”We seek to identify innovative and intelligent solutions to solve specific challenges of communication networks”
HEAD OF LABORATORY
Senior Lecturer Claudiu Ionut Popirlan, PhD
E-mail: office@incesa.ro
RESEARCH APPROACHES
Develop and encourage innovation in computer science and digital communication
Promote members both nationally and especially internationally and not least to achieve scientific and technological results, competitive nationally and globally
Testing and validation of network devices
Testing and performance measurements of network infrastructures
Optimisation of communication infrastructures
Modelling and simulation
RESEARCH TOPICS
Analytical characterisation of the behaviour of communications network traffic
Identification of IT attacks based on traffic characteristics
Determining the intrinsic characteristics of the carried information (correlation, coherency, consistency, etc.)
Design of formal methods for automatic testing of protocol implementation compliance
Use of intelligent agents in testing, diagnosis, and certification of communications networks
Exploiting the advantages of mobile agents systems (cooperation, mobility, negotiation) in solving communication issues: web applications reliability, modelling of collective customer behavior
Iot challenges: connectivity, security, complexity, adaptability, precision in terms of latency and determinism, scalability, maintenance, updates, and cloud services
Research Facilities and Tools
Ixia IxLoad
General
Seeks test objective goals automatically, including concurrent connections, connection rate, simulated users, and throughput
Real-world network configurations, including multiple sub-networks, unique MAC addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
Troubleshooting and analysis
Real-time packet captures with filtering and ladder diagrams analysis
Network diagnostics of network-layer statistics in real-time for complete insight into test operation, allowing debugging and troubleshooting of complex network configurations
VoIP
SIP user agent, trunk and server emulation, multiple Audio CODEC supported
Real time Quality of Voice analysis using E-Model or PESQ
IPTV, Over The Top (OTT) Video
Emulate broadcast TV and video on demand (VOD) subscriber traffic
Support for IGMP, MLD and multicast server source
Perform real-time video quality analysis performed on all streams to calculate perceptual MOS on hundreds of streams
Storage
Comprehensive NAS/SAN protocol emulation, including SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and DCBx
Wireless core
Supports 3GPP UMTS Gn interfaces
Ixia IxVeriWave
L1-7 802.11ac testing
Used by Wi-Fi chipset, access point (AP), wireless LAN (WLAN) controller manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises worldwide
Large-scale testing of wireless LAN
Highly realistic client and application traffic generation enables testing of BYOD, DPI, and policy engines at scale
Comprehensive testing of Wi-Fi-enabled devices
Performance: End-user QoE by application: voice, video, unified communications (UC), specialized (medical, retail, financial)
Ixia IxChariot
Pre-Deployment and Live Network and Application Assessment Tool
Run Endpoints Anywhere – LAN, Cloud, Public
Performance Endpoints run on “Everything”
Centrally Manage Endpoints
Assess Performance of NFV/Virtual Infrastructure
Securely Access and Run Tests from Any Browser
Application Emulation
Voice over IP Call Emulation and Quality Assessment
Interactive Real-Time Statistics
100% Software Performance Endpoints
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Establishing analysis methodologies in order to facilitate the diagnosis of capacities
Design of metrics used to measure the performances of a service or a services bundle
Solving communication network challenges by the development of mobile agents systems
Improvement of the communication network defense capacity
PROJECTS
Completed projects
As partner: an intelligent system for monitoring and management of power quality at the interface between the electricity distribution network and its users (PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0269)
As coordinator: analysis, design, and development of a solution for creating and management of the performance of the shows – part of the European project EUROPEAN THEATRE LAB „Drama Goes Digital/DUB IT”
PARTNERS
Ixia Romania
National Theater “Marin Sorescu” of Craiova