Vlad Stirbu
Senior Researcher, Web Systems EngineeringTampere, Finland
Professional Activities
Program committee member
Industry standardization
- UPnP Forum, Remote Access chair (2006 - 2009)
- DLNA, Content Synchronization Task Force chair (2006 - 2007)
- IETF, Remote UI BoF chair (August 2005 @IETF63)
Research Projects
- Cloud Software Program, Finland based consortium focused on research on software architectures for cloud computing.
- SENSEI, integrated project in EU seventh framework programme with the goal to integrate the physical with the digital world of the network of the future
Other Information
Awards and Grants:
- Nokia Inventor (2006) - in recognition of significant contribution to Nokia IPR
- Nokia Foundation Grant (2009), for supporting my doctoral research
Publications
Book Chapters:
- Stirbu, V. and J. Savolainen, “Hypermedia-Driven Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Application Sharing”, REST: From Research to Practice, Springer, August 2011
Journals and Magazines:
- Prehofer, C., J. van Gurp, V. Stirbu, S. Sathish, S. Tarkoma, C. di Flora and P. Liimatainen, ”Practical Web-based Smart Spaces”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 72-80, July-Sept. 2010
- Belimpasakis, P., S. Moloney, V. Stirbu, and J. Costa-Requena, ”Home media atomizer: remote sharing of home content - without semi-trusted proxies,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics , vol.54, no.3, pp.1114-1122, August 2008
Conferences:
- Stirbu, V. and A. Palin, "FollowMe: A Practical Approach for Bootstrapping Consumer Smart Space Applications", in The 9th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012)
- Stirbu, V. and P. Belimpasakis, “Experiences building a multi-display mobile application for exploring mirror worlds,” in 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies (NGMAST’11), Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Sep. 2011.
- Stirbu, V., P. Selonen, and A. Palin, “The Location Graph: Towards a Symbolic Location Architecture for the Web”, In: LocWeb2010: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Location and the Web, ACM
- Stirbu, V.: A restful architecture for adaptive and multi-device application sharing. In: WS-REST 10: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on RESTful Design, pp. 6266. ACM, New York, NY, USA (2010).
- Stirbu, V., “NavTag: An Inter-Working Framework Based on Tags for Symbolic Location Coordinates for Smart Spaces," in Ubiquitos Intelligence and Computing, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 265-279."
- Stirbu, V., ”Towards a RESTful Plug and Play Experience in the Web of Things,” Semantic Computing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.512-517, 4-7 Aug. 2008
- Belimpasakis, P. and V. Stirbu, ”Remote Access to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Devices Utilizing the Atom Publishing Protocol,” Networking and Services, 2007. ICNS. Third International Conference on , vol., no., pp.59-59, 19-25 June 2007
Posters and Demos:
- Stirbu, V., Murphy, D. and Y. You, "Open and Decentralized Platform for Visualizing Web Mash-ups in Augmented and Mirror Worlds", World Wide Web Conference - Posters 2012 (poster)
- Stirbu, V. and T. Leppanen, “An open platform for distributed, scalable and adaptive interactive applications for CE devices”, The 8th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - Demos (CCNC’2011 - Demos)
Patents
- Modifying remote service discovery based on presence, US patent 8,081,610
- Local network proxy for a remotely connected mobile device operating in reduced power mode, US patent 7,809,386
- System and method for managing a wireless connection to reduce power consumption of a mobile terminal, US patent 7,764,981
- Framework for enabling service tuning for UPnP remote access, US patent 7,725,566
- System, method and computer program product for providing quality of service during remote access to a plug-and-play network, US patent 7,545,753
- Method and apparatus for providing peer authentication for an internet key exchange, US patent 7,269,730
- Method and apparatus for providing peer authentication for a transport layer session, US patent 7,246,236
- Interworking Optimization by Selectively Limiting Control, Finnish patent 116497
- User equipment device enabled for SIP signalling to provide multimedia services with QoS, US patent 6,788,676