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Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s) Marghescu, Ion
Address(es) 3 Aleşd Street, N23, Sc. 4, ap. 49, CP 062279, Bucharest, Romania
Telephone(s) Office: +40-21-4024649 Home +40-21-4360246 Mobile: +40-722881813
Fax(es) +40-21-3169622
E-mail marion@comm.pub.ro

Nationality Romanian

Date of birth 20.10.1944

Gender male

Work experience
Dates 1995 - Present
Occupation or position held Professor

Main activities and responsibilities Teaching and research activities in Mobile and personal Communications, Digital and analog Signal
Processing, Radio communications Systems, Analog and Digital Communications, scientific adviser of
licence or Master thesis, scientific advisor of PhD students General manager of the Communications
and Signal Processing Research Center; director or team member of more national and European
R&D projects
Name and address of employer University "Politehnica" of Bucharst, Electronics , Telecommunications and Information Technology,
Faculty, Dept. of Telecommunications, 313, Independentei Blvd. Bucharest
Type of business or sector Education

Dates 1991 - 1995

Occupation or position held Associate Professor

Main activities and responsibilities Teaching and research activities in Mobile and personal Communications, Digital and analog Signal
Processing, Radio communications Systems, Analog and Digital Communications, scientific adviser of
licence thesis, director or team member of more national and European R&D projects
Name and address of employer University "Politehnica" of Bucharst, Electronics , Telecommunications and Information Technology,
Faculty, Dept. of Telecommunications, 313 Independentei Blvd., Bucharest 6
Type of business or sector Education

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 Dates 1979 - 1990
Occupation or position held Lecturer

Main activities and responsibilities Teaching, applications and research activities in Mobile and personal Communications, Digital and
Analog Signal Processing, Radio communications Systems, Analog and Digital Communications,
scientific adviser of licence thesis, director or team member of more national R&D projects
Name and address of employer University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Electronics , Telecommunications and Information Technology,
Faculty, Dept. of Telecommunications, 313, Independentei Blvd. Bucharest
Type of business or sector Education

Dates 1968 - 1979

Occupation or position held Assistant Professor

Main activities and responsibilities Applications (lab activities ar seminars) in Signals, Circuits and Systems, Digital and analog Signal
Processing, Antennas and Propagation.
Name and address of employer University "Politehnica" of Bucharst, Electronics , Telecommunications and Information Technology,
Faculty, Dept. of Telecommunications, 313, Independentei Blvd. Bucharest
Type of business or sector Education

Education and training

Dates 1970 - 1979
Title of qualification awarded PhD degree in Radio Communications
Principal subjects/occupational skills Radio Communications Systems and Equipment, Signal Processing in Radio
covered Communications
Name and type of organisation The Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest,, Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty
providing education and training

Dates October 1962- July 1967

Title of qualification awarded Engineer, Radiotechniques Specialization
Principal subjects/occupational skills Mathematics, Physics, Mechanics, Electrotechniques Basics, Radiotechniques Basics, Television,
covered Information Transmission Theory, Radio Receivers Equipment Radio transmitters, Antennas and
Propagation etc.
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training The Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest,, Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty

Dates September 1958- July 1962

Title of qualification awarded Baccalaureate
Principal subjects/occupational skills High School,
covered
Name and type of organisation High School Vânju Mare, Mehedinți
providing education and training

Personal skills and

competences
Mother tongue(s) Romanian

Other language(s)
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English good Excellent good good good

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 French good good Average good Average
German Average Average Average Average Average
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Social skills and competences A very good team worker;

Organisational skills and Managerial skills: Director of 5 projects supported by CNCSIS, a project supported by ANSTI, a
competences project supported by MEC and World Bank, a project supported by Romanian Academy, a project in
the PNII IDEI frame, a project in the PNII Partnership frame; team member in 6 European Projects;
President of “Electronica 2000” foundation;
General Manager of The Research Center for Communications and Signal Processing (3CPS);
Referent for presentations of PhD degree thesis in Romania and abroad;
Co-chair in more national and international Conferences;
President of CT 267 Standardization Technical Committee;

Technical skills and competences Design and testing of communications systems and equipment at the physical layer;

Computer skills and competences Microsoft Office, MATLAB-Simulink, Simulating Media (OPNET)

Other skills and competences

Driving licence Diving Licence B Cat.

