COST initiative "Traffic Engineering and QoS Control in Multimedia-enabled wireless networks" PLEASE fill in and return asap to COST initiative coordinator: E-mail: yk@cs.tut.fi COUNTRY: ROMANIA Organization: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ-NAPOCA Org-address STRADA CONSTANTIN DAICOVICIU 15, 400021 CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA Representative (in case of several representatives please repeat the below for each of them): Family-name, DOBROTA Given-name, VIRGIL Degrees and positions Ph.D., Dipl. Eng., Professor, Head of Communications Department tel.: +40-264-401226, +40-264-597083 fax.: +40-264-597083 E-mail: Virgil.Dobrota@com.utcluj.ro URL: http://www.com.utcluj.ro <http address of personal or organizational www page, where relevant information (wrt the expertise, projects, etc.) could be found> Activity related to the proposed action: * Member in previous EU projects (RACE 2044 MAGIC, ACTS AC235, COPERNICUS 1529) * Observer member at COST 257 * Head of Communications Department (including the following research groups: Multimedia Technologies, Broadband Networks, Mobile Communications, Radio Communications, Image Processing, Speech Processing, Data Transmissions) * The first ATM-based academic network in Romania (1999) for a consortium of all universities in Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city in Romania * The project involving the academic nertwork for voice communications based on Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 IP-PBX <a short (not more than 10 lines) description of the expertise and activity the potential representative is willing to bring into the action and later to supervise this activity; it is foreseen that each such description will further comprise a sort of a working group within the action. These activities could be supported by already running projects, and in this case these projects should be men- tioned>