Valer Bocan PhD, CSSLP

I work on making systems hold up under attack. My early research established adaptive threshold puzzles and DoS-resistant single sign-on; the GSM denial-of-service work from that period is still my most cited. More recently I directed a national-security program that delivered covert audio-video capture systems at TRL8, and I currently work on covert egress channels and on IPFLang, a domain-specific language whose currency-aware type system catches regulatory fee errors at compile time.

Politehnica Timișoara PhD CSSLP IEEE Senior Member

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Lecturer
Department of Computer and Information Technology,
Politehnica University of Timișoara

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Publications

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IPFLang: A Domain-Specific Language for Multi-Currency Regulatory Fee Computation with Static Verification

Bocan, V., & Balas, V. E.

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society · pp. 1-13 · IEEE Computer Society · ISSN 2644-1268

PDF DOI 10.1109/OJCS.2026.3726037 BibTeXQ1

Look, Listen, Leak: Out-of-Band WebRTC Pairing as an Enterprise Egress Surface

Bocan, V.

SSRN · Elsevier BV

DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6997364 BibTeXIn Review

QRNG-DD: software data diode for quantum random number distribution with AI agent integration

Bocan, V.

SoftwareX 34 · 102676 · Elsevier · ISSN 2352-7110

PDF DOI 10.1016/j.softx.2026.102676 BibTeX

Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks

Bocan, V., & Crețu, V.

ARES 2006 · pp. 523-528 · Vienna, Austria · IEEE Computer Society · ISBN 0-7695-2567-9

PDF DOI 10.1109/ARES.2006.81 BibTeXCited by 38

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Research Projects

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Completed 2026Project Director

Covert Audio-Video Systems for Authorized National-Security Measures

A concealable audio-video capture and transmission system delivered at TRL8 to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with autonomous power management, encrypted storage and secure 4G/5G streaming.

PNCDI IV: Economic RDI activities · PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0265

~370,000 EUR

ActiveProject Member

myDROID: Mobile System for Drone Identification and Localization

International R&D on detecting and locating drones, with Slovak partners. I am responsible for the software development and implementation.

EUREKA, with national funding via UEFISCDI · UEFISCDI no. 14/09.07.2025

298,500 EUR

Awaiting FundingProject Director

THERMOGUARD: Modular Multi-zone Thermal Control, Monitoring & Early Warning System for Industry

International R&D on a modular system for multi-zone thermal control, monitoring and early warning in industrial settings. Awarded the EUREKA label; national funding pending. I am the project director at Politehnica University of Timișoara.

EUREKA, with national funding via UEFISCDI · PN-IV-P8-8.2-EUREKA-2024-0066 (UEFISCDI) · 2025-25438/NP/OPEN CALL (EUREKA)

291,000 EUR

Teaching

7 Courses at UPT

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