocevic, V. and Xu, B. Reliability analysis of IEEE 802.16 mesh networks. .doi:10.1109/BCN.2007.372739
  • Behbahani, P., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. nSCTP: A new transport layer tunnelling approach to provide seamless handover for moving networks. .doi:10.1109/ICMWCN.2007.4668183
  • Kovacevic, A., Rakocevic, V., Exarchou, K. and Jeshani, M. Teaching an engineering design course in an interdisciplinary international academic virtual environment. .
  • Hamadani, E., Rakocevic, V., Boavida, F., Monteiro, E., Mascolo, S. and Koucheryavy, Y. TCP Contention Control: A Cross Layer Approach to Improve TCP Performance in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks. .
  • Bayer, N., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Improving the Performance of the Distributed Scheduler in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks. .
  • Mikóczy, E., Sivchenko, D., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V., Dagiuklas, T. and Sklavos, N. IMS based IPTV services: architecture and implementation. .
  • J. A. MacDonald, , K. Elmufti, , D. Weerasinghe, , M. Rajarajan, , V. Rakocevic, and S. Khan, (2006). A Web Services Shopping Mall for Mobile Users. 4-6 December, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • K. Elmufti, , D. Weerasignhe, , M. Rajarajan, , V. Rakocevic, and S. Khan, (2006). Privacy in Mobile Web Services eHealth. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare November-, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Rahman, B.M.A., Somasiri, N., Wongcharoen, T., Agrawal, A., Grattan, K.T.V. and Rakocevic, V. Characterization of high-index contrast Silica guided-wave devices. .doi:10.1117/12.654779
  • Elmufti, K., Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Khan, S. Privacy in mobile Web services eHealth. .doi:10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361675
  • Weerasinghe, D., Elmufti, K., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. XML security based access control for healthcare information in mobile environment. .doi:10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361625
  • Bayer, N., Sivchenko, D., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Transmission timing of signaling messages in IEEE 802.16 based Mesh Networks. .
  • Rosenschon, M., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Performance comparison of gateway discovery algorithms in ad hoc networks with mobile nodes. .
  • Sivchenko, D., Bayer, N., Xu, B., Rakocevic, V. and Habermann, J. Internet traffic performance in IEEE 802.16 networks. .
  • MacDonald, J.A., Elmufti, K., Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Rakocevic, V. and Khan, S. A Web Services Shopping Mall for Mobile Users. .doi:10.1109/ECOWS.2006.5
  • Sivchenko, D., Xu, B., Habermann, J. and Rakocevic, V. On the performance of enhanced hierarchical mobile IPv6. .
  • Rakocevic, V., Rajarajan, M., McCalla, K.-.A., Boumitri, C., Solé-Pareta, J., Smirnov, M.... Gibbens, R.J. QoS Constraints in Bluetooth-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. .
  • Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V, QoS Constraints in Bluetooth-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. .
  • Rakocevic, V., Griffiths, J. and Cope, G. Dynamic bandwidth management in virtual private networks. .
  • Rakocevic, V., Griffiths, J.M. and Cope, G. Dynamic partitioning of link bandwidth in IP/MPLS networks. .doi:10.1109/ICC.2001.936683

Journal articles (35)