The 13th International Conference on Communications

June 18-20, 2020


Bucharest


Dear Comm 2020 authors,

Taking into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions regarding travels, social distancing and people gathering, the Organizing Committees in agreement with technical sponsors and IEEE have decided to hold this edition of Communications conference virtually on the scheduled dates. Details about the virtual conference are given here.
Virtual Comm 2020 program will include:
  • Invited speakers and sponsors’ presentations session.
  • Regular sessions, where conference paper will be presented using slides with voice narration.
Each session will be followed by a brief Q&A session. The conference fees have been reduced in accordance with the new conditions. The papers presented at the conference will be published on IEEE Xplore and sent to be included in ISI database.

Regards,
Ioan Nicolaescu and Victor Croitoru
COMM 2020 Conference chairs

Official Website of the COMM2020 International Conference

The need for communications is constantly growing as the world becomes more digital and interconnected. Technologies like 5G and IoT arise and will redesign the current communications. Join the 13th International Conference on Communications and be a part of the innovation process that will change the world.

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Stema-ATM

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’

Stema-UPB

Politehnica University of Bucharest

Co-organised by

Stema-E2K

Electronica 2000 Foundation

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IEEE Romania Section

Stema-ASTR

Technical Sciences Academy of Romania

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Opening Session

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
9:00-9:40

Chairs

Ioan NICOLAESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Victor CROITORU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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09:00

Welcome Message

Ioan NICOLAESCU, Victor CROITORU
09:10

5G-VICTORI project – a driver for industrial and societal changes

Cristian PATACHIA-SULTANOIU, Orange Romania

Invited Papers Session

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
9:40-11:00

Chairs

Ioan NICOLAESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Victor CROITORU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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09:40

A Cybersecurity Model for Decision-Making Problems Under Uncertainty Using Game Theory

Paul COTAE, Myong KANG, Alexander VELAZQUEZ
10.20

On the Performance of Virtualised Communication Systems

Adrian POPESCU

SIGNAL PROCESSING I

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
11:00–13:00

Chairs

Alexandru ŞERBĂNESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Silviu CIOCHINĂ

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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11:00

The Autocorrelation Function of the Logistic Map Chaotic Signal in Relation with the Statistical Independence Issue

Corina MACOVEI, Alexandru VADUVA, Adriana VLAD, Bogdan BADEA
11:20

Recursive Error Division Kalman Filter for Advanced Driver Assistance Radar Systems

Filip ROSU
11:40

Cartesian Tracking for Advanced Driver Assistance Imaging Radar Systems

Filip ROSU
12:00

A Decomposition-Based RLS Algorithm with Variable Forgetting Factors

Camelia ELISEI-ILIESCU, Constantin PALEOLOGU, Jacob BENESTY, Cristian STANCIU, Cristian ANGHEL, Silviu CIOCHINA
12:20

Blood Mixers for Transfusion Therapy: Blood Flow Estimation Based on PPG Technique

Lucian EVDOCHIM, Aleksei E. ZHDANOV, Vasilii BORISOV, Dragos DOBRESCU, Leonid DOROSINSKY
12:40

On the Potential of Phase Diagram Analysis to Identify the Wide Band Modulations

Răzvan SCRIPCARU, Dragoș NASTASIU, Angela DIGULESCU, Denis STĂNESCU, Cornel IOANA, Alexandru ȘERBĂNESCU

COMMUNICATION SECURITY I

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
11:00–13:00

Chairs

Paul COTAE

University of the District of Columbia, United States

Victor CROITORU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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11:00

Enhancement of an Encryption System Performance Using MPI

Islam Ayman AMAR, Mohammed ABUTAHA
11:20

Security Measures Analysis Related to INTELLIT Platform

Veronica GAVRILA, Lidia BAJENARU, Mihaela TOMESCU, Ciprian DOBRE
11:40

Software Vulnerabilities Integrated Management System

Madalina I ALDEA, Daniel GHEORGHICA, Victor CROITORU
12:00

SABRES - A Proof of Concept for Enhanced Cloud Qualified Electronic Signatures

Iulian ACIOBANITEI, Vlad DEDITA, Mihai-Lica PURA, Victor-Valeriu PATRICIU
12:20

Qualified Electronic Signature SaaS Solution for Google Docs & Google Sheets Documents

