Research domains:

  • Smart City Concept and its applications
  • IoT (Internet of Things)
  • Wireless Sensor Networks WSN-(IEEE 802.15.4)
  • Wireless communication protocols

 

Education and training

 

 

 

Dates

1/10/2010→28/11/2013

Title of qualification awarded

PhD. in Electronics and Telecommunication

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Thesis Title: „CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STREET LIGHTING SYSTEMS” 
Main research areas are: lighting control systems, WSN, wireless communication technologies, computer networks, microcontrollers, ZigBee networks.

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

"Ştefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dates

01/10/2010 → 10/06/2012

Title of qualification awarded

Master studies in Computer and Communications Networks

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

"Ştefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dates

01/10/2005 → 10/06/2009

Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

"Gh. Asachi" Technical University, Faculty of Electronic Telecommunication and Information Technology, Iasi

Dates

01/10/2008 → 10/06/2010

Title of qualification awarded

Master studies in Business Affairs

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

 "Ştefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Faculty of  Faculty of Economics and Public Administration

 

 

Dates

01/10/2005 →10/06/2008

Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor diploma in Administrative Sciences

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

"Ştefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Faculty of  Faculty of Economics and Public Administration

 

List of publications (selection)

 

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    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin POPA, The Design and Implementation of a Street Lighting Control System using a 802.11 Communication Protocol: A Case Study, Buletinul AGIR nr. 3 (5th International Symposium on Electrical Engineering and Energy Converters), pp. 1-5, 2013 (ISSN 1224-7928), (BDI: Index Copernicus International, Academic Keys);
    • Males Codrin, Popa Valentin, Lavric Alexandru, Finis Ilie, Performance Evaluation of Power Line Communications over Power Transformers, 2012 20th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), pp. 627-630, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/TELFOR.2012.6419288, (ISI Proceedings);
    • D. Simion, M.F. Ursuleanu, A. Graur, A.D. Potorac, A. Lavric, Efficiency Consideration for Data Packets Encryption within Wireless VPN Tunneling for Video Streaming, International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC), pp. 112-122, Vol. 8, nr.1, 2013, ISSN: 1841-9844 revistă cotată ISI, având factorul de impact 0,441 pentru anul 2012;
    • Daniel Simion, Adrian Graur, Lavric Alexandru, Ali Haider Mahdi, An Optimize Particle Swarm Optimization Routing Algorithm for Data Transmission in Cognitive Radio Networks, International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), pp. 213-216, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ISETC.2012.6408148 (ISI Proceedings);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Codrin Males, Ilie Finis, New Technologies in Street Lighting, Buletinul AGIR nr. 2 (International Word Energy System Conference -WESC), pp. 811-816, 2012, (BDI: Index Copernicus International, Academic Keys);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Codrin Males, Ilie Finis, Design And Performance Evaluation Of A Low Cost Automatic Gain Control Circuit, Buletinul AGIR nr. 2 (International Word Energy System Conference -WESC), pp. 263-269, 2012, (BDI: Index Copernicus International, Academic Keys);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Codrin Males, Ilie Finis, A Performance Study of ZigBee Wireless Sensors Network Topologies for Street Lighting Control Systems, International Workshop on Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks iWMANET, France, pp. 130-133, 2012 DOI: 10.1109/iCOST.2012.6271280, (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • Lavric Alexandru, Valentin Popa, Comparative analysis of communication protocols and routing algorithms used in street lighting control systems, Revista Sisteme Distribuite (Suceava - online), pp. 32-35, ISSN 1842-6808, Suceava, 2011;
    • S. Sfichi, A. Graur, V. Popa, I. Finis, A. Lavric, Innovative Movement Monitoring System for Elderly using Passive Infrared and Linear Phased Antenna Arrays, WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling & Simulation (ACMOS13), pp.219 - 225, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-61804-189-0 (BDI);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Ilie Finis, Codrin Males, Performance evaluation of Tree and Mesh ZigBee Network Topologies used in Street Lighting Control Systems, Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, nr. 4, pp. 168-171, 2013, (BDI INSPEC, SCOPUS);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Performance evaluation of topology control algorithms that can be integrated into a street lighting control sensor network, RoEdu International Conference, pp. 1-4, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/RoEduNet.2013.6511741 (ISI Proceedings);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Ilie Finis, Adrian M. Gaitan, Adrian I. Petrariu, Packet Error Rate Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 under 802.11g and Bluetooth Interferences, 9th International Conference on Communications, COMM 2012, pp. 259-262, 2012 DOI: 10.1109/ICComm.2012.6262616, (ISI Proceedings);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Ștefan Sfichi, Adaptive Channel Selection Algorithm for a Large Scale Street Lighting Control ZigBee Network in the Presence of WLAN Interference, Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika Journal, Vol. 19, Nr. 9, pp. 105-109, 2013, revistă cotată ISI, având factorul de impact 0,411 pentru anul 2012 (ISSN 1392-1215);
