Participation in European research projects:

  1. SLICENET: End-to-End Cognitive Network Slicing and Slice Management Framework in Virtualised Multi-Domain, Multi-Tenant 5G Network, H2020-761913, June 2017 - June 2020.
  2. ERASER: Experimenting with real application-specific QoS guarantees in a large-scale RINA demonstrator, H2020 Fed4FIRE+ 3rd Open Call for medium experiments, H2020-732638, F4Fp-03-M14), March 2018 - September 2018.
  3. COSIGN: Integrating advanced optical hardware and SDN for future all optical DCNs, FP7-619572, January 2014 - December 2016.
  4. PRISTINE: Programmability in RINA for European Supremacy of Virtualized Networks, FP7-619305, January 2014 - October 2016.
  5. LIGHTNESS: Low latency and high throughput dynamic network infrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects, FP7-318606, November 2012 - October 2015.
  6. FIBRE-EU: Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between BRazil and Europe - EU, FP7-288356, June 2011 - July 2014.
  7. EULER: Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing, FP7-258307, October 2010 - June 2014.
  8. STRONGEST: Scalable Tunable and Resilient Optical Networks Guaranteeing Extremely-High Speed Transport, INFSO-ICT 247674, January 2010 - December 2012.
  9. BONE: Building the future optical network in Europe, FP7-216863, January 2008 - February 2011.
  10. DICONET: Dynamic impairment constraint network for transparent mesh optical networks, FP7-216338, January 2008 - June 2010.
  11. COST Action 291: Towards Digital Ooptical Networks, July 2004 - June 2008.
  12. ePhoton/ONe+: Optical Networks: Towards Bandwidth Manageability and Cost Efficiency, FP6-027497, March 2006 - February 2008.
  13. NOBEL2: Next generation optical network for broadband European leadership phase 2, FP6-027305, March 2006 - February 2008.
  14. FIRM: Field trial with Integrated ROADMs and GMPLS compliance, Celtic Project CP1-028, July 2004 - June 2006.

Participation in National research projects:

  1. TRAINER: Towards fully AI-empowered networks, PID2020-118011GB-C21, September 2021 - August 2024.
  2. Go2Edge: Engineering future secure edge computing networks, systems and services, RED2018-102585-T, January 2020 - December 2022.
  3. ALLIANCE: Architecting a knowledge-defined 5G-enabled network infrastructure toward the upcoming digital society, TEC2017-90034-C2-1-R, January 2018 - September 2021.
  4. SUNSET: Sustainable Network Infrastructure Enabling the Future Digital Society, TEC2014-59583-C2-1-R, January 2015 - June 2018.
  5. Elastic Networks: Nuevos Paradigmas de Redes Elásticas para un Mundo radicalmente basado en Cloud y Fog Computing, TEC2015-71932-REDT, October 2015 - September 2017.
  6. ELASTIC: Enhanced optical networks featuring adaptable and highly scalable multi-granular transport services, TEC2011-27310, January 2012 - December 2014.
  7. FIERRO: Future Internet: Eficiencia en las redes de altas prestaciones, TEC2010-12250-E, May 2011 - September 2012.
  8. ENGINE: Engineering Next Generation Optical Transport Networks, TEC2008-02634, January 2009 - December 2011.
  9. RINGING: Red inteligente GMPLS/ASON con integración de nodos reconfigurables, TEC2005-08051-C03-02, January 2006 - December 2008.

Research stays:

  1. National Institute of Telecommunications (NIT) @ Wroclaw - August 2013. Post-doctoral stay. Topic: Optimization of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) over Flexi-Grid optical networks. Duration: 3,5 weeks. Funded by: Spanish National Project ELASTIC.
  2. Alcatel Lucent - Bell Labs France - January - February 2013. Post-doctoral research stay. Topic: CAPEX + OPEX analysis of survivable IP/MPLS over Single Line Rate(SLR)/Mixed Line Rate (MLR)/Elastic DWDM optical networks. Duration: 3 weeks. Funded by: Spanish National Project ELASTIC and Green Touch initiative project HALF-MOON.
  3. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) - January - February 2012. Post-doctoral research stay. Topic: Modeling and analysis of the Virtual Optical Network (VON) embedding problem. Duration: 1 month. Funded by: Spanish National Projects ELASTIC and FIERRO.
  4. Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR), Stuttgart Universität (UST) - April-July 2007. Pre-doctoral research stay. Topic: Performance evaluation of TCP over OBS networks. Duration: 3.5 months. Funded by: European Projects COST Action 291 and e-Photon/One+.

Technical Program Committe (TPC) memberships:

  1. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2023), July 3-7, 2023, Bucharest (Romania).
  2. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 1st Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Edge Computing and Networking, IEEE Global Communications Conference, December 7-11, 2021, Madrid (Spain).
  3. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 22th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2020), July 19-23, 2020, Bari (Italy).
  4. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA 2020), co-located with ICIN 2020, February 24-27, 2020, Paris (France).
  5. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2019), July 26-28, 2019, Prague (Czech Republic).
  6. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 21th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2019), July 9-13, Angers (France).
  7. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2018), July 26-28, 2018, Porto (Portugal).
  8. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2018), July 1-5, Bucharest (Romania).
  9. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2017), July 24-26, 2017, Madrid (Spain).
  10. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2017), July 2-6, Girona (Spain).
  11. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 17th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS 2016), September 26-28, 2016, Montreal (Canada).
  12. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 3nd European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC 2016), September 5-7, Wroclaw (Poland).
  13. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2016), July 10-14, 2016, Trento (Italy).
  14. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 16th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2015), October 14-16, 2015, Wroclaw (Poland).
  15. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 2nd European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC 2015), September 21-22, Karlskrona (Sweden).
  16. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2015), July 20-22, 2015, Colmar (France).
  17. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2015), July 5-9, 2015, Budapest (Hungary).
  18. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 16th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS 2014), September 17-19, 2014, Funchal (Portugal).
  19. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2014), September 10-12, 2014, Salerno (Italy).
  20. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2014), August 28-30, 2014, Vienna (Austria).
  21. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014) July 6-10, 2014, Graz (Austria).
  22. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2014), July 2-4, 2014, Birminghan (UK).
  23. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on 3D Converged IT and Optical Communications (3DOC-13), September 4-6, 2013, Gwangju (South Korea).
  24. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2013), July 29-31, 2013, Reykjavík (Iceland).
  25. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2013) June 23-27, 2013, Cartagena (Spain).
  26. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 15th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS 2012), October 15-18, 2012, Rome (Italy).
  27. Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2012), July 24-27, 2012, Rome (Italy).
  28. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2012), July 2-5, 2012, Coventry (UK).
  29. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011), July 31 - August 4, Maui Island, Hawaii (USA).
  30. Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS 2011), July 18-21, 2011, Sevilla (Spain).
  31. Member of the Technical Program Committee, Workshop on Cross-layer Algorithms and Protocols for Optical Networks - co-located with BROADNETS 2010 -, October 25, 2010, Athens (Greece).
  32. Member of the Technical Program Committee, 13th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS 2008), September 28 - October 2, 2008, Budapest (Hungary).


Other activities:

External reviewer for JCR-ranked journals and magazines: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Photonics Technology Letters, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Computer Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, Computer Networks, Optical Switching and Networking, Journal of Networks and System Management, Photonic Network Communications, ETRI Journal.