Academic Year 2025-2026

• First semester:
• Computer Network Design and Management (1st year Master in Computer Science and Engineering)
• Telematic Applications (3rd year Bachelor in Telematics Engineering)
• Introduction to Telecommunication Engineering (1st year Bachelor in Internet Engineering (renewed Telematics Engineering plan))
• Introduction to Telecommunication Engineering (1st year Bachelor in Sound and Image Engineering)
• Second semester:
• Data Transport Protocols in IoT (Master in Internet of Things: Applied Technologies)
• Mobile Applications (4th year Bachelor in Sound and Image Engineering)

Office Hours

• Monday 13:00 to 14:00.
• Tuesday 13:00 to 14:00.
• For other times, please inquire via email.

Final Degree Projects (TFG/TFM)

• Check available projects at TFEPE - Project Board for STUDENTS or contact me by email.

Research Positions / Contracts

• If you have finished your studies and want to work hired on a research project while pursuing your PhD, or if you are interested in doing your final degree project while holding a research training contract in IoT and security topics, please contact me by email.

Publications

Full list of publications at ORCID: 0000-0002-4635-722.

SCI-JCR indexed publications in the last two years:

• Unveiling Hidden Patterns: Self-Similarity and Entropy for Robust Encrypted DNS Traffic Security, Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2026.
• Post-Quantum Entropy as a Service for Embedded Systems, Sensors, 2026.
• CO-DEFEND: Continuous decentralized federated learning for secure DoH-based threat detection, Computer Networks, 2026.
• Zero-trust token authorization with trapdoor hashes for scalable distributed firewalls. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2026.
• AI Versus IoT Security: Fingerprinting and Defenses Against TLS Handshake-Based IoT Device Classification. IEEE Access, 2025.
• Beyond PKI: A DNSSEC Delegation Approach for Scalable Dynamic Credential Management in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025.
• DNS Query Forgery: A Client-Side Defense Against Mobile App Traffic Profiling. IEEE Access, 2025.
• Reducing DNS Traffic to Enhance Home IoT Device Privacy. Sensors, 2024.
• Inferring Mobile Applications Usage from DNS Traffic. Ad Hoc Networks, 2024.
• Evaluating Integration Methods of a Quantum Random Number Generator in OpenSSL for TLS Computer Networks, 2024.

Research Projects

List of research projects at Research Portal UC3M (does not include projects from more than 20 years ago).

Competitive research projects as PI (Principal Investigator):

• 2025-2027: Project with a leading multinational in R&D in the telecommunications sector (Article 60 subject to confidentiality clauses until project completion).
• 2024-2027: DISCOVERY: Energy-Aware IoT Protocols and Security (PID2023-148716OB-C33).
• 2021-2025: COMPROMISE: Improving confidentiality and privacy in communication protocols (PID2020-113795RB-C32).
• 2011-2015: TransITS: Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems (COST Action TU1004).
• 2011-2014: MONOLOC: Advanced platform for management of next-generation mobile and heterogeneous networks with indoor user localization (IPT-2011-1272-430000).
• 2008-2010: Easy Wireless 2 (EUREKA CELTIC CP5-007).
• 2004-2007: Easy Wireless: Allow seamless roaming between wireless networks while maintaining Quality of Service (EUREKA ITEA ip03008).
• 2004-2006: Everyware: Personalized services in a ubiquitous computing environment (MCyT 2003-08995-C02-01)

Pervasive Computing Lab (PerLab)

Since its creation in 2004, I am one of the heads of the Pervasive Computing Lab (PerLab): https://pervasive.gast.it.uc3m.es/ .

This lab is part of the UC3M recognized research group GAST (Telematic Applications and Services Group).

The Pervasive Computing Lab appears in the following R&D&i Maps of UC3M:

• Security and Defense.
• Transport and Mobility.
• Industry 4.0.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Disability.
• Big Data.
• Mobile Communications and Applications.

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