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Albert Banchs
Full Professor

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E-mail: banchsatit.uc3m.es
Address: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Avda de la Universidad, 30
E-28911 Leganés (Madrid) Spain
Escuela Politécnica Superior · Building Torres Quevedo · Office 4.A14

 BIOGRAPHY

    Dr. Albert Banchs received his Telecommunications Engineering degree from UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain, in 1997, and the PhD degree from the same university in 2002. He was a visitor researcher at ICSI, Berkeley, CA, in 1997, worked for Telefonica I+D, Spain, in 1998, and for the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd., Germany, from 1998 to 2003. Since 2003, he is with Univeristy Carlos III of Madrid. Since 2009, he also has a double affiliation with the IMDEA Networks research institute, where he is currently the institute's director. He was Academic Guest at ETHZ in 2012, a Visiting Professor at EPFL in 2013, 2015 and 2018, and a Fulbright scholar at University of Texas at Austin in 2019.

    Dr. Banchs authors more than 150 conference and journal papers, including publications at top conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MOBICOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM IMC, WWW and IEEE ICNP, and at top journals such as IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TWC and IEEE TVT (see his google scholar profile). Prof. Banchs has been editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2014-2019), the Green Networking and Communication Series of IEEE JSAC (2015-2016), Computer Communications (2010-2014) and IEEE Communications Letters (2005-2012). He has served in many TPCs (including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, ITC and ACM WiNTECH) and organization committees (general chair of IEEE Online GreenComm 2013 and ACM WiNTECH 2013, Vice General Chair of EWSN 2018, and TPC co-chair of IEEEE WoWMoM 2012, European Wireless 2010 and IEEE HotMESH 2010).

    Prof. Albert Banchs has been a key contributor to many EU projects. He was the coordintor of two projects (FP7 ICT CARMEN and FP7 ICT iJOIN), the Technical manager of the H2020 5G-MoNArch project, Deputy Technical Manager of the H2020 5G-TOURS project and is currently Deputy Technical Manager of the H2020 SUSTAIN-6G project. Dr. Banchs has also been the principal investigator of many industry contracts with major manufacturers, network operators and SMEs. He is the inventor of 9 patents and authors a number of standardization proposals at the IETF and the IEEE. Some of the algorithms that he has devised have been incorporated to commercial products. He is an IEEE Senior Member and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2016-2017.
 PUBLICATIONS
 PATENTS

  • A. Garcia-Saavecra, X. Costa-Pérez, M. Gramaglia, A. Banchs, "Virtualized Radio Access Point, VRAP, and method for operating the same", patent application to the European and US offices (2020). Grant pending. Under exploitation.

  • V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Pérez, A. Banchs, M. Gramaglia, "Method and system for network slice allocation", patent granted by the European office (2020) and US office (2021). Under exploitation.

  • J. Herzen, P. Thiran, A. Banchs, V. Shneer, "Csma/ca in time and frequency domains", patent granted by the US office (2019). Under exploitation.

  • A. Azcorra, I. Úcar, F. Gringoli, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Procedimiento y dispositivo de gestión de movilidad IP localizad basada en red, red de acceso y dispositivos pasarela de acceso a dominios con movilidad IP localizada", patent granted by the Spanish office (2017).

  • A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, X. Perez, "Method for optimizing energy consumption of a network", patent granted by the European office (2016). Under exploitation.

  • F. Zdarsky, X. Perez, A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, R. de Marca, "Method for supporting admission control and/or path selection in a communication network and communication network", patent granted by the European office (2018), US office (2016) and Japanese office (2015). Under exploitation.

  • C. J. Bernardos, I. Soto, M. Calderón, A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, "Procedimiento y dispositivo de gestión de movilidad IP localizad basada en red, red de acceso y dispositivos pasarela de acceso a dominios con movilidad IP localizada", patent granted by the Spanish office (2012).

  • S. Tartarelli and A. Banchs, "Method of transmitting data", patent granted by the Japanese office (2008), German office (2009) and US office (2009). Under exploitation.

  • A. Banchs and X. Perez, "Differentiated Scheduling Method in Downlink Communications between RNC and Node-BS in network", patent granted by the German office (2008) and Japanese office (2007). Under exploitation.
 FORMER PHD STUDENTS

  • Sergi Alcala, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2025). Co-supervised with M. Fiore.
    Thesis: "Efficient 5G Mobile Network Management: Network Slicing and Global Roaming Optimization".

