Standards and Innovations in Information Technology and Communications

Introduction.- History of electrotechnology and communications standardization.- Technical standardization stakeholders.- Global standardization organizations.- Regional (EU) standardization organizations.- National standardization organizations.- Technical standard documents.- Technical standard life cycle.- Technical standards and innovation.- Conclusion.

Dr. Dina Simunic is IEEE senior member. She received B.Sc. and M.Sc.. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb, Croatia, in 1985, and 1992, respectively. She received Dr.sc. at Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 1995. Since 1991. she is with Department for Wireless Communications at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. She was a guest professor in research laboratories Wandel & Goltermann in Germany and Motorola Inc., USA in 1996. In 2007. she was promoted to Full Professor. In Croatia she served as a vice-president of Telecommunications Council. In European Commission she acted as a vice-chair of COST for precompetitive research of the whole information and communication technologies sector. Dr. Simunic is a president of Technical committee for telecommunications at Croatian Standards Institute. She is a leader of the group Strategy towards the development of materials foreducation about standardization, as well as identification of common requirements in ITU. She participated in five and led three scientific project of Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. She was leader of the WP6 of EU FP7 project: eWALL. She was a collaborator of the research project, financed through structural funds of EU, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports: ICTGEN (Information and Communication Technology for Generic and Energy-efficient Solutions with Application in e-/m- Health). She published more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings in the field of secure routing protocols against denial-of-service attack in mobile ad hoc networks, cognitive radio systems, radiofrequency simulations and biomedical effects of electromagnetic fields. she is actively involved in standardization in the last 15 years. As an active contributor of CEN/CENELEC group Education about Standardization, she is a co-author of the textbook: J. Hagelund, J. Jerlang,