Iulian ACIOBANITEI, Ionut LUCULESCU, Mihai-Lica PURA
12:40

Implementing Cloud Qualified Electronic Signatures for Documents Using Available Cryptographic Libraries: A Survey

Elena-Cristina RUICA, Mihai-Lica PURA, Iulian ACIOBANITEI

Sponsors Presentations

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
13:40–14:00

Chairs

Petrică CIOTÎRNAE

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Iulia Andreea MOCANU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

IMAGE PROCESSING I

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
14:00–16:00

Chairs

Iulian-Constantin VIZITIU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Alexandru-Cosmin GRIVEI

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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14:00

An Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Drunkenness Detection Using Thermal Infrared Facial Imagery

Victor-Emil NEAGOE, Paul DIACONESCU
14:20

Characterization of Atheroma Plaques Echogenicity and Texture for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Cardiovascular Diseases

Adriana MOLDER, Cristian MOLDER, Iulian VIZITIU, Silviu DUMITRESCU
14:40

Human-Object Interaction: Application to Abandoned Luggage Detection in Video Surveillance Scenarios

Mihai DOGARIU, Liviu Daniel STEFAN, Mihai Gabriel CONSTANTIN, Bogdan E IONESCU
15:00

Early Detection of Glaucoma Using Residual Networks

Silvia OVREIU, Irina CRISTESCU, Florian BALTA, Alina SULTANA, Elena OVREIU
15:20

Stroke Risk Assessment Using Atheroma Plaque Surface Features Evaluation

Adriana MOLDER, Cristian MOLDER, Iulian VIZITIU, Dan MISCHIANU, Silviu DUMITRESCU
15:40

SVMIRE - An Open Source SVM Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback System for Earth Observation Data Classification

Alexandru-Cosmin GRIVEI

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
14:00–16:00

Chairs

Adrian Florin PĂUN

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Angela DIGULESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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14:00

Heading Computation Using Magnetometer, Inertial Sensors and Bluetooth Communication

Septimiu MISCHIE, Liliana MATIU-IOVAN
14:20

Incremental Expectation Maximization for Estimating Dynamic Primary User Activity in Cognitive Radio

Sara L MACDONALD, Dimitrie C. POPESCU, Otilia POPESCU
14:40

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Three Secondary Users with Sequential Relaying for Cognitive Radio

Omer Mohammed KHODAYER AL-DULAIMI, Mahmood Jalal Ahmad AL SAMMARRAIE, Calin VLADEANU, Alexandru MARTIAN, Dimitrie C. POPESCU
15:00

Evaluation of an Indoor Localization Solution Based on Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

Serban OBREJA, Alexandru VULPE
15:20

Review of counter-UAV Solutions Based on the Detection of Remote Control Communication

Paul M STOICA, Sanjoy BASAK, Cristian MOLDER, Bart SCHEERS
15:40

Simulating RPL Attacks in 6LoWPAN for Detection Purposes

Marius PREDA, Victor-Valeriu PATRICIU

VEHICULAR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
16:00–18:00

Chairs

Sorin ZOICAN

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Şerban-Georgică OBREJA

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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16:00

Neural Network-based Data Communication System in Internet of Vehicles

Sorin ZOICAN, Marius Constantin VOCHIN, Roxana ZOICAN, Dan GALATCHI
16:20

Exploring the Provision of Reliable Network Storage in Highly Mobile Environments

Onyekachukwu Augustine EZENWIGBO, Jose RAMIREZ, Gayathri KARTHICK, Glenford E MAPP, Ramona TRESTIAN
16:40

Internet Controlled Car

Filip CONSTANTIN, George SUCIU, Sabina BOSOC, Razvan CRACIUNESCU
17:00

Study on Optimal Convolutional Neural Networks Architecture for Traffic Sign Classification Using Augmented Dataset

Cosmin CONTU, Iulian CIOARCA, Monica ENE, Laura NICHIFOR
17:20

Towards Autonomous Driving: A Machine Learning-based Pedestrian Detection System Using 16-Layer LiDAR

