• A control plane for WireGuard 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Barcia González, Alejandro; López Brescó, Albert; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      WireGuard is a VPN protocol that has gained significant interest recently. Its main advantages are: (i) simple configuration (via pre-shared SSH-like public keys), (ii) mobility support, (iii) reduced codebase to ease ...
    • Distributed access control with blockchain 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Subirà Nieto, Jordi; López Brescó, Albert; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2019)
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      The specification and enforcement of network-wide policies in a single administrative domain is common in today's networks and considered as already resolved. However, this is not the case for multi-administrative domains, ...
    • Experimenting with real application-specific QoS guarantees in a large-scale RINA demonstrator 

      Perelló Muntan, Jordi; López Brescó, Albert; Careglio, Davide (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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      This paper reports the definition, setup and obtained results of the Fed4FIRE + medium experiment ERASER, aimed to evaluate the actual Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees that the clean-slate Recursive InterNetwork ...
    • IPchain: securing IP prefix allocation and delegation with blockchain 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Ferriol Galmés, Miquel; Garcia Ribera, Eric; Lafif Martínez, Hamid; Piris Yamuza, Carlos; López Brescó, Albert; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      We present IPchain, a blockchain to store the allocations and delegations of IP addresses, with the aim of easing the deployment of secure interdomain routing systems. Interdomain routing security is of vital importance ...
    • Is machine learning ready for traffic engineering optimization? 

      Bernárdez Gil, Guillermo; Suárez-Varela Maciá, José Rafael; López Brescó, Albert; Wu, Bo; Xiao, Shihan; Cheng, Xiangle; Barlet Ros, Pere; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      Traffic Engineering (TE) is a basic building block of the Internet. In this paper, we analyze whether modern Machine Learning (ML) methods are ready to be used for TE optimization. We address this open question through a ...
    • MAGNNETO: A graph neural network-based multi-agent system for traffic engineering 

      Bernárdez Gil, Guillermo; Suárez-Varela Maciá, José Rafael; López Brescó, Albert; Shi, Xiang; Xiao, Shihan; Cheng, Xiangle; Barlet Ros, Pere; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2023-04)
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      Current trends in networking propose the use of Machine Learning (ML) for a wide variety of network optimization tasks. As such, many efforts have been made to produce ML-based solutions for Traffic Engineering (TE), which ...
    • Programmable overlays via OpenOverlayRouter 

      Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Coras, Florin-Tudorel; López Brescó, Albert; Lorand, Jakab; Portoles Comeras, Marc; Natarajan, Preethi; Meyer, David; Farinacci, Dino; Maino, Fabio; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto; Ermagan, Vina (2017-06-01)
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      Among the different options to instantiate overlays, the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) [7] has gained significant traction among industry and academia [5], [6], [8]–[11], [14], [15]. Interestingly, LISP offers a ...
    • SD-access: practical experiences in designing and deploying software defined enterprise networks 

      Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi; Portoles Comeras, Marc; López Brescó, Albert; Rodríguez Natal, Alberto; Iacobacci, David; Leong, Johnson; Moreno, Víctor; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto; Maino, Fabio; Hooda, Sanjay (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020)
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      Enterprise networks, over the years, have become more and more complex trying to keep up with new requirements that challenge traditional solutions. Just to mention one out of many possible examples, technologies such as ...
    • The graph neural networking challenge: a worldwide competition for education in AI/ML for networks 

      Suárez-Varela Maciá, José Rafael; Ferriol Galmés, Miquel; López Brescó, Albert; Almasan Puscas, Felician Paul; Bernárdez Gil, Guillermo; Pujol Perich, David; Rusek, Krzysztof; Bonniot, Loïck; Neumann, Christoph; Schnitzler, François; Taïani, François; Happ, Martin; Barlet Ros, Pere; Cabellos Aparicio, Alberto (2021-07-01)
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      During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in ...