  • Alan Collet, CEA, France.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2024). Co-supervised with M. Fiore.
    Thesis: "Metric meta-learning in deep learning models for Intent-based networking".

  • Antonio Albanese, Flyhound, New York.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2023). Co-supervised with X. Costa-Perez.
    Thesis: "Novel techniques for improving localization, coverage and planning in B5G networks".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.

  • Ramon Perez, Red Hat, Spain.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2021).
    Thesis: "Monitoring and orchestration of network slices for 5g networks".

  • Cristina Marquez, Pfizer, Spain.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2020). Co-supervised with M. Gramaglia.
    Thesis: "Characterization of mobile network services to assess the impact of network slicing in a nationwide scenario".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.
    National award to the best PhD Thesis in Innovation for Sustainable Connectivity.

  • Dario Bega, Nokia Bell Labs, Munich, Germany.
    PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2020). Co-supervised with X. Costa-Perez.
    Thesis: "Deep Learning solutions for next generation network slicing aware mobile networks".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.

  • Pablo Caballero, Google, California (formerly at Apple, California).
    PhD thesis at University of Texas at Austin (2018). Co-supervised with G. de Veciana.
    Thesis: "Design and Performance of Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Network Slicing".

  • Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany.
    PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III and Politecnico of Milano (2015). Co-supervised with A. Capone.
    Thesis: "Design of novel interference coordination techniques for 5G Networks".
    Best PhD thesis prize of the National Telecommunications and Information Theory Association in Italy.

  • Andres Garcia-Saavedra, NEC Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany.
    PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2013). Co-supervised with Pablo Serrano.
    Thesis: "Analysis and Optimal Configuration of Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling Techniques in Wireless Networks".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.

  • Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh, UK and NetAI, UK
    PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2011).
    Thesis: "Control-Theoretic Adaptive Mechanisms for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Design, Implementation and Experimental Evaluation".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.

  • Pablo Serrano, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
    PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2006).
    Thesis: "Estrategias de configuración de redes Wireless LAN 802.11e EDCA".
    Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid.
 RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Horizon Europe SUSTAIN-6G: SUSTainability-Advanced and Innovative Networking with 6G (1 January 2025 - 30 June 2027). Role: Principal investigator and Deputy technical manager of the project. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 742.000 €.

  • 6G-CLARION-OE: CLoud-nAtive netwoRk functIONs for 6G - Overall Ecosystem(Subproyecto 1)(29 November 2021 - 31 December 2024). Role: Principal investigator. MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, COMERCIO Y EMPRESA (UNICO Program). Funding (for the PI's institution): 717.348 €.

  • 6G-CLARION-OR: CLoud-nAtive netwoRk functIONs for 6G - Orchestration (Subproyecto 2)(29 November 2021 - 31 December 2024). Role: Principal investigator. MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, COMERCIO Y EMPRESA (UNICO Program). Funding (for the PI's institution): 720.198 €.

  • 6G-CLARION-NFD: CLoud-nAtive netwoRk functIONs for 6G (Subproyecto 4)(29 November 2021 - 31 December 2024). Role: Principal investigator. MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, COMERCIO Y EMPRESA (UNICO Program). Funding (for the PI's institution): 771.387 €.

  • 6G-RIEMANN-SI: pRIvacy prEserving Multi tenANt Networks (Subproyecto 3) (29 November 2021 - 31 December 2024). Role: Principal investigator. MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA, COMERCIO Y EMPRESA (UNICO Program). Funding (for the PI's institution): 597.141 €.

  • H2020 5G-TOURS: SmarT mObility, media and e-health for toURists and citizenS (1 June 2019 - 31 May 2022). Role: Principal investigator and Deputy technical manager of the project. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 748.000 €.

  • H2020 5G-MoNArch: 5G Mobile Network Architecture for diverse services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond (1 July 2017 - 30 June 2019). Role: Principal investigator and Technical manager of the project. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 690.771 €.

  • THWART: Prevención de comportamientos maliciosos en sistemas de comunicaciones (1 December 2014 - 31 November 2015). Role: Principal investigator. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Europa de Excelencia). Funding (for the PI's institution): 60.000 €.

  • TIGRE5: Tecnologías integradas de gestión y operación de red 5 (1 October 2014 - 31 September 2018). Role: Principal investigator. Comunidad de Madrid. Funding (for the PI's institution): 190.264 €.

  • H2020 5G NORMA: 5G Novel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture (1 July 2015 - 31 December 2017). Role: Principal investigator and WP leader. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 735.000 €.