Additional information Romania Academy Traian Vuia Prise; Agir Prise for the GSM book;
More than 120 papers published in Technical Journals or in Proceedings of International Conferences
(indexed in International Data Bases: ISI, Scopus, IEEE Explore, etc.) and more than 20 books and
manuals.

Annexes A List of Recently Published Papers and Books; A list of R&D projects.

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 Selected list of publications and R&D projects

A. SELECTED BOOKS
1. I. Marghescu, N. St. Nicolaescu: Reţele de radiocomunicaţii, UPB, 1995
2. I. Constantin, I. Marghescu: Transmisiuni analogice şi digitale, Ed. Tehnică Bucureşti 1995.
3. I. Marghescu, N. St. Nicolaescu, N. Coţanis: Comunicaţii mobile terestre, Ed. Tehnică, 1997.
4. I. Marghescu, D. Zamfirescu, I. Dragu, Z. Vâlsan, Sisteme de Radiocomunicaţii, culegere de probleme, UPB,
1997.
5. I. Marghescu, N. N. Coţanis, St. Nicolaescu,: Comunicaţii mobile terestre, ediţia II revăzută, Ed. Tehnică, 1999.
6. Ad. Mateescu, I. Marghescu şi alţii: Sisteme şi reţele GSM, Editura Tehnică, 1999.
7. S.V.Nicolaescu (coordonator), I. Marghescu și alții, Accesul wireless de bandă largă, vol. I și II, Editura
Printech, București, 2008, ISBN 978-606-521-080-6, 978-606-521-081-3.
8. S.V. Nicolaescu, I. Marghescu, I. Bogdan, I. Dragu şi alţii, Securitatea în reţelele Wi-Fi, Editura Agir, 2008,
ISBN 978-973-720-199-7.

B. PAPERS PUBLISHED IN TECHNICAL JOURNALS OR IN PROCEEDINGS OF

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (last 5 years)

