Education/training

Diplomat Engineer in Telecommunications Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, specialization Digital Telecommunication Networks, June 2002, 8th of 96. Diploma project: “Mobile IPv6 Study and Testing under Red Hat Linux 7.2”.

Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Romania, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, specialization “Modern Techniques in Telecommunications”, June 2003. Dissertation project: “Interior Routing Protocols in IPv4/IPv6”.

Ph.D. in the field of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering,Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, coordinator Prof. Virgil DOBROTA, Ph.D., November 2002 – December 2007. Thesis title: “Contributions to the Enhancement of Multicast Routing”.

Course Completion Certificates for CCNA1-CCNA4, Cisco  Networking Academy Program, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 2002.

Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship, at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium, February – April 2005. Activity report: “PIM-SM Listener: Extending the Functionality of the CastGate Router”. The project demanded the integration of PIM-SM multicast routing protocol with the existing CastGate technology, with implementation in C++ under Linux.

Professional experience

Assistant Professor

• M.Sc. Course: Broadband Networks (since 2008)
• B.SC Laboratories: Broadband Networks (din 2002)
• B.SC Laboratories: Switching Systems in Telecommunications I (din 2006)
• B.SC Laboratories: Switching Systems in Telecommunications II (din 2007)

Research projects:

• Siemens VDO Timisoara (2005 - 2006) – “OSAL porting from VxWorks OS to Linux OS”
• Siemens PSE Brasov (2006) – “IEEE 802.11a/b/g,e performance evaluation”
• CEEX COMODICI (2007 - 2008) – “Design of the communication network for an intelligent building using IPv4/IPv6”
• FP7 4WARD (2008 - 2009) – “Wired & Wireless World Wide Architecture and Design for the Future Internet”

Diploma project coordination:

• “Security in PBX-IP Asterisk” (to be presented in June 2008)
• “Video Monitoring Services in PBX-IP Asterisk” (to be presented in June 2008)
• “Evaluation of NAT-PT IPv4/IPv6 Translation Mechanism” (2007)
• “Evaluation of QoS Parameters for IPTV” (2007)
• “Evaluation of Group Communication Services: ESM and Hypercast” (2006)

Technical skills

• Practical knowledge and experience installing, configuring and maintaining Windows, Linux and FreeBSD-like operating systems in LANs;

• Theoretical knowledge and experience working with different protocols from the TCP/IP stack: IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, MPLS, Ethernet, PPP, VoIP (SIP, IAX, H.323), etc.

• IPv4/IPv6 routing protocols: RIP, OSPF, BGP (Zebra/Quagga and GateD daemons on Linux boxes, as well as on Cisco/Linksys routers); 

• Strong knowledge of IPv4/IPv6 multicast routing (FreeBSD with KAME) and alternative multicast technologies;

• Protocol analysis using traffic capturing tools like: Ethereal, Wireshark or tcpdump; 

• Telecommunication technologies: PSTN, ISDN, ATM, GSM;

• Experience in configuring and operating PBX-IP Asterisk under Linux (Fedora Core or LIVE distributions) using SIP, IAX, H.323 channels and hardware modules for PSTN, GSM (Digium and VoiSmart); 

• Basic programming skills in C/C++ under Linux;

• LaTeX knowledge under Windows OS with proTeXt (MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter, Ghostscript and GSView) distribution.

Publications

T.M. Blaga, V. Dobrotă, "Testing IPv4/IPv6-Based Unicast/Multicast Routing Protocols Using Linux and FreeBSD", COST290, 1st Management Committee Meeting, Malta, October 7-9, 2004.

T.M. Blaga, V. Dobrota, K. Steenhaut, I. Trestian, G. Lazar, “Steps Towards Native IPv6 Multicast: CastGate Router with PIM-SM Support”, Proceedings of 14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks LANMAN 2005, Chania, Greece, 18-21 September 2005.

T.M. Blaga, V. Dobrotă, "Evaluating and Improving Alternative Multicast Solutions: CastGate and CastGate with PIM-SM", COST290, 5th Management Committee Meeting, Delft, The Netherlands, February 9-10, 2006.

T.M. Blaga, G. Hegedus, V. Dobrota, “Experimental Performance Determination of End System Multicast and Hypercast”, The Scientific Bulletin "Acta Technica Napocensis" Electronics And Telecommunications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, vol. 48, nr. 1, 2007, pp.21-28.

A total of 23 papers published at conferences and in journals, the complete list of publications can be found HERE.

Awards

• BEST STUDENT PAPER at the 5th RoEduNet IEEE International Conference for the paper: “Performance Metrics for AGCS Applied to CastGate Technology and Native Multicast”, Sibiu, 3rd of June, 2006.
• Ericsson Awards of Excellence in Telecommunications for the paper: “XCast++: Proposed Extension for Explicit Multicast Protocol”, Bucharest, 30th of June, 2006.

Foreign languages (spoken/written)

• English:         advanced      advanced
• French:          medium         medium
• Hungarian:    medium         beginner

Affiliation

Member IEEE Communications Society since 2004.

Personal data

Date and place of birth: March 24, 1979, Oradea, Romania.