    • Lavric Alexandru, Popa Valentin, Finis Ilie, Males Codrin Găitan Adrian-Mihai, An original lighting monitoring and control system using Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies ECUMICT, 2012, pp. 167 – 173;
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Ilie Finis, Daniel Simion, The design and implementation of an energy efficient street lighting monitoring and control system, Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, Nr. 11, pp. 312-316, 2012 revistă cotată ISI, având factorul de impact 0,244 pentru anul 2011;
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, Ilie Finis, The Design of a Street Lighting Monitoring and Control System, International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), pp. 314-317, 2012 DOI: 10.1109/ICEPE.2012.6463912, (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, The Hardware Design of a Street Lighting Control with Vehicle and Malfunction Detection, The 8th International Symposium on Advanced Topics In Electrical Engineering Bucharest May 23-25, pp. 1-4, 2013 DOI : 10.1109/ATEE.2013.6563532 (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, The Design and Development of a Street Lighting Monitoring and Control System, Development and Application Systems International Conference, Doctoral Symposium –Poster Presentation, Suceava, pp. 57, 2012, ISSN: 1844-5020;
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, A Traffic Prediction Algorithm for Street Lighting Control Efficiency, Journal of Applied Computer Science & Mathematics, no. 15 (7), pp. 13-17, 2013, (ISSN: 2066-4273, BDI, B+: Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ, ICAAP- Journal database, Zentralblatt Math, EBSCO, Ulrich's Periodical Directory, Index Copernicus).
    • A.-I. Petrariu, V. Popa, V.-G. Gaitan, I. Finis, A. Lavric, 13.56 MHz RFID multi-turn antenna for metallic environments, ECUMICT 2012, European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies, Gent, Belgium, pp. 187-196, 2012;
    • I. Finis, V. Popa, A. Lavric, C. Males, S. Sfichi, Performance Evaluation of 13.56 MHz RFID Antenna Operating in Metallic Environments, 20th Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2012 Serbia, Belgrade, November 20-22, pp. 1210-1213, DOI: 978-1-4673-2984-2/12, IEEE, 2012, (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • I. Finis, V. Popa, A. Lavric, A.-I. Petrariu and C. Males, An Analytical Determination of the Reading Volume for an HF RFID Antenna, 2012 2nd Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications (BCFIC), pp. 170-173, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/BCFIC.2012.6217998, (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • I. Finis, V. Popa, A. Lavric, A Mathematical Approach of a HF RFID Multi Loop Antenna for Metallic Environments, International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE 2012), pp. 679 - 682, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ICEPE.2012.6463854, (BDI IEEE Explore);
    • I. Finis, A. Lavric, „The Design of a HF RFID Tag Antenna for Warehouse Management”, Research and Science Today No. 2(4)/2012, pp 134-141, ISSN: 2247 – 4455, 2012.
    • I. Finis, V. Popa, A. Lavric, A.-I. Petrariu, S. Sfichi, The Design and Implementation of a HF RFID Loop Antenna for Metallic Environments, 11th International Conference on Development and Application Systems, Suceava, Romania, pp. 66-69, ISSN: 1844-5020, 2012;
    • I. Finis, V. Popa, A.-I. Petrariu, A. Lavric, A.-M. Gaitan, Smart shelves architecture for warehouse management using HF RFID, ECUMICT 2012, European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies, Gent, Belgium, pp. 253-260, 2012;
    • Adrian-Mihai Găitan, Valentin Popa, Vasile-Gheorghita Găitan, Adrian-Ioan Petrariu, Alexandru Lavric, Simona-Anda Gherasim, „Rfid Network Traffic Analysis Based On An Empirical Model,” 9th International Conference on Communications, COMM 2012, pp 201-204, 2012 (ISI Proceedings).
    • Codrin Males, Valentin Popa, Alexandu Lavric, Ilie Finis, „PLC performance evaluation through a power transformer using PRIME,” World Energy System Conference, pp. 257-262, 2012.
    • Codrin Males, Valentin Popa, Alexandru Lavric, Ilie Finis, Mihai Ursuleanu, „Contributions to automatic meter reading using power line communications”, The Doctoral Summer School on Evolutionary Computing in Optimisation and Data Mining (ECODAM), Iasi, 2012.
    • Maleş Codrin, Popa Valentin, Lavric Alexandru, „An original AMR Architecture using a PLC protocol,” International Conference of Scientific Paper AFASES, “Henri Coanda” Air Force Academy, Braşov, pp. 561-564, 2012.
    • Lavric Alexandru, Popa Valentin, Sfichi Stefan, "Street lighting control system based on large-scale WSN: A step towards a smart city," Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014 International Conference and Exposition on, vol., no., pp.673-676, 16-18 Oct. 2014 doi: 10.1109/ICEPE.2014.6969994, (BDI Thomson Reuters ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index, IEEE Xplore);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, ”Semi-Anechoic Chamber Power Measurements of a WSN transceiver for Smart City Concept Validation”, International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications 2014 Eleventh Edition, Timișoara, pp.63-66, (BDI Thomson Reuters ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index, IEEE Xplore);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, „Large- Scale Wireless Sensor Networks: A Step Towards A Smart City”, Research and Science Today Journal, No.1(9)/2015, pp.113 – 118, 2015 (ISSN-p:2247–4455), (BDI);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, ”Performance evaluation of routing algorithms that can be used in Smart City Concept”, Przegląd Elektrotechniczny, Vol 2015, No 8, pp.97-100 (BDI);
    • Alexandru Lavric, Valentin Popa, ” Performance Evaluation of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks Communication Protocols that can be integrated in a Smart City”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2015, pp. 4136 – 4141, 2015 (ISSN-p: 2320-3765);