Stefan MIHAI, Purav SHAH, Glenford E MAPP, Huan X NGUYEN, Ramona TRESTIAN
17:40

Security Aspects of Communications in VANETs

Stefan MIHAI, Nedzhmi DOKUZ, Meer ALI, Purav SHAH, Ramona TRESTIAN

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
16:00–18:00

Chairs

Victor-Emil NEAGOE

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Mihai-Lică PURA

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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16:00

Cognitive Edge Computing Through Artificial Intelligence

Alina Florina GLAVAN, Constantin Viorel MARIAN
16:20

Machine Learning Approach to Quick Incident Response

Constantin I NILĂ, Ioana APOSTOL, Victor-Valeriu PATRICIU
16:40

Model and Algorithms for Optimizing a Human Computing System Oriented to Knowledge Extraction by Use of Crowdsourcing

Florin ENACHE, Victor GREU, Petrica CIOTIRNAE, Florin POPESCU
17:00

Deep Learning-based Person Search with Visual Attention Embedding

Liviu Daniel STEFAN, Abdulamit SEILA, Mihai DOGARIU, Mihai Gabriel CONSTANTIN, Bogdan E IONESCU
17:20

Semi-Autonomous Navigation Control System for Human Retina Surgery Tool

Mircea WEINGART, Orest VASCAN
17:40

Infantile Hemangioma Detection Using Deep Learning

Alina SULTANA, Balazs HORVATH, Silvia OVREIU, Serban OPRISESCU, Catalina NEGHINA

NATURAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
18:00–19:20

Chairs

Adriana VLAD

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Ștefan-Adrian TOMA

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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18:00

The Statistical Independence for Words in Printed Romanian Language

Alexandru DINU, Adriana VLAD, Bogdan HANU, Adrian MITREA
18:20

Insider Threat Detection Using Natural Language Processing and Personality Profiles

Sergiu EFTIMIE, Radu MOINESCU, Ciprian RĂCUCIU
18:40

Parsing Romanian Texts

Cătălina MĂRĂNDUC, Victoria BOBICEV, Roman UNTILOV
19:00

On the Use of Positive Definite Symmetric Kernels for Summary Extraction

Claudiu POPESCU, Lacrimioara GRAMA, Corneliu RUSU

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
18:00–19:20

Chairs

Ioan NICOLAESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Ion BOGDAN

Technical University of Iași, Romania
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18:00

Triple Feed Triangular Microstrip Antenna for Polarization Diversity

Zaid SALEH, Yanal S FAOURI
18:20

Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Portable Devices: An Empirical Study of the Resonant Frequency and Fractional Bandwidth

Muneeb SHOAIB, Shafayat ABRAR
18:40

UWB Antenna for a Radar Sensor

Ioan NICOLAESCU, Laurentiu BUZINCU, Lucian ANTON
19:00

Experiments to Assess the Implementation of a 4 GHz Proximity Detector for Smart Crosswalk

Cristian ANDRIESEI
19:20

Analysis of the Compromising Audio Signal from the Emission Security Perspective

Bogdan TRIP, Vlad BUTNARIU, Valentin VELICU, Simona HALUNGA, Alexandru BOITAN

SIGNAL PROCESSING II

Friday, June 19th, 2020
09:00–11:00

Chairs

Ion BĂNICĂ

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Constantin PALEOLOGU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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09:00

A Robust Adaptive Filtering Method Based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA)

Leontin TUȚĂ, Mircea NICOLAESCU, Georgiana ROȘU, Alexandru-Cosmin GRIVEI, Bogdan BĂRBULESCU
09:20

Reflection Coefficient in Pressure Pulse of Human Blood Flow

Lucian EVDOCHI, Aleksei E. ZHDANOV, Vasilii BORISOV, Dragos DOBRESCU
09:40

A New VLSI Algorithm for an Efficient VLSI Implementation of Type IV DST Based on Short Band-Correlation Structures

Doru Florin CHIPER, Laura T COTOROBAI
10:00

Comparison of Adaptive Filtering Strategies for Self-Interference Cancellation in LTE Communication Systems

Cristina DESPINA-STOIAN, Angela DIGULESCU, Alexandru ȘERBANESCU, Roua YOUSSEF, Emanuel RADOI
10:20

