Virgil Dobrota - PhD Supervisor

Virgil Dobrota

Professor, Ph.D, MIEEE

Head of Communications Department

Address:	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 26-28 George Baritiu Street, Room 364, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phones:	+40-264-401226 (office) +40-264-401264 (laboratory) +40-264-401816 (research lab)
Fax:	+40-264-401474
E-mail:	Virgil.Dobrota@com.utcluj.ro
URL:	https://users.utcluj.ro/~dobrota/

Advisor for M.Sc. Theses in Telecommunications

2026

1.	Alex-Calin Bulzan, „Distributed Ledgers with Cryptographic Erasure for GDPR-Compliant Identity and Access Management" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 July 2026.	htm
2.	Andrei-Alexandru Evtei, „Cross-Platform DDoS Mitigation: Evaluating eBPF and XDP Performance within OpenStack and Kubernetes Infrastructures" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 July 2026.	htm
3.	Anamaria-Alexandra Lascu, "Implementing the Network Slicing Concept and QoS Policies using SDN Architectures" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 July 2026.	htm
4.	Michael-Daniel Boica, ”Autonomous Infrastructure Recovery: Multivariate Anomaly Detection with Isolation Forest and Automated Remediation through Ansible" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 July 2026.	htm
5.	Victor-Ioan Malinescu, „5G Slice-Aware Transport: An SR-MPLS Flexible Algorithm Integration" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 July 2026	htm
6.	Mihai-Cristian Ciorogariu, „Automated Network Reconfiguration Using Cisco pyATS" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 12 February 2026.	htm

2025

7.	Gabriel-Mihai Oltean, „OpenRAN Compliant Deployment in 5G Standalone with Customized xApp" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 July 2025	htm
8.	Anamaria Muresan, „SD-WAN Solution for a Site with Two Virtual Routers and a 5G Priority Transport Environment" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 July 2025.	htm
9.	Cristian-Lucian Jinga, "SD-WAN Solution for a Site with Two Virtual Routers and an MPLS Priority Transport Environment" ((in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 July 2025.	htm
10.	Andra-Flavia Sicoe, ”Confluent Platform Managed by Ansible for Optimizing Real-Time Data Streaming" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 5 February 2025.	htm

2024

11.

Emanoil-Raul Suciu, „Amazon Web Services-Based VoIP Architecture with Asterisk and Cisco 8000v, and Datadog Monitoring" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 4 September 2024

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12.

Alin-Tudor Sferle, „Cost-Optimized FPGA Processing Element: An Isolated Approach for Cloud-Native Environments" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 19 July 2024.

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13.

Vlad-Andrei Monoranu, "Deploying a Highly Available and Scalable Application in AWS Fargate Using Terraform and GitHub Actions" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7 February 2024.

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2023

14.

Ciprian Haiduc, "Integration and Inter-Working of VoIP Protocols: An Approach towards Unified Communications as a Service" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 6 September 2023.

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15.

Manuela-Ioana Csoma, „Asterisk PBX Deployment Using Proxy Charms with Open Source MANO and Microstack” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 22 February 2023.

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2022

16.

Andrei-Viorel Draghici, „Centralized Access to Resources in Amazon Web Services” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2 September 2022.

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17.

Bogdan Acsanei, "flexiWAN: An Open-Source SD-WAN Solution" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 8 July 2022.

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2021

18.

Robert-Diner Botez, "SDN and NFV for Network Slicing Scalability: A Kubernetes Approach" (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15 July 2021 (Erasmus+ grant at Aalto University Helsinki, Finland)

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19.

Raluca-Ana Ursu, „Unified Communications as a Service Solution Using the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Rainbow Platform” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 9 September 2021.

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20.

Aron-Valeriu Dumitrescu, „SD-WAN Secure Solution for Connecting Virtual Local Area Networks to a Virtual Network in the Cloud” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 9 September 2021.

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2020

21.

Diana Deac, „Bidirectional Multicast RPL Forwarding on Top of Time Slotted Channel Hopping: An Enhanced Orchestra Scheduler Approach” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15 July 2020 (Erasmus+ grant at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)

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22.

Denisa-Adina Moldovan, „Secured Named Data Networking-Based Communications with FIWARE Platform” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15 July 2020 (Erasmus+ grant at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

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Dan-Andrei Margin, „Cloud-Based Data Broker Using FIWARE Platform and Named Data Networking” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15 July 2020 (Erasmus+ grant at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

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2019

24.

Adrian Taut, „Safety Enhancements for Vehicles in a Smart City: A Raspberry Pi Approach” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 21 February 2019

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25.

Calin-Marian Iurian, „Couchbase Server in Microsoft Azure Cloud: A Docker Container Approach” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 12 September 2019

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2018

26.

Denis Betivu, „TelePresence through the Cisco WebEx Meeting Center” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 12 September 2018

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27.

