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  • IoT-NTN communications via store-and-forward core network in Multi-LEO-satellite deployments 

    Monzón Baeza, Victor; Rigazzi, Giovanni; Aguilar Romero, Sergio; Ferrús Ferré, Ramón Antonio; Ferrer, Josep; Mhatre, Suvidha; Guadalupi, Marco (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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    Since Rel-15, 3GPP has been working on adapting Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) radio access technologies, such as NB-IoT and LTE-M, to operate in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs). More recently, a new Rel-19 study item named ...
  • Applications and business prospects of integrated machine-type communications and satellite networks 

    Guadalupi, Marco; Ferrús Ferré, Ramón Antonio; Ferrer, Josep; Redolfi, Gianluca; Bernard, Stephan (John Wiley & sons, 2024-07)
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    There is an unstoppable willingness to measure the world, everything everywhere, that is making the IoT adoption relentless. However, a key enabler is connectivity, which is only present in about 15% of the world's surface. ...
  • Low layer functional split management in 5G and beyond: architecture and self-adaptation 

    Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Campoy García, David; Gelonch Bosch, Antonio José; Gelabert Doran, Xavier; Klaiqi, Bleron (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference lecture
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    Radio Access Network (RAN) disaggregation is emerging as a key trend in beyond 5G, as it offers new opportunities for more flexible deployments and intelligent network management. A relevant problem in disaggregated RAN ...
  • Assessment of energy savings in relay-assisted 5G and beyond radio access networks 

    Pérez Romero, Jordi; Ruiz García, Olga; Sallent Roig, Oriol (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
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    Reducing the overall energy consumption in mobile networks is currently an important aspect that drives the evolution towards 5G and beyond systems, both for environmental and economic reasons. In this direction, the use ...
  • Towards trustworthy reinforcement learning-based resource management in beyond 5G 

    Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Kartsakli, Elli; Tuna, Ömer Faruk; Mohalik, Swarup Kumar; Tao, Xin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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    It is envisaged that future Beyond 5G (B5G) systems will make extensive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to achieve an efficient automated management and optimization of communication and computing resources ...
  • A transfer reinforcement learning approach for capacity sharing in Beyond 5G networks 

    Vilà Muñoz, Irene; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-12-01)
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    The use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques has been widely addressed in the literature to cope with capacity sharing in 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing. These algorithms consider a training process to learn ...
  • Exploiting a network digital twin to optimize B5G networks management. The OPTIMAIX approach 

    Díez Fernández, Luis Francisco; Agüero Calvo, Ramón; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Gorricho Moreno, Juan Luis; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Serrat Fernández, Juan; Fernández, Enrique; Moreno, Francisco Javier; Pavón-Marino, Pablo; González Muriel, Iván; Santiago Santo, Adrián; Richart Gutiérrez, Matías Mario; Baliosian, Javier; Muñiz Da Costa, Alejandro; Contreras Murillo, Luis Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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    The rapid advancements in 5G and 6G networks call for novel solutions tackling network operation and management processes, which can effectively deal with the growing stringent requirements, as well as the remarkable service ...
  • On exploiting user equipment relaying capabilities in beyond 5G networks: opportunities, challenges, and road map 

    Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Ruiz García, Olga (2024-12)
    Article
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    Mobile Network Operators are facing significant expenditures in deploying 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure to achieve the level of densification required for meeting the new services demands. This will be ...
  • Dynamic slicing reconfiguration for virtualized 5G networks using ML forecasting of computing capacity 

    Camargo Barragán, Juan Sebastián; Coronado Calero, Estefanía; Ramirez Almonte, Wilson; Camps Mur, Daniel; Sánchez Deutsch, Sergi; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Trullols Cruces, Óscar; González Díaz, Sergio; Otura García, Borja; Rigazzi, Giovanni (Elsevier, 2023-11)
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    As 5G deployments continue to increase worldwide, new applications can fully leverage the exceptional features of the emerging mobile networks. Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) serve as an excellent example ...
  • A new methodology for user equipment trajectory prediction in cellular networks 

    Sánchez González, Juan; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-04-15)
    Article
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    User mobility prediction can be exploited in cellular networks for different purposes, such as enhancing the handover process, proactive resource allocation, proactive load balancing, etc., in order to improve the network ...
  • An optimisation as a service platform for beyond 5G and 6G networks 

    Sallent Roig, Oriol; Pérez Romero, Jordi; González Muriel, Ivan; Santiago Santo, Adrián; Baliosian De Lazzari, Javier Ernesto; Díez Fernández, Luis Francisco; Agüero Calvo, Ramón; Muñiz Da Costa, Alejandro; Contreras Murillo, Luis Miguel; Fernández, Enrique; Moreno-Muro, Francisco Javier (Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), 2024)
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    The evolution towards 6G will require changes in the way how networks have to be operated to face the stringent service demands while at the same time using efficiently the available resources. In this context, this paper ...
  • Virtual reality traffic prioritization for Wi-Fi quality of service improvement using machine learning classification techniques 

    Shaabanzadeh, Seyedeh Soheila; Carrascosa Zamacois, Marc; Sánchez González, Juan; Michaelides, Costas; Bellalta Jiménez, Boris (2024-10)
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    The increase in the demand for eXtended Reality (XR)/Virtual Reality (VR) services in the recent years, poses a great challenge for Wi-Fi networks to maintain the strict latency requirements. In VR over Wi-Fi, latency is ...

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