Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dimitrie Popescu

231G KAUFMAN HALL
NORFOLK, 23529

Dr. Dimitrie C. Popescu received the Engineering Diploma and M.S. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, and the Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University, all in Electrical Engineering. His research interests span the areas of communication systems, control theory, and signal processing. His current work is in the area of wireless communication systems, but he has also done research in speech processing, robust optimal control, and neural networks. Dr. Popescu has held academic positions with the University of Texas at San Antonio, Rutgers University, and POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest. He has also worked as a member of technical staff for AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, and for Telcordia Technologies in Red Bank, New Jersey. He has co-authored a monograph book on interference avoidance methods for wireless systems published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2004, and was awarded second prize in the 1999 AT&T Student Research Symposium for his work on application of interference avoidance over dispersive channels. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 51情报站 in September 2006.

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, (2002)

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, (1991)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Sandy, M., Popescu, D. C. and Ash, R. L. "Undergrad Student Instrument Project (USIP)" $196,527. Federal. May 19, 2016 - September 30, 2019
Popescu, D. C. and Ash, R. L. "Virginia Cubesat Constellation" $100,000. Federal. May 9, 2016 - September 8, 2019
Popescu, D. C. and Belfore, L. A. "Develop Spectrum Monitoring System for Standard and Non-standard Based Wireless Protocols" $55,085. Commercial. January 2019 - April 2019
Belfore, L. A. and Popescu, D. C. "Engineering Support for the Tactical Remote Sensor System" $74,121. Commercial. January 2019 - April 2019
Popescu, D. C. "Upgrade and Maintenance for 51情报站 Satellite Ground Station" $6,500. State. January 1, 2015 - May 30, 2016
Popescu, D. C. "Sensors for engineering research and teaching at 51情报站" $14,000. Private. January 30, 2013 - December 15, 2013
Popescu, D. C. "A Study of Interference Alignment in Practical Scenarios" $8,500. Other. May 15, 2013 - August 14, 2013
Popescu, D. C. "Dean's faculty development grant" $1,500. February 2012 - June 2012
Popescu, D. C. "Development of a Laboratory for Small Satellite Technologies at 51情报站" $10,000. State. December 1, 2011 - May 30, 2012
Popescu, D. C. and Olariu, S. "TRENDS: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic Related Event Detection and Dissemination" $17,000. 51情报站. May 2011 - July 2011
Popescu, D. C. "Dean's faculty development grant" $2,000. November 2010 - May 2011
Popescu, D. C. "Investigating Performance of Feedback-Based Transmitter Adaptation Schemes in Dynamic Wireless Networks" $7,000. 51情报站. May 2010 - June 2010
Popescu, D. C. "Equipment grant: wireless measurement and monitoring devices for senior design projects" $14,000. January 2010 - January 2010
Popescu, D. C. "Dean's faculty development grant" $1,500. November 2009 - November 2009
Popescu, D. C. and Shadaram, M. "Advanced Research Program grant 010115- 0013-2006: Multilayer Design of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks" $50,000. May 2006 - June 2008
Popescu, D. C. "Adaptive Algorithms for Transmitter/Receiver Optimization in Dynamic Wireless Systems" $3,000. January 2008 - May 2008
Popescu, D. C. and Chronopoulos, A. T.. "ITR: Computationally Efficient Methods for Power Control in Wireless Systems" $150,000. August 2003 - December 2006
Popescu, D. C. "Advanced Technology Program grant 000512- 0261-2003: Design of High-Performance Architectures for Efficient Reception of Ultra Wideband Signals" $63,000. January 2004 - August 2006

Expertise

Computer Engineering
Embedded Systems, Wireless Networking

Research Interests

Research Interests: Wireless communications: distributed optimization in wireless systems; spectrum sensing and modulation classification, multiple antenna and MIMO systems, interference avoidance/suppression and power control, OFDM and multicarrier systems, ultra wideband systems, vehicular networks.Control theory: optimal control and filtering for deterministic and stochastic systems, Kalman filtering.Digital signal processing: adaptive algorithms, Wiener filering, speech processing.

