Ämter an der Fakultät

➤ Mitglied in der Studienkommission TIB/IKB

Projekte

Themen in Industrieprojekten:
➤ Automotive Industrie: Security und IDS-Systeme, Software Updates und Digital Life Cycle Management
➤ Smart Metering: sichere Kommunikation und Kompressionsverfahren für Smart Gas- und Stromzähler, Einsatz von RFIDs als Diebstahlschutz
➤ Elektroladestationen: sichere Metering Strukturen und Kommunikation für die Elektroladeinfrastruktur

Hochschulprojekte:
➤ DAAD-Projekt mit der Duksung Universität Seoul/Korea im Rahmen des DAAD Programms Partnerschaften mit Japan und Korea (2012 - 2013) | Thema: Trusted based Security for Hybrid wireless Mesh Networks
➤ DAAD-Projekt mit der Arizona University Tucson/USA im Rahmen des DAAD Programms PPP mit USA (2014 - 2015) | Thema: Compressed Sensing Authentication
➤  DAAD-Projekt mit der Duksung Universität Seoul/Korea im Rahmen des DAAD Programms Partnerschaften mit Japan und Korea (2014 - 2015) | Thema: Security for Internet of Things
➤ DAAD-Projekt mit der Duksung Universität Seoul/Korea im Rahmen des DAAD Programms Partnerschaften mit Japan und Korea (2016 - 2017) | Thema: Common Security Model for Smart Grids and Internet of Things

Publikationen, Vorträge & Patente

Bücher
➤ „Störungstolerante Datenauthentifizierung für drahtlose Kommunikation", Obaid ur Rehman, Natasa Zivic: Springer Vieweg, 2024
➤ „Blockchain – Technology and applications for Industry 4.0, Smart Energy and Smart Cities“, Matevz Pusticek, Natasa Zivic, Andrej Kos, DeGruyter, Berlin, 2021
➤ „Security in Autonomous Driving“, Obaid ur Rehnam, Natasa Zivic:  DeGruyter, Berlin, 2020
➤ „Noise Tolerant Data Authentication for Wireless Communication“, Obaid ur Rehman, Natasa Zivic: Springer, 2018
➤ Modern Communications Technology, Natasa Zivic, De Gruyter Studium, 2016
➤ Robust Image Authentication in the Presence of Noise, Natasa Zivic, Springer, New York, 2015
➤ „Coding and Cryptography. Synergy for Robust Communication“, Natasa Zivic, Oldenbourg Verlag, München, 2013
➤ „Autocorrelation function of the music signal“, Natasa Zivic, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K., Saarbrücken, 2010
➤ „Joint Channel Coding and Cryptography“, Natasa Zivic, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2008

Journalveröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
➤ “Framework Design for the Dynamic Reconfiguration of IoT-En[1]abled Embedded Systems and “On-the-Fly” Code Execution”, Ermin Marevac, Esad Kadusic, Natasa Zivic, Nevzudin Buzadjija, Samir Lemes, Future Internet, MDPI, Januar 2025
➤ „Machine Learning for an Enhanced Credit Risk Analysis: A Comparative Study of Loan Approval Prediction Models Integrating Mental Health Data“, Adnan Alagic, Natasa Zivic, Esad Kadusic, Dzenan Hamzic, Narcisa Hadzajlic, Mejra Dizdarevic, Elmedin Selmanovic, Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, MDPI, Januar 2024
➤ „Role of the Bitcoin Lightning Network in Digital Micro-Payments“, Esad Kadusic, Natasa Zivic, Narcisa Hadzajlic, Rejhan Kurtovic, COJ Technical & Scientific Research, Crimson Publishers, Januar 2023
➤ „A smart parking solution by integrating NB-IoT radio communication technology into the core IoT platform“, Esad Kadusic, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, Narcisa Hadzajlic; Future Internet, MDPI, Juli 2022
➤ „Two-phase Method for Image Authentication and Enhanced Decoding“, Obaid Ur-Rehman, Natasa Zivic; IEEE Access, Dezember 2017
➤ „Smart grid security - an overview of standards and guidelines“, Christoph Ruland, Jochen Sassmannshausen, Karl Waedt, Natasa Zivic; e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Springer Wien, Februar 2017
➤ „Smart Metering for Intelligent Buildings“, Natasa Zivic, Obaid Ur Rehman, Christoph Ruland; Transactions on Networks and Communications, Oktober 2016
➤ „QoS-aware dynamic MAP selection in HMIPv6 architecture“, Esad Kadusic, Natasa Zivic, Andrej Kos; IEEE Access, Juni 2016
➤ „Secure and Robust Two-phase Image Authentication“, Amir Tabatabaei, Obaid Ur Rehman, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Juli 2015
➤ „A Soft Decision Iterative Error and Erasure Decoder for Reed Solomon Codes“, Obaid ur Rehman und Natasa Zivic; IET Communications, November 2014
➤ „On Joint Cryptographic Verification and Channel Decoding via the Maximum Likelihood Criterion“, Natasa  Zivic, Mark Flanagan;  IEEE Communication Letters, Mai 2012