1. A. Păun, C. Vlădeanu, I. Marghescu, S. El Assad, J.-C. Carlach şi R. Quéré, “New Recursive

Convolutional GF(2N) Encoders for Parallel Turbo-TCM Schemes,” IEEE 6th Advanced Int. Conf.
on Telecomm. - AICT 2010, Barcelona, Spania, mai 9-15, 2010, pag. 182-186.
2. C. Vladeanu, S. El Assad, J.-C. Carlach, R. Quéré şi I. Marghescu, ”Recursive GF(2N) Encoders
Using Left-Circulate Function for Optimum PSK-TCM Schemes,” Elsevier Signal Processing, vol.
90, nr. 9, pag. 2708-2713, sept. 2010 doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.03.021.
3. A.F. Păun, C. Vlădeanu, I. Marghescu, S. El Assad şi A. Marţian, “On the QAM Parallel Turbo-
TCM Schemes using Recursive Convolutional GF(2N) Encoders,” 18th European Signal Proc.
Conf. - EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Danemarca, 2010, aug. 23-27.
4. A. Marţian, I. Marcu, I. Marghescu, “Spectrum Occupancy in an Urban Environment: A Cognitive
Radio Approach” Proc. 6th Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT
2010), Barcelona, mai 2010, pp 25-29.
5. A. Marţian, C. Vlădeanu, I. Marcu, I. Marghescu, “Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio:
Evaluation of Occupancy in an Urban Environment, ” International Journal of Advances in
Telecommunications, 2010.
6. A. Marţian, A. Achim, O. Fratu, I. Marghescu, “Analysis of Frequency Spectrum Usage from a
Cognitive Radio Perspective, ” 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Advanced
Spectrum Management, ISABEL Roma 2010, COGART workshop;
7. Elena Simona Lohan, Alexandru Rusu-Csanadra, Ion Marghescu, Hybrid Aquisition of CBOC
Galileo Signals under Multiple Correct-window Hypothesis, Proceedings of Spacomm, Budapest,
27-22 April 2011;
8. Elena Simona Lohan, Alexandru Rusu-Casandra, Oana Cramariuc, Ion Marghescu, Bogdan
Cramariuc: End-User Attitudes towards Location-Based Services and Future Mobile Wireless
Devices: The Students' Perspective. Information 2(3): 426-454 (2011)
9. Crăciun Florin, Marghescu Ion, Fratu Octavian RAKE receiver performances for PAMTH-UWB
systems, TELFOR, Belgrad, 2011 pp. 289-293
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10. Alexandru Rusu-Casandra, Elena-Simona Lohan, Ion Marghescu, ’’Impact of Narrowband
Interference on Unambiguous Acquisition Approaches in Galileo’’, Conference Proceedings of the
1st International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2011 ICL-GNSS, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0187-
0, Tampere, Finland, Iunie 2011
11. Elena-Simona Lohan, Oana Cramariuc, Alexandru Rusu-Casandra, Ion Marghescu, Bogdan
Cramariuc, ’’User Requirements in the Context of Future Location Based Services as Seen From a
Survey Among Romanian Students’’, Conference Proceedings of the 1st International Conference
on Localization and GNSS 2011 ICL-GNSS, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0187-0, Tampere, Finland, Iunie
2011
12. G. Marghescu, I. Marghescu, ICT-Based Assessment in Romanian Engineering Education, 14th
International Conference Evaluation in the Balkan Countries, Alexandra Pejatovic (editor),
Belgrade 2011, Education and Pedagogy in Balkan Countries, ISBN 978-86-82019-66-4, Publisher:
University of Belgrad, pp. 477-481.
13. A. Rusu-Casandra, E. S. Lohan, G. Seco-Granados, I. Marghescu, ’’Investigation of Narrowband
Interference Filtering Algorithms for Galileo CBOC Signals”, the 3rd European Conference of
Communications, Paris, France, Dec. 2012.
14. G. Marghescu, I. Marghescu, Réflexion sur la raison écologique d’une citoyenneté de la Terre,
XXXIVe Congrès ASPLF, Louvain-La-Neuve, Bruxelles, 21-25 août 2012
15. G. Marghescu, I. Marghescu, The New Institutional Model of the 21st Century University:
Academic Capitalism, 15th International Conference BASOPED Educational Reform in the 21st
Century in Balkan Countries, 28-30 June 2012, Bucharest.
16. A. Iordache, I. Marghescu, LTE downlink performance, 10th International Symposium on Electronics
and Telecommunications (ISETC), 2012. page(s): 159 – 162.
17. A. Iordache, I. Marghescu, LTE network time synchronization, 10th International Symposium on
Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), 2012, Page(s): 179 – 182.
18. V. Savu, I. Marghescu et all: Antenna design for electromagnetic waves propagation studies
through the salt ore, "U.P.B. Sci. Bull., Series C, Vol. 75, Iss. 2, 2013, ISSN 2286 – 3540.
19. Alexandru Martian, Calin Vladeanu, Octavian Fratu, Ion Marghescu, Safwan El Assad, Spectral
Occupancy Measurements in Rural and Urban Environments: Analysis and Comparison, AICT,
2013, Rome.
20. Alexandru Martian; Alexandru Vulpe, Razvan Craciunescu, Octavian Fratu, Ion Marghescu Perspectives on
Dynamic Spectrum Access Procedures in TV White Spaces, GWS, New Jersey, USA, 2013.
21. C. Tamas, M. Pantazica, C. Grecu, I. Marghescu, Integrated Circuits Characterization Platform (ICCP), Alba
Iulia ISSE 2013;
22. C. Tamas, M. Pantazica , C. Marghescu , I. Marghescu, Controller for Reducing the EMI in Gas Gauge and
Battery Management Units, Alba Iulia, ISSE 2013;
23. Valeriu Savu, Razvan Craciunescu, Octavian Fratu, Simona Halunga, Ion Marghescu; Cosmic Radiation
Detector Performances in Salt Mines; 11th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern
Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, Telsiks 2013, Serbia, Nis, October 16-19, 2013, Volume 02,
pages. 631-634, ISBN 978-1-4799-0899-8.
24. Martian, A, Craciunescu, R, Vulpe, A, Fratu, O, Marghescu I, Perspectives on Dynamic Spectrum Access
Procedures in TV White Spaces, 16TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIRELESS PERSONAL
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC) Book Series: International Symposium on Wireless Personal
Multimedia Communications, 2013
25. Ammar Ali SAHRAB, Ion MARGHESCU, MIMO-OFDM: Maximum Diversity Using Maximum Likelihood
Detector, The 10th International Conference IEEE Communcations Bucharest, 2014, pp: . 437-441;