    Conferences (selection)

    -          Advanced Topics In Electrical Engineering, București, 2013 Romania;
    -          RoEdu International Conference, 2013, Sinaia, Romania;
    -          Electronics Conference, Palanga, 2013, Lituania;
    -          9th International Conference on Communications (COMM), 2012, București, Romania;
    -          2nd Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications (BCFIC), 2012, Vilnius, Lituania;
    -          Fifth European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies ECUMICT, 2012, Gent, Belgia;
    -          Development and Application Systems International Conference 2012, Romania;
    -          International Word Energy System Conference (WESC), 2012, Romania;
    -          Conference Electrical and Power Engineering EPE, 2012, Iași, Romania.
    -     International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications 2014 Eleventh Edition, Timișoara
    -     2014 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE),

    TCP Member

    • ICAIS 2013, International Symposium on Control, Automation, Industrial Informatics and Smart Grid
    • CCSII 2013, 2nd IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics Bandung, Indonesia
    • ICA 2013, The International Conferences on Instrumentation, Control & Automation (ICA)
    • ROBIONETICS 2013, International Conference on Robotics, Biomimetics, Intelligent Computational Systems
    • TIME-E 2013, International Conference on Technology, Informatics, Management, Engineering & Environment
    • ICCSII 2012, IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics
    • SCOReD 2012 IEEE Symposium on Electrical & Electronics Engineering
    • TIME-E 2014, International Conference on Technology, Informatics, Management, Engineering & Environment
    • ROBIONETICS 2014, 2nd  International Conference on Robotics, Biomimetics, Intelligent Computational Systems
    • MobiApps 2014, International Workshop on Mobile Applications

 

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