Keynoes, eingeladene Vorträge und Papers, Tutorien und Best Papers
➤ Keynote: „Mobility Applications of Distributed Ledger Technology: Pros and Contras“, 13rd Global Summit and Expo on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (GSERITA2023), Barcelona, Spanien, Oktober 2023
➤ Invited Talk: „Integration of Distributed Ledger Technologies into Mobility Technologies“, 4th International Electronics Communication Conference (IECC), Tokyo, Japan, Juli 2022
➤ Invited Talk: „Security and Robustness in Smart Grid Control“, Smart Grid Technologies Meeting, Berlin, August 2016
➤ Overall best paper and Innovation award: „Security Issues in Smart Metering Systems“, Obaid Ur Rehman, Natasa Zivic und Christoph Ruland, IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE 2015), Oshawa Canada, August 2015
➤ Tutorial: „Security in Smart Metering Systems under the Smart-Grid Perspective“, IEEE BlackSeaCom 2014, Chisinau, Moldova, Mai 2014
➤ Tutorial: „Information Security in Noisy Environments“, Tutorial, Meditteranean Embedded Computing Resources (MECO 2013), Budva, Montenegro, Juni 2013
➤ Invited Talk: „Soft Authentication by Protocols and Iterative Decoding“, Seminar am Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, März 2013
➤ Invited Talk: „Robust secure data transfer“, University of Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mai 2012
➤ Keynote: „New Authentication Methods of Symmetric Cryptographic Check Values“, 11th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP'12), Prague, Tschechische Republik, September 2012
➤ Keynote und Invited Paper: „New Approaches to Message Authentication", the second Int. Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT 2012), Coimbatore, Indien, Oktober 2012
➤ Invited Talk: „Robustness of Secure Messages“, the 10th Claude Shannon Institute Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Cork, Irland, Mai 2011
➤ Invited Paper: „Trust in Corrected Messages Protected by Message Authentication Codes“, the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011), Barcelona, Spanien, Oktober 2011
➤ Best Paper Award: „Improvement of Channel Decoding using Block Cypher“, The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2010), Natasa Zivic und Ayaz Mahmood, Florenz, Italien, Oktober 2010
➤ Invited Paper: „On the Probability and impact of collisions of soft input decryption“, the 3th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 10), Rom, Italien, November 2010
➤ Invited Paper: „Cryptography over wireless channels“, VIPSI 2008, Belgrad, Serbien, April 2009
➤ Invited Paper: „Influence of segmentation on Soft Input Decryption“, 8th International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing, Santander, Spanien, September 2008