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26. Valentin STANCIU, Alexandru MARTIAN, Cezar SOCOTEANU, Ion MARGHESCU, Data Collection for
Spectrum Sensing Algorithms based on USRP The 10th International Conference IEEE Communcations
Bucharest, 2014, pp: 403-407;
27. Sahrab, Ammar Ali; Marghescu, Ion; MIMO-OFDM: Maximum diversity using maximum
likelihood detector, 10th International Conference on Communications (COMM), 2014
28. Martian, Alexandru; Sandu, Bogdan Tudor; Fratu, Octavian; Marghescu, Ion; Craciunescu, Razvan;
Spectrum sensing based on spectral correlation for cognitive radio systems, 4th International
Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and
Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE), 2014
29. Nastase, Cosmina-Valentina; Martian, Alexandru; Vladeanu, Calin; Marghescu, Ion; An accurate
average energy detection algorithm for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems, IEEE 11th
International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), 2014.
30. Paun, M; Tamas, R; Marghescu, I; A Software Radio approach for Electric Arc locating, IEEE
13th International Conference on Engineering of Modern Electric Systems (EMES), 2015.
31. M. Păun, R. Tamaș, I. Marghescu, A Software-Defined Radio Approach for Direction Finding, U.P.B.
Scientific Bulletin C Series, U.P.B. Sci. Bull., Series C, Vol. 77, Iss. 4, pp. 235-244, 2015 ISSN 2286-3540
32. M. Păun, R. Tamaș, I. Marghescu, Angle-of-Arrival Estimation in Multipath Environments Using Sliding
Antenna Arrays, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters (JPIER-L), Vol. 54, pp. 101-105, Jul. 2015.
33. M. Păun, R. Tamaș, I. Marghescu, Configurable Radio for Electric Arc Locating, Constanta Maritime
University Annals, Vol. 23, pp. 119-124, Aug. 2015.
34. M. Păun, I. Candel, R. Tamaș, C. Ioana, I. Marghescu, A Software-Defined Radio Approach for Locating
Electric Arcs, IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic
Systems (COMCAS), Nov. 2015, Tel-Aviv (Israel).
35. M. Păun, R. Tamaș, I. Marghescu, A Software Radio Approach for Locating Unintentional Ozone-Generating
Sources, in Proc. of IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking
(BlackSeaCom), May 2015, Constanta (Romania).
36. AA Sahrab, I Marghescu, Enhanced IRC-SIC algorithm with beamforming for MU-MIMO
systems. 2015 International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS),, pp. 1-4., 2015,
37. M Oproiu, A Vulpe, I Marghescu, Analysis and Measurements of Wi-Fi Offloading Solutions,
chapter in the Book Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures,
Volume 159 of the series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics
and Telecommunications Engineering , Springer international Publishing House, pp 127-134
38. Cosmina-Valentina Năstase, Octavian Fratu, Alexandru Martian, Ion Marghescu, chapter in book
Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, Volume 159 of the
series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and
Telecommunications EngineeringSpringer International Publishing, pp. 142-148, 2015
39. Oproiu, Madalina; Vulpe, Alexandru; Marghescu, Ion; Effects of enabling carrier aggregation in a
mobile operator network , 23rd Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR), Beograd, 2015 , pp.
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