1. SUPPORTING MULTIMEDIA STREAMING APPLICATIONS INSIDE THE NETWORK. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, FLORIAN MIRCEA BOIAN, DARIUS VASILE BUFNEA, CLAUDIU COBÂRZAN.2. TOWARDS AN UTILITY-BASED TCP-FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA.3. DISTORTION-BASED MEDIA-FRIENDLY CONGESTION CONTROL. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, ZSUZSANNA MARIAN, ALEXANDRU VANCEA.4. RDDNS - RESOURCE-BASED DYNAMIC DNS. Authors: ANDREI CRACIUN, ADRIAN STERCA.5. INTRODUCING VAST: A VIDEO-AUDIO STREAMING TESTER. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, CLAUDIU COBÂRZAN.6. METADATA FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA.7. A STUDY OF TCP-FRIENDLINESS ON THE SHORT TERM WITH AN APPLICATION TO MEDIA-FRIENDLY CONGESTION CONTROL. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, ALEXANDRU VANCEA.8. ENHANCING THE STACK SMASHING PROTECTION IN THE GCC. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA.9. CLUSTERING, TIERED INDEXES AND TERM PROXIMITY WEIGHTING IN TEXT-BASED RETRIEVAL. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA.10. NETWORK INTERFACE AGGREGATION FOR IP TUNNELING. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA.11. CHOOSING THE BEST SET OF ACTIVE SOURCES IN PEER-TO-PEER VIDEO STREAMING. Authors: CLAUDIU COBÂRZAN, ADRIAN STERCA.12. PARALLEL TRACKING AND MAPPING WITH SURFACE DETECTION FOR AUGMENTED REALITY. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, ALEXANDRU MORARU.13. BABEŞ-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY’S HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER. Authors: ADRIAN STERCA, VIRGINIA NICULESCU.14. IMPROVING SIFT FOR IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTION. Authors: IOAN BĂDĂRÂNZĂ, ADRIAN STERCA, RENATA DEAK.