A Comparative Study of Alamouti and Golden Space- Time Block Codes

Eduard Valentin TOMA, Anca Mihaela Ruxandra TOMA
10:40

Real-time Temporal Audio Watermarking for Mobile Communication

Valentin Adrian NIȚĂ, Dumitru STANOMIR

RADIO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Friday, June 19th, 2020
09:00–11:00

Chairs

Ion MARGHESCU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Florin POPESCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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09:00

Comparative Analysis of Software Defined Radio Platforms for Spectrum Sensing Applications

Alexandru MARTIAN, Florin Lucian CHIPER, Omer Mohammed Khodayer AL-DULAIMI, Mahmood Jalal Ahmad AL SAMMARRAIE, Calin VLADEANU, Ion MARGHESCU
09:20

Theoretical Performance Evaluation of a Concatenated Rateless-FEC Coding Scheme

Anghel BOTOS Vasile BOTA
09:40

PSoC Based Embedded RF Link Design

Burak TASCI, Yavuz EROL
12:00

SDR-based Platform for Processing the Images Transmitted Through the WLAN 802.11a Protocol

Andra TIMOFTE, Florin RADU, Alexandra BALAN, Titus C BALAN
10:20

LTE Communications Using an SDR Platform

Florin RADU, Andra TIMOFTE, Alexandra BALAN, Florin SANDU
10:40

Impulse Radio UWB Blind Detection Using Cross Recurrence Plot

Florin DIACONESCU

IMAGE PROCESSING II

Friday, June 19th, 2020
11:00–13:00

Chairs

Constantin VERTAN

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Daniela FAUR

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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11:00

OpenNIG - Open Neural Image Generator

Andrei Marius AVRAM, Luciana Maria MOROGAN, Stefan-Adrian TOMA
11:20

Privacy Preserving Morphological Operations for Digital Images

Cristian LUPASCU, Cezar PLESCA, Mihai TOGAN
11:40

Assessment of Burned Area Mapping Methods for Smoke Covered Sentinel-2 Data

Alexandru-Cosmin GRIVEI, Corina VADUVA, Mihai DATCU
12:00

A Bag-of-Words Framework for Natural Disaster Evaluation on Sentinel-2 Image

Bogdan BĂRBULESCU, Andreea GRIPARIS, Mihai DATCU
12:20

Atrial Fibrillation Automatic Diagnosis Based on ECG Signal Using Pretrained Deep Convolution Neural Network and SVM Multiclass Model

Mohammed Tali ALMALCHY, Sarmad ALGAYAR, Nirvana POPESCU
12:40

Opportunistic Bistatic SAR Image Classification Using Sub-aperture Decomposition

Adrian FOCSA, Mihai DATCU, Stefan-Adrian TOMA, Andrei ANGHEL, Remus CACOVEANU

INTERNET OF THINGS

Friday, June 19th, 2020
11:00–13:00

Chairs

Adrian POPESCU

Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Emanuel RĂDOI

University of Brest, France
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11:00

IoT and Automation Solutions for Cities and Industry of Tomorrow

George SUCIU Teodora USURELU, Razvan CRACIUNESCU
11:20

Intelligent System for Precision Agriculture

Madalina Mioara ANGHELOF, George SUCIU, Razvan Craciunescu, Cristina Marghescu
11:40

State of the Art of Industrial Wearables: A Systematic Review

Ekaterina SVERTOKA, Alexandru RUSU, Ion MARGHESCU
12:00

Interoperability Standards in the IoT-enabled Future Learning Environments: An Analysis of the Challenges for Seamless Communication

Claudia Melania CHITUC
12:20

Wireless Sensors Network Framework for Developing Boards Using Contiki Operating System

Alexandru G SAVA, Sorin ZOICAN
12:40

Towards Seamless Communication in the Web of Things: Are Standards Sufficient to Ensure Interoperability?