  • FP7 ICT iJOIN : Interworking and JOINt Design of an Open Access and Backhaul Network Architecture for Small Cells based on Cloud Networks (1 November 2012 - 30 April 2015). Role: Principal investigator and Project coordinator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 360.820 €.

  • FP7 ICT eCOUSIN: enhanced COntent distribUtion with Social INformation (1 November 2012 - 30 April 2015). Role: Principal investigator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 347.933 €.

  • FP7 ICT CROWD: Connectivity management for eneRgy Optimised Wireless Dense networks (1 January 2013 - 30 June 2015). Role: Principal investigator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 410.800 €.

  • FP7 ICT MEDIEVAL: MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications (1 July 2010 - 30 June 2013). Role: Principal investigator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 481.160 €.

  • FP7 ICT FLAVIA: FLexible Architecture for \nVirtualizable wireless future Internet Access (1 July 2010 - 31 July 2013). Role: Principal investigator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 453.440 €.

  • FP7 ICT CARMEN: CARrier grade MEsh Networks (1 January 2008 - 31 December 2010). Role: Principal investigator and Project Coordinator. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 1.213.694 €.

  • FP6 IST DAIDALOS II: Designing advanced interfaces for the delivery and administration of location independent optimised personal services - II (1 January 2006 - 31 December 2008). Role: Activity leader and Deputy WP leader. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 266.435 €.

  • FP6 IST DAIDALOS: Designing advanced interfaces for the delivery and administration of location independent optimised personal services (1 November 2003 - 30 April 2006). Role: Activity leader. European Commission. Funding (for the PI's institution): 519.692 €.

 STANDARDIZATION CONTRIBUTIONS

  • A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, "Providing Service Guarantees in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks", IEEE 802.21, March 2010.

  • A. Vidal, A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, B. Gloss, B. Simsek, F. Zdarsky, T. Melia, X. Perez-Costa, "Media Independent Mesh Networks", IEEE 802.21, March 2009.

  • B. Simsek, A. Vidal, A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, F. Zdarsky, "Media Independent Mesh Networks", IEEE 802.21, November 2007.

  • P. Stupar, T.Melia, A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, C. J. Bernardos, I.Soto, A.Vidal, "MIH in Multi-hop Networks", IEEE 802.21, November 2007.

  • A. Vidal, T. Melia, A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, "Multitechnology Mesh Scenario", IEEE 802.21, March 2007.

  • A. Vidal, T. Melia, A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, "Events Generated by MIH Users", IEEE 802.21, January 2007.

  • A. Vidal, T. Melia, A. Banchs, "Proxy functionality for Event Service and Command Service", IEEE 802.21, November 2006.

  • A. Vidal, T. Melia, A. Banchs, "Support for centrally coordinated network initiated handovers", IEEE 802.21, November 2006.

  • M. Brunner, A. Banchs, S. Tartarelli and H. Pan, "A one-to-any Probabilistic Assured Rate Per-Domain Behavior for Differentiated Services", IETF Internet draft, April 2001.

  • A. Banchs, X. Perez, W. Pokorski, and M. Radimirsch, "A Proposal for Wireless MAC Multimedia Extensions", IEEE 802.11 Enhancements Task Group document, IEEE 802.11-00/205, July 2000.

  • A. Banchs, W. Pokorski, and M. Radimirsch, "Considerations about Wireless MAC Multimedia Extensions", IEEE 802.11 Enhancements Task Group document, IEEE 802.11-00/100, May 2000.
 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES AND EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • Editorial Boards
    • Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2016 - 2020).
    • Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2014 - 2019).
    • Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications - Series on 'Green Communications and Networking' (2015 - 2016).
    • Area Editor of Computer Communications (2010 - 2014).
    • Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2010 - 2012).
    • Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2005-2010).

  • Guest Editorials
    • Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Section on "5G Network Slicing: Part 2 - Algorithms and Practice," August 2017.
    • Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Section on "5G Network Slicing: Part 1 – Concepts, Principales, and Architectures," May 2017.
    • Guest Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Special Section on "Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks", 2014.
    • Guest Editor of Computer Communications, Special Issue on "Special Section on Wireless Networking", 2011.
    • Guest Editor of Computer Networks, Special Issue on "Multi-Hop Wireless Access Networks", 2010.
    • Guest Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Dependability Issues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access", 2008.

