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    • 5G for the support of public safety services 

      Chochliouros, Ioannis; Spiliopoulou, Anastasia S.; Lazaridis, Pavlos I.; Zaharis, Zaharias D.; Spada, Maria Rita; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Blanco Jauregi, Begoña; Khalife, Hicham; Khaleghi, Ehsan Ebrahimi; Kourtis, Michail-Alexandros (2021-05-20)
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      Next-generation mobile technologies are the enablers for meeting the variable specific requirements of the public safety (PS) community. In particular, due to the development of commercially deployed 5G networks, PS providers ...
    • 5G framework for automated network adaptation in mission critical services 

      Jimeno, Elisa; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Blanco Jauregi, Begoña; Sanchoyerto, Aitor; Fernández, Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
      Conference report
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      Mission Critical Services (MCS) are gaining interest among network operators to offer alternative communications than conventional trunked radio systems. They promise a simplified management of cloud and radio resources ...
    • 5G-CLARITY: Integrating 5GNR, WiFi and LiFi in private networks with slicing support 

      Camps Mur, Daniel; Ghoraishi, Mir; Gutiérrez Terán, Jesús; Ordoñez-Lucena, Jose; Cogalan, Tezcan; Haas, Harald; García Gómez, Antonio; Sark, Vladica; Aumayr, Erik; van der Meer, Sven; Yan, Shuangyi; Mourad, Alain; Adamuz-Hinojosa, Oscar; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Granda Trigo, Miguel; Bian, Rui (European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2020)
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      This paper introduces 5G-CLARITY, a 5G-PPP project exploring beyond 5G private networks integrating heterogeneous wireless access including 5GNR, WiFi, and LiFi. The project targets enhancements to current 5GNR performance ...
    • A 4-Dimensional Markov model for the evaluation of radio access technology selection strategies in multiservice scenarios 

      Gelabert Doran, Xavier Bernardi; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Agustí Comes, Ramon (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2006)
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      In order to support the conceptual development of Common Radio Resource Management (CRRM) algorithms, this paper provides an analytical approach to the performance evaluation of Radio Access Technology (RAT) selection ...
    • A belief-based decision-making framework for spectrum selection in cognitive radio networks 

      Pérez Romero, Jordi; Raschellà, Alessandro; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Umbert Juliana, Anna (2015-12-17)
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      This paper presents a comprehensive cognitive management framework for spectrum selection in cognitive radio networks. The framework uses a belief vector concept as a means to predict the interference affecting the different ...
    • A cloud-enabled small cell architecture in 5G networks for broadcast/multicast services 

      kourtis, Michail-Alexandros; Blanco, Begoña; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Makris, Dimitris; McGrath, Michael J.; Xilouris, George; Munaretto, Daniele; Solozabal, Ruben; Sanchoyerto, Aitor; Giannoulakis, Ioannis; Kafetzakis, Emmanouil; Riccobene, Vincenzo; Jimeno, Elisa; Kourtis, Anastasios; Ferrús Ferré, Ramón Antonio; Liberal, Fidel; Koumaras, Harilaos; Kostopoulos, Alexandros; Chochliouros, Ioannis (2019-06-01)
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      The evolution of 5G suggests that communication networks become sufficiently flexible to handle a wide variety of network services from various domains. The virtualization of small cells as envisaged by 5G, allows enhanced ...
    • A cognitive management framework for spectrum selection 

      Bouali, Faouzi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon (2013-10-04)
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      To increase cognitive radio (CR) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in enhancing the awareness level of spectrum utilization. In this context, this paper builds a new cognitive management functional architecture ...
    • A combined polling and ISMA-DS/CDMA protocol to provide QoS in packet mobile communications systems 

      Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon; Sallent Roig, Oriol (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000)
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      This paper presents a new mechanism that combines the flexibility of an access protocol such as ISMA-DS/CDMA with the ability of a polling mechanism to provide a specific bound for the access delay. This protocol is proposed ...
    • A comparison of different optimisation search methodologies for self-optimisation in wireless cellular networks 

