Victor Firoiu received his Diploma of Engineer from the Department of Computer Science at
the Polytechnic Institute of
Bucuresti, Romania in 1987, and his MS and PhD from the Department of Computer Science at
the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst in 1995 and 1998 respectively. He is a lead researcher
in the Advanced Networking group, BAE Systems since 2005, where he
develops communication protocols over Wireless and Satellite
Networks. He was principal architect for a novel transport protocol
based on Network Coding. Previously, he lead the Performance
Engineering Center, CTO Office, Nortel Networks where he pioneering
novel product and service architectures in the areas of Network Edge
and QoS Services, Switch Architecture and Adaptive and Resilient
Networks. He co-chaired the IRTF "Building Differentiated Services"
working group. He was Program co-chair of the SPIE ITCOM 2002
conference on Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, served
on the Executive Committees for IEEE Infocom 2002 and 2003 and on
several Technical Program Committees for IEEE Infocom and Globecom
conferences.
Interests
Communication over Wireless and Satellite Networks
Network Coding
Adaptive and Resilient Networks
Scalable systems and protocols
High performance switch and network architectures with QoS support