Andrei Simirea, „Unified Communications through Cisco Dedicated Software” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 18 July 2018

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2017

28.	Teodor-Aurel Cret, „Dynamically Provisioning End-to-End QoS During Skype for Business Audio-Video Calls Using Cisco APIC-EM SDN Controller” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 14 July 2017	htm
29.	Bogdan-Ionut Fagarasan, „Static Implementation of Quality of Service for Unified Communications Using Cisco APIC-EM SDN Controller” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 14 July 2017	htm
30.	Krisztian Robert Koteles, „Functionality Extension of the LISP Flow Mapping Module from OpenDaylight” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 14 July 2017 (Erasmus grant at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)	htm
31.	Stefan-Mihail Magda, „Security Best Practices Automation in AWS - Amazon Web Services” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 14 July 2017	htm

2014

32.

Victor Moldovan, „Constrained Application Protocol for Smartphone-Based Sensing: Observation Process” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 September 2014 (Erasmus grant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

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2013

33.	Flavius Stoicuta, „Prediction of Available Transfer Rate and One-Way Delay Using Neural Networks” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 July 2013	htm
34.	Iustin Alexandru Ivanciu, „Available Transfer Rate Active Measurement Tool for Wired and Wireless Networks” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 July 2013 (Erasmus grant at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)	htm
35.	Anamaria Comsa, „Application-Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 July 2013 (Erasmus grant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)	htm
36.	Monica Andreea Laslo (Ilies), „HP NNMi Network Management Using SNMP” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11 July 2013	htm
37.	Bogdan Mircea Ivan, „SIP Trunking between Cisco Communications Manager Express and a Cloud-Based PBX” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17 September 2013	htm

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Adrian Vedinas, „Adaptive Routing Based on Dijkstra’s, Modified Dijkstra’s and Bellman-Ford Algorithms” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 28 June 2012

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39.	Catalin Florin Vinti, „Call-Blocking Probability in IPTV Systems” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2011 (Erasmus grant at University of Hamburg, Germany)	htm
40.	Dorin Emanuel Hintea, „Simulation of a LISP Ingress Tunnel Router Cache” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2011 (Erasmus grant at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)	htm
41.	Bogdan Mircea Buta, „Connecting Wireless Sensor Networks to the Internet” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2011 (Erasmus grant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)	htm
42.	Nicolae Nistor, „FreePBX Applications for Asterisk” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2011	htm

Advisor for M.Sc. Theses in Telecommunications and Multimedia Technologies

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43.	Marius Herculea, „Security Evaluation of H.323, IAX and SCCP Protocols in VoIP Architectures” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm
44.	Ovidiu Litan, „Testing the SCTP Behavior Using the GNS3 Emulator” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm
45.	Melinda Barabas, „Preliminary Implementation of a Situation Aware Self-Management System” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm
46.	Georgeta Lucia Boanea, „Implementation of a Situation Aware Multipath Routing Algorithm” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm
47.	Rares Ioan Cosma, „Configuration and Implementation of an IMS Open Source Testbed” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm
48.	Mihai Cristian, „Study of Signaling in an IMS Open Source Testbed” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010	htm

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49.

Andrei Bogdan Rus, „Design and Preliminary Implementation of Cross-Layer QoS for In-Network Management” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 26 June 2009

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50.

Adina Topa (Contiu), "Design and Implementation of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator " (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 26 June 2009

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Advisor for M.Sc. Theses in Modern Techniques in Telecommunications

2006

51.

Florin Zoreanu Dracman, „Mobile Router Implementation for MIPv6 and HMIPv6” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2006

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52.

Ionut Catalin Trestian, "Transport Layer Issues in Wireless Networks" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2006

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2005

53.

Dragos Dimitriu, "Performance Study for Multimedia Voice Transmissions over Wireless LAN 802.11 Using SIP as a Signaling Protocol" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2005

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54.

Silviu Rapuntean, „Implementation of a System for Active and Passive Monitoring of an IP-Based Network by Enhancing Cacti’s Functionality” (in Romanian),Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2005

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2004

55.

Mihai Stefan Marta, "Securing Open VPN 1.5.0" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2004

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Advisor for M.Sc. Theses in Multimedia Technologies

2010

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Lorand Jakab, "LISPmon: Monitoring Platform for the LISP Pilot Network” (in English), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 30 June 2010

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2007

57.

Ferenc Szasz, "IPv6-to-IPv4 Multicast Translator with Listener and Firewall" (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2007

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2005

58.

Istvan Katona, "Implementation of BGP-4+ Exterior Routing Protocol in IPv4/IPv6 using Zebra/Quagga Software Package Routing in Linux” (in Romanian), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2005

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Advisor for M.Sc. Theses in Signal and Image Processing

(in French)

2007

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Eugen Otava, „G?n?rateur de trafic IPTV” (“IPTV Traffic Generator”) (in French), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 June 2007

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