Nikola Cackov, MASc

Office	Communication Networks Laboratory (Multi Tenant Facility, Room #204) School of Engineering Science Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada Tel: (604) 291-3831 email: ncackov [at] cs [dot] sfu [dot] ca
Education	M.A.Sc in Communication Networks (February 2005) Member of: Communication Networks Laboratory Supervisor: Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic School of Engineering Science Simon Fraser University
	B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, option Electronics and Telecommunications (June 2001) Faculty of Electrical Engineering SS. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
Courses taken at SFU	ENSC802	(Fall 2002)	Stochastic systems
	CMPT816	(Fall 2002)	Theory of communication networks
	ENSC833	(Spring 2003)	Network protocols and performance (course project webpage)
	ENSC832	(Spring 2003)	Mobile and personal communications
	ENSC895	(Spring 2004)	Special topics: Theory, analysis, and simulation of nonlinear circuits (audit and TA)
	ENSC460	(Summer 2004)	Special topics: Image processing and analysis (audit)
Publications	B. Vujicic, N. Cackov, S. Vujicic, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Modeling and characterization of traffic in public safety wireless networks,” to be presented at 2005 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS ’05), Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.
	N. Cackov, Z. Lucic, M. Bogdanov, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Wavelet-based estimation of long-range dependence in MPEG video traces,” in Proc. 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 2068-2071.
	D. Sharp, N. Cackov, N. Laskovic, Q. Shao, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Analysis of public safety traffic on trunked land mobile radio systems,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special Issue on Quality of Service Delivery in Variable Topology Networks, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1197-1205, Sept. 2004.
	N. Cackov, B. Vujicic, S. Vujicic, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Using network activity data to model the utilization of a trunked radio system,” in Proc. 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS ’04), San Jose, CA, July 2004, pp. 517-524.
	N. Cackov and M. Bogdanov, “A translation and scale invariant wavelet transform,” in Proc. Summer Electronics and Signal Processing Symposium, Ohrid, Macedonia, June 2002, pp. 87-92.
Personal	Stip, my home town
	A map and some facts about Macedonia
	A short Curriculum Vitae
	Various pictures (the contents change frequently)
	NEW!!! Arizona 2005 (temporary exhibition :) )
	Old photo gallery
	Something less formal
Last updated: June 25, 2005