      Sánchez González, Juan; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      Self-Organising Networks (SON) concept is seen as a way to reduce costs by automating functionalities such as network optimisation usually performed manually with extensive human work time. This paper provides a general ...
    • A deep q network-based multi-connectivity algorithm for heterogeneous 4G/5G cellular systems 

      Hernández Carlón, Juan Jesús; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Casadevall Palacio, Fernando José (Springer, 2022)
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      Multi-connectivity, which allows a user equipment to be simultaneously connected to multiple cells from different radio access network nodes that can be from a single or multiple radio access technologies, has emerged as ...
    • A deep Q-network-based algorithm for multi-connectivity optimization in heterogeneous cellular-networks † 

      Hernández Carlón, Juan Jesús; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Casadevall Palacio, Fernando José (2022-08-01)
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      The use of multi-connectivity has become a useful tool to manage the traffic in heterogeneous cellular network deployments, since it allows a device to be simultaneously connected to multiple cells. The proper exploitation ...
    • A fittingness factor-based spectrum management framework for cognitive radio networks 

      Bouali, Faouzi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon (2013-03)
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      In order to increase cognitive radios (CRs) operation efficiency, there has been an increasing interest in strengthening awareness level about spectrum utilisation. In this respect, this paper proposes to exploit the ...
    • A framework based on a fittingness factor to enable efficient exploitation of spectrum opportunities in cognitive radio networks 

      Bouali, Faouzi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon (2011)
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      In order to increase CRs (Cognitive Radios) operation efficiency, there has been an interest in increasing awareness level about spectrum utilisation. In this respect, this paper proposes a new fittingness factor concept ...
    • A framework for dynamic network architecture and topology optimization 

      Shafigh, Alireza Shams; Lorenzo, Beatriz; Glisic, Savo; Pérez Romero, Jordi; DaSilva, Luiz A.; MacKenzie, Allen B.; Röning, Juha (2016-04)
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      A new paradigm in wireless network access is presented and analyzed. In this concept, certain classes of wireless terminals can be turned temporarily into an access point (AP) anytime while connected to the Internet. This ...
    • A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for capacity sharing in multi-tenant scenarios 

      Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Umbert Juliana, Anna (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-07-27)
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      5G is envisioned to simultaneously provide diverse service types with heterogeneous needs under very different application scenarios and business models. Therefore, network slicing is included as a key feature of the 5G ...
    • A multi-cell multi-objective self-optimisation methodology based on genetic algorithms for wireless cellular networks 

      Sánchez González, Juan; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Agustí Comes, Ramon (2013-07)
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      Self-organising networks (SON) are seen as one of the hottest topics in telecommunication network research and development, eagerly awaited by network operators to achieve a reduction in operational expenditures. However, ...
    • A new mode selection and resource reuse strategy for V2X in future cellular networks 

      Albonda, Haider Daami Resin; Pérez Romero, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      Recently, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications for future cellular systems have attracted considerable attention due to their potential benefits such as improved system capacity, spectral efficiency or delay reduction, ...
    • A new self-planning methodology based on signal quality and user traffic in Wi-Fi networks 

      Sánchez González, Juan; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol (Springer, 2019)
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      Wi-Fi networks have become one of the most popular technologies for the provisioning of multimedia services. Due to the exponential increase in the number of Access Points (AP) in these networks, the automation of the ...
    • A novel approach for dynamic capacity sharing in multi-tenant scenarios 

      Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Umbert Juliana, Anna (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      Network slicing is included as a key feature of the 5G architecture in order to simultaneously support diverse service types with heterogeneous requirements. The realization of network slicing in the Radio Access Network ...
    • A novel autonomous RAT selection algorithm for non real time services 

      Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol (2009)
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      This paper proposes a new solution for autonomous decision-making in the RAT selection process in multi-service multi-access network scenarios. It is based on exploiting the time dimension in the RAT selection, so that, ...