Prof. Dr. Octavian Catrina

Assistant Professor, Information Security

Academic Career

• PhD, Telecommunications, Politehnica University, Bucharest, 1997
• MSc (equiv.), Electronics and Telecommunications, Politehnica University, Bucharest, 1985

Professional Career

Octavian Catrina is Assistant Professor of Computer Networks and Information Security in the School of Information Technology of the International University in Germany. Before joining the International University, he was assistant and then Lecturer (Networks and Software research group) in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politehnica University of Bucharest (1989-1998). In 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting researcher at Institut National des Télécommunications (INT), Evry, France.

During 1993-2000 he focused on the application of formal description techniques in the design, validation and automated implementation of communication protocols. His current research areas include network security (applied cryptography and security protocols), advanced Internet technologies (QoS, multicast) and P2P overlay networks.

Research Interests include

• Advanced Internet technologies
• Network security
• Applied cryptography
• P2P networks

Publications

• O. Catrina, F. Kerschbaum. Fostering the Uptake of Secure Multiparty Computation in E-Commerce. Accepted to ARES 2008, Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Barcelona, Spain, March 2008.
• O. Catrina, E. Borcoci. Development of complex communication protocols using Estelle. Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 55, no. 1-2 (special issue on Protocol Engineering), 2000, pp. 4-20.
• O. Catrina, S. Budkowski. Simulation guiding and validation based on dependence relations between events. Proceedings of the 13th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM'99), Warsaw, vol. 1, pp. 303-310, 1999.
• O. Catrina, D. Thaler, B. Aboba, E. Guttman. Zeroconf Multicast Address Allocation Protocol (ZMAAP). Internet draft, October 2001.(http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-zmaap-02.txt).
• O. Catrina, E. Borcoci. Development of complex communication protocols using Estelle. Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 55, no. 1-2 (special issue on Protocol Engineering), 2000, pp. 4-20.
• O. Catrina, S. Budkowski. Simulation guiding and validation based on dependence relations between events. Proceedings of the 13th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM'99), Warsaw, vol. 1, pp. 303-310, 1999.
• O. Catrina, D. Thaler, B. Aboba, E. Guttman. Zeroconf Multicast Address Allocation Protocol (ZMAAP). Internet draft, October 2001. (http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-zmaap-02.txt)