  • Organizing Committees
    • Vice General Chair of EWSN 2018.
    • Area co-chair for ITC 2018.
    • Track co-chair for IEEE WCNC 2018.
    • TPC co-chair for 5Garch 2017.
    • Co-chair for 5Garch 2016.
    • Sponsorship chair for ACM CoNEXT 2015.
    • Co-chair for ACM WiNTEC 2013.
    • General co-chair for IEEE Online Greencomm 2013.
    • Panel chair for IEEE WoWMoM 2013.
    • TPC co-chair for IEEE WoWMoM 2012.
    • Keynote co-chair for IEEE ISCC 2011.
    • Workshop co-chair for IEEE WoWMoM 2011.
    • TPC co-chair for European Wireless 2010.
    • TPC co-chair for IEEE HotMESH 2010.
    • Panel co-chair for MOBILIGHT 2010.

  • Technical Program Committees
    • 2019: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WoWMoM, EuCNC.
    • 2018: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Resource Slicing in Future Clouds and Networks, IEEE WoWMoM, EuCNC.
    • 2017: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on 5G New Radio (NR) Technologies, IEEE WoWMoM, EuCNC.
    • 2016: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE SECON, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), EuCNC.
    • 2015: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE VTC, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), EuCNC.
    • 2014: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE PIMRC, EuCNC.
    • 2013: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WoWMoM, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, International Workshop on Control Techniques for Efficient Multimedia Delivery.
    • 2012: IEEE PIMRC, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), ACM WiNTECH, CON-WIRE, IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability.
    • 2011: IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), IEEE WCNC, ACM WiNTECH, IEEE WoWMoM.
    • 2010: IEEE GLOBECOM, MediaWIN, IEEE INFOCOM WiP.
    • 2009: IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE ICC, ITU-T Kaleidoscope, MediaWIN, IEEE HotMESH, MESH, ICT Mobile Summit, ICT, MOBILIGHT, IEEE CQR, QoSim.
    • 2008: IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE ICC, MediaWIN, ICT Mobile Summit, IEEE CQR, QoSim.
    • 2007: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE BROADNETS, MediaWIN, WINSYS.
    • 2006: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, SIUMI, Special Session on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Surveillance and Monitoring Systems (AIAI).
    • 2005: IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, SIUMI, Trusted Internet Workshop.
    • 2004: IEEE ICC, Trusted Internet Workshop.
    • 2003: IEEE ICC, QoS-IP, Trusted Internet Workshop.
    • 2002: IEEE GLOBECOM, Trusted Internet Workshop.
 PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • PhD thesis award
    • National award to the best PhD thesis on broadband networks (2003).

  • Professional career awards and recognitions
    • 2013 Excellence Award to Young UC3M Research Staff.
    • 2017 Excellence Award to Young UC3M Research Staff.
    • Member of the expert network 'Los 100 de cotec'.
    • Included in the "World’s Top 2% Scientists" reference list compiled by Stanford University and the academic publishing house Elsevier (2023 and 2024).
    • Ranked among Best Scientists in Spain in the field of Computer Science (2023 and 2024) by research.com.

  • Personal grants and appoinments
    • Recipient of a Ramon y Cajal national grant (2004).
    • Recipient of a Fulbright grant (2019).
    • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017).

  • Supervision of PhD and MSc theses
    • Six PhD theses recipient of the Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid (2006, 2011, 2013, 2020, 2020, 2023).
    • National award to the best PhD Thesis in Innovation for Sustainable Connectivity (2020).
    • Best PhD thesis prize of the National Telecommunications and Information Theory Association in Italy (2015).
    • National award to the best MSc thesis on communications techniques for residencial networks (2018).

  • Paper and demo awards
    • IEEE ComSoc CSIM TC Best Conference Paper Award 2020.
    • AT4Wireless paper award at JITEL 2007 national conference.
    • SATIN award of the CONTENT Network of Excellence for best paper (2009).
    • Best Paper Runner-up Award at ICNP 2014.
    • Best Demo Runner-up Award at ACM MOBICOM 2019.
    • Paper included in the list of 'Best readings topics on device-to-device communications' published by IEEE ComSoc in 2017.

  • Project awards
    • MEDIEVAL project: Runner-up for the Future Internet award 2012.
    • iJOIN project: Runner-up award to the best collaborative project in the region of Madrid 2013.
    • 5G-MoNArch project: GLOMO Award on 5G Industry Partnership at MWC 2019.

  • Service awards
    • IEEE INFOCOM Distinguished TPC member (2019).
    • IEEE INFOCOM Distinguished TPC member (2021).


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