Claudia Melania CHITUC

Sponsors Presentations

Friday, June 19th, 2020
13:40–14:00

Chairs

Petrică CIOTÎRNAE

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Iulia Andreea MOCANU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY

Friday, June 19th, 2020
14:00–16:00

Chairs

Octavian FRATU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Leontin TUTA

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania
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14:00

Spectral Analysis in the 2.4 GHz WIFI Band in Bucharest

Eugen STANCU, Simona HALUNGA, Octavian FRATU, Carmen FLOREA, Madalina BERCEANU, Cristian CAPOTA
14:20

Multiple-Notch Frequency Selective Surface for Automotive Applications

Petru BUTA, Andrei SILAGHI, Aldo De SABATA, Ladislau MATEKOVITS
14:40

Measurement and Simulation of Electrostatic Discharge in the Automotive Industry

Octavian PACURAR, Andrei SILAGHI, Aldo De SABATA
15:00

Two PCB Traces Coupling Analysis

Mircea NICOLAESCU, Dan Stefan STOICA
17:20

Experimental Platform for Studying the Impact of Environmental Electromagnetic Fields on Living Organisms

Georgiana ROSU, Leontin TUTA, Ana HALCA, Simona BICHERU, Radu HERTZOG, Octavian BALTAG
15:40

Electromagnetic Analysis of Cross Talk in Electronic Digital Modules

Mircea NICOLAESCU, Victor CROITORU, Leontin TUTA

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Friday, June 19th, 2020
14:00–16:00

Chairs

Petrică CIOTÎRNAE

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Marius VOCHIN

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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14:00

Performance Analysis of Secure Floating-Point Sums and Dot Products

Octavian CATRINA
14:20

Deploying a Dockerized Application with Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

Robert BOTEZ, Calin-Marian IURIAN, Iustin-Alexandru IVANCIU, Virgil DOBROTA
14:40

SDN Controller Implementation Using OpenDaylight: Experiments

Alexandru EFTIMIE, Eugen BORCOCI
15:00

Performance Evaluation for an E-Business Platform

Eugen Ioan POP, Daniela GIFU
15:20

Critical Analysis of Multi-Controller Placement Problem in Large SDN Networks

Pantelimon-Teodor TIVIG, Eugen BORCOCI
15:40

Architecture of a Cloud-based Fault-Tolerant Control Platform for Improving the QoS of Social Multimedia Applications on SD-WAN

Kashinath BASU, Aws HAMDULLAH, Frank BALL

COMMUNICATION SECURITY II

Friday, June 19th, 2020
16:00–17:40

Chairs

Cristian-Iulian RÎNCU

Military Technical Academy ‘Ferdinand I’, Romania

Octavian CATRINA

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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16:00

On the Design and Performance of Chinese OSCCA-approved Cryptographic Algorithms

Louise MARTINKAUPPI, Qiuping HE, Dragos ILIE
16:20

Security Threats Identification and Definition in Early Design Phases of Automotive IT Services

Radu Caius LUPU, Octavian CATRINA, Nicolas MORO
16:40

Quantum High Secure Direct Communication with Authentication

Liliana ZISU
17:00

A Secure Screen and App Lock System for Android Smart Phones Using Face Recognition

Razvan STOLERIU, Mihai TOGAN
17:20

Three-factor Authentication Scheme Based on Searchable Encryption and Biometric Fingerprint

Marius Iulian MIHAILESCU, Stefania Loredana NITA

SATELLITE AND SPACE COMMUNICATIONS

Friday, June 19th, 2020
16:00–17:40

Chairs

Alexandru RUSU

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Andrei ANGHEL

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
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16:00

TUMnanoSAT Nanosatellite and KiboCube Program

Viorel BOSTAN, Nicolae Gheorghe SECRIERU, Valentin ILCO, Vladimir MELNIC, Alexei MARTINIUC, Vladimir VĂRZARU
16:20

Evaluation of the Strenght of Reflection and Dispersion of High Frequency in the Ionosphere by VOACAP Model

Kareem Abdulameer DIFAR, Ali Hussein NEMA, Moataz JASIM, Amer Al-BEHADILI
16:40

CNN Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Training Sample Augmentation with Generative Adversarial Networks

Victor-Emil NEAGOE, Paul DIACONESCU
17:00

Study of Attacks on Satellite Navigation System Receivers

Teodor MITREA, Vlad VASILE, Monica BORDA, Corina NAFORNITA, Alexandru ROMANIUC
17:20

Evaluation of UWB Transmissions in Highly Reflective Environments

Andra PASTRAV, Raluca SIMEDRONI, Tudor P. PALADE, Paul N. DOLEA, Dimitrie C. POPESCU, Emanuel PUSCHITA

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