Articles

MacDonald, S., Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (2019). A Hybrid Framework for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Systems with Dynamic Users. IEEE Communications Letters 23 (10) , pp. 1871-1874.
Baksi, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2019). Secret Key Generation Using Precoded MIMO Channel State Information. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 18 (6) , pp. 3104-3112.
MacDonald, S., Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (2017). Analyzing the Performance of Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems with Dynamic Primary User Activity. IEEE Communications Letters 21 (9) , pp. 2037-2040.
Popescu, O., Sha-Moahmmad, S., Popescu, D. C., El-Tawab, S. and Abdel-Wahab, H. M. (2017). Automatic Incident Detection in Intelligent Transportation Systems Using Aggregation of Traffic Parameters Collected Through V2I Communications. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 8 (1).
Baksi, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2017). Distributed Power Allocation for Spectrum Sharing in Mutually Interfering Wireless Systems. Physical Communications/Elsevier 22 , pp. 42-48.
Popescu, O. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). On the Performance of Sub-Band Precoded OFDM in the Presence of Narrowband Co-Channel Interference. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 62 (3) , pp. 736-743.
Wang, H., Dobre, O. A.., Li, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). Blind Cyclostationarity-Based Symbol Period Estimation for FSK Signals. IEEE Communications Letters 19 (7) , pp. 1149-1152.
El-Tawab, S., Alhafdi, A., Popescu, D. C. and Olariu, S. (2015). Physical Layer Aspects of Information Exchange in the NOTICE Arhcitecture. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 7 (1) , pp. 8-18.
Abraham, S., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2015). Joint Beamforming and Power Control in Downlink Multiuser Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 15 (3) , pp. 552-560.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2014). Enhanced Spectrum Utilization in Dynamic Cognitive Radios with Adaptive Sensing. IET Signal Processing Journal 8 (4) , pp. 339-346.
Abraham, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control for Cognitive Radio Networks with Target SIR Requirements. Physical Communications/Elsevier 9 , pp. 223-230.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). Using Hidden Markov Models to Evaluate the Performance of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing. IET Communications Journal 7 (17) , pp. 1969-1973.
Yan, G., Popescu, D. C. and Olariu, S. (2012). NOTICE: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 4 (4) , pp. 6-16.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2012). Joint Spectral Shaping and Power Control in Spectrum Overlay Cognitive Radio Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications 60 (9) , pp. 2396-2401.
Rawat, D. B.. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Precoder Adaptation and Power Control for Cognitive Radios in Dynamic Spectrum Access Environments. IET Communications Journal 6 (8) , pp. 835-844.
Al-Habashna, A., Dobre, O. A.., Venkatesan, R. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Second-Order Cyclostationarity of Mobile WiMAX and LTE OFDM Signals and Applications to Spectrum Awareness in Cognitive Radio Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Special issue on adaptive waveform design for agile sensing) 6 (1) , pp. 26-42.
Rawat, D. B.., Popescu, D. C., Yan, G. and Olariu, S. (2011). Enhancing VANET Performance by Joint Adaptation of Transmission Power and Contention Window Size. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 22 (9) , pp. 1528-1535.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2011). Gradient-Based Threshold Adaptation for Energy Detector in Cognitive Radio Systems. IEEE Communications Letters 15 (1) , pp. 19-21.
Popescu, D. C., Rawat, D. B.., Popescu, O. and Saquib, M. (2010). Game Theoretic Approach To Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control in Wireless Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B 40 (3) , pp. 675-682.
Musku, M. R.., Chronopoulos, A. T.., Popescu, D. C. and Stefanescu, A. (2010). A Game-Theoretic Approach to Joint Rate and Power Control for Uplink CDMA Communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications 58 (3) , pp. 675-682.
Popescu, D. C., Popescu, O. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). User Admissibility in Uplink Wireless Systems with Multipath and Target SIR Requirements. IEEE Communications Letters 14 (2) , pp. 106-108.
Hameed, F., Dobre, O. A.. and Popescu, D. C. (2009). On the Likelihood-Based Approach to Modulation Classification. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 8 (12) , pp. 5884-5892.
Chronopoulos, A. T.., Musku, M. R.., Penmatsa, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2008). Spectrum Load Balancing for Medium Access in Cognitive Radio Systems. IEEE Communications Letters 12 (5) , pp. 353-355.
Lacatus, C., Popescu, D. C. and Shadaram, M. (2008). Distributed Algorithm for Optimal Sequence and Power Allocation in Uplink Code Division Multiple Access Systems. IET Communications Journal (former IEE Proceedings on Communications) 2 (2) , pp. 292-299.
Popescu, D. C. (2007). Interference Suppressing OFDM UWB SystemWith Multiple Users and MMSE Receivers. IEEE Communications Letters 11 (12) , pp. 925-927.
Popescu, O., Saquib, M., Popescu, D. C. and Rice, M. D.. (2007). Interference Mitigation in Aeronautical Telemetry Systems Using Kalman Filter. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 43 (4) , pp. 1624-1630.
Popescu, D. C. and Yaddanapudi, P. (2007). Narrowband Interference Avoidance in OFDM-Based UWB Communication Systems . IEEE Transactions on Communications 55 (9) , pp. 1667-1673.
Popescu, D. C., Popescu, O. and Rose, C. (2007). Interference Avoidance and Multiaccess Vector Channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications 55 (8) , pp. 1466-1471.
Lacatus, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2007). Adaptive Interference Avoidance for Dynamic Wireless Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Special issue on adaptive waveform design for agile sensing) 1 (1) , pp. 189-202.
Popescu, O., Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2007). Simultaneous Water Filling in Mutually Interfering Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 6 (3) , pp. 1102-1113.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2005). Codeword Optimization for Uplink CDMA Dispersive Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 4 (4) , pp. 1563-1574.
Popescu, O., Rose, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2004). Maximizing the Determinant for a Special Class of Block-Partitioned Matrices. Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2004 (1) , pp. 49-62.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2003). Interference Avoidance and Multiuser MIMO Systems. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (Invited paper for special issue on interference suppression techniques for satellite systems) 21 (1) , pp. 143-161.
Popescu, O., Popescu, D. C., Wilder, J. and Karwe, M. V.. (2001). A New Approach to Modeling and Control of a Food Extrusion Process Using Artificial Neural Network and an Expert System. Journal of Food Process Engineering 24 (1) , pp. 17-36.
Popescu, D. C. and Gajic, Z. (1999). Singular Perturbation Analysis of Cheap Control Problem for Sampled Data Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 44 (11) , pp. 2209-2214.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Popescu, O. (1996). The Use of a Root-Locus Type Plot in the Linear Quadratic Regulator Design. The Scientific Bulletin of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest (series C) 58 (1-2) , pp. 85-88.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Popescu, O. (1995). Algorithms for Evaluating the Dominant Components of the Feedback Gain Matrix. The Scientific Bulletin of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest (series C) 57 (1-4) , pp. 75-79.

Books

Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2004). Interference Avoidance Methods for Wireless Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Information Technology: Transmission, Processing, and Storage series.

Book Chapters

Popescu, D. C., Ulukus, S., Rose, C. and Yates, R. (2009). Interference Avoidance for CDMA Systems (pp. 365-416) Advances in Multiuser Detection, Wiley-IEEE Press.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2002). Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems (pp. 1115-1121) Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications.

Conference Proceeding

Harris, J., Kim, W., O'Brien, M. W. and Popescu, D. C. (2018). Adapting a Commercial Off the Shelf Cross Polarized Beam Amateur Radio Antenna for Use in Small Satellite Ground Station Radio Link Williamsburg, VA: 40th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association 鈥 AMTA 2018.
O'Brien, M. W., Harris, J., Popescu, O. and Popescu, D. C. (2018). An Experimental Study of the Transmit Power for a USRP Software-Defined Radio (pp. 377-380) Bucharest, Romania: 12th International Communications Conference - COMM 2018.
Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (2018). Transmitter Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Systems and Applications to Cognitive Radar (pp. 11-18) Bucharest, Romania: 12th International Communications Conference - COMM 2018.
Rogers, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2017). Fluctuating Extended Target Detection in Clutter Environment Using Compressed Sensing MIMO Radar (pp. 507-512) Baltimore, Maryland: 2017 IEEE Military Communications Conference - MILCOM.
Baksi, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2017). Secret Key Generation in MIMO Wireless Systems Using Precoded Channel Measurements Montreal, Canada: Proceedings 2017 IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2017).
Baksi, S., Snoap, J. and Popescu, D. C. (2017). Secret Key Generation Using One-Bit Quantized Channel State Information San Francisco, CA: Proceedings 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
Rogers, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). Performance Analysis of Extended Target Detection with Radar Waveforms Designed Using Compressed Sensing Baltimore, Maryland: 2016 IEEE Military Communications Conference - MILCOM.
Harris, J., Bailey, C. G. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). An Experimental Study of InGaAs Photovoltaic Cell to Solar Exposure in Outer Space Environment Norfolk, VA: Proceedings 2016 IEEE Region 3 Engineering, Technology, and Science Conference 鈥 SoutheastCon.
Shreekantamurthy, M., Popescu, D. C. and Joshi, R. (2016). Classification of Digital Modulation Schemes in Multipath Environments Using Higher Order Statistics Norfolk, VA: Proceedings 2016 IEEE Region 3 Engineering, Technology, and Science Conference 鈥 SoutheastCon.
MacDonald, S. L.., Krusienski, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). Cyclostationary-Based Detection of Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential Signals Recorded from EEG (pp. 764-768) Shanghai, China: Proceedings 2016 IEEE international Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2016.
Popescu, O., Harris, J. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). Designing the Communication Sub-System for Nanosatellite CubeSat Missions: Operational and Implementation Perspectives Norfolk, VA: Proceedings 2016 IEEE Region 3 Engineering, Technology, and Science Conference 鈥 SoutheastCon.
Daniel, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2016). MIMO Radar Waveform Design for Multiple Extended Target Estimation Based on Greedy SINR Maximization (pp. 3006-3010) Shanghai, China: Proceedings 2016 IEEE international Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2016.
Baksi, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). Horizontal Spectrum Sharing and Coexistence Scenarios for Mutually Interfering Systems (pp. 34-37) Constanta: 3rd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking - BlackSeaCom 2015.
Esmer, G. Bora., Popescu, O. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). Reconstruction of Diffraction Field from its Samples Distributed Over Space Shanghai: Proceedings 2015 OSA Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging Conference.
Popescu, O. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). Sub-Band Precoded OFDM for Enhanced Physical Layer Resiliency in Wireless Communication Systems (pp. 1-4) Constanta: 3rd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking - BlackSeaCom 2015.
Sha-Mohamad, S. A.., Popescu, D. C. and Abdel-Wahab, H. M. (2015). A New Technique for Automatic Incident Detection in Intelligent Transportation Systems Using Aggregation of Traffic Parameters (pp. 2162-2166) New Orelans, LA: 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 鈥 WCNC.
Baksi, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). Distributed Power Allocation for Rate maximization in Cognitive Radio Networks with Horizontal Spectrum Sharing (pp. 950-954) New Orelans, LA: Proceedings 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - WCNC.
Popescu, O. and Popescu, D. C. (2015). On the Performance of Precoded OFDM Systems in the Presence of Jamming (pp. 358-362) New Orelans, LA: 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - WCNC.
Daniel, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2014). Multiple Extended Target Detection Using MIMO Radar and Compressed Sensing (pp. 777-782) Baltimore, Maryland: 2014 IEEE Military Communications Conference - MILCOM.
Daniel, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2014). MIMO Radar Waveform Design for Multiple Extended Targets Using Compressed Sensing (pp. 567-572) Cincinnati, Ohio: 2014 IEEE Radar Conference - RADARCON.
Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (2014). On The Performance of 4G Mobile Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas (pp. 445-448) Bucharest, Romania: 10th International Communications Conference - COMM 2014.
Temtam, A., Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (2014). Using OFDM Pilot Tone Information to Detect Active 4G LTE Transmissions (pp. 417-420) Bucharest, Romania: 10th International Communications Conference - COMM 2014.
Harris, J. and Popescu, D. C. (2014). On the Discharge Characteristics of Lithium Polymer Batteries Lexington, KY: Proceedings 2014 IEEE Region 3 Engineering, Technology, and Science Conference 鈥 SoutheastCon.
Temtam, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2014). Using OFDM Pilot Tones for Spectrum Sensing with Applications to Mobile WiMAX Newport Beach, California: 2014 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2014.
Sha-Mohammad, S. A., Abdel-Wahab, H. M. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). A Study of IEEE 802.11 Standard for Use in Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication (pp. 1303-1307) Atlanta, Georgia: 2013 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference Workshop on Vehicular Network Evolution - VNE.
MacDonald, S. L.. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). Impact of Primary User Activity on the Performance of Energy-Based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 3224-3228) Atlanta, Georgia: 2013 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2013.
Alhajri, H. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). A Study of Timing Synchronization for WiMAX Wireless Systems Proceedings 11th IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits, and Systems 鈥 ISSCS 2013.
Treeumnuk, D., MacDonald, S. L. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). Optimizing Performance of Cooperative Sensing for Increased Spectrum Utilization in Dynamic Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 4656-4660) Budapest, Hungary: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC 2013.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2013). Dynamic Spectral Shaping in LTE-Advanced Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 19-21) Austin, Texas: 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2013.
Abraham, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2013). Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control in Multi-User Wireless Systems with Fading Channels (pp. 292-294) Austin, Texas: 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2013.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Enhancing Spectrum Hole Utilization Through Adaptive Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 3874-3878) Anaheim, California: 2012 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2012.
Daniel, A., Popescu, D. C. and Olariu, S. (2012). A Study of Beaconing Mechanism for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications (pp. 7146-7150) Ottawa, Canada: 2012 IEEE ICC Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networking: V2V/V2I Communications and Applications - WIVN 2012.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Energy Detector with Adaptive Sensing Window for Improved Spectrum Utilization in Dynamic Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 1528-1532) Ottawa, Canada: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC 2012.
Daniel, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). A Vector Channel Approach to Waveform Optimization in Radar Systems Princeton, New Jersey: 46th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
Cay, A. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). On the Probability of Symbol Error for Two-Dimensional Signal Constellations with Non-Uniform Decision Regions Princeton, New Jersey: 46th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Using Hidden Markov Models to Enable Performance Awareness and for Energy Detection in Cognitive Radio Systems Princeton, New Jersey: 46th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2012). Adaptive Sensing for Increased Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 319-322) Santa Clara, California: 2012 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2012.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C., Dobre, O. A.. and Baddour, K. (2011). Spectral Shaping for Adjacent Band Interference Suppression in Cognitive Radio Systems Houston, Texas: 2011 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2010.
Al-Habashna, A., Dobre, O. A. ., Venkatesan, R. and Popescu, D. C. (2011). Joint Cyclostationarity-Based Detection and Classification of Mobile WiMAX and LTE OFDM Signals Kyoto, Japan: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC 2011.
Rawat, D., Treeumnuk, D. and Popescu, D. C. (2011). Predictive Vector Quantization for Transmitter Adaptaion with Limited Feedback (pp. 3408-3411) Prague, Czech Republic: Proceedings 2011 IEEE international Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2011.
Abraham, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2011). Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control for Downlink Wireless Systems with Target SIR Requirements Baltimore, Maryland: 45th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
Cay, A., Rahman, Z. and Popescu, D. C. (2011). Video Object Trajectory Perturbation Based Data Hiding Satisfying Statistical and Perceptual Invisibility Baltimore, Maryland: 45th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
Al-Habashna, A., Dobre, O. A.., Venkatesan, R. and Popescu, D. C. (2010). Cyclostationarity-Based Detection of LTE OFDM Signals for Cognitive Radio Systems Miami, Florida: 2010 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2010.
Al-Habashna, A., Dobre, O. A.., Venkatesan, R. and Popescu, D. C. (2010). WiMAX Signal Detection Algorithm Based on Preamble-Induced Second-Order Cyclostationarity Miami, Florida: 2010 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2010.
Al-Habasna, A., Dobre, O. A.., Venkatesan, R. and Popescu, D. C. (2010). Joint Signal Detection and Classification of Mobile WiMAX and LTE OFDM Signals for Cognitive Radio Pacific Grove, California: 44th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Abraham, S., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control in Multi-User Wireless Systems with Target SINR Constraints Pacific Grove, California: 44th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). Spectrum Allocation and Power Control in OFDM-Based Cognitive Radios with Target SINR Constraints Pacific Grove, California: 44th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Popescu, D. C., Abraham, S., Popescu, O. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). On the Uplink-Downlink Duality for Gaussian Vector Channels with Colored Noise and Applications to CDMA Transmitter Adaptation (pp. 96-99) Kingston, Ontario: 25th IEEE Biennial Symposium on Communications.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). Adaptive Spectrum Sensing with Noise Variance Estimation for Dynamic Cognitive Radio Systems Princeton, New Jersey: 44th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems - CISS 2010.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). Dynamic Threshold Adaptation for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems (pp. 468-471) New Orleans, Louisiana: 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2010.
Abraham, S., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2010). Joint Beamforming and Power Control in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems (pp. 444-447) New Orleans, Louisiana: 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS 2010.
Rawat, D. B.. and Popescu, D. C. (2009). Joint Precoder and Power Adaptation for Cognitive Radios in Interference Systems (pp. 425-430) Phoenix, AZ: 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference - IPCCC 2009.
Treeumnuk, D., Popescu, D. C. and Olariu, S. (2009). Requirements for the Physical Layer of the NOTICE System for Vehicular Communications (pp. 3-7) Honolulu, Hawaii: 2009 IEEE Global Telecomunications Conference Workshop on Networking Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructures - NiVi'09.
Joshi, D. R.., Popescu, D. C. and Dobre, O. A.. (2009). Dynamic Spectral Shaping in Cognitive Radios with Quality of Service Constraints. (pp. 539-543) Pacific Grove, California: 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Rawat, D. B.., Yan, G., Popescu, D. C., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2009). Dynamic Adaptation of Joint Transmission Power and Contention Window in VANET Anchorage, AK: 70th IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference - VTC 2009 Fall.
Popescu, D. C., Shiny, A. and Popescu, O. (2009). Downlink Transmitter Adaptation Based On Greedy SINR Maximization (pp. 94-98) St. Johns, New Foundland: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE 2009.
Maharjan, S., Rawat, D. B.. and Popescu, D. C. (2009). A Simulation Study of Convergence Speed for Distributed Codeword Adaptation Algorithms in CDMA Wireless Systems (pp. 425-428) San Diego, CA: 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS'09.
Rawat, D. B.. and Popescu, D. C. (2008). Joint Codeword and Power Adaptation for CDMA Systems with Multipath and QoS Requirements (pp. 4050-4054) New Orleans, LA: 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 鈥 GLOBECOM鈥08.
Rawat, D. B.., Treeumnuk, D., Popescu, D. C., Abuelela, M. and Olariu, S. (2008). Challenges and Perspectives in the Implementation of NOTICE Architecture for Vehicular Communications (pp. 707-711) Atlanta, GA: 5th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - MASS 2008icular Networks - MoVeNet 2008 - and 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - MASS 2008.
Popescu, D. C. (2008). Multi-Band OFDM-Based UWB System with Multiple Users and Interference Mitigation (pp. 77-80) Proceedings 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wideband 鈥 ICUWB 2008 (Invited paper for special session on 鈥淢ultiband).
Popescu, D. C. (2008). Using Separable Game Theory to Develop Adaptive Algorithms for Joint Codeword Optimization and Power Control in CDMA Systems (pp. 5360-5363) Las Vegas, NV: Proceedings 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 鈥 ICASSP 2008 (Invited paper for special session on 鈥淕ame Theory for Signal Processing in Communications鈥).
Popescu, D. C., Popescu, O. and Rawat, D. B.. (2008). Gradient Descent Interference Avoidance with Target SIR Matching (pp. 200-204) Las Vegas, NV: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2008鈥 CCNC鈥08.
Popescu, D. C., Yaddanapudi, P., Vallepalli, N. and Raju, G. (2008). Interference Suppressing OFDM Versus Time-Hopping PAM in Multi-User UWB Systems (pp. 875-878) Orlando, Florida: 2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 鈥 RWS鈥08.
Yaddanapudi, P., Raju, G. and Popescu, D. C. (2008). Multiuser Diversity and Adaptive Bit Loading for OFDM-Based Spectrum Agile Radios (pp. 121-124) Orlando, Florida: Proceedings 2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 鈥 RWS鈥08.
Rawat, D. B., Popescu, D. C. and Song, M. (2008). Performance Enhancement of EDCA Access Mechanism of IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN (pp. 507-510) Orlando, FL: Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium - RWS'08.
Popescu, D. C., Rawat, D. B.. and Popescu, O. (2007). Gradient Descent Interference Avoidance for Uplink CDMA Systems with Multipath (pp. 1060-1064) Pacific Grove, CA: Proceedings of 41st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Popescu, D. C., Koduri, S. and Rawat, D. B.. (2007). Interference Avoidance With Limited Feedback (pp. 1046-1049) Pacific Grove, CA: Proceedings of 41st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Musku, M. R.., Chronopoulos, A. T.., Penmatsa, S. and Popescu, D. C. (2007). A Game-Theoretic Approach for Medium Access of Open Spectrum in Cognitive Radios (pp. 336-341) Orlando, FL: Proceedings Second International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications 鈥 CrownCom 2007.
Lacatus, C., Popescu, D. C. and Shadaram, M. (2007). Minimum User Powers and Optimal Codewords in Uplink CDMA Systems (pp. 202-206) Proceedings 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 鈥 WCNC 2007.
Lacatus, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2007). Adaptive Interference Avoidance for Dynamic Wireless Systems (pp. 150-154) Las Vegas, Nevada: Proceedings 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 鈥 CCNC 2007.
Lacatus, C., Popescu, D. C. and Shadaram, M. (2007). Feedback Requirements for Greedy Interference Avoidance (pp. 381-384) Long Beach, California: Proceedings 2007 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 鈥 RWS鈥07.
Yaddanapudi, P., Vallepalli, N., Popescu, D. C. and Shadaram, M. (2007). Performance Analysis of Multiband TH-PAM and Multiband-OFDM Ultra Wideband Communications Systems (pp. 503-506) Long Beach, California: Proceedings 2007 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 鈥 RWS鈥07.
Lacatus, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Game Theoretic Approach to Joint CDMA Codeword and Power Adaptation (pp. 1362-1366) Pacific Grove, California: Proceedings 40th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Popescu, O., Saquib, M., Popescu, D. C. and Rice, M. D.. (2006). Interference Mitigation and Channel Equalization for ARTM Tier-1Waveforms Using Kalman Filter San Diego, California: 2006 International Telemetry Conference 鈥 ITC 2006.
Popescu, O., Saquib, M., Popescu, D. C. and Rice, M. D. . (2006). Kalman Filter For Interference Mitigation and Channel Equalization in Aeronautical Telemetry Washington, DC: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Military Communications Conference 鈥 MILCOM鈥06.
Yaddanapudi, P., Popescu, D. C. and Raju, G. (2006). MMSE Detector for OFDM-Based UWB Systems (pp. 1811-1814) Pacific Grove, California: Proceedings 40th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Popescu, D. C. (2006). Interference Avoidance for Downlink CDMA (pp. 1563-1566) Proceedings 64th IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2006 Fall.
Cistelecan, M. R.. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Using Sliding Mode Control Theory for Radio Resource Management inWireless Systems (pp. 23-28) Proceedings 9th IEEE InternationalWorkshop on Variable Structure Systems 鈥 VSS鈥06.
Lacatus, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Interference Avoidance With Incremental Power Updates for Uplink CDMA Systems (pp. 1842-1847) Las Vegas, Nevada: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 鈥 WCNC 2006.
Lacatus, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Joint Incremental Codeword and Power Adaptation in CDMA Systems San Antonio, Texas: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Region 5 Technology and Science Conference.
Yaddanapudi, P. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Narrowband Interference Suppression in Multi-Band UWB Communication Systems (pp. 141-144) San Antonio, Texas: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Region 5 Technology and Science Conference.
Cistelecan, M. R.. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Power Control for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks Using Sliding-Mode Control Theory (pp. 335-338) San Antonio, Texas: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Region 5 Technology and Science Conference.
Popescu, D. C. and Yaddanapudi, P. (2006). A Simulation Study of Interference Suppressing OFDM for UWB Systems with Multiple Users (pp. 359-362) San Diego, California: Proceedings 2006 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 鈥 RWS 2006.
Musku, M. R.., Chronopoulos, A. T.. and Popescu, D. C. (2006). Joint Rate and Power Control Using Game Theory (pp. 1258-1262) Las Vegas, Nevada: Proceedings 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 鈥 CCNC 2006.
Musku, M. R.., Chronopoulos, A. T.. and Popescu, D. C. (2005). Joint Rate and Power Control with Pricing (pp. 3466-3470) St. Louis, Missouri: Proceedings 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 鈥 GLOBECOM鈥 05.
Yaddanapudi, P. and Popescu, D. C. (2005). Narrowband Interference Avoidance in Ultra Wideband Communication Systems (pp. 3779-3783) St. Louis, Missouri: Proceedings 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 鈥 GLOBECOM鈥05.
Popescu, O., Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2005). Interference Avoidance for Capacity Optimization in Mutually Interfering Wireless Systems (pp. 593-597) Dallas, Texas: Proceedings 62nd IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2005 Fall.
Musku, M. R .., Chronopoulos, A. T.. and Popescu, D. C. (2005). A Simulation Comparison of Distributed Power Control Algorithms for Wireless Communications (pp. 263-266) Proceedings 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits, and Systems 鈥 ISSCS 2005.
Popescu, D. C., Yaddanapudi, P. and Kondadasu, R. (2005). OFDM Versus Time-Hopping in Multiuser Ultra Wideband Communication Systems (pp. 1406-1410) Proceedings 61st IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2005 Spring.
Popescu, D. C. and Chronopoulos, A. T.. (2005). Power Control and Utility Optimization in Wireless Communication Systems (pp. 314-318) Proceedings 61st IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2005 Spring.
Popescu, O., Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2005). Greedy Interference Avoidance in Non- Colla-borative Multi-BaseWireless Systems The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Proceedings 39th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS鈥05.
Popescu, O., Rose, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2004). Signal Space Partitioning Versus Simultaneous Water Filling for Mutually Interfering Systems (pp. 3128-3132) Dallas, Texas: Proceedings 2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 鈥 GLOBECOM鈥04.
Yaddanapudi, P. and Popescu, D. C. (2004). Multiuser OFDM-Based System for UWB Radios The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas: Proceedings 2004 WNCG Wireless Networking Symposium.
Popescu, D. C., Popescu, O. and Rose, C. (2004). Interference Avoidance Versus Iterative Water Filling in Multiaccess Vector Channels (pp. 2058-2062) Los Angeles, California: Proceedings 60th IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2004 Fall .
Popescu, O., Rose, C. and Popescu, D. C. (2004). Strong Interference and Spectrum Warfare (pp. 83-88) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: Proceedings 38th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS鈥04.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2003). Interference Avoidance and Power Control for UplinkCDMA Systems (pp. 1473-1477) Orlando, Florida: Proceedings 58th IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference 鈥 VTC 2003 Fall.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2003). Multiuser MIMO Systems and Interference Avoidance (pp. IV-828 鈥 IV-831) Proceedings 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 鈥 ICASSP 2003 Invited paper for special session on 鈥淢ultiuser MIMO Wireless Downlink Processing鈥.
Popescu, D. C., Popescu, O. and Rose, C. (2002). Interference Avoidance and Multiaccess Vector Channels (pp. 499) Proceedings 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 鈥 ISIT 2002.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2002). Codeword Optimization for Asynchronous CDMA Systems Through Interference Avoidance Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: Proceedings 36th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS鈥02.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2001). Interference Avoidance Applied to Multiaccess Dispersive Channels (pp. 1200-1204) Pacific Grove, California: Proceedings 35th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2001). Fading Channels and Interference Avoidance (pp. 1073-1074) Monticello, Illinois: Proceedings 39th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2001). A New Approach to Multiple Antenna Systems (pp. 868-871) The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Proceedings 35th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS鈥01.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (2000). Codeword Quantization for Interference Avoidance (pp. 3670-3673) Proceedings 2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 鈥 ICASSP 2000.
Popescu, D. C. and Gajic, Z. (2000). The Effect of Balancing on Singularly Perturbed Linear Systems (pp. FP8-22 - FP8-25) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: Proceedings 34th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS 2000.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (1999). Interference Avoidance and Dispersive Channels: A New Look at Multicarrier Modulation (pp. 505-514) Monticello, Illinois: Proceedings 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
Popescu, D. C. and Rose, C. (1999). Emitter Localization in a Multipath Environment Using Extended Kalman Filter (pp. 147-150) The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Proceedings 33rd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS 鈥99.
Popescu, D. C. and Zeljkovic, I. (1998). Kalman Filtering of Colored Noise for Speech Enhancement (pp. 997-1000) Seattle, Washington: Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 鈥 ICASSP 鈥98.
Popescu, D. C. and Gajic, Z. (1998). Reduced Order Decomposition of Steady State Biased Kalman Filters (pp. 17-20) Proceedings 1998 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 鈥 CCECE 鈥98.
Popescu, D. C. and Gajic, Z. (1998). Cheap Control of Sampled Data Systems: A Singular Perturbation Approach (pp. 298-303) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: Proceedings 32nd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 鈥 CISS 鈥98.
Popescu, D. C. and Skataric, D. (1997). Linear Quadratic Aircraft Control Design (pp. 1-9) Proceedings 11th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 鈥 CSCS 11.
Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (1995). The Use of Neural Networks in Process Control (pp. 37-40) Proceedings 3rd International Scientific Conference on Modern Technologies.
Popescu, D. C. and Popescu, O. (1995). Hardware Implementation for Neural Networks (pp. 206-210) Proceedings 10th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 鈥 CSCS 10.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Coraci, I. C.. (1993). A Global Economical Model Based on Catastrophic Event Theory (pp. 227-232) Bucharest, Romania: Proceedings 1st International Symposium on Information Technology in Economy.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Coraci, I. C.. (1993). An Economical Model Based on Descriptor Systems (pp. 53-57) Proceedings 9th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 鈥 CSCS 9.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Coraci, I. C. . (1993). An Optimal Approach to the Economical Strategy of a Global System (pp. 47-52) Proceedings 9th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 鈥 CSCS 9.
Popescu, D. C., Soare, C. and Coraci, I. C.. (1993). The Use of Descriptor Systems in Economical Modeling (pp. 223-226) Proceedings 1st International Symposium on Information Technology in Economics.
Popescu, D. C. and Soare, C. (1992). Multicriterial Methods in the Design of Control Systems (pp. 159-164) Proceedings 7th Conference on Control and Systems Identification.

Presentations

Popescu, D. C. (October 3, 2014). Game Theory Applications to Wireless Communication Systems Graduate seminar CS Department.
Popescu, D. C. (June 6, 2013). Transmitter Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Systems and Applications to Cognitive Radar Graduate seminar Bremen, Germany.
Popescu, D. C. (March 29, 2013). Transmitter Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Systems and Applications to Cognitive Radar Graduate seminar ECE Department.
Popescu, D. C. (May 17, 2011). Dynamic Resource Management for Cognitive Radio Systems in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Research presentation McLean, Virginia.
Popescu, D. C. (January 28, 2011). NOTICE: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents Graduate seminar Richmond, VA.
Popescu, D. C. (October 23, 2009). Game Theory Applications to Wireless Communication Systems Graduate seminar ECE Department.
Popescu, D. C. (September 11, 2008). Interference Mitigation in Multi-Band OFDM-Based UWB System with Multiple Users Invited presentation in special session on 鈥淢ultiband OFDM UWB Systems Leibnitz University Hannover, Germany.
Popescu, D. C. (April 3, 2008). Using Separable Game Theory to Develop Adaptive Algorithms for Joint Codeword Optimization and Power Control in CDMA Systems Invited presentation in special session on 鈥淕ame Theory for Signal Processing in Communications鈥 Las Vegas, NV.
Popescu, D. C. (November 30, 2007). Interference Avoidance in Wireless Systems Wireless @ Virginia Tech Seminar Blacksburg, VA.
Popescu, D. C. (May 26, 2005). Interference Avoidance for Performance Optimization in Wireless Communication Systems Radio Communication Systems Lab seminar Stockholm, Sweden.
Popescu, D. C. (November 13, 2004). OFDM Based Multiple Access Scheme for Ultra Wideband Communication Systems 2004 Annual Texas Systems Day Houston, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (April 8, 2004). Greedy Interference Avoidance for Codeword Optimization and Power Control in CDMA Systems Research seminar Starkville, MS.
Popescu, D. C. (November 20, 2003). Greedy Interference Avoidance for Codeword Optimization and Power Control in CDMA Systems The General Motors Wireless Networking and Communications Seminar Austin, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (November 15, 2003). Distributed Algorithms for Joint Codeword Adaptation and Power Control in CDMA Systems Research presentation for the 2003 Annual Texas Systems Day Dallas, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (April , 2003). Multiuser MIMO Systems and Interference Avoidance Invited presentation in special session on 鈥淢ultiuser MIMO Wireless Downlink Processing鈥 Hong Kong, China.
Popescu, D. C. (April 25, 2003). Greedy Methods for Interference Avoidance in Wireless Systems Wireless Communications Research seminar Richardson, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (November 1, 2002). Greedy Methods for Interference Avoidance in Wireless Systems Center for Multimedia Communications and ECE Department Seminar Houston, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (April 12, 2002). Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems Faculty candidate seminar San Antonio, TX.
Popescu, D. C. (April 1, 2002). Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems Faculty candidate seminar Houghton, MI.
Popescu, D. C. (December 3, 2001). Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems Faculty candidate seminar Fairbanks, Alaska.
Popescu, D. C. (October 22, 2001). Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems Faculty candidate seminar Manhattan, KS.
Popescu, D. C. (May , 2000). Application of Interference Avoidance Methods to Dispersive Channels Research presentation Red Bank, NJ.
Popescu, D. C. (April , 2000). Application of Interference Avoidance Methods to Dispersive Channels Research presentation Whippany, NJ.
Popescu, D. C. (September 30, 1999). Application of Interference Avoidance Methods to Dispersive Channels Research presentation for the Marconi Centennial Day Celebration Red Bank, NJ.
Popescu, D. C. (December 8, 1995). On H-infinity Control for Hybrid Systems Research seminar Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  • 2016: Exemplary reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Society
  • 2015: Outstanding teaching award, ECE Department
  • 2014: Doctoral mentoring award nominee, 51情报站
  • 2010: Excellence in teaching award, Batten College of Engineering and Technology
  • 2005: IEEE Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • 2003: Honorable mention for outstanding dissertation research , Rutgers University Graduate School of New Brunswick
  • 1999: Second prize, AT&T Student Research Symposium
  • 1996: Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service 鈥 DAAD
  • 1987: Third prize in the Student Scientific Session, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest