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Operating systems networking formal methods.

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World-class systems research in systems

Experts in multipath protocols (Multipath TCP, UET), lightweight virtualization (LightVM, Unikraft), network verification (Symnet, Vera, bf4) and indoor localization (AoA)

Award winning research

Best paper awards at Sigcomm and NSDI. Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award 2018. 28K citations on Google Scholar

Defining next generation networking for AI

Involved in standardization of Ultra Ethernet and actively developing the UCCL communication library

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Research Projects

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WoS Publications

95+

Journal Articles

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Bachelor Coordinated Students

111+

Master Coordinated Students

35+

PhD Coordinated Students

10+

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Latest Research Projects

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Empowering the future through innovative smart solutions for rural areas
2023 - 2027
VMWare Research gift
2021 - 2025
EduGPT
2023 - 2024
A network for dynamic WEarable Applications with pRivacy constraints
2019 - 2023
Provably Correct Networks
2018 - 2023
Retele demonstrabil corecte
2018 - 2022
AWEAR Suport
2021 - 2022
A multimodal video accessibility enhancement system dedicated to deaf and hearing impaired users
2020 - 2022
Documents in the Air
2020 - 2022
A Common Code Base and Toolkit for Deployment of Applications to Secure and Reliable Virtual Execution Environments
2019 - 2021
Serviciu 4.5G bazat pe MPTCP
2017 - 2018
Superfluidity: a super-fluid, cloud-native, converged edge system
2015 - 2018

Patents

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Cellular connection method and system with reduced energy consumption and low costs
2026

Latest Research Publications

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Generating P4 data planes using LLMs
MIHAI VALENTIN DUMITRU, VLAD ANDREI BADOIU, Alexandru-Mihai GHERGHESCU, COSTIN RAICIU, COMPUTER NETWORKS ELSEVIER, 2025, 001578106600001 10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111709
PROSE-TO-P4: LEVERAGING HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES
MIHAI VALENTIN DUMITRU, VLAD ANDREI BADOIU, COSTIN RAICIU, UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN SERIES C-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE POLYTECHNIC UNIV BUCHAREST, 2025, 001562110500006
Building Network Devices as a Networking Class Homework Infrastructure
VLAD ANDREI BADOIU, MIHAI VALENTIN DUMITRU, CATALIN - ADRIAN LEORDEANU, COSTIN RAICIU, Proceedings Roedunet IEEE International Conference , 2025, 10.1109/RoEduNet68395.2025.11208256
Agora: A Distributed Language Model Framework with API-Call Support for Integrated Climate Forecasting
ALEXANDRA UDRESCU, DAN MATEI POPOVICI, IEEE Access IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2025, 001489666400019 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3568028
EfficientNet-Enhanced U-Net for Multi-Organ Thorax Segmentation
ANDREI-ALEXANDRU BUNEA, DAN MATEI POPOVICI, CIPRIAN MIHAI DOBRE, Proceedings 2025 25th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science Cscs 2025 IEEE, 2025, 10.1109/CSCS66924.2025.00050
Using GenAI to Assess Design Patterns in Student-Written Code
DANIEL-FLORIN DOSARU, Diana-Maria SIMION, Andrei-Horia IGNAT, LORINA CRISTINA NEGREANU, ALEXANDRU CORNELIU OLTEANU, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2025, 001594927900001 10.1109/TLT.2025.3604054
I’ve Got 99 Problems But FLOPS Ain’t One
Alexandru-Mihai GHERGHESCU, VLAD ANDREI BADOIU, ALEXANDRU AGACHE, MIHAI VALENTIN DUMITRU, IULIU-OCTAVIAN VASILESCU, RADU-ALEXANDRU MANTU, COSTIN RAICIU, HOTNETS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 3rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2024, 001429136900023 10.1145/3696348.3696893

Top Research Publications

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Ad hoc positioning system (APS) using AOA
DRAGOS STEFAN NICULESCU, 22nd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies IEEE, 2003, 000184745100168 10.1109/infcom.2003.1209196
Ad hoc positioning system (APS)
DRAGOS STEFAN NICULESCU, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 01) IEEE, 2001, 000178714800563 10.1109/glocom.2001.965964
DV based positioning in ad hoc networks
DRAGOS STEFAN NICULESCU, Telecommunication Systems SPRINGER, 2003, 000184237400016 10.1023/a:1023403323460
TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
Alan FORD, COSTIN RAICIU, Mark HANDLEY, Olivier BONAVENTURE, RFC Editor, 2020, 10.17487/rfc6824
Clickos and the art of network function virtualization
COSTIN RAICIU, Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2014 USENIX Association, 2014,
Improving datacenter performance and robustness with multipath TCP
COSTIN RAICIU, Sebastien BARRE, Christopher PLUNTKE, Adam GREENHALGH, Damon WISCHIK, Mark HANDLEY, Computer Communication Review ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2011, 000302124800023 10.1145/2018436.2018467
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP.
COSTIN RAICIU, NSDI USENIX Association, 2011,

Our Research Team

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Full Professor

Costin RAICIU

PR203

Full Professor

Dragos Stefan NICULESCU

PRECIS 203

Full Professor

Lorina Cristina NEGREANU

PRECIS 203

Associate Professor, Faculty Council

Dan Matei POPOVICI

Teaching Assistant

Vlad Andrei BADOIU

PR203

Courses

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Datacenter Computing
Technical writing and communication
Infrastructures and services for mobile networks
Introduction to Mobile Computing
Algorithm Analysis
Formal Languages and Automata
Object Oriented Programming

Recent books

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Formal Languages and Automata - Lecture Notes
DAN MATEI POPOVICI, POLITEHNICA PRESS, 2018,
Formal languages & automata
LORINA CRISTINA NEGREANU, DAN MATEI POPOVICI, Politehnica Press, 2018,
Infrastructuri și servicii pentru rețele mobile
DRAGOS STEFAN NICULESCU, POLITEHNICA PRESS, 2017,
Arhitecturi și Protocoale pentru Comunicații, Teorie și aplicații practice
MARIUS - CONSTANTIN VOCHIN, RADU CAIUS LUPU, DRAGOS STEFAN NICULESCU, Editura Politehica Press, 2016,
Advanced topics in distributed systems
COSTIN RAICIU, Politehnica Press, 2015,
Elemente de calculabilitate si complexitate
LORINA CRISTINA NEGREANU, DAN MATEI POPOVICI, POLITEHNICA PRESS, 2015,
A survey of Temporal Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
DAN MATEI POPOVICI, CIPRIAN MIHAI DOBRE, Editura Politehnica Press, 2012,