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Albert Banchs
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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

Publications
Patents
Former PhD students
European Projects
Standardization Contributions
TPCs and Editorial Boards
Prizes and Awards

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 as Deputy director of the IMDEA Networks research institute (he was acting director from 2009 to 2012). 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 100 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 is editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and has been editor for 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 and is currently the Deputy Technical Manager of the H2020 5G-TOURS project. Dr. Banchs has also been the principal investigator of several industry contracts with major manufacturers, network operators and SMEs. He is the inventor of 7 granted 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

You can find my complete list of publications here. Some selected publications are: D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "AZTEC: Anticipatory Capacity Allocation for Zero-Touch Network Slicing," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2020, Virtual Conference, July 2020. D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, A. Banchs, V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Perez, "A Machine Learning approach to 5G Infrastructure Market optimization," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 3, March 2020. D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "DeepCog: Optimizing Resource Provisioning in Network Slicing with AI-based Capacity Forecasting," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 2, February 2020. J. A. Ayala-Romero, A. Garcia-Saavedra, M. Gramaglia, X. Costa-Perez, A. Banchs, J. J. Alcaraz, "vrAIn: A Deep Learning Approach Tailoring Computing and Radio Resources in Virtualized RANs," Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019. C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M.Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Pérez, "Resource Sharing Efficiency in Network Slicing," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 16, no. 3, September 2019. V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Perez, A. Banchs, "RL-NSB: Reinforcement Learning-Based 5G Network Slice Broker," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 4, July 2019. D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "DeepCog: Cognitive Network Management in Sliced 5G Networks with Deep Learning," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France, May 2019. P. Caballero, A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, X. Costa-Perez, "Network Slicing Games: Enabling Customization in Multi-Tenant Mobile Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 2, April 2019. J. Zheng, P. Caballero, G. de Veciana, S. Jun Baek, A. Banchs, "Statistical Multiplexing and Traffic Shaping Games for Network Slicing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 6, December 2018. C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "How should I slice my network? A multi-service empirical evaluation of resource sharing efficiency," in Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM 2018, New Delhi, India, October 2018. G. Garcia-Aviles, M. Gramaglia, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "POSENS: A Practical Open Source Solution for End-to-End Network Slicing," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 25, no. 5, October 2018. D. Bega, A. Banchs, M. Gramaglia, X. Costa-Pérez, P. Rost, "CARES: Computation-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Radio Access Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 12, October 2018. V. Sciancalepore, I. Filippini, V. Mancuso, A. Capone, A. Banchs, "A Multi-Traffic Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Scheme in Dense Cellular Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 5, October 2018. Caballero, A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, X. Costa-Perez, A. Azcorra, "Network Slicing for Guaranteed Rate Services: Admission Control and Resource Allocation Games," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 10, October 2018. C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, C. Ziemlicki, Z. Smoreda, "Not All Apps Are Created Equal: Analysis of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Nationwide Mobile Service Usage," Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Seoul, South Korea, December 2017. P. Caballero, A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, X. Costa-Perez, "Multi-Tenant Radio Access Network Slicing: Statistical Multiplexing of Spatial Loads," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 5, October 2017. P. Caballero, A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, X. Costa-Perez, "Network Slicing Games: Enabling Customization in Multi-tenant Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. V. Sciancalepore, K. Samdanis, X. Costa-Perez, D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, A. Banchs, "Mobile Traffic Forecasting for Maximizing 5G Network resource Utilization," IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, A. Banchs, V. Sciancalepore, K. Samdanis, X. Costa-Perez, "Optimising 5G Infrastructure Markets: The Business of Network Slicing," IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Tarable, A. Banchs, "Preserving Mobile Subscriber Privacy in Open Datasets of Spatiotemporal Trajectories," IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. C. Vlachou, A. Banchs, J. Herzen, P. Thiran, "How CSMA/CA With Deferral Affects Performance and Dynamics in Power-Line Communications," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 1, February 2017.

PATENTS

V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Pérez, A. Banchs, M. Gramaglia, "Method and system for network slice allocation", patent application to the European and US offices (grant pending). J. Herzen, P. Thiran, A. Banchs, V. Shneer, "Csma/ca in time and frequency domains", patent granted by the US office (2019). 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 reducing energy consumption of a network by minimizing the number of active nodes", patent granted by the European office (2016). 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). 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, "Random Early Marking: Improving the Performance of TCP in DiffServ Assured Forwarding", patent granted by the Japanese office (2008), German office (2009) and US office (2009). A. Banchs and X. Perez, "Differentiated Scheduling for Downlink Traffic in IP-based UMTS networks", patent granted by the German office (2008) and Japanese office (2007).

FORMER PHD STUDENTS

Dario Bega, Nokia Bell Labs, Munich, Germany. PhD thesis at University Carlos III of Madrid (2020). Co-supervised with X. Perez-Costa. Thesis: "Deep Learning solutions for next generation network slicing aware mobile networks". Pablo Caballero, 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. Best PhD thesis prize of the National Telecommunications and Information Theory Association in Italy. Thesis: "Design of novel interference coordination techniques for 5G Networks". Andres Garcia-Saavedra, NEC Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany. PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2013). Co-supervised with Pablo Serrano. Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid. Thesis: "Analysis and Optimal Configuration of Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling Techniques in Wireless Networks". Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh, UK. PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2011). Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid. Thesis: "Control-Theoretic Adaptive Mechanisms for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Design, Implementation and Experimental Evaluation". Pablo Serrano, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. PhD thesis at Univerity Carlos III (2006). Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid. Thesis: "Estrategias de configuración de redes Wireless LAN 802.11e EDCA".

EUROPEAN PROJECTS

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. 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. FP7 ICT CARMEN: CARrier grade MEsh Networks (1 January 2008 - 31 December 2010). Role: Principal investigator and Project Coordinator. FP7 ICT MEDIEVAL: FLexible Architecture for \nVirtualizable wireless future Internet Access (1 July 2010 - 30 June 2013). Role: Principal investigator. FP7 ICT FLAVIA: MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications (1 July 2010 - 31 July 2013). Role: Principal investigator. FP7 ICT CROWD: Connectivity management for eneRgy Optimised Wireless Dense networks (1 January 2013 - 30 June 2015). Role: Principal investigator. FP7 ICT eCOUSIN: enhanced COntent distribUtion with Social INformation (1 November 2012 - 30 April 2015). Role: Principal investigator. 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. H2020 5G NORMA: 5G Novel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture (1 July 2015 - 31 December 2017). Role: Principal investigator and WP leader. 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. 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.

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", 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 - present). 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

Research awards National prize to the best PhD thesis on broadband networks (2003). 2013 Excellence Award to Young UC3M Research Staff. 2017 Excellence Award to Young UC3M Research Staff. Personal grants and appoinments Recipient of a Ramon y Cajal national grant (2004). IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017). Supervision of PhD and MSc theses Three PhD theses recipient of the Outstanding PhD award of University Carlos III of Madrid (2006, 2011, 2013). 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 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.

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