Konferenzveröffentlichungen (letzte 5 Jahre)
➤ Application of deep learning and neural networks for smart grid stability predictions, Elmin Marevac, Esad Kadusic, Christoph Ruland, Natasa Zivic, 12^th IEEE 12the Internation Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), August 2024, Oshawa, Kanada
➤ „A Picture is worth thousand words: from camera obscura to corona detection microscopes", 8th IEEE History of Electrotechnology Conference (HISTELCON), Florenz, Italien, September 2023
➤ „Air pollution prediction and warning system using IoT and machine learning“, Amar Catovic, Esad Kadusic, Christoph Ruland, Natasa Zivic, Narcisa Hadzajlic, 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME 2022), November 2022, Malediven
➤ „The transitional phase of Boost.Asio and POCO C++ networking libraries towards IPv6 and IoT networking security“, Esad Kadusic, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, Narcisa Hadzajlic, IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2022), August 2022, Suzhou, China
➤ „The factors for choosing among NB-IoT, LoRaWAN, and Sigfox radio communication technologies for IoT networking“, Esad Kadusic, Christoph Ruland, Natasa Zivic, Narcisa Hadzajlic, International Conference on Connected Systems & Intelligence (CSI'22), Juli 2022, Trivandrum, India
➤ „Distributed Ledger Technology for Automotive Production 4.0“, Natasa Zivic, 28th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR 2020), November 24-25, Belgrade, Serbien
➤ „Opportunities for Deploying Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Automotive Industry 4.0“, Natasa Zivic, 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech 2020), September 2020, Split, Kroatien
➤ „Distributed Ledger Technologies for Car Industry 4.0“, Natasa Zivic, International Conference on Computer Communication and Information Systems, August 2020, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
➤ „Directed Acyclic Graphs as Hashgraph: an Alternative DLT to Blockchains and Tangles“, N. Zivic, E. Kadusic, K. Kadusic, Infoteh 2020, January 2020, Jahorina, Bosnien und Herzegovina
➤ „Implementation of MQTT Native Application for Tizen-based Smartwatches“, Esad Kadusic, Christoph Ruland, Natasa Zivic, Aldin Masovic, 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, December 5-7, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
➤ „Distributed Ledger Technologies for M2M Communications“, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, Jochen Sassmannshausen:  the 33rd International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2019) January 9-11, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
➤ „Addressing Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Blockchain Technology“, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, Obaid Ur-Rehman, 2019 8th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), April 15-17, 2019, Manama, Bahrain
➤ „An Overview of Automotive Security Standards“, the 43th International Convention on Information, Communication and Information Technology (MIPRO 2019), Obaid Ur-Rehman, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland,  May 20-24, 2019, Opatija, Kroatien
➤„Directed Acyclic Graph as Tangle: an IoT Alternative to Blockchains“, Natasa Zivic, Esad Kadusic, Kerim Kadusic, 27th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR 2019), November 26-27, Belgrade, Serbien
➤ „Cognitive Channel Decoding“, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC 2018), Singapore, April 2018
➤ „Cognition for Enhanced Biometric Authentication“, Natasa Zivic, Christoph Ruland, the 32th Int. Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2018), Chang Mai, Thailand, Januar 2018

Organisation
➤ Workshop on Information Security using noisy and lossy Communication Systems, IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 9-13,2013

Erteilte Patente
➤ Verfahren zum Empfangen eines Datenblocks, Nr. 10 2008 040 797, Deutschland, 2010
➤ Verfahren zum Senden und Empfangen eines Datenblocks, Nr. 10 2008 055 139, Deutschland, 2010
➤ Method for transmitting and receiving a data block and a corresponding transmitter and receiver, Nr. US 8,196, 015, USA, 2012

Akademischer Werdegang

➤ Dr.-Ing. habil. (Elektrotechnik mit Schwerpunkt Nachrichtentechnik): Universität Siegen, Deutschland, 2013
➤ Dr.-Ing. Elektrotechnik, Universität Siegen, Deutschland, 2007
➤ Magister Elektrotechnik, Universität Belgrad, Serbien, 2002
➤ Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik, Universität Belgrad, Serbien, 1999

Beruflicher Werdegang

➤ seit Juni 2022: Professorin für Informations- und Codierungstheorie sowie Echtzeitbildverarbeitung an der Fakultät Digitale Transformation der HTWK Leipzig
➤ 2018-2022: Senior Technical Security Engineer im Volkswagen-Konzern (Carmeq/Cariad)
➤ 2010-2018: Akademische Rätin/Oberrätin an der Universität Siegen
➤ 2007-2018: Gründerin und Geschäftsführerin Secutanta GmbH
➤ 2004-2009: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Siegen, Lehrstuhl für Digitale Kommunikationssysteme
➤ 2000-2004: Junior/Senior Engineer für Telekommunikationsvermittlungssysteme, PTT Serbien, Belgrad

Mitgliedschaften & Tätigkeiten

➤ Mitglied im DIN AA27 und ISO/IEC SC 27 (Security Techniques) seit 2006
➤ Mitglied im DIN NA043 und ISO/IEC SC 42 (Artificial Intelligence) seit 2018
➤ IEEE Senior Member
➤ Gutachterin für die Fulbright Stiftung

➤ Review Tätigkeiten (Auswahl):

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• IET Networks
• IET Communications
• Computer Networks (Elsevier)
• Physical Communication (Elsevier)
• British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science
• International journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)
• International Open Access Journal Sensors
• International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
• International Journal of Database Management Systems (IJDMS)
• International Journal of Computer Engineering Research (IJCER)
• International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies (IJCSIT)

➤ Wissenschaftliche internationale Zusammenarbeit:

• College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Duksung University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
• The School of Film and Video Art Technology of the Shanghai University, Shangai, China
• Claude Shannon Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Coding and Cryptography (CSI), Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
• Institute of Technology of Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia