Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology Faculty

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University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB)

• Electronics, Telecommunications and Information
  Technology Faculty
• Telecommunication Department
• Short presentation of the WEIRD team
• Courtesy of Stefan Slavnicu, ORANGE Romania

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• University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB),
  Romania
• 25 000 students
• 12 Faculties
• Electronics Telecommunication and Information
  Technology Faculty
• 3000 students (academic years I- V, VI)
• Telecommunication Department (www.elcom.pub.ro)
• 150 graduate students per year
• 80 teaching and research staff (including
  associate professors)
• 35 Ph.D students

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• UPB team
• Eugen Borcoci eugen.borcoci_at_elcom.pub.ro
• Silviu Ciochina silviu_at_comm.pub.ro
• Remus Cacoveanu cacoveanu_at_munde.pub.ro
• Radu Iorga riorga_at_elcom.pub.ro
• Catalin Udma catalin.udma_at_elcom.pub.ro
• Radu Balaci radu.balaci_at_elcom.pub.ro
• Adrian Ichimescu adrian.ichimescu_at_elcom.pub.ro

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UPB/WEIRD - team expertise/areas of interest

• Telecommunication and Computer network
  architectures- general knowledge
• Communication protocols analysis, specification,
  verification, design and implementation and
  design
• RF expertise and Physical Layer issues for fixed
  and mobile communications
• Management and control plane protocols and
  signalling
• End to End QoS issues
• (IntServ, DiffServ, MPLS, DL)
• Admission Control
• Scheduling
• Traffic control and engineering
• Performance evaluation - simulations

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UPB/WEIRD team - recent IST projects

• IST 507613 FP6 Network of Excellence, EuroNGI -
  Design and Engineering of the Next Generation
  Internet, 57 partners, 2003-2006, www.eurongi.org
• IST 507637 FP6 Integrated Projects , ENTHRONE,
  End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of
  Content, Networks and Terminals, 26 partners,
  2003-2006, www.enthrone.org
• IST 25137 FP5 Multiple Organisation
  Interconnection for Collaborative Advanced
  Network Experiments, 2001- 2002, 10 partners,
  www.moicane.com
• IST-507312 ATHENA, Digital Switchover
  Developing Infrastructures for Broadband Access,
  2003-2006, 10 partners, www.ist-athena.org

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UPB/WEIRD participation in WEIRD

• AC 2400, 2500
• AC 3200, 3400 3500
• AC 5100, 5200, 5300
• AC 6100, 6300, 6400